Photographer Jo-Anne McArthur uses her camera to fight for the end of animal abuse around the world.
a Dutch organization that helps companies and workers improve their animal farming, transport, and slaughter practices. Working with NGOs has taken her to about 60 countries.“Sometimes we are stopped and questioned,” she says. “Sometimes we are welcomed. But we also work at night, entering farms to document things as they are and leaving without a trace. I’d rather not work this way, but most industries are not opening their doors to journalists, and these stories simply need to be told.
“Yes, we are seeing a rise in meat consumption in the BRIC [developing nations of Brazil, Russia, India, and China] countries and growing economies in general. This means a continued rise in industrial farming and the number of animals being raised and killed yearly.“No one wants to live in a cage,” she feels. “No one wants a life of captivity and an untimely death.
“More countries are banning the use of wild animals in circuses, the import of trophy hunts, and animal trade . I do see that the current massive frontier is the one that protects animals raised for food and aims toward the abolition of their use.” Unlucky #7. An immobilized pig awaits the administration of an infusion in a jugular catheter. Spain © Carlota Saorsa / Filming for Animals.“I remember thinking that veg*nism was extreme and would be a life of deprivation, but when I made that first tentative foray into it, I saw pretty quickly that I would not go back to using animals,” she remembers. “I was surprised to experience how good I felt — intellectually, psychologically, emotionally, and ethically.
In the wild, mink are solitary creatures. When kept together in cages, they fight and even cannibalize one another, Sweden © Jo-Anne McArthur
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