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Animal advocate Chris Packham has successfully sued Country Squire Magazine for defamation

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Animal advocate Chris Packham has successfully sued Country Squire Magazine for defamation and was awarded £90,000 compensation plus more than £500,000 in an interim costs payment. Update: Here he is: Online hate and abuse ruins lives . . . we need better laws to protect us . A statement following my court case this week . . . and enormous thanks for all your support - it means a lot to myself , Charlotte and Megan . Thank you . Please RT pic.twitter.com/x9kkvzZzsh — Chris Packham (@ChrisGPackham) May 27, 2023 Chris Packham. Photo Garry Knight from London, England  -  People's Walk for Wildlife 2018 - 04 Chris Packham is a well-known British animal advocate. He is high-profile. He fights for animal welfare. He claimed that he was libelled by a hunting publisher and he managed to crowd fund enough money to sue that publisher for defamation. He alleged that the publisher instigated a campaign of online abuse against him. He alleged that Fieldsports Channel created articles that he f

Anal electrocution of animals in fur trade. Protest outside Dior.

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LVMH owns Louis Vuitton, Fendi, Dior and other fashion brands. PETA tells me that they refuse to embrace faux fur to meet the demands of informed and compassionate consumers and continue to deal with real fur traders. The fur trade is viciously cruel.  Anal electrocution of animals in fur trade. Screenshot. It doesn't matter how you look at it. The whole concept is horrendous to any decent-minded person. China is the biggest producer and they treat their animals appallingly. It's bad enough to take the skin off the back of animals for f**k**g fashion but to kill them in the most appalling way is shameful, unforgivable and the work of the devil. This protest took place this month. The tweet is dated May 16th, 2023. PETA tells me that many animals on fur farms "slowly go insane and even self-mutilate from the stress of intensive confinement." They say that an investigation into Italian fur farms revealed several injured minks as well as dead minks left inside cages to

2023 Carole Baskin and Nathan Winograd are America's two top animal advocates

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I am going to have the temerity to name America's two greatest animal welfare advocates as at 2023. They are Carole Baskin and Nathan Winograd. And neatly, we can divide their efforts into two camps.  Carole Baskin is an animal advocate for cats, specifically the big cats, wild cats in general and even wildcat hybrids (she hates the idea of creating wildcat hybrids).  And on the domestic cat side, Nathan Winograd, has been and continues to be a tireless campaigner for the rights of rescue animals in America's shelters and pounds. Baskin and Winograd. Image: MikeB based in images in the public domain. Carole Baskin You might know that she campaigned relentlessly for an improvement in welfare of big cats. There were far too many at private zoos all across America. America was and still is - until the Big Public Safety Act fully takes effect - the nation where there were the greatest number of big cat 'pets' in private zoos. Join us in celebrating the passage of the Big Ca