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 ?
For more information on how you can help, visit any of the following:
a) http://www.wspa-usa.org/ (b) http://www.peta.org/ (c) http://www.hsicanada.ca/ (d) http://www.hsus.org/.
I received the following message and would like to share with you the good news.
Thanks to You, Wendy’s Starts Using Cage-Free Eggs
Dear Friend,
Many thousands of you contacted Wendy’s over the past 22 months to ask the company to move away from battery cage confinement of laying hens. The Humane Society of the United States has discussed this issue with Wendy’s for a long time, too. Today, we’re proud to announce that Wendy’s has started to move away from eggs from caged hens.
Thanks to your actions, the company’s modest but meaningful actions will prevent thousands of hens from being crammed into tiny battery cages.
Latest Advancement
Wendy’s new policy is the latest advancement in the ongoing transition away from cruel cages on factory farms. Just last week, The HSUS celebrated our victory in Maine, where we successfully pushed for legislation making Maine the sixth state to ban gestation crates and veal crates.
There’s More to Do
This milestone wouldn’t be possible without the tens of thousands of you who called or wrote to Wendy’s, donated funds, leafleted outside of Wendy’s restaurants, took action online, and more. Thank you so much for taking action for farm animals — your advocacy makes a difference!
Even with this progress, we need to keep up the momentum. McDonald’s only uses eggs from caged hens in the United States. Call 1-800-244-6227 and ask the company to start using cage-free eggs.
Thank you, as always, for everything you do for animals.
Sincerely,
Wayne Pacelle
President & CEO
The Humane Society of the United States.
U.S. health officials have declared a public health emergency in response to the swine-flu outbreak, and the number of confirmed cases worldwide continues to rise. (Most recent reports have indicated that the swine flu virus can kill and virologists are seriously concerned that this H1N1 virus can mutate into a much more malignant strain.) The source of the deadly strain of the influenza virus that erupted in Mexico is most likely linked to one thing—factory farms.
Factory-farmed animals are invariably stressed and disease-ridden as a result of being crammed by the thousands into filthy sheds, which are a breeding ground for new strains of dangerous bacteria and viruses. Pigs and other animals on factory farms are fed a steady diet of drugs to keep them alive in these unsanitary, stressful conditions, increasing the chance that drug-resistant superbugs will develop. Hans-Gerhard Wagner, a senior officer with the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization, has called the intensive industrial farming of livestock an “opportunity for emerging disease.”.
> Learn more about how meat kills.
For your Immediate Action now
> Tell Congress to Prevent Future Flu Outbreaks
Source: Peta.org
Swine Flu Fueled by Factory Farms
The first death from swine flu has been confirmed in the U.S. What is the cause of the epidemic facing our planet that has now killed more than 150 people in Mexico? Factory farms. > Learn more about how meat kills.
For your Immediate Action now
> Tell Congress to Prevent Future Flu Outbreaks
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