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Sylvie recommends you visit the
following link - so this is what some countries call progression
on animal welfare
. http://www.stopanimaltests.com/f-turkishHorses.asp
Please look this site over even
if you are a bit squeamish, cos this is being done in our name,
whether we are part of that culture or not it is time to stand up
for those who cannot stand and be heard themselves!!! And that means
most of the wildlife and animals in our care!
If you would like to respond or
have other matters to draw our attention to regardless of where
it comes from ... in any country, anywhere upon our beautiful planet,
then we are here to bring focus and care for those who cannot speak,
for those who have no voice.
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This
a notice from Peta on the slaughter trade of race and stud horses
from the USA and EU. Please take some time to look at this piece
of film:
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video=Japan_horse_peta_short&Player=wm
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This is Really Important Dear friends,
Oil giant Chevron faces losing a historic lawsuit on its dumping of toxic waste in the Amazon -- let’s help the people of the rainforest win in the court of public opinion and before the law, by pressing Chevron’s new CEO to clean up this mess and stop Chevron’s dirty lobbying:
The final judgment is imminent after a long legal battle between oil giant Chevron and brave indigenous peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon, who are seeking redress for the multinational’s dumping of billions of gallons of toxic waste in the rainforest.
If Chevron is forced to pay billions in damages, it’ll be a big step forward in bringing the world’s polluters to account. Staring defeat in the face, the oil giant has launched an aggressive last-ditch lobbying campaign to derail the lawsuit.
But Chevron’s newly-appointed CEO, John Watson, knows his corporation’s brand is under fire and is growing anxious about the risks of a public shaming campaign -- so let’s turn up the heat! Sign the petition calling on Watson and Chevron to clean up their mess in Ecuador, and it will be delivered to them, their shareholders and the US media -- click below to take action now:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/chevron_toxic_legacy_1/?vl
Over the years, civic action like this has helped to transform the policies of some of the world’s biggest corporations. But most oil and gas multinationals spend hundreds of millions of dollars every year on lobbying and PR to reshape climate and energy policies and deny their environmental and human rights duties -- and Chevron is one of the biggest offenders.
From 1964 to 1990, Chevron-owned Texaco deliberately dumped billions of gallons of toxic waste from their oil fields in Ecuador's Amazon -- then pulled out without properly cleaning up the pollution they caused. Facing imminent defeat in the courts, Chevron has turned to legal machinations, powerful public relations firms and lobbyists to intimidate its critics into silence and avoid responsibility for the massive environmental and human disaster it has triggered.
Chevron has repeatedly vowed to refuse to pay for a clean up even if ordered to by the court, saying “We will fight this until hell freezes over. And then we’ll fight it out on the ice.” Its latest strategy: pushing the US government to bully Ecuador into burying the case.
We cannot sit back and watch Chevron make a mockery of justice like this -- let´s build a critical mass of support and help the rainforest inhabitants win this round, in the court of public opinion and before the law. Click here to sign the petition and help deliver a deafening message personally to Chevron´s new chief executive John Watson:
http://www.avaaz.org/en/chevron_toxic_legacy_1/?vl
Citizens in Ecuador and around the world are joining efforts to stand up to one of the biggest and dirtiest corporations in the world. If we win, it’ll be another big step toward a future of corporate accountability, human rights and environmental protection. Let's add our voices and spread the word today!
With hope and determination,
Luis, Paula, Benjamin, Pascal, Paul, Alice, Ricken, Graziela and the whole Avaaz team
PS - This campaign is part of a larger effort by Amazon Watch, Rainforest Action Network and other environmental and human rights allies worldwide.
SOURCES:
ChevronToxico, the website of Amazon Watch's Clean Up Ecuador Campaign, includes new video of affected Ecuadorians urging Chevron´s CEO to clean up oil pollution:
http://chevrontoxico.com/
Wall Street Journal, "Chevron Plaintiffs Ask U.S. Court for Action":
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704363504575003153443151606.html
Politico, "Chevron's lobbying campaign backfires":
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1109/29560.html
The Huffington Post, "Chevron and cultural genocide in Ecuador",
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kerry-kennedy/chevron-and-cultural-geno_b_346257.html
Los Angeles Times, "Oil, Ecuador and its people":
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/aug/28/opinion/ed-chevron28
"CRUDE. The Real Price of Oil"", Joe Berlinger´s award-winning documentary film that chronicles the epic battle to hold oil giant Chevron accountable for its systematic contamination of the Ecuadorian - official website:
http://www.crudethemovie.com/
This
come from our dear friend Nina in Miami.
