IAWS 2018, 30 years FOUR PAWS, Luxembourg, Emaciated Horses, Morelia Zoo, Yupik, Raquel Sabino, Yummy, Dog Meat, Yulin Dog Meat Festival in China, Vietnam Circus Arts and Variety Show School, Trump's Trophy-hunting Panel & Stop Extreme Hunting Order by Trump Administration!
Luxembourg Becomes the 10th Nation in the EU to Ban Fur Farms. Urge companies to join the sea of individuals, organizations, and even entire nations that are banning fur in order to help stop animals who spend their lives inside cramped, filthy cages from being gassed, electrocuted, and sometimes skinned alive in the barbaric industry.
Polar bears normally live in the Arctic, but Yupik has been forced to live under the sweltering Mexican sun for over two decades in a barren enclosure at Morelia Zoo. She sustained dental trauma from chewing on the bars of her caging—likely from severe psychological distress—but Morelia Zoo failed to treat her for years, and she developed a serious dental infection.
She's also thin and suffers from arthritis, which is likely exacerbated by her poor environment and lack of exercise opportunities. Recently, Morelia Zoo backed out of a plan to transfer her to a facility better equipped to care for her, but the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has the power to make sure the transfer happens.
The national controversy over trophy hunting of imperiled wildlife came to Atlanta this week with the latest meeting of a new federal wildlife advisory committee that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke stacked with trophy hunters and gun-industry reps. The so-called International Wildlife Conservation Council is composed almost entirely of hunters and people affiliated with the National Rifle Association. Fifteen of the council's 16 members have ties to trophy hunting or guns. This week's meeting is a sure sign that Zinke and others aren't giving up on their push for more trophy hunting of elephants and lions. Check out what the Center's Tanya Sanerib has to say in her op-ed this week in The Hill.
Raquel Sabino is an animal rights activist based in Brazil who is organizing a global protest against the Yulin Dog Meat Festival in China. She hopes to collect as many signatures from around the world and deliver them Chinese Embassies in multiple countries during the week of this year’s festival, where an estimated 15,000 dogs have been killed since 2009. Add your name to help stop the festival.
She is pulled off the street in China and thrown into the back of a truck, then taken to a slaughterhouse where the air reeks of death and the floor is slick with the blood of dozens of dogs killed before her. For hours, she watches workers grab other dogs with metal pincers and bash them over the head with a wooden club. Some dogs cry out in agony, then struggle to breathe after their throats are slit and before their skin is peeled off.
While the dogs around her are frantic to escape, she cowers near the back of the crowded pen—because she knows that eventually the door will open and she'll be next.
That loyal, gentle dog is no different from the dogs you may share your home with—but rather than receiving affection from a loving family, she was killed and her skin was sold to be turned into a pair of work gloves. This is violence on a massive scale: The PETA eyewitness who documented this cruelty learned that just a single operation killed and skinned as many as 200 dogs a day.
The investigator witnessed the skin of abused dogs being turned into men's work gloves, which were exported from China and sold to unsuspecting consumers around the world. And it's not just leather—dogs and cats sold at Chinese animal markets are also being killed for their fur and are sometimes even skinned alive! On Chinese fur factory farms, foxes, minks, and rabbits are confined to filthy, cramped cages until they are yanked out, bludgeoned, and skinned. Investigators documented that the hearts of some of those animals were still beating even after their skin had been torn off.
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