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08/31/2005 TORO DE LA VEGA, "CABRERO" WILL BE TORTURED TO DEATH ON THE 13TH OF SEPTEMBER!
OF SEPTEMBER!Every year in September in Tordesillas, a bull is tortured and murdered in a spectacle called "Toro de la Vega". Hundreds of men run with medieval spears after a bull, sticking them into his body until his death. This year in the 13th of September "Cabrero" will be speared to death.
08/30/2005 BURGLARS KILL FAMILY DOG IN OVEN!
Two people are in jail after being arrested for burglarizing a Southside Savannah woman's home. Not only are they being charged with burglary, one of them is also being charged with animal cruelty. Police say the crime committed inside the home was unimaginable. After receiving an anonymous tip from a watchful neighbor, police arrested 19-year-old Alexander Davis and 24-year-old Evelyn Williams, who was found with Davis at a pawn shop trying to sell items stolen from the house. While investigators continue their investigation, they say what was found in the home was one of the most disturbing discoveries they've ever made. "It was a particularly disgusting event," said Burnsed.
08/29/2005 MP WANTS TENFOLD INCREASE IN WILD DOG BOUNTY!
Bruce Donaldson, who represents the Agricultural Region, says the current bounty of $20 per dog is not sufficient to cover the cost of ammunition or justify the time taken to hunt the animals. Mr Donaldson says if the bounty was raised to a minimum of $200 it would encourage more intensive hunting by professional shooters and pastoralists.Agriculture Minister Kim Chance says he will not commit to an increased bounty, but will refer the issue to local pastoral zones for comment.
08/27/2005 DR. STEVE BEST HAS BEEN BANNED FROM THE UK!
Dr. Steve Best, determined American activist and liberationist, has been banned from entering the United Kingdom by the British Home Office for the purpose of speaking at the Newchurch Victory Gathering on Saturday September the 3rd in Burton. Dr. Best has always argued his comments have been sensationalised and taken completely out of context but now stands aside Dr. Jerry Vlasak as another animal advocate who cannot enter the UK to celebrate this extraordinary victory for animal rights.
08/25/2005 NEWCHURCH GUINEA PIG FARM CLOSES DOWN!
After years of relentless campaigning by animal rights activists this animal abusing company finally threw in the towel and admitted that imprisoning and torturing animals for profit gets you nowhere. This victory is a dramatic blow to an industry which can and will be defeated by kind-hearted activists. There have been demos outside the farm every Sunday and Wednesday for the past five years.
08/24/2005 WORLDWIDE CALL FOR PRIMATE TESTING BAN!
Animal protection organizations from around the world, including the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, (BUAV), Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, (RSPCA), People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, (PeTA), the Humane Society US, (HSUS) and the German Animal Welfare society have signed a pledge calling for Governments and regulatory bodies to develop an international strategy to end experiments on primates. It was signed by all animal protection groups who attended the Fifth World Congress on Alternatives and Animal Use in the Life Sciences, in Berlin. It adds weight to the BUAV's Next of Kin primates campaign launched at the start of August, that aims to achieve a ban on primate testing across the Europian Union, (EU) and has the support of celebrities Heather Small, Alexei Sayle, sports presenter Helen Chamberlain, actress Jenny Seagrove and Norman Baker MP. Around 10,000 primates are used every year for scientific experiments in the EU, and the UK is one of the largest users. At the last official count over 3,000 primates were used here (a rise of 20% on the previous year).
08/23/2005 TRADER TO EXPORT SHARK FINS!
An entrepreneur is circling Britain's shark population, preparing to make a killing in the Far East's restaurant trade. Trevor Page, a fish dealer from Lowestoft, Suffolk, plans to catch and kill about 300 sharks in British waters each week, starting next month. Mr Page has drawn up a contract to export dorsal fins to restaurateurs in Hong Kong and the rest of China. Shark's fin soup is a prized delicacy there. Conservationists said that they were appalled at the plan, which, they said, would upset the balance of marine life around Britain.
08/22/2005 TWO STUDENTS FINED OVER KANGAROO KILLING!
Australia - Two students who injured and killed a kangaroo while on school camp near Halls Gap faced court this week. The pair, who cannot be identified, faced a Western District court on Tuesday to answer charges of animal cruelty. It is believed the animal was injured with a weapon and died as a result of its injuries after the south-west students attacked it about 8.30am on February 18.The incident occurred at a camping property on the outskirts of Halls Gap where a school group had been staying. Police questioned six students about the incident and two were charged with animal cruelty offences under the Wildlife Act.The teenager was given a six-month good behaviour bond and ordered to pay $350 to the Friends of the Grampians group. The second defendant was found guilty of destroying protected wildlife but charges of possessing a dangerous article and aggravated cruelty were dropped.The school principal, who had previously described it as a "regrettable incident", said yesterday that the school had taken appropriate action at the time of the incident but would not reveal what consequences the students faced.
08/21/2005 VIETNAM TO MICROCHIP BEARS IN BILE FARMS TO PROTECT THOSE IN WILD!
