Well the news just supplied to us is that the planning application for this facility has now been REJECTED !
Peta tell us:
We won!
Following a massive public outcry, along with a 25,000-strong PETA petition (including your signature), an application for a cruel factory farm near Harmston, Lincolnshire, has been rejected
Mark, thank you for helping to spare nearly 2,000 pigs at a time the horrors of an intensive farm.
As the good news from Lincolnshire came during the COVID-19 outbreak, let’s remember that eating animal flesh hurts us all. Pathogens like the ones behind COVID-19, SARS, bird flu, and swine flu flourish on filthy factory farms, at bloody abattoirs, and at meat markets.
Join PETA in urging the World Health Organization to call for an end to live-animal meat markets: Sign it here and watch the video:
All over the world, animals are being misused as a tourist attraction. Selfies with wild animals are booming, but these animals are exploited and mistreated like the jaguars in Mexico.
It is a cruel business!
First, America’s largest cat was deprived of its natural habitat for the benefit of humans, now they are being misused for tourism. They are harrowing pictures of how they are forced into chains and then swimming for tourists.
A few years ago, when a large organization announced in the media that the number of highly endangered jaguars in Mexico had increased, these animals, as well as the endangered elephants inAsia, were “cashed”.
Social media likes to pose with exotic animals, the rarer an animal is, the more you boast of being able to take a selfie with such an animal. Likes are more valuable than the health of a wild animal. It is often forgotten that these animals are exploited and abused for precisely this reason.
Two jaguars sit chained in a boat in Cancun, Mexico.
The jaguar found on the American continent is an endangered species. Jaguars are individual animals and can survive in many different habitats. They usually occur near water and prefer marshlands or tropical rainforests.
Just last year, ultra-right-wing President Bolsonaro caused outrage when he released the endangered Jaguar in Brazil for the trophy hunt.
But the jaguar is also exploited in Mexico, for tourism. National Geographic photographer Steve Winter, through his social networks, denounced the “abusive practices” behind some of the tourist attractions used by Cancun jaguars. He accused Cancun’s tourism companies of exploiting jaguars to benefit from the entertainment of tourists.
“JetSki drivers and their tourists are getting ready to dive with 2 tame jaguars in Cancun, Mexico. People need to know more about the big cat trade and selfie industry. From Thailand to South Africa, big cats are often the face of the wildlife trade. If you see your friends or family taking part in activities like this picture or petting boys, tell them that such companies are often associated with breeding programs, illegal body parts and boy trafficking, ”Steve Winterwrites on Instagram.
The Mexican “Mexican News Daily”presented the photos of Steve Winter, which caused outrage in Mexico. It was announced that swimming with jaguars in the Caribbean had already ended and that the photos were older.
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But in the research, you can still find current photos that show tourists with jaguars, so on Roatan, Honduras.
“The cruise jetty in Coxen Hole takes about 30 minutes. You cross over with a small boat. Entry without transfer costs around $ 35. Otherwise 59 for the smallest package. Now for the negative: Various animals are kept there, all unfortunately in far too small cages. A lion with behavioral problems and a tiger with a jaguar. Please consider carefully whether you want to enjoy yourself at the expense of the animals. A stay on the island only with sunbathing, snorkeling, swimming is also nice … ” writes a tourist on tripadvisor.de
Cruise tourism is booming in the Caribbean, so you can swim with wild stingrays on a small sandbar off the Cayman Islands.
There is a selfie for the social networks incl.
The trend takes on a whole new dimension when you want to photograph yourself and an exotic animal. So also in the Cayman Turtle Center, because a turtle is taken out of the water and a selfie is made.
Cayman Turtle Farm – Image: D. Schreier
Platforms like Instagram host hundreds of thousands of wildlife selfies. World Animal Protection researchers who analyzed wildlife selfies for a 2017 report found that the number of wildlife selfies posted on Instagram increased by 292% between 2014 and 2017 (!!!)
Celebrities have also contributed to the popularity of selfies in wildlife: Roger Federer and Margo Robbie pose with Quokkas in Australia, Justin Beiber with a tiger, Kim Kardashian with an elephant and Taylor Swift with a kangaroo.
In New Zealand, tourists were caught dancing with endangered sea lions for selfies, hunting rare yellow-eyed penguins, and trying to hug the shy and reclusive kiwi bird.
The handling of wild animals is cruel for the animals, like the lions in Africa. They are kept in captivity on so-called lion farms under terrible conditions. The commercial lion breeding industry in South Africa, for example, is cruel, barbaric, macabre!
On large cat farms in South Africa, lion and tiger cubs are born into a life of exploitation. Some are snatched from their mothers in the wild, while most are bred in fast breeding facilities.
In South Africa, cats often begin their lives at petting courts, where they serve as entertainment for paying visitors.
Young lions are also often used for tourist attractions, such as walking with a lion.
Their lives end deadly when they are shot by wealthy international hunters. Skins and heads are taken as trophies by the wealthy trophy hunters, and bones are legally exported under the “skeleton quota”, which is only valid in South Africa.
