We Are What We Do

Shell is (one of many) killing animals at HLS NOW! If you use Shell you are paying for this. !
Shell recently paid for a poisoning experiment at
at HLS to test a plasticiser for PVC. All of the animals
died in this test. Shell has seen the footage of animal
abuse and still uses HLS.

Dogs of   Santorini, Greece
Of all of these dogs only two found homes - Cookie     (black dog) and Cream (skinny dog in the front) now both live in Belgium. The rest were poisoned. With an on-going sterilization and educational program this could be avoided www.paw-europe.com





The Greeks Don't Have A Word For It
A horrible act of cruelty occurred recently in Japan.
At the beginning of May, a man from Fukuoka, Japan announced to people on one
of Japan's largest chat sites called 2channel (<<http://www.2ch.net/>>) that he
captured a cat in the street. He then filmed, "How I killed the cat", and
posted the photos on the site. He fed the cat in his bathtub (picture shown above). He started by cutting his throat a little bit so that he was not able to scream and then cut off his ears, tail and legs. Finally strangling the cat to death. He enjoyed how this cat was dying. He called it "Cats Festival".
He showed 9 pictures in 4 hours on the internet, providing "live" updates.

Finally police found him, but unfortunately there are no strict laws protecting animals in Japan (unlike in America or England. This man is most likely getting away with no punishment whatsoever.
After these photos were posted, there were other incidents where sick individuals copied the torture of cats. Many abused, dead cats were found in Japan (almost daily).
The horrible pictures that were posted from this site can be found at: http://www.tanteifile.com/diary/special/kiji.html
owned by   a volunteer investigator. scroll to bottom of the page). Please be warned that these photos are very disturbing and quite graphic in nature. I offer this
information only so that you may understand fully the true nature of this horrible act.


         The Brave Executioner
On Sunday, August 4, 2002, Yoichi Nakayama, a Queens sushi chef, was arrested for repeatedly dunking his dachshund underwater for 45 minutes and eventually drowning him at Jones Beach in Wantagh, Long Island. He was given a summons by Park Police to appear in court
in September and charged with only a misdemeanor, not a felony, even though aggravated animal cruelty is a felony in NY State since Nov 1999.
According to an article in Newsday, "The man, Yoichi Nakayama, 38, then walked out of the surf with the dog, Noodle, in his arms and started to dig a hole to bury the dog." The article also stated that, "Nakayama was
covered with scratches apparently from the dog trying to get away from him." This indicates that this was "conduct which (i) is intended to cause extreme physical pain; or (ii) done or carried out in an especially depraved or sadistic manner" and Mr. Nakayama should be charged and prosecuted with felony animal cruelty.



          Of Planetary Conquest By Geese
A Danbury judge granted a 49-year-old city man a special program that may keep him from acquiring a criminal record for running down two geese near the Danbury Fair mall. Police said on June 23, after defendant Thomas Goodwin drove through the gaggle of geese that was crossing Backus Avenue between the airport and the mall, he complained that the geese were "taking over the world.”



                  Is he really human?

A Clay County grand jury on Wednesday indicted Charles Benoit of Liberty on a charge of felony animal abuse for allegedly shoving a kitten into a hot barbecue grill. The indictment allows prosecutors to move Benoit's case to the trial court level and to cancel an Aug. 19 preliminary hearing. Benoit is scheduled to be arraigned today. No trial date has been set. Benoit is accused of shoving a 7-week-old kitten into hot coals in a grill at his apartment complex. Another resident saved the kitten, which later was painlessly put to death when a veterinarian determined that it had a congenital malformation.¹


One corner of the Inhuman Condition



Courageous little Rhode Island Red hen, Ginger, was rescued from a bar in San Francisco when compassionate patrons where appalled to see bizarre animal abuse in progress. They discovered Ginger huddled up in a corner, trying to protect herself from the cigarettes and bottle caps being thrown at her in the dark bar. Outraged, her rescuers snatched her up from the floor and contacted our CA shelter, where Ginger now lives in protection and peace.


                     The Patriots
Polluters, destroyers and general environment wreckers Exxon Mobil, also trading as Esso, spends millions of dollars sabotaging US participation in the Kyoto Protocol and subverting greater understanding of global warming.


