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antihunting: 

 Carter Roberts, president of the The World Wildlife Fund, says on his organization’s site, “We face an unprecedented poaching crisis. The killings are way up. We need solutions that are as sophisticated as the threats we face.” (This) Poaching crisis is emptying the world’s forests and oceans. High profits and low risks have allowed wildlife crime to multiply into an illegal trade worth $7-10 billion annually. That means it’s time to get serious− like crime-fighting, super-hero, spyware-technology-using serious. And that means we’re calling up the drones− not to attack poachers, but to catch them before they kill. 

This week, the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) announced its receipt of a $5 million grant, courtesy of Google’s Global Impact Awards to test advanced technology in the fight against animal crime. If it works, the new system will include sensors placed in wildlife environments and on the animals themselves, which would be monitored by a network of surveillance drones overhead. When poachers are detected, the drones will signal mobile ranger patrols on the ground to move in, hopefully stopping the poachers’ attack.

Over the summer drones were being tested in the country’s Chitwan National park. The lightweight machinery can be launched by hand, flying up to an elevation of about 650 feet sustaining travel for about 18 miles. The drones’ cameras allow ground crews to spot would-be poachers, especially in areas that are difficult to access on foot, and it can all be controlled by an iPad. With Google’s new funding, these efforts will now be tested in four more sites in Africa and Asia. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18527119

In addition, part of the funding will go to investigating a method of using animal DNA to track animal parts sold globally, uncovering pathways of sale within the black market operation. This information could definitively connect the dots between those doing the killing, and the private collectors doing the buying.

WWF’s initiative is a build-out of previous systems used to stop the illegal hunting of endangered species. One of those was the installation of a GPS-tracking chip into the horns of endangered rhinos. The chip was linked to a specially-programmed cellphone, sending alerts depending on what the animal was doing and where it was moving.

But the conservation agency says something much larger in scope is needed now, preferably one that tracks bigger picture activity versus only focusing on one animal at a time. 

Every November, during the certain holiday people love so much, people take a dead turkey, open up the dead turkey’s ass, or carve out a really big hole in their ass, take some stuffing and shove it inside their dead empty ass, and use the little dead ass as an oven to bake some bread. Somebody else’s dead empty bacteria-laden ass to make bread? Ass bread?! And people think vegans are weird? Because we eat tofu? And rice, and beans, and lentils?

Gary Yourofsky (via vegan-veins)

vegansofig:

Rather than rant about how much I dislike Thanksgiving, I thought I’d share some facts about turkeys.

1 Wild turkeys can fly for short distances at speeds up to 55 miles per hour. On the ground they can reach speeds of 25 miles per hour. Domesticated turkeys usually weigh too much to be able to fly. Their weight is about twice the weight of a wild turkey.

  • 2 The bare skin on the Turkey’s throat and head can change color in seconds from flat gray to shades of red, white and blue when the turkey becomes distressed or excited.

3 Wild turkeys have dark feathers which help them blend in with their habitats. Domesticated turkeys have been bred to have white feathers.

4 Turkeys have great hearing , but no external ears. They have a field of vision of about 270 degrees and are able to see in color. They can see movement almost a hundred yards away. They don’t see well at night.

5 Turkeys are not stupid. Turkey have a large vocabulary. Wild Turkeys have been found to have twenty distinct and specific vocalizations. They recognize one another by their voices as well as their head characteristics. To turkeys the voices of other turkeys are unique and recognizable.Turkeys are social animals. They enjoy the company of other creatures, including humans. They love having their feathers stroked.

http://www.nwtf.org/all_about_turkeys/calling_tips.html

6 Turkeys have a lifespan of up to 10 years, but on factory farms they are slaughtered when they’re just 5 months old. Over 40 million turkeys are killed for Thanksgiving dinner every year.

Please consider a turkey-free or tofurkey Thanksgiving this year

  • The fleshy growth under a turkey’s throat is called a wattle. Turkeys also have a long, red, fleshy area that grows from the forehead over the bill called a snood. This is not to be confused with the highly addictive computer game with the same name.
  • Turkeys can have heart attacks. During U.S. Air Force test runs in breaking the sound barrier, nearby turkeys dropped dead from sudden cardiac arrest.
  • The ballroom dance the “turkey trot” was named for the short, jerky steps that turkeys take.
  • Benjamin Franklin disapproved of the selection of the Bald Eagle as our national bird, calling it “a Bird of bad moral Character.” He much preferred the Wild Turkey, saying, “For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America… He is besides, though a little vain and silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on.” -http://10000birds.com/turkeyfacts.htm

Just hatched wild turkeys are precocial, which means they are born with feathers and can fend for themselves quickly, and they leave the nest within 24 hours to forage for food with their mothers. The male turkeys have very little to do with raising chicks.

