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revues de presse anglophone http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/your_mommy_kills_animals/

http://marix.clg.qc.ca/clg/for/reg/guide/pdf/gd-145-A0.pdf

Bonjour mars ! Il y a une recette de beignes vegan à cette adresse... (en anglais) Mais avec la chaleur qu'il fait aujourd'hui, pas sûre qu'on ait trop envie de mettre la main à la pâte http://www.randomgirl.com/recipes.html

Les canards de Zavatta 12 août 2007- ... Saint-Nazaire -- La Bretagne durant l'été est la terre de prédilection des cirques ambulants, pas de grosses machines comme le Cirque du Soleil, mais de petites entreprises familiales qui pratiquent encore le cirque traditionnel. Pourquoi spécialement en Bretagne? Parce que le climat de cette région est profondément imprévisible et que l'on y expérimente les quatre saisons dans la même journée. Ici, le soir, ce n'est pas une petite laine qu'on apporte avec soi quand on sort, mais une grosse laine. Comme les enfants ne peuvent jouer dehors, qu'ils sont insupportables dans la tente, le camping-car, comme on dit ici, ou le studio exigu qu'on a loué, pour acheter le calme les parents vont au cirque et, plus le temps est frais, plus les spectateurs accourent. http://www.ledevoir.com/2007/08/11/153102.html

Le vendredi 07 septembre 2007 À son tour, le réseau des magasins Le Marché Végétarien prend un virage écologique encore plus marqué en adoptant des contenants biodégradables pour l’emballage des fruits et légumes. http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070907/CPTRIBUNE/70907088/5831/CPTRIBUNE

7 septembre 2007-Le Parlement européen lance un message clair à la Commission européenne: les expérimentations sur les singes doivent cesser! http://www.gaia.be/fra/control.php?&topgroupname=&groupname=cp66 p.s.: Dommage que les autres animaux ne soient pas inclus dans cette demande...

Deux-tiers des ours polaires pourraient disparaître d'ici 2050 WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Les deux tiers de la population actuelle d'ours blancs pourraient avoir disparu vers 2050 si les prévisions actuelles de fonte de la banquise polaire se concrétisent, estime l'institut géologique des Etats-Unis. (MAIS AU QUÉBEC (CANADA), ON PERMET TOUJOURS LEUR CHASSE !!!) http://fr.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20070907/tsc-climat-ours-blancs-011ccfa_1.html

Last year, the University of Chicago News Office announced the work of assistant professors Gidon Eshel and Pamela Martin — work that the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization soon accepted as a key study — with the headline “Vegan Diets Healthier for Planet, People Than Meat Diets.” These researchers have shown how vegans spare the atmosphere about a ton and a half of greenhouse gases per person per year, compared to omnivores eating the same number of calories. The university press office distributed its release accompanied by photos of the two scientists preparing fruit and vegetable salads on a kitchen-style countertop amidst their bookshelves — offering an inspiration to others to put conscientious culinary interests right in the middle of their work and thinking. Notably, Eshel was once a cattle farmer, but now cultivates an organic vegetable farm. Everyday activism like this will start people thinking that the fertile plains of North America, and the rain forests to the South, should be reclaimed from the feedlots and the vast monocultures of corn and soybean feed crops. As demand wanes and ranches are phased out, the pressure we exert on populations of free-living horses and burros, elk and bison, and the big carnivores too, will begin to ebb, while we cultivate something we’ve long missed: a feeling of living harmoniously with the rest of our biocommunity. How tragic if we fail to see the opportunity. How tragic if the up-and-coming activists of China and elsewhere come to see animal advocacy as purporting to treat commodified cows humanely. Worldwide, the space used by six-point-six billion humans is vastly expanded as animals are bred into existence to be food. There is nothing sustainable, let alone kind, about it. So let us stop fantasizing and get to the point. What animal agribusiness is selling, we don’t need. http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/08/hogwash-or-how-animal-advocates-enable-corporate-spin

