http://www.lifewithdogs.tv/2011/05/dog-shot-and-buried-alive-makes-miraculous-recovery/
I post these types of stories to remind everyone that we must always remain vigilant as plenty of sickos exist that have no problem torturing and killing other species. Of course, this tends to lead to violence against humans too.
I also post this to see if anyone reading this might know the sick bastard who did this. He, she, they need to be caught.
Most of you have probably already seen this story - Facebook CEO promises to eat only what he kills
I hesitated to post on this as what I say may be misinterpreted by both sides. Yet, I decided to do so in order to make one point: at least this guy has decided to see just how meat ends up on a plate. No people, it doesn’t just wrap itself in plastic or paper all neat and pretty for you to just pick up and take home.
Most humans and billionaires could care less and really think that the world is for the humans only. I worked with an ego maniacal rich guy that always defaulted to the idiotic food chain argument. He was barely over 5 ft. tall and weighed about as much as an elementary school kid, and I always challenged him to go out into the woods, or plains, or wherever and see if he could take an animal’s life with only human hands (and weak teeth with very little canine teeth compared to true carnivores like cats and dogs.) Humans simply cannot do it and need technology to help them even get an animal. I always tell people to check out Meet Your Meat and then get back to me. http://www.meat.org/video-2.asp OR http://www.meat.org/
So, though it’s absolutely ridiculous that Zuckerberg or any other human thinks they NEED meat, at least this billionaire kid has the guts to do what most will not do and actually takes a life vs. having his personal assistant pick it up at the gourmet market each night.
My Message to Mark
Now, Mark, if you read this, you don’t need to eat meat, so I suggest you stop taking lives and move on to the more sophisticated and thoughtful life of vegetarianism or veganism. You’re obviously really thinking this out and take responsibility for your actions. Plus man…you live in veg. heaven in California so there is no need to kill any more animals. In the article, it’s even stated that “Zuckerberg doesn't forget his pledge; if he can't be the one to provide the meat, he orders strictly off the vegetarian menu.” This shows that you’re at least thinking and that’s 100 times better than that average non-thinking human. So, though I’m sure you can afford the best personal chefs, here are three great vegetarian starter packs to get you on your way - http://www.pcrm.org/health/veginfo/vsk/ http://www.vegetariantimes.com/2007/pdf/vegetarian_starter_kit.pdf http://www.veganoutreach.org/whyvegan/
Strange that it took this long.
As stated in the article below, this was necessary: “Rich took up the anti-bestiality fight after a number of cases involving sexual activity with animals in recent years, including a Panhandle man who was suspected of accidentally asphyxiating a family goat during a sex act and the abuse of a horse in the Keys. The bill would make such acts a first-degree misdemeanor.”
Good start but unfortunately it is only a misdemeanor. Let me translate – they care, but not really. Plus, if a sicko only sees a misdemeanor as the highest he’ll/she’ll get, they will take that risk. Make it a felony and the potential for bestiality goes down. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/06/florida-bestiality-law-passes-third-attempt_n_858884.html
As you know, Sea Shepherd has been successful as of late in the fight against whaling. Well, they’re heading out again on various causes. Keep up to date on what they’re doing via their newsletter - http://myemail.constantcontact.com/Sea-Shepherd-E-News---What-can-you-do-to-help-defend-the-defenseless-.html?soid=1101395845702&aid=ZoPxaPojJVE
Please read for details but essentially wolves (as always) are threatened by potential legistlative measures. http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150190522447545.301813.19387377544
Just look back at our post - Federal Budget Removes Wolves from the Endangered Species Act (ESA): President and Politicians Give a Great Present to Ranchers and Hunters http://geari.blogspot.com/2011/04/federal-budget-removes-wolves-from.html
I haven’t yet checked out this group, so if anyone has any negative feedback, please let me know. But, much help is needed down there - https://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/store/item.do?siteId=310&itemId=44086&origin=ARS_FACE_FAN_ADGROUP_GTGM_TORNADO_0510