The wild turkey is the official game bird of Alabama, Massachusetts and South Carolina. Though they may not be designated as official game birds in other states, wild turkeys are widely hunted - in fact, are the most hunted of all birds.-http://birding.about.com/od/birdprofiles/a/turkeyfacts.htm

Only male turkeys display the ruffled feathers, fanlike tail. They also gobble with a distinctive sound that can be heard a mile (a kilometer and a half) away.-nationalgeographic

turkeys show courting behaviors much like the peacock with displays of their tails

Turkeys, along with other poultry, are not protected by the federal Humane Slaughter Act, and are frequently killed without first being stunned.

Freeganism is a selfish belief that in order for an animal’s death to not “be in vain” or for the products of their deaths to not “go to waste”, it must in some way benefit a human animal. The two excuses for freegan omnivory I hear the most are, “If that food goes to waste, the animal’s death was in vain,” and, “I’d rather see that food eaten than go to waste.” This is all bullshit because the human being eating it does not give the animals’ torture and subsequent death meaning. A funeral would be a more appropriate way to give meaning to an animal’s death.

Adapted from uglyuglyugly

Cane sugar is often whitened using charcoal from the bones of cows.

HOW MUCH BONE CHAR IS USED?

Paul Caulkins, the Corporate Quality Assurance Manager of Imperial/Savannah Foods, said that little bone char can be obtained from a single cow “since only the dense bones of the animal, such as the pelvic bones, can be used.” After checking with his suppliers, Caulkins informed us that “one cow averages 82 pounds of total bone. About one-fourth to one-fifth of the total weight (between 17 and 20 pounds per animal) is the load-bearing bone used for char (due to its strength). Since our yield conversion to char from that is approx- imately 50 percent, on average, one cow will produce nine pounds of bone char.”

Sugar companies purchase large quantities of bone char for large commercial filter columns often measure 10 to 40 feet high and five to 20 feet wide. Each column, which can filter 30 gallons of sugar per minute for 120 hours at a time, may hold 70,000 pounds of char. If nine pounds of char is produced by one cow and 70,000 pounds are needed to fill a column, a simple math calculation reveals that the bones of almost 7,800 cattle are needed to produce the bone char for one commercial sugar filter. Furthermore, each refining plant may have several large filter columns.

http://www.vrg.org/journal/vj2007issue4/2007_issue4_sugar.php

—The following are all bone-char free:

*Turbinado sugar

  • beet sugar 

*Organic evaporated cane juice

*Organic dehydrated cane juice

* Organic cane sugar

All USDA organic sugar is vegan because bone char is not an allowed processing/refining agent.

“Brown sugar” is actually just white sugar that has had coloring and flavoring (molasses)  added to it after it already had its natural brown coloring removed. The majority of commercial fructose on the market is derived from corn or beet source (both of which are fine). Dextrose is derived from corn as well. vegansofig—

Tell Congress to make a mandatory National Animal Abuser Registry!

ravegelectarian:

Please sign: http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-congress-to-make-a-mandatory-national-animal-abuser-registry

ONE DATABASE for animals abusers is what we seek to accomplish. We hope that a concentrated effort on the part of animal champions everywhere to raise awareness in this matter will push our representatives in the gov’t to do something once and for all. PLEASE Sign this petition. A VIRAL appeal to our elected officials can not be denied.

(via veganlee)

xearthbalancex:

For all the people who say animal rights activists accomplish nothing- you would NOT see articles like this on the front page of anything but a Compassion Over Killing pamphlet 10 years ago. There’s been a dramatic shift in popular opinion on and collective consciousness regarding animal rights and what constitutes “cruelty”- so while you may not agree with the message, you can’t deny that it’s had a major impact. From Firestorm to the front page… we’ve done a lot in a very short time. :)http://health.yahoo.net/articles/nutrition/photos/8-cruelest-foods-you-eat#0

veganmovement2012

and this is how they’re using this information..

“It’s clear that the pig one of the closest large animal species to humans,” said Beever. “We believe a niche the pig has will be in biomedical models to understand and fight human disease. If you study a human genetic disease in a lab mouse, the manifestations of the disease may not be appropriate. But genetic diseases may look the same in a pig as it does in a human, so disease research with pigs will be much more applicable to human medicine,” said Beever.

Schook said that the pig genome map will be very beneficial for use with drug therapy to control or cure a disease. “If you’re looking at simple toxicity, whether a disease will kill you, then using a mouse is fine. But when looking at drug therapy, it isn’t comparable to humans. Therapeutic medicine requires a more closely related model,” he said.- UOI