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What is the difference between No Welfare, High Welfare, and Highest Welfare when they all require animals to die? Only human comfort, NONE protect the actual animals. The most humane, ethical, and honest Webster-defined "welfare" is NOT exploiting animals - not using, not wearing, not eating, not killing - animals. The only meaningful position is vegan, everything else is just how humans euphemize animals' required suffering and violent deaths: no human exploits animals because they honestly believe that NOT exploiting animals is UNethical or INhumane.
Jane Velez-Mitchell & SHARK expose Pennsylvania’s depraved pigeon shoot: please take action
Immediate, PA friends, please visit and sign:
- PA residents: PA HB 1411/SB 843: Bans the use of trap-released or tethered animals for targets.
- Pennsylvania: Stop Wildlife Cruelty
Tonight, Thursday, September 30: Animal Activist and Television Host Jane Velez-Mitchell will expose the October 3 Pigeon Shoot in PA thanks to SHARK (SHowing Animals Respect and Kindness). Please set your recorders and share the news so that this segment earns great ratings. Good ratings on these animal stories encourage media outlets like CNN to do more animal protection stories.
From Free Animal Videos
- WATCH: Issues: With Jane Velez-Mitchell, Headline News Channel
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- WHEN: September 30, 7pm EST (4pm PST)
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Send a positive message to CNN HERE.
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If you know reporters who might be interested in carrying the story, there is information and free video (courtesy of Sharkonline.org) they can use HERE.
Activists travel to Pennsylvania almost every week to attend the pigeon shoots and document the event. They point out that Pennsylvania’s Animal Cruelty Law, Title 18, section 5511, prohibits a person from wantonly or cruelly ill-treating or abusing any animal. The law also prohibits neglect, abandonment, and deprivation of food, drink, shelter, or veterinary care. Pigeon shoots violate every one of these prohibitions. All of the information including videos can be downloaded HERE or at PigeonShoots.com.
Pigeon shoots are competitions wherein hundreds to thousands of live birds are shot at to win prizes. A typical 3-day shoot contest can kill and injure up to 15,000 birds. The next canned pigeon shoot event is scheduled for October 3, 2010.
The pigeons are captured and collected for weeks ahead of time, then released from trap boxes only yards away from the so-called “sportsmen”. The birds are generally dazed and suffering from dehydration or starvation as they are sprung out of the boxes.
Rather than mercifully being given a quick death, 70% of the birds are injured when shot and either left to suffer slow deaths or collected and killed by pigeon shoot “trapper boys” or “wringers”, traditionally children, who break their necks, step on them, tear off wings, suffocate them, or cut off their heads with garden shears, among other abuses.
Pigeon shoots are nothing more than a vile excuse for entertainment for the dull-witted or psychopathic. Illegal in other countries and in all but a couple of American states, most people realize the despicable nature of these bird-killing contests.
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Through a Glass, Darkly, and Out the Other Side
From Psychology Today: Bear In Mind
By G. A. Bradshaw
Today, Flo turns 53. However, there is little for her to celebrate. After a ten-year hiatus, she and 185 other chimpanzees are scheduled to resume their brutal existence as biomedical subjects. They are being sent from the protected Alamogordo Primate Facility back into research at the Southwest National Primate Research Center. [1][2]
Laboratory chimpanzees routinely experience hundreds of “knockdowns” (anesthetization by dart gun) and procedures that include liver punches, wedge and lymph node biopsies; and infection with HIV hepatitis NANB and C virus. They live in terror and pain. In addition to physical debilitation, laboratory inmates acquire a diversity of symptoms sufficient to fill the DSM: self-injury, seizure-like episodes, screaming, panic attacks, trance states, acute anxiety, depression, hyper-aggression, anorexia, dysphoria, and the list goes on. Given the unrelenting horror of their experiences, the most straightforward diagnosis is Complex Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). [3]
Science is well beyond demonstrating human-chimpanzee mental and emotional comparability. [4] [5] Indeed, there is ample evidence that chimpanzee capacities exceed humanity in many ways [6] and the fact that they don’t do to us what we do to them demonstrates their superior ethics. And yet, this widely accepted knowledge has yet to be implemented in policy and law. Responsibility for the disconnect between what we know and what we do does not lie with lawmakers alone. The science community at large is deafeningly silent and complicit. [7]
Honesty, Thomas Jefferson wrote, is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. As professionals dedicated to promoting mental wellbeing, psychologists are ethically compelled to take a page from Jefferson’s book and that of Dr. John P. Gluck, former director of a primate lab and professor of University of New Mexico and Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. [8]
Mid-career, Gluck saw through to reality and chose to act on this knowledge by dedicating his science and psychology to this truth. Here he reflects on the profound implications for American science and psyche if we continue using our closest relatives as sacrificial human surrogates and fail to match ethics with knowledge.The title of his compelling essay is, Chimpanzees, Research and Decisions:
