Positive Feedback
I have not been involved or interested in animal cruelty before but I have recently been told of a farm near me that produces Halal meat. I pass these fields of sheep every day, on my way to work, that would be having their throats slit soon. I have done some research and it seems that the animal would suffer have its throat cut. Do you complain about this practice? Am I missing something that you know, do the animals suffer?
Clive Jones
Hi,
I have been following the animal rights movement for many years now and i am emailing you to ask for help.
I have recently set up a web-forum aimed at the UK to help animal rights/alf supporters up to date with the movement. We are not encouraging any illegal activities, we are mealy a representative for our UK supporters! We are a good, and safe place for members of any age to come and discuss animal rights issues within the UK, and as for topics etc. I would be more than happy for my 10 year old child to come and view the forum (if i had a child).
We were wondering if you could help us by giving us a link from your site, if you are prepared to do this, then we will set up a supporters section containing a link to you, and information about you.
The forum can be found at http://www.alf-uk.co.nr/, you can not view the contents until you register, but this only takes a moment.
Please take a look and let me know. I look forward to hearing from you.
Thank you for your time.
Nathan
To whom it may concern,
Thank you for advertising Dizzy (blind SBT) on your website, and I am happy to announce that he has now found his forever home.
Best Regards
Amanda - Animal Concern Cumbria Representative
just thought you might like to know that I have already written to my MP, Linda Gilroy, Plymouth Sutton ward, about this edm and she has written back acknowledging the importance of this but refusing to sign it because she feels it is worded in a way that criticises the amount of time the government spend debating the hunting bill. I know of course that this is just a feeble excuse on her part not to sign it, but perhaps others should be prepared before they contact their MPs incase they make the same excuse. Meanwhile I will try and contact Frank Field who drafted the EDM and perhaps he can draft another one without mentioning the hunting bill?
Cally - UPROAR
Hi
After reading your excellent articles regarding L'Oreal on your website, I wanted to ask a question.
For me it’s a genuine dilemma rather than a challenging question.
As L'Oreal now own The Body Shop.. Do you…
A) Boycott the Body Shop products because they are now part of L'Oreal?
Or do you
B) Continue to shop at The Body Shop to support non-animal tested products.
Would a boycott of Body Shop products show up in L'Oreal's figures and statsheets (which every business live by) that non-animal tested products don't sell as much as animal tested products. Does that make sense?
It reminds me of the issue with countries that have started whaling again for instance Iceland.
Some people think you should boycott going to that country because of that, whereas some think you should make an effort to go there to support the whalewatching industry (and my wife and I did a couple of years ago just before whaling was allowed again). Otherwise the whaling community have more of a stronger argument against the whalewatching industry not being as profitable as made out.
Could boycotts of products such as cosmetics be similar?
I can sort of see both sides to the argument and I'm curious to know what you think if you don't mind answering.
I look forward to hearing from you
Best wishes
Paul
I am writing this email to say the work you do is fantastic
and i wish i could do more myself I am a member of S.A.R.A (scottish animal
rights activists) and nothing offends me morethan the idea of some pencil necked
scientist torturing innocent animals for the so called advancement of the human
race, more like advancing their research grants. If there is anything i can
ever do on a more pro-active front please feel free to contact me and keep up
the good work.
lol Danny
Thanks Mick. Some great stories. Well done on running
such a great site.
Best Wishes,
Ritchie
im new to the internet and feel i'm going round in circles
and getting no where fast, i,m desperatly tryin to get actively involved with
the fight for animal right, i live in doncaster, not been here long and i'm
desperate to meet like minded people to go on protests. i would be very grateful
if you could provide me with any contacts or internet addressess it would be
a great help, the longer i struggle to get invoved the more helpless i feel,
thanks spider
Hi,
You don't know me & I'm not very important but have been a vegan for years
& try in my own way to do what I can to have as little impact on the planet
as possible. I stumbled upon your site the other day & I have to say I hadn't
realized how bad things have got with regards to animal cruelty & the oppression
of minorities etc. I don't know why I'm mailing you really, its just that I
wanted to say
I'm glad there are people like you out there trying to redress the balance &
restore a bit of sanity. I'll try to be a bit more proactive in the future
Regards, Neil.
I just found your website and I think what you are doing
is great! I read the negative emails sent to you and I do think most of those
people have mental health problems. Animals have their own destinies and have as much right
to be here as we do. I think it is disgusting how man “kind” treats
something so vulnerable and naive. I had an account set up on Bebo which I used
to try and show people what actually happens to animals. I used fox hunting
and animals used for human consumption as an example. I got a lot of mixed views
on that site and even had people who felt so strongly about hunting start on
me personally, calling me names and such.
You would think that they were proud
of there lifestyle. I found it hard to comprehend but I find so much about human
behaviour hard to comprehend so I just tried to ignore it. I think your website is great. It is good to open peoples
eyes to cruelty although not everyone wants to see the truth. Keep up the good
work and try not to be disheartened by the negative feedback. Like I said before
I think these people have mental problems and I’m sure their violent natures
leak out into their relationships with other people. They’ll all end up
in jail soon enough for killing their mothers or something! Thanks for your time…..
