Lion Farming in South Africa, Beef In Reverse, Animal Cruelty, Horse Collapses, Animal Welfare, California to Reinstate Foie Gras Ban, Animal Crimes, Endangered Species Act (ESA)
South Africa's lion population is
booming. This isn't a conservation success, but a commercial one. The country is
home to around 200 lion farms, where thousands of the big cats are bred and
raised to become nothing more than cannon fodder.
In South Africa it's completely legal to farm lions with the sole purpose of selling the right to hunt and kill them.
Cubs who have the misfortune of being born into these farms are often ripped from their mothers within days. They grow up as tourist attractions until they are old enough to be exciting prey for big game hunters. Then, they're released into an enclosed space where wealthy hunters, most often from Western countries, get free reign to track and kill them. They're called "canned hunts" and the whole scenario is rigged: the lions always lose. Canned lion hunts are a booming industry. Some estimates think the total number of lions raised on these farms could more than double by 2020 to 20,000 animals. We can't sit idly and let an industry grounded in cruelty flourish.
California to Reinstate Ban on Foie Gras. After being banned back in 2011 and brought back in 2015, foie gras is once again banned in California! This decision was reached, in part, by the emotional testimony of Circuit Court Judge Harry Pregerson. He implored the state to recognize foie gras as the cruel product it is and was, ultimately, successful.
Foie gras is made by forcibly shoving a metal tube down a duck or goose’s throat and force-feeding them until their liver fattens up. Through these force-feedings, the size of their liver is sometimes made to be ten times what it should be. People then eat this fatty liver.
Ducklings are sent to this awful life. Female ducklings are at a huge risk for slaughter because their livers have more veins and because their lives are not considered valuable to foie gras farmers, they’re typically used for meat instead. The animals are kept in tiny cages and live lives of pain and suffering for a product people can live without. Morality aside, foie gras is just plain not good for you.
The new law will prohibit the import of foie gras into California. There are little to no producers of foie gras in California, so the sale of foie grass will plummet. It’s worth noting that the change won’t take place immediately. But that doesn’t mean this win isn’t a big deal. There are resistant chefs who say they’ll continue to sell the product but they’ll soon be dealing with the law once it takes effect in a few months. Image source: Elena Yakusheva/Shutterstock
In South Africa it's completely legal to farm lions with the sole purpose of selling the right to hunt and kill them.
Cubs who have the misfortune of being born into these farms are often ripped from their mothers within days. They grow up as tourist attractions until they are old enough to be exciting prey for big game hunters. Then, they're released into an enclosed space where wealthy hunters, most often from Western countries, get free reign to track and kill them. They're called "canned hunts" and the whole scenario is rigged: the lions always lose. Canned lion hunts are a booming industry. Some estimates think the total number of lions raised on these farms could more than double by 2020 to 20,000 animals. We can't sit idly and let an industry grounded in cruelty flourish.
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Ducklings are sent to this awful life. Female ducklings are at a huge risk for slaughter because their livers have more veins and because their lives are not considered valuable to foie gras farmers, they’re typically used for meat instead. The animals are kept in tiny cages and live lives of pain and suffering for a product people can live without. Morality aside, foie gras is just plain not good for you.
The new law will prohibit the import of foie gras into California. There are little to no producers of foie gras in California, so the sale of foie grass will plummet. It’s worth noting that the change won’t take place immediately. But that doesn’t mean this win isn’t a big deal. There are resistant chefs who say they’ll continue to sell the product but they’ll soon be dealing with the law once it takes effect in a few months. Image source: Elena Yakusheva/Shutterstock
Did you know that the Endangered Species Act (ESA)
also protects some of the world’s most imperiled foreign species including
chimpanzees, tigers, and elephants?
The ESA has successfully saved more than 99% of
listed species from extinction and is supported by the vast majority of
Americans. But right now, Congress is trying to tear down the ESA brick by brick
using a number of bills they are trying to pass off as "reforms."
One of these "reforms" is the fraudulently named
"Saving America's Endangered Species Act," which would irreparably damage
conservation efforts by stripping ESA protections for hundreds of foreign
species. It would also obstruct the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's ability to
regulate wildlife trafficking and undermine its role in issuing permits for
trophy hunters and exhibitors of foreign endangered and threatened species.
This bill is a blatant giveaway to trophy
hunters and wildlife traffickers that's disguised as a conservation measure. We
can not let Congress sneak it through.
90% of Americans support the ESA. It is the United
States' most effective wildlife protection law; we need to strengthen it, not
tear it apart.
