Even though grocers Wegmans and Harris Teeter were made aware of PETA’s recent investigation revealing rampant cruelty to turkeys at Plainville Farms suppliers, they continue to sell the animals’ flesh with misleading “humane” labels.
A PETA investigator recorded workers kicking, stomping on, and beating turkeys with a heavy rod. Birds received no treatment for their illnesses or injuries and were left to die in misery.
Please contact Wegmans and Harris Teeter today to urge them to reconsider their business relationship with Plainville Farms.
It feels like forever since the smiling faces of wonderful volunteers could be seen in all corners of our shelter, spreading joy to so many animals. We’re reading in the newspapers that tourist visas and flights to India will soon be opening up again. The Indian Home Ministry has not issued an official statement yet but the murmurings seem hopeful.
What a thrill it gives us to imagine welcoming our friends back (that means you!), and to witness the magical effect you’ll have on the animals, who will wag and wiggle at the sound of your voices even as you enter the gates!
Blessing’s beautiful recovery
Meet beautiful Blessing. He is one of the gentlest angels we’ve ever met.He’s healthy now, after weeks of daily wound cleaning and new bandages, good food and cheerful days. But oh, has he suffered. Bred for and born into labor, this young donkey never had a chance to experience life as a care-free little soul. He would have spent every day under an almost unbearable load, often managed by children too young for such immense responsibility, who are not educated about animal sentience or welfare.
Thanks to your help we continue to rescue and rehabilitate injured donkeys, educate their owners and sensitize the community about animal welfare.
Meet the most gracious, polite little dear on earth.
Mange Survivor Monty!
Even when this darling old boy was in excruciating pain, he was gentle, kind and considerate. From the first moment he saw our rescue team, he seemed to want to put his life in our hands. Every day of his 6 week treatment for severe mange, his humble nature only gave pleasure to others. Cured of mange, neutered and a little fattened up, meet mighty old Monty now!
Pixie is a bounding, beautiful little girl. But she wouldn’t have survived without lots of helping hands. We rescued Pixie’s mother for a wound on her hoof and later she gave birth at Animal Aid. Sadly, Pixie’s mother was too weak and she passed away a few days later, leaving her beautiful newborn baby in our care to raise.
Pixie has flourished with the other orphans who snuggle together day and night. Many of her new friends are baby bulls who were cast out by owners, often just days old, because allowing them to feed from their mother would cost the owner in milk sales. Bull calfs have no value in the dairy business and are usually sold for leather, or cast out onto the street to die.
Pixie will live permanently in our love and care thanks to your kindness, with zero commercial use, and 100 percent love.
Please donate to support Pixie and other animals in sanctuary.
Kindness, patience and a little luck:
Dena’s Recovery
How this beautiful girl managed to drag herself out of the road after being hit by a vehicle, we will never know. She suffered a serious spine injury that left her completely unable to bear weight. Not just for a few days, but for 8 weeks of physiotherapy and bed-rest. We named her Dena, which means “to give” in Hindi.No matter how low she felt, when she couldn’t move her legs or her body, her eyes showered her caregivers with love.Her rehabilitation was so slow that we were losing hope: with full sensation in her toes, we expected her to try to stand long before she did. But one fine day, 2 months after the accident with very little apparent progress, Dena was ready. All by herself, this brave girl stood and took her first trembling steps. And that was just the beginning of what has become a complete, beautiful recovery. Meet strong sweetheart Dena now!
Yesterday, October 19 one of our teams on Gozo observed a masked man who illegally set up a safety net for finches.
The police were called to the scene, but the suspect had enough time to collect six live decoys and flee as the police slowly approached the scene without even following the suspect.
The trapper has now been identified as our team has also been able to determine the license plate of his vehicle. Four more bird trappers were caught yesterday alone based on reports from the committee to the police.
Just a few days ago, the Maltese governmentagreed to repeal the controversial law on “bird trapping for scientific purposes”after the European Court of Justice initiated infringement proceedings against Malta for 2020.
But today the Valletta government has made another complete U-turn and announced that it will in fact allow more than 3,000 registered trappers to proceed with the so-called “Finch-Trapping Research Project“ – under the promise of strict enforcement and enforcement (!!!)
Here’s an impression of that promise! does it look like strict surveillance?
And I mean…Clear case of cooperation between the criminal and the police: they let him escape.
What is still missing is the explanation of the police officers for this complicity: Yes, the guy looks hard like a “researcher”!
