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| Ask a Vegan Vet a Question - Animal Radio Please join me on Animal Issues with Dr. Armaiti May tomorrow (Tuesday) from 1-2 pm PST onhttp://adrenalineradio.com/shows/168-the-vegan-vet. Steve Erlsten will be speaking about his work with Vegan Outreach. Feel free to call in with any pet care or vet-related questions to 1-800-405-6425. Please share with friends! :-) Past show archives can be downloaded from http://adrenalineradio.com/podcasts/archives/viewcategory/437-animal-issues. Armaiti May, DVM www.veganvet.net Post Date: 01/29/13, Replies: 1 | ||
| Ask Botswana to ban hunting PERMANENTLY I just found this interesting petition. Till last year, it was totally legal to hunt animals such as elephants in Botswana (you only had to get a license). Actually, there was a big scandal in Spain in 2012 because the former king went to hunt there while his country was in a big economic crisis and while he was the honourary president of the WWF for Spain. Last year, Botswana's Government temporary banned hunting because the populations of animals were decreasing and they want to investigate the causes. But they clearly indicated thay hunting would be authorised again in the near future. That is why I found that this petition is interesting, because it's asking to make the ban permanent. No more elephant kills. Here is where you can sign the petition: https://netivist.org/campaign/ban-hunting-in-botswana-forever-petition Post Date: 02/14/15, Replies: 1 | ||
| Atheist, Agnostic and Animal Rights. Atheist, Agnostic and Animal Rights. I have got to address a dilemma that seems to be presenting itself to me here on the HappyCow. And I am not quite certain how to bring it up because it is sure to cause a stink no matter how tactfully I introduce it. It may be something that has been chatted about before and I am just not aware of it. None the less I am vaulting into the fray waiting to be pummeled and bludgeoned, hoping otherwise, but in need of some enlightenment on the subject. How can anyone clam to be Atheist or even Agnostic and be worried about animal rights? If there is no "God", by what ever name one calls Him or Her, then what is the premiss for animal rights? It seems to me that if there is not higher power, no afterlife, nothing to look forward to after the grave then animal rights is meaningless. Right and wrong do not exist if there is no religion. Yes we may make cultural laws and statues, but the are of no moral value, just social value. And if there is not a higher goal involved then integrity and honesty and loyalty and the like are only empty values made up by one class to keep the other class in line. Honesty only exists "if you don't get caught". I see no reason to worry about animal or human rights if there is no God or higher power or purpose to life. If there is no goal to attain, no purpose to my being here other than a freak accident of nature, then as long as I get what I want. As long as I am satisfied. Why the bloody hell would I give a ruddy red twopence about what happens to anyone or anything else? Love would become just another four letter word. Any kind of love. Emotions would be an attribute of the weak. Lack of emotion and duplicitousness would attributes of the strong. Please tell me what I am missing here. Please do not get defencive. I am not trying to disrespect or berate anyone here. I am just looking for some reasoning. Some explanation for the perplexity that seems to be peering fixatedly in my direction. Thank you for your thoughtful replies. Quasi Post Date: 04/12/09, Replies: 37 | ||
| Aus live exports - damning investigation http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-10-13/live-exports-monitored-amid-animal-welfare-law-breach/6851510 Post Date: 10/13/15, Replies: 0 | ||
| Australia's animal export cruelty Alive and kicking: Australia's animal export trade booms despite persistent claims of cruelty http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/aug/03/alive-and-kicking-australias-animal-export-trade-booms-despite-persistent-claims-of-cruelty Post Date: 08/10/15, Replies: 0 | ||
| Badger cull underway in Dorset, Gloucs &.. Badger cull gets underway in Dorset, Gloucestershire and Somerset http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/04/scientists-warn-against-cruel-and-pointless-badger-culls Post Date: 09/04/15, Replies: 0 | ||
