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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.
Investigation: Pig’s Blood Flowing into Trinity River
Blood clearly visible on the left, one of the images used as evidence. | sUAS News
From MyFox
By Lynn Kawano
DALLAS – An Oak Cliff meat-packing company is the focus of a pollution investigation.
The Columbia Packing Company is on East 11th Street. It is very close to a section of the Trinity River that the city wants to develop for recreation.
Two months ago a resident taking pictures of the area noticed the water behind the plant was dark red. He notified the county.
The Department of Health and Human Services took its own pictures and confirmed the water in Cedar Creek was suspicious. Cedar Creek feeds into the Trinity River.
On Thursday a search warrant was executed on the 99-year-old slaughter house and meat-packing plant. Investigators said they found an underground pipe leading into the creek and the substance in the pipe tested positive for pig’s blood.
“This additional pipe, the pipe is there and why is it there? And who put it in?” asked Zachary Thompson, the spokesman for the health department.
Those are questions all the agencies involved – from the Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Department of Agriculture to the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department – now want answered.
In the meantime, the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office would not comment about the investigation or what kind of charges the plant operators could face.
FOX 4 did try to contact someone at the plant but was not allowed on the property. The company’s attorney did not return phone calls.
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Irish Fur Farming: Time for a Ban, sample letter
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FROM ARAN & BAN FUR FARMING IN IRELAND
A group of Irish and International animal welfare organisations have joined forces in an effort to ensure this Irish government does not renege on the previous government’s policy of a phase out of fur farming. Organisations supporting this call include ARAN, Respect for Animals, Anima, and the international coalition of animal welfare groups opposed to fur farming, The Fur Free Alliance.
Mark Glover of Respect for Animals, the UK’s leading anti-fur organisation, said today: “Fur factory farming has been banned in Northern Ireland for nearly a decade, and the rest of the UK for over 11 years. These bans reflected public opinion and that the farming of animals for nothing other than their fur offended public morality. The Northern Ireland Assembly and Parliament of Westminster studied extensive evidence on the issue before concluding that only bans on this cruel practice could resolve the problem.
“With the very best intentions in the world, fur farmers cannot adequately provide for the welfare of mink on Irish fur farms,” says ARAN’s Campaign Director, John Carmody. “ This latest investigation shows that its business as usual on Irish fur farms and that this suffering must come to an end, nothing has changed since the previous coalition government’s pledge to ban fur farming back in 2010. Today there should be no need to cage and treat animals in such a manner”
“Fur breeding is not consistent with good agricultural practice and Britain is a better place without it, as Ireland could be.”
Mary-Anne Bartlett of Compassion in World Farming-Ireland said today: “At the time, Compassion in World Farming-Ireland very much welcomed the agreement to ban fur farming as a major step forward for animal welfare. We sincerely hope that the current government now puts this major reform in place without delay.”
Facts:
• The Farm Animal Welfare Advisory Council, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine in its annual review 2009-2010 refers to the commitment to phase out fur farming over three years in the previous government’s Renewed Programme for Government.
• In 2001, the EU’s Scientific Committee on Animal Health and Animal Welfare concluded that, “current husbandry systems cause serious problems for all species of animals reared for fur…..”.
• The Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Simon Coveney TD, has established a Review Group to review all aspects of fur farming and is accepting submissions from interested parties until the end of the year with a view to making recommendations to government.
• A Private Members’ Bill to ban fur farming (Fur Farming Prohibition Bill 2004) was debated in the Dáil on 22 and 23 March 2005. Although the bill was defeated by the then government’s TDs 67 to 50, it won support from all opposition parties, including Fine Gael and The Labour Party.
• An opinion poll conducted in 2004 showed that 63% of people in Ireland agreed that fur farming should be banned, despite the fact that only 51% were aware that it took place.
• In 2010, 141,812 mink pelts were exported from Ireland, valued at 4.9 million Euro whilst 5,910 (444,000 Euro) were imported, showing net exports of 135,902.
• The North American Mink is an alien species to Ireland and mink attacks on wildlife and domestic animals are becoming increasingly frequent. In 2010, the Department of Agriculture planned to spend 60,000 Euro on the control of predators, including wild mink.
WHOM TO CONTACT
Please click on and write and send message HERE, click on TAKE ACTION
SAMPLE LETTER
To Whom It Concerns,
I am shocked to discover the savagery inherent in the fur industry. Due to the malicious business of fur, any products derived from the suffering and killing of animals should be rejected, and I am respectfully requesting that until Ireland discontinues profiting off the exploitation of animals, consumers and tourists will be likely to sever ties with you. It is obvious that this cruelty cannot be regulated and only an outright ban will ensure animals are not barbarically treated and slaughtered, all for frivolous products.
