October 2007 Archives

C'est le nom de la nouvelle campagne de la Southern Hope Humane Society, a Powder Spring, Georgie. La source d'inspiration de cette campagne est un cas tragique de négligence envers un magnifique chien qui s'appelait Angel et qui a passé sa vie au bout d'une chaine, affamée et laissée sans soins au fond d'une arrière cour, alors qu'elle avait une patte et un pelvis cassés, pour finir par mourir de faim. Sa triste photo se trouve ci-contre et sur des panneaux publicitaires avec le slogan suivant :"Don't get a dog if you can't take care of one."Il y a également d'autres affiches de chiens maltraités avec des slogans tels que: "If you don't want to go to the vet, there's always jail." (cf ci-dessous)

La Southern Hope Humane Society explique qu'un grand nombre de gens ne devraient pas avoir de chiens du tout en raison de leur situation financière, leur manque d'engagement et de responsabilité face a tout ce qu'implique le bien être d'un chien, le manque de temps dont ils disposent pour passer du temps avec un chien ou tout simplement leur manque basique de compassion et d'empathie envers les animaux. Cette campagne explique tous dans les moindres détails, dressant une liste de toutes les raisons de ne pas avoir de chien, notamment la prise en compte des couts divers et variés liés a tout ce qui est lié aux soins et bien être du chien. Il y a également une liste de gens et des peines qu'ils ont reçus pour leur négligence, la maltraitance et la cruauté inconsidérée dont ils ont fait preuve envers leurs propres chiens.

Vive la Southern Hope Humane Society! J'aimerais que toutes les Humane societies essaient d'être aussi pertinentes, courageuses et créatives. Les gens ont besoin d'être secoués et d'être sortis de leur complaisance. Beaucoup de gens n'ont pas la moindre idée que ce genre d'horreur se produit chaque jour, alors que d'autres en sont pleinement conscients voir directement témoins mais ne réalisent pas que c'est parfaitement illégal et punis par la loi et que tout ce qu'ils ont a faire est de décrocher leur téléphone. Si vous voulez prendre part à cette campagne, visitez la Southern Hope donation page.

Merci de votre attention,

noemie.

Je pense qu'il n'y a rien a rajouter...

:)

Noemie.

La réponse du Dr Diesendorf au capitaine Paul Watson est visible sur le blog du capitaine Paul Watson.

Il s'agit de la réponse de Diesendorf le tueur de kangourous, qui a lancé le défi a Paul Watson de publier sa réponse telle quelle sur son blog. C'est ce qu'il a fait et il lui répond par la même occasion.

Je suis profondément déçue par Green Peace. Je savais déjà que la plupart d'entres eux ne sont même pas végétariens, ce qui est en soi une incohérence énorme. Comment vouloir protéger la planète et comment se dire écolo si on n'est pas au moins végétarien?

C'est ce qui m'a toujours tenue a l'écart de toutes ces organisations écolos. Je suis profondément écologiste moi-même et cela fait des années que je vis en accord avec mes principes, en essayant d'avoir le moins d'impact possible sur l'environnement. J'ai été à plusieurs reprises profondément déçue de constater que les groupes de protection de l'environnement sont moins écolos que moi. J'ai participé a plusieurs actions avec Surfrider Foundation Europe, j'ai rencontré et discuté Veg et écologie avec des membres des Verts, ait discuté avec des gens de chez Green Peace, certaines personnes des Amis de la Terre... et j'ai été très déçue de constater que la majorité d'entre eux ne sont même pas végétariens. Le végétarisme est même le dernier de leur souci. Ils nous rabattent les oreilles avec le tri sélectif, mais je pense qu'aujourd'hui le tri sélectif devrait être obligatoire et c'est même le minimum que tout un chacun puisse faire, le degré zéro de l'écologie! c'est tellement mou comme campagne ! En tant que militante, j'attends de ces organisations qu'elles soient les ambassadrices de ce qu'elles prêchent et ce pourquoi elles demandent de l'argent. Souvent c'est du « faites ce que je dis, pas ce que je fais ». Si je suis plus écolo que leur employés, vraiment ce n'est pas sérieux. Ces gens se doivent d'être des exemples vivants de ce qu'ils prêchent, et il faut aller au delà du tri sélectif. Oui trier ces bouteilles en plastique c'est bien, oui nettoyer la plage une journée par an c'est super... mais il faut le faire tous les jours, en passant... et il faut être au moins végétarien c'est le minimum que tout écolo puisse faire, et aussi ne pas porter de cuir, ni fourrure... car tout cela représente une source de pollution énorme !

