It doesn't worth it!

Think before you buy.  Is it ok with your heart?  Does it worth the torture and the death of animals?

Posted by Dominick Imbasciani on Saturday, 19 March 2016

Is Wool Vegan? Is it Humane?

Is wool vegan?  And what’s the big deal about it anyways?  Isn’t it just like shaving your legs or trimming your beard?  Well, get ready to have the wool pulled off from over your eyes!

The vegan status of wool is a common question and I think it’s an important topic to address. Recently I was asked by viewer ‘Vegan Jen’ “why don’t some vegans wear wool? my parents used to have sheep, so my mom could spin the wool, and the sheep seemed as if they really enjoyed the haircut.  I’ve always wondered but don’t know any vegans personally to ask.”

The main reason people wonder if wool is vegan is that sheep don’t die from being sheared.  I’d like to address that concern first: Veganism, in general, is about opposing the use of animals for our personal gains in any form.  So even if we assume that nothing negative happens to sheep who are used for wool, we are still using them for our own purposes.  And that is the case regardless of how well the sheep are treated.

More here!

Baby # 24 for slaughter...

...jumps happily not knowing his horrible fate!

Celebrating Easter with DEATH? WTF is wrong with you?
Posted by Tatia Kennedy on Wednesday, 23 March 2016

Too good to be true!

An ad trick is the fake freedom of pigs at Pig Island of the Carribeans.  Not much difference from a zoo, only that they kill and eat the pigs.  Too good to be true...

Τουριστική ατραξιόν και ψεύτικη η ελευθερία των γουρουνιών στο Pig Island στη Καραϊβική. Δεν διαφέρει και πολύ από ζωολο...
Posted by Vegan Thessaloniki on Wednesday, 23 March 2016

8 Million Fewer People Would Die Every Year if the World Went Vegan

Vegan Eating Would Slash Food's Global Warming Emissions: Study

by REUTERS

MAR 22 2016, 2:18 AM ET

By eating less meat and more fruit and vegetables, the world could prevent several million deaths per year by 2050, cut planet-warming emissions substantially, and save billions of dollars annually in healthcare costs and climate damage, researchers said.

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences is the first to estimate both the health and climate change impacts of a global move towards a more plant-based diet, they said.

"We do not expect everybody to become vegan," said lead author Marco Springmann of the Oxford Martin Program on the Future of Food.

But if they did, they'd live longer and help reduce the changes that are skewing the climate.

"What we eat greatly influences our personal health and the global environment," Springmann said.

This Easter you have a choice to make!

Easter soon will be here and, although for many it is a celebration of life over death, for the ones who give their lives it is exactly the opposite.
This Easter we are called to make a different choice for our plate, save millions of lives and make this celebration a REAL victory of life over death!

This Easter, you have a choice to make. You can eat a lamb who was tortured and full of fear as her throat was slit or...
Posted by Redmond Sara on Sunday, 20 March 2016

Baby animals are more than cute!

Enjoy!

If you LOVE baby animals, this video is for you!! <3
Posted by Mercy For Animals on Thursday, 3 March 2016

What a heart of a child can see

A very tender video from Compassion Over Killing with wonderful kids who explain to us why they are vegans!  There is a reason why we take our children to collect apples but not to a slaughter house...

Ένα πολύ τρυφερό βίντεο από τη σελίδα Compassion Over Killing (Συμπόνια Αντί Θάνατο) με αξιαγάπητα παιδιά που μας εξηγού...
Posted by Vegan For Life Greece on Monday, 14 March 2016

Dindim the penguin is a loyal friend

5,000 miles every year to visit his human friend who saved his life!

Dindim the penguin makes a 5,000-mile journey from Argentina to a small island near Rio de Janeiro every year to be...
Posted by The Guardian on Thursday, 10 March 2016

Animal Minds

Published: March 2008

Minds of Their Own

Animals are smarter than you think.

By Virginia Morell

Photograph by Vincent J. Musi

In 1977 Irene Pepperberg, a recent graduate of Harvard University, did something very bold. At a time when animals still were considered automatons, she set out to find what was on another creature’s mind by talking to it. She brought a one-year-old African gray parrot she named Alex into her lab to teach him to reproduce the sounds of the English language. “I thought if he learned to communicate, I could ask him questions about how he sees the world.”

More here!