Furthermore, I will share this information with family, friends, colleagues, and members of online communities. The animals in Ireland are counting on compassionate people who would rather help, rather than harm, animals. Indeed, why not act on principle and become a country that promotes compassion fashion? Very stylish clothing and accessories can be made using gorgeous synthetic materials.
Please watch the undercover footage of the industry promoted: animals are forced to endure deplorable conditions including living in cramped, feces-crusted cages; suffering from sickness and disease; lacking an enriching environment; and being subjected to substandard diets and severe psychological trauma. They are then butchered via anal electrocution, gassing, skinning alive, and forced trauma.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTZQnQeAPJc&feature=player_embedded
Please make both the ethical and responsible decision to ban fur farms immediately: join an increasing body of compassionate countries, businesses, and designers who are listening to a concerned and attentive consumer population who refuse to be complicit in the inherently malicious industry of fur farming. I hope this letter finds you willing to scrutinize your own involvement and desire to protect, rather than harm, animals.
Thank you for taking the time to read this important message.
NAME
Seal slaughter ending? Breaking news.
From PETA
Please click on and sign HERE
I’m happy to share some terrific news on PETA’s global fight to stop Canada’s annual baby-seal slaughter. Ryan Cleary—a member of Parliament from the Canadian province where much of the seal slaughter is scheduled to take place—has now gone on the record stating that it may be time to end the massacre for good as the market for seal skin dwindles as a result of animal rights campaigns. This is terrific news and an indication that PETA’s vigorous efforts are beginning to change the minds even of politicians from regions where the seal slaughter takes place.
Cleary’s statement comes after a string of victories against the seal slaughter. Thanks in part to the help of thousands of caring members and supporters like you around the world, the U.S. and the European Union (E.U.) have banned seal imports, and just last month, Russia—which buys 80 percent of Canada’s seal pelts—took steps to ban imports as well. This move came after Pamela Anderson made an international appeal to Vladimir Putin on PETA’s behalf. In just the past year, Iggy Pop and Ke$ha starred in PETA’s edgy “Canada’s Club Scene Sucks” ads, Sarah McLachlan and Joan Jett penned letters urging Canada to give up its challenges of the E.U. ban, and Canada native William Shatner led our Canadian Tax Day campaign to show citizens and lawmakers that millions of Canadian taxpayer dollars are propping up the dying annual massacre. At last, after all these efforts, national media outlets across Canada are exposing the wasteful slaughter for what it is.
We have finally reached a tipping point in this campaign—the time is now to call on Canada to end the slaughter once and for all. Please take a few minutes and click here to urge Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to stop this annual massacre.
Thank you for your unwavering commitment to these animals.
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Protest cruel Jallikattu, sample letter
BACKGROUND
This week Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN) will launch a new ‘boycott’ drive to support efforts in India to enforce an existing ban on the cruel Indian, Jallikattu, which is currently going un-enforced, but what is Jallikattu? Jallikattu is a cruel contact game in which terrified bulls are surrounded by hundreds of shouting men, are hit with fists, have their tails twisted and pulled – and some even snapped and broken – and are jumped on and wrestled to the ground. Men pounce on the backs of bulls, sometimes alone, sometimes together and attempt to wrestle him to the ground. There are reports that chili powder is rubbed into the bulls’ eyes, they are given alcohol and then have to undergo the trauma of being chased by mobs who try to overpower and bring them down. Investigations at five Jallikattu events after these regulations had come into place documented bulls being tied so tightly it would cause them severe discomfort and pain, hit with fists, having their tails twisted and pulled, jumped on and wrestled to the ground. Not only is Jallikattu cruel to animals, it also poses a threat to public safety. In one four-day period in January 2011 again after these regulations came to be, 215 people sustained injuries during Jallikattu events. Out of this, 154 people were spectators who suffered injuries. Two people died.
ARAN has started contacting Indian officials, tourist agencies and others to inform them of our efforts to highlight the cruel spectacle here in Ireland and across Europe with our ‘ad’ that is a mock-up of the ‘Incredible India’ tourist ad’s that promote the beautiful country.
TAKE ACTION
Tell the Indian Tourism Minister that you won’t visit India until it enforces the ban on the Jallikattu.
WHOM TO CONTACT
tourismminister@nic.in
SAMPLE LETTER
Dear Minister,
I am writing today to share my disturbance regarding the ritual Jallikattu, about which I have learned is characterized by the methodical torture and torment of a bull in a demonstration of manhood, a ceremony celebrating “bravery”. During this event, a bull is systematically brutalized, tripped, beaten, jumped on, and wrestled to the ground, and at times chili powder is shoved into the bulls’ eyes. This unremitting torment is inflicted on the bull while he is fully conscious, subjecting him to what can only be considered excruciating pain and prolonged suffering even though this activity has been banned. Additionally, it is my understanding that dozens of spectators have historically been injured, some with fatal injuries. I am therefore requesting you enforce the ban and cease this savage event.
