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Aug 30, 2008

A HAPPY END STORY ! worth to see and do not forget : HUNTING season is starting in Spain and thousands of animals and dogs (especially Galgos) will loose their lives due to hunters cruelty !

http://www.care2.com/news/member/952597861/863289

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=H56Hq8VrqOk

for those who want see the beginning in hell :

http://es.youtube.com/watch?v=qK1_g6JbBug

Please do not forget to sign petitions available at Scooby Medinas Site:

http://www.scoobymedina.com/home_en.htm

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-the-physical-and-mental-cruelty-against-galgos-and-podencos-in-spain
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Posted: Aug 30, 2008 4:02am
Stop euthanize pets ? See the result of it in Italy
Mar 15, 2008
Did you ever think about what happens with unwanted pets? Did you ever think about what happens with unwanted pets when euthanisation is not allowed? If you really want to know, visit one of the 5000 of private pet-LAGER in Italy. These shelters are PRIVATE, but paid by pubblic money. There is no controll, no possibility to enter (as they are PRIVATE), pets are not given in addobtion (owner gets Eur 7 per pet per day !, why should this money got lost to him !) These animals don’t get any medical care, nor enough food or water. They are MONEYPRODUCERS for the owner of these shelters.Please consider that there are more than 5000 of these private shelters and that this means that there are hunderd of thousands of pets suffering in these Lagers.  

My personal point of view : I would prefer to be dead, rather than to be confined in one of these LAGERS. 

 Very very graphic video !!!!!! Do not enter if you are not prepared to see death and suffering  : (I did’nt want to look till the end, the beginning of the video tells it all ! )http://video.libero.it/app/play?id=dd44c3fc7064abc84bb44364f7dbfddc 

Italy has very soffisticated animal-protection laws. Abbandonement is punished with fines and/or prison. These are the original articles of the Italian Law : (first two articles with a small translation).

Art. 544-bis. - (Uccisione di animali). - Chiunque, per crudeltà o senza necessità, cagiona la morte di un animale è punito con la reclusione da tre mesi a diciotto mesi.


Art 544 bis. Killing of animals : who kills, for cruelty or without necessity (!) an animal is punished with prision from 3 to 18 months.


Art. 544-ter. - (Maltrattamento di animali). - Chiunque, per crudeltà o senza necessità, cagiona una lesione ad un animale ovvero lo sottopone a sevizie o a comportamenti o a fatiche o a lavori insopportabili per le sue caratteristiche etologiche è punito con la reclusione da tre mesi a un anno o con la multa da 3.000 a 15.000 euro.
La stessa pena si applica a chiunque somministra agli animali sostanze stupefacenti o vietate ovvero li sottopone a trattamenti che procurano un danno alla salute degli stessi.
La pena è aumentata della metà se dai fatti di cui al primo comma deriva la morte dell'animale.

Art 544 ter. Abuse of animals : who abuses, for cruelty or without necessity (!) an animal is punished with prision from 3 to 12 months or with a fine between Eur 3’000 to 15’000