Un très bon article qui pourrait peut-être nous inspirer à en écrire un qui irait dans le même sens pour notre bulletin... --------------------------- Severe damage is caused by humanity's penchant for treating the planet as our storehouse,and all living beings as our personal stock Hogwash! Or, How Animal Advocates Enable Corporate Spin by Lee Hall / August 29th, 2007 It’s obvious now: Severe damage is caused by humanity’s penchant for treating the planet as our storehouse, and all living beings as our personal stock. As public awareness grows, companies sense a need to adjust. But they’ve managed, perversely, to use the need for change as a means to avoid it. Thus the rise of “greenwashing” — the appearance of cultivating ecological awareness in hopes of getting a higher profile for whatever they happen to be selling us. [url=][/url] Harrogate Spa, a bottled water company, says it will sell its water in lighter bottles to save plastic — avoiding the issue that we might reconsider our love for water in plastic altogether. Boeing is taking orders for what some call “green aircraft,” as though we could keep flying while the profit-driven aircraft industry solves, or at least ameliorates, the ecological damage. Ranchers, too, are learning public relations techniques. We know animal agribusiness plays a major role in global warming, and the resultant refugee emergencies and mass extinctions. Surely this means animal advocates are approaching their heyday as political leaders for our time. After all, who better suited to advise a concerned public on shifting our culture away from its current reliance on meat and dairy products? Alas. Mainstream advocates aren’t taking the cue. On the contrary, they’ve made themselves a party to a new and ominous form of greenwashing. Allowing supposedly kinder, gentler animal farms to appear attractive, they have invented a new PR trend. One words fits: hogwashing.1 British and U.S. pig breeders are phasing out their smallest crates as they wrap their bacon and sausages in packaging that tells us how decent they are; and Waitrose, one of Britain’s major grocery chains, touts its milk as benefiting wildlife.2 Whole Foods Market boasts of concocting a non-profit “Animal Compassion Foundation” — and now presents sales of animal flesh as tantamount to a charitable undertaking, with the endorsement, no less, of 17 animal-advocacy groups. Similarly, advocates are promoting the use of “cage-free” eggs (a technically undefined term, usually meaning “expensive”) everywhere from the Google corporation to your local school. The eggs are so popular now that there’s reportedly a national shortage. Ice cream maker Ben and Jerry’s drew plenty of hype as the first major food manufacturer to announce it would (in a few years, anyway) use only “cage-free” eggs. At the same time, many chicken farmers say that popularizing the cage-free idea will likely mean crowding thousands of hens on shed floors, possibly leading to hunger, even cannibalism. Advocates may prefer to picture a victorious step to animal nirvana; yet all the while, plenty of animal-friendly companies produce desserts with no eggs — and, for that matter, no milk. The last thing such ethics-based firms need is competition from pious dairy vendors endorsed by animal advocates. Then there’s Niman Ranch. This outfit exhorts us to “[s]erve with pride the world’s finest natural beef, pork and lamb” and had the audacity to show up and speak at a gathering called “Taking Action for Animals 2007.” Billed as the largest national conference of the animal-protection movement, Taking Action exemplified the trend to restyle agribusinesses as animal-welfare societies when “approved” purveyors of animal flesh held the microphone. A charitable organization called the Animal Welfare Institute evidently paid $10,000 to present this infomercial.3 In short, hogwashing offers the customer a chance to eat animals and advocate for them in the same bite. It need not mean people are eating less of the older, unholier products. Unsure if this trend is boosting the industry? Consider this: Wolfgang Puck’s branding consultant introduced the celebrity chef to the president of the world’s wealthiest animal charity.4 The branding expert, who formerly ran Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, saw animal husbandry as the key to a profile boost for Puck. Within a year, Puck unveiled a new handling plan for the animals who will wind up braised with a side of sautéed Spätzle. Ultimate Betrayal Viewing animals as commodities, even well-handled commodities, isn’t animal protection. The ultimate betrayal of an animal is especially stark after the being has been treated almost like a pet (like the animals at Niman Ranch, who, we’re told, are walked into slaughter by someone who knew them by name).5 To take animals’ interests seriously is to opt out of animal agribusiness. When animal advocates acquire too much “maturation and sophistication” for that, they’re praised by the mainstream media for gaining “influence”6 — praised, that is, for accepting their culture’s corporate values so well. “Instead of telling it like it is, we’re learning to present things in a more moderate way,” one farm rescue activist told the New York Times. So only foie gras is off-limits (for now; an award-winning “ethical” foie gras is