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February 19, 2012
Please! Please! Please! You would do me the greatest favor by at least just reading this. If you don’t have the time to read everything, then at least read the last clause, please. Thank you!
In 2011 there was a discussion in Uganda about whether or not death penalty shall get reintrodiced and if people also should be sentenced to death for being gay. International protests (also and especially from Obama, the president of the USA) made them abandon this discussion for the moment. However now they decided to recontinue and if we don’t intervene they are going to kill people simply for behaving according to their nature. Yes, for natural behaviour, because homosexuality can be found everywhere! There are reports and footage proving that homosexuality can be found in the animal kingdom, too. They even filmed intelligent animals, like whales, dolphins or primates which showed homosexual behavior. So you can’t say that this is condemnable, because of being against nature. They say that this is condemnable, because the Old Testament condemns it. When an US-American Christian theologian held a speech about why homosexualty was condemnable according to the OT she received a letter saying something like “What do you think. How much money should I ask for when I sell my daughter into slavery? Because that’s exactly what one sentence written in the Old Testament allows me to do. How should I kill my uncle for growing two things in one and the same field?” You can’t just fix a whole theological theory on one single quotation. 1 Thess 5,21 even says that we should firstly test it and only keep it if it’s still good. I don’t want to go any further. If you really want to know why I – a strictly religious lady – am against discriminating homosexuals and even think that my religion tells me to do so, then you should read “http://www.englishbaby.com/findfriends/view_photo/596319?page=4”. It’s the comment of 03:13 AM Mar 08 2011.
However David Bahari, a member of Uganda’s parlament as well as of its ruling party also had a comment in favour of this upcoming law, saying that homosexualty could destroy family structures and tolerating homosexuals could have a bad influence on children. I agree on the first comment. Even most younger people still have problems trying to accept “gays” as some still circulating jokes about homosexuals prove. Also organisations like “La Refugee” that adopt adolescents who got abandoned by their parents simply for being gay prove that homosexuals have serious trouble trying to fit in even into their own family. However this could also be considered as a social problem rather than a problem caused by homosexuals. After all the history of Judaism also is full of discrimination, persecutiion and not just one genocide and today nobody would say that the Jews were to blame for what happened to them. Only real nerds would still walk around saying something stupid like “Well, if these Jews hadn’t been Jews none would have killed them. So the problem obviously was that they were Jewish!”
His second comment however sounded like – excuse the word – rubbish to me. I’m sorry, but what sort of influence does he imagine here? That a kid who gets asked why he / she is gay could defend this attitude of his / her by saying “But Peter from 9th grade is homosexual, too. So I make love to someone of my sex, because I want to be like him.”?
What about another example? Nearly all children have an idol and usually this is a movie or a pop star. Does Bahari really think that if one of these stars was gay, a child of under ten years would say “Gee! When I’m grown up, I want to be gay, too.”? I suppose – or at least I hope – not! This would be just ridiculous.
If you want to do something against this madness then please sign the following petitions or inform others about them:
“http://www.amnesty.org.au/action/action/27844/”
“https://secure.avaaz.org/en/uganda_stop_homophobia_petition/”
We beat Uganda’s anti-gay bill once! I’m sure we can beat it twice and – if necessary – three times. Thank you for your support!
P.S. It goes without saying that this text in no way is trying to deny the fact that according to most Christian confessions, Islam, Judaism and a few less well-known religious groups homosexuality is a sin. I'm just against forcing aforementioned beliefs upon people - especially by using measures as cruel as these - and against disrespectful treatment of an ethnic group that hasn't done harm to anybody. Also I'm against killing people - especially in cases like this one where they want a group of people dead, just because said group is considered socially-awkward and subhuman by their standards. In addition to that I think all the information I got before creating this text also rises the question whether or not calling homosexuals "unnatural beings" is such a good argument for punishing them. Maybe they just should think through their arguments before enforcing a law that is as crucial as this one.
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September 27, 2011
I chose this picture, because it looks like this orca is waving goodbye.
What I am trying to say is that my semester break is as good as over. Now it's getting serious again! It's about my future and thus also about the future of the people surrounding me! As soon as my studies start - and there aren't even two weeks left - I just can't take my time for my keypals anymore, but I've got to spend as much time as possible for my studies.
This may be hard for me, because as you can see I've been here a lot since my registration three or four years ago, but...this is important. I hope you all will have understanding, but please son't send me any further friend requests. You'll only be disappointed if you have to wait for months only to hear that there is no time for further keypals in my life. Also I ask everyone for patience. Some people consider it as impoliteness if their messages don't gt replied within a week or two, but in my case it just will be ( nearly ) impossible to be here more often than just once a month. Actually I even think I should be glad, if I really have enough time to visit this website once a month during my academic studies. Thanks a million for your understanding! Know that I'm still glad for every friendly e-mail and comment I receive. Thank you! I wish you all all the best.