| Badger cull: Regular cow TB test more..... Frequent TB testing for cattle 'more effective' than badger culls http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/sep/09/frequent-tb-testing-for-cattle-more-effective-than-badger-culls Post Date: 09/09/15, Replies: 0 | ||
| Ban all animals from being raised for food This is a petition to demand the USDA to ban all animals from being raised for food: www.thepetitionsite.com/1/ban...aised-for-food Thanks for them! Post Date: 07/17/09, Replies: 5 | ||
| Ban Factory Fur Farms! Hi Please take a moment to sign this petition regarding the cruelty and suffering inflicted on Finland's fur foxes. We are petitioning the head veterinary counsellor at the Department of Agriculture in Finland! Many of these animals, aside from being kept in abhorrent conditions for the entirety of their short lives, regain consciousness during skinning due to inhumane and ineffective methods of execution. No animal deserves this kind of treatment. Finland's Fur Foxes need your help! Sign, share and speak up. Ban Factory Fur Farming Now! www.change.org/p/hentriikka-kontio-ban-the-production-of-fur-in-factory-farms-in-finland Post Date: 11/03/14, Replies: 1 | ||
| Ban the Physical Assault of Young Humans For those of you who would like to speak up the youngest of the human"animals" by banning corporal punishment of them as 25 other countries already have please join our moderated group to discuss ways in which to ban the practice:http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bancorporalpunishmentofchildren/?yguid=328760158 There also is a petition to ban the practice in the US:http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/america39s-behind--ban-the-physical-assault-of-children Post Date: 01/27/10, Replies: 0 | ||
| Barcelona / Catalonia bull fighting ban http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15050706 Post Date: 09/27/11, Replies: 2 | ||
| bats Many of you have heard of the white-nose syndrome. It is a type of disease but to bats. This year it has gone almost out of control. To help the bats go to www.batcon.org, click on how can you help, select white-nose syndrome and donate. Post Date: 09/29/09, Replies: 0 | ||
| Battle.. protect Alaska wildlife sanctuary The battle to protect Alaska’s great wildlife sanctuary http://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/aug/27/alaska-wildlife-sanctuary-obama-arctic-oil-drilling Post Date: 08/27/15, Replies: 0 | ||
| Bearskins / Morrisey http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/letters/article2668696.ece The Times. 2 August 2010. Letter: Bearskins. Sir, I welcome Ann Widdecombe's views on the depravity of bear-baiting in order to serve the vanities of the British Army Guards (Opinion, July 30). In the humanised world, of course, hats are not worth killing for. Yes, animal rights move different people differently, and there are even those who think that animals simply have no right to be, but there is no sanity in making life difficult on purpose for the Canadian brown bear, especially for Guards hats that look absurd in the first place, and which can easily be replaced by faux versions (thanks to the visionary Stella McCartney) with no death involved. It is difficult not to look to the Queen herself — after all, they are her Guards, and she must surely be aware of the horrific process utilised to supply real bearskins for her Guards. The mere sight of each bearskin hat must surely jab at the Queen's heart. Protection of animals makes for a responsible life. The world is speeding up, and in order to assist humankind to advance we all strive in many ways to be a better "we". The brain speculates, but the heart knows, and there is no clever distinction in trapping and skinning bears for petty considerations based on vanity. Concern for all beings — human or animal — is a kindness and a goodness that springs from somewhere much deeper than Royal duty, and like it or not, the Guards wearing real fur reflects the human spirit at its lowest. Morrissey Singer, Cheshire Post Date: 08/13/10, Replies: 1 | ||
| Bee crisis stinging world food production Q&A: Bee crisis stinging world food production http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/08/qa-bee-crisis-stinging-world-food-production-150806155504134.html Post Date: 08/11/15, Replies: 0 | ||
| Birds being used as advertising tactic This Canadian advertising agency ( birdflightmedia.com ) is pushing birds to work!! Attaching banners to their poor bodies and let them fly out in the air to promote their client's businesses! Such abusive advertising tactic places the birds in a more dangerous situation! Please help me share this post and hopefully this would reach the Canadian government. I hope they would come to a decision to finally close the firm and free those birds! They are not corporate slaves for C***'s sake! Post Date: 04/04/14, Replies: 1 | ||
