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sûrement ! Malgré qu'ils lui ont répondu quand il a retéléphoné, qu'ils manquaient de personnel !!!

Le chien errant, une menace pour le chevreuil Paul Lepage Chasse et pêche - 20 mars 2008 Photo: En cet hiver rigoureux, les populations de chevreuils peuvent se passer de la menace supplémentaire des chiens errants qui les harcèlent régulièrement. Les populations de cerfs de Virginie subissent un hiver très rigoureux. Les abondantes précipitations de neige, la pluie, le verglas et le grésil reçus ces dernières semaines leur compliquent sérieusement la vie. Les sites de nourriture sont difficiles d'accès et, pour les atteindre, les cerfs doivent quitter les sentiers battus et s'enfoncer dans la neige épaisse jusqu'à la poitrine. En plus de ces intempéries, la menace pour leur survie provient des prédateurs naturels que sont le loup et le coyote. Et, comme si ce n'était pas assez, ils sont constamment harcelés, dérangés et poursuivis par des chiens errants domestiques ou sauvages (abandonnés par leur propriétaire), qui se déplacent en solitaire ou en meute. Lorsque ces quadrupèdes gracieux reçoivent la visite indésirable de chiens errants, leur seul moyen de défense est la fuite. Les rapports de force sont inégaux. Dans sa course, le chevreuil s'enfonce dans la neige et s'essouffle rapidement. Le chien, à cause de son poids, porte sur la surface gelée. Il rejoint en quelques minutes le troupeau et s'acharne sur la bête la plus isolée. Celle-ci est alors victime de blessures importantes : morsures, tendons coupés et membres inférieurs fracturés. Certains cerfs vont jusqu'à en mourir. Votre chien préféré peut être une menace accrue pour le chevreuil lorsque vous vous promenez en forêt. Tenez-le en laisse. À ce sujet, la Loi sur la conservation et la mise en valeur de la faune interdit à tout propriétaire ou gardien d'un chien de laisser errer l'animal dans un endroit où se trouve du gros gibier (par exemple le Parc régional de la Rivière-du-Nord). Cette loi prévoit une amende minimale de 250$ pour une telle infraction et permet à un agent de la protection de la faune d'abattre sur le champ sans préavis un chien errant. À ce sujet, au bureau de la protection de la faune à Saint-Jérôme, le personnel a reçu de nombreuses plaintes de la part de citoyens vigilants. Si vous êtes témoins d'incidents de chiens errants près de ravages à chevreuils, appelez le 450 569-3113 ou S.O.S Braconnage 1-800-463-2191. http://lechodunord.canoe.ca/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contentid=52916&catname=Chasse+et+p%EAche&classif=Nouvelles ------------------------- Il y a quelques semaines, un vendredi après-midi, un de mes beaux-frères a découvert non loin de chez-lui, une femelle chevreuil qui était poursuivie par une meute de 5 gros chiens (domestiques). Quand il est arrivé sur les lieux, mon beau-frère a pu voir les chiens qui ont alors pris la fuite. La chevreuil était couchée par terre et était blessée à une patte et avait aussi été mordue aux fesses. Mon beau-frère a aussitôt téléphoné à SOS braconnage qui lui a répondu qu'ils viendraient dès que possible, mais qui ne sont venus que le lundi suivant. En attendant les secours, mon beau-frère lui donnait à manger et de l'eau mais sans soins médicaux, la pauvre bête est morte après plusieurs jours de souffrances !

Three charged with illegal whale fishing near Ulsan March 18, 2008 After finding 90 mink whales in a cold storage facility in Ulsan, police yesterday arrested three fisherman on charges of illegal whaling, the East Regional Headquarters of the Coast Guard announced yesterday. Another 78 buyers and traders were indicted without detention. Police said the three fishermen, including the 47-year-old captain of a whale fishing boat, went fishing for the mink whales in May, July and August of last year off the coast of Ulsan in the East Sea (Sea of Japan). The three, whose names were not released, then tried to sell their catch to restaurant owners in Ulsan through traders. Police were tipped off to the existence of two cold storage facilities in Ulsan, about 400 kilometers (250 miles) south of Seoul. The whales being stored there were worth 800 million won ($804,000), police said. ¡°We are still investigating the illegal whaling,¡± said Chung Woo-jin, an officer of the Korea Coast Guard on the case. ¡°We expect to arrest more fishermen who caught whales illegally.¡± If convicted, the three suspects could be sentenced to up to three years in prison or fined 20 million won. http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2887540

