Opinion

Jenny Moxham: Tradition or torture in Pamplona

Jenny Moxham: Cruelty reaches further than pets

Zoos engage in game with no winners

Jenny Moxham questions the motivations behind keeping wild animals in zoos.

Animals lose their dignity in art that's gone to the dogs

Freelance writer Debbie Lustig expresses her disgust at an installation art piece that featured stressed Daschunds.

To jump or not to jump

Lawrence Pope, President of Victorian Advocates for Animals and Rodney Rae, President of the Jumps Racing Association engage in a written debate in the Moonee Valley Leader on the continuation of jumps racing in Victoria.

Wrenching over cute animals is riddled with hypocrisy

Antonia Senior writes on the double standard many western countries have when it comes to the animals we view as 'cute' and fight to protect compared to the animals we like to eat.

Jenny Moxham: why animals should be set free

Jenny Moxham- in light of the recent death of Sea World Animal trainer Dawn Brancheau- explores some of the inherent problems that come with keeping wild animals in captivity, particularly for human entertainment.

The much abused chicken is pecking back

Mark Pearson writes on the progress being made on chicken welfare in Australia

Sad tale of a baby elephant

Jenny Moxham questions the reasoning behind keeping animals in zoos.

Why we must ban export of live sheep

Lord Mayor of Sydney, Clover Moore condemns the continuation of Australia's cruel live animal export trade.

Jenny Moxham: Red letter day for animals

Jenny Moxham proposes a red ribbon day to draw public awareness to the suffering of farm animals in Australia

This cruelty to sheep is economically unsound

Heather Neil, chief executive of RSPCA Australia, makes a strong case against the live animal export trade, and calls on the Government to put an end to the horrendous cruelty once and for all.

Inhumane slaughter puts Australia's reputation at risk

PRINCESS Alia bint al-Hussein of Jordan appeals to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to stop the ritual slaughter of conscious animals for halal meat in Australia.

Sucked In: It's udderly ridiculous

Jenny Moxham writes for the Sydney Morning Herald on the absurdity of homosapiens drinking bovine milk .

Jenny Moxham: Double standards in animal world

Jenny Moxham writes about the outstanding inconsistencies in Australia's treatment of animals.

Horses can't jump if they're dead

Lawrence Pope writes on why the Victorian government should put the final nail in the coffin of jumps racing.

Cracks appear for factory farming

A decision by McDonald's and Woolworths to increase free-range egg use spells doom for animal-cruelty offenders, Ondine Sherman writes.

Jenny Moxham: Stop the pain game

Animal activist Jenny Moxham writes for the Geelong Advertiser on the cruelty of fishing.

Choking on a red meat message

Jill Singer of the Herald Sun writes a scathing attack on Meat and Livestock Australia's latest advertisement to encourage red meat consumption.

Death in the name of a good time

Patrick Smith of The Australian writes a scathing attack against the jumps racing industry in light of yet another horse fatality