The heart of a child!...

Before society tells people how to react and what to know, people knew better!

THE CHILDREN COULD ACTUALLY TEACH THEIR PARENTS RIGHT....they already know how to love animals...it is our society that...
Posted by Animal Freedom Fighter on Tuesday, 1 March 2016

This Guy Sold EVERYTHING He Had And Moved to Zimbabwe To Protect Endangered Animals

We all love animals and will drop anything within a heartbeat to help an animal in need, but are you willing to go beyond and say NO to the many things in life that bring you comfort (eg. a home, your job, money in the bank) so you can say YES to being generous and support the animals? Are you willing to sell all your worldly possession and give it away to ensure animals can survive? This guy did.

Meet Damien Manders, Ex Australian sniper who spent time in Iraq as a soldier programmed to destroy and kill. After his tour in Iraq and subsequent tours as a ‘mercenary’, he went on a patrol  tour in Africa and saw a dead elephant with his face hacked off. This image affected him as he decided to sell all he had and founded the International Anti Poaching Foundation and work full time to train rangers and provide military solutions to the rangers.

More here!

A paralyzed rabbit re-walks with an improvised wheelchair!

February 25, 2016

Wheelz is a bunny a few weeks old who was found frozen and paralyzed out of his nest. The man who saved him decided to build a makeshift wheelchair, thanks to which Wheelz is movable and exploring around like any rabbit would do. The video is really cute.

Beyond all other reasons...

Female Genital Mutilation Banned In Nigeria!

History Has Been Made! 

Female Genital Mutilation Banned In Nigeria!  

In a move welcomed as a step in the right direction by international advocates, outgoing Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan has signed a bill officially banning the practice of female genital mutilation (FGM). The Violence Against Persons (Prohibition) Act 2015, which was passed by the Nigerian Senate earlier in May, also will prevent men from leaving their families without proving financial support, according to Reuters.

Nigerian women’s rights and public health groups have long campaigned against FGM, which removes parts or all of a girl’s genitalia, often at a very young age and without the girl’s consultation or consent, saying that it violates human rights. The procedure has also led to severe health problems.

According to UNICEF:

“More than 130 million girls and women have experienced FGM/C in 29 countries in Africa and the Middle East where the practice is most common.”

With the help of community activism, campaigns and numbers of organizational efforts to end this practice, UNICEF reported that teenage girls were now one-third less likely to undergo FGM/C today than 30 years ago.

Now with the new law criminalizing this procedure, the hope is the ban will fully eliminate this practice and be strongly enforced to combat any existing societal pressures.

The World Health Organization cites immediate harmful effects of FCM/C that include hemorrhage (bleeding), bacterial infection, open sores, and long-term consequences that include infertility, childbirth complications and recurring bladder infections.

In another UNICEF report, communities who practice FGM often do so to reduce sexual desire in women and to initiate girls to womanhood, among other purposes.

According to “The Guardian‘s” analysis of 2014 UN data, a quarter of the women in Nigeria have undergone FGM.

Stella Mukasa, director of Gender, Violence and Rights at the International Center for Research on Women, explains the complexity of the implementation of the new law banning FGM/C.

“It is crucial that we scale up efforts to change traditional cultural views that underpin violence against women,” she wrote in an article for “The Guardian.” “Only then will this harmful practice be eliminated.” 

See more at: http://www.universeofnature.com/history-has-been-made-female-genital-mutilation-banned-in-nigeria/3/#sthash.gIp037pX.dpuf

The Sumatran Rhino is extinct in the wild

Time for sorrow

Another giant has left us: The Sumatran Rhino is extinct in the wild

In the Malaysian state of Sabah there are no Sumatran rhinos left in the wild, the Environment Minister says. 

The eastern Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis harrissoni), also known as the Bornean rhino, is the worold’s smallest rhino, a subspecies of the Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis), and is a shy and lone creature that inhabits Bornean forests. 

Or better, it inhabited. In fact, according to the Environment Minister Masidi Manjun, there are no Sumatran rhinos left in the wild in the Malaysian state of Sabah. In 2008, about 50 rhinos lived in the wild, 5 years later there were only 10 individuals left, and today they are likely to be extinct.

 The decline of this species is mainly linked to 2 factors: poaching for rhino’s horn (the horn actually doesn’t have any medical benefit, contrary to many people’s beliefs), and habitat loss due to deforestation, mainly carried out to make place to oil palm plantations, and to human settlements.

