Detroit, MI – Nikita Smith filed a lawsuit against the Detroit Police Department after they killed her three dogs during a raid of her home in search of pot last year. On Wednesday, a judge absurdly ruled the dogs were considered “contraband,” noting that Smith had no legal basis to sue the police department for shooting and killing her dogs, due to the canines not having been properly licensed.
Subsequently, the federal civil rights lawsuit filed by Smith after a raid of her home by the Detroit police was dismissed by U.S. District Court Judge George Caram Steeh.
The search warrant for Smith’s residence came after police received a tip that marijuana was being sold out of the home. The raid, which killed her three dogs, netted a total of 25 grams of marijuana – not even an ounce.
During World War II the Nazi regime transported millions of Jews for many days at the time in cattle cars without food or water on their way to slaughter. Many died on the way.
As those trains passed towns and villages, people got a glimpse of human beings crammed inside moaning with hunger and thirst, but looked the other way not because they were afraid of authorities, but because they simply did not care. They regarded Jews as inferior beings not worthy of their time.
This attitude towards what they considered "lesser beings" was not exclusive to Germans or to Nazi sympathizers. It is part of human nature, and today we see it reflected in our indifference to the inhumane way animals are raised and transported to slaughter. We really don't care.
This article is about the torture suffered by pigs in Canada. But livestock are abused all over the world, even in Europe and the United States, as you can see in the following video:.
MERCY FOR ANIMALS
VIDEO: "FROM FARM TO FRIDGE"
The systematic and often LEGAL torture of animals at industrial farms.
Although the standards are higher in the west, that does not mean that they are always adhered to. Hidden cameras keep exposing sadistic behavior towards food animals even in the most advanced farms.
Secretly filming animal abuse at industrial farms is now being regarded as a crime. Not the abuse itself, but exposing this abuse. The so-called AG-GAG laws (such as in Idaho) make it a crime to secretly film farm animal abuse.
On the following hidden-camera video workers reveal how pigs freeze solid to the trucks, as they are transported in sub-zero weather for days at the time.
In sweltering temperatures pigs suffer from dehydration, heat stroke, heart attacks, and death.
You will also see how pigs are mutilated and sadistically beaten up prior to being loaded up into trucks. Government inspectors fail to prevent all this torture.
HIDDEN CAMERA VIDEO - What the media covering this trial in Canada don't dare to tell you: The sadistic torture of pigs prior and during transport to slaughter.
If we cared about this abuse the meat industry would not get away with the WORST AND MOST INHUMANE STANDARDS in the Western world for the transportation of livestock to slaughter.
Canadian regulations governing the transportation of farmed animals date back to 1975.
They currently allow for cattle to be in transit for 52 hours without access to food or water, while the maximum for pigs and chickens is 36 hours.
In the United States, livestock can only be on a truck for 28 hours, at which point they must be off-loaded and rested.
In Europe, animals such as sheep and cattle can be in transit for 14 hours before they need to be rested and given water, while pigs don’t have to be off-loaded for 24 hours if they have access to water at all times.
Ontario animal activist Anita Krajnc often gives water to pigs in distress during truck stops on their way to slaughter.
For this compassionate act she now faces a maximum of six months in jail or a $5,000 fine if convicted. She has pleaded not guilty.
Toronto Pig Save, which Krajnc founded, regularly holds "vigils" in front of local slaughterhouses to "bear witness" to the animals' final moments
Watch VIDEO of the confrontation between Anita and the truck driver:
Hidden camera video scenes Forcing injured, dying animals to move
The driver, Jeffrey Veldjesgraaf testified that "his main concern was over what was in the water that Krajnc's group gave the pigs, and whether it might contaminate the livestock," CBC reported.
The case has attracted the attention of other animal rights activists, who are tweeting messages of support using the hashtags #PigTrial and #StandWithAnita.
In an interview with The Canadian Press last year, the farm's owner, Eric Van Boekel, said he didn't have a problem with Anita’s protesting; he just didn't want her to touch his "stuff.''
Mercy for Animals Joe Loria wrote: Animals are not stuff. They are living, feeling beings. In fact, pigs are complex creatures who vocalize emotions. They are even reported to have higher IQs than dogs, chimpanzees, and even three-year-old humans.
Canada's livestock transportation rules 'worst in the Western world': advocate
By Michael Shulman, CTV News, Canada
March 17, 2016
Thousands of farm animals are transported across Canada every week. But the conditions they experience are regulated by rules that are decades old, and according to many, inhumane.
The revenge of the bull: Spanish spectator is gored and trampled after throwing a bottle of water at the beast at bull-run event
Bull turned on tormentor at taunting event in Spain
Jose Briseon, 51, threw a bottle of water at the enraged animal
Bull tossed Mr Briseon on its horns, gored him and trampled him
A Spanish man is recovering from serious injuries after a bull-taunting backfired and the beast turned on him. Jose Briseon, 51, had been standing by the sidelines of a bull-run in Duenas, in the northern Spanish province of Palencia, when he decided to throw a bottle of water at the raging animal. Footage from the event shows how the bull turns on Mr Briseon, tosses him up, gores him on his horns and tramples him.
Spectator Amandio Frias said: ‘The man was tossed around by the bull and was screaming in pain as horrified spectators watched on helpless. ‘He was one of several tormenting the bull and trying to get the bull to notice him. ‘Unfortunately for him, the bull really did notice him and gave him his full attention,’ he added.
Daily Mail - Kittens' skulls cracked open and electrodes inserted into their brains in shocking series of experiments at 10 UK universities including Cambridge.
Cats were also raised in complete darkness during 'lazy eye' experiment
Most of the subjects were given a fatal overdose after the procedures
Ten prestigious universities said to be involved in the controversial testing
Findings have been published in report which will be sent to the Home Office
Kittens have been paralysed, had their skulls broken and had electrodes stuck onto their brains, ribs and spine as part of a series of shocking experiments at 10 of the country's most prestigious universities.
The cruel procedures on the helpless subjects have been performed so scientists can improve their understanding of the human body.
Some of the animals were raised in complete darkness while others had one of their eyes stitched closed so scientists could analyse problems surrounding 'lazy eye'. Others had their lungs deliberately collapsed during the brutal procedures and many were injected with paralysing drugs to stop them moving or breathing.
The scientific establishment and the law have been trailing behind in concepts that are obvious to us since early childhood: that mammals, birds, and many other animals are just like us. They express feelings, they love, they fear, they grieve, they feel pain, and they establish bonds with other creatures just like us.
The scientific establishment resists "anthropomorphizing" animals. That's what they call obvious evidence of animals' feelings.
So scientists resort to all kinds of convoluted language to get around the fact that animals feel pain - lest they could be accused of cruelty when they torture billions of animals in the name of research.
