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Expose companies that test on animals using Facebook!
Posted by we3thinking in Feb 27, 2012, under Other News
Everyone is a consumer. We consume items such as cleaning products, air fresheners, make up, hair products, personal hygiene products, etc. We also consume on behalf of our children and pets.
Many people disagree with animal testing but put this issue to the back of their mind, when buying products, for many reasons. This is not from lack of caring but mostly convenience. When time is of the essence and you are running round a supermarket, thinking of whether a product has been tested on animals is not at the foremost of your mind. Many also do not realise that many of their favourite products are tested on animals.
Companies RELY on us consumers BUYING these products otherwise they will go under as if they have no customer’s they have no business. One of the main rules of business is to have happy customers so that they will return to consume more of their products.
Businesses BELIEVE that they can do what they like as consumers of their products will keep coming back. They also believe that if government requires animal testing, business should comply as the consumer doesn’t care whether animals are tested on as, with previous buying patterns, consumers will keep buying their products.
What they won’t tell you in their advertising is that they spend millions every year “testing” their products but they will tell you that you will look great, your house will smell great, and you will be a great person, etc. The power of advertising!
When no-one questions companies about their animal testing they believe that no-one cares about it and will continue these barbaric practices.
Nowadays more and more companies realise that their customers have a conscience and are CHOOSING NOT TO TEST ON ANIMALS. This is a moral and ethical choice of which companies are to be congratulated.
Companies are now realising the potential of Facebook, that they can reach hundreds and thousands of consumers by joining up to Facebook and getting themselves a page and promoting their products.
What we propose is to expose these companies and get them to explain themselves in front of their consumer’s right here on Facebook! Let’s ask these companies why they feel the need to test on animals and use the power that we have – expose their animal abusing ways to the rest of their loyal customers and see how they feel about it in a non-confrontational way.
You and your friends can post comments on their page asking why they feel the need to continue abusing animals and also tell friends not to give up when the company says that it’s the law. As they will use the word “Law” to make YOU back off!
To find out what companies are testing on animals here is the link to a PDF page with a list of companies that test on animals.
Companies that test on animals
Here are a few Facebook pages of animal testing companies.
Proctor and Gamble’s Facebook page
Johnson and Johnson’s Facebook page
Let’s expose them and ask them why they continue to test on animals when many successful companies don’t!
Animals can’t speak for themselves but WE CAN!
We3thinking©
Worker Shot at Abattoir (pity it wasn’t his head)
Posted by we3thinking in Oct 21, 2011, under Other News
A POLICE investigation was under way yesterday after a worker at a Paisley abattoir was shot in the leg.
It’s understood the 42-year-old victim was injured when a gun went off by accident during a “bit of horseplay” with a work colleague.
Yesterday, one source told the Paisley Daily Express how the victim was left in agony.
“The guy who was shot is originally from Poland but works at the abattoir,” said the source. “He ended up with a nasty wound to his leg and was in a lot of pain.
“It seems the shooting was an accident. Two workers were mucking about and the gun went off.”
The shooting took place at Sandyford Abattoir during a daytime shift.
Police and paramedics were at the abattoir, where cattle and sheep are slaughtered for on-site meat wholesalers and individual butchers, within minutes.
The victim was rushed to the Royal Alexandra Hospital, in Paisley, and an investigation was launched.
It’s believed that an airgun had been brought into the abattoir in Sandyford Road, on the outskirts of Paisley, and it was the weapon involved in the shooting.
A single pellet from the firearm went deep into the victim’s leg.
One worker, who asked not to be named, said: “The shooting was a bit of horseplay which went wrong. It happened in the cattle gut room, where they cut up the animals after they’ve been slaughtered.
“After the gun went off, the guy who was shot hit the deck. Some of his colleagues tried to help him and someone else alerted the emergency services.
“The paramedics were here pretty quickly and they treated him at the scene before taking him away to hospital. I reckon he’ll have had to go through surgery because the pellet from the gun was deep inside his leg.”
A spokesman at the abattoir confirmed that an incident had taken place there on Friday.
He added: “The matter is now in the hands of the police.”
