FLORIDA RESIDENTS: Once again, State Senator Jim Norman is drafting bills at the request of his agricultural-corporate sponsors like Wilton Simpson of Simpson Farms(Pasco County, Florida producer of over 20 million eggs, annually) in an effort to criminalize as a felony, the undercover documentation of farming procedures. What are they attempting to hide from you? »
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Many people promote “free-range” animal agriculture as being “better” for animals, humans and the planet than factory farming. I have heard owners/operators of such farms claim that animals are not abused on “free range” farms(even though they are enslaved and killed) and that they are even “beneficial” to the environment. Having attempted to truly listen »
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For those of you who still eat meat/dairy products, are lax in recycling, forget your eco-friendly bags when shopping, drive ridiculous petroleum-guzzling vehicles and purchase items that are harmful to the planet in general without a care in the world: I know that you are concerned in regard to your children’s future and I know »
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More than refusal to believe, it is not my personal opinion that human beings are inherently “terrible” creatures. I also do not subscribe to the ideology which states that meat and dairy consumers or slaughterhouse workers are “evil”, either. There is little point in viewing meat and dairy consumers as the “enemy”, when clearly, they »
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Leo Tolstoy penned the preface for the 1892 Russian Edition of “The Ethics of Diet”, which was written by Howard Williams. In that preface, you will find some well known quotations regarding Tolstoy’s ethics on animal rights, such as calling the consumption of animal products “simply immoral as it involves the performance of an act »
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Why should humans turn toward a vegetarian diet for themselves, not only for the animals? Human beings over-stress the planet to produce inordinate amounts of grain to feed animals that we label as “livestock”. Feeding the 53 billion animals that we exploit, torture and slaughter each year has a vastly detrimental affect on our world. »
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We have seen the articles posted in regard to the Senate approving a bill that legalizes sodomy and bestiality in the U.S. Military, many of which, are written with a very biased, extreme “right-wing” agenda. The stories state: “The Senate on Thursday evening voted 93-7 to approve a defense authorization bill that includes a provision »
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An increasing number of farmers or friends thereof, continue making the ecologically uneducated claim that animal agriculture, in specific, setting cows to pasture, is beneficial to the environment. I can only assume that their theory is based on the idea that cows, in free pasture, fertilize the land that they graze over. Whilst I do »
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Please click the stop vivisection banner below to visit the STOP VIVISECTION EUROPE website and be a part of the movement against vivisection, globally. Signatures must be mailed in. Please click on your language at the top of the website, go to the “sign petition” page and print off the form. Fill out the form »
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The mental and emotional capacity of birds, in particular, have been severely underestimated. The complexity of their intellect and social structure have gone unnoticed by the general public, thereby making it easier to accept the idea that it is “okay” to eat chickens, turkeys, eggs, etc… All birds are actually very social, loving and highly »
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Message from the team: The main goal of AELLA is not only to do whatever we can to raise global awareness but also to help bridge the gaps that lie between the different activist groups and organizations. We believe that this is the key to success in all of our mutual endeavors. We need to »
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We understand the image that many people have been “fed” by the mainstream about environmental and animal rights activists. Many of us have been accused of hating humans or of being “terrorists”. The Occupy Movement has begun to see what most activists deal with on a regular basis, considering that the 99% have been labeled »
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This is called a farrowing crate for nursing mothers on factory farms in the United States. A mother pig can not get to her young. A baby behind the mother on the left is dying in blood. She can hear the baby’s cries for help yet she can not even turn about to save her. »
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Over 100 cities in the United States have joined the Occupy Movement. AELLA supports the non-violent demonstrations, put forward by our brothers and sisters in the United States. We hope that the messages being expressed are heard, loud and clear. The message here is simple. Citizens in the United States are fed up with being »
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A severe case of animal brutality has been reported from sources on Facebook. The page “Save dogs from Being Killed”, is asking for help to stop the brutal slaughter of Galgos(Spanish Greyhounds) at the hands of the racing industry. The murder of Galgos killed in Spain is not uncommonly performed by placing an erect »
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A temporary victory for the indigenous people of the Amazon rain forest and activists who stood with them, worldwide! A judge in Brazil has ordered that the construction of the Belo Monte mega-dam in the Amazon be suspended, warning that it would disrupt the lives of the indigenous and local people. Thousands of indigenous »
