Archives: Animal Rights
Willie Nelson Donates Wild Horses
Willie & The Nelson Family Sing “Wild Horses” Country Music Legend Covers Stones Classic to Help Animal Welfare Institute Protect America’s Horses March 22, 2011 (Washington, D.C.) – The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is honored to announce the exclusive release of the Rolling Stones’ classic “Wild Horses” – performed and produced by the legendary Willie [...]
Most Important Lesson Learned
The undergraduate curriculum in the Communication Department, University of California – San Diego, masterfully organized around a few key principles, reiterated certain ideas, perhaps to insure their transmission. Constructed by mature social scientists around their own interests as much as for the benefit of undergraduates, the curriculum delivered the intended messages, without a doubt. One [...]
Beyond Adolescent Rebellion
It often seems that the first visible sign of a person’s childhood rebellion against their parents emerges as an accusation that their parents do not live up to their professed values. This identifies people who have not yet defined themselves or their values. They still accept the values and ideas passed on by their parents [...]
Act Accordingly
Mainstream media pretends that the mythical mainstream of society takes particular pleasure in being considered normal in comparison to animal rights activists, cannabis-hemp-marijuana activists, peace activists, legal offenders, political radicals, guitar pickers and members of other social out-groups. This normalcy appears treated as an indication of mental health and moral righteousness while regarding others with [...]
Save Sea Turtles Today
Dear Friend, As a career biologist, former Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Executive Vice President of Defenders of Wildlife I’m no stranger to animals in distress. But what is happening in the Gulf of Mexico right now is an unprecedented ecological disaster. It is threatening sea turtles, sperm whales, dolphins, brown [...]
BP Burning Endangered Sea Turtles Alive
The Animal Welfare Institute Files Suit against BP for Burning Endangered Sea Turtles Alive June 30, 2010 (New Orleans, Louisiana) – The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and other animal protection and conservation organizations have filed suit in federal court today against British Petroleum America, Inc., British Petroleum Exploration & Production and British Petroleum PLC (“BP”) [...]
Ban All New Offshore Drilling
Dear Humanitarian: The massive and continuing torrent of oil from the April 20th explosion on and subsequent sinking of BP’s Deepwater Horizon ultra-deepwater drilling rig is the worst environmental disaster in US history. The unfolding devastation will forever alter the entire ecosystem of the Gulf of Mexico and beyond. Over 100 million gallons of oil [...]