There are currently only 3 surviving Sumatran rhinos in Sabah, two females and one male (Iman, Puntung and Tam), held in fenced, natural conditions at theBorneo Rhinoceros Sanctuary (BRS), but they seem to have reproduction problems.

 “There is still hope to save the species from extinction. The only way now to achieve that is to use in vitro fertilization,” said John Payne, the Executive Director of the Borneo Rhino Alliance (BORA) and one of the world’s top experts on the species.

 Sumatran rhinos come from the Pleistocene, when lots of individuals freely lived in the forests of India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and China, until 1930, when men started hunting them for their horns, which were traded to Chinese people in exchange for porcelain objects.  

Gradually, rhinos started hiding in thick forests, until men deforested such areas allowing poachers to reach them. Another animal species is on the brink of extinction, due to the endless human blood lust.

 There’s still hope to save these mammals that appeared 20 million years ago, and to make them continue roaming wild in our planet’s forests.

With a little help...

...life goes on!

They're getting a new lease on life.<3
Posted by The Dodo on Wednesday, 13 January 2016

Do you think...

...because it's not "it", it's "he or she"!

Πιστεύεις ότι η δολοφονία για το κέρδος είναι κάτι κακό;Πιστεύεις ότι ο βιασμός είναι κάτι κακό;Πιστεύεις ότι η απαγωγ...
Posted by Vegan Thessaloniki on Wednesday, 24 February 2016

Whale set free at a New Zealand beach

Sometimes some news make our day!

BEACHED WHALE SET FREE: A group of volunteers descended on a New Zealand beach today hoping to rescue a 26-foot...
Posted by NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt on Wednesday, 26 August 2015

10 Reasons to go Vegan

...and save your health, animals and the planet!

10 Reasons to go Vegan - #newyearsresolution #govegan
Posted by Darth Vegan on Tuesday, 22 December 2015

10 Ways to Get Protein Without Eating Meat

No need for meat - better quality of protein is death-free!

You don't need meat to add protein to your diet. Try some of these alternatives instead!
Posted by Health.com on Saturday, 9 January 2016

In cold, fear and loneliness

In the name of taste!

Trembling inside each one of these plastic crates is a bewildered, bitterly cold and lonely calf whose grieving mother...
Posted by I am Cecil too on Thursday, 11 February 2016

The Herd Trailer

Maybe a time will come that we will really know in our own flesh what we do to the other creatures.  I hope we will learn and change our ways before that but it may come...

More than $ 550 Million Every Year

...to support cruelty!

Posted by Lachelle Julie on Tuesday, 26 January 2016

Danger indoors

When "freshness" is toxic.

Posted by David Wolfe on Thursday, 11 February 2016

Plants Communicate Using An Internet Of Fungus

Hidden beneath the surface and entangled in the roots of Earth’s astonishing and diverse plant life, there exists a biological superhighway linking together the members of the plant kingdom in what researchers call the “wood wide web”. This organic network operates much like our internet, allowing plants to communicate, bestow nutrition, or even harm one another.

The more we learn about this phenomenon, the more our understanding of the plant life of our planet will continue to change. Perhaps one day, we may be able to peacefully map out these complex fungal networks to appreciate them in their entirety.



Sources
Fleming, Nic. "Plants Talk to Each Other Using an Internet of Fungus." BBC Earth. N.p., 11 Nov. 2014. Web. 19 Mar. 2015.

Harley, J. L., and J. S. Waid. "A Method of Studying Active Mycelia on Living Roots and Other Surfaces in the Soil." Sciencedirect. Department of Botany, University of Oxford, England, n.d. Web. 19 Mar. 2015.

Photo Sources
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141111-plants-have-a-hidden-internet

More HERE! 

The Universe Designs Itself

There is no need for anyone to play the God! Universe designs itself...

"The Universe designs itself ... every particle, every molecule, every organism, every celestial body in the Cosmos,...
Posted by Pantheism on Thursday, 6 February 2014

The Great Forgetting!

