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March 28, 2013 - It was like the scene from a movie, yet for Doctor Georgi Litov, and his little disabled dog, Borko, it was a nightmare that had become a reality.
Dr Litov is the local doctor of the village Selcha (Селча), municipality of Devin, district of Smolyan in southern Bulgaria.
The doctor is being vilified in his village because he helps the poor stray dogs. On the 12th of March, a mob was sent to Dr Litov's home, accompanied by a film crew from the TV station TV7, owned by Alegro Capital of London. Little Borko, a little crippled dog that Dr Litov has rescued about one year ago, was attacked and beaten in his own garden. This lynch mob and the media staged this shameful act in order to force Dr. Litov out of his home and work, only because he is helping the strays in the village, where there is no vet and no shelter. The news article in no way criticized the mob for their actions, they only blamed Dr Litov for helping strays.
Adding insult to injury, Dr. Litov and his family are being evicted and bullied out of their home, and even their town. Nothing has been done to help the kind-hearted family who has only tried to help those less fortunate.
Please read the sad story on our website and please speak up for little Borko and his daddy, Dr Litov, by signing the petitions.
March 27, 2013 - Even those who are not Christians can recognize that the Easter holiday is intended as a celebration of life and rebirth. Unfortunately, many choose to celebrate this holiday by consuming the flesh of animals and each year at this time millions of lambs, sheep and goats are killed to provide these grisly feasts.
March 26, 2013 - Italian organisations - NOT THE POPE - call on people not to eat lamb at Easter!
In a press release, the Italian associations for the protection of animals and the environment (Enpa, Lav, Oipa, Leidaa, Lega del cane, Marevivo) issued a statement -- which had (due to a misinterpreted Google translation of an article published at LaPress.it) unfortunately and wrongfully been attributed to Pope Francis I -- calling on Italians not to eat lamb at Easter.
March 23, 2013 - Are RODEOS cruel? --- You decide!
March 23, 2013 - Mutton Busting is both child abuse and animal abuse!
Of all the things you can do with a toddler, “mutton busting” just might be the weirdest. The sport is about as simple as it is obscure: Take willing kids, age 6 and under, strap a hockey helmet to their heads, put them on the backs of live sheep and see how long they can hang on.
The vast majority of children participating in the event fall off in less than 8 seconds.
March 22, 2013 - Namibian meat scandal ~ Namibia, what are you eating?
March 22, 2013 - Tim Sappington - New Mexico (ex)slaughterhouse employee shoots his pro-slaughter friends!
March 19, 2013 - Business lobby moves to criminalize filming animal abuse on factory farms
“This, I think, this a good example of just how much this industry has to hide,” Shapiro said. “You know you’ve got a lot to hide when you want to make it a crime merely to take a photo of what you are doing.”
“At the end of the day it’s about personal property rights or the individual right to privacy,” ALEC spokesman Bill Meierling told the AP. “You wouldn’t want me coming into your home with a hidden camera.”
March 19, 2013 - China river's dead pig toll passes 13,000 but officials say water quality is 'normal'
March 14, 2013 - More than 20,000 Green Sea Turtles are being killed in Bali each year under the disguise of "ritual slaughter"
The trade in green sea turtles remained a $1 million business despite a law enacted by the Indonesian government in January 1999 making it illegal to catch, possess or eat the animals. In Bali, local officials created a huge loophole by allowing hunters to catch 5,000 green sea turtles a year. In practice, this meant there was no limit on the number caught because the quota was never enforced. Despite the loophole being repealed, Bali's inhabitants slaughtered more endangered sea turtles than anyone else in the world, bringing the species ever closer to extinction.
Please take a moment to speak up against the illegal slaughter of endangered Green Sea Turtles in Bali by signing 2 petitions!
March 10, 2013 - EXCELLENT NEWS: Norway fund dumps palm oil holdings!!!
Norway's $US710 billion sovereign wealth fund has pulled out of 23 Asian palm oil companies after accusing them of causing deforestation, winning praise from environmentalists.
It said it sold stakes in the firms after a review of companies that have cleared forests for palm oil plantations in Malaysia and Indonesia. Palm oil is used in many foods and consumer goods such as soaps, lipstick and peanut butter.
