It will break your heart, but you need to see this
A very sad true story…
An animal test is any scientific experiment or test in which a live animal is forced to undergo something that is likely to cause them pain, suffering, distress or lasting harm. Animal experiments are not the same as taking your companion animal to the vet. Animals used in laboratories are deliberately harmed, not for their own good, and are usually killed at the end of the experiment.
More than 100 million animals suffer and die in the U.S. alone every year in cruel chemical, drug, food, and cosmetics tests as well as in medical training exercises and curiosity-driven medical experiments at universities. Animals also suffer and die in classroom biology experiments and dissection, even though modern non-animal tests have repeatedly been shown to have more educational value, save teachers time, and save schools money. Exact numbers aren’t available because mice, rats, birds, and cold-blooded animals—who make up more than 99 percent of animals used in experiments—are not covered by even the minimal protections of the Animal Welfare Act and therefore go uncounted.
So all these animals can do is sit and wait in fear of the next terrifying and painful procedure that will be performed on them. The complete lack of environmental enrichment and the stress of their living situation cause some animals to develop neurotic types of behavior such as incessantly spinning in circles, rocking back and forth, pulling out their own fur, and even biting themselves. After enduring a life of pain, loneliness, and terror, almost all of them will be killed.
Animal experiments include:
- injecting or force feeding animals with potentially harmful substances
- exposing animals to radiation
- surgically removing animals’ organs or tissues to deliberately cause damage
- forcing animals to inhale toxic gases
- subjecting animals to frightening situations to create anxiety and depression.
Please sign to help end animal experimentation:
https://www.change.org/p/tell-neutrogena-to-stop-all-animal-testing
The dog meat trade is one of the most serious animal welfare issues in Asia. In Vietnam alone, approximately five million dogs are killed every year as part of the dog trade. It is estimated that in China, 10 million dogs and 4 million cats, are slaughtered for the dog meat trade each year. Dogs and cats of all shapes and sizes, many of them family pets still wearing their collars, are snatched from the streets and forced into tiny cages.
The conditions under which dogs are farmed, transported, and slaughtered are inhumane and barbaric. Many suffer broken limbs as they are transported vast distances, without food or water. When they finally arrive at the dog meat markets, injured, dehydrated and exhausted, they are forced to watch in terror as other dogs are bludgeoned to death or thrown still alive into boiling water to remove their skins. The dogs are not humanely killed, many are tortured for hours before being skinned alive. The reason for this is that people believe that the pain inflicted leads to the tenderising of the meat. Most shocking of all, is that some dogs are still alive when their fur is removed.
Some people argue that the dog meat trade is no different to any other animal as part of the meat industry. Be that as it may, the point is that we should not be eating any animals at all. Cruelty to any animal is abhorrent, especially when it is on the basis of satisfying our own tastebuds which is something that’s totally within our control.
These three petitions have all over 100,000 signatures at this time! Please don’t stop – reshare! Thank you!
- https://www.change.org/p/president-moon-jae-in-please-stop-the-torture-and-consumption-of-dogs-and-cats-in-korea?recruiter=75897621&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_term=share_petition
- https://www.change.org/p/to-the-sponsors-of-pyeongchang-2018-winter-olympics-in-south-korea-please-help-bring-an-end-to-the-dog-and-cat-meat-trades-in-south-korea?recruiter=75897621&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_term=share_petition
- https://www.change.org/p/boycott-pyeongchang-2018-winter-olympics-in-south-korea-a-dog-eating-nation?recruiter=75897621&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_term=share_petition
Thank you. Poor animals. Heartbreaking. Never eat animals. Never hurt animals, spirits and humans too. I beg you to share this and create more signatures and awareness.
Humbly, Tsem Rinpoche
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This is heartbreaking. Do we really need animals to be sacrificed to produce something? Do we really need to consume their meat to be so called healthy? Let’s ask ourselves these questions.
We need to put some effort to end this
What’s wrong with animal testing? Poisoning, shocking, burning, and killing animals is all in a day’s work. If these atrocious acts were committed outside laboratories, they would be felonies. But animals suffer and die every day in laboratories with little or no protection from cruelty.
