More Than One Million Native Animals Are Killed Every Year In The U.S.

Family Pets Abandoned By Callous Owners.

Hundreds of family pets are facing a summer of misery with one abandoned every hour, says the RSPCA.
More dogs and cats are dumped over the school holidays than after Christmas as cruel owners jet off abroad, leaving their animals to fend for themselves.
July is the toughest month for the charity as it struggles to deal with hundreds of cases of pets left to rot.
The RSPCA says one reason this happens is owners book a holiday and then fail to find anyone to look after their pet while they are away.
RSPCA Supt Simon Osborne said, “Every day inspectors face cases where animals have been left abandoned in fields, dumped in boxes, left for dead at the side of roads and even outside our animal centres and hospitals.”
( Lewis Panther, 09.07.2017 )

I think ‘vegan’ is a beautiful word.
It is more than just a description for our diet.
I see it as a visible template for an ethical, healthy, responsible, and rational life.
Because it describes our character, it says we do not take the life of another living being to satisfy our wants.
( Philip Wollen )

A So-Called Professional Big-Game Hunter Was Crushed To Death By An Elephant That Had Been Shot.

An elephant cow allegedly stormed a group headed by Theunis Botha in Zimbabwe.
The elephant was reportedly shot as she picked him up with her trunk, before she fell and died, crushing Botha.
Botha had been leading a group of hunters near the Hwange national park in Zimbabwe when he died.
It is the same park where Cecil the Lion was shot dead by an American hunter in July 2015, sparking an international outcry.
( BBC News, 22.05.2017 )  ..  bbc.co.uk

I Knew I Would Never Again Harm An Animal.
I’m no shrinking violet.
I played hockey until half my teeth were knocked down my throat.
And I’m extremely competitive on a tennis court.
But that experience at the slaughter-house overwhelmed me.
When I walked out of there, I knew I would never again harm an animal.
I knew all the physiological, economic, and ecological arguments supporting vegetarianism, but it was first-hand experience of man’s cruelty to animals that laid the real groundwork for my commitment to vegetarianism.
( Peter Burwash )

Other Species Are Not On This Earth For Our Amusement.

They’re abusement parks.
How much longer must highly intelligent and self-aware individuals suffer before we understand that other species are not on this earth for our amusement?
It’s clear to anyone with a brain and an ounce of compassion that marine parks are nothing more than concrete prisons which cause captive marine animals a world of suffering.
Orcas at these facilities are forced total day after day, repeating the same endless tasks with no choice in the matter and no means of escape.
How utterly miserable their lives must be.
The only way to end the abuse of captive orcas and other marine animals is to stay away from and speak out against facilities that keep them captive.
( Roger Moore )

‘Hunter’ Killed By Crocodile.
DNA tests on the carcass of a crocodile shot in Zimbabwe have confirmed that it contains the remains of a missing South African hunter.
Scott Van Zyl disappeared during a hunting safari and was thought to have been killed on the banks of the Limpopo river.
His death is the latest in a series of fatal crocodile attacks in Zimbabwe.
Van Zyl had gone on a hunting trip on the Zimbabwe-South Africa border with a local tracker and a pack of dogs.
( BBC News, 20.04.2017 )  ..  bbc.co.uk

More Than One Million Native Animals Are Killed Every Year In The U.S.
Every year the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services kills over a million Native animals, including foxes, bobcats, bears and coyotes.
This sickening government program, typically carried out at the behest of the agricultural industry, is an ugly enterprise that relies on poisons, painful traps, strangulation snares and helicopter gunners.
( Rose Winfold )

It may be a cat, a bird, a ferret, or a guinea pig, but the chances are high that when someone close to you dies, a pet will be there to pick up the slack.
Pets devour the loneliness.
They give us purpose, responsibility, a reason for getting up in the morning, and a reason to look to the future.
They ground us, help us escape the grief, make us laugh, and take full advantage of our weakness by exploiting our furniture, our beds, and our refrigerator.
We wouldn’t have it any other way.
Pets are our seat belts on the emotional roller coaster of life.
They can be trusted, they keep us safe, and they sure do smooth out the ride.
( Nick Trout )

Killing For A Living.
The slaughter-house is the limbo between life and death for billions of animals every year.
There are around 150 slaughter-houses in the UK.
Slaughter-house workers are increasingly reporting symptoms of post traumatic stress disorder including extreme anxiety, domestic violence, drug and alcohol abuse and social withdrawal.
Criminologists at the University of Windsor in Canada reported in a study that there is a strong relationship between the location of a slaughter-house and high crime rates in American communities.
( Neil Sowford )

A Vegetarian Saves More Than 25 Land Animals Each Year.

The way a vegetarian saves animals is by reducing the demand for meat and causing fewer animals to be born into a harsh life owned by the meat industry, where callousness abounds and mercy is scant.
Even a vegan diet causes a certain number of deaths and some amount of suffering.
Mice, moles and other small animals die in the cultivation of grains and pulses on modern farms.

They get run over by agricultural equipment such as tractors or they die as a consequence of the disruption of their land.
Many small animals also die from poisoning by pesticides.
But, the animals we eat do not just exist in isolation waiting for us to eat them.
They eat grains too.
In fact, almost all the animals we eat are ones kept caged by us inside desolate barns and kept fed by us on grains we grow just for them.

We grow soy, corn, wheat, barley, sorghum and other grains on vast tracts of land, all of which also cause large numbers of deaths.
Meat consumption remains an inherently inefficient process in which we grow far more crops to feed to the animals we eat than we would need if we ate the crops directly ourselves.
So, while the cultivation of crops to feed a vegetarian does kill some animals, far more animals die in the cultivation of crops to feed the animals we eat.

A large number of animals in our factory farms die even before they reach the moment of slaughter.
They die of untreated illnesses and injuries, rough transportation, and various skeletal and other problems caused by intense genetic selection for excessively rapid growth.
Many of them also die during or after their use as breeders.
Some die in research experiments serving the meat industry.

Some live long enough to get to the slaughter plant but are condemned by federal inspectors during the required ante-mortem screening because they are too sick, injured, or otherwise unfit for human consumption.
A vegetarian saves more than 25 land animals each year.
( An extract from an article by Harish, March, 2015 )

Caged Foxes Fattened Up And Killed For Their Fur In Finland.
An undercover investigation in western Finland found bloated animals barely able to move, five times their natural weight, with thick rolls of fur over their eyes.
Claire Bass, of anti-fur campaigners Humane Society International, said: “Just when you thought the fur industry couldn’t get more unethical, it hits a shocking new low with foxes bred so large the poor beautiful creatures can hardly move, or even see. The fur industry is about profit and cares nothing for welfare.”
Over the last five years more than £2.5million of fur items have been imported into the UK from Finland.
Despite the UK banning fur farming in 2000, campaigners insist we still import huge amounts from other countries.
( Tom Parry, 26.08.2017 )