Art. 544-quater. - (Spettacoli o manifestazioni vietati). - Salvo che il fatto costituisca più grave reato, chiunque organizza o promuove spettacoli o manifestazioni che comportino sevizie o strazio per gli animali è punito con la reclusione da quattro mesi a due anni e con la multa da 3.000 a. 15.000 euro.
La pena è aumentata da un terzo alla metà se i fatti di cui al primo comma sono commessi in relazione all'esercizio di scommesse clandestine o al fine di trarne profitto per sè od altri ovvero se ne deriva la morte dell'animale.Art. 544-quinquies. - (Divieto di combattimenti tra animali). - Chiunque promuove, organizza o dirige combattimenti o competizioni non autorizzate tra animali che possono metterne in pericolo l'integrità fisica è punito con la reclusione da uno a tre anni e con la multa da 50.000 a 160.000 euro.
La pena è aumentata da un terzo alla metà:
1) se le predette attività sono compiute in concorso con minorenni o da persone armate;
2) se le predette attività sono promosse utilizzando videoriproduzioni o materiale di qualsiasi tipo contenente scene o immagini dei combattimenti o delle competizioni;
3) se il colpevole cura la ripresa o la registrazione in qualsiasi forma dei combattimenti o delle competizioni.
Chiunque, fuori dei casi di concorso nel reato, allevando o addestrando animali li destina sotto qualsiasi forma e anche per il tramite di terzi alla loro partecipazione ai combattimenti di cui al primo comma è punito con la reclusione da tre mesi a due anni e con la multa da 5.000 a 30.000 euro. La stessa pena si applica anche ai proprietari o ai detentori degli animali impiegati nei combattimenti e nelle competizioni di cui al primo comma, se consenzienti.
Chiunque, anche se non presente sul luogo del reato, fuori dei casi di concorso nel medesimo, organizza o effettua scommesse sui combattimenti e sulle competizioni di cui al primo comma è punito con la reclusione da tre mesi a due anni e con la multa da 5.000 a 30.000 euro.

Art. 544-sexies. - (Confisca e pene accessorie). - Nel caso di condanna, o di applicazione della pena su richiesta delle parti a norma dell'articolo 444 del codice di procedura penale, per i delitti previsti dagli articoli 544-ter, 544-quater e 544-quinquies, è sempre ordinata la confisca dell'animale, salvo che appartenga a persona estranea al reato.
E' altresì disposta la sospensione da tre mesi a tre anni dell'attività di trasporto, di commercio o di allevamento degli animali se la sentenza di condanna o di applicazione della pena su richiesta è pronunciata nei confronti di chi svolge le predette attività. In caso di recidiva è disposta l'interdizione dall'esercizio delle attività medesime".


 There is only one answer to this:
SPAY AND NEUTER !!!!!!

What if Cities and counties would be obliged to spay and neuter for free all pets?, (maybe using the public money, instead of giving it to these private Lager-shelters ?) This would and could reduce immediately the number of stray cats and dogs and of all “unwanted” puppies.Dott. Larosa calculated that if every female has once in her life puppies, these puppies would create about 500 more pets in 4 years. This is the original article of this couraged Vet in Italy :


PERCHE’ CONVIENE STERILIZZARE
Dott. Larosa

I pro e i contro per combattere il continuo aumento di cani e gatti e, conseguentemente, l’abbandono dei nostri amici a quattro zampe.

Cosa succederebbe se, come da molti ritenuto necessario, ogni cagna o gatta avesse almeno una volta nella vita una cucciolata?
La Dottoressa Laura Torriani, segretario dell’ANMVI (Associazione Nazionale Medici Veterinari Italiani) ha calcolato in modo molto semplice che se così fosse ogni animale produrrebbe una media di circa 6 cuccioli, considerando che a volte sono di più, altre di meno…