on the way). Every other animal product, it seems, is acceptable, under the “mature” advocates’ guidance. Even veal can pass these days — yes, there’s an uncrated version of little dead cows, as Wolfgang Puck was quick to ascertain, and activists now praise Puck for renouncing cruel veal producers. Granted, “telling it like it is” won’t give you instant popularity. For the authoritative remark on that, the New York Times quotes the CEO of a cattle ranchers’ group who declares that people opposing meat are “so off the wall” no one pays attention to them. Unfortunately, when mainstream advocacy groups seek wealth and easy public acceptance at the expense of core values, they too consider anyone committed to those values as inconvenient. Here, then, is an inconvenient truth: While some advocates play footsie with wealthy steakhouse owners, ice cream vendors and ranchers, the annihilation of the world’s free animals — caused largely by the dairies and ranches of the world — runs out of control. Wouldn’t a true animal-protection movement consistently support work that attempts to conserve water and wilderness and avoid boosting that which deforests and pollutes it? Another popular animal protection group has called Burger King’s “preferential option to chicken plants that slaughter animals in a controlled atmosphere” (that means slaughterhouses that contain gas chambers) “praiseworthy.” Gee. Wouldn’t a true animal-protection movement promote, say, juice bars? Ah, but roughly 97% of the potential donors to animal charities eat chickens.7 Thus, few organized groups choose to risk their growth potential as the world’s forests are cut down for animal farms and animal feed. It’s easier for the heads of charities to maintain that a return to something like the old family farm will restore an “ethic” to our relationship with the planet and its life. And that’s how Niman Ranch managed to style itself as “taking action for animals.” Setting a Precedent Environmentalists rightly warn that the chemicals and pathogens which plague mechanized farms can also contaminate soil, water, animal products, and our own bodies. But ecological problems aren’t limited to high-volume producers. A cow on a pasture is still a cow, needing plenty of water and food — and somewhere to eliminate it all. All forms of animal agribusiness demand large quantities of fossil fuels and generate a potent mix of greenhouse gases. The free-range movement just spreads it around more. Nevertheless, some who are vegetarian for reasons of conscience or politics are “beginning to take that activism and shift it towards eating sustainable meat,” Reuters recently declared, quoting a chef who avoided meat for 20 years but now thinks the “grass-fed movement is the new vegetarianism.” Such bizarre statements can easily find their way into print, given our culture’s traditional willingness to maintain our life-or-death authority over other animals. The least convenient truth of all? We must question our own authority if we would heal our relationship with our planet. We must learn reverence for life before life as we know it is gone. Our present course is expected to extinguish half of all plant and animal species by 2100, according to biologist Edward O. Wilson. Even as you read this, free-living animals are being wiped out for companies such as Niman Ranch, Wolfgang’s Steakhouse, and Whole Foods Market. Their habitat will be converted to hold living commodities, scheduled to die in a place where human workers are driven to perform dozens of soulless acts throughout the hours of their days. And now that biofuels, along with animal feed, vie for space with food crops, we’re headed for a serious food shortage. This crisis will be exacerbated as the effects of climate change hinder crop growth, leading to riots and political instability. Given all this, what kind of precedent do activists in well-off regions set? Imagine what the planet would look like if everybody ate as much meat and dairy as North Americans. Indeed, within just nine years, people in developing economies will expectedly eat 30% more cowflesh, 50% more pig meat and 25% more domesticated birds. Hogflesh and animal fats in general make up a quarter of the average caloric intake in China, compared to just 6% two decades ago.8 China’s now the world’s third dairy producer, and that’s a population that has long considered dairy products distasteful. Although research has linked the switch to a Western diet with heightened breast cancer risk, Xinran, author of What the Chinese Don’t Eat, says the “dairification” of China may involve admiration for Western customs. Even India, with its substantial vegetarian population, has seen chicken consumption nearly double since 2000. What appears to market analysts as an economic-development success story is actually a strain on our grain crops, Newsweek has acknowledged, because seven kilograms of feed go into every kilogram of cattle flesh. We the people of the already affluent world, who have been able to make time for activism, ought to provide rational advocacy models, in which the point is not to accept animal use. Excellent models are available, from community gardens and co-operative vegan-organic farming projects to educational and culinary fairs exemplified by the tremendously popular London Vegan Festival.

