 Welcome to the latest issue of Animal Voice!
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We need as many voices as we can get to help spread the fast-growing awareness that animals are emotional beings, with intelligence and their own understanding of the world into which they are born. Knowing this, we can no longer justify our callous disregard for their suffering.
Included in this issue:
- How Healthy is Cheap Chicken
- Free Range Eggs contain much more Vitamin D
- Factory farming came into fashion 60 years ago...
- The Rescue and Rehabbing
- Voices speaking up for animals
- And more...
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Emails are too easy to delete. Thus, please write to the people below and send your letters off in the post.
With appreciation,
Louise (Editor)
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Dear Friends,
Please join us in making 2010 a bumper year for progress for the animals. Specifically, please join our campaigns below.
- Born a boy-calf Campaign: To stop the suffering of throw-away male calves born into the dairy industry.
- Look out for Bruises Campaign: Watch this space! Compassion in World Farming(SA) is about to launch a competition inviting consumers to vote on which of the broiler (meat) chicken labels is the most deceptive!
- Free Africa Campaign: To achieve an official ban on the annual ritual killing of the bull with bare hands in KwaZulu-Natal.
- Uncaged Campaign: To reach an agreement with supermarkets and government for a phase-out of battery cages for laying hens.
- Spent Hens Campaign: Farmers and supermarkets wash their hands of end-of-lay battery hens by allowing a system of squalor and misery to perpetuate.
We urge them to take responsibility for the welfare of end-of-lay hens.
- Motherhood behind bars Campaign: Many supermarkets defend themselves against accusations of being part of cruel practices of animal husbandry by saying they support farmers who adhere to industry standards and codes of practice. The trouble is that sow stalls for pigs comply with existing industry standards and codes of practice! Compassion in World Farming(SA) says: Dump these archaic contraptions of animal torture.
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You can also order education materials to support the teaching of humane education and animal welfare in schools. To find out more about the benefits of including Humane Education in the school curriculum please click here.
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Tribute to an African Wild Dog - The Devoted Nanny |
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 Marlice van Vuuren runs a wildlife rehabilitation centre on her farm near Windhoek in Namibia. It is called Nla’ankuse which, in Bushman language, means “God is watching over us”.
In early October 2007, she received a telephone call from one of the beef farmers in an area some 700km north of Nla’ankuse. He said a pack of African wild dogs had come onto his farm, that they had already killed 24 of his cattle and that he had managed to shoot 7 of them. The farmer said he felt sure the pack had a den somewhere and that there were probably pups in the den...
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Which Comes First - the Chicken or the Egg? |
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 Download our presentation showing the poor standard of 'life' led by egg-laying hens in South Africa.
 Which Comes First? Presentation 836.55 Kb
If you find the content shocking, read about supporting our work to improve farming standards.
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Saving Water Through Our Diet. |
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 Water is rapidly becoming a natural resource that is under great threat, and shortages of fresh water carry terrible consequences for us all.
Find out how eating more meat makes this situation far worse, and how we can all make a difference to water supplies through changing our diet:
Water Waste and Eating Meat - the Link 1001.79 Kb
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