Put a Stop to Bear Bile Farming

Bear bile farming is an alarming practice taking place in China, whereby Asiatic black bears are captured and used to provide bile from their gall bladders. The bile is found in popular ancient Chinese medicine.

The bile extraction process is extremely painful for the bears, and is hardly ever performed in a sterile manner. In fact, about half of all bears caught for their bile end up dying from complications of the procedure. We need to end this inhumane act of torture immediately. Send a letter to the World Society for the Protection of Animals to support their efforts to abolish bear bile farming forever.

http://www.therainforestsite.com/clickToGive/campaign.faces;jsessionid=ED7BC3D65596B269097509734D86C0EA.ctg-a?siteId=4&campaign=BearBileFarms

Bulgaria is nothing but hell for animals

This is something that happens in Bulgaria every day. Even prominent journalists believe that love for animals is illegal & so they think it’s okay to torture & kill animals on a daily basis.

I’m sorry for sharing these graphic pics but I don’t see any way of expressing myself. I just don’t have words. Go through this entire album on FB & you would know what I mean. This is so fucked up. Animals deserve love & respect & these people have crossed all the limits; they insult humanity every day & it just goes on.

They kill healthy animals just like that. It means nothing. I think even hell would be a lot better, cause God can never be unfair. I’m simply ashamed of humans. There is no hope.

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=31937&id=100001289103932

4 reasons why you should go vegetarian

1. Because eating meat is murder.

Everyone who eats animal products is responsible for the abuse and deaths of beings with lives and personalities of their own—beings who did not choose to be carved up and put on the dinner table.

2. Because eating meat is torture.

Animals raised for food are separated from their mothers shortly after birth and spend their brief, miserable lives crammed together by the thousands in factory farms, sometimes unable to move or to take a single step in any direction.

Animals raised for food are so stressed and fearful, factory farmers think that the only way to prevent them from fighting is through systematic mutilation. Chickens' sensitive beaks are cut off with a hot blade, and pigs' teeth and tails are cut off—all without the use of painkillers. On the killing floor, many animals are still conscious when they are skinned and cut into pieces.

3. Because eating meat is suicide.

4. Because eating meat just isn’t fair

The suffering of humans and the suffering of other animals are interconnected. By alleviating the suffering of other animals, we also help alleviate human suffering.

Simply put, the more meat you eat, the fewer people you feed. You can feed 20 vegetarians on the amount of land needed to feed one person on a meat-based diet.

Source:

http://www.petaasiapacific.com/issues-nottoeat.asp

One Million Pigs Buried Alive in South Korea

Following an outbreak of Foot & Mouth disease in South Korea, the authorities have refused to have animals vaccinated and are instead doing a mass cull. Slaughtered humanely? No! They're burying them alive!

Foot and mouth disease affects all cloven hoofed animals such as pigs, cattle and goats, and any country that has cases of it is unable to export the animals' meat.

The South Korean government has so far refused to vaccinate pigs against the disease and is now slaughtering them in record numbers despite appeals to stop.

On January 4 in one area of Gangwon-Do, 33,900 pigs alone were destroyed, according to the OIE

Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) has said that South Korea's actions contravene international guidelines. Michele Danan from the organisation said: "Live vaccinations are the best route but if they do have to kill them we would prefer that they were at least slaughtered humanely."

The estimated cost of the cull so far is believed to have reached around £230m when a mass vaccination programme would have cost an estimated £63m.

Some animal rights campaigners have criticized the government for putting economic considerations ahead of animal welfare.

The Republic has begun inoculating cattle in some areas and the OIE reported on Thursday that sows and boars are starting to be vaccinated but only in a few locations.

It is believed the live burial of pigs began at Christmas and the figure is likely to climb far above the one million mark.

Joyce D’Silva, Director of Public Affairs for CIWF said: "Compassion in World Farming is appalled that the Republic of Korea is allegedly throwing pigs into pits and burying them alive.

"This is totally contrary to international guidelines on humane culling, which the Korean government endorsed five years ago.

"We urge the Korean government to end this horrendous practice at once and to ensure that, if animals are culled, this is done humanely."

