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Need Your Vote: The UN may soon recognize eating meat as a crime against all humanity. UN may soon recognize eating meat as a crime against all humanity! Support the adoption of this decision, by filling out a short form on the Internet.

A new survey is getting the attention of many within the animal protection community. Covering both moral and strategic issues, it will provide a snapshot of the animal cause as of the present moment. Everyone is invited to participate and share their views on what's best for animals. The survey is at EthicsAndAnimals.questionpro.com, and will only be open until July 9, 2009. For other information, such as other language links and banners (for whoever wants to help promoting the survey), you may visit the blog of ethiQUEST Surveys, the survey administrator: ethiquest.wordpress.com.

The Michelin starred Box Tree restaurant in Ilkley has removed pate de foie gras from its menu in the face of protests by an animal rights group. The group threatened to demonstrate outside the restaurant on Church

BRUSSELS, May 20 (Xinhua) -- Mad cow disease has been discovered on a farm in the province of Drenthe in northern Netherlands, Radio Netherlands Worldwide reported Tuesday. After an eight-year-old cow fell ill at the beginning of May and had

TORONTO — Following a five-year roasting by animal-rights activists, KFC Canada is promising improved welfare for the chickens it buys for its fast-food outlets in exchange for an end to a boycott campaign that will continue in the U.S. and elsewhere.

A cattle industry spokesperson says seven million vegetarians don't have much of an affect on the amount of beef moving in the U.S. A study done for the magazine Vegetarian Times indicates a little over

Americans could barely believe their eyes when shown the sickening mistreatment of downer cows at a Southern California slaughter plant earlier this year. An investigator for The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) went undercover there and documented ailing dairy cows unable to walk being brutalized in order to get them into the

The "Chicken Project" is over, at least for now. As part of an ecology class at Canandaigua Academy students raised live chickens, and then killed them to better understand where the food they eat comes from. Critics called it unnecessary and cruel. The school listened, and now the course curriculum will be reviewed before a

Chalk up another victory for the animal rights crusaders at PETA, who this week convinced their former nemesis, KFC, to start buying chickens from suppliers who kill the birds in a more humane method

GORDON Ramsay has been labelled repugnant after revealing that his eight-year-old son inadvertently pulled off a live rabbit's head during a hunting expedition. The former Rangers trainee said he took eight-year-old Jack on a hunt

This week's recall of 143 million pounds of beef represents the confluence of two important trends in US agriculture: the push for more humane treatment of farm animals, and efforts to prevent the spread of disease. Under pressure from consumers and animal rights groups, major restaurant and grocery chains from Burger King to Wolfgang Puck to Safeway are requiring that eggs and meat come from producers that reduce animal suffering.

Campus dining services have made adjustments in the past to accommodate the demands of students and staff by stocking shelves with fair trade products and incorporating locally-grown produce and dairy in their prepared meals. But what about eggs?Students for True Animal Rights (STAR), a club on campus whose mission is to "educate people about the rights of other animals," according to their web site, has been pushing for a change in the ingredients used by campus cafeterias.

Workers at a North Carolina slaughterhouse caught on hidden camera brutally abusing pigs have been fired.Several employees of Murphy Family Ventures, which owns pig-breeding farms that supply the country's largest pork producer Smithfield Foods, were filmed by an undercover investigator from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) dragging and beating swine, gouging out their eyes and castrating their babies without painkillers.

More than 10 billion intensively-raised land animals will end up on dinner tables this year in America alone. They’re made of flesh, blood and bone and can feel love, happiness, loneliness and fear just like the dogs and cats we ask our pastors and rectors to bless.Yet because they were born chickens or pigs or cows, these animals are denied everything that is natural to them.

Video footage being released today shows workers at a California slaughterhouse delivering repeated electric shocks to cows too sick or weak to stand on their own; drivers using forklifts to roll the "downer" cows on the ground in efforts to get them to stand up for inspection; and even a veterinary version of waterboarding in which high-intensity water sprays are shot up animals' noses -- all violations of state and federal laws designed to prevent animal cruelty and to keep unhealthy animals, such as those with mad cow disease, out of the food supply.

In natural selection, favorable heritable characteristics of a species tend to survive the unfavorable heritable traits, allowing for an enhancement of that species. This evolution ultimately influences survival rates as the species evolves to successfully meet its environmental challenges. The varied species of the Galapagos are perhaps our best evidence of this; and by protecting them, the Ecuadorian government provides anyone and everyone interested the unique opportunity to view Charles Darwin´s extraordinary theories of natural selection and evolution in real life.

The animal rights argument briefly goes as follows. Animals are able to feel pain, and in fact some animals, such as pigs, have a mentality that is on the level of small children. Because animals can feel pain we should not sacrifice their life in order to give us something to eat, just as we would never dream of killing people just to give us something to eat. In a society where the slaughter of animals is not necessary to provide adequate nutrition it is specie-ist to not consider the rights of animals simply based on the fact that they are not the same species as humans.

Animals are not ours to use for food, clothing, entertainment, experimentation, or any other reason. By switching to a plant-base diet, human societies will be able to alleviate the needless suffering and deaths of countless animals, the irreparable damage done onto the earth like air and water pollution, the erosion of lands, waste of precious energy, and deforestation. Raising and eating meat leaves behind an environmental toll that generations to come will be forced to pay. The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Gandhi, Indian spiritual leader

Jesus' message is one of love and compassion, yet there is nothing loving or compassionate about factory farms and slaughterhouses, where billions of animals live miserable lives and die violent, bloody deaths. Jesus mandates kindness, mercy, compassion, and love for all God's creation. He would be appalled by the degree of suffering we inflict on animals to indulge our acquired taste for their flesh. Christians have a choice. When we sit down to eat, we can add to the level of violence, misery, and death in the world, or we can respect His creation with a vegetarian diet.

ONCE they were a byword for mindless docility. But cows have a complex mental life in which they bear grudges, nurture friendships and become excited by intellectual challenges, researchers have found. Cows are capable of strong emotions such as pain, fear and even anxiety about the future. But if farmers provide the right conditions, they can also feel great happiness. The findings have emerged from studies of farm animals that have found similar traits in pigs, goats and chickens. They suggest such animals may be so emotionally similar to humans that welfare laws need to be reconsidered.

ONCE they were a byword for mindless docility. But cows have a complex mental life in which they bear grudges, nurture friendships and become excited by intellectual challenges, researchers have found. Cows are capable of strong emotions such as pain, fear and even anxiety about the future. But if farmers provide the right conditions, they can also feel great happiness. The findings have emerged from studies of farm animals that have found similar traits in pigs, goats and chickens. They suggest such animals may be so emotionally similar to humans that welfare laws need to be reconsidered.