Please oppose foie gras; ask for maximum sentence in cruelty case; help sharks; ban convicted animal abuser
Please click on and sign the following actions:
1. Please urge Gelson’s Markets to stop selling fois gras
2. Please ask for maximum sentence for Dionte Davis
3. Don’t let sharks be fished to extinction
4. Tell the Peterculter Golf Club to Ban Convicted Animal Abuser
1. Background | From PETA
Because of the extreme cruelty involved in the production of foie gras—the diseased and “fatty liver” of force-fed ducks and geese—many restaurants and grocery stores around the world have stopped serving and selling it. PETA has shared the shocking undercover video footage of foie gras farms with California-based grocery chain Gelson’s Markets, yet the company continues to sell foie gras in its stores. After thousands of you contacted Gelson’s, the company’s president, Robert E. Stiles, informed PETA that Gelson’s would continue to sell foie gras until the supermarket chain is forced to stop when the California ban against foie gras takes effect in mid-2012.
Investigations of foie gras farms in the U.S. and overseas have documented countless sick, dead, and dying birds, including some animals who were found suffering from holes in their necks after pipes had been forced down their throats. One investigation in New York found ducks crammed into wire cages. Animals’ beaks were bloody, and their wings were twisted together. At another foie gras farm, in Europe, birds were found dangling by wires as blood spilled from their neck wounds onto live animals beneath them.
Foie gras production is so cruel that it has been condemned by the pope and is prohibited in 15 countries, including the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Israel, Luxembourg, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Switzerland, and the U.K.
Related | Foie Gras Expose with Kate Winslet
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2. Background | From Change
Poor Hope, she fought so hard to live after being tied up around the neck with electrical wire, and then left there by this teenager, Dionte Davis, to die. She had a severely severed trachea but survived. We became aware of the case, and soon thereafter she died. Dionte Davis must serve his prison time. Who will be next if he’s not reformed? My child? I don’t think so!
3. Background | From Change, Oceana
It’s Shark Week and you know what that means: 24/7 coverage of some of the oceans’ most alluring predators. But what you may not know is sharks are in danger from the world’s most terrifying predators: humans.
Sharks are being fished faster than they can reproduce and their numbers are declining – and fast. Some U.S. hammerhead populations have dropped an alarming 98% in recent decades.
If we keep fishing at this rate, soon there will be no more sharks swimming in our waters and Shark Week will be our only chance to see these amazing creatures.
We want the U.S. government to limit fishing of the most threatened sharks. Speak up now to protect our sharks!
4. Background | From Care
Last year 55-year old Donald Forbes beat a fox nearly to death with a golf club for doing nothing more than stealing a biscuit from his belongings at the Peterculter Golf Club in Scotland. According to the Press and Journal, an animal-cruelty officer described it as a “brutal and sickening” attack.
Forbes was charged with animal cruelty, paid a fine of $1,210 (£750) and was suspended from the club for nine months.
Unfortunately, the club has decided to reinstate Forbes’ membership, which animal lovers and activists disagree with. Legendary Queen guitarist and animal rights activist Brian May has also added his voice to protest Forbes’ membership, along with the group Fox Watch.
Please sign the petition asking the Peterculter Golf Club to hold animal abusers accountable and take a stand against violence by banning Forbes for life.
See More:
- Animal Wrongs
- Compassion
- Cruelty-Free
- Earthlings
- Free Vegan Guides
just who would we be able
to name
if we start the cruel and stupid
hall of fame
too many candidates
who would be the choser
what a sorry pack
of pathetic losers:(
Karen Lyons Kalmenson
Our Compass 
Excellent web site. Plenty of useful information here.
I am sending it to several friends ans also sharing in delicious.
And obviously, thanks for your effort!
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