Spain is the latest country to publish “Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust.” Its Spanish title is “Por qué maltratamos tanto a los animales?” Many consider Charles Patterson’s book–soon to be in 13 languages–the most powerful defense of animals ever written.

New York, NY (PRWEB) September 23, 2008 — Editorial Milenio in Lerida, Spain announces the publication of “Por qué maltratamos tanto a los animales? Un modelo para la masacre de personas en los campos de exterminio nazis” (ISBN 978-84-9743-254-2). It’s the Spanish edition of the highly acclaimed “Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust” (ISBN 1-930051-99-9) by American author Charles Patterson.

Eternal Treblinka has also been published in Israel, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Serbia, Croatia, the Czech Republic and Japan. Russian, Slovenian and Portuguese translations are also underway. In the United States the book is in its third printing.

Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust In January, 2008, several days after Calmann-Lévy published “Un éternel Treblinka” (ISBN 978-2-7021-3845-8) in Paris, France’s leading newspaper Le Monde reviewed it favorably. It was the subject of an hour-long discussion about the origins of violence by French intellectuals on national radio.

In February, 2005, a jury of 30 of the Germany’s leading scholars and media figures chose “Für die Tiere ist jeden Tag Treblinka” (ISBN 3-6150-649-1), the German edition of Eternal Treblinka, as one of the country’s ten most important non-fiction books. It was honored alongside books about Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and World War I.

The book’s title comes from the Yiddish writer and Nobel Laureate, Isaac Bashevis Singer, to whom the book is dedicated. He was the first major modern author to describe the exploitation and slaughter of animals in terms of the Holocaust. “In relation to them, all people are Nazis,” he wrote, “for animals it is an eternal Treblinka.” (Treblinka was the Nazi death camp north of Warsaw.)

Eternal Treblinka examines the common roots of animal and human oppression and the similarities between how the Nazis treated their victims and how modern society treats the animals it slaughters for food.

The first part of the book describes the emergence of humans as the “master species” and how we came to dominate the earth and its other inhabitants. The second part examines the industrialization of slaughter of both animals and humans in modern times, while the last part of the book profiles Jewish and German animal advocates on both sides of the Holocaust, including Isaac Bashevis Singer himself.

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Praise From Around The World–

“I urge you to read Eternal Treblinka and think deeply about its important message.” –Dr. Jane Goodall, UK

“The moral challenge posed by Eternal Treblinka turns it into a must for anyone who seeks to delve into the universal lesson of the Holocaust.” –Maariv (Israeli newspaper)

“A thought-provoking masterpiece meticulously and brilliantly articulated.” –Dr. Ndubuisi Eke, Head, Department of Surgery, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria

“Important and timely…written with great sensitivity and compassion. I hope that Eternal Treblinka will be widely read.” –Martyrdom and Resistance (Holocaust publication), New York, USA

“Kafka would have applauded Eternal Treblinka. It grips like a thriller.” –The Freethinker, UK

“Eternal Treblinka should be on every list of essential reading for an informed citizenry…for the compelling comprehensiveness of the life-and-death story it tells.” –National Jewish Post & Opinion, USA

“The book does a perfect and professional job of showing the similarity between the mistreatment of people and of animals. It’s written with great sensitivity. Will no doubt be a valuable addition to everyone’s collection.” –Dr. Vugar Huseynov, Baku, Azerbaijan Republic.

“A very important achievement for animals and humans alike. Most probably your work will only be truly appreciated in years to come, but this is the fate of nearly all original and independent authors.” –Christa Blanke, Freiburg, Germany

“It’s one of the few books which totally grabs the reader, not only while reading it, but afterwards also, and probably forever…it profoundly disturbs, shocks and destroys.” –Croatian philosopher Hrvoje Juric, Zagreb, Croatia

“You must read this carefully documented book.” –La Stampa (Italian national newspaper)

“It is seldom that such a comprehensive work of scholarship springs from a heart of compassion in the service of a noble and necessary idea. All the ingredients of your thesis–that the oppression of animals serves as the model for all other forms of oppression–have been available to thinking people for generations, but it remained for you to pull them together.” –Helen Weaver, author of The Daisy Sutra, USA

“I believe, along with many others, that your book is one of the most important books of the century.” –Tanja Tuma, publisher, Ljubljana, Slovenia

“Very well researched and written with great sensitivity…a compelling, useful and informative book, which I strongly recommend to others in sub-Saharan Africa.” –Professor P S Igbigbi, Head, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, University of Malawi

