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The following comes from the Humane Society International
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Speaking out for dogs in China
A massive dog-killing campaign has come to an end, apparently due to strong protest within China and mounting pressure from the international community. Read more>> .
Did you think the rodeo, circus, horse racing and bull fight were fun ? Not the animals used for these kinds of “entertainment”. Learn more about these events by clicking on the links below:
> Yeehaw! Kelly Clarkson Drops Out of Calgary Stampede > Rodeo 1 > Rodeo 2 > Calgary Stampede Protest > Article on Rodeo Stampede
> Circus > Horse racing
> Bullfighting Facts > Bullfight > Dancing Bears
It is sad that Man is exploiting defence-less animals for their own selfish entertainment while these animals suffer. If you’ve a heart, say a loud “No” to these events and discourage others from supporting these events. Write to your local news, local authorities, take part in your local animal rights organizations. Tell others about it: feature them on Twitter, Facebook, Spacebook, message boards etc.
In the similar vein as “An Inconvenient Truth”, this movie documentary provides an insight into the food industry and how consumers are putting themselves at risk. Check this out > http://www.foodincmovie.com/
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Dear Friends,
Hello again — it’s me, Nicole, the undercover investigator for The Humane Society of the United States. I spent a lonely and depressing nine months documenting the even more depressing lives of some of the 325 chimpanzees who are caged at the New Iberia Research Center in Louisiana.
In part because of my investigation, Congress is poised to consider the Great Ape Protection Act, which would end invasive research on the 1,000-plus chimpanzees remaining in U.S. laboratories. I’m hopeful that my work might one day save these intelligent primates from lives of misery.
But I’m also worried. Without resources, investigations like mine can’t happen. And without investigations, our campaigns to confront animal cruelty lack a key ingredient: facts. We desperately need facts to inform advocates and policymakers about cruelties often hidden behind closed doors.
Will you make an emergency donation to support our Investigations Fund?
When I was undercover, I knew that I could walk out of the research lab any time I wanted. And some days, believe me, I wanted to. But I didn’t, and on those lonely days of self-doubt, when I was pretending to be someone I wasn’t, this is what kept me going: I knew that once I left those sterile, lifeless cinderblock rooms that are under lock and key, no one was going to give the chimpanzees what I had been giving them whenever I was able — a friendly voice, a caring hand, or a playful tickle. I could leave the research lab’s iron-clad doors, but would my friends ever be as lucky?
So I resolved that I would not leave them until I was ready to tell the world their stories. When you support our Investigations Fund, you enable me to go undercover, document abuses, and tell the stories of animals who suffer in the shadows, out of the sight of the public. My work is to bring their misery into the sunlight, where it cannot survive.
I was asked to write you because investigations are one of the most powerful tools that The Humane Society of the United States can bring to bear against the mistreatment of animals — whether chimps, pets, wildlife, or farm animals. But it’s costly work. It takes lots of time. My colleagues and I can’t get the job done without you standing with us. Today, please support our Investigations Fund with a gift of $35, $50, $100 or more.
I’m grateful that the tragic stories of Danielle (pictured above), Siafu, Karen, and other chimps I met at the New Iberia Research Center have motivated tens of thousands of people to demand that they be retired. I look forward to the joyous day this happens.
For now, though, I’m already preparing for my next undercover assignment. It’s going to be another tough one. That’s why I’m grateful you are standing behind me. Please donate today.
Sincerely,
Source: Humane Society of The United States .
The following is a message from the People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals. For your info and action.
What makes me think that PETA can convince McDonald’s to rewrite its corporate animal welfare policies? Burger King. Wendy’s. Canadian KFCs. Denny’s. Hardees. Carl’s Jr. Safeway. Albertsons. Harris Teeter. Winn-Dixie.
These are some of the biggest grocery and restaurant chains in the U.S. and Canada, and PETA has brought them all to the bargaining table and won some of the most sweeping improvements for farmed animals ever. Because of our efforts, fewer factory farms are using cruel gestation crates to confine pregnant sows or “battery cages,” in which hens are crammed so tightly together that they cannot spread a single wing.
Now we’re taking on McDonald’s. Its reforms will lead the way for the greatest changes in the industry. We can win this battle and others—but only with your support.
Chickens killed by McDonald’s suppliers are dumped from their crates and violently shackled by workers, often as their limbs are broken or torn off. Many have their throats cut or are scalded to death in tanks of boiling water while still conscious.
The terror that these animals endure can be easily eliminated by switching to controlled-atmosphere killing (CAK)—the least cruel form of poultry slaughter ever developed. With CAK, an inert gas puts the birds to sleep quickly and painlessly while they are still in their transport cages—eliminating much of the suffering that they endure during the slaughter process.
Many of the other companies that PETA staff members have worked with—including Burger King, Canadian KFCs, Wendy’s, and Popeye’s—are agreeing to push their suppliers to switch to CAK. But McDonald’s is refusing to do so. It’s even ignored its own study, which showed that CAK would both reduce the suffering of chickens and save the company money.
But that can change with your help today.
As the largest seller of chicken flesh in the U.S., McDonald’s has both the responsibility and the ability to pave the way for this important reform to take hold in slaughterhouses across the country.
PETA has the investigators, the activists, the know-how, and the determination to win this campaign. But McDonald’s is as formidable an opponent as we’ve ever faced, and we need your immediate help to turn up the heat. Please make a tax-deductible donation for the countless chickens and other animals facing a painful death without our action today.
Thank you for all that you do to help animals.
