Media Hype and the Fly

I happened to hear about the Fly incident while having breakfast at a cafe.  While at the cafe I over hear this cop griping about PETA’s message to Obama about the killing the fly, he said; it’s common scenes!  Hmmm???  This is a cop in my neighborhood to.  If it’s common sense to kill something that annoys you then get me out of your way, especially when you have a gun!

Seems like people are not evolving.  C’mon, people, ever wonder why we live in a society that has an overcrowded prison system or why we’re a world at war all the time?  All that can stop if people would just learn to respect everything, and teach your children the sacredness of life.  No one expects people to be perfect, or enlightened as Buddha, but the media hate and gripes say a lot about how much society has evolved or not.

This is PETA’s reply to the hyped up media hate frenzy toward PETA.

The PETA Files: Obama and the Fly, Part Deux

Because we’ve heard from so many people who want to know more about PETA’s position on “Flygate,” we’ve decided to explore the question of “to bee or not to bee” in a bit more depth.

As we all know, human beings often don’t think before they act. We don’t condemn President Obama for acting on instinct. When the media began contacting us in droves for a statement, we obliged, simply by saying that the president isn’t the Buddha and shouldn’t be expected to do everything right—if not for that, we would not have brought it up. It’s the media who are making a big deal about the fly swat—not PETA. However, we took the opportunity, when asked, to point out that we do offer lots of ways in which to control insects of all kinds without harming them, including the humane bug catcher we sent President Obama. There is even a chapter in PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk’s book The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights about how to rid your home of “uninvited guests.”

[Read the full reply to the media hate on Obama and the fly at PETA's BLog]

Barnum and Baily Coming to San Diego

Tell them to go away, and free the animals they torture!  Simple as that!  It’s not a side show, its a show of tortured animals!  Here we are trying to teach our children that killing and torture is wrong, yet we have a group going torturing the animals in their shows.

How would you like to be chained up all your life, with no place for peace or happiness?

The Circus is No Place for Animal Abuse

Behind the scenes, elephant trainer Tim Frisco instructs would-be trainers how to dominate elephants and make them perform circus tricks. “Sink that hook into ’em. When you hear that screaming, then you know you got their attention.” An elephant trumpets in agony as Frisco’s bullhook, with its sharp metal hook and spiked end, tears through her sensitive skin. Frisco, a Carson & Barnes elephant trainer, learned the trade from his father, a former trainer for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Click here to watch the video. [learn more about the tortured animals lives from childhood to adults by trainers]

What:  Ringling demonstration
When: Friday, June 26, Noon
Where: Southwest corner of 4th Street and Broadway, San Diego

What’s Inside Your Food?

I often wonder if people know what they are really eating?  Strangely enough, some don’t even want to know, if it say’s chicken it must be chicken…  Could be anything else that tastes like chicken.  I’ve heard of lots of other things tasting like chicken as well.

Help the World’s Most Abused Animals

Factory farms are perhaps the greatest source of animal suffering on the planet. But thanks to your support and PETA’s unrelenting efforts, this cruel industry is finally beginning to change.

From slaughterhouses to fast-food restaurants, PETA is winning humane reforms that are reducing cruelty to animals on a massive scale. No other organization in the world is doing more to change the lives of millions of individual cows, chickens, pigs, and other animals raised and killed for food.  [Corporations should take better care of what you eat, though most of us know they're only in it for the money, and don't really care]

Animal Cruelty is a Sign of Serious Issues; Menace to Society

She has some serious issues!
Any one who harms animals usually has some other underlining issues that would be a danger and menace to society.  They  typically end up in prison for murder or some other serious federal offense.  So, to those people that may have a no care attitude about life just because she tortured and killed a kitten, you need to think again.  What would happen if her friend was home?

Teen Kills Kitten in Oven: Faces 10-Year Sentence

On June 3, ASPCA Humane Law Enforcement Agents arrested Cheyenne Cherry, a 17-year-old resident of the Bronx, for allegedly killing a two-month-old kitten by burning her to death in an oven. In addition to cruelty to animals, Cherry was charged with multiple counts of burglary, arson and criminal mischief. Under New York State law, Cherry is considered an adult and faces more than 10 years in prison if convicted of all charges.

Cherry admits that she broke into the home of an ex-roommate on May 6 with the intent to “play a joke and mess up her apartment.” Cherry and an accomplice allegedly threw bleach on the walls of the apartment, slashed furniture and stole various items. Before leaving, the pair put the victim’s kitten, Tiger Lily, into the hot oven.

What’s on Your Table!

It’s amazing how many people don’t want to know where their food is coming from!  I sure want to know, I look on every package to see if it’s made in America or China.  Not to long ago our animals were being poisoned by food coming from China.

Let’s not forget about the other animals that people think come from the grocery store.  These animals are tortured and brutalized before coming to your table.

Know were your food comes from!

Turning the Page for Farm Animals – Wayne Pacelle: A Humane Nation

Turning the Page for Farm Animals

The HSUS doesn’t have the luxury of focusing exclusively on any one issue. We put a stake in the ground on most of the major forms of widespread or institutionalized cruelty—in the U.S. and increasingly abroad.

