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among them, “cow’s milk is loaded with cholesterol, fat and other contaminants — including cow’s blood and pus, pesticides, hormones and antibiotics — which, over time, can be just as dangerous as ingesting melamine. ” In my opinion, research is needed to determine if these bio-engineered antibiotics, hormones and pesticides in milk cause cancer over the long-term .
How could anyone forget the video footage captured by an undercover HSUS investigator of helpless cows being dragged by chains, jabbed with forklifts, poked in the eyes with electric prods, blasted with high-pressure water hoses to simulate drowning, and otherwise tormented at a slaughter plant?
Not only did it shock the nation, but it also led to the largest meat recall in U.S. history. Tell the USDA to stop the cruelty now — time is running out!
We thank you for all of your support following our investigations and urge you to take action today so that cattle who are too sick or injured even to stand will no longer be subjected to the slaughter process or end up in the food supply.
As a result of our investigations, the USDA is finally considering closing a loophole in federal regulations to stop these practices. The agency needs to hear from as many people as possible in the next week. Please speak up for these crippled animals!
Send your comments to the USDA today (Deadline: September 26, 2008) to let the agency know that the public will not tolerate the cruel treatment of animals who cannot even stand or walk.
Sincerely,
Wayne Pacelle
President & CEO
The Humane Society of the United States
Dear Friends,
Please email or write a letter to restaurants and caterers that use cruel meats such as veal and foie gras. Feel free to use the following as a draft to customise your letter. (For those living in British Columbia BC, of Canada, you can find a list of restaurants that serve such cruel cuisine here . URL : http://www.liberationbc.com/campaigns/foie_gras )
——-draft letter as follows—-
TO: [Name of Restaurant]
AGAINST CRUEL CUISINE : VEAL & FOIE GRAS
I am writing on behalf of my friends, relatives and fellow volunteers to state our stand against the use of veal and foie gras in restaurants and caterers. We are also requesting that your restaurant stop serving these meats which are seen by many as cruel cuisine. Until then, we, our friends and their friends will not be visiting your restaurant for dining, or to celebrate special occasions.
The following are the reasons why we advocate against serving veal and foie gras :
VEAL
Male calves are taken from their mothers shortly after birth. Some are slaughtered soon after birth for “bob veal.” Others are raised in “open pens,” a kind of minimum security prison, and even then they are sometimes chained. Most are destined for the veal crate.
Solitary Confinement
The veal crate is a wooden restraining device that is the veal calf’s permanent home. It is so small (22″ x 54″) that the calves cannot turn around or even lie down and stretch and is the ultimate in high-profit, confinement animal agriculture.(1) Designed to prevent movement (exercise), the crate does its job of atrophying the calves’ muscles, thus producing tender “gourmet” veal.
“Feeding” Time
The calves are generally fed a milk substitute intentionally lacking in iron and other essential nutrients. This diet keeps the animals anemic and creates the pale pink or white color desired in the finished product. Craving iron, the calves lick urine-saturated slats and any metallic parts of their stalls. Farmers also withhold water from the animals, who, always thirsty, are driven to drink a large quantity of the high-fat liquid feed.
A Fate Worse Than Death
During their brief lives, these claves never see the sun or touch the Earth. They never see or taste the grass. Their anemic bodies crave proper sustenance. Their muscles ache for freedom and exercise. They long for maternal care. They are kept in darkness except to be fed two to three times a day for 20 minutes. The calves have committed no crime, yet have been sentenced to a fate comparable to any Nazi concentration camp.
(Source: www.britishmeat.com)
For videos to see how veal is produced, go to www.youtube.com, type “veal cruel” in the search box to watch any of the videos.
FOIE GRAS
is produced by cruel and inhumane farming practices. At just a few months old, ducks are confined inside dark sheds and force-fed enormous amounts of food several times a day. A farm worker grabs each duck and, one by one, thrusts a metal pipe down their throats so that a mixture of corn can be forced directly into their gullets. In just a matter of weeks, the ducks become grossly overweight and their livers expand up to 10 times their normal size.
