tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58931839713492645932024-03-05T00:43:52.705-05:00ANIMAL ADVOCATES & ANIMAL ALLIES"Promoting Animal Kindness and Raising Awareness"Animal Advocates Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15989709695151047210noreply@blogger.comBlogger18125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893183971349264593.post-24872833013850003832014-02-05T07:42:00.001-05:002014-04-01T19:07:39.638-04:00<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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created by college students and me to help raise awareness about animal cruelty, give ways to help, and show cruelty-free alternatives.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Animal Advocates Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15989709695151047210noreply@blogger.com128tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893183971349264593.post-30208021337667374892013-02-05T11:47:00.003-05:002013-02-05T12:13:28.691-05:00<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thinking about going to the circus this month </span><br />
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Animal Advocates Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15989709695151047210noreply@blogger.com505tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893183971349264593.post-31062589704507363122012-07-09T10:34:00.000-04:002013-06-10T16:14:39.890-04:00<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think it's definitely time to start rewarding companies that are doing the right thing and not the ones that take the cheap, greedy way out by using fillers AND testing on defenseless animals, especially when animal testing for skincare and nutrition products is outdated and NOT necessary!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As an
animal lover, I do care if the products I use were tested on animals or not. And if you don't care about that, you may care about all the harmful ingredients you're putting in/on your body every day</span><span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">. M</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">any products are pumped with fillers that are dangerous to our health, not to mention gross with all the animal by-products. That definitely</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> can’t be good for us now or in the long run! </span><span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And if you don't care about that, then I'm sure you care about spending</span><span style="background-color: white; color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> $$$ on items that don't even work!</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Arbonne </span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">International</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">has a real humane way of doing business...something I don't see from many companies, especially in this world where animals are looked at as profit. </span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Arbonne offers over 400 cruelty-free items (10 different lines of products) from nutrition to anti-aging to sun care and much more!!</span><br />
<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is something for everyone.</span><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Joining Arbonne can also be a wise choice, whether you're a college student, a working woman, a businessman, a stay-at-home mom, etc...</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you're tired of working for someone else or being broke or working long hours or driving an annoying commute or hardly seeing your kids, then email me, and I'll show you how to make full-time money working part-time hours!!</span></span><br />
<b><span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">MelissaNorbeck@gmail.com </span></b><br />
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are so many ways you can
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Click on the link below to check out the companies that test on animals:</b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="color: blue; line-height: 115%;"><a href="http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-animal-testing-replace-animals-in-research-with-non-animal-alternative-methods" target="_blank">http://www.change.org/petitions/stop-animal-testing-replace-animals-in-research-with-non-animal-alternative-methods</a></span></span></span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: blue; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/end-animal-suffering-now/" target="_blank">http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/end-animal-suffering-now</a></span></b><br />
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<b style="color: red; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">to </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">dogs </span><span style="font-size: large;">and </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">cats </span><span style="font-size: large;">in China. </span><span style="font-size: x-large;">Unreal!!</span></b></div>
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<a href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/265/446/562/"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/265/446/562/</span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/stop-the-dog-and-cat-fur-trade/" target="_blank">http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/stop-the-dog-and-cat-fur-trade/</a></span><br />
<a href="http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/ban-fur-farms-in-hebei-province.html"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/ban-fur-farms-in-hebei-province.html</span></a><br />
