Fish & Marine Animals
Anti-whaling campaigner Captain Paul Watson sits in jail as activists rally to stop his extradition to Japan from Denmark Los Angeles, October 31st, 2024 — International pressure is mounting against Denmark as activists from across the globe demand the immediate release of Captain Paul Watson, the celebrated anti-whaling crusader and co-founder of Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd.
After decades of campaigning, plans have been set up to release Tokitae, the captive orca also known as Lolita, from Miami Seaquarium Los Angeles, March 6, 2023 — The Miami Seaquarium has announced the signing of a formal and binding agreement with a group called the Friends of Toki to begin the process of returning Tokitae the Orca, named Lolita by the aquarium, to a marine enclosure in Puget Sound in Washington state — close to where she was violently abducted from the ocean more than 50 years ago.
The U.S. food innovation company Aqua Cultured Foods is ready to market alt-seafood created through animal-free, mushroom-based, fermentation methods. Los Angeles, December 3, 2022 3:55pm — Alt-Seafood will be soon available in U.S. restaurants. Calamari, shrimp, scallops, and fillets of tuna and whitefish no longer have to come from actual fish because Aqua Cultured Foods, an innovative food technology startup, has managed to recreate them using mushrooms instead.
A new study reveals how people really feel about chickens and fishes in five countries where these animals are massively consumed. Wouldn’t it be great to know how people really feel about animals like chickens and fishes? After all, chickens and fishes are arguably the most exploited and abused beings on earth, killed in the greatest number.
Amsterdam Bans the sale of Live Lobsters and Crabs in its Markets Good news for our ten-legged friends. The capital of the Netherlands has just announced another important victory for the protection of lobsters and crabs. From 2022 on, it will be illegal to sell live lobsters and crabs in any of Amsterdam’s 34 markets.
Seaspiracy Is Changing The Way People Look At Fish Some of the most googled phrases in the world right now are “vegan fish” and “plant-based seafood.” Why? A new film has suddenly caused a tsunami of awareness about the horrors of fishing and the urgent need for everyone to stop eating fish.
A tidal wave of opposition is rising up against a reckless plan to destroy LA’s last coastal wetlands, 640 acres known as the Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve in the Playa del Rey neighborhood! Watch this Town Hall, hosted by In Defense of Animals and moderated by Molly Basler of GREEN DREAM CAMPAIGN.
A growing number of animal welfare, environmental and conservation organizations are denouncing a controversial plan to spend 200 million dollars and 9 years bulldozing LA’s Ballona Wetlands Ecological Reserve, located in the neighborhood of Playa del Rey. This is the last sliver of wetlands on LA’s coast!
Feeling isolated and confined because of #COVID19? Jane Velez-Mitchell takes the dare and does the #CoronavirusConfinementChalenge! The point? To get consumers to think about animals whose entire lives are spent isolated, confined, tortured and abused for bacon, deli slices and other unhealthy and unnecessary foods, when there are plant-based alternatives!
Say NO to Bulldozing the Ballona Wetlands! Please come to SPEAK OUT AGAINST THIS PROJECT! THIS TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 18TH AT 6:30pm at Westchester Municipal Building Community Room at: 7166 W Manchester Avenue, Westchester, CA 90045. Public comments are allowed!