THE AWFUL TRUTH ABOUT THE FUR FASHION INDUSTRY

EARTH HOUR 60

Earth Hour 2009 is set to switch off the globe. Already 538 cities in 75 countries which is double the number of countries that participated in 2008, are committed. With hundreds more cities expected to sign up to switch off in the coming months, Earth Hour 2009 is setting the platform for an unprecedented global mandate for action on climate change.

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EARTHLINGS

Earthlings is a documentary narrated by Joaquin Phoenix, in which we will discover the extreme animal cruelty in places like circuses, slaughterhouses, puppy mills, etc, all for Man´s profit, entertainment, and vanity. Hard images, but absolutely a must see.

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Plastic Bags: The awful facts.

When we pick up a plastic bag at the supermarket to carry our groceries, we think no further. What is going to happen to that plastic bag? Where is it going to end up? How much damage can a plastic bag cause? One plastic bag, some damage; your plastic bag plus billions of other plastic bags: much more than you ever imagined. Take a look at this report and you might think twice about using them again.

http://www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080506/MULTIMEDIA02/80505016

Resveratrol: the miracle substance

The promises of this amazing ingredient: prevention against cancer, longevity, optimum health. Will it put the entire cancer industry out of business?

What is Resveratrol?

Resveratrol is the substance found in the skin of red grapes and other superfruits. It has been found to have a number of beneficial health benefits, such as cancer fighting, anti-ageing and anti-inflammatory effects, longevity, neuroprotection, etc. In a recent study by the Harvard University, Dr Sinclair found that the human gene SirT1 increased longevity when stimulated by resveratrol, and that the continued use of the ingredient decreased functional decline in the elderly, such as osteoporosis, cataracts, and motor coordination.

Researchers, health organisations and medical professionals world wide are conducting studies to prove the effectivity of resveratrol on human health. The results, so far, have been very promising and people of all ages, from all over the world, are offering testimonies that are bringing high hopes to everyone. Cancer could be a thing of the past, putting an entire high-profit industry out of business.

Hipertension, osteoporosis, ageing, etc, could also find a terrible enemy in Resveratrol.

More literature on Resveratrol:

The fountain of youth, by Jennifer Jordan

What are phytonutrients

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Do Pharmaceuticals Make You Healthy? Health Ranger Announces $10,000 Health Challenge to Big Pharma

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Source: NaturalNews.com

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*We have so much to learn from animals!

*Article: Caring for the planet. A green living manifesto, by Satish Kumar, Programme Director of Schumacher College and editor of Resurgence Magazine.

http://www.resurgence.org/satish/kumar-caring.htm

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*EVER WONDERED HOW THAT SUCCULENT PIECE OF PROCESSED MEAT LOOKS LIKE UNDER THE MICROSCOPE? Take the tour:

Mystery Meat Macrophotography

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INTELLIGENT PIGS

Watch this sweet little piggie having fun at home as one more pet. Different studies have shown that pigs are more intelligent than dogs, and that they have the same level of intelligence as a 3 year-old child.

Now think: why do we get all upset when we hear about how the chinese eat cats and dogs, and we don´t think twice about having these sweet intelligent animals as our main course? Not that intelligence should be an attribute for being saved, but that seems to matter a great deal to humans. Who in their right mind would hurt a dolphin, for example? Why do other less intelligent animals have to lose their right to live, just because their brains are smaller? Following that philosophy, should humans put aside the least intelligent of us and take their rights away? Think about this, and share your views, if you wish: opinion@elfuturoesverde.com

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*Where can we find fur-free shops in the UK? The Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade tells you:

http://www.caft.org.uk/fur_policy.html

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*A Swedish ex-fur farmer reveals the truth about the fur industry. Read about it:

http://www.caft.org.uk/quotes/swedish.html

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*This exclusive clip from the documentary film All Jacked Up features Mike Adams (the Health Ranger) talking with Bobby Rice about how We the People can defend ourselves against the marketing lies, junk science and massive chemical onslaught dumped onto consumers by Big Pharma and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

This video clip features a cartoon segment and an urgent call for action to protect ourselves and our children from the deadly chemicals fed to us by food corporations and drug companies.

It's part of the outstanding All Jacked Up documentary available now on DVD from Faerie Films at: http://alljackedupmovie.com/nt/

All Jacked Up is a MUST-SEE film by all parents and teens. Read Mike Adams´ full review of the film here: http://www.naturalnews.com/022510.html

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Whoever said animals don´t have feelings??? Check out this story:

Cat Saves Lamb From Drowning

A lamb who escaped from his pasture in England was saved from drowning in a swimming pool by an alert cat.

Puss Puss, a black and white cat, discovered the lamb's predicament and frantically meowed, running back and forth between the pool and the garden where her owners were working, to alert them to his plight.

