Jose Valle

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  Jose commented on the article | over 2 years ago

  Pig Farm Investigation: A Video You Must See

  After this investigation, we went with the media to the headquaters of this company with 15 dead pigs that were exploited in their own farms. You can see the images at:

  
  

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/igualdadanimal/sets/72157606182450155/

  
  

  Thanks for your positive feedback! ;)

  
  

   

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  Jose commented on the article | over 2 years ago

  New Undercover Investigations: Chickens for Eggs and Flesh II

  Hi,

  
  

  those chickens have their beaks intact because they came from a farm where they were exploited for their flesh -not for eggs- and therefore, they are killed after just 5 or 6 weeks after being born. In such 'short' time, they don't rely on cannibalism as do the hens exploited for their eggs (who endure a death sentence of 13 or 15 months), so they don't have an economic reason to mutilate their beaks.

  
  

  Two of the chickens rescued died but the other one (Allen, in reference of Gary Allen, an AR activist) is pretty well. And we have recently had the surprise of discovering that she's a female. The 'meat' industry exploits males and females -both grow fast enough to be profitable- while the egg industry only uses females -who lay the eggs- while they, as you know, kill the recently born males. She is now living with another chicken who was also rescued from an intensive farm.

  
  

  In Spain even the hens on 'free-range' egg farms have their beaks mutilated. They are usually bought by the farmers to the same hatcheries that serve the intensive farms and that mutilate the chickens after a few days of being born.

  
  

  According to several experts on animal husbandry and exploitation, cannibalism is a bigger problem in free-range farms than in intensive ones.

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  Jose commented on the article | over 2 years ago

  Deaths in Calgary and Pamplona

  I've forgot to add that Capuchino, the bull who accidentally kill the man that participated in the run, was murdered yesterday in a bullkilling event (corrida de toros) as happened also with the others. The media even potrayed his killing as a kind of "act of justice" or revenge against the bull who killed a man. Bizarre...

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  Jose commented on the article | over 2 years ago

  Deaths in Calgary and Pamplona

  Thanks Stephanie for mentioning Igualdad Animal / Animal Equalitys press-release on the killing of bulls in Pamplona and the death of a man there, and Sharon's interview.