Vegan views may cost teacher's job He has held class discussions on diet By Jeff Long and Carolyn Starks | Tribune staff reporters September 7, 2007 Dave Warwak has taught art at Fox River Grove Middle School for eight years, and for most of that time, he was happy to eat meatloaf, hot dogs or whatever else the cafeteria workers dished out. But in January he became a vegan and started spreading the word about the benefits of a meatless diet to students at the McHenry County school. He even built an exhibit out of candy that depicted animals in cages and as road kill. On Thursday, Warwak said his crusade might cost him his job. He said he was told to stay away from class this week by administrators he described as "ardent meat-eaters." Dave Warwak has taught art at Fox River Grove Middle School for eight years, and for most of that time, he was happy to eat meatloaf, hot dogs or whatever else the cafeteria workers dished out. But in January he became a vegan and started spreading the word about the benefits of a meatless diet to students at the McHenry County school. He even built an exhibit out of candy that depicted animals in cages and as road kill. On Thursday, Warwak said his crusade might cost him his job. He said he was told to stay away from class this week by administrators he described as "ardent meat-eaters." Warwak, of Williams Bay, Wis., near Lake Geneva, said he is scheduled to meet with Fox River Grove District 3 officials Monday about the discussions he's had in class about vegetarianism, which excludes meats, and veganism, which excludes meats and other animal products such as milk. Officials asked him to leave the school Tuesday because he refused to stop talking about the harms humans cause animals, he said. Principal Tim Mahaffy declined to comment Thursday, calling the dispute a personnel issue. He would not discuss issues raised by Warwak or verify the teacher's version of events. The candy display came down after three days, when Mahaffy decided it was too much of a "PETA advertisement," Warwak said. The battle over diet lessons resumed this week after Warwak distributed the book "The Food Revolution" to his 8th-grade students and talked to his classes about vegetarianism. "It's probably one of the most life-changing books a person can read," Warwak said of the book, written by John Robbins and subtitled, "How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and the World." "It's about how we're destroying the planet with pollution from factory farming," Warwak said. "It's about health. It's about living longer." Neither the American Civil Liberties Union nor the Illinois Education Association had an opinion on the case, but Warwak drew support from animal rights advocates. "We believe that in a time when there's so much violence, especially in schools, that teachers who show kindness and compassion for all life should be commended," said Nathan Runkle, executive director of the Chicago-based Mercy for Animals advocacy group, which lobbies against factory farms. "It's appropriate for students to learn about the horrendous cruelty that animals endure on factory farms, and about the benefits of a healthy diet." Runkle said his group plans to write a letter to the school in support of Warwak. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, is giving Warwak its "Compassionate Educator" award, vice president Bruce Friedrich said. The group is also sending the school a letter in support of the teacher. Warwak, meanwhile, sees no problem discussing the topic he cares about passionately during art classes. "It's art in every way," he said. "Art is something different for everyone. ... Art is like philosophy." District 3 Supt. Jacqueline Krause was out of the office Thursday and unavailable for comment. Warwak, who said he makes $55,000 per year, said he feels a responsibility to warn his students about the dangers of what he calls an unhealthy diet and to open their minds to new ideas. "I'm telling kids, 'Don't believe everything you see and everything you read,'" he said. "I'm trying to get them curious enough to check things out for themselves." http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-veganteacher_bothsep07,1,6107907.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