It is ironic that on the same day that Dr. John VandeBerg, director of the Southwest National Primate Research Center, forcefully presented his case to the people of Alamogordo to move the chimpanzees from their protected Alamogordo Primate Facility (APF) environment back into research at the Southwest National Primate Research Center in San Antonio, the Parliament of the European Union voted to ban all biomedical research with great apes. [9] How could such well-meaning people, who share much in the way of culture and ethical tradition, come to such different conclusions? A review of the European debate, which is very similar to our own in its level of controversy, shows that this decision was grounded in the recognition that apart from a mentally competent researcher deciding to run a risky test on themselves, when science involves the generation of harms to sentient animals like chimpanzees, justification requires more than clear scientific goals but also a balancing of the harms within the context of potential achievements and broad central social and ethical values. Beyond this, the Parliament declared that if a dimension of medical progress requires the use of the great apes, that progress must await the development of non-ape alternatives. This was obviously a difficult conclusion to reach. However, the consensus among the Parliament was that the harms that would be produced in the Apes by holding them in laboratory environments and exposing them to the required experimental procedures were so extreme that their core ethical values could not allow them to sanction the work. In other words, they affirmed that there was a point where the ethics of sympathy and compassion for suffering in research animals takes precedence over even the need for medical progress. It is a statement that basic decency, from which all ethical principles arise, at times takes precedence over even our fears of disease and death.
Conviction
The justice system is founded on the principle that “It is better to let nine guilty men free than to convict one innocent man”. If 259 men and women have been (proven) wrongfully convicted and executed, how many guilty people are enjoying freedom and the opportunity to continue committing heinous crimes? Who is responsible for enslaving, and in some cases murdering, innocent people? Where is their justice? sr
Kenny Waters served 18 years in prison for murder he didn’t commit before DNA testing proved his innocence. His sister, Betty Anne Waters, put herself through college and law school in order to help with her brother’s case. She worked with the Innocence Project to bring about his exoneration in 2001.
Sadly, Waters passed away six months after his release. He was 47 years old and had spent more than a third of his life in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.
Waters’ case is the subject of a feature film due to be released October 15, 2010, starring Hilary Swank and Sam Rockwell. Watch the trailer below and read more background on the case.
The Innocence Project – Conviction: The Incredible True Story of Betty Anne Waters
The Crime
On the morning of May 21, 1980, Katherina Reitz Brow was stabbed to death in her Ayer, Massachusetts, home. Her body was found at 10:45 a.m. — she had been stabbed more than 30 times and her linen closet had been ransacked. There were bloodstains throughout the house and the kitchen faucet was running. Her purse, some jewelry and an envelope where she kept cash were all missing.
“Veil of Silence” Over Animal Testing at Vanderbilt
From Care2
By Mac McDaniel
Animal testing at Vanderbilt University is evidently on a need-to-know basis.
Jon Christian, the editor-in-chief of Orbis, the progressive VU newspaper wrote about what he called the “veil of silence” over Vanderbilt’s animal testing program.
According to Christian, university staff associated with animal testing “quickly terminated” their phone calls with him, refused to return his messages, and everyone says they are prohibited from talking with the press.
There is only one person at VU authorized to speak to the press, and he does so by press releases and official statements.
The only person who agreed to speak with Christian was a board member from the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee and she did so only under condition of anonymity for fear of retaliation.
Everyone assured Christian the conditions of animals in the VU laboratories were at the industry standard, even the anonymous IACUC board member.
But VU has been fined for Animal Welfare violations three years in a row.
People associated with the VU animal testing department cited the threat of activism by the Animal Rights community as a reason for keeping their information under lock and key. But does an institution that receives public funds have the luxury of opacity? The public has a right to knowledge of how its taxpayer dollars are being spent.
Any industry that tortures and kills animals will benefit from hiding the details from us, but opacity is a luxury they don’t deserve. And transparency is their responsibility to the public.
In the process of writing his story, an official who refused to identify himself ordered Christian out of a building in which he was taking photographs, even though he legally had the right to be there and take photographs. Researchers were warned about Christian and told not to speak to him.
So why does Vanderbilt not want the public to know what goes on in their laboratories? Are they worried that even if they really were conforming to industry standards for the treatment of their animals (their AW violations says otherwise) that the public would see that even the industry standard is still horrifying.