                          And more
Right now, the Bush Administration is gearing up to dismantle environmental protections for the oceans that have been in place for over 30 years. These protections save marine mammals and help fight ocean pollution, over fishing, destructive fishing practices, and offshore oil and gas leasing. If the Bush Administration succeeds with their plans, the detrimental effects on the oceans will be felt far into the future and in some instances may be irreversible. In addition, the new policy would shut down public participation in environmental decision-making that NEPA requires.

                        And more Patriots
The Bush Administration is allegedly attempting to gut a key Clean Water Act program. As ridiculous as it sounds, the Administration wants to reverse the requirement that polluted waters be cleaned up.



Truths like this must be made public.

According to reports, Robert James Lunt of Prescott, Arizona, viciously attacked two dogs, a 13-year-old Chihuahua and a dachshund, while their guardian was asleep.

The guardian reportedly found the Chihuahua locked
in a closet, shaking and bloody, with eyes bulging from their sockets. Mr. Lunt had allegedly beaten the dog and pulled out most of her teeth with his bare hands. The elderly dachshund was found semiconscious and had sustained broken ribs and internal injuries during Mr. Lunt’s alleged rampage.

The dachshund survived, but the Chihuahua had to be
euthanized because of the extent of the damage to her brain. Authorities reportedly discovered teeth littered throughout the crime scene, a bloody towel in the bathroom, and walls smeared with blood.


                           And this

The incident happened in June in a CALHOUN COUNTY northwest Battle Creek neighborhood. 51-year old Daniel Tyjewski is charged with tossing several kittens into a trash container, trying to get rid of them.
According to the witnesses, "after he placed the boxes with the kittens into the dumpster, he went back on his porch and watched as they dumped those kittens into the dump
truck knowing they were there of course." The kittens were crushed to death. Tyjewski did not attend a hearing on the charge Thursday morning, so there's a bench warrant out for his arrest. The prosecutor's office is considering charging him as a habitual offender as well. In1976, he pled guilty to manslaughter.


                                         And this

More than 55,000 chickens suffocated to death in Kentucky after someone intentionally shut off ventilation to 3 sheds owned by Tyson Foods. Local citizens have complained about the Marion operation, and a public nuisance ordinance targeting it was enacted by the city in 2000.²

Some, but not all factory farm realities

Veal calves lock up

Pig lock up



One of the many warlike realities in our world that is obscured by the ongoing bustle in our lives, is humanities unceasing tyranny of animals that only concerned members of humanity can put to an end.     Don't let your membership lapse.



Letter from Chun Am—His Eyewitness Account of Horrific Dog Torture

(Translated from original letter in Korean)

      At 7:30 on the morning of May 14, 2002, I left my inn to take a walk by Manripo Beach. I came upon two men talking. One man walked up to a dog tied up by a stream. This white dog was jumping up and down and wagging his tail, happy to see his owner. The owner untied the rope from the tree and used the rope to tie up the dog. He handed him over to the other man. From the moment he was handed over to the second man, the dog was unable to move and the man dragged the dog for about twenty meters to a post. He put the rope around the post and yanked the dog over roughly, then tied him to the post. The dog was screaming in pain and flailing. This middle-aged man used his two hands to pull on the dog’s tail with all his strength, causing the dog to be choked around the neck, crushing the dog’s backbone. Then he was using all his strength to pull the dog by his left leg. Next he did the same with the right leg. While the dog was still alive, he was tearing his body apart.

      The dog was barely able to move, and he was moaning with horrible pain. He took a short break, looking at the dog and observing the dog’s dying condition. He waited a few minutes, and proceeded to repeat these actions about three times over the next thirty minutes. He stopped to check if the dog was breathing to make sure he was still alive, then he went back to his house, four meters away.    The dog was still alive and still moving. I asked this man, “Why are you killing this dog so painfully, so cruelly? Why can’t you kill him quickly?” He thought I was a dogmeat buyer or someone who enjoyed dogmeat. He smiled at me and proudly told me, “Dog should take a long time to be killed, that way it tastes better.” At that moment I was so enraged. “All the other countries who don’t eat dog advance as a country. If we don’t stop eating dogs, we are never going to be a progressive country.”

     “People in Seoul enjoy eating dog more.” the dog butcher replied, and he went back to his room.