Since its beginnings in the 1950s, The HSUS has always taken aim at farm animal abuses. The only difference now is our sense of urgency, since confinement, transport, and slaughter systems have become needlessly harsh and because the number of animals raised for food is so staggeringly large.

If the howls from leaders within the big agribusiness sector are solid indicators, we are making some meaningful progress. And never more so than in 2008, when we broke our Hallmark/Westland slaughter plant investigation and also led the charge to pass Proposition 2 in California.

Last week, Wendy’s agreed to start purchasing a modest but meaningful portion of eggs from cage-free producers. And this morning, one of our staff members spoke at a McDonald’s shareholder meeting urging the company to align itself with other fast-food giants and begin to phase in the use of cage-free eggs at its American outlets, or even to mirror its action in Europe, where McDonald’s has already agreed to switch to 100 percent cage-free whole eggs by next year.  [read more]

Dogs and Cats used as Shark bait is a Crime!

Puppy with fish hooks in lip of mouth

Disturbing when I see people treating “man’s best friends” so cruelly!  Who will be next?  Will they start using their neighbors as bait as well?

For the first successful conviction of a fisherman using a dog or cat as shark bait and €200 for each conviction thereafter

Dogs and cats are also involved in an assault on nature, this time
as victims and as bait. On the French island of La Reunion in the
Indian Ocean, fishermen have been using live dogs and cats as bait for
sharks.

This practice is specifically outlawed by French law but the law, as
in many places throughout the world, is ignored by fishing communities
who apparently believe they are above the law.

The dogs and cats have hooks passed through their snouts or through
the tendons in their legs and the hooks are attached to lines and rods.
The hapless animals are then tossed into the water where their
struggles attract sharks.

Puppy with fish hook in feet

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has sent a message to the police
in La Reunion offering a reward of €1,000 (Euros) for the first
successful conviction of a fisherman using a dog or cat as bait and
€200 for each conviction thereafter.

The following letter was sent to the Chief of Police on La Reunion Island:  [read more]

From Human Body Trafficking to Tiger Farming

Yeah!  Communist China has some kind of “moral” issue going on or a lack of it to say the least.

They also farm human body parts taken from prisoners, the prisoners blood type is in the system, and all they have to do when they get a buyer is plug in the blood type information.  That is called Laogai [see Laogai Research Foundation], and “The closing ceremony of the Olympics made it once again open season for harvesting.” [ see China's Gruesome Organ Harvest ]  The communists told the world they would allow more openness and freedom to the Chinese and Tibetan people, but they appear to have not changed at all.  It’s still the Genocide Olympics.

The communists that took over China have really destroyed Chinese culture, and the moral system it once had.  Communist’s don’t seem to have any kind of religious or natural morals. It’s evident on how they are trying to destroy Tibetan Buddhism and the monks who are teacher’s to the people of Tibetan citizens of Tibet [Free Tibet].

Tiger farming is just as despicable!  C’mon, raising animals just so you can kill them for body parts.  Lets not forget about the black bears who are also caged while their bile is drained.  I think Gandhi was right.

The communists could learn something from the Dalai Lama.  Previous Emperors once respected the moral teachings of the Lama’s [teacher].  Sure some say that the Emperors were bad people, but people are bad in just about every culture, and they change in time for the better.  Most countries still have Emperors, but they don’t have political power anymore, but it’s still part of their long history and culture.  Emperors of China were in many cases great people who made China what it was before the communists came in and allege that they built China.   Sorry, off topic, but some what related, it’s about morals and respect for the other.

WWF – Tiger Farms – A ticket to extinction

WWF is working on every front to save wild tigers and stop the sale of tiger products, from patrolling the forests where tigers live to galvanizing international law enforcement to go after smuggling syndicates. Hard-fought bans on tiger trade have significantly reduced the killing of wild tigers for their skins and bones.

But a threat is growing from commercial facilities in China that have bred more than 5,000 tigers in captivity for the purpose of reigniting trade in tiger products. The owners of these facilities, called “tiger farms”, are pressuring Chinese authorities to lift the country’s successful 16-year-old ban and let them legally sell tiger products. [read more]

MORAL VALUES T-SHIRT

“The greatness of a nation and it’s moral progress can be judged by the
way it’s animals are treated.” – Gandhi
Cruelty is a the precursor to more evil deeds, so if a country treats
it’s animals inhumanly, it’s evidence of other serious issues.

Disrespect for Life!

I can’t understand why people have so much disrespect for life, especially when it’s not even theirs to destroy!  What’s the theme for the next Olympics?  Baby Killing Olympics?

Then we have those people saying the seals are herding the salmon, well, okay isn’t that a natural food source?  The natural food source of killer whales are seals, but if people wouldn’t kill them they wouldn’t have an issue with the seals taking salmon.  These are just natural cycles of life, but going out their and killing these baby’s to rip the skin off their backs is just disturbing and wrong!  Imagine that happening to you or your families?
 

