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Scientists Declare: Animals Are as Aware as Humans


By George Dvorsky, io9.com, via Discovery Channel

An international group of prominent scientists has signed The Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness in which they are proclaiming their support for the idea that animals are conscious and aware to the degree that humans are — a list of animals that includes all mammals, birds, and even the octopus. But will this make us stop treating these animals in totally inhumane ways?

While it might not sound like much for scientists to declare that many nonhuman animals possess conscious states, it’s the open acknowledgement that’s the big news here. The body of scientific evidence is increasingly showing that most animals are conscious in the same way that we are, and it’s no longer something we can ignore.

What’s also very interesting about the declaration is the group’s acknowledgement that consciousness can emerge in those animals that are very much unlike humans, including those that evolved along different evolutionary tracks, namely birds and some encephalopods.

“The absence of a neocortex does not appear to preclude an organism from experiencing affective states,” they write. “Convergent evidence indicates that non-human animals have the neuroanatomical, neurochemical, and neurophysiological substrates of conscious states along with the capacity to exhibit intentional behaviors.”

Consequently, say the signatories, the scientific evidence is increasingly indicating that humans are not unique in possessing the neurological substrates that generate consciousness.

Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/scientists-declare-animals-are-as-aware-as-humans.html#ixzz26YE7dG4Q

Love Always
mudra

The RSPCA has called for an immediate suspension of live animal transport from Ramsgate Port after 45 sheep were killed.

The incident happened after the transporter, carrying more than 500 live sheep on four tiers, was declared unfit to travel on Wednesday (12 September).



The animals had to be removed from the lorry and held in temporary holding pens at the Kent port.

Two of the sheep, one of which had a broken leg, had to be put down immediately. A further 41 severely lame animals will be shot, the RSPCA said.

Two more sheep drowned after the floor of the holding area they were being kept in collapsed. Four others were rescued from the water by RSPCA officers.

"The RSPCA has been warning that a significant welfare incident like this could lead to a tragedy for the animals and now it has."
Gavin Grant, RSPCA

The lorry drivers - both French - were arrested at the scene.

The incident has led RSPCA chief executive Gavin Grant to call for an immediate stop to all live animal transport from Ramsgate.

"We told the port authorities right from the start that they did not have the facilities to handle live exports safely," said Mr Grant.

"The RSPCA has been warning that a significant welfare incident like this could lead to a tragedy for the animals and now it has."

He said the RSPCA has fought against such a trade for more than 100 years.

"If meat needs to go to the Continent then it should be on the hook, not on the hoof, and today cruelly illustrates that this appalling trade needs to cease immediately," he added.
Mr Grant will be meeting with government ministers today (Thursday 13 September) to discuss the issue.

A separate incident saw another lorry loaded with sheep turned away from Ramsgate Port.

Checks by the RSPCA, the Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency and the police revealed the transporter to have a broken ramp and partition gates not fitted properly. The sheep also had no access to an on-board water source.

After rectifying the situation the lorry was sent back to Northamptonshire.

According to the RSPCA, Ramsgate is the only British port being used for shipping animals abroad for further fattening and slaughter.

The incidents come after Thanet District Council, which owns the Port of Ramsgate, announced in July that it would like to stop all live animal exports.

The EU (2012) - Exposed: factory farming's best kept secret - During a recent investigation, our team visited rabbit farms in France, Spain and Italy - where more than three quarters of all rabbit farming in the EU takes place.

During a recent Compassion in World Farming investigation into the factory farming of rabbits, appalling suffering was documented; rabbits kept in tiny, bare wire cages, u
nable to move freely or express their natural desires to dig or hide. Rabbit faeces were built up under the cages -- piled up to knee-height in places. And there were bins full of dead rabbits.

Watch the ground breaking footage here. Please be aware it contains scenes of a distressing nature.

MOVIE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxsRYaeN9GE
INFO: http://www.ciwf.org.uk/what_we_do/rabbits/default.aspx

Health officials have known for decades that smoking cigarettes causes disease in nearly every organ of the human body and that animal tests are poor predictors of these effects. Yet tobacco companies and the contract laboratories that they hire continue to conduct cruel, irrelevant animal tests on new and existing products.


Torturous Tests:


In tests that many people don't realize are still being conducted, animals are forced to breathe cigarette smoke for up to six hours straight, every day, for as long as three years. Animals naturally avoid breathing cigarette smoke, so lab rats are forced into tiny canisters, and cigarette smoke is pumped directly into their noses. In the past, dogs and monkeys have had tubes attached to holes in their necks or have had masks strapped to their faces to force smoke into their lungs. In other commonly conducted tests, mice and rats have cigarette tar applied directly to their bare skin to induce the growth of skin tumors.

