Four Alerts: Please help to stop vivisection; stop killing of badgers & horses; oppose trapping
Please click on and sign the following:
1. Ask the Medical College of Wisconsin to End the Use of Animals
2. Petition US Senators to Co-sponsor S1176, the Horse Slaughter Prevention Act of 2011
3. Stop the Badger Cull (post codes include CR2 6XH, M60 1NW, CR2 6XH, DN55 1PT)
4. Please Co-Sponsor the Refuge from Cruel Trapping Act
1. Background | From PCRM
Please ask Jonathan Ravdin, M.D., dean of the Medical College of Wisconsin, to end the use of rabbits, frogs, and rats in the school’s medical student curriculum. Fewer than five percent of U.S. medical schools and no Canadian medical schools use animals for this purpose. We have provided text for you, but if you decide to write your own message, please be polite and encouraging. Here are some talking points:
- I am writing to ask that MCW end the use of anmals in its medical student curriculum.
- MCW is one of only four U.S. medical schools that use animals to teach physiology.
- As of October 2010 no Canadian medical schools use animals for this purpose.
- MCW is endangering its reputation by continuing this practice.
2. Background | From Change
Institute a federal ban on the selling, purchasing, transporting and slaughtering an equine for the purposes of human consumption.
Contacting your congresspeople individually will have a greater impact! They can be found HERE.
Please add your signature to this petition which will be delivered to the United States senators who have not yet cosponsored S1176 – the Horse Slaughter Prevention Act of 2011 – in the next few weeks. By doing this, you can add your voice to the nationwide lobbying effort in support of this critical legislation to federally ban the predatory horse slaughter industry ridden with cruelty and corruption. The 112th Congress convenes from January 2011 through January 2013. Louisiana Sen. Landrieu is the original sponsor of the bill and she has asked for nationwide citizen support in obtaining cosponsors for this vital and progressive legislation. The timing of it is a good opportunity and we must act now.
The first and most important step towards making Sen Landrieu’s S1176 bill a law, is to obtain a large number of cosponsors and move the bill out of Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation where it is being held at the moment. This is the list of Commerce committee members: http://commerce.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?p=CommitteeMembers
If you wish to contact your senators personally by fax or email, which is the most effective way of making your will known, please go to SENATE.GOV and search under Find Your Senators. It’s easy.
PS: Please include your Name and Zipcode. Signatures are not being emailed to the senators at this time. The list for each state will be delivered to their offices in person by individual citizens representing each state!
Every person counts! THANK YOU!
3. Background | From 38 Degrees (post codes include CR2 6XH, M60 1NW, CR2 6XH, DN55 1PT)
The government has announced plans to start culling badgers. There’s been a big debate among 38 Degrees members about these culls. Some of us believe killing badgers would be wrong under any circumstances. Some of us believe that if the science really proved that shooting badgers could make a real dent in the cow TB problem, it would be a tragic necessity.
But 87% of us agree on this: the government’s current plans to shoot England’s badgers simply don’t stack up. The government’s own scientific advisers warn that it won’t solve the problem of TB in cattle, and could even make it worse.
Government scientists say that if a cull isn’t carried out “in a co-ordinated, sustained and simultaneous manner according to the minimum criteria, then this could result in a smaller benefit or even a detrimental effect.”
The government is consulting on the plans right now. If we don’t stop them, badger shoots could begin in a matter of months. Can you take 30 seconds now to add your name to the petition?
4. Background | From Born Free
Congresswoman Nita Lowey (D-N.Y.) has worked with Born Free USA and our colleagues to reintroduce the “Refuge from Cruel Trapping Act” (H.R. 2657). This important initiative finally would end the horrific practice of trapping on national wildlife refuges. Please ask your congressional representative to co-sponsor the bill.
When visiting a national wildlife refuge, most people expect to see wildlife in abundance without fear of stepping into a trap, or having to witness the pain and suffering of a trapped animal. More than half of America’s refuge lands, however, allow barbaric and indiscriminate trapping! We are horrified that the brutal practice occurs on some of the very last safe havens for wildlife in the United States.
H.R. 2657 aims to restore the original intent of the National Wildlife Refuge System — to maintain lands where wildlife are safe and free from unnatural intrusion. Congresswoman Lowey’s bill also would protect people and domestic companion animals incidentally caught by traps while visiting refuges.
As highlighted by Born Free USA’s 2011 trapping investigation and our online database of non-targeted incidents, trapping is a highly unregulated, inhumane and dangerous practice, and has remained this way for years.
“The use of steel jaw leghold traps and other barbaric mechanisms has no place in national wildlife refuges or other public lands,” Lowey said. “Body-gripping traps are cruel and inhumane, and it is time to end this brutal practice once and for all.”
Please help us pass the 2011 Refuge from Cruel Trapping Act. Ask your U.S. representative to co-sponsor H.R. 2657 today.
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manunkind thinks acting cruel this way
is some sort of twisted state of play
our species needs to learn and fast
the being kind is the only way
his world will last
Karen Lyons Kalmenson
Our Compass 
manunkind thinks acting cruel this way
is some sort of twisted state of play
our species needs to learn and fast
the being kind is the only way
his world will last
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Stop these cruel, inhumane practices. Poor animals.
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