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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.
Mail Online
As the scientist who helped eradicate smallpox he certainly know a thing or two about extinction.
And now Professor Frank Fenner, emeritus professor of microbiology at the Australian National University, has predicted that the human race will be extinct within the next 100 years.
He has claimed that the human race will be unable to survive a population explosion and ‘unbridled consumption.’
Fenner told The Australian newspaper that ‘homo sapiens will become extinct, perhaps within 100 years.’
‘A lot of other animals will, too,’ he added.
‘It’s an irreversible situation. I think it’s too late. I try not to express that because people are trying to do something, but they keep putting it off.’
Since humans entered an unofficial scientific period known as the Anthropocene – the time since industrialisation – we have had an effect on the planet that rivals any ice age or comet impact, he said.
Fenner, 95, has won awards for his work in helping eradicate the variola virus that causes smallpox and has written or co-written 22 books.
Dead animal beer bottles perverse
The End of History - featuring dead animals - comes at £500 a bottle
Immediate, please sign:
http://animals.change.org/petitions/view/dead_animal_beer_bottles
Simulposted with BBC
A beer served in bottles made from stuffed animals has been criticised as “perverse” and “pushing the boundaries of acceptability”.
The End of History, made by BrewDog of Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, is 55% and £500 a bottle.
The bottles have been made using seven dead stoats, four squirrels and a hare, said to be roadkill.
However, Advocates for Animals and Alcohol Focus Scotland both condemned the marketing.
BrewDog claims the beer is the world’s strongest and most expensive.
They execute horses, don’t they?
Horses are losing their hooves, horses cannot quit screaming they are so scared, young horses are dropping dead … BLM is trying to hide this from the public, continue reading.
BLM, SALAZAR (the office of whom has allegedly and continuously been hanging up on people), and OBAMA obviously are unconcerned with the citizens of this country and our National Treasure – The Wild Horses.
BLM wants to make the lives of the Precious Wild Horses a LIVING HELL and try to hide it from the Public. Here is what we we should do – using the article below, send it to the following places:
- Here is the Email address to BLM, the director is Bob Abbey, please send emails:
- Here is another email:
- Here the FAX number to BLM, please send faxes
Fax: 202-208-5242
- Here is the Phone number to BLM, please call them
Phone: 202-208-3801
- Here is U.S. Mail address if you care to send your complaint through a government agency called the post office, but remember that mailings take considerably longer due to security screenings and use paper:
BLM Washington Office
1849 C Street NW, Rm. 5665
Washington DC 20240
Simulposted with Animal Rescue Examiner
By Paula Lopez
Dallas, Texas: Urgent! The following cats are currently sheltered in Dallas Animal Services in Dallas County, Texas and are scheduled to be euthanized on July 27 if not adopted or rescued. That is less than a week away! Please give these darlings a look and don’t let them die.
Supie is a charmer from the moment one meets him. This 1½-year-old rather rotund, male, tuxedo Domestic Short Hair is quite the talker, meeping and peeping to everyone he meets. He wriggled his way into the hearts of the staff at Dallas Animal Services. However, after more than six weeks of being at the shelter, he can sense his euthanization date approaching and is starting to get depressed that no one has come to take him home. He loves other felines but tends to rough-house, so is likely not a good fit with older cats.
Please click HERE to read more about these great cats and how you can adopt them!
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Latest Update on Wild Horses from Madeleine Pickens, please send three automatic messages!
By Madeleine Pickens
As taken from Saving America’s Mustangs
BLM summer roundups have resumed and the current death count of the horses at Tuscarora is now nearly two dozen. However, on the upside, it has been a really busy week in the media for our horses getting the attention they deserve. Saving America’s Mustangs’ spokesperson, Jerry Reynoldson and I spoke on the Thom Hartmann Radio Show about the BLM roundups yesterday. The link to the video of the interview is below. Also, George Knapp did a fantastic investigative report into the Tuscarora Roundup. Please take some time to view both and please keep generating awareness to each and every person that you can. Already this month, we have had 10,466 letters sent out to President Obama and our government officials imploring them to suspend the roundups. Thank you all so much for joining us in this special cause! Let’s set a goal of 12,500 letters sent by the end of July.