Lynn Monan
having recently discovered your site I am very keen to
get more involved.If there are any people in the perthshire area I would love
to hear from them as there is not enough being done to prevent the utter barbaric
torture of animals throughout the world.please can you give me details of anyone
who would like to get involved with demonstrations etc I would be gratefull.thanks
for your time.
I just wanted to mention about the 'Animals' programme
last night on channel 4. It was a good effort but it was a shame that they did
not air more of the scientific argument against animal testing and the way that
billions of pounds wasted on testing cancer drugs on mice in which the disease
of cancer is totally different to that in human beings.
Someone interviewed on the programme also said that animals do not have the
power to dread things, i.e. anticipate. This is incorrect. How come so many
animals fled early because they sensed the tsunami coming in asia. They have
more of an ability to aniticipate than humans because they can sense what we
are not able to.
Regards
Cally
From: PADSCAFF@aol.com
- On Friday 13th January 2006
My wife and I would like to join a group we live in Yate,
Bristol, also we would like to subscribe to your magazine as we can not find
them in shops.Thank you
David Paddon
Hello,I watched "Animals"
on Channel 4 last night. Keep up the good work!I feel so helpless in the animals suffering. What can
I do to help? I live up in the North of Scotland. I will boycote any companys
which sponsor this cruelty - could you supply information of them. I am vegetarian
and have collected for the SSPCA.
Thanking you for opening my eyes to this.
Alison Collie
Hi,
After watching some of a Channel 4 programme last night, I am horrified at the
use of Beagle dogs in lab's for research. I came across your website fater looking
on Google at ways to rehome these poor animals and noticed that you rescued
some beagles some years back (from your Interfauna report) Are you able to give
me any info on how I can help rehome a Beagle and how to stop this awful practice.Regards
Jamie Bailey
From: padscaff@aol.com
- On Thursday 12th January 2006
i would like to be a part of your group please send me
more details.
thank you
David
From: Mcamben@aol.com
- On Thursday 12th January 2006
what can i do i want to help
beverley
Hi
I noticed this headline on your site linking to the shows on More 4. I saw the
Animals doc and the one about the slimey Mr Fester/Festing. Although the documentary
was about the radical element of AR, I thought it gave quite a balanced view
and put in lots of great quotes from people in our movement.
Well done on your great website.
Ritchie
Hello, my name is Anna, im not exactly sure what i can
do to help, but i read somewhere on your site, about guineapigs ??? well i absolutley
love guineapigs, and i have some of my own, and id really like to help in anyway
i can! can u give me any more information on what you do, and do u actually
rescue any animals?? where are you based ??? if it is legal id be more than
happy to take on a lod of ill guineapigs, that you find?? ive had a lot of experience,
and i love the feeling of rescuing and bringing animals back to health!! i just
wanna do something to help!! i think animals cruelty is mean, nasty and sick!!
please get back to me, as i do really want to help in anyway i can!!
Anna xXx
Hi friends, family, loved ones, anyone who will read
this…
I have just got back from a conference in Canada with
‘People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ and am more inspired
than ever to make a difference for the voiceless billions who suffer at the
hands of man every single year.
I couldn’t believe it when I heard that some 45
BILLION animals are slaughtered for food in the world every year! Can you get
your head round that? 45 BILLION! And the animal abuse doesn’t stop with
the animal products we eat, abuse is live and well every time man comes into
contact with living creatures in the name of profit, in the clothes we wear
the animals we use for entertainment and the animals in laboratories.
These animals are routinely tortured, starved, beaten,
mutilated, skinned alive…tortured beyond your wildest nightmares…I
saw the evidence with my own eyes and weep as I write this. I know many will
think that I am exaggerating, but let me put it this way, if these things were
not commonplace, PETA would be sued and would be no more. The abuses I witnessed
were not the worst abuses, because they are not allowed to show the worst and
believe me, I find it hard to imagine worse.
Logic dictates that because of sheer numbers, neglect
is certainly inevitable and cruelty is likely and commonplace. It is standard
practise to mutilate animals without anaesthetic for eggs, meat and dairy and
it is absolutely necessary that life become a by-product for these things. Life,
a by-product…this is insanity. When life has no worth and is actually something
to be disposed of, does anybody really believe that these creatures are treated
with respect and compassion? They aren’t worth the time it takes to be
compassionate.
My first step since the conference is to do something
I was too scared to do, before I went to Toronto. I am contacting all of you
and urge you to pass this mail on. I was so scared that people would see me
as some preaching vegan who told everyone what they should, or shouldn’t
do. I was scared that people would hate me for speaking the truth so I only
spoke out when asked…because I felt it was wrong to speak out otherwise.
Now I know it would be wrong to keep my mouth shut because I must be the voice
of all beings who I see suffering, both human and non human. I might be all
they have. Injustice is never something to keep quiet about.
I send this for all those animals who are victims of
horrific abuses, mutilated for the sake of taste…beaks, teeth, tails snipped
off and castrations, all without anaesthetic. Animals crammed into cages so
small they can barely move, so crippled from genetic modification they can barely
walk, going insane with the boredom and then for their pains, they are sent
to die, in terror and often, agonising pain. In my mind, this isn’t just
wrong, this is evil. Even those who ‘live’ better lives, die in terror
and often agony.
