Tuesday, 25 December 2012
Wednesday, 24 October 2012
Unexpectedly Long Hiatus!
Hello all,
Just a quick note to apologise for the long hiatus, we moved house last week and it is going to be another few weeks before we have Internet connection unfortunately (yes, I'm surprised too!).
I am doing all I can from the 3G on my phone and all Animal News actions will be via Twitter (Warning - there are lots!). If you don't already follow me on Twitter you can do so here: https://twitter.com/TheAnimalNews in due course I will try and add updates on Facebook as well.
Thank you so much for your patience and my apologies once again!
xx
Wednesday, 10 October 2012
Lunch Time Links #29
My inbox has been inundated with requests to take action for animals and I am struggling to keep up! This weeks Lunch Time links has quite a few links for you to check out but I would really appreciate it if you could spare some time to take action and share the actions with your friends and family too. As promised, the links also include some nice surprises!
Thursday, 4 October 2012
The fight continues...
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After the deaths of over 40 sheep and subsequent suspension of live animal exports at Ramsgate port Ipswich port helped the Live Export trade to continue just one week later. Since then CIWF has reported that over 63,000 emails have been sent to Defra Minister David Heath and Ipswich port owners ABP against the live exports from Ipswich. On 28th September it was reported that ABP had suspended the live exports from Ipswich. The fight is not over as transporters will now be contacting other ports to take their place.
We need to show the farming sector that the public do not support live exports and call on UK farmers seeking their help in ending the live export trade.
It is the UK farmers, as well as the government, that have the power to end this trade. As the sheep and dairy farming sectors receive generous subsidies from the tax payer they have a responsibility to respond NOW to public opposition.
The National Farmers’ Union (NFU), the National Sheep Association (NSA), and DairyCo represent the majority of farmers involved in the live export trade, although most sheep and dairy farmers in the UK do not export their livestock. We ask that the NFU, NSA and DairyCo to respond to the tragedy at Ramsgate, and the suspensions of the trade that have followed, by calling on the farmers they represent to end this trade for good.
Please click here to email Associated British Ports today and urge them to ban the trade in live animals across all its ports, for good.
Wednesday, 3 October 2012
Lunch Time Links #28
How has your week been so far?
The nights are getting darker and I am finding it so difficult now the mornings are darker too, although Autumn is my favourite season for so many other reasons. Change is afoot and I have decided on a little overhaul to Lunch Time links! Instead of just posting links to petitions and causes and demanding you get clicking, I want to give something back - so I am going to throw in some links to articles you may find of interest, humorous or just plain weird as well as the usual very important links to causes.
I hope this makes Lunch Time Links feel less like work and more like a break!
Enjoy!
Wednesday, 26 September 2012
Lunch Time Links #27
Are you feeling the autumn chill yet? I am finding Suki's early morning and evening walks quite bracing. This time next week it will be October! Sip some nice warm soup and check out today's links...
Thursday, 20 September 2012
Help Australian Sheep
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I am absolutely disgusted to hear of the way millions of sheep in Australia are treated when they are not able to produce enough wool to generate profits for farmers. PETA reports that the sheep are sold for slaughter and forced to travel for weeks on end to the Middle East and North Africa on hot, multi-tiered ships where they endure weeks of misery. If they survive the disgusting conditions on board they then face slaughter.
Back in 2005 PETA US and Australian activists released the results of an undercover investigation which exposed shocking cruelty to sheep. The Australian Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry has insisted that the current regulatory system is working despite the fact that it was animal activists and not government officials that documented the cruelty.
Please sign this petition allowing PETA to continue to expose the horrors of the wool, meat and live export industries and to raise awareness and put pressure on decision makers to make the urgent changes needed to save the lives of animals.
Your signature really will make a difference, PETA and their affiliates have sparked an international outcry and resulted in promises of industry and government reform. A growing number of retailers are moving away from wool from mulesed lambs or have banned it outright.
Wednesday, 19 September 2012
Lunch Time Links #26
Save Spanish Greyhounds
Ban Irish Fur Farms
Stop Animal Cruelty at Marine Land
Save British Bees
Tuesday, 18 September 2012
Groupon Circus Deals
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Groupon ("Group Coupon") is a deal of the day website featuring discounted gift vouchers for national or local companies. I regularly receive e-mails from them and have, on occasion, treated myself or somebody else to a coupon. I was very disappointed when I received an e-mail from PETA informing me that Groupon unfortunately continues to offer deals for cruel circuses across America.
Until Groupon agree to stop promoting circuses featuring animals I am no longer going to purchase any of their coupons and will be telling others to do the same. Although I have no evidence that they offer deals for circuses here in the UK, what's to stop them doing so in the future? Please spare a few moments to click here and fill in a few details and send a message to Groupon urging them to stop promoting animal based circuses.
Thursday, 13 September 2012
Stop the Badger Cull!
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The appeal was unanimously rejected by Lord Justice Law, Lord Justice Rimer and Lord Justice Sullivan.
Patricia Hayden, VC of the Badger Trust told The Guardian "We are very disappointed. We don't know what the next step is, but we will not give up."
The Trust is now deciding whether to take their legal action to the supreme court.
In Wales, a badger vaccination programme is replacing the planned cull which was abandoned following legal challenges and the election of a new political administration. National Trust in Devon and the Wildlife Trust in Gloucestershire is testing the vaccination programme, this is despite the previous Labour government saying an oral badger vaccine would be ready by 2015 and the coalition cancelling five of the six planned trails and declaring a viable oral vaccine as being "years away".
It was reported in the Guardian on Wednesday that activists are threatening to disrupt the badger cull which is due to start this autumn. Volunteers are planning to patrol the cull zones and do their utmost to make it impossible for the trial culls to take place. Other proposals include raves and other music events that will focus attention on the cull thus making it more difficult to carry out. A national rally against the cull was held in Bristol on Tuesday where animal rights activists turned out in force, animal rights campaigner Brain May (guitarist from Queen) spoke at the rally and said: "I think we are all hoping that David Cameron is looking at the possibility of reorganising and delaying the cull while they look more carefully at vaccination. You could kill all the badgers in Britain and it would not stop the problem of bovine TB in cows."
The RSPCA, League Against Cruel Sports, Humane Society International/UK, Save Me and a host of local campaign groups have formed #TeamBadger
Please sign this petition and also join the Stop the Cull Facebook Community. You are also able to quickly e-mail your MP and Tweet David Cameron at the click of a button using!
Brian May and Care for the Wild have set up this e-petition that will just take you a moment to sign please.
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