The Great Forgetting: You Probably Haven't Heard about It But It Completely Affects Your Life


By Deep Ecology Hub / deep-ecology-hub.com

This article summarizes the ideas of Daniel Quinn, first written about in The Story of B, which was a sequel to Ishmael. The longer, original essay can be read here, and comes highly recommended, especially if you find yourself disagreeing with the summary below. Most disagreements we've read about have turned out to be misunderstandings, so please check the original before coming to conclusions. 

 The Great Forgetting refers to the wealth of knowledge that our culture lost when we adopted our new civilized lifestyle. The knowledge that allowed indigenous cultures to survive, the knowledge that we had once also been tribal and the understanding that we were but one mere culture of thousands. All of this disappeared in a few short generations.
More here! 

Monsanto to Be Put on Trial

...for ‘Crimes Against Nature and Humanity’
Organic Consumers Association | December 7, 2015 10:16 am

The Organic Consumers Association, IFOAM International Organics, Navdanya, Regeneration International (RI) and Millions Against Monsanto, joined by dozens of global food, farming and environmental justice groups announced last week that they will put Monsanto, a U.S.-based transnational corporation, on trial for crimes against nature and humanity and ecocide, in The Hague, Netherlands, next year on World Food Day, Oct. 16, 2016.

The announcement was made at a press conference held in conjunction with the COP21 United Nations Conference on Climate Change in Paris.

“The time is long overdue for a global citizens’ tribunal to put Monsanto on trial for crimes against humanity and the environment,” Ronnie Cummins, international director of the Organic Consumers Association and Via Organica, said. “We are in Paris this month to address the most serious threat that humans have ever faced in our 100-200,000 year evolution—global warming and climate disruption. Why is there so much carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide in the atmosphere and not enough carbon organic matter in the soil? Corporate agribusiness, industrial forestry, the garbage and sewage industry and agricultural biotechnology have literally killed the climate-stabilizing, carbon-sink capacity of the Earth’s living soil.”

Vandana Shiva, physicist, author, activist and founder of Navdanya agrees. “Monsanto has pushed GMOs in order to collect royalties from poor farmers, trapping them in unpayable debt and pushing them to suicide,” she said. “Monsanto promotes an agro-industrial model that contributes at least 50 percent of global anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Monsanto is also largely responsible for the depletion of soil and water resources, species extinction and declining biodiversity and the displacement of millions of small farmers worldwide.”

 Since the beginning of the twentieth century, Monsanto has developed a steady stream of highly toxic products which have permanently damaged the environment and caused illness or death for thousands of people. These products include:

• PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyl), one of the 12 Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP) that affect human and animal fertility;

• 2,4,5 T (2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid), a dioxin-containing component of the defoliant, Agent Orange, which was used by the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War and continues to cause birth defects and cancer;

• Lasso, an herbicide that is now banned in Europe; and

• Roundup, the most widely used herbicide in the world and the source of the greatest health and environmental scandal in modern history. This toxic herbicide, designated a probable human carcinogen by the World Health Organization, is used in combination with genetically modified RoundUp Ready seeds in large-scale monocultures, primarily to produce soybeans, maize and rapeseed for animal feed and biofuels.

Relying on the “Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights” adopted by the UN in 2011, an international court of lawyers and judges will assess the potential criminal liability of Monsanto for damages inflicted on human health and the environment. The court will also rely on the Rome Statute that created the International Criminal Court in The Hague in 2002 and it will consider whether to reform international criminal law to include crimes against the environment, or ecocide, as a prosecutable criminal offense. The International Criminal Court, established in 2002 in The Hague, has determined that prosecuting ecocide as a criminal offense is the only way to guarantee the rights of humans to a healthy environment and the right of nature to be protected.

Palm Oil Invaders Know NO MERCY

Who is the pest here?

A CHILD CLINGS ON TO HER MOTHER, AFTER BEING EVICTED FROM THEIR HOMES...by palm oil invaders that burn them down...and...
Posted by Animal Freedom Fighter on Monday, 8 February 2016

Real men shoot animals...

with the camera!

Dog Train Fun!

This is fun! ...and it's for puppies only!

All aboard! These rescued puppies are seeing the entire town on this custom "dog train." (via NowThis)
Posted by Upworthy on Tuesday, 2 February 2016

The news forget and fail to mention...

...whatever they don't want us to know, to remember, to awknowledge...!

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, Who's the Cruelest Species of Them All? —Maria-
Posted by Maria Karlsson on Monday, 8 February 2016