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July 29, 2011
Dancing Bears
Especially in the East of Europe you still find bears who got trained to "dance". When they are still cubs somebody puts them on a hot metal and plays a melody. The young bear raises its paws in order to escape the heat. When the bear is fully grown he still thinks that whenever this melody plays a heated metal could be put under its paws again. Thus the predator raises its paws to avoid this heat - and starts dancing.
In addition these animals usually are sick, because they aren't fed properly, already when they are cubs somebody cuts of their claws - which causes them to bleed heavily - and their teeth, plus they get a ring plugged through their noses. The wounds of this procedure often ignite, meaning that their owners have them under control, because just pulling the string this ring is tied to, really causes a lot of pain for this animal.
Bull Fighting / Cock Fighting
A lot of people who dislike these animal fightings still don't have the courage to say anything against it, because they are afraid that somebody may call them racist. After all this is part of these countries' culture...Come on! Sacrificing human beings also used to be part of many cultures - Aztecs, Maya, Inka... - and still everybody would be upset if a group of these people's descendants killed someone. I know this comparison is rather extreme, but I just needed it to explain myself.
If you really want to see an animal fighting, you have many alternatives to that: You can watch a documentation showing impressive fighting scenes between wild animals. Today's Inka still have a spectacle in which a condor gets tained to sit on a bull till the cattle gets exhausted. In the end the condor gets set free again and the bull is allowed to return to its herd. The "Courses Camarguaises" and the "Course Landaise" are bull fightings practiced in France. There is nothing violent about it and this is rather meant as a game. In the end the bull is allowed to return to its herd living half - wildly in the Camargue.
Racing horses
Okay! I admit it! It looks really impressive when these animals gallop through the race course, their hooves dispersing dust, their tails like flaggs in the wind...However you can't enjoy this for too long. Most of these raising horses die at an age of less than 10 years. Firstly most of them are way too young when they get separated from the mare to start training, meaning that this may cause some deformation when they are fully grown. Secondly the fact that they usually are locked away in their boxes without any companion and only get let out for their training and for races causes some abnormal behavior. It just is too much stress for these herd animals - that in the wild only run short distances when they have to escape something - when they suddenly are brought out of their box into a racing area where it is very noisy and where they suddenly meet many unknown horses. Even worse! In many countries a jockey is allowed to really hit his horse multiple times before and during a race in order to make it run faster. Another extreme contrast is the race itself: These animals have to run with such a quickness that doesn't fit their nature for several minutes only to stay in the box for most of the rest of the week. Of course this causes serious heart problems!
Under these circumstances the life expectency of only 7 years isn't too surprising, is it?
Breeding
Since the ninetees keeping exotic animals as a pet has become very popular. That goes so far that meanwhile teenagers who keep "ordinary" animals like hamsters or rabbits as pets are considered as boring by their classmates. What these teenagers - but as it seems a lot of adult people as well - don't know is that by encouraging this trend they make more and more animals suffer...
I'm not talking about the many parrots who spend most of their life all alone in a cage although they firstly are herd animals and secondly need to fly or else they will get problems with their muscles. Nor am I talking about a relative of mine who once kept a chameleon although he neither had the money nor the time to offer this creature a species - appropriate life. When he realized that the way he treated his pet wasn't correct it already was too late and the animal was sick. Then he finally gave it away to someone who bought it from him and who had enough money and time to keep a reptile like that...Anyway I'm getting off the subject: I'm not talking about things like these, but about the fact that by breeding wild animals in captivity and hold them as if they were pets, we make diseases amongst these specimens spread that didn't even exist before. For example a person I know had an atelerix that one day died. Of course she knew about some strange symptoms it showed when it was still alive, but she never considered them as something serious. It wasn't until after this animal's death that she heard about the unhealable sickness WHS that practically doesn't exist in the wild and that is a genetic disease her pet obviously inherited from its parents. After comparing the symptoms she noticed and the ones of which she knew that they are typical for WHS - sick animals, she understood what happened to this hedgehog.
However even if it wasn't for this sickness, holding them in a cage still would be cruel. Everyone who saw an atelerix running will realize that they aren't ment to be kept in small spaces.
Animal Experiments
Although meanwhile the media doesn't criticize them as often as they used to do, they still continue. For example I just watched a report about a few shimpanzees that got freed from a laboratory. These animals were traumatized, of course in bad conditions and at first had to learn the things every normal shimpanzee knows; like climbing or cleaning themselves. Meanwhile they live in the enclosure of a pet sanctuary.
