An Episcopal church remembers animal victims of Hurricane Katrina.
Below are a couple of articles I found on Google.
Memorial Honors Katrina Animals With Music and Interfaith Service
Click here to read about Dark Water Rising, and click on the picture to watch the movie trailer:
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If you live in an area where you might have to evacuate from a hurricane, flood or wildfire, etc., please make plans in advance for your animals. (Don’t leave home without them!) Click here for a downloadable .pdf brochure “Preparing Your Pets For Emergencies Make Sense. Get Ready Now.”
Here it is, almost a year since Katrina. Let’s not have a repeat.
Thank you to the Chicago City Council, for passing this landmark ordinance, and taking the lead on taking a stand against one form of unnecessary and indefensible animal cruelty!
Click on the posters below to link to
1) Farm Sanctuary’s Press Release,
2) GourmetCruelty.com’s “About Foie Gras” page, and
3) GourmetCruelty.com’s form for ordering a video tape or DVD of “Delicacy of Despair”.
To Mayor Daley, and others who are against the ban, I invite you to order a copy of “Delicacy of Despair”, and watch it. It might be an eye-opener.
I’m also posting HSUS’s Press Release (from last April), because the chef whose fighting against the ban dismisses Farm Sanctuary as an animal rights organization that would like people to go vegan. HSUS is as mainstream as any welfare group, and has about 700,000 members across a wide spectrum.
If a person doesn’t consider force feeding to be cruel, perhaps s/he would consider the confinement in small cages to be cruel. Or maybe s/he might consider how painful it would be, if one’s internal organ became 5 times it’s natural size, and infected.
If this is a matter of “freedom of choice”, I hope the dining public will want to choose humanely — and be happy to choose something else on a restaurant’s menu to order — or choose a restaurant that doesn’t break the law.
I have to wonder why a chef is fighting for our “freedom of choice”.
Well, no, I don’t.
Anyone who has a stake in benefitting from animal cruelty in any way, will fight to justify and defend their stake, using whatever argument works. (The Ruth Harrison quote in my August 15th post comes to mind.) Just take a look at who all is anti-animal rights. It’s always people tied to industries that exploit animals in one way or another, and others who believe their rhetoric. Here are a couple of a good examples:
“Sportsmen’s and Animal Owner’s Voting Alliance” , and “Consumer Freedom” (a nonprofit coalition of restaurants, food companies, and consumers working together to promote personal responsibility). No further comment.
“Whenever people say, ‘We mustn’t be sentimental,’
you can take it they are about to do something cruel.
And if they add, ‘We must be realistic,’
they mean they are going to make money out of it.”
– Brigid Brophy
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You can listen to the arguments pertaining to the Foie Gras ban between the Alderman and the chef on WBBM NewsRadio 78 tonight, or later on their website under “At Issue”.
Click here and watch the video of rodeo abuse at the bottom of this page, and save yourself the cost of a ticket to your local rodeo. Let your children watch, too. It’s considered all-American family entertainment, isn’t it?
Be myth-breakers.
