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.

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.

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

REMEMBER, REMEMBER

Saturday 5th of November was not just the 406th anniversary of an attempt by a group of religious zealots to seize power, it was also the 10th anniversary of the death of activist Barry Horne (see SchNEWS 330).

Barry died while on hunger strike in Full Sutton Prison, protesting against Neo-Labour’s support of the vivisection industry. This was despite them promising (before they got into power mind) that they would bring the practice to an end. At the time Barry was serving 18 years for firebombing a number of branches of Boots, who were still testing on animals.

Around 200 marched to Huntingdon Life Sciences, while many other demos, actions and gigs (including the SchNEWS benefit) were dedicated to the memory of the man whose commitment brought international media attention and served as motivation for countless activists.

And sadly his battle still needs fighting; HLS are still going – so if you want to carry on Barry’s work see http://speakcampaigns.org

http://www.barryhorne.org

Barry Horne Memorial Demo

cambridge-news.co.uk : HLS demo marks 10th anniversary of activist’s death

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

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 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

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

A corporate advertisement that extols the company’s ethically motivated animal rights or animal protection measures taken, their record or policies – usually by a company known to rape and pillage nonhuman animal concerns as thoroughly as possible.

A: Have you seen those new campaign targets by the PETA, that show how easily “animal friendly” can become a swear word?

B: They are pure AR porn, man.

or rather

A: Have you seen PETAs recent campaign for animals?

B: Don’t fall for that! Check their policies on euthanasia.

ar-pornography animal rights pornography, considerate about nonhumanbeings interests washing

Ok maybe peta makes an animal rights porn site to try to ridiculously cover up that fact that they are animal rights porn.

You can’t call a lip service “help”, you can’t even call a an action “help”, when all the “help” you think you are giving is undone by the next steps you are taking. … And that even routinely in the case of peta and their active euthanasia of nonhuman animals. Also, their campaigns cater to an anti AR rethoric and only thus gain a lot of support from the people loyal to them, who helplessly “bark upon the wrong tree”.  If people don’t see that being for or against animal rights is not a matter of belonging to a certain group, but that it’s actually actions and opinions that matter, then those people can rightly be called ethically short sighted.

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

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