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ANIMAL RIGHTS ONLINE newsletter
Publisher ~ EnglandGal@aol.com Issue # 05/21/00
Editor ~ JJswans@aol.com
Journalists ~ PrkStRangr@aol.com
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~ SavingLife@aol.com
THE ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE ARE:
1
~ The BooBooZoo by tapster@mindspring.com
2
~ FAAN
3
~ The Victims of Ignorance
4
~ Heart Disease Arrested By Plant-Based Diet
5
~ No-Kill Dilemma
6
~ NEAVS Aids Vet Students Opposing Terminal Labs
7
~ Love For All Creatures
8
~ The Hunters' Weiner Ball
9
~ Quote To Remember
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The BooBooZoo
by Diana
Moreton - tapster@mindspring.com
I
woke to a lovely picture. I opened a leaflet which had been sitting on my desk
collecting dust. Had I known the magic that would assault my soul, I would have
broken the sacred seal long ago.
It
was a picture of a fawn lying on a bed in Mama Suzie's house. My eyes followed
the bedspread, and low and behold, there was a goat lying next to the fawn.
There were several other sentient beings sleeping peacefully upon this bed within
Mama Suzie's realm. I stretched my
superior human neck a tad more across the page (this really hurt my ego), and
saw a grown man kissing a puppy. I
would assume this man is not a human dominionist. I bet he may even be a
vegan! Do I dare ask him? Do I dare throw that dreaded GLOBAL ANSWER,
which everyone is dying to share who knows, out to this messed up universe
which is in a major state of collapse?
With thousands of years of impenetrable ‘might makes right' philosophy
floating around like sewer s---, do I dare insult billions of superior humans
who are gutted and immersed in religious, cultural, and traditional Westernized
world view philosophies?
I
looked below the photo of this kind, strong man, exhibiting compassion (rare
species) in a world of pukey indifference and fabricated rationalizations
induced by selfishness. I saw Emerita embracing a bebungen tiny fawn with a
receiving blanket wrapped around his vulnerable head.
I
turned the brochure over ever so gently to see Sylvan again, the human
compassionist (opposite of dominionist), kissing and embracing the First
Injured Baby Fawn Of Spring (FIBFOS).
Her name is Oso. She was cut from her mother's womb by a cruel human
dominionist hunter, who was TAUGHT to hunt.
Rumor has it amongst all the sentient species on this tropical island
paradise, he no longer continues this cruel behavior, after he RE-LEARNED the
pain and suffering he inflicted on other sentient beings that share this
island. This has been known to happen in the universe, when a good life force
is introduced to a moribund, decaying force.
Oso thinks Sylvan and Mama Suzie may have spread some good karma into
this person's soul, to help eliminate all the saturated fat and cholesterol
that has overcome him from birth, by old world beliefs which don't work.
Oso
shouts that because what this ignorant person did was so traumatic for her, she
went blind. She says to this day, no particular dominionist group has ever come
forward to claim responsibility for her mother's attack in this region of
Hawaii. She excuses her eyes. They are
frozen in a perpetual state of terror from the misanthropic metal bullet she
felt vibrate near her, when the hunter's caliber reached her mother's heart;
while still inside a warm and tender womb. As tears welled up in her pathetic,
sensitive eyes, she expressed outrage and hatred by stating she never even got
a chance to kiss her mother. She hates
ALL hunters because of this EXPERIENCE.
I empathized with her and told her I FELT the same way. She said she
FELT she had this ABSOLUTE RIGHT, being a vulnerable, sentient being within her
mother's Godly womb.
Reverend
Kauluwehi Maxwell offered up a Hawaiian chant for a native Hawaiian short-eared
owl. Being licensed wildlife
rehabilitators, this beautiful pueo, who once had a shattered wing, will soar
again someday over this majestic isle.
Pains
shot throughout my psyche when I read that Mama Suzie, this refuge's life
blood, has physically debilitating lupus.
Poor Mama Suzie spent time in the hospital and we dearly miss her when
she is away. We love her and Sylvan so
much for the compassion they have so generously extended to us misfits. They rescued us and we call out across the
peaceful ocean to all compassionate hearts on the mainland, to support The East
Maui Animal Refuge, 25 Malu ‘Aina, Haiku, HI 96708 Visit our website. Won't you? You can even come to visit all of
us at 25 Malu Aina Place. For an appt.
call 808.572.8308
East Maui
Animal Refuge Home Page
http://home1.gte.net/annkin/emar.html
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FAAN
Farm
Sanctuary is hosting the national Farm Animal Adoption Network (FAAN) to
coordinate farm animal rescue and placement needs with safe, permanent adoptive
homes across the country. As a FAAN
member, your name will be entered on a national farm animal adoption data base
-- when there is a farm animal placement nneed in your area, the Farm Sanctuary
will put you in contact with the individuals and agencies who need to place
rescued farm animals.