Please sign this petition and send it to all your friends. This type of deliberate cruelty is totally unnecessary and totally unacceptable in any country in 2011.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/5/one-million-pigs-buried-alive-in-south-korea/

Best animal book of 2010 tells story of Vick's 'Lost Dogs'

The Philadelphia Eagles must be happy they took the chance on signing convicted dog fighter Michael Vick. Protests and boycotts by animal lovers never gained much traction. Just last week, President Obama personally thanked team owner Jeff Lurie for giving Vick a second chance.

When Vick told an Atlanta newspaper that he wanted to get a dog, the head of the country's largest animal welfare organization said he thought that might be a good idea.

And, of course, he's doing a great job on the field, which I guess is what a lot of people mean when they say he's redeemed himself for his past crimes. I don't know, because I don't care about Michael Vick's second chance, no matter how many football games he wins. And here's why:

"As that dog lay on the ground, fighting for air, Quanis Phillips grabbed its front legs and Michael Vick grabbed its back legs. They swung the dog over their head like a jump rope then slammed it to the ground. The first impact didn't kill it. So, Phillips and Vick slammed it again. The two men kept at it, alternating back and forth, pounding the creature against the ground until, at last, the little red dog was dead."

Those words were written by Sports Illustrated editor Jim Gorant in "The Lost Dogs: Michael Vick's Dogs and Their Tale of Rescue and Redemption," the best and most important book about animals written in 2010.

Two years ago, Gorant wrote a cover story that garnered more response than anything else Sports Illustrated had printed in the previous two years.

Called, simply, "What happened to Michael Vick's dogs," it introduced readers to some of Vick's victims, like Sweet Jasmine, a dog so traumatized by her life at the football star's Bad Newz Kennels that she had to be carried out of her crate to go to the bathroom in her adopted family's yard. Once there, he writes, she wouldn't do anything except lie, frozen, in a little hole she'd dug to hide in, until someone came to carry her indoors.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/01/05/petscol010511.DTL#ixzz1AZM9YbA0

I don’t think people like Vick should ever be forgiven. May he rot in hell & he shouldn’t be allowed to go near animals. I don’t care whether this bastard is a good player or not.

FB users should sign contract not to show animal snuff media

There is an appalling large amount of users posting videos/media depicting animal torture and snuff for purulent purposes lacking serious political, educational or artistic merit with completely malicious intent. Please be aware this is in violation of Federal law signed by President Obama on 11 December 2010.

MALICIOUS animal torture/snuff (not restricted to "crush") media Contributes to the Delinquency of Minors in violation of laws in ALL 50 States, incites future violent criminals and serial killers (per FBI profiling this is fact), is NOT conducive to the mental hygiene of a nation, therefore IS OBSCENE MATERIAL.

Please urge users to be compliant by having them electronically sign a contract that they agree not to show such animal torture/snuff media on Facebook, or you all will report such abusers to authorities.

COPY OF ACTUAL ANTI ANIMAL CRUSH LAW:

http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=h111-5566

These are some of the clauses of ‘Animal Crush Video Prohibition Act of 2010’.

Each of the several States and the District of Columbia criminalize intentional acts of extreme animal cruelty, such as the intentional crushing, burning, drowning, suffocating, or impaling of animals for no socially redeeming purpose.

There are certain extreme acts of animal cruelty that appeal to a specific sexual fetish. These acts of extreme animal cruelty are videotaped, and the resulting video tapes are commonly referred to as ‘animal crush videos’.

Sec. 48. Animal crush videos

‘(a) Definition- In this section the term ‘animal crush video’ means any photograph, motion-picture film, video or digital recording, or electronic image that--

‘(1) depicts actual conduct in which 1 or more living non-human mammals, birds, reptiles, or amphibians is intentionally crushed, burned, drowned, suffocated, impaled, or otherwise subjected to serious bodily injury (as defined in section 1365 and including conduct that, if committed against a person and in the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States, would violate section 2241 or 2242);

Please sign the petition…thank you!

http://animals.change.org/petitions/view/facebook_users_should_sign_contract_not_to_show_animal_snuff_media