They’re not quite China, but Spain has always hated animals. Think bull fighting. But, this sad story shows that, as in Romania, strays are abused and killed with no regard to pain or suffering. This page also allows you to voice your opposition to their practices - http://www.care2.com/news/member/525884267/2799803
Sadly, as the article states, logging may soon be allowed in the area they were spotted in. Yes, corruption goes worldwide - http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110509/ap_on_re_as/as_indonesia_tiger_videos
Also, take a look at this graphic on the tiger population worldwide. Yep, you guessed it, it’s not good. http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/slideshow/photo//110509/photos_wl_pc_afp/15545c33dd367b838d5eaf8d2de97d18/
Yes, shark finning still occurs. Gee, I wonder who’s responsible for it? Hummm. Here’s a quick action you can take along with some facts - http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/campaign.faces?siteId=3&campaign=DOW-SharkFinning&origin=ARS_FACE_FAN_ADGROUP_TAKEACTION_SHARK_0511_CTG
As the name implies, animaltesting.tv will be a site that is focused on showing the reality of animal testing and vivisection via real photos and videos. The new .tv domain is in use by many groups as a web property that signifies the presence of AV resources and supplements their main sites or blogs. We’re simply looking to use our place in the AR world to bring attention to this issue.
If you look at the search logs of geari.org or geari.blogspot.com, you’ll see a very significant amount of searches for videos and photos showing the unfortunate reality of animal testing or vivisection. Many of these people are simply trying to gauge the nature of this unnecessary practice. A significant number are looking for proof and/or material for class projects, speeches, etc. Many brave souls have taken undercover footage from animal testing facilities in order to bring to light to the public the reality of this horror. We at GEARI hope to add one more resource that allows truth and education to speak for the reality many innocent victims face every day in countless facilities across the world.
I’m looking for one or two good volunteers to help get this up. Your job will be to pull embedded code from YouTube videos, Vivmeo, etc. and also from photo sharing sites such as Flickr and paste it into the blog. Very easy. I just need assistance on this initial part and you do not need to make an ongoing commitment.
If you’re interested, please email geari.org@gmail.com. I’d like to get this rolling soon.
Thanks
Wow. I’ve seen tons of videos, but what horror. Keep in mind these are baby cows. But, these scum at E6 Cattle Company in Hart, Texas seem to love putting holes in the heads of calves. You can see the video proving the cruelty at E6 Cattle Company in Hart, Texas here.
The question, as touched on by WebProNews here and on the Mercy For Animals website which carried out the undercover investigation provides a horrifying look into E6 Cattle Co. in Hart, Texas asks why YouTube banned the video. Good question. As brought up, “…YouTube seems to have no qualms about videos glorifying hunting, dogfighting, or similar forms of animal cruelty…”
So I wonder why. Hummm. They’re fine covering up the cruelty to baby calves but love having videos glorifying thugs like Michael Vick torturing dogs?
So what does the video show and prove? As stated at http://vimeo.com/22912093
E6 Cattle rears calves for use on dairy farms, confining approximately 10,000 calves and subjecting them to lives of prolonged neglect and misery. For over two weeks in March of 2011, an MFA undercover investigator documented the operation's deplorable conditions and brutal mistreatment of animals.
MFA's hidden camera reveals:
Workers bludgeoning calves in their skulls with pickaxes and hammers -- often involving 5 to 6 blows, sometimes more -- before rendering the animals unconscious
Beaten calves, still alive and conscious, thrown onto dead piles
Workers kicking downed calves in the head, and standing on their necks and ribs
Calves confined to squalid hutches, thick with manure and urine buildup, and barely large enough for the calves to turn around or fully extend their legs
Gruesome injuries and afflictions, including open sores, swollen joints and severed hooves
Ill, injured and dying calves denied medical care
The budding horns of calves burned out their skulls without painkillers
Upon reviewing the undercover footage, Temple Grandin, PhD, animal welfare advisor to USDA, declared: "It is obvious that both the management and the employees have no regard for animal welfare."
