civilized objects

Vielen sagen vegan sein hieße ein “Verzicht” …

Leben zu zerstören – zu töten – ist kein Verzicht?

Leben zu schützen, zu achten, zu respektieren, ist ein Verzicht?

Auf welcher Seite der Gleichung bewegt sich das Denken von Jemandem?

Ist er oder sie pro-Tötung nichtmenschlichem tierischen Lebens? Oder ist er oder sie eins, zusammenfühlend, -denkend und -handelnd mit den so anderen, so bewundernswerten Lebenwesen, die wir Tiere nennen?

Destruktivität ist nicht nur immer Ausdruck  der eigenen Selbstdestruktivität, Destruktivität ist auch die Folge verantwortungslosem Denkens, das ist ein Denken, das nicht fähig ist die großen Bezüge vom “Selbst” hin zur unbegrenzten Außenwelt herzustellen.

Vegan sein heißt Leben zu achten. Das der anderen Lebenwesen, das eigene und das Leben als Ganzes, die ganze Welt in ihrer Komplexität.

Vegan sein ist kein Verzicht.

( Eine ungleiche Gleichung: Töten oder verstehen lernen wollen )

Eine Anmerkung zur Auswahl dieser Grafik: die Frage warum sich das Problem des Tötens bei Raubtieren anders gestaltet als beim Menschen, muss man gesondert thematisieren. Aber eines das ich dazu aber grundsätzlich sagen will ist, das unsere Verantwortlichkeit und undere Rolle auf dieser Welt, und unser Sinn, ein eigener ist und ein selbstgegebener. Wenn nichtmenschliche Tiere andere Tiere töten, liegt das im Bereich ihrer Lebensweise und ihrer Lebensethik. Die Lebensphilosophien allen existierenden Lebens haben Schnittstellen miteinander, die sich auf differenzierte und diefferenzierbare Weise zueinander verhalten können.

Kommentar zu: DOMIAN – Gespräch mit Veganer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgpFrFgUeF0& (der Link öffnet sich in einem neuen Fenster)

Ok, beide haben ein Problem mit Tierrechten, Domian sowieso – denn er ist nicht mal vegan – und der vegane Anrufer auch, denn er hat kein greifendes Argument für Tierrechte, sondern sagt nur “das ist ethisch nicht ok” und “keine Notwendigkeit”. Domian sagt intuitiv richtig, dass der vegane Anrufer etwas postuliere. Die Forderung nach ethischer Berücksichtigung setzt IMMER eine Postulierung voraus. Auch in der Sache von Menschenrechten. Was Tierrechte anbelangt, und dies ist noch mehr als eine Postuliering: es gibt keine TATSÄCHLICHEN Menschenrechte ohne ein Zulassen und eine Anerkennung der vom Menschen in unabhängiger Weise existierenden Rechte nichtmenschlicher Tiere  (die Frage der Existenz und ihres Rechts) .

Tierrechte stehen zum menschlichen Paradigma in einem autonomen Verhältnis.

Recht ist nicht abhängig von der Definition. Es gibt Rechte, auch wenn sie vom Menschen nicht anerkannt werden, nicht verstanden werden, nicht berücksichtigt werden. Am besten lässt sich das beim Verständnis über das ureingenste individuelle Recht nachempfinden (das von der Gemeinschaft beschädigt oder gefährdet werden kann, auch zu “unrecht”, d.h. in einem unvernünftigem Maße). Nun, auch was außerhalb unseres menschlichen Denk- oder eher Erfassungsbereichs liegt hat in sich Berechtigung.

Das Universum ist in sich Gesetz unabhängig von unserem Sein und unserem Begreifen. Wir können der Welt mit Hinwendung und Repekt begegnen und das Dasein und das sich damit koppelnde Recht des Anderen verstehen lernen, akzeptieren und schützen vor ungerechten Übergriffen durch Menschen.

The Connyland dolphinarium in Lipperswil is the only remaining dolphinarium in Switzerland. Please ask for the closure of this dolphinarium!

Two dolphins were found dead following a rave at Connyland. The Swiss marine park had initially been accused of killing Shadow and Chelmers by allowing a deafening two-day rave to be held just a few yards from the dolphins’ pool. Campaigners had warned that the dolphins could be affected by holding the event so close to the pool, yet the authorities went ahead with the rave. Animal activists from ProWal and The Whale and Dolphin Protection Society recorded noise levels of over 100 decibels outside the park, well within earshot of the dolphins. According to Andreas Morlok from Prowal, this is comparable with that of a pneumatic drill on top volume. It has now been suggested that the dolphins may have been drugged and poisoned by ravers.

