Animal rights

The Agriculturalists Association of Turkey (TZOB) has voiced opposition to a government decision to permit meat imports, saying the rise in domestic red meat production rules out the need for imports.

The government, however, has claimed the price of imported meat will not exceed local production costs as the main aim is to increase the number of animals. 

The Directorate of Nature Conservation and National Parks (DKMP) issued fines amounting to a total of 1.25 million Turkish Liras over the violation of animal rights in 2015, Forestry and Water Affairs Minister Veysel Ero?lu said in a written statement on Feb. 10.

There is one justification, among others, for showing mercy to animals and protecting them:

"They have a mouth but not a tongue."

When they are hungry or sick, if they need care or if they need something else, they explain it to us with different behaviors.

World Animal Day is an international day of action for animal rights and welfare celebrated annually on October 4, the feast day of Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals. Instagram users took to the net to immortalize their furry friends!

About half of live dolphins caught in the Japanese coastal town of Taiji were exported to China and other countries despite global criticism of the hunting technique used, a news report has said.

The so-called "drive hunt" method has been criticized overseas as cruel and Japanese zoos and aquariums were recently forced to vow not to buy animals caught with the controversial fishing.

Attorney Steven Wise is on a crusade to prove that, as a matter of law, chimps are people too.
  
For that matter, so are dolphins, elephants, gorillas and orcas.
  
Wise made his argument at the TED Conference that wrapped up in Vancouver, Canada on Friday.
  
"I had to invent the field of animal juris prudence," Wise told AFP at TED.
  

Hidden cameras at an animal abbatoir in the United Kingdom showed shocking welfare breaches. Government-appointed vets were supposed to be on hand at the abbattoirs the size of Bowood Lamb abbatoir in Thirsk in North Yorkshire, the 10th filmed and 9th found to be breaking laws pertaining to animal cruelty.

An orangutan held in an Argentine zoo can be freed and transferred to a sanctuary after a court recognized the ape as a "non-human person" unlawfully deprived of its freedom, local media has reported.
   

A 59-year-old man has been arrested and faces charges of animal cruelty and illegal weapon possession in Volos, central Greece, after allegedly killing a dog.

The suspect is said to have shot the dog with a hunting rifle for which he does not have a license.

No explanation was given as to why he killed the animal.

Horses forced to work 14 hours every day in the Mediterranean town of Antalya have been painted with oil to hide their poor conditions, stirring public outrage from animal rights activists.