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Monday, 12 May 2008

Welcome to Animal Voice

Welcome to the website for Animal Voice - the magazine published by the Humane Education Trust in South Africa. The HET is an organisation dedicated to rekindling the spirit of care and respect for all life, and is the official mouthpiece in South Africa of Compassion in World Farming.

On this site you can read about our lobbying activities, projects that we are involved in or read the Kind Food Guide online. NEW ON SITE! - Video Resources - watch online!

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.

Kind Food Guide

kindfoodguide Animal Voice also publishes the Kind Food Guide for South Africa.

This guide explains what is being done to improve standards for animals in South Africa, and what else needs to be tackled in the future, along with advice on how to find Kind Food.

You can download the leaflet here in Powerpoint format (2.2mb) or pdf format: Kind Food Guide 494.44 Kb.

Saving Water Through Our Diet.

water-waste 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:

World Water Day 22 March 849.57 Kb

Which Comes First - the Chicken or the Egg?

Download our presentation showing the poor standard of 'life' led by egg-laying hens in South Africa. Egg layers 837.14 Kb

If you find the content shocking, read about supporting our work to improve farming standards.

Resource for Learners - Animal Welfare

Is Animal Welfare becoming Animal Farewell? Two news-sheets that can be downloaded here for classroom tuition on animal welfare in South Africa:

Animal welfare 1 545.18 Kb
Animal welfare 2 579.88 Kb

Leopard Friendly Lamb

Leopards caught in gin-traps on lamb farms die in agony, some trying to chew off their own feet to get free.
Download our news-sheet: friendly lamb 1.41 Mb

To read more about supporting a ban on such traps: landmarkfoundation.org.za

Animal Voice is published by The Humane Education Trust, the South African mouthpiece for Compassion in World Farming

The True Cost of Food - educational and entertaining video about sustainable food.


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On World Water Day (22nd March) and on every other day, for that matter, we need to remember that meat-eating carries a giant water footprint.
Did you know? It takes up to 9000 litres of water, at the abattoir alone, to convert one cow into meat!
Did you know? To produce one portion of beef (250g) requires the same amount of drinking water that one person needs (at one litre a day) for 11 years of life!
For further info, go to: www.waterfootprint.org

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