I send this for all those trapped inside the confines
of factory farms, in laboratories, those creatures caged and used in entertainment,
for they are the voiceless who live and die for our own selfish gains. NO living
being wants to die, all beings flee from the knife and all animals who die inside
a slaughterhouse, die in terror…this is a fact which no one who has seen
an animal slaughtered can deny.
We have to ask ourselves, do we want these atrocities
to happen in our names? And shouldn’t we also be asking ourselves at least
to take a look at what happens to the animals to get them to our table, or our
wardrobe or our television sets? Don’t we at least owe them this much?
If we watch and we see and then we decide we feel it is ok, then so be it, but
I know, that everyone who is included in this mailing list is a compassionate
and caring human being who would never want to support such cruelties.
For me, making a conscious decision not to support animal
suffering is a question of integrity. I would not torture, maim, mutilate and
then kill an animal for the sake of my taste buds and I do not expect another
human being to do all that for me. If you think it would be painful to take
a peak at what happens to these animals, then imagine how awful it must be for
those animals who live it…and die it. Animal factories are hell on earth
for these animals…hell on Earth.
These living creatures who are suffering right now need
all the voices they can get because they have nothing and no one without the
people who open their eyes to their suffering and start shouting about it. This
is a violence all of us can STOP and I hope you will watch the video link I
have sent you and see the cruelties we all support, or have supported, on a
daily basis without even realising it.
Thank you for your time and I wish you all a compassionate
future…
Bernie
x
Hi,
I'm hoping myself,wife and 2 teenage sons can help
inform the mass so called friendly people about us. Myself as a young Anarchist
punk back 20+ years back joined marches,demonstrations and enjoyed handing out
info/leaflets often with true upsetting pictures to all willing to be enlightened
and hear the truth. At 17 moved away from area and friend in Weymouth to Kendal,
Over time met my now wife settled down to family life, drifted away from our
aim, but often having a lost/missing feeling in me for letting myself and all
poor animals whatever its Pain DOWN... Thankfully my youngest son has been asking questions
as I did at his age about Who/Why/How animals still in 2005 receive so much
pain, Can he do or help them in any way. So as a family we talked and all decided
together we will help our helpless loving animals in any way needed..Please
point us in some areas we can help out..I loved handing out ALF info/leaflets
face to face seeing them understand why the pain must stop and how they can
also help with little effort or time.
True details and often shocking pictures made people
look then ask Who/Where/Why would this happen..So as a young family need to
help, I would love to purchase info/leaflets handouts and pinup posters to flood
our small town with and be available to inform or provide info when asked when
handing out..Moving onto bigger things and places..Hoping you will help us help
you do the right thing. Many thanks please get us going ASAP..
From: GrettySK@aol.com
- On Wednesday 5th October 2005.
Just wanted to let you know...I want to support this
magazine...it is brilliant, informative, and inspirational!!! Thank you so much
for all of your hard work for the beloved animals....THANK YOU!!!
Gretchen --Indiana USA
Dear Sir,
I am wondering if you know
of any 'militant' organisations in the North-West of England that are inclined
towards a more 'direct' approach with regards to solving the problem of vermin
getting off on killing animals for their own sadistic pleasure. I have a house
on the street where I live where the family actively breed dogs for fighting
and hunting. the house is decked out in the usual pro-hunt posters, and i find
this highly offensive,as i am true animal lover. These 'people' are the architypal
pro-hunt freaks: skinheads with fascist tattoos and nothing between their ears.I
am becoming more inclined to do something myself,but i fear for the safety of
my family if they know who i am. if you could supply any addresses this would
be most appreciated.
Many Thanks,
An animal lover
Hello Liberation Magazine
first I want to express my admiration and support to
your work. may you succeed with all your campaigns and end animal exploitation.I am doing a self research about institutionalized exploitation
and I need the yearly amounts of animals exploited and murdered in every industry.
I am looking for the numbers of every industry possible:
broilers, fish, pigs, sheep, cows, turkey, veal, whales meat, dolphins, turtles
meat, ostriches, emus, cats meat, dogs meat, sea "food" , sharks meat,
rabbit meat, geese, ducks, ivory, horses and dogs racing, dairy, eggs, experimentation
(how many of every kind of species per year), street abuse, circuses, marine
animals, pet shops, bullfights, rodeos, Premarin, wool, hunting, leather, road
kill, Bear Gall Bladders , fur, zoos, honey and down.
Thank you very much for your help.
Regards,
Johny.
Wow! Your online site made me even happier that I am
a vegatarian! I became one four years ago when I was feeding my friends cows
on her farm and meet the most beatuful cow in the world and then she informed
me that it was due to be slaughtered in a couple of months I couldent believe
something so pretty and harmless was going to be killed just for food. I support
your efforts totally! do you have a magizine or somehting that I can do over
here? I live in arizona the united states or america. please contact me! my
email is hllywdboundconchetta@yahoocom thankyou so much! you have all my support
and love for the animals! Francesca Marie
From: anya@terra.net.lb
- On Monday 25th October 2004.
Dear Liberation Magazine,
First and foremost, I am writing to congratulate you
on your magazine. For animals waiting all their lives to be free of human cruelty,
and having endured abuse across generations, nothing but liberation will do!