Se la metà sono femmine (3), anche queste nel giro di due anni avranno messo al mondo 18 cuccioli.
In 2 anni: da 9 femmine – 54 cuccioli
dopo altri 2 anni: Da 27 femmine – 162 cuccioli
dopo ancora altri 2 anni: da 81 femmine si avrebbero circa 486 cuccioli.
In 10 anni la cifra totale degli animali si è quasi cinquecentuplicata. Siete sicuri che sia così facile trovare tutte queste persone desiderose di adottare questi animali? Se così fosse come mai ogni anno il numero dei cani e dei gatti nei rifugi continua ad aumentare? In Italia sono circa 150 mila i nuovi cani abbandonati ogni anno e circa 450 mila i gatti. Cos’è la sterilizzazione? Di cosa si tratta e come viene effettuata?
Nel caso della femmina, due sono le possibilità di intervento.
Il primo, consiste nell’allacciare le tube, per evitare che gli ovociti, vadano ad incontrare gli spermatozoi, sempre molto attivi, dei maschi, lasciando in funzione la produzione di ormoni, i periodici calori e gli accoppiamenti oramai non fecondi.
In questo modo si tranquillizzano tutti i proprietari che pensano che sia una menomazione, nei confronti della cagnetta o della gattina, quella di effettuare l’intervento di asportazione totale di ovaie ed utero. Nel caso del maschio, allacciare i condotti seminali, attraverso i quali gli spermatozoi vanno a fecondare gli ovociti prodotti dalla femmina, risolverebbe il problema delle gravidanze indesiderate e il problema dei maschietti, proprietari degli animali, che si immedesimano nel proprio compagno di vita, che verrebbe, secondo loro, menomato nella loro maschilità. Pensiamo, a questo punto, solo per un attimo, quale sarebbe, dal punto di vista fisiologico, e mentale, la cosa migliore per il nostro amico a quattro zampe, un amico o amica che non può o non vogliamo far accoppiare periodicamente così come la natura aveva predisposto con dei codici e delle attrazioni tali da superare gli interessi o la noia di noi umani.
Loro non si accoppiano o si attraggono per piacere o divertimento.
A loro, l’istinto, indicato dalla natura e codificato in modo ben preciso da alcuni geni, che indirettamente, li portano ad avere una attrazione irrefrenabile tra di loro, durante il periodo del calore, la natura dice che devono produrre della prole , dei cuccioli che a loro volta si moltiplicheranno con degli istinti incontrollabili perchè devono mantenere la specie .
Noi umani, allora, dobbiamo decidere se lasciar fare alla natura, impegnandoci personalmente alla sistemazione completa e responsabile della futura prole, oppure prendere dei provvedimenti affinchè questo venga evitato. Se prendiamo in considerazione, cosa è meglio per lo stato di salute dell’animale, allora non vi è alcun dubbio che, asportare completamente, sia le ovaie che l’utero, nel caso della femmina o asportare i testicoli, nel caso del maschio sia la cosa migliore da fare.
Asportando queste strutture, intanto eliminiamo una notevole quantità di patologie, sia dell’età giovanile, sia della terza età a carico di questi organi, ma, cosa ancora più importante è la precocità dell’intervento, almeno nella femmina. Non è vero quello che si dice, in giro per parchi e giardini, che una gravidanza ed il successivo parto prevengano patologie tumorali a carico dell’apparato mammario o possano prevenire alcune patologie dell’utero, o addirittura che una eventuale gravidanza possa eliminare il presentarsi della “falsa gravidanza” che alcune cagnette present ano dopo circa due mesi dal calore.
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Posted: Mar 15, 2008 12:19am
Moon Bears (Asiatic Black Bear)
Mar 9, 2008
Asiatic black bear, Tibetan black bear, Himalayan black bear, moon bear
Ursus thibetanus Their ability to balance proficiently on their hind feet mean that they are sometimes trained as cubs to dance for human amusement.

Life span
25 years.

Statistics
Body length: 130-190cm, Weight: males: 100-200kg, female: 50-125kg.

Physical Description
Asiatic black bears have long black fur with a distinct white patch on the chest that is often crescent-shaped. The fur around the shoulders and throat is particularly long, and their ears are relatively large.

Distribution
Asiatic black bears live in eastern Asia, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Islamic Republic of Iran, Japan, Democratic People's Republic of Korea, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Russian Federation, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Habitat
They inhabit forested areas, particularly hill and mountainous regions.

Diet
Asiatic black bears are more carnivorous than their American counterparts, although only a small part of their diet is made up of meat. This includes small mammals, birds, fish, molluscs and carcasses. They also feed on grasses, fruits, berries, seeds, insects and honey. In autumn they fatten up for the winter by feeding on nuts.

Behaviour
Asiatic black bears are solitary except for maternal family groups, and occupy a home range of 10-20 square km. They are most active at night, although in some areas they may be active during the day as well.

Reproduction
Asiatic black bears mate from June to July and give birth during January and February. Females give birth to 1-4 cubs, which are born blind and helpless.

