RYOT | The Huffington Post Ivory Burn
http://ryot.huffingtonpost.com/ivory-burn/
Austin Peck, PhD (Biology) and film director writes about the tragic decline of the African elephant at the hands of man, and how we have choices to make. Empathy and action are key to saving Africa’s wilderness.
“Kenya’s Tsavo National Park, for example, is an entire ecosystem the size of Michigan that is itself on the chopping block because it no longer earns money from tourism. Just out of sight from the empty lodge verandas, the bushland is already quickly and quietly becoming grazing land for tens of thousands of cattle owned by businessmen from the capital city. New railways and gas pipelines, funded primarily by China, block elephant migration routes. While unbridled development of the region gallops forward, elephants are increasingly pushed into oblivion, and it is still the black face of the impoverished poacher who is most commonly blamed for the wholesale annihilation of the wild. These are the kinds of choices we make, and the stories those choices require.”
BBC News – India’s dying mother
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-aad46fca-734a-45f9-8721-61404cc12a39
A fascinating piece on the river Ganges in India and the varying ways in which it has become one of the most polluted rivers on the planet. Leather tanneries are a prime cause of carcinogens and rotting animal matter polluting the Ganges, along with human sewage and burnt, rotting human bodies.
Despite all of the vile toxins put into the river, and the horrifying amount of water taken out of the water table, Ganges river dolphins tentatively remain in smaller and smaller numbers in the great river. I truly hope that India can clean up its vital life source. Shutting down its entire leather industry would be a great start. What a disservice we do to animals and the planet in so many perverse ways.
Vets are denied access to abattoir footage | | The Times & The Sunday Times
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/vets-denied-access-to-abattoir-footage-hc7z27qmk
“More than 30 slaughterhouses are refusing to let official vets view CCTV footage of animals being killed, prompting concerns that they are hiding illegal acts of cruelty.”
Why? It does not take a genius to work this out. And what are “illegal acts of cruelty” anyway, in contrast to legal acts of cruelty? Vivisectionists commit legal acts of cruelty as a matter of course. Why are we as a species still perpetuating this abominable treatment of other animals every single minute of every single day? Don’t be a part of it. It’s not logical, it’s not ethical, it’s not ok.
Not eating meat is the best way to save the Earth
http://www.techinsider.io/is-eating-meat-bad-environment-2016-3
C’mon. It’s not rocket science. #GoVegan
Watch “Animal Rights.” on YouTube
Speech by Philip Wollen. Art by Jo Frederiks.
Are you vegan yet?
Cadbury’s calves shot to feed hunt’s hounds | UK | News | Daily Express
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/350543/Cadbury-s-calves-shot-to-feed-hunt-s-hounds
The facts of life on dairy farms. Male calves shot at birth because they can’t be milked as adults. What a vile industry we’re all funding…
How we ended up paying farmers to flood our homes
How we ended up paying farmers to flood our homes
400 Million Fewer Animals Were Killed for Food Last Year vs. 2007 Because People Are Eating Less Meat | Latest Vegan News
If accurate, I’m absolutely ecstatic about it! WOOHOO! This is what being vegan is ultimately about.
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