I am the co-founder of a new animal rescue/animal rights
group in Beirut, Lebanon at http://animals.beirut.com.
I am wondering whether you can post a link for our website
on yours. (We have gladly been in contact with Ingrid Newkirk of PETA and she
has kindly added a link to our website at www.islamveg.com).
We do not belong to any traditional religion – only veganism, animal rights,
and animal liberation.
Thanks and please keep up the great work. The animals
need you. Please feel free to forward our website address to whoever might be
interested as we need all the help we can get. May we add you to our mailing
list?
Kind regards,
Hania JurdakAnimals@Beirut.comBeirut, Lebanon, 961-3-238486
Dear Wonderful Humans,
Thank you for the fabulous work you are doing.
Sincerley, Victoria Siegel
hello,
my name is Chris,I have been vegetarian for some
20 years,and I am just getting more and more sickened with this society of ours
when people try to justify the murder and torture of animals,I just cannot understand
the mentality of blood sport supporters,its just beyond belief how they justify
what they do,as for experiments on animals,well,what can one say?? any info
you can send me,application etc., I'd be most grateful.
Thanks
Chris Salter
Was wondering if you
could mail me you'r magazine and send me some pamphletes. I don't have much
access to computers. I am very active in ottawa, toronto, kingston, peterbourgh,
spiderland and would love to spread the good word. Send me as much as you
can.I would also like to
help out with A.L.F. maybe you guys could hook me up with Ottawa connections
(i live closer to ottawa than anything).
Thanks guys.
Justin Young
I came across your website
and organization as I was researching animal rights. I am a strong believer
in the equal consideration of interests of nonhuman animals and am currently
writing a paper on this topic for a philosophy class. I am a 19 year old college
student who is seeking the means to make help make a difference. Is there
any way I can be involved in this organization? Frankly, what I'm asking is,
What can I do to help?
-Michael A.
Dear sir/madam,
In my view the people behind all the cruelty to animals and also to the lower
members of humanity are of course the Jews. How can we ever have a better
kinder world for all species of animals when these old fashioned folk think
they know all the answers to the world and are allowed to impose their crazy
attitudes upon this world. They think that humanity is totally above the rest
of the animal kingdom but in my opinion this is not true.
If we are to begin a new age of enlightenment and liberation then these old
hat and morally judgemental folk will need to be at first strictly controlled.
And their financial power in this world is just very disgusting. Is that all
they see in our world money and animals are here merely to be exploited in
their view.
I have been interested in environmentalism most of my life and I consider
myself to be an animal lover. I once watched one or two anti semitic films
and it got discovered and it went around the neighbourhood and the Jews there
said that they wanted me to die from "fat around the heart" even
though I had never harmed any of them and I don't want to. This was 8 years
ago and they are still treating me as if I'm shite. How disgusting how arrogant
how intolerant.
Why should I be subjected to all the robbery assault harrasment that I have
to this day been forced to endure. Nothing I say will make any difference
to them and they have said that they will never forgive me for being anti
semitic.
I know that I am a caring and compassionate human animal myself and I don't
think it's right that I should be "driven out of town" in this way.
They said also that they would follow me to the "ends of the earth"
so I will have to get away quietly and use a new name. etc.
Yours sincerely,
G. Murray
Hi,
on saturday it was
my first time at a protest, outside the newchurch guinea pig death camp. I
felt extremely emotional all day, what a great bunch of lovely caring people.
the police however,caused trouble, they were brutal, patronising, unprofessional,
they instigated a couple of scuffles, definitely not provoked by the peaceable
people, fighting for animal rights. I am completely sickened and disturbed
by the 'pigs' attitude. How can they behave so unjustly, you could almost
feel them itching for a fight, to cast us in a bad light,spread rumours. They
certainly are scum. Is there nothing we can
do about their attitude? I suppose the government have too much money to lose,
to stop vivisection, so they want to discredit us, make us look like thugs.
Part of me knows the police wont change their attitude, but that's made me
want to fight for animal rights even more, to prove to the police, the country
and the world that vivisection is amoral, and totally unnecessary.Also ive just been looking
on the net for any info on these poor, beautiful guinea pigs, and came across
a site called ananova (po box 36, leeds, ls11 9yj) Bloody pathetic and rubbish,
there was no one in the fields at all to my knowledge!!! Whats that site all
about??????????
Anyway, sorry to ramble
im very passionate about animals. Keep up the good work. Thank you for restoring
(some) of my faith in human beings. Sarah Richards
Dear Liberation Magazine,
Thanks for your help with
animal testing. I have decided that i am going to write to the congressman
of my state. It's all thanks to you! If you have any information to help me
please contact me.
Thanks a bunch!
Jessica
Hi I'd just like to say you do a brilliant job. All animals
have rights. I dont know about anyone else but those mindless things(you cant
call them animals) that kill and abuse animals everyday should be put against
a wall and shot. My beautiful labrador thinks so too.
Thanks again.
Thank you very much a very nice Christmas to you as
well and a happy new year. This time I found the updates hihihi. I wish you
all the best and thanks again for the good inspiration you gave us all especially
me.
