Finally, EU Recognizes Animals as Sentient Beings!

This is great!  I’m so happy for the EU animals. Hopefully, this will lead to a more vegan diet for many people, now that they realize that these animals are sentient beings.

Many Eastern faiths have recognized all animals and creatures as Sentient Beings for millenniums.

VegNews : Animals Get Legal Status

Europe has legally recognized animals as sentient beings according to the Lisbon Treaty, which went into effect December 1. Article 13 of the treaty states, “…the Union and the Member States shall, since animals are sentient beings, pay full regard to the welfare requirements of animals…” [full text]

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Karina Smirnoff’s Sexy PETA Photo Shoot

This a wonderful message, and hopefully people will look and listen.

The only people who would complain are those who don’t give a damn about life, they think they can take whatever they want, but their day’s will come because Karma’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’t care about anyone else or anything, much less themselves, and that is why they take that out on everything else.

We don’t need the innocent seal’s fur coats!  They need their coats, and for all you fanatic’s who let all this happen to your “gods” creations because your to busy bickering about a person, just because you don’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’m very  disappointed in where your faith has brought you.

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]

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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.

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]

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Rumsfeld, Drug Companies, Spin Doctors and Dirty Factory Farms!

Swine Flu is just another name for Dirty Factory Farms that krank out animals in degrading environments.  Have you ever seen a Swine [Pig] in a cage with no room to even scratch her ass?  Well, that’s what we’re talking about!  She’s caged in a cage with her little ones, then she’s forced to give birth over and over again.  They stand in their own feces, with no place to run and play with her children!

Got Health?

BTW!  Don’t blame Pigs for this problem, it’s not their fault they are treated in such inhumane way’s.  People don’t have to go on a killing sprees just because they think the Pig has the Swine Flu.

Mexican Flu Farms Mean Mucho Dinero for Some

What do Smithfield Foods and Donald Rumsfeld have to do with the global swine flu scare? Author F. William Engdahl’s informative article, which details the links between factory farms, spin doctors, the pork industry, and drug companies, explains all.

Before you race to the doctor for a Tamiflu vaccine, read this piece. You might think twice about helping Mr. Rumsfeld and his buddies at Roche pay for their vacations (surely they don’t do Acapulco these days, maybe St. Barts though).

Flying Pigs, Tamiflu and Factory Farms

By F. William Engdahl

If we are to believe what our trusted international media report, the world is on the brink of a global pandemic outbreak of a new deadly strain of flu, H1N1 as it has been labelled, or more popularly, Swine Flu. As the story goes, the outbreak of the deadly flu was first discovered in Mexico. According to press reports, after several days, headlines reported as many as perhaps 150 deaths in Mexico were believed caused by this virulent people-killing pig virus that has spread to humans and now is allegedly being further spread from human to human. Cases were being reported hourly from Canada to Spain and beyond. The only thing wrong with this story is that it is largely based on lies, hype and coverup of possible real causes of Mexican deaths.  [read more]

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way it’s animals are treated.” – Gandh

It’s Baby Hunting Season

Celebrating Kind Choices: Oh, Canada

If you’ve been following the animal rights movement since the ’70s, you no doubt remember the massive worldwide campaign to end Canada’s despicable baby harp seal slaughter. Who can forget those heartbreaking ads showing fluffy white baby seals staring at the camera with their enormous eyes? Public outcry forced Canada to ban killing “whitecoat” baby seals in 1987, and the seal slaughter essentially collapsed. Then in 1996, that changed, as the Canadian government started subsidizing the massacre in an effort to rebuild it. It has since grown almost every year, and it is now the largest marine-mammal slaughter in the world, with up to 330,000 harp seals killed annually. [read more]

“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.

Horrific Treatment of Primates

How can some one allegedly so intelligent treat other creatures so inhumanely? It’s a disturbing trend, and perhaps why America’s prison system is so over crowed. A society that breeds such hate is evident by overcrowded prisons.

Ex-Employees Claim ‘Horrific’ Treatment of Primates at Lab

Tucked into a rural section of Louisiana, a few miles from Lafayette, an unexpected compound springs from the landscape. It is the nation’s largest primate testing lab. The New Iberia Research Center, part of the University of Louisiana, houses more than 6,000 primates and one of the largest captive populations of chimpanzees in the world.
Viewer discretion advised: HSUS video of the New Iberia Research Center.

“Nightline” obtained the results of a nine-month undercover investigation by the Humane Society of the United States. A Humane Society investigator took a hidden camera inside the New Iberia Research Center for most of 2008. The video shows what the Society says is the way monkeys and great apes are treated behind closed doors.[read on; see video]

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"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.