The truth is there is no way to test on animals that isn’t cruel, horrifying and unnecessary. Laboratories have a vested interest in opacity, as it keeps the public unaware of the callous nature of their experiments. If the public were aware of how their public funds were being spent to torture animals, would they so willingly support Vanderbilt? It’s doubtful.
Any industry that tortures and kills animals will benefit from hiding the details from us, but opacity is a luxury they don’t deserve. And transparency is their responsibility to the public.
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Immediate, please sign:
Tell North Caronlina to Overturn Decision Legalizing Rape
Targeting: The Governor of NC, The NC State Senate, and The NC State House
Started by: Change.org
Under a 1979 Supreme Court decision, once someone has agreed to start having sex, at no time during that act of intercourse can she withdraw consent. She relinquishes the right to control her own body.
If her partner has to physically restrain her, causing injuries, to keep her from stopping the act? Nope, not rape.
In effect, this decision has legalized rape.
This disturbing policy came to light after a case in which a young woman was dropped under the argument that she’d been okay with having sex at first. The victim’s father is now asking legislators to make certain that other girls are not faced with the same denial of legal redress for what is certainly rape.
Help protect future women by asking North Carolina state legislators to pass legislation clarifying that rape occurs in any non-consensual situation, even if it happens after intercourse has started.
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North Carolina: Consent to Sex Cannot Be Withdrawn
Trigger Warning for rape apologism, specifically within a legal context, and descriptions of rape.
A Case of Animal Hoarding
Karol O'Connell
This crate was a bedroom, bathroom and kitchen for him.
From LoHud.Com
Karol O’Connell, a village woman who once had dozens of dogs living in feces-filled cages removed from her home by police officers wearing gas masks, appeared Tuesday in Village Court. Her case was adjourned until 7 p.m. Oct. 13.
O’Connell, 75, initially charged with two counts of cruelty to animals in January 2009, pleaded guilty this year to a lesser charge of disorderly conduct.
In March, Justice Philip Schnelwar ordered that one animal, a Shetland sheepdog named Grayson, be returned to O’Connell. Pending further review of her ability to care for the animal, a second sheltie, Colt, would also be returned.
On July 30, Colt was returned to O’Connell by the Hudson Valley Humane Society. Schnelwar has denied ordering the dog’s return. The dog ran away from O’Connell soon after and, days later, was struck by a car. Colt’s injuries required substantial surgery.
O’Connell is accused of violating her conditional discharge. She also faces a misdemeanor count of criminal contempt.
Schnelwar has forbidden O’Connell from caring for, possessing or having custody of any animal until the case is resolved.
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The following information is provided by Save the Shelties, a Facebook group initiated in response to this case. If you have questions, information, or want to track the events, alerts, and court proceedings, please visit HERE (can only be accessed via a valid Facebook account). Additionally, all photos are courtesy of Save the Shelties.
Background
On December 10, 2008, twenty three dogs and three cats were removed from the home of Karol O’Connell of 76 Spook Rock Road in Wesley Hills, New York, in the county of Rockland. This operation was set forth after a furnace repairman discovered the dogs in the basement of Ms. O’Connell’s home. Ramapo Police and Ramapo Animal Control Officer Cathy McGrath carried out the rescue.
At the time of their seizure it was found that the dogs had been confined to individual crates for an indeterminable amount of time. Several crates were encrusted with 6-8 inches of feces suggesting that the dogs rarely, if ever, were allowed to leave their crates.
Shortly after their removal from Ms. O’Connell’s home, the animals were transferred to Hi Tor Animal Care Center where all but five dogs were shaved down to the skin because of the severe matting from urine and feces caked into their long fur. They were then bathed and examined by a team of veterinarians and veterinary technicians from Valley Cottage Animal Hospital.
At the time, it was estimated that the dogs ranged in age from several months to several years old. All dogs were intact and at least one female was in the midst of a heat cycle. They were discovered to have a wide range of illnesses and ailments including thyroid disorders, Lyme Disease, various parasites, gingivitis and progressive periodontal disease. One dog was missing her entire lower jaw due to an untreated bacterial infection and had all but one tooth left on her upper jaw, which was green. The majority of the dogs had specific dental trauma indicative of them biting and pulling at their fecal- and rust-covered crate doors and walls as if they were trying to escape. Sadly, one dog’s temperature was so low that he had to be euthanized.
What was even more distressing was the psychological trauma the dogs exhibited. Many of them engaged in rapid pacing and/or circling as well as obsessive licking and biting at their extremities. In addition, they displayed paralyzing fear, cowering behavior, and canine post-traumatic stress disorder. Many dogs would not sit or lie down and just stood in their crates for hours, falling asleep while standing up.