From: aster_wm@hotmail.com
- On Wednesday 10th December 2003.
I am a 13 year old girl who is doing a presentation
about animal testing. While I was searching on the Internet, I came a long
your site which totally shocked me. I know animal testing isn't the most pleasant
thing but I never expected things to be this bad and it can probably be worse.
Your site has given me a lot of information and if there is any help needed,
I have showed a lot of people (in a lot of different countries) these pictures
and they are all behind you. If you need any help we will all help you.I know animal testing will probably never end but if
it wont stop then it should be done properly and only on necessarily things.
Yours sincerely, aster
Dear Sir
I have just recieved my copy of uncaged magazine and
would like to let your readers know about the barbaric experiments that are
being done to millions of animals in labs all over the world. From my source
Uncaged, I believe that Proctor And Gamble are probably the worst for cruelty
,this is why I am boycotting anything at all that they produce. Also IAMS
pet food which i believe is part of the same group. I have read things from
uncaged and other animal rights people that I find heartbreaking and do not
understand how any human being can treat animals this way. I feel that all animals have the right to live as safe
as they can be on this planet. Surely in this day and age more and more people
are finding animal experiments unacceptable so if I may suggest that we put
pen to paper and let the government and other powers that be know that this
cruelty will not be tolerated. I, for one will definately boycott PROCTOR
AND GAMBLE and IAMS and I would urge all like minded people to do the same.
Perhaps between us we may be able to stop this barbaric, inhumane and unacceptable
cruelty.
Thank you
Pat Rose
Southport
Just catching your site
for the 1st time from the eastern US. Phenomenal! One cannot be too active
- in every sense - in this movement. I have been an animal rights "activist"
since age 8 when my elementary school showed a gory film of the Japanese bombing
whales under the guise of food and science. 35 years later, I'm more furious
by the day.
I've worked my entire professional life in the non-profit environmental movement.
I got into that movement because of my convictions toward the natural environment.
It has taken many years to have it drilled through my thick skull that most
people in the "environmental" movement care only about the human
environment. They share the same common characteristics of greed and blatant
cruelty against all creatures but one that everyone else does. Let's face
it: it does us no good to save habitat only for humans; the thought of that
is morally repugnant. Too many "environmental" groups favor hunting
for "management," and I find that a majority of "enviornmentalists"
liberally eat meat as if it was going out of style. I am therefore gravitating
increasingly toward the animal rights movement and will continue to do so
to the utmost of my ability. In these parts, like everywhere, it is an uphill
struggle.
Animal abuse exists at all levels, of course; but I believe, perhaps
naively, that the American conscsience is particularly ill-suited to take
these issues on. Americans, after all, having it all-but written into their
constitution the god-given right to self-comfort, ease, and convenience in
every aspect of life, riches at anyone's expense, and a life of complete decadence
and self-indulgence at the expense of substance or meaning. Indeed, (believe
it or not) I have even heard a recent argument that advocating on behalf of
animals here is unpatriotic. Most people I talk to feel insulted about being
approached on these issues, and will forcefully strive to keep from learning
anything about them for fear that it may cause them to reevaluate their wasteful
lifestyles.
I look forward to keeping in tune with your work and writings.
Van Gogh
From:Elizajayg@aol.com
on Wednesday February 19 2003
i look at your website
and i am so mad at what we do to our animals i had a womens op and told you
will need h.r.t. but looking and getting the info most of the hrt comes from
stabled pregnant mares in foal with a cafiter attached to them most women
do not know you can get a patch made up from plants so they just belive the
doctors and consultants my friend fourght to get plant patches because her
doc said you eat meat whats the problem so she went elsware we both love animals
and lucky i can cope with evening primrose at the minute even if i double
it up i may be moving to occold if all goes through so email and let me know
what you are up to you are doing a good job. They can not speak BLESS THEM
I admire your work and
your passion. Thanks for all you do.
Excellent source of
news and info.
Dear Friends of the Animals
and Liberation/Moksha for All Life.
I just discovered your site will looking
for 'animal rights', 'animal liberation'.
I am copying things from your site to read and reread to remind myself of
what we must do to continue on the path of desiring Liberation for all life.
Thank you for your wonderful site....and if you have e-mail mailings/updates
would you kindly include my e-mail to your list?
Many thanks for your good work, May the animals be liberated, May all life
be free from suffering,
Yours,
Carol
From:
Mirthin@icqmail.com - On Thursday
October 31st 2002.
After reading through
your site may I say that I would truly like to thank you. Not only are you
campaigning for the rights of animals but you have also educated me a fair
bit. Some organisations say "down with animal cruelty" but they
don't provide such information. I am not a vegetarian, I accept the fact that
I'm only human. I do however believe that cruelty to animals for personal
gain is wrong, especially something as piffling and insignificant as cosmetics.I'd like to ask, do you
participate in active liberations? Not just signing petitions and writing
to the government but breaking into commercial laboratories and physically
liberating them. After some consideration, I've decided I'd like to donate
my resources to the cause. The thought of the torture makes my blood boil,
and with an acute feeling of blind hatred I would seriously like to partake
in such activities. I realise you may not condone such acts but could you
possibly point me to a link of some sort that might be able to help?
