Here are several animals that need your help. The letters of appeal have already been drafted for your slight modification and ready to be sent via email:
> Appeal against farm practice of Smashing Heads of Pigs With Hammer
> Speak up for cows that are left to die slow & painful death
> Help stop cruel Dog & Cat Fur trade
> Ask Edmonton to Let elephant Lucy Pack Her Trunk
> here are more animal issues . > Home page .
Having read about the conditions of animals raised in factory farms, I have gone out of my way to reduce my consumption of meats and dairy. Besides, animals in factory farms are fed so much biochemicals to artificially strengthen their immune system that such biochemicals, when they enter our human system by our consumption, will likely be harmful to us. If I have to eat meat, I try to buy organic meat and free-range eggs as they come from animals which have been allowed to roam freely instead of intensive confinement in cages for their whole lives.
(1) How Factory Farming affects the food you eat (2) Orgzns that help (3) Chickens in Singapore (4) Model Farm Project in China .
In the slaughterhouses of McDonald’s U.S. and Canadian chicken suppliers, birds are hung upside-down in metal shackles, often resulting in broken bones, extreme bruising and hemorrhaging.
Don’t let this abuse continue! >>
Many birds are immersed in tanks of scalding-hot water while they are still alive and able to feel pain. Some have their throats cut while they are still conscious.
McDonald’s has the ability to change these cruel practices >>. More information at http://www.McCruelty.com/
Source: People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals
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/
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/.
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
Kraft Foods Exploits Baby Elephant in Oreo Commercial
Forcing exotic animals into the entertainment industry is cruel and unnecessary. Click here to urge Kraft to pull its Oreo ad, which features a baby elephant, and to pledge never to use exotic animals in future ads.
Help Us Stop Ringling Bros.’ Expansion on Coney Island
New York City officials have announced that Ringling Bros. will perform on Coney Island this summer. Tell officials that Ringling Bros. is not welcome!
Tito Ortiz Says, ‘I Choose to Be in the Ring. Animals Don’t.’
Tito Ortiz isn’t afraid to step into the ring for a good fight. Now, he’s ready for his newest opponents—dogfighters. > Check out his new ad, which encourages people to stand up for animals who are used and abused for entertainment.
Geezer Butler’s Vegetarian Testimonial and Giveaway
Legendary Black Sabbath bassist Geezer Butler gave up meat at the age of 8. See his vegetarian testimonial and enter to win his new album here.
Five Reasons to Ditch Wool
If you haven’t given up wool yet, here are five reasons to make that commitment to animals now: Faith, Lily, Mae, Pete, and Lucy. Read more and find out how you can help.
Source: People For The Ethical Treatment of Animals .
Right now, PETA members like you are helping to ease the suffering of abused animals all over the world. I’m glad that you’re part of our team, and I’d like to share recent examples of how our work together makes a difference for animals.
Victory for Animals Used for Food
Quiznos, a huge sandwich chain with more than 5,000 shops worldwide, has agreed to bring about better conditions for animals on factory farms and in slaughterhouses—following nearly a year of behind-the-scenes negotiations with PETA.
These reforms, as well as those made already by Burger King, Wendy’s, Hardees, and many other restaurant and grocery chains—all as a direct result of PETA pressure—are revolutionizing the living and dying conditions of millions of individual farmed animals.
Victory for Victims of Glue Traps
After learning that a Washington Mutual (WaMu) bank in the Chicago area was using glue traps to catch mice, PETA presented JPMorgan Chase—which recently acquired WaMu—with the facts about animals entangled in glue traps, who often suffer from torn flesh and broken bones in their panicked efforts to escape. The company promptly announced that it would permanently ditch glue traps across its branches and opt for more humane methods of resolving conflicts with mice and rats. JPMorgan Chase joins the many other major companies that have agreed to stop selling glue traps, including CVS, Rite Aid (including its subsidiaries Brooks and Eckerd), Walgreens, and Dollar Tree, Inc.
Victory for Animals Used for Clothing
After years of pressure from PETA and animal rights activists nationwide, JCPenney has finally agreed to stop selling fur! PETA first wrote to JCPenney about its support of the cruel fur industry in 2001, and we had kept the pressure on the company ever since. JCPenney now joins other major retailers and designers—including Tommy Hilfiger, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Liz Claiborne Inc., Polo Ralph Lauren, J.Crew, and Forever 21—who no longer use or sell fur as a result of PETA’s efforts.
While there’s still so much work left to do, I hope that you take great hope and pride in the progress that we’re making to help animals, which is a direct result of your support. Thank you for your generosity!
Ingrid E. Newkirk
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| The HSUS’s Jennifer Fearing interviewed Senator Florez about farm animal welfare. |
Just a couple months after Californians overwhelmingly voted to pass Prop 2 — the Prevention of Farm Animal Cruelty Act — there are more changes afoot in Sacramento. Thanks to the leadership of Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg and Senate Majority Leader Dean Florez, the Senate has a newly-reorganized Food and Agriculture Committee.
One of its top priorities will be to address the welfare of the state’s millions of farm animals.
Senator Florez cited Prop 2 and The HSUS’s January 2008 slaughter plant investigation as examples of the urgent need for reform. Sacramento-based HSUS chief economist Jennifer Fearing asked him a few questions about his plans for the committee and the future of farming in the nation’s top agricultural state.
You were a strong Prop 2 supporter. Could you talk about why the measure was personally important to you?
I live among factory farms. If you look at California, probably half of our state’s agriculture lands are in my Central Valley district.
We’ve seen this big movement, over the hundred years my family has lived in the area, from small farms to these mega ag centers. For example, in Bakersfield there are 312,000 human residents but 387,000 dairy cows. The rise in large CAFOs has caused many of us in the Central Valley to say, “Hey, there have got to be some limits.”
Central Valley residents care about animal welfare–this isn’t just an urban concern.
What role do you see the government playing in promoting the protection of farm animals? > MORE...
Source: The Humane Society of United States .
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