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Thu Jul 2, 2009, 11:00 PM

_{Well.. I'm going to be deviantArt-less for the weekend because I'm going upto Wallaroo. Eh.. not much to say there, but I'm going to bring my camera and some (obviously) warm clothes. Adelaide weather is crap right now.. I hate winter!

From 9.16am, Proxy wouldn't let me update the journal so heres what I had to say this morning

In.. other.. news, Today's last day of term! Wooo! No more freaking school for 2 weeks.. I'm so going to sleep in! Bahahahha. I think I'm going to the Barossa on .. nyueeehh... Tuesday or Monday.. and Monday night we're going out for tea. Blach!

Oh.. I'm writing this from school.. on a proxy because dA is classified with having sexual content on the bloody blocker! Thankyou for the proxy, potato dust! .. hmm.. 9.16am.. I get pizza for lunch in a few short hours !

I'm going to miss my horse riding lessson for the week.. I wonder what the class will be learning. I should really ask them next week.. Oh an I have a feeling I'm going to miss Heartland because it's on gayass abc2 channel which you can only get on HD tvs which means my video/dvd recorder won't ber able to get the signal. Noo! My beloved Hertland will be missed unless I can tape it from foxtel..

Anyway, good bye dA, and good bye my friendly watchers!
Peace out Y'all ._____.

P.S My pizza was full of awesomesauce! AWESOOOOME

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R.I.P - Wishewing dead account..
~WisheWing has left.
One of my biggest inspirations is gone..
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I love cattle. To see them harmed in any way is horrible.. but this blog shows that even I'm not the only one who cares.. even when it seems I'm the only one.

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All-Creatures.org is an inspired blend of animal advocacy and Christian ministry. Informed by their faith, the authors, Mary and Frank Hoffman, preach kindness and compassion toward "all the animals of the land, all the birds of the air, and all the living creatures that crawl on the ground" (Gen 1:29-30), and to the fishes of the sea, and to our fellow humans...all creatures.

Part of the Hoffman's mission is to make us see the sickening and Hellish outcome when we deprive those creatures of any compassion. On this page, please read the photoessay on the various abuses that we inflict upon the cattle — cow, bull, and calf.

Starting at the top of the page, you first read about factory dairy farms, where calves, who need the milk, go without, so that we, who don't need the milk and often get sick from it, can drink record amounts.

Next you come to veal, in which newborn calves are placed in tiny urine- and feces-infested crates until they're slaughtered a few months later. Veal calves must be one of the loneliest creatures on earth.

As you go down the page, you enter the slaughterhouse. Cattle, who have a quiet majesty and dignity when grazing in the pasture, are hung by their hooves, stunned, and bled. Sometimes the stunner does not work perfectly.

Keep going down. See the horrid reality of Kosher slaughter. Animals with their tracheas cut out but still alive, dumped onto the floor.

Go down to bullfighting. The bull's death is drawn out, prolonged, lengthened, while the matador smiles and the crowd roars its approval. The bull, intentionally weakened even before the event begins, is slowly bled to death. While writing in pain and barely alive, his ear and tail are cut off. The final indignity. To some, this is entertainment.

In the U.S., the cowardly sadists wear cowboy hats and call their spectacle "rodeo." See tough guys pull the tails of baby animals and flip them on their backs. The cowboys also use shocking devices and bucking straps across the genitals to pile on the abuse.

Down near the bottom, a ritual you've probably never heard of: the Farra do Boi in Brazil. "Farra do boi, loosely translated as 'Festival of the Oxen' or 'Ox Fun Days,' involves the torture-killing of several hundred oxen each year in more than thirty communities throughout the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina. This evil festival begins with starving the oxen for two days, with food in plain sight but out of reach." The oxen are also deprived of water that they can see but not touch.

Then the torture worsens. Gangs of mostly young men, but also women and children, inflict one punishment after another on the downtrodden animals. They pull their ears, stone them, hit them with sticks, and chase them until the animals are exhausted. One picture shows an ox with his legs cut off, still alive. The picture after that shows men bleeding an ox to death; the ox, after three days of torment, is too tired to fight any more.

I first learned about the Farra do Boi a few weeks ago, and it's one of the most despicable things I've ever heard of. How can people torment an innocent creature for three days without interruption? I want to learn more about this violent ritual and write about it in future posts. And yet I doubt that I will ever fully absorb the depths of its evil, or that any words will fully convey its depravity.

At the bottom of the page are pictures and text describing how we transport cattle. We pack them so tightly that the weary may not be able to lie down. We also deprive them of food and water. There is one destination that all animals suffering at our hands desperately seek: deliverance from our cruelty.

