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10-year-old Hagerstown girl speaks out against animal abuse |
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June 30, 2008
Hayley Beyer has taken a stand on animal rights and is determined to speak on their behalf to stop animal abuse.
"I've always been interested in animals," Hayley said. "They can teach you things."
Hayley, a 10-year-old fifth-grader at Eastern Elementary School,
said she feels strongly about the safety of animals, so she submitted a
paper titled "Animal Abuse" to the Humane Society of Washington County.
Hayley said after visiting the shelter, she "stopped by the desk and
asked if they wanted her paper."
"They told me they would put it in their case, so like people coming in the shelter can see it when they sign in," Hayley said.
The humane society’s stated mission is to improve the quality of life for all animals.
"We try to determine what's best for the animals," said Paul Miller,
executive director of the humane society. "We certainly try to educate
the community of acceptable standards of animal care and ownership. We
also make sure animals are properly taken care of through programs and
press releases."
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Spanish parliament to extend rights to apes |
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June 25, 2008
Spain's parliament voiced its support on Wednesday for the rights of
great apes to life and freedom in what will apparently be the first
time any national legislature has called for such rights for non-humans.
Parliament's environmental committee approved resolutions urging
Spain to comply with the Great Apes Project, devised by scientists and
philosophers who say our closest genetic relatives deserve rights
hitherto limited to humans.
"This is a historic day in the struggle for animal rights and in
defense of our evolutionary comrades, which will doubtless go down in
the history of humanity," said Pedro Pozas, Spanish director of the
Great Apes Project.
Spain may be better known abroad for bull-fighting than animal
rights but the new measures are the latest move turning
once-conservative Spain into a liberal trailblazer.
Spain did not legalize divorce until the 1980s, but Prime Minister
Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero's Socialist government has legalized gay
marriage, reduced the influence of the Catholic Church in education and
set up an Equality Ministry.
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I Love Moo: Tales From A N.Y. Animal Sanctuary |
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June 15, 2008
Moo had a little crush on me, and I could all but return his affections. The brown-haired boy possessed saucer-size eyes, a sturdy build and a
sweet disposition. But what really tugged at my heart was his story of
survival. The super-friendly bull, who had trailed me through the
pasture like a lovelorn teen, had been found tied to a car during his
calfhood. He was saved by one animal shelter, then recently relocated
to another, Farm Sanctuary near Watkins Glen, N.Y.
Moo is not alone -- here, at the country's largest farm
animal-rescue facility, or with his grim history. The safe haven takes
in hundreds of farm animals, who, if they could talk, would tell
similar stories. There's Morgan, a snow-white rooster discovered in a
Brooklyn pet store dyed like an Easter egg; Mayfly, an experiment in a
school hatching project; and Winnie, a 500-pound pig who escaped a
backyard barbecue (featuring her) in Connecticut. She now is the alpha
pig of the pen.
"The biggest thing we want to impress upon people is that animals
have their own lives and personalities," said Liz Pichaud, the spirited
23-year-old tour guide who led our six-person group around the property
last month. "They are living as they were intended to live."
Farm Sanctuary is more sanctuary than farm. In 1986, Californian Gene Baur (who, ironically, appeared in McDonald's
commercials as teenager) and his then-wife founded the grass-roots
operation in an effort to expose the dark side of factory farming.
Funded in part by selling veggie hot dogs at Grateful Dead
shows, the group made its first save in a Pennsylvania stockyard. Hilda
the sheep was the sole survivor in a room of doom; she spent the last
11 years of her life grazing greener fields in New York.
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