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What is the difference between No Welfare, High Welfare, and Highest Welfare when they all require animals to die? Only human comfort, NONE protect the actual animals. The most humane, ethical, and honest Webster-defined "welfare" is NOT exploiting animals - not using, not wearing, not eating, not killing - animals. The only meaningful position is vegan, everything else is just how humans euphemize animals' required suffering and violent deaths: no human exploits animals because they honestly believe that NOT exploiting animals is UNethical or INhumane.
The Optimal Way of Man
From Anthony Marr Blog
based on
The OMNISCIENTIFIC COSMOLOGY
by Anthony Marr
It is 2010 AD, and the world is on the brink of global disaster. Homo Sapiens has lost its way and is on a war path to destroy the planet, life on Earth, and therefore itself.
We need to know the optimal WAY OF MAN in order to save the planet, life on Earth, and ourselves.
War, conflict and destruction have been integral parts of human history. But out of war has come peace, out of conflict has come harmony, and out of destruction will come the construction of a brave new world. Let’s beginning with the Trojan War in 1185 BC, and see where it leads us:
World map – 500 BC
Legend:
white – uninhabited
yellow – hunter-gatherers
magenta – nomadic pastoralists
green – simple farming societies
amber – complex farming societies or chiefdoms
blue – states societies
brown – empires
1130 BC – dawning of the Iron Age,
1120 BC – magnetic compass invented by the Chinese,
1100 BC – alphabetic script developed by the Phoenicians,
1000 BC – gun powder invented by the Chinese,
750-700 BC – Homer wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey,
776 BC – the Olympic Games started in Greece,
753 BC – the founding of Rome,
725 BC – Sparta conquered Messenia,
650 BC – earliest writing in the Americas by the Olmec culture,
621 BC – Draco established Draconian laws over Athens,
600 BC – Anaximander theorized that humans rose from other species,
559 BC – Cyrus the Great formed the Persian Empire,
532 BC – Pythagoras started his school in Croton, Greece,
490 BC – 11,000 Athenians defeated 100,000 Persians at Marathon,
480 BC – the “300 Spartans” against King Xerxes of Persia,
480 BC – the Second Persian War, where Xerxes destroyed Athens,
479 BC – Greek naval victory over Persians at Salamis,
470 BC – 110,000 Greeks defeated 300,000 Persians at Plataea, with 257,000 Persian casualties and only 159 Greek casualties…
During this time period, half a world away, China was undergoing its Spring-and-Autumn period, where internal warfare waged for some three centuries. During the Chou (Zhou) Dynasty (1027-256 BC), the kingdom of Chou gave rise to over 35 supposedly subservient feudal states, which eventually became so powerful that not only did they began warring amongst each other, some even openly challenged the authority of Chou. Thus arose the Warring States period, where the warring states, through alliances and conquests became reduced to 7 major powers (Chai, Chaw, Yeen, Hon, Dsew, Ngai, Chin). These powers escalated the wars to epic proportions, destroyed Chou in 256 BC, and each other, until finally, in the year 221 BC, Chin (Qin) conquered every other state with its iron-clad army (see terra cotta statues), and became the First Empire of China.
Some time during this period, two great Chinese philosophers came to the fore – Lao Tsu (604-? BC) and Confucius (551-479 BC), who were contemporaries in the latter half of the 6th Century BC. But they diverged significantly in their philosophies.
The philosophy was Confucius was anthropocentric, which placed humans on the upper echelons of all things, and the king, said to be the Son of Heaven, sat on the pinnacle of the human hierarchy. Confucius traveled – on foot, on horse back and by carriage – among the warring states, preaching peace and harmony among the states, under the supreme authority of Chou. But given the wartime mentality of the day, his words were by-and-large unheeded, and his efforts by and large in vain.
After his travels, he established his Confucian school of philosophy, which taught three thousand pupils under one roof.
In contrast, Lao Tzu’s philosophy was naturalistic, which placed humanity into the fabric of nature as an integral part of it, rather than being above and apart from it.
Instead of conquering nature, he taught harmonizing with nature, harmony within nature, and going with the natural flow of all things. He invented the term “The Tao” – “The Way of the Cosmos” – about which, in his magnum opus The Tao Teh Ching, he wrote:
“The Way of Man accords to the Way of the Earth;
the Way of the Earth accords to the Way of the Sky;
the Way of the Sky accords to the Way of the Cosmos – The Tao;
and the Tao simply is, according to its own Nature.”
