Help Put An End To The Yulin Dog Meat Festival!

Today's post is one of my most important ones ever, and I hope you'll join me in taking a moment to help put an end to the Yulin Dog Meat Festival.

Message from Kitty Block, 
President
Humane Society International:
"Across China, pets are being stolen, roaming dogs—owned and unowned—are violently grabbed from the streets and slaughterhouses are filled with terrified dogs. This cruelty supplies the country's dog meat markets and the annual dog meat “festival” happening next month in Yulin. But this is only the beginning of their suffering.

The journey to Yulin is a ruthless and appalling one. Crammed on top of each other and transported in trucks for days without food or water, some won’t make it alive. For those who do, they’ll wait, frightened and helpless, until it’s their turn to be pulled by the neck with iron tongs and beaten to death for someone’s meal.

Make your voice heard. Join HSI in urging Prime Minister of China, Li Keqiang, to end Yulin and the dog and cat meat trade once and for all.
 
This is not a lost cause, and you’re the reason why. With your support, we’re closing dog meat farms in South Korea, rescuing animals, helping dog meat farmers transition to humane ways of living and supporting the closure of dog slaughterhouses. And across Asia, we're promoting an adoption culture in those nations where the dog meat trade flourishes. Our work to end the Yulin dog meat festival forever will greatly strengthen those efforts.

Thanks to public outcry from compassionate animal lovers like you, this event has shrunk in size year by year, with fewer animals suffering and dying for their meat. Now more than ever, we must stick together to keep the pressure on.

Please stand with us this year as we work to end this festival for good and put an end to the dog meat industry across Asia.

Thank you for all that you do for animals, and for standing with us. Your support is critical to putting a permanent end to this horror and the many other cruelties we seek to prevent."

Support the Cruelty-Free Canada Act to Ban Cosmetic Testing on Animals #BeCrueltyFree

Hi, everyone! I hope you are all enjoying your time during the holidays and finding time to relax and do the things that you enjoy.

Today's post is an exciting one for me. I'm a huge animal lover and have never agreed with animal testing for the sake of beauty. Animal testing is totally unnecessary in this day and age- companies like Lush are proof of this. An estimated 200,000 animals suffer barbaric and cruel treatment as well as death as a result of cosmetic testing.

We are getting closer banning animal testing in Canada and that is exciting!

From Treehugger.com " In mid-December, Bill S-214, also known as the Cruelty Free Cosmetics Act, passed its second reading in the Senate with great support. It will now pass to the Senate committee for Social Affairs, Science, and Technology for further study."

Canada will join other countries that have already banned animal testing. Countries that have already banned animal testing include New Zealand, Brazil, the European Union, Israel, India, and Taiwan.

Please join me in signing the petition to ban animal testing in Canada. Here is the link if you'd like to sign the petition and send a message to your member of Parliament: Click HERE to take action to help ban animal testing in Canada.

Thank so much for supporting this cause and helping to save so many innocent animals from unnecessary suffering!

#BeCrueltyFree

Amy

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