Conservation status
The subspecies U.t.gedrosianus (Baluchistan) is listed by the IUCN as Critically Endangered, but other subspecies are classified as Vulnerable. They are on CITES: Appendix I. Deforestation and loss of habitat are the main problems they face. They are killed by farmers due to the threat they pose to livestock, and they are also unpopular for their habit of stripping valuable timber trees of bark and reducing the value. Asiatic black bears are also hunted for their gall bladders, which are used in traditional Chinese medicine.

Notes
Unlike American black bears, Asiatic black bears are notoriously aggressive towards humans and there are numerous records of human attacks and killings. This is mainly due to the fact that they are more likely to come into contact with humans, and they will often attack if surprised.  
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Posted: Mar 9, 2008 1:16pm
Find your heart, and you will find your way
Feb 23, 2008
"The greatest wisdom is in simplicity," 
"Love, respect, tolerance, sharing, gratitude, forgiveness".
It's not complex or elaborate. The real knowledge is free. It's encoded in your DNA. All you need is within you. Great teachers have said that from the beginning:
Find your heart, and you will find your way


One simple but effective prayer technique is to light a white or baby-blue colored candle.
Think a moment in peace.
Speak your intention to the flame and send the
light of it on to the leaders who have the power to
make war or peace


We need to act, to make changes, and to elect people to represent us who understand and who will take political action to respect the earth. Meditation and spiritual practice are good, but also action. It's very important to be clear about who you are, and also about your relation to the Earth.


Develop yourself according to your own tradition and the call of your heart.
But remember to respect differences, and strive for unity. Eat wisely. A lot of food is corrupt in either subtle or gross ways. Pay attention to what you are taking into your body. Learn to preserve food, and to conserve energy. Learn some
good breathing techniques, so you have mastery of your breath.


Be clear. Follow a tradition with great roots. It is
not important what tradition, your heart will tell
you, but it must have great roots.
We live in a world of energy.
An important task at this time is to learn
to sense or see the energy of everyone and everything: people, plants, animals. This becomes increasingly important as we draw close to the World of the Fifth Sun, for it is associated with the element ether; the realm where energy lives and weaves.


Go to the sacred places of the earth to pray for
peace, and respect for the Earth which gives us our food, clothing, and shelter.
We need to reactivate the energy of these sacred places. That is our work.


Remember that the government is only a
manifestation of the collective consciousness of its citizens
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Posted: Feb 23, 2008 2:14pm
Spielberg Resigns from Beijing Olympics over China's Role in Darfur
Feb 22, 2008
Spielberg Resigns from Beijing Olympics over China's Role in Darfur

"My conscience will not allow me to continue with business as usual," Spielberg said in a statement.  Read the statement.  Read news coverage.


http://www.dreamfordarfur.org/NewsEvents/SpielbergsWithdrawalStatement/tabid/304/Default.aspx

Statement from Steven Spielberg
Regarding Beijing Olympic Games and Darfur


February 12, 2008

After careful consideration, I have decided to formally announce the end of my involvement as one of the overseas artistic advisors to the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympic Games.

In anticipation that this day might one day come, I left unsigned the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games contract presented to me nearly a year ago. Since that time, I have made repeated efforts to encourage the Chinese government to use its unique influence to bring safety and stability to the Darfur region of Sudan. Although some progress has been made along the way, most notably, the passage of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1769, the situation in Darfur continues to worsen and the violence continues to accelerate.

With this in mind, I find that my conscience will not allow me to continue with business as usual. At this point, my time and energy must be spent not on Olympic ceremonies, but on doing all I can to help bring an end to the unspeakable crimes against humanity that continue to be committed in Darfur. Sudan’s government bears the bulk of the responsibility for these on-going crimes but the international community, and particularly China, should be doing more to end the continuing human suffering there. China’s economic, military and diplomatic ties to the government of Sudan continue to provide it with the opportunity and obligation to press for change. The situation has never been more precarious – and while China’s representatives have conveyed to me that they are working to end the terrible tragedy in Darfur, the grim realities of the suffering continue unabated.

