I never really ‘enjoy’ Christmas that much; although as a ‘Christian’, I probably should celebrate more.
The mass murder of animals every day in slaughterhouses around the world is terrible enough, let alone ‘celebrating’ more over yuletide by stuffing fat faces with the unnecessary deaths of sentient beings.
For me, Christmas is a time of even more sadness really. Yes, a few presents are given to loved ones – as giving is what it is about really. The sadness is always there when (as an activist who over many years has ‘seen’ quite a bit on issues); when I think about the mass, unnecessary slaughter that takes place especially in this season (of goodwill ?) so that people can have a ‘good time’ munching on murder. What is good about the captive bolt and the bleeding out of gentle animals who have never done anything against the human race but are now murdered as extras to be placed on the family Christmas table ?
Also, why are, like the animals, little children in the Ukraine having to endure this festive season without ever really being a kiddie and enjoying the suprises that should await them when they wake up on Christmas morning, in warm houses with windows, electricity and running water ? – what have they done in their short lives to be picked on and targeted by this senseless madman from across their border. Innocent children being picked on by persons who feel they are and must retain being top dog, top of the tree – for me, there are a lot of similarities to the abuses of some humans to the abuses endured by farm / meat animals – think about it – top of the tree and all that.
The innocent people of the Ukraine; The people of Tibet being eradicated by China – Free Tibet – Our vision is a free Tibet in which Tibetans are able to determine their own future and the human rights of all are respected., the list just goes on and on; the suffering of all sentients seems to go on and on !
Now we hardly give presents to each other; instead we like to give financial donations to charity to help their campaigns / causes instead; to help free bears from bile farms – Home (animalsasia.org), to help the rescue and welfare of animals in India from our wonderful friends at AAU – https://worldanimalsvoice.com/?s=animal+aid+unlimited , to fight live transport, hunting, in vivisection, etc , etc. The list just goes on.
This year especially I think about the people of the Ukraine; innocents caught up in the crossfire of a neighbouring psycho madman. I hope you will think about them and others this festive season, when things are supposed to be good ?
Take stand and make it suffering free;
I wish all activists best wishes for what they do – keep it up and have a very successful and productive 2023 with all your campaigning. For the animals;
Regards Mark
A farm investigation has revealed dead turkeys hanging by the feet, inside a slaughterhouse at night. In November investigators with Direct Action Everywhere (DxE) entered a turkey slaughterhouse in the UK. They were not expecting what they found –
“We were extremely shocked to see a number of dead turkeys hanging by their feet in the middle of the night, it was as though they had stopped ‘processing’ these birds mid way through and gone home for the night.” Said one of the investigators. “We were just expecting to enter a shed full of turkeys waiting for their death but we found an on site slaughterhouse. I saw a door going into another room and I peered through, revealing the horrific sight of around 6 dead turkeys hanging by their feet almost fully de-feathered.
Blood was dripping out of their mouths and eyes.” “Nothing can prepare you to witness the blatant disregard of life inside of a slaughterhouse. These turkeys had personalities, family, friends and a subjective experience of life; but here they are treated as a mere object to make profit from. The beings we saw and photographed are the beings who may be on your table this Christmas.
We urge everyone to make the connection to the individual, and understand what they went through before their mutilated body lays on your table. Celebrations that rely on the traditions surrounding the murder of sentient individuals needs to be history.”
Dear Mark,
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But what a resilient brave-heart she proved to be! After pain medicine, supportive bandages and plenty of cuddles, her tail gave a tiny wag, and we knew we had a life-loving spirit on our hands. Meet Cherub now!
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This frightened young lady was in tremendous pain from an abscess around her neck causing so much swelling she could barely turn her head. An abscess is a build up of pus formed under the skin, usually from a bacterial infection. In her case, we suspect she’d suffered a puncture wound, and the abscess formed to fight the infection from the puncture. Left untreated, an abscess can cause sepsis and even lead to death, so it was vital that she receive treatment right away.
We treated her with antibiotics, painkillers, and gave her sedation to painlessly drain the abscess. As soon as Saaya woke up from the sedation she was already feeling so much better, and within just a day she looked like another dog, and a gorgeous one!
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Enjoy !
Hi Mark,
I know you probably don’t get to hear this a lot when you open your emails so I want to say it now, loud and clear:
Thank you.
I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the support you give to Animal Equality and the support you give to animals who suffer on factory farms and inside slaughterhouses around the world.
