URGENT, Downed Animal Protection Act & Forced Molting in Senate.

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URGENT, REQUEST SENATERS TO CO-SPONSOR & SUPPORT :

 

1: " DOWNED ANIMAL PROTECTION ACT " (S. 267)

2: Leahy-Fitzgerald " FORCED MOLTING " Amendment, and

Akaka-Leahy " DOWNED ANIMAL " Protection Amendment

to S. 1191 (the Senate Agriculture Appropriations Bill). .

 

 

There is strong opposition to " Downed Animal Protection Act " now in

the Senate. The National Cattlemen's Beef Association wants to

sell " carcasses " of sick downed animals and expressed concerns

about a federal ban. Meanwhile, Rendering plants, which used to buy

" carcasses " for processing into " animal feed " and other " products " ,

now is opposing " Downed Animal Protection Act " .

See: http://www.sltrib.com/10142001/nation_w/140214.htm

(Reference: Farmed Animal Watch, issue # 35)

 

Let's contact US Senators to urge them to Co-Sponsor and Support

the Downed Animal Protection Act and Forced Molting Amendments.

Enclosed Sample Letter and All of the important Contact Information.

Please, you may write your own letter if you wish. To make a

PHONE CALL to your Senators are the most important contacts.

However, it is important to Contact them in all means you can by

CALL/FAX/EMAIL . Every Contact below is very important. Thanks.

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SAMPLE LETTER :

Please place your Name, Address at the Beginning and End of

your letter. Please state that you are a " Constituent(s) " or a

" U.S. Constituents " (if you live in US) :

 

 

Your Name,

Your Address,

City, State, Zip

U.S. Constituents or Constituents ( if you live in US)

 

Re: Please

Co-Sponsor/Support Downed Animal Protection Act.

Co-Sponsor/Support two humane Amendments to S. 1191:

Leahy-Fitzgerald Forced Molting Amendments

Akaka-Leahy Downed Animal Amendments :

 

Dear Senator ,

 

As a voter and concerned citizen, I'm urging you to support

the following Humane legislation:

Co-Sponsor/ Support the Downed Animal Protection Act (S. 267)

Co-Sponsor / Support the two Humane Amendments to S. 1191,

the Leahy-Fitzgerald Forced Molting Amendments and

Akaka-Leahy Downed Animal Amendments :

 

 

1) Please Co-Sponsor and Support Downed Animal Protection Act

(S. 267): Senator Daniel Akaka had introduced S.267 , the Downed

Animal Protection Act on Feb. 6, 2001. A bill to amend the Packers

and Stockyards Act of 1921, to make it unlawful for any stockyard

owner, market agency, or dealer to transfer or market nonambulatory

livestock, and for other purposes.

The cattle industry wants to sell the downed animal " carcasses " to

the rendering plants. However, many articles showed that Mad Cow

outbreak may have been caused by animal Rendering plants.

The Rendering plants blend the raw product in order to maintain a

certain ratio between the carcasses of pets, livestock, poultry waste

and supermarket rejects. These are dumped into giant grinders at

rendering plants, as are the entire bodies of cows and other farm animals

known to be diseased. About 75 percent of the ninety million beef cattle

in America are routinely given feed that has been “enriched” with

rendered

animal parts. The gruesome mix is ground, steam-cooked, the lighter,

fatty material floating to the top gets refined for use in such products

as cosmetics, lubricants, soaps, candles, and waxes. The heavier

protein material is dried and pulverized into a brown powder—about

a quarter of which consists of fecal material. The powder is used as an

additive to almost all pet food as well as to livestock feed.

(Please see the important Reference # 1 )

 

 

2: Akaka-Leahy Downed Animal Amendment -

to Prevent funding for inspections of meat obtained from " downed

animals, "

farm animals (cows, steer, sheep, and pigs) who, because of illness or

injury, are completely unable to walk. Currently, these animals are

kicked, dragged, prodded with electric shocks, and even bulldozed in an

effort to move them at stockyards, auctions and other intermediate

markets, en route to slaughter. By prohibiting inspections of meat from

downed animals, the Akaka-Leahy amendment will ensure that such

animals can't be used for human food, thereby creating an incentive

to treat animals better so that they don't become too weak or

sick to walk. (see Reference # 2 )

 

 

3: Leahy-Fitzgerald Forced Molting Amendment -

to Prevent taxpayer funding, under the National School Lunch and

School Breakfast Programs, for the purchase of eggs produced at

facilities that intentionally starve their hens for up to two weeks as a

form of " forced molting. " Forced molting, aside from being patently

inhumane, also dramatically increases the likelihood of salmonella

transmission to humans. (see Reference # 3 )

 

 

Ten Billions of sentient animals each year are killed for " food " in U.S.