First he finds a dead tree and starts making holes for the acorns. Each hole is made very thoughtfully, because if the hole is large, other birds can easily steal the acorn.
If the hole is narrow, the nut can break and deteriorate.
By the end of summer, the woodpecker’s “jewelry” work ends, by this time the acorns ripen and take their places in the tree. The trunk of a large tree can hold about 50,000 acorns, allowing the bird a satisfying winter.
I don’t know about you friends, but I had no idea about it.
And now I am very happy with the thought that the many nuts that I cleared off the road and put in the forest might have contributed to the construction of a woodpecker
You learn something different every day…
Emergency services have discovered dogs trapped in the middle of the lava flows of the Cumbre Vieja on the Spanish island of La Palma.
The overland route to the animals is cut off by volcanic activity. Helpers now take care of the four-legged friends from the air by drone.
The Cabildo de La Palma thanked two local companies, Ticom Soluciones and Volcanic Life, who had been using a drone to transport food and water for the animals trapped by the lava in the Todoque plateau for five days.
The Councilor for Security and Emergencies, Nieves Rosa Arroyo, said in a statement that this situation was discovered five days ago and that after the relevant security studies were carried out, Ticom Soluciones SL. and Volcanic Life were entrusted with the task of supplying water with the help of drones.
The city councilor also highlighted the work of these companies, which selflessly made themselves available for emergencies and whose work was of fundamental importance in locating and caring for the animals.
📌El agua y la comida está garantizada a los animales atrapados en Todoque
➡️Las empresas Ticom Soluciones S.L y Volcanic Life llevan cinco días alimentando a los animales mediante un dron que transporta comida y agua
— Cabildo de La Palma (@CabLaPalma) October 12, 2021
They also have veterinary advice on how to choose the most appropriate feed and water supply in this type of situation.
Both companies have announced that they will continue this work as long as weather and safety conditions permit, as these areas cannot be reached by land due to the high temperatures near the lava flows.
The steering committee of the Volcanic Emergency Plan of the Canary Islands (Pevolca), once received the formal request for rescue of the dogs trapped in the exclusion zone by the eruption and after analyzing the action plan presented by the entity, has decided to authorize the possible rescue of animals with drones
Leales.org points out that more than two tons of the latest technology worth 60,000 euros have been transferred to La Palma.
There are three drones, one of cargo for the transfer of materials or rescue of the dogs, another drone with a 30x camera to scan the area and verify the safety of the operation, and the third is a specific drone with a thermal camera to know which is the route where there is less heat, in addition to the study of the terrain.
We want to express great praise to the rescue workers on the island, but also to city councilor Nieves Rosa Arroyo! Apparently for these people it is not only human life that counts as worthy to save, but every life on the island.
And they did it quickly, effectively and professionally.
The subject of cruelty to animals is taken up again and again by various organizations.
The Foundation for the “Animal in Law”,TIR, draws attention to this with posters showing animals in sadomasochism.
This three-year-old campaign by the“Animal in Law” foundation draws attention to animal cruelty with four eye-catching posters.
“In this country, too, countless animals live under illegal conditions and many animal welfare crimes are not investigated and punished appropriately or not at all. The public and the authorities must constantly raise awareness of these abuses », explains the foundation of its campaign in a message.
Under the slogan “No animal wants to be tortured”, the foundation designed four posters depicting animals in sadomasochistic costumes.
In order to attract attention with this concern, unusual and controversial ideas are always required.
“In contrast to humans, animals never have the opportunity to give their consent to a torturous act. Rather, they are at the mercy of us and cannot stand up for their concerns themselves », so the thought behind the posters.
These show a cow, a dog, a cat and a parrot, wearing a leather suit, a whip and a gag.
The aim of the campaign is to implement animal-friendly laws and their «consistent enforcement».
The agency behind the posters, Ruf Lanz, has now designed a campaign for TIR for the fourth time.
The pictures were “of course all created on the computer”. TIR, based in Zurich, (Switzerland) has been campaigning for animal welfare on a national and international level for over twenty years.
In addition: It is the fourth campaign that Ruf Lanzhas created for TIR. The previous campaigns such as “Some animals are treated like rubbish”, according to TIR manager Gieri Bolliger, “caused a lot of attention and sparked valuable debates about animal welfare – online and offline.”
In addition, the campaigns have received numerous awards, including with gold from the Art Directors Club Switzerland or twice with the Poster of the Year.