Still it meanwhile is commonly known that not all of these results can be transfered from animal to man. Okay! With some of these hominides it works, but they use rabbits to test some medicine, although not in every case the effect is the same as if they had tested it on a human body due to physical differences.
But even in the cases in which the results can be transfered to human beings: Meanwhile our technology is so far developed that we don't always depend on these experiments. We have computers that can analyse a certain new medicine, we can make virtual copies of these experiments etc. In short the only advantage of experiments with animals is that there are no technical mistakes, while when you use technology there still is a minimal chance that a technical error could happen. Minimal as I say!
Gassing
There are many countries in which straying cats and dogs get captured and put to death by gas to avoid that they could attack human beings or spread maladies. The gassing itself may not be the worst for these animals, because they just breathe it in, loose consciousness and die. However it must be horrible for them to be caught and then being brought into this horrible place where they only can guess what happens to them. The worst thing about this is that not all of these strays are ill or too wild for finding a family. For example months ago a lady from a German aid organisation ( I already forgot what exactly this organisation was doing, but if I remember correctly it partly can be compared to a dog rescue. ) for these dogs gave an interview in which she claimed that neverminding her protests they put some straying dogs to death, although they were healthy and not aggressive towards human beings. Another article I read about dealt with a dog that survived an unusual long time in this chamber. It was long enough for some people to make the responsible men let this animal get out. This case became very famous and got spread through the media. Meanwhile many people want this cute little doggy as a pet!
I understand that they want to avoid any danger caused by wild animals living close to men, but is this really the best solution? Wouldn't it make more sense to pay people for finding and catching these dogs as puppies or - if they got abandoned by their former owner - as animals that still are used to human - instead of paying some men for killing them - and then bring them to pet asylums where people work who earn their money this way; by caring for animals that are brought there? i don't know how many countries use the method of gassing these dogs, but in some sources I read names like Japan, Italy and many countries lying in the East of Europe appeared. I'm sure there also are some I missed in this report of mine!
Pigeon-Feeding
I know...When thinking about pigeon-feeding most people think about elder ladies who just feel lonely and at least want some birds as company. Some may also think about adorable little children who just love animals. The truth is that no matter how harmless the thoughts of these people are, they torture pigeons. The city-life - lots of smoke, loud noises etc. - affects these birds' lifes. In the city most pigeons don't last for more than three years which is only 25% of the age they can reach in the wild. In the city there is a lot of waste that can endanger these animals. For example I once saw a street-pigeon with only one intact foot. It seemed to me that the other foot got torn of when he - it was a male - entangled himself in a net or wire and tried to get free. Also not all people watch what they feed to these birds. Some of the bread street-pigeons eat either is too old to be eaten or - like brezel for example - contains chemicals that can't harm us, but are dangerous for little birds. Last but not least many people consider them as pest that spreads deseases and thus they try to kill them. Some cities even pay hunters to shoot these beautiful, social and rather smart birds - not to mention the people who kill pigeons unintentionally, like when there was a little mass-panic in Stuttgart some years ago and some people accidentally trampled down a rather young pigeon.
These pigeons descent from a specimen of wild pigeon and that's why many animal-aid-organisations say that if we stop feeding pigeons, most of them shall get back into the wild where they can still find enough food to feed themselves and grow old.
Clipping a Flying Bird's Wings (Information and Picture Were Takrn From Wiki)
People say that peasants have been clipping the wings of their chicken, ducks and geese for almost 2000 years now and in all these years there never were any remarkable problems like abnormal behavior or reproduction-problems. What these people don't realize is that wild chicken only fly to escape a predator or to sleep on a high branch where they would be save during night. Wild ducks rather jump into the water when they feel threatened by another creature. Most breeds of domestic geese that are known today are almost flightless anyway, because they've grown much heavier than their ancestors while their wings are shorter. Flying birds however need their wings, because their instinct tells them to fly. When they clean their feathers especially smart birds - like parrots - could get confused when they see their kind of deformed feathers which leads to anormal behavior.
Worst of all: Most birds also use their feathers for balance when they climb around on branches. There already were some accidents with domestic birds that fell down and got wounded seriously, because their wings weren't really useful when they tried to climb around in their cage.
Thus I recommend you: Rather than clipping your pet's wings to avoid that it could fly away, you should just make sure that all windows /doors are closed when you let it out of its cage. There may have been some accidents with flying birds that were unable to see a window, but they could have been avoided if the owner of these windows had hung some curtains in front of them. Decorating your windows actually will do, too. Under normal circumstances - i.e. if you don't give your pet a reason to panic - a healthy bird with "normal" wings also should be able to avoid walls, doors and any furniture that could hurt your feathered friend.
I'm glad to live in a country where it's actually illegal and punishable to clip a bird's wings.
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