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ANIMAL RIGHTS ONLINE Alert for Action! - Issue # 01/22/01 -

part 2

 

 

 

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Urge Canada to Permanently Ban Inhumane Poison

 

SEND TO:

The Honourable Ian Waddell

Minister of Environment

Lands and Parks, 337, Parliament Buildings

Victoria, BC V8V 1X4

Telephone:250-387-1187

Fax:250 387-1356

Email: Ian.Waddell.Office

 

Dear Mr. Waddell:

 

I understand that, for the past two years, you have maintained a moratorium

on the use of Compound 1080, a highly toxic, slow-acting, painful poison

used

for wolf and coyote control. However, despite the fact that there is no

known antidote for Compound 1080 and, according to government data, almost

30

percent of the total documented deaths from 1080 are in non-target species,

reports indicate that some cattle farmers in Canada are reportedly pushing

for the reintroduction of the wolf poisoning program.

 

I would like to take this opportunity to bestow upon you my appreciation for

your work in banning Compound 1080 in Canada so far. I respectfully request

that you take your work one step further and institute a permanent ban on

Compound 1080. Most importantly, please resist pressure from the cattle

industry to reintroduce any poisoning programs that involve this cruel and

inhumane product.

 

Thank you for your time. I look forward to learning the results of this

most

important situation.

 

Sincerely,

 

For more information, contact:

Ainslie Willock, Director, Animal Alliance of Canada

Telephone: (416) 462-9541 ext 25

or

Barry Kent MacKay, International Wildlife Director, Animal Protection

Institute Telephone: (905)472-9731

 

Information Provided By: HSUS <HUMANElines

Letter Composed By: SavingLife

 

 

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New Jersey Citizens Can Help Farm Animals

 

SEND TO:

Arthur R. Brown, Jr., Secretary of Agriculture

Department of Agriculture

John Fitch Plaza

P.O. Box 330

Trenton, NJ 08625-0330

Email: agabrow

 

Dear Secretary Brown:

 

I am contacting in regard to the request of the New Jersey State legislature

that the state Department of Agriculture draft humane standards for the

treatment of farm animals. More specifically, I would like to take this

opportunity to request that you follow the lead of many European countries

and implement a ban on veal crates, battery cages, and sow gestation crates

as part of New Jersey's guidelines for the humane treatment of farm animals.

 

Intensive confinement agriculture has become a cruel and inhumane

commonality

on today's farms. All of these systems severely restrict animals in tiny

spaces too small for the animals to even turn around in or to exercise any

natural behaviors. These processes are clearly and outright inhumane and

need to be declared as such under state guidelines. Please, keep these

considerations in mind as you draft your standards.

 

Thank you for your time.

 

Sincerely,

 

For more information, visit:

http://www.farmsanctuary.org/newsletter/freefarmanimals.htm

 

Information Provided By: HSUS <HUMANElines

Letter Composed By: SavingLife

 

 

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Horrific Act of Companion Animal Cruelty

 

SEND TO:

Jeanne Miller, District Attorney

325 N. Marietta St.

Gastonia, NC 28052

 

COPY:

Mayor Jennifer Stultz

P.O. Box 1748

Gastonia, NC 28053

 

Dear Ms. Miller:

 

I am contacting you in regard to the case against 18-year-old Jason Vincent

Revels, charged with felony cruelty to animals after his two dogs were found

decapitated and skinned in Revels' backyard. According to reports, Revels

told police he killed the dogs after his mother told him he needed to get

rid

of them. He claims that he planned to give the skins to his mother to make

dreamcatchers.

 

Research in psychology and criminology shows that people who commit acts of

cruelty against animals do not stop there; many of them progress to

committing violent acts against their fellow humans. The FBI has found that

a

history of cruelty to animals is one of the traits that regularly appears in

its computer records of serial rapists and murderers, and the standard

diagnostic and treatment manual for psychiatric and emotional disorders

lists

cruelty to animals as a diagnostic criterion for conduct disorders. Animal

abuse is not just the result of a minor personality flaw in the abuser, but

a

symptom of a deep disturbance.

 

As a society, we must call a halt to the acceptance of animal cruelty and

enforce a policy of harsh punishment for these sadistic crimes. To allow

individuals guilty of perpetrating such cruel and violent acts to go

unpunished or not sufficiently punished, would be to sanction these horrific

crimes and would permit them to go on to commit serious and violent crimes

against innocent human beings.

 

Therefore, I am asking that the harshest penalty be imposed against Mr.

Revels. There is no excuse for the agony, suffering, and anguish that he

has

caused. In addition, I strongly suggest that Revels receive mandatory

psychological counseling, be prohibited from ever owning or harboring

animals, and be institutionalized and not allowed back into society until he

has paid for his vicious, anti-social behavior.

 

PLEASE RECOGNIZE THE SERIOUSNESS OF THIS CRIME.