Very truly yours,
Ingrid E. Newkirk
President
People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals.
PETA Launches New Spoof Web Site: OlympicShame2010.com
Help us keep pressure on the Vancouver Olympic Organizing Committee by visiting our new spoof Web site, OlympicShame2010.com. You can watch a video, check out animations, and take action!
Win a Free Copy of Skinny Bastard!
Rory Freedman and Kim Barnouin have done it again! The creators of Skinny Bitch are whipping men into shape just in time for summer with their new book, Skinny Bastard! Enter to win a copy now!
Slaughterhouses: Where Racehorses Go to Retire
When their racing days are over, many horses end up in Japanese slaughterhouses, where they are hacked apart for dog food. Watch the undercover video now.
The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights
Advocate for animal rights, PETA style! Ingrid E. Newkirk’s new book invites you to become the best voice for animals that you can be. Check it out and tell us what animal rights means to you!
PETA’s Podcast: Thistle’s Story
This is the true story of Thistle, a kitten who was rescued from a biological supply company and spared the horror that millions of animals suffer each year for science classes. Listen now.
Send Your Photos and Help Elephants!
Now is your chance to join our protest against Ringling Bros. circus! Make a statement today and take a photo with our sign stating that you won’t attend circuses that use animals!
Please do not leave your pets in your car as it becomes a hot oven inside the car with the high temperatures we’re experiencing. Try to always leave your pets safely at home. If you have to leave them in your car, park in the shade with windows open, or bring them with you. Always bring water for your lovely pets. Please be wise and careful.
“New & Improved” Shampoo, lotion, cosmetics for humans come at a price for animals.
Have you ever wondered how many animals suffer in labs? It’s a good question. Because there are so many animals in laboratories and records are not kept for all animals, estimates of the number of animals tortured and killed annually in U.S. laboratories vary widely but are in the millions.
The Animal Welfare Act requires laboratories to report the number of animals used in experiments, but it does not cover mice, rats, and birds (used in some 80 to 95 percent of all experiments). Because these animals are not covered by the act, they remain uncounted, and we can only guess at how many actually suffer and die each year.
Many household products and cosmetics companies still pump their products into animals’ stomachs, rub them onto their skin, squirt them into their eyes, or force animals to inhale them as aerosol sprays. Charities such as the March of Dimes use donations from private citizens to fund experiments on animals, and the FDA requires all drugs to be tested on animals. However, animals differ from humans significantly, making animal drug tests unreliable and dangerous. New research methods, such as computer models, cell cultures, and human studies are more accurate, less expensive, and much more humane.
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Meet David Waitzman, an animal experimenter at the University of Connecticut Health Center. Waitzman had a $1.7 million grant from the federal government that funded his cruel research on monkeys. He used the money to drill holes into monkeys’ skulls and implant steel coils in their eyeballs over and over again.
Let me share with you a shocking account from an actual cage log of Cornelius, one of the tortured monkeys in Waitzman’s experiments. Cornelius suffered from tremors and seizures for more than eight months after Waitzman drilled into his skull, yet Waitzman continued to use Cornelius in experiments in which he was held immobile in a restraint chair and his brain was poked and prodded. On his final day, Cornelius started vomiting and convulsing during an experiment. The convulsions developed into grand mal seizures, and Cornelius died from cardiac arrest.
So many helpless animals like Cornelius—some just babies—are condemned to spend their entire lives in barren metal cages in windowless laboratories. They are force-fed, injected with toxins, and afflicted with painful diseases. Chemicals are sprayed in their eyes and poured down their throats, and electrodes are implanted in their brains. Experimenters cut tissue from animals’ bodies without any anesthesia. All the animals are scared, and many die slow, painful deaths, as Cornelius did.
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Companies that do not test on animals proudly state it on their labels. Send back items that you have from companies that test on animals, and write a letter to the companies explaining why you won’t buy their products anymore. For more information on animal testing and a list of companies that do not test on animals, see PETA’s Shopping Guide for Caring Consumers and be sure to share it with your friends! Learn more . > Donate to help PETA in its efforts to stop unnecessary Animal Testing .
Below from Liberation BC .
Despite all facts to the contrary, individuals in favour of the Commercial Seal Slaughter persist in pushing the lie that the Inuit are involved. That is why, on a visit to Nunavut, Governor General Michaëlle Jean publicly gutted a freshly slaughtered seal and ate its heart as a supposed expression of solidarity with the Inuit. (Check out the article here.)
As everyone should know by now, the Inuit people have absolutely nothing to do with the Canadian Seal Slaughter.
Here are two links with more info, including quotes from the Inuit themselves:
Do Native People Depend on the Commercial Seal Hunt to Survive?
Please take a moment to contact the Governor General and let her know how misguided and insensitive her actions were:
Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean
Governor General of Canada
Rideau Hall
1 Sussex Drive
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 0A1
Telephone: (613) 993-8200 or toll-free in Canada and the United States at 1-800-465-6890
Fax: (613) 998-8760
Email: info@gg.c
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This news was reported here . I disagree with her views - history has records of many inhumane acts that were once deemed as “traditions” at some point in time but were discontinued or outlawed, so, to argue that the cruel seal hunt needs to continue because it’s a “tradition” is not tenable. With regard to the point of employment and sustenance, there are many other alternatives, why must seal hunt be the only answer? Where there’s a problem, one looks for alternatives. A case in point - how the Obama administration is actively looking for alternative energy sources in a mission to deal with the problem of global warming.
What are your views ?
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