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		<title>Mother Wolf Killed by Overtly Zealout Killers!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>okawa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Teaching children to kill, who&#8217;s next?
Take Action: Save Yellowstone&#8217;s Beloved Wolves
Hundreds of wolves across Montana and Idaho could soon share the same cruel fate as Yellowstone&#8217;s Wolf 527 &#8212; unless they are swiftly granted federal protection. So please take the important wolf-saving action of sending this message to Interior Secretary Salazar while there is still [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=animalcruelty.wordpress.com&blog=3646150&post=87&subd=animalcruelty&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Teaching children to kill, who&#8217;s next?</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&amp;page=UserAction&amp;id=1643&amp;autologin=true&amp;JServSessionIdr003=8h40ytff59.app305a">Take Action: Save Yellowstone&#8217;s Beloved Wolves</a></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Hundreds of wolves across Montana and Idaho could soon share the same cruel fate as Yellowstone&#8217;s Wolf 527 &#8212; unless they are swiftly granted federal protection. So please take the important wolf-saving action of sending this message to Interior Secretary Salazar while there is still time to call off the guns.</p>
<p>Tell the Interior Secretary, &#8220;Call off the Guns! Put Wolves Back on the Endangered Species List!&#8221; [<a href="https://secure.nrdconline.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&amp;page=UserAction&amp;id=1643&amp;autologin=true&amp;JServSessionIdr003=8h40ytff59.app305a">take action</a>]</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Rainforest Beef, Factory Farms and Anthony Bourdain&#8217;s War on Vegetarians</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:02:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>okawa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Animals are intelligent, it&#8217;s just that the human species doesn&#8217;t understand their language.&#160; Animals also sense things we humans do not because humans are taught since childhood to turn off those senses.&#160; Many animals live in community with whole families, as do some humans, but the problem with humans is that many are leaving their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=animalcruelty.wordpress.com&blog=3646150&post=85&subd=animalcruelty&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Animals are intelligent, it&#8217;s just that the human species doesn&#8217;t understand their language.&nbsp; Animals also sense things we humans do not because humans are taught since childhood to turn off those senses.&nbsp; Many animals live in community with whole families, as do some humans, but the problem with humans is that many are leaving their elderly family members to live the rest of their lives away from the family in a community of other elderly people waiting to die.&nbsp; Many humans no longer want their families to be close.&nbsp; </p>
<p>Animals only hunt to eat, they are not destructive, nor do they kill for the fun of it.<br />The human species seems to be destructive and love killing for the fun of it, it&#8217;s a lot of waist.<br />In some cultures including my own, animals are considered sacred sentient beings.</p>
<p>So, I ask Anthony Bourdain, who is the silly one?&nbsp; He alleges that humans evolved to eat meat, if that is true then why don&#8217;t we have the teeth or the proper intestinal tracks of meat eaters?</p>
<p>I agree with the writer about his coolness wearing thin.&nbsp; I used to like watching his show, especially when they went to far off cultural ventures and vegetarian societies, but his constant badgering of vegetarianism has tired me off.&nbsp; He has not heart if he can&#8217;t see the pain those animals are going through.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/kozloff10162009.html">Nikolas Kozloff: Rainforest Beef, Factory Farms and Anthony Bourdain&#8217;s War on Vegetarians</a></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Rainforest Beef, Factory Farms and Anthony Bourdain&#8217;s War on Vegetarians</p>
<p>By NIKOLAS KOZLOFF</p>
<p>Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain has never made a secret of his disdain for vegetarians and vegans. In his best-selling book Kitchen Confidential the former New York cook remarked somewhat amusingly, “Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn.” After his book became a hit, Bourdain moved into television and currently hosts No Reservations, a rather unusual and unorthodox travel show which examines far-flung cultures and exotic cuisines of the world.</p>