 

Sincerely,

 

Information Provided By & Letter Composed By: SavingLife

 

 

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Get Antibiotics Out of Farm Animals

 

SEND TO:

Commissioner

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

Email: webmail

 

Dear Commissioner:

 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention consider the overuse of

antibiotics in animal factories to be the principle cause of antibiotic

resistance in food-borne bacteria, like salmonella and campylobacter. As a

result of similar studies, the European Union has banned all

growth-promoting

uses of antibiotics that have a role in human medicine. While the FDA

continues to study the problem, how many more diseases will become

untreatable?

 

I urge you to preserve the effectiveness of human antibiotics by banning

their use to make livestock grow faster.

 

Sincerely,

 

Further information, visit:

http://www.ucsusa.org

 

Information Provided By & Letter Composed By:

Jim

 

 

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No More Cruel Leghold Traps

 

SEND TO:

Dennis Dorn, Chair

Do It Best Corporation

6502 Nelson Rd.

Fort Wayne, IN 46803

Telephone: 219-748-5300

Fax: 219-493-1245

Email:  helpline

 

Dear Mr. Dorn:

 

I am appalled that Do It Best sells Victor leghold traps and Conibear brand

body-gripping traps. Please discontinue the sale of these cruel devices

immediately.

 

Animals caught in traps suffer horribly. Both the American Veterinary

Medical

Association (AVMA) and the American Animal Hospital Association have

declared

the steel jaw leghold trap to be inhumane. The leghold trap catches animals

with its heavy steel jaws, tearing the flesh, breaking bones, and cutting

tendons and ligaments. Animals suffer excruciating pain and struggle to get

loose, but this only aggravates their injuries.

 

Nearly 29 percent of raccoons observed in one study chewed or twisted off

their own limbs in an effort to escape the traps. Furthermore, animals

caught

in traps suffer from dehydration, blood loss, hypothermia, predation by

other

animals, fever, gangrene and exposure to extreme temperatures. Beavers are

usually caught in a body-crushing trap. It can take a beaver more than six

minutes to die in such a trap on land and up to nine minutes underwater.

 

Trapping is so cruel that it has been banned in eighty-nine nations as well

as in the European Union.   A nationwide public opinion poll in 1996 found

that 74 percent of Americans want leghold traps banned in the United States.

Until your business catches up with the moral progress and stops selling

these barbaric devices, I will no longer buy any of your products and will

encourage everyone I come into contact with to do the same.

 

Sincerely,

 

Information Provided By & Letter Composed By: Diana Artemis

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UPDATES

 

1. Responding to a wave of public protest, the Colorado Wildlife Commission

(CWC) recently reconsidered plans to use aerial gunning to reduce the

state's

coyote population. Although the Commission nixed the aerial gunning plans,

it STILL plans to selectively kill breeding pairs of coyotes over the next

decade in order to study its effects on deer numbers. The revised $2 million

coyote control plan also contains a caveat that the proposal be reviewed

again next year, after biologists determine whether selective coyote control

is even feasible. Only a handful of the 25 speakers at the CWC hearing

commented in favor of it, and opposition to the study remains fierce.

 

It is important that we keep the pressure on the CWC!  Urge the

commissioners

to consider alternative studies, such as those suggested by the Rocky

Mountain Animal Defense, which would try to compare the effects of hunting

pressure to coyote predation.  Contact: 1) Russ George, Director, Colorado

Division of Wildlife, 6060 Broadway, Denver, CO 80216; Fax: 303-294-0874;

Email: russell.george; 2) Greg Walcher, Director, Colorado

Department of Natural Resources, 1313 Sherman, Room 718, Denver, CO 80203;

Fax: 303-866-2115; Email: greg.walcher. You can also copy the

Governor: The Honorable Bill Owens,136 State Capitol, Denver, CO 80203-1792

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Telephone: 303-866-2471/ Fax: 303-866-2003 / Email:

governorowens

.. For more info, contact The Fund for Animals' Rocky Mountain office at

alococo or 307-859-8840

Source: HUMANElines

 

2. Citibank, part of U.S. financial services giant Citigroup, recently cut

financial ties to animal testing firm, Huntingdon Life Sciences Group.

Source: alathome

 

3. As recently reported in Alert for Action, the 13-year-old boy convicted

of cutting the eyes out of a dog was ordered to serve an indefinite term in

a

state facility for juvenile delinquents. The sentence also requires the boy

to undergo counseling and write a letter of apology to the owners of the

yellow Labrador Retriever. Source: myREBAdog

 

4. Last week's issue of Alert for Action asked rs to contact

Pennsylvania Governor Ridge to request that he veto a current elk hunting

bill. Unfortunately, the bill flew through the legislature and was happily

signed by the governor about two weeks ago. Source: mfajenny

 

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