Any U.S. Ban on Hunting Polar Bears Unlikely to be Adopted in Canada Climate change poses bigger threat, say experts By Sharda Vaidyanath Epoch Times Parliament Hill Reporter Sep 06, 2007 Scientist Dr. Ian Stirling in the Beaufort Sea region last spring. The two polar bears have been immobilized with drugged darts fired from a helicopter to facilitate tagging and collecting measurements and samples. (Courtesy of Ian Stirling) With climate change impacting some Polar bear populations in the Arctic, a move to list the bears under the United States Endangered Species Act (ESA) is gaining momentum. However, the politics of polar bear conservation south of the border may not be enough to melt Canadian resistance to banning the hunting of the bears. The University of Alberta's Canadian Circumpolar Institute is playing a lead international role in examining the pros and cons of hunting polar bears in the Canadian Arctic, including management and conservation. "It's not only a question of science, it's a question of politics as well," says senior research scholar at the institute, Milton Freeman. Freeman says of the 200,000 written submissions to the U.S. government, only 37 per cent supported the U.S. government's proposal to list polar bears, and of the thirteen submissions made by Canadians, only two supported the U.S. proposed listing. There are eight polar bear jurisdictions, and the provincial governments do not want to be derelict in managing them, he says. But he doesn't believe there will ever be a ban on hunting polar bears in Canada. "Canada is generally acknowledged to have a very good system of management because the quotas are all science-based and the precautionary principle is applied." Freeman says the Inuit are the first to tell the scientists if they have any concerns regarding hunting the bears. "The Inuit have negotiated various management processes throughout Canada, and under these processes they have a right to hunt the polar bears under sustainable management practices," says Duane Smith, president of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference, Canada. However, Smith notes that a U.S. ban would have repercussions in Canada and result in an economic and cultural impact. He says some communities that are partially dependent on American tourist sports hunting, such as Resolute Bay and Pond Inlet, stand to lose $25,000 US per hunt. In addition, the cultural aspects of using dog teams would also disappear. Smith says the Inuit don't support a ban for the reasons the U.S. gives, "and the U.S. consultation with the Inuit could be better." Environment Canada's scientist emeritus, Ian Stirling, says there has been a proposal to list polar bears as "threatened" under the ESA, adding that the ESA is currently undertaking an extensive review of the scientific information available on polar bears and on Arctic sea ice. Author of the book Polar Bears, Stirling says there are nineteen distinct polar bear populations in the circumpolar north with a total global population of 20,000 to 25,000 bears. Thirteen of those populations are either entirely within Canadian territory or shared with other nations such as Greenland, with which Canada shares three bear populations. A single bear population is shared with Alaska. Sixty per cent of the global polar bear population belongs to Canada. Climate Change Biggest Threat However, experts agree that climate change concerns are more important when it comes to the conservation of bears in the north. While circumpolar nations race to establish their claims to the resource-rich Arctic seabed, climate change and melting sea ice are threatening the Nanuq, or polar bear. And as bear populations decline, the Inuit, scientists and critics all agree that it's time the rapidly changing north became a priority. For thousands of years the Inuit led a nomadic life, and Nanuq was his "equal" as predator and hunter. They shared the same habitat and competed for the same food that ranged from seals to bigger prey like caribou, walrus and Beluga whales. The Inuit from birth on was taught all about respecting this symbiotic relationship with the prized polar bear and the harsh yet fragile environment. "We were told not to speak about polar bears too much because they're listening to you, because they're clever and dangerous," says Gabriel Nirlungayuk., a hunter, and director of Wildlife at Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. in Rankin Inlet. But traditional folklore and beliefs and the Inuit way of life began changing after western contact and continues to change dramatically, more recently because of climate change and its impact. Freely harvesting bears or other wildlife is no longer possible, as quotas and other restrictions have been in place for at least three decades, says Nirlungayuk. The Inuit are not alone in observing changes in the North. Over three hundred scientists from around the world contributed to the ground-breaking 2004 Arctic Climate Assessment (ACIA), which stated that the Arctic is now experiencing some of the most "rapid and severe" climate change on earth, and the ongoing reduction in sea ice is "very likely to have devastating consequence for polar bears, ice-dependent seals, and local people for whom these animals are a primary source of food." Since polar bears usually use ice as a platform to hunt seals from, the situation looks grim. Stirling cites areas such as Western Hudson Bay and the Southern Beaufort Sea as examples where long-term studies have observed significant decline. In Western Hudson Bay, the break-up of the sea-ice is happening three weeks earlier than it was thirty years ago. Stirling says that between 1985 and 2000 there has been a 22 per cent decline in bear population. "We are looking at a likelihood of a very large scale decline, 30 per cent of the polar bear population in 40 to 50 years," he says. National Policy Needed On a visit to the Arctic last week, NDP leader Jack Layton said that Prime Minster Stephen Harper's focus on military solutions for Arctic sovereignty is "too narrow.I've seen first hand that we need to tackle social, economic and environmental concerns." Executive Director of the Canadian Polar Commission, Steven Bigras, says that while our Canadian scientists are second to none, he laments the fact that we still don't have a national policy to support polar science. "It's not that it hasn't been tried. It's a very diverse and dispersed community, and getting all the players together and developing the consensus is a challenge," he says. The status of polar bears is currently under review by COSEWIC, the Committee on Status of Endangered Species of Wildlife in Canada. Stirling says Canada needs to move quickly on over-harvesting, being mindful to apply "the precautionary principle. If we're not certain of some details, give the resource the benefit of the doubt, something that did not happen with Arctic cod which became a victim of over estimation of existing population." Scientists and Inuit have a long history of working together, which is facilitated through the Polar Bear Technical Committee, which meets once a year, has direct Inuit participation, and all polar bear research is shared. However, Stirling says differences of opinion may arise over "interpretations of local ecological knowledge," such as interpreting increasing sightings of bears in the community. Canada is signatory to the 1973 Agreement of the Conservation of Polar Bears and Their Habitat that provides a framework for working with other polar nations, which is critical for conservation. However, many issues are particular to Canada, such as funding for research, 60-80 per cent of which comes from outside sources, says Stirling. "Polar bear research done by the federal government has been under-funded for almost twenty five years." While the degree to which human beings can respond to climate change within the next five or ten years is unknown, it will be the defining factor for saving the polar bears, says Stirling. "If we're going to conserve polar bears that means we're going to conserve the habitat they're dependent on, and that's going to have huge numbers of large scale benefits in many ways that we may not even appreciate." http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-9-6/59471.html ______________________________________________________ Barry Kent MacKay Canadian Representative Animal Protection Institute <www.api4animals.org>