| books This post is partly to see if Happy Cow is working. I'm wondering as there were no comments at all yesterday. I've read as many books as I could about AR and AW since the '70s. If I had to pick one author to recommend it would probably be Jonathan Balcombe for his wonderful books, "Pleasurable Kingdom" and "Second Nature". Post Date: 10/13/15, Replies: 2 | ||
| Books by Howard Lyman and Vivisection I have some books by Howard Lyman and Vivisection for sale. If you're interested, let me know and I'll send a list. Post Date: 09/14/15, Replies: 5 | ||
| Brian May speaking for animals http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/215447/Why-I-have-to-speak-for-the-animals WHY I HAVE TO SPEAK FOR THE ANIMALS Sunday December 5,2010 By Dr Brian May SOMEONE asked me recently what I wanted to be remembered for. We Will Rock You? Playing atop Buckingham Palace? I said, given the choice, I'd rather be remembered for hastening the end of cruelty to animals and sowing the seeds for true respect in the way we treat all creatures. Seems like a radical change of career for me, doesn't it? My love of music is unshakeable, along with a love of Astrophysics, Stereoscopy, and Photoshop, but my love of animals has led me to a place I would rather not have to be, where I put my guitar down, and try to give animals a voice. So daily I make myself very unpopular with various people, who still believe animals were put on Earth to be used and abused at will by humans. Human is the name we give ourselves, and there is an adjective derived from it, implying compassion, sensibility, fairness: the word "humane". Throughout history man has tried to justify his behaviour towards fellow man and other animals. In the Age of Enlightenment, he was justifying burning women at the stake because they had the devil in them. Writing the US constitution for the Land of the Free, he was justifying keeping slaves, because "they were not the same as us", and society would collapse without slavery. Men have justified so many appalling behaviours: torturing political prisoners, degradation of women, abuse of children, victimisation of minorities, near eradication of native peoples. These hideous abuses are looked back on with shame. How did we ever imagine that because a human looked different, he didn't have feelings, the right to freedom, food, respect and equal opportunities? Another revolution is happening now. We have begun to realise other creatures on this planet have just as much right to live, breathe and enjoy their time as we do. But we are at the primitive beginnings of this realisation. As I write, millions of animals are suffering at the hands of humans. Animal farming (read "Eating Animals" by Jonathan Safran Foer) involves the abuse of millions of creatures every day that have senses and feelings similar to ours. Ian Redmond OBE, the world-famous zoologist, says that a generation ago, any biologist attributing "maternal feelings and behaviour" to a mother monkey cuddling her offspring would be accused of anthropomorphism and never taken seriously as a scientist again. This is no longer the case. Recent mapping of genomes has revealed the uncanny similarity of the human make-up to that of primates and only a little less closely to mammals such as mice and rats. It is now accepted that the idea "humans think and behave rationally, but animals act just on instinct" is unsupportable. In 2004, after 100 years of work from animal-caring people, a Hunting Act was passed in this country banning the cowardly and despicable "sport" of fox-hunting along with hare-coursing, and stag hunting with packs of dogs. Recently we saw public outrage at the senseless killing of just one magnificent stag simply for its antlers. But this is merely the tip of a huge iceberg: millions of highly intelligent creatures, more intelligent than the cats and dogs this nation loves so much, are being abused in Britain at this minute. Pigs, cows, lambs are bred purely as commodities, ready for the brutal slaughterhouse. Chickens are bred in appalling battery conditions without the mercy of a decent life or a decent death. All farmed animals are now species that have been created by man to fulfill demand for more productivity and more more money with no regard for their welfare. Those