Senior Director Campaigns & Public Affairs
@HSIUKorg
, Ⓥ🌱Brighton dweller, here to share & learn about efforts to make the world kinder to animals. views my own
Extremely unsurprising that Charlotte Dujardin has been applying abusive ‘errors of judgement’ to get her horses to act this way. Dressage is totally unnatural and disrespectful and shouldn’t be classified as a sport
.
@SurreyPolice
thank you for recognising the seriousness of this incident. Please could you ask the owner if they would consider allowing this calf to be homed at a sanctuary following his/her ordeal. I will happily facilitate this. It would be a just outcome in public interest.
Please see our statement below regarding a cow on the loose in Staines-upon-Thames yesterday. The cow has been seen by a vet & is receiving treatment for a large cut to its leg. If you have any info or footage, please submit via our online reporting tool:
Politely letting
@BBCBreakfast
’s Social Affairs correspondent
@FionaLamdin
know that vast majority of viewers find her wearing animal fur (likely raccoon dog) today to be socially unacceptable. Your collar once endured a miserable life in a cage, Fiona 😔
Last August, during a leadership election,
@RishiSunak
’s team wrote me this letter assuring he looked forward to championing the
#KeptAnimalsBill
. This week he signed off on its destruction, abandoning promised protections to stop puppies, sheep, primates & others suffering 1/3
When we talk about animals, language matters. Here is Lord Bellingham in a
@UKHouseofLords
discussion about a fur ban. He wants black bears to continue to be 'harvested' in Canada for the Queen's guards' hats. Bears are sentient animals, not fields of wheat (1/3)
Henry was going to be a victim of the
#DogMeatTrade
but
@HSIGlobal
&
@HSIUKorg
rescued him from death row. He’s been with us 1 week today and is now in charge of our TV! 💕Sign our petition to 🇰🇷 President Moon Jae-in to help more dogs like Henry 🐶
‼️This is THE most phenomenal news! SO proud of all my colleagues who’ve fought so hard for this.
My beautiful boy Henry was born to die on a dog meat farm, but thanks to HSI he’s been an ambassadog for change, for THIS moment: the beginning of the end for dog farming in Korea!
BREAKING: In a historic announcement, the South Korean government has stated that it will introduce a bill to ban the dog meat industry!
Since 2015, HSI has closed 18 dog farms across South Korea, rescuing over 2,700 dogs. We won’t stop fighting until every cage is empty ✊
Hello again
@michaelgove
! I’m still here in my cage o/s
@DefraGovUK
& want to share pics I took on Finnish fur farms in Oct. As long as we allow
#fur
to be sold we are complicit in this cruelty. As
@CommonsEFRA
suggests: a public consultation on a fur ban please!
#FurFreeBritain
V disappointed by
@BBCBreakfast
’s
@ginabryce
’s stuttering excuses for the cruelty of the
#grandnational
Key messages: 1) whip mis-use penalties are meaningless 2) it doesn’t matter if 3 horses are ridden to death as long as everyone else has a ‘brilliant day out’😠
@AnimalAid
It is - surely - now untenable for
@DefraGovUK
George Eustice to leave the
#HuntingAct
full of the loopholes that have allowed hunters to revel in flagrantly break the law. Congratulations
@LeagueACS
@AndrewLacs
, now let’s get the Act strengthened and trail hunting banned! 🙌🐾
Hello
@michaelgove
hello
@DefraGovUK
! For the next 24 hours you’ll find me outside your Marsham Street Offices in a cage, calling for a U.K. fur sales ban. Please pop by and let us know when we might get a public consultation on banning fur! 🦊🐰🐺
#FurFreeBritain
#animalwelfare
Horrendous -400 pigs burned alive in farm fire. Sadly suspect more people would care lots more if this had been a boarding kennels. 'Losses' like these are built into farms' economic risk model but sentient animals are a lot more than an insurance claim😔🌱
Only 5 mins into this Panorama documentary and the heartbreak of industrial dairy production is as raw as it is wrong. Separating babies from their mothers is just so wrong.
Over the past six years we’ve investigated four UK dairy farms and have found abuse, neglect or illegality taking place on every single one.
Watch
#BBCPanorama
tonight – starting at 7.30pm on
@BBCOne
– to be among the first to see our latest disturbing findings.
#Februdairy
Nice to catch up with Betty Badger outside
#CPC22
. She is letting
@Conservatives
delegates know that 200,000 badgers have been culled since 2013, costing tax payers tens of millions of £. We urge
@ranil
to look urgently at this expensive & unethical disaster for British wildlife
@beckyastwood
I don’t ride but I have a career in understanding animal welfare. What are your thoughts on the video of Dujardin using a lunge whip as a coercive training method? Industry sources say ‘tip of the iceberg’ of abuse - you disagree?
