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Mick Hume
Hands off the Grand National
The row over the death of two racehorses blends contempt for the masses, risk-aversion and the irrationalism of animal rights.
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| Tuesday 6 December 2011 |
Jason Smith
Time for an injection of common sense
Groups opposed to modern agriculture are using scare stories to try to have antibiotics banned on farms.
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| Wednesday 22 June 2011 |
Patrick Hayes
In defence of animal experimentation
It’s time that medical researchers were unequivocal in putting human need ahead of animal-welfare concerns.
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| Tuesday 21 June 2011 |
Jason Smith
Telling porkies about big pig farms
Dubious arguments about large-scale agriculture are threatening a proposed megafarm in Derbyshire.
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| Thursday 17 February 2011 |
Nathalie Rothschild
Why does the EU prefer predators to people?
A Swedish hunter tells spiked that Brussels bureaucrats don’t understand why it’s good to cull wolves and foxes.
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| Friday 11 February 2011 |
Helene Guldberg
The chasm between great apes and people
For all the claims that apes and humans are genetically ‘98.5 per cent the same’, there is still an unfathomable gap between us.
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| Wednesday 3 November 2010 |
Helene Guldberg
Animals are useless, unless humans make use of them
We have built cities, cured diseases and created art, yet some people think humans are worth no more than apes.
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| Monday 25 October 2010 |
Jason Smith
In defence of factory farming
The celebs campaigning against a mega-dairy in Lincolnshire don’t know which side their bread is buttered on.
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| Monday 9 August 2010 |
Patrick Hayes
Putting the ‘underclass’ on a tighter leash
Dangerous dogs are back in the news, and as always it’s their allegedly dangerous owners who are being demonised.
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| Friday 2 July 2010 |
Patrick Hayes
Animal experimentation: nothing to be ashamed of
The scientific and political defensiveness about vivisection gives the green light to misanthropic animal-rights activists.
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| Thursday 29 April 2010 |
Helene Guldberg
Monkeys mourning? Don’t make me laugh
A handful of chimp mothers carrying around their dead babies is not evidence of ‘human-like’ qualities.
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| Friday 9 April 2010 |
Barry Curtis
Hands off the Grand National
For millions of human beings, the National is fun, thrilling and escapist. So who cares what the horses ‘think’?
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| Wednesday 27 January 2010 |
Stuart Derbyshire
Just monkeying around with a camera
A BBC film ‘made’ by chimpanzees at Edinburgh Zoo only confirms how different humans and apes really are.
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| Friday 24 July 2009 |
Helene Guldberg
Restating the case for human uniqueness
Despite all the media hype about ‘clever chimps’ using tools and feeling emotions, in truth there is nothing remotely human about primates.
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| Tuesday 9 June 2009 |
Rob Lyons
The fishy message of The End of the Line
Instead of guilt-tripping Western consumers about overfishing, we should invest our energy in developing aquaculture.
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| Wednesday 29 April 2009 |
Stuart Derbyshire
Give it a rest: fish do not feel pain
Yet another research project claims to show that fish are capable of feeling pain. It’s as wrongheaded as all the rest.
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| Thursday 19 March 2009 |
Helene Guldberg
Chimps are like humans? Stop monkeying around
This week it was revealed that chimps use sticks to smash open beehives. But there’s nothing remotely ‘human-like’ in such behaviour.
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| Tuesday 20 January 2009 |
Stuart Derbyshire
A fishy campaign
PETA’s attempt to rebrand fish as ‘sea kittens’ takes anthropomorphism to an unfathomable new low.
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| Tuesday 26 August 2008 |
Stuart Derbyshire
Humans are more important than animals
When it comes to using animals in research, the only moral judgement should be: does it benefit humankind?
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| Monday 4 February 2008 |
Tim Black
Decimation of the polar bear: bearfaced lies?
A leading expert in forecasting tells spiked that research into the impact of climate change on polar bears has been shockingly shoddy.
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