The Toronto Star published an article stating that the Governor General’s chowing down on a raw seal heart has given Inuit leaders hope that southern palates will take a shine to arctic meats such as seal, caribou and muskox.
With 58% employment in the region (stated in the article) who can blame them for having such [...]
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Sir, may I recommend our special for tonight: PCBs in a Brominated Flame Retardant sauce?
Posted in Canada, climate change, environment, seal hunt, tagged arctic mammals, arctic pollution, Governor General Michaelle Jean, Inuit, seal hunt, seals on May 31, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Act now to save an entire herd of elephants from being gunned down
Posted in elephants, endangered species, habitat loss, vanishing wildlife, tagged elephant slaughter, elephants, habitat loss, human-wildlife conflict, Majete Wildlife Reserve, Malawi on May 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Seventy elephants in a large herd consisting of adults and babies in Malawi will be shot due to human-elephant conflict unless funds can be raised to move them to a wildlife reserve.
International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) is working to raise the funds to relocate the herd to Majete Wildlife Reserve, a protected park, one [...]
Canada’s Governor General Michaelle Jean… don’t know much about geography
Posted in Canada, climate change, seal hunt, tagged European Union, Governor General, Michaelle Jean, Newfoundland, Nunavit, seal hunt, seal pups on May 26, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today in the news, our Governor General Michaelle Jean was in KUGLUKTUK, Nunavut (in Canada’s far north arctic region) speaking to students and while there she helped skin a seal and ate a piece of its heart, “raw,” as per this news item from the Canadian Press.
Then she “expressed dismay that anyone would characterize the [...]
Furadan: Wildlife killing pesticide banned by the EPA being considered for ban in Canada
Posted in Canada, animal cruelty, endangered species, environment, food, health, pesticides, vanishing wildlife, tagged American Bird Conservancy, birds, Canadian Government, Carbofuran, EPA, FMC Corporation, Furadan, lions, Mara Triangle, pesticide ban, pesticides, wildlife, Wildlife Direct, wildlife poisoning on May 23, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Last year we were all horrified to learn about lions in Kenya’s Mara Triangle with paralyzed limbs dying in agony from poisoning by a cheap American pesticide called Carbofuran (Furadan) produced by FMC Corporation.
I posted about this crisis on my old blog
A campaign was started through Wildlife Direct on the Stop Wildlife Poisoning blog, conferences [...]
Report on the “Heroes and Charlatans” in the World of Soy
Posted in farm animals, food, palm oil, tagged Cornucopia Institute, natural foods, organic, organic soybean, palm oil, Silk, soybean on May 22, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Here is a fascinating and important report from The Cornucopia Institute on the natural and organic soy foods industry.
I had stopped drinking Silk long ago mainly due to palm oil being used in both their creamer and soy beverages plus had heard rumblings about associations with factory farm organic dairy.
Silk claims on its site it [...]
Canadian politicans out of touch with reality
Posted in seal hunt, tagged animal cruelty, Canadian Parliament, EU, harp seals, seal hunt, seal slaughter on May 8, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Have a look at this snippet of transcript from the Canadian Parliament. This is what one of the clowns brought forward yesterday.
Text taken from House of Commons site
” “Mr. Raynald Blais (Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine, BQ):
“Mr. Speaker, I also seek the unanimous consent of the House to adopt the following motion:
That, in the opinion of [...]
Don’t fall in the Swine Flu manure lagoon while forgetting all about Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
Posted in animal cruelty, farm animals, food, health, swine flu, tagged antibiotic resistant superbugs, factory farming, meat, MRSA, pigs, pork, superbugs, swine flu on May 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
As the swine flu outbreak dominates the news, albeit irresponsibly reported by the mainstream media, let us not forget about Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), that virulent superbug spawned in pig factory farms that kills more people in the USA every year than does AIDS.
You won’t read this about antibiotic resistance in your Saturday paper:
“An [...]
Report on Industrial Farm Animal Production in America: Industry has to Change
Posted in farm animals, food, health, swine flu, tagged factory farming, intensive hog operations, MRSA, pigs, pork, swine flu on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
In light of the (unaddressed by mainstream media and government) connections between factory farming and swine flu and other related issues, I am going to repeat a post from my old blog at ethicsandanimals.com.
New Report on Industrial Farm Animal Production in America: Industry has to Change (from May 2008)
The Pew Charitable Trusts and Johns [...]
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