Ms. O’Connell was brought to a mental health facility the same day the dogs and cats were removed from her home. Her house was temporarily condemned and deemed uninhabitable by the Rockland County Health Department due to the extreme level of filth and animal waste on the premises. After her release from the mental health facility she took up temporary residence at the local Holiday Inn in Suffern, New York, where she remained for several months.
After two months from the initial seizure of the dogs from Ms. O’Connell’s premises, Ramapo Police filed charges—two counts of animal abuse & neglect—against Ms. O’Connell.
The charges were brought before the Honorable Philip Schnelwar, Village Justice of Wesley Hills, in February 2009. At that time he requested a formal psychiatric evaluation be conducted for Ms. O’Connell.
More than one year after charges were filed, Ms. O’Connell’s attorney negotiated a plea bargain agreement with the Assistant District Attorney. In March 2010, before Judge Schnelwar, Ms. O’Connell pled guilty to one lesser charge of misdemeanor disorderly conduct. The Judge settled with Ms O’Connell and her case was never brought to trial.
The details of the settlement included three of the following stipulations:
The World Clock Of Global Statistics
From Care2
By Ronnie Citron-Fink
Would you like to know the up-to-the-minute environmental statistics for: projected global warming, CO2 emissions, and forest land lost? How about population birth, deaths, and the ages of the Earth’s inhabitants? Maybe oil depletion and traditional energy use vs. renewable interests you. Or maybe food production and animal slaughter statistics? Maybe you just want to know how many spam emails have been circulated this year? Well, look no further than the World Clock.
The stats displayed are estimations provided by these sources, and the clock is provided by Poodwaddle.com.
I find it totally sobering how much forest has been lost so far this year. On the other hand, I am happy to see there are more bicycles than cars being produced. Which statistics interest you most?
Editor’s Note: To view current animal slaughter numbers for 2010, click “Food” on the left topic area; to see animal slaughter numbers from right NOW, click Food then the Now button at the top.
Trading in Cruelty: The cruelty of trapping and farming wild monkeys in Mauritius.
FROM BUAV
Support our campaign to stop the primate trade (or see below for complete details and links).
The island of Mauritius is a tropical paradise. Rich in lush foliage and surrounded by coral reefs, it is a major holiday destination. Yet, hidden within this paradise, the BUAV has uncovered an industry that inflicts great suffering on nonhuman primates, one which rips families apart, imprisons some for life as breeding ’machines’ and sends others overseas, on airlines such as Air France, to suffer and die in cruel experiments. Our investigators infiltrated the trapping and supply network and secretly filmed inside primate farms.
Mauritius is one of the world’s largest suppliers of wild-caught and captive-born long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) for research. Our investigation has revealed the appalling cruelty of the wild-caught trade and by association the breeding farms which are dependent on the wild-caught trade not only to replenish ‘breeding stock’ but also to supply F1 generation monkeys (the offspring of wild-caught parents). Despite a UK ban on the import of wild-caught primates, F1 generation or ‘captive-born’ monkeys are still allowed to be imported into the UK for research. In fact, Mauritius is the largest overseas supplier of primates to the UK.
Trading in Cruelty
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The long-tailed macaque is not considered indigenous to Mauritius. Despite listed as Appendix 11 on CITES (Convention for the Trade in Endangered Species), the species is labeled a ’pest’ and is widely persecuted in the country.
Each year, up to 10,000 monkeys are exported from Mauritius to the European Union (including the UK, France and Spain), the USA and Israel. During 2008-2009 Mauritius supplied over 2,700 monkeys to the UK and over 7,000 monkeys to the USA. The monkeys are reportedly sold to the UK and EU for around £2,600 each.
WHOM TO CONTACT
SAMPLE LETTER
Dear Ambassador,
I recently read about the barbaric trade in monkeys and I am deeply disturbed.
The trapping of wild monkeys is extremely cruel and causes great suffering. The conditions in which captive primates are kept fail to meet the many complex behavioral and psychological needs of these highly intelligent and social animals.
Your government may be unaware of the ultimate fate of its monkeys. I urge you to consider the pain and suffering that is inflicted on them in overseas research laboratories. For example, many will be used in toxicity tests which involves the forced ingestion, inhalation or injection of potentially lethal chemicals.
I appeal to you to ensure that immediate action is taken to put an end to this appalling cruelty and ban the capture and export of primates. I hope that you will be moved not only by the findings of the BUAV investigation, but also by the impact they will have upon Mauritius’s international reputation.
4. WRITE TO AIR FRANCE (postal only)
Ask Air France to join the many other airlines dissociating themselves from the cruel trade in primates for research. Suggested text below:
Dear Air France,
I am shocked to learn from the BUAV investigation of the trade in primates from Mauritius that Air France transports monkeys to research laboratories.