This has been a very difficult decision for me, as I have cherished the relationships with my Chinese counterparts, in particular, the noted director Zhang Yimou, who is a close personal friend. I have learned a great deal from working with him and all the other creative artists along the way. There is little that is more rewarding than to collaborate with those who bring vision and imagination to a challenging artistic task. And I greatly appreciated the spirit in which we worked together - a spirit that embodied genuine friendship and respect.

For me, the Olympic Games represent an ideal of brotherhood designed to bridge cultural and political divides. I am committed to building bridges between peoples and I saw, and continue to see, the Beijing Games as an opportunity to help ease some of the tensions in the world.

China has much to offer the world and I have no doubt that its international contributions will grow in the years ahead. With growing influence, however, also comes growing responsibilities. As China welcomes the world to Beijing for the 2008 Olympic Games, I hope to be among those in attendance; and it is also my great hope that, with renewed and intensified efforts from China, there will be peace and security in Darfur at last.
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© Copyright 2007, Dream for Darfur . All Rights Reserved
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Posted: Feb 22, 2008 2:10pm
shooting bears
Feb 22, 2008
Focus: Animal Welfare
Action Request: Petition
Location: United States
If you are not a resident of Berwick, Lebanon, or North Berwick, Maine, please sign this petition.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/3/stop-school-bear-hunt-raffle---nonresidents


 If you are an MSAD #60 resident, please sign our petition for residents at
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/stop-school-bear-hunt-raffle
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Posted: Feb 22, 2008 12:38pm
What fashion companies are marketing seal products?
Feb 17, 2008
Focus: Animal Welfare
Action Request: Boycott
Location: Italy
What fashion companies are marketing seal products?
PRADA
Prada S.P.A.
Via Andrea Maffei, 2
20154 Milan, Italy
Phone: 39 02 54 67 01Prada (U.S. office)
Katherine Ross, V.P. of Communications
610 W. 52nd St.
New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212 307 9300
Dolce & Gabbana
Via Goldoni, 10,
20129 Milano, Italy.
+39 02 774271
Fax +39 02 76020600
Gucci
685 Fifth Ave.
New York, NY 10022
212-750-5220
clientservice-europe@gucci.it

Versace
Donatella Versace
Versace S.P.A. Headquarters
Via Manzoni, 38
Milan ITALY 20121
Phone: 39 02 76 09 31
Fax: 39 02 76 00 41 22
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Posted: Feb 17, 2008 3:03am
End of the Canadian Baby Seal Slaughter
Feb 16, 2008
Focus: Animal Welfare
Action Request: None at this time
Location: Canada
01/10/2008

The End of the Canadian Baby Seal Slaughter is in Sight

Commentary by Captain Paul Watson
Founder and President of Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

When I was a little boy growing up in an East coast Canadian fishing village I had a dream.

That dream was to end the horrific slaughter of baby harp and hood seals in Canada. Seeing seals killed as a boy haunted my dreams and shaped my life as an activist.

I was not some big city raised privileged child protesting the seal hunt because it was the politically correct thing to do.  Where I lived it was the politically incorrect thing to do. As for privileged, an accusation that many sealers have spat at me, well, I was the eldest of seven children raised primarily by a single mother and I brought fish, clams and lobsters home that I caught myself to help feed the family starting at the age of eight.  

I also spent time freeing fur bearing animals from leghold traps and then destroying the traps and snares. I sabotaged deer and bear hunts and defended wildlife, a stand that placed me in numerous fights with other kids and disapproval from the fishermen and the hunters. Fortunately for me I was not a frail child and I won most of the fights and discouraged ridicule. I remember one kid asking me what right did I have to stop him from killing birds. My answer was simply, "I'm bigger than you."

In a community of kids armed with B.B. guns, I used mine to persuade other kids to not shoot birds and snakes. I quit cub scouts after seeing a scout master stomp a snake to death and then dissect a struggling frog.

