Farm worker allegedly caught having sex with a pig on hidden cameras set up by animal activists to expose mistreatment
An animal rights activist group using hidden cameras at a piggery captured an alleged act of bestiality (pictured)
Animal rights activists who broke into a piggery and installed hidden cameras to expose animal cruelty, found more than they bargained for when the checked the footage.
Among the weeks of video, Farm Transparency Project’s cameras captured an alleged act of bestiality.
Footage of the alleged animal cruelty and alleged bestiality in the Midland Bacon plant at Carag Carag in Victoria, 180kilometres north of Melbourne, was shown on ABC’s 7.30 show on Monday night.
Above – Dozens of bloodied hares were dumped by illegal poachers at the entrance to the community shop in Broughton, Hampshire
Diana has sent this over:
Police find burnt out Suzuki SUV in hunt for suspect after dozens of dead animals were dumped outside a village shop weeks after a nearby primary school was targeted
As it is quite a large article, best to go back to source as there are also many photographs.
Welcome to this week’s beautiful cast of characters representing the hundreds of animals we treat every day. Among them is a new horse, Gusto, we’ve admitted with a serious chest wound. Scroll down for a brief overview of Rajasthan’s traditional use of wedding horses. We thank you for being the reason we’re able to treat such a magnificent being.
Scrumptious little Tofoo couldn’t even stand. But that was then!
Night had fallen and the chill had set in. There in the road was an abandoned baby who couldn’t stand. Blinding headlights swept past him as he lay in pain and terror. One after another, cars zoomed by, not slowing, not stopping. But then, someone’s wheels slowed and a kind motorist came to a full stop. “What is it, little one?” she must have asked. She realized that this recumbent little bundle could not stand.
There was no blood, but he was absolutely helpless. She immediately took action and called Animal Aid’s ambulance to the spot, and we hurried him back to our hospital. We snuggled him in blankets and gave him hydration and medicine.
We surrounded Tofoo with love from all sides– from other orphaned babies, grown-up cows, from our loving care-givers, and, we know, from you.
Turn “orphaned and abandoned” to loved and cherished – please donate.
Emergency surgery saved Bright-Eyes, and now those eyes shine with love!
Dear Bright-Eyes had a huge tear just below his chest area. But he wagged his tail as if to say “Please. Help me.” We hurried him back to our hospital where we treated him for pain, trauma and wrapped the wounded area.
He needed surgery to save his life. Bright-Eyes even wagged his tail during the surgery preparation. When Bright-Eyes regained consciousness he had a wonderful appetite–and not just for food. He gobbled up love, too! We felt so lucky to save him. After two weeks of healing, we neutered him, and as always, fully vaccinated him on admission. He’s one of the most charming, sweet and gentle boys we’ve ever met. Thank you for helping us give Bright-Eyes his life back.
For those who keep giving love, no matter what – please donate.
Above – Gusto
No more weddings for Gusto!
Already, Gusto is happier. He’s a beautiful boy recently admitted with a serious chest wound and severe malnutrition. Gusto is also very lame, and was apparently abandoned on the road, where a passer-by found him wandering. He is extremely gentle, and he’s making it easy for us to treat him with daily wound dressings, pain relief and plenty of nutritious food.
He is the Marwari breed used extensively in Indian weddings. It is tradition that the hired horse will be heavily draped in colorful cloth, blinkered and ridden by the groom from his home through the neighborhood so that friends and family can join the celebration.
Commercially used wedding horses like Gusto are usually never pastured. If there is no wedding to serve, they are made to stand in one place for days in a row, often with front and back legs tied together, watered and fed in place from a feed bag hanging from their face. This inactivity is perhaps more difficult psychologically than the wedding itself.
The wedding causes immense stress because of sprays of fire crackers, traffic and music at high volume from speakers powered by a loud portable generator wheeled behind the procession on a wagon. There are thousands of horses in this situation across the state.
Even just days after admitting him, Gusto’s eyes have brightened and we can see him relaxing, interacting gently with the animals around him, and that all-over-sore affect is already gone. Being able to wander at will, safe among the cows and the people in the large animal treatment area must seem to him like a luxury of freedom.
