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11 October
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The Most Sickening Part Was When Her Front Legs Were Sawn Off While She Was Still Alive

Posted by Bob in Animal Abuse

I have been thinking a lot about cows over the past few months.
My acute interest came about when I was sent by this newspaper to see a dairy cow being slaughtered.
She was old in productive terms, but only five or six.
She had given up six or seven of her children at a couple of days old, and every drop of her milk.
We greedy humans should have been grateful, but how did we repay her?
She was taken to the abattoir without being milked, so her huge, swollen udders were painful.
She was terrified, having queued for ages behind other doomed cows, before she was stunned with a bolt to the head.
The most sickening part was when her front legs were sawn off while she was still alive.
She kept trying to move her legs away.
The slaughterman called her a cunt.
Farm animals are surely the most persecuted creatures in the history of this planet.
Maybe if David Attenborough were to make a documentary showing the life of the cow or the chicken, how they love and nurture their young, we would have more sympathy, more insight.
(Liz Jones)

16 September
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Who Is There To Stop Animal Abuse?

Posted by Bob in Animal Abuse

The shocking treatment of animals was filmed by activists using secret cameras.
But the Government has refused to prosecute.
Footage shows slaughtermen stubbing out cigarettes on pigs’ heads, animals being punched and a farming spike used on their faces.
But the Food Standards Agency and Defra, the Government animal welfare department, will not rely on evidence from a third party.
Animal Aid said the filming took place at an abattoir in Brentwood, Essex, run by Cheale Meats, where up to 6,000 pigs are slaughtered every week.
Kate Fowler of campaigning group Animal Aid, which captured the footage, said: “We’ve been pressing everyone involved to act decisively to end cruelty.
If Defra won’t prosecute these flagrant breaches of the law, if the vet’s can’t or won’t act to stop the cruelties, and if the slaughterhouse owners look the other way, who is there to stop animal abuse?”

09 September
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Only Humans Are Capable Of Evil

Posted by Bob in Animal Abuse,Wildlife

I really don’t understand the war being raged in the countryside against crows, magpies and jackdaws.
I heard another horror story about a pig farmer who traps up to 80 jackdaws every night, which he then clobbers over the head (trapping of corvids is also legal under licence).
He feeds the birds to his pigs as extra protein.
Like most corvid murderers, this farmer loves to shoot.
Isn’t it interesting, too, that sport, a recreation, is placed at the top of the pile over humanity.
At least corvids clean up the rotting carcasses of sheep (often, pregnant sheep) left in fields because the farmer can’t be bothered to move them.
And even if we do disapprove of the behavior of corvids or parakeets, that is no reason to kill them.
We might as well imprison cuckoos.
This all reminds me of a recent story about a cleric who sentenced a dog to be stoned.
Remember that only humans are capable of evil.
That is what makes us unique.
(Liz Jones)

06 September
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Parakeets Are A Pest, Shoot Them

Posted by Bob in Animal Abuse,Wildlife

You’d think, given the outrage in this country about dogs left in hot cars, that animals are treated fairly here.
But given what’s going on in a leafy suburb in Hertfordshire, I’d counter we are living in the Soviet Bloc rather than 21st Century Britain, where the Government does not listen to us, or even to reason or science.
In this bastion of law-abiding tax-paying Middle England, a campaign is being mounted to save the Borehamwood 33 – a flock of wild birds descended from 12 monk parakeets that escaped from an aviary during a burglary 16 years ago.
The Government has decided they are a pest.
Two years ago, Natural England added both the monk and the ring-necked parakeet to the General Licence, which means the birds can be shot.
Yet in New York, a law was passed to protect a flock of approximately the same size as this one.
(Liz Jones)

02 September
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Their Teeth Are Ripped Out With Pliers

Posted by Bob in Animal Abuse

Babies are taken from their mothers in Indonesian rainforests and their teeth ripped out with pliers to make them ‘safe’.
They have been spotted at markets in Jakarta – the nocturnal creatures stuffed into cages, where they curl up to try to escape the scorching sun.
The Loris, which inspired the Furby toy, now face extinction.
It is illegal to bring a Loris to Britain, but they are thought to be smuggled in.
Few survive.
The tooth wounds don’t heal, or get infected, and they die a slow, painful death.
Others die from malnutrition because owners are ignorant of the diet they need.
The animals are traded to Japan, China, The Middle East, Europe and the US.
A large proportion die in transit.

31 August
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What happens When You Shoot A Bird?

Posted by Bob in Animal Abuse,Wildlife

In 2008, The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) performed secret field trials in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire at a cost to the taxpayer of £37,000.
This involved shooting seven birds and destroying three nests to ‘observe’ what would happen.
I think everyone knows what happens if you shoot a bird – it dies.
What right do the Government have to come into our towns and kill birds which are part of the community?

12 August
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Battery Beagles – It’s Barbaric

Posted by Bob in Animal Abuse,Cats And Dogs

Hundreds of dogs at Harlan Laboratories in Wyton, Cambridgeshire, Britain’s biggest beagle ‘farm’, spend just 20 minutes a week outside their small cages.
The dogs are kept in pens with little daylight before being sold for experiments for around £2000 each, after which most are killed.
Some cages measure two by three metres and are used to house two large dogs or eight puppies.
The few animals not sold are used as breeders or donors and have their blood drained for medical use.
Harlan Laboratories is exempt from animal welfare law as it complies with a Government Home Office code of practise.
Luke Steele of the National Anti-Vivisection Alliance said: “They are like battery beagles. It is completely barbaric.”

21 June
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80 Million Rabbits Are Killed Every Year For Their Fur

Posted by Bob in Animal Abuse

80 millions rabbits are killed every year for their fur.
Rabbits are specifically bred for the fur industry and they are kept in confined, painfully small boxes.
At the end of their miserable lives they have their necks broken or their skulls smashed.
Makes you feel proud to be a human being, doesn’t it?

15 June
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Ugly People Wear Fur Coats

Posted by Bob in Animal Abuse

Fur coats are worn by beautiful animals and ugly people.
Anyone caught wearing fur coats should be hunted down like the poor animals and their coats ripped off them.

09 June
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Meat Lies Rotting In Your Gut For Months

Posted by Bob in Animal Abuse,Health

There are many reasons to become a vegetarian.
For one, swallowed meat lies around rotting in your gut for months afterwards.
Vegetarians visit hospital on average 22 per cent less often than a meat eater.
In the UK alone, 800 million animals are slaughtered every year for the dinner table.
The way we treat animals in this country is an outrage that future generations will condemn as barbaric.

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