Especially on vacation, many use the camera to take a souvenir picture with animals. Most of these animals are exploited and mistreated, which should not be supported under any circumstances. Avoid taking selfies with wild animals!
And I mean… One of the biggest advantages of the coronavirus is the end of colonial tourism.
At least in this year!
Cruises, long-distance trips to Asia, adventure tourism, safaris, trophy hunting, bullfighting, fiestas with bull sacrifices… this mass invasions to exotic countries that exploit and abuse animals to death for a few dollars … all of this has paralyzed the animal-friendly Corona.
For the moment.
Everyone has to go on vacation at home or (highest offer) in a campsite, where the occupancy of guests is strictly controlled and the stay must be at least one week.
So the regulations in Germany.
There is great hope that this year this selfies society, with its hysterical urge for fun at the expense of other beings, will have to cure its selfies disease with picnic photos.
A military veteran’s service dog was found shot in the head, face and shoulder after disappearing from his home. He survived, but the person behind this horrific cruelty is still at large. Demand justice for this innocent animal.
March 6 of 2020, Matthew Bryan Garman, 21 posted a video on his Facebook page showing two dogs fighting at his alleged residence. In the video, Garman’s dog is shown on top of his neighbors dog pinning it down and biting its neck. The caption posted with the video read “He did good”, in reference to his family’s dog.
March 10, 2020, Matthew is then arrested by the Bradley County Sheriff’s Office for fighting and baiting of animals after they received the video from a concerned citizen.
March 19th, 2020, Matthew appeared before Judge Sheridan Randolph in General Sessions Court and waived his right to a preliminary hearing. He is bound over to the Bradley County Grand Jury. District Attorney General Steve Crump and Sheriff Steve Lawson are present in the courtroom. Bond is set at $25,000.00.
June 8, 2020, Garman is scheduled to appear in a Bradley County Criminal Court for sentencing.
How the fossil fuel industry, News Corp, and the Federal Government hijacked the Black Summer bushfires to prevent action on climate change.
Dirty Power: Burnt Country is a documentary that exposes how the fossil fuel industry, the Murdoch press, and the Federal Government hijacked the Black Summer bushfires to prevent action on climate change.
Some of the key findings include:
Over 100 million tonnes of new coal mining was approved during the 2019/20 bushfire crisis.
News Corp published 75% of all articles denying climate change’s role in the fires, despite only publishing 46% of articles about climate change and the fires.
New South Wales Government ministers met with the fossil fuel industry on fourteen occasions between October and December 2019. This is an average of once a week.
If you want to eat a greater variety of vegan foods, make an effort to explore various cuisines from around the world. You will thereby discover countless delicious vegan meals relying on all manner of ingredients, cooking techniques, and seasonings.
There’s certainly no single best cuisine for vegans. But some parts of the world are far more vegan-friendly than others. If you’re vegan or moving in that direction, it’s helpful to know the cuisines that offer the most satisfying plant-based meals.
To help you on your way, check out our guides below. They’ll enable you to discover the best vegan options when dining out. They also offer exciting ideas for regionally-inspired dishes you can cook at home.
Vegan-Friendly Cuisines
• Ethiopian Food
• Indian Food
• Italian Food
• Japanese Food
• Mexican Food
• Middle Eastern Food
• Soul Food
• Thai Food
Top Cuisines for Cooking Plant-Based Meals at Home
If you want to learn how to cook a particular cuisine, consider starting out with Mexican food. There are just so many delicious and healthy vegan options. What’s more, many Mexican dishes are remarkably easy to prepare.
When you’re ready to progress to other cuisines, you’ll have no shortage of enticing possibilities. See the “Cuisines from Around the World” section of our recommended cookbooks page for more than a dozen fantastic titles. If you want to explore a variety of cuisines from dozens of countries, get a hold of Vegan Eats World by Terry Hope Romano.
Finding Vegan-Friendly Restaurant Food
When dining out, Middle Eastern food is the most consistently vegan-friendly major cuisine. Nearly everything that isn’t meat is commonly vegan, especially falafel, hummus, tahini dressing, and lavash bread or pita. Many Middle Eastern restaurants also accompany your dish with an assortment of fresh vegetables, plus Kalamata olives and pickled turnips.
Our How to Go Vegan guide offers detailed guidance on the most vegan-friendly restaurant cuisines. Time spent exploring these menu offerings pays off in all sorts of ways, and enables you to eat better than ever before. Each new meal you try increases your exposure to delicious foods embraced by cultures around the world.
For further reading please see our introduction to vegan cooking and our guide to the best vegan foods.
First; I have not really been able to post much over the last few days because of a big drop down on the system here – so apologies and I hope to get it fixed on 13/5. Fingers crossed !
UPDATE 13/5 – All seems to be fixed this morning – maybe some posts now ! – Mark
Here are a few things just sent to me by Juliet – Founder and CEO of ‘Viva !’ here in England. I am writing this tonight (12/5) with the hope that if the system is back on tomorrow, then I can copy and post. Until then it has to wait.
