Animal Rights have their right to their opinion, however if they saw the carnage a fox leaves behind on a poultry farm, they may think a little differently.
They seem to have no problem with the laws of the Jungle and survival of the fittest as you don’t get vegetarian lions, tigers or even wild boars.
They have no problems with the three million butchered in Vietnam or the four hundred thousand butchered in Iraq,not to mention the one million a year dying on the Horn of Africa.
Looney Linda McCartney, buying lobsters in Brighton from sea food restaurants releasing them into the English Channel, where they died from the cold, nice one Linda.
Millions of Moslem boys and girls as well as Jewish boys, are circumcised each year without anaesthetic, yet piglets must be spared the pain of castration, what about lambs and calves castrated in equal numbers or dont they count.
Over two billion people live on less than a dollar a day, if they are sincere about their cause I would appreciate their comments on the following two stories of mans inhumanity to man.
STORY ONE-70 YEARS AGO.
The story of a surviver 64 years ago,Ibi Ginsburg didn’t recognise her younger sister after they had shaved off all her hair.
The sisters were marched outside, with dozens of other young women, into the biting cold of early spring. Stripped naked, they stood in front of armed guards, bewildered and terrified.
"I was told: ’From now on, you are prisoner number 86711’. In less than three-quarters of an hour they were de-humanising us," said Ibi.
Ibi, then aged 19, had arrived at AuschwitzBirkenau that day with her parents and three younger sisters. They had travelled in packed cattle trucks from German-occupied Hungary.
It was 1944 and the Nazis were rounding up Hungarian Jews. Ibi and her family had been forced out of their home in northern Hungary into a ghetto. They travelled to Poland, and on arrival at Auschwitz were immediately split up.
"My father was taken to a separate area," said Ibi. "At the end of our queue, I saw families being parted. I held on to my mother. My sisters were 13, ten and seven. A guard told me: ’You and the 13-year-old can work, go to the right. Your mother and the children are going to a different camp.’ Mother said: ’Take care of your sister’."
Ibi never saw her mother or younger sisters again. "They took them to the gas chambers that afternoon," she said, closing her eyes for a moment.
Ibi, who settled in Bradford after the war, was a guest of honour at an event this week remembering victims of the Holocaust. The Holocaust Memorial Day ceremony, at Victoria Hall, Saltaire, was attended by the Lord Mayor of Bradford, members of Bradford’s Jewish community, leaders of the diverse faiths in the district, civic leaders and schoolchildren.
The event remembered victims of Nazi death camps and other acts of genocide since the Second World War.
The theme was ’Stand Up To Hatred’, urging us to look at our behaviour to others, understand how hate is directed against different groups in Britain, and explore how we can help make our communities more cohesive, safer and stronger.
Those attending were informed that anti-Semitic incidents in the UK have nearly tripled in ten years, and that Islamophobia is widely regarded as the most common form of religious and racial hatred in the country today. Representatives from Bradford’s Jewish community, Central/Eastern European community, gipsies and travellers, trade unionists, disabled people, lesbian and gay population and victims of more recent genocides each lit a candle, along with faith leaders, demonstrating their unity.
"We see ourselves as a city well-placed to defend the values challenged by acts of genocide," said the Rev Geoff Reid, presiding over the memorial event. "We are a city of glorious diversity coming together to think about serious matters of history and the human condition."
Ibi attended with her husband, Val. The couple met at German camp Dachau, where Ibi was transferred after months in Auschwitz. Val, from Lithuania, had been incarcerated at Dachau for four years. They moved to Bradford in 1948, having obtained work permits for the textile industry.
Despite being a victim of hatred, Ibi refuses to hate. "I remember sitting with women in the barracks at Auschwitz. We were discussing our favourite subject – food," she said. "Suddenly, we imagined how different life would be if the Allies were at the gates."
The women talked about avenging Nazis for the murder of their families. Ibi started to cry.
"I was shrinking inside myself. I felt ashamed to admit revenge. From then on, the word hatred has not existed in my vocabulary," she said. "It’s a corrosive emotion; it wrecks lives, destroys communities. It is present in daily life. It affects disability, sexuality and so on. It is most lethal in racism; in anti-Semitism and Islamophobia. "Look back at the Holocaust and the atrocities in Bosnia. Horrendous things happened in our backyards, in Europe, and places such as Cambodia and Rwanda.
"National Holocaust Memorial Day challenges us to stand up to hatred. It’s an opportunity to forge links across diverse strands of community life, to unite in a common force." The Lord Mayor of Bradford, Councillor Howard Middleton, said it was an opportunity to "remember the past and reflect on the present".
"Hate takes many forms," he said. "Hundreds of thousands suffer, individuals are damaged by it and communities are scarred. There is an alternative; respect others and stand up to how they are treated today."
Pupils from Tong School portrayed hatred in a powerful dance/drama. Wearing black tracksuits, they depicted oppression, injustice and violence against asylum seekers.
The event closed with a haunting performance by violinist Steven Shulman and a minute’s silence. Then Rudi Leavor, chairman of the Bradford Synagogue, who lost 12 members of his family in the Holocaust, sang El Male Rachamim, The Mourning Song.
As the crowd left, Ibi’s words hung in the air: "From then on, the word hatred has not existed in my vocabulary."
STORY TWO-TODAY.
AS CUBAN CAMP FACES CLOSURE, A REMARKABLE REUNION BETWEEN MEN ON OPPOSITE SIDES OF THE BARBED WIRE FENCE. Daily Mirror London. They came from opposite sides of the wire - one a prisoner, the other a guard in the notorious Guantanamo Bay detention camp. But today Moazzam Begg and Christopher Arendt have met as friends. It’s a remarkable symbol of unity in the week when President Obama signed the order to close the camp that shamed the US. The ex-inmate and the ex-soldier are now on a lecture tour, continuing in Leeds tomorrow and going to Hull, York, Newcastle, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Belfast before ending in Cardiff. Moazzam, 40, from Birmingham, was held as a terror suspect for three years, before being freed without charge in 2005. Christopher, 24, served with the Michigan National Guard, on a year’s tour of duty at Guantanamo. He now works with lobby groups in the US. Today, they tell their stories to DENNIS ELLAM... THE INMATE I was kept in solitary for the first two years. I saw no one, spoke to no one, except my guard. We were locked into these tiny cages, steel with mesh sides and bright lights. All I had in there was a sheet and a roll of toilet paper. I would be shackled, sometimes so tightly I couldn’t feel my hands or feet. When I asked for something I could use as a prayer mat, they brought a thin camping mat and that became my mattress for the next two years. The only time I was allowed out of my cell was to be interrogated. It was often in the middle of the night and I never knew if i