Les élevages d'animaux sont la plus grande source de pollution des nappes phréatiques, de l'eau, des émissions de gaz a effet de serre... et c'est un tel gâchis ! Un bœuf consomme énormément de céréales (je vous passe les détails de la pollution des engrais chimiques et pesticides dans le sol) et d'eau par rapport a la nourriture qu'il produit. Si on produit les céréales directement pour les manger, sans passer par le bœuf, on réduit considérablement l'impact sur l'environnement et on pourrait ainsi nourrir la planète entière.

On sauve également la forêt amazonienne car en ce moment même, elle est en train d'être détruite au profit de plantations de soja transgéniques pour nourrir le bétail élevé en batterie pour certaines grandes chaines de fast food.

Je continue ???

Heureusement qu'il y a le Capitaine Paul Watson dans tout ca, avec la Sea Shepherd Conservation Society... au moins la nourriture a bord de leur bateau est 100% vegan, car ils vivent leurs idées et en sont les parfaits ambassadeurs. Heureusement qu'il est la pour relever le niveau et pour couler les baleiniers japonais et faire respecter des lois internationales dont les gouvernements se foutent, notamment celle interdisant la chasse a la baleine... C'est un vrai eco guerrier, lui au moins et ils devraient tous être comme ca! intègre et non corrompus! Allez voir les vidéos sur son site et sur son myspace, c'est hilarant! Les meilleurs sont visibles ici :
http://www.myspace.com/stop_animal_suffering

En plus de ce coup de gueule, j'aimerais aussi partager cette tranche de vie avec Chrissie Hynde, qui décidément rock !

Je l'ai toujours beaucoup admiré et je la trouve vraiment géniale...

Miami Herald

Chrissie Hynde's got a beef with meat eaters
By LYDIA MARTIN

Chrissie Hynde's message of veganism

You've just admitted to rocker Chrissie Hynde that you're a meat eater. Turns out she's not one of the easy-going PETA people who will cut you some slack.

''Why do you do it?,'' she asks frostily.

Uh, because you're lame? Really, because you like the taste.

''That's not a very thought-out answer,'' says the straight-talking frontwoman for The Pretenders, wearing veggie-friendly eyeliner, a vegan T-shirt she picked up in Brazil and red, knee-high Stella McCartney boots made from something unleather.

She's at Sublime in Fort Lauderdale sampling fried green tomatoes, crispy cauliflower, vegetarian sushi rolls and eggplant rollatini with tofu ``ricotta.''

''Eggplant is the only vegetable I don't love,'' says Hynde, still coming off the high of her latest tour, with ZZ Top and Stray Cats. In mid-September, she'll open (with partners) VegeTerranean, a restaurant in Akron, Ohio, her hometown.

''I needed a place to eat when I'm there,'' says Hynde, who has lived in London since the 1970s. ``My parents still live in Akron, and they're getting on.''

She wanted to visit Sublime with Dan Mathews, PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) vice president, to get pointers from the place considered one of the country's best gourmet vegan restaurants.

And now she's here and giving you a hard time because you eat animals, and because you're dense enough to say something about how humans are carnivores.

GETTING TOUGH

``Read a couple of books. You'll find out we aren't. Our digestive systems aren't. Our jaws swing from left to right like herbivores. Go to a slaughterhouse. I don't have to go, because I have an imagination. I can imagine what an animal goes through. If you don't have enough of an imagination, go to a factory farm and see the pigs on the rape racks. And if you don't like what you see, then gouge your eyes out and walk around unconscious, which is what most people do.''