Colorado State University Professor of Animal Sciences Dr. Bernard Rollin also condemned the operation: "I urge everyone in a position of authority to serve notice to the world that this sort of behavior has no place in a society wishing to consider itself civilized. These people must be corrected with the full force of the legal system."
Though the outcome of this story was good, it also shows the reality that dogs and cats are indeed eaten in China.
Please take the time to look at these photos at http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/environment/animals/chinese-dogs-saved-from-cooking-pot-20110418-1dld9.html
To think that this is common practice is just sickening and sad. For dog lovers to see dogs packed into this disgusting, rickety truck brings to reality just what the majority of Chinese people do to dogs. Many of us in the US are used to seeing cattle trucks, but we’ve never seen a truck bringing dogs to be slaughtered for food. Just look at their faces and you’ll see the same ones we see daily in our homes.
It’s hearting to see the SOME people are changing in China. But, the majority remain cruel and abusive people steeped in superstition. We can only hope that more people begin to take on the ideals that these brave people did, especially in the land of animal abuse known as china.
Please check out the story and the photos at http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/environment/animals/chinese-dogs-saved-from-cooking-pot-20110418-1dld9.html
Here are some telling quotes from the story:
“The dogs, many apparently stolen from their owners, were being transported from the central Chinese province of Henan to restaurants in Jilin province in the north-east, The China Daily said.”
“The China Daily quoted activists as saying many of the dogs still had collars with bells and name tags, indicating they had been stolen from their owners and that the trucking company transported a load of dogs to Jilin each week.”
“The consumption of dog and cat meat, both of which are believed to promote bodily warmth and are thus popular in winter, remains widespread in China despite a surge in popularity as pets.”
Yep, we’ve always known that most in congress hate animals, but now it should be clear that Obama does to. Well, I’ve stated this before, but now it’s clear. To make such a right wing move tells us who he is. Read this article and you’ll see: http://aldf.org/article.php?id=1691
Highly recommend liking this page. Who knows, it may one day help you!
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Lost-Pet-Found-Pet/162625657117463
Of course, most of these need to be eaten in high quantities, but a good list nonetheless.
Every year I have to re post on the annual Namibian seal slaughter. Seems most do not realize it exists as most only hear about the annual Canadian baby seal slaughter. Please visit this link to learn more:
http://livvegan.blogspot.com/2011/03/namibian-seal-hunt.html
I have little time and NO help, so I had to add these four into one. Pretty easy to do. I know, I know…they may not work…but they may!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/8/stop-the-masskilling-of-dogs-and-cats-in-serbia/
http://bslnews.org/2011/04/22/dog-fighting-game-released-by-androidgoogle-call-to-action/
Pretty simple one here: “Urge Kenya's Prime Minister to enact a ban on carbofuran and take concrete action to protect these great cats” - http://www.theanimalrescuesite.com/clickToGive/campaign.faces?siteId=3&campaign=savekenyaslions&origin=ARS_FACE_FAN_ADGROUP_TAKEACTION_LIONPOISON_0425_CTG
I guess the only difference between Romania and China is that (it appears) that they do not eat the dogs they torture. Who knows though…they just might.
I’ll let the video speak for itself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCIAJur9ksc
First, like this page to keep up on puppy mill news: http://www.facebook.com/StopPuppyMills?sk=wall
Right away you’ll see an article by Cesar Millan titled “Cesar Millan: Help Me Stop Puppy Mills.” If you do not see the link, go to http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/04/21/cesar-millan-care-puppy-mills-help/
Cesar discusses how Missouri is back to loving puppy mills, mostly due to (wow surprise) business looking to kill a recently passed bill. I guess they, like Washington, feel that democracy is over rated. You can read more about that at http://www.kansascity.com/2011/04/14/2801542/missouri-bill-limits-lawsuits.html
We already know that Japan hates animals anyway. After all, they fuel the trade of dead baby seal parts from the annual Canadian seal slaughter. So of course they’re not going to help them. So, we need to.
