October 6, 2008
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CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS
October 11-19: National Primate Liberation Week (nationwide)
October 19: Breakfast With the Gibbons Fundraiser (Santa Clarita, CA)
November 4: Vote Yes On Prop 2 (California)
November 15: The Second Annual Vegan Holiday Festival (Ha'iku, Maui, Hawaii)
November 28: Fur Free Friday (nationwide)
May 2-3, 2009: No Kill Conference (Washington, DC)
FEATURED POLITICS, LEGISLATION & PETITIONS, ETC.
California Proposition 2 promises to ban veal crates, battery cages and gestation stalls
Humane groups are encouraging Californians to vote YES! on Prop 2 November 4, a modest measure that stops cruel and inhumane treatment of animals, ending the practice of cramming farm animals into cages so small the animals can't even turn around, lie down or extend their limbs...
Humane Society Legislative Fund Endorses Obama-Biden
While we’ve endorsed hundreds of congressional candidates for election, both Democrats and Republicans, we’ve never before endorsed a presidential candidate. We have members on the left, in the center, and on the right, and we knew it could be controversial to choose either party’s candidate for the top office in the nation. But in an era of sweeping presidential power...
Take the Pledge to Stop Puppy Mills
Puppy mills are large-scale operations that force "breeder dogs" to produce litter after litter to support consumer demand for purebred pets. These puppies are sold in pet stores or over the Internet, storefronts that mask the suffering, disease, malnutrition, and loneliness of puppy mills...
Horse Slaughter Bill Moves on to House
The U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee has passed H.R. 6598, a measure known as the "Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act of 2008." This bill prohibits transport, sale, delivery, or export of horses for slaughter for human consumption. It also criminalizes the purchase, sale, delivery, or export of horsemeat intended for human consumption. (The bill is still going through process)...
FEATURED CAMPAIGNS
Japan to hold its first rodeo October 12
Activists in Japan are calling for a ban on Japan's rodeos, the first of which is scheduled for October 12 in Shizuoka. Although the site isn't in English, you may contact an activist via this email for details in English: stoprodeo@gmail.com...
Free Jenny (Concerned Citizens for Jenny)
Jenny is an emotionally troubled elephant and desperately needs special care that she can not get in any zoo. She suffers from prolonged bouts of crippling depression and has been known to self-mutilate. Jenny also has an extensive history of physical problems, including painful and hard to heal feet abscesses, caused by restricted movement and unnatural confinement in the zoo...
Stop Deceptive Labeling of Faux Fur
A startling investigation shows that 80 percent of jackets mislabeled as faux fur contain raccoon dog fur. U.S. law prohibits the import and sale of dog and cat fur products, but the law does not protect raccoon dogs, nor does it require labeling products with fur valued under $150...
Ask U.C. Irvine to Stop Cruel Rat and Frog Experiments
Tipped off by a distraught former University of California, Irvine (U.C. Irvine) student, PETA has learned that the university conducts highly invasive in-class experiments on frogs and rats. The frogs are pithed, which involves piercing the brain and spinal cord with a sharp instrument...
FEATURED EDITORIAL
Battery Bunnies (AllCreatures.org)
Despite being one of the most popular companion animals in the country, rabbits are among the most exploited. Domestic rabbits — cherished for their playful, gentle natures — are skinned for their fur, blinded to test cosmetics, bred for show, drugged in the name of science, clipped for wool products, pulled out of magicians’ hats, killed in vivisection labs...
Sarah Palin's Shocking Animal Cruelty by Michael Markarian
If Sarah Palin ran the United States like she has run Alaska, it would indeed be a terrible day for animals. GOP conventioneers were officially introduced to their vice presidential candidate who is, as Fred Thompson said, "the only nominee in the history of either party who knows how to properly field dress a moose." But it's not Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's personal love of hunting or appetite for moose venison that should strike fear in the heart of every animal advocate in the nation...