Whales
are sensitive, social animals with highly developed nervous systems.
They have a profound capacity to suffer distress, terror and pain.
Each year, the Faroese kill pilot whales and other small cetaceans.
Islanders in motorboats first drive the whales into a bay. The chase
may be lengthy. The exhausted, terrified and confused whales are
eventually driven into the shallows. Here the bloodbath begins.
The islanders repeatedly hammer 2.2 kg metal gaffs into the living
flesh of each whale until the hooks hold. A 15 cm knife is then
used to slash through the blubber and flesh to the spinal column.
Next the main blood vessels are severed. The blood-stained bay is
soon filled with horribly mutilated and dying whales. The Faroese
celebrate the butchery of their victims in an carnival atmosphere
of entertainment.
Indoctrinated
from an early age, children are often given a day off school to
watch the fun. They run down to the bay and clamber over the carcasses
of slaughtered whales. Every year around 2,000 whales are driven
ashore and cruelly slaughtered in the Faroe Islands, mid-way between
the Shetland Islands and Iceland.
For centuries the Faroe Islanders have hunted pilot whales, driving
entire schools into killing bays, where they are speared or gaffed
from boats, dragged ashore and butchered with knives. Although the
Islands are a protectorate of Denmark, they have their own Government
and regulations governing the pilot whale hunt or "grind" as it
is known. Aside from the fact that the number of North Atlantic
long-finned pilot whales is unknown and they are listed as 'strictly
protected' by the Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife
and Natural Habitats, this is an act of barbarism and pointlessness.
By
slaughtering 100 whales at a time, the Faroese are wiping out entire
pods and family groups. They are removing building blocks from the
gene pool of the species and damaging the web of life in the North
Atlantic and the North Sea. The drive hunt is a practice abandoned
elsewhere many decades ago, and now outlawed by other European states.
The
inhabitants of the Faroe Islands have no subsistence need for whale
meat, and much of the flesh is left to rot and be dumped; it cannot
be exported, as it is polluted with heavy metals and other toxins
and therefore cannot meet EU heath standards for human food.
According
to Faroese legislation it is also permitted to hunt certain species
of small cetaceans other than pilot whales. These include: Bottlenose
dolphin; Atlantic white-beaked dolphin; Atlantic white-sided dolphin;
and Harbour porpoise (There are also specific regulations for the
hunting of harbour porpoise. Harbour porpoises are killed with shotguns).
Thank
you Nina for bringing this to the attention of the world.
Follow
this link...this is what she is talking about!
Grind at Faroe Islands 2006
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Change comes from within us all.
Knowledge is power and exists
for sharing!!!
This message was sent to us
just today about activities human beings are bringing about
to the detriment of us all. Here is our what friend has written
to us:
I would also like to take this opportunity to point out an issue
which is related to other subjects mentioned above. I speak
of the cat and dog fur trades that are happening right now in
certain countries. I don't know if you have heard of this but
I came across this animal campaign site on the internet and
on their main page the message says: '2,000,000 cats and dogs
are sadistically skinned alive every year in China for their
fur and left to die slowly in shock and excruciating pain.'
From the message above I simply just couldn't believe for a
moment that human beings are capable of doing such inhumane
things.
In this campaign site, they have some videos proving that such
activities exist. So I decided to watch one of the videos. To
be honest I must say that I was only halfway through the video
and then decided to turn it off. I just simply couldn't watch
the rest of it. Then after turning it off I wept, and kept weeping
for quite a while. This is something that will stay in my mind
for a very long time. This site has an online petition that
people can sign by merely filling up and submitting this online
petition and they will be helping them fight and expose animal
cruelties like this.
This has made a huge impact on me cause when I go to shops now
a days, I'm being wary of the things I buy with fur. Things
like toys, apparel, accessories, and souvenirs. Yes animals
are being regarded as just commondities. I also heard reports
of seals in Canada also being skinned for their furs but (clubbed
to death first) I think there's a law now that's just been passed
preventing this occurance in this country. Anyway I just thought
I'd bring this to your attention and you may find it interesting
and maybe include the subject in your radio programs one day.
Not necessarily within the same subject about as you put it,'vegetarian
vs vegan' but maybe some other time when you touch on a subject
about animal cruelties or maybe under a heading like 'animals
being regarded as merely commodities.' or something like that.
I will give you the link of this campaign site I was talking
about. You can watch the videos if you like but I'm just warning
you that it's too graphic and you may not have the stomach for
it:) but it's up to you. Paul McCartney has seen the video and
now leading the way in fighting and exposing such cruelties.
anyway here it is: http://www.animalsaviors.org/ |
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