- LETTER ONE, please click HERE to send an automated message:
http://www.capwiz.com/madeleinepickens/issues/alert/?alertid=14619476&type=ML
- LETTER TWO, please click HERE to support the ROAM Act. Confirm your zipcode, select GO, and compose your own letter by selecting certain points via clicking on the red arrows:
http://www.capwiz.com/madeleinepickens/issues/alert/?alertid=14468161&type=TA
- LETTER THREE, please click HERE to demand an immediate suspension of round-ups: http://www.capwiz.com/madeleinepickens/issues/alert/?alertid=15239716&type=ML
If you have a Facebook profile, please send Madeleine a friend request: http://www.facebook.com/people/Madeleine-Pickens/1573036270
Anal electrocution, as well as skinning alive, are common forms of murder as they impart the least damage to the fur. The fur industry is based on torture, suffering, and murder, the blood and agony hidden under the garish world of fashion and vanity.
HSI is applauding moves by politicians in Israel who have put forward proposals to ban the fur trade throughout the country.
Earlier this year, Rebecca Aldworth (director of HSI Canada) and Mark Glover (director of HSI UK) visited Israel with the UK group Respect for Animals to discuss the proposed bill with politicians and local campaigners, including Let The Animals Live group. The pair also presented evidence gathered by HSI on the international fur trade, including specifically on the seal fur trade, to the country’s legislature, the Knesset.
The bill, introduced by Knesset Member Ronit Tirosh, seeks to outlaw the production, processing, import, export and sale of fur from all animal species not already part of the meat industry. There is a small exemption for the use of fur in hats for certain religious purposes.
Already unanimously endorsed by the legislative branch of the Israeli government, the bill still has to pass crucial votes in Committee and the Knesset.
A ban on all fur throughout the country would be a world first—a major stand against the animal cruelty inherent in the worldwide fur trade—and it would set an example that other countries would look to and follow.
It has attracted widespread support in Israel and from the public, politicians and celebrities from around the world.
Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine
Please take a minute to let Tulane University School of Medicine senior vice president and dean Benjamin Sachs, M.B., know that you want the medical center to stop its use of live pigs in Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) courses. Feel free to use one of the two SAMPLE LETTERS below, or modify, or write your own, here are some talking points:
1. Please replace the use of animals in Tulane’s ATLS courses.
2. Human-based alternatives have been approved to teach these procedures by the American College of Surgeons (ACS).
3. Tulane already owns the TraumaMan System, a simulator approved by ACS, and uses it for other courses.
4. 95 percent of ATLS courses in the U.S. use the TraumaMan System or other human-based methods.
The Invisible People
As taken from Invisible People
On the street I saw a small girl cold and shivering in a thin dress, with little hope of a decent meal. I became angry and said to God; “Why did you permit this? Why don’t you do something about it?” For a while God said nothing. That night he replied, quite suddenly:
“I certainly did something about it. I made you.”
I once heard a story about a homeless man on Hollywood Blvd who really thought he was invisible. But one day a kid handed the man a Christian pamphlet. The homeless guy was shocked and amazed, “what! You can see me? How can you see me? I’m invisible!”
It isn’t hard to comprehend this man’s slow spiral into invisibility. Once on the street, people started to walk past him, ignoring him as if he didn’t exist… much like they do a piece of trash on the sidewalk. It’s not that people are bad, but if we make eye contact, or engage in conversation, then we have to admit they exist and that we might have a basic human need to care. But it’s so much easier to simply close our eyes and shield our hearts to their existence…
Please visit Invisible People to read the rest of this entry as well as watch the story:
House OKs bill to outlaw animal torture videos
By Todd Spangler
Free Press
By a vote of 416-3, the U.S. House today passed legislation to outlaw video depictions of animal torture. Rep. Gary Peters, a Bloomfield Township Democrat, was one of the coauthors of the bill.
It now goes to the Senate for consideration.
The legislation was proposed following a Supreme Court decision that overturned an earlier law that prohibited such depictions, including so-called crush videos in which small animals are tortured. The court said the earlier law was too broad and could even be extended to cover such depictions as those in hunting videos or magazines.