For the implementation of this campaign, Ruf Lanz was once again able to win over the Carioca Studio in Bucharest via Visualeyes International, which is one of the world’s best in CGI (Computer Generated Images).
In close cooperation with Ruf Lanz, all images were created entirely on the computer – not a single animal was twisted.
And I mean…Animals are at our mercy and cannot ward off violence and abuse by human hands themselves.
That is why it is very important, in addition to laws that are supposed to protect them, also to educate a population that does not look the other way when it comes to animal cruelty, but resolutely opposes it.
The images are shocking, but make injustice visible, trigger emotions, appeal to our conscience and activate it
A former presidential candidate, Mr Kerry has long been a powerful voice in climate politics. As President Obama’s Secretary of State he played a key role in securing the Paris agreement in 2015.
“The truth is emissions are going up around the world, not down in enough countries, and key countries are pursuing policies that border on being very dangerous for everybody.”
Mr Kerry has previously called on China to increase the speed and depth of its efforts to cut carbon.
China has promised to peak emissions by 2030 – but the US diplomat said that was not good enough.
“If you don’t reduce enough between 2020 and 2030 the scientists tell us we can’t get where we need to go. We will not be able to hold the earth’s temperature rise to 1.5 degrees and we won’t be able to achieve net zero by 2050.”
Mr Kerry said he wanted Glasgow to raise the ambition of the 20 major economies in the world.
He said he would be looking for definite road-maps to net zero and money to help less developed countries also reach their goals without suffering economic hardship.
Mr Kerry called this the “greatest test of global citizenship” he could think of.
“Glasgow is coming at a point where these scientists have told us we have about nine years remaining within which to make the most critical decisions. Those decisions have got to really start in earnest and in a significant sum in Glasgow.”
“We have to get on the road here and we’ve been talking about it for 30 years.
“So this is really what Glasgow is about, the last best hope to do what the scientists tell us we must which is to avoid the worst consequences of climate by making decisions now and implementing them now.”
From October 7th, the annual fair for agriculture and nutrition(OLMA) will take place in St. Gallen, Switzerland, where, among other things, so-called farm animals will be presented in shows.
PETA contacted the organizers of the OLMA in advance and asked in their letter to refrain from displaying animals.
Chained up. Displayed. Demonstrated. Mistreated.
Countless animals are exploited at the OLMA agricultural fair every year.
We demand that the animal-despising fair is finally stopped and that the Federal Council immediately refrains from regularly praising degrading animal exhibitions.
The animals are displayed against their will in the midst of the noise of the visitors in the smallest of spaces like objects.
They are tied to short chains around their necks or kept in tight cages.
Bulls are tormented with a painful nose ring, mother pigs – who actually urgently need rest – are presented to the audience with their children in a completely inconsiderate way.
A hooting crowd adds incredible stress to sheep, ducks and piglets during pathetic animal shows.
Adam Oswell – Wildlife Photojournalist named “Wildlife Photographer of the Year”!
This picture shows zoo visitors in Thailand who watch a young slave elephant playing the clown underwater.
In Thailand there are now more elephants in captivity (around 3,800 animals) than in the wild.
All over the world, animals in zoos, circuses and shows suffer so that their slave owners make money
Never entertain your children where other animals are being abused.
And I mean…Thanks to a coincidence of evolution, humans are fortunate enough to be able to exercise power over other living beings.
He uses this to proclaim himself as the crowning glory of creation and to regard all other beings as serving him.
So that we feel better, so that we can make progress in our knowledge, we take the right to enslave other living beings, to be able to inflict pain on them.
This is man.
It annihilates, destroys, poisons, pollutes, suppresses.
If we don’t stop multiplying there will be a terrible end.
For human and non-human animals.
First he finds a dead tree and starts making holes for the acorns. Each hole is made very thoughtfully, because if the hole is large, other birds can easily steal the acorn.
“In this country, too, countless animals live under illegal conditions and many animal welfare crimes are not investigated and punished appropriately or not at all. The public and the authorities must constantly raise awareness of these abuses », explains the foundation of its campaign in a message.
The animals are displayed against their will in the midst of the noise of the visitors in the smallest of spaces like objects.
A hooting crowd adds incredible stress to sheep, ducks and piglets during pathetic animal shows.
This picture shows zoo visitors in Thailand who watch a young slave elephant playing the clown underwater.
World Animals Voice 