0.5 million Birds Boiled Alive at Slaughterhouse
Chickens with red skin. This is a picture taken in 2017 in Japan. The reason why their skin gets red…
Do you know that Japanese pig farming that continues to restrict pigs have very bad breeding grades?
The results of Japanese pig raising are not good. The breeding ability per sow is largely separated from overseas. The…
Petitions to Protect Animal Welfare for the Tokyo Olympics Submitted to Cabinet Secretariat
We’ve been campaigning to change animal welfare for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics that is currently under threat. Mr. Katsuya…
We have confirmed the signboard for alerting the improvement of slaughterhouse
In the slaughterhouses that made requests for improvement and suggestions for improvement in 2017, a big signboard was set up…
PETITION:Ban Gestation Crates in Japan!
This is a picture taken at a pig farm in Japan in 2017. This is called the gestation crate, namely,…
News Reports on Animal Welfare for the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics
It’s been pointed out by several reports that the animal welfare standards of livestock for the 2020 Olympics and…
Please don’t eat chickens
There are no holidays in animals. From Christmas to the end of the year, the sufferings of animals increase. Please…
General Questions about Animal Welfare in the Miyagi Prefecture Assembly
In the Miyagi prefectural assembly held on September 12th 2017, Mr. Tsuneharu Sakai from Miyagi Kenmin no Koe, a member…
How long should this continue? –Agonized horses at Ageumashinji festival
Horses rolling down Horses strangled by people Horses surrounded by unfamiliar crowd A horseman clutches tightly to the horses back…
Horses killed for meat – Raised in horrific conditions
What do you imagine when you hear a word “horse”? Horse race Horse ride History drama Horse carriage Processions (Daimyo-Gyoretsu) Horses…
“I try not to forget the courtesies against chickens.”
There is rare in Japan(maybe in the world), a no-kill and free-range egg farm. They are sweeping through the green…
Increase in numbers of windowless poultry houses in Japan
A belief in safety of windowless poultry houses is widely accepted in Japan. However, it’s only a myth that bird…
Study Group held on Animal Welfare issues within the Democratic Party
On June 14th in 2017, Katsuya Ogawa, the first Animal Welfare Study Group was held, which was called by a…
[Progress Report] Petition to call for cage-free eggs
As of June 7th 2017, the petition for “Please do not lock down laying hens” has collected 14,565 signatures. We have been…
JGAP Certificate Issued, not promising animal welfare
On April 1st, the standard of JGAP (Certificate of agriculture), which was included in the standards of procurement for the…
Tokyo Olympics & Paralympics: Downgrading Animal Welfare Issues
Following the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics 2020, public comments were called for upon the draft of the Sustainable Sourcing Code…
Improve methods to slaughter chickens!
Today, the methods of slaughtering chickens, whether they are for meat or eggs, are to hang them upside down in…
Notice on Drinking Facilities at Slaughterhouses by MHLW
Currently, there are few drinking facilities at slaughterhouses in Japan. Cows and pigs can’t drink water on their last day*1.…
We lodged this petition to 14 owl cafe and owl shop
We lodged this petition to 9 owl cafe and owl shop(selling owl as a companion animal) , One of them…
Remembering SATSUKI
SATSUKI who rescued by Animal Rights Center in 2016, passed away in this February. It was ten months since she…
Coop Shizenha Decided Not to Sell Foie Gras for Chirstmas This Year
We learned that Coop Shizenha decided not to sell foie gras for Chirstmas this year. We’d been requesting not to do so…
Sacrifice for real fur – decrease by 325,551 animals
According to foreign trade statistics by the Ministry of Finance, the import of real fur has decreased in 2016 as…
Ex-owl cafe worker speaks out
We have received information from a whistle-blower who previously worked at an owl cafe. The conditions which owls live under…
Posted a survey on cosmetic animal testing consciousness to Cosmetics industry paper
In 2017 / January issue No.439 of the cosmetic industry paper FRAGRANCE JOURNAL posted the treatise about awareness of animal testing…
Please liberate 315 chimpanzees in Japan
Chimapanzee is very close as human being. They can use tools, their emotional expressions are almost same as human, their love expression,…