The new Viva ! campaign is called ‘Three in Four’. As new and deadly diseases infect humans, and are appearing all the time; 3 in 4 of them come from animals. It is not the fault of the animal, simply the systems used by humans to keep them and slaughter them – intensive farming and slaughterhouse systems.
Is this not verified by the big infection rates for Covid 19 that we have seen in US slaughterhouse workers over the last few weeks ? – and as always, the ‘just animals’ from intensive systems; that are put through wood chippers and their mushed bodies spread all over the land.
In the mid 19th century, 1855 to be exact; a German pathologist; one Rudolf Virchow, was the first to discover that infectious diseases could be transmitted between animals and humans – a method that became known as ‘zoonoses’. In August 1958, more than a century later, the ‘World Health Organisation’ (WHO) expert committee on Zoonoses met in Stockholm, Sweden. The outcome of the meeting was a stark warning; the prevention, control, and eradication of these diseases were ‘responsibilities of considerable magnitude in every country’.
Move to 2020; now; and we are experiencing globally the disease called ‘Covid 19’.
Animal farming is killing us. 3 of 4 of the worlds new or emerging diseases are what is called ‘Zoonotic’. These diseases are responsible for 2,7 million human deaths per year and are largely transmitted through the wildlife trade and factory farming. In other words, most pandemics are due to people eating animals. So despite knowing the reasons of disease spread for over 150 years; now more than ever before, we are subjecting animals in terrible confinement in factory farms – the very cause of the problems, simply because some of us still wish a burger or sausage for their meal. It is a dangerous game; and cramming animals together in markets; and subjecting them to factory farming, only increases the risk of in house disease infection, as well as the mutations to the human species which results in infectious diseases.
Today, around 90% of all animals farmed for food and dairy across the world are kept in factory farms; where infections can easily spread, mutate and become infectious to humans. Because of the massive numbers of farmed animals involved; such as your typical chicken or pig production system, where huge numbers of animals are crammed together, jammed into farrowing crates, covered in their own waste; and forced to lie on hard slatted floors; pumped full of antibiotics, and surviving in a close environment which easily transmits disease and sickness from one animal to another; is it any wonder that intensive animal farming is killing us ? The huge complexes which imprison these intelligent animals and who at the end of the day only want financial profit, talk the talk when it comes to ‘animal welfare’. But the reality is rather different. The Viva ! 3 in 4 campaign is hitting the streets in the UK; and it calls for an end to intensive farming and for people also to go Vegan; to stop the suffering.
Covid 9 is showing us the bad side of intensive animal farming; we need to learn from it, and quickly, before intensive animal farming kills us all.
‘Bird Flu 90 Times Deadlier Than COVID-19 Could Emerge From Factory Farming’ Warns Report
‘The majority of these diseases are the result of human activit
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A mutant bird flu 90 times deadlier than Covid-19* is ‘poised to emerge in humans’ from factory farming, a new report has warned.
The report, titled Zoonoses: a ticking time bomb, was published by animal advocacy organization Viva! and led by senior health researcher Dr. Justine Butler.
It cites scientists who believe the new mutant strain of the H5N1 bird flu virus could prove 90 times more deadly than Covid-19, and would be capable of killing six-in-ten of those infected.
Zoonotic diseases
According to Viva!, zoonotic diseases – those which spread from animals to humans – are ‘developing with increasing frequency’, with three out of four new or emerging infectious diseases in people coming from animals.
A statement sent to Plant Based News said: “Scientists are concerned that the global explosion in factory farming and wildlife markets could make the transmission of mutated strains of the H5N1 bird flu virus to humans much easier.
“They include familiar illnesses and diseases such as the common cold, influenza (flu), polio, AIDS and measles alongside other lesser known ones such as SARS, MERS, Nipah virus and Ebola.
“Most recently, Covid-19 has joined this growing list, having jumped from bats or other wild animals, to humans, leading to the current pandemic.
There are over 200 zoonotic diseases and 56 of them affect some two-and-a-half billion people and cause nearly three million deaths every year.”
‘The writing is on the wall’
In Zoonoses: a ticking time bomb, Dr. Butler writes: “The majority of both zoonoses and antibiotic-resistant diseases are the result of human activity, with factory farming and wild animal markets lying at the heart of the problem. The solution could not be easier – go vegan now!”
Zoologist and Viva! director Juliet Gellatley added: “The writing is on the wall. The global explosion in factory farming and wildlife markets has left humankind exposed to catastrophic pandemics that could kill millions of people.
“For the sake of generations to come we must heed the science and end our collective dependency on the horrific abuse of animals.”
“You know what’s more insane than slaughterhouses? Meat-eaters, walking around, acting like their lifestyle isn’t causing any harm.”– G. Yourofsky.
And I mean…Regardless of whether you consider meat consumption as normal.
The fact that all governments shamelessly cheat meat consumers with lies and false information about the dangers in animal farms and slaughterhouses is more than insane
That`s why meat konsumption is collaboration with the world dictatorship “meat mafia”.
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Two jaguars sit chained in a boat in Cancun, Mexico.
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Cayman Turtle Farm – Image: D. Schreier
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