Thus, if Man understands Nature, he would understand the Tao, then the Way of the Sky, then the Way of the Earth, and then the optimal Way of Man.
Unfortunately, the Tao Teh Ching began with the saying: “The Tao that can be conceived and spoken is not the true and eternal Tao.” Thus, the subsequent generations of Taoists suspended all inquiry, and maintained a certain silence, pretending that they knew it. And thus, the great philosophy of Taoism has degenerated, through the ages, into a house of sorcery. But Lao Tzu’s deeper wisdom has remained.
Ma Seeu-Sung was born in China (1944 AD) in the great Age of Science. Science is the study of Nature, based upon the understanding from which the Tao – the Way of the Cosmos – then the Way of the Sky, then the Way of the Earth, and then, the optimal Way of Man, can be conceived, and spoken.
In 1979, the westernized Anthony Marr, a man of science with a physics degree, camped out solo in East Africa in search of purpose and destiny. He returned to his new homeland Canada with a new science-and-logic-based philosophical system known as the OMNISCIENTIFIC COSMOLOGY, a cosmological system based not only on the physical sciences as per the conventional cosmologies, but the biological and social sciences as well, on the premise that life and civilization are as much of integral parts of the Cosmos as the moon and the stars.
In 2003 AD, he published the OMNISCIENTIFIC COSMOLOGY in the form of a book titled OMNI-SCIENCE and the Human Destiny (available at Amazon,and in 2009, he published his videos titled The MEANING OF LIFE according to Anthony Marr.
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Anthony Marr has a degree in physics and is the author of Omni-Science and the Human Destiny (2003). In 1995, he cleaned up North American Chinatowns of endangered species medicine. In 1996, he led “the highest-profile anti-trophy-hunting campaign in Canada” (Globe and Mail). From 1997-1999, he worked in three tiger reserves in India. In 1999, he founded Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE). In 2004 and 2005, he conducted operations in Japan against whaling and dolphin slaughter. Since 2003, he had completed 5 Compassion for Animals Road Expeditions (CARE tours), on the Canadian seal massacre, whaling, urban deer culling and bow-hunting. In 2008, he launched his current 3-year Global Emergency Operation (GEO) focusing on mass extinction due to global warming, and published his second book Homo Sapiens, HEAL YOUR EARTH!
Anthony Marr, founder and president, Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE)
www.HOPE-CARE.org
www.MySpace.com/AnthonyMarr
www.YouTube.com/AnthonyMarr
www.HomoSapiensSaveYourEarth.blogspot.com
www.ARConference.org
Professional Laboratory and Research Services (PLRS) Protest Information …
UPDATE | July 6, 2011, PETA: Lab Workers Indicted On Felony Cruelty Charges
In a landmark move, a North Carolina grand jury has returned indictments for 14 counts of felony cruelty-to-animals against four individuals, including a supervisor, who worked at Professional Laboratory Research Services (PLRS), which was investigated by PETA last fall. This marks the first time in U.S. history that laboratory workers have faced felony cruelty charges for their abuse of animals in a laboratory and only the second time that experimenters have faced criminal prosecution for cruelty (the first stemmed from PETA’s first undercover investigation, the groundbreaking 1981 Silver Spring monkeys case).
Mary Ramsey—who had been employed as a PLRS supervisor—and Jessica Detty were each indicted on five counts, while Christine Clement and Tracy Small were each indicted on two counts. The accused are among those caught on video kicking, throwing, and dragging dogs; hoisting rabbits by their ears and puppies by their throats; violently slamming cats into cages; and screaming obscenities at terrified animals. One of those named is the worker seen on video trying to rip out a cat’s claws by violently pulling the animal from the fence onto which he or she clung in fear.
The state charges follow extensive citations, by federal officials for serious violations of animal welfare laws, the lab’s closure, and the surrender of nearly 200 dogs and more than 50 cats just a week after we released our findings. We’ll keep you updated on the criminal case as it progresses.
Written by Alisa Mullins, Posted by PETA
UPDATE, September 17, 2010
Thank you to Jennifer for this updated information.
All animals (253) from the research Center in NC have been rescued by shelters and rescue groups.
