Kategorie: Animals

Meat glue.

Two words that shouldn’t go together, right? But it’s a thing—a particularly nasty food additive made from the blood plasma of animals—and it’s typically used to combine the flesh from multiple individuals into one seemingly solid slab of meat. Because of meat glue, one steak may contain small pieces of dozens of slaughtered cows.

This bargain-bin flesh patty assemblage isn’t just gross—it’s also bad for your health. Using meat glue increases the risk of bacterial contamination, including by E. coli, causing food poisoning, which is why it’s banned in the EU. Leaky gut, fatigue, digestive issues, inflammation, and autoimmune disorders are just some of the reported health risks associated with consuming it.

Nevertheless, about 8 million pounds of meat in the U.S. contain meat glue, including chicken nuggets, steak, sausage, and cheese.

Can it get any nastier? Well, yes. Yes, it can.

Enter Ajinomoto Co. Inc.

A Japan-based conglomerate that’s the world’s largest manufacturer of monosodium glutamate (MSG) is also the primary producer of meat glue, which it supplies to animal experimenters who use it in gruesome and deadly tests. They use it to alter proteins, which they then inject into mice before taking their blood and killing them by snapping their necks.

Ajinomoto Is Stuck on Animal Abuse

Ajinomoto has been tormenting thousands of dogs, fish, gerbils, guinea pigs, mice, pigs, rabbits, and rats in horrific and deadly experiments since the 1950s, largely in efforts to make dubious human health claims about food products and ingredients from MSG to meat glue in order to market them to consumers.

Ajinomoto experimenters have cut open dogs’ stomachs and inserted tubes, starved them, given them liquid diets with MSG and other amino acids, and injected them with drugs. They have also starved, killed, and dissected rabbits. In still other tests funded or conducted by Ajinomoto, experimenters injected a variety of toxic chemicals into mice or rats, cut their nerves, electroshocked them, and killed them.

Animal Experiments Are Crumbling, and Glue Can’t Save Them

Ajinomoto’s abusive experiments aren’t required by law, nor do they have any relevance to human health. Superior, non-animal research methods, including studies safely conducted on human volunteers or donated human tissue, are readily available, more affordable, and far more reliable than animal tests.

Please take action today. Urge Ajinomoto to ban all animal testing unless explicitly required by law:

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A PETA supporter—nude except for bodypaint revealing realistic “flesh,” “tendons,” and “muscle” and a message on her chest reading, “Coach: Leather Kills”—has stormed the Coach fashion show at the New York Public Library Main Branch alongside two other animal advocates to slam the brand for its cruelty to cows and its reliance on environmentally destructive leather products. Video of the runway takeover is here.

“Today’s conscientious consumers know that the future of fashion lies in innovative vegan materials, not in cows’ sliced-off skin,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is shaking up Coach’s catwalk to drive home the message that leather belongs in the annals of history, not in designers’ current collections.”

At slaughterhouses, cows killed for leather may be skinned and dismembered while they’re still conscious—after they endure castration, tail-docking, and dehorning, without any painkillers, on farms. A PETA exposé of the world’s largest leather processor—which has supplied Coach—showed that workers brand calves on the face, beat cows and bulls, and shock them with electric prods.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to wear”— opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview. For more information, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, or Instagram.

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A heavy security presence at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference at the Palace Hotel didn’t prevent PETA supporters from crashing the event this afternoon. As Liberty Broadband Corporation President and CEO Greg Maffei spoke to the audience, animal advocates who had penetrated the conference issued a heartfelt appeal for him to end his company’s support of the deadly Iditarod, a grueling 1,000-mile dog-sled race in Alaska in which more than 150 dogs have died. Video footage and photos of the “plead-in”—which follows similar actions at events in New York City, Miami, and Beverly Hills, California, where Maffei also spoke—are available here.

Alaska Airlines, Chrysler, Coca-Cola, Jack Daniel’s, Wells Fargo, ExxonMobil, and many other companies have cut ties with the Iditarod after learning from PETA how dogs suffer and die because of the race, but Liberty Broadband subsidiary GCI, an internet service provider, is still sponsoring the notorious event to the tune of more than $250,000 every year.

“Greg Maffei heads a company that finances forcing dogs to run until their paws bleed and their bodies give out—some even die after inhaling their own vomit—with 150 dead dogs and counting,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is pleading with Liberty Broadband to stop propping up this despicably cruel dog-sled race right now.”

Up to half the dogs who start the Iditarod don’t finish it. During this year’s race—which had the smallest field of mushers in the event’s history—approximately 175 dogs were pulled off the trail due to exhaustion, illness, injury, or other causes, leaving the remaining ones to work even harder. The race ended in controversy after the winner was caught on video dragging exhausted dogs toward a checkpoint.

The leading cause of death for dogs in the Iditarod is aspiration pneumonia—caused by inhaling their own vomit—and the race’s official death toll doesn’t include countless others who were killed simply because they weren’t fast enough or who died during the off-season while chained next to dilapidated boxes or plastic barrels in the bitter cold, a practice exposed in a PETA undercover investigation.

PETA—which owns stock in Liberty Broadband, part of the Liberty family of companies—opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview, and its motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to use for entertainment.”

For more information about PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETA.org, listen to The PETA Podcast, or follow the group on X (formerly Twitter), Facebook, or Instagram.

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Reportedly, the Fowler Township Police Department in Ohio is planning to host a cruel “youth hunt contest” on October 14, during which children of all ages would hunt squirrels for prizes. Supporters allege that the activity is a family-friendly “sport,” but in no other team or individual competition are opponents chased down and killed! Kids who are taught to hunt are actually being taught that it’s OK to kill animals for “fun,” and in the process wild families are torn apart and orphaned young are left to starve.

Your voice is needed. Please urge Fowler Township police and city officials to ditch cruelty and instead promote a message of mercy and compassion.

Polite comments can be directed to:

• Chief Mike Currington
  Fowler Township Police Department
  mcurrington@fowlertownship.org
• Fowler Township trustees
  • Chair Steve Rudge
  srudge@fowlertownship.org
  • Vice Chair Jeff Davis
  jdavis@fowlertownship.org
  • Trustee Todd Williams
  twilliams@fowlertownship.org
• Fiscal Officer Lynn Michalec
  lmichalec@fowlertowhship.org

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