Nestlé Announces Groundbreaking Global Animal Welfare Reforms

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Thank you to N.G. Jayasimha, H.S.I., for this information.

World’s Largest Food Company Aims to Overhaul Chicken, Pig and Cow Treatment throughout Supply Chain

MUMBAI, India (21 Aug. 2014)–Nestlé–the world’s largest food company and makers of iconic brands–such as Nestlé Milkmaid and MAGGI–announced<http://www.nestle.com/asset-library/documents/creating%20shared%20value/rural_development/nestle-commitment-farm-animal-welfare.pdf> an industry-leading animal welfare program that will eliminate several controversial yet standard practices within its global supply system.

Particularly, Nestlé’s new policy states that it will eliminate practices like confining pigs in gestation crates, calves in veal crates and egg-laying hens in cages; the forced rapid growth of chickens used for meat products; and cutting the horns, tails and genitals off farm animals without painkiller.

Humane Society International applauded the announcement.

“We thank Nestle for taking a stand against inhumane factory farming practices,” said N.G. Jayasimha, director of HSI India. “Cruelly confining animals in cages for their entire lives, castrating or removing their tails or…

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USA: SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE U.S. IVORY TRADE!

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SPEAK OUT AGAINST THE U.S. IVORY TRADE!

 

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is preparing to issue regulations to crack down on the skyrocketing trade in elephant ivory, which led to the deaths of more than 30,000 elephants in 2012. But special interest groups like the NRA are fighting to weaken or delay those rules. Urge President Obama and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to stand strong and propose tough protections right now that will rein in the U.S. ivory market — the second largest in the world — and save elephants from extinction.

 

THIS PETITION CAN BE SIGNED BY NON US CITIZENS – PLEASE SIGN TODAY !

Source and petition link:

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Make Your Voice Heard!

President Barack Obama

Daniel M. Ashe, Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Subject:

Propose strong protections now to combat elephant poaching

Dear President Obama and Director Ashe:

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Sheldon works with Penny in the cheesecake factory

Cute Cat Plays Fetch With His Collar

Wing Suiter Meets His Maker

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Nestle/Gerber Won’t Listen: Boycott the Company Who Puts GMO Bt Toxins in Baby Food

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via Nestle/Gerber Won’t Listen: Boycott the Company Who Puts GMO Bt Toxins in Baby Food | NationofChange.

Like many food producers supplying some of the most popular foods, some baby food companies, such as Purity Brands, are going GMO-free due to public demand. But other companies stuffed with the hot air of their own inflated CEO’s egos refuse – Nestlé International, the parent company of both Nestlé USA and Gerber baby foods – is adamant about using GMOs in their products. It looks like it’s time for another boycott.

Many parents in the U.S. and North America are unknowingly feeding their infants and small children Gerber Baby Foods which contain genetically modified corn and soy, both of which contain Bt toxins, a registered pesticide with the USFDA.

NationofChange fights back with one simple but powerful weapon: the truth. Can you donate $5 to help us?

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You will see this if you are using the right side of your brain.

This is so neat!!!!

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I am Mad as Hell and I’m Not Going to Take it Anymore!

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Mad?  Oh yes I am and beyond any words that I can express here.  Discouraged?  Totally of people’s lack of moral judgement, inner-compass of values and code of conduct.  Disappointed?  Yes – I’m totally disappointed, that there are people out there who think they can take what is not theirs and what?  Make money?  Or draw traffic to their website?   Why all in the name of getting known?  No it’s more than that . . .

I’m calling you out right here and now:

http://www.imgarcade.com

http://www.garmin.com.co

Last week completely by chance I discovered that these two sites/companies confiscated images of several of my paintings and have placed their identity as the authors of my work.  Are you serious?!  Doing a search on Google, Dogpile, Yahoo, etc. of “oil pastel seascapes” I found several of my paintings with these two companies as the owner – OH NO YOU DON’T! 

I found…

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USA: Major Breaking News 21/8/14 – ‘Mercy For Animals’ – Because of your support, we have secured a major victory for animals! – Nestle Introduce Massive Welfare Changes.

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SAV Comment:  If every day was as good a news bringer as this; there would be many more good days !! – Congratulations to our friends at MFA – job well done !

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Greetings!

Because of your support, we have secured a major victory for animals!

Nestle, the largest food company in the world, has just announced perhaps the single largest and most sweeping corporate animal welfare policy change in history!

The announcement follows a Mercy For Animals undercover investigation late last year that revealed shocking cruelty at a Wisconsin dairy factory farm supplier for DiGiorno Pizza, a Nestle company.

MFA’s undercover footage showed workers kicking, beating, and stabbing cows, and cows who were too sick or injured to stand being callously tortured and dragged by their fragile legs and necks with a chain attached to a tractor.