The fund is one of the world's biggest investors, underpinned by Norway's oil and gas assets. Last year it expanded its investment guidelines to include deforestation as a threat to future growth
March 9, 2013 - Slaughterhouse workers are more likely to be violent, new study shows
March 7, 2013 - Slovenian media reported that the National Assembly yesterday adopted a new animal protection law that prohibits wild animals in circuses in the future. Slovenia thus would be the fourth country in the EU, that has put an end to the exploitation of non-domesticated animals in circuses.
March 6, 2013 - Please sign OfA's petition to the EU calling for the implementation of an animal abuser registry!
March 5, 2013 - Sign the EU-citizens Initiative to Stop Vivisection! The European citizens' initiative is not just a petition, it's something more powerful that allows one million EU citizens to participate directly in the development of EU policies, by calling on the European Commission to make a legislative proposal. Please see the website of the European Commission for more information: http://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/public/welcome
The EU-citizens-Initiative 'Stop Vivisection' gives citizens the opportunity to say NO to animal experimentation and urges the European Union to take into consideration a different scientific approach, geared to protect human beings and animals' rights.
'Stop Vivisection' urges the European Commission to abrogate directive 2010/63/EU on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes and to present a new proposal that does away with animal experimentation and instead makes compulsory the use - in biomedical and toxicological research – of data directly relevant for the human species.
Please take a moment to sign this very important initiative at: http://www.stopvivisection.eu/
March 4, 2013 - Egyptian activists held a second meeting with the authorities to discuss the currently going on mass extermination of straying animals. Please sign OfA's petition to Egypt's president and several ministries. Thank you!
March 3, 2013 - The Salburun is a two-day traditional hunting fest that has been held annually since 1997 in the area of Issyk Kul lake in Kyrgyzstan, in Central Asia - usually on the 1st of May. The program of the festival includes falconry, hunting with taigan, archery, and ambler races, including a very gruesome and barbaric part referred to as "wolf baiting" during which a wolf is tied to a pole in an open field with is mouth tied shut. The defenseless animal is then attacked by eagles, falcons or trained hunting dogs - it is a gruesome battle to the death that almost invariably never ends in the wolf's favor.
March 2, 2013 - Hiroshi Hoshi and Leo Hoshi, the Fukushima animal rescuers, have been arrested on January 28th and are still in custody!
March 1, 2013 - Also the last Astra-dogs have arrived in the UK and the fight to save them from a miserable and painful life in research laboratories continues; British activists have taken over and protests have already been held
February 28, 2013 - Demand for Kopi Luwak coffee keeps on rising. In Indonesia, one of the major producer “The King of Luwak", Gunawan Supriadi, is having difficulty keeping up production to meet the demand. For those who haven't heard of Kopi Luwak coffee yet: It's the world's most expensive coffee and is made from feces from civets that are kept in awful conditions, much like battery chickens
February 26, 2013 - Still not a Vegan? Well... maybe you might want to seriously consider it after reading this: MEAT from RATS and abandoned DOGS may have entered the human food chain, an MEP claims.
February 26, 2013 - Chinese government creating secret demand for tiger trade alleges NGO!
February 24, 2012 - Take action against the Danyflor-horror-shelter to which the municipality pays HUGE sums of money each month, but the animals are let to starve and don't even receive a drop of water. So where does all the money go?
February 22, 2013 - EU-Commission increases pressure on Member States to enforce group housing of sows
Today, the European Commission, via a letter of formal notice, called on Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Poland and Portugal to take action to address deficiencies in the implementation of EU legislation concerning the welfare of animals, and specifically to implement Directive 2008/120/EC which requires that sows are kept in groups during part of their pregnancy.
February 18, 2013 - Masrya's journey to a better life... It took Dina and her team more than 7 months of hard work and many headaches to get Masrya from Cairo to Holland - from a life in a cage that was so small that she could barely move in there, to her new life at Stichting Leeuw where she will meet friends, and spend the rest of her new life.
February 16, 2013 - While some schools teach their children to love, respect and even to help animals in need, Peasenhall Primary School in England teaches children just the opposite! This school intends to rear 3 pigs that will be sent to slaugther.
