URGENT, STOP D.C. MAYOR POSE FOR CRUEL DAIRY INDUSTRY.

[Guest guest]

WASHINGTON D.C. MAYOR

WANTS TO POSE WITH " MILK-MUSTACHE " AD

FOR DAIRY INDUSTRY AND

 

HE DECLARES MAY 11 AS :

" DRINK CHOCOLATE MILK DAY "

DESPITE MILK MAY CAUSE HEART DISEASE,

BREAST CANCER, PROSTATE CANCER ETC. !!!

 

 

Dear Caring Friend ,

 

You have just read our last email regarding the modern Dairy

industry's torturing mother cows and killing all of her male babies

in order to steal her " milk " to sell for profits.

 

Now, the dairy industry's secret money goes to the Mayor in

Washington D.C. Please let's send a letter to him to ask him to stop

" POSING " for the cruel dairy industry and stop him to

" DECLARE " May 11 as " Drink Chocolate Milk Day " .

 

For more detail, you may read News Release from PCRM, click :

http://www.pcrm.org/news/health010501.html

 

Now, let's write to a few key people below on this serious matter :

The Key points in your letter, Sample Letter and all of the

contact info are listed below for your convenience.

Thanks.

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KEY POINTS IN YOUR LETTER : (you may make letter short. )

 

1: The Cruelty of the Dairy industry.

2: The unhealthy aspects of the Dairy products.

3: Politely Requesting :

a. Stop declaring the May 11 as " Drink Chocolate Milk Day " .

b. Stop Mayor to pose advertisements for cruel dairy industry.

4: Don't forget to sign your Name, Address, City, State and Zip.

 

 

You may use the following Sample letter too.

(You are welcome to write your own letter . ).

 

SAMPLE LETTER :

 

 

Subject : Please stop pose for dairy industry's Advertisement .

Please stop declaring May 11 as

" Drinking Chocolate Milk Day " .

 

 

Dear Mayor Williams,

 

We are so shocked to know that you are going to " POSE " for dairy

industry with " White Mustache " and you also going to declare

May 11 as " Drink Chocolate Milk Day " .

 

Corporate-owned factories where cows are warehoused in huge sheds

and treated like milk machines have replaced most small family farms.

With GENETIC manipulation and intensive production technologies,

it is common for modern dairy cows to produce 100 pounds of milk a

day--10 times more than they would produce in nature. To keep milk

production as high as possible, farmers artificially inseminate cows

every year. Growth hormones and unnatural milking schedules cause

dairy cows' udders to become painful and so heavy that many of them

drag on the ground, resulting in frequent infections and overuse of

antibiotics. Cows -- like all mammals -- make milk to feed their own

babies --not humans.

(Please click this photo: http://www.milksucks.com/downbig.jpg )

 

 

" I realized there's even more suffering in a glass of MILK than in a

pound of Meat. " says Dr. Francione, Law Professor at Rutgers University.

 

Few people realize cows have to be subjected to pregnancy every year

so that MILK, CHEESE, BUTTER, ICE CREAM may be produced.

In order to continue producing high volume milk as much as possible,

in the modern commercial dairy factory farms cows are constantly kept

pregnant. Their babies are forcefully dragged away within 1 to 2 days

of birth, so that milk can be sold and humans can drink MILK intended

for the calves. Giving birth is a prolonged and painful business for

the cow, to be rewarded only by separation from her baby.

Cows often cry out and search for their calves for days after

their babies are taken away.

(*The attachment between calf and mother is particularly strong).

 

Male calves are sold to feed lots and put into tiny veal crates,

fatten and chained to endure 16 weeks of hell in the dark, confined to

stalls so small they can not even make a turn, then slaughtered and sold

as 'VEAL' , " Beef " , " Hamburger " or " Pet Food " ........

( Please click : http://www.hfa.org/veal.html

 

 

Many of the male calves are simply " buried " alive !.

As one of the Dairy farm worker Paula J. said ,

" I worked on a dairy farm when I was young. I remember running

the backhoe to bury 10s to 100s of bull calves dumped in the pit,

some dead - some not. This is a practice. Whether you do it or not.

