Pet Rescue.com.au

Heres a graph that makes me happy. It shows the increase of animals homed in Australia over the years via Pet Rescue.com.au

This means people are listening and rescuing pets that need homes. They have a goal of homing 1000 pets for christmas. Although I cannot adopt as my small townhouse barely holds Jonah my cat inside, I still donate to this not for profit organisiation.

Turkey Absuse in America

story from my PETA newsletter:
PLEASE DON'T BUY TURKEY!
Greetings,

The holiday season is upon us, but for turkeys on factory farms, there is nothing to be thankful for. We have just released footage from an undercover investigation that reveals a rarely seen side of the turkey industry. I must warn you that the cruelty to turkeys that we found is horrifying and heart-wrenching.

Men shoved feces and feed in turkeys' mouths and held turkeys' heads under water. One worker bragged about jamming a broom stick 2 feet down a turkey's throat because the turkey had pecked at the worker's back. The same man mimicked raping a turkey hen whom he had pinned against a shed floor.

Others told PETA's investigator that they had killed turkeys, including by hitting them with pieces of lumber and pipes. Workers broke turkeys' necks, sometimes leaving them to suffer for several minutes before trying again or stomping on their heads. A supervisor said that he saw workers kill 450 turkeys with 2-by-4s. Many of the workers kicked and violently threw turkeys, and hens' beaks were cut with dull pliers. You can watch video footage from the investigation here.

Now that our undercover investigator has exposed what the turkey industry does not want America to see, we need you to help turkeys on factory farms by writing to the National Turkey Federation (NTF) and asking it to support PETA's seven-point animal welfare plan, which will help reduce the suffering of turkeys.

After writing to the NTF, please consider other ways that you can help birds during this holiday season. You can keep them off your plate this holiday season by choosing mouthwatering vegan options instead, and you can support PETA's work so that we can continue to investigate and stop animal abuse worldwide.

Thank you for your compassion for animals.


-Argh I think i'm going to be sick...

Elephant tusks sold to raise money for conservation?

This story from National Geographic.com

The world's first legal ivory auctions in nearly a decade ended Thursday with four African nations selling more than a hundred tons of tusks to Chinese and Japanese traders for the equivalent of nearly 15 million U.S. dollars.

The money raised during the controversial week of sales will reportedly be used for African elephant conservation


MANY protests have been held to this and I cannot come to the conclusion on this myself. Many have argued that auctioning the ivory stockpiles would cause poaching to increase particularly in the central, eastern and western African elephant range states where poaching is not yet properly controlled. This point was argued by Kenya-based conservationist and paleontologist Richard Leakey on his blog Wednesday.

It's a tough one. If the ivory has been confiscated and sold to raise funds to help stop poaching does this help? Or should we never sell the ivory and dispose of it. I'm confused on this one, but I do believe that it's all such a mess.