Hooray!
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization declared Tuesday that the world was rid of rinderpest.
It decimated herds and caused disaster, devastation and death associated with the fall of the Roman Empire, the French Revolution and the colonization of Africa.
It’s been a long time come’n – but after years of global efforts, rinderpest (German for cattle plague) doesn’t exist anymore!!
It is the first animal disease to be eradicated and only the second disease ever, after smallpox in 1980.
First it took a couple thousand years to get the first one and only thirty-one years to get our second.
At this rate we’ll conquer the 709,899,993 other disease in no time!
[Image via WENN.]
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Nekked for PETA?? OHEMGEE!
K, it’s not real original – but if it anit broke don’t fix it!
Spanish beauty, Elen Rivas, is backing their campaign to attempt to get the blood sport banned and has stripped off for an advert to publicise the cause.
In the advert Rivas is seen with four lances protruding from her back as blood pours down, mimicking a bull injured in a fight.
The Spanish model said:
“My ad might be graphic, but it’s nothing compared to the bloody, violent reality of bullfights. Most Spaniards – including those in my hometown of Barcelona, where bullfighting was recently banned – are opposed to the barbaric blood sport, and Peta and I are urging British tourists not to be fooled by the industry’s propaganda.
‘There is absolutely nothing romantic about torturing and killing animals for entertainment.”
Photo: Karl Grant/PETA
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