Hanoi - Tran The Lien, a wildlife official of the National Forest Ranger Department, was cited as saying that Vietnam will begin putting microchips on 4,000 bears raised in illegal farms across the country in order to distinguish them from those in the wild, adding, "The microchipping aims is to limit the illegal catching and transporting of wild bears from forests to farms that has been going on for many years. We will start microchipping the domestic bears next month and the move is expected to finish by the end of this year."Bile farms are illegal in Vietnam but the government has been unable effectively to crack down on their operations. In March, Vietnam signed an agreement with the World Society for the Protection of Animals to set up a task force to close bile farms, where thousands of bears spend their lives languishing in cramped cages while the fluid is extracted for medicinal purposes.
08/20/2005 DAIRY CATTLE WELFARE IS POOR!
A review of modern dairy practices by Farm Sanctuary concluded that the industry has moved toward more intensive production at the expense of animal welfare. Production is being consolidated in mega-dairies with hundreds or thousands of cows, while the total number of farms is half what it was in 1991. Milk production per cow is 66 percent higher than it was 30 years ago, and cows are sent to slaughter after only 3-4 lactation cycles, despite a potential 20-year lifespan. Most cows do not have access to pasture. Practices including tail cutting and rough handling, and conditions like lameness and mastitis (infected udder) are common.
08/19/2005 DUTCH ORDER POULTRY INDOORS IN EFFORT TO PREVENT BIRD FLU!
The Hague - Dutch Farming Minister Cees Veerman was cited as saying Tuesday that poultry in the Netherlands must be enclosed during the upcoming bird migration period in an effort to prevent a potential spread of the bird flu, with a spokeswoman quoted as saying, "It is going to be mandatory to keep poultry under shelter during the migratory period. These measures should be put into place as quickly as possible, but an exact date for their implementation will be set in cooperation with the European Union and the whole of the agricultural sector.""The preventative action is being undertaken to protect the several million domestic fowl raised by commercial farms in the Netherlands.
08/17/2005 BECKHAM KANGAROO BOOTS GET KICKING!
Animal rights activists are to target David Beckham, the England football captain, in a bid to stop him wearing kangaroo-skin boots. Beckham promotes the Adidas Predator Pulse, which the company promotes as one of the most "precise and powerful" boots made. It is manufactured from kangaroo leather, which is chosen for its lightness and suppleness. Viva!, the animal rights group, says that baby kangaroos are being needlessly killed by hunters on night-time shoots to supply the market for leather. It says figures show significant falls in the kangaroo population and argues that the fashion for kangaroo skin products such as Beckham's boots is partly to blame. Beckham has a contract with Adidas said to be worth £8m. In June he did a photo shoot at New York's Brooklyn Bridge to publicise the boots. A spokesman for Beckham said he was guided by Adidas on the humane killing of kangaroos but would consider evidence compiled by Viva!
08/16/2005 RABBITS HAVE LOST HUMANE-SLAUGHTER PROTECTION!
The US Department of Agriculture has classified rabbits as 'poultry' to avoid required protections for the species under the 1958 Humane Methods of Slaughter Act Among other things, this means that rabbits may be fully conscious while being slaughtered. With rabbit meat becoming more popular, this is very distressing. Rabbits are the third most popular companion animals in this country, yet if someone treated dogs and cats this way, the perpetrators would be charged with animal cruelty.
08/15/2005 SUSPECT HELD ON $75,000 BOND!
Bond has been set at $75,000 for a heartland man accused of beating a puppy to death.Thirty-eight-year-old Anthony Schepis is charged with felony animal abuse. He claims his four-month-old German Shepard was hit by a car.Investigators found the animal's body in Schepis' bedroom and they say the injuries were too numerous to be the result of an accident.
08/14/2005 CHILDHOOD CRUELTY TO ANIMALS MAY SIGNAL VIOLENCE IN FUTURE!
Childhood cruelty to animals can be an early warning of a propensity for violence against other people, a report published yesterday said.The research wing of animal rights charity, Peta (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), has compiled a study of the links between severe animal abuse by children who later committed acts of extreme violence - in some cases, murder. Several cases have been well documented.
08/13/2005 PIG CELL IMPLANTS IN HUNTINGTON'S TRIAL!
Pig brain cells could be implanted into human brains by the start of next year if trials of a pioneering treatment for Huntington's disease are approved in the US.Similar tests on primates have proved "astonishingly successful" in treating the degenerative brain disease, according to researchers who carried out the work at Living Cell Technologies (LCT) in Auckland, New Zealand.The injection of live animal cells into human brains is likely to raise ethical concerns and fears of pig viruses being transmitted to humans. But researchers say the benefits of a cure outweigh such concerns. "Yes, we have created a chimera, but one that is tolerated and beneficial," says Bob Elliott, LCT's medical director.
08/11/2005 MONKEYS FASTING TO MOURN KILLING OF THEIR FRIEND!