<p>Over the course of his career, Bourdain has cultivated a cool, bad-ass image and during his program he sports a black leather jacket. On one of his shows shot in San Francisco, he made a point of taking on political correctness by heading to an old steak house and feasting on prime rib. “To me,” he has written, “life without veal stock, pork fat, sausage, organ meat, demi-glace, or even stinky cheese is a life not worth living. Vegetarians are the enemy of everything good and decent in the human spirit, and an affront to all I stand for, the pure enjoyment of food.”&nbsp; <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/kozloff10162009.html">[read full article here]</a></p></blockquote>
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		<title>Earthlings</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 06:38:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>okawa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a moving documentary about how humans have and have had a great disregard for our fellow earthlings and how much pain and suffering humankind has inflicted upon other earthlings for pleasure, food, and clothing. This pain and suffering is inflicted upon our fellow earthling with no just cause, we have no need for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=animalcruelty.wordpress.com&blog=3646150&post=83&subd=animalcruelty&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>This is a moving documentary about how humans have and have had a great disregard for our fellow earthlings and how much pain and suffering humankind has inflicted upon other earthlings for pleasure, food, and clothing. This pain and suffering is inflicted upon our fellow earthling with no just cause, we have no need for them other than selfish greed and human gluttony.</p>
<p><span style="display:block;width:425px;margin:0 auto;"> <embed src='http://widgets.vodpod.com/w/video_embed/ExternalVideo.877219' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' AllowScriptAccess='always' pluginspage='http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer' wmode='transparent' flashvars='docId=6361872964130308142&#038;playerMode=simple&#038;hl=en' width='425' height='350' /></p>
<div style="font-size:10px;">more about &#8220;<a href="http://vodpod.com/watch/1077559-earthlings-1hr-35-mins">Earthlings</a>&#8220;, posted with <a href="http://vodpod.com?r=wp">vodpod</a></div>
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		<title>Karina Smirnoff&#8217;s Sexy PETA Photo Shoot</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 18:37:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>okawa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This a wonderful message, and hopefully people will look and listen.
The only people who would complain are those who don&#8217;t give a damn about life, they think they can take whatever they want, but their day&#8217;s will come because Karma&#8217;s a bitch, and it bights hard.  Watch your back!  Hitler used to steal the skin [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=animalcruelty.wordpress.com&blog=3646150&post=75&subd=animalcruelty&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>This a wonderful message, and hopefully people will look and listen.</p>
<p>The only people who would complain are those who don&#8217;t give a damn about life, they think they can take whatever they want, but their day&#8217;s will come because Karma&#8217;s a bitch, and it bights hard.  Watch your back!  Hitler used to steal the skin from his victims as well, especially those that had tattoos  on them, and we still have people living with his same mentality, self centered, they don&#8217;t care about anyone else or anything, much less themselves, and that is why they take that out on everything else.</p>
<p>We don&#8217;t need the innocent seal&#8217;s fur coats!  They need their coats, and for all you fanatic&#8217;s who let all this happen to your &#8220;gods&#8221; creations because your to busy bickering about a person, just because you don&#8217;t like that person educating people [climate change], then your sins are even greater than those you allege are sinful because you let this happen.  I&#8217;m very  disappointed in where your faith has brought you.</p>
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		<title>Imagine Your Life in Chains..</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 16:20:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I can&#8217;t believe this still continues today!&#160; What the heck is the matter with people?