<a href="http://wolfarmy.net/petition/ban-trapping-on-public-and-federally-owned-land/"><span style="background-color: white; color: black; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://wolfarmy.net/petition/ban-trapping-on-public-and-federally-owned-land/</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">It’s hard to tell how many people
actually wear Uggs, but we can say for sure there are a lot!! Unfortunately, most people do not know of the
horrific way these boots are made.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Here’s some info; you
can make your own decision whether you think the cruelty is worth the “fashion”
statement. </span><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;">Ugg boots are made from sheep who were castrated without painkillers or who have their throats cut. </span><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Personally, I think the boots are Ugg-ly, but that's just my opinion. Plus there are plenty of alternatives to Uggs and other cruelty-based items. </span></div>
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the poster girl for Uggs, announced she will never wear Uggs again now that she
learned how they are made:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">And the fake Uggs are made from
raccoon dogs who are skinned alive. </span><span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Check out the site below, but beware the content is pretty graphic:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Kristen ITC'; line-height: 18px;">Could you imagine if that were you locked in a cage waiting to be skinned alive?! No way! Unimaginable! I'm sure the raccoon dog felt just as scared.</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.leapingbunny.org/shopping.php" target="_blank">http://www.leapingbunny.org/shopping.php</a><br />
<a href="http://www.vegetarian-shoes.co.uk/" target="_blank">http://www.vegetarian-shoes.co.uk/</a><br />
<a href="http://www.peta.org/living/beauty-and-personal-care/order-cruelty-free-shopping-guide.aspx" target="_blank">http://www.peta.org/living/beauty-and-personal-care/order-cruelty-free-shopping-guide.aspx</a><br />
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<b><span style="color: #007000; font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">When voting this year, it may not be
the only thing to go by, but you can tell a lot about people by the way they
treat animals!!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: #007000; font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting'; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 115%;">These two sites give you a
breakdown on each candidate; see who has the worst record!<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<a href="http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/pets/GOP-candidates-.html"><span style="color: black;">http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/pets/GOP-candidates-.html</span></a><br />
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<b style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Signing
petitions is one way to help animals get justice (if there is such a thing), and it's an effective way to
make sure people get the maximum penalty allowed by law. I think animal cruelty, even
though taken more seriously now than before, is still not taken seriously
enough! People get a slap on the wrist for unspeakable, horrific crimes.</b><br />
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I feel if someone murders an animal, he/she should go to jail just as if
murdering a person. In a way, it's even
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<span style="color: red; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>Plus, there's a
known correlation between those who kill and torture animals and those who
kill and/or torture people, such as Jeffrey Dahmer, Son of Sam, the DC Sniper,
Ted Bundy, and too many more.<o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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<a href="https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=4565" target="_blank">https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=4565</a><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>URGENT!! HELP STOP BULL TORTURE FESTIVAL IN MEXICO:</b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Every year on February 1 in Tlacotalpan—a city in the Mexican state of Veracruz—bulls are horrifically tortured during the Fiesta de la Virgen de la Candelaria festival. Liquor is poured down the bulls' throats, and the animals are tied to boats and dragged across a river before being set loose in the streets. Participants then chase, beat, and stab the terrified animals with bats and knives. The torture continues for hours as drunken residents throw bricks and trash at the animals, kick and punch them, and cut off their ears. Surviving bulls are then turned out to pasture, no doubt left to suffer from their injuries. </b></span><br />
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<a href="https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2063" target="_blank">https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2063</a><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">HELP STOP CIRCUS CRUELTY:</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In their native homelands, the animals you see in circuses are free to walk and run, choose lifetime companions, and raise their families. Tragically, these animals are held captive by circuses such as Ringling Bros. and are forced to perform confusing acts night after night for 48 to 50 weeks every year. In order to get these animals to perform stressful acts, Ringling trainers use whips, sticks, and bullhooks with metal tips that are jabbed into elephants’ sensitive skin on their thighs and behind their ears. Between acts, elephants are kept chained up like bicycles or confined to cramped pens, and tigers are stored in cages that are barely even large enough for them to turn around.