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28 Int'l Animal Rts. Stories: New Zealand, Scotland, China, US, Japan Etc

Wayfarer | 30.03.2011 22:01 | Animal Liberation | Culture | Ecology | South Coast | World

From Vatican catechism human chauvinism to Chinese culture in which no food is taboo

[b]Scotland: Seal Killing off the coast[/b]
 http://unitedcats.wordpress.com/2010/08/17/a-macabre-mystery-whats-killing-seals-off-scotland-and-canada/#comment-32479

[b]Japan animal relief[/b]
 http://www.worldvets.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=203

[b]New Zealand and worldwide: Birds left to die in mist nets employed by vineyards.
 http://www.stuff.co.nz/marlborough-express/4757060/Birds-left-to-die-in-vineyard-net/[/b]
(Some vineyards are importing falcons to kill the smaller birds)

[b]Zimbabwe allows Go Daddy CEO
Bob Parsons to shoot elephants[/b]
 http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/2011/03/28/20110328go-daddy-bob-parsons-elephant-hunt.html

[b]Illegal and controversial food around the world[/b]
 http://www.tripbase.com/articles/illegalfood/

[b]Israel:[/b] use of animals in stunts engenders captivity and terror in the
unaware creatures  http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8478922-isreali-model-breast-kills-snake-by-silicone-prisoning-video-of-bite
[b]
Vatican:
Papal fallibility..[/b] The Pope has been criticized around the world
a. for wearing ermine...
ermine have sometimes been trapped by having their tongues freeze solid to greased traps
 http://freecatholic808.com/2010/12/27/from-swaddling-clothes-to-ermine-trimmed-capes/
b. for continuing a practice since the Council of Nice of obscuring Jesus' abstinence from mammal and bird flesh (Fish flesh is an ongoing debate among Biblical scholars)  http://catholicveg.blogspot.com
c. for the Vatican catechism website statement that as long as any human anywhere in the world is
suffering it is immoral for people to spend money on veterinary care for animals
d. for the Church's silence in many areas re the wars which
contradict the teachings of Jesus... wars which kill humans and animals

[b]Animal Intelligence* No Laboratory Study of Confined Animals' Intelligence Is Ethical [/b]

[b]Alex, the parrot who recognized 100 names[/b]
 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/09/books/review/Royte-t.html

(GMF: Alex had a brain the size of a walnut. One thing that it said to me
is that intelligence does not reside in the brain...)
(put another way: electricity does not live in the plug or wire)
*
[b]Dog Intelligence[/b]
(The youtube dot com link S1PxjkYUCYk is for some reason not
appearing)
[b]Chaser the dog who can recognize over 1000
names and retrieve them[/b]
(who knows who is the world's most intelligent dog? the most
loyal dog? the most unconditionally loving dog?)


[b]US: While animal snuff films have been outlawed in the US, Edgar Allen Poe
with his dark themes of animal torture is still causing harm to animals
through English classes[/b]
*
[b]US: April 5 Many will gather at the Livestock Board Standards Meeting. Gov Kasich of Ohio[/b]. He is not just working to
keep gestation crates for calves in Ohio. He has actually cancelled Gov Strickland's legislation to increase the size of the crates. The best
way to help calves is to stop
eating them.  http://ohiohumane.com  http://mercyforanimals.org/ohdairy
*
[b]Japan and the world:[/b] Nuclear radiation in Japan from the 6 damaged reactors will affect not only Japanese
people, cows, pigs, fishes etc. but by prevailing westerlies will come first to Pacific islands and then to
Canada, the US, Central and S America, Mexico... some animals will die sooner than they are murdered for
food... other animals will absorb the radiation in their flesh in concentrations 1000 to 1000000 times more
than in the atmosphere... and will be toxic to eat. Plants will be safer to eat with lower concentration levels
of radiation. Safest will be the fruits which like fetuses in the mother are more protected than the trees,
vines and bushes from radiation.

[b]Australian nuclear waste hazards authority Helen Caldicott MD[/b]
 http://www.helencaldicott.com/articles.htm

[b]Worldwide: WalMart animal abuse[/b]
 http://www.fishlore.com/fishforum/more-freshwater-aquarium-topics/75538-walmart-animal-abuse.html



[b]Worldwide: deaths of marine mammals, reptiles and fishes
not just from radiation but from plastic, propellers, thousands
of poisons[/b]
 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1369438/Dead-turtle-ingested-100s-pieces-plastic-highlights-sea-pollution.html


[b]China, Mexico, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Argentina, Italy, Brazil,
Kyrgyzstan: The 8 biggest horse slaughtering countries[/b]
China 1,700,000 204,000
Mexico 626,000 78,876
Kazakhstan 340,000 55,100
Mongolia 310,000 38,000
Argentina 255,000 55,600
Italy 213,000 48,000
Brazil 162,000 21,200
Kyrgyzstan 150,000 25,000
Worldwide
Totals 4,727,829 720,168

*[b]
Japan: Ayukawa Whaling's headquarters were the hardest
hit area of Japan.[/b] The whale
killing company's headquarters
were flattened by the earthquake.
 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/25/world/asia/25whale.html

(Whether the earthquake was
a black op by an enemy of Japan,
the result of underground nuclear
tests, naturally occurring, or
other remains to be seen.)


