Friday, April 24, 2009

Why We Should Not Eat Genetically Related Earthlings

When animals get similar or identical diseases then humans and when these diseases then can be transferred between them that should tell us something about how closely related we really are. Do we really want to eat meat that is humans like? It is cannibalism! Who knows what other diseases we have been getting because of this nasty habit of eating meat! There is science that links Alzheimer a brain deterioration disease to Mad Cow disease? Is it really worth it?







US 'very concerned' about swine flu outbreak

US medical authorities expressed strong concern Friday about an unprecedented multi-strain swine flu outbreak that has killed at least 60 people in Mexico and infected seven people in the United States.
"It's very obvious that we are very concerned. We've stood up emergency operation centers," Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) spokesman Dave Daigle told AFP.

One major source of concern was that the virus included strains from different types of flu.

"This is the first time that we've seen an avian strain, two swine strains and a human strain," said Daigle, adding that the virus had influenza strains from European and Asian swine, but not from North American swine.

In 11 of 12 reported human cases of swine influenza (H1N1) virus infection in the United States from December 2005 to February 2009, the CDC has documented direct or indirect contact with swine.

But the seven known cases of the previously undetected strain in the United States -- five from California and two from Texas -- did not have contact with pigs. The seven people infected have all recovered from the flu.

"We have determined that this virus is contagious and is spreading from human to human," the CDC said on its website. "However, at this time, we have not determined how easily the virus spreads between people."

Local and state health officials were interviewing not just the people who were infected but the people with whom they had contact, Daigle noted.

Officials were looking for the source of the infection, Daigle

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Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Horses die before polo match at Wellington club

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/breakingnews/sfl-polo-horses-die-pg,0,2481657.photogallery

It's too sad. Horses are magnificent animals and I love them with the most profound love possible. My whole life I have been spiritually connected to Horses and the abuse of them has saddened and frustrated me my whole life.

Let us not forget in light of this story that thousands of horses are abused and tortured every day. Most of the public and the media never reports and the daily horse slaughter that is still performed in many countries but especially in Canada and Mexico.

This slaughter is the most barbaric practice done to a creature that has done so much for humanity! Instead of erecting a monument to their greatness we thank them with abuse and torture. Because people in France and Japan and now in the US want to eat Horse meat.

It is impossible to kill a horse humanely for human consumption. The only halfway humane killing is a lethal injection done in a known environment to the horse to avoid panic. Of course using drugs intravenously or subcutaneously or intramuscular will make the meat unusable for human consumption.

The bottom line is just as you would not think of eating your dog or cat, you should not think of eating a horse. Just because horses are big does not mean we have to eat them. Learn just how sensitive and intelligent they are. Their greatness and what they have contributed to human civilisation should give them a time honored place in our world.

Without getting in to details, Horses saved my life. I was a troubled youths and when I got involved with horses I found unconditional Love affection and when I grew close to "my" horse he became my "Friend" I would have rather cut my arm off then lead him to slaughter. This was many years ago.

Please learn how horses are used in therapy and how many kids gain confidence and trust when they are exposed to horses and interact with them. Horses were given to us by God for us to heal and learn, in so many ways. But many of us are blind! What we do to them is a slap in the face of God!


Horses are VERY sensitive and head shy. Trying to kill them with bolts to the head is almost impossible. In Mexico they use knifes and shuttle the Horses through narrow shoots and then try to stab them in the back to try to severe their spinal courts.

Needless to say they often have to keep stabbing, inflicting unimaginable pain, panic utter torture. This goes on every day. But nobody seems to care. Sometimes they cut their legs off by the knees to immobilise them where they slowly bleed to death, in fear, alone and in unimaginable pain. These are horses that someone once owned now an unscrupulous horse dealer sell to the meat market, often telling the owners they'll be send to a pasture. Humans can be so mean, cruel and without conscience.
When it comes to the Horse meat industry you'll find some of the worst humans of all.

Being a flight animals trying to demobilise a Horse without sedation is torture in itself. The horse will fight , kick and try to get away and hurt themselves in the process.

Million of people don't give it a thought.

Now this story make people cry. I cry every day for all the horses that suffer terrible for human selfishness.

I cry every day over all of this. I have to make myself forget it sometimes otherwise I would go insane.

If you really care about horses, please learn about what I have written here and get involved. Call or write to your politicians to let them know that you want them to protect horses and not allow them to become a food for consumption which will only lead to mass torture in barbaric slaughter houses. HORSES CAN NOT be slaughtered humanely! That's the bottom line!

Some people say what is the owner of a horse to do when he does not want that horse anymore?

It cost about $200 dollars to euthanize a horse... that is whet the owner should do. I've been around horse for a large part of my life and my teacher in horsemanship would have rather gone hungry then to send his or any of his horses to slaughter. So would I. If you just put a few dollars aside every week, but the time your so called Friend and partner in riding is too old or sick, or you just outgrown him, if you cant' find a good home for him or her please let him leave this earth in some dignity, painless in the place he knows in peace.

Please pay for a vet to euthanize your "Friend"! Don't sell them to those that ship them off to be butchered. From the day they are sold to the moment they finally die they suffer unconscionably, maybe wondering "WHY"! What have I done to deserve THIS?

If you can't find a couple of hundred dollars what are you doing with a horse to begin with? People make excuses. Selfishness is the downfall of humanity!




Friday, April 10, 2009

Man Eating Lions


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Would you be shocked to know that you can pick up your phone, call a 1-800 number and order a lion steak for dinner?

Unfortunately, it is legal in the United States to raise lions for human consumption. Several restaurants have included lion meat on their menus, much to the dismay of big cat lovers and animal activists alike.

We must work together to ask our elected officials to take steps to stop this horrible practice! We must also let the providers of lion meat know that this practice is simply not acceptable.

Let's urge Congress to direct the United States Department of Agriculture to end the practices that result in exotic cats ending up on menus by ending the breeding and private possession of these animals. Also, let's ask the provider of lion meat to the United States to take if off the menu.

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Monday, April 6, 2009

World Outrage Against Seal Hunt does not convince Canadian Government

Things are looking rather up around the world for our little baby seals. Spain is officially opposing the Seal Ban as is Ireland. Thanks to activists who have written their government officials and unlike in Canada, their government actually listens to their concerns!

Russia has ended it's cruel seal hunt on innocent babies and Peta is campaigning to get the Vancouver Olympic Committee to speak up for the seals.

Senator Harb has received over 200 000 emails and letters from people around the world in support of his Bill.

How in the world can our Government keep up with this pressure! As they are spending millions of Canadian tax dollars in Europe spreading lies about the seal hunt: ie...the hunt is humane, used for sustenance and involves the Inuit Tribes...FALSE to all of the above....and we have new very revealing evidence about the abhorrent cruelty of this hunt from the Freedom of Information Act. Not to mention that the mic mac tribe from US has publicly requested that Obama oppose the Canadian Seal hunt...how determined is our Government to continue this awful slaughter? I do not get it!!!