Please sign this petition: http://www.change.org/petitions/dolphins-die-after-rave-at-connyland

HAVING A FIELD DAY

Hunters continue to flout the law on hunting with dogs, and sabs continue to get in their way every week.

On Tuesday 25th October a hound from the Cotswold Vale Farmers Hunt was hit and killed by a lorry on the A34. The pack was illegally pursuing a fox when it attempted to cross the road, sabs managed to prevent further accidents. The hunt have since accused the saboteurs of causing the death. In case there was any doubt that it was the hunt who were guilty of recklessly endangering their dogs, they repeated the same trick of losing control of the pack on a busy road, this time caught on film by hunt monitors (http://hsa.enviroweb.org/index.php/news/archive/320-hunt-saboteurs-association-press-release-7th-november-2011).

On Saturday 5th November the Old Surrey, Burstow & West Kent Fox Hunt was sabbed by a number of different groups. The Burstow has a bit of a reputation for violence and last weekend was no exception. Frustrated hunt supporters attempted to block a narrow bridge that sabs were crossing, other supporters came from behind and one sab was pulled off the bridge and cracked her head on a concrete slab. Police were in attendance and have been given footage of the incident.

The more numbers in the field, the less violence gets inflicted on both foxes and sabs. To find your local sab group and get involved check http://hsa.enviroweb.org

source: 11 NOV 2011 # http://www.schnews.org.uk/archive/news7963.php

cardinals, squirrel tails, animal rights, baseball, saint louis

Cardinals Rally Squirrel

People in Saint Louis, Missouri, USA, are supposedly wearing real squirrel tails on their baseball hats to support their team, the Cardinals, or even to support charity alongside with that since the tails are marketed for that purpose too, ever since recently a squirrel ran over the play field and the idea came up for the crowd to have a or this squirrel as a mascot.

Obviously the hoard of fans are (like in many cases where animals are involved in such circumstances) unreasonable enough to not care about wildlife, nonhuman animal well being and nonhuman animal life. They seem to see squirrels as something like a “cute pest” which sounds oxymoronic, but that would explain why on one hand they like squirrels but on the other hand they like them dead too at the same time, so that they can stick the animals’ tails to their baseball hats?

A friend from STL says “On the Channel 2 news, Mandy Murphy, stressed : “… and those are *real* Squirrel tails !” While footage of a huge crowd at the stadium was being shown. As if that was something good. I’m not sure now if what Mandy Murphy said was accurate or not. I assumed they were fake before I heard her say that. I think the original Rally Squirrel was set free, if I heard correctly. I know that some people are eager to involve real dead Squirrels, see : Taxidermist Hops on Rally Squirrel Bandwagon.”

It’s more than a shame that Tony La Russa, the Cardinals manager, who is an avid animal welfare advocate, see his foundation: http://www.arf.net , is maybe something like a speciesist by not saying anything against the squirrel craze if it leads to using dead squirrel parts to promote his team and charity work connected with baseball.

* WHY was it possible to sneak dead animal parts into the craze if people were considerate about the actual animals? “When we heard the squirrel merchandise had sold out so quickly, we went to our backup supplier, ebay. Somebody was selling Rally Squirrel earrings, an RS Christmas ornament, and tee shirts. But one guy who is a taxidermist was selling a real stuffed squirrel on which he has mounted a little plastic red cap so that you can have your very own (stuffed) rally squirrel. Bidding already had reached $84.99 when we checked yesterday morning.” St. Louis gets squirrelly

* ALSO what does this suggest ? : ‘ [...] … customer’s request for “five-hundred squirrel tails”. Not full costumes, just the tails – apparently for use during the Cards’ upcoming home games against Milwaukee this week in the National League Championship Series. “We can help him out,” Brock quickly pointed out. “But it’s not an item that anybody manufactures. You can’t go out and find a squirrel tail company.” ” Johnnie Brock’s Sells Out Of Squirrel Costumes

Leaked – 20 new HLS suppliers

Below are 20 new suppliers who have been uncovered sneaking in and out of HLS in New Jersey (US) and Huntingdon (UK). Typically of HLS, they still can’t even afford to pay some of them – many of the suppliers from the US listed below are owed outstanding debts ranging from $1,000 to $6,000 and everything in between!

