tagged w/ Animal Cruelty News & Animal Cruelty Videos
-
A man who tried to mellow out his cat by stuffing her into a homemade bong is facing criminal charges — and catcalls from animal lovers. Authorities cited a 20-year-old man on suspicion of animal cruelty Sunday after catching him smoking marijuana from a contraption that had a cat stuffed inside its 12-inch by 6-inch base. The man told sheriff's deputies the 6-month-old female named Shadow had been hyper and that he was trying to calm her down.A man who tried to mellow out his cat by stuffing her into a homemade bong is facing... more
-
-
This has got to be one of the sickest stunts I have ever seen in my entire life. This is where your tax dollars go. How "lucky" do the "lucky puppies" above look? -AL
___
From The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM):
It has just come to our attention that the National Institutes of Health (NIH), in conjunction with an animal research industry trade group, is providing false and misleading information about animal experiments to children.
Alarmingly, the NIH promotes, on its Web site, a children's coloring book that gives a skewed view of animal experiments. The coloring book implies that researchers are trying to cure animals that are already sick—rather than purposely infecting them with diseases—and ignores the fact that animals suffer and die in the process. The coloring book, entitled The Lucky Puppy, was produced by an industry trade group, the North Carolina Association for Biomedical Research, whose members have a financial interest in the continuation of animal research.
The coloring book is available through the following link: http://kids.niehs.nih.gov/images/coloring/luckycolor.pdf.
The book erroneously portrays the lives of animals in laboratories as pleasant and carefree. Published scientific research and numerous undercover investigations clearly demonstrate that animals in laboratories suffer pain and distress from experimental procedures and routine laboratory practices. The coloring book also makes misleading claims about the benefits of animal experiments, implying that research findings from experiments on animals are directly applicable to both the animals used in research and to humans.
Please call or e-mail Christine Bruske Flowers, director of the office of communications and public liaison for the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, to politely ask her to remove the link to the coloring book from the Web site. Send an auotmatic e-mail now. https://secure2.convio.net/pcrm/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=208
Christine Bruske Flowers
Director of the Office of Communications and Public Liaison
National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
E-mail: bruskec@niehs.nih.gov
Phone: 919-541-3665
Then forward this message to other compassionate people you know. Thank you for taking action.
Sincerely,
Hope Ferdowsian, M.D., M.P.H.
Hope Ferdowsian. M.D.
Director of Research PolicyThis has got to be one of the sickest stunts I have ever seen in my entire life. This... more
-
-
LONDON (AFP) — Seven animal rights activists who conducted a six-year campaign against companies with links to an animal testing laboratory in Cambridge were on Wednesday sentenced to between four and 11 years in prison.
From 2001 to 2007, they targeted firms across Europe that had either supplied Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) or had secondary links with the company in a bid to force it to close.
The seven were found guilty of conspiracy to blackmail by Winchester Crown Court, southern England, last month.
During sentencing, judge Neil Butterfield described the campaign as "urban terrorism" and a "relentless, sustained and merciless persecution" which made victims' lives "a living hell".
Heather Nicholson, 41, a founding member of the Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC) group, was sentenced to 11 years in prison, while co-founders Gregg and Natasha Avery, 41 and 39 respectively, received nine-year sentences.
The latter pair pleaded guilty to the charges against them, as did 22-year-old Daniel Amos, who received a four-year sentence.
Gavin Medd-Hall, 45, who researched SHAC victims over the Internet, was sentenced to eight years in prison, while 20-year-old Gerrah Selby and 21-year-old Daniel Wadham got four and five years respectively.
Staff at companies with links to the lab were sent hoax bomb parcels to their homes and offices, and received threats of violence and intimidating phone calls.
SHAC also claimed that managers at companies that supplied HLS were paedophiles, and painted words such as "scum" and "puppy killer" on workers' homes and cars.
____________
8 years for researching on the internet? Are you kidding me? SHAC scientists are anything BUT victims. They literally torture animals and kill humans with their research every day so a pharm companies can make a few extra million.The only victims here are the nonhuman animals used in their research and the activists who go to jail for half a decade or more for trying to stop the abuse. Whether or not you agree with their actions (I'm a nonviolent direct action person myself, so even I am unsre about some of it), you at least have to admit that these sentences are ridiculous for crimes that are, at most, vandalism. -ALLONDON (AFP) — Seven animal rights activists who conducted a six-year campaign... more
-
-
Please follow linked page & let me know!
