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By supporting PETA today, you can help reduce and end the suffering of more than 40 million cows—each a sensitive individual—who are killed in slaughterhouses in the United States each year.Most cows never enjoy a peaceful day in a grassy field.Instead, cows raised for their milk are commonly confined to filthy sheds and barren dirt lots. They’re hooked up to milking machines several times each day and are given hormones and antibiotics. They are repeatedly impregnated until their weak bodies finally give out. Then they are hauled on filthy trucks, sometimes hundreds of miles, to slaughterhouses. When they arrive, they are hung upside-down, dismembered, and skinned—sometimes while they are still conscious.

Cows on factory farms urgently need your help. One of the priorities of PETA’s factory farming campaign is to open the eyes—and hearts—of consumers to the suffering of these sensitive animals. Can I please count on your support to help us expose the cruelty inflicted on these suffering animals?

By making an online donation to PETA today, you will help sustain PETA’s vital investigations into milk and beef factory farms and slaughterhouses around the world. Thanks to our efforts—and your kind support—people are waking up to the horrific lives of suffering endured by cows and other animals killed for food.

People are learning that cows raised for their flesh bellow in pain as they are branded with hot fire irons, which inflict third-degree burns. They’re learning that cows’ horns are cut out of their skulls or are burned off and that male calves’ testicles are torn from their scrotums without any pain relief whatsoever.

The cows are shipped to massive, barren feed lots, and not all of them survive the journey. Next, they are fed an unnatural diet that can cause painful stomach ailments and sometimes fatal liver abscesses. The air is so full of ammonia, methane, and other noxious gases from the manure buildup that many cows have trouble breathing and develop severe respiratory problems.

Finally, at the end of their lives, the cows go on a frightening truck ride to their deaths. The only U.S. law that exists for the protection of farmed animals—the decades-old Humane Slaughter Act—is rarely enforced. While the law requires that cows be rendered unconscious before they are strung upside-down, the high-speed assembly line often fails to stun them, which means that many cows are skinned and dismembered while they are still conscious.

PETA has already won major animal welfare improvements at the world’s largest suppliers of pig and chicken flesh, but we’re still working nonstop to end such violence against cows and other animals. In order to win these battles, we need you to show your commitment to animals.

Please make a generous contribution to PETA right now and help us give cows the peace and cruelty-free lives that they deserve.

Fact #1: In the U.S., more than 97 percent of pigs—smart, social, interesting animals—are raised on factory farms. They spend their entire lives in cramped, filthy warehouses, where they never see the sun or breathe fresh air. Because of their hideous living conditions, more than 70 percent of the pigs have pneumonia by the time they are kicked and prodded onto trucks bound for slaughterhouses. As piglets, they are ripped away from their mothers when they are less than 1 month old and dosed with antibiotics, and they have their tails, teeth, and testicles cut off—all without any pain relief. But even that’s not all that they go through.Breeding sows are imprisoned (there’s really no other word for it) in metal gestation crates so small that they can’t even turn around or take a single step—many develop painful sores and bruises from being immobilized on a hard surface. Shortly after giving birth, they are forcibly impregnated again. This cycle continues for years until their bodies finally give out and the animals are sent to slaughter. After enduring these hellish conditions for years, squealing pigs are poked, kicked, and dragged onto trucks so that they can be sent to slaughter.

Fact #2: It doesn’t have to be this way. PETA is taking on the world’s biggest pork producers and reducing the abuse of these poor animals. Your urgent support will help PETA make major changes in this cruel industry and reduce the suffering of millions of farmed pigs.

Your generosity today will be used to help PETA reduce the pain and suffering of myriad pigs, cows, fish, chickens, and other animals on massive factory farms—each one an individual who needs help.

Please know this: PETA’s work gets results! We’ve already successfully pressured giants in the industry to make important changes with regard to how they breed, confine, and kill animals:

• Following more than 100 PETA demonstrations across North America and negotiations with PETA, Safeway became the first Fortune 500 company to make dramatic improvements in the living and dying conditions of farmed animals, including making unannounced audits of its suppliers, establishing a purchasing preference for suppliers that don’t use gestation crates, and immediately purchasing a significant portion of its pig flesh from existing farms that do not confine animals to tiny cages. Safeway credited PETA with “turn[ing] on the light of an issue we need to address.”
  
• PETA’s influence over its customers, including fast-food chains like McDonald’s and Burger King, convinced Smithfield Foods—the largest pig-flesh supplier in the world—to agree to phase out all gestation crates on its company-owned factory farms within a decade. Currently, at any given minute, more than 1 million mother pigs are confined by Smithfield to these hideous crates.
  
• Just a few days later, Maple Leaf Foods, the largest pig flesh-producer in Canada, announced that it would follow suit. Then, almost immediately afterward, another massive pig-flesh supplier—Cargill Foods—agreed to stop using gestation crates on half its farms immediately.