7 septembre 2007 - 10h50 LaPresseAffaires.com Les Québécois veulent laisser un répit à la forêt boréale, et ne croient pas que Québec et les forestières mènent une gestion durable des forêts, selon un sondage publié par Greenpeace. http://lapresseaffaires.cyberpresse.ca/article/20070907/LAINFORMER/70907087/5891/LAINFORMER01

7 septembre 2007 Rimouski a décidé d'intervenir pour contrer la prolifération des goélands argentés. Le maire Éric Forest constate que les plaintes à leur sujet affluent à l'Hôtel de Ville. La Ville mettra en place un plan d'intervention dès le printemps prochain. Les spécialistes recommandent de contenir la population de goélands en arrosant les oeufs avec une huile qui les empêchent d'éclore. Le maire Forest a pris bonne note de ce conseil. http://www.radio-canada.ca/regions/est-quebec/2007/09/07/002-goelands.asp

T'as bien raison terrienne ! Allez, un p'tit r'montant ne nous fera pas de mal et pourqui pas deux tant qu'à faire

Je n'ai pas de mal à te croire terrienne, car c'est pareil ici. Quand il s'agit de préserver leur bout de gras, (foie gras, chasse commerciale aux phoques, chasse sportive, etc. etc.), ils sont tous déchainés ...