If you want to adopt, you can inquire with:
DC: 202-726-2556
Cateret Co. NC: 252-247-7744
Guilford Co. NC: 336-297-5020
NJ: 973-824-7080
Norfolk, VA: 757-622-3319
VA Beach: 757-427-0070
Please only call the shelters if you are willing to drive there and adopt. THANKS for your help everybody! We did it. Lucy
UPDATE, September 15, 2010: NC lab halts work after PETA video, animals to be released need forever homes, please help if you are able
Thank you so much to Shannon and Jessica for this information, please see below for articles and complaint filed by PETA with USDA.
These animals need to be adopted from PLRS Lab in North Carolina, and the cats in particular are looking for forever homes. If you are able to open your home, please contact Cathy with Animal Welfare Institute Online , email address below, or if you are a nearby shelter who can take some of the animals:
From Cathy, AWIO:
She said the animals will actually be going to shelters first and won’t be directly adopted.
What she needs most right now is to be contacted by any shelters in NC or VA (or neighboring states) that would be willing to take some of the animals! Any shelters that are willing to help should call or email her:
http://www.awionline.org/ht/d/OrganizationDetails/i/2/pid/212
She also said if people are interested in adopting any of the animals (especially people in NC or VA), she needs them to email her this information at:
- Name
- Address
- Phone Number
- What animal(s) or types of animals they’re interested in adopting.
If she knows what areas people have people willing to adopt one of the animals, she may be able to get the shelters to take 1 or 2 more of them.
Once she has shelters to take all the animals she will send out emails to those who emailed her letting them know where to go.
http://abernacky.tumblr.com/post/1132056366/update-animals-need-homes-from-nc-lab-how-to-help
Please read previous stories and take appropriate actions:
- Please sign HERE
- And please sign HERE
- Investigator’s Notebook HERE
- Pictures documenting some of the abuse HERE
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Iran releases American hiker from prison
From Associated Press
Iran released an American woman on a bail of $500,000 Tuesday more than a year after she was detained, but authorities said they were not considering the immediate release of two companions arrested with her.
The announcement came days after conflicting statements by Iranian authorities on whether Sarah Shourd would be freed as the process was complicated by political feuds among the leadership and questions over how a payment could be made for her freedom without violating international sanctions.
The English-language Press TV reported that Shourd, 32, had been released “on a bail of $500,000” but did not give more details.
Iran’s judiciary, meanwhile, issued a statement saying the “pretrial detention” of the two American men – Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal – has been extended for two more months.
Her family had said it was having difficulty raising the money. However, Tehran’s chief prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi said later that the bail had been paid to an Iranian bank in Muscat, Oman.
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Join the Campaign to Ban Devocalization
From Animal Law Coalition
& The Big Blend
On July 21, 2010, the landmark Logan’s Law sponsored by the Coalition to Protect and Rescue Pets (CPRPets), a coalition of grassroots activists, and supported by the Animal Law Coalition–takes effect in Massachusetts, banning the cruel practice of cutting vocal cords to suppress a dog’s or cat’s voice. It is the first effective legislation to ban devocalization of dogs and cats.
Risky and painful, devocalization does not ensure animals a home. And it’s more common than most think, particularly among breeders and show dog exhibitors.
With your help, that could change soon!
Logan’s Law has inspired an exciting federal bill, H.R. 5422, filed by U.S. Rep. C.A. “Dutch” Ruppersberger, D-MD. HR 5422 would make states that ban canine and feline devocalization eligible for federal grants of up to $1 million to prevent all forms of animal cruelty. If passed, HR 5422 would motivate more states to ban devocalization. CPRPets has joined with Animal Law Coalition, to provide free materials for groups that want to file similar legislation in their states.
HR 5422 would prevent other forms of animal abuse too. States could use the grant to fund humane education and help shelters and rescue groups.
PLEASE ACT NOW! Lobbies that profit from cruel devocalization already are weighing in.
Breeders order devocalization when they–or authorities–don’t tolerate the sound of the many animals they breed and sell. Veterinarians profit from this cruel convenience surgery even more directly. It’s disappointing but not surprising that Mass. Veterinary Medical Assn. joined the state dog breeders association in lobbying against Logan’s Law. Don’t let lobbies that profit from devocalization win or animals will lose.
Lesbian Couple’s Home Burned Down in Possible Hate Crime
From Care2
By Steve Williams
A lesbian couple from Vonore, Monroe County, Tennessee, are afraid to return to the charred remains of their home after it was burned to the ground and the word “Queer” was spray painted on the side of their garage in what is being investigated as a potential hate crime.