“A thorough and thought-provoking book.” –Ha’aretz (Israeli newspaper)

“The book that breaks all taboos. The book that fires up controversies all over the world.” –Prijatelji Zivotinja (Animal Friends Croatia), Zagreb, Croatia

This was emailed to me by a friend today — so I had to look for it on YouTube. The accompanying email text said:

“Jennifer and Jim kept getting huge water bills. They knew beyond a doubt that
the bills weren’t representative of their actual usage, and no matter how they tried to conserve, the high bills continued. Although they could see nothing wrong, they had everything checked
for leaks or problems: the water meter, outdoor pipes, indoor pipes, underground pipes, faucets, toilets, washer, ice maker, etc., all to no avail. One day Jim was sick and stayed home in bed, but kept hearing water running downstairs. He finally got out of his sick bed to investigate, and stumbled onto the cause of the bills. Apparently this was happening all day long when they were not at home.
Knowing that few would believe him, he taped a segment of the ‘problem’ for posterity”

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GOP vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has come under fire from environmental and animal activists for her positions on drilling and hunting in Alaska. John Blackstone reports from Anchorage.

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IPCC chairman insists on eating less meat

Gent, Belgium. On Saturday, Rachendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and Nobel Peace prize winner, lectured at length about the effects of meat consumption on climate change. Dr. Pachauri was invited by the Belgian vegetarian organisation EVA and addressed more than 600 people at the University of Ghent. The event was called “Less Meat, Less Heat” and was organized together with Greenpeace Belgium and WWF Belgium.

Dr Pachauri said that in order to counter climate change, lifestyle changes are very important. One of the potentially most beneficial lifestyle changes, according to the IPCC president, would be the switch to a diet with less meat and more vegetarian meals.

Addressing his Belgian audience, Dr. Pachauri made the following comparison: if during one year, all Belgians would just have one meatless day a week, this would have the same beneficial effect on greenhouse gas emission as taking almost one million cars off the Belgian roads for an entire year.

Dr. Pachauri said meat production is responsible for 18% of global greenhouse gas emissions, mainly due to emission of methane from ruminants (cows, sheep and goats), emissions from manure, and the effects of deforestation for cattle grazing and animal feed. He also pointed out that producing a kilogram of beef requires about 15.000 liters of water.

Dr. Pachauri ended his talk by a quote from Gandhi: ‘be the change you want to see in the world’. He said we each need to take our responsibility and can create a big effect by individual actions, decreasing our meat intake being one of them.

After the talk, Tobias Leenaert of vegetarian organisation EVA presented five policy recommendations for meat reduction, signed by about 20 environmental NGOs, among whom Greenpeace Belgium and WWF Belgium. Leenaert: “A lower meat intake would be beneficial on many levels, not just on climate change and other environmental problems, but also on public health, the world hunger problem. and animal welfare. Still, government and politicians are currently not taking this issue seriously.”

The policy recommendations include setting a good example by offering sustainable vegetarian food in government funded restaurants, focusing more on sustainable food in school lunch programmes and education in general, a government campaign about the benefits of eating less meat, and making the production and sale of sustainable food products more profitable, among others.

“Eating less meat” is what people respectfully suggest to an unyielding and unreceptive society who is not ready or willing to take the personal initiative to give up all meat, and/or all animal by-products. Read between the lines whenever you hear the expression. I’m still waiting for environmentalists, who are not already aligned to the animal rights movement, to get on board with this issue, if they care about Global Warming. When will enough people get serious about this — or at least serious enough to talk about it?! Why won’t Al Gore mention it? I mean, is Global Warming a serious threat or not? If it is, then people should change the way they live immediately. If it isn’t, they can continue to “consume away…”, as the Psalm says.

“The Lord Almighty grant us a peaceful night and a perfect end. Amen.“

(A service, if needed.)

Once to every man and nation, comes the moment to decide,
In the strife of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side;
Some great cause, some great decision, offering each the bloom or blight,
And the choice goes by forever, ’twixt that darkness and that light.

Though the cause of evil prosper, yet the truth alone is strong;
Though her portion be the scaffold, and upon the throne be wrong;
Yet that scaffold sways the future, and behind the dim unknown,
Standeth God within the shadow, keeping watch above His own.

Here are a few random pictures I found on the Web of St. Francis depicted with the Wolf of Gubbio, in no particular order. I chose to post these in reaction to Alaska’s aerial gunning of wolves.