Netanya Animal Rights

dear pamela

We ( Jane and I ) and all the people fighting for Animal Rights in Netanya, Israel, are deeply thankful for your kind and important letter giving your support.

Time to evolve beyond using and abusing animals. I am honored to have Jane Halevy to be our secondseat and informed moral guide in Animal Rights.

Your amazing ethical and empathetic long time global fight for Animal Rights continues to be a hugebeneficial catalyst in the positive change that is evident.

I hope that our party shall be voted in that our Fur Free policy can be implemented in addition to action for better care for our cats and dogs and indeed all animals in Netanya.

It’s our hope that other city councils shall then enact like policy too.

Once again we are sincerely grateful for your kind letter and all that you do for Animal Rights.

Best appreciations,

Party leader of Our Netanya

YONI JORNO .Adv Chairman of our Netanya List

End the Cage Age

Aim of the campaign: End all cages in European farming (for farm animals)

Description of an ECI:  EU mechanism to involve EU citizens in EU affairs. With 1 million signatures in 7 countries in less than one year, the European Commission has to react officially to the request of ending cages.  

End the cage age ECI:

An ECI is led by a citizen’s committee, with the support of NGOs.

Compassion in world farming (CIWF) is the initiator of the initiative and 140 other organisations have joined the movement, from 25 countries.
In France, we have 20 partners, including Fondation Brigitte Bardot & Peta for example.

What are we asking in the ECI from the EU?

Hundreds of millions of EU farm animals are kept in cages for most of their lives, causing great suffering. We call on the European Commission to end this inhumane treatment of farm animals.

Cages inflict suffering on enormous numbers of farm animals every year. They are cruel and unnecessary, as higher-welfare cage-free systems are viable.

What is happening today in Paris?

Today is the public launch in France. Other events are taking place all over Europe this week. The start of 1 year of mobilisation to collect signatures. We are asking the general public and VIPs to have their photo taken in cages, and encourage their followers to sign too.

Why end caged farming in Europe?

As we all know intuitively, and has been scientifically proven, animals have many natural behaviours that they need to carry out, they feel joy, pain, frustration etc. All these fundamental needs cannot be met in a cage.  

Cages keep animals isolated, or tightly packed in confined areas. In the worst cases they are barren, provide minimal space and prevent most movements or even moderate exercise. Keeping animals in these conditions can have severe health and welfare impact on them.

The range of animals that are farmed in a form of cage in the EU is wider than many might think. You have hens (in so called ‘enriched cages’), pigs (in sow stalls and farrowing crates), ducks and quail & nearly all rabbits ….

Although we have seen progress in animal welfare for some species at EU level over the years:  with the EU ban on veal crates, the end of barren battery cages, for laying hens, a partial sow stall ban, as well as the recognition of animals as sentient beings in the EU… hundreds of millions of animals (370 million) still spend part, or their entire life in a cage.

We believe the use of cages is cruel, outdated, and unnecessary as higher-welfare cage-free systems are viable.  This is why, together, today, we are launching the End the Cage Age European Citizens Initiative in France– and are asking for a ban on the use of cages in animal farming

In detail, we are asking for legislation prohibiting the use of:

• cages for laying hens, pullets, broiler breeders, layer breeders, quail, ducks and geese;

• farrowing crates for sows;

• sow stalls for sows, where not already prohibited

• individual calf pens, where not already prohibited

To be successful, an ECI needs, in one year, to collect a minimum of one million verified signatures in at least 7 countries - in support of this ban. Every signature counts !

If one million of us raise our voices together, we have the opportunity to finally End the Cage Age in Europe.   

Support the campaign and sign the petition!

www.endthecageage.eu

Letter to Gordon Ramsay

Dear Gordon, 

I was thrilled to see your tweet a few months ago saying you'd "give this #vegan thing a try" and experiment more with plant-based foods, so I was surprised to learn from my friends at PETA that you're still offering foie gras at your flagship establishment, Restaurant Gordon Ramsay. I'm writing to encourage you to banish this dish from your menu—but also to present you with an idea. 

I'm sure that your restaurant makes a great effort to create a beautiful dining experience, but foie gras is nothing more than a diseased liver produced in a real-life Hell's Kitchen. To make it, ducks and geese are force-fed until their livers swell to up to 10 times their normal size. This agonizing process is so cruel that it's illegal to produce foie gras in the UK and over a dozen other countries, and two-thirds of the British public supports a ban on its sale. Given your exceptional talent, I have no doubt that you can create dishes to impress that don't involve this cruelty. 

Which brings me to my idea: November is World Vegan Month, and I'd like to suggest that you add a new item to your menu for the month: faux gras, a decadent vegan version of the dish that comes with all the flavor but none of the suffering. 

Chef Alexis Gauthier recently crafted an exquisite faux gras for Gauthier Soho. (A video for his recipe has been viewed more than 6 million times!) I'm sure yours would also be a knockout, and I'd be delighted to try it the next time I'm in London. And who knows, perhaps you'll consider leaving it on the menu for good. 

Thank you for your time and consideration. 

Warm regards, 

Pamela Anderson