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Today, the methods of slaughtering chickens, whether they are for meat or eggs, are to hang them upside down in shackles. Then, they are put into an electrified water tank until unconscious, if they are lucky. Those unlucky ones get their throats (artery) slit while being conscious, bled to death, and then put into boiled water. In order to minimize the sufferings, they should be knocked unconscious or stunned by gas or electricity. Instead, chickens necks are cut without such procedures, then, electricity is used after, in order to let them bleed more or calm the chickens. In the EU, it’s not allowed to cut chickens’ necks without making them…
Currently, there are few drinking facilities at slaughterhouses in Japan. Cows and pigs can’t drink water on their last day*1. Motivated by the question asked by Mr. Katsuya Ogawa of the Democratic Party, the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare issued a notice about “Placement of drinking facilities for animals at slaughterhouses newly built or renovated” to all prefectures and cities with public health centers. This notice prompts drinking facilities at slaughterhouses referring to the animal welfare standard of the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE.) Notice No. 0308 Article 8. March 8, 2017 To: Directors of Responsible Public Health Division (Bureau) in all prefectures and cities with public health centers From:…
We lodged this petition to 9 owl cafe and owl shop(selling owl as a companion animal) , One of them stop selling owl anymore, but others no reaction. Hokkaido 1 Miyagi Prefecture 1 Gumma Prefecture 1 Kanagawa Prefecture 4 Tokyo 5 Chiba Prefecture 1 Hyogo Prefecture 1 One of the owl shop are one of Japanese big home improvement retailer. They said to us [After the last one owl will be sold, we will stop to sell owl anymore. As a result of considering the ecology and characteristics of the owl, we decided.] Please sign the petition End owls café where the birds are constrained and immobile
SATSUKI who rescued by Animal Rights Center in 2016, passed away in this February. It was ten months since she was rescued from the battery cage just before being killed as a culled chicken. May your soul rest in peace, And please never be born again as a chicken next time.
We learned that Coop Shizenha decided not to sell foie gras for Chirstmas this year. We’d been requesting not to do so for a while. A person in charge at the Coop told us that there had not been many demands for foie gras anyways so they just let it go based on the opinions by the coop members this year. We did not get a promise by the Coop that they would do the same next year. However, the Coop has been a leading company that is aware of food issues. So we hope they will discontinue to sell foie gras. “Force feeding” in the process of making foie gras. Animals…
According to foreign trade statistics by the Ministry of Finance, the import of real fur has decreased in 2016 as well as the year before. What is remarkable is the decrease by cost. The value of real fur has dropped significantly globally, and as well as in Japan. For the whole fur, including all parts such as hands and tails, the cost was ¥17,755 per body in 2015, but it was ¥10,780 in 2016 dropping by 60.75%. Though the number of imported fox fur has increased, the rest of fur items has decreased. The number of imported fur items for apparel in 2016, except for shoes, was 4,009,020, weighing 1,730,789 kg.…
We have received information from a whistle-blower who previously worked at an owl cafe. The conditions which owls live under in this kind of establishment are unimaginably inhumane, being forced to just stay still and endure their circumstances. We have to think about what we can do, individually and collectively, about this situation. Kept leashed in the same place, even during their rest time and after the shop is closed I worked at an owl cafe from 2015 through 2016. This is a place where you can watch and pet live owls while enjoying a drink. The shop keeps around 30 owls to exhibit, as well as to sell. These…
In 2017 / January issue No.439 of the cosmetic industry paper FRAGRANCE JOURNAL posted the treatise about awareness of animal testing on cosmetics that was surveyed and written by LUSH Japan, HSI, JAVA, PEACE, and us Animal Rights Center. see our servey if you want to buy FREGRANCE JURNAL , please go to their site
Chimapanzee is very close as human being. They can use tools, their emotional expressions are almost same as human, their love expression, sorrow, happiness, anger, and behavior when you get lost are same as human. There are 315 people of chimpanzees in Japan without proper environment and care Please boycott zoos in Japan. Pon was in Yamajigoku zoo in Beppu Onsen別府温泉 Pon was born in Africa in 1978, he was bring to Japan at 1~2 years old. His space is only about 20 ㎡, and one tire was hanging. Though we demand to impove his situation to the zoo, the zoo did not do anything for him , their excuse was that he is…
Chicken meat for chicken is shipped in 2kg in Europe and the United States, but do you know that it is shipped after thickening to about 3 kg in Japan? Originally, chicken is an animal that grows over 150 days, but broiler has been modified to grow larger in 50 days. They suffer from doing rapid growth.Broilers do not walk naturally. They walk a bit and then sit down. The chickens who lost their natural appearance spend a lot of time in pain, packed in a container after 50 days, being hung upside down, they are neck cut and killed. See detail about broiler (in Japanese) The density in japan…
Bones of burned birds – picture taken at a battery cage in Japan 2016 It was revealed that birds were burned alive at a chicken farm with 7 million birds that used battery cages. In April of 2016, Animal Rights Center reported that birds were burned alive at several chicken farms. Some farms have facilities called “dead bird incinerators,” which can burn 50 to 60 birds a day. In those places, they usually burn dead birds found in cages, but they sometimes kill deformed birds with bend necks, broken legs, as well as birds who are unable to produce eggs very much. In such cases, it was understood that these…
