Showing posts with label animal welfare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label animal welfare. Show all posts

Sunday 16 April 2023

Dog Food.

 Wild and free.


          Follow up on yesterday's blog on the Grand National race. During yesterdays racing one horse was "put down" after it fell at the first fence, two more were taken by horse ambulance for further assessment. Breeders and race horse owners are not interested in horses that can't perform at the top of the range, and earn lots of money for their owners, so there is every chance these two animals could end up has horse meat. Just one of the callous cruelties that we tolerate so that the rich can get richer.
 
Yesterday's winner?
 
 
         
         For years, there's been horse meat in hamburgers, lasagnas, raviolis, tortellinis, sausages, prepared spaghetti bolognese, bottled bolognese sauce, chili con carne, shepherd’s pie, moussaka, many other “meat dishes,” frozen and not, cheap and expensive.
           The list of “tainted” foods grows by the day all over Europe, and along with it, the size of one of the biggest crises of the modern processed food industry.
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Saturday 15 April 2023

You Bet!


         Today, April, 15th. is Grand National Day, a day of pomp, ceremony, tradition and lots of MONEY. The grand spectacle, of fun and entertainment, at a price. Every year hundreds of racing horse die because of the money that can be made form pushing them beyond their limit. However this is covered up so as not to spoil the flow of big money to the gambling corporations and the large breeding stables. 2021 was a year of record horse deaths, Racecourses were responsible for taking the lives of 220 horses in 2021, there is no defence for this pointless slaughter. You will not find this information on the news our in the press, it is hushed up to keep the public ignorant of this perpetual slaughter in the name of greed.
          It is just another example in this society of exploitation of anything that can generate money for the rich and powerful, another branch of "bread and circuses" for the poor, to fill the coffers of the rich parasite class. They will dress any form of slaughter as entertainment, necessary, or just hide it from public view, to keep the necessary flow of wealth streaming in the direction of their grubby money grabbing hands. If we want justice for all, that must include all animal life on this planet. After you place you hard earned cash on a bet and watch these animals being pushed beyond their limit to enrich a few, think, how many will not be alive next week.

The following from Animal Aid.


       
Racecourses took the lives of 220 horses in 2021 – for which there is no defence.

          Despite this shocking statistic there is a public silence from racing’s rulers, the British Horseracing Authority (BHA) and its Horse Welfare Board. Its flagship welfare strategy document titled, ‘A life well-lived’ is, after just two years, in a chaotic free-fall.
          The Welfare Board’s incoherent policy has, in racing terms, ‘fallen at every hurdle’. Whether that is race horses being sent for slaughter because of unregulated breeding, mirrored by a lack of post-racing aftercare; violent behaviour towards horses with the use of the whip; or deaths on racecourses.
          But the BHA’s Horse Welfare Board is not alone in its failure. The ongoing killing of horses requires associated support structures. Horse welfare organisations and vets are tight lipped too, from either ignorance or apathy.
        With uncontrolled power, racing’s big players, comprising, racecourses, multi-national betting operators, and massive breeding and racing operations, all seem content with the current situation of equine exploitation and maltreatment. Whilst polarised political views from Westminster weakens positive horse welfare change.
 

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Thursday 18 December 2014

It's Called Efficiency!!!

       What have we become, or, what has capitalism made us? In capitalist terms, this maximises profit and is efficient food production.



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Friday 6 May 2011

BOLD NATIVE.

              Glasgow vegan society are showing 'Bold Native' at the Free Hetherington on Tuesday at 8.00 followed by a discussion on direct action and animal liberation. 'Bold Native' is a feature film and is a really good film regardless of where you stand on the issue of animal liberation and direct action and it would be good if a lot of different opinions were represented in the discussion. I'll post a blurb and link to the trailer below:
                'Bold Native' is a fiction feature film. Charlie Cranehill, an animal liberator wanted by the United States government for domestic terrorism, emerges from the underground to coordinate a nationwide action as his estranged CEO father tries to find him before the FBI does. The film simultaneously follows a young woman who works for an animal welfare organization fighting within the system to establish more humane treatment of farmed animals. From abolitionists to welfarists, 'Bold Native' takes on the issue of modern animal use and exploitation from several angles within the context of a road movie adventure story'

http://boldnative.com/trailer/

Tuesday 10th May,
Free Hetherington,
13 University Gardens.
Glasgow.

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