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Some texts touched our translators in special ways. They have spotlighted certain aspects of animal abuse or “management” that we would like to bring to your attention. We obtained the authors' permission to publish them on our website whenever possible, along with the links to the original texts. We strongly hope that many of you choose to visit the websites of these organizations and show them your support.
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REBECCA'S JOURNAL OF THE HUNT
It takes exceptional courage and persistence to film the seal hunt day after day when the biggest massacre of marine animals in the world, Canada's seal hunt, takes place.
Seeing animals being killed so barbarically while being completely powerless to do anything, being threatened by hunters, seeing calls for help being ignored by our government, all of which requires admirable compassion and love for animals.
The HSUS's video from 2007 shows, without a doubt, that seal hunters are killing baby seals and do not respect the law.
Kind Translators presents Rebecca's Journal, updated in 2007. Her journal allows readers to compare the reality with the propaganda disseminated by the Canadian government and seal hunters.
Europeans, who have sent representatives to observe the hunt for years, have not been fooled. A complete ban on all products from any species of seal may soon be in effect.
Observer testimony is summed up by Mark Glover, whose writing you can read by clicking on the link below. In 2007 the scenes filmed show more heinous acts, if that is possible, than those observed in previous years.
http://www.ffw.ch/content/view/88/57/lang,fr_FR/
Here is Rebecca's Journal.
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MARINE MAMMALS
"You have to be ten meters from me! You have to be ten meters from me!"
Sealers run towards observers to threaten, intimidate, and prevent them from filming. They make it impossible for the Seal Watch team to respect the 10 meter limit observers must keep between them and the sealers. It should be noted that sealers are not held to any similar limit, leading to aberrations like these.
This is another inconsistency in the Canadian government, which from the start has shown a lack of respect toward Canadians—a majority of whom are against seal hunting—as well as ineffectiveness in managing the issue.
Photo: HSUS
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FARM ANIMALS
Forget the image of the cute little country farm where contented animals live a normal life with a caring farmer.
The intensive agriculture lobbies carefully nurture this persistent myth.
Deceptive and misleading television images show farmers who go almost so far as to tuck their hens into a soft bed of hay, while in reality the birds are packed 6 to 7 per cage in a space the size of a sheet of paper, their beaks mutilated with a red-hot blade, their talons sometimes so tangled in the cage bars they can neither move nor eat and so die of hunger, their feathers worn from rubbing, inhaling an acrid ammonia smell that would make anyone sick, laying eggs at an accelerated and unnatural pace until they reach exhaustion and are “recycled.”
And then there's the myth of the appreciative cow who enjoys being milked because, of course, her milk just flows nonstop for no reason, making her like a living faucet. Cow = milk = must milk; even children know that.
To give milk, a cow must be inseminated, and when she gives birth, her calf must be taken away so she can be milked. No calf = no milk. If the calf is a male, he often faces the sad fate of the veal calf. No, the laughing veal calf on the package of ribs is not really laughing in real life.
Barely a few days old, calves are taken away from their mother. They spend the few remaining months of their life immobilized in a wooden crate with their legs spread so their waste doesn't fall on them, since their iron-poor diet—fed to ensure tender white meat for consumers—gives them anemia and diarrhea.
Or what about the horrendous sow stalls, the castration of piglets without anesthesia, and the condition of farmers who are slaves for life to integrators who give them $15 per “finished” pig, making them accomplices to appalling animal exploitation.
That's the reality. Animals are now production units who live confined in buildings where they will never see the sun and where no human will ever show them the least bit of affection.
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POACHING IN QUEBEC
The following horror stories of poaching are real. Poachers are motivated by money and when we buy meat or other contraband products, we encourage this criminal behavior and contribute to the suffering of animals.
Some time ago in Quebec, pedophiles and men who abused women and children were not denounced by the people around them, who, while uncomfortable, “minded their own business”. Poaching is a cruel criminal activity and we must do everything within our power to stop it. If those of us who love animals remain unmoved when faced with this horror, who will act on their behalf?
We cannot count on the government, where a hunters clique is servicing the hunting lobby, to allocate funds for the protection of animals, whatever the cause. The ridiculous financial sums allocated are proof of that.
Certain States take concrete action to stop poaching. Why will we see something similar in Quebec?
http://wildlife.state.co.us/RulesRegs/LawEnforcement/OperationGameThief/
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CRUAUTÉ ENVERS LES ANIMAUX DE COMPAGNIE AU QUÉBEC
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LA PROTECTION DES ANIMAUX
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ESPÈCES MENACÉES OU DISPARUES
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