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REMEMBER, EVERY day as YOU enjoy YOUR DAY the following is going on:
REMEMBER: The Norwegians, Icelanders and Japs are still killing whales and the latter are still killing porpoises.
REMEMBER: The Japs are still refusing to allow a limit set on Bluefin Tuna that is being fished to extinction. It is their favorite fish for sushi and they don’t want to “go without.”
REMEMBER: The Chinks are still killing sharks for their fins; are still skinning dogs and cats alive for their “fur;” are still killing bears and tigers for small parts that are supposed to have aphrodisiac properties and stack live turtles in boxes for live meat sales at stores in San Francisco and other cites.
REMEMBER: The other Chinks (Taiwan) and Koreans are still using miles long gill nets that snare every fish that hits them, most of which aren’t wanted. Many of these nets are lost and lurk for decades in the oceans, killing…..killing….. Pulled up (that is, those nets not lost), the dead unwanted fish are just thrown back into the sea.
REMEMBER: Many nations’ fishers use bottom scraping nets that also snare every species it hits, most of which aren’t wanted. But these nets destroy coral reefs and whole swaths of bottom ecosystems. Pulled up, the dead unwanted fish are just thrown back into the sea.
REMEMBER: In many countries animals – rats, mice, dogs, cats, monkey and chimpanzees- are routinely tortured in so-called “experiments” that euphemistically are carried out for the good of humanity but really determine nothing. Other modern day Dr. Mengeles use wild animals – chimpanzees, monkeys, etc. – that are captured in jungles and forests. So many are being taken from the wilds that many species are facing extinction. There are other places that produce genetically altered animals, usually mice and/or rats, that are born with certain infirmities that allows the so-called “researchers” a ready made condition upon which they can base their “research.”
REMEMBER: A further cruelty being brought down on domestic animals is injecting their eggs with human stem cells so that their organs can be transplanted into humans without the problem of rejection. Those sick enough to do this to an unsuspecting animal are cruel beyond compare; these Doctor Moreaus need to be exterminated.
REMEMBER: Africa is slowly being destroyed as outside countries (mainly China) seek to exploit her natural resources and to do so promise great benefits to her people: Forests are being cleared, rivers are being dammed and diverted. Her wildlife is being brought to extinction by the bush-meat trade and by farmers who don’t want their livestock to have to compete with it.
REMEMBER: The rainforests of the Amazon, Africa, Central America, Southern Asia (especially Indonesia) and northern Australia are being bulldozed and burned out. Vast areas of habitat for innumerable species is being destroyed, bringing those species nearer to extinction just so the effete can enjoy their pieces of furniture or floors made of “exotic” woods!
REMEMBER: There are many places where mares are kept pregnant for the production of Premarin. They are immobilized in a special cage and cathetered for urine collection. They never get to see their foals that are sent off to slaughter soon after birth.
REMEMBER: There are still many puppy, kitten and bunny mills that keep their animals in small cages off the ground so that they live on screen wire. Females are bred as often as they can be and will continue to be until they are exhausted. These animals never feel the ground under their feet nor experience the joy of living in their world.
REMEMBER: Both wild and domesticated animals are kept in small cages only for their pelt. The fur industry is one of the cruelest there is: Mink, fox, chinchilla, ermine, etc., are raised to the right age then slaughtered (in the right way so as not to mar the pelt!) just to make coats for human females to flaunt their status. The Chink’s so-called “fur industry” uses domestic cats and dogs that they either skin alive or drown so as not to “blemish” the fur. Other trappers who feel that legs are’nt really necessary for a pelt’s value, use leg traps, one of the cruelest of mechanisms. Animals have been known to chew their leg off to escape from them.
REMEMBER: The majority of egg producers house their hens several to a cage. These cages are too small for them to stretch their wings or sit. This is their life and as soon as egg production slows, it is off to slaughter for them.
REMEMBER: Modern day meat production for human consumption is Dante’s Inferno for farm animals. These animals – mainly pigs, cattle, sheep, turkeys, chickens, rabbits, etc. – are kept in small enclosures where they can be fed, not move much, and easily rounded up for slaughter. For example……
Chickens and turkeys are jammed cheek by jowl in large buildings where they are fed chemically “enhanced” food to increase meat production (some are even genetically altered to produce animals with even more meat).