Day 3 in his new home and Henry is starting to come out of his shell! First tail wag today, plus cautiously learning that all these toys are for him! 💕
#EndDogMeatTrade
Good cathartic chat with
@ChrisGPackham
about the powerful forces against better animal protection in this county, including NFU. Thank you
@LushLtd
for a very uplifting Parliamentary reception, a room full of inspiring people who believe we can and must do better!
Every day I am grateful for, and to, Henry. Born to be eaten, in a cage on a dog meat farm in South Korea, rescued by
@HSIGlobal
@HSIUKorg
, now living every day in treasured adoration, and reminding me that we CAN change the world for animals 🐾💛
#enddogmeattrade
#vegan
Very sadly this is clickbait and part of a really worrying trend of putting animals in distressing situations just to film their ‘rescue’. These situations are only worthwhile to create if people like and share, so please only share ‘rescue’ content from verifiable sources
Two monkey babies survive floods. They care for each other with hugs while patiently waiting for food. Thanks to this kind heart attached to that hand provided them milk. Kindness brings out the best. 🙏🪄
The Animal Welfare (Sentience) Act, and new Sentience Committee, are another step on the journey to move beyond such archaic and wilfully deceptive portrayals of animals in our political discourse. It's a journey we can't move fast enough on (3/3)
Those invested, economically or culturally, in inflicting harm on animals use a variety of euphemisms to throw veils over suffering. They hope that if animals are just 'stocks' to be 'harvested' according to 'sustainable yields' we can ignore the experience of the individual (2/3
4 hours into my 24 hours in a cage! Just 20 to go 😊 but HAPPY DAYS the fur industry animal welfare guidelines (
#Welfur
) say I can have a piece of plastic tube for “enrichment”! What a time to be alive! Please sign for a
#FurFreeBritain
at
So many of us have lost any faith that this Govt believes that animals deserve better protection from suffering. And former
@DefraGovUK
Secretary George Eustice’s foreword in
@BorisJohnson
’s Govt’s
#ActionForAnimals
Plan told us what that means 3/3
.
@BBCBreakfast
your piece about mortgage rates just now featured a goldfish in a vase, in opaque green water. The owner may not realise it will die very soon if kept like this, can you/
@RSPCA_official
urgently help her with appropriate tank & filtration?
#BBCBreakfast
We did it! Parliament just approved the
#SentienceBill
so it will soon be law! This will give animals more of the protection, consideration and compassion they deserve in Parliament. Thank you to our amazing supporters for fighting for this change with us every step of the way!
Defra Sec Thérèse Coffey trying to have a human moment with
@Number10cat
this morning. Body language experts now analysing what Larry meant by shaking his head and walking away
How a government treats the most vulnerable members of society, including animals, says a lot. Testing out rowing back on previous
@Conservatives
animal welfare ambitions is a dismal opening gambit from the Truss government
Liz Truss is said to be about to scrap bans on fur and foie gras imports and live exports, all promised by the Tories and planned under Boris Johnson 1/2:
All of us that had the privilege of working with
@JoannaToole
are unable to process this horrific news. Jo had such energy, passion & positivity. Animals have lost an incredible advocate, & we have lost a wonderful friend. My thoughts & love to her family at this impossible time.
So profoundly sad and lost for words at the loss of our wonderful
@FAOfish
officer
@JoannaToole
, who was on her way to represent
@faofish
at the
#UNEA
meeting in Nairobi on
#ET302
. A wonderful human being, who loved her work with a passion. Our love to her family and loved ones
These are manifesto commitments, and have now been demoted to be perilous Private Members Bills, simply because our Govt - with its 64 seat working majority - doesn’t want an awkward debate on amendments that would expose Party tensions on fox-hunting 2/3
@GreggsOfficial
In the whole of December
@GreggsOfficial
did 22 tweets (not including replies) like this one. As of now they collectively earned 2,936 likes, on average 133 likes per tweet. The arrival of the
#vegan
sausage roll has had 28,000 LIKES IN 12 HOURS! Viva la vegalución! 🌱💕🐷💕🌱
Happy birthday to our incredibly special boy Henry, 8 today(ish!). Born on a Korean dog meat farm destined to be eaten, now eating carrot and peanut butter cake.
Don’t cook with animals, cook for them! 💛🌱
@BBCPanorama
@BBCOne
I hope that everyone that has been rightly horrified by Zouma kicking his cat is equally horrified by the routine kicking, punching and torture that goes into a pint of milk.
Don’t buy the white lies. 🌱🥛
Good to see Piers Morgan doing another PSA for veggie food on GMB this morning. Hard to picture why anyone would want this in their sweets. Thank you
@marksandspencer
for making all your Percy Pigs veggie!
