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Showing posts with label Animals - Cruelty against animals - Canada. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Animals - Cruelty against animals - Canada. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 2, 2016

UNDERCOVER VIDEO LEADS TO ANIMAL CRUELTY CHARGES LAID AGAINST CHILLIWACK CATTLE SALES, Canada's largest dairy farm - MERCY FOR ANIMALS video exposed workers viciously hitting cows with chains and lifting injured cows by a chain tied around their necks - WATCH VIDEO

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Animal cruelty charges laid against Chilliwack Cattle Sales.  Seven employees also charged for "permitting animals to be, or continue to be, in distress" 
 
The video showed employees “using chains, canes, rakes, their booted feet and their fists to viciously whip, punch, kick and beat dairy cows, including downed and trapped cows who could not escape the abuse,” SPCA chief enforcement officer Marcie Moriarty said in a release.
  • Workers viciously kicking, punching, beating, and hitting cows in the face and body with chains, canes, metal pipes, and rakes.
  • Workers using chains and tractors to lift sick and injured cows by their necks
  • Workers poking and squeezing festering wounds, ripping clumps of hair out of cows' sensitive tails, and punching bulls in the testicles
Continue reading and watch undercover VIDEO

Wednesday, July 8, 2015

CANADIAN CONSERVATION OFFICER WHO REFUSED TO MURDER BEAR CUBS IS SUSPENDED WITHOUT PAY - Mother bear was murdered for raiding someone's freezer near Port Hardy, British Columbia - Suspension has sparked public OUTRAGE and an ONLINE PETITION for the officer's reinstatement

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File photo of baby black bears.
The surviving orphans,
brother and sister

From a CBC reader's comment:  "For centuries now, the only "animal problems" in North America have been humans."

But it's not just Europeans who are to blame.  Aboriginals hunted bison by stampeding them over a cliff.  They did away with megafauna now extinct, such as mammoths, giant beavers, and many others.  

UPDATES: 

July 10:  "Needless destruction of a baby animal" - Hacked emails between Officer Bryce Casavant and his boss have been released by a source with unconfirmed links to hack group Anonymous.  They reveal how Casavant tried to save the cubs' lives against his boss' orders.  (Read more further down this page.) 

July 9:  Scientist specializing in the rehabilitation of bears says that killing orphan cubs is NOT based on science.  (Read more further down this page.)

July 8 - According to the Huffington Post, Officer Bryce Casavant has had his pay reinstated but he remains under suspension.  No further details are given.

Earlier on July 8 the CBC reported:

British Columbia conservation officer Bryce Casavant has been suspended without pay for refusing to kill two black bear cubs near Port Hardy after their mother was killed for repeatedly raiding a freezer full of meat and salmon.
 
Despite an order to kill the cubs too, Casavant took them to a veterinary hospital. They are now at a recovery centre run by the North Island Wildlife Recovery Association in Errington, which like Port Hardy is on Vancouver Island.

Robin Campbell, the recovery centre's manager, said the conservation officer did the right thing as the cubs are not habituated to humans and can be reintroduced to the wild.
 
"[The mother bear] was a problem, but these cubs did nothing." 

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Wednesday, April 1, 2015

CANADA`S SHAME - THE KILLING FIELDS WHERE HALF A MILLION BABY SEALS ARE HIT WITH CLUBS OR ICE PICKS AND THEN SKINNED WHILE STILL ALIVE - Aside from the FUR trade, killers also profit from the sale of seals`sexual organs, which are regarded as aphrodisiacs in ASIA


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'Humane': A majority of seals are killed with clubs or a ‘hakapik’ to the head in order to avoid damaging the pelt
 
Return to Canada's killing fields: Government gives green light for almost HALF A MILLION seals to be killed for their fur in annual cull - and vast majority will be pups who die by a club or ice pick to the head
Why: The seals are mainly killed for their pelts, but hunters also sell their blubber and the penises, which are a popular ingredient in aphrodisiacs in Asia
  • Canadian seal hunt is the largest marine mammal cull on the planet
  • Scientists have proved that seals are often skinned while still alive and sensitive to pain
  • The 2015 quota given to hunters by the government is 468,000 seals
  • Mainly killed for their furs, but also to make seal oil and aphrodisiacs
  • Hunt quota has been over 400,000 for years, despite decline in market
  • Bans on import of seal pelts has lead to complete collapse in sales 

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