These decisions significantly reduce the suffering of pigs and have sent shockwaves through the entire meat industry. But we have much more to do, which is why we very much need your help.

PETA’s high-profile protests and media outreach, consumer boycotts, and undercover investigations are doing what no one thought was possible: getting the world’s worst abusers of animals to clean up their acts. And none of this would be possible without your caring support.

Please make a generous donation to PETA online right now. Your gift will help sustain our relentless defense of pigs and other animals who are, even as I write this, being abused, exploited, and killed.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/03/26/seal_cull/

This is the modern civilization. These are the same morons who have an issue with the rest of the world not being civilized enough. These are the same immoral bunch of savages who claim high moral ground and feel that the rest of the world has not grown up yet. I can understand this happening in a country with no law but when this happens in a country like Canada you are left wondering how these guys can have families and raise children when they have the scantest regard for life. It becomes even more difficult when you have the vice-president of the world’s most powerful country wanting to kill birds that can’t even fly. I can understand if animals are killed for food but there is always the right way to do it which is not always the case . In nature animals kill to survive and there are very few rare occasions do we see them kill for the heck of it but humans are such a messed up race who clearly understand the pain and suffering that they cause but still continue on their own merry way. The biggest joke is that after doing all this most of them go to their place of worship and pray with their children and then talk about world peace .

I am not sure when it became the job of the Canadian citizens to control the seal population. I honestly wish the people who engage in this heinous act face the same grief and pain that they cause those poor seals. The world will be a lot better and justice will prevail if these savages die the most horrible death possible. How about if thier boats sink and they get slaughtered by sharks ? We can call it the culling of human pigs  and laugh about it . I sure will .

These guys are worthy candidates to be the victims in the Hostel ( the movie).

Despite a public outcry across the globe, every year hunters in Canada massacre hundreds of thousands of seals in order to sell their skins and rake in profits, and this year the total allowable catch has been set at 275,000 baby harp seals. Your voice is urgently needed to help urge the Canadian government to ban the killing of seals once and for all!

Sealers bludgeon seals with clubs and “hakapiks” (clubs with a metal hook on the end), drag conscious seals across the ice floes with boat hooks, and toss dead and dying animals into heaps, leaving their carcasses to rot because there is no market for their meat. Seals are also shot, but bludgeoning is preferred, because pelt buyers deduct money for every bullet hole in a seal’s skin. Click here to watch the video.

Rebecca Aldworth, a native Newfoundlander who for years has worked to stop the seal slaughter, described this scene during a previous year’s hunt:

“A movement catches my eye, and I realize with horror that a clubbed baby seal is still conscious. She is writhing around on the ice in pain, moving her flippers. She lies next to another seal who has been killed, vacant eyes staring up, blood already frozen in the ice under her mouth. It is a macabre scene—the dead and the dying huddled together here in the rain.”

We need your help! Please send an e-mail, a letter, or a fax to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper urging him to support a nationwide ban on seal hunting.

Original Source : http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/seal_hunt_skins

Prestigious retailers and fashion designers—including Abercrombie & Fitch, H&M, and dozens of other major retailers across Europe and the U.S.—have joined the movement to stop buying wool from lambs who have endured the mulesing mutilation. In addition, Australia’s own New South Wales Farmers Association has called for an immediate ban on mulesing, and the Western Australia Department of Agriculture has announced that its own research flocks will no longer be mulesed.

Despite this overwhelming trend, the Australian wool industry continues to drag its feet on developing humane alternatives to the mulesing mutilation, instead allowing millions of lambs to be partially flayed alive every year in a cruel attempt to control flystrike.

Rather than focusing its efforts on good animal husbandry and long-term humane solutions like bare-breech breeding, the Australian wool industry wastes time and effort on cheap, cruel flystrike-control methods, like painful plastic mulesing “clips.” These so-called “alternatives” are ineffective, inhumane, and unacceptable to retailers and consumers around the world.

Please write to Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd right now and ask him to ban mulesing mutilations and demand that only effective, humane alternatives be used instead.

Original Source : http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/australia_lamb

A horde of grisly evidence recently turned up in European stores, including a coat stitched together from 40 German shepherd puppies and a rug made from four golden retrievers. As shocking as this is, it shouldn’t be surprising. In addition to causing miserable lives and sadistic deaths for millions of fur-bearing animals, the fashion industry has a deadly secret. The secret is where fur comes from, and it’s not what most people think. Many of the fur items hanging in stores today are made from domestic dogs and cats.

