The actual truth about where fur is from

NOT FOR THE WEAK HEARTED




When undercover investigators made their way onto Chinese fur farms recently, they found that many animals are still alive and struggling desperately when workers flip them onto their backs or hang them up by their legs or tails to skin them. When workers on these farms begin to cut the skin and fur from an animal's leg, the free limbs kick and writhe. Workers stomp on the necks and heads of animals who struggle too hard to allow a clean cut. When the fur is finally peeled off over the animals' heads, their naked, bloody bodies are thrown onto a pile of those who have gone before them. Some are still alive, breathing in ragged gasps and blinking slowly. Some of the animals' hearts are still beating five to 10 minutes after they are skinned. One investigator recorded a skinned raccoon dog on the heap of carcasses who had enough strength to lift his bloodied head and stare into the camera.


Before they are skinned alive, animals are pulled from their cages and thrown to the ground; workers bludgeon them with metal rods or slam them on hard surfaces, causing broken bones and convulsions but not always immediate death. Animals watch helplessly as workers make their way down the row.


Undercover investigators from Swiss Animal Protection/EAST International recently toured fur farms in China's Hebei Province, and it quickly became clear why outsiders are banned from visiting. There are no regulations governing fur farms in China—farmers can house and slaughter animals however they see fit—meaning miserable lives and excruciating deaths. The investigators found horrors beyond their worst imaginings and concluded, "Conditions on Chinese fur farms make a mockery of the most elementary animal welfare standards. In their lives and their unspeakable deaths, these animals have been denied even the simplest acts of kindness."


On these farms, foxes, minks, rabbits, and other animals pace and shiver in outdoor wire cages, exposed to driving rain, freezing nights, and, at other times, scorching sun. Mother animals, who are driven crazy from rough handling and intense confinement and have nowhere to hide while giving birth, often kill their babies after delivering litters. Disease and injuries are widespread, and animals suffering from anxiety-induced psychosis chew on their own limbs and throw themselves repeatedly against the cage bars.


The globalization of the fur trade has made it impossible to know where fur products come from. Skins move through international auction houses and are purchased and distributed to manufacturers around the world, and finished goods are often exported. China supplies more than half of the finished fur garments imported for sale in the United States. Even if a fur garment's label says it was made in a European country, the animals were likely raised and slaughtered elsewhere—possibly on an unregulated Chinese fur farm.

Because a fur's origin can't be traced, anyone who wears any fur at all shares the blame for the horrific conditions on Chinese fur farms. The only way to prevent such unimaginable cruelty is never to wear any fur.



Pledge to go fur-free at PETA.org






I was horrified upon seeing what had happened. My heart sank as tears trickled down my cheeks. Why is there no action done to ban all this?? I plead to EVERYONE, to stop wearing FUR.


The human race has exceeded far beyond humanity. Why do such things to animals? These idiotic people must be out of their minds to do so. Even if they had to take fur, why do it in such a cruel way?




credits to: http://www.furisdead.com/feat/ChineseFurFarms/
http://www.peta.org/other.asp

Connie Talbot

I know I haven't been blogging lately. Millions of apologies for that.

However, Today's post will be fantastic, I promise.


If you've been reading, you'll notice that the one thing that I love to do is to go youtube-ing. I'm so addicted to it and it has actually changed my life. Mainly because I learn new things from it. I even learnt to fold clothes in a faster way in a video in Youtube.

Anyway, I love searching for videos of people singing or performing nice things on Youtube and one girl actually caught my attention.

Her name is Connie Talbot. (http://www.connietalbot.com/index.php)
She's 6 years old and was a contestant on 'Britain's got talent'. She sang so amazingly that even Simon Cowell was wow-ed by her performance. My heart literally sank when I heard her sing. I've been fond of her ever since, and have been searching for songs that she has actually published in her album(Over the Rainbow). Yes, she does have an album, at the age of 6! And if you want to know, she did make it to the finals of the show. I don't know if she did win though.




The first video was the one that made my heart sink. The reason why she sang this song is because it's the song that her mother always sing with her.
One of the judge actually cried while listening to her. And Simon Cowell said she was Fantastic!
Check it out!



Ben





Favourite things




White christmas





My personal Favourites: I have a dream



I will always love you




I think the song "I have a dream" actually means alot, a rather optimistic and inspirational song. Here's the lyrics






So if you've got nothing to do people, go Youtube-ing!

Gong Xi Fa Cai

First and foremost, Go Xi Fa Cai, Xin Nian Kuai Le to all Chinese peeps out there!




The festive season this year is unexpectedly boring. The celebrations in school wasn't as fun as I had expected and the ambiance made me indecisive; I did not know if I was supposed to enjoy and have fun, or stay moody like everyone else.

To add to my misery, I'm sick. I'm down with High fever and my throat irritates me so much that I feel like inserting one of my aunt's back-scratchers down into my throat,scratch it with all my might, or I could just eat some "Halls Breezers"



Yeah, I caught it on TV and am amazed at how the advertisement can literally soothe my throat at the thought of it.