Peters said the new law should stand up to constitutional scrutiny by the court.
Related, please sign, it can still be used as consideration for the senate:
http://www.change.org/petitions/view/support_hr_5092-make_crush_kittenpuppy_videos_illegal
Animals and climate change: the solution to both is greater caring for our fellow Earthlings
By Paul York
Cruelty-Free.org
This post is a response to an excellent article (given below, and originally posted to the Science for Peace listserve). The author mentions nature but does not mention animals specifically. So I felt it necessary to draft a response, for my own edification – one that mentions animals specifically. It’s worth pointing out that much environmental concern and concern for climate justice for humanity manages somehow to omit concern for farm animals, who are caught in between the natural and man-made worlds. This response tries to address that gap.
I appreciated the article a great deal, but as a history lesson it neglects to mention an important point. Along with the creation of private property and agriculture 10,000 years ago also came a double subjugation that both psychologically and historically continues to this day: the relegation of women and animals to the status of property and their objectification by men as mere things, not as feeling subjects.
Subjugation of women and animals a root cause of indifference
This double subjugation is (it could be argued) the root cause of the psychic numbing that renders so many indifferent to the fate of humanity and future generations, in this era of unfolding catastrophic climate change, despite their knowledge of what’s happening. In what follows I am going to address the animal issue. The issue of the subjugation of women and how this relates to the climate crisis is an important one – one which some authors such as Rosemary Radford Reuther shed light one. I will address that another time. What follows below, on animals, is – I feel – a key to understanding the climate crisis.
My argument, in summary, is that if we can learn to care more for non-human animals, whose suffering by the hand of man is very great, from this we can also learn to care for our fellow humans more. Our acculturated tendency to objectify animals predisposes us to be indifferent to human beings in other countries where they are more vulnerable to climate change, and to future generations. The one is tied to the other, and as long as we enslave animals, we will not (as a culture) be predisposed to care very much for the fate of future human beings or those in Bangladesh.
PLEASE CALL IMMEDIATELY TO DEMAND THAT THESE ATROCITIES STOP:
KEN SALAZAR – (202) 208-7351 – Department of Interior, in charge of BLM
PRESIDENT OBAMA – (202) 456-1111
REPS IN CONGRESS (202) 225-3121 give your zip code and they will give you the number to your representatives in congress
BLM DIRECTOR, BOB ABBEY
E-mail: Director@blm.gov
BLM Washington Office
1849 C Street NW, Rm. 5665
Washington DC 20240
Phone: 202-208-3801 / Fax: 202-208-5242
Examiner.com
By Maureen Harmonay
Yesterday, writer Terri Farley and photographer Cat Kindsfather got first glimpses of 16 wild mares and six foals who were run off Nevada’s Owyhee desert by BLM-hired helicopters, as part of the “Tuscarora Gather.” What they saw was heart-wrenching. But what they heard was even worse.
These horses were part of a contingent of over 350 from the Owyhee Herd Management Area (HMA) who have been brought to the Palomino Valley Center near Reno for warehousing and “processing.” Astonishingly, a group of these so-called “water-starved” horses were already being freeze-branded and “processed,” even though they have scarcely had time to recover from the trauma of being wrenched from their native range, and then trucked to a never-before-seen feedlot.
Terri Farley described the scene in her blog:
“The Tuscarora mustangs neighed, screamed, rumbled in strange lion-like roars I’ve never heard before–for one hour and forty minutes.
I don’t know how long they’d been crying before we reached the Palomino Valley Wild Horse Adoption Center. I don’t know if it’s still going on now that I’m home.
I do know it’s legal and I could do nothing about those sounds, or the collisions of horseflesh and bones with something that sounded like thunder, on and on and on. . .
Sixteen mares and six foals were visible. We were not allowed to enter certain areas because other Tuscarora horses were being freeze branded and processed.
The sixteen mares and six foals called to those in distress. With foals tucked tight against their sides, mares patrolled back and forth in such tight formation. Neither Cat nor I are positive of our counts.