The trapping of wild monkeys is extremely cruel and causes great suffering. These highly intelligent and sensitive animals are packed in small crates, and travel as cargo on extremely long journeys. Many airlines have made the decision to dissociate themselves from the cruelty and suffering of the international trade in primates by refusing to transport primates destined for the research industry.
I hope that you will be moved not only by the findings of the BUAV investigation, but also by the impact that these revelations will have upon Air France’s international reputation.
I urge Air France to join this growing number of airlines and refuse to transport primates for research.
Send to:
Air France, Head Office, 45 rue de Paris, 95 747 Roissy CDG Cedex, France
Fax: 01 41 56 70 29
and/or Air France Cargo, Building 558 Shoreham Road West, Heathrow Airport, Hounslow, TW6 3RN
Help Stop the Army From Mutilating and Killing Animals
From PETA
Please sign and send HERE
The U.S. Army is once again applying for a permit to cut apart and kill animals in cruel and crude trauma training exercises in the district of Oberpfalz (Bavaria, Germany), even though the Army’s first application was withdrawn because of overwhelming public opposition to the plan. Its second application was also recently denied because officials said that the animal laboratories would violate Germany’s animal protection law, since effective non-animal methods are available for use in the training instead.
Germany’s own Armed Forces has written to PETA, stating: “[T]he armed forces do no animal tests for training purposes. For training exercises the soldiers learn with really good models and the doctors don’t need animal experiments.”
The U.S. Army’s own Alfred V. Rascon School of Combat Medicine at Fort Campbell does not use animals in its trauma program, stating that “[t]raining on [simulators] is more realistic to providing care for a person than training on animals.”
Please help spare animals from these cruel and deadly trauma training exercises right now by sending polite e-mails to German government officials urging them to stop the U.S. Army from pursuing permits for trauma training in Germany.
Sample e-mail text is provided HERE to help you draft your message. We encourage you to use your own words and phrasing to personalize your message.
MESSAGE TEXT
I was shocked to learn that the U.S. Army is still trying to obtain a permit to conduct cruel and deadly trauma training exercises on animals in Oberpfalz (Bavaria, Germany). Oberpfalz officials have already denied the Army’s previous application because they determined that this training would violate Germany’s animal welfare law, since effective non-animal methods–which are already used by the German military–are available. Germany’s own Armed Forces has written to PETA, stating: “[T]he armed forces do no animal tests for training purposes. For training exercises the soldiers learn with really good models and the doctors don’t need animal experiments.” The US Army’s Alfred V. Rascon School of Combat Medicine at Fort Campbell also does not use animals in its trauma program, stating that “[t]raining on [simulators] is more realistic to providing care for a person than training on animals.” Clearly, animals are not needed to teach trauma management skills.
I respectfully urge you to take swift and decisive action to prevent this cruelty from taking place in Germany. Thank you.
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Blessing of Death Row Animals, Event Notice & Related No-Kill Infos
From No Kill New York, Event Notice:
NYC ACC – October 2, 2010 – 4:00 pm
During the first weekend of October, compassionate people around the world will honor animals. They will ask for blessings in the name of Gandhi, whose birthday was October 2nd, and in the name of St. Francis of Assisi, Patron Saint of Animals. Join No Kill New York in NYC for a special blessing of the animals whose very lives depend on us. The blessing will take place at NYC Animal Care & Control: 326 E. 110th St. (1st & 2nd Ave.) at 4:00 pm. (See map below.) Please feel free to bring your own companion animals as long as they are on leash, in carriers, or otherwise under your control. Dog and cat treats or toys will be accepted as an offering.
The poor kitten pictured above is dead. His name was Toby and he had a life and potential and all he wanted was to be loved and to have a home. He was killed at NYC’s Animal Care & Control. No one knows why, as rescuers were standing by to take care of him and to save his life. They will say he was ‘euthanized’, given a peaceful, humane death because he was too sick to save. We’ll never know because Toby wasn’t even given a chance. If Toby had a choice, he would have chosen life. But he had no choice, so now he is dead.
The animals who are housed at Animal Care & Control have done nothing wrong. They are victims of a society that puts little value on their lives. They want nothing more than to live, to share our homes and to give their unconditional love and devotion to us. Instead of sheltering them, the animals that are not adopted are killed by lethal injection. No Kill New York and compassionate people everywhere believe that this senseless killing must stop immediately.
No Kill New York is a coalition of individuals and groups dedicated to ending the abuse, the exploitation and the killing of animals. It is our primary mission to end the killing of animals in the NY Shelter System. We believe that animals have the inherent right to live, and to be treated with respect and dignity. No animal should be killed for any reason other than for dire and untreatable medical conditions. No animal should be treated as a disposable object.