Escaped steer shot after charging police officer Updated Thu. Mar. 20 2008 toronto.ctv.ca A Mississauga, Ont., community was taken hostage by a herd of cattle for nearly four hours on Thursday morning. Four steer who escaped from a transport truck during a morning accident made their way to a residential area around Brentano Boulevard near Highway 427 and the Queen Elizabeth Way. More than 20 officers, animal control workers and farmers were involved in rounding up the nervous animals. Police managed to contain the animals and were leading them into the back of a truck when one of them escaped. One steer was eventually shot after it knocked a couple of residents off their feet and charged a police officer. The animal was killed by an officer's service revolver as a last-minute defence, OPP Const. Dave Woodford told CTV Toronto. Police said the animals caused some property damage. An ambulance was on the scene but there were no serious injuries reported. Residents said they were shocked to see the large cattle roaming their neighbourhood. "What made me nervous was the OPP cars had blocked us in and one (officer) was standing at my neighbour's across the street with a shotgun," said a woman named Theresa. "At first I thought maybe it was a criminal or something, not a cow." "It was a major distraction for someone who's self-employed because it's really hard to continue working when there's four cows in your neighbourhood," Dorothy Pilarski said with a laugh. The cattle situation caused delays during the morning traffic rush on the Queen Elizabeth Way. A transport truck carrying the animals overturned on the highway at about 6:40 a.m. The driver of the truck was not injured in the accident. Police managed to get the cattle off the road, closing the highway for nearly one hour in the process. All lanes were reopened by 7:30 a.m. With a report from CTV Toronto's Naomi Parness http://www.ctv.ca/

Ontario kennel a 'dog gulag' By JONATHAN SHER, SUN MEDIA The London Free Press At the "dog gulag of Middlesex County," dead animals are tossed in pits with other refuse, their remains left to rot or be pecked at by chickens. The sight is one of many horrors found yesterday by investigators in what they say is the largest case of animal neglect they've seen. About 120 dogs were found in decrepit conditions, some in need of medical care, at a rural property west of Strathroy. The scene left Sarnia police Const. Beth Lahey fighting back tears. "Animals are subsisting in absolute squalor, filth. There's carcasses in various states of decay, consumption," she said to reporters gathered in front of 25674 Napier Rd. It was the first visit there for Lahey, who described the operation -- licensed as a kennel -- as the "dog gulag of Middlesex County." Investigators for the London Humane Society have been frequent visitors to the site, most recently in January, their options limited, one said, by lax laws and few resources. "We have been trying to work at increasing the standard of care out there for a number of years," investigator Chris Chew said as he tried to inventory the dogs. The dogs' owners promised to make improvements, but didn't follow through, Chew said. "Some of the concern (now) is that things should have been done." The humane society has asked Middlesex OPP in the past to accompany their investigators to the property, in Adelaide Metcalfe Township, OPP spokesperson Doug Graham said. But on Wednesday, it was Chew and colleague Leanne Mackay who were called to the site by police from Sarnia, who were searching for stolen property. While police found enough suspect property to fill one-third of a police cube van, they were stunned -- even sickened -- to find a nightmarish version of Old MacDonald's Farm. Dogs of all types and sizes, were kept in pairs in kennels exposed to the elements on one side and so filled with mud and excrement the animals couldn't turn around without stepping in feces. "This is by far the biggest operation I've ever seen," said Mackay, who has worked a decade as an investigator for the London Humane Society. A dozen dogs ran loose, some seemingly vicious and injured or ill, while others were chained to kennels. Other animals ran loose, too, including sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, ducks and geese, some of them in poor health. Dead rats were rampant amid piles of refuse and abandoned vehicles, including a trailer and a school bus. Inside the house, there were dirty dishes in the kitchen and animal excrement on the floor, with birds coming and going. "It was absolutely horrible. Animals were eating garbage, eating the carcasses of other animals," Graham said. Police believe the owners were breeding dogs, but weren't sure for what purpose -- dog fighting and other sundry activities haven't been ruled out, Graham said. Police didn't go on the property at first for fear of being attacked by dogs running loose. So, the humane society brought back to London four larger ones -- a mastiff, Rottweiler, Doberman and pitbull -- all either ill or injured. The fate of the other dogs was in the hands yesterday of a veterinarian, who can order them removed if they're found in distress that can't be corrected, Chew said. The humane society has not previously charged the owners of the dogs, instead choosing to seek co-operation. Charges usually don't result in animals being permanently removed, Chew said -- owners are typically placed on probation and told to comply with animal health standards. Even when someone is convicted of the most heinous cruelty -- Chew pointed to a case of a cat hung and skinned alive -- they're banned from animal ownership for only five years, he said. The kennel was licensed in the former town of Metcalfe, with its licence grandfathered when the town amalgamated in 2001 to become Adelaide Metcalfe. At the nearby Glencoe Animal Shelter, owner Vicki Kyle said grandfathered kennels don't have to meet newer standards. "Fixing the old stuff is difficult," she said. "The rules just aren't strict enough . . . you're taking the animals out the front door and they're going back in the back door." Floriano Daponte, 53, of Napier, known as "Floyd," was charged with possession of stolen property and placed in custody in Sarnia. A bail hearing is set for Tuesday. 21 mars 2008 http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2008/03/21/5068626-sun.html