Hogs are raised in small enclosures – usually steel bars or concrete walls – where they cannot even turn around so that their inactivity maximizes their meat production.
Calves raised for veal are kept in small enclosures where they cannot move so that the veal they produce is as tender as possible. They are not even allowed a cud to chew, the one common practice of such herbivores.
Geese, who mate for life, also in small enclosures, are force-fed to enlarge their livers for pate. In their enclosures they cannot even stretch their wings.
Cattle are kept in feed lots before slaughter. There is no grass in those lots for them to have a cud, just a pavement of feces.
They never experience the life to which they evolved.
REMEMBER: Mankind’s cruelties against other species varies as far as ones imagination can wander. Broncos and steers in rodeos have their genitals squeezed to make them buck. People still carry out dog fights, cock fights and bull fights. Spaniards kill those greyhounds that lose races (hanging them with wire in trees). In many places racing greyhounds, when not racing, live in small crates inside of buildings! And the list goes on, of animals starving, being treated cruelly, of……….
REMEMBER: Many wild animals – elephants, tigers, lions, etc. – spend their life in misery chained and/or caged just to titillate humans at circuses. This is a far cry from the plains of the Kalahari or forests of India.
REMEMBER: There are people who “love” animals and so acquire so many of them – usually cats and dogs, but also can be rats, ducks, other birds, fish, etc. – that they are branded as “hoarders” with their many animals housed in conditions as bad as or sometimes worse than those in meat producers, if one can imagine something so bad.
REMEMBER: There are great “hunters” who train their dogs by “Penning:” Capturing prey, usually coyotes, and jamb them close together that they can just breath (of course no food or water) in a small pen until they are ready to “train” their dogs: Released in an enclosed area where there is no chance of escape; the dogs complete their training by killing the coyotes (some of the “hunters” cut the coyote’s tails off to make it more difficult for the dogs to catch them , thereby “honing” their skills).
REMEMBER: In the many wars and other human battles going on around the world, there is wide use of land mines. Many animals step on these and are either killed, mortally maimed or maimed for life. Some people have made prosthetic legs for elephants who’ve had a leg blown off.
REMEMBER: Too many humans throw plastic waste away. That “waste” finds its way to the ocean and ends up in that vast collection of junk located in the center of the Pacific Ocean where it slowly breaks apart into smaller and smaller pieces, threatening to damage and poison all members of the food chain.
REMEMBER: Too many stupid humans still release balloons that eventually come down. Wherever they come down – on land or sea – they are a threat to wildlife, causing animals to choke to death or have their gastric system blocked so that they starve to death.
REMEMBER: There are still people stupid enough to throw rice at weddings. This rice is a death sentence for those birds that eat it. It is proper to throw bird seed at weddings.
REMEMBER: The Human species is reproducing without restraint: Too many couples world-wide are having three or more children that live to breeding age.
THINK! Do we want the people who do these things to be around as fellow members of the human species? I don’t.
REMEMBER the words of Jain patriarch Mahavira: Do not injure, abuse, oppress, enslave, insult, torment, torture or murder any creature or living thing.
IT IS TIME: It is time to go beyond “non-violent” action. It is time to start killing these people who do such things to the other rightful inhabitants of Earth. We’ve just passed the seven billion mark of human population, in eight years there will be an estimated 8.2 billion! That’s adding the population of China in eight years! That is 12,500,000 people added each month!! How do we expect the biosphere to support all of these consuming beings, most of whom care not a whit about what their consumption habits are doing to the planet.
ADVOCATE: Women’s rights throughout the whole world, including unconditional rights to birth control and abortion.
ADVOCATE: Controlling the human population by endorsing universal spaying and neutering of humans.
REMEMBER: The Earth would do very well if there weren’t any humans on it.
AS ALWAYS: My standing offer: If you can show me incontrovertible evidence that Jesus Christ existed as a living, breathing human being, I will pay off all of your debts.