Here are the top five reasons why it needs to stop:
1. It’s unethical.
It’s unethical to sentence 100 million thinking, feeling animals to life in a laboratory cage and intentionally cause them pain, loneliness, and fear.
2. It’s bad science.
The Food and Drug Administration reports that 92 out of every 100 drugs that pass animal tests fail in humans.
3. It’s wasteful.
Animal experiments prolong the suffering of people waiting for effective cures by misleading experimenters and squandering precious money, time, and resources that could have been spent on human-relevant research.
4. It’s archaic.
Forward-thinking scientists have developed humane, modern, and effective non-animal research methods, including human-based microdosing, in vitro technology, human-patient simulators, and sophisticated computer modeling, that are cheaper, faster, and more accurate than animal tests.
5. It’s unnecessary.
The world doesn’t need another eyeliner, hand soap, food ingredient, drug for erectile dysfunction, or pesticide so badly that it should come at the expense of animals’ lives.
Your Next Meal!
Yummy? Tasty? Behind the scenes of the meat on your plates. Meat is a killing industry.
https://video.tsemtulku.com/videouploads/comment-1559986650.mp4
This is Daw
This is what they do to get meat on tables, and to produce belts and jackets. Think twice before your next purchase.
https://video.tsemtulku.com/videouploads/comment-1559986627.mp4
Don’t Take My Mummy Away!
Look at the poor baby chasing after the mother. Why do we do that to them? It’s time to seriously think about our choices in life and how they affect others. Be kind. Don’t break up families.
https://video.tsemtulku.com/videouploads/comment-1559986609.mp4
They do this every day!
This is how they are being treated every day of their lives. Please do something to stop the brutality. Listen to their cries for help!
https://video.tsemtulku.com/videouploads/comment-1559986591.mp4
What happened at Fair Oaks Farm?
The largest undercover dairy investigation of all time. See what they found out at Fair Oaks Farm.
https://video.tsemtulku.com/videouploads/comment-1559988165.mp4
Animals show love for humans! Cow, lions, apes, dogs, bears, parrots and more can all be very affectionate and show surprising emotions when it comes to expressing their love for people. An emotional animals hugging humans video.
https://video.tsemtulku.com/videouploads/comment-1546455946.mp4
This is a very sad and shocking picture to see. The hand of a monkey desperately grasping to the last chance that it has before being disposed of like an object without life and dignity. This shows the cruelty in animal experimenting where we treat animals without respect and compassion.
Many of these animals are being inflicted with pain and suffering deliberately to see how they react to it. We totally took their life for granted and just waste their life away due to our selfishness. We just exploit them just because we are CAN and we WIll.
Human is the only species on earth that actually inflict pain on other species just for the sake of it or for entertainment. This shows how selfish humans are and how ignorant we are towards the feelings and pain of the animals. If only everyone knows about Karma, this will stop them from doing more harm.
Exactly, dogs are the same as any other animals. And that is the whole point. Animals are not born to be our food. It is so not necessary to eat meat in these days and age where alternative food is easily available and just as delicious too. Taste buds are trained and as such, we can train taste to enjoy vegetarian or vegan food. Nutrition wise, meat is so not necessary. We can get the nutrients from non-sentient beings, vegetables, fruits, etc. So much illness is developing from eating the flesh of another. Please be kind and Thank you Rinpoche for sharing these heartbreaking stories with us. Painful but it connects to our inert kindness to activate our care for other instead of involving in the constant “I”. Om Benza Wiki Bitana Soha! May all those suffering under ignorance be free of sufferings.
Animal experiments are cruel, unreliable, and even dangerous. Animal testing should be stopped as it violates animals’ rights, it causes pain and suffering to those experimental animals. I am sure that’s other means of testing product. Animal testing for cosmetics and toiletries has long been banned in the UK. Hopefully more countries will follow . Animals have emotions, feelings like one of us. We should ban animal testing to protect the animal’s liberty and life. Animals used in laboratories suffered deliberately , and are usually killed at the end of the each experiment. Its such a cruel act and I could imagined of Maria account seeing with her eyes of how it was tested. Today, scientists have developed alternative methods shown to lead more effective products, drugs for humans than animal testing.
Thank you Rinpoche for this sharing.
I think that we should make more awareness for so that the animals that are being tortured will decrease