Specific examples of cigarette experiments include the following:
• In a study to test the effects of adding ingredients such as honey, sugar, molasses, plum juice, lime oil, chocolate, cocoa, and coffee extract to cigarettes, experimenters with Philip Morris stuffed thousands of rats into tiny canisters that pumped tobacco smoke directly into their noses six hours a day for 90 consecutive days. The rats were then killed and dissected to examine the harm caused to their bodies.

• To test the effects of using high-fructose corn syrup to flavor cigarettes, experimenters at R.J. Reynolds spread cigarette tar on the skin of more than 1,000 mice and rats and then forced them to breathe cigarette smoke. Many of the mice who had tar spread on their skin died during the study. Other mice had their skin peel off, and they developed skin tumors. All the surviving animals were killed and dissected.

• Philip Morris experimenters subjected 1,000 rats to two years of breathing either diesel engine exhaust or secondhand cigarette smoke for six hours a day, seven days a week, just to compare the effects of the exposure on their lungs.

• Experimenters hired by Lorillard Tobacco (the maker of Newport and other brands of cigarettes) forced rats to breathe cigarette smoke for three hours a day for five days and then killed them and cut them open to see if the exposure had harmed their lungs.

Companies also conduct animal experiments to test new cigarette papers, tobacco mixtures, and so-called "safer" cigarettes. PETA researchers discovered that until recently, the National Cancer Institute—which is supposed to combat tobacco use—was selling mice to tobacco companies for use in tests to develop new products.(5) And under the guise of developing treatments to "help" smokers, experimenters torture animals with taxpayers' money. At the Oregon National Primate Research Center, for instance, dozens of pregnant rhesus monkeys had tubes surgically implanted in order to subject them to a continuous flow of nicotine for the last four months of their pregnancies. A few days before full term, experimenters cut the fetuses out of the mothers and killed and dissected the preterm babies in order to determine the effects of nicotine exposure on their bodies.



Archaic Methods:

Tobacco products and their ingredients are not required by U.S. law to be tested on animals—and for good reason. Manufacturers can effectively use in vitro (non-animal) technology, human-based research methods, and the existing body of knowledge from human epidemiological and clinical studies about the health concerns associated with smoking. Indeed, all the tobacco product tests required in Canada are modern non-animal in vitro tests.(7) Tobacco industry scientists have concluded that "in vitro toxicology tests can be successfully used both for better understanding the biological activity of cigarette smoke … and for guiding the development of cigarettes with reduced toxicity."( Philip Morris' German laboratories have even developed in vitro methods that use human lung tissue to test their products, but the company's U.S. counterpart still continues to use cruel and less reliable animal tests.

None of the aforementioned cruel animal experiments would even be legal if conducted in Belgium, Estonia, Germany, Slovakia, or the U.K., where tobacco product and ingredient tests on animals have been banned.

Crucial Differences:

Animal tests are not only cruel but also irrelevant to human health. Different animals have different reactions to toxins, and animals in laboratories aren't exposed to cigarette smoke in the same manner or time frame as human smokers are.

The link between tobacco and lung cancer in humans was obscured for years because data collected from experiments on animals did not show this relationship. A recent article by a tobacco industry consultant reported that results from years of cigarette inhalation studies on rats, mice, hamsters, dogs, and nonhuman primates did not show significant increases in cancerous tumor development and were "clearly at variance with the epidemiological evidence in smokers, and it is difficult to reconcile this major difference between observational studies in humans and controlled laboratory studies now in five different animal species."

What You Can Do:

To quote the National Cancer Institute, "There is no safe tobacco product." We already know fromclinical research—and from basic common sense—that smoking is bad for us. If you still use tobacco products, seek out companies such as Imperial Tobacco, Nat Sherman, and Santa Fe Natural Tobacco that have official policies against testing their products on animals.

If the tobacco industry wants to continue developing and marketing products that cause addiction and kill people, it should do so without the help of the government and without harming animals. You can write to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and request that it follow the lead of agencies in progressive countries by banning tobacco product and ingredient tests on animals:

Tobacco Products Scientific Advisory Committee
Center for Tobacco Products
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
10903 New Hampshire Ave.
Silver Spring, MD 20993
tpsac@fda.hhs.gov


SIGN THE PETITION-PETITION to ask the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to take action!