These horses are a few days off the range, bewildered and stunned. And this is legal. BLM is doing what it is allowed to do. I don’t dispute that, but it is far from humane to confine wild animals who’ve spent their lives escaping predators and subdue them so that they can be attacked.”
2010 Humane Student & Educator Awarded at National Animal Conference in DC & CRITICAL ALTERNATIVES
Editor’s Note: For students, would-be students, parents, and those interested, PLEASE refer to the end of the article for vital information on student rights with respect to refusing to dissect animals, free alternatives to animal dissection, reports, information, and legislation. If you have additional information to add, please let me know, thank you.
Animalearn is pleased to announce the 2010 recipients of its annual Humane Student and Humane Educator of the Year Awards. On Friday, July 23, 2010, Animalearn honors Humane Student Mitch Goldsmith and Humane Educator Julie Shaeffer for their accomplishments on behalf of animals used in education. The awards will be presented at the Taking Action for Animals Conference Welcome Reception at the Washington Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, DC.
Humane Student honoree, Mitch Goldsmith, is a Michigan State University (MSU) student and President of Students Promoting Animal Rights (SPAR). As President of SPAR, Mitch led a campus-wide effort to end the MSU College of Veterinary Medicine’s (CVM) terminal surgical training labs, in which dogs were used in invasive procedures and then killed following the end of the exercises. Sparked by Animalearn’s Dying to Learn report (below as well), Mitch engaged in dialogue with students, faculty, and administrators, arranging for Animalearn to make a presentation on campus about the report and alternatives. The Award recognizes Mitch’s perseverance and informed advocacy, which led to a stunning success. Ultimately, the MSU CVM announced that starting with the fall 2010 semester, the school will no longer teach students surgical skills in this way.
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Uzbek women accuse state of mass sterilizations
Saodat Rakhimbayeva says she wishes she had died with her newborn baby. The 24-year-old housewife had a cesarean section in March and gave birth to Ibrohim, a premature boy who died three days later. Then came a further devastating blow: She learned that the surgeon had removed part of her uterus during the operation…
To read the rest of this article, please visit MSNBC by clicking HERE
The last rhinoceros cow in Krugersdorp park, South Africa, bled to death on Wednesday after poachers hacked off her horn. Photograph: Reuter
Simulposted with guardian.co.uk
South African wildlife experts are calling for urgent action against poachers after the last female rhinoceros in a popular game reserve near Johannesburg bled to death after having its horn hacked off.
Wildlife officials say poaching for the prized horns has now reached an all-time high. “Last year, 129 rhinos were killed for their horns in South Africa. This year, we have already had 136 deaths,” said Japie Mostert, chief game ranger at the 1,500-hectare Krugersdorp game reserve.
The gang used tranquilliser guns and a helicopter to bring down the nine-year-old rhino cow. Her distraught calf was moved to a nearby estate where it was introduced to two other orphaned white rhinos.
Wanda Mkutshulwa, a spokeswoman for South African National Parks, said investigations into the growing number of incidents had been shifted to the country’s organised crime unit. “We are dealing with very focused criminals. Police need to help game reserves because they are not at all equipped to handle crime on such an organised level,” she said.
Rhino horn consists of compressed keratin fibre – similar to hair – and in many Asian cultures it is a fundamental ingredient in traditional medicines.
Mkutshulwa said poaching was also rife in the Kruger Park. Five men were arrested there in the past week alone – four of whom were caught with two bloodied rhino horns, AK-47 assault rifles, bolt-action rifles and an axe.
From Prison to Paradise: Extraordinary 2,000 Mile Journey of Hope for 55 Rescued Monkeys
Until last week, these 55 monkeys were imprisoned in a private New Jersey toxicology lab. We don’t know what exactly they were doing to the monkeys. We do know that the monkeys, who are 4 – 6 years old, were, according to the lab, being held in individual housing, isolated from each other. Some enclosures even faced the wall at one point, so they couldn’t even see other monkeys – just one of numerous violations of the Animal Welfare Act cited by the USDA that attest to the anguish these monkeys endured in the lab, including psychological suffering so severe that some were pulling hair out from their chest, shoulders and forearms.
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