The Humane Society of the United States today released the results of an undercover investigation documenting shocking animal abuse at a Vermont slaughter plant. > more> facts about Factory Farming > Personalise draft & Email Letter to the Department of Agriculture now .
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 .
Many of you have asked for ways to contact these restaurants. Here are the websites where you can find their contacts. Moreover, a draft letter has already been prepared for you. Just make some changes and hit the “Send email” button, or call them: (1) McCruelty (2) iHop . Veal : Get informed about how veal is made > Link 1 > Link 2 . Foie Gras : Learn about what goes into it > Link 1 > Link 2 .
> Have your gift doubled to fight animal cruelty on Factory Farms .
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 .
With the health risks like salmonella, bird flu, e coli, mad cow disease, H1N1 (or swine flu) virus, it is all the more important that you be informed about the food that you and your family eat. Find out more :
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/
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.
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
The following websites will inform you how veal is created for the so-called “gourmet fine dining” :
a) Animal Facts : Veal at http://www.noveal.org
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 should suffer needlessly for Man’s gastronomic pleasure.
P.S. Sarah Brown, wife of British prime minister Gordon Brown, shunned veal at G8 Summit .
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