Undercover Investigation Reveals That Ringling Beats Elephants
In 2009, PETA went undercover at &#8220;the saddest show on Earth&#8221;—Ringling Bros. and Barnum &#38; Bailey Circus—and captured Ringling workers on video as they beat and whipped elephants dozens of times in venues across the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=animalcruelty.wordpress.com&blog=3646150&post=73&subd=animalcruelty&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>I can&#8217;t believe this still continues today!&nbsp; What the heck is the matter with people?<br />
<blockquote><a href="https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&amp;page=UserAction&amp;id=2359">Undercover Investigation Reveals That Ringling Beats Elephants</a></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>In 2009, PETA went undercover at &#8220;the saddest show on Earth&#8221;—Ringling Bros. and Barnum &amp; Bailey Circus—and captured Ringling workers on video as they beat and whipped elephants dozens of times in venues across the country.<br />Other viewing options</p>
<p>The 11 elephants  used in the show—most of whom were captured in the wilds of Asia as early as 1957 and some of whom have spent more than 40 years with the circus—suffer month after month at the hands of Ringling and its crew. PETA documented workers as they struck elephants and tigers on the head, face, ears, trunk, legs, and other parts of their bodies with bullhooks and other abusive handling tools. The unit&#8217;s animal superintendant and head elephant trainer were among those who used bullhooks—sharp, fireplace pokerlike devices—to hook and yank elephants by their sensitive skin, as can be seen in our undercover video.</p>
<p>The abuse extended from Birmingham, Alabama, to Providence, Rhode Island―Ringling&#8217;s venues changed, but the beatings did not. </p></blockquote>
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		<title>Media Hype and the Fly</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:54:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I happened to hear about the Fly incident while having breakfast at a cafe.&#160; While at the cafe I over hear this cop griping about PETA&#8217;s message to Obama about the killing the fly, he said; it&#8217;s common scenes!&#160; Hmmm???&#160; This is a cop in my neighborhood to.&#160; If it&#8217;s common sense to kill something [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=animalcruelty.wordpress.com&blog=3646150&post=71&subd=animalcruelty&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>I happened to hear about the Fly incident while having breakfast at a cafe.&nbsp; While at the cafe I over hear this cop griping about PETA&#8217;s message to Obama about the killing the fly, he said; it&#8217;s common scenes!&nbsp; Hmmm???&nbsp; This is a cop in my neighborhood to.&nbsp; If it&#8217;s common sense to kill something that annoys you then get me out of your way, especially when you have a gun! </p>
<p>Seems like people are not evolving.&nbsp; C&#8217;mon, people, ever wonder why we live in a society that has an overcrowded prison system or why we&#8217;re a world at war all the time?&nbsp; All that can stop if people would just learn to respect everything, and teach your children the sacredness of life.&nbsp; <i>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.</i></p>
<p>This is PETA&#8217;s reply to the hyped up media hate frenzy toward PETA.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://blog.peta.org/archives/2009/06/obama_and_the_f2.php?c=weekly_enews">The PETA Files: Obama and the Fly, Part Deux</a></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Because we&#8217;ve heard from so many people who want to know more about PETA&#8217;s position on &#8220;Flygate,&#8221; we&#8217;ve decided to explore the question of &#8220;to bee or not to bee&#8221; in a bit more depth.</p>
<p>As we all know, human beings often don&#8217;t think before they act. We don&#8217;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&#8217;t the Buddha and shouldn&#8217;t be expected to do everything right—if not for that, we would not have brought it up. It&#8217;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&#8217;s book The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights about how to rid your home of &#8220;uninvited guests.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://blog.peta.org/archives/2009/06/obama_and_the_f2.php?c=weekly_enews">[Read the full reply to the media hate on Obama and the fly at PETA's BLog]</a></p></blockquote>
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		<title>Barnum and Baily Coming to San Diego</title>
		<link>http://animalcruelty.wordpress.com/2009/06/19/tortured-lives-of-animals-ringling-bros/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 22:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tell them to go away, and free the animals they torture!&#160; Simple as that!&#160; It&#8217;s not a side show, its a show of tortured animals!&#160; 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.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>Tell them to <b>go away</b>, and free the animals they torture!&nbsp; Simple as that!&nbsp; It&#8217;s not a side show, its a show of tortured animals!&nbsp; 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.</p>
<p><b>How would you like to be chained up all your life, with no place for peace or happiness?</b><br />
<blockquote><a href="http://www.circuses.com/">The Circus is No Place for Animal Abuse</a></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>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 &amp; Barnes elephant trainer, learned the trade from his father, a former trainer for Ringling Bros. and Barnum &amp; Bailey Circus. <a href="http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=carson_barnes">Click here</a> to watch the video. <a href="http://www.circuses.com/">[learn more about the tortured animals lives from childhood to adults by trainers]</a></p>