(Source : www.nofoiegras.org)
For videos to see how veal is produced, go to www.youtube.com, type “foie gras force feeding” in the search box to watch any of the videos.
CONCLUSION
We applaud and celebrate the few Vancouver restaurants that have removed foie gras from their menus:
Cioppino’s Mediterranean Grill, Meinhardt, Pearl Drops Tea House, West.
Even Celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck, has banned foie gras from his restaurants after learning the immense suffering that ducks, geese, cows and calves go through. We ask for you to have some compassion and kindness. Put yourself in the shoes of these defenceless animals. If you are them, you wouldn’t want your entire life to be such a misery.
Please remove cruel cuisine from your restaurant.
Yours sincerely
[Your full name]
The recent cross-country listeriosis outbreak across Canada adds to the ever-growing list of viral diseases and food poisoning cases as a result of contaminated meat consumption.
This should not come as a surprise, considering that factory farms cramp live poultry and cattle in unhygienic conditions. The un-natural injection of hormones and force-feeding is widespread in farm animals to spur their growth and speed them onwards to the slaughterhouses. Genetic engineering experiments have also interfered with these animals’ natural immunity systems and could facilitate the attack of ever-evolving viruses as they mutate to adjust to cellular changes.
Please visit the websites below to learn more about the various kinds of meat you eat:
> Factory Farms > Facts about Meat > Truth about Organic & Free Range Meats > Mad Cow Disease
> Listeriosis Victims Swelled Up like Balloons > Salmonella deaths alarming > Watch Video .
The horror that cows, chickens, and pigs face on factory farms goes on for a long time too. Chickens are violently tossed into cages with dozens of other birds and forced to live amid their own waste. Baby pigs have their testicles ripped out without any painkillers. And male calves are starved and chained inside tiny stalls until their flesh becomes soft and milky white before being slaughtered for someone’s veal dinner.
Extract from The Peta Files .
Meat eaters want their meat.
But what’s your opinion of having farm animals confined in tight small cages, suffocating with 10 other fellow animals breathing in the foul air from their poop, panting in the heat with exhaustion 365 days a year until the time arrives for their trip to the slaughterhouse?
Many easily dismiss any thoughts for the situation these poor animals are in. What if you- sometime in the expanse of time- return to Earth as one of these animals ? Can you even imagine what a living hell this must be for each of these animals to live their entire life on a factory farm ?
If you wish to help these poor animals, please support the new Bill that will make life better for animals in factory farms here .
The following websites will explain why veal is a cruel meat:
a) Animal Facts : Veal at http://www.animal-lib.org.au/subjects/subjects/veal.htm
b) Britishmeat.com at http://www.britishmeat.com/veal.html
c) Facts about Veal Farming at http://www.peta.org.uk/factsheet/files/FactsheetDisplay.asp?ID=123
Please share this information with others. No animal need suffer unnecessarily.
Wow… the Top 10 Reasons not to eat Chickens …. if you had only known the various facts, you might think before you head down that poultry or meat aisle. In addition to new and harmful chemicals we get exposed to daily, perhaps one of the key contributors to cancer, SARs, mad cow disease and bird flu. Please click on any o the links below to learn more about each types of meat:
I am slowly making the move towards vegan diet, and feel healthier and better. Helping me is a free starter kit which proves to be very informative. You may wish to refer to this website for meat free recipes and improvise to suit your taste.
Source: PETA
If you or someone you know owns an item with real fur on it, please snap a pic and send it to info@liberationbc.com. We are working on a guide to recognizing fur for the fall shopping season, and your photos can help to provide necessary visuals. If you would like to help in any way with this project, or would just like more information, please send an email. It’s important to get information out there so that people can distinguish real fur from fake fur, before they buy it, and you can help.
