Some good news!

PETA has scored a huge victory in the fight to stop Canadian seals from being clubbed to death!

or being shot to death for their skins!

Supporters sent more than 100,000 letters and emails to MEP's urging them to vote for a ban in the E.U on seal fur products, 'recognising that these hunts can never be humane'.  MEP's have voted in favour of seals!

This ban speaks directly to the Canadian government to stop the massacre of baby seals being bludgeoned in front of their wailing mothers for a product that no one needs!

We still need to put pressure on Canada.  Write to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and tell him how you want this to barbaric killing to stop.  Contact PETA and get more information and carry on with the letting people know what Canada is allowing.

Earth Day is tommorrow

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NEWS

Earth Hour is happening.
Turn off your all your lights/electricity for one hour on:
Saturday March 28th at 8:30pm.
Now we can all become inventive world wide
in candlelight or otherwise and save some energy.
A good time to do some astronomy..Saturn is fairly visible
if your in Austrailia.
If enough of us are doing it in London, check out the satellites.

URGENT NEWS

There is a very important vote taking place on March 31st.
It is to do with a new directive that will govern how animal
research will be conducted across Europe,the U.K included.
It will replace the current rules which are 23 years old.
The proposals are alarming for animal welfare.

If you are so inclined please look at this link to Animal Aid
and include your support immediatly.
Emails have to go off today and tomorrow.

NEWS

Think of Canada - ah yes - wide open spaces? Lumberjacks? Native people living happily? Think again.

Get onto this please, it's outrageous.

You can do something about this if you want to. Don't let Canada get away with acts like this.

Watch the video - and see for yourself.

Just a great picture

MUSIC

Now I've sung a bit of country in my time so you will be hearing a little bit of it every
so often.

Check out this great tune from Deana Carter.
With this chorus: "Did I shave my legs for this?"...
well..you just can't go wrong.

FOOD

I discovered this at the yoga studio I go to. It's seriously delicious and healthy:

• put some sunflower seeds in a pan
  
• toast on low heat for around 10 to 15 minutes - till they're roasting - they'll be golden brown
  
• keep them turning the whole time (they'll burn quickly if you don't
• add 10-20 drop of Tamari - Japanese wheat free soy sauce.

Eat with anything. They're good...

NEWS

I guess you can see by now that I am an animal lover and supporter.
I wanted to put this entry on early so you can put it in your diary:
It's to mark World day for Laboratory Animals.
Saturday April 25th - meet at Speakers Corner Hyde Park -12 noon.
Anti Vivisection - National March and Rally.
This could be the largest antivisection protest for many years.

Fact: Vivisection is unethical because:

• primates (for example) are surgically mutilated, psychologically damaged, forcibly restrained, poisoned to death, deliberatly brain damaged.
  
• aside from physical suffering, primates experience fear, lonliness,frustration and stress simply from being in captivity. Some are killed after one experiment, others are made to endure procedure after painful procedure sometimes for years.

• Although there are important similarties between humans and non human primates, there are huge differences. I could go on but I dont want to ruin your day. Check out the link above.