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Rabbit Advocacy Animal Matters
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Factory Farming "The most violent weapon on earth is the table fork." Mahatma Gandhi "But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time she had been born into the world to enjoy." Plutarch "Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you anymore." Franz Kafka “Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.” Benjamin Franklin "If man wants freedom why keep birds and animals in cages? Truly man is the king of beasts, for his brutality exceeds them. We live by the death of others. We are burial places! I have since an early age abjured the use of meat." Leonardo da Vinci "Isn't man an amazing animal? He kills wildlife - birds, kangaroos, deer. all kinds of cats, coyotes, beavers, groundhogs, mice, foxes, and dingoes - by the millions in order to protect his domestic animals and their feed. Then he kills domestic animals by the billions and eats them. This in turn kills man by the millions, because eating all those animals leads to degenerative and fatal health conditions like heart disease, kidney, and cancer. So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other human beings are being killed by hunger and malnutrition because food they could eat is being used to fatten domestic animals. Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year sends out a card praying for 'Peace on Earth'." C. David Coates from the preface of his book: Old MacDonald's Factory Farm Peace Begins on the Plate - Stopping Factory Farming The Pig Farmer - leaving behind "wrong" life; Hog Wild; corporate influence UPDATE Hallmark convicted of horrendous animal cruelty; Butterball evil Swine flu by any other name is still swine flu; Hallmark Corporate Rotten Eggs - unspeakable cruelties exposed; going to market Farm animal movement, 'ag gag' bills, European and AU law UPDATE
USDA Classifies
Rabbits as Poultry; rabbit production in the EU No laws to protect Canadian livestock rabbits Auditor General asked to review CFIA; GF2 Canadian farm animal transport laws atrocious Canada: No Country For Animals & Animal Freedom Day Battery Bunnies - a deplorable state of affairs; backyard butchery UPDATE Meat rabbits and some statistics; Surrey livestock bylaws Rabbit touted as healthy cuisine; Ag Canada provides funding Public misinformed about 'humane' animal products; meat recalls regular Whole Foods introduces 5-step animal welfare program; What's on your plate? Canada's ILOs NEW Legal challenge: Is keeping hens in the city a charter right? NEW
Death toll staggering for animals
en route to Canada's abattoirs; Maple Lodge/CFIA
NEW Shocking case of animal cruelty by Manitoba pig producer; take action Ghent goes vegetarian; international campaign - World Vegan Day Vegetarian revolution coming; it's here - meat consumption stats atrocious UPDATE Windsor Castle Hosts Vegan Lunch for Interfaith Eco-Conference MEAT = ANIMAL CRUELTY = MURDER Take a strong stand - say no to meat and ALL animal products. Everybody wins! Toronto Pig Save Toronto Chicken Save World Farm Animals Day was launched in 1983, and takes place on or about October 2nd. Get active. "Lest we forget their suffering" - the brutal and unjust lives of sentient beings raised for meat, dairy, and eggs.
World Animal Day encompasses all animals and is held on October 4th. We are the living graves of murdered beasts; meat is the new tobacco NEW Ottawa to allow slaughterhouses to process already dead animals NEW Canada sends live breeding cattle, sheep, and goats to Vietnam! Breeding pigs from Canada go to China; reform export laws! Canada to send live export cattle to United Arab Emirates Canadian Cattle, Sheep and Goats to be exported to Philippines Harper Government Strengthens Agricultural Ties With Serbia Defra 'stripped' of its prosecution function – CFIA also in conflict CFIA puts rare Shropshire sheep on death row; now on the lam; CFIA returns to farm UPDATE Codes of Practice fail to protect farm animals; Maple Lodge inhumanity NEW Barn fires in Canada claim thousands of lives July 26, 2011 I can’t fathom the sheer terror and pain these animals went through before tragically losing their lives. Insurance coverage will assess a monetary value for the producer’s loss. How terribly sad that these animals are regarded as nothing more than mere commodities. Please keep fighting for the rights of our animal friends. From CETFA: January 7, 2011 20,000 rabbits and 4,000 piglets burn alive in QC January 22, 2011 70 dairy cows burn alive in QC
January 24, 2011 35 cattle
burn alive in ON
February 26, 2011
7,000 turkeys burn alive in SK
March 5, 2011 300
pigs burn alive in QC March 18, 2011 125 beef cattle burn alive in QC March 23, 2011 16,000 chickens burn alive in MB March 31, 2011 2,000 pigs burn alive in AB May 21, 2011 4,000 pigs burn alive in MB June 7, 2011 30,000 hens burn alive in AB July 22, 2011 12,000 chickens burn alive in MB July 24, 2011 600 pigs burn alive in AB July 25, 2011 650 pigs burn alive in ON November 21, 2011 In just the last 4 weeks, 5 barn fires in Ontario have claimed the lives of nearly 4,300 animals. 2,700 pigs burned alive on October 16, followed by fires at 3 different "dairy" operations on November 5, 15 and 20, which killed 95 cows. On November 15, 1,500 turkeys burned alive. The total number of animal lives lost in Canada to barn fires to date totals over 101,000 animals. |