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ACTION ALERT: Take the Pledge to Take Pigs Off Your Plate
Animals  (tags: slaughterhouse, pig, pigs, Animals Australia, abattoir, animal cruelty, death, slaughter, animal welfare, Reynard Loki, 13.7 Billion Years )

Reynard
- 177 days ago - animalsaustralia.org
On 11/21, an animal welfare investigator filmed horrific conditions of pigs in an abattoir in Victoria's Gippsland. Within hours of receiving a formal complaint and video from Animals Australia, authorities shut it down. Sign the pledge to save pigs.
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ACTION ALERT: The President of the United States: Support An Amendment to the Constution Making Gestation Crates Illegal!
Animals  (tags: pig stalls, pregnant sows, pigs, suffering, impriosonment, cruelty, laws )

Simone
- 183 days ago - change.org
Pigs are some of the most abused animals in American agribusiness. One of the biggest problems in pork farming is the use of gestation crates for pregnant sows. Gestation crates keep sows confined their whole lives so they are immobile.
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Take Action for Pigs | Lucy Speaks Out for Pigs | Animals Australia
Animals  (tags: pigs, factory-farmed pigs, factory farming, meat industry, diet, animal cruelty, animal abuse, animal rights, animal advocates )

Sylvie
- 205 days ago - animalsaustralia.org
Most of the pork, ham and bacon sold in AU comes from factory-farmed pigs. Driven by profits, the pork industry has ignored the suffering of these sensitive animals. Caring consumers who make compassionate & cruelty-free purchases are the key to change.
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Animals Petition: Matson Navigation 510-628-4000: Stop Shipping Live Pigs From the Mainland U.S. to Hawaii for Slaughter. | Chan
Animals  (tags: AnimalCruelty, Pigs, suffering, cruelty, slaughter, sadness, habitat, environment, abuse, abused, humans, protection, animals, animalrights, AnimalWelfare, animalwelfare, ethics, investigation, law )

Elizabeth
- 211 days ago - change.org
Pigs destined to be killed in Hawaii are loaded onto trucks for a grueling journey of seven days or longer across the states to an ocean port in Oakland, California. The pigs suffer stress and exhaustion, rough handling, hunger, thirst, extreme temp....
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ACTION ALERT: U.S. Marines Plan to Kill Pigs in Hawaii This Week: Take Action Now! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: combat training, animals, mutilated, abused, killed, pigs, hawaii, welfare, legalisation, cruelty )

Simone
- 234 days ago - secure2.convio.net
Please take a minute to urge the commander of U.S. Marines Base Hawaii to immediately replace the use of animals in upcoming combat trauma training courses.
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Pig Abuse in China a 'Class Experiment'?
Animals  (tags: abuse, AnimalCruelty, killed, killing, China, Pigs, torture )

Anne
- 236 days ago - sg.news.yahoo.com
A group of students from a special police prep school was seen torturing a pig in various ways. ChinaSmack posted photos of the animal being beaten with poles and strangled by a student in a school in Nanning, China.
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ACTION ALERT: Stop Funding Shipments of Live Pigs to Hawaii! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: pigs, inhumane, suffering, cruelty, abused, hawaii, welfare, protection )

Simone
- 240 days ago - forcechange.com
One may argue the tenants of whether meat and other animal products should or should not be consumed. The vegan/vegetarian debate is an issue of personal philosophy. What cannot be debated however is that those animals raised for food should be treated
33 comments
Best Friends: Best Photos of Pigs!
Animals  (tags: animals, goodnews, pigs )

Jill
- 271 days ago - bestfriends.org
Meet Jack the tweeting Pig and many other adorable piggy faces!
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McDonald's: Stop Using Pork From Abused Pigs - PLEASE TAKE ACTION
Animals  (tags: animals, pigs, animalcruelty, animalrights, animalwelfare )

Yrna
- 283 days ago - change.org
An undercover investigator from the Humane Society of the United States recently documented the suffering endured by female breeding pigs held in gestation crates on a factory farm operated by a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, the largest pork company
43 comments
ACTION ALERT: Prosecute Slaughterhouse Cruelty! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: pigs, farm animals, abused, tortured, burned, deplorable cruelty, cheale meat, prosecution, investigation )

Simone
- 289 days ago - animalaid.org.uk
In March and April 2011, Animal Aid filmed secretly inside Cheale Meats slaughterhouse. The footage revealed serious abuses of the animals, including burning pigs with cigarettes and one animal being punched in the face. Defra - the government department
16 comments
ACTION ALERT: Pigs Burnt With Cigarettes, Punched, Kicked, Dragged and Beaten! PLEASE ACTION!
Animals  (tags: investigation, pigs, abused, tortured, justice for pigs )

Simone
- 289 days ago - animalaid.org.uk
Cigarettes stubbed out on pigs' faces; one animal punched in the head; another goaded in the face; regular blows and kicks; seriously injured pigs forced to drag themselves to slaughter... All these abuses in one UK slaughterhouse and Defra still won't
20 comments
ACTION ALERT: Prosecute Cheale Meats Pig Abusers & Improve Slaughter House Animal Welfare Laws! PLEASE SIGN !
Animals  (tags: pigs, tortured, undercover investigation, crime, horrific cruelty punishment to abusers, cheale meats )

Simone
- 301 days ago - change.org
On July 29, 2011, news broke of Animal Aid's undercover footage at Cheale Meats, a slaughterhouse in Essex, England breaking a number of animal welfare laws. The footage shows horrible abuse of the pigs going through the slaughter house,
46 comments
Urge the Derbyshire County Council to Reject Application for Pig 'Prison' | Take Action | PETA.Org.Uk - 1
Animals  (tags: AnimalWelfare, animalrights, Pigs, suffering, slaughter, humans, killing, animals, crime, cruelty, endangered, death, abuse, sadness, habitat, AnimalCruelty )

Elizabeth
- 309 days ago - action.peta.org.uk
According to the plans, 2,500 breeding sows would be kept in a rearing unit, and the facility would produce 1,000 pigs a week to be transported to slaughter. Pigs, like all farmed animals, are sentient beings, not commodities to be produced. Pigs are....
22 comments
LAST DAY FOR E-MAILS - San Diego County Plans to Exterminate Naturalized Pigs
Animals  (tags: animalrights, wildlife, pigs, San Diego County )

Lyne
- 335 days ago - friendsofanimals.org
Last day to send comments to Pete Gomben regarding the extermination plan! See link inside.
27 comments
Ask the University of Mississippi Medical Center to End the Use of Pigs in Its Physiology Lab
Animals  (tags: live animals, pigs, University of Mississippi, medical, medicine, dean, chancellor, stop, experiments, physiology, study, abuse, animals, killed, awareness, cruelty, death, slaughter, killing, testing, ethics, humans, environment, protection, suffering )

Chaplain
- 336 days ago - secure2.convio.net
Please take a minute to ask University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Medicine dean James E. Keeton, M.D., and University of Mississippi chancellor Daniel W. Jones, M.D., to stop the use of live pigs in the school's medical student physiology
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