Animal Cruelty has to stop.

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Comment by Eleni on February 5, 2009 at 10:37pm

Hi friends, VEDDAS is an animal rights group based in Brazil. We work to spread the word about animal rights on all fields where there is animal exploitation: food, clothing, entertainment and vivisection. Our goal is the total abolition of animal exploitation through educational means.

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VEDDAS: Ethical Vegetarianism, Animal Rights Defense and Society.

Comment by Eleni on February 3, 2009 at 7:07pm

Dear Arian Medi, what a pity that you have to go. You are very important for us. Please keep fighting for animals whenever you go cause they need our voice...
Love, light and bliss!

Comment by ETELVINA GONÇALVES da COSTA on February 3, 2009 at 12:14pm

Animal cruelty has to stop,protection and love yess is my very petition I love every animals condemn the human people is cruelty té

Comment by Eleni on February 3, 2009 at 12:33am

Human beings and non-human beings are very connected. Protecting them we will be helping ourselves. The text bellow is part of the original petition to United Nations Secretary-General:

It is not acceptable that even in a grim situation with hunger and malnutrition killing nearly six million children each year, huge percentages of available crops are still being fed to farm animals.

In the name of humanity, a responsible global community can no longer afford to invest 7-16 kg of grain or soya beans, up to 15,500 liters of water, and 323 m2 of grazing land in the production of just one kilo of beef for those with the means to pay for it. More accessible and sustainable avenues to secure food for all are desperately needed.

You can sign this petition on:
http://un.evana.org/index.php?lang=en

Comment by Marijke on January 31, 2009 at 6:18pm

What about the dancing bears?

Comment by Sandra Reis on January 31, 2009 at 1:22pm

Hi my friends
Thanks Eleni for your invite!

IF YOU CAN´T EAT YOUR PET, HOW CAN YOU EAT OTHERS ANIMALS?

Light, love and peace

Comment by Eleni on January 31, 2009 at 2:00am

See something sweet, enriching and heartwarming! Meet Kingsford...

Comment by Marijke on January 30, 2009 at 5:14pm

5 Apr 02

A new investigation by WSPA has exposed the way in which thousands of Spanish greyhounds (known as galgos), are hanged following the end of the hare coursing season at the start of each year.

The results of the investigation, carried out in the Castilla y Leon and Castilla la Mancha regions of Spain in March this year with the assistance of Spanish organisation Scooby (Sociedad Protectora de Animales Scooby), reveal widespread evidence that the age-old tradition of hanging dogs in Spain continues to this day. WSPA estimates that tens of thousands of galgos are being bred and killed annually in rural areas.

The remains of a dog, still with the noose around its neck

WSPA discovered dead dogs with nooses around their necks dumped in shallow graves or lying under trees where they had been hung and, on a rubbish tip outside the village of Rueda near Tordesillas, investigators witnessed the gruesome sight of a dead galgo hanging from a willow tree. The skeletal remains of galgos were commonplace as well as evidence of hung dogs being set on fire, with melted nooses hanging above fresh bones and ash on the ground below.

WSPA also learnt how dogs that have raced poorly are typically hung low in a slow death known as 'the piano player' due to the frantic scrabbling of their legs in a vain attempt to touch the ground. Those who have raced well are hung high, resulting in a quicker death. Unwanted galgos may also be stoned, tied up and left to starve, staked in a pond and left to drown or thrown into wells and set on fire.

The lucky few are brought to the shelter

Alistair Findlay, a WSPA investigator, said, " It is scandalous that Spain, a country currently holding presidency of the European Union, is allowing man's best friend to be so cruelly and callously abused in this manner. This is a graphic example of why a national animal welfare law is so desperately needed in Spain."

At present, it is not illegal to kill a dog by hanging in Andalucia and Extremadura, where there are no animal protection laws. In Castilla y Leon, a law threatening a fine of 15,000 Euros (£39,540) to anyone hanging a dog has yet to be enforced.

But there is hope. A few dogs do get spared of this cruel death and are taken to Scooby's shelter, set up in 2000. Fermin Perez is in charge and he and his team endeavour to nurse the dogs back to health, neuter them and put the dogs into a re-homing scheme; "We need more support and awareness that this is still going on and we need to stop this now." said Fermin Perez.

The dogs are checked over and housed in kennels

WSPA has written to the Spanish authorities, calling on this EU member state to finally adopt a national animal welfare law that would outlaw such cruelty.


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Comment by Marijke on January 30, 2009 at 5:06pm

Scooby welcomes volunteers from all over the world. Whether it is short or long term, we are looking for people to help in the preparing of food, feeding the dogs, cleaning the paddocks, providing the dogs with attention, and the many other jobs that come with working at a shelter.

Any help is welcome. If you are interested, please send us an email with your proposed plans.







Scooby also welcomes the expertise of veterinarians. If you are a vet or vet tech and wish to volunteer at Scooby please contact us. Contact person for North America: Diane virtualadoption-northamerica@scoobymedina.com. For Europe: Friederike volunteering@scoobymedina.com

Comment by Eleni on January 29, 2009 at 1:50am

The idea of complete veganism is not logical for anyone. It does not exist, indeed. When we drink water, we drink the same water that has been tested in carps, for example. And another example: millions of insects, birds, rodents are killed in industrialized crop agriculture and there is nothing to do to avoid it. We have to live, we have to eat grains, vegetables, fruits. And for biological sciences researchers, it is still not clear if insects are really sentient beings.
But we can minimize the suffering of proven sentient beings by decreasing demand. They suffer a lot to become our daily meat!

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