Date: Saturday, October 2, 2010
Time: 4:00 – 7:00 PM
Place: 326 East 110th St. (1st & 2nd Aves.)
Convicted Animal Abuser No Longer Racing Horses in California: Update & Vital Racing Infos
Editor’s Note: The original entry was regarding harness trainer Christopher Lefebvre, who had been accused and found guilty of animal cruelty in Maine; his subsequent foray into the California racing community has since been terminated and his license revoked as the result of his previous actions. Our Compass opposes all forms of horse racing as exploitive and cruel.
UPDATE
CHRB terminates license of Christopher Lefebvre, from the California Horse Racing Board
The California Horse Racing Board terminated the temporary occupational license of harness trainer Christopher Lefebvre on Monday, August 30, pursuant to CHRB Rule 1484 (Evidence of Unfitness for a License – License Denied by the Maine Racing Commission) and CHRB Rule 1489 (Grounds for Denial or Refusal of License – Criminal Conviction in the State of Maine for Animal Cruelty).
Pursuant to Rule 1405 (Punishment by the Board), Lefebvre is excluded from all racing enclosures under the CHRB’s jurisdiction.
Related: Don’t Back the Cruelty – the dark side of horse racing
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Background From PETA
In 2004, harness racing trainer Chris Lefebvre plead guilty to cruelty to animals in Maine for the death of a horse named She’s A Lady Too. It was reported that Lefebvre attempted to race this horse butwas told by the state veterinarian that the horse was sick and in severe distress and that he needed to seek immediate veterinary attention for her. Mr. Lefebvre instead put her back in her stall, where she stood suffering for approximately 20 hours until she finally died. The necropsy revealed that the sickness would have been treatable with proper medication in a timely manner and that “this particular mix of bacteria would not usually be seen in a pneumonia due to natural causes” indicating that the horse may have had a foreign substance “tubed” into her.
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The Maine district attorney also said that she believed that “Lefebvre routinely mistreated animals in his care and it was and is very important to [the district attorney’s office] that Lefebvre be held accountable for that.”
Lefebvre since has been denied applications for licenses in multiple states and lied on applications, and he was denied membership for life by the U.S. Trotting Association as a result of his conviction for his crime against She’s A Lady Too.
Lefebvre is currently training and racing horses at the Cal Expo race track in Sacramento, California, with a California Horse Racing Board (CHRB) license. The CHRB has opened an investigation in response to complaints from concerned citizens. The California Horse Racing Board Rules (1902.5, 1489, 1484) indicate that an applicant with this record of abuse and convictions should not be granted a license.
Informational racing research and documentation courtesy of Animal Aid
One animal laboratory closed, 1100 to go
From The Sacramento Bee
By Kathy Guillermo
Most words describing life for animals in laboratories are inadequate.
They can’t begin to convey the actual experience. So try this: Imagine you’re Jamie Lee Curtis in the 1978 film Halloween or any of the victims in the Texas Chainsaw Massacre series or one of the humans in Night of the Living Dead. Think of the fright you know just by vicariously feeling what it would be like if you were unable to escape a zombie or a crazed man with a knife. Think of Curtis’s panicked character Laurie Strode banging on the neighbor’s door, hoping for rescue, as her murderous brother comes closer and closer. Now imagine that it’s real. That’s everyday life for animals in laboratories: the heart-pounding terror of being trapped, unable to escape, as someone with a weapon-a scalpel or electric-shock device or a bottle of chemicals-approaches.
Studies show that animals’ hearts race in fear when a laboratory worker simply enters the room. There’s no happy ending for animals. They can’t leave the theater or sound stage and go home. The man or woman approaching often means death for the animals. A rare exception occurred earlier this month following the release of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals’ (PETA) undercover investigation of a North Carolina laboratory called Professional Laboratory and Research Services (PLRS).
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As translated from Rome Chronicle
(Please note that electronic translations are imperfect, and at the risk of sacrificing understanding and the authenticity of the original content, I opted not to translate the translation. The pictures and images, however, are unambiguous.)
Pets in a square in Rome to protest against vivisection directive adopted by Parliament on 8 September, which in fact confirms the possibility of using animals for scientific research, expanding the rule with the option to use for this purpose also strays. The slogan of the event “Green Hill to close and all the herds of animals to laboratories’ refers to the name of Green Hill, the Italian company that breeds beagles for Brescia to laboratories for scientific research. In Naples activists took to the streets, led by animal Adda, Association for animal rights.