Lesbian Couple Subjected to Threats and Intimidation
The couple in question, Carol Ann Stutte and partner Laura Stutte, were on a visit to Nashville when the incident happened on Saturday, September 4.
They were celebrating the anniversary of their having moved to the state.
Carol Strutte’s adult daughter from a previous marriage, would have been in the house at the time had she not been unwell and made other arrangements.
From Wate.com:
The couple feels they’re victims of a hate crime, and were targeted because they’re gay. They’ve been together for more than 15 years.
Carol Stutte has an adult daughter from a previous relationship who also lived with them.
At the time of the fire, they were in Nashville celebrating their fifth anniversary in Tennessee.
“My daughter was supposed to be here. She was sick,” Carol Stutte said. “I was grateful my baby girl didn’t get killed in this fire. She would have been trapped in the basement.”
The couple moved to Vonore from Oklahoma.
Carol Stutte says her partner is too afraid to come back to the property since the fire. She says they’ve been harassed all five years they’ve lived there by one neighbor.
The couple alleges that the neighbor had reportedly threatened to kill them and burn down their house. They filed a police complaint following the most recent threat in August, although the exact details of the complaint have not been released.
GOD IS A VEGAN
GOD IS A VEGAN
THE MERCIFUL CREATOR OF THE UNIVERSE
HAS ALWAYS BEEN
AND ALWAYS WILL BE
A VEGAN
TAKE HEED ALL RELIGIOUS LEADERS.
YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT!!
WHICH MAY DETERMINE WHERE YOU WILL SPEND YOUR AFTER-LIFE!!
Isaac Bashevis Singer once wrote, “There is only one little step from killing animals to creating gas chambers a la Hitler. For animals EVERYDAY IS A HOLOCAUST.” About the same time the German Jewish philosopher Theodor Adorno made a similar point: “Auschwitz begins whenever someone looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.”
TAKE HEED, and beware all religious leaders like THE POPE who eat animal flesh, or dairy products, or eggs while professing to be doing God’s work.
Your sacrilegious deeds of openly condoning and supporting the completely unnecessary insidious cruelty, torture, and mass murder of God’s precious creatures throughout the world make you guilty of the WORST kind of cardinal SIN.
Do religious leaders who have an affinity for devouring the flesh of animals REALLY BELIEVE that any God worthy of being worshipped would arbitrarily and cruelly authorize the worldwide HIDIOUS TORTURE AND MASS MURDER of precious and beloved animals so that hundreds of millions of misinformed and delusional humans are able to eat their flesh, dairy products or eggs?
Do religious leaders who use their throats as garbage cans and their stomachs as graveyards for the decaying flesh from God’s precious beloved creatures REALLY BELIEVE that condoning and supporting the worst kind of torture and MASS MURDER of animals will be rewarded with kindness, love, and nirvana in their next life?
Star Dogs
From
For the Love of the Dog Blog
By Andrea Rosebrock
50 years ago, on August 19, 1960, two stray dogs named Belka and Strelka started their flight aboard the Russian spaceship “Sputnik 5”. They became the first living creatures from Earth to spend over 24 hours in space before safely returning to Earth.
Soviet Scientists believed that stray dogs were the best animal for the missions. The hard life of a stray dog was preferred because scientists believed them to have better survival techniques to cope with the stress of being launched into space along with the confinement in a dark capsule.
They also preferred stray dogs over pedigree dogs. Pure-bred dogs, in their opinion, were not sturdy or intelligent enough for space travel. They had to be small – between 13 and 16 pounds. The early rockets were not powerful enough to carry heavy loads. They had to have light fur because movies were made of the dogs in flight. It was easier to see a light-colored dog in a dark capsule. They also had to be between 2 and 6 years old.
Female dogs were preferred because they had a better temperament and fit better in the specially designed space suits (complete with acrylic glass bubble helmets) and capsule restraints. Not because they had better figures, but because they didn’t need to lift their legs to empty their bladders.
The first order of business was getting all the dogs together in a social setting so they could be named. They were named according to their personality. Belka means “Squirrel” and Strelka means “Arrow”. The observation also determined which type of flight they were best suited for. Dogs with nervous personalities were chosen for sub-orbital flights. Short flights that reach space but never overcome the force of gravity. The capsule drops back to Earth. Dogs with a calm personality were used for orbital flights. Flights that overcome the force of gravity and orbit the Earth.