Voici cette nouvelle. Ontario kennel a 'dog gulag' By JONATHAN SHER, SUN MEDIA The London Free Press At the "dog gulag of Middlesex County," dead animals are tossed in pits with other refuse, their remains left to rot or be pecked at by chickens. The sight is one of many horrors found yesterday by investigators in what they say is the largest case of animal neglect they've seen. About 120 dogs were found in decrepit conditions, some in need of medical care, at a rural property west of Strathroy. ... http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Crime/2008/03/21/5068626-sun.html

Chenil en Ontario/ Entendu aux nouvelles anglophones ce soir: Plus de 100 chiens ont été retrouvés dans un état pitoyable sur un terrain qui aurait été volé ... De nombreux chiens étaient morts, d'autres étaient très malades et/ou blessés. Plusieurs de ces chiens étaient attachés, ils n'avaient pas d'abris et l'endroit où ils se trouvaient était jonché d'excréments ...

Action à Calgary (Alberta), contre la chasse canadienne au phoque 15 mars 2008

Rappel: Le Canada doit être prêt à servir le marché chinois 20 janvier 2006 La Chine, premier producteur mondial de porc, devrait devenir un grand importateur de porc d'ici la fin de la décennie. C'est la conclusion que tirent des experts réunis à Banff, en Alberta,dans le cadre d'un séminaire sur le porc. Il s'agit d'une occasion en or pour les pays exportateurs de porcs, dont le Canada. En 2004, les fermiers chinois ont fourni la moitié de la production mondiale de porc. Cependant, la Chine exporte peu, car la consommation intérieure est forte et la population ne cesse d'augmenter. Un chercheur de l'Université de Pékin, Ruojun Wang, visite de nombreux pays, dont le Canada, à la recherche de solutions. Il affirme que les fermiers chinois ont peu d'espace et peu d'eau pour cultiver des céréales et des oléagineux. Les producteurs chinois cherchent au Canada une aide pour augmenter le rendement de leurs truies. Éric Aubin, de l'entreprise Hypor, collabore avec les Chinois: « On voit déjà une amélioration génétique avec nos animaux qui ont été envoyés en Chine, comparativement avec les animaux qu'ils utilisaient dans le passé. » Selon une spécialiste du groupe financier Rabobank, Fiona Boal, le coût élevé des produits agricoles et la croissance économique et démographique plafonneront la production porcine chinoise. Elle dit que le porc est la viande de premier choix des Chinois et, qu'au cours des 10 prochaines années, le pays devra importer beaucoup de porc pour répondre à la demande. Cette perspective est intéressante pour le Canada, qui figure au troisième rang des pays exportateurs de porc, avec une part du marché estimée à 22 %. http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/manitoba/2006/01/20/003-porc_chine.shtml

oui Cé, mais il aurait pu afficher une photo des manifestants de Terre-Neuve plutôt qu'une de ceux de Mtl... C'est comme si nous faisions partie de ceux qui ont créé cette vidéo...

Ahahahah ! Merci pour le lien de cette vidéo Valou !! J'ai honte pour lui ! ------------ Pas sûre Valou ! Je crois qu'elle ne mange que de la viande bio maintenant ! http://blogues.chatelaine.com/durocher/

Pauvres petits chiens ! Cette image me crève le coeur !

tant qu'il y a de l'argent à faire ...!!!