Against Vivisection JONES AND MARTINI
And after the deployment of the Minister Brambilla for animals in the square also Undersecretary Francesca Martini Health has taken a stand against vivisection: “If I had been to Brussels without a doubt I would have voted against the Directive as approved. I reiterate my commitment – he added – to promote all alternative methods to animal experimentation, I stress that the aim should be to arrive to take it outside.”
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10,000 Protest Against Vivisection in Rome 9/25/10; protest coverage, music.
Created by punkrockprincess80
“Passed a law ITALIAN”
The initiative was launched by the autonomous coordination, formed by activists and associations, “Stop Green Hill.” The parade started at 15 Piazza della Repubblica and the event is also joining the Lav which has been fighting for time for Italy, now, pass a national law that can not be scratched by the European Directive and that in any case, between two years when we will be working on national implementation of the Directive, do so in a more restrictive, to give some hope to 12 million animals die every year in European laboratories. For example, introducing a national ban on the use of dogs and cats that had been allowed by the previous European directive of 1986, but banned in Italy by Law 281/91 and Legislative Decree 116/92.
BLITZ THE GREEN HIL Montichiari
Around 12 on Saturday morning some animal rights activists ‘110% ‘made a raid on the Green Hill of Montichiari in Brescia, a company that breeds beagle dogs for vivisection. Activists have attacked more than 50 posters stickers against vivisection on the walls, windows and gates of the company. Then, the militants have freed a dozen crows and magpies trapped in a huge cage positioned within a field. Have taken place on the police who identified the militants. All this while you are in Rome from 15 national demonstration of animal rights movements to protest against vivisection directive adopted by Parliament on 8 September, which in fact confirms the possibility of using animals for scientific research, extending even – allegedly by animal rights – the rule with the option to use for this purpose also strays.
All photos, except for Loredana’s, courtesy of Roma Corriere. Please visit Roma Corriere to view additional images from the protest. Loredana’s as taken from Facebook HERE.
Charge Animal Abusers At North Carolina Research Lab: Sample Message & Vital Shelter/Adoption Information
Updates, Alert, and Sample Message courtesy of Kinship Circle
UPDATE: Nearly 200 dogs and 54 cats are safe, but the abusers must be charged:
CLICK HERE TO TAKE ACTION (Please note that you will a few invalids.)
Tortured by lab staff who kicked, slammed and dragged them — animals from Professional Laboratory and Research Services, Inc. get a second chance. The Corapeake, NC lab was forced to close and surrender its “test subjects” after a PETA investigation uncovered diseased and wounded dogs, cats and rabbits. Over 9 months, PETA’s investigator recorded staff brutalizing terrified animals. One worker used pliers to wrench teeth from a frantic dog. Another tried to pull out a cat’s claws.
PLRS closure is a portal to the routine abuse that occurs in ALL labs. Animal experimentation itself causes creatures to convulse, bleed, stagger, die. Imagine being overdosed with poison or cut apart while restrained. There isn’t one animal experiment today that couldn’t be replaced by non-animal research tools. But animals come cheap and old habits die hard. Still, for PLRS animals, there is hope. Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) and Humane Society of the U.S. (HSUS) — working with about 12 regional shelters/rescues — have taken in the lab’s surviving dogs and cats. At this time, Kinship Circle does not know the fate of any rabbits. We do know that PLRS killed rabbits upon conclusion of experiments.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
Put the abusers behind bars! Urge law enforcers to charge/penalize PLRS. Tell animal researchers they aren’t exempt from cruelty laws:
SHELTERS & RESCUES WITH DOGS/CATS FROM PLRS:
Animals will be in quarantine and rehab before up for adoption/foster.
Contact shelters below to inquire about rescued animals from PLRS.
Check shelter websites for updates.
As of 9/18/10: No mention of where rescued cats are sheltered, only the dogs.
- Associated Humane Societies (NJ) 973-824-7080
- Beagles to the Rescue (VA) (4 beagle girls) 757-204-4411
- Carteret County Humane Society (NC) 252-247-7744
- Guilford County Animal Shelter 336-297-5020
- Elizabeth City SPCA (VA) — (15 PLRS animals) 757-344-3033 / To adopt-foster, contact Sabrenna or John: 252-338-5222
- In Dogs We Trust (FL) (18 PLRS dogs) 561-400-7732,
Nicole@trustthedog.com - Norfolk SPCA (VA) — (38 PLRS dogs) 757-622-3319
- Triangle Beach Rescue (NC) — info@tribeagles.org
- Virginia Beach SPCA (VA) — 757-427-0070
- Wake County Animal Control/Adopt. Ctr. (NC) — 919-212-7387, animalcontrol@wakegov.com
- Wake County SPCA (NC) — 919-772-2326
- Washington Animal Rescue League (DC) — 202-726-2556, adopt@warl.org
SOURCE OF INFORMATION:
• North Carolina Product Testing Lab Exposed
• Undercover Investigation Documents Misery for Dogs, Cats, and Rabbits
• Investigator’s Notebook
• PETA says video shows cat, dog abuse at NC lab
• Disturbing Laboratory Animal Abuse
• North Carolina Cruelty Statutes
PLRS Dog Rescue
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Justice For Dog Decapitated With Chain Saw & The Link Between Non-Human Animal & Animal Abuse
Urgent update, thank you to Susan for this information!