</span></b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="https://secure2.convio.net/pcrm/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=471">https://secure2.convio.net/pcrm/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=471</a></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>TELL WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY TO STOP INHUMANE DOG EXPERIMENTS:</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Let Allan Gilmour, president of Wayne State University, know you want him to immediately halt the use of dogs in the university's inhumane heart experiments. Wayne State University’s ongoing use of dogs in heart failure experiments is cruel and should be stopped before any more dogs suffer. Dogs in these experiments experience severe unrelieved pain and distress. Wayne State University should focus on advancing human-based research, such as epidemiological studies, clinical trials, and computer modeling.</b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.capwiz.com/wspausa/mailapp/" target="_blank">http://www.capwiz.com/wspausa/mailapp/</a></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">ASK REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATORS TO SUPPORT THIS BILL:</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">One of the worst industrial farming abuses is the confinement of hens to barren battery cages, where hens are crammed together with little room to move – let alone flap their wings. Congress is currently considering ground-breaking, bi-partisan legislation that will outlaw the most restrictive and barren battery cages and vastly improve the welfare of egg-laying hens in the U.S.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Using this link, you can contact your Representative and Senators to politely urge them to support HR 3798/S 3239 - the Egg Products Inspection Act Amendments of 2012:</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/405/015/443/send-worlds-loneliest-elephant-to-thailand/" target="_blank">http://www.thepetitionsite.com/405/015/443/send-worlds-loneliest-elephant-to-thailand/</a></span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">SEND THE WORLD'S LONELIEST LION TO THAILAND:</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b>Mali the elephant has spent 33 lonely years in a concrete pen in the Philippines, and it's killing her. But still the government won't allow her to go to a better place.</b><b></b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Torn from her family at age three, she was sent to Manila as a gift to then-President Ferdinand Marcos. She has since lived three decades of her life at the capital city's zoo isolated from other elephants, with only a small pool for entertainment. She suffers from severe depression and damage to her feet, the leading cause of death to zoo elephants.</span></b><br />
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<b style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><a href="https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3911&utm_campaign=1211+21+Airlines+shipping+Monkeys+AA&utm_source=peta2+Email&utm_medium=E-news#.TvNE4k5ECr0.facebook">https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3911&utm_campaign=1211+21+Airlines+shipping+Monkeys+AA&utm_source=peta2+Email&utm_medium=E-news#.TvNE4k5ECr0.facebook</a></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>ASK AIRLINES TO STOP SHIPPING MONKEYS TO BE TORTURED: </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Monkeys were hooked to their cages with a metal tether through which ice-cold saline solution and test chemicals were continuously dripped into their veins. Workers handled monkeys so violently that the animals suffered from bloodied noses, broken fingers and toes, and bruises to their bodies. Monkeys were tied for many hours in restraint chairs with their arms and legs kept entirely immobile as drugs were injected intravenously over the course of a day. The traumatized monkeys are crammed into small wooden crates and transported in the backs of trucks and in the dark and terrifying cargo holds of airplanes, often on passenger flights just below unsuspecting customers. </b></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.change.org/petitions/tell-mastercard-stop-supporting-the-live-dolphin-trade#">https://www.change.org/petitions/tell-mastercard-stop-supporting-the-live-dolphin-trade#</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><b>Ask Mastercard to end their promotion with RWS and send a strong message to the resort that kidnapping wild dolphins isn't acceptable. Tell them to do business with other theme parks and stop promoting the live dolphin trade.</b></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.change.org/"><span style="color: black;">http://www.change.org/</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.thepetitionsite.com/"><span style="color: black;">http://www.thepetitionsite.com/</span></a><br />
<span style="color: black;"><a href="http://www.peta.org/"><span style="color: black;">http://www.peta.org/</span></a>