Lynx critical habitat increases

Funny how some people complain about “vermin” taking over there yard, but human encroachment of land is the worst thing that can happen to a species that can cause extinction. Who’s the worst vermin you know?

It’s like that lady complaining about the bears crossing her yard to get food, when her home is in the original path of the bears original habitat!

Lynx critical habitat increases

The amount of land designated as critical habitat for the Canada lynx, a cat federally classified as a threatened species, will increase more than 20-fold under a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decision announced Tuesday.

The designation will apply to about 39,000 square miles in six states, up from a total of 1,841 square miles in three, the agency said. Lands in Maine, Idaho and Wyoming are being added to the critical-habitat map that was adopted in 2006 and consisted only of some national parklands in Minnesota, Montana and Washington. The amount of land designated in those states will expand.

The habitat reconsideration, influenced by a court ruling, followed allegations that Deputy Assistant Interior Secretary Julie MacDonald interfered with some decisions by the Fish and Wildlife Service. MacDonald resigned in 2007 after the Interior Department’s inspector general concluded she pressured federal scientists to alter findings on certain matters before the agency.

“This (lynx habitat) was one that we decided she may have inappropriately influenced,” Shawn Sartorius, the Fish and Wildlife Service’s lead lynx biologist, said Tuesday from his Helena office.

Sartorius, who said he knows of no terrestrial critical-habitat designation larger than the 39,000-square-mile plan, added that not all the same people were involved in the lynx decisions of 2006 and Tuesday. That two such widely different outcomes were reached may not be attributable entirely to MacDonald’s involvement or lack of it, he said.

Critical habitat identifies places with features essential for conservation of threatened or endangered species. For lynx, it includes forests with features such as woody debris for denning; habitat for the snowshoe hare, on which lynx prey; and extended periods of deep, fluffy snow, through which lynx move with relative ease.

The critical-habitat designation applies to about 10,000 square miles in northwestern Montana and a small portion of northeastern Idaho, and about 9,500 square miles in Yellowstone National Park and surrounding areas in Montana and Wyoming. The designated lands in Maine total about 9,500 square miles, followed by Minnesota with about 8,000 and Washington with roughly 1,800. Some of the land is public and some private. [read more]

Fish and Wildlife was forced to admit that Bush administration political appointees like disgraced former Interior official Julie MacDonald had tampered with the science behind the paltry lynx designation. The Center is currently challenging dozens of other unjust Bush administration species listings and critical habitat decisions stemming from improper influence by political appointees.

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"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.

McDonald’s Cruelty to Animals

Interesting that an alleged “family” oriented food industry would commit such heinous acts of crime and abuse toward these creatures, who will be next?

McCruelty:  I’m Haten’ It

In the slaughterhouses of McDonald’s U.S. chicken suppliers, birds are dumped out of their transport crates and hung upside-down in metal shackles, which can result in broken bones, extreme bruising, and hemorrhaging. Workers have the opportunity to abuse live birds, and birds have their throats cut while they are still conscious. Many birds are immersed in tanks of scalding-hot water while they are still alive and able to feel pain.

In 2000, following the launch of PETA’s (original) McCruelty campaign, McDonald’s made some basic animal welfare improvements. Since that time, the company has refused to eliminate the worst abuses that its chickens suffer in the U.S., including abuses during slaughter. This cruelty would be illegal if dogs or cats—or even pigs or cows—were the victims. [read more]

"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.

Ships collide in Antarctic whaling clash

Research? Bull!

They chop the animals up and package the flesh for shipment on the whaling vessel, that’s not research to me! The international community should be outraged by the slaughter of these majestic mammals. Research is studying their language, and family units and how they take care of each other as a family.

Ships collide in Antarctic whaling clash
A group of radical anti-whaling activists said they were pelted with bloody chunks of whale meat and blubber after their boat collided Friday with a Japanese whaling vessel in a dramatic Antarctic Ocean clash Japan condemned as “unforgivable.”

It was the second battle this week between the whalers and their foes. No one was injured, but the skirmishes mark the resumption of potentially life-threatening run-ins in a contentious fight that has become an annual fixture in the remote, icy and dangerous waters at the bottom of the world.

“The situation down here is getting very, very chaotic and very aggressive,” activist Paul Watson, captain of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society’s vessel, told The Associated Press on Friday by satellite phone.

The clashes come as diplomatic efforts to resolve the controversy surrounding Japan’s scientific whaling program appear to have stalled.

Japan – which has described the protesters as terrorists – plans to harvest up to 935 minke whales and 50 fin whales this season. Under International Whaling Commission rules, the mammals may be killed for research. Opponents say the Japanese research expeditions are simply a cover for commercial whaling, which was banned in 1986. [read on]

"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.