The Future

"We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet."

~ Stephen Hawking

Please don't buy chicken

Every year, more than 40 billion chickens are slaughtered worldwide for meat, the vast majority of them intensively factory-farmed.
The bottom line is profit. All that matters is the volume in which these animals, bred to hit their genetically-modified slaughter weights within 35 days of hatching, can be churned out. 
Given the intensity of the production systems (raised in sheds of 50,000 birds, each will be lucky to have the space of a piece of A4 paper in which to live), the dangers of disease are massively magnified.
And so it is to prevent this that the chickens are vaccinated before birth against common diseases.
They are often also dosed up with antibiotics — a preventative measure that is easier and cheaper than dealing with individual illnesses at a later date.
Last month it emerged that food poisoning cases linked to infected chicken struck down 580,000 people last year, putting 18,000 in hospital and killing 140.
Now experts are warning that the overuse of antibiotics in poultry farms around the world is creating a generation of superbugs that are resistant to treatment by virtually every drug in the medical establishment’s armoury.

Dame Sally Davies, the Chief Medical Officer, warned that antibiotic-resistant bacteria posed ‘a catastrophic threat’ to the population.
‘If we don’t act now, any one of us could go into hospital in 20 years for minor surgery and die because of an ordinary infection that can’t be treated by antibiotics,’ she said.
‘And routine operations like hip replacements or organ transplants could be deadly because of the risk of infection.’


Please see the link for the full article.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2388444/How-drugs-pumped-supermarket-chickens-pose-terrifying-threat-health.html

Please don't buy chicken (or any other animal product), the overwhelming majority of birds will never experience even a second of sunshine and fresh air, most are in pain for all of their short lives and they are so young when they're slaughtered that they still have the cheep and baby blue eyes of a chick.
Eating any animal product causes suffering to the animals, ill health to humans and devastation to the planet. 

Every cigarette funds cruel animal testing!

''Animal testing was used by politicians to avoid taking action against tobacco companies. Decades of vague and inconclusive results enabled them to perpetuate confusion and prevent doctors from giving authoritative warnings. Researchers spent decades forcing beagles to smoke cigarettes and painting tar on the backs of mice (although there were already clear links between tobacco and human cancer). Physicians were encouraged to keep quiet while researchers spent years performing animal tests!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwFilaK8q9g

In tobacco inhalation experiments, dogs, primates, guinea pigs, hamsters, rabbits, lambs, chickens, rodents and other animals are mutilated, pumped full of nicotine and forced to inhale smoke. Dogs are forced to inhale cigarette smoke on mechanical ventilators. In one experiment, researchers cut holes in the throats of beagles' and forced them to breathe concentrated cigarette smoke for an entire year.

Other tests have involved inserting electrodes into dogs' penises to measure the effect of cigarette smoke on sexual performance. Masks are strapped on to the faces of rats and mice while cigarette smoke is pumped directly into noses. Rhesus monkeys are confined to chairs with head devices, while being exposed to nicotine and caffeine to study effects on breathing. In 1996, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded 123 grants totaling $28,099,418 for tobacco research, with 40% ($10,276,391) slated for animal testing.

At the time, 27 human studies had already established a clear link between smoking and cancer. Today, in spite of reams of data establishing the tobacco/cancer link, the industry still conducts tobacco testing on animals, spending millions of dollars and killing hundreds of thousands of animals in an attempt to manipulate data. Tobacco testing on animals has been illegal in Britain since 1997.''

Source: SourceWatch

Petitions:
http://forcechange.com/21276/stop-needlessly-testing-tobacco-products-on-animals
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/197/616/290

http://www.change.org/petitions/r-j-reynolds-and-phillip-morris-tobacco-use-in-vitro-non-animal-research-methods-avail

Read more:
http://theblacklisters.com/facts/facts-animal-cruelty
http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-experimentation/smoking-experiments-on-animals/smoking-experiments-on-animals.aspx
http://www.examiner.com/article/animals-used-cruel-experiments-more-than-you-think

Make The connection

Animal abuse cleverly disguised in a bun... So glad I play no part in this horrific hell created by humans for such gentle beings. Go vegan and find your heart!

Go Vegan!!!

Making excuses is not enough. Ignoring their pain and suffering is not enough. Being sorry is not enough. You must do something!

http://www.chooseveg.com/animals
Make the connection! Please, go vegan!

For love, nothing is impossible.

For love, nothing is impossible.

Gorilla

On Aug. 16, 1996, a 3-year-old boy fell into the gorilla's den at the Brookfield Zoo. A female gorilla, Binti Jua, protected the boy until zookeepers could rescue him.

Binti walked to the boy while helpless spectators screamed, believing that she was going to harm the child; but instead, she picked him up, cradled and protected him, and carried him 60 ft to an access entrance so that workers could safely retrieve him from her. Video: http://youtu.be/UW0a37me_Xg

Think about this for a minute. She was imprisoned by humans, yet she was still intelligent enough to see that an infant human needed protection. That is true empathy. Why can't all humans show her the same empathy?

They are our friends

They are our friends, companions, and protectors, They are our family members in furry coats, They give us everything that they are and ask only to be loved. Let us be worthy of their devotion.