Toro de la Vega – A Bloody Tradition, Please send one message
Protest story in Spanish:
Cientos de animalistas protestan en Tordesillas
Protest story in English, please click HERE
From SHARK
The annual “Fiestas Mayores” in Tordesillas take place in the second week of September. The “fiestas” or “feast days” are in honour of the patron Saint of the town and surrounding area, Our Lady, the Virgin of the Cliff. The bloodiest day is the Tuesday when the famous “El Toro de la Vega” run takes place.
This yearly spectacle with a bull and lances has been going for centuries. In fact it is an example of one of the most ancient “taurine” rituals, unique to Spain : “The Lancing of the Bull”.
This was one of the star attractions during the bull tournaments, before the introduction of bullfights, as we know them, during the XVIII century. Thus the organizers place a great deal of importance on the choice of bull who must weigh more than 500 kilos, have procreated, be some various years old and must be handsome.
At about 11 o’clock on the Tuesday morning, traditionally in the main square of the town, but more recently in a nearby street called San Antolin, the “Toro de la Vega” begins. The bull is driven down the street and then, on crossing the bridge, the bull faces his “fate”. On the other side of the bridge he is awaited by men on horseback and others on foot who carry lances and will not desist until they kill him; this takes place in the area called the “vega” – a plain scattered with trees. The rules laid down by the Tordesillas Town Council, and which the present-day torneo must comply with, basically state that the bull must only be lanced once it enters the designated area and that no vehicles are allowed into this area.
The youth who manages to give the thrust of his lance which actually kills the bull has the right to cut off his testicles and proudly parade them around on the end of his lance. (For the last few years this practice has not been allowed although some have tried to do it). The Town Council presents the winner with a gold badge and a lance made of forged iron.
US Friends, Please Urge Support for the Pet Safety and Protection Act
From AAVS
To send automatic message, please visit HERE
BACKGROUND
Past visitors to aavs.org may be familiar with Cruella, a shepherd mix from a small town in Michigan who was found wandering, wearing a purple collar and chain. Cruella was taken to a local pound and was later given to a random source Class B dealer, who, after holding her for six months, sold her to a university laboratory where she was killed after seven months. In reviewing her records, it was clear that Cruella had once been someone’s pet.
The American Anti-Vivisection Society was originally founded in an effort to prevent the sale of dogs like Cruella from shelters to laboratories, where they were destined to suffer and die in invasive experiments. Since then, AAVS has been advocating against such practices for over 125 years, and we have been successful in aiding in the implementation of pound seizure bans, including at the state level in Pennsylvania. Unfortunately, pound seizure continues in some areas in the country, but there is now an opportunity to rid this practice of one group of particularly despicable players: random source Class B dealers.
Animal brokers who obtain dogs and cats from shelters and then sell them to research and education facilities, random source Class B dealers have a long history of Animal Welfare Act (AWA) violations, some of which include illegal acquisition of animals, improper record keeping, and failure to provide adequate veterinary care. Today, there are 10 random source Class B dealers operating in the U.S., and six are under investigation for AWA violations. Despite this, random source Class B dealers continue to reap huge profits from their unscrupulous business dealings.
From Amnesty International
Please send automatic letter HERE
BACKGROUND
For over four decades, Indigenous communities have witnessed multinational oil companies cut through their ancestral lands in search of the country’s vast petroleum resources.
According to the report ”Amazon Crude” by Judith Kimerling, from 1972 until it left Ecuador in 1992, Texaco intentionally dumped more than 19 billion gallons of toxic wastewaters into the region and was responsible for 16.8 million gallons of crude oil spilling from the main pipeline into the forest.
The report alleges that these actions contaminated both the soil and the groundwater of the communities in the area and will continue to threaten the economic and cultural bases of Indigenous peoples’ survival.
Send a message to the Board of Directors of ChevronTexaco that the company must take responsibility for its actions.
Please Free Clementine from Research Lab
UPDATE, 9/17
Thank you to Jennifer for this updated information.
All animals (253) from the research Center in NC have been rescued by shelters and rescue groups.
If you want to adopt, you can inquire with:
DC: 202-726-2556
Cateret Co. NC: 252-247-7744
Guilford Co. NC: 336-297-5020
NJ: 973-824-7080
Norfolk, VA: 757-622-3319
VA Beach: 757-427-0070
Please only call the shelters if you are willing to drive there and adopt. THANKS for your help everybody! We did it. Lucy
UPDATE, 9/15: NC lab halts work after PETA video, animals to be released need forever homes, please help if you are able
**I have asked about Clementine specifically and will update here when I get the information as to where she is.
Thank you so much to Shannon and Jessica for this information, please see below for original article about Clementine.