I'm done with sitting
around writing. All I really need is a list of alledged animal testing buildings
in the UK. I'd take it from there. In any case, thank you for opening my eyes
on the subject, Mirthin
Hi
my names Hailey, I am 20 years old and have supported the rights of animals
all my life. I have four rats and they mean the world to me (they are very
spoilt!). I want to adopt a dog and would love to give a beagle that has been
liberated from a hell hole such as huntingdon Life Sciences. Is there a need
for homes for these animals and how can I find out about giving an animal
this second chance at life that they are entitled to.
Kind
regards
Hailey
I have just visited
your site for the first time. I have been a vegetarian for over a year now
and have always been disgusted by the abhorrent way that humans treat animals.
What makes people think that they are any better than any other living, breathing,
feeling creature on this earth? I read some of the
other emails sent in by others who also feel strongly about the pressing need
to liberate animals; from their cages, yes, but also from human control, and
therefore cruelty. After clicking on the picture gallery button, the ensuing
ten minutes I spent staring at my computer monitor in horror made me cry and
made me even more determined to continue to make people aware of the appalling,
grotesque and barbaric actions brought against animals.
So to everyone out
there, all over the world, who is fighting for the rights and lives of animals,
keep doing it - we can make a difference!
I will gladly send
you any bits I get passed on to me. I get lots, at times. I have just found
your site and it's brilliant, so much care and time has been put into it and
it shows. Thank you so much for caring. Thank you on behalf of millions and
millions of animals.
Linda
Thank-you for taking
the time to stand up for the innocent, I believe society can only be judged
by how it cared for the children , the elderly and as stewarts of this land.
We have reached the the depths of human degradation as we have lost our humility
as caretakers of this planet. The multi-nationals will continue to rape and
pillage every vestige of creation in the pursuit of self. One person can cause
a ripple in this insanity and with enough ripples a wave of change. Once more
unto the breach dear friends once more...
Hey,
Hope all is well with
you! I support your website 100%. I have written feedback
before to some of those uneducated scientists who wrote in. Anyway I'm an
active animal rights person here in Oregon USA. I too have been waiting
for the decline of HLS, not too many people are aware of the situation here.
Anyway, there is a
newspaper columnist here called Ann Landers, maybe you have heard of her?If you could have
your readers write to her and her sister Abby, then the whole nation will
start to be aware of it. This is just an idea, here are the websites I found
for them.
Both websites should
have access for people to email them. If they get a bunch of emails about
HLS, they are almost sure to write about it. I know Ann Landers
is an animal rights activist as well. I want these bastards
out of business!!!!! I have just graduated
in archaeology and I should be in Europe digging soon. I would love to go
to an HLS protest in England, please keep me posted!!! Animal Activist for
Life
Christina
I am
now 56 years old and tend to sometimes think that I have, in my lifetime, experienced,
or am aware of, every aspect of the human abuse and misuse of animals. Yet,
I found myself today, standing in a newsagents, feeling physically sick at the
trumpeted headlines in the "Daily Mail," the celebratory message that
mankind had managed to overcome the gene barrier in the breeding of species
to provide humans with spare body parts. I felt
and still feel a deep sense of revulsion at not only the breeding of the four
piglets pictured, but at the depravity of the mind that even envisaged this
as a reality.
An even deeper revulsion at the fact that some bastard, sick to
the core, has even given them names redolent of Christmas Time.Noel and Star,
I believe were two, although I must admit to having been so full of horror,
that I found the detail difficult to take in. I remember
clearly, when I was at school, being told that there was no limit to mans knowledge
and that progress is a continuous and infinite thing. I cannot remember at what
time in my life, I understood that mans depravity and lack of morality is also
limitless and clearly knows no boundaries.So,
what do we do my friends, about this latest excursion into the scientific cess-pit.
Be angry and stay angry. Be militant and stay militant.
By whatever means, we
must stop this now. We must fight and we must protest and we must free these
victims of the filth and scum that profess to work in the name of "scientific
progress." we must educate and we must not allow anyone to claim not to
understand that part of a sentient being, removed to lengthen the life of a
human creature, always means the death of that being and as such, breaches every
moral and natural boundary.We are
supposed to be the higher species and yet we do not recognise responsibilities
to anything except ourselves. As I write this I am ashamed of my humanity.
I
am not writing from a detatched, moralistic "high ground." I am suffering
from heart failure and surgery is high on the list of options. I have made it
clear that I will not, under any circumstances accept any part which has entailed
the suffering and death of another species and my partner fully supports me
in this. But this is only a starting point.
Surely
the time has now come when we say,"We will not accept this, because it
is wrong?" Surely, we must now be prepared to carry the fight to the scum
that are responsible for this horror? In the name of God and in the name of
humanity, do we have a choice?
From:
j_rush34@hotmail.com - On Thursday
August 16th 2001
This is a response to Biceptboy54@aol.com who sent a message On Sunday February
11th 2001.
I find that attitude perplexing and scary, that this 6'5" 260lb person
can come to the conclusion that he is so superior to animals. What exactly do
humans do thats so great. How many "stupid little monkeys" create
atom bombs,and chemical weapons. We are more intelligent than animals, but then
we have defined what 'intelligence' means, so its hardly an umbiased definition.