Hello
@michaelgove
! I’m out of my cage now but 130million fur animals are still stuck in theirs. This
@MailOnline
story shows the full horror of what I saw on a ‘high welfare’ fur farm. Please let’s stop the U.K. trading in this cruelty!
#FurFreeBritain
.
@UK_CAA
& all airlines tagged: my friend
@JoannaToole
was killed on
#ET302
. Given similarities between this & Indonesian crash with same model, why are you not GROUNDING ALL
#737MAX
until a general defect has been ruled out? Please ACT NOW to remove risk of more senseless loss.
Scientists from Denmark and China - two of world’s largest fur farming countries - write in
@ScienceMagazine
to call for complete bans on mink farming, due to public health risk. The UK should stop providing a market for cruel & unsafe fur
#FurFreeBritain
.
@BBCBreakfast
you’re there to educate and inform, so if you’re going to talk about chicken farming it’s irresponsible to show only 250 bird free range organic farm. Please visit some factory hell holes like these, supplying
@Morrisons
& others.
@OpenCagesUK
will tell you where.
22.5 hours in to my 24 hours in a cage. Chilly and pretty bored now, much like the 130 million animals trapped in tiny cages their whole lives, bred & killed for fur. Please ask
@michaelgove
to stop importing this misery! Sign at
#furfreebritain
No words. Last week at the end of
@ConservativeAWF
Conservative conference reception, Sir David gave me a huge beaming smile and said “We’re winning for animals!”. His generosity, enthusiasm and positivity was endless, as will be his legacy for animals. Heartbroken.
We are deeply shocked and saddened to hear of the tragic death of Sir David Amess, a true friend of HSI and a compassionate campaigner for animal protection. Our thoughts are with his family and colleagues.
Henry has his cool blanket on and the fan on him and seems comfortable (more so than I am!
#priorities
!) I keep thinking about all the animals on farms, and at ridiculous agricultural shows, sweltering. It’s so unfair.
Hi
@BobBlackman
, congrats on your outcome in the ballot! After your support in Feb for a
#FurFreeBritain
in letter to
@thetimes
, we would love to ask if you'd consider championing a fur ban with your PMB slot. Thank you for considering (sure your inbox is bursting today!)🦊
Thank you
@mariaeaglemp
, architect of the U.K. fur farming ban, for popping by to show support for my
#24hoursinacage
for a
#FurFreeBritain
! We banned this cruelty here, now let’s stop importing it! Sign at
Proud to have played a very small part in this (including on a few lively demos in Dover 20 odd years ago), but mostly just full of admiration for the campaigners and protesters who fought for animals so bravely, for 50+ years against this cruelty. In memory of Jill Phipps ✊🐮
HUGE victory! 🎉 Parliament has just approved a new law to
#BanLiveExports
of animals! 🎊🐑
Big and small actions from millions of compassionate people made this possible - from emails to MPs to blockades at ports.
We are overjoyed and relieved that this historic day is finally
.
@BBCPanorama
&
@AnimalAid
's expose on racehorse slaughter demands action.
@Greg_Wood_
highlights shocking death trade in horses from Ireland to UK. So in addition to banning live EXPORTS for slaughter, we clearly need to ban live IMPORTS
@ZacGoldsmith
A full stop placed today at the end of this chapter in our shameful history of animal abuse. SO many more pages and chapters to go, but endless compassion and energy to ensure they get finished 💚
Together we’ve BANNED live exports!
Words can’t express how thankful we are to every single person who’s helped make this happen. 💚
You’ve saved countless animals from suffering unimaginable horrors, don’t ever forget that.
@DeborahMeaden
@PeterEgan6
@marcthevet
@philip_ciwf
@ITV
@itvracing
It’s the race everyone’s talking about because it’s a horrifically cruel anachronism that makes
@ITV
look completely out of touch with modern animal welfare. Perhaps you’d also like to find some bear-baiting or cock-fighting to broadcast? BOYCOTT
#grandnational2019
#YouBetTheyDie
Fascinating hearing from Geoffrey Beattie at
@APPGTrophyHunt
reception about his research to understand psychology of trophy hunters. They exhibit “the dark triad’ of dysfunctional personalities: Narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy. Time to
#EndTrophyHunting
There’s a ban on bringing some animals to the UK from certain countries, so what if you want to give a dog a good home?
BBC Radio Kent's
@DomKingRadio
and his wife Amanda imported an abandoned dog from Romania four months ago.
Meet Ralphie on BBC Sounds:
Lolita was trapped in this underwater prison for almost 20,000 days. Half a century in a 24m wide 6m deep tank. By any meaningful definition, she was tortured.
Every ticket purchased kept her there.
Don’t let people profit from cruelty like this. Don’t buy tickets.
#RIPLolita
'Lolita had been kept in “the smallest, bleakest orca tank in the world, deprived of any semblance of a natural life” and had displayed “repetitive and abnormal behaviour,” indicating “severe psychological trauma”.'