THANK YOU!
FACTS:
Cole Bros. Circus has failed to meet minimal federal standards for the care of animals used in exhibition as established by the Animal Welfare Act.
The USDA has repeatedly cited Cole Bros. for failure to provide veterinary care to animals, including elephants who have shown extreme weight loss, and failure to provide adequate space to animals.
The USDA filed formal charges of AWA violations against Cole Bros. because the elephants showed signs of being abused with sharp metal bull-hooks, a New Jersey humane society charged the circus with cruelty to animals for overloading and overworking an elephant, and two elephants—who were described as malnourished and neglected—died suddenly within a two-week period.
In five separate incidents, Cole Bros. elephants have killed two members of the public, injured more than a dozen others, and rampaged during performances, which caused tens of thousands of dollars in property damage.
More info at http://www.circuses.com/pdfs/fact-cole_bros.pdfPlease follow linked page & let me know!
THANK YOU!
FACTS:
Cole Bros.... more
-
-
Full article at link...
“I have never hit or attacked anyone.
“Even the judge said I was not accused of actually intimidating anyone. It was just this amazing charge they came up with, ‘conspiracy to blackmail’, that was some kind of catch-all.”
Nicholson, a leader of the international campaign Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (Shac) was sentenced at Winchester Crown Court last week after a jury decided she orchestrated intimidation against companies supplying Cambridgeshire animal testing firm Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS).
Six others jailed for conspiracy to blackmail included fellow Shac leaders, Heather’s 41-year-old ex-husband Gregg Avery and his second wife, Heather’s friend, 39-year-old Natasha Avery, of Hampshire.
Both got nine years.
The Shac campaign began after film shot secretly inside Huntingdon, and shown on TV showed staff punching and laughing at the animals in their care.
From 2001 to 2007 hundreds of people whose employers did business with HLS received hoax bombs, sanitary towels allegedly contaminated with the HIV virus, and letters threatening violence. They were also visited by vandals.
Their neighbours were sent letters warning that they lived close to a paedophile and the words “puppy killer” were sprayed outside their homes. More than 270 businesses gave in. The cost to companies of the criminal damage caused and increased security measures was £12.6m and HLS has to bank directly with the Bank of England.
An undercover operation named Achilles involving 700 police officers from the UK, Holland and Belgium, which led to hire cars used by Nicholson and her associates being bugged. was put in place by police in Hampshire where she lived. She was at home with her father George Barwick and 64-year-old mother Shirley at their home in the west of Swansea when more than 30 arrests were made.
She drove to Hampshire to give herself up and did not get bail. Her parents now look after her four rescued dogs.
Speaking by phone from HMP Bronzefield she said: “Our Government is big on allowing people the democratic right to protest but when you become effective at protesting they clamp down on you like the worst form of dictatorship.
“We formed Shac because we were genuinely heartbroken that trusting animals were being bred to be led into laboratories to have all sorts of unspeakable things done to them.
“We had no trouble raising money because millions of people out there are horrified at what goes on in animal testing but it was extremists, not us, who carried out attacks on people’s homes.
“We went out of our way to ensure our campaign was above board and legal but they found a way to bring us down.
“When I get out I plan to establish an animal sanctuary, maybe helping animals who have been tested on. The Government has me targeted so I want to help in any effective way I can.
“I find it incredible that as someone exercising a right to protest against cruelty I land up in jail next to people who have killed and tortured children.”
Having served 20 months on remand Nicholson will be eligible for parole in around three-and-a-half years.
She said : “I am working as a listener helping vulnerable prisoners while in jail and making the best of it.
“My legal team is currently considering an appeal.”
...
After seeing the TV footage of animals being abused at HLS they formed Shac and raised millions of pounds to protest and picket the laboratory.
HLS conducts tests on around 75,000 animals every year — including rats, rabbits, pigs, dogs and monkeys testing pharmaceutical products, agricultural chemicals, industrial chemicals, and foodstuffs on behalf of private clients worldwide.
...Full article at linkFull article at link...
“I have never hit or attacked anyone.
“Even... more
-
-
http://www.bucksherald.co.uk/voiceofthepaper/Spare-a-thought-for-brave.5376733.jp
As you go about your business today, spare a thought for poor Katy Roberts.
Katy, who is only eleven, was so appalled with the horrors that went on at Spindles Farm that she felt compelled to mount a silent two day protest outside the farm last year to bring the incident to people's attention.