Please call the DA assigned to this case, DA Brent Capshaw:
505-599-9810 xt. 125
It is IMPERATIVE you be polite but firm about wanting the MAXIMUM sentencing for these two REPEAT OFFENDERS.
In New Mexico the maximum for Felony Aggravated Animal Cruelty is ONLY 18 months. This Thursday, 9/30, is the preliminary hearing where they will be allowed to plea; please urge DA Capshaw NO plea bargaining for these two. Remind him children were witnesses and both perps have prior arrests and the victim was tortured relentlessly!
Please call DA Brent Capshaw at: 505-599-9810 & ask for extension 125. If you don’t get him, please leave a courteous message. The advocate for the dog is Marianne Bixler.
Thank you.
Immediate, please sign:
Justice For Dog Decapitated With Chain Saw
From The Daily Times
By Elizabeth Piazza: epiazza@daily-times.com
Sheriff’s deputies issued arrest warrants for two Aztec men Wednesday after the pair allegedly cut a dog’s head off with a chainsaw when the knife they tried to use didn’t work.
Young children were inside the residence at the time.
Teddy Sexton, 32, and Corey Bowen, 31, face charges of fourth-degree felony extreme cruelty to animals, which carries up to 18 months in prison, San Juan County Sheriff’s Lt. Dwayne Faverino said.
A Children, Youth and Families Department investigator tipped off deputies to the incident after being notified about several young children suffering from nightmares stemming from the incident.
The men allegedly were trying to put the 2-year-old pit bull down because it previously bit a 9-year-old girl who was visiting the residence, Faverino said.
“Sexton said this was the second time the dog has bitten someone and he felt it needed to be put down,” Faverino said.
Because Sexton is on felony probation, he told deputies he couldn’t obtain a gun. Instead, he grabbed a kitchen knife and went to the place where the dog was tied up, Faverino said.
He and Bowen, who lives on the same property, attempted to use the knife to cut the dog’s throat, but they were having difficulty and grabbed the chainsaw, Faverino said.
Sheriff’s deputies and an animal control officer recovered the dog’s body, which will be tested for rabies.
A Children, Youth and Families Department investigator tipped off deputies to the incident after being notified about several young children suffering from nightmares stemming from the incident.
It is unknown if the children, believed to be Sexton’s, witnessed the incident, Faverino said.
Sexton told deputies the children were in the house when he killed the dog.
The children don’t live at the residence, Faverino said.
“This is horrible,” said Betty Berry, a board member for the San Juan Animal League. “I don’t care what the situation is. You always have humane options.”
Any veterinarian and either of the two area shelters would help in a situation like this, Berry said.
“It’s downright cruel,” she said.
Sexton was arrested Thursday on a probation violation and booked at San Juan County Adult Detention Center. He will be served with the animal cruelty charges in jail, Faverino said.
This isn’t the first encounter with law enforcement for either man.
Sexton’s criminal history includes aggravated battery against a household member, false imprisonment and drug possession charges, according to the state website, nmcourts.gov.
Bowen was charged with drunken driving in 2005.
PETITION BACKGROUND
- Target: Sheriff Mark McClosky of San Jaun County
- Sponsored by: Faith Campbell
The headline alone is enough to turn stomachs. According to the Daily Times, two Aztec men have been arrested for be-heading a 2 yr-old dog, reported to be a Pit bull, with a chainsaw.
According to the article, the men resorted to using a chainsaw after the knife that they tried to use, failed to do the job. The men claim to have been trying to “put the dog down” because it had bitten a 9 yr-old child that was visiting the residence.
Teddy Sexton, 32, and Corey Bowen, 31, will face fourth-degree felony animal cruelty charges for their horrific actions. Apparently, Sexton, on felony probation for prior crimes, chose to use the knife and chainsaw because he could not obtain a gun.
Authorities were alerted to the hideous event by a Children, Youth and Families Department investigator that had been notified of several children suffering from nightmares after the unbelievable incident. Though not known for certain, it appears that the children in the home witnessed the gruesome act.
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