Every day, billions of animals suffer from the horror, shock and pain

which is no less than the terror and tragedy in the World Trade Center.

The European Commission's activities on animal welfare now start

with the recognition that animals are " sentient beings " . They recently

have many Legislation in force on animal welfare issues to set standards

for the welfare of animals on the farm, during transport and at

slaughter.

The humane legislation for " agriculture " animals in the United States

is far behind the European Commission. (see Reference # 4 )

 

We will only vote for the legislators who is compassionate to the

billions of suffering " sentient " animals and concerned about our national

health. Please stop the very cruel selling and killing the crippled

downed animals for unethical profits. Please stop the very cruel

unethical " Forced Molting " in egg industry. All of these cruel

behaviors from the meat/dairy and egg industries are endangering

American public health greatly. (see Reference # 1 and # 5 ).

Thank you for your urgent help.

 

Sincerely,

 

Your Name,

Your Address,

City, State, Zip

Constituents or U.S. Constituents.

 

References :

 

1: http://www.madcowboy.com/

http://www.mad-cow.org/~tom/render_ed.html

http://www.true-health.com/render.htm

http://www.nodowners.org/intro_dapa.htm

http://www.nodowners.org/index_health.htm

http://www.hsus.org/programs/government/downer_factsheet.html

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:SN00267:@@@P

2: http://www.nodowners.org/gallery/index.htm

http://www.nodowners.org/

3: http://www.banbatterycages.org/photos/index.cgi?file=F

http://www.upc-online.org/molting/

http://www.upc-online.org/spring98/molting_survey.html

http://www.upc-online.org/

4: http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/aw/index_en.html

http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/aw/aw_farm_legi_en.html

http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/aw/aw_farm_layinghens_en.html

http://europa.eu.int/comm/food/fs/aw/aw_farm_calves_en.html

5: http://www.nodowners.org/index_health.htm

http://www.upc-online.org/980401moltrpt.html

http://www.vegsource.com/articles/meat_deaths99.htm

http://www.llu.edu/llu/vegetarian/redmeat.htm

http://milksucks.com/osteo.html

http://www.pcrm.org/health/index.html

http://www.vegsource.com/articles/calcium_prostate_cancer_study.htm

 

 

 

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CONTACT INFORMATION :

EVERY CONTACT BELOW IS IMPORTANT !

 

 

1: First of all, CALL/FAX/EMAIL to your Two U.S. SENATORS :

 

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Dear Honorable Senator .....,

 

Please Click http://politics./freps

 

Please Enter your physical address, click " Get District "

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click " Profile " to get phone and fax # to them .)

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to know your opinion and urgent plea to the Senate.

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The following Senators do not have Email address.

However, you can send email thru their web sites.

Please click each one of them :

 

http://www.senate.gov/~craig/webform.html

http://murkowski.senate.gov/webmail.html

http://cantwell.senate.gov/mailform.html

http://miller.senate.gov/email.html

http://crapo.senate.gov/email.htm

http://grassley.senate.gov/webform.htm

http://roberts.senate.gov/email.htm

http://thomas.senate.gov/html/contact.html

http://allard.senate.gov/contactme/index.cfm

http://daschle.senate.gov/webform.htm

http://baucus.senate.gov/EmailMax.htm

http://wellstone.senate.gov/webform.html

http://domenici.senate.gov/contact/contactme.cfm

 

The following Senator does not have Email address

nor Website either, please Fax/Call him :

Senator Mark Dayton (D - MN)

Tel: (202) 224-3244 , Fax (202) 228-2186

 

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Thanks so much for your kindness, compassion and urgent help.