She also attended the trial on a regular basis and set up a website pledging her support for the RSPCA and the other agencies who investigated the case.
She has done more in her short life than many other people would do in the entirety of their's.
And now, as a thank you for her troubles, some half witted moron is mounting a hate campaign against her.
Whoever is behind this should feel ashamed of themselves for targeting a defenceless young girl who had the courage to highlight one of the worst ever cases of cruelty to animals ever seen in the country.
The sad thing is that the cowards responsible will probably never be caught and may stay in the shadows forever.
They may well think that they have scored some sort of victory. But the reality is they have not because disgusting acts like this only serve to make people like Katy stronger.
It is a testament to her that she has seen those responsible for the Spindles Farm incident be punished as they should have been.
We can only hope that those behind this act are caught and held accountable for their actions. Katy has the support of her loving family and friends. With their unerring support, it is to be hoped she will not be affected too much by this.
If only those leading this pathetic campaign had half her courage.
NOTE: The horrific discovery of starving horses, ponies and donkeys amongst the rotting corpses of other animals who had starved to death, has highlighted the bloody trade in horsemeat in the UK.
The owner of Spindles Farm, James (jamie) Gray of Buckinghamshire, paid as little as £1 for equines destined to be slaughtered and their meat sold.
Spindles Farm Owner James Gray, 44, his wife Julie Gray, 40, daughters Jodie Gray, 25, and Cordelia Gray, 19, as well as a 15 year male, have been charged.
http://amersham.buckinghamshireadvertiser.co.uk/2009/02/james-gray-will-take-stand-in.html
Five members of the Gray family have been charged with animal cruelty over the discovery of scores of neglected horses, ponies and donkeys. http://tauntonanimalrights.wordpress.com/2008/03/17/five-horse-slaughter-traders-charged-with-animal-cruelty/
The Intesive Rescue - It took 8 days for the RSPCA staff and vets to remove 125 animals from Spindle Farm, Hyde Heath in Amersham.http://www.bucksherald.co.uk/voiceofthepaper/Spare-a-thought-for-brave.5376733.jp... more
-
-
A Bronx teenager roasted her ex-roommate's kitten to death in a stove - then brushed off the incident as a joke when she was busted, authorities said Thursday.
(click the link for full story)A Bronx teenager roasted her ex-roommate's kitten to death in a stove - then... more
-
-
Police in Italy have found 1,700 little animals - ALIVE - in the back of a hatchback. Amongst the critters, there were budgies, mice, hamsters, squirrels and one thousand terrapins!
The animals are now all in nearby zoos. The driver, Francesco Lombardo, is being investigated for animal smuggling.Police in Italy have found 1,700 little animals - ALIVE - in the back of a hatchback.... more
-
-
"An activist group linked General Mills to destruction of rainforests in Southeast Asia in dramatic fashion on Tuesday, when it unfurled a giant banner, reading "Warning: General Mills Destroys Rainforests", outside the company's Minneapolis headquarters building.
The stunt was executed by the Rainforest Action Network (RAN), an activist group campaigning to highlight the role that palm oil consumption has in deforestation in Indonesia, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea. Expansion of oil palm plantations over the past twenty years has emerged as one of the biggest threats to the Southeast Asia's rainforests, which house such endangered species as the orangutan, the pygmy elephant of Borneo, and the Sumatran rhino.
Palm oil production has also become a significant source of greenhouse gas emissions, which result from deforestation, degradation and conversion of peatlands, and fires set for plantation establishment."
http://news.mongabay.com/2010/0119-palm_oil.html
Support only palm oil produced in a socially and environmentally responsible manner.
Take action:
http://ga3.org/ran/home.html
For more info visit: http://ran.org/the_problem_with_palm_oil/
A video below in the response is from this link.
Join Organic:
http://current.com/groups/organicgreen/"An activist group linked General Mills to destruction of rainforests in... more
-
-
Most of us are predators.
But often most of us forget it.
Most of us act as we were animalists, but at the end of the day, most of us appreciate hot meat....
And to feel better (and due to your society structure) most of us delegate somebody else to kill and prepare the preys for the banquet.Most of us are predators.
But often most of us forget it.
Most of us act as we were... more
-
-
A homepage dedicated to the (late) 6 month old puppy, Karley.
Story links, news updates, contact information and most importantly, petition links.
