HELP ME HELP COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING AND IMPROVE BILLIONS OF LIVES... Farm animals are sentient creatures. To nourish and clothe us, billions of them endure unspeakable unnecessary hardships and barbaric cruelty every day. IS THIS RIGHT?... Individual farmers also suffer due to unrealistic economic stresses created by large supermarkets and even the nutrition of our food is degraded by factory farming practices. If you consume animal products from commercial farms (most of us do) please support CIWF. There is another way to contiune using animal products in economically viable & kinder ways. Capitalism can be compassionate.
for more information please go to: http://www.ciwf.org
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SOME FARMING FACTS:
did you know?...
Pigs are rated 4th in species intelligence after Humans(1st), Other Great Apes(2nd) and Whales & Dolphins(3rd). This follows that the species is highly sentient in a way that compares directly to human senses (dogs rated 14th by the way)
RECENT NEWS...The Egyptian government has recently been involved in a world scandal for it's "culling" of about 160,000 healthy pigs. One of the main methods of this barbaric slaughter was to throw hundreds of animals on top of the other (as if they were no more than sacks of grain - no doubt breaking their limbs) , dumping them into pits and then covering them with caustic chemicals - eating off their skin and slowly burning them to death... this unbelievably cruel way of slaughter has been heralded by worldwide welfare officials as the worst example of farm animal abuse in recorded history.
Sheep and goats are transported live for very long distances in high temperatures with no water or food (this is a "normal" practice). The animals are so heavily crammed into transport containers, many of them are dead by the time they arrive at the destination due to dehydration, asphyxiation and over heating. Many of the ones still alive suffer terrible injuries like broken limbs. Transporters don't find any of this a concern, since the animals will eventually be slaughtered for food & fur anyway. IS THIS RIGHT?
Workers at turkey factories have been known to make games out of torturing and killing the animals. Workers have been filmed putting live turkeys on the ground and stomping on them so they would actually pop open - for fun.
Baby chicks from the egg industry, which are not the required sex or colour are of little value to the egg industry. To dispose of them, it has been a common practice to load the chicks onto a conveyor belt that empties into a blender... there are affordable solutions to this heartbreaking practice (which still result in the animals’ deaths but are more humane), but not all farmers choose to use kinder methods.
BY HELPING CIWF, YOU CAN PROMOTE VIABLE YET COMPASSIONATE SOLUTIONS TO PROVIDING THE FOOD YOU EAT AND CLOTHES YOU WEAR.
ABOUT ME:
I trained in visual and performing arts as a youth, and later majored in sculpture and design at Syracuse university, where I had the privilege of training under the late, great Rodger Mack. I moved to London right after school and have had a pretty full life in that time. After almost a year starving on £3.50 an hour (one of my best jobs!), I started worked for myself and have since been involved in a variety of projects mixing the creative and emotive with the practical. I've had luck and misfortune and more than my share my share of thrilling success and agonizing failures, both professionally and personally... although I could have done with less of the misfortune and failures to be honest (not that I am being ungrateful).... After a very, very, long roller-coaster ride, I finally realized business was not only not for me – it was killing me! So, about 3.5 years ago I left my defunct business head behind and started a small production company (by small I mean myself) writing, presenting and producing positive based lifestyle programs on video and also writing screenplays, which is what I am doing now. For my future I hope to one day create an animal sanctuary, or some other sort of significant animal related foundation, to continue my writing professionally and perhaps in later years to eventually be able to return to visual fine art as a hobby.
My vocational interests lie mainly in animal welfare – specifically the protection of orangutans and other great apes. Another main concern is with the protection and ethical treatment of factory farmed animals (that is animals “mass produced” for human consumption). This is an underrepresented area – even by those who make animal welfare their focus. And yet in order to nourish and clothe most of the world, commercially farmed animals typically suffer the vast majority of the continuous and shocking daily cruelty inflicted on animals on our planet. With all their fur and teeth and claws animals are fragile. Their suffering at the hands of ignorance, greed, heartlessness, human desperation and apathy, is not something we can ignore as we sit looking down from the top of the food chain. For the great privilege of primacy, the welfare of the other species we share this earth with must be our responsibility. Animals feel pain and fear and sadness. They feel love and comfort and joy. Animals are innocent and their plight created by human kind touches me more than I can say.
with Love - Tatyana
Please also visit the 2 other charities I actively support:
BOS - Borneo Orangutan Survival
WSPA - World Society for the Protection of Animals
if you would like to contact me personally you can e-mail me at: tatyanahill@aol.com or my Facebook page: tatyana valda belinda hill