Well.

Hynde has been a strict vegetarian (not entirely vegan, but close) since 1969. You mention that you were talking to Sting, another longtime vegetarian, a few years back, and he had just built an organic farm in England and started eating some of the animals he raised. Would she eat an animal if she raised it?

``If I farm it I have the right to kill it? F - - - you. I don't think animals should be killed for any reason. To me it's pornographic to be so interested in your tongue. I find it beneath human dignity. If you're governed by your tongue and your d- - -, then you're an animal.''

Hasn't she ever been governed by her, ummm, whatever?

''No. I'd like to think I'm more governed by my principles.'' One of them is, she doesn't sleep with meat eaters. ``If I wasn't restricted by the idea of not wearing leather, I'd have shoes like Imelda Marcos. Because I'm sick with consumerism as much as the next guy. And I try to be selective in my human relations. I restrict myself to non-meat eaters even though that takes a big slice out of the picture.''

AFFABLE SIDE

Hynde, with her punky shag haircut and her flinty stare, is challenging. But that doesn't mean she's unfriendly. In fact, she's one of the most affable celebs you've ever sat with.

''I know I come off kind of aggressive, but I'm just trying to make a point,'' she says later, more softly.

And you're cool with that. Refreshingly, Hynde, who turns 56 on Friday, has always practiced what she preaches. She always said she wasn't setting out to be a star when she picked up a guitar and started her first band. When she finally hit it big with The Pretenders, chart toppers through the '80s, she kept her word, never prancing before the cameras for the sake of media attention.

'Do you know if I'm married or not? You probably don't. I alway say that I'm so secretive about my private life I'm not even sure who I'm sleeping with. I don't like being in the spotlight. I like being in the dark. To me, that's rock 'n' roll. To be obscure, to not be part of the mainstream, to be outside of the law.''

But Hynde has known such serious success that pop music lovers know many of her songs by heart. Back on the Chain Gang has just randomly come on Sublime's sound system, which makes her roll her eyes. How did she keep her ego in check over the years?

``Maybe it's about hanging out with bikers. Or not wanting to feel like I'm in a high-security prison, walking around with bodyguards. I just never went to premieres and stuff like that. I don't think of myself as a rock star. I'm just a girl in a band. When I'm on the road, I feel like part of the crew, not like a celebrity. That's where I'm comfortable. Maybe it's because I was a waitress for years. I always just wanted to be able to sit on a doorstep and hang out in a normal bar. If you can't do that, then what's the point?''

Later in the evening, you say goodbye to Hynde and move to another table to chat with friends who happen to be at Sublime. Hynde sticks around to visit with the restaurant's owners. But she notices you've left your organic vodka cocktail behind and brings it to your new table, playing like she's still a waitress and asking if she can get you anything else.

Somehow you get to talking about Stevie Nicks, her witchy ways and her perplexing lyrics. And amid the jokes, the aggressive side of Hynde evaporates.

The hard-driving rocker? That part of her is indelible.

'When my daughters were young, I'd walk them past the butcher store, and I'd say, `That used to be a lamb, and that used to be a bird. In our society, it's legal to kill them.' Then I would show them a joint, and say, 'This is an herb that grows in the ground, and you can go to jail for having this, but you can kill an animal.' In this family, we will always live outside the law.''

Source: http://www.miamiherald.com/234/story/221918.html

Bonne journée,

Noémie.

Greenpeace is saying "Goodbye to Joey" with a bullet.

