People For Animals - India's largest Animal welfare organization by Maneka Gandhi

When you look for a bride/groom for your son/daughter you look into the antecedents of the whole family carefully. When you admit your child to school you check the best possible educational centre. When you give your clothes to a tailor you find out the best tailor. When you buy a car you look for the best possible make. So why don’t you apply the same rigorous procedures to the most important thing in the world – the food you eat?

 

Where do you get your eggs from? The shop down the road. Do you know which poultry they come from or what the chickens have eaten or how they are kept? Of course not, an egg is an egg, you will say.

 

No it is not. An egg is the menstrual blood of a hen and its shell is not a shell but a porous skin that contains this blood. And eggs differ vastly depending on how the chicken has been kept and what it has been fed. Most eggs contain dioxins.

People For Animals Faridabad weekly report is as follows:

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Last week our People For Animals Faridabad team rescued one Horse from NIT- 1. It was unable to sit and stand. It is now under treatment at our shelter home.

Our PFA team rescued one inured Donkey from sector-29 Market. It has maggot wound near his toe. After provid three days treatment a Asswin Project team (specialist for Donkeys treatment) from Gurgaon City picked her for further treatment.

During last week rescued two inured Dogs; one is from sector-9 and another is from sector-16. Dog from sector- 9 having injury near his eye and Dog from sector-16 paralyzed from back side legs. Both the dog are under treatment.

We rescued one injured Cat from sector-15 which has injury on backside. It is under proper care at our shelter.

People For Animals Faridabad team rescued one Electrocuted Monkey from Nagla Road which was under Treatment.

During last week our People For Animals Faridabad team rescued one injured Puppy from Jahawar Colony having leg injury. It is under Treatment at our Shelter home. [Image Gallery]

We have a tradition of Health Ministers in this country who believe that they have been put there only to give licences to drug manufacturers and medical colleges for monetary considerations, to threaten tobacco companies and to have their offices renovated. They understand nothing of disease. In this century, pandemics are common, diseases that stretch across continents. No Health Minister can even visualize these. They cannot even understand the old ways of tackling disease – look at the abysmal primary health centres – forget about the new. This minister, Ramadoss, is perhaps even worse because he is a primary grade doctor and so he thinks he knows a lot. In response to a question of mine in Parliament that fluoride in toothpastes was banned for children abroad, would we do it here as well, he replied that Fluoride was an essential nutrient of the body! In one year all he has done is to try and take over the Homeopathic, Ayurvedic and Medical Councils so that he can do the licencing of the teaching colleges and get the kickbacks. Oh yes, and threaten the cigarette companies.

 

So when there is a health crisis like Japanese Encephalitis, what is the response of the Health Minister– and all health ministers in each state and health officers in the municipalities? Kill the pigs in the towns.

I am still reading the book Zoobiquity and one chapter is about the similarity of heart attacks in people and animals. According to the author, a doctor and head of internal medicine in a teaching hospital, whenever a shocking event like an earthquake or tsunami or even a war close by takes place, people get far more heart attacks than normal. Chest pains, arrhythmias and deaths rise. For instance when the Iraqi forces sent Scud missiles into Tel Aviv and civilians faced the possibility of being blown up at random, more Israelis died from heart attacks than from the missiles. Fear and dread is a terrible weapon. I know because I have lived with it most of my life and working with sick and dying animals can literally weaken and break your heart. During the 9/11 time, heart attacks reached an all time high across America. Doctors say that people watching sports matches often keel over from anxiety.

 

But are humans the only ones that die of fright? No. Bird trappers see that when they throw a net over forest birds and then move to put them into capture boxes, many have died on the spot, terrified by the sudden capture. The heart and the mind are inexorably linked. People die of emotional stress- even though their hearts and arteries are clean and healthy. The only thing that doctors find in such cases is a lightbulb shaped bulge at the bottom of the heart, now known as Takotsubo- direct physical evidence that severe stress (fear, grief, shock, intense negative emotion) can alter the shape of the heart and the way it pumps blood. It is now called the “broken–heart syndrome”. Not just human, every animal gets it. Watch an elephant that lies down by its dead friend or child and dies a few days later. That is Takotsubo. Stress hormones called catecholamines gush into the blood stream, poisoning muscles, causing clots, and causing the heart to beat wildly and dangerously.

PFA Nagpur with Maneka Gandhi raid at Lakadganj bird market on Sunday morning. While the PFA Nagpur called in the forest department for the raid, the department itself said that as the birds were not in the scheduled list they couldn't take any action in the case. The raid was done with the help of Lakadganj police. 10 Partridges, 5 Young rabbits, 74 Pigeons, 55 Lovebirds, 4 African cocktaiels, 16 African lutino birds, 1 Guinea pig were recovered. A case was under the Prevention of Cruelty Against Animals Acts and a case will also we lodged under IPC Section 428 and 429. All the birtd are kept at the Maharajbagh Zoo. [Image Gallery]

Diabetes is the fastest growing health problem in the world. Type 1 diabetes is the most common kind of diabetes in children but it also appears in adulthood and patients must take daily injections of insulin for the rest of their lives.

 

The pancreas is an organ that makes digestive juices and hormones. It produces hormones, like insulin, which regulate the use and storage of the body's main energy sources, sugar and fats in the cells.  The insulin-producing cells are called beta cells.

 

To understand its prevention, you have to understand type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes is the result of the body attacking and destroying its own insulin producing beta cells in the pancreas. When these beta cells are destroyed, the body cannot produce insulin. Type 1 diabetes is diagnosed.

You don’t want to give up smoking for your own health or because you smell or even if people look down their noses at a lower class habit. Would you do it for your companion animals?

 

Cats living with smokers are twice as likely to acquire malignant lymphoma as those in non-smoking households, reports Tufts University and Massachusetts University scientists. A study published in the American Journal of Epidemiology entitled "Environmental Tobacco Smoke and Risk of Malignant Lymphoma in Pet Cats” links second-hand smoke to cancer in cats. Feline lymphoma is the most common cancer in domestic cats.

 

All household pets are exposed to the same environmental contaminants as their owners. In fact their exposure levels might read even higher than those of human household members who can spend time away from the home Cats not only inhale smoke, they also ingest particulate matter by licking it from their fur while grooming. The number of household smokers also appears as a factor with nearly a double relative risk for cats living with one smoker and four times the risk for cats living with two or more smokers. The risk increased according to the duration and level of the cat's tobacco exposure. Cats living with humans smoking a pack or more a day had a three-fold increased risk