These animals need to be adopted from PLRS Lab in North Carolina, and the cats in particular are looking for forever homes. If you are able to open your home, please contact Cathy with Animal Welfare Institute Online , email address below, or if you are a nearby shelter who can take some of the animals:
From Cathy, AWIO:
She said the animals will actually be going to shelters first and won’t be directly adopted.
What she needs most right now is to be contacted by any shelters in NC or VA (or neighboring states) that would be willing to take some of the animals! Any shelters that are willing to help should call or email her:
http://www.awionline.org/ht/d/OrganizationDetails/i/2/pid/212
She also said if people are interested in adopting any of the animals (especially people in NC or VA), she needs them to email her this information at:
- Name
- Address
- Phone Number
- What animal(s) or types of animals they’re interested in adopting.
If she knows what areas people have people willing to adopt one of the animals, she may be able to get the shelters to take 1 or 2 more of them.
Once she has shelters to take all the animals she will send out emails to those who emailed her letting them know where to go.
http://abernacky.tumblr.com/post/1132056366/update-animals-need-homes-from-nc-lab-how-to-help
Immediate, please sign:
Free Clementine From Research Lab
From Care2
Clementine’s Story
A gentle senior Dalmatian named Clementine has been imprisoned at Professional Laboratory and Research Services (PLRS) for as long as seven years. According to a PLRS supervisor, the laboratory bought Clementine in 2003 from a notorious animal dealer that has since been shut down for “severe mistreatment and neglect of a multitude of animals.” The dealer had acquired Clementine from an animal shelter. Clementine also referred to as “38902” spends her lonely days in a concrete and chain-link cell without exercise, affection, or attention. Every day, she is deprived of a home, a family, simple comfort, veterinary care, and enrichment.
Instead of living with a family in a good home, she endures the abuses of “life” at PLRS, where the floor’s poor drainage forces her to spend most of her days standing in her own urine and/or a bleach and water solution. Workers spray a caustic bleach solution into the cage while she is still inside it. Raw, open sores cover her limbs. Excrement is caked on her body.
When PETA’s investigator reported Clementine’s injuries, she was told that they were “just part of life at PLRS” and that she should not tell the veterinarian who visits PLRS once a week or so about them. According to a PLRS supervisor, Clementine was diagnosed with heartworm disease in 2005 but has never been treated.
Chinese Zoos Routinely Beat And Abuse Performing Animals, Animals Asia Foundation Reports
From Huffington Post
Performing animals in Chinese zoos and parks are often trained using abusive practices, including routine beatings, and are housed in inadequate shelters, according to a report by a Hong Kong-based animal welfare group released Monday.
Bears are regularly whipped and beaten with sticks, elephants are prodded with metal hooks, and tigers and lions are defanged and declawed, causing them chronic pain, said the Animals Asia Foundation in a 28-page report.
The group surveyed animal performances and living conditions at 13 zoos and safari parks in China over a yearlong period until this August.
“The combined aspects of performances, abusive training methods and inadequate housing conditions are causing severe animal suffering for many thousands of performing animals across China,” the report said.
Earlier this year, the problem of animal mistreatment in China was highlighted with the reported deaths of 11 rare Siberian tigers at the Shenyang Forest Wild Animal Zoo in the frigid northeast over a three-month period. The tigers had reportedly starved to death after being fed nothing but chicken bones for weeks.
Last month, the State Forestry Administration ordered a crackdown against operations that mistreated wild animals for performance purposes.
The order criticized animal parks for being “obsessed about financial profits while not paying enough attention to protective measures. Illegitimate methods are taken in treating wild animals … This not only brings potential risk to the endangered wild species and the public health, but also tarnishes China’s role and reputation in protecting wild animals.”
The Animals Asia Foundation said black bears are the most popular animal performers, typically forced to ride bicycles, tricycles, and even horses. They were required to balance on balls, perform acrobatics, and even ‘box’ each other. The bears were regularly whipped or beaten with sticks by their trainers, it said.