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“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities” ~ Voltaire Too often have I wretched over watching video depicting or learning about the brutal slaughter of many animal species and the devastation inflicted upon our planet. When I first began advocating years ago, it was not my initial intention to try »
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To anyone who consumes flesh or dairy, please do not take this as an attack and please also, read through this entire message. This post is plain and heartfelt information. Try to understand that even if something has pretty words on the label like “humane” or “organic”, it does not mean that you are »
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No one has ever said that it would be easy to convince people to change. Humans are terrified of change and they cling to their comforts in the manner that barnacle adheres to dock pilings. The majority of human beings on the planet are under the assumption they they, themselves, are not the cause of »
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CALL TO ACTION! Phone/email campaign in response to arrest of student for asking a difficult question about animal experimentation. Background: On Friday, September 9th Canisius College’s Institute for the Study of Human-Animal Relations (ISHAR) hosted what was promoted as a “symposium” event on animal experimentation, entitled “The Use of Primates in Biomedical Research: A Personal »
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Peru’s new president, Ollanta Humala, has signed into law a measure requiring that indigenous groups are consulted prior to any mining, logging, or oil and gas projects on their land. If properly enforced, the new legislation will give indigenous people free, prior and informed consent (FPIC) over such industrial projects, though the new »
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I would like to draw everyone’s attention to another irresponsible article in regard to the ridiculous accusations of human fetuses as food in Asia here. “Believers” in the “fetus soup” stories have been severly “duped” and by allowing themselves to “buy into” this, they give credibility to the orchestrator’s theory; that being, most westerners »
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We often hear people say that children possess a certain honest quality which adults often lack. Generally, this is associated with innocence and often, it can be overlooked or dismissed. In some cases however, one finds it difficult to overlook certain qualities in a child that all human adults should aspire to see in »
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On the banks of the Xingu River in Brazil, construction crews have begun arriving to work on the Belo Monte Dam, which will cause extensive devastation to Amazon biodiversity, and its people. Indigenous leaders like Sheyla Juruna, bravely rally the people, for their very survival. As Atossa Soltani, Executive Director at Amazon Watch has »
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I recently had the misfortune of hearing a distasteful rant that was made in regard to people in impoverished nations and why they should stop having children, citing that this was the major contributing factor to the global overpopulation problem. I logically thought this through for a moment before reacting, asked myself what the »
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Ahh Hawaii. Nice beaches, high mountains, cold Pina Coladas, and… captured dolphins? Yes, dolphins imprisoned for the entertainment of others. The location? Kona Hotel, Hilton Waikoloa Village. Here I was, at the largest hotel on the big island, so big that you will need a train or boat just to get across »
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Shehla Masood was one of the strongest voices in the tiger conservation front. Her deep passion fueled her undying commitment to wildlife, the environment, and humanity. She was unafraid to speak the truth, unwilling to stand by and witness the injustices against those without a voice, and was intensely committed to making a difference in »
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Seeping through the day light hours, early morning blood baths And cant you see their lives are suffering? They look up from their helplessness, screaming children and families ending Waiting for the darkness descending into The crumbling difference between wrong and right Praying through the blood, will you look through despair and »
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Virunga National Park is home to a quarter of the world’s mountain gorillas, chimpanzees, hippos, lions, forest elephants, okapi, and rare birds. It is one of Africa’s most bio-diverse parks and is classified by the United Nations as a World Heritage Site. The United Nations, along with several conservation organizations have criticized the plan to »
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Please watch the video, “How to Convert a Meat-Eater to Veganism” below, made specifically to discredit the argument that meat consumption causes global warming. This individual actually believes that the Earth can sustain the ridiculous number of cows required to satiate human meat consumption, by “harvesting” energy from the methane. PERHAPS this would be possible, »
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For the love of biodiversity, life in general and your fellow man, now is the time to stand up for your planet. The construction of this destructive mega-dam, which will devastate the already fragile Amazon basin, can not be allowed to continue. Please click on any photo in this post to be redirected to amazonwatch.org. »
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The “Ag-gaggers” are still at it. The New York State Legislature is considering a measure(S. 5172) to curtail free speech by prohibiting whistle-blowing at factory farms. Responding to many undercover investigations at dairy factory that revealed shocking images of animal abuse, New York’s agribusiness industry has been attempting to shield its horrific practices from »
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Pressure from the agriculture companies and hunting groups to stop wolves from attacking livestock and sport game has finally stripped the wolf of endangered species protection. The Michigan Department of Natural Resources(DNR) has been lobbying for a proposal to de-list wolves as an endangered species in the states occupying the Great Lakes territories, according to »
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I felt the need to write this after viewing the news story in regard to the woman who slit the wrists and throats of her young children out of fear for the immanent “rapture”. I will never understand how such a fear could move a human being to perpetrate such an act. Whenever “followers” »
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On April 21st, 2006, Captain Paul Watson, founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, commemorated John Muir’s 168th birthday by saluting Muir’s anti-hunting philosophy in an article that accompanied his resignation as Sierra Club National Director, only a few days prior. We have decided to reawaken Paul’s article, as we feel that it is a »
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Emily Hunter is a Canadian activist who has conservation in her blood. Her parents were among the co-founders of Greenpeace and she has spent time working on several campaigns, including the Sea Shepherd Antarctic anti-whaling endeavors. Emily has been a regular fixture on the hit Sea Shepherd series, “Whale Wars” on Animal Planet, among other »
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Jo-Lynn Estrada xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx New York, New York 10021 February 3, 2011 Mr. Thomas Farley, M.D. Commissioner NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Chairman of the AC&C Board of Directors 125 Worth Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY 10013 Dear Mr. Farley: My name is Jo-Lynn Estrada. I am a student at La Guardia Community »
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The team at Stopcrush.org needs more voices around the world, not only to aid with legal groundwork, but to help show global lawmakers what animal crush video is, why it should not be allowed any more than child pornography because it is socially degrading by the desensitizing of our youth. What we ask from administrators »
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As countless concerned activists and United States citizens have been working to warn many consumers, a new study finds that much of meat and poultry sold in supermarkets is contaminated with drug-resistant staph bacteria. This is to be expected, as the factory farming industry has no choice but to introduce massive doses of antibiotics into »
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Please click on the PCRM logo above to go to go to this posting on their website… Actress Kristin Bauer’s Voicemail to Congress Asks for Ban on Chimpanzee Experiments Today, members of Congress received a voicemail from True Blood star Kristin Bauer. In her message, Bauer asks Congress to support the Great Ape »
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The quote, “As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields” penned by Leo Tolstoy, is reinforced by another great mind in human history. Socrates was a vegetarian who taught that virtue was based on knowledge. He was indicted for impiety, as well as the corruption of youth and was condemned to death. He »
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Before moving forward, especially in regard to articles posted on the subject of spirituality and religion, I do like to state my position for the simple reason that I wish all to read my work. I hold no “labels” to my spirituality. I am not an atheist, as I “feel” that a spiritual nature exists, »
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Activists be proud… It is more than obvious that our actions have got them running scared and this is proof. Legislators in four states are proposing bills (Idaho HB166, Minnesota Senate File 1118 & House File 1369, Iowa H.F. 589, and Florida S.B. 1246) that will ban undercover farm slaughter footage. Why? The simple answer »
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Among the many human tragedies, a man from Sendai-shi, Wakabayashi-ku (Tokyo Shinbun) tearfully hugs his dog after she had been rescued by a firefighter. World Vets is coordinating with a coalition of animal welfare groups near the epicenter of this terrible disaster. Donations are urgently needed, please click on the logo below to send assistance. »
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Traversing Interstate 10 through the state of Louisiana, one will not be able to help coming across the “Tiger Truck Stop” at exit 139, where a travesty of justice and blatant animal abuse continues to occur. Tony the Tiger has spent every day, seven days a week, pacing and caged, since he was born a »
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MITCH HEAD, THE NOTION OF SADISM BY INDIFFERENCE by Marla Stormwolf-Patty, Sep. 2, 2009 Well, just when you didn’t think humanity could get any more sadistic by complete indifference, along comes Mitch Head defending the notion of sadism by indifference in his defense of the The hatchery that is owned by West Des Moines-based Hy-Line »
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