Please take a moment to call or write to Peasenhall Primary School to let them know that a classroom or such an environment really is not a suitable environment for young and growing animals. Please tell them that what they intend to do sends the wrong message to young and impressionable children about how we should treat those who differ from ourselves and that there are many healthy and tasty animal free alternatives to sausages and meat in general.
February 13, 2013 - Some of the United States are still in the dark ages and kill shelter dogs and cats in barbaric gas chambers. An extremely painful and terrifying suffocation death used back in the Nazi days to exterminate many at once. A practice considered too harsh for our worst serial killers. Yet they kill adoptable, innocent cats and dogs this way. Take action against gas chambers - sign the White House Petition NOW! .
February 12, 2013 - When the Spanish hunting season ends end of February, thousands of dogs will face a horrific death!
Every year, thousands of Spanish hunting dogs (Galgos and Podencos) are abandoned, abused, or even killed in horrific circumstances. The absence of laws regulating the breeding of these dogs, and the poor enforcement of animal welfare laws, means that at the end of hunting season (February) thousands of 'excess' dogs are 'disposed' of by their owners -- and thousands of dogs will suffer again this year unless we demand action now.
February 11, 2013 - Swedish agricultural authorities are recommending a tax to reduce meat consumption and say such a levy should be adopted across the European Union.
February 10, 2013 - Horse-meat scandal in Europe: Organised criminal gangs operating internationally are suspected of playing a major role - focus switches to Romania
February 10, 2013 - TAKE ACTION against Italy's dog concentration camps!
February 8, 2013 - Morocco passed a new law that aims to “protect people against the danger of dogs”
February 8, 2013 - New page: 1,000 doctors (and many more) against vivisection is a very valuable book for all of us who are fighting to end experiments on animals. It was first published in 1989 and can be read as a PDF on our page.
February 6, 2013 - Young calves pushed, shocked with electric prods, hit and dragged up a metal ramp to be slaughtered... Some, too weak to stand, are thrown into the slaughter chute. This shocking footage, provided to Animals Australia, was taken at an abattoir in Northern Victoria.
February 6, 2013 - Did you know that rat poison kills hawks, owls, cats and other animals who eat poisoned rats and mice?
February 6, 2013 - EXCELLENT NEWS: Leading paper firm pledges to halt Indonesian deforestation
February 2, 2013 - "Tonight there will be 219,000 people at the dinner table who were not there last night, many of them with empty plates." World agriculture is now facing challenges unlike any before.
January 31, 2013 - Police state gone wild: Couple facing 60 days in jail for rescuing injured baby deer
January 30, 2013 - The fight to save the Astra-dogs is far from over!
January 30, 2013 - EU set to ban animal animal testing for cosmetics forever! The import and sale of animal tested cosmetic products and ingredients is to be banned in the EU on 11th March 2013. This ground breaking victory means that from 11th March onwards, anyone who wishes to sell new cosmetic products and ingredients in the EU must not test them on animals anywhere in the world. The ban affects all cosmetics including toiletries and beauty products from soap to toothpaste.
January 29, 2013 - We have added a new page: Hurt an animal, hurt a child!
January 27, 2013 - Bosnia's homeless animals are in danger! If the Bosnian law from 2009 protecting stray animals gets suspended, the killing of stray dogs would resume!
January 25, 2013 - India: Great news for stray dogs! The Animal Welfare Board of India has decided to give a Card called Colony Caretaker to every person who feeds animals in their own areas. This card will come in useful if people complain to the police or neighbours and animal haters prove to be a nuisance. Therefore please send it as many names as you can of people who do this work in your city. The form is on this site: http://www.awbi.org/awbi-pdf/caretakers.pdf. You need to send a photo as well.
January 24, 2013 - Oradea: Once Romania's pilot project par excellence, this shelter has become a living hell for the animals since the municipality has taken it over a few months ago.
On 24 January 2013, a meeting of ten animal welfare organizations and the EU Commission took place wherein the organizations presented their experiences of cruelty and abuse against animals in Southern and Southeastern Europe.
January 22, 2013 - A European citizens' initiative to end ecocide in Europe was launched in Brussels on 22 January, 2013 by Polly Higgins, Keith Taylor et al.
January 20, 2013 - Egypt has started massive extermination campaigns against straying animals. The animals are being poisoned and/or randomly shot!