Please help me end this unthinkable practice by making a secure online donation today. Mislabeled as Asian jackal, raccoon, or even rabbit, millions of dogs and cats are being killed for their fur—including some who are still wearing the collars that their loving guardians chose for them. This is the dirty secret of the Chinese fur industry and the international fur trade that supports it—one that we discovered in a daring undercover investigation. Our investigators went into an animal market in Southern China and found that cats and dogs were languishing—with 20 cats crammed into a tiny cage. Some had been on the road for days—transported without any food or water. There were dead and dying cats and dogs everywhere, some with open wounds. These are the animals who end up as fur collars on coats or as lining for winter boots or gloves. Their fur is sold to unsuspecting consumers in some of the best-known American and European stores. We must make this stop. We need to keep the pressure on the Chinese government as well as the fashion retailers who provide a market for dog and cat fur until they finally reject this abominable industry. Working together, I know that we can stop this cruel practice and save millions of animals each year. We’ve already convinced many top retailers and designers to take the fur-free pledge, and with dozens more taking initial steps toward compassion, I have seen how effective our campaigns can be. Now we need to address one of the most unimaginably cruel industries.

Please make as generous a tax-deductible donation as you can so we never have to witness the likes of that animal market ever again.

Original Source : PETA

On August 26, 2007, a PETA investigator filmed the slaughter of deer at Musicon, Inc., a deer farm and venison sales company in Goshen, New York.

Deer are high-strung, extremely nervous herd animals, so any handling—especially by humans in a loud, strange indoor environment—is frightening to them. Our investigator documented that a worker at Musicon was kneeling on frightened deer’s backs in order to restrain the animals and then yanking their heads back by their ears and antlers to expose their throats—which were then slit while the deer were still conscious. Some deer also had a restraint door slammed on their heads as they were bleeding to death. The animals remained conscious for up to a minute and a half after their throats were cut and in one instance, a deer was yanked from the restraint pen by the bleeding hole in her neck while still conscious.

Please e-mail Norman Schlaff, the owner of Musicon, urging him to switch to a business that doesn’t involve taking semi-wild, nervous animals and subjecting them to this type of trauma and suffering.

Original Article : http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/musicon_investigation
 

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article2300038.ece.

This is good news . I still don’t understand why such a rich , popular and successful guy would indulge in such a cruel act.  But this sends a loud and clear message that humans are such a rare species in this world capable of causing destruction when it is absolutely not required.

After being voted cutest vegetarian Madhavan has now been questioned about keeping a pet parrot at home.

“I’m aware of laws against keeping wild animals at home. And yes, I do have an African parrot at home. But I took that parrot under my wing after its original owners abandoned it.

If I left it out it would’ve been eaten by crows. And that parrot is like my son. He isn’t caged. He runs around the house freely. I also have two dogs who are more famous than I am.”

Madhavan is proud to have been chosen the cutest vegetarian by PETA.

“I’ve been part of PETA from the time I became a film actor. I’m flattered to be chosen by them. Though let me tell you I think there’re far cuter and better-looking vegetarians in the entertainment industry like John Abraham and Shahid Kapoor.

In fact Shahid has been converted to vegetarianism whereas I’ve been one all my life. So I think his achievement is far more commendable. I don’t understand people who say they are meat eaters on Saturday or Sunday and vegetarian for the rest of the week. Either you are or you aren’t.”

Maddy cuts short the theory that meat-eaters are stronger people. “No that’s a fallacy. I think we veggies like Arnold Schwarznegger, John Abraham are healthier. I’ve never fallen ill with stomach-related diseases. These are ailments defined by non-vegetarian food.

When you’re ill the first thing the doctors say is, avoid non-veg food. I know some religions demand consumption of non-vegetarian food. I’m not entirely against meat eating. I’m against the way animals are taken to slaughter houses.

Once you see how animals are carted to be killed you’d never want to eat meat again. It’s so cruel and inhuman ! How can anyone with family and children eat those animals after seeing them being dragged away?”

Maddy loves being part of PETA. “They’re very proactive. They actually make a difference to the lives of the animals. They’re not just an idea and a philosophy. They actually go out there and stop inhuman treatment to animals.”

Original Source : http://www.santabanta.com/cinema.asp?pid=16137

I liked Madhavan as an actor now I like him more as a human being. I share the same passion he has about cruelty towards animals but the only diffrence is he is able to act on his passion and I am not.

As you read this, PETA protesters are converging on the U.S. District Court in Richmond, Va., to call for vigorous prosecution of Michael Vick and three other defendants who are being arraigned on dogfighting charges. We want all those accused of dogfighting to be prosecuted vigorously, and we demand justice for all victims of dogfights.

We want Vick and his codefendants—if they are convicted—to be punished to the fullest extent allowed by law. Dogfighting is a coward’s “blood sport” that deserves harsh punishment—no matter how famous the alleged perpetrators are. 

The dogs in the Michael Vick case didn’t stand a chance. You can help PETA end animal abuse like the kind that was inflicted on these unfortunate dogs. Please make a generous donation today to help ensure that no more animals will suffer at the hand of someone like Michael Vick.

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