Please sign at the link - Thank you very much!

http://features.peta2.com/animals-dont-smoke/

For more related information, please see:
http://www.occupyforanimals.org/the-smoking-beagles.html

AUSTRALIAN SHEEP 'CLUBBED, BURIED ALIVE' IN PAKISTAN
By Simon Cullen and Sabra Lane, ABC
Updated September 28, 2012

At least 10,000 Australian sheep sent to Pakistan have been slaughtered, with Pakistani newspapers reporting a video which they say shows some of the animals being clubbed to death and others buried alive.

Karachi-based PK Meat and Food Company bought the sheep after authorities in Bahrain rejected the shipment on the grounds the animals were infected.

Authorities in Karachi then ordered the boatload of 20,468 sheep be killed because of the disease risk, but PK Meat and Food obtained a court order which temporarily stopped the killing.

The Pakistani court has now adjourned until Friday its decision on the remaining sheep stranded in Karachi.

But disturbing vision has surfaced which shows the brutal way in which 10,000 sheep were killed by local authorities.

The ABC has not seen the footage but Steven Meerwald, managing director of Wellard, the company that exported the sheep, has confirmed seeing it.

"One of the staff members at the facility took that vision during the culling, at some risk to themselves to be able to get evidence," he said.

Several Pakistani media outlets have also reported on the cruel footage.

The News International said the sheep had been stabbed, clubbed to death and buried alive.

read on: http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/latest/14977092/reports-australian-sheep-buried-alive-in-pakistan/

Love Always
mudra

"Isn't man an amazing animal? He kills wildlife - birds, kangaroos, deer, all kinds of cats, coyotes, beavers, groundhogs, mice, foxes, and dingoes - by the millions in order to protect his domestic animals and their feed. Then he kills domestic animals by the billions and eats them. This in turn kills man by the million, because eating all those animals leads to degenerative - and fatal - health
conditions like heart disease, kidney disease, and cancer. So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other human beings are being killed by hunger and malnutrition because food they could eat is being used to fatten domestic animals. Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year sends out a card praying for "Peace on Earth.""
- C. David Coats, Preface to Old MacDonald's Factory Farm

burgundia wrote:"Isn't man an amazing animal? He kills wildlife - birds, kangaroos, deer, all kinds of cats, coyotes, beavers, groundhogs, mice, foxes, and dingoes - by the millions in order to protect his domestic animals and their feed. Then he kills domestic animals by the billions and eats them. This in turn kills man by the million, because eating all those animals leads to degenerative - and fatal - health
conditions like heart disease, kidney disease, and cancer. So then man tortures and kills millions more animals to look for cures for these diseases. Elsewhere, millions of other human beings are being killed by hunger and malnutrition because food they could eat is being used to fatten domestic animals. Meanwhile, some people are dying of sad laughter at the absurdity of man, who kills so easily and so violently, and once a year sends out a card praying for "Peace on Earth. ""
- C. David Coats, Preface to Old MacDonald's Factory Farm

once a year sends out a card praying for "Peace on Earth".

[b]BE A CONSCIOUS SHOPPER. DON'T SPONSOR TORTURE. STOP THE DEMAND.
The reason why you need to see this, is because you are a consumer. It is written that it is 'fundamental research' (so no particular purpose... wholesale can do pretty much anything...) Please share in order to show the horror of vivisection, even to those who refuse to see (especially to them). Source: Menschen für Tierrechte[/b]

Burgundia, these types of images rip my heart out. Mans inhumanity to animals and humankind is something that should not be allowed let alone tolerated. Yet, how does this stop? As I see it there has to be a shift in consciousness - an awareness that we are all connected to one another and to harm others (animals or humans) is a direct attack against one's own spirit and the life itself with all creatures big or small. That some find these various inhumane cruel vile practices fun just goes to show how sick and spiritually deprived they are.

Having worked in the field of abuse and violence for 6 years, I left the field because it was more then I could stomach. Who knows what direction humanity is going in but from these images you post it is clear - there is a large segment of humanity (mostly male) that is unredeemable.

There is nothing new under this sun.

There are hooman incarnations that think to kill is ok. However it is against nature. It is constant rebelious against them.
About Mind disease in Kali Yuga was warned via Sanskrit (which I consider not puffed up language).

Budda came to stop violence, Jesus said You shall not kill, Ghandi protested against unethical govs, now we have unethical gov gangs who do not inforce to stop killings, hoomans vote for yes, hoomans go against nature. God is perfect, the problem is with Man.

too many puffed up in their minds... very sad.