While I would never embrace such an egotistical belief that my opinions take precedent over established and sacred customs, any “tradition”, however, that is built on a foundation of extreme animal cruelty, exploitation, and suffering, and which inflicts pain and fear on innocent, sentient animals, is neither justified, nor an expression of historical or manly courage and pride. There can be no honor amongst those who condemn animals to such depraved actions substantiating my disturbance that such animal cruelty is perpetuated by the inaccurate conviction that this ritual confirms bravery.
As such, I, along with a global contingent of concerned citizens, respectfully request that you intervene to ensure the ban is enforced so that no other bulls have to be tormented for cheap human entertainment or obscure traditions. Please provide your voice for others to observe their obligatory duty and responsibility by protecting animals, not condoning their torture; your ethical gesture of compassion would serve as an international model of empathy.
Regrettably, until such a time as the ban is enforced and further bulls not mistreated, I will promote a boycott of India and will share this information with friends, colleagues, and online community networks.
Thank you for your time and attention to this urgent issue.
NAME
ADDRESS
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Send two letters to Max Mara protesting their use of fur
Send two letters: Please use first sample letter (or compose your own) and send via Max Mara’s online webform. Please also send second sample letter to listed email addresses. Due to spam-blocking software, the second letter contains spam-free characters versus letters that would be bounced back by their spam filter.
BACKGROUND | FROM 3DAYZ
With their 2300 shops all around the world Max Mara Fashion Group is one of the biggest retail companies worldwide. Max Mara is considered one of the most important pret-a-porter brands, promoting a classic and sober style. But what this company doesn’t say is how many animals die for their collections every year. Fur is used in the form of trims, hats, scarves or even coats.
All over the world campaigning networks and organizations are fighting to make designers and clothing companies “fur-free”. We think it is time to ask the same ethical stand to Max Mara Fashion Group, owners of world renowned brands like Max Mara, Max&Co, and many more like Maxsport, Marina Rinaldi, Marella, Pennyblack, Newpenny, Persona, Iblues.
The Max Mara campaign is similar to those waged at department stores, or similar to the internationally coordinated campaigns that have made important fashion companies like Zara, Guess and Stefanel fur-free. This is a campaign with international support and demos in front of Max Mara stores in different countries.
1. WHOM TO CONTACT
Online contact form HERE
SAMPLE LETTER
To Whom It Concerns,
I am shocked to discover that Max Mara and associated brands supports the fur industry. Due to the savage business of fur, any products derived from the suffering and killing of animals should be rejected, and I am respectfully requesting that until Max Mara discontinues profiting off the exploitation of animals consumer sever ties with them.
Please watch the undercover footage of the industry promoted: animals are forced to endure deplorable conditions including living in cramped, feces-crusted cages; suffering from sickness and disease; lacking an enriching environment; and being subjected to substandard diets and severe psychological trauma. They are then butchered via anal electrocution, gassing, skinning alive, and forced trauma.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VTZQnQeAPJc&feature=player_embedded
Regrettably, as long as you unnecessarily and selfishly capitalize on the mutilation, torture, and death of animals, I will not financially support you or your associated brands. Furthermore, I will share this information with family, friends, colleagues, and members of online communities. Max Mara, why not act on principle and become a company that promotes compassion fashion? You can create very stylish clothing and accessories using synthetic materials.
Please make both the ethical and responsible decision to discontinue your commercial support of fur immediately: join an increasing body of compassionate businesses and designers who are listening to a concerned and attentive consumer population who refuse to be complicit in the inherently malicious industry of fur farming. I hope this letter finds you willing to scrutinize your own involvement and desire to protect, rather than harm, animals.
Thank you for taking the time to read this important message.