PLEASE DO NOT LET HER CRUEL DEATH GO UNPUNISHED.
Society must take responcibility... this horrible act against a helpless creature is a disgrace to what it means to be human.
There is NO excuse for animal cruelty.
If you witness or suspect animal abuse or animal cruelty, PLEASE speak up... your voice might be their only chance.A homepage dedicated to the (late) 6 month old puppy, Karley.
Story links, news... more
-
-
Police say an 18-year-old farmer in the Philippines is responsible for raping a two-year-old goat, then killing it after it tried to thwart his advances.
According to reports, after Roggie Calamaan was finished planting rice on Monday, he went on an alcohol binge. When he returned to ga
http://www.tabloidprodigy.com/?p=5832Police say an 18-year-old farmer in the Philippines is responsible for raping a... more
-
-
Created using recycled plastic bottles by Cracking Art Group, these animals represent the art collective’s strong social and environmental ethic while bringing accessible contemporary art to the masses.
In their efforts to divert toxic waste from harming the environment, the group also recycles its animals, reincarnating old installations into new artworks to be displayed around the world.
The art group, which consists of six members from Italy, France and Belgium, derived their name from the term used to describe the transformation of petroleum to plastic, called ‘catalytic cracking’. All six artists use the medium of plastic to give rise to their own interpretation of “our contemporary problems and tensions.”
“Cracking is the gap of the contemporary man, struggling between the primary naturalness and a future more and more artificial.”
Please follow link for more pics (other locations and species)Created using recycled plastic bottles by Cracking Art Group, these animals represent... more
-
-
Dec 15th, 2008 by Will Potter
Here's a new and improved version of the Center for Consumer Freedom's scare-mongering "terrorist" ad.Last week the Center for Consumer Freedom, an industry front group, took out a full-page ad in The New York Times accusing the Humane Society of the United States of supporting “terrorism.” ( http://www.greenisthenewred.com/blog/2008/12/11/full-page-new-york-times-ad-calls-humane-society-terrorists/ ) Their crime? A speech at a “holiday gala” for a group called the Humane League. If you’re not following, well, you’re not the only one. The ad included a flow chart to explain CCF’s convoluted logic, and their website has a 70-page document trying to support the flow chart.
CCF argues that they connect the Humane Society to bullhorn-wielding “eco-terrorists” in six steps, and in response I created a little contest called “Six Degrees of Consumer Freedom.” I asked you all to trump CCF by connecting them to real terrorists in fewer steps.
I’m proud to say… we have a winner!
Karen connected CCF to terrorism in two steps: CCF was created by Philip Morris, and Philip Morris has ties to cigarette smuggling, which directly funds terrorist groups. (Congrats Karen! You’ll be receiving your “domestic terrorist” apron!)
Center for Consumer Freedom ad in the New York Times labeling the Humane Society as "terrorists."
Below, I’ve added in my own research to substantiate the claims.
* In 1995, Philip Morris created the Guest Choice Network. It’s a front group that was proposed by Rick Berman in a letter to a Philip Morris executive. Here’s the letter.
* In January, 2002, the Guest Choice Network renamed itself the Center for Consumer Freedom. Rick Berman is still in charge.
* Philip Morris has been exposed for its involvement in illegal cigarette smuggling, including smuggling into Iraq in violation of United Nations sanctions. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says cigarette smuggling funnels millions of dollars to groups like Al Qaeda [See Washington Post, ""Cigarette Smuggling Linked to Terrorism" and the UK Telegraph, "US tobacco companies face claims of smuggling to Iraq," and the six-month investigation by PBS and NOW with Bill Moyers.]
What do you all think of this new and improved version of the CCF ad?Dec 15th, 2008 by Will Potter
Here's a new and improved version of the Center... more
-
-
MERIDA, Mexico (AFP) - Child protection and anti-bullfighting campaigners managed Thursday to suspend a battle between a Franco-Mexican child bullfighter and six young bulls due this weekend in southeast Mexico.
The city hall in Merida announced the suspension of the bullfight by Michelito, an 11-year-old bullfighting star, against six calves aged from one to two years, or "becerros."
The state human rights commission was studying the case following complaints from animal rights groups and child protection officials as well as an appeal for the fight to go on from the bullfighter's father, said Manuel Ibarra, a city hall official.
Several bullfights by Michelito were banned in France last summer after protests from anti-bullfighting associations.