We ARE animals, funished with large brains in order to survive, just like birds
fly and fish swim, we think. To place ourselves above animals is exteme arrogance,
and has no basis in reality. At the end of the day does our vastly seperior
intelligence really get us anywhere? No not really. As we are discovering, the
planet is teetering on the brink of ecological meltdown because we need cars,
and mobile phones. Not only are we destroying ourselves but we are going to
take the world with us. Oh, arent we great, big round of aplause for the humans,
havent we done well.
The great thing is though, that when the perverbial shit
does hit the fan, life will go on, we may not, but the planet will survive.
It will rid itself of the stupid humans, and equilibrium will be restored, amen.
We are not better than any other organism, and i dont see why we need to feel
we are. Whats wrong with being a part of the world instead of trying to separate
ourselves from it by saying were different. As a species we need to be less
egocentric and realise nature is more powerful than all our bombs, and she will
fight back, and we will be the losers. Like george harrison wrote. Life goes
in within us and without us.
Regards.
john.
I have read with horror
some of the e-mails to the Liberation Magazine. I cannot comprehend the minds
of those who support the abuse of the non-human species who share this planet
with us. We have no right to imprison kill and torture helpless animals for
pleasure, profit or fraudulent science. We all have the right to live out our
lives in harmony with our environment. The planet is big enough for all of us.
However ignorance and vested interest reigns supreme in humans, this begs the
question what drives the human being, answer money and power over the vulnerable.
Catherine Neill
Hi,
I just wanted to
let you know that I think your site is fantastic! I also have a website, www.freetheanimals.com I would love to put your site on our links page, if that's all right with you.
I commend you for your dedication and efforts to the animal rights movement.
When I see people like myself, with such strong convictions, it only reinforces
my dedication. I related to what you wrote in the beginning of your home page,
about people who are against animal rights. It is so hard to understand how
people can be against animal rights, but I have come to accept that there are
some people who simply have no compassion in their hearts, and probably never
will. But, I know that most people do, and that is why people like you and I
will never give up on what we beleive in! You can e-mail me at edita@freetheanimals.com to let us know if you would like to link to our site also.
Sincerely,
Edita Birnkrant
NYC
Animals being murdered
is sick... I'm deciding to go vegetarian... this shit is just wrong... I wont
eat my pet why should I eat other animals?
I am not over-zealous
in my attempt to understand "Dr." Berens' work; the breakthroughs
he anticipates or the horrific cruelty inflicted upon puppies. Why? Do I believe
the ends justify the means? Am I a cold heartless human,bereft of any compassion
or empathy for Gods' creatures? Certainly I must be a Republican! Or am I so
apathetic that it does not matter to me? No way Jose'! It makes me sick to my
stomach to learn of the atrocities this man and others are capable of committing.
But when I learn that knowledge garnered from this these experiments will save
the life of my mother(sic).... and your sister.... and the school nurses' husband,
the bakers' wife, the old woman down the street, ad infinitum........ part of
me is accepting. I can not imagine that any of these doctors experience ANY
glee or have fun doing these procedures. Yes, they may seem barbaric.... ha!
they are barbaric and I am sure that these animals experience pain and the whole
range of emotions!!!!
Is there any way to do this without the use of higher
Mammals? The Institute has funded Dr. Berens. Let's hope that none of the Staff
at St. Joseph's Hospital in Phoenix, Arizona has to give their children' pets
for Dr. Berens' experiments! Poor little puppy....... Yes, you're a good boy....
such a good boy... sit! sit! roll over... good boy!! lay down... lay down....
atta boy!! good puppy....let the doctors drill holes in your skull....you'll
be OK.... just lay down...close your eyes..... It is a good thing you don't
understand the word... cancer. All you can understand is you are sick and your
head hurts and you don't know why... why would anyone would want do this to
you........ I have written to the appropriate people to express my outrage and
disappointment!
Thank you
I live in oldtown florida
u.s.a and i wish we had a humane society, during hunting season the hunters
run their walkerdogs to chase deer, if the dogs run the deer the dogs live if
they dont some of the hunters leave their dogs out in the woods to starve to
death and some shoot them rite on the side of the highway, some of the dogs
are so skinny i dont see how they can run a deer no less run. and these hunters
dont see any animal cruelty, id like to feed these owner a cup of food a day
and see how long they last running the game and those poor deer are ran to death,
i almost go flatten by a deer last hunting season that was being chased by dogs
in a still hunt area, that allows no dogs at all,i think they should stop doghunting
for deer and as far as your organazation is concerned you have good and bad
points just like any animal organazations, i use to show dogs and my animals
did not live their life in cages, they were treated better than some kids, for
anyone to say what you people do is wrong is not correct but i do belive that
2wrongs dont make it rite either, you can be animal activist with out violence,
ending up in jail only hurts the animals you are trying to protect in the end,
you cant protect them if your in jail,
Firstly, don't you think
that "you people" is a bit of a hypocrytical generalisation given
that you wrote an e-mail to the liberation magazine complain about generalisations
made by those against hunting? Secondly, you completely
avoid the fact that the vast majority of hunting in Britain is merely for recreational
purposes. This is what gives hunting a 'bad rap', this is what most people morally
disagree with. Do you honestly need to hunt to survive? Does the average hunter
rely on hunting as a source of income? No, the average hunter is part of the
'horsey set'.