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</div>Animal Advocates Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15989709695151047210noreply@blogger.com206tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893183971349264593.post-10882508995601532482011-02-23T10:33:00.000-05:002011-02-23T10:42:24.157-05:00Why Adoption is a Better Option!<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #009644; font-family: 'Lucida Calligraphy'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Would you make your dog live in a wire cage its whole life? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #009644; font-family: 'Lucida Calligraphy'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Would you have a dog and never give him/her any love or companionship?<o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #009644; font-family: 'Lucida Calligraphy'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Would you have pets and not give them toys or play time? <o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #009644; font-family: 'Lucida Calligraphy'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #009644; font-family: 'Lucida Calligraphy'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">Most likely you answered no to all of the above questions. Well, that’s what happens to the dogs who live in puppy mills. Why should that matter to you? Because if you get your dog from a breeder or from a pet store, then most likely the dog came from a puppy mill.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #009644; font-family: 'Lucida Calligraphy'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">I personally don’t agree with breeding dogs. Yes, I know there are reputable breeders out there, but I can’t understand the concept of “creating” new dogs when millions are killed each year because there’s no room for them in the shelters. Why buy a dog when you can adopt one from a shelter and save that dog from being killed? </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #009644; font-family: 'Lucida Calligraphy'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;">Mutts need love, too. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #009644; font-family: 'Lucida Calligraphy'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;">Puppy mill dogs live in prisons and breed babies over and over again until they die. What kind of life is that? No kind of life at all!!</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #009644; font-family: 'Lucida Calligraphy'; font-size: 16px; line-height: 18px;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #009644; font-family: 'Lucida Calligraphy'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;">These disgusting people who own the puppy mills and call themselves breeders are greedy and all they care about is money. It is up to people like you to end this cruelty by not buying dogs from breeders or from pet stores. According to the US Humane Society, about 3-4 million dogs and cats are euthanized a year in shelters. That is ridiculous when there are people "making” new dogs for money. If it wasn’t for the people who buy these animals, the puppy mills would shut down. Let’s end this nightmare for puppy mill dogs. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #009644; font-family: 'Lucida Calligraphy'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%;"><br />
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Only a few animal species can pass a self-recognition mirror test, which is used as an indication of self-awareness. Some primates (like chimps, bonobos, humans), elephants, and bottlenose dolphins are able to recognize themselves in mirrors. Magpie birds are also able to recognize themselves in mirrors (interestingly enough, magpies have unique parts of the brain different than most other bird species). Some may say "they all pass the self-recognition test, but their intelligence levels vary. How can we be certain they are actually self-aware?". <br />
Human babies and human adults both can recognize themselves in a mirror. But without a doubt, you know that your current level of consciousness is much higher than it was when you were a baby, even though you were technically self-aware in both stages. This is because intelligence directly correlates with the level of consciousness and self-awareness. It's the same for other self-aware animal species. Dolphins, who have the highest intelligence, are likely to have an individual consciousness that is much greater than a magpie bird because their brains are more complex. <br />
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Dolphins display behaviors of empathy. There are many reports of cetaceans helping injured swimmers or swirling around someone in the ocean to protect them from a shark attack. They also display behaviors of helping each other when injured or protection from being harmed. It has been observed that dolphins will teach others around them how to play certain games, tricks, and unique behaviors. <br />
Because dolphins do not have limbs and hands like primates, they evolved differently. They don't require large amounts of general intelligence because their ability to manipulate their environment is very limited. As social beings, their emotional intelligence may be even higher than suspected. They have the ability to feel sadness, happiness, and other basic emotions. <br />
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It is becoming more evident that dolphins may be capable of language. Researchers are trying to decipher a communication that sounds to us like meaningless whistling, but may actually be an underlying language that only dolphins can understand. Human conscious thinking is grounded in spoken language, so a dolphins ability of language may indicate they have a thought process similar to ours.<br />
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Because we are human, we are able to confirm that the human species is capable of self-aware conscious thinking. We are unable to access the mind of a dolphin, but we can use the human brain as a model to make a suggestion that certain cognitive functioning is close to humans because of similar brain activity and regions.<br />
Dolphins, whales and other cetaceans are not safe, despite the evidence suggesting that they are likely self-conscious individual beings. In some countries, it is still acceptable to kill dolphins and whales for food (falsely advertised as research purposes). Many thousands of dolphins and whales are killed every year in Japan, Peru, Solomon Islands and elsewhere. The meat is contaminated with high levels of mercury. Some dolphins are spared and sold to aquariums where they live the rest of their unnatural lives in captivity. Many times the "fishermen" doing the killing are not aware that dolphins are mammals and not fish.<br />
