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[Link] ‘Just never going to be OK’: report finds luxury brands falling behind on animal welfare

Read: 6/12/2021 www.theguardian.com

Despite recent commitments from the luxury fashion industry to reduce its environmental footprint, a report has revealed luxury fashion brands are among the worst in the industry for animal welfare, driven by their continued use of fur and exotic animal skins.

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[Link] NSW laws criminalising secret recordings of animal cruelty ‘too great a burden on speech’, high court hears

Read: 26/11/2021 www.theguardian.com

Laws criminalising the use of secretly recorded vision of animal cruelty and abuse are posing “too great a burden on speech”, animal rights activists have told the high court.

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[Link] Community groups in some states rehoming more greyhounds than industry programs, report suggests

Read: 20/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

Industry-led programs to rehome retired greyhounds helped just 2,000 dogs across Australia last year and were outperformed in the two biggest racing states by community-run services operating on threadbare resources, a new report claims.

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[Link] This Couple Caught COVID-19, So Authorities Drowned and Burned Their Dogs

Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com

Pham Minh Hung and his wife had amassed a sizable menagerie—17 dogs and one cat, to be exact—pets that they considered their own children.

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[Link] Outback horse slayer deserves prison time for 'persistent, cruel behaviour'

Read: 11/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

The person who slaughtered more than 40 horses in outback Queensland in scenes that left seasoned police officers horrified is likely to face several years behind bars, lawyers say.

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[Link] German coach suspended for striking horse at Olympics

Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

TV footage showed Kim Raisner leaning over a fence to strike the horse Saint Boy, which refused to jump the fences in the showjumping round on Friday, costing German athlete Annika Schleu a chance of winning the gold medal.

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