Super terrienne ! Tu devrais l'envoyer aussi aux médias du Québec ! Seulement qu'à changer le mot «corrida» pour chasse au phoque !

Albert Einstein a dit un jour que «si l'abeille disparaissait de la planète, l'homme n'aurait plus que quatre années à vivre». ... http://www.ledevoir.com/2007/08/24/154434.html

oUPSSSSSSS ! J'avais manqué cette bonne nouvelle !

Bonjour, nous sommes à la recherche de foyer spéciaux pour 2 jeunes Huskys. Ce sont des chiens d’intérieur. Blizzard a 5 mois. C’est encore un chiot donc il est très enjoué, il aime beaucoup le contact avec l’humain. Nous cherchons pour lui une personne expérimentée avec les chiens, il a besoin d’éducation avec renforcement positif. Blizzard est jeune, mais il est déjà protecteur envers sa nourriture. Il ne doit pas vivre avec des enfants. Si vous voulez des informations sur ce charmant compagnon contactez la responsable des foyers d’accueil au 450-663-3266 poste 224. Envy a 8 mois. Elle a été abandonné parce qu’elle a trop d’énergie, elle cherche une famille active et patiente. Elle est affectueuse mais a besoin de dépenser beaucoup d’énergie pour être bien éduqué. Envy aussi est protectrice de sa nourriture, si elle vous intéresse vous devez avoir de l’expérience avec les chiens qui utilisera le renforcement positif comme méthode d’éducation. Pour information contactez la responsable des foyers d’accueil au 450-663-3266 poste 224.

6 sept. 2007 Le Fonds indien de protection de la nature a dénoncé jeudi un trafic présumé de cuisses de grenouilles vers la France après que la police eut mis la main sur des sacs remplis de milliers de ces batraciens protégés. La semaine dernière des policiers de l'Etat indien de l'Assam (nord-est) ont découvert sur une route près d'un parc naturel 14 sacs contenant des milliers de grenouilles, la plupart vivantes, apparemment abandonnées par des trafiquants. Les animaux furent relâchés, mais plusieurs centaines étaient déjà morts étouffés. "C'est une énorme saisie et la marchandise était, selon toutes les probabilités, destinée à la France où (les cuisses de grenouilles) sont considérées comme un plat gastronomique", a déclaré à l'AFP Ashok Kumar, vice-président du Fonds indien pour la protection de la nature (WTI). D'après lui, les batraciens devaient être tués, démembrés puis leurs pattes congelées au Bangladesh, avant d'être envoyées en France. "Une fois congelées, elles peuvent rapporter beaucoup d'argent. Il semble qu'il y ait une chasse organisée dans l'Assam à la grenouille-taureau indienne", la plus grosse espèce de grenouille en Inde, mesurant jusqu'à 15 cm, a-t-il accusé. Cette grenouille a été déclarée "espèce protégée" en 1994 par la Convention sur le commerce international des espèces de faune et de flore sauvages menacées d'extinction (CITES). En 1997, un chargement de 450.000 grenouilles-taureaux indiennes avait été intercepté aux Pays-Bas, à destination du Canada et en provenance du Vietnam. Devenue rare dans les marais en France, la grenouille est un produit de haute gastronomie, les cuisses étant cuisinées surtout par de grands chefs qui s'approvisionnent en Asie. La pêche de ce batracien est interdite en France depuis 1980 et son élevage sévèrement réglementé. La France importe 3.000 à 4.000 tonnes par an de cuisses surgelées et 700 à 800 tonnes de grenouilles vivantes, selon des chiffres de 2005 de l'Institut national de la recherche agronomique (Inra). Inde: soupçons de trafic de cuisses de grenouilles vers la France - 06/09/07 http://www.animaux-online.com/depeches,lecture,inde-soupcons-de-trafic-de-cuisses-de-grenouilles-vers-la-france:31356.html

Il doit souffrir de la maladie de la vache folle !

Oui j'ai remarqué animo ! Ils veulent vendre leur huile de phoques

Ah oui ? Combien de personnes ces dangereux «terroristes» ont-ils tués ?