March 21, 2008 Nunavut’s day of the seal “It provides us with our identity.” JANE GEORGE The crowd roared as Johnny Issaluk jumped along the runway on his knuckles and toes in a display of traditional Inuit knuckle-hopping, an imitation of how a seal slithers across the ice. Issaluk's demonstration of Arctic sports prowess was just one way in which last weekend's Celebration of the Seal event in Iqaluit told the story of the seal's central role within Inuit culture: food, and an inspiration for song, dance and fashion. Proud Nunavummiut model their finest sealskin apparel for the crowd at last weekend’s Celebration of the Seal event in Iqaluit. (PHOTOS BY CHRIS WINDEYER) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More than 400 Nunavut residents came to Iqaluit's arena March 15 to honour the seal, wearing everything from traditional sealskin amautis and kamiks to stylish sealskin hats. They feasted on fresh seal meat, listened as tots sang songs about seals and applauded fashion shows featuring sealskin creations. Many wore stickers on their parkas saying "Eat seal, wear seal." Sheila Watt-Cloutier, 2007 Nobel peace prize nominee and climate change activist, attended the celebration. She said the seal hunt is "nutritionally, economically, and spiritually" essential to Inuit. Pauloosie Kilabuk deftly butchers a seal, sliding off its skin in one piece. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- At the same time, in St. John's, Nfld., sealers in sealskin caps handed out samples of seal oil capsules and ate seal flipper pie at Newfoundland's annual Swiler's (or Sealer's) Ball. Both events were held in defiance of a world-wide "day of protest," also held March 15,organized by anti-sealing animal rights groups. In Montreal, half-naked activists shivered in their underwear to protest the skinning of seals for fur. In the 1980s, the anti-sealing lobby pressured European nations to ban the import of baby seal pelts. More recently, the anti-sealing movement has mounted a new campaign encouraging European nations to ban imports of all seal products. Ironically, animal rights activists don't even know what sealskins look like, says Iqaluit law graduate and sealskin designer Aaju Peter. Peter, who coordinated last weekend's seal festivities in Iqaluit, travelled to Europe last March to speak out against the ban on seal products. Since then, Belgium and the Netherlands have banned imports of seal products, and a European Union-wide ban on sealskin imports may be in place by June. Curious kids poke at a frozen seal laid out at the March 15 Celebration of the Seal in Iqaluit. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This ban will exempt Inuit traditionally-hunted furs from a subsistence hunt. But Peter says this could hurt Inuit anyway. That's because no one knows how the Europeans will define "traditional hunting." For example, the definition may prohibit the use of guns or snowmobiles, which are both used in "traditional" Inuit hunts. An inirvik-shaped tag, shaped like a sealskin stretcher, already identifies Nunavut seal products in English and Inuktitut as coming from "Nature's Edge." However, customs officials usually don't recognize these labels, and the paperwork needed to allow "traditionally-hunted" seal products into countries with bans may take months to process. The Government of Nunavut, Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. and the Fur Council of Canada say the best way to counter attacks on the seal hunt is for Inuit sealers to maintain solidarity with Maritime sealers, who will take 275,000 seals this spring. "We need to work together as sealers and harvesters in a global effort against animal rights groups," said NTI's assistant director of wildlife, Paul Irngaut, at a March 11 sealing information workshop in Iqaluit, which was put on by the GN and the Fur Council of Canada. Global economic forces also affect the sealskin market within Nunavut, and today's hunters carry a heavy load of red tape, said Joshua Kanguk of Iqaluit's Amarok hunters and trappers association. "It seems as if we are being overwhelmed by the outside world," he said at the March 11 workshop. Meeka Arnakaq of Pangnirtung gets everyone into a festive mood as she plays the accordion at the Celebration of the Seal. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pangnirtung elder Peterloosie Qappik said he clearly recalls a time when Inuit hunters piled their kamotiks high with sealskins, took them to the Hudson Bay Co. and exchanged the furs for money. These days, it's not as simple. After demand for sealskins nosedived in the 1980s, the HBC and co-ops stopped buying them from hunters. Now, hunters must go through a territorial wildlife officer to sell their sealskins, their furs must be of high quality, and they don't get paid the full amount until their sealskins have gone through auction. Under this program, the GN buys about 10,000 skins a year. Even learning how to work with sealskins isn't as easy as it was in the days when mothers passed this knowledge onto their daughters. Many elders are expert sewers, but often their daughters didn't learn when they were at residential schools. The result: many young Inuit women haven't mastered these skills. That's Nunavut Arctic College now offers a pilot course on fur production. They spent the first half of the course learning to clean and soften sealskin and make traditional Inuit clothing. Now they are learning about industrial sewing techniques and fashion design. Hunters at the sealing workshop were puzzled over the need to formally teach skills that many of their mothers still practice. But they welcomed the twisted seal ribbons that the Arctic College students gave them as gifts. Many at the seal celebration wore the ribbons, which come pinned to a card that says "the seal provides us with more than just food and clothes. It provides us with our identity. Today the seal continues to be an integral part of our culture and economy." Rannva Simonsen, a fur designer in Apex, designed the sealskin hat that Madeleine Alakariallak wore to the Celebration of the Seal. http://www.nunatsiaq.com/news/features/80321_1040.html

