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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Take Action: Save Yellowstone’s Beloved Wolves

Hundreds of wolves across Montana and Idaho could soon share the same cruel fate as Yellowstone’s Wolf 527 — 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.

Tell the Interior Secretary, “Call off the Guns! Put Wolves Back on the Endangered Species List!” [take action]

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]

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.

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.
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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’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.

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]

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