Viva! Duck Day, 11 November
A Duck | 07.11.2006 23:02 | Animal Liberation
On Saturday 11 November, Viva! is running a day of action for ducks. Ducks are possibly Britain’s favourite birds; yet, 19 million of these individuals were killed for meat in the UK last year. According to Viva! 95% of them had prison-like cramped lives. If you buy duck meat from almost any major restaurant or supermarket the animals will not have had any access to water to swim in.
Jake, the little duckling prisoner, the cartoon star of Viva’s campaign represents all the ducks trapped in intensive farms across the country. When you see ducks swimming on the river I hope you will think of Jake and the actual animals he represents, that have not been allowed the opportunity to swim.
We can all play our part in opposing this abuse, by simply not eating duck! If you would like to do more why not check out the Viva! Website to find out what else you can do.
You could even order (or download) some leaflets and give them out to people out side your local supermarket or in your town centre. If you’re to shy why don’t you leaflet door to door.
You can learn more about the campaign at www.viva.org.uk a brilliant site that has information on issues surrounding farm animals in Britain.
We can all play our part in opposing this abuse, by simply not eating duck! If you would like to do more why not check out the Viva! Website to find out what else you can do.
You could even order (or download) some leaflets and give them out to people out side your local supermarket or in your town centre. If you’re to shy why don’t you leaflet door to door.
You can learn more about the campaign at www.viva.org.uk a brilliant site that has information on issues surrounding farm animals in Britain.
A Duck
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Protect all life
08.11.2006 01:40
C Bass
there's always an idiot
08.11.2006 10:10
g34rgt45
Idiot
08.11.2006 16:54
C@z
why are some animals more equal than others?
08.11.2006 17:32
animal farm
The Acclaimed Carnivores Suddenly Care About "Life"
08.11.2006 21:17
"I eat bloodied animal flesh,from slaughtered mammals and birds,but boy do i care about flies". "Now i'm the defender of 'life' and the vegan is the 'killer'".
Tim
Save The Ducks – Eat The Vegetables!
08.11.2006 22:37
As you say we are also anti-flies, as you will note we aren’t usually the ones killing them, even sometimes going out of our way to save them, but, its all part of the plan.
- And if you believe that, well, you must be a meat-eater!
A Duck
Essential Fatty Acids
08.11.2006 23:35
I am happy to let vegans eat whatever they want to, as long as they leave others eat what they want to…surely we all have that right in life?
My attitude no doubt comes from my enjoyment of fishing as a young boy. Learning how to catch fish, kill them, gut and clean them, cook them and then enjoy eating them does that to you. And it just as well people are able to do this, or we would never have evolved, at least not at the rate we have. Those who do not believe in evolution need to ask why did God give us that lifesaving ability, if it’s not for the using of?
So, as for ducks living in cramped conditions, well I can think of far more worthy causes to be championing. In all frankness I'd be more concerned about any artificial chemicals or additives within the duck meat. Or indeed its freshness. Not to mention the welfare of the workers in the processing plant.
Spending your efforts fretting over the welfare of fluffy little ducks when there are huge numbers of children living below the poverty line in the UK, and thousands being blow to bits in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine simply looks like your priorities are all wrong. It even sends out the message of a distorted picture of morality within this country. And what a paradoxically callous message that would no doubt send to those who have lost loved ones in the process. Almost qualifying as passive aggression perhaps?
animal farm
justice for some
09.11.2006 12:37
I'm assuming that doesn't include those individuals that comprise animalkind?
veganarchist
Moral Flap
09.11.2006 15:22
If you had the choice between saving the life of a child or a duck which one would you save?
Social Services
live and let live
09.11.2006 19:45
We can impart compassion for more than one group you know! Just because we care about other sentient life does not mean we don’t care about people as well.
We all have feelings (human or non) so theirs no good reason to make others suffer just for enjoyment.
A Duck
Social Disservices
10.11.2006 03:36
It's always the same with you bloody self worshipping humanists:humans vs animals.An ultimatum thats rigged from the beginning.
The same false oppositional duality was used to justify historical,and present, injustices :
WHITE VS BLACKS
WOMEN VS MEN
CHILDREN VS ADULTS
ANIMALS VS HUMANS
Tim
Tim - nice but...
10.11.2006 11:54
If you had the choice between saving the life of a child or a duck which one would you save?
People deserve equal rights, but, animals and humans DO NOT deserve equal rights...
For example, you Tim are more deserving than any rat. Or perhaps you would disagree?
Maybe you seriously believe that all fishermen deseve to be imprisoned for murder...?
Flapping white coats
Equal Respect(not rights)
10.11.2006 20:20
The earth,and it's inhabitants,we're in a much better state when there weren't industry legislating courts with the accompanying permanent legal sanctuary.
Tim
Animals are better than humans
11.11.2006 01:44
Human beings hurt other human beings because they are neurotic. They were abused as children, and the worse the abuse they suffered, the more likely they are to inflict suffering on other living beings, animal and human.
Animals don't form stupid cults (like Islam) and murder other animals because they refuse to join. Animals don't have dictatorships, where a tiny minority of a herd or group of animals force all the other animals to work for them and pay for the influx of animals who want to kill them... (Unlike Blair and his mass immigration policy... or the jews who run the US Congress and the Whitehouse, and make Americans work to pay $500 BILLION for the Jewish war against Iraq.)
Animals don't breed with ugly animals to form mutants, whereas 99.9% of human beings are ugly mutants. The normal humans are the ones you know as 'beautiful'.
Animals love their children and know how to bring them up properly. Only about 1% of human beings are capable of this.
Animals don't rape their own children. Millions of humans do, every year.
Animals aren't paedophiles, nor gay, nor do they seek to copulate with the elderly. Millions of humans do.
Animals don't grow up having been abused, to try to ruin the lives of anybody they can. Humans do, in their hundreds of millions.
Animals don't murder their unborn babies by cutting them up inside their wombs. Animals are beautiful and perfect, and the only beings on earth who are capable of real love. What a pity you will never know this beauty, human.
Nice and simple
If you had the choice between saving the life of a child or a duck which one wou
17.11.2006 08:33
In fact quite the reverse. As well as being unspeakably cruel, meat eating is responsible for environmental destruction, climate change, habitat destruction, logging of forests, kicking pooor people off land, diverting grain from third world children into beasts, obesity, diebetes and cancer. All of which are killing children. So the real choice is not "a duck or your child", but "a duck AND your child".
From a more philsophical point of view the assumption seems to be.
X will save a child in preference to a duck if s/he has time to save only one of them.
Therefore children have rights and ducks do not.
By the same logic.
I would save my mother in preference to an internet troll if I had time to save only one of them.
Therefore mothers have rights but internet trolls do not.
QED
Michael Morris
e-mail:
michael.morris@slingshot.co.nz
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