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Basic humans rights are a result of high cognitive ability and conscious thinking. In an objective morality, we would not accept humans being captive, killed, forced to perform for someone else's profit, tortured, or unnecessarily harmed in any way. The value of human life does not exist simply because we are of the human species but is a result of our cognitive abilities. Therefore it is only logical to extend these same basic rights to other animals who show reasonable evidence of having similar cognitive abilities or self awareness as humans do. <br />
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1. <b>Spread awareness</b>. Educating others about the similarities of cetaceans with humans is an important first step in trying to have international government action made to protect them. Sign petitions when possible and get involved in community action.<br />
2. <b>Don't support Seaworld and other cetacean entertainment practices</b>. They exploit the lives of the whales and dolphins for profit and human entertainment. Captivity and forced performance for animals with such a high intelligence, can be exhausting, psychologically damaging, and inhumane for them. These animals travel miles upon miles in the wild with their pods but are in small pools without enough interpersonal communication when captive.<br />
3. <b>Avoid seafood products</b>. Dolphins and other cetaceans are injured and have their lives disrupted by human ocean activity. Fishing ships can harm and frighten them. The fishing industry can also be deadly for dolphins. Dolphins and tuna normally feed on fish together, and fishermen take advantage of the opportunity of catching tuna while they are feeding. Dolphins are also captured in nets along with the tuna and are killed. The oceans are being over-fished as it is and human activity is quickly destroying the ocean and its ecology.<br />
4. <b>Reduce pollution</b>. The oceans are becoming more polluted by factories and human activity. Chemicals, plastics, and general dumping is rampant in some parts of the ocean. Exposure to these can harm cetaceans and other sea life and disrupt their biological functioning. <br />
5. <b>Take Action</b>. Save the Dolphins Day is October 14th, every year, and is a worldwide day of protest to fight for the rights of whales and dolphins. You can find an event to attend in many major cities in the US.<br />
<a href="http://www.savejapandolphins.org/"><span style="color: black;">http://www.savejapandolphins.org/</span></a><br />
For more information on the dolphin slaughter in Taiji, Japan, watch the documentary <b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><i>The Cove</i>.</span></b><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;"><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #ff0066; font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting';"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #ff0066; font-family: 'Lucida Handwriting'; line-height: 115%;">*Melissa<span style="font-size: 22pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></b></span></div>Animal Advocates Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15989709695151047210noreply@blogger.com190tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893183971349264593.post-17832435134459911582010-12-08T20:15:00.000-05:002010-12-08T20:15:33.022-05:00Decisions, decisions<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">Vanilla or chocolate? Tea or coffee? Pancakes or French toast? We are all faced with decisions in our lives, and we are forced to come up with answers to questions daily. But to wear, or not to wear, animal products is the question at hand. Deciding not to wear animal products really needs to be a conscious effort. A few months back I wrote for a website. The creator of the website is a photographer, so he took some pictures of me to go along with my blogs. The first blog I wrote was about animal rights, which I also posted here a few weeks ago. In the picture, I purposely wore “leather” boots, and someone asked the question that I knew would arise: “Are your boots real leather?” However, my boots are definitely all man-made material.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;"> Ironically enough, not long before I wrote that first blog I went to see <i>The Nutcracker</i> at the Academy of Music, and PETA was outside handing out pamphlets about wearing fur. Years ago when people went to the Academy of Music, they got all decked out in their mink coats and diamonds. It’s not really like that anymore; still it was reassuring to see their presence. My aunt and I just had a conversation about wearing fur, and she thinks that people should not even wear fake fur. I disagree because I think it is fine for people to wear faux fur and faux leather. Why not? It isn’t real, and it proves the point that people can still look just as good wearing faux fur and leather – well, actually look even better than wearing the real thing.<br />
The poor animals (cats, dogs, rabbits, fox, raccoons, etc…) whose fur is robbed from them are skinned alive; how horrible that must be - just unimaginable. A problem is that many of the fur products are mislabeled, and people really don’t know what they are buying. However, real is real, and it is expensive, so a person knows when he/she is buying real fur because of the cost. But many times the real fur is labeled with something like jackal when it is really cat or dog. So it is better to not buy real fur at all. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: blue; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif;">I feel it is our duty to help animals. They have no voice and no choice: we are their voice, and we have the power of choice!</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 21.0pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-bottom: 0in; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: "inherit","serif"; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br />