Clearly these companies will already be fed up with HLS, so please take a moment to send them a polite letter, e-mail or phone call to ask them to do the
sensible thing: DROP HLS!

Remember, that without the help of companies like these that keep HLS open by supplying essential services and products 70,000 animals would be being
experimented on as HLS would not have the equipment to do it!

Click: http://www.shac.net/SHAC/victories.html to see previous suppliers who have dumped HLS.

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==== UK SUPPLIERS ====

1 – StarLab (UK) Ltd
Unit 4 Tanners Drive
Blakelands
Milton Keynes, MK14 5NA
Tel.: +44 1908 283800
Fax: +44 1908 283802
e-mail: infoline@starlab.co.uk
web: www.starlab.co.uk

Medical equipment supplier.

2 – Softcat Limited
Thames Industrial Estate,
Fieldhouse Lane,
Marlow, Bucks, SL7 1TB
Tel: 01628 403 403
e-mail: sales@softcat.com
web: www.softcat.com

Software and IT equipment supplier (offices also in Manchester and London).

3 – Henderson Biomedical Ltd
Worsley Bridge Road
Lower Sydenham
London, SE26 5AZ
Tel: +44 (0)20 8663 4610
e-mail: info@henderson-biomedical.co.uk
web: henderson-biomedical.co.uk

Maintains lab equipment.

4 – Billy Bowie Special Projects Ltd
Moorfield Industrial Estate,
Kilmarnock, Ayrshire, KA2 0BA
Tel: 01563 549 049
e-mail: info@billybowietankers.co.uk
web: www.billybowietankers.co.uk

Suppliers of waste management to HLS. (They also have additional sites in
Widness, Cheshire and Ecclesfield, Yorkshire).

5 – Sera Laboratories International
Unit 44, Bolney Grange Business Park,
Haywards Heath,
West Sussex, RH17 5PB
Tel: 01444 250010 and 01444 250066
e-mail: sales@seralab.co.uk
web: www.seralab.co.uk

Suppliers of animal and human serum to HLS.

6 – Carl Stuart Limited
Tallaght Business Park
Whitestown, Dublin 24, Ireland
Ph: 00353 1 4523432
Fax: 00353 1 4523967
e-mail: onlinestore@carlstuart.com
web: www.labunlimited.com

Suppliers of lab equipment to HLS. Also in Surrey and N Ireland.

7 – Samedan Ltd. Pharmaceutical Publishing
16 Hampden Gurney Street,
London, W1H 5AL
Tel: 0207 724 3456 and 0207 7242632
e-mail: info@samedanltd.com
web: www.samedanltd.com

Supplying advertising, editorial & online content to promote HLS.

8 – Parallabs Ltd (Operations)
268 Stockingstone Road,
Luton,
Bedfordshire,
LU2 7DE
Tel: 07701 078332
e-mail: office@parallabs.com
web: www.parallabs.com

Supplies lab equipment to HLS.

==== US SUPPLIERS ====

9 – BIO-SERV
1 8th Street, Suite 1
Frenchtown, NJ 08825
Tel: 908 996 2155
Fax: 908 996 4123
e-mail: sales@bio-serv.com
web: www.bio-serv.com

Suppliers of specialist ‘lab’ diets. Won’t accept credit account from HLS and they have to pay with credit card.

10 – Beckman Coulter, Inc.
Diagnostics Division Headquarters
250 South Kraemer Boulevard,
Brea, CA 92821-6232
Phone: 1-714-993-5321 or 1-800-526-3821
Fax: 1-800-232-3828
e-mail: mluthy@beckman.com
web: www.beckmancoulter.com

Lab equipment services and supplier to HLS, New Jersey.

11 – Culligan (Customer Services)
305 Clearview Road
Edison, NJ 08837-3709
Phone/Fax: 1-800 272 0079
e-mail: Derek.Driscoll@culligan.com
web: www.culligan.com

HLS are behind on payments of nearly $6,000, they supply water treatment equipment.

12 – EverBank Commercial Finance
10 Waterview Boulevard, Parsippany,
New Jersey,
NJ 07054, USA
Phone: 1 866-879-8795
web: www.everbankcommercialfinance.com

Supplies financial lease for office equipment to HLS in New Jersey.

13 – RAE Corporation
P.O. Box 1206, Pryor, OK 74362
Phone: 1-800-264-5329 (US Toll free) and 1-918-825-7222
e-mail: webmaster@rae-corp.com
web: www.rae-corp.com

Supplies cooling systems and HLS owe them $2,600.

