Kategorie: Animals

Texas law requires that any dog kept outside be given access to adequate shelter. Waco town ordinances specify that adequate shelter must protect the animal from all weather conditions and must not be plastic airline “pet” carriers.

Sadly, this dog on Daughtrey Avenue in Waco is chained up with only a plastic airline carrier, and authorities tell complainants and PETA caseworkers that they can do nothing more than issue citations to the owners, who reportedly have a fully functioning and unused doghouse on their property that they are refusing to put within range of the dog.

Please politely urge Waco’s animal services director, Trey Buzbee, to intervene in behalf of this dog, with consideration given to filing charges if appropriate and the prompt confiscation of the animal. You can e-mail Buzbee at jbuzbee@wacotx.gov or call him at 1-254-750-1765. With temperatures expected to dip into the 30s this week, time is of the essence.

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Following local commentaries about groans and moans over the high cost of eggs—and because Iowa is reportedly the top egg-producing state in the U.S.—PETA plans to place a sky-high message downtown to remind everyone that a few more cents is nothing compared to what eggs cost hens: their lives. There’s no retirement home for hens exploited for their eggs, and in a typical year in the egg industry, millions of them are confined to filthy, cramped cages or giant windowless sheds until their overworked bodies give out—then they’re sent to the slaughterhouse. And they suffer in other ways, too: A staggering 57 million birds are dead due to the avian flu outbreak in the U.S. over the past year, and mass killing is the government’s policy during such crises.

“Nothing is less appetizing than a peek inside a factory farm’s chicken shed, where birds live in their own filth, as PETA’s investigative videos make clear,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is encouraging everyone to dig into delicious and nutritious vegan eggs, which are kind to birds and your bank account.”

PETA notes that after avian flu outbreaks, workers slowly smother chickens to death with a water-based foam, gas them to death, or shut off all airflow in densely packed chicken sheds while raising the heat to as high as 120 degrees and adding carbon dioxide—suffocating and baking the birds to death, an agonizing process that can take hours.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” and which opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview—offers a list of affordable vegan egg options on its website. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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Following local commentaries about groans and moans over the high cost of eggs—and because Indiana is reportedly the second-largest egg-producing state in the U.S.—PETA plans to place a sky-high message downtown to remind everyone that a few more cents is nothing compared to what eggs cost hens: their lives. There’s no retirement home for hens exploited for their eggs, and in a typical year in the egg industry, millions of them are confined to filthy, cramped cages or giant windowless sheds until their overworked bodies give out—then they’re sent to the slaughterhouse. And they suffer in other ways, too: A staggering 57 million birds are dead due to the avian flu outbreak in the U.S. over the past year, and mass killing is the government’s policy during such crises.

“Nothing is less appetizing than a peek inside a factory farm’s chicken shed, where birds live in their own filth, as PETA’s investigative videos make clear,” says PETA Executive Vice President Tracy Reiman. “PETA is encouraging everyone to dig into delicious and nutritious vegan eggs, which are kind to birds and your bank account.”

PETA notes that after avian flu outbreaks, workers slowly smother chickens to death with a water-based foam, gas them to death, or shut off all airflow in densely packed chicken sheds while raising the heat to as high as 120 degrees and adding carbon dioxide—suffocating and baking the birds to death, an agonizing process that can take hours.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat” and which opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview—offers a list of affordable vegan egg options on its website. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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Please see the following statement from PETA Vice President Shalin Gala regarding the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s newly released citations of Johns Hopkins University for violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act. These include inadequate aseptic technique during surgeries, inadequate postsurgical monitoring, and failing to follow established humane endpoints during a traumatic brain injury study in which three rabbits were euthanized after abscess, infection, and wound separation (dehiscence) were noted at the incision sites, respectively. In addition, the university failed to inform veterinary staff promptly about pressure ulcers on both hind feet of a female baboon.

The USDA’s troubling citations are yet more evidence of a culture of corruption in animal laboratories within Johns Hopkins University (JHU). PETA has filed complaints with the National Institutes of Health and the state’s attorney for Baltimore City calling for reimbursement of funds for experiments on animals covered by these violations and prosecution for all appropriate cruelty-to-animals charges.

The university’s history of obscene incompetence and neglect during its experiments on animals has resulted in numerous other violations of federal animal protection guidelines and regulations. These include dosing rats with alcohol for three weeks longer than had been approved by the school’s own experimental oversight body and then delaying euthanasia of the animals—some of whom were in poor health, showing signs of weight loss and with tissue that protruded from surgical incisions—after liver transplants. In addition, JHU failed to provide pigs with analgesics, failed to report that a pig’s elbows had been broken while the animal was being moved from a transport cage, administered expired medications to rabbits, and failed to maintain aseptic technique as well as a sterile workspace, resulting in contaminated cranial implants being embedded in monkeys, who later suffered from chronic antibiotic-resistant infections. JHU experimenter Shreesh Mysore’s notorious brain-scrambling studies on owls also violated Maryland state law for up to seven years.

JHU must redirect its resources toward modern, non-animal research methods that will actually help humans, and we urge officials there to adopt PETA’s Research Modernization Deal.

For more information on PETA’s investigative newsgathering and reporting, please visit PETA.org or follow the group on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.

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