Thirdly, how could someone
who has 'been raised hunting or fishing' possibly have any sort of objective
perspective of the subject?
Finally, please do not patronise us. You talk to us as if we are young children,
just because we do not share your views: "you just havent realized that
for some people it is what keeps them alive." I think most people have
realised this don't you? I don't think we are exactly the least socially aware.
The
following email was sent in reply to a mail from msed_up@my-deja.com
Regarding
your e mail to Liberation, thank you for being open and honest and putting your
argument together is a lucid and polite manner, unlike some e mails received.
First I can assure you that I know all about MS. My own wife suffers from it
and has done so for 25 years having been diagnosed at aged 28. Yes it is an
appalling disease and has changed our lives totally. I no longer work to enable
me to look after her full time. Interestingly she is also a vegetarian.
However both she and I oppose all animal experiments in the name of research
and she has no medication at all. The reality is that her condition has remained
unchanged for 10 years. This may be luck. We are not convinced that things would
have been any different with medication. Others we know with MS have, inspite
of steroid treatment, interferon and ACTH deteriorated faster.
We consider that man and animals were created with equal status and that it
is immoral to subject them to suffering in laboratories. I am sure that you
have seen the terrible treatment of them in HLS labs on their web site.
I openly admit to assisting HLS in lobbying and jaming the systems of the Royal
Bank of Scotland and Stevens who finance this cruelty
I have no problem with experiments on humans. These could be volunteers or perhaps
prisoners. The former would have the choice, the latter have offended society
so should be punished. The difference is that the laboratory animal does not
have choice and has committed no crime.
You ask "who are you to state categorically that the suffering that people
with diseases does not merit the use of rodents for research?" My answer
is someone who knows and understands MS and has moral values. What right do
you have to expect society to provide you with a cure or a drug to alleviate
your suffering?
I have mixed feelings about prolonging lifespan by pre natal screening or medical
treatment. We are born and take our chance in this world.
Before you respond I will tell you that I also have a chronic condition, haemophilia
which has caused me lots of problems. Many of my colleagues died from HIV and
I have hepatitis through infected blood supplies. Animal research did not avoid
these scenarios.
Clive.
Thanks for the email,
we (4) were there today (wet & still cold). We were there when Ken (I think
that is his name was arrested. I was talking to a couple of policemen at the
time and they informed me he had been warned that he would be arrested if he
used the loud hailer as locals had complained and they had to uphold the law.
Other people (john from Billericay) were also warned of the same. Later when
our numbers had grown nothing was done when loud hailers were used. I remarked
on this to the reporter from the East Anglian and she said she had asked about
this and was told there was never a problem with using loud hailers, the reason
for the arrest of Ken was for incitement and abusive language. Well what a load
of rubbish. I heard as everyone else did what was said. This was our first time
at a protest and was wondering why/how the law can change so easily and why
don't the press pick up on this. I should imagine this is a question you have
asked many times.You have our continuing
support and will endeavour to attend protests when possible.
Keep up the good work.
Some time ago, I e-mailed
you regarding the goat, sheep and pot-bellied pig that were being kept at the
above pub for the "amusement" of the patrons' children. You kindly contacted
the RSPCA, as they had totally ignored my call, and they visited the pub and
informed you that they were "reasonably happy" with the conditions
that the animals lived in. I haven't been able
to visit them since, but yesterday I went to visit them and they are still there
in exactly the same disgusting conditions (very poor shelter, small compound
(which is a mud bath) and only a small amount of wet, dirty straw). I went there again today
with some bread and apples as, although I realise they must be getting fed,
I was not able to see any sign of food and I also believe that the pig stops
the sheep and goat from getting fed properly.
In fact, yesterday, I saw the
goat trying to eat some of the dirty straw and, to my knowledge, this is something
that goats don't normally do. Whilst feeding them
(including the pig, of course), the pig decided to take a chunk out of my partner's
arm. She tried to get the pig to let go by tempting it with a piece of bread,
held to one side of her arm, but to no avail. She was finally obliged to forcibly
pull her arm out of its jaws. The injury on her arm is pretty horrendous, despite
the fact that she was wearing a thick sweater and jacket. What happened has made
us believe that the reason the sheep and goat are so terrified of the pig is
not just because of its aggressive attitude.
We are quite sure they get bitten
if they don't move fast enough (which must be pretty difficult in such a confined
space). Although our interests
lie with the animals, we are also concerned that the owners of the pub seem
totally oblivious to the fact that children are able to put their hands through
the fence (either from the road or from the pub garden)and parents are not usually
pleased when their child returns from stroking the animals with one hand missing!
Obviously, we have no
argument with the pig as we are quite sure it is also unhappy. However, anyone
with any sense should know that a pig should not be kept with sheep and goats.
The sheep and goat should be somewhere where they are not intimidated 24 hours
a day and where they can graze (rather than standing around in a mud bath).
I would be grateful
if you would use your influence to try and get something done about this situation.
Many thanks for your
help.