Protection animale...TOUTES LES PETITIONS !

In just months, a ban on selling new animal-tested cosmetics in the European Union is due to be implemented. If kept intact, this ban will help end cosmetics testing on animals worldwide! But now the ban is dangerously under threat from a proposed loophole.

Putting profits before progress, cosmetics companies are pressuring the European Commission to introduce a loophole to allow newly animal-tested cosmetics to continue being sold in the EU. Unbelievably, the Commission has already prepared draft rules that would allow it.

The ban was first agreed to by lawmakers nearly twenty years ago, but has time and again been delayed; sign our petition telling European Commission President José Manuel Barroso not to take this giant step backward for animal welfare!

This ban on animal-tested cosmetics has been in the works for more than 20 years, so cosmetics companies have had ample time to prepare. They need to stop their delaying tactics.

Time is critically short, but you can help make a difference if you act now. Thanks in part to advocates like you, President Barroso hasn't yet agreed to support the proposed loophole. That's why it's urgent he hears from caring consumers around the globe that we don't need or want new cosmetics unless non-animal methods of testing can be used. If we succeed, the ban will make the EU the first cruelty-free cosmetics market in the world.

There's no time to lose. Please sign our action to President Barroso today; tell him to stand up to the cosmetics industry and stop the suffering of millions of animals for new shampoos and anti-wrinkle creams.

Thank you for helping the animals, today and always.

Target: U.S. Department of Agriculture

Goal: Protect Orca Whales at SeaWorld by requiring proper housing in tanks.

Nakai is an 11 year old male Orca living at SeaWorld that has recently had a chunk of his lower mandible the size of a large dinner plate ripped off by two other Orcas. At SeaWorld where whales such as Nakai and dolphins are held in captivity in tanks, they are unable to swim freely their natural amount of 100 miles a day. Their imprisonment at SeaWorld is a bathtub compared to the vast waters of their true home in the wild.
Since the whales and dolphins are held against their will in enclosed small areas, many of them form incompatible relationships. As a result, many injuries and deaths arise in this not so fun filled family park. Nakai is one of the many examples of the cruelty that takes place at SeaWorld for entertainment. It is SeaWorld that must come to their moral sense.
Orca Whales are considered threatened or endangered due to prey depletion, habitat loss, pollution, and capture for marine mammal parks such as SeaWorld. With this petition, we will ask the U.S. Department of Agriculture to take disciplinary action against SeaWorld for the lack of responsibility in establishing a safe and compatible home.
Nakai’s trauma is an absolute violation of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) that clearly states, “marine mammals that are not compatible must not be housed in the same enclosure.”
The ominous counter shades of black and white on the Orca Whales need to be admired not in a killer pool but in the thriving sunlight reflecting off open waters. It is unacceptable to rob whales of their true natural habitat and then place them in a bloody water cell. If these magnificent creatures are to be captured and used we should at least be ensuring their safety and protection.

Target: Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites) member states

Goal: Ensure the survival of polar bears by banning worldwide trade of their pelts

The world’s current polar bear population is estimated to be around 20,000, a population which could decrease by two-thirds due to decreasing sea ice within 50 years. Climate change has caused Arctic sea ice to drop to a record low. This loss of habitat and feeding grounds is only made worse by the recent highs in prices for polar bear skins, with recent sales in Canada bringing in twice the profit they did five years ago. The amount of bear habitat being lost means they are now rarer than ever, prompting an increase in demand, and thus, poaching. The situation is not helped by the fact that Cites certificates are becoming easily available for purchase through Russian websites, allowing poachers to claim countless legal kills.
Although a proposal to upgrade polar bear status from appendix two to appendix one within Cites failed in 2010, a new conference quickly approaches and so too does the opportunity to save the bears. Placement within appendix one would declare the polar bear as sufficiently endangered as to ban all international commercial trade of their products. The convention currently allows their hunting as legal. The worsening trade and global climate, however, are pushing groups like the International Fund for Animal Welfare and the Human Society International to support the polar bear category change – an initiative that the Russian ministry of natural resources has confirmed it will support.
This cooperation between the United States and Russia has the potential to raise enough to support among the convention, made up of 176 different members states, to see the appropriate action taken. This support is absolutely necessary if polar bears are to be moved into appendix one in order to ensure their survival. Demand that the member states help put this initiative through at the next convention meeting.

The vicious blood sport of Algemesi bullfighting tortures and beats young bulls in front of a cheering crowd. This cultural tradition is supposed to symbolize honor and grace, but the reality is that gangs of armed men savagely bully a single defenseless calf, stabbing it until the grand finale of its death.

Bulls are beaten inside a ring where costumed men theatrically spear them while riding horses. Often, groups of men chase and drag young bulls through the streets, using daggers and spikes to hit the animal until it’s too weak from blood loss to put up a fight.

The bull is supposed to be put out of its misery after the beating. But the matador often misses when he tries to stab the bull through its heart, leaving the bull to die slowly and painfully.

And Algemesi is not the only city where this happens. All over Spain, festivals like these take place every year. End a horrific blood sport that beats baby bulls until they can't stand--all in the name of tourist dollars and tradition!

Each year, more than 10,000 live animals are shot, stabbed, mutilated, and killed in horrific military training exercises that are supposed to simulate injuries on the battlefield. But the training exercises that are taking place in these highly secretive courses bear no resemblance to real battlefield conditions—and they don't help soldiers save the lives of their injured comrades.

In disturbing undercover video footage leaked to PETA showing a Coast Guard training course in Virginia Beach, Virginia, instructors with a company called Tier 1 Group, which was hired by the military, are seen breaking and cutting off the limbs of live goats with tree trimmers, stabbing the animals, and pulling out their internal organs. Goats moan and kick during the mutilations—signs that they have not been adequately anesthetized.

Later in the day, according to the distraught whistleblower who came to PETA, goats were shot in the face with pistols and hacked apart with an ax while still alive.

Following official complaints from PETA about this disturbing video footage, the U.S. Department of Agriculture cited Tier 1 Group for violating the federal Animal Welfare Act by failing to adequately anesthetize animals who were stabbed and cut up. Eleven members of Congress have also asked the U.S. Government Accountability Office to review—and potentially cancel—nearly $1.8 million in government contracts awarded to the firm to conduct 24 more training drills similar to those seen here.

Cruel exercises like these continue regularly across the U.S. even though most civilian facilities and many military facilities have already replaced animal laboratories with superior life-like simulators that breathe, bleed, and even "die." A leading surgeon with the U.S. Army even candidly admitted in an internal e-mail obtained by PETA that "there still is no evidence that [training on animals] saves lives."

U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) regulations actually require that alternatives to animals be used when available, but this policy is not being enforced.

Please help improve military training and save the thousands of animals who are tormented each year in these cruel exercises by using the form below to send polite e-mails to DOD and U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials urging them to take immediate action to comply with federal regulations and completely replace the use of animals in military trauma training with superior non-animal training methods.

Each year, members of the Canadian military travel to Defence Research and Development Canada (DRDC) in Suffield, Alberta, to participate in a cruel "live agent training" drill in which live pigs are exposed to toxic chemical weapons such as sarin and mustard agents. Pigs subjected to this crude exercise suffer from seizures, irregular heartbeats, difficulty breathing, and bleeding and can even die.

Instead of tormenting animals, other military and civilian training programs around the world now use modern non-animal methods such as lifelike human patient simulators, which—unlike crude procedures on pigs—can be programmed to mimic the human response to a chemical-weapon attack.

In 2011, following a PETA campaign, the U.S. Army replaced the use of animals in its chemical warfare training program, stating that its switch to superior human simulators "was made possible by improved technology, the development of alternative training methods, shifting chemical threat environments, and changes in the medical competencies required of first responders during a chemical incident." Similarly, doctors working with the Israel Defense Forces have developed an effective chemical attack preparedness course that uses only sophisticated human simulators, noting that, "An animal laboratory session is viewed as unacceptable."

Because valid simulators exist and are being used worldwide, DRDC's poisoning of pigs—in addition to being extremely cruel and ineffective—clearly violates Canadian animal welfare guidelines that require that alternatives to the use of animals be used when available.

Please help spare pigs from this archaic and cruel chemical-casualty training right now by sending polite e-mails to Canadian military officials urging them to take immediate action to replace the use of animals with superior non-animal training methods.

