Times are changing, for the better in this case. Costa Rican officials have recently announced their plan to close the country’s public zoos (next year) in an effort to protect wildlife.
“One day, we took the parrot out to the patio, and a flock of wild parrots passed, and the parrot went with them,” he told La Nacion. “It made a big impression on me because I thought that we were taking good care of her. We fed her with food and affection. … all these things that we as humans thought she liked. And when she had the chance, she left.”
Gary Yourofsky talks on Israeli national TV about veganism. Mr Yourofsky an Animal Rights Activist fields common questions about veganism in this brief interview from Israeli prime time TV.
The motion covers a site on Alfie Byrne Road, which is controlled by Dublin City Council. The move has been welcomed by the Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals whose CEO Dr Andrew Kelly said it is now time for a national ban. Animal rights group ARAN said Ireland is a step nearer to a national ban on the use of animals in Irish circuses. But it added there was still much work to be done to bring “our outdated and old-fashioned views of using animals for entertainment into modern century thinking”. The motion proposing the ban was put forward by Sinn Féin Councillor Noeleen Reilly.