Puss Puss's owners, gardeners Adrian Bunton and Karen Lewis, had taken her along with them to work at the garden of Cotswold District Council chairman Tim Royle in Cheltenham , UK . Jill Royle said, "She was in a very, very agitated state, meowing and calling and crying and being an utter pest and dashing back and forward between them and the pool."

When Bunton and Lewis found the lamb he was under the swimming pool cover and his head was entangled in the pool cover straps, which actually were keeping him from drowning. Bunton jumped into the pool to rescue the lamb while Lewis went to get help.

Puss Puss is "a real little superstar," said Lewis. The actions of the quick-thinking feline are all the more remarkable because she is disabled. "As a kitten she had an accident and had to have her tail amputated, " Lewis explained. "She hasn't grown properly, has arthritis and can't curl up, jump or climb like other normal cats."

Source: Animal News Center

http://www.animalsentience.com/news/index.htm

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Watch the story of Howie, the pig who escaped the truck that headed for the slaughterhouse.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVFB226416s

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Are you taking a sweetener? Is it by any chance called Aspartame? Do you know the consequences that taking aspartame might have on your health?

Check it out:

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The following video may affect very sensitive people. But, if you want to know how they breed animals for meat, you can´t miss it. Narrated by Alec Baldwin.

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QUOTES

"The beef industry has contributed to more American deaths than all the wars of this century, all natural disasters, and all automobile accidents combined. If beef is your idea of "real food for real people" you'd better live real close to a real good hospital".

Neal Barnard

"There is enough in the world for everybody's need, but not enough for anybody's greed"

Mahatma Gandhi.

"Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own".

Robert Louis Stevenson

"My situation is a solemn one. Life is offered to me on condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarfs in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures".

George Bernard Shaw

"Heart attacks... God's revenge for eating his little animal friends".

Author Unknown

"Recognize meat for what it really is: the antibiotic- and pesticide-laden corpse of a tortured animal".

Ingrid Newkirk

"I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals, as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other "

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 1854

"I think if you want to eat more meat you should kill it yourself and eat it raw so that you are not blinded by the hypocrisy of having it processed for you".

Margi Clark

"As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields".

Leo Tolstoy

"The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated".

Gandhi

"Thou shalt not kill" does not apply to murder of one's own kind only, but to all living beings; and this Commandment was inscribed in the human breast long before it was proclaimed from Sinai".

Leo Tolstoy

"As soon as I realized that I didn't need meat to survive or to be in good health, I began to see how forlorn it all is. If only we had a different mentality about the drama of the cowboy and the range and all the rest of it. It's a very romantic notion, an entrenched part of American culture, but I've seen, for example, pigs waiting to be slaughtered, and their hysteria and panic was something I shall never forget".

Cloris Leachman

"I just could not stand the idea of eating meat - I really do think that it has made me calmer.... People's general awareness is getting much better, even down to buying a pint of milk: the fact that the calves are actually killed so that the milk doesn't go to them but to us cannot really be right, and if you have seen a cow in a state of extreme distress because it cannot understand why its calf isn't by, it can make you think a lot".

Kate Bush

"A veteran USDA meat inspector from Texas describes what he has seen: "Cattle dragged and choked... knocking 'em four, five, ten times. Every now and then when they're stunned they come back to life, and they're up there agonizing. They're supposed to be re-stunned but sometimes they aren't and they'll go through the skinning process alive. I've worked in four large [slaughterhouses] and a bunch of small ones. They're all the same. If people were to see this, they'd probably feel really bad about it. But in a packing house everybody gets so used to it that it doesn't mean anything."

Slaughterhouse 1997

"Until he extends the circle of compassion to all living things, man will not himself find peace".

Albert Schweitzer

"Think of me tonite
For that which you savor
Did it give you something real,
or could you taste the pain of my death in its flavor?"
Wayne K. Tolson, from "Food Forethought"

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet".

Albert Einstein

"I do not like eating meat because I have seen lambs and pigs killed. I saw and felt their pain. They felt the approaching death. I could not bear it. I cried like a child. I ran up a hill and could not breathe. I felt that I was choking. I felt the death of the lamb".

Vaslav Nijinsky

"The love of all creatures is the noblest attribute of man."

Charles Darwin

God loved the birds and invented trees. Man loved the birds and invented cages.

Jacques Deval, Afin de vivre bel et bien

No one in the world needs a mink coat but a mink.

Murray Banks

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

William Ralph Inge, Outspoken Essays, 1922

Why should man expect his prayer for mercy to be heard by What is above him when he shows no mercy to what is under him?

Pierre Troubetzkoy

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.

C.S. Lewis

I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.

Ellen DeGeneres

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

Mark Twain, What Is Man, 1906

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Alice Walker

When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature [who] was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning. Marv Levy

Ask the experimenters why they experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are like us." Ask the experimenters why it is morally okay to experiment on animals, and the answer is: "Because the animals are not like us." Animal experimentation rests on a logical contradiction.

Charles R. Magel

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