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Ask Pope Benedict XVI and Vatican to speak for animal welfare
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      • His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI
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"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men." -- St. Francis of Assisi, 1181-1226

In January 1990, Pope John Paul II issued a proclamation declaring that animals have souls.

Animal cruelty escalates in our society; many studies have proven that animal cruelty also links to violent crimes ranging from serial killers (they first started off with animals then graduated to children and adults), to domestic violence.  Please pray to open people's hearts for compassion - that people stop dog fighting (which often distribute illegal weapons and narcotics in such rings to communities and children), and other acts of violence. Please pray that people stop farm factory cruelty-animals kept in cages so small they cannot move, and forced to live in their own excrement so horrific their lungs burn from the ammonia fumes. Daily doses of antibiotics to keep them alive in pure filth gave rise to antibiotic resistant organisms including MRSA (which kills more people than AIDS) and VRE; so contagious are these infections, merely TOUCHING the raw meat can bring infection through a micro-crack on the skin or rubbing one's nose. MRSA is epidemic and VRE is rising. So is even the more deadly form, CRE costing the health care system billions of dollars.


A few public words toward animal welfare will do so much good for humanity, and that animals, too, are all God's creatures and deserving of compassion, for they too feel pain and fear like we do. Good Christians are kind to animals.

Thank you for your time.

+In His Name We Trust+

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RESEARCH DATA TO VERIFY FACTS:

(1) Animal cruelty and violent crime linked:
Published October 29, 2007: LINK BETWEEN ANIMAL ABUSE AND SERIAL KILLERS

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/425882/the_link_between_animal_abuse_and_serial.html?cat=17


http://www.jaapl.org/cgi/reprint/30/2/257.pdf

The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 30:257–65, 2002

"A history of animal cruelty during childhood was significantly associated with APD [Antisocial Personality Disorder], antisocial personality traits, and polysubstance abuse. Mental retardation, psychotic disorders, and alcohol abuse showed no such association."

There are many, many more, available upon request.

ANTIBIOTIC ABUSE IN FARM ANIMALS BRING ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT INFECTIONS CONTAGIOUS TO HUMANS

http://www.klewtv.com/news/33624114.html

Story Published: Oct 31, 2008 at 8:02 AM PDT

"SEATTLE -- A ground-breaking investigation by KOMO-TV in Seattle has found toxic, life-threatening Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) bacteria in some pork you might buy at grocery stores." This research group purchased numerous packages of raw pork and many tested positive for live MRSA in the meat. So you touch it it is like touching a MRSA patient who is supposed to be under isolation.

UNIVERSITY OF MICROBIOLOGY - JAPAN-MRSA IN RETAIL RAW CHICKEN! Published 7 June 2004

http://rms1.agsearch.agropedia.affrc.go.jp/contents/JASI/pdf/society/73-3097.pdf

OTHER DISEASES SUCH AS VRE IS FOUND IN RAW MEAT
FATAL BACTERIA FOUND IN PIGS
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/366301_pigmrsa09.html

VRE - VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM AND MRSA IN FARM ANIMALS, UNCOOKED CHICKEN (CONTAGEOUS JUST TO TOUCH):

http://jac.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/34/4/507

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070903205004.htm

Hepatitis E In Europe: Pigs Or Pork The Problem

ScienceDaily (Sep. 4, 2007) — Hepatitis E virus infections can be fatal in pregnant women, but until recently doctors thought the disease was confined to China, India and developing countries. Now Europeans are also contracting the disease here, according to scientists.

Hepatitis E is a fecal-oral disease. Pigs live in their own excrement so if one pig has Hepatitis E-they ALL get it due to confined living spaces, sharing each others' feces and urine.  Hepatitis is a special virus-each is housed with a tough shell so ordinary cooking will NOT kill it and neither will freezing: You have to autoclave (sterilize) the meat for about 20 minutes to kill hepatitis. If it was found in Europe, I have no doubt it is also in the USA but of course they won't check on that.

Animals that are highly stressed, living in their own excrement, in the filthiest conditions combined with multiple wounds (much of it from abusive man handling), gives rise to antibiotic resistant diseases and their reduced immune system is responsible for bird and swine flus (chicken, turkey and pig farms)-so much as one animal gets it, they ALL do. Quickly.  In fact, turkeys/birds/swine can even catch swine flu from people!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/21/AR2009082103429.html

Turkeys in Chile Found to Have Swine Flu Health Official Says Birds Are Infected With 'Human Virus,' Not a Mutated Form

Follow Our Heart - be kind to animals.

