Pamela Anderson prepares unsuspecting travelers for takeoff in PETA’s “Cruelty Doesn’t Fly” video.
Watch as she strips passengers—of fur, leather, and all animal skins
http://www.peta.org/crueltydoesntfly/?c=weekly_enews
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From: John Fitzgerald
Date: 9/11/2009
Subject: Urgent Ban Bloodsports Appeal
Following is a brief video showing what happens at hare coursing events in Ireland…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D58qbzC-GI4
Campaign for the Abolition of Cruel Sports (CACS)
September 12th 2009 Callan, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland
Phone: (056) 7725543 or (086) 3271179
Urgent Ban Bloodsports Appeal!
Dear Friends,
A decision on whether or not to allow another season of enclosed hare coursing in Ireland will soon be made. Before September 19th Ireland’s Environment Minister must decide whether to allow hares to be terrorised by specially trained greyhounds in wired enclosures…a “sport” in which these beautiful timid creatures are horribly mauled, injured (its bones are broken easily and do not mend) or savagely killed… for the amusement of human onlookers. (You can view a video of hare coursing by following the link below)
The Minister has the power to give the “go-ahead” to this appalling practise, as in previous years…or he can refuse permission to the hare coursing clubs and thus call a halt to what is surely one of the world’s most cruel bloodsports.
With both animal protection groups (including CACS) and pro-hare coursing groups lobbying the Minister intensively on this issue, the decision could go either way.
We are therefore asking your good selves to back our call for a ban on hare coursing in Ireland…by simply emailing our country’s Environment Minister, John Gormley.
Please email him (before September 19th…the sooner the better!) with a brief message appealing to him:
NOT TO ALLOW ANOTHER HARE COURSING SEASON IN IRELAND…
** Send your message to minister@environ.ie
Note – short sample letter given below.
Thanking you,
Sincerely,
John Fitzgerald,
Campaign for the Abolition Of Cruel Sports
www.myspace.com/banharecoursingireland
*** SAMPLE MAIL / LETTER: ***
Dear Minister Gormley :
It is indeed sad that in this day and age, man is still insisting on torturing innocent animals for their amusement.
I strongly urge you to not allow another season of Hare Coursing in Ireland.
Respectfully,
Your Name and nationality
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For those who still enjoy a meaty, Sunday lunch.
If you eat it, then at least watch the suffering you are causing !
If you only watch one, then watch the ‘lambs’ – all waiting for death whilst others are slaughtered above their heads.
You can sense their fear by the body motions; or lack of ! They all want to get out, they are petrified. Meat stinks !
Want to watch a “humane” slaughterhouse vid? **Warning graphic images**
[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCcUV-Yg-bc ]
All this is legal in the US
Matadero de corderos – Lambs slaughterhouse | Investigación de Igualdad Animal – Animal Equality investigation
[ http://vimeo.com/5632402 ]
Site by Animal Equality (Spain)
[ http://www..mataderos.info ]
Rabbit slaughterhouse
[ http://www.vimeo.com/5631948 ]
Pig slaughterhouse
[ http://www.vimeo.com/album/21568 ]
Cow slaughterhouse
[ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAnBH2Waixc ]
Animal Aid (UK) 32 page Report – The “humane” slaughter myth
[ http://www.animalaid.org.uk/images/pdf/slaughterreport.pdf ]
Link to ritual slaughter footage of cows in a French slaughterhouse:
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http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iPz9o8x-bLqc-OwmcMPoaeJvlswQD9AECGVG0
AP Exclusive: Video shows chicks ground up alive
By FREDERIC J. FROMMER (AP) – 1 day ago
WASHINGTON — An undercover video shot by an animal rights group at an Iowa egg hatchery shows workers discarding unwanted chicks by sending them alive into a grinder, and other chicks falling through a sorting machine to die on the factory floor.
Chicago-based Mercy for Animals said it shot the video at Hy-Line North America’s hatchery in Spencer, Iowa, over a two-week period in May and June. The video was obtained Monday by The Associated Press.