If you are willing to part with any fur or fur-trimmed items (either on a permanent or temporary basis) they would be invaluable as visual aids when tabling.
If you have an item that you’re unsure of, contact us and we may be able to help. Tips can also be found here.
Every Saturday
1-3pm
Aberdeen Centre (4400 Hazelbridge Way, Richmond, located conveniently on the 98 B-Line bus (Cambie Road stop))
These protests at Aberdeen Centre are continuing until Pappas Furs is shut down. Pappas Furs is a Canadian furrier that specializes in clothing of the cruelest kind — enormous fur coats, wraps, and muffs made from the skins of suffering animals.
How many animals are there in a standard full-length fur coat? Anywhere from 10 to 20 foxes, 18 to 20 lambs, or 130 to 200 chinchillas!
How can you help?
Come out to one of these Saturday events and join other compassionate people in speaking out against this cruelty. These events are friendly outreach events. All you need to bring is hope and a smile!
If you can’t make it out to Richmond, you can still help by contacting Aberdeen Centre and politely telling them that you don’t want Pappas Furs in the mall!
Telephone: 604.270.1234 or 604.273.1234 ext 12
Email: info@aberdeencentre.com, leasing@aberdeencentre.com, promotion@aberdeencentre.com
Address: Fairchild Developments Ltd., Suite 130,
4400 Hazelbridge Way, Richmond, BC, V6X 3R8
Friday, May 30th,
7-9 pm,
Café de Paris Bistro, 751 Denman St.
The ducks and geese need your help! The campaign has been really successful so far, and many people have stopped to sign the petition. Best of all, more and more people are becoming aware of this issue.
Can’t make it out? Please give Café de Paris a call at 604-687-1418 and let them know that there’s no excuse for foie gras!
If you haven’t contacted the other restaurants on the list of foie gras offenders, now is the perfect time! All it takes is a few minutes and an email account or a phone! The list is constantly being updated, so check back often!
If you learn of a restaurant or store that is carrying foie gras, please send an email to info@liberationbc.com so that they can be added to the list. Thanks!
International Respect for Chickens Day may have been celebrated a few weeks ago, but we know that any day is a good one when it comes to celebrating chickens. Did you know that chickens are intelligent birds with cognitive abilities rivaling those of small children? It’s true! Did you know that they are very social birds who recognize each other by their facial features and have 24 distinct cries, including separate alarm calls depending on whether a predator is approaching by land or by sea? They are also good at problem-solving!
“As a trick at conferences I sometimes list attributes, without mentioning chickens, and people think I’m talking about monkeys,” says Dr. Chris Evans, Professor of Psychology at Macquarie University.
Learn more about the remarkable chicken at GoVeg.com and CompassionOverKilling.
The Vancouver Humane Society has issued a challenge on the newest page of their website:
Stop animal suffering.
Protect the environment.
Stay healthy.
Save vital resources.Eat less meat.
We couldn’t agree more! Rising meat consumption is the driving force behind the growth in factory farming that’s ruining our environment, harming our health and condemning billions of animals to misery. Learn what you can do to stop it!
You can help put a stop to the suffering by speaking flickout against it. Please consider joining other activists at any of the friendly outreach events listed below.
If you can’t make it to an event, there are many other ways to help. You can write letters, send emails, or make phone calls. If you would like to start your own leafletting or outreach event, or if there’s some other way that you feel you can help, send an email to info@liberationbc.com.
Also, consider making a donation to Liberation BC. Your donations help to cover the costs of printing leaflets and signs and purchase important equipment like the tent, the television, and the portable battery. Liberation BC is an all-volunteer organization with no funding, except from donations. Your support is vital to continue to spread this message of compassion and concern for the millions of voiceless animals who are suffering right now.
The animals need you.
Please, donate now.
Source: Liberation BC at http://www.liberationbc.com/ .
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