Archive for the ‘Animals’ Category

LionAid Discusses Zambia’s Moratorium On Big Cat Trophy Hunting

LionAid.org estimates that there are 645-795 wild lions remaining in western and central Africa. In eastern and southern Africa, 14,450 wild lions remain – for a continental total of 15,244 wild lions!

In this segment of The Organic View Radio Show, host, June Stoyer talks LionAid.org’s founders, Dr. Pieter Kat and Christine Macsween about Zambia’s moratorium.

When It Comes To Pet Food Recalls, Can We Begin To Trust Again?

Over the last decade, there have been numerous pet food recalls. When it comes to feeding your animal companion and depending upon a manufacturer, trusting a company once again after a recall can be difficult. Everyone is capable of making mistakes. However, how can a manufacturer reassure its loyal customers that their products are safe? Can a pet food business rebuild consumer trust? What steps should be taken? Does a major tragedy have to occur in order for the safety mechanisms and/or checks and balances to be put into place? What changes would you like to see?

Pat Foreman Explains Why City Chicks Rule!

More and more people are raising chickens due to the inhumane practice of factory farms and use of antibiotics. For folks that wish to grow food organically, locally and sustainably, raising chickens has become the most popular method. Across America, municipalities are allowing and even encouraging residents to keep laying hens within city limits. Expert, Patricia Foreman, author of CITY CHICKS: Keeping Micro-flocks of Chickens as Garden Helpers, Compost Makers, Bio-recyclers and Local Food Suppliers is certainly leading the way.

Gobble Till You Wobble: What Are YOU Thankful For?

Happy Thanksgiving! What are YOU thankful for? We want to know! Featured in this special Thanksgiving holiday segment will be some of our previous guests who will be calling in to talk about what they are thankful for! We will also discuss the “BEST Products of 2011 ” Who was nominated and why? Tune in!

Author, Jon Soeder: Fingers In The Light

It is a fact that many people prefer animals over other human beings. With animals, there is no such thing as racism, bullying, or any kind of a popularity contest. However, human beings can really do unspeakable things to one another just for sheer amusement. It is sad that our innate need to control can wind up inflicting so much cruelty, pain and suffering. In life, there are many lessons to be learned. Sometimes you learn them from the things done to you and sometimes from the things you do to others.

Granted, while we may be different as individuals each of us has some kind of a natural instinct or “spark” that is immutable and guides us. What exactly does this mean and where did it come from? Are we really alone or is it just that because we cannot see, hear or touch something, we need proof? This perhaps, is a matter of faith and also a matter of our own reality. In this segment of The Organic View Radio Show, host, June Stoyer will speak to award winning author and famed animal communicator, Jon Soeder about his latest inspirational book which is about his own life of enlightenment.