It is a practice to kill the male calves very early on Dairy farms. " .

(Paula J. had worked for a large dairy farm " Heimadingers " ,

outside of Clinton, Michigan.)

 

Female calves follow in their mother's hoofprints, slaughtered when

their milk production wanes, usually before their 4th birthday to become

hamburger or pet food. Normal healthy cows can live up to 26 years old.

The DAIRY industry is inseparable from the cruel exploitation and

degradation of helpless, highly intelligent animals.

(Note: Witnesses at the auction said numerous calves in the pan , some

are sold for $0.50 to $8 per live calf. Their umbilical cord are still

attached. They suckle humans hands like puppies. Many people cried .)

(Source: http://www.farmsanctuary.org )

 

DAIRY AND BEEF GOES HAND IN HAND. The following are only

some of million cases every year regarding the cruelty of the dairy and

meat

industries. Here is an account of Calf slaughter( By-products of milk) :

 

" To get done with them faster, we'd put eight or nine of them in the

knocking box at a time...You start shooting, the calves are jumping,

they're all piling up on top of each other. You don't know which ones

got shot and which didn't.... They're hung anyway, and down the line

they go, wriggling and yelling " (to be slaughtered while fully

conscious). (Reference Source: " Slaughterhouse " documentary

book by Gail Eisnitz, 1999.).

 

According to a Special Reports by Humane Farming Asso.

(http://www.hfa.org ) : Some of the slaughterhouse workers described :

 

" When a conscious cow arrives at the first hind-legger hanging

upside down , usually the legger tries to make a cut to start skinning

out the leg. Unfortunately, it is very difficult and dangerous to do

that when an animal is kicking violently. So the legger will cut off

the bottom part of the animal's leg he's working on with a pair of

clippers. "

 

Female calves often replace their old, worn-out mothers, or are

slaughtered soon after birth for the rennet in their stomachs (an

ingredient of most commercial cheeses). They are often kept in tiny

crates or tethered in stalls for the first few months of their lives,

only to grow up to become " milk machines " like their mothers.

 

The dairy industry abandons live cows at stockyards when they are no

longer " profitable " and drags cows to slaughter with chains when they

can still be sold for human consumption. The male offspring of dairy

cows are often considered " useless " that they are discarded, often

alive, on dairy farms or clubbed to death with canes.

(source: http://www.farmsanctuary.org , http://www.nodowners.org/ ).

 

" Dragging cattle with a chain and forklift is standard practice at

the plant, " explained a long-term inspector at a large beef operation in

Nebraska. " And that's even after the forklift operator rolled over and

crushed the head of one downer while dragging another. " .

" [T]hey'll go through the skinning process alive. I saw that myself,

a bunch of times. I've found them alive clear over to the rump stand. " .

" And that happens in every plant. I've worked in four large ones and a

bunch of small ones. They're all the same. " .

" [E]verybody gets so used to it that it doesn't mean anything. " .

" [W]orkers drag cripples with a garden tractor and a chain . "

(Ref Source: " Slaughterhouse " by Gail Eisnitz ,P.196).

 

Former Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman conceded on

Feb 11, 1999 in an interview with C-SPAN Washington Journal

that the ENFORCEMENT of the Humane Slaughter Act is almost

NON-EXISTENT !

 

As far as the health aspects of Cow's milk , there are many research

reports stated that Cow's milk is linked to Breast Cancer, Prostate

Cancer, Juvenile Onset Diabetes, Overian Cancer, even Osteoporosis.

Please refer the following web sites to get the inside story of

Cow's milk:

http://www.pcrm.org/health/Info_on_Veg_Diets/dairy.html

http://www.pcrm.org/health/Info_on_Veg_Diets/milk.html

http://www.pcrm.org/health/Info_on_Veg_Diets/lactose_intolerance.html

http://www.pcrm.org/news/lawsuit_cofi.html

 

 

Due the the cruelty nature of the dairy industry and unhealthy aspects

of the dairy products, I'm politely requesting that :

 

1: Please Stop Mayor to Pose for dairy industry's commercial

advertisements to promote dairy industry's profits.