NOTE: As I always say, I do not support any one group over another. I’m posting this because it’s the only one I’ve seen and it’s an important issue. If anyone knows of other groups working on this issue, feel free to let me know.
I don’t make this stuff up. To learn more and what you can do to speak out, visit
http://www.facebook.com/album.phpaid=51006&id=111324518892054&fbid=201280219896483
And you thought you’d heard it all. Yep, you got it – a legal entity in CO ALLOWS people to light prairie dogs on fire! See, humans can always think of better ways to torture and kill.
As stated in the article, "Kids at the end of the cul-de-sac actually saw some prairie dogs on fire, running and screaming…"
http://www.dailycamera.com/ci_17628860#ixzz1GovVkTSE
And guess what: on the heels of WI killing workers’ rights and sending stray dogs to be tortured at universities, they’ll probably get this one too. I thought it was going to be better with the new administration. Guess not!
Yes, you heard me – “Goose Pulling.” “[A] ritual in which people - while riding a horse - pull the head of a goose apart.”
Here’s what you can do about it: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Stop-Using-Real-Goose-For-Gaensereiten/
I’m going to post two quotes here from the links below that sum it up:
“When new management took over in October, it said that nearly half the zoo's animals had either died or mysteriously disappeared in the past two years alone—and the management change hasn't stopped the bodies from piling up since.”
“KIEV, Ukraine – An Indian elephant called Boy, the pride of the Kiev Zoo, collapsed and died in his enclosure. Around the same time, Maya the camel succumbed to a digestive illness and Theo the zebra died after crashing into a metal fence.”
Here are two articles that show just how bad it is at the Kiev Zoo:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110323/ap_on_re_eu/eu_ukraine_deadly_zoo
http://www.newser.com/story/114850/kiev-zoo-a-concentration-camp-for-animals.html
Every year, around the same times, we get the same questions from a variety of students around the world doing papers or presentations on animal testing or vivisection. Some are about dissection.
I usually end up responding with what you’ll see below which tend to address these common questions. I’m not saying that I’ve provided the only answers to these questions, but that they cover the basics.
As always, I refer them as well to the GEARI Information on Animal Testing starter web page which lists links to information about everything from alternatives to animal testing to lists of companies that test on animals. http://www.geari.org/animal-testing-information.html This list grows every year however, so what you see below only represents what has been asked up until now. Please excuse the numbers as they usually correspond to what the students ask.
(NOTE: These first three represent the more philosophical questions, or those that the anti-animal groups try to use on unsuspecting students. I love answering these because it shows the students that those questions are stupid and rely on circular reasoning meant to trick them. Hopefully they won’t be fooled again.)
QUESTIONS AND MY ANSWERS:
2. Because animals do not, in theory, have souls, are they still
entitled to rights? It's never been proven that they do not have
souls or that those with rights have souls. So, having a soul is not
the basis for determining what is entitled to rights. Those that try
to use this as an argument have never even proven that humans have
souls or that non-humans do not.
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> 3. Do animals have emotions similar to humans or do they just have levels of comfort? It's been well proven that non-human animals express emotions (and feel them) via animal behavior scientists. Perhaps the most famous is Marc Bekoff - Professor Emeritus of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Colorado, Boulder, and is a Fellow of the Animal Behavior Society and a former Guggenheim Fellow. Please see his works to learn more: http://ebio.colorado.edu/
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> 4. Because animals cannot give consent to what is being done to them, is it acceptable to test on them? Giving consent is not justification for testing or not testing. Put another way, a person may be unable to speak or even think, so they cannot give consent. But, following logic, this does not mean that it is then OK to test on them.