Last night, a police spokesman said a report has been sent to the procurator fiscal in connection with the incident and a 23-year-old man is facing a charge of recklessly discharging a firearm.
Three dogs found tied to Sutton borough railings in a week
Posted by we3thinking in Sep 04, 2011, under Animal Welfare
A pregnant dog was dumped by her owner just a week before she was due to give birth.
The lurcher-collie was one of three dogs in a week found tied to railings by volunteers at the Riverside Animal Centre in Beddington.
Founder Ted Burden said: “It is a worrying trend we have seen recently of people abandoning their dogs in this way.
“She was shivering, tired and scared. When you are concerned with animal welfare it is a horrible thing to see.”
The bitch, named by staff at the centre as Pepper, was found tied to railings outside Sainsbury’s in Stafford Road, Wallington, at 9pm on August 22.
An ultra-sound scan found she was pregnant with at least six puppies. She is being cared for by staff at the centre.
Mr Burden said it was likely she was dumped by owners who could not afford for her to have puppies.
He said increasingly owners wrongly felt it was acceptable to dump animals it became too costly for them to keep.
In the same week a Scottish terrier was found by police in Mitcham, and a Staffordshire bull terrier was found tied to railings by Beddington Lane.
Mr Burden said since April 185 dogs had been taken in by his centre, which works in Merton and Sutton.
He said: “It is unacceptable for owners to behave in this way.”
He said if owners felt they could no longer look after their pets properly, they should join a waiting list for recognised homes for stray pets such as Battersea Dogs and Cats Home.
Call the Riverside Animal Centre on 020 8647 6230 or email info @riversideanimalcentre.org.
Beagle ‘factory’ plan to test govt pledge!
Posted by we3thinking in Sep 04, 2011, under Animal Welfare
Plans to build Britain’s biggest beagle “factory” has prompted protests by animal rights organisations.
Campaigners fear that if the breeding centre – which could hold more than 2,000 beagles bred for scientific experimentation – is allowed to go ahead it will result in government pledges to reduce the numbers of animals involved in experiments being broken.
Tens of thousands of people have objected to plans by a US firm to redevelop a site at Grimston near Hull into what is believed would be the UK’s second beagle breeding centre providing dogs for research.
Protesters held demonstrations outside council offices in Beverley, Humberside and the Planning Inspectorate headquarters in Bristol to object to the proposals.
The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection, which has submitted a petition with more than 28,000 signatures, said the number of dogs used in experiments in the UK may increase due to availability, if the plans are approved.
Its chief executive, Michelle Thew, said: “It will make a mockery of the UK’s pledge to reduce the number of animals in experiments.”
While animal experimentation is at a 25-year high in Britain, with just over 3.7mn scientific procedures started in 2010, the Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone pledged earlier this year to “end the testing of household products on animals” and to work to “reduce the use of animals in scientific research”.
Testing on dogs dropped 2% last year, with a total of 5,782 experiments being made on just over 3,700 dogs – more than 99% of which are beagles.
The multinational company B&K Universal, owned by New York-based Marshall Farms, wants permission to demolish the majority of its existing site and construct four new buildings covering almost 4,000 square metres to house the dogs. The redevelopment is reported to be the only one in the UK without outside exercise areas for beagles.
The local authority, East Riding of Yorkshire Council, refused the first application in June due to traffic concerns, but the company has appealed to the Planning Inspectorate. A decision is expected in a few months.
Centres that breed dogs for experimentation are exempt from main animal welfare legislation but adhere to a code of practice designated by the Home Office.
An Insight For All You Meat Lovers!!
Posted by we3thinking in Aug 22, 2011, under About Us
Although banned in the EU, meat glue is still used throughout the world (although that doesn’t mean it doesn’t go on).
Bits of meat that are small and can’t be sold are “glued” together and sold as larger portions of meat.
I can’t get Youtube to work at the moment so here is the link!
Sicko Satanist Thinks It Is OK To Abuse Animals Because His Cat Is Scared To Go Outside!
Posted by we3thinking in Aug 21, 2011, under Animal Welfare, Other News
This “I can do what I want” Satanist wants to frighten a rat to death by putting it in a ball so that his cat has less of a boring life.