14 – Tri-Dim Filter Corporation
Corp HQ, 93 Industrial Drive
Louisa, VA 23093, USA
Tel: 1-800-260-4070 (US Toll Free)
e-mail: info@tridim.com
web: www.tridim.com

Suppliers of filters to HLS NJ. Once again, HLS have been late with payments.

15 – Hubert Company
9555 Dry Fork Road
Harrison, Ohio 45030, USA
Tel: 1-800-543-7374 (US Toll Free)
e-mail: president@hubert.com
web: www.hubert.com

HLS NJ owes over $1000 from June, for catering equipment.

16 – United Business Systems
302 Rt. 46 East,
Fairfield,
New Jersey,
NJ 07004, USA
Phone: 1 908 451 6666
e-mail: RIC332@aol.com and Carlo@ubscopy.com
web: www.ubscopy.com

Supplies copiers to HLS New Jersey.

17 – PTC Therapeutics Inc.
100 Corporate Court,
South Plainfield, New Jersey,
NJ 07080-2449, USA
Phone: 1-908-222-7000
e-mail: info@ptcbio.com
web: www.ptcbio.com

Yes, HLS owe them money too!

18 – United Refrigeration, Inc.
5 Johnson Drive, Bldg 5, Raritan, New Jersey, NJ 08869-1662, USA
Phone: 1 908-927-1188
Fax: 1 908-927-1181
e-mail: branch419@uri.com
web: www.uri.com

Supplies commercial water heaters.

19 – Gem Limousine Worldwide
70 Amboy Avenue, Woodbridge, New Jersey, NJ 07095, USA
Phone: 1 732 596 0900
e-mail: bchirico@gemlimo.com
web: www.gemlimo.com

Transports clients and staff to / from HLS, New Jersey.

20 – Staffmark
1090 King George
Post Road
Edison, NJ 08837, USA
Phone: 732-985-4730
e-mail: sduran@staffmark.com
web: www.staffmark.com

Staffing company placing for HR dept at HLS, New Jersey.

Please keep your communications polite and informative – taking action is what counts. Remember every call, every email and every letter counts so what are
you waiting for? Get active for the animals trapped inside HLS – they are counting on you. Together, we CAN make a difference.

Until all are free!

Links to visit in the context:

http://www.shac7.com/

http://www.youtube.com/user/untilallarefree

SOURCE: www.shac.net/2011supplierleak/index.html

BACK TO SHAC

SHAC have had a busy couple of weeks targeting Astrazeneca, a major pharma company and Huntington Life Sciences customer.

Declaring a week of action against the company, SHAC held protests against their head offices in Luton on the 31st August, as well as a tour of demos against their shareholders in London: BlackRock, Invesco, Legal & General (who, incidentally, also invest in the manufacture of cluster bombs) and Axa on Friday 2nd. Worldwide,actions against Astrazeneca – and their subsidiaries and shareholders – have taken place in Atlanta, San Francisco, Portland, Los Angeles, Seattle, Chile, Canada, Ireland, France and the Netherlands.

For more info see http://www.shac.net

source: SCHNEWS, Issue 787, Friday 9th September 2011

SAFE TO GO BACK IN THE WATER?

The ship they can’t kill: Sea Shepherd’s notorious Steve Irwin vessel was detained on July 15th – with a little help from the British judiciary system (see SchNEWS 781) – but just over a fortnight later, on Tuesday (2nd), the sea-faring group amazingly managed to raise the £520,000 bond needed to get the ship back in the water.

The battle has been won but the war between Sea Shepherd and the Maltese company Fish and Fish is not over. A court date is imminent, but not yet set, for a confrontation on land between the marine wildlife conservationists and the bluefin tuna poachers. [...]

Meanwhile next on the agenda are the Faroes Islands and the protection of the endangered Pilot Whales. The slaughter of around 950 whales per annum is known as the Grindadrap, or Grind for short. For more info and updates check www.seashepherd.org

source: Schnews Issue 782, Thursday 4th August 2011

Source: http://www.schnews.org.uk Issue 779, Friday 15th July 2011

C’MON BUNNY LIGHT MY FIRE

CAMPAIGN AND DIRECT ACTION SITE:
www.closehighgatefarm.com
The campaign against Highgate Farm, the Lincolnshire vivisection breeders, was ratcheted up a notch last Tuesday. A van on site was torched and the conservatory of the farmhouse set on fire.