Here are the other answers I've produced for others and you may be able to use:
1. In your professional opinion, does animal experimentation
present more positives or negatives?
Absolutely, negatives.
Animal testing is unnecessary and is a waste of resources.
Alternatives exist which are superior and relate more to human
physiology. For more on why animal testing is unnecessary and
wasteful see http://www.pcrm.org/resch/
2. What, in your opinion, is the most positive thing about
animal testing? Absolutely nothing positive about it. As I just
stated, it's a waste of resources that actually ends up affecting
human health in a negative way.
3. What, in your opinion, are the most negative factors of animal testing?
As I mentioned in question 1, it is a waste of research dollars as the
tests are ineffective. I'll refer you to another
I need to refer you to a few additional websites that mention how
animal tests are ineffective and waste resources. Also, they are
unreliable and dangerous. Please see
http://www.pcrm.org/resch/
http://www.pcrm.org/resch/
http://www.navs.org/site/
http://www.navs.org/site/
4. Do you believe animal experimentation is acceptable when
viewing it from a medical standpoint?
No. After you read the links above, you'll see why.
5. Do you think animal experimentation has had an impact on the
medical advancements made thus far?
No. As I've said, we've actually missed out on important discoveries
because animal tests are so unreliable.
6. Do you feel the alternatives to animal experimentation
provide adequate and sufficient information?
Absolutely, and so does Johns Hopkins University. You can learn more
about non-animal testing methods at The Johns Hopkins Center for
Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT) http://caat.jhsph.edu/
7. What types of issues does animal experimentation present financially?
Again, they waste financial resources. You'll see that as you visit
the links above.
8. What do you think testing alternatives would do for the cost
of animal experimentation, and why?
As you'll read at The Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal
Testing (CAAT) http://caat.jhsph.edu/ the costs will decrease.
9. Do you believe the controversial issue of animal
experimentation will ever cease to exist?
Yes. Many of these issues just need to be talked about and evidence
shown in order for them to change. You can already see that these
issues have come to the front in recent years. Many people and
organizations are changing daily. Plus, with respected groups like
The Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to Animal Testing (CAAT)
putting forth the truth on alternatives, it's only a matter of time
that all groups will follow their lead.
10. What would you suggest be done to solve the debate of animal
experimentation?
People just need to educate themselves to the truth of these issues.
After you read the links above, you'll be 10 steps ahead of where you
are now, as you'll realize that animal experimentation is fully
unnecessary.
What kinds of alternatives would be good ideas for animal testing?
We have an excellent page on alternatives to animal testing at:
http://www.geari.org/
will provide all you need to know on the issue. In summary, quite a
few worthy alternatives exist.
2. How harmful is the medication to the animals?
Every animal gets very sick when exposed to the testing. Most are
killed based on the test. So, 100% will be sick, as what they are
exposed to is designed to make them sick.
An excellent page that speaks of these issues can be found at
http://www.navs.org/site/
3. How many animals are used each year?
According to this excellent page –
http://www.navs.org/site/
"It's impossible to say exactly how many, but the number is estimated
at tens of millions of animals on an annual basis. The vast majority
of the animals used—about 90 percent—are rats and mice specifically
bred for the purpose of laboratory research."
4.What kinds of effects does the medication have on the animals?
Every animal gets very sick when exposed to the testing. Most are
killed based on the test. So, 100% will be sick, as what they are
exposed to is designed to make them sick.
An excellent page that speaks of these issues can be found at
http://www.navs.org/site/
5. Where do scientists perform the testing?
Unfortunately, this type of testing is carried out in nearly every
type of environment. The largest two settings are in pharmaceutical
companies and within business such as Proctor and Gamble, Johnson and
Johnson and the like. Another setting that does a significant amount
of testing is at universities. Unfortunately though, the government
carries out a large amount of testing as well as do charities.