Plight of animals at Bangkok’s rooftop zoo above department store
From Guardian
By Ben Doherty
The ground floor of the Pata department store has cheap clothing: the polyester slacks for 200 baht (£4.20), the polo shirts for half that. Higher up is the electronics department: the fake Rolexes and the cheap TVs. On the seventh floor is the gorilla.
There are no trees in “King Kong’s” 15 x 10 metres concrete enclosure, just a tyre and a few ropes hanging from the low ceiling. He moves little, spending long hours sitting at the front of his pen, gripping the iron bars.
Ten metres away, a lone penguin stands in an air-conditioned pen, next to a pool of water, which is smaller than a bath and nowhere near deep enough for him to swim in. A few years ago, there were a dozen penguins, but only this one survives.
Bangkok’s Pata zoo sits atop the department store that shares its name, on a busy road in the northern suburbs of Bangkok. Crammed into cages and pens across the sixth and seventh floor of the ageing building are more than 200 species: a menagerie of pythons, turtles, flamingos, monkeys, leopards, tigers, bears, and even a Shetland pony. From the rooftop enclosures, you can see the advertising billboards and office blocks next door, while traffic roars past below.
The director of the Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand, Edwin Wiek, wants the zoo closed: “Basically, it is an animal prison on top of a shopping mall. The space is too small, the animals have very little room, there is very little sunlight, the enclosures are dirty, they smell bad, and people are coming past all day, getting far too close to the animals, which makes the animals extremely stressed. In 200 steps you can see 50 different species. Most people know that this is not an acceptable way to keep animals. It is a hell for animals.”
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If HR503 Dies, Horses Will Die, CALL NOW!
By Jude Love
The Bottom Line:
- 1. Horse slaughter is illegal in the United States
- 2. American horses are TRANSPORTED to slaughter in other Countries
- 3. HR503 will STOP the TRANSPORT to slaughter in other Countries
- 4. HR503 has to be PASSED to STOP the TRANSPORT to slaughter in other Countries
- 5. HR503 cannot be passed until it is voted on.
- 6. HR503 cannot be voted on until the SUBCOMMITTEE gets it OUT OF THE COMMITTEE TO THE FLOOR.
- 7. If HR 503 DIES in the COMMITTEE this year, MILLIONS more Horses will Die due to Torture in Slaughter Houses.
AMERICAN HORSES ARE BEING TORTURED IN SLAUGHTER HOUSES IN CANADA AND MEXICO. IT WILL NEVER STOP. IT WILL NOT STOP UNTIL H.R.503 IS PASSED IN CONGRESS…..16 PEOPLE HOLD THE POWER TO MAKE IT STOP..WILL YOU CALL THEM PLEASE…IF THIS BILL IS NOT PASSED BY NOVEMBER 4, HORSES WILL BE TRANSPORTED ACROSS OUR BORDERS TO DIE AGONIZING DEATHS – SHOT IN THEIR EYES, STABBED IN THE SPINE, IT WILL CONTINUE – THROUGHOUT ALL ETERNITY IF H.R. 503 IS NOT PASSED…….CALL OR FAX THESE 16 FEDERAL REPRESENTATIVES NOW…..ASK THEM TO PLEASE VOTE YES ON H.R.503 IMMEDIATELY.
BOBBY SCOTT, CHAIRMAN, VIRGINIA:
PHONE (202) 225-8351 FAX (202) 225-8354
PIER LUISI, PUERTO RICO:
PHONE (202) 225-2615 Fax: (202) 225-2154 TOLL FREE (866) 266-6678
JERROLD NADLER, NEW YORK:
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Please Urge President Obama to Take Action for Children’s Rights
Immediate, please sign and send:
Urge President Obama to Take Action for Children’s Rights
From International Rescue Committee
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child protects children. Only two nations in the world have yet to join the global community in ratifying this agreement: Somalia and the United States. Urge President Obama and Congress to ratify the convention without delay.
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We, the undersigned, support US ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. We urge President Obama to submit the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to the US Senate for its advice and consent without delay. We further call on the US Senate to move swiftly to approve this convention.
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child protects children by defining their basic human rights. It is the most comprehensive, accepted international agreement on basic protections for children. 193 countries have committed to support it.
Only two countries have failed to ratify this UN convention – Somalia and the United States of America. US failure to ratify the convention is an embarrassment.
Americans cherish our children and are generous in aiding boys and girls in need around the world. Now, with the advent of the 20th anniversary of the Convention, it is time to act. 2 countries in the world have yet to ratify. Let’s cut that number in half.
