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"Isn't man an amazing animal? He kills wildlife - birds, kangaroos, deer, all kinds of cats, coyotes, beavers, groundhogs, mice, foxes and dingoes - by the million in order to protect his domestic animals and their feed. Then he kills domestic animals by the billion and eats them. This in turn kills man by the millions, because eating all those animals leads to degenerative - and fatal - health conditions like heart disease, kidney disease, and cancer. So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other human beings are being killed by hunger and malnutrition because food they could eat is being used to fatten domestic animals. Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year, sends out cards praying for Peace on Earth."

David Coats
Old MacDonald's Factory Farm

The Happy Rat
Kaycee Peta
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PETA — one of the leading animal rights organizations in the world

Abolitionist-Online — Australian animal rights magazine

BUAV — British anti-vivisection organization

VIVA! — encourages a vegetarian diet to stop animal suffering

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Animal Rights & Protection

Those Poor Baby Seals
Suki—03/2010

Whether it involves baby seals or women, men seem to have a proclivity to hurting and killing those who are more vulnerable. Suki looks at the seal shame of Canada and the academic repression of women's suffering. [more >>]

Ringling Bros circus abuses animals including baby elephants (Dec 2009)
When you go to an animal circus, never forget that the obedience and tricks the animals are performing are the result of many hundreds of hours of torture and abuse. Elephants don't stand on their heads unless they are beaten into submission by cruel profit driven human beings. The picture on the right is of a baby elephant being abused so that it leans to lie down on instruction. The handlers use polls with spikes and electric shocks to "encourage" compliance, as well as ropes and tethers. This abuse is unacceptable in any civilized society, so please STOP going to the animal circus tents of horror. For more info visit: www.ringlingbeatsanimals.com.

L'empathie - A Touching Reminder of the Empathy of Animals (June 2009)
"Nature red in tooth and claw" is a maxim that many of us believe because we have been indoctrinated by Darwinism's "survival of the fittest". But the truth is that animals can have huge empathy, often more than humans.

Save Turkeys - Visit Gentle Thanksgiving (Nov 2009)
Each years, half a billion turkeys are slaughtered so that we can enjoy Thanksgiving and Christmas. Gentle Thanksgiving is an organisation that encourages us, our friends, families and neighbours to adopt more compassionate alternatives to unnecessarily cruel turkey dinners. Visit www.gentlethanksgiving.org.

Ever wondered how meat gets into those plastic containers? (July 2009)
In the supermarket we see neat plastic containers of flesh sitting peacefully on the shelf. What most don't realize is that this is actually the silent aftermath of terrible torture, screaming terror, and blood-spattering violence.

NEPAL — The Land of the Spirit… and Terrible Animal Abuse! (2009)
Each year at Nepalese religious festivals, hundreds of thousands of animals are murdered by ignorant people to appease gods and godesses. To find out how you can help stop this carnage, please visit AnimalNEPAL.org.

The Jaw-Dropping Cruelty of the Chinese Fur Trade / Peta Video (2008)
Warning: this video shows EXTREME cruelty. There is nothing attractive about wearing a product manufactured with such astonishing cruelty. Please stop wearing fur of any kind — you never know where it comes from. [Visit Peta]

EARTHLINGS — Shaun Monson / Joaquin Phoenix Narrator (2003)
Although released in 2003, this documentary remains one of the best highlighting the cruelty that humans shamefully inflict on animals.

For Whom The Eight Belles Toll
Suki—06/2008

Falconberg describes her Hall of Shame of human barbarism towards animals, and imagines a world free from the killer apes that foolishly believe they are the crowing achievement of life's evolution. [more >>]

The 'Art' of Guillermo Vargas
Costa Rican artist Guillermo Vargas 'Habacuc' is alleged to have paid some children to catch an abandoned street dog and then tied the animal up in an art gallery in Managua, Nicaragua, and left it there for several days, without food and water, until it died. His excuse: it would have died anyway. There was such a public outcry by this that Vargas and the art gallery have now denied it ever happened, although their stories are inconsistent and keep changing. Click here to sign a petition against this cruelty in the name of 'art'.

The Year of the Happy Rat
Suki—02/2008

Rats are so unvalued by humanity that they are either exterminated or tortured in labs. But there is another side you will only see if you know one personally. [more >>]

But don't plants have feelings too? This is a retort you will often get from meat eaters to the vegetarian position that killing animals for food is cruel. Whilst it is true that plants do react to their environment and have remarkable sensitivity, the question of whether they suffer or feel pain cannot support meat eating because, even if they do feel pain, in eating animals we have effectively consumed all the plants that fed those animals (or that fed the animals that feed these animals). So the number of lives we have taken as a meat eater is far greater. To minimize suffering and ecological damage, it is advisable to eat as low food chain as possible, and that means being a vegetarian.

They Knife Horses, Don't They?
Suki—01/2008

The terrible cruelty that all nations inflict on animals can often be found in our own neighbourhoods, and the results of that cruelty can often be found in our own refrigerators. [more >>]

Meet Your Meat: A short PETA film showing the horrors of the meat, milk and egg industries. If you eat any of these products, you are not only supporting barbarism but contributing to the ecological destruction of our dying planet.

Extreme Torture of Animals — and Humans
Suki—11/2007

Falconberg describes the horror that goes on in slaughterhouses and the blasé way this horror is perpectrated, and she draws parrallels with the 'fuck meat' prostitution industry. [more >>]

Animal testing in the EU is on the rise (Nov 2007)
New figures on animal testing show that the use of animals in EU laboratories is on the rise. Between 2002 and 2005, the number of animals used in experiments increased by 3.2% (this figure does not include the research done by the new EU member states). In real terms, the numbers of animals used in lab experiments has increased from 10.7 million to 12.1 million. Alarmingly, the number of animals used in cosmetic research, which is of high public concern, rose 50% during this period, despite the fact that the EU is legislating to cut down on cosmetic testing. [source]

101 Reasons to Go Vegetarian
Anon

This is a great collection of facts and figures about why it might be a good idea to go vegetarian. [more >>]

If you truly care about your health and Earth's life-support system, you need to turn vegetarian. No "ifs" and "buts". It is our voracious appetite for animal flesh and gland secretions that is literally destroying us and our planet. And how can a "civilisation" ever claim to be civil if it is built on the suffering of countless creatures? The fact is that if the public could see what goes on in slaughter houses, 90% or more would be vegetarian. Visit www.meatrix.com & www.meat.org.