FAAN
members can choose to adopt farm animals when they receive placement calls, or
adopt farm animals directly from a Farm Sanctuary shelter. If you are interested in providing a loving
home for needy farm animals, please call or write the Farm Sanctuary at: PO Box
150, Watkins Glen, NY 14891; Tel: 607-583-2225; Fax: 607-583-2041, (In
California visit or call the shelter at north of Sacramento at Orland at:
530-865-4617) or visit them online at:
http://www.farmsanctuary.org email: office@farmsanctuary.org
Source: "Diana
Artemis" <Artemisd123@hotmail.com>
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The Victims of Ignorance
This
is a message to acknowledge the victims of ignorance, the nonhuman
animals. This is for the kittens who
were drowned in alcohol, future specimens for Biology students. This is for the mother hamster who was
thrown into a trash can because she devoured her young. This is for the puppy who was left in the
car during August just a bit too long.
This is for the fledgling who was beaten to death by a group of
teenagers. This is for the 3 lambs, 11
cows, 45 turkeys, 1,097 chickens, and 1 calf that each meat-eating American
will consume in an average lifetime.
This is for the 240 million male chicks who are killed annually. This is for the dog who was stolen for
laboratory experimentation. This is for
the 6.5 million dolphins who have been killed by tuna fishermen. This is for the rabbit who was force fed
your favorite shampoo. This is for the frightened infant monkey who's
"mother" was a cloth "monkey" scheduled to shock him on
command. This is for the ducklings who
were electrically shocked to prove that electrical shocks can immobilize. This is for the animals. The exploited nonhuman animals. There are people out there who care. There are people out there working to save
you. You haven't been forgotten.
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Heart Disease Arrested by Plant-Based Diet
VegSource
is proud to announce the opening of a website for Caldwell Esselstyn, Jr. MD,
Preventive Cardiology Consultant at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation.
Since
1985, Dr. Esselstyn has conducted the longest running study which proves that
heart disease can be arrested or reversed by a low fat, plant-based diet. 100% of patients in his study who were
compliant with the diet experienced arrest of their heart disease, and 73% of
study participants experienced regression of the disease.
See his new
site at: http://www.vegsource.com/esselstyn/
Source: Jeff Nelson
<headveg@vegsource.org>
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The No-Kill Dilemma
written by MJ
Hall
director of
the New England Haven for Animals
Recently,
several of the municipal pounds in the Greater Boston area have gone to
"no-kill" status. This is wonderful news but I cannot help but greet
it with mixed feelings. The Haven is a no-kill organization and I wish more
groups and pounds would and could be no-kill, too.
However,
there is a pet overpopulation crisis in this area. You can see it every spring
as hundreds of "free kittens" appear on bulletin boards and in
classified ads. We decry shelters and
pounds for euthanizing animals, and yet so many of us have animals who are not
spayed or neutered. One man once told me he did not neuter his cat because he
rarely let him out, and it is not like he would come home pregnant. No, but
someone else's cat will. While some animals are not altered because of owner
ignorance, many others remain intact because of the often high veterinary costs
of spaying and neutering.
The
reality is that no-kill pounds and shelters have limited capacities. When a
no-kill facility is full, it is full. That means that it cannot accept any more
animals, and people must then take their pets to a "kill" shelter.
Desperate owners who have tried everywhere, and do not want to send their pet
to a "kill" shelter where he might not make it, are forced to do so.
This is an awful situation for all involved.
I
firmly believe that when any group elects to be a no-kill facility, that group
must also make every reasonable attempt to curb the pet population in its
demographic. Some of the recent no-kill towns are host to some of the most
expensive veterinarians around. While we can say that a responsible pet owner
must know and understand the costs of pet ownership, the reality is that there
are pet owners who cannot spend a $100 or more to get their cat neutered or
spayed. Other people are caring for strays and feral colonies, and the cost of
altering so many animals can be prohibitive.
The
Haven does not adopt out any unaltered cats or dogs. That is the rule. No
vouchers or deposit system. Every animal is altered before eligible for
adoption, including kittens as early as 8-10 weeks. I would call upon all
no-kill pounds and shelters to do the same. Ask your vets to learn early
spay/neuter procedures. Don't adopt out
any animals that are not altered. There can never be enough homes when there
are so many animals.
It
is wonderful to go home at night knowing that The Haven is a no-kill
facