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 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. To sign a petition against this ridiculous cruelty in the false name of 'art', click here. |
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The Year of the Happy Rat
Suki Falconberg—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 >>] |
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| 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. |
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They Knife Horses, Don't They?
Suki Falconberg—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 >>] |
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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. |
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Extreme Torture of Animals — and Humans
Suki Falconberg—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 >>] |
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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 experiements 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 experiements 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] |
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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 >>] |
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| 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. |
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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 |
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The Silent Ark
Juliet Gellatley
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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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