When you sign petitions, post about farmed animals on social media, attend protests, and make donations to Animal Equality…it all makes a difference.
It’s so inspiring for me to see more and more people like you supporting us and believing in our collective mission to end animal cruelty.
I’ve been fighting for animals for over 20 years now and it will never be easy to see an innocent animal suffering.
And yet, I can honestly say that I feel privileged to be writing this email to you. I have always felt privileged to work for animals. It’s my life’s mission and I will do it for the rest of my life.
But I have been through many difficulties.
When I founded Animal Equality with Javier Moreno and Jose Valle we started the organisation with no resources. We didn’t have the money to do much for animals and that was very hard.
On one occasion we ran out of money during an important investigation inside pig farms in Spain. We literally had to ask our friends to support us with donations to be able to finalise the investigation.
So they did.
And that became the first ever and largest investigation inside pig farms to be presented in Spain. It opened the news cycle that day.
We wanted to show people in the city where we lived what happens inside factory farms so we stood outside for hours showing the images. We couldn’t afford laptops so we chose to make banners instead.
And to save money, we made the banners out of cardboard we found outside clothing stores.
Those times were difficult because there wasn’t more we could do.
Now Mark, I’ll be honest with you, those were challenging times because every night I went to sleep thinking if only we had enough resources to be able to do more for animals.
I imagined what it could be like if we could have better cameras for our investigations or be able to hire a team to support Animal Equality’s missions or if we could meet journalists in an office instead of inside coffee shops.
We learned very quickly that without the time and resources we needed, we couldn’t help animals the way we wanted to.
Today, Animal Equality is a global force with more resources and a team of 100 people, but I still ask myself what more can be done. What else could we achieve?
That’s why people like you are so important. Because we can’t help animals by ourselves. In fact, we’re not even the main component.
The main component in helping animals is you.
Tomorrow I want to share with you a story that’s very important to me. It’s the story of an animal who is very close to my heart. I hope you’ll read it.
Sincerely,
Sharon Núñez
President
Animal Equality
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Here are just a few of their investigation videos – find more by Googling ‘Animal Equality’
Regards Mark
New York became the tenth state to ban the sale of cosmetics tested on animals after Gov. Kathy Hochul signed a measure into law Thursday evening.
The law, known as the New York Cruelty-Free Cosmetics Act, prohibits the sale and manufacturing of cosmetics that have been tested on animals. It is slated to go into effect in January 2023.
Click here to read more
10 states have now banned the sale of cosmetics tested on animals (msn.com)
Regards Mark
Animal rights activists film themselves stealing dogs from research facility
Animal rights activists filmed themselves as they stole dogs from a research facility in Cambridgeshire. (This is in England – WAV)
In a statement, Animal Rebellion claimed their members freed 18 Beagle puppies from a “life of suffering,” describing it as a “Christmas miracle.”
Cambridgeshire Police arrested 14 people after the break-ins at MBR Acres – some on suspicion of burglary.
Animal rights activists film themselves stealing dogs from research facility (msn.com)
Regards Mark
Faux Gras for the holidays!
Dear animal lover,
Foie gras will be more expensive this year following an epidemic of bird flu in the duck population. As if these poor animals did not already suffer enough from the cruel treatment of force-feeding!
GAIA fights body and soul to put an end to this practice in Belgium. In addition to our lobbying actions with politicians and raising awareness among the general public via our video below, we have been offering an alternative with our Faux Gras that respects both gourmets and animals. It is now available in 2 certified organic versions :
Enough to start your holiday meals in an original way and with a clear conscience and this, at the modest prices of 3.69 € (1) and 3.89 € (2) the box of 125g. You can order them for home delivery via the button below.
You will also find our Faux gras at Delhaize, Colruyt, Aldi, Lidl, Carrefour, Match and Cora.
By buying our Faux Gras, you contribute to our fight to end force-feeding in Belgium. Help our duck friends and make the holidays no longer a nightmare time for them.
Many thanks for your support,
Michel Vandenbosch
President de GAIA
P.S.: Also take advantage of our Webshop to find many ideas for end-of-year gifts and thus financially help our fight for the defense of animals.
Animal buddy Pauline sent me these beautiful phots that she has taken this morning.
Check out all of Pauline’s past photos by visiting https://worldanimalsvoice.com/?s=pauline+photos
The UK has been blasted (well blasted !) for well over a week now by Arctic winters coming down from the high North; a real shock for many after very high Spummer temperatures. In the UK we are used to cold and snow, but this last week has been a real blast.
