In China, rat meat is sold as lamb

This makes one wonder how much if any meat was sold outside of China?

Police arrested 63 suspects and seized 10 tons of meats and additives, but not before the operation had sold about $1.6 million worth of fake meat over the last four years.

Keep this in mind the next time you go to your market to buy some meat? :-)

Does your food store buy from all over the world? :-(

Thousands of dead pigs recently floating in a river near Shanghai sparked fears of merchants selling dead carcasses.

http://www.latimes.com/news/world/worldnow/la-fg-china-food-scandal-20130503,0,7174544.story?track=rss

Authorities said that traders bought rat, fox, mink and other uninspected meats -- and after adding red coloring and other chemicals -- sold them as lamb rolls for markets in Shanghai and neighboring Jiangsu province.

The fake lamb scheme in eastern China was among 382 meat-related offenses uncovered during a three-month national campaign that began in late January, the ministry said. Police have arrested 904 suspects, closed 1,721 factories, and seized about 20,000 tons of fake, diseased or otherwise adulterated meat.

It seems that it is that time again?

First, I wish to thank Mr. Richard Foster of Umatilla for the beautiful letter to the Editor in the Voices section of today's paper the Daily Commercial, 04/28/2013 (Florida Black Bear still in dire strait) and a "Shame of you" to the greedy inconsiderate writer on the same page just worried about where the money for the hunting will go?

The hunters in Florida are once again getting antsy, guns are all spit shined and ready to go, ammo is piling up, the price of targets is climbing and not enough defenseless animals to shoot! Darn, it is against the law for them to shoot each other, or is it?

The FWC (the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission) for some reason known only to the Commissioners and the hunters, is once again trying to take the Black Bear off of our Endangered Species list?

Besides the facts that it is not that there are too many bears but too many humans in their hometowns, who is going to tell my neighbors our Black Bear Family, that gives this neighborhood such joy in the morning and late afternoon as they pass by on their way to breakfast and back again from diner, that their days are numbered once again?

You see, this family lost their dad, her husband, to a careless driver traveling too fast for the 40 MPH speed limit through our town!

Not only did they lose their daddy, now you want to take away their mommy or maybe take the total family away from our neighborhood, just so a hunter can enjoy shooting something?

By the way, what is going to happen to the three bear cubs if you now shoot their mother?

Never mind, I already know, been there seen that!

 

Florida Black Bears May Be Removed From Endangered List

http://animalconnectionblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/florida-black-bears-may-be-removed-from.html

Matthew Schwartz, executive director of South Florida Wildlands Association, disagrees with the FWC and questions its methodology deciding the bear is no longer endangered.

http://southfloridawild.org/

 

 

 

 

This folks has got to be a first!

Our government admits wrong about anything?

The Navy has admitted its training exercises are killing or harming more marine mammals than previously acknowledged

While reading throughout the internet it would seem that it is now too late for this court case, the whales over on the west coast may now be going by the wayside thanks to my navy!!!! :-(

However, there will be many more court cases, you can bet on it! :-)

The training exercises occur in waters off the coasts of California, Oregon, and Washington...including within a designated National Marine Sanctuary, and threaten six endangered whale species, including blue, fin, humpback, sei, sperm, and, the last 84 southern resident orca whales.

And last year the Navy admitted its training exercises are harming more marine mammals than they previously acknowledged.

These endangered 84 orca whales are already perilously close to extinction, and the mid-frequency sonar, surface-to-air gunnery, missile exercises, and underwater explosions used in the training expose these rare whales to potentially fatal stress.

Military training is important to our national security—but it can and should be conducted in a manner that prevents harm to endangered wildlife. And there are other, less-sensitive habitat areas where this training can be conducted.

In the past, the Navy’s mid-frequency sonar has been implicated in mass standings' of marine mammals including a mass beaching of nearly 200 melon-headed whales in Hanalei Bay in Hawaii.

We cannot afford for this to happen again, especially in a designated marine sanctuary that is home to so many endangered and threatened species.

Groups like this one (Earthjustice) need our help in a battle to help save our endangered wild life, if you can, please think about a donation to them, thank you and Creator blessings ~ GOD BLESS!

http://earthjustice.org/

If Alligators were a Machine?

If alligators were a machine they would be one of the most sort after machines in the world, yet humans kill them indiscriminately without cause?

 

An alligator is a fast, strong, durable, beautiful hunter however, unlike humans, if not hunger at no risk to anyone.

If a machine you would not have to build it, maintain it, or have it serviced every 3,000 miles.

Like all bottom feeders, they help keep disease under control from decay because they will eat almost anything.

Stay out of their dining room!

Like Native Americans of Indian country, they were here before the Europeans, in point of fact, they were here long before the first people.

So, why the open season on them for no reason?

Like everything else on Mother Earth, because we can!

HAPPY EARTH DAY to my brothers and sisters the Alligators!

Gator hunt at Loxahatchee delayed

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/palm-beach/fl-loxahatchee-hunt-delay-20130417,0,4539334.story

 

SHE'S BACK!!!!!!!

As you know by now we treasure every creation that Creator sends our way.

We have two sets of Black Bear Families, Birds, Lizards, Alligators, just about every endangered species in Florida and so on.

We love Breanna more than our own life however, today our Land Lord returned for the summer!

Harriett is our live in Gopher Tortoise some just call a turtle, NOT.

She was on this property before we move in year around.

She has been hibernating for so long that we were starting to doubt if she had run away or not.

Her home (Den) is right up at the front fence which is 15' from the road by law. We, Harriett and this family have been battling with every company in central Florida because it would seem that our fence is a perfect place to park those big trucks, right on Harriett's home!

Need Wi Fi? Dig up Harriett's home on the way up and down the street 3 times!

Need to scrape the side of the road? Scrape right over Harriett's home!

Need to part your truck to talk on your cell phone? Right on Harriett's home!

Who could blame her if she did leave?

The worse thing was at the beginning of our meeting each other, coming from Connecticut from a life time of turtles, the first thing I did was give her a bath!

Gopher Tortoise Hate Water! :-(

It took me over a year before she forgave me for that one.

Then came the phone company installing Wi Fi down the road, of course it had to go underground and on this side of the street!

After they dug her up out of her home we had to keep her in a large plastic container until the job was completed, she still has not forgiven us for that one.

Thank You Creator because she is back today eating in the front yard!

P.S.

We do not treat the land with chemicals or replace the grass because that is her food plus Breanna runs around the yard!