[b]China and UN: UN helps China to commence
crucifixion of cows[/b]
 http://euobserver.com/9/32004

 http://euobserver.com/9/32004
[b]Yahoo lies about PETA[/b]
 http://in.answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110311192827AANb2jf

[b]Ireland: stoning wrens: a cruelty no longer[/b]
[b]practiced[/b]
 http://www.goireland.com/blog/article/christmas-in-ireland-the-wren-boys.html
Paul when Saul held the coats of
the Roman soldiers who stoned
Stephen to death. The tiny wren
was made a scapebird to take
Saul's karmic debt.


[b]US: Pennsylvania: For many years the Univ of Pittsburgh has been torturing kidnapped confined primates,
sometimes making them paraplegics, sometimes as in the labs of Judy Cameron
forcing them to run. Lab researcher sadism is furthered by the warmongering deforesting New York Times.[/b]

 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/science/29brain.html

 http://speakingofresearch.com/2011/.../overcoming-paralysis-from-monkey-to-man-at-the-university-of-pittsburgh/

 http://scienceline.org/2011/01/within-reaching-distance-of-mind-controlled-movement/
Andrew Schwartz.. another sadist

Oct 6, 2009 ... Judy Cameron: What we're seeing is the monkeys that have run on the treadmill have very little effect of the MPTP. They're still able to use ...
 http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/running-past-illness/
Judy Cameron's piece is still reported on the net but has been excised from
the Times blog.

[b]Time Warner [/b]which advertises
the brutally slaughtered birds
of KFC.. has also through its
media been promoting the
world's largest restaurant
conglomerate, owner of KFC:
Yum Foods
 http://www.kfccruelty.com

[b]US Arkansas: Bill Gates gives
42 million to Heifer Int'l,
group shipping baby animals to
lives of slavery and slaughter[/b]
 http://www.organicconsumers.org/articles/article_13556.cfm

[b]Japan: Kesennuma: Tsunami wipes out Japanese shark fin fishing fleet[/b]
 http://www.japanprobe.com/2011/03/14/the-destruction-of-kesennuma-japans-shark-fin-town/

[b]Worldwide:International Fish Fleet and Shark Fins[/b]

 http://www.pretoma.org/international-fishing-fleet-caught-landing-shark-fins-at-puntarenas-public-dock/

[b]France accused of turning blind eye to ortolan
trappers.[/b]
 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7971846/France-accused-of-turning-blind-eye-to-ortolan-trappers.html

[b]Please ask the Girl Scouts to
make their cookies vegan to prevent animal agony,[/b]
to teach kindness to teen scouts,
and to promote the health of
cookie eaters and the environmental health of the planet.

 http://www.girlscouts.org/help/contact_us.asp

US: California: small victory for frogs
 http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/03/23/18675449.php

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(*We oppose all laboratory based
research into animal intelligence.)

 http://mercyforanimals.org/hatchery
 http://www.worldanimalnet.org
 http://www.buav.org

Wayfarer

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@Anarchist

31.03.2011 10:24

That's because you know nothing about animal rights and animal rights activists are very bad at explaining themselves. We won't "humanise" mankind until we make a conscious decision to protect the weakest and most vulnerable beings in our society.

Animal rights philosophy is an extension of human rights, it opposes war, violence, oppression, and dominance, but it understands that their must be no distinctions between beings based on their species because arbitrary discrimination only ever creates an acceptance of arbitrary discrimination.

You ignore the fact that animals also have a desire to live, they feel fear, pain and empathy. They have emotions, hopes and suffer psychologically just like you do. Because they're less evolved than you doesn't mean they have any less value than you...unless of course you'd also argue that disabled human beings also have less value than you.

However, if you're placing values on other living beings then you have to accept that you have less value than some others and they should have the same right to profit from you in the same way you profit from those who have less value than you!

You may think that animal rights is all about what you eat and innocent animals but that's because you've not informed yourself and you've received information from incoherent sources who aren't able to explain sufficient clarity that animal rights and anti-speciesism is actually the ultimate in anti-discriminatory philosophies.

I would suggest, from your responses, that you still have a lot of issues with your own discriminatory behaviour that you need to work on. Not just regarding animals but also regarding how you see human beings too. Personally I'd recommend you start by developing your compassion for others rather than ridiculing things you don't even understand and making a fool out of yourself.

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