Finally today (17/12) we are starting to see slow changes for the better as the weather is starting to arrive instead from the Atlantic; tomorrow should see it a bit warmer and the snow starting to clear more.
It always amazes me how these tiny little birds can survive endless night temperatures of -11 or more, as it has been.
My breakfast buddy Robin https://worldanimalsvoice.com/?s=breakfast+buddy and hundreds of other birds here in the garden have been keeping me real busy (and I mean real busy) over the last week getting food out to them all to help them survive these very cold days and nights. Buddy Robin is fine and is first in the queue each morning for something to eat. Pauline’s Robin pictures show that we have had a lot of snow, but with regular feeding I hope that I have helped them get through a very hard period. It makes me feel better.
Regards Mark and Pauline.
Source Jo Frederik, Jo Frederik’s Art
The following is supplied by Stacey at ‘Our Compass’
Many thanks Stacey.
Show me your “humane slaughter” footage … | Our Compass (our-compass.org)
Pro-slaughter advocates always get morally outraged when vegans show factual slaughter images/videos/audios but never provide THEIR footage, while simultaneously boasting about redtractorrspcaassuredhumanefarmingassociationcertifiedhumanehighestofhighestwelfare … who all are “opposed” to “animal abuse” while literally promoting killing animals.
In what dimension is violently killing NOT abusive? The deli? Your kitchen?
If you need an organization to substantiate that violent killing is “humane”, then it’s not humane, it’s a label on a literally dead being who did not volunteer to die. My plant-based food requires zero disingenuous “viciously-but-humanely-killed” stickers.
I gotta say, though, even I am sometimes shocked at the level of blind conformity people desperately embrace to validate violence against animals, such as the UK’s Humane Slaughter Associations selection of “gifts” and “christmas cards” depicting alive animals. Really? I mean, jfc, this is deranged and nothing short of vomitous, pure bile-inspiring, oxymoronic, hypocritical garbage.
For sure, what in the AF are “Bags for Life”? … Bags for Life. … BAGS FOR LIFE. These “gift selections” from a pro-slaughter entity that proudly supports violently killing animals, including calves and piglets, literally have pictures of alive animals on them, such as a calf and a piglet. B A G S F O R L I F E
Perhaps it’s because a bag has a longer lifespan than the life of an animal. Much, much, much longer, and the bag is worth even more, it’s literally considered a “gift” whereas an animal’s life is considered “violently-humanely-disposable”.
Since the only reason the Humane Slaughter Association exists in the first place is to promote DEATH, rather than an image capturing the (exploitative, violent, brief) “life” of an animal on your BAGS FOR LIFE, why don’t you demonstrate the “humane” actions you all so desperately and belligerently boast about, instead favouring the EXACT OPPOSITE?
Was it a misprint for BEGS FOR LIFE?
Because, come on, if humans are so proud of inventing methods of violence that require the suffering and unwilling deaths of animals, and then have the absolute audacity to call it “humane”, why not be proud enough to share images of THAT? Why not depict the actual reality of the suffering animals are forced to endure, animals who die in bloody, terrifying, painful, unethical, and horrific manners?
Too graphic? Too real? Too hellish?
But not too graphic, too real, or too hellish to actually NOT cause, NOT support, NOT pay for?
Typical human discord, typical human privilege, typical human passivity.
Here’s a question: what form of slaughter is more humane than NOT slaughtering animals?
Humans don’t kill animals because they honestly believe that NOT killing animals is INhumane or UNethical.
As I always say, it’s disturbing and actually dehumanizing that humans rely on defining others’ suffering in terms that brings humans comfort causing it instead of the ones forced to suffer. Humans spend literally gobs of time, energy, and resources to attempt to validate violently killing animals with their clubsorganizationschaptersbooksvideosmanualsregulationslawsmethodslabelsdefinitionspicturesblahblahblahblah. And really, why do you praise clubsorganizationschaptersbooksvideosmanualsregulationslawsmethodslabelsdefinitionspicturesblahblahblahblah that REQUIRE violent suffering???
Truth’s a bitch, isn’t it.
And since it’s that time of the year again, I have to ask: why do people buy fake Christmas trees because killing a live tree is psychopathic but killing animals is … NOT … !? SL
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Regards Mark
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