Hy-Line said in a statement it has started an investigation “of the entire situation,” adding that it would have helped their investigation “had we been aware of the potential violation immediately after it occurred.”
The video, shot with a hidden camera and microphone by a Mercy for Animals employee who got a job at the plant, shows a Hy-Line worker sorting through a conveyor belt of chirping chicks, flipping some of them into a chute like a poker dealer flips cards.
These chicks, which a narrator says are males, are then shown being dropped alive into a grinding machine.
In other parts of the video, a chick is shown dying on the factory floor amid a heap of egg shells after falling through a sorting machine. Another chick, also still alive, is seen lying on the floor after getting scalded by a wash cycle, according to the video narrator.
Hy-Line said the video “appears to show an inappropriate action and violation of our animal welfare policies,” referring to chicks on the factory floor.
But the company also noted that “instantaneous euthanasia” — a reference to killing of male chicks by the grinder — is a standard practice supported by the animal veterinary and scientific community.
According to Mercy for Animals, male chicks are of no use to the industry because they can’t lay eggs and don’t grow large or quickly enough to be raised profitably for meat. That results in the killing of 200 million male chicks a year.
The United Egg Producers, a trade group for U.S. egg farmers, confirmed that figure and the practice behind it.
“There is, unfortunately, no way to breed eggs that only produce female hens,” said the group’s spokesman, Mitch Head. “If someone has a need for 200 million male chicks, we’re happy to provide them to anyone who wants them. But we can find no market, no need.”
Using a grinder, Head said, “is the most instantaneous way to euthanize chicks.”
Hy-Line says on its Web site that its Iowa facility produces 33.4 million chicks. Based on that figure, Mercy for Animals estimates a similar number of male chicks are killed at the facility each year. Hy-Line did not comment on that estimate.
Mercy for Animals says it will call on the nation’s 50 largest grocery chains to include labels on their eggs that say, “Warning: Male chicks are ground-up alive by the egg industry.”
Head called that proposal “almost a joke,” saying the group had no credible authority, and had questionable motives. “This is a group which espouses no egg consumption by anyone — so that is clearly their motive.” The video does in fact end with a call for people to adopt a vegan diet, which eliminates all animal products — meat, eggs or dairy.
Nathan Runkle, executive director of Mercy for Animals, said most people would be shocked to learn that 200 million chicks are killed a year.
“Is this justifiable just for cheap eggs?” he said.
As to more humane alternatives to disposing of male chicks, Runkle said the whole system is inherently flawed.
“The entire industrial hatchery system subjects these birds to stress, fear and pain from the first day,” he said.
On the Net:
Mercy for Animals video: http://www.mercyforanimals.org/hatchery
Hy-Line International: http://www.hyline.com/
http://www.mercyforanimals.org/hatchery/
Thrown, dropped, mutilated, and ground-up alive. This is the shocking reality faced by hundreds of thousands of chicks each day at the world’s largest egg-laying breed hatchery – Hy-Line International in Spencer, Iowa.
New hidden camera footage obtained at this facility during a Mercy For Animals undercover investigation gives a disturbing glimpse into the cruel and industrialized reality of modern hatcheries.
The warm, comforting, and protective wings of these newly hatched chicks’ mothers have been replaced with massive machines, quickly moving conveyor belts, harsh handling, and distressing noise. These young animals are sorted, discarded, and handled like mere cogs in a machine.
For the nearly 150,000 male chicks who hatch every 24 hours at this Hy-Line facility, their lives begin and end the same day. Grabbed by their fragile wings by workers known as “sexers,” who separate males from females, these young animals are callously thrown into chutes and hauled away to their deaths. They are destined to die on day one because they cannot produce eggs and do not grow large or fast enough to be raised profitably for meat. Their lives are cut short when they are dropped into a grinding machine – tossed around by a spinning auger before being torn to pieces by a high-pressure macerator.
Over 30 million male chicks meet their fate this way each year at this facility.
For the surviving females, this is the beginning of a life of cruelty and confinement at the hands of the egg industry. Before even leaving the hatchery they will be snapped by their heads into a spinning debeaker – a portion of their sensitive beaks removed by a laser. Workers toss and rummage through them before they are placed 100 per crowded box and shipped across the country.