Some of you may want to pray for the animals. That is fine. Who can say that the animals themselves won't sense your compassionate pleas? The non-believers may want to pray in their own way, too. I believe that can be done. Fervently hope that humankind will evolve into kind humans. Praying and hoping are restorative, transforming. Derive strength from your prayers. Resolve to fight cruelty and injustice, while struggling to maintain mercy for the oppressors. They are lost souls. There but for the grace of God go all of us. No species is excluded from the Peaceful Kingdom. We are all capable of being redeemed. To be faithful to the ideas of peace for all creatures is the only lasting solution.

Verses From the Book of Isaiah. Even non-believers may be mesmerized by the flowing beauty of the language in these verses. "They will do no evil or harm in all My holy mountain."

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace."
—Jimi Hendrix

"Thou shalt not be a victim. Thou shalt not be a perpetrator. Above all, thou shalt not be a bystander"
—Holocaust Museum, Washington, DC

"What would you do different if you knew you could not fail?"
—Kim Schmitz
Posted by: Gary / 11:45 PM (0) comments
Sunday, May 01, 2005
Rodeo: Selling Animal Abuse to Children
In calf-roping, the contestant lassoes a fleeing calf, then pulls the calf by her neck along the ground (by holding onto the rope as he commands his horse to gallop). Next, the contestant jumps off his horse, picks up the calf — who's probably scared and already in great pain — and slams her to the ground. By this point, the calf may be practically knocked out. The contestant walks away, pleased with himself. No one in the rodeo cares about the animal who was abused and lying on the ground.

In 1999, the Calgary Herald quoted a Calgary Stampede sopkesman as saying that calf-roping is declining in popularity due to "...people (who) feel that the ca;f is smaller and weaker than the cowboy and horse." Most rodeo calves are no more than three or four months old. Another rodeo event, steer busting, is so violent, it's not allowed in most states. The Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association puts a positive spin on this restriction by saying that steer-busting is held at "select rodeos."

It's painful to even watch these events. What does it feel like to be whiplashed, dragged on the ground, pulled by a rope around your neck, and body-slammed? These two videos show the deliberate cruelty of rodeo. The animals in the videos have done nothing wrong; why are they being punished so much?

This video, by Mercy For Animals shows some of the ways that so-called cowboys inflict pain on rodeo animals that have no means of escape.

Rodeos are marketed to children. One was even held at a home for troubled boys. Part of the terror of child abuse is that the child doesn't know when the next round of torment will begin, and is unable to escape from it. Rodeo is very much like child abuse. But it is packaged as entertainment, and some people obviously find fake cowboys forcing terror, pain, and injury on animals to be entertaining. What a great lesson for young people: torment those less powerful then you, and get enjoyment from it.

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Posted by: Gary / 11:49 PM (20) comments
Rodeo: Cowardly Cruelty Packaged as Entertainment
What goes on behind the scenes at a rodeo? "Tough" cowboys take a hand-held probe that delivers a 5000 volt shock, walk up to a steer, bull, or calf that is restrained in a chute, and shove the device into the animal's hide. The animal may be shocked repeatedly, and cannot escape. Videos taken by investigators show the captive animals jumping and jerking in response to the pain. This is beyond cruelty. This is torture. This is the same technique used by terrorists to force a confession out of a prisoner.

This calf is being jerked at high speed by the rope around its neck. A real cowboy handling a runaway calf would not do it this way. He would bring the calf in nice and easy, taking care to not cause pain or distress in the animal. The timed nature of rodeo events and the psuedo-macho image that rodeo tries to project nearly guarantees that animals will be mistreated.
But for the animal, the abuse is not over. Look at calf-roping, one of the cruelest events in the rodeo. As soon as the gate is opened, the calf bolts out of the chute at top speed, because he's terrified — he's just received multiple inescapable shocks. While the calf is fleeing, at up to 25 miles per hour, a rodeo contestant throws a lasso around the calf's neck, tightens it, and slams him to the ground. If the throw is off a little, the rope may wrap around the calf's legs or stomach, causing him to slam into the ground head-first. Every year rodeo animals suffer neck and back injuries, and some are killed, in part because of cruelly-design events like this. The rodeo participants never show the slightest amount of consideration for the injured animal. Maybe that would erode their "tough guy" image or reveal that the rodeo is really all about cowardice and bullying, not "sport."

Look how tight the rope is around this calf's neck. First he's subjected to abuse in the chute, then he's strangled. Sometimes after being roped and pulled the calves visibly have trouble breathing.

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I'm glad I'm not the only one who cares!

Cows= Love

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