Would you like lies with that? If somebody told you that an animal was 'free to roam', you'd probably think that's a pretty good situation, right? Not so if you're a chicken in a factory farm. Can you believe the chicken industry has been calling this 'free to roam'?! Alright, it's probably no surprise that an industry willing to lock thousands of animals in sheds like this is also willing to bend the truth when they try to sell dead animals to the public. But this time around, it doesn't look like they'll get away with it. Following a complaint, prompted by Animals Australia, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has decided to take a number of chicken producers (including producers for Steggles and La Ionica) to court for misleading advertising. But these companies aren't the only ones using these dodgy tactics to sell chickens.
If the ACCC case is successful, then Steggles, La Ionica and the Australian Chicken Meat Federation will be forced to publicly correct their misleading claims. Good news stories | Dollars For Collars. No Cruel Cosmetics. Europe has listened - and said No to Cruel Cosmetics! 2013 is set to be a truly historic year for the BUAV. Our long-fought campaign to end animal testing for cosmetics is finally nearing an end in Europe, with the implementation of the last phase of the European Union’s ban set to come into force on 11th March 2013. It has been a long and difficult journey but we have been there every step of the way fighting the postponements and delays in our determination to end animal testing for cosmetics in Europe. We are immensely proud of this achievement – we have been campaigning to end animal testing for cosmetics for over 40 years – and we have finally done it! Thank you to everyone who has supported us along the way. A long-fought road to victory 1898 – The British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) was founded to campaign against all forms of animal testing 1973 - The BUAV first brought the issue of cosmetics testing on animals to the public attention.
Slashing legs and throats: All in a day’s work. Where’s the beef: A worker readies a bull at the Darma Jaya slaughterhouse in Cakung, East Jakarta. Cattle in Jakarta’s slaughterhouses have typically their leg muscles cut and their throats slit before they are toppled off of concrete mounds to their deaths.
JP/Nani Afrida Workers in Jakarta’s slaughterhouses say the way they kill cattle is not inhumane and uses only conventional “manual” measures. Muhammad Mudhofir, who previously worked at the Pulogadung slaughterhouse in East Jakarta, told The Jakarta Post recently that he and his co-workers typically crippled animals before they were killed. “When we killed an animal manually, first we’d incapacitate it and tie it down by its head and legs,” he said.
“We could also do it with the help of restraining boxes and stun guns but, in practice, we found it was easier to do it manually.” Mudhofir, a slaughterhouse worker from 1997 to 2002, said some people might fight the process of incapacitating cattle disturbing or abusive. It took me 1 second to judge this. Can you do better? | BanLiveExport.com.