Activists left the following threat “We will continue to watch you and you will never know when we will strike next. Rest assured, while you profit from this disgusting genocide, we will be there to make you experience just a tiny amount of the fear that you help to cause to those innocent, beautiful creatures. .. We will get more serious, we promise to make it our goal to stop you once and for all, don’t make the mistake of under-estimating us, we will not back down. Until the next visit… “ – The Provisional RSPCA.

Highgate Farm, which breeds ferrets and rabbits for the vivisection industry, has been the target of a sustained campaign since 2008 (see SchNEWS 735)

The EHEC HUS epidemic in Germany: It doesn’t take a scientist to notice how they try to totally rule out animal products as the culprit in peoples diets.  Despite the known history of the disease.

Enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC)

How is EHEC spread?

E. coli O157:H7, and probably other strains of EHEC, are found naturally in the intestines of cattle. Direct or indirect contact with cattle feces can result in infection. Undercooked ground beef is an especially high-risk food item; hamburgers and other ground beef-containing foods should always be thoroughly cooked. Infection may also result from drinking contaminated raw milk, swimming in, or drinking contaminated water, or by consuming foods or mouthing objects that have been contaminated with feces of an infected person or animal. Person-to-person transmission can occur if infected persons do not wash their hands after using the toilet or after changing diapers.

Fruits and vegetables, including juice, can also become contaminated with EHEC bacteria during growing and post-harvest processing. However, cooking will destroy EHEC bacteria. All raw fruits and vegetables, and unpasteurized juices, should be considered potentially contaminated with bacteria. Sprouts, such as alfalfa sprouts and bean sprouts, may contain bacteria inside them which cannot be removed by washing. For this reason, it is advisable that children, the elderly, and those with weakened immune systems (such as those receiving cancer treatment, taking immunosupressive drugs or infected with HIV ) only eat cooked sprouts.

source: http://www.ok.gov/health/documents/E.%20Coli.2008.pdf

The media seems uncoordinated, no overview over the exact cases of those affected.

Sources of infection

Most available information relates to serotype O157:H7, since it is easily differentiated biochemically from other E. coli strains. The reservoir of this pathogen appears to be mainly cattle and other ruminants such as camels. It is transmitted to humans primarily through consumption of contaminated foods, such as raw or undercooked ground meat products and raw milk. Faecal contamination of water and other foods, as well as cross-contamination during food preparation (with beef and other meat products, contaminated surfaces and kitchen utensils), will also lead to infection. Examples of foods implicated in outbreaks of E. coli O157:H7 include undercooked hamburgers, dried cured salami, unpasteurized fresh-pressed apple cider, yogurt, cheese and milk. An increasing number of outbreaks are associated with the consumption of fruits and vegetables (sprouts, lettuce, coleslaw, salad) whereby contamination may be due to contact with faeces from domestic or wild animals at some stage during cultivation or handling. EHEC has also been isolated from bodies of water (ponds, streams), wells and water troughs, and has been found to survive for months in manure and water-trough sediments. Waterborne transmission has been reported, both from contaminated drinking-water and from recreational waters.

Person-to-person contact is an important mode of transmission through the oral-faecal route. An asymptomatic carrier state has been reported, where individuals show no clinical signs of disease but are capable of infecting others. The duration of excretion of EHEC is about one week or less in adults, but can be longer in children. Visiting farms and other venues where the general public might come into direct contact with farm animals has also been identified as an important risk factor for EHEC infection.

http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs125/en/

The Vegan Society should release a press info or something, because this affects the very issues of why people will likely want to go vegan. Animal concerns, environmental problems, the “politics” of agribusiness is all at stake here. Nevertheless the Vegan Society stays quiet now and rather chit-chats about stuff we heard a hundred times. Vegan Society fail.

Some people might want to say: eating veggies is just not as good and safe as you might think. The thing is: it’s animal farming in the first place, animal derived fertilizer, environmental pollution through death farms via all ways that causes the bacteria to spread. The vegs themselves are not at fault just by being plants.

It’s the agribusinesses that involves nonhuman animals as their objects of exploitation and total abuse – on behalf of the customers – which creates these horrific types of diseases.

If you are one of the many who still eat animal products, then think twice about how your consumption behavior in regards to food is to blame for what’s wrong on this planet, because people like you stand for an anti-responsible behavior towards life, people like you want to propagate a fundamentally violent attitude by fostering self-centered attitudes on the basis of sacrificing individual animal lives.