Mango’s feet are dancing to the rhythm of your beautiful compassion.
When we rescued Mango he had a large, painful neck abscess. But, thanks to your compassion and generosity, we were able to provide the care he so desperately needed, turning his pain to joy. This is the power of compassion in action, and we are endlessly grateful for each of you whose help means Mango’s little paws won’t stop dancing with the thrill of life itself.
Shimmer extra in the Spring Sunlightknowing your purchase saved a beautiful life!
Two dogs died during Alaska’s Iditarod sled dog race, the first deaths in five years, renewing calls to end the 1,000-mile competition.
The Iditarod race involves mushers and their canine teams traversing mountain ranges, frozen rivers, and sea ice, often in treacherous weather conditions.
The deaths of the dogs have raised concerns about the safety and welfare of animals participating in extreme racing events.
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I have some exciting news for you: thanks to the support of some generous donors, Lady Freethinker has just become a Meta shareholder to strengthen our call to end animal cruelty on their platforms. As a shareholder, Lady Freethinker will be able to submit a proposal to end animal abuse and torture on Facebook and we cannot be ignored.
Even as the Lady Freethinker team continues to track animal torture on Facebook and report it directly with Meta contacts, sickening videos and images of baby monkeys, puppies, kittens, and other helpless animals being brutally harmed continue to be posted daily on the platform.Enough is enough.
I want to extend my heartfelt gratitude to the generous supporters who have made this effort possible. Lady Freethinker will keep doing all we can to stop this horrific content until it is a thing of the past.
Thank you for joining us in the fight to stop animal cruelty on social media.
Mr Sunak did not indicate when the election would be called, but Downing Street sources told The Independent that the date has been pencilled in for the second Thursday in October.
We say – Excellent ! – well done EasyJet for setting the standard we now want to see from other airlines also.
EasyJet has announced plans to change holidays, trips and excursions to make animal welfare a key priority of its business operations.
After consulting leading animal welfare charities including World Animal Protection, the tour operator has scrapped all tours that include animal-based attractions. This includes marine parks, zoos, animal performances, animal rides and sporting events involving animals.
There is a General Election on the horizon – almost certainly this year 2024.
Badgers have friends, and those friends have votes.
A new government plan to wipe out all badgers in certain areas has prompted a fresh row between officials and wildlife activists.
Badgers are blamed for carrying bovine tuberculosis (bTB), which forces dairy farmers to have infected herds culled.
The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has back-tracked on earlier promises to end the badger cull, which began in 2013.
Instead, as revealed by The Independent last month, officials are proposing to allow 100 per cent of populations to be killed in “cluster” hot spots for the disease. Until now, the target was 70 per cent or above.
WAV Comment – I have enjoyed the majestic Sequoia on my travels around California in the past.. Back home here in England; there is a local park approx 2 miles from my house. Here they have a mighty Sequoia which must be 30. 40, 50 ? years old; it is huge. The following from the BBC relates to very recent info:
Giant sequoia trees, first imported to the UK 160 years ago, are flourishing despite the dramatically different climate to their native California, a new study has found.
The huge trees, which are declining in numbers in California due to increasing heat, are adapting well to the British climate and growing taller, according to a study conducted by UCL researchers.
The Beagle Freedom Project is transforming a 30-acre property in Oklahoma that used to be an animal testing facility into Freedom Fields.
The Beagle Freedom Project shut down an animal testing facility in Oklahoma in February and purchased the property surrounding the lab
The animal welfare organization is planning to turn the 30-acre property into a sanctuary and adoption center for pets rescued from animal testing
Over 200 pets used in testing at the Oklahoma facility are now in the Beagle Freedom Project’s care and are looking for forever homes
Over 200 cats and dogs are getting a fresh start in a familiar place.
In February, Beagle Freedom Project (BFP)— an animal welfare organization dedicated to saving lab animals and ending animal testing —shut down a private facility in Nowata, Oklahoma, performing tests on cats and dogs for the flea and tick medicine industry.
Beagle Freedom Project took over the former lab’s 30-acre property and the more than 200 animals remaining on the premises. The organization is now transforming the property into Freedom Fields, a sanctuary and adoption center for the former lab animals at the facility and future pets rescued from animal testing.