January 18, 2013 - we have created a new page on the exploitation of Asian elephants
Dr Litov is the local doctor of the village Selcha (Селча), municipality of Devin, district of Smolyan in southern Bulgaria.
The doctor is being vilified in his village because he helps the poor stray dogs. On the 12th of March, a mob was sent to Dr Litov's home, accompanied by a film crew from the TV station TV7, owned by Alegro Capital of London. Little Borko, a little crippled dog that Dr Litov has rescued about one year ago, was attacked and beaten in his own garden. This lynch mob and the media staged this shameful act in order to force Dr. Litov out of his home and work, only because he is helping the strays in the village, where there is no vet and no shelter. The news article in no way criticized the mob for their actions, they only blamed Dr Litov for helping strays.
Adding insult to injury, Dr. Litov and his family are being evicted and bullied out of their home, and even their town. Nothing has been done to help the kind-hearted family who has only tried to help those less fortunate.
Please read the sad story on our website and please speak up for little Borko and his daddy, Dr Litov, by signing the petitions.
March 27, 2013 - Even those who are not Christians can recognize that the Easter holiday is intended as a celebration of life and rebirth. Unfortunately, many choose to celebrate this holiday by consuming the flesh of animals and each year at this time millions of lambs, sheep and goats are killed to provide these grisly feasts.
March 26, 2013 - Italian organisations - NOT THE POPE - call on people not to eat lamb at Easter!
In a press release, the Italian associations for the protection of animals and the environment (Enpa, Lav, Oipa, Leidaa, Lega del cane, Marevivo) issued a statement -- which had (due to a misinterpreted Google translation of an article published at LaPress.it) unfortunately and wrongfully been attributed to Pope Francis I -- calling on Italians not to eat lamb at Easter.
March 23, 2013 - Are RODEOS cruel? --- You decide!
March 23, 2013 - Mutton Busting is both child abuse and animal abuse!
Of all the things you can do with a toddler, “mutton busting” just might be the weirdest. The sport is about as simple as it is obscure: Take willing kids, age 6 and under, strap a hockey helmet to their heads, put them on the backs of live sheep and see how long they can hang on.
The vast majority of children participating in the event fall off in less than 8 seconds.
March 22, 2013 - Namibian meat scandal ~ Namibia, what are you eating?
March 22, 2013 - Tim Sappington - New Mexico (ex)slaughterhouse employee shoots his pro-slaughter friends!
March 19, 2013 - Business lobby moves to criminalize filming animal abuse on factory farms
“This, I think, this a good example of just how much this industry has to hide,” Shapiro said. “You know you’ve got a lot to hide when you want to make it a crime merely to take a photo of what you are doing.”
“At the end of the day it’s about personal property rights or the individual right to privacy,” ALEC spokesman Bill Meierling told the AP. “You wouldn’t want me coming into your home with a hidden camera.”
March 19, 2013 - China river's dead pig toll passes 13,000 but officials say water quality is 'normal'
March 14, 2013 - More than 20,000 Green Sea Turtles are being killed in Bali each year under the disguise of "ritual slaughter"
The trade in green sea turtles remained a $1 million business despite a law enacted by the Indonesian government in January 1999 making it illegal to catch, possess or eat the animals. In Bali, local officials created a huge loophole by allowing hunters to catch 5,000 green sea turtles a year. In practice, this meant there was no limit on the number caught because the quota was never enforced. Despite the loophole being repealed, Bali's inhabitants slaughtered more endangered sea turtles than anyone else in the world, bringing the species ever closer to extinction.
Please take a moment to speak up against the illegal slaughter of endangered Green Sea Turtles in Bali by signing 2 petitions!
March 10, 2013 - EXCELLENT NEWS: Norway fund dumps palm oil holdings!!!
Norway's $US710 billion sovereign wealth fund has pulled out of 23 Asian palm oil companies after accusing them of causing deforestation, winning praise from environmentalists.
It said it sold stakes in the firms after a review of companies that have cleared forests for palm oil plantations in Malaysia and Indonesia. Palm oil is used in many foods and consumer goods such as soaps, lipstick and peanut butter.