I feel sorry for the cat and think that this boy should get a wash and a haircut and do something more responsible with his life!
And as for the responses? Well have a look yourselves!
Suggestions include drowning small animals, catching small animals by glueing their feet to a board and kicking the cat to “install a killer instinct!”
These Satanists may like to do whatever they want because they feel like it.
Well Karma keeps score and returns in multiples!
Confessions of a Cancer Industry Insider!
Posted by we3thinking in Aug 16, 2011, under Health News, Other News, World News
by Geraldine Philips
I work for a “cancer research center” and I call it this only because that is in their actual name.
I have seen and read things that boggle the mind in the so-called treatment of folks over the years. The only explanation is that once the “C” word comes up, people become deaf and dumb to anything but how to rid themselves of this horrible plague.
Treatment is akin to using leaches…and worse…but at a far far far greater price. Walk in without insurance coverage and see how much “treatment” you get.
Cap out your existing coverage in the middle of treatment…and treatment ceases. Immediately. This is and probably always has been about money.
I keep telling people to stop giving money to the “cancer research” because no one is frigging looking for a cure (we have several and they have been carefully hidden away from public view)…this is a multi-billion dollar per year industry and a “cure” would put a lot of people out of work.
NO ONE is seriously looking for a cure…at least not “serious academics”…the fringe nut cases are but of course those are the people who went into medicine as a means to help humanity and not become richer than god by next Thursday so that is a completely separate issue.
I have worked in the medical field for over 20 years, most of which has been closely associated with cancer research and treatment…when I was personally diagnosed with breast cancer, about 7 years ago, I was living in Phoenix. So, of course, I was referred to CTC post haste. CTC has the state mandate to treat cancer patients, with or without insurance and to this end gets large sums of money from the state to treat indigents.
That does not happen. Indigents get turfed. Quickly. Also, at one point I became suspicious of some physicians at CTC and did my own research…I found Ph.D researchers doing hands on breast and pelvic exams…researchers with no clinical training or experience. Does that matter? Ask your wife or sister or mother if they mind if a non doctor researcher does that? Probably they will say yes.
There was also a very long list of physicians who were in the country (not as students) who had not passed medical boards as required for all practicing physicians. They had been practicing for years and had no medical license. There were American doctors who had not passed medical boards, i.e. were not licensed physicians who were also practicing at CTC…they were treating patients (NOT as a student with faculty overview, independently), they were dispensing drugs…if they are not licensed physicians they are also not licensed to dispense anything stronger than aspirin)…but they were writing prescriptions and ordering medications including chemotherapy medications for patients unsupervised.
There were even unlicensed physicians who were doing surgery. (not only at CTC either). Unlicensed physicians are also filing insurance claims and if they are not licensed, filing an insurance claim for services rendered is fraud of the highest magnitude. I did my research well and I had lists of names and dates and the newspaper blew me off and would not cover the story. The TV stations did likewise. CTC buys a lot of advertising time and no one was willing to rock the boat on those advertising dollars. What a shock.
Held hostage? YOU BET…and you have no idea the depth to which this extends. Personally, I chose to not have surgery, not have chemotherapy and not have radiation (what and lose my waist length hair? I do not think so!)…I used Essiac…to excellent response and still have all the associated body parts (and the hair).
CONCLUSION
When you talk about being held hostage by cancer, you need to back up to the original diagnosis. Do you…or most folks…have any means to know or understand a diagnosis that you are given?
NO? What a surprise. So…you are totally at the mercy of the hospital. When a doctor says cancer, you assume that he/she knows what they are talking about…a faulty assumption in some cases…and you assume that they know what is best to treat it…another faulty assumption.
The major industry that hospitals sell is not healing…it is education (or lack thereof) and blind faith in something you do not understand. This is true of lots of diagnoses besides cancer, it is just that cancer is the big money maker for most facilities…secondary to obesity which is coming up fast.
Hospitals are scary places for lots of reasons and mistakes are vastly more common than what you read or hear about. Everyone makes mistakes of course…doctors bury theirs…with the full knowledge and corporate cover up of the hospital administration. I can’t wait to retire.
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