Close Green Hill

 

Green Hill 2001 is a company based in Italy, that breeds beagle dogs for vivisection labs.  More than 250 dogs per month end up in vivisection labs.  There are up to 2,500 adult dogs and several litters inside Green Hill.  There dogs live in closed animal shelters in row upon row of cages without natural air or light.

Green Hill's clients are University laboratories, pharmaceutical companies and trial centres such as the notorious Huntingdon Life Sciences in England.

An American firm called Marshall Farms Inc have purchased Green Hill, Marshall is an infamous name throughout the world as the largest "factory" dog lab and "the Marshall Beagle" is now a standard variety.  Marshall's dogs are shipped all over the world but now with the purchase of Green Hill and the construction of a huge farm in China, more and more dogs are doomed to a life of suffering.

As well as selling dogs, including pregnant mothers, Green Hill and Marshall also offer surgical treatments on the dogs which include the cutting or removal of the vocal cords of some glands - so they cannot bark.

Basically, Green Hill and Marshall simply see animals as commodities, simply there to breed and sell.  There is no objection to the mental and physical pain and suffering that the dogs will undergo after being kept in inhumane conditions before being sentenced to torture and death.

Please join thousands of other animal lovers, including actress and dog lover Joanna Page, and sign this petition asking for Green Hill to be closed down and all dogs being held there be put up for adoption. 

Who is flouting the ban on illegal Battery Cages?

Source: CIWF

Further to my post about Happy Hens on 7th January, Compassion in World Farming have reported that despite the EU ban on barren battery hen cages taking effect at the beginning of 2012, industry estimates show that due to the non-compliance in a number of nations there are at least 50 million European hens still being illegally kept in barren battery cages.

CIWF reports that there are 14 EU nations that are not complying with the ban on battery cages and the worst culprit is Italy, where industry estimates show that the non-compliance is at least 41% - nearly 20 million hens.

The Italian Health Minister, Renato Balduzzi oversees farm animal welfare.  Sig. Balduzzi took office in November 2011 so will not have experienced the full force of CIWF's Big Move campaign yet.  Please click here to enter a few details and automatically contact Sig. Balduzzi asking him to set out Italy's plans for full compliance to the ban on battery cages, to provide accurate figures to the Commission of the Italian egg industry's level of compliance and confirm what action the Government is taking against producers who break the law.

Please remember to share this with your friends so we can increase the pressure on Italy to adhere to this much welcomed ban on battery cages and improve the lives of nearly 20 million hens.

Thank you!


Update
A day after writing this post I noticed this article informing us that it isn't just Italy that are flouting the ban on battery cages.  Sadly, up to 500,000 hens are still being kept in battery cages in the UK despite the ban.  The ban on battery cages was announced by the EU over ten years ago, in 2009 so British egg producers have had ample time to phase battery cages out.  The Government is confident that the new rules will be fully enforced by the beginning of next month...  Watch this space.