     My heart was aching and pounding with panic. I couldn’t breathe from the shock. I ran the 150 meters back to the inn, my back and face covered in sweat and tears. An hour later I calmed down. The group I was traveling with had to leave. While I was leaving, I looked at the dog and saw him still tied up, dangling on the post. I was thinking about how many hours would pass until sunset and how long this butcher would hang the dog alive, if he was still alive. I cried and closed my eyes. “White Dog, I wish you peace in heaven. The man who killed you is so cruel, how can he be part of our Korean people? White Dog, you can’t forgive the butcher, but I will do it for you. I feel that our country is still so primitive. Someday the butcher will die. I believe that he will die just like you died, with pain. When you are reborn, hopefully you are never born into a country like this one, I hope you will be born into some advanced country.”

     This past week, I cannot work, I cannot sleep with the rage and this feeling of despair. This man had put in a big post in front of his house with equipment all around it, which seems to show that he has been doing this kind of work for a long time. He does this thing when an order comes from a dog soup restaurant. I am sure this expert dog butcher knows how to give maximum cruelty. That white dog so cruelly killed was eaten by savage dog eaters at a table of drinking, laughing people, who pay expensively for tender meat! In my life, I have observed that the dog meat eaters are always ailing, are never healthy and don’t live a long time. I don’t know why.

     Everyone, please be aware there is no one in this world more cruel than this butcher. Would you like to go to this Manripo Beach in Taeahn-gun where you might see this evil, cruel man who has already given up his humanity?

     Please let everyone all over the country know about this cruel man and his acts by sending this letter continuously to the newspapers, television, magazines—use all the media. Let them know the name of this place.

    Because I fear revenge, I regretfully cannot reveal my real identity, but some day I will.

May 20, 2002

A business man in his fifties, living in Sucho-gu, Seoul

     —Chun Am

   How Many dogs have died in this race?

In almost all of the 29 Iditarod races, at least one dog death has occurred. The first race is reported to have resulted in the deaths of 15 to 19 dogs. In 1997, the Anchorage Daily News reported that "at least 107 (dogs) have died." In the three years since that report, ten more dogs have died in the Iditarod, bringing the grand total of dogs who have died in the Iditarod to at least 117. There is no official count of dog deaths available for the race's early years and this count relies only on a reported number of deaths.
Causes of death during the last ten years have included strangulation in towlines, internal hemorrhaging after being gouged by a sled, liver injury, heart failure, and pneumonia. "Sudden death" and "external myopathy," a condition in which a dog's muscles and organs deteriorate during extreme or prolonged exercise, have also been blamed. In 1985 a musher kicked his dog to death. The 1975 Iditarod winner, Jerry Riley, was banned for life in 1990 after being accused of striking his dog with a snow hook (a large, sharp and heavy metal claw). In 1996 Rick Swenson's dog died while he mushed his team through waist-deep water and ice.

              How many dogs die after the race?
The Iditarod Trail Committee does not release information about dogs who die after the race.

Causes of death during the last ten years have included strangulation in towlines, internal hemorrhaging after being gouged by a sled, liver injury, heart failure, and pneumonia. "Sudden death" and "external myopathy," a condition in which a dog's muscles and organs deteriorate during extreme or prolonged exercise, have also been blamed. In 1985 a musher kicked his dog to death. The 1975 Iditarod winner, Jerry Riley, was banned for life in 1990 after being accused of striking his dog with a snow hook (a large, sharp and heavy metal claw). In 1996 Rick Swenson's dog died while he mushed his team through waist-deep water and ice.

How many dogs have died or have been injured while training for the Iditarod?

A dog chained to his exercise wheel may have trouble getting into his shelter.

We simply do not know how many dogs die or are injured during their intensive and grueling training for the race. Most mushers train their dogs in the remote areas of rural Alaska; consequently, their activities cannot be monitored. As part of their training, many mushers force their dogs to pull very heavy loads, which can cause hip and spine injuries.

       Are dogs injured during the race?
Some injuries and disorders that occur during the race include spinal injuries, bone fractures, sore and cut paws, ruptured tendon sheaths, torn muscles, sore joints, dehydration, stress and diarrhea. Intestinal infections occur when mushers feed their dogs food contaminated with Salmonella bacteria. When temperatures rise, dog food dropped off and left outside during the race often spoils.

