PETA Kills Your Dogs and Cats

Pets Killed By PETA

Personally, I have never been a huge supporter of PETA. They are fighting for a good cause but I don’t like how they approach things. They spend too much time and money creating artsy, satirical and sometimes horrid advertisements. Unfortunately PETA does not spend enough time working on and advertising some of the bigger issues in society today.
 
PETA stands for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. New information has been released about just how ethical they really are. They run a shelter at their Norfolk headquarters that has a shocking amount of animals that aren’t leaving there alive. PETA claims that they only euthanize the animals that are too sick or too dangerous to be placed into homes. They also state that it is unrealistic to expect them to find homes for all the animals that come into their shelter because of the excessive overpopulation of homeless animals.
 
It seems, however, that “PETA has no adoption hours, does no adoption promotion, (and) has no adoption floor.” PETA spends all the money that they could be spending on finding these dogs and cats homes on using scare tactics and publicity stunts to get people to join their cause. This is just so hypocritical and wrong. I believe in the ethical treatment of animals and this does not seem ethical to me.

As for the overpopulation of homeless animals; I ask you all to please spay/neuter all your pets. It actually helps with behavioural problems, gives them a better quality of life and helps prevent overpopulation.

You can read more here.

Carrots Give You Cancer

So you may have seen this post stating that baby carrots are a danger to your health:

"DANGER TO YOUR FAMILY!!
From the Department of Life Education:

Baby Carrots:
The following is information from a farmer who grows and packages carrots for IGA, METRO, LOBLAWS, etc.

The small cocktail (baby) carrots you buy in small plastic bags are made using the larger crooked or deformed carrots which are put through a machine which cuts and shapes them into cocktail carrots - most people probably know this already.

What you may not know and should know is the following:
Once the carrots are cut and shaped into cocktail carrots they are dipped in a solution of water and chlorine in order to preserve them (this is the same chlorine used in your pool).

Since they do not have their skin or natural protective covering, they give them a higher dose of chlorine.

You will notice that once you keep these carrots in your refrigerator for a few days, a white covering will form on the carrots. This is the chlorine which resurfaces. At what cost do we put our health at risk to have esthetically pleasing vegetables?

Chlorine is a very well-known carcinogen, which causes Cancer. I thought this was worth passing on. Pass it on to as many people as possible in hopes of informing them where these carrots come from and how they are processed.

I used to buy those baby carrots for vegetable dips. I know that I will never buy them again!!!!”

I’ve been trying to look into it and I found an article from wafflesatnoon.com which responds to this claim. From what I can tell they are no more dangerous to you than every other chemically treated vegetable in the grocery stores. They take deformed carrots and make them more attractive then rinse them in the same solutions that the rinse almost all market ready vegetables. It seems that the process is similar to the chlorination process they use to treat tap water (which is FDA approved.)

There are a few alternatives if you are not happy with this process. You can buy organic or you could buy local. Local vegetables don’t need to travel so they don’t treat them so extensively (that’s if they even treat them at all.) I buy from a local market down my street where they grow and sell their own vegetables. There is something comforting about seeing the food you are about to eat growing all around you. Also by buying local you are supporting your community.

Just remember to always wash your fruits and vegetables before you eat them!

DOGS FOR DINNER

These are some pictures that have been posted from the dog rescue in China at the beginning of March. They rescued 900 dogs from being sold to China`s slaughter houses, as most of you probably know by now. There is no denying that these pictures are heart wrenchingly sad. There is no need to treat animals like this. There is a lot of inhumanity happening with this issue but there are also a lot of double standards.

In the North American culture we consider dogs and cats to be pets and even a part of our own families. On the other hand; pigs, cows, chickens and other farm animals are deemed to be our source of food. This is the where the double standard comes into play. We get mad at places like China who do not have the capability to support these `farm animals` for their food source. However, they have an over population of dogs and cats which they use as their source of protein. Some places, like China, see dogs and cats the same way we see a cow or a chicken.  As food.

We call it inhumane, but how are we doing anything any different here in North America? We can try to reason for animal rights in China all we want but maybe we should start by looking out our own back door. 

We cannot expect other cultures to give up their protein source nor should they expect the same from us. I have never pushed my lifestyle choice on anyone else. It has affected the people around me but I do not expect them to change who they are for me. But, in all honesty, the only way to stop all of the animal cruelty is to stop supporting the meat industry. Unfortunately, this will never happen.

If you are looking for a brief overview of the story you can check out this post from the Huffington Post or a more in depth story with pictures from animalrights.com.