Pour leur article, ils ont utilisé une des photos des manifestants de Montréal -------------------------------- http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=9f94330d-3631-48af-88dc-e909c9a6ea64&k=94608 Fur flies over seal hunt video Ken Meaney , Canwest News Service Published: Thursday, March 20, 2008 There was more fur flying Thursday as the Newfoundland government sounded off on what it calls a "vile" video attack on Canadian sealers. In the video, an unsuspecting driver gets out of his car and is hunted down and clubbed to death by hooded and masked men who steal his coat and run off. It's a bloody scene with a pounding heavy metal track behind it. Members of the Concordia University Animal Rights Association and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals protest against Canada's annual seal hunt in Montreal on March 15. AFP PHOTO/David BOILY Tom Rideout, the minister of fisheries and aquaculture, says the anti-sealing video is "a new low on the part of anti-sealing organizations." "This particular attack is the most vile that I have ever seen myself in my almost 30 years in public life. It is completely indecent for this group of people, who have likely never even visited our province, to present such a disturbing depiction of sealers." The video is distributed by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals in Germany. It can be found at www.the-canadians.comThe same site offers t-shirts for around $30 depicting a ghoulish sealer standing atop a mound of seal carcasses and threatening a whitecoat seal. Rideout said the seal hunt is based on sound scientific evidence that shows healthy populations of seals and that the harvest is conducted in a humane manner. PETA spokesmen were not available for comment. Meanwhile, after depictions of human-on-human violence, now the seals are getting in on the act. Hunters beware - there's a new seal in town, and he's got a club. An online game that bills itself as "a mission of mindless revenge" puts seal hunters on the receiving end for a change. Clubby the Seal is an unabashedly violent game, the brainchild of U.S. animator Edmund McMillen. Players take the part of Clubby, trekking across the frozen tundra and bashing their way "through armies of seal clubbers." Along the way, they collect human "skins" and sell them on the black market. Gamers describe it as "funny and violent." "Nothing could be more glorious than a seal with a club destroying people," said one player on the game's website, http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/149398.