And the moving force behind my young activism was the image that I see as clearly today as I did in 1960 - the sight and sound of a spiked club cracking in the skull of an innocent snowy white seal pup on a New Brunswick beach. I still see his pleading desperate eyes and I can recall the dull thud of the club as the blood gushed out over the ice.

Since 1975, I have led continuous campaigns against the obscenity of the Canadian seal slaughter. I brought the first ever ship to the ice to protect seals in 1979, returning in 1981, and 1983. We shut the commercial part of the horror down in 1984 but returned again in 1994, bringing the ships back in 1998 and 2005. We will return again with our ship Farley Mowat again this year in March.

I have never given up on these seals vowing that the slaughter would end in my lifetime. And now at long last, after a lifetime of confrontations, battles on the ice, blockades, ship rammings, riots, beatings, imprisonment, fines, assaults, death threats and the danger of shifting ice and hostile weather in remote stretches of ocean I can see the light at the end of this long struggle.

We are winning and we will win! The seals will win and I believe that we can at long last put an end to one of the most perversely evil chapters in Canadian history.

I believe we can abolish the seal slaughter once and for all!

This movement that so many of us have built over the last four decades is about to bring an economic club down on the thick headed skull of the sealing industry. We now have the potential to wipe out the Canadian sealing industry and we need to give it a final push.

The Canadian government and the sealing industry are admitting that they are facing a crisis because of escalating import bans. Europe is on the verge of a blanket ban on all seal products including Canadian harp and hood seals and South African fur seals.
 
On January 8th, Bruce Williams, the Chairman of the Canadian Fur Institute informed a gathering of over 100 sealers that the future of the seal hunt is looking bleak.

"Unfortunately, the animal rights organizations around the world have come to realize that the easiest way to kill something - for maybe lack of a better term - is to kill the market," Williams said. "If you can't sell the product, if it has no commercial value, then I would say that it is doomed."

Belgium and Holland have approved legislation prohibiting the sale of seal products. Germany, Italy and Austria are drafting similar legislation, prompting pressure for the European Union to adopt a ban.

While those countries aren't Canada's biggest importers of seal products, they serve as a critical shipment and manufacturing point to the larger markets of Norway, Russia and China.

Williams said there's an additional effect an EU-wide ban could have on the sealing industry.

"One thing I can tell you is that if fur is not fashionable on the runways of Paris and Milan, it's not going to be fashionable anywhere," he said. "The simple reality today is the big markets are China and Russia, but they want things that are in style, and style is not dictated by those countries. It's dictated by the countries in Europe."

Loyola Sullivan, Canada's fisheries ambassador, acknowledged Tuesday that efforts to overcome the anti-sealing lobby in Europe would be tough.

"It's difficult because it's advanced so far," Sullivan said. "It's got a tremendous foothold in Europe, and most people close to the situation feel that a ban by other countries is imminent, that it's gone too far. It would be unpopular now for a member of parliament in a European country to support the hunt."

In September, Canada launched a challenge to the World Trade Organization in an effort to persuade the Belgian and Dutch governments to reverse their bans. Ottawa's complaint remains before the WTO and is not expected to obstruct the Dutch or the Belgians.

Mark Small, a former president of the Canadian Sealing Association has finally admitted that Canadian sealers have been sloppy and have not lived up to the propaganda of the seal hunt as being humane.

"I'm definitely sure that, as a sealer myself, we can do a better job than we've been doing in the past," Small said. "We've got to make some compromises if we're going to protect our future industry in this province."

It's difficult to understand How Mr. Small intends to improve on methods that for years he has argued are 100% humane. 

Now that the writing is on the wall the sealers are making promises to improve their killing methods but the truth is that there is no humane way to slaughter seals. And opposition to the seal hunt is more than just opposition to killing methods. I have always opposed the killing itself. Canadian east coast seal populations have been diminished from some forty million seals of all species to less than four million. The seal populations have been reduced by 90% and now the harp and hood seals are being faced with threats of ice melt and increased pup mortality because of global warming.