Dhaka, (Xinhuanet) -- Over 100 big size monkeys in Bangladesh's southwestern Kushtia have not taken food for the last several days as a mark of mourning the killing of one of their friends.A forest official in Kushtia said they (the monkeys) have been searching for their lost friend in the bank of the river Dhorai in groups. The incident of killing the monkey occurred on July 31.A press report said a young man Ujjal, 29, trapped a monkey in a cage on the plea to offering it banana and then beat and killed the monkey. Four other monkeys, who witnessed the killing, immediately protested it, breaking branches of trees and shouting loudly. Ujjal threw the body of the monkey in the river.
08/10/2005 PETA RUFFLES FEATHERS!
The front lines of a high-stakes food fight moved recently to a sidewalk in front of a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant, where young volunteers from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals tried to shock and disgust lunch-hour patrons.There was a PETA intern dressed in a bloodied chicken costume, a 22-year-old with shocking pink hair and the word "VEGAN" tattooed across her chest in gothic lettering, and campaign coordinator Ben Goldsmith with a flat-screen television strapped to his chest."That bird is having its thigh sliced open while fully conscious," Goldsmith said, narrating a grisly video as KFC customer Tiffany Mueller looked on, gnawing on a piece of chicken.
08/09/2005 1600 MONKEYS: LARGEST ANIMAL TESTING IN EUROPE!
The largest animal testing centre of Europe is located in the Netherlands. The Biomedical Primate Research Center (BPRC) keeps 1600 monkeys in their labs. They are locked up and have to undergo terrible things, in the name of 'science'. The BPRC is performing tests in the area of infection-illnesses (such as AIDS, hepatitis and malaria), xenotransplantation, radiation, tear gas (for self defence), chronic diseases and neurological abnormities.A comparable primate (breeding) centre in the UK, Shamrock Farm, had to close down after many demonstrations and direct actions.
08/08/2005 INDIA LOOKS TO PROTECT TIGERS!
New Delhi (AP) - India's prime minister on Friday took charge of a nationwide program to save the endangered Bengal tiger, the national animal that experts say is threatened by poachers and angry villagers.Conservationists believe official estimates that 3,500 to 3,700 tigers remain in the wild in India are grossly exaggerated and that the true figure may be closer to 2,000. Many wildlife wardens are accused of inflating tiger census figures for years, even as the animals died in their preserves.Singh on Friday also accepted recommendations of a panel set up following reports that all the tigers at Sariska, one of the country's main reserves, had disappeared, said Sunita Narain, the panel's chairman. Among them are the creation of a wildlife crime bureau, establishment of a new methodology for the next tiger census, and sharing the benefits of wildlife tourism with local communities. The panel has also recommended moving tens of thousands of villagers from 1,500 villages in the region to make way for more tiger habitat, a plan that has angered the affected people.
08/06/2005 HORSES ARE ALSO VICTIMS OF BULLFIGHTS!
Every year, a lot of bulls and horses are the victims of bullfights and other fiestas (festivities) in Spain, Portugal, France, Mexico, Peru, Colombia and several other countries in South America. In his death agony, the bull defends himself against his attackers and in his throes of death, he spears the horse of the picador (a man on horse with a lance with the purpose of cutting the bull's neck muscles) on his horns. The flanks of the horses are teared, their bones break and they die in a terrible and really painful way. Every year, hundreds of horsed are wounded severely or die in the arena.
08/05/2005 ATTACK ON PIGGERY LEAVES 14 ANIMALS DEAD!
The RSPCA is calling for witnesses to a brutal attack on 16 pigs in Picton, in south-west Western Australia, in which only two survived. One pig was killed and the other 15 mutilated at a piggery on July 20.RSPCA spokesman Emma-Jane Morcombe says 13 of the pigs suffered such horrific injuries they had to be put down. Ms Morcombe says she is shocked by the attack and hopes the public can help identify those responsible. "We would like to speak to anyone who might have seen a car parked on the roadside on the Dardanup-Picton Road, which is near the piggery, that night, or who may remember someone acting suspiciously in the vicinity of the farm," she said.
08/04/2005 CHINA PIG TATTOS DRIVES ARTIST WILD!
BEIJING, China (Reuters) -- Tattoos of mermaids and roses, cherubs bearing crimson hearts, Lenin's head and the trademarked pattern of French luxury brand Louis Vuitton stand out against bright pink skin soaking in the sun outside Beijing.This living gallery of skin art is not on display for a tattooists' convention or a Harley-Davidson fan club meeting. It is an everyday sight in Chenjiatuo village and is borne on the flesh of some unlikely subjects -- big, fat pigs.The idea was cooked up by Belgian artist Wim Delvoye, who has hired a small staff of local farmers and tattoo artists to raise some 20 sows and use them as canvases for skin art at his rustic China base, Art Farm.The pigs get sedatives before they go under the needle and are carefully raised until their natural deaths, normally well past the six-month mark when farm pigs are slaughtered.Collectors can buy the pigs live and pay for their keep as "foster parents" or simply purchase their tattoo-festooned skins for display after the pigs pass.
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