Saskatchewan Company Proves Pigs Can Fly Week of March 3, 2008 Saskatchewan's pig genetics are about to make their mark on the world's largest market, thanks to a shipment of pigs to China. Fast Genetics of Saskatoon recently shipped 866 pigs to Chengdu, China, where they will form the breeding nucleus of a joint venture company called Tianzow Foods. "Fast Genetics is based in Saskatchewan, but our parent company is Hytek Ltd. from southern Manitoba," explained Fast General Manager Shannon Meyers. "It is a large pork-producing and processing company which has an equity interest in Tianzow Foods." The pigs originated in the Fast Genetics facilities at Melfort and Spiritwood. Their journey took them first to Manitoba, then Chicago by truck, and finally on to China via jumbo jet. "We did charter a Boeing 747 freightliner, which exclusively carried our pigs on this trip, requiring a flying time of about 20 hours," Meyers said. Meyers says Tianzow Foods has acquired rights to distribute Fast Genetics in China. Tianzow is a vertically integrated company that owns pork production facilities, slaughtering and processing plants, and even a chain of retail meat stores. China offers a market of 1.3 billion people who love their pork, consuming a per capita average of 38 kilograms of pork per year. "This is a sale where we look at the margins and make a business case to do this single shipment - but it's really greater than that in the potential for our company over the long-term, with all of the offspring that will come out of there into China," Meyers said. "The goal will be to both utilize the offspring in our internal operation and to sell genetics to other Chinese producers." Even though Canada is considered a high health status exporter of live pigs, completing this transaction did not come without its challenges. "These animals were blood-tested twice in Saskatchewan at our source farms," Meyers noted. "Then, they were moved to Manitoba and spent 49 days in quarantine, overseen by a Chinese government veterinarian, and blood-tested again. They are now in a Chinese quarantine for 45 days, and after a fourth consecutive clean blood test, the government will finally release them to their owner in China." Fast Genetics owns 3,700 sows in genetic nucleus and multiplication production in Saskatchewan. Their genetics are found in sow herds and market hogs across Canada, the United States, Mexico, France and, now, China. "When we look at the opportunities, we think they're great," Meyers said. "One of the reasons is that Saskatchewan is recognized as a great place to produce healthy breeding stock, because of the low density of hogs in the province. From an international standpoint, Saskatchewan is very well viewed as a preferred place to source breeding stock." Meyers says Fast Genetics is planning to continue its international genetics export business. "It's a huge undertaking and we have a great staff, who have a lot of commitment to doing it," he stated. "We're exploring other international opportunities, and now that we have this under our belt, our goal will be to get into other countries, as well." http://www.agriculture.gov.sk.ca/ff080303

Pigs developed with heart-healthy meat// 20 Mar 2008 A few years ago, scientists created mice that transformed unhealthy omega-6 fatty acids into beneficial omega-3 fatty acids. This was done by transplanting a gene from the roundworm C. elegans into mice, thus raising the possibility of genetically engineering livestock with higher levels of the good fat. Now a team of researchers has realised that vision, creating several healthy pigs with meat rich in omega-3s. A team from the University of Pittsburgh a first transferred the roundworm gene--fat-1--to pig foetal cells. After that, a team from the University of Missouri cloned those cells and transferred them into 14 pig mothers. 12 pigs were born. Six of them tested positive for the gene and its ability to synthesise omega-3 fatty acids. Omega-3 fatty acids Omega-3 fatty acids are well-known to protect against heart disease. However, meat from pigs, cows and other mammals typically has higher levels of omega-6 fatty acids, because of a diet of grains rich in the fat and an inability to transform it into its healthier version. Pork generally contains roughly 15% bomega-6 fatty acids and only 1% omega-3; in contrast, omega-3s made up 8% of the engineered pigs' total muscle fat. Three of the six piglets subsequently had to be killed because of heart defects. These defects appear to be a result of the cloning process rather than the introduced gene. The results of the trial are published online in Nature Biotechnology http://www.pigprogress.net

Bravo Mme Bardot !

Je ne crois pas qu'il y ait de pétitions Linda- Ce que les refuges ont le plus besoin sont des familles d'adoption et des dons

Il a tout compris !

Big increase in donations to animal-rights groups// 20 Mar 2008 The Animal Agriculture Alliance has indicated that charitable donations to animal-rights groups rose 5% in 2006, the latest period available, with significant increases to PETA. Donations to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) increased by 17% in 2006. Additionally, donations to PETA’s 'Foundation to Support Animal Protection' (FSAP) also posted a double-digit increase, jumping 18%. The findings come from the 2007 Animal People Watchdog Report on 150 Animal Charities - the newspaper Animal People’s annual review of animal charity budgets. The report also revealed that the largest animal-rights activist group in the US, Humane Society for the United States (HSUS), increased donations by 9%. Importantly, this increase builds on the impressive 62% increase in donations the organisation received in 2005. The Animal Agriculture Alliance reports that the extreme approach of PETA may have garnered markedly more funds in 2006, but some more moderate groups also made big gains Outside the US, the British group, Compassion in World Farming (CWF) more than doubled its donations, exceeding 114%. Total donations to animal-rights groups expanded by about 5%, reaching US$295.8 mln. http://www.pigprogress.net

OK Valou, je l'ai ...

allo Saturne, je n'ai pas cette information, mais Animo viendra sûrement te la donner tout-à-l'heure...

... je dirais plutôt qu'il a la tête pleine d'eau !!!!!!!