Michelito's father, former French bullfighter Michel Lagravere, told AFP he hoped Saturday's bullfight would still go ahead.
"It's not a ban but a suspension," Lagravere said, adding that prosecutors would make a final decision late Friday.
Michelito has killed dozens of bulls in Mexico since he was six years old. The anti-bullfighting alliance in France said it had targeted him over other becerrada participants because "he fights in corridas aiming to kill."
© 2008 AFPMERIDA, Mexico (AFP) - Child protection and anti-bullfighting campaigners managed... more
-
-
I have some sad news. Oreo, a one year old pit bull, was thrown from a sixth floor balcony. She broke two of her legs and fractured a rib. Her owner was arrested and she was place in the care of the ASPCA. Now she is dead.I have some sad news. Oreo, a one year old pit bull, was thrown from a sixth floor... more
-
-
i wish you wouldn't do a story on bullfighting.it is cruel and sick.and i come from a ranching family,and spent many years on the rodeo trail. it is not fighting,it is torture.i wish you wouldn't do a story on bullfighting.it is cruel and sick.and i come... more
-
-
America consume around 700 million pounds of bacon each year. Pigs in your plate.
What do they feed to pigs to make them fat faster?
Anchovies. Pigs like them very much as well.
Cheap protein and quick growth (with often astonishing results such as Mad Cow disease), we feed farm animals lots of small, tasty fish.
Each year we feed 28 million tons of wild-caught fish (including anchovies, sardines, mackerel, and herring) to pigs and chickens around the globe. That amounts to 17 percent of all the wild fish we catch. Pigs and chickens eat double the amount of fish that Japan consumes annually and six times more seafood than the entire U.S. population eats each year.
Fisheries targeting forage fish are concentrated in four areas of the world the western coast of South America, northern Europe, the Atlantic seaboard of the US, and Alaska. Scientists have raised concerns that a 50 per cent increase in global aquaculture in the past 10 years will seriously affect marine ecosystems already under threat from acidification of the oceans caused by climate change. Species dependent on forage fish include penguins, gulls, cormorants, puffins, dolphins and right whales.
Penguin disappearance is providing evidence for the belief that the birds are facing a gauntlet of environmental challenges, from climate change, commercial fishing, pollution and even tourism. If this is true, penguins will go extinct before their time.
When will the world convince itself of this reality and decides to stop this massacre of nature and wild life?
PS:
The link is just a picture due to the lack of a specific article about this idea, concept and question open for exploration.
“The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.”
Nathaniel Branden
Join Organic:
http://current.com/groups/organicgreen/America consume around 700 million pounds of bacon each year. Pigs in your plate.... more
-
-
A man who tried to cool out his hyper cat by stuffing her into a boxlike homemade bong faces cruelty charges — and catcalls from animal lovers.
"This cat was just dazed," Sgt. Andy Stebbing said. "She was on the front seat of the cop car, wrapped in a blanket, and never moved all the way to the humane society."A man who tried to cool out his hyper cat by stuffing her into a boxlike homemade bong... more
-
-
Gitsie
-
added this
-
11 months ago
- |
-
You're out for a walk with your dog when two men suddenly appear and grab him before you have a chance to react. In an instant, your canine companion is gone. Then—as if that weren't horrifying enough—you later learn that your beloved friend is caged in a medical school laboratory, slated to be cut open and killed in a training exercise.
It's every animal guardian's worst nightmare, and it allegedly happened recently to Carmen Valverde of Lima, Peru, and her dog, Tomas.
After Tomas was stolen, a neighbor of Carmen's who works at the teaching hospital in the University of San Marcos recognized him while looking in the surgery room in which the school routinely dissects dogs.
The neighbor alerted Carmen and, wearing a lab coat, Carmen was able to sneak into the facility at the university and rescue Tomas, who was already sedated and strapped down for dissection.
While the school claims that it only dissects "dogs [who] don't have owners," after Tomas' story was made public, at least one other guardian found her missing dog in the same laboratory.
We're following this case and will keep you posted on any developments.
This problem isn't limited to Peru. Animals suffer in laboratories no matter where they come from, but laboratories that are willing to pay for animals provide an incentive for unscrupulous people to get animals wherever they can—often from our streets and yards. "Bunchers" may drug animals, pose as animal control officers, or answer "free to a good home" ads to get puppies and kittens to sell.You're out for a walk with your dog when two men suddenly appear and grab him... more
-