Talk Back: Seal It – Wayne Pacelle: A Humane Nation

The world continues to speak, and speak unabashedly, about the cruelty of Canada’s seal slaughter. Last night, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed a resolution condemning the slaughter. This action in Congress comes just days after the European Union and its 27 nations slammed the door shut on the import of seal skins. A few weeks ago, Russia’s government put an end to its seal slaughter. Increasingly, Canada stands alone in not only participating in large-scale seal killing but also in defending it.

The fact is, the government of Canada has been propping up this commercial seal killing with a range of subsidies for a long time—everything from breaking ice for the sealers to clear a path for the seal boats, to diplomatic efforts to block other nations from closing markets, to actual subsidies for seal processing plants. Canadian lawmakers even suggested dressing their Olympic team in seal fur for the 2010 Winter Games. [read more]

NRA and Farm Bureau Protest Anti-Cruelty Statute for Puppy Mills

Why would anyone in their right state of mind protest ANTI-CRUELTY rules? 

Non related [NRA] to this bill, I can’t understand why anyone [NRA] would want to hunt another creature when it is cages.  What kind of sportsmanship is that?  Not very intelligent!  Maybe others should be caged?   Has anyone learned about respect?  Perhaps that is why this country has the largest prison population among other nations?

Why would the Farm Bureau oppose a modest anti-cruelty provisions of this bill?  Again, why are we teaching our children that cruelty is okay?   We should be teaching them that cruelty isn’t okay, then maybe our prisons population will grow smaller. Does it make it better when you just turn your head at that cruelty?  “Out of site, Out of mind” makes cruelty okay?

I read a short twitter; and the guy was calling Obama “immoral” because Chrysler is filing for bankruptcy.  First, Chrysler is filing for bankruptcy because the deal with the banks fell through, and that isn’t Obama’s fault.  He called him “immoral”, but why is that considered immoral, and these same kinds of people will allow for cruelty to take place in this country.

Seems like animal cruelty is more immoral than Chrysler filling for bankruptcy!  

Why Must Puppy Mill Regulations Raise Hackles? – Wayne Pacelle: A Humane Nation

Why Must Puppy Mill Regulations Raise Hackles?

It was a breakthrough year on the puppy mill issue in 2008. The HSUS conducted a series of major investigations into all facets of the puppy mill issue and we raided mills throughout the country, and even three in Canada. We passed legislation to ban the import of dogs from foreign puppy mills with an amendment on the federal Farm Bill. The HSUS worked with other groups to pass legislation in Pennsylvania—“the puppy mill capital of the East”—to crack down on the thousands of operations there, and we made legislative gains in Louisiana and Virginia as well. We launched our Petland campaign asking the company—the largest retailer of dogs from puppy mills—to halt its sales of the victims of mills, and activists targeted other pet stores across the country with demonstrations. And Oprah Winfrey devoted a full show to the issue, and did a series of follow ups.

All of that was a prelude to this year’s surge of activism on the issue. We are soon to introduce federal legislation, the Puppy Uniform Protection Statute (PUPS), or “Baby’s Bill,” named after an elderly dog rescued by animal advocate Jana Kohl. We helped craft a class action lawsuit against Petland (and this weekend we have our third nationwide Petland demonstrations). And in 2009 state legislation sessions, The HSUS worked to introduce anti-puppy mill bills in more than 30 states. Just last week, legislation was signed into law in Washington state.

These bills should have been met with universal approval from any individuals or groups concerned about the decent care of animals. But remarkably, some breeders—driven by a false paranoia about onerous regulations (which would not even apply to them)—have worked vociferously against the bills in a few states. Oddly enough, they joined with groups like the NRA and the Farm Bureau in opposing modest anti-cruelty provisions in Indiana, North Carolina, and a few other states. The NRA doesn’t like our efforts to ban canned hunts, and the Farm Bureau doesn’t like our efforts to restrict gestation crates and other forms of intensive confinement, and they’re just being petulant in opposing the puppy mill legislation.  [read more]

MORAL VALUES T-SHIRT

“The greatness of a nation and it’s moral progress can be judged by the
way it’s animals are treated.” – Gandhi

Swin Flu Reveng!

What do you get when you have a dirty environment in companies that don’t care about anything but the bottom line and their pocket book?  Swine flu and many other dangerous diseases that spread across the world in a few day’s.

Maybe if people took better care and kept these animals in a clean environment this stuff would not happen.  These animals need to be able to roam, not forced into small cages where they can easily catch all kinds of diseases and spread them across the continents of the world.

Swine flu: investigate and regulate

Evidence is emerging that traces swine flu to giant factory pig farms that are dirty, dangerous, and inhumane.

Let’s call on the United Nations World Health Organisation and the Food and Agriculture Organisation to investigate and regulate these farms to protect global health. Big agrobusiness will try to obstruct any attempts at reform, so we need a massive outcry that health authorities can’t ignore.

Sign the petition below and tell your friends and family and we will deliver it to the UN agencies. If we reach 200,000 signatures we will deliver it to the WHO in Geneva with a herd of cardboard pigs. For every 1000 petition signatures we will add a pig to the herd:[sign petition]