Four alerts: please oppose animal exploitation in testing, fights, rodeos, racing

Please click on and sign the following, thank you:

1. Say NO to cruel cosmetics

2. Help stop university faculty from staging animal fights

3. Urge Geico to stop sponsoring cruel rodeos

4. End dog racing on Macau: nearly 400 dogs killed every year



1. Background | From BUAV

The European Union was due to be free of all new animal tested cosmetics by 2013. However officials are now considering extending this deadline. That’s despite massive public opposition to animal tested cosmetics and an existing ban on animal testing for cosmetics inside the EU. Join us in saying NO to cruel cosmetics in Europe.

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We, the undersigned, do not want new cosmetics that are tested on animals to be available in the EU.

Animal testing of cosmetics is cruel and unnecessary. We urge the European Parliament to adhere to the 2013 marketing ban deadline as set out in the 7th amendment to the Cosmetics Directive. Public opinion is against animal testing of cosmetics on ethical grounds, and there is no public appetite for new cosmetics that have been animal tested to be available in the EU after 2013. We urge the European Parliament to listen to the overwhelming majority of European citizens and vote against delaying this ban.

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2. Background | From PETA

For more than a decade, faculty at the University of Wisconsin–Madison (UW-Madison) have spent millions of tax dollars on staging violent fights between animals in their laboratories for cruel aggression experiments. Experimenters lock large, aggressive mice and smaller, weaker mice together in cages that the animals can’t escape from and then watch as the weaker mice are beaten up and bitten repeatedly for as long as 10 minutes. The bouts are videotaped, and experimenters count the number of “attacks” per fight. The winners are then killed and have their brains cut out and dissected.

The federal agencies funding these inhumane and wasteful experiments require that recipients of public funds abide by all relevant state laws, yet it appears that UW-Madison violated this policy for years. Up until very recently, Wisconsin’s cruelty-to-animals law clearly stated that it is a felony for any person to “intentionally instigate, promote, aid, or abet” fights between animals—whether the animals be dogs or mice or whether the fights happen in a garage or a laboratory. PETA has co-filed a formal complaint with the district attorney in Madison urging him to prosecute the faculty and staff responsible for past violations of law.

Please join PETA’s effort to end the abuse of animals in UW-Madison’s laboratories by contacting officials with the National Science Foundation and urging them to immediately cut off funding for these cruel experiments and demand repayment of all tax money already wasted on these barbaric animal fights.

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3. Background | From PETA

In an attempt to draw more customers through advertising, insurance agency GEICO recently started sponsoring the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA)—which sanctions more than 600 cruel events each year. PETA has urged GEICO to give careful consideration to the brutality involved in rodeos and cancel its sponsorship of the PRCA, but our request has been ignored.

Rodeos are violent events in which normally tame, docile animals are terrorized and provoked into behavior that makes them appear to be fierce and aggressive. This is done through the use of cruel electric prods, flank or bucking straps, and spurs—all of which burn, wound, and/or dig into the animals’ skin and sensitive tissue.

Please urge GEICO to make the humane and progressive decision to cancel its sponsorship of the PRCA.


4. Background | From Change

The peninsula of Macau is home to a single dog track called the Canidrome. At the Canidrome, nearly 400 greyhounds are put to death every year.

According to the Macau Daily Times, dogs race four times a week. If they finish outside the top three in five races in a row, they are destroyed. The head of Macau’s animal control department has stated that every greyhound arriving at the track is dead within three years. An average of thirty new dogs arrives each month from Australia.

In 2007, a draft animal cruelty law was presented to the public for comment and consideration, but the Macau legislature never took it up. In fact, there are no laws in place to prevent the wanton killing of these gentle dogs.

As long as greyhound racing continues, greyhounds will suffer. According to information provided by Greytexploitations, Macau’s 800 dogs spend most of their brief lives in cages stacked two high, and when they race, they are watched by a “pitifully small crowd …who pay an entrance fee of less than €1” to sit in the stands.

This senseless activity must end. Please join with GREY2K USA and animal protection groups around the world to call for an end to dog racing in Macau.

Sign our petition now and help us send a strong message to Macau’s leadership today.

For the greyhounds.


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