PETA Global Issue 2

CHINA

USA

Organic Goat Milk FarmWorkers Fired Acting on a whistleblower tip, PETA Germany investigators obtained video footage showing dairy farmworkers forcing terrified goats into a milking parlor by beating themwith sticks or their fists. PETA Germany’s eyewitness found goats suffering from protruding bones, lameness, open wounds, deformed hooves, and upper respiratory conditions. Sick and injured animals were denied veterinary care. When they died, workers simply tossed them behind a shed and covered themwith a tarp. After PETA Germany’s exposé, the workers caught on video abusing goats were fired. PETA Germany called on authorities to ban the farm’s owners from keeping animals and to take action against the agency that had previously “inspected” the farm. send a polite e-mail to your congressional representatives urging them to cosponsor the bipartisan Battlefield Excellence through Superior Training (BEST) Practices Act (H.R. 1243/S. 498), which would end the shooting, dismembering, burning, and killing of thousands of animals each year in cruel military trauma training drills and instead require the use of superior human-patient simuators. for the sake of medical training is a cruel and unnecessary practice. State-of-the-art interactive human simuators will be a less costly and more effective way of teaching how to provide humans with emergency medical care.” US Coast Guard Stops Killing Animals in Trauma Training PETA Victory! Take Action Now Tell Congress to Support the BEST Practices Act. If you live in the US,

PETA Asia Live-Tweets Thrilling Rescue A Shanghai man, caught on a video that went viral viciously beating a small dog who wouldn’t (or couldn’t) pull him on a cart, got quite a surprise when PETA Asia staffers showed up on his doorstep and refused to budge until he handed over the beaten dog and another one they found there. “He said no, but we won’t leave without the dogs,” PETA Asia live-tweeted to its more than 8,300 followers. After an hours-long stand-off, the man finally relented and surrendered the animals to the staffers, who tweeted, “We got the dogs!” Both pups have since been adopted.

The US Coast Guard has become the first branch of the US Armed Forces to stop wounding and killing animals in cruel trauma training exercises. In 2012, after PETA released eyewitness footage of a Coast Guard trauma training drill in which instructors cut off live goats’ legs with tree trimmers, the service defended the mutiations. Fast forward to 2017, when the head of the Coast Guard, Commandant Adm. Paul Zukunft, testified at a congressional hearing that cutting up and killing animals in trauma training drills is “abhorrent” and that the Coast Guard “will move to a simuation” training model. “I am overjoyed and deeply gratified,” said California Rep. Lucille Roybal-Alard, who has spearheaded congressional action on the issue. “Shooting and stabbing live animals

GERMANY

PETA Germany captured video footage of handlers at the Hanover Adventure Zoo beating and whipping baby elephants in order to coerce them into performing tricks. One trainer dragged a crying baby elephant by the neck. Another young elephant was hit repeatedly on the back with a sharp steel-tipped bullhook. When one tormented elephant tried to escape, trainers chased after the terrified animal, who finally surrendered to them, sitting up and “begging.” Just the sight of a man approaching themwith a whip made a group of baby elephants cower. BUSTED! Zoo Caught Beating Baby Elephants

GERMANY

Take Action Now PETA Germany has filed a criminal complaint against the zoo. Please write to

Hanover Zoo officials at info@erlebnis-zoo.de and let them know that you will never visit as long as their trainers beat elephants.

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