The one consistent thing these days about the Greenpeace Foundation is its inconsistency. Back in 1986, Greenpeace produced a film about the commercial slaughter of the kangaroos in Australia. The film was called Goodbye to Joey, and it denounced the wholesale slaughter of kangaroos. According to Australian Greenpeace spokesperson Trevor Daley, Greenpeace opposed the commercial trade of kangaroo products on ecological and moral grounds and stated that, "on a purely moral basis, we find it nauseating."
That was then, but today Greenpeace is actually calling for the commercial slaughter of millions of kangaroos as a solution to . . . global warming! Now Greenpeace energy campaigner Mark Wakeham is urging Aussies to eat kangaroo to help reduce land clearing and the release of methane gas. "It is one of the lifestyle changes we can make," Mr. Wakeham said. "Changing our meat consumption habits is a small way to make an impact." Obviously, Mr. Wakeham is not a vegetarian, which of course is the more positive way of changing meat consumption habits.
The proposal to commercially slaughter kangaroos is contained in a report, Paths to a Low-Carbon Future, commissioned and released by Greenpeace. Roughly three million kangaroos are killed and commercially sold for meat each year. They are shot between the eyes at night with high-powered guns. Greenpeace wishes to see this number doubled. Australians eat only about a third of the 30 million kilograms of 'roo meat produced annually. This "delicacy" is exported to dozens of countries and is most popular in Germany, France, and Belgium.
The Greenpeace report has renewed calls for the Australian state of Victoria to lift a ban on harvesting kangaroos for food. Kangaroo meat presently sold in Victoria is imported from out of the state. The commercial kangaroo meat industry has seized the Greenpeace report to strengthen its demand to remove the kangaroo slaughter ban in Victoria. Way to go, Greenpeace - saving the Earth by killing Skippy!
The Australian kangaroo population has been cut in half over the past five years because of excessive drought. A major commercial slaughter is hardly going to be beneficial to this diminished population. The Greenpeace report by Dr. Mark Diesendorf, from the University of New South Wales, states that greenhouse gas emissions need to be slashed by at least a third by 2020 in order to avoid a climate change catastrophe. One of his recommendations is reducing beef consumption and increasing kangaroo meat production. "There's a small sub-set of environmentalists who see the kangaroo as a cuddly animal which should be left alone. They are entitled to their view, but more and more people are moving towards eating it,'' said Dr. Diesendorf.
What is Greenpeace thinking? Or are they thinking at all? Greenpeace is actually calling for a massive slaughter of a wildlife species for commercial purposes. It is bad enough that Greenpeace no longer opposes the mass slaughter of harp seals in Canada. It is tragic that Greenpeace continues to support the trophy hunting of polar bears in Alaska and Northern Canada. But to openly support the largest massacre of any wildlife species on the planet is going beyond the bounds of acceptability. Has Greenpeace received a large contribution from the kangaroo meat industry? What would possess them to issue a call for a kangaroo slaughter?
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society Founder and President Captain Paul Watson was also a co-founder of Greenpeace. "I feel a little like Dr. Frankenstein, having helped to create this green mean monster. There can be no justification for this insane proposal." Al Johnson, who founded Greenpeace USA and was a member of the film crew in 1984 that made Goodbye to Joey was shocked when he heard this proposal. "This is inexcusable. How can we produce a passionate film denouncing the horrific kangaroo slaughter and then advocate the mass slaughter of kangaroos a few years later?"
"It is interesting that Dr. Diesendorf does not mention vegetarianism as a solution to global warming, nor does he mention the need to reduce human populations or to curb our excessive consumption of fish," said Captain Watson. "Instead, he has chosen to become Dr. Death for the 'roos and is advocating the mass slaughter of a wild native animal that has been a positive member of the Australian ecosystem for tens of thousands of years. And he dismisses those who disagree with him as a 'small subset of environmentalists.' Dr. Diesendorf is going to discover that opposition to this Auschwitz approach to solving climate change through mass killing will be opposed by a great many people."
Please contact Dr. Diesendorf and voice your opposition to the mass commercial slaughter of kangaroos for dinner. Tell Greenpeace that far from being a member of a "small sub-set," you are a true environmentalist, and it may choose to push this plan, but not in your name or the name of environmentalism.

Written by Captain Paul Watson, posted on his blog.