Alarm signals

By admin • December 7th, 2008

Commercial caviar production normally involves stunning the fish (usually by clubbing its head) and extracting the ovaries; some commercial fish farmers are experimenting with surgically removing roe from living sturgeon, allowing the females to continue producing more roe during their lives.
What you see below has nothing to do with surgery. It’s pure slaughter.
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In September, Dutch daily De Telegraaf warned that an extreme animal
rights group had move its operations to the Netherlands to target
Euronext Amsterdam (the Dutch branch of NYSE Euronext exchange group),
other financial institutions, pharmaceutical companies and shops that
sell fur.
Meanwhile, the ‘NYSE Euronext bomb squad’ have claimed on an animal
rights website that it placed six explosives under [...]

You may remember that last week I sent you an e-mail in which I wrote about the terrible plight of Daisy, a dog who was fed a “plant growth regulator” in a gruesome laboratory experiment.
I’m sure you were as horrified as I was when I learned that this toxic substance was given with her food, [...]

October 28, 2008, Philadelphia: In the wake of last night’s death of pregnant Atlanta Zoo African elephant Dottie, aged 26, outraged local residents request the Philadelphia Zoo to halt plans to breed Kallie and Bette, both 26-year-old African elephants, and instead send them to a sanctuary.   Dottie’s death follows the similar premature death of Mary, [...]

In the Guinness Book of Records (GWR) 2009 Edition released this month, Indonesia is once again referred to as the country with the world’s highest rate of deforestation. Citing the FAO’s State of the World’s Forests 2007 (SOFO), the country has “destroyed” its forests at a rate of 1.8 million hectares annually during the period [...]

Next Thursday, October 2, Washington University in St. Louis hosts the vice presidential debate featuring Republican Sarah Palin and Democrat Joe Biden. Why should animal lovers care?

Let voters know about Governor Sarah Palin’s relentless assault on wildlife and environment. Whatever your political affiliation, Palin is clearly NOT the candidate for animals….and animals are the focus of this list.

I’ve heard so many times about sustainable investment and believed with all my heart in the common sense and human willingness to preserve nature only to further see the sustainable turning to unsustainable, that I am currently at the stage I believe pretty much nothing I read on sustainability projects. Not before I see results [...]

Life on the farm isn’t what it used to be. The green pastures and idyllic barnyard scenes portrayed in children’s books have been replaced by windowless sheds, tiny crates, wire cages, and other confinement systems integral to what is now known as “factory farming.”
Today the majority of farmed animals are:

confined to the point that they [...]

Every 20 minutes, another species is pushed to extinction.

Giant Humphead Wrasse:  The live fish trade and spear fishing have contributed to the halving of the global population of this beautiful fish loved by divers.

Red Crowned Roof Turtle: (IUCN Red List: Critically Endangered) The illegal wildlife trade in Asia has in part placed at least 40% [...]

Help us achieve global recognition that animals matter,  that they can feel pain and can suffer and that we have a responsibility to put an end to cruelty around the world. We seek 10 million signatures to let the governments of the world know we are serious about achieving a Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare [...]

What is the problem?
• Rising rates of TB in cattle
Why is it happening?
• Poor farming practices, inadequate testing
• Most TB is spread cattle to cattle
What are farmers doing about it?
• Pressing the Government for badgers to be killed
What’s wrong with this?
• Taxpayers will pay millions for badgers to be killed
• It won’t work!
So what needs [...]

Here are the top three myths told by Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) about the commercial seal hunt:

Myth #1: The seal hunt is humane.
Myth #2: The seal hunt is sustainable.
Myth #3: The seal hunt is closely monitored and well managed.

Things are not always as they seem! Scratch beyond the surface and the truth is always different.
The concentrations of the atmospheric greenhouse gases - carbon dioxide, methane and water vapor - are undergoing net increases even though the concentration of water vapor is somewhat occasionally tempered as a result of rainfalls. Moreover, any interactivity-impact [...]