The fund is one of the world's biggest investors, underpinned by Norway's oil and gas assets. Last year it expanded its investment guidelines to include deforestation as a threat to future growth
March 9, 2013 - Slaughterhouse workers are more likely to be violent, new study shows
March 7, 2013 - Slovenian media reported that the National Assembly yesterday adopted a new animal protection law that prohibits wild animals in circuses in the future. Slovenia thus would be the fourth country in the EU, that has put an end to the exploitation of non-domesticated animals in circuses.
March 6, 2013 - Please sign OfA's petition to the EU calling for the implementation of an animal abuser registry!
March 5, 2013 - Sign the EU-citizens Initiative to Stop Vivisection! The European citizens' initiative is not just a petition, it's something more powerful that allows one million EU citizens to participate directly in the development of EU policies, by calling on the European Commission to make a legislative proposal. Please see the website of the European Commission for more information: http://ec.europa.eu/citizens-initiative/public/welcome
The EU-citizens-Initiative 'Stop Vivisection' gives citizens the opportunity to say NO to animal experimentation and urges the European Union to take into consideration a different scientific approach, geared to protect human beings and animals' rights.
'Stop Vivisection' urges the European Commission to abrogate directive 2010/63/EU on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes and to present a new proposal that does away with animal experimentation and instead makes compulsory the use - in biomedical and toxicological research – of data directly relevant for the human species.
Please take a moment to sign this very important initiative at: http://www.stopvivisection.eu/
March 4, 2013 - Egyptian activists held a second meeting with the authorities to discuss the currently going on mass extermination of straying animals. Please sign OfA's petition to Egypt's president and several ministries. Thank you!
March 3, 2013 - The Salburun is a two-day traditional hunting fest that has been held annually since 1997 in the area of Issyk Kul lake in Kyrgyzstan, in Central Asia - usually on the 1st of May. The program of the festival includes falconry, hunting with taigan, archery, and ambler races, including a very gruesome and barbaric part referred to as "wolf baiting" during which a wolf is tied to a pole in an open field with is mouth tied shut. The defenseless animal is then attacked by eagles, falcons or trained hunting dogs - it is a gruesome battle to the death that almost invariably never ends in the wolf's favor.
March 2, 2013 - Hiroshi Hoshi and Leo Hoshi, the Fukushima animal rescuers, have been arrested on January 28th and are still in custody!
March 1, 2013 - Also the last Astra-dogs have arrived in the UK and the fight to save them from a miserable and painful life in research laboratories continues; British activists have taken over and protests have already been held
February 28, 2013 - Demand for Kopi Luwak coffee keeps on rising. In Indonesia, one of the major producer “The King of Luwak", Gunawan Supriadi, is having difficulty keeping up production to meet the demand. For those who haven't heard of Kopi Luwak coffee yet: It's the world's most expensive coffee and is made from feces from civets that are kept in awful conditions, much like battery chickens
February 26, 2013 - Still not a Vegan? Well... maybe you might want to seriously consider it after reading this: MEAT from RATS and abandoned DOGS may have entered the human food chain, an MEP claims.
February 26, 2013 - Chinese government creating secret demand for tiger trade alleges NGO!
February 24, 2012 - Take action against the Danyflor-horror-shelter to which the municipality pays HUGE sums of money each month, but the animals are let to starve and don't even receive a drop of water. So where does all the money go?
February 22, 2013 - EU-Commission increases pressure on Member States to enforce group housing of sows
Today, the European Commission, via a letter of formal notice, called on Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Poland and Portugal to take action to address deficiencies in the implementation of EU legislation concerning the welfare of animals, and specifically to implement Directive 2008/120/EC which requires that sows are kept in groups during part of their pregnancy.
February 18, 2013 - Masrya's journey to a better life... It took Dina and her team more than 7 months of hard work and many headaches to get Masrya from Cairo to Holland - from a life in a cage that was so small that she could barely move in there, to her new life at Stichting Leeuw where she will meet friends, and spend the rest of her new life.
February 16, 2013 - While some schools teach their children to love, respect and even to help animals in need, Peasenhall Primary School in England teaches children just the opposite! This school intends to rear 3 pigs that will be sent to slaugther.
Please take a moment to call or write to Peasenhall Primary School to let them know that a classroom or such an environment really is not a suitable environment for young and growing animals. Please tell them that what they intend to do sends the wrong message to young and impressionable children about how we should treat those who differ from ourselves and that there are many healthy and tasty animal free alternatives to sausages and meat in general.