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The bear population has increased but that does not require the killing of black bears in New Jersey. Many bear complaints are simply sightings. The bears are usually frightened of people and aggressive behavior is rarely seen; they have never killed anyone in NJ. The Commissioner claims that hunting them is necessary, but it's not. It may be more cost effective, but why should the black bears pay for New Jersey's financial woes with their lives? <br />
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It's not the fault of the black bears, they are simply living out their lives and having families. They live in the forests and are losing their homes due to constant development of land. Their habitats are stripped away from them to make way for human structures and when they have no where else to go, their lives are taken from them too.<br />
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The excuses used to justify the hunt are just that - excuses. Killing the black bears may reduce the population temporarily, but the reasons given to justify the extermination will continue regardless of the hunt. Non-lethal measures can be taken to handle the issue so residents and black bears can co-exist in NJ but government officials are choosing a more simple way to temporarily deal with the issue without considering the welfare of the bears.<br />
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-Mark V.Animal Advocates Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15989709695151047210noreply@blogger.com205tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893183971349264593.post-88443665042766921042010-11-13T21:13:00.000-05:002010-11-13T21:21:55.689-05:00Animal Rights<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">Animal cruelty is a matter in which I am very passionate. My wish is that people would stop purposely putting animals in harmful situations. There is just no reason for the torment and the torture. Cruelty toward animals should not exist; plus the punishments the criminals receive do not even fit the crimes. Cruelty comes in many varieties: the selling of fur (cats, dogs, rabbits, etc... animals are stuffed and piled into crates and then skinned alive,) fighting of dogs, killing of wildlife, slaughtering of horses, clubbing of seals, testing on animals, and the torture and neglect of family pets, just to name a few. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">More examples of cruelty: McDonald’s scolds its chickens alive. Ringling Bros. Circus beats its animals. Pigs receive no pain relief when they have their teeth removed with wire cutters. Chickens have their sensitive beaks cut off without painkillers. (Research has proved that chickens are smarter than dogs, cats, and even some primates.) Veal calves are confined to crates so small they can’t even turn around. Many companies test their products on animals; more companies need to work toward cruelty-free methods. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #274e13;">*Melissa Norbeck</span></span></span>Animal Advocates Adminhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15989709695151047210noreply@blogger.com174tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893183971349264593.post-65763519204717716862010-11-02T21:56:00.000-04:002013-02-05T11:57:03.984-05:00Introduction<div class="MsoNormal">
Welcome to the Gloucester County College Animal Advocates club blog. This blog has been created for anyone who wishes to participate in an open, unbiased forum in which all subjects related to the ethical and unethical treatment of animals may be discussed freely. </div>
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<span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: black;">The </span></span><b>mission </b>of <i>Animal Advocate</i>s, in short, is to raise awareness about animal cruelty, promote animal kindness, and show there are alternatives to the cruel methods being used.<br />
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span class="apple-style-span"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Raise money and donations for various </span></span></li>
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<li style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Modify animal cruelty laws</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Protest</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Sign petitions</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Make animals' lives better any way we can</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: small;">Raise awareness</span></b></span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Volunteer at local animal shelters</span></li>
<li style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Make friends and collaborate with like minded people</span></li>
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<b><u> Current Club Officers</u></b></div>
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<span class="email" style="color: magenta;"><b>*Melissa Norbeck: </b><b>Faculty Advisor & Club Founder</b></span><br />
<span class="email" style="color: magenta;"><b>Alyssa Jackson: President</b></span><br />
<span class="email" style="color: magenta;"><b>Nikki Queen & Marissa Minardi: Vice-President</b></span><br />
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