Government must publish results of fur Call For Evidence & determine policy based on that, not on the whims, fancies & hunches of Rees-Mogg & friends. Saying that NOT providing a market for some 2 million animal furs annually won’t help animals is absurd.
Today I am honoured to help celebrate the life of
@JoannaToole
with her many friends & family. A truly beautiful person, who changed the world for the better. As part of her legacy we invite you to
#BeMoreJo
-pledge to take an action to make a kinder, cleaner world. Some ideas ⬇️
Those who defend trophy hunting say this killing 'helps conservation’ – but most British people are against hunters travelling the world shooting animals for sick souvenirs, whatever excuse is used to try and justify it.
Help end the import of hunting trophies:
Fantastic news that
@Anna_Firth
’s Bill squeaked through to become law at the 11th hour! Having a beloved cat or dog stolen is in no way comparable to having an inanimate object like a bike or a plant pot stolen, important to have a law to reflect that!
50 years of campaigning by
@ciwf
and
@RSPCA_official
... high time to get this ban done
@DefraGovUK
, no more false starts please!
@HSIUKorg
will be responding to consultation in full support of the UK banning cruel live animal exports
Thank you
@JustinOnWeb
@BBCr4today
for having me on for
@HSIUKorg
to discuss Govt’s new plans for ban on hunting trophies. A strong, welcome policy, but now we need a Bill introduced asap to shut down imports of these sick souvenirs.
Listen from 06.53👇
.
@PenFarthing
setting the record straight. The problem with Twitter is that people’s fingers often work faster than their brains. Incredible some of the fabrication-turned-fact during
#OperationArk
And to confirm; I have never ever spoken or messaged the PM’s wife… OMG. Am I really having to say this in public? What circles do people think I move in?? 😮
Disappointing that
@BBCBreakfast
shared this as comedy item,
@sallynugent
&
@jonkay01
joking about its mouth being wired shut. This is a stressed wild animal in a totally inappropriate situation. BBC too often normalises animal cruelty (👀
@BBCCountryfile
)
Hugely proud of
@JoannaToole
for her
#RSPCAhonours
Special Recognition Award, &
@GreenManExmouth
for accepting it tonight. The oceans are a safer place because of Jo & her work on the
@GGGInitiative
. So many of Jo’s friends are committed to her advancing her incredible legacy 🐋
Yes they are fuckers Zac, but a better question is why do we have a regulatory system that fails animals on farms so comprehensively? This👇from
@animal_equality
tells you why the fuckers know they can get away with cruelty. Please meet animal orgs to start making change happen!
Delighted that
@jordanwshelley
’s
#KeptAnimalsBill
petition has jumped up by 8,000 signatures since we asked our amazing supporters to help yesterday! Compassionate people will not let
@10DowningStreet
abandon this law.
If you haven’t already, please sign!
Only 2,100 signatures to go before we get the 100,000 signatures to trigger a Parliamentary debate on this important Animal Sentience Bill —let’s get it done! Please sign and share!
It’s irresponsible for BBC to feature and even focus a fish being kept in this way as it could easily lead others to think this is acceptable. Fish have complex needs:
On
#FurFreeFriday
v pleased to hear
@HollandCooper
are going fur-free! Their sales team say: “We are pleased to confirm we are phasing out our existing real fur items & all our new collections, online in our mainline stores are designed with Real Look Faux Fur & Eco Fill Down!”
A great day helping get more dogs off the meat farm HSI is closing in Korea, and a lovely evening at
@UKinKorea
, who kindly hosted a reception to support our campaign. Took little Bear along as an ambassadog and he did us proud! 🐶💕
Huuuuuge congratulations to
@crab_welfare
for winning the
#RSPCAHonours
Campaigner Award! So deserved and so looking forward to working with you to make sure 🦀 and 🦞 get the protection they need and deserve ✊🏻
3/3 through
@AllDogsMatter
we’ve placed 31
#dogmeat
dogs in UK families. Like all rescue dogs they need love & time, but their capacity to learn love & trust is amazing. I adopted Henry from our 10th farm closure in 2017. Here he is this morning!
@NickyAACampbell
@PipTomson
Good to discuss
@SurreyPolice
’s shocking ramming of a calf with
@AllisonFerns1
on
@BBCSussex
(from 8.20). Waiting for an update on calf’s injuries & hoping to hear that he/she will be surrendered to a sanctuary, thousands of people want to see that happen
@JosieAllan4
@ElwoodDogMeat
Hi
@ElwoodDogMeat
@josieallan4
! This is Henry, he was rescued from a dog meat farm in South Korea. Some farmers there actually don’t want to farm dogs for meat any more. IKR?!! Could we start a small retriever cheese business with him? I don’t know where milk comes from. Thanks!