Fast Activism

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I'm sorry if this has been posted to this list already. I don't

remember seeing it on SFBAVeg...

 

This is fast and easy.

 

You won't talk to a human, it's just an automated voice system.

Please call Governor Schwarzenegger's office and ask him to VETO SB

880, passage of which would legalize kangaroo skin sales and kangaroo

" products " in California, where they have been banned since 1970.

Literally takes less than a minute.

 

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger

State Capitol Building

Sacramento, CA 95814

916-445-2841

 

(Once in the system, press " 2 " to oppose.)

 

Here's the long version:

 

Allowing kangaroo skins to be sold in California would threaten the

species' existence. Australian government statistics show that

kangaroo populations have been dwindling and are now the lowest they

have been in more than a decade. Since hunters usually kill kangaroos

at night, it is virtually impossible for them to check that the

kangaroos aren't a protected species before shooting them. An

increased demand for any kangaroo skin will further jeopardize

Australia's kangaroo populations.

 

Millions of kangaroos are shot for their skins every year in

Australia. According to Australian government code, orphaned joeys and

wounded adults should be killed by being decapitated or hit sharply on

the head " to destroy the brain. " When hunters kill a mother kangaroo

with a baby in her pouch, the baby is often yanked from the mother's

lifeless body and stomped to death or left to writhe in agony.

 

Here is the bill: http://tinyurl.com/2e5mc3

 

Still not convinced?

https://community.hsus.org/campaign/CA_2007_kangaroo4/explanation

 

Here's a film ;-) http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/ca_kanga_commerce_p

 

Kangaroos deserve better than this, don't they?

Thanks for your help!

Sue

 

 

 

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Susan Rattenbury