NAME
2. WHOM TO CONTACT
Max Mara Fashion Group
Via Giulia Maramotti 4
42124 Reggio Emilia, Italy
Phone: 00 39 05 22 3991
Fax: 00 39 05 22 399 3993
Facebook: facebook.com/maxmara
Email block | Easily copy and paste all relevant addresses:
guidotti.g@mmfg.it, info@maxandco.com, franchisingita@maxandco.com, franchisingexp@maxandco.com, info@marella.it, otb.iblues@marella.it, laurenzi.m@maxmara.it, proffice@maxmara.it, fasi.l@maxmara.it, guidotti.g@mmfg.it, info@marinarinaldi.it, negozimaxmara@maximasrl.it, info@maxmarafashiongroup.com, info@pennyblack.com, businessopp@pennyblack.com, caroggio.l@usa.maxmara.com, lusuardi.l@maxmara.it, mazzali.m@maxmara.it, ferretti.e@maxmara.it, info@maxmarafashiongroup.com
SAMPLE SUBJECT
Please stop s3lling fvr
SAMPLE LETTER, COURTESY 3DAYZ
To the attention of Max Mara Fashion Group,
Being informed by 3dayz.com, I send this message to show my svpport for the internat1onal campa1gn aga1nst the pr3sence of fvr trims and fvr jackets in the collections of Max Mara and the other brands of your company. As you may be aware every year d0zens of milli0ns anim4ls are raised in sm4ll c4ges and 4wful c0nditions to be sk1nned and tr4nsform their p3lts into tr1ms, hats or jackets sold in shops and collections like yours.
There is a gr0wing numb3r of companies and designers refvsing to use real fvr and i think the same decision is a choice that also Max Mara Fashion Group should consider, to create a fashion fr3e of this appalling crvelty. Until I will see this eth1cal decision I will take part in the b0yc0tt of all your brands products and shops and will inv1te all the people I know to do the same.
Yours sincerely,
[YOUR NAME]
McDonald’s Twitter Campaign Backfires
From The Street
By Matt Brownell
When McDonald’s began promoting the #McDStories hashtag Wednesday on Twitter, the idea was to get people talking about their experiences with the fast-food giant. And in that sense, it was a rousing success: The phrase exploded in popularity as Twitter users across the country shared stories of their visits to McDonald’s.
Unfortunately, McDonald’s learned a harsh lesson in social media marketing: When you encourage people to talk about your company, they’re not always going to say nice things.
While McDonald’s own tweets on the topic tended along the lines of “When u make something w/pride, people can taste it,” actual customers were less inclined to toe the company line. “I haven’t been to McDonalds in years, because I’d rather eat my own diarrhea,” read one top tweet by @Muzzafuzza. Another user, @Jetsonjetsonjet, referred readers to a viral video of a mouse crawling through a bag of hamburger buns.
Meanwhile, animal rights activist @michellevegan tweeted that “@McDonalds scalds baby chicks alive for nuggets,” and linked to a site run by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. It was retweeted more than 100 times.
Yes, it appears McDonald’s lost control of the narrative here.
Such dangers are inherent in using social media to promote your brand. Sometimes it’s an isolated gaffe, as when the marketing professional running the Chrysler Twitter feed inadvertently tweeted his distaste for Detroit drivers. But trying to enlist the masses on Twitter or Facebook for brand promotion carries its own set of risks. When Wendy’s paid to promote the #HeresTheBeef hashtag last year, users responded with bawdy innuendo and other tweets completely unrelated to hamburgers. And in the summer of 2010, Coca-Cola was forced to apologize when a complicated social media contest for Dr. Pepper resulted in a pornographic reference being posted to a teenager’s Facebook page.
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Vegetarian (Vegan) Starter Kit: Mercy For Animals
Tell Bristol-Myers Squibb to Implement Non-Animal Tests
Please click HERE for petition.
From PETA
An insider from pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb recently approached PETA with disturbing allegations about animals who suffered painful and gruesome deaths through negligence.
The whistleblower reported that a monkey and a rat had been scalded to death when the cages in which they were each housed were carelessly put into the company’s mechanical high-temperature, high-pressure cage washer—with the animals still inside. In a separate incident, the whistleblower reports that several monkeys were tethered to their cage doors to be weighed and then left unattended. When workers returned to the room, they found that one of the monkeys had strangled to death.
In addition to these allegations of blatant neglect, from 2008 to 2010, Bristol-Myers Squibb tormented more than 20,000 animals in its laboratories, including more than 2,600 dogs and 3,400 primates who were imprisoned in cages, intentionally poisoned to death, and subjected to other painful and stressful procedures.
Astonishingly, these numbers do not even include the thousands of mice, rats, and other animals who are not covered under the Animal Welfare Act, and they do not include animals used in experiments contracted out by Bristol-Myers Squibb to other laboratories, such as the notorious Covance.
Bristol-Myers Squibb has long been on PETA’s radar, and we have submitted a shareholder resolution this year to urge the company to be more transparent and to minimize its use of animals by implementing modern, non-animal testing methods—recommended by the National Academy of Sciences.
Please be a voice for the animals suffering in Bristol-Myers Squibb laboratories. Take a minute of your time now to urge Bristol-Myers Squibb CEO Lamberto Andreotti to implement the recommendations outlined by PETA in its shareholder resolution immediately.
