April 27, 2012
[Translate] UPDATE: Be advised that Charity Navigator has issued a donor advisory in reference to the Center for Consumer Freedom and the Center For Consumer Freedom has changed its name to the Center For Organizational Research & Education. The Center For Organizational Research & Education has launched a campaign geared toward attacking[…]
April 26, 2012
[Translate] In retaliation for the outcry against recent killing of wolves, hunters have been making a lot of noise, talking about plans in regard to physically harming certain animal rights activists. I find it rather interesting to note that activists are labeled as “lunatics” when they get upset over seeing[…]
April 19, 2012
[Translate] I am not personally, a religious individual, yet, I am also not an atheist. I feel that there is a spiritual connection between all living things, but I can not allow myself to label it with any terminologies thus far invented by humanity. I can neither prove, nor can[…]
April 10, 2012
[Translate] An extremely upset friend recently told me that she wishes to put an end to the grinding of live baby chicks in the United States and plans to generate a petition against it. Many concerned people have asked about the effectiveness of petitions. I want to be clear in[…]
March 29, 2012
[Translate] Sign the petition, which will automatically email the Congolese authorities to halt exploratory oil drilling in Virunga National Park! Message from Bantu Lukambo Managing Director & CEO at IDPE(Innovation for the Development and Protection of Environment) in communication with civil society living in and around Block V near Lake Edward in[…]
March 21, 2012
[Translate] Why do citizens continue allowing governments to ignore the many ecologic “time-bombs” that are mainly forged by the human exploit of animal agriculture? The majority of the Earth’s attainable fresh-water supply, vast expanses of rain forest, over half of the planet’s wetlands, nearly half of every edible grain that[…]
March 12, 2012
[Translate] With humility and respect, we write to you in an attempt to ask that you publicly condemn the horrific underground industry that fuels the animal crush interest. It is our belief, that your word would hold great strength against those who generate these detestable, society degrading depictions. Whilst there[…]
March 6, 2012
[Translate] Virus and infection levels are raging in animal agriculture, causing severe illness, killing both animals, as well as humans. Some would say that this solves half of the problem. Less humans, less damage to other life forms, less damage to the planet. Certain individuals believe that a massive pathogenic[…]
March 2, 2012
[Translate] Mercy For Animals hosted a great turn out today for a protest against “Ag-Gag” legislation in Iowa which drew attention from the Des Moines Register. For those interested in keeping free speech alive in this country, the animal agricultural industry is attempting a major coup in many states across[…]
February 22, 2012
[Translate] Some have asked us why we chose to use the acronym, AELLA, to represent our organization. I actually came up with something similar to the word, which was short one letter from its current “AELLA” when I first named the group. I was struck by that acronym and couldn’t[…]
February 16, 2012
[Translate] UTAH RESIDENTS: – Representative John Mathis(R), has labelled animal rights activist whistle-blowers as “animal-rights terrorists” for taking videos or photos on farmers’ property without permission in order to expose cruelty to animals. Of course, Mathis is himself, a part-time farmer and fears that the media garnered by activists is[…]
February 7, 2012
[Translate] The FARM FACILITY FRAUD ACT: The Iowa Senate opened debate on a measure seeking to create a crime of “agricultural production facility fraud” for anyone who obtains employment or access to a farm or food-processing operation under false pretenses with the intent to commit an act not authorized by[…]
February 3, 2012
[Translate] From Occupy For Animals ~ Every year, at a village near Hanoi, a pig is brutally chopped into two so that people can smear banknotes with its blood in the belief that it would bring luck. Thousands of people from the village and nearby villages will gather to smear[…]
February 1, 2012
[Translate] MINNESOTA RESIDENTS: – Please sign the petition to keep undercover investigations legal in Minnesota HERE. Minnesota House Representative Rod Hamilton and Minnesota Senator Doug Magnus have introduced new “Ag-Gag” legislation into the Minnesota legislature, which would criminalize the actions of whistle-blowers in the agricultural industry. Again, what is the[…]
January 19, 2012
[Translate] 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[…]
January 12, 2012
[Translate] Many people promote “free-range” animal agriculture as being “better” for animals, humans and the planet than factory farming. We 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[…]
January 9, 2012
[Translate] 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[…]
January 1, 2012
[Translate] 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[…]
November 18, 2011
[Translate] 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[…]
November 2, 2011
[Translate] 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[…]
October 27, 2011
[Translate] In reference to land-based animal agriculture, birds are by far, the most abused, tortured, murdered and consumed animals on the planet. 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[…]
October 17, 2011
[Translate] Message from the team: The main goal of AELLA is to do whatever we can to raise global awareness, altering the way that humanity sees itself and the world around it. There is an extremely pointed need to educate the public in regards to the devastation that animal agriculture/animal[…]
October 9, 2011
[Translate] 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[…]