This sickness, however, has not stopped me from stuffing myself with all the scrumptious delicacies. I love eating all the "kueh kuehs" that my Mum's side makes. What's so unique is that, they're Peranakans, so there's sort of a twist in everything they make. How? I have no clue either.

I am bound to be seriously after all this eating. Hahaha.

My Grand Aunt who's living in Australia came to Singapore and I sure am excited to meet her again.

Everything is going well so far, except for the biggest bummer, which is, I DIDN'T GET TO SEE/WATCH ANY LION/DRAGON DANCE THIS YEAR!!

I don't know what's so mesmerizing but I am so IN LOVE with lion dances!!






My mum thinks it has something to do with the Chinese Zodiac signs, having that Monkeys live being around the Dragons. Dragons and Monkeys do get along really well because the monkey lets the dragon lead while the dragon allows the monkey to do all sorts of mischief, so long as it helps the dragon.


I've always been inspired to participate in Lion Dance, but after seeing to many mishaps,especially when they're doing the stilts, I've changed my mind to join Dragon Boat racing. But after hearing the mishaps of the Singapore Team, I've decided to withdraw that decision too. Lol.

Anyway, if anyone has any idea on where to watch some lion dance, TELL ME!!

Before I leave, I'd like to say that, I spent the past few nights chatting on MSN messenger and the one person that really made me smile through my computer screen was Ling Jie! Chatting with him was so much fun, because we made up stories of so many people and slowly pieced all of them together, to form one big story. Lol. He's one guy everyone should chat with, as he'll definitely brighten your day! I promise!

4E3 stuck in lift

As promised, here is the video of the 10 people who were stuck in the lift.




Kevin doesn't have the skills of holding the camera properly, so it's pretty blur.

What do you do when you're stuck in the lift?

After not blogging for a long period of time due to sheer boredom, I decided to blog today, mainly because I have something interesting to share.

Today was the day where students of all levels are tasked to give away mandarin oranges to the HDB flats near our school. We seize this opportunity to wish everyone Happy Holiday and Xing Nian Kuai Le for the Chinese. This was also an opportunity whereby us, students gain chances to make our school popular, by showing that we are well behaved and that we do believe that everyone is part of our family.

School ended and I, helped the SLC members out, in sorting the mandarin oranges for each class. It was rather fun, I must say.

But the real fun started when we began our journey to the block of HDB flats that we were tasked to go to. My class made so much noise, screaming and cheering for our class, making it seem as though we were on strike.

We began our tasks as soon as we reached our destination. We were split into groups of 4s and 5s, and each group had to take at least a level. I was with Aainaa, Jun Rong, Gek Chong and Yong hui. The guys were a funny bunch because all of us couldn't stop giggling whenever they did something. Gek chong for instance, went infront of a malay home, and not knowing what to do, he just kow tow-ed infront of the door. He even wanted to sit on a mini swing which was allocated infront of the door. We were such a lame bunch of people, that everything we said seemed funny then.
We completed our level and went to help out at the 8th floor. While we were half-way through, Syafiq and his group joined us. We completed it in a breeze and soon enough we were waiting for the lift.

Kevin, in syafiq's group, began "chope-ing" for the lifts, to let his team to go into first. One lift did came, and Aainaa, with her bright idea, asked "why not all 10 of us go in? Try lah". We were "brilliant" enough to have agreed and before you know it, all 10 of us were in a lift. Aainaa, again, then brought up the topic of jumping in the lift. And We ALL DID. Kevin was so afraid that he kept asking us to stop, he was panicky too. We continued jumping, and when we reached the 7th floor, the lift all of the sudden, skipped to 5th floor with a jerk. the lift was jammed and it was halfway through 5th floor. Fortunately, Farna's group was on the 5th floor and they spotted us.

The irony of it all was that, instead of being panicky and all, our group continued making a hell of a noise, jumping and screaming. We did call for the lift service. While waiting for him, we did take a video of the 10 of us that were stranded in the lift. Everyone started joking around, pushing the blame to Syafiq. Kevin on the other hand, enjoyed himself while video-ing all 10 of us. Most of the classmates who weren't in the lift were taking photos of us and we actually posed for them in the lift. Apologies to those who were frightened and worried, especially to Mdm Timah and Alex.

It was a blast and we were sort of disappointed when the lift service guy came. for that period where we were stuck in the lift, I did really enjoy myself, together with my classmates. Although what happened shouldn't have, i hope that more things would come so that we can really bond as a class.

Some of the classmates were envious of us being stuck in the lift, and wanted to join in, because they saw that we were having so much fun in there.

We then began passing around the video taken as well as some class photos that we took.

I'll upload the video ASAP!!


But before ending off, I'd like to share another video.

Everyone knows that Johnny Cash is one guy who can sing oh-so-well. Hearts would melt for his voice.

Check out his voice.




My brother (another Ellen DeGeneres fan), saw a 15 year old boy who could sing just like him on her show, and he searched for him on YouTube.

Just check it out, it's AMAZING.




Toodles.