The Iditarod violates accepted standards regarding of animal cruelty.
The Iditarod violates accepted standards regarding animal cruelty as is shown by the laws of 38 states and the District of Columbia. These 38 states and the District of Columbia have animal anti-cruelty laws that say "overdriving" and "overworking" an animal is animal cruelty. The California law is typical

"597. Cruelty to animals. (B) Every person who overdrives, overloads, drives when overloaded, overworks... any animal... is, for every such offense, guilty of a crime punishable as a misdemeanor or as a felony or alternatively punishable as a misdemeanor or a felony and by a fine of not more than twenty thousand dollars ($20,000)."

--Animal Welfare Institute, Animals and Their Legal Rights

The dog deaths and injuries in the Iditarod show that these dogs are "overworked" and "overdriven." If the Iditarod occurred in any of these 38 states or the District of Columbia, it would be illegal under the animal cruelty laws. Unfortunately, the State of Alaska's animal anti-cruelty law does not say that "overdriving" and "overworking" an animal is animal cruelty.

   Unrelieved pain or distress

Nearly 18 percent of all military animal experiments-conducted on more than 57,000animals annually-
involve unrelieved pain or distress. 5

The Evidence

Each year, 320,000 primates, dogs, pigs, goats, sheep, rabbits, cats and other animals are used by U.S. Department of Defense [DoD] in experiments that rank among the most painful conducted in this country. These animals are dosed with chemical and biological weapons, exposed to nuclear radiation, infected with some of our deadliest viruses, and forced to suffer a variety of other painful indignities-all in the name of human warfare. The cost to taxpayers for these military experiments is estimated to be in excess of $100 million annually.

Military animal experiments are conducted at 35 DoD facilities worldwide. In addition, DoD contracts with universities across the nation to conduct research involving animals. According to the Dod's own figures, nearly 18 percent of all military animal experiments-conducted on more than 57,000 animals annually-involve unrelieved pain or distress.

Examples of military animal research, taken from the DoD's on-line database, include: Scalding and otherwise inflicting burns on sheep, rats, pigs and rabbits, then forcing the animals to inhale smoke or infecting their burn wounds with bacterial or fungal pathogen.

Infecting monkeys, dogs, cats, pigs, rabbits, hamster, guinea pigs, mice and rats to deadly infectious diseases and biological agents, including deadly filoviruses like Marburg and Ebola, anthrax, biotoxins [like ricin, staphylococcal entertoxin [SE], botulinum, mycotoxin], malaria, dengue fever, encephalitis and hemorrhagic fever.

Dosing monkeys, mice and guniea pigs with nuclear radiation: exposing mice and guinea pigs to radiation in combination with biological and chemical warfare agents, and surgically imbedding depleted uranium fragments in rats.

Using cats, pigs, ferrets, sheep, monkeys and rats train medical and other personnel in medical procedures, such as emergency resuscitation techniques and surgery. One DoD training exercise involves the actual poisoning of live monkeys with nerve gases to teach chemical casualty care resuscitation

            Congressional Concern

The DoD's animal experiments have long been a source of controversy. In response to public concern about military animal abuse, the U.S. House Armed Services Committee convened a hearing on April 7, 1992. former military researchers, physicians, scientists, and animal activists testified about waste, negligence and animal abuse in DoD research programs. After the hearing, U.S Representative Ron Dellums, on behalf of the House of Representatives Armed Services Committee stated, "The committee has heard testimony that raises disturbing questions about the necessity, ethical propriety, oversight and quality of the military's experiments on animals."

The Armed Services Committee went on to require a number of measures designed to bring greater oversight to the militaryÕs animal research program. Among these measures were annual reporting requirements and a thorough investigation of the DoD animal use program by the U.S. General Accounting Office [GAO]. The ultimate goal was the reduction of animals used in DoD research and the elimination of wasteful and duplicative research.

                       The good news

Since the DoD began reporting to Congress in 1993, animal use by the military has declined by 42 percent. In addition, the GAO has begun its long-awaited investigation of the military's animal research program, breathing new life into efforts to oppose the DoD's torture of hundreds of thousands of animals annually.

Its unlikely that such
    things as outlined above would happen
      in a world
undefiled
      by abattoirs, and the
       annual institutionalized
murder of millions of animal, but
change is an everlasting reality.

1. The Animal Spirit
2. Association of Veterinarians for Animal Rights
3.  Courtesy of Farm Sanctuary
4. Sled Dog action Coalition
5. In Defense Of Animals



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