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Tell Congress: Climate Change Is Real
Please click on and sign petition HERE
From Environmental Action
A group of climate-deniers in the House of Representatives won’t let the NOAA distribute data on global warming impacts because they think it’s a liberal plot to destroy the economy. Sign here and we’ll deliver a tinfoil hat to any member of Congress who denies the climate is changing.
Message Text
Climate change is real and scientists warn that its impacts are only going to get worse.
But a key House committee has voted to stop a sensible, no-cost proposal to provide citizens with data we need about climate change and its impacts.
The National Climate Service is not part of a liberal conspiracy. It’s an attempt by scientists to provide facts and data about climate change to people who need it.
America needs honesty and action from is Representatives, not conspiracy theories peddled by polluters and their allies. When politicians deny the facts in order to delay action on this essential issue, you not only betray the public trust but endanger the future of our planet and all of us who live on it.
Please write back to me and confirm that you understand that climate change is real, and that we need to start doing something about it. If you don’t, you can expect to hear more from Americans like me who will not tolerate misinformation from our leaders.
Related | Global Warming: Meat the Truth
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Feld Entertainment—the parent company of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus—recently paid the largest settlement ever by an exhibitor in the history of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) for a multitude of AWA violations, including forcing sick animals to perform and failing to provide animals with proper veterinary care. Ringling’s long history of AWA violations includes physically abusing animals, causing physical harm to animals, and transporting animals in dangerous railcars and other vehicles whose jagged edges and broken metal wound them. Undercover video footage shows Ringling handlers using bullhooks to strike elephants backstage before performances in order to remind them “who’s boss.” Despite its abysmal track record, Ringling is currently requesting a permit that would allow the circus to continue harming endangered Asian elephants and leopards.
Ringling claims that the elephants and leopards will be used for “conservation education,” but the company has failed to demonstrate that it will do anything other than cruelly display these animals for commercial entertainment. The purpose of transporting animals up to 50 weeks a year while keeping them chained for up to 100 consecutive hours in cramped, narrow boxcars—as Ringling does—is not to enhance the species, but to force them to perform in the company’s profitable circus. Experts agree that forcing endangered animals to perform in circuses negatively impacts conservation efforts.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has the authority to deny this misleading permit request, and the agency wants to hear from you. Public input will be accepted until the end of the day on February 16. This input is extremely important to officials—it influences them when they are determining their course of action. These elephants and leopards need you to speak up for them now! Please join PETA by personalizing the comments below and urging the FWS to deny Ringling’s misleading application to continue using—and abusing—Asian elephants and leopards. The more you are able to personalize the comments, the more impact they will have.
WHOM TO CONTACT
Brenda Tapia, Program Analyst/Data Administrator
Branch of Permits
Division of Management Authority
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
4401 N. Fairfax Dr., Rm. 212
Arlington, VA 22203
dmafr@fws.gov
703-358-2280 (fax)
Click HERE for access to free faxing from your computer. No fax machine, registering, or credit card required. Please remember to confirm the fax via your email after submitting.
SUGGESTED SUBJECT LINE
Please Deny Feld Entertainment’s Application!
SUGGESTED LETTER
I am writing to urge you to deny Feld Entertainment’s application to renew its captive-bred wildlife registration (PRT-720230) for Asian elephants and leopards.
Because Feld Entertainment—the parent company of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus—has failed to demonstrate that its exhibition of Asian elephants and leopards for entertainment is educational and because studies have shown that circus-style animal exhibits fail to enhance the survival of the species, the application must be denied.
In addition, Ringling recently paid the largest settlement ever by an exhibitor in the history of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA) for a multitude of AWA violations, including forcing sick animals to perform and failing to provide animals with proper veterinary care. Ringling’s long history of AWA violations includes physically abusing animals, causing physical harm to animals, and transporting animals in dangerous railcars and other vehicles whose jagged edges and broken metal wound them.
It is clear that Ringling cannot meet the requirements of the Endangered Species Act, and therefore, the company’s application to renew its captive-bred wildlife registration for endangered Asian elephants and leopards must be denied.
Thank you for your attention to this urgent issue.
NAME
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Congress considers ending horse slaughter for human consumption: please contact your congresspeople
From The Persian Horse's Blog
From Philly.com
By Amy Worden
Charges filed against a Chester County woman for posing as a rescuer of horses while sending them to slaughter have prompted a new round of calls in Congress to end the killing of horses for meat in the United States.
U.S. Rep. Patrick Meehan (R., Pa.) on Thursday urged his colleagues in the House and Senate to pass legislation to halt horse slaughter after reading a report in The Inquirer that Kelsey Lefever of Honeybrook was allegedly selling animals for slaughter in Canada under false pretenses.
