Guénady

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Some Aspects of Contemporary France and French attitudes towards Animals...

Eminent doctors in the U.S. are consistently reversing degenerative diseases, like cancer, heart disease and diabetes, through changes in lifestyle and diet (Spread the Word!)

'This message is financed by the European Union and France,' a voice announces after a new commercial on French radio, thereby conferring a golden glow of credibility to the message, And what is being asserted? That 'Three is a Magic Number', three being the number of servings of dairy products the public is advised to consume daily so as to preserve the calcium in bones... But is this information correct?

In the last days of January 2003,the horrifically mutilated and decaying body of the President of the French foundation, 'La Societé Nationale de Défense des Animaux' (SNDA), was discovered in her home in a near suburb of Paris. Andrée Valadier was last seen alive on November 15, 2002 and forensic reports apparently indicate she was probably murdered that same day. Her daughter, missing since then, has been accused by the French Criminal Police of responsibility for this heinous act, notwithstanding irreconcilable contradictions in this 'official' version of the crime, as well as its psychological inconceivability to the two women's last closest collaborators. Meanwhile, the same Criminal Police have gone (and continue to go) to great lengths imposing this grotesque explanation, trying to intimidate and discredit those who publicly refuse to accept it, among whom, this article's author. The Criminal Police stubbornly refused to investigate other leads at the time, which may make ever now knowing the Truth improbable. Nevertheless, the lessons of this murder (or murders, Mother and Daughter) are forgotten, as the authorities so clearly hope, only by increasing the peril of those involved in the same kind of uncompromising Animal Defense in France...

Calling this a case of 'Enlèvement' (Kidnapping), the Procureur at the Appeals Court in Aix-en-Provence asked that Baby Elie be returned to his Mother, Séverine Gérard ; the Appeals Court acquiesced...

When the 'notice' (i.e. Client Information Sheet, or Package Insert) is not accurate, wouldn't this constitute, in any other industry, false advertising?

Is Nice really the Orange County of France?

It doesn't seem to pay to be Vegan in this City, particularly if you have a child, and even if you are not French

More breed-specific stupidity, this time out of Ireland (Boy, does this ever change what we thought about Ireland, up to now!)

What the local rough-and-toughs have been up to since our first interview, one year ago...

Non-French vegans now targeted by authorities?

On March 31, 2009, the members of the European Parliament's Agriculture Committee voted on a series of amendments to the European Commission's proposals to regulate animal testing across Europe... With billion-dollar corporations to support (all those suppliers and users of the vivisection industry, the pharmaceutical industry, and the medical corps that depends on both), the MEPs decided to keep the lid on this lucrative fraud, which is now set to continue with even greater freedom and leeway, and with all its disastrous consequences for human health, as well as for its animal victims.

French Rabble-Rousers try –and fail-- to unsettle the Supreme Master...

Nice, France. The sneaking suspicion I'd had since yesterday was confirmed by this morning's news which announced that another SDF ('Sans Domicile Fix', or homeless person) had been 'found dead', this time in Nice, near the 'Voie Rapide' (the overpass expressway leading from one end of town to the ...

Rescuing stray dogs isn't always this easy, but it is always rewarding... Helping one dog doesn't change the world, but it does change the world for that one dog.

Blessing animals in honor of St Francis of Assisi causes a controversy in Nice, where barbequed animal flesh is also on the menu.

Another Tragedy of Veterinary Incompetence ?

France's Marlon Brando takes on the Drug Trust, only to sink into undeserved oblivion...

Human greed knows no bounds...

Disquieting events in Europe, harbingers of worse to come?

April, 2008, saw the French media have a field day as they reported the case of a baby that died due to, allegedly, malnutrition from being breastfed by its vegan mother. As in a similar 2004/5 case, the parents have been arrested, charged with mistreating their 11-month-old daughter. They are al...

Did you ever dream of retiring to the French Riviera, or even just spending your vacation time in this mythic place, famous the world over for its blue Mediterranean coast, its pre-Alps and skiing, its year-round (almost) sunshine, and consumer-culture geared to a high-net-worth clientele? The City of Nice spreads the red carpet for foreign tourist currency, but seems equally prepared to bend laws to favor local Bad Boys on the make... Now under seige by what Graham Greene called 'tightknit local arrangements', or 'systems of corruption', also referred to as 'the French Mafia', an American woman, a long-time expatriate in France, talks about her experiences, which could make anyone hesitate...

Extracts from Guenady's book, Don't Defend Animals, due out in April 2008 ...Life goes relentlessly on in the villes and patelins [the cities and villages], with pigeons continually gassed, rats poisoned, stray dogs caught and put down, and cats, former cute little kittens with homes, becoming...

http://www.topix.net/forum/source/wusa/TIMQ84RKISTT22PLL It isn't enough that this situation has already occurred, with much public outcry, not so very long ago in Tennessee. Police in that earlier instance stopped a family car on a freeway, ordered the family out at gunpoint, to be frisked (p...

As we gather together to celebrate the love and joy of Christmas, in a family in Sunnyvale, California, a child is crying... And there is no solution to this child's pain, nothing to make it go away, no explanation that will make sense-- not even for many, many adults, let alone for a child... ...

Hans Ruesch May 17, 1913 – August 27, 2007 The Memorial Service for Hans Ruesch was held on Monday, September 17, 2007, at the cemetery in Massagno, next to Lugano, in his native Switzerland, where Hans had lived for the last decades of his life. The Service, organized by his three...

Hommage to Humanity's Greatest Warrior Against Vivisection and False Medicine written in November 2004 A young American couple passing through Nice, where I live, in the South of France, was having lunch in the city's only vegan restaurant. The young woman, I saw, had a copy of The Fountain...

Article first published in : ANIMAL RIGHTS ONLINE newsletter - Part 1 - Issue # 06/27/04 We read with interest the article entitled Those of You Without Sin Cast the First Stone : Judgementalism and Shaming in the Animal Rights Community, in issue # 06/20/04 of Animal Rights Online. ...