Ending the Madness of Equicide by Marion Altieri and John Pricci
Thirty years ago, in the fall of 1978, when racing was more about sport and less about dollars, the great Hall of Fame trainer Charlie Whittingham brought the wonderful racehorse Exceller to New York in search of an Eclipse Award title. To do that he would need to defeat not one but two Triple Crown champions...
FEATURED WEB SITES & GROUPS
Rodeo Cruelty. Forget the myth of rodeos as all-American sport. Rodeos are cruel and deadly for animals, corrupt through and through, and the crimes of rodeo people go far beyond animals, with horrific and despicable behavior that shocks the senses of decent people. These are strong words, but we back them up with undeniable and irrefutable documentation...
PawPac: California's Political Action Committee for Animals
Paw PAC (ID # 802046) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit political action committee dedicated to the election of humane candidates to California State offices since 1980. Pending legislation includes bills affection companion animals, hunting dogs, animals in research, etc. Also lists voting records...
FEATURED BOOKS & VIDEO, ETC.
A Kids’ Guide to Protecting & Caring for Animals. Kids learn about animal welfare around the world, including cruelty prevention, emergency readiness, wildlife rehabilitation, animal advocacy habitat preservation, and shelter volunteering...
Directory of Grass-Roots Christian Ministries Who Are Vegetarian (Vegan) and Minister to Animals and the Humans Who Care About Them. A compassionate Internet Christian Church Ministry...
Earthlings is a feature length documentary about humanity's absolute dependence on animals (for pets, food, clothing, entertainment, and scientific research) but also illustrates our complete disrespect for these so-called "non-human providers." The film is narrated by Academy Award-nominee Joaquin Phoenix and features music by the critically acclaimed platinum artist Moby...
Some Video Worth Watching
Puppy Mill Cruelty
Undercover Video Shows Abuse at Iowa Pig Farm (PETA)
Live Pigeon Shoots in Pennsylvania
SHARK Videos on YouTube (rodeo, pigeon shoots, horse slaughter)
Sarah Palin and Animals
WHAT YOU STILL NEED TO KNOW...
Sarah Palin and the Environment (Defenders of Wildlife)
Palin's barbaric record on killing America's 'protected' wildlife...
Alaska Women Reject Palin Rally (from September 14)
The Truth About Sarah Palin (Grizzly Bay)
FEATURED NEWS
Conservation Groups Win Lawsuit to Protect Gray Wolf in Great Lakes
Judge Paul L. Friedman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia ordered the Bush administration to retain protection for gray wolves in the Great Lakes area under the Endangered Species Act...
Five deny animal rights blackmail
Five activists carried out a campaign of blackmail against firms they suspected of supplying a large animal testing laboratory, a court has heard. The defendants are accused of using threats, including criminal damage and hoax bombs, against firms with links to Huntingdon Life Sciences in Cambridge. The five, who are allegedly part of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty (SHAC), all deny conspiracy to blackmail...
Veggie diet beats Viagra, says animal rights group
A vegetarian diet works better than the erectile dysfunction drug, Viagra, according to an animal rights group. "Get it Up! Go Vegetarian!" is the message of the brand-new ad of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) Asia Pacific. The ad, shot by photographer Raymund Isaac, shows model Alicia Mayer, dressed in sexy lingerie and holding a banana, with the message "Eating Meat Got You Down? Get It Up! Go Vegetarian"...
Armani Rapped for Using Fur
Italian fashion icon Giorgio Armani has broken his promise to stop using fur in his collections, animal rights organization PETA said Monday. Speaking in Rome, PETA vice president Dan Mathews expressed his disappointment over the designer's volte-face and said protesters would demonstrate in front of the flagship Emporio Armani store in Milan on Tuesday...
One-fourth of wild mammals may face extinction
At least one-quarter of the world's mammals in the wild are threatened with extinction, according to an international survey that blames the loss of wildlife habitat as well as hunting and poaching for the steep declines. The survey, assembled over five years by 1,700 researchers in 130 countries, is the most comprehensive yet to assess the status and future of mammals on every continent and in every ocean...
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