“This is a tragic example of why we need federal law to prohibit the transportation and sale of horses for slaughter in the first place,” said Meehan, one of 150 cosponsors of anti-slaughter legislation in the House. “Horses are not raised for human consumption, and their slaughter for sale overseas is a cruel and inhumane practice that is not consistent with our values here in Pennsylvania.
In November, state police charged Lefever, a 24-year-old horse trainer, with multiple counts of fraud connected to an alleged scheme involving ex-race horses.
Lefever duped thoroughbred owners at a central Pennsylvania racetrack into believing she would find homes for their retired racehorses and instead sold them to kill-buyers at a Lancaster auction, according to charging documents.
Horse slaughter effectively ended in the United States in 2008, when the last plant closed after federal funding for U.S. Department of Agriculture inspectors was withdrawn. Since then, an estimated 140,000 U.S. horses have been transported to abattoirs in Canada and Mexico.
With funding for USDA inspectors restored in a budget bill President Obama signed late last year, slaughter plants could again legally operate in the United States
What you can do
- CLICK HERE TO FIND YOUR CONGRESSPERSON and Email, Fax and Call.
- CLICK HERE FOR FREE FAXING FROM YOUR COMPUTER. No Fax Machine Required. No Credit Card Needed.
- CLICK HERE TO SEE HOW HORSES WERE SLAUGHTERED IN THE U.S.BEFORE THE BAN ON U.S. HORSE SLAUGHTER.
Sample Email
I, and the 70% of Americans who do not support horse slaughter, will not consider voting for any congressperson, or Presidential Candidate, who supports horse slaughter, or transport to horse slaughter, in any manner; I will only vote for candidates who support the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act, S. 1176.
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Design Against Fur | Fur-Free Alliance Slides
Please take action on the following 2 alerts from Born Free USA
1. ACT: Tell Upscale Retailer Barneys to Stop Carrying Fur
Help us move toward a fur-fashion-free society: Sign our petition that urges upscale retailer Barneys New York to stop selling fur. Then check out our Consumers for a Fur Free Society website to find out what stores — national and worldwide — have formally pledged to not sell fur.
2. ACT: Urge State Officials to Crack Down on Fur Farms
If you live in one of the 12 states with the most fur farms — the “dirty dozen” — please use our online form to urge your elected state officials to take action against fur farms. Simply click on your state and sign the letter. (Feel free to personalize!)
Find a zip code HERE
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Please take action on six issues, thank you.
Please click on and sign the following to help animals:
1. Close a deadly loophole, protect all chimpanzees
2. Support the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act
3. Tell Indian Oil and Others to Stop Using Bullocks
4. Urge Malaysian Authorities to Prosecute Dog Torturer
5. Urgent: Animals Languishing in Clarksdale, Mississippi, Shelter Need Your Help!
6. Help Air Canada Stop Shipping Primates to Labs
1. Background | From Center for Biological Diversity
Please speak up to protect chimpanzees who can’t defend themselves. The worldwide population of wild chimpanzees has fallen by nearly 70 percent in the past 30 years.
Wild chimpanzees have been protected under the Endangered Species Act since 1976, but a special rule exempting captive chimpanzees from protection is compromising conservation efforts. This loophole is preventing the recovery of the species in the wild by encouraging their illegal trade.
Chimpanzees are endangered everywhere due to habitat loss, poaching and illegal trafficking — wild chimpanzees are captured and sold for use as entertainment, as pets and as test subjects. The loophole in the Act creates a vicious cycle of supply and demand: Chimpanzees are exploited for entertainment, giving people the misconception that the species is common in the wild, which creates a demand for pet chimpanzees, which in turn leads to more poaching.
The exemption in the United States also undermines international chimpanzee conservation efforts. African nations see the animals being commercially exploited in America and have little incentive to protect them in their home range.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is now considering whether to protect captive chimpanzees under the Endangerd Species Act. Please use the form below to submit comments in support of protecting every endangered chimpanzee.
2. Background | From PCRM
Please send an e-mail that asks your members of Congress to support the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act. This important legislation will end the use of chimpanzees in invasive experiments, permanently end federal breeding programs, and release federally owned chimpanzees to permanent sanctuaries. We have provided some text for you, but it would be helpful if you would take a minute to add your own language to the letter. Please be polite and encouraging, and personalize the e-mail by sharing why this issue is important to you.
Please note: This alert is directed at U.S. members of Congress and non U.S. residents will not be able to take this action. Non U.S. residents please consider taking other actions!