Respectfully submitted,

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"If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men." -- St. Francis of Assisi, 1181-1226

In January 1990, Pope John Paul II issued a proclamation declaring that animals have souls.

Animal cruelty escalates in our society; many studies have proven that animal cruelty also links to violent crimes ranging from serial killers (they first started off with animals then graduated to children and adults), to domestic violence. Please pray to open people's hearts for compassion - that people stop dog fighting (which often distribute illegal weapons and narcotics in such rings to communities and children), and other acts of violence. Please pray that people stop farm factory cruelty-animals kept in cages so small they cannot move, and forced to live in their own excrement so horrific their lungs burn from the ammonia fumes. Daily doses of antibiotics to keep them alive in pure filth gave rise to antibiotic resistant organisms including MRSA (which kills more people than AIDS) and VRE; so contagious are these infections, merely TOUCHING the raw meat can bring infection through a micro-crack on the skin or rubbing one's nose. MRSA is epidemic and VRE is rising. So is even the more deadly form, CRE costing the health care system billions of dollars.

A few public words toward animal welfare will do so much good for humanity, and that animals, too, are all God's creatures and deserving of compassion, for they too feel pain and fear like we do. Good Christians are kind to animals.

Thank you for your time.

+In His Name We Trust+

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RESEARCH DATA TO VERIFY FACTS:

(1) Animal cruelty and violent crime linked:
Published October 29, 2007: LINK BETWEEN ANIMAL ABUSE AND SERIAL KILLERS

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/425882/the_link_between_animal_abuse_and_serial.html?cat=17


http://www.jaapl.org/cgi/reprint/30/2/257.pdf

The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law

J Am Acad Psychiatry Law 30:257–65, 2002

"A history of animal cruelty during childhood was significantly associated with APD [Antisocial Personality Disorder], antisocial personality traits, and polysubstance abuse. Mental retardation, psychotic disorders, and alcohol abuse showed no such association."

There are many, many more, available upon request.

ANTIBIOTIC ABUSE IN FARM ANIMALS BRING ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT INFECTIONS CONTAGIOUS TO HUMANS

http://www.klewtv.com/news/33624114.html

Story Published: Oct 31, 2008 at 8:02 AM PDT

"SEATTLE -- A ground-breaking investigation by KOMO-TV in Seattle has found toxic, life-threatening Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) bacteria in some pork you might buy at grocery stores." This research group purchased numerous packages of raw pork and many tested positive for live MRSA in the meat. So you touch it it is like touching a MRSA patient who is supposed to be under isolation.

UNIVERSITY OF MICROBIOLOGY - JAPAN-MRSA IN RETAIL RAW CHICKEN! Published 7 June 2004

http://rms1.agsearch.agropedia.affrc.go.jp/contents/JASI/pdf/society/73-3097.pdf

OTHER DISEASES SUCH AS VRE IS FOUND IN RAW MEAT
FATAL BACTERIA FOUND IN PIGS
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/366301_pigmrsa09.html

VRE - VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS FAECIUM AND MRSA IN FARM ANIMALS, UNCOOKED CHICKEN (CONTAGEOUS JUST TO TOUCH):

http://jac.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/34/4/507

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070903205004.htm

Hepatitis E In Europe: Pigs Or Pork The Problem

ScienceDaily (Sep. 4, 2007) — Hepatitis E virus infections can be fatal in pregnant women, but until recently doctors thought the disease was confined to China, India and developing countries. Now Europeans are also contracting the disease here, according to scientists.

Hepatitis E is a fecal-oral disease. Pigs live in their own excrement so if one pig has Hepatitis E-they ALL get it due to confined living spaces, sharing each others' feces and urine. Hepatitis is a special virus-each is housed with a tough shell so ordinary cooking will NOT kill it and neither will freezing: You have to autoclave (sterilize) the meat for about 20 minutes to kill hepatitis. If it was found in Europe, I have no doubt it is also in the USA but of course they won't check on that.

Animals that are highly stressed, living in their own excrement, in the filthiest conditions combined with multiple wounds (much of it from abusive man handling), gives rise to antibiotic resistant diseases and their reduced immune system is responsible for bird and swine flus (chicken, turkey and pig farms)-so much as one animal gets it, they ALL do. Quickly. In fact, turkeys/birds/swine can even catch swine flu from people!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/21/AR2009082103429.html

Turkeys in Chile Found to Have Swine Flu Health Official Says Birds Are Infected With 'Human Virus,' Not a Mutated Form

Follow Our Heart - be kind to animals.

Respectfully submitted,

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