You helped us push for convictions of four workers charged with…

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More wild horses die at BLM’s Scott City, Kansas facility

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SOURCE:  Garden City News

Wild horses deaths now up to 75, corral managers deny wrongdoing

• By Steven Tendo stendo@gctelegram.com

Becky Malewitz/TelegramTOP: One of the horses relocated by the Bureau of Land Management occupies a corral at Beef Belt LLC in Scott City.

Becky Malewitz/Telegram  Horses relocated by the Bureau of Land Management occupy a corral at Beef Belt LLC in Scott City.

Becky Malewitz/Telegram  Horses relocated by the Bureau of Land Management occupy a corral at Beef Belt LLC in Scott City.

Becky Malewitz/Telegram  Horses relocated by the Bureau of Land Management occupy a corral at Beef Belt LLC.

The owners of a corral in Scott County where more than 50 wild horses were reported to have died last week have denied that any wrongdoing on their part could have led to the incident. Since then the number of reported horse deaths has risen to 75.

After investigations at…

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Dorian Ayache, Slaughter-horse hauler, enters plea

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Slaughter-horse hauler enters plea

Reported by Nancy Amons

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NASHVILLE, TN (WSMV) –A plea deal is in the works for a slaughter-horse hauler that could include no prison time and a fine of less than $25,000.Dorian Ayache is the owner of  Three Angels Farm in Lebanon, a trucking company whose rickety trailers wrecked on the interstate twice in 2012, endangering drivers and causing several injured horses to be euthanized.Ayache was facing 26 years in prison for violating a U.S. Department of Transportation order to shut down after inspectors found numerous safety violations.Tuesday, Ayache entered a guilty plea in federal court. If it’s accepted, all the charges against him will be dropped except one: failing to maintain a current driver’s log.The maximum fine he faces is $25,000.Ayache would serve six months in prison at most, but he could end up serving no time at all.

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Know : List of saying “Thanks” in Many Languages

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Thanks is  one of the most Beautiful Words in any Language! Here is the big list of Thanks in many languages along with the regions / countries where it is spoken.

Help : Press ‘Ctrl’ + ‘F’ on your keyboard, and type to jump to the language / region you want. or SCROLL 🙂

Regions	Languages	HOW TO SAY THANKS
Afghanistan	Pashto	Tashakkur
Afghanistan, Pakistan	Sta na shukria
Africa	Kidavida	Chavucha
Kiembu	Ni waro
Kiga	Kazaare
Mwebare
Osyo
Otyo
Webare
Yebare
Kikuyu	Ni wega
Thengiu
Kikwe	Niwega muno
Kinyamwezi	Wabeeja
Kituba	Melesí
Ngbaka	Dé kãã
Ntomba	Ebóto
Ewata
Alaska	Ahtna	Tsin’aen
Deg Xinag	Dogedinh
Xisrigidisddhinh
Eyak	‘Awa’ahdah
Gwich’in	Mahsi’
Mahsi’ choo
Haida	Háw’aa
Hän	Mahsi’
Inuktitut	Taikkuu
Koyukon	Anaa basee
Baasee’
Suqpiaq	Quyanaa
Tanaina	Chin’an
Tanana	Basee choo
Maasee’
Tanana [Upper Tanana]	Tsen’ii
Tsimshian	Way dankoo
Unagan	Qagaasakung
Qaqaasakuq
Yup’ik	Quyana
Albania	Albanian	Faleminderit
Ju falem nderit
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Rotweiller with breast tumour left to die…

IN MEMORY OF VUČKO

Another awful case of animal abuse and neglect in Bosnia Herzegovina. Dalida Kozlic saved this female rottweiler in Visoko today. The poor dog was wading in a river to try and cool herself, most likely to relieve the pain of the huge tumour hanging from her.

While she was standing in the water, Dalida called out to her, the dog came over and Dalida was able to put a collar on and put the dog into her car.

This dog has a breast tumour, fleas all over and many wounds on her body. Her health condition is very, very poor. Dalida brought her to a vet and the dog was treated for internal and external parasites. As soon as she gets stronger, she will be operated on. She will be placed in the vet’s pension.

Costs of the operation will be 100 Euros. Costs of the pension will be 60 Euros per month. Costs of…

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Mother Jones Now Your Food Has Fake DNA In It

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Now Your Food Has Fake DNA In It

Synthetic biology may one day save the world. In the meantime, it’s making a better-tasting vanilla bean.

By Tom Philpott | Wed Aug. 20, 2014 6:00 AM EDT

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Now your food has fake DNA in it

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Synthetic biology may one day save the world. In the meantime, it’s making a better-tasting vanilla bean.

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Like many novel technologies in this age of TED Talks and Silicon Valley triumphalism, synthetic biology—synbio for short—floats on a sea of hype. One of its founding scientists, Boston University biomedical engineer James Collins[1], has called it “genetic engineering on steroids[2].” Whereas garden-variety genetic engineers busy themselves moving genes from one organism into another—to create tomatoes that don’t bruise easily, for example—synthetic biologists generate new DNA sequences[3] the way programmers write code, creating new life-forms.

It…

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