What Humans Do To Animals
Around a billion live animals are transported every week to slaughter houses, many to other countries. Here are some heart wrenching examples:
Pigs: They are transported from Canada to Hawaii. Crammed together in the dark they do a 4,500 mile journey to Hawaii lasting 9 days. They suffer from exhaustion, hunger and vomiting.

Cattle: Zebu cattle endure a 17 day journey from Brazil to Lebanon. Some of the 2,500 animals on board die on the way from heat stroke or respiratory disease.The rest are killed on arrival.

Sheep: Australia sends 4 million live sheep every year to the Middle East. The gruesome journey takes 32 days. Many die of suffocation on the way. Ironically Australia is paying a heavy price for rearing sheep. Deserts are spreading due to over grazing. Water shortage is becoming a serious issue. The ecological damage to the country and failing rains are a sign that Australia is paying a far greater price than what it gains from exporting sheep.

Goats: 15,000 goats a week are packed into a truck for the 2,500 mile journey from Namibia to South Africa. They have nothing to eat or drink in temperatures exceeding 40c.

Horses: They are transported from Spain to Italy on a 46 hour journey.

Kavish Bharat Shah, 12, turns his friend into a veggie!

Turning someone into a vegetarian may seem hard at first, but it isn’t.
I managed to turn a friend vegetarian by explaining things to him and showing him a few videos. A great site for vegetarians is http://www.viva.org.uk. This was the site that I used to help turn him vegetarian. The idea came to me when I heard him saying that when he was a vegetarian for a year a little while ago, he had found the food boring, and so he had switched back. Then I told him how most animals are killed by having their necks slit. A few more examples and some tasty veggie recipies did the job! So don’t keep your vegetarianism to yourself - spread it!

The Jain Community of Antwerp, Belgium
Known all over the world for their compassion towards animals, the Jain community is supporting their local animal sanctury. Farm Sanctuary V.G. receives generous donations from the Jains and they have also undertaken to clear the debts of the sanctuary. They also support the animal rights organisation, BiteBack.
Kishorebhai Shah is actively building links with the local groups to promote Ahimsa. Our support here for animal sancturies inspired Kishorebhai to undertake similar projects in Antwerp. Kishorebhai is also the receipiant of Mahaveer Award.
Please contact Kishorebhai and offer your support for his compassion:
kishorejivdaya@hotmail.com.

Glory of India Award

The ‘Glory of India’ award has been presented to Nitin Mehta by the India International Friendship Society. Recipients are honoured for their outstanding leadership in the field of promoting India and Indian culture in the United Kingdom thereby making Mother India proud. Previous recipients of the award have included: Mother Teresa, cricketer Sunil Gavaskar and film star Dev Anand. In 1999 Nitin received the MBE, followed in 2002 by an award from the Mayor of London for his ‘Significant Contribution to the City of London’ and in 2006 he received the ‘Sanskar Garima’ award from Gujarat Samachar Publications for promoting, ‘Gujarati Language and vegetarianism’ in the UK.

 - Vaid Bharath