Killing in the name of art is unacceptable. After a twenty-three week run at the Tate Modern gallery in London, it has become clear that more than 9,000 butterflies lost their lives in the name of art. Damien Hirst, an often times controversial artist, created an exhibit where these butterflies were forced to live out the rest of their lives encased in two rooms, never seeing the outside world again. Every week a staggering 400 butterflies were brought in to replace the ones that had died.

The exhibit, entitled “In and Out of Love,” was part of a five-month retrospective of Hirst’s work. In the exhibit, spectators walked through a room of thousands of live butterflies. ‘The Telegraph’ reported that “the exhibit used butterflies of the Owl and Heliconius species, which come from tropical regions and live for up to nine months in the wild. Those used in the exhibition are believed to have survived for between a few hours and several days.”

Many of the butterflies died from being stepped on or were injured after inadvertently landing on viewer’s clothing and being brushed off. Even the butterflies that died of natural causes did not reach their full potential in the artificial environment.
The butterflies were contained to one room where they had access to fruit and sugar water until they died. Instead of living out their days enjoying the freedom of the outdoors, these butterflies ultimately died in a white room with no windows while more than half a million people watched. When the supposedly artistic value is taken out of the equation, these poor butterflies were treated as if their lives did not matter.
A spokesman for the RSPCA stated that, “there would be a national outcry if the exhibition involved any other animal…just because it is butterflies that does not mean they do not deserve to be treated with kindness.”

Hirst’s work often deals with the paradigm of life versus death, and this is not the first time animals have been used. Because of this fact, he is no stranger to some variance in the reviews of his work. Some of Hirst’s most notable pieces include a shark preserved in formaldehyde.

Hirst has said that “a butterfly expert was employed at considerable cost,” but it seems as if the butterflies were the ones faced with the ultimate cost. Please sign the petition below to demand an apology from Mr. Hirst; it is the very least he can do.


Please sign the Petition !

Chères amies, Chers amis,

Je vous écris pour demander votre aide. Dans quelques jours, les gouvernements pourraient faire de grandes étendues de l'océan Antarctique le plus grand sanctuaire marin du monde, et ainsi sauver des milliers de majestueuses espèces polaires, menacées par la pêche industrielle. Cependant un petit groupe de pays menace de faire couler cet accord, à moins que nous n’agissions maintenant:


Je vous écris pour demander votre aide. Dans quelques jours, des gouvernements pourraient commencer à transformer certaines étendues de l'océan Antarctique, pour en faire le plus grand sanctuaire marin du monde, et sauver l’habitat des baleines, des pingouins et de milliers d’espèces polaires menacées par les flottes de pêche industrielle.

Mais ils n’agiront que si nous nous faisons entendre, maintenant.

La plupart des pays sont en faveur de ce sanctuaire, mais la Russie, la Corée du Sud et quelques autres pays menacent de voter contre, car ils veulent continuer à piller ces mers maintenant que les autres mers ont été vidées par la pêche intensive. La semaine prochaine, un petit groupe de négociateurs se réunira à huis clos pour prendre une décision. Un tollé citoyen massif peut changer le cours des négociations, isoler ceux qui tentent de bloquer le sanctuaire, et arracher un accord qui protège plus de 6 millions de kilomètres carrés de l'océan Antarctique, si précieux.

Les baleines et les pingouins ne peuvent pas plaider pour leur propre cause, donc c'est à nous de les défendre. Cette semaine, nous allons faire changer d’avis les négociateurs avec une immense pression citoyenne -- Avaaz va parsemer le lieu de la rencontre d’affiches percutantes, et ensemble et nous remettrons notre message aux délégués en nous faisant entendre sur ​​les réseaux sociaux.

Pour plus de 10.000 espèces, ces eaux antarctiques lointaines sont un refuge vital, y compris pour les baleines bleues, les léopards des neiges et les manchots empereurs, la plupart de ces espèces ne se trouvent pas dans d’autres régions du monde. Le changement climatique a déjà eu des conséquences tragiques sur leur habitat fragile, mais ils sont aujourd’hui encore plus menacés par les kilomètres de filets dérivants qu'utilise la pêche industrielle dans ces eaux précieuses. Seul un sanctuaire marin augmentera leurs chances de survie.