<p>What:&nbsp; Ringling demonstration<br />When: Friday, June 26, Noon<br />Where: Southwest corner of 4th Street and Broadway, San Diego</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Dogs and Cats used as Shark bait is a Crime!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 May 2009 18:19:33 +0000</pubDate>
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Disturbing when I see people treating &#8220;man&#8217;s best friends&#8221; 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
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<div class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 152px"><a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/get-involved/rewards.html#la_reunion"><img title="Puppy with fish hooks in lip of mouth" src="http://www.seashepherd.org/images/stories/get-involved/reward_dog_with_hook_thru_nose.jpg" alt="Puppy with fish hooks in lip of mouth" width="142" height="128" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Puppy with fish hooks in lip of mouth</p></div>
<p>Disturbing when I see people treating &#8220;man&#8217;s best friends&#8221; so cruelly!  Who will be next?  Will they start using their neighbors as bait as well?</h4>
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<h4><a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/get-involved/rewards.html#la_reunion">For the first successful conviction of a  fisherman using a dog or cat as shark bait and €200 for each conviction  thereafter</a></h4>
<p>Dogs and cats are also involved in an assault on nature, this time<br />
as victims and as bait. On the French island of La Reunion in the<br />
Indian Ocean, fishermen have been using live dogs and cats as bait for<br />
sharks.</p>
<p>This practice is specifically outlawed by French law but the law, as<br />
in many places throughout the world, is ignored by fishing communities<br />
who apparently believe they are above the law.</p>
<p>The dogs and cats have hooks passed through their snouts or through<br />
the tendons in their legs and the hooks are attached to lines and rods.<br />
The hapless animals are then tossed into the water where their<br />
struggles attract sharks.</p>
<div class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 152px"><a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/get-involved/rewards.html#la_reunion"><img title="Puppy with fish hook in feet" src="http://www.seashepherd.org/images/stories/get-involved/reward_small_dog_with_hook_in_foot.jpg" alt="Puppy with fish hook in feet" width="142" height="128" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Puppy with fish hook in feet</p></div>
<p>Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has sent a message to the police<br />
in La Reunion offering a reward of €1,000 (Euros) for the first<br />
successful conviction of a fisherman using a dog or cat as bait and<br />
€200 for each conviction thereafter.</p>
<p>The following letter was sent to the Chief of Police on La  Reunion Island:  <a href="http://www.seashepherd.org/get-involved/rewards.html#la_reunion">[read more]</a></p></blockquote>
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		<title>Disrespect for Life!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 May 2009 19:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>I can&#8217;t understand why people have so much disrespect for life, especially when it&#8217;s not even theirs to destroy!&nbsp; What&#8217;s the theme for the next Olympics?&nbsp; Baby Killing Olympics?</p>
<p>Then we have those people saying the seals are herding the salmon, well, okay isn&#8217;t that a natural food source?&nbsp; The natural food source of killer whales are seals, but if people wouldn&#8217;t kill them they wouldn&#8217;t have an issue with the seals taking salmon.&nbsp; These are just natural cycles of life, but going out their and killing these baby&#8217;s to rip the skin off their backs is just disturbing and wrong!&nbsp; Imagine that happening to you or your families?<br />&nbsp;<br />
<blockquote><a href="http://hsus.typepad.com/wayne/2009/05/seals-comments.html">Talk Back: Seal It &#8211; Wayne Pacelle: A Humane Nation</a></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>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.</p>
<p>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. <a href="http://hsus.typepad.com/wayne/2009/05/seals-comments.html">[read more]</a></p></blockquote>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 17:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>okawa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do you get when you have a dirty environment in companies that don&#8217;t care about anything but the bottom line and their pocket book?&#160; Swine flu and many other dangerous diseases that spread across the world in a few day&#8217;s.
Maybe if people took better care and kept these animals in a clean environment this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=animalcruelty.wordpress.com&blog=3646150&post=46&subd=animalcruelty&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><br /><p>What do you get when you have a dirty environment in companies that don&#8217;t care about anything but the bottom line and their pocket book?&nbsp; Swine flu and many other dangerous diseases that spread across the world in a few day&#8217;s.</p>
<p>Maybe if people took better care and kept these animals in a clean environment this stuff would not happen.&nbsp; 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.</p>
<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.avaaz.org/en/swine_flu_pandemic/?cl=224979167&amp;v=3271">Swine flu: investigate and regulate</a></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>Evidence is emerging that traces swine flu to giant factory pig farms that are dirty, dangerous, and inhumane.</p>
<p>Let&#8217;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&#8217;t ignore.</p>
<p>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:<a href="http://www.avaaz.org/en/swine_flu_pandemic/?cl=224979167&amp;v=3271">[sign petition]</a></p></blockquote>
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