turkeys, which will be slaughtered in their cartloads this Christmas, could never even walk. Other birds are bred in battery conditions, released for a pitifully short life, and shot at with shotguns, for fun. Millions of primates, who are our closest relatives, are experimented on, kept in pitiful cages in laboratories, the concentration camps we call "humane". And we have a government that wants to bring back fox-hunting (claiming it's humane, calling for "proof" that foxes suffer pain). It is also attempting to license farmers to kill badgers on their land in a futile attempt to control Bovine TB with a "science-based" cull, which all scientific evidence says will fail. Morally? It's all utterly indefensible. And it's still legal to use wild animals in circuses. It all needs to change. Attitudes are changing, the light is dawning, but we need to call clearly for what we want. For justice for animals. To help, visit organisations dedicated to freeing animals from slavery: The Born Free Foundation, The Badger Trust, BUAV, LACS, IFAW, PETA, and our own www.Save-Me.org.uk. Join the compassionate army. Together we will usher in a better world in which compassion and decency will never be mistaken for sentimentality, and all creatures will have a voice. Post Date: 12/06/10, Replies: 0 | ||
| Britain’s badger cull is back – despite... http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/aug/24/badger-cull-chaotic-secretive-expensive-vaccinating Britain’s badger cull is back – despite all the evidence against it Post Date: 08/28/15, Replies: 0 | ||
| Bullfighting returns to San Sebastián Bullfighting returns to San Sebastián after three-year ban http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/aug/12/bullfighting-returns-san-sebastian-after-three-year-ban Post Date: 08/13/15, Replies: 0 | ||
| Buying kills. When you buy a cat or dog at a pet store thats your opportunity to save a cat or dog at a animal shelter that needs a home before it is to late. Post Date: 09/27/09, Replies: 0 | ||
| California dirty kangaroo deal Australia under fire for lobbying on California kangaroo trade http://news.yahoo.com/australia-under-fire-lobbying-california-kangaroo-trade-055246028--finance.html Post Date: 09/03/15, Replies: 0 | ||
| Call for halt to £7,000-per-badger cull Experts call for immediate halt to £7,000-per-badger cull http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/02/badger-cull-experts-call-for-immediate-halt-programme Post Date: 09/02/15, Replies: 0 | ||
| Campaign against UK mega dairy farms The following is from this url:- http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/factoryfarm#petition Big companies are planning to build huge 'mega-dairies' in Lincolnshire. These huge, US-style factory farms keep cows inside all year. The cows aren't even fed on grass. The local council will soon be voting on the cow factory farm plans. The deadline for the petition is the 11th January - on that day we need to present the council with a sky-high pile of signatures! It would be a disaster to let these US-style factory farms come to the UK. These plans are bad for cows, bad for climate change, and bad for local farmers. There would be an increased risk of disease spreading, and the huge amount of waste that the cows produce can create real problems for the farm's neighbours. And smaller, traditional dairy farmers could be put out of business. If enough of us come together and sign the petition, we can push the local councils to kick out these plans. That would stop this particular plan in its tracks, and would help stop these kind of cow factory farms spreading across the UK. Please sign the petition now, then ask your friends to get involved too. http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/s/factoryfarm#petition Post Date: 02/16/11, Replies: 2 | ||
| Campground slaughter of wombats Campground slaughter of wombats reminds us people are far more dangerous than snakes or spiders http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/sep/21/campground-slaughter-of-wombats-reminds-us-people-are-far-more-dangerous-than-snakes-or-spiders Post Date: 09/21/15, Replies: 0 | ||
| CANADA KILLING SEALS Sorry for the 'All Caps' headline, but it is hard for me to keep calm on this issue. Do what you can!!!! Search on the web, go to Canada's Facebook pages and post images (unfortunately the google image search shows some very graphic results) and so on... Best regards, Andy Post Date: 03/07/11, Replies: 0 |
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