Rainforest Beef, Factory Farms and Anthony Bourdain’s War on Vegetarians
Animals are intelligent, it’s just that the human species doesn’t understand their language. Animals also sense things we humans do not because humans are taught since childhood to turn off those senses. 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. Many humans no longer want their families to be close.
Animals only hunt to eat, they are not destructive, nor do they kill for the fun of it.
The human species seems to be destructive and love killing for the fun of it, it’s a lot of waist.
In some cultures including my own, animals are considered sacred sentient beings.
So, I ask Anthony Bourdain, who is the silly one? He alleges that humans evolved to eat meat, if that is true then why don’t we have the teeth or the proper intestinal tracks of meat eaters?
I agree with the writer about his coolness wearing thin. 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. He has not heart if he can’t see the pain those animals are going through.
Nikolas Kozloff: Rainforest Beef, Factory Farms and Anthony Bourdain’s War on Vegetarians
Rainforest Beef, Factory Farms and Anthony Bourdain’s War on Vegetarians
By NIKOLAS KOZLOFF
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.
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.” [read full article here]
Imagine Your Life in Chains..
I can’t believe this still continues today! What the heck is the matter with people?
Undercover Investigation Reveals That Ringling Beats Elephants
In 2009, PETA went undercover at “the saddest show on Earth”—Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus—and captured Ringling workers on video as they beat and whipped elephants dozens of times in venues across the country.
Other viewing optionsThe 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’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.
The abuse extended from Birmingham, Alabama, to Providence, Rhode Island―Ringling’s venues changed, but the beatings did not.
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.
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]
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.
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]
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 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.
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]
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.
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]
MORAL VALUES WOMEN’S T-SHIRT
“The greatness of a nation and it’s moral progress can be judged by the
way it’s animals are treated.” – Gandh
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.
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]
MORAL VALUES
"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.
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