2: Please Stop declaring May 11 as " Drinking Chocolate Milk Day " .

 

We would be grateful to you for your kindness, compassion and help.

Thank you.

 

Sincerely ,

Your Name,

Address,

City, State, Zip

 

P.S.: Enclosed are some of the important websites for your

references:

 

http://www.milksucks.com/index2.html

http://www.milksucks.com/spew.html

http://www.milksucks.com/downbig.jpg

http://www.meatstinks.com/VegKit/meetmeat.html

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60798-2001Apr9.html

http://www.vegsource.com

http://www.meatstinks.com

http://www.hfa.org

http://www.farmsanctuary.org

http://www.madcowboy.com/

" SLAUGHTERHOUSE " Documentary Book by Gail Eisnitz.

http://www.king5.com/investigators/storydetail.html?StoryID=2944

http://www.king5.com/investigators/storydetail.html?StoryID=1719

http://www.upc-online.org

http://www.banbatterycages.org/research/tour.html

http://www.freefarmanimals.org/bc_evidence.htm

http://www.adaptt.org/

http://www.farmusa.org

 

http://www.cspinet.org/new/cheese.html

http://www.pcrm.org/health/Info_on_Veg_Diets/dairy.html

http://www.pcrm.org/health/Info_on_Veg_Diets/milk.html

http://www.pcrm.org/health/Info_on_Veg_Diets/lactose_intolerance.html

http://www.pcrm.org/news/lawsuit_cofi.html

http://www.notmilk.com

http://www.preventcancer.com by Dr. Samuel Epstain.

http://www.pcrm.org

http://www.newcenturynutrition.com

http://www.cancer.org

 

 

(*** Letter Ends Here ***)

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CONTACT INFORMATION :

 

Please let D.C. Mayor Anthony Williams know what you think about

him doing a milk-mustache ad and proclaiming May 11

as " Drink Chocolate Milk Day, " please CALL and EMAIL ! :

 

1:

Daphne Hawkins

Office of the Mayor

Washington, D.C.

Tel : 202-727-2980

mayor (@dc.gov )

(Please address to : Dear Mayor )

 

2: Send your comments thru form email to Mayor:

http://dc.gov/mayor/talk.htm

(Address to : Dear Mayor, )

 

3: Dr. Walks

Department. of Health

Washington, D.C.

Tel: 202-442-5999

 

4: Contact : Council Chairman : Linda W. Cropp

E-mail: lcropp

(@dccouncil.washington.dc.us )

(Please address to : Dear Council Chairman , )

 

Also contact Sharon Ambrose of the Consumer Committee:

sambrose

(@dccouncil.washington.dc.us )

(Address to : Dear Ms. Ambrose , )

 

5: Contact ALL Council members in Washington DC :

dccouncil

(@dccouncil.washington.dc.us )

(Address to : Dear Council, )

 

6: Email to the the following Officers of the Council:

 

General Counsel

Charlotte Brookins-Hudson

Phone: 202-724-8026

Email: cbrookinshudson

(@dccouncil.washington.dc.us )

(Address to : Dear General Council )

 

Secretary to the Council

Phyllis Jones

Phone: 202-724-8080

Email: pjones

(@dccouncil.washington.dc.us )

(Address to: Dear Secrtary to the Council, )

 

Budget Director

Arte Blitzstein

Phone: 724-8139

Email: ablitzstein

(@dccouncil.washington.dc.us )

(Address to : Dear Director ,)

 

 

7: Send a fax to :

 

Ms. Carol Schwartz,

Chair of the COG Board of Director.

Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments

Officers of the Board of Directors

Tel: (202) 962-3200

FAX: (202) 962-3201

(Address to : Dear Ms. Schwartz ).

 

8: DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

The BOARD OF ELECTIONS AND ETHICS

Executive Director: Alice P. Miller

apmiller , (@dcboee.org )

 

(Address to : Dear Executive Director ,)

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Thanks so much for your kindness, compassion and help.