The callous disregard for animal welfare at this facility is not isolated. In fact, the conditions documented during this investigation are completely standard and acceptable within the commercial egg industry. Referred to by Hy-Line corporate leaders as mere “genetic products,” these chicks are treated just as they are viewed – as inanimate objects, rather than the sentient creatures they are.
Egg producers have gone to great lengths to hide their cruel practices from consumers. Grocery aisles from coast-to-coast are stocked with egg cartons featuring idyllic images of free-roaming hens and crowing roosters. These deceptive marketing gimmicks conceal the cruel and violent nature of industrial hatcheries and egg factory farms.
Consumers have a right to know the truth behind egg production.
Citing the troubling findings of this investigation, Mercy For Animals is calling on the nation’s 50 largest grocery chains to require that all eggs sold in their stores bear a label reading, “Warning: Male chicks are ground-up alive by the egg industry.”
Hopefully, armed with the sobering truth, consumers nationwide will be able to make informed and compassionate food choices.
Driven by consumer demand, the egg industry will continue to exploit, abuse, and kill day-old animals as long as doing so remains profitable. Empowered consumers can put their ethics on the table by choosing kindness over cruelty at each meal by adopting an animal-friendly vegan diet.
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INSIDE A FRENCH ABATTOIR (Kosher slaughter)
** Viewer warning – DISTURBING images **
We hope that our French campaigner friends will raise hell with both the French and EU authorities about this. We suggest the following link for further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legal_aspects_of_ritual_slaughter
As we have always said, the aim of this site is to show the REAL world of animal abuse and suffering. Where and when images and video footage are needed to be shown to get across a message, then they will be.
The footage shown here is of immense animal suffering; it is time for the EU to take off its ‘religious protection’ hat which allows people to do almost anything in the name of religion, and to get down to accepting the real wants of people, especially where religious slaughter is involved. A total ban on religious slaughter throughout the EU, nothing less !!
– SAV.
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Full length video:
http://www.l214.com/video/charal
Short version:
http://www.lepost.fr/article/2009/08/28/1673251_un-abattoir-charal-vu-de-l-interieur.html
Other videos of animal abuse/Agribusiness (FR):
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Wherever you are in the World,
Please give your support today the Prince’s Rainforests Project and add your voice to the many calling for urgent action to fight climate change by addressing rainforest destruction.
Rainforests wrap around the equator of the earth like a green belt. After millions of years of evolution, they are the most biologically rich ecosystems on our planet. Tropical rainforests contain a hugely rich diversity of species of plants and animals. They are also home to many different indigenous people, who have unique and treasured cultures.
The number of signatories will be shared with The Prince’s Rainforests Project’s partnership of governments, businesses and non-profits in December at the time of the climate change negotiations in Copenhagen, where the next global climate change agreement will be determined.
Sign up and help create a climate for change. Adding your name costs nothing, but without it, deforestation might just cost us the Earth.
Links to different parts of the site: please visit them all;
http://www.rainforestsos.org/?source=quickTAFsu
http://www.rainforestsos.org/video/index/
http://www.rainforestsos.org/pages/about-rainforests/
Thank you – SAV.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEz7mChH79M
This is in memory of all those gone before & hope for those still yet
to return, & for those who have come home.
Please take time & spare a thought for the families missing their
loved ones, whoever or whatever they may be…
I was inspired to write this song by the plight of a dog called
Bruce …Please may he be saved. (Please google save Bruce dog for
more details.)
Also for all the mothers & families of the men & women who have been
sent off to war, wherever they may be…
My wish for this song is to raise awareness & hope that at some point
somehow my song could raise money to help the animals I rescue,…
Please forward on, as one day it may appear on a screen belonging to
someone who could help me make that happen.
Thank you for your time. 🙂
& thank you to Dave Cherry for arranging beautiful music to my song. 🙂
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Serbian Animals Voice (SAV)
Serbian Animals Voice (SAV) 