February 13, 2013 - Some of the United States are still in the dark ages and kill shelter dogs and cats in barbaric gas chambers. An extremely painful and terrifying suffocation death used back in the Nazi days to exterminate many at once. A practice considered too harsh for our worst serial killers. Yet they kill adoptable, innocent cats and dogs this way. Take action against gas chambers - sign the White House Petition NOW! .
February 12, 2013 - When the Spanish hunting season ends end of February, thousands of dogs will face a horrific death!
Every year, thousands of Spanish hunting dogs (Galgos and Podencos) are abandoned, abused, or even killed in horrific circumstances. The absence of laws regulating the breeding of these dogs, and the poor enforcement of animal welfare laws, means that at the end of hunting season (February) thousands of 'excess' dogs are 'disposed' of by their owners -- and thousands of dogs will suffer again this year unless we demand action now.
February 11, 2013 - Swedish agricultural authorities are recommending a tax to reduce meat consumption and say such a levy should be adopted across the European Union.
February 10, 2013 - Horse-meat scandal in Europe: Organised criminal gangs operating internationally are suspected of playing a major role - focus switches to Romania
February 10, 2013 - TAKE ACTION against Italy's dog concentration camps!
February 8, 2013 - Morocco passed a new law that aims to “protect people against the danger of dogs”
February 8, 2013 - New page: 1,000 doctors (and many more) against vivisection is a very valuable book for all of us who are fighting to end experiments on animals. It was first published in 1989 and can be read as a PDF on our page.
February 6, 2013 - Young calves pushed, shocked with electric prods, hit and dragged up a metal ramp to be slaughtered... Some, too weak to stand, are thrown into the slaughter chute. This shocking footage, provided to Animals Australia, was taken at an abattoir in Northern Victoria.
February 6, 2013 - Did you know that rat poison kills hawks, owls, cats and other animals who eat poisoned rats and mice?
February 6, 2013 - EXCELLENT NEWS: Leading paper firm pledges to halt Indonesian deforestation
February 2, 2013 - "Tonight there will be 219,000 people at the dinner table who were not there last night, many of them with empty plates." World agriculture is now facing challenges unlike any before.
January 31, 2013 - Police state gone wild: Couple facing 60 days in jail for rescuing injured baby deer
January 30, 2013 - The fight to save the Astra-dogs is far from over!
January 30, 2013 - EU set to ban animal animal testing for cosmetics forever! The import and sale of animal tested cosmetic products and ingredients is to be banned in the EU on 11th March 2013. This ground breaking victory means that from 11th March onwards, anyone who wishes to sell new cosmetic products and ingredients in the EU must not test them on animals anywhere in the world. The ban affects all cosmetics including toiletries and beauty products from soap to toothpaste.
January 29, 2013 - We have added a new page: Hurt an animal, hurt a child!
January 27, 2013 - Bosnia's homeless animals are in danger! If the Bosnian law from 2009 protecting stray animals gets suspended, the killing of stray dogs would resume!
January 25, 2013 - India: Great news for stray dogs! The Animal Welfare Board of India has decided to give a Card called Colony Caretaker to every person who feeds animals in their own areas. This card will come in useful if people complain to the police or neighbours and animal haters prove to be a nuisance. Therefore please send it as many names as you can of people who do this work in your city. The form is on this site: http://www.awbi.org/awbi-pdf/caretakers.pdf. You need to send a photo as well.
January 24, 2013 - Oradea: Once Romania's pilot project par excellence, this shelter has become a living hell for the animals since the municipality has taken it over a few months ago.
On 24 January 2013, a meeting of ten animal welfare organizations and the EU Commission took place wherein the organizations presented their experiences of cruelty and abuse against animals in Southern and Southeastern Europe.
January 22, 2013 - A European citizens' initiative to end ecocide in Europe was launched in Brussels on 22 January, 2013 by Polly Higgins, Keith Taylor et al.
January 20, 2013 - Egypt has started massive extermination campaigns against straying animals. The animals are being poisoned and/or randomly shot!
January 18, 2013 - we have created a new page on the exploitation of Asian elephants
