ANIMAL ADVOCATES AUSTRALIA

The Animals voices are silent but their cries can be heard if you care enough to listen! #quote #animalrights

Did you know that more than 10 billion animals are raised for dairy, meat and eggs each year in the U.S.? Most of these animals are crammed together by the hundreds or thousands. Not only do these factory farms have poor or nonexistent animal welfare standards—but they’re also environmental nightmares.

Here are the top five ways factory farms are hurting the Earth:

Animal agriculture generates 18% of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions, including 9% of carbon dioxide, 65% of nitrous oxide emissions and 37% of methane emissions. Most of that methane comes from belching cows and rotting manure.

In the U.S., confined animals generate three times more raw waste than humans generate. Their manure is commonly stored in open-air “poop lagoons,” which release dangerous toxins such as hydrogen sulfide, ammonia and methane into the air and leach heavy metals, drugs and other additives given to the animals into the ground water. That’s just gross!

The waste is often used as crop fertilizer and over-applied to nearby fields, resulting in further air pollution and high levels of phosphorus and nitrogen in the water supply.

Excess nitrogen robs water of oxygen and destroys aquatic life.

Factory farms deplete our water by using large volumes for cleaning, cooling and drinking.

The fossil fuels required to raise this staggering number of animals and produce their food emit 90 million tons of carbon dioxide worldwide every year. More than half of the world’s corn is fed to animals, and corn requires more nitrogen fertilizer than any other crop.

So what can you do to help? Check out our

Top 10 Ways You Can Fight Factory Farming—and please share this post with your friends on social media using the hashtag #FactoryFarmsStink.

http://blog.aspca.org/content/too-much-poop-factory-farms-are-hurting-earth

http://www.aspca.org/Fight-Animal-Cruelty/farm-animal-cruelty/10-ways-you-can-help-fight

HELP US NAME OUR NEW FAMILY MEMBER!!! PLEASE SHARE!!! #ducks #activism #animals #poultry

This lighter colored duck is “Nuwans’” new wife. She is an Appleyard duck and a rare breed. She was in poor conditions and very dirty. She’s had a wash and looks much improved.

Please help us give her a name that suits her beauty.

We want no immature meat eating names please. She is a family member, we don’t condone cruel meat eating practices.

Pretty names please!

INTRODUCING ‘NUWAN’ OUR NEW FAMILY MEMBER. RESCUED FROM HORRENDOUS CONDITIONS. HE WILL NOW BE SPOILT HERE ON 80acres, 5 DAMS TO SWIM IN AND LOTS OF TLC!

He is a Khaki Campbell :-))))

PLEASE SHARE so eyes can be opened! #Animals aren’t on this #Earth for us to use and exploit as we see fit. They are living, breathing, feeling sentient beings worthy of our love and respect!

#PLEASE #HELP.

POPPY’S #SPONSOR A #VET APPEAL
Please help us provide critical veterinary services for desperate #animals in Fiji.

Poppy is Fiji’s most famous dog and her amazing journey is helping to highlight the desperate plight of animals in Fiji.
Poppy arrived at the Animals Fiji Clinic with a brutal facial injury in March 2012.

It appeared she had been struck by a cane knife amputating 50% of her muzzle. With a dreadful open wound she had been left to fend for herself, and by the time she reached us was just 9kg – 50% of her normal body weight.

Had a good Samaritan, not found Poppy and handed her in, she would have died of starvation or as a result of her wounds.
Due to lack of funding, the Animals Fiji Clinic did not have a vet on staff. Poppy waited several months before receiving veterinary treatment. In the meantime, our clinic staff kept her comfortable, pain-free and well fed.

Thanks to a fundraising appeal, Poppy was airlifted to Australia in October 2012 for reconstructive surgery by Dr. Andrew Marchevsky. Her journey was filmed and documented by the Australia television show, Bondi Vet.

Poppy’s story is one in a million. Sadly, so many of the animals she left behind in Fiji suffer and die every day without treatment for illness and injury.

http://www.animalsfiji.org/poppy-vet-appeal

Like all non human animals. Where-ever you go, remember this quote. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” Chief Seattle

Please remember nature is to be enjoyed by all sentient beings!

That’s far enough mate, she’s my woman. :-)
#penguins #animals #Antarctic #wildlife #ice

SHRE PLEASE. A MUST READ & WATCH. Why We Haven’t Seen Inside a Broiler Chicken Factory Farm in a Decade?

In 2003, the animal protection group Compassion Over Killing produced a video exposé of the biggest farm animal industry in our country – the factory farming of chickens raised for meat. Entitled ” 45 days, ” it laid out the short, brutal life of a broiler (i.e. meat) chicken: panting, overcrowded, lame, limping and even dead birds. The film shows a bird trapped in a feeder unable to reach water, birds in filthy, dusty conditions, and birds with chests so heavy that they were unable to move around with ease.

45 DAYS VIDEO
http://t.co/SECrpahu

New Yorker writer Michael Specter wrote separately in 2003 on his first visit to a broiler factory farm, “I was almost knocked to the ground by the overpowering smell of feces and ammonia. My eyes burned and so did my lungs, and I could neither see nor breathe….There must have been thirty thousand chickens sitting silently on the floor in front of me. They didn’t move, didn’t cluck. They were almost like statues of chickens, living in nearly total darkness, and they would spend every minute of their six-week lives that way.”

READ ARTICLE HERE PLEASE

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2013/01/why-we-havent-seen-inside-a-broiler-chicken-factory-farm-in-a-decade/#.URpI7ifhpWI