Earthlings (Narrated by: Joaquin Phoenix)

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Primate Labs

PrimateLabs.com - While I was visiting veganthis blogspot, there was a blog about a newly launched, absolutely incredible website for the animal rights movement, PrimateLabs.com.

You gotta check out PrimateLabs.com. Nothing I can write can give justice to this amazing website and resource for activists. This new website will, by itself, substantially empower the animal rights movement. No doubts about it. Simply amazing. Repost and spread the buzz about it!


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Also, if you haven't checked out what is happening with the AETA 2, AETA 4, and Jordan Halliday (Grand Jury Resister), I encourage you to inform yourself and to support them.

Support BJ & Alex (the "AETA 2")
BJ & Alex's trial starts on July 27th. They are facing up to a maximum of six years in prison for allegedly freeing and attempting to free animals from execution. Alex Hall needs legal funds! $2500 more needed to reach goal!
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The AETA 4's next court date is July 13th. The AETA 4 needs your help to fight criminalization.. of free speech and political activities! The first amendment is our right!
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Jordan Halliday was held in jail for over 110 days for "civil contempt of court". He is now facing "criminal contempt of court". Why? Because he refuses to testify and cooperate with abusive grand juries, and because he refuses to let his first amendment and fifth amendment rights be undermined.
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PCRM Online Newsletter >> Monkeys Poisoned, Goats Maimed in Gruesome Military Training >> July 2009

 

 

CNN’s Wolf Blitzer calls it a growing controversy. Last month, The Situation Room aired military videos obtained by PCRM through the Freedom of Information Act that reveal the unlawful use of live animals for medical training. But Congress and PCRM are asking the military to switch from these inhumane exercises to nonanimal teaching methods.

The Situation Room’s coverage of PCRM’s campaign to improve military medicine also included an interview with Charles J. Rosciam, M.H.A., a retired captain with the U.S. Navy’s Medical Service Corps. A companion piece was published on CNN.com.

“You can … say it’s not torture, it’s not cruelty ... I don't know of any other word when the end result is that these animals are suffering,” said Capt. Rosciam, a Purple Heart recipient who risked his life to save fallen Marines during the Vietnam War.

The two military training videos reveal this unlawful use of live monkeys in chemical casualty care courses at Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland and live goats in combat trauma training courses at Fort Sam Houston in Texas and other military facilities.

In one video, a vervet monkey is given a toxic dose of the drug physostigmine. This simulates the effects of a nerve agent attack. Seizures, diarrhea, and death can result. In another video, an instructor cuts a live goat with a scalpel. This creates traumatic wounds that cause severe bleeding.

Last month, Rep. Henry C. "Hank" Johnson, D-Ga., a member of the House Armed Services Committee, wrote a letter to the secretary and surgeon general of the Army. Rep. Johnson called for an end to the use of live animals in military medical training.

Johnson wrote, “We acknowledge the vital importance of preparing medical personnel with the most educationally effective training methods, and we also are prepared to facilitate a full transition away from the use of animals for the purposes of training.” He also asked other members of Congress to cosign the letter.

His letter followed Capitol Hill briefings earlier in the month. In the House and Senate, Capt. Rosciam, medical simulation experts, and civilian trauma center leaders joined PCRM experts in calling on Congress to end the military’s unnecessary use of animals. They asked that military medical training move to superior nonanimal training methods such as the increased use of medical simulators and embedding military medical personnel in hospitals that see high numbers of trauma cases.

During the briefings, Hope Ferdowsian, M.D., M.P.H., PCRM’s director of research policy, presented an overview of the military’s reliance on live animals to train soldiers and corpsmen. Capt. Rosciam and others also discussed their personal experiences with combat trauma training and opportunities for reform.

“Because animals have significant anatomical and physiological differences from humans, training soldiers on goats and monkeys can cost the lives of America’s fighting men and women,” said Capt. Rosciam. “On the battlefield, a casualty may die in the time it takes a medic to translate the lifesaving techniques they have learned on an animal to a human victim.”

The same day, 17 former military doctors and medics joined PCRM to file a Petition for Enforcement with the Army surgeon general and other military medical leaders. The petition seeks to halt the inhumane practices that violate Department of Defense animal welfare regulations.

“Battlefield medics and others caring for our troops should receive training that is state-of-the-art and human-centered,” says Dr. Ferdowsian. “Training with goats and monkeys is inhumane and offers an inferior educational experience. Treating a goat with an artificially created wound is very different from caring for a human casualty.”

These practices continue despite the existence of superior nonanimal training methods. So PCRM is asking the military to follow the civilian medical community’s lead and move away from animal-based training to thuman-based methods that simulate human anatomy and injuries.

Visit BetterMilitaryMedicine.org to watch the training videos and learn more about improving military medical training.

PCRM Online, July 2009

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Turkey Abusers Convicted of Cruelty in Landmark Case

A 2008 undercover investigation at the Aviagen Turkey breeding facility, in Lewisburg, West Virginia (USA), resulted in 19 grand jury indictments, including 11 felony charges, against three former Aviagen workers. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, which conducted the investigation and fought successfully for criminal conviction of two of the employees thus far (a third case is pending), says this is “the first time in U.S. history that factory-farm employees faced felony cruelty-..to-animals charges for abusing birds.”

In The New York Times, Donald G. McNeil Jr. wrote, in “Group Documents Cruelty to Turkeys,” November 19, 2008, after watching PETA’s just released videotape (http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/turkey_investigation) “The scenes show stomach-..turning brutality. Workers are seen smashing birds into loading cages like basketballs, stomping heads and breaking necks, apparently for fun, even pretending to rape one. On the tape, one worker describes losing his temper at a tom who pecked him, marking its head with a pen so he could find it again, fetching a broomstick, ramming it down the bird’s gullet and holding [the bird] up in the air while shouting ‘Let this be a lesson to y’all’ at the rest of the flock.”

Confronted with this worker’s behavior, the supervisor said only two of his crew “really like to do it. . . . As long as they don’t do it a lot, I don’t really say too much about it.”

Actually, turkey (and chicken) industry workers do “do it” a lot. For example, in 2006, PETA documented workers torturing turkeys at a Butterball slaughterhouse in Ozark, Arkansas: punching, stomping, and slamming turkeys against walls, raping female turkeys with their fingers, and joking about how “If you jump on their stomachs right . . . their insides will come out of their [rectums].”

In 2007, Mercy For Animals documented workers at House of Raeford Farms, in Raeford, North Carolina (www.mercyforanimals.org/HOR/), ripping the heads off live turkeys, punching shackled turkeys for fun, shoving their hands into the cloacae (vaginal cavities) of live chickens, crushing birds to death under truck wheels, and so on.

And it isn’t just in the U.S. that turkey workers do these things For example, in 2006 and 2007, workers at the U.K. turkey company, Bernard Matthews, were filmed using turkeys as baseballs, hitting them with poles, and repeatedly kicking them (see pp. 157-158 in Prisoned Chickens, Poisoned Eggs, “Slaughter Culture: Submerged in a World of Misery”).

This kind of wanton cruelty should be documented, exposed, and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. But it will not stop, and even if it did, the treatment of turkeys raised for food would remain completely inhumane. To learn more about turkeys and how you can help them, please visit our Website section on Turkeys at www.upc-online.org/turkeys/.

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