3. Background | From PETA
Hundreds of bullocks are currently used to transport kerosene from oil ports in Sewri, Wadala and Mulund to different rationing stations in the city. Most of the animals are underfed and malnourished, and many suffer from untreated illnesses or injuries. They are forced to work until they are exhausted, pulling heavy loads through all weather extremes. Motorists who encounter bullocks in the streets are at risk of being involved in dangerous traffic accidents.
On 30 September 2008, the Ministry of Food and Civil Supplies made the decision to end the use of bullocks to transport kerosene in Mumbai by 31 March 2009. However, there has been no shift to transporting kerosene by motorised vehicles or other means, and the ban still has not been enforced by Indian Oil, Hindustan Petroleum and Bharat Petroleum. Hundreds of bulls continue to suffer.
In a goodwill effort to jump-start the program, PETA founder Ingrid E Newkirk travelled to India from the US to donate an auto rickshaw to one owner of a bullock-drawn cart in exchange for his beleaguered bull. The bull was sent to a sanctuary.
As India’s largest and wealthiest oil company, Indian Oil Corporation Limited has the resources and an ethical obligation to end the suffering of bullocks who are used to transport their oil. However, currently, they use the most number of bulls to transport their oil. Hindustan Petroleum and Bharat Petroleum are not far behind in their support of cruelty.
These oil companies can and should help stop the use of bullock-drawn carts, yet they refuse to take concrete steps to alleviate animal suffering.
Let’s speak up for bulls and demand a complete ban on the use of bullocks by Indian Oil and other oil companies to transport kerosene.
You Can Help: Please ask the oil companies to stop the use of bullock-drawn carts to transport their kerosene
4. Background | From PETA
An appalling video that was posted on Facebook and YouTube shows a man—who is believed to be from Malaysia—repeatedly striking a dog, shaking him, and then throwing him across the room in an apparent attempt to teach the dog to stand on his hind legs.
PETA Asia has collected information on the case and submitted it to authorities, including the government’s Veterinary Services Department as well as the police. But despite leads in the case, no action has been taken by authorities. Under Part IV of Malaysia’s animal welfare act, the Animals Act 2006, the man seen in the video could be convicted and fined RM50,000 or sentenced to six months in prison.
Please use the form HERE to urge Malaysian authorities to take immediate action to find the abuser, remove the animals currently in his care, and prosecute him to the fullest extent.
5. Background | From PETA
Animals in the custody of CCCAS are reportedly routinely denied basic humane care, including simple provisions like fresh water, regular nutritious feedings, clean and comfortable housing, and veterinary care to alleviate suffering. PETA and local advocates have repeatedly offered assistance to help bring conditions at this facility up to minimal humane standards, but our offers have been ignored or denied. Workers’ blatant disregard for the law, which mandates that animals be humanely treated, and their callous handling of animals—including spraying them in the face with water hoses to keep them from fighting over basic sustenance—continues daily without intervention from local officials.
Demand that Clarksdale and Coahoma County officials intervene immediately to ensure the humane care of animals at the shelter. Local citizens fighting for change have formed a nonprofit group with the eventual goal of building a new facility and possibly contracting with the city/county to provide animal sheltering services. While this is promising, in reality it could take years to come to fruition. The animals in Clarksdale need help now.
Please keep all calls and correspondence polite—anything less will hurt our efforts.
6. Background | From PETA
Almost every major airline in the world refuses to transport monkeys and other primates to cruel and painful fates in laboratories. Now Air Canada, one of only two major North American airlines that still flies primates to laboratories, wants out of the gruesome primate trade too. Air Canada stated that “[i]t was a decision taken both to align our policies with those of many other major international carriers and in response to widespread public concern.”
Unfortunately, airlines in Canada must obtain approval from the Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) to revise their shipping guidelines, and the CTA is requiring Air Canada to continue shipping primates to laboratories while it considers the issue.
As a government agency, it is important for the CTA to hear from the many individuals who support Air Canada’s compassionate attempt to get out of the cruel primate trade before any more monkeys are shipped to their deaths!
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Help Us Reach 30,000 With Vegan Food Samples!
Please join us for Meatout on March 20th, when caring activists in all 50 U.S. states and two dozen other countries will promote the benefits of a vegan diet!
Help us reach our goal!
Last year, Meatout activists served thousands of vegan food samples; this year we’re shooting to reach 30,000 people! We’re partnering with several vegan food companies that can provide samples to you directly, or you can apply for a grant through VegFund.
All activists planning to hold food samplings will receive a new handout, which, in addition to information about a vegan diet, gives recipients a chance to enter to win movie tickets in exchange for participating in a short online survey about their dietary choices!
What types of food can you offer?
• Meat substitutions, such as prepackaged jerky samples, chick’n on a tooth pick, or vegan meatballs.