For Shannon Keith, who founded the Beagle Freedom Project in 2010, Freedom Fields is a success story that was hard to imagine 13 years ago.
When Keith started BFP, “the status quo was that facilities would typically kill animals at the end of testing,” she tells PEOPLE. Through Beagle Freedom Project’s work, hundreds of lab animals slated to die have been rescued and adopted out to loving families. The organization has also passed its “signature legislation,” the Beagle Freedom Bill, in 13 states and is working on passing federal legislation.
“What that does is mandate the release of animals after the testing is over. So instead of killing them, they release them to organizations like ours, so they have a second chance at life,” Keith explains.
Keith, an animal rights attorney, doesn’t rely on legislation alone to save animals used in product testing. Each year, she writes a letter to every operational animal testing facility in the United States, asking them to release their animals to the Beagle Freedom Project.
While Keith says it’s “very rare” she gets a response, one of these letters led the Beagle Freedom Project to the property that will eventually become Freedom Fields.
“This facility in Oklahoma, the owner of it finally called me, and he said, ‘Hey, I got your letter. I actually got it a couple of years ago.’ And he said, ‘I ignored your letter,'” Keith says.
What changed the facility owner’s mind were citations from the USDA. The agency encouraged the owner to contact Beagle Freedom Project to surrender the dogs and help clear up some of the citations.
“To his credit, he called us, and we started working with him in 2021. And so, we started going there, and whenever he was done with dogs and cats, we would get them and adopt them out,” Keith shares.
This relationship allowed Keith to pitch shutting down the testing facility and purchasing the property to the owner when she felt the time was right.
“I suggested he close his business and that we purchase the land from him, not the business, but the land. It’s a beautiful 30 acres. We would turn it into a sanctuary, and he’d be done with it. And I literally thought that he would laugh me off the phone,” Keith recalls of the conversation.
To her surprise, the owner was ready to retire and agreed to the Beagle Freedom Project’s proposition.
“Part of our negotiations was that he would relinquish his USDA license and never test on animals again. We had no part in paying for the business; the business is over. We purchased the property and took all the animals he would release to our custody. So we got 200 plus dogs and cats. He agreed, and we officially took custody of everybody and the land on February 1st,” Keith explains.
After the sale, the Beagle Freedom Project started working on making Freedom Fields a reality. Currently, a BFP employee lives on the property with the former lab animals who have yet to be adopted.
The animals came into Beagle Freedom Project’s care with burns on their bodies and health issues from being exposed to the toxic substances used in testing for flea and tick prevention medicines — and they also came ready to be loved. Over 30 animals from the Oklahoma testing facility have already found forever homes, and more are still searching for their families.
“Our goal is to get all of them adopted out. In the meantime, they’re living there, and we are in the process of renovating and making it a beautiful place for them to live until they’re adopted,” Keith says.
Plans for turning the former testing facility into Freedom Fields include adding a rehabilitation center for animals recovering from the abuse they endured during testing and a senior center for the numerous aging pets rescued from animal testing.
“The majority of dogs used in testing were born there, so they’ve been there their whole lives, and they’ve got arthritis, cataracts, and all kinds of ailments. They need their teeth pulled. They’re in pain. So we’re building a senior center so they can have orthopedic beds, ramps, and heat, all kinds of comforts they should have until they’re adopted,” Keith details.
Freedom Fields won’t just be for pets. Keith says that BFP plans to add an education center to the sanctuary “where people can meet animal testing survivors, learn about animal testing, and learn how to take care of animals properly and be kind to animals.”
“It’s one thing to hear me blabber on about animal testing, but when you meet a survivor in person, and you look in their eyes, it’s something that really melts your heart and makes you want to do something impactful,” she adds.
Keith hopes that news of Freedom Fields inspires animal lovers to learn more about the grim reality of animal testing.
“I would just love people to know and be aware of the products that they’re using, not only for themselves but also for their beloved animals, who are family members,” she says.
To help with this goal, BFP has developed the free Cruelty Cutter app, which allows users to scan a product’s barcode and learn if animal testing was used to create the product.
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