The seal slaughter has no place in a civilized society and no place in the 21st Century. It is a hold-over from the days of mass wildlife plunder and the decimation of seal populations has grossly altered the entire marine eco-system of the Northwest Atlantic region. The diminishment of the cod to less than 4% of it's original levels at the time of the European invasion is partially because of the removal of so many predators (seals) that kept the predatory fish species of the cod in check.

If the European wide ban holds it will end sealing and all of us in this movement must do everything we can to encourage the European Parliament to continue with their legislative efforts to ban all seal products.

Towards this end, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society is intending to send our ship the Farley Mowat to the seal slaughter for hopefully the last time. The Farley Mowat will depart from Bermuda in March for the Eastern coast of Canada.


P.O. Box 2616, Friday Harbor, WA 98250 (USA) Tel: 360-370-5650 Fax: 360-370-5651
Copyright © 2006 Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. All rights reserved.

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Posted: Feb 16, 2008 4:36am
Why do they club seals ?
Feb 16, 2008
Focus: Animal Welfare
Action Request: Protest
Location: Canada

Why Do They Club Seals ?

Animals  (tags: wildlife, wildanimals, wildanimals, suffering, slaughter, killing, animals, AnimalCruelty, AnimalWelfare, animalrights, cruelty )

Arlette
StarsButterfliesGold Notes - 22 hours ago - slate.com

Animal welfare activists clashed with seal-pup hunters in Canada this week, just a few days into the annual sealing season. A commercial vessel rammed an inflatable boat filled with protesters over the weekend, and hunters threw seal guts. Animal rights g





Are the sealers killing baby seals?

The Canadian government keeps insisting that only adult harp seals are killed. Yet, the following questions marked "#8 and #9" are taken verbatim from the DFO website:

8. How old must harp and hooded seals be before hunters can take them?
Harp seals can be legally hunted once they have moulted their white coat, which occurs at about 12-14 days of age. However, they are not usually hunted until they reach the "beater" stage of development at around 25 days old.

9. Why do hunters target young animals?
Young harp seals between approximately 3-4 weeks and one year of age are called beaters - so named because they tend to slap the water when they swim. Beater seals provide the most valuable pelts and market conditions are stronger for this type of pelt.

Twelve to fourteen days is not the definition of an adult seal. Nor is 25 days (which is three-four weeks). The seals from birth to four weeks old are helpless and cannot escape or defend themselves from their killers. These are seal pups. Seal pups are baby seals.

So when seal defenders state that the sealers are killing baby seals, what they mean is that sealers are killing baby seals

When the Canadian government states that the sealers kill only adult seals, they are redefining the meaning of baby seals. Baby seals cease to be baby seals and become adult seals at 12 days old according to the government definition. So when government and industry spokespeople say that the sealers are killing adult seals what they really mean is that sealers are killing baby seals
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Posted: Feb 16, 2008 4:23am
Boiled alive ! - sign petition to punish actors
Feb 10, 2008
Focus: Animal Welfare
Action Request: Petition
Location: United States
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Monkey-boiled-alive-punish-actors

PETITION for Monkey Boiled at Research Lab

Animals  (tags: petition, boiled monkey, Everett laboratory, animal cruelty )

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StarsButterfliesGold Notes - 10 hours ago - thepetitionsite.com
We the undersigned, are appalled by the cruelty that took place in the Biomedical Testlab SNBL in Everett, where a female Cynomolus Macaque was boiled alive inside a giant rack-washer.PLEASE SIGN
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For the most part, people have faith in the Indian judiciary for being fair, even if the process is interminably slow. But cases like this one which grips national attention and severely shake that faith. Many will have forgotten the original incide...
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On December 17 last, Juan Lopez de Uralde with two other activists were detained for unfolding of streamers during the official reception of the Queen of Denmark in honor of heads of state attending the summit in Copenhagen The detainees were arrest...
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