• Dairy alternatives such as vegan cheese dip or (if the weather is right) soy/coconut ice cream samples.
• Substantial offerings such as Tofurky sandwiches, veggie dogs with condiments, or eggless baked goods.
Learn about conducting a feed-in with our online action guide.
What else can you do?
In addition to serving free food samples, we offer guidance on leafleting, holding information tables, and hosting attenion-grabbing events such as Meatout festivals.
Don’t miss this chance to inspire your friends, family, and community members to save animals, protect the environment, and improve their health. Sign up to let us know your plans and request event materials.
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Completely Bare? Completely Sick!
BACKGROUND
From 3Dayz: Actively Compassionate for Animals
Cindy Barshop, former Real Housewives of New York star and owner of luxe spa chain Completely Bare, has created two new lines of ‘luxury’ merkins. The first line is called the Foxy Bikini, in which the bikini line is waxed bare and replaced with a pubic wig made from real fox fur. The second is the Carnivale Bikini, utilizing neon-colored feathers.
3dayz.com is disgusted to hear about such a twisted and sick thing. Innocent animals with real feelings suffer and die in horrible camps for such a controversial and cruel product as fur. There was no need for Completely Bare to use [real] fur or feathers and our belief is that it’s their perverted way of seeking attention.
To people around the world we say: let’s give them that attention and send them our protest mail!
For more information about fur and fur farming, please visit the website of FurBearerDefenders.com
WHAT YOU CAN DO
- Write to Completely Bare. Create your own message or simply copy and paste the example letter below (don’t forget to sign it at the end) and send it to the address below.
- Leave a message on their facebook or twitter accounts. You can copy and paste parts of the example letter or leave something personal. Please be polite since the decision is not yet final!
- Share this action with your friends and ask them to send a protest mail to Completely Bare too.
- Let us know when you receive a reaction in response to your email. You can reach us using our “Contact Us” form, Facebook or Twitter.
WHOM TO CONTACT
Email: info@completelybare.com
Facebook: facebook.com/completelybarespas
Facebook: facebook.com/CindyRHONYC
Twitter: twitter.com/completelybare
Twitter: twitter.com/cindybarshop
EXAMPLE MESSAGE
Dear Cindy / Completely Bare,
I am shocked to read about the Foxy Bikini and the Carnivale Bikini on 3dayz.com. The use of fur is highly controversial to say the least and very cruel and unnecessary at best.
Please watch the following video to learn about established protocols in the fur industry and the utter savagery involved:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Cz8XLh5crDA
I urge you to do the right thing and stop selling these cruel products.
Thank you for taking the time to read this urgent message.
Sincerely,
[YOUR NAME]
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Free Dutch Sea Shepherd Activist Erwin Vermeulen
Please click on and sign the following three petitions:
1.Free Dutch Sea Shepherd Activist Erwin Vermeulen
2.Free Cove Guardian Erwin Vermeulen
3.Please release Dutch citizen Erwin Vermeulen from Japanese prison
Background | From Care2
Target: Japanese Ministry of Justice / Embassy of Japan, the Netherlands
Sponsored by: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, The Cove Guardians, Taji Dolphin Action Group
Dutch Sea Shepherd activist Erwin Vermeulen was arrested on Friday 16th of December in Taji, Japan while attempting to make photographs of the transport of dolphins. The animals who were captured in the wild were being transported towards holding basins at the Dolphin Resort Hotel.
Erwin traveled to Japan on his own initiative to investigate the slaughter of dolphins in Taji. His intention was to observe the transport in a peaceful manner and collect footage to reveal to the world what is happening. Annually the Japanese government provides 23.000 licenses to various coastal towns to slaughter dolphins of various species for consumption purposes.
Police claim Erwin shoved a hotel employee even though Erwin strongly denies ever using violence. The arrest seems pre-planned since no witnesses saw him shove the employee and Erwin was not even questioned as police simply approached him and took him away.
According to Sea Shepherd the Japanese authorities use any possibility to remove activists out of Taji.
Out of compassion for the dolphins being slaughtered in Taji, Erwin Vermeulen ventured to Japan at his own expense to devote his time and energy.
His family has not been allowed direct contact with Erwin, not even during Christmas time.
Recently Erwin has been given a date to appear in court on the 26th of january where, if found guilty, he faces 2 years of imprisonment.
Don’t forget to email your personal messages of support to Erwin on freeerwinvermeulen@gmail.com
All messages will be personally handed over to Erwin once he is released from prison.
And don’t forget to LIKE this page too:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Free-dutch-Sea-Shepherd-activist-Erwin-Vermeulen/337079989635943
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