Koharu was rescued from a battery cage in Japan by Animal Rights Center Japan. 95.2% of the egg farms in Japan are using battery cages. Koharu was in a battery cage of a windowless egg farm. She was blind when she was rescued. But her eyes opened in few days. She started dust-bathing in a few weeks. Now she was adopted by a new family and she got new mother(human), new sisters and brothers (2 chickens, some cats, and one dog). She seems to love them so much, especially her mother and the dog. Please support ARCJ help Koharu’s friends. http://www.arcj.org/en/donate/
There are 14 lonely elephants who are confined in small and yet strong cages in Japan. It’s not only Hanako in Inokashira Park, who was unfortunate. Please give a relief to them. Especially to the Asian elephants in Utunomiya Zoo, Obihiro Zoo, Kiryugaoka Zoo, and Yuki Park Zoo who are put on just inorganic concrete, just like at Hanako in Inokashira Park. Obihiro Zoo, Kiryugaoka Zoo, and Yuki Park Zoo are facilities controlled under each city. If you sympathize with these elephants, please demand the cities to improve the situations. These three are especially awful cases, but the others do not accommodate elephant’ natural behaviors either. We demand improvements to take…
SKYLARK, the Japanese nationwide family restaurant chain, which includes Gusto and Jonathan, is continuing to sell foie gras. So far, it has bought over 30 tons of foie gras directly from producers ― that’s over fifty thousand birds. Foie gras is produced through gavage, the forced administration of food. Everyday, for two to three weeks, ducks and geese are force-fed between one- fourth and one-third of their body weight, by means of a long feeding tube that is forced down directly into their stomachs, so they can’t vomit. It is written that SKYLARK’s foie gras has IGP Certification. However IGP Certification is a production area certification – It tells us…
Be a Voice for millions of the suffering Voiceless animals used for fashion. http://fur-free.com/ We (13 animal rights groups in east Asia) will be jointed together with the same aim for the first time to fight to end the use of fur worldwide. China:ACTAsia / Korea:Coexistence of Animal Rights on Earth(CARE) / Hong Kong:Hong kong vegetarian society / Taiwan:nvironment & Animal Society of Taiwan（EAST）AR club of National Taiwan University,TAEA,天下無肉,動物陣線,純素30天,Go Vegan / Japan,we , Animal Right Center(specified nonprofit corporation),Animal Right Kyoto , Animal Rights Chubu are gathered all together to do a Fur-Free campaign. East Asia is the biggest fur producing and consuming continent(reference page 2). That is to say,when the…
No animals had to be sacrificed for fur in Japan in the year 2016 In 2016, it was revealed that the last mink farm in Niigata was closed. By this closure, the number of fur farms is now zero in Japan. The industry to produce fur in Japan has come to an end History of fur industry in Japan The fur industry in Japan became popular around the middle to the end of World War II. At its peak, it’s said that there were 4,000 fur farms. Then, business associations, such as the Mink Association, were established. In 1971, export of mink fur (count of full body only) increased to…
Please sign & share this petition! https://www.change.org/p/the-egg-industry-please-do-not-lock-down-laying-hens To prioritize maximum output while minimizing costs, most chickens in Japan are raised on factory farms where they suffer greatly, leading short, miserable lives in overcrowded cages. Considered as “things”, not living beings, no consideration is given to their well-being, or the fact that they have their own lives, feelings and emotions. The low price of eggs has remained constant since the1960’s, while chickens have paid the price in suffering. This must end. This petition will be delivered to the egg industry, egg retailers, food manufacturers and restaurants using battery cage eggs and will also be used to lobby the government. The use…
■ Survey period: May through July 2016 ■ Survey conducted by: NPO Animal Rights Center ; ■ Target of Survey: Slaughterhouses (177 facilities in operation) ; ■ Number of Respondents: 96 facilities (54% answered) *We did not include the facilities that mentioned only the kinds of animals they have in this count. ; Kinds of Operated Animals Cows: 78 facilities Pigs: 79facilities Other animals (sheep, goat, horses, etc.):30 facilities *some facilities overlap Drinking Situations Animals can drink water any time before being slaughtered. Cows: 55% Pigs: 25% Other animals: 21% Cows 42 out of 77 facilities replied that their animals could drink water any time (55%). 65 facilities said animals…
“interactive” cafe using raptors such as owls A business aimed at “interaction” with animals has been spreading the last few years. Among them, cafes using owls are increasing in number. Being healed by interacting with charming owls with big round eyes, that’s the selling point for the owl café. However, the owls do not agree to heal people. It’s called “interactive” but there is no “interaction” there. Some are constrained and the others are unilaterally touching them. Owls are used for commerce, being stuck with a short leash, not able to drink water when they want to, getting their pictures taken, and are not able to fly away when…
13th June 2016, a fashion magazine WWD Japan wrote about ECO fur titled [spreading FUR FREE]. They said the reason why fur free is spreading in Japan in this decade is Japanese organization against real fur. Of coource it’s Animal Rights Center Japan! We orgnize fur free campaign after we know the terrible situation in Chinese fur industries in 2004. Many companies including Japanese companies changed their attitude for fur because real fur is too cruel. WWD is the leading media in the fashion industry in Japan. Reason was written in the top news is also the fact that the wave of the world’s eco-fur is based on Japanese technology.…
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