Le groupe de 25 membres chargé de définir la réglementation applicable à l'océan Antarctique s'est déjà engagé sur la création de ces aires marines protégées. Mais les deux plans en cours de négociation - l'un pour protéger une partie de la fragile mer de Ross et l'autre concernant l'Antarctique oriental - sont menacés d'être affaiblis ou retardés. C'est choquant mais les médias n'ont rien dit des pourparlers en cours et des pays comme la Russie et la Corée du Sud font le pari que leur opposition passera inaperçue. Mais si on jette un coup de projecteur public sur ces négociations, nous pouvons les forcer à reculer, encourager les champions de ces sanctuaires marins comme les États-Unis et l'Union Européenne, et faire pression pour d'encore meilleures protections...

L'avenir de l'Océan Austral est entre nos mains. Mettons une pression massive sur ces discussions et faisons en sorte que les gouvernements privilégient notre planète sur les profits de quelques-uns.
La communauté Avaaz s'est mobilisée maintes et maintes fois pour protéger nos océans. Nous avons déjà contribué à la création de deux des plus importantes réserves marines dans le monde. Mais les menaces qui pèsent sur nos océans continuent, et une par une, les espèces menacées s'approchent de l'extinction. Rejoignez-moi pour sauver l'océan Antarctique avant qu'il ne soit trop tard.

Remplis d’espoir,
Leonardo DiCaprio et l’équipe d’Avaaz

Mme. Ilse Aigner, ministre allemande de l'agriculture, a déclaré, suite aux dernières affaires de zoophilie en Allemagne, que la sodomie est juste une infraction administrative et ne doit être punie que d'une légère amende.
En Allemagne, la sodomie a été décriminalisée depuis 1969. Le sexe avec des animaux en ce moment n'y est pas classé comme un problème de manque moral.

À l'heure actuelle, ne seront punis que ceux qui tuent des animaux sans raison acceptable ou les laissent souffrir de graves douleurs pendant une période longue ou répétée dans le temps.

Mme. Aigner affirme donc qu'il n'existe aucune nécessité de renforcer la répression de ces crimes par la loi.


...Mais nous pensons que, si, il y a urgence !
Merci de signer la pétition afin de montrer à Mme Aigner qu'aucun animal ne doit être blessé de quelque façon pour le plaisir sexuel !

Pétition : Halte au massacre des phoques au Canada ! (Déjà 10.915 signatures)

Le sénateur canadien Marc Harb lance un appel ! "Les attaques incessantes des conservateurs contre les Canadiens qui s’opposent à la chasse et plus particulièrement contre les groupes de protection des animaux montrent à quel point le gouvernement est coupé de la réalité. Il tente désespérément de camoufler le fait qu’il n’a pas de plans de gestion à long terme des phoques et des pêches en général."

Le combat contre la chasse aux phoques n'est pas terminé tant que le gouvernement canadien n'entendra pas les revendications !

Continuons de nous mobiliser !

La discothèque "Top ten club" situé sur la commune de Treigny (département de l'yonne 89) organise une soirée le samedi 24 novembre 2012.

Lors de cette soirée et, dans un but purement lucratif, un dresseur ainsi que son "lionceau" seront invités pour satisfaire la curiosité de la clientèle.

Lors de cette soirée, les personnes présentes pourront à leur guise, prendre dans leurs bras le tout jeune animal et poser sur des photos avec ce dernier.

Cette pétition n'est nullement réalisée afin de mettre dans l'embarras l'établissement qu'est le top ten club; mais elle est là pour rappeler que le lion est avant tout un animal et qu'il a besoin à juste titre d'être traité de la meilleure manière qui soit.

Toute personne qui voudrait apercevoir un lionceau est tout à fait libre de se rendre dans un parc animalier où ces animaux sont dans un calme relatif.

Une discothèque n'est pas un endroit fait pour un animal quel qu'il soit, et ce quelle que soit la réputation de l'établissement qui décide de mettre en place ce genre d'évènement.

Ce genre de "soirée" est malheureusement légale si toutes les demandes/autorisations ont été faites/accordées en bonne et due forme. Il nous est cependant possible de montrer notre mécontentement par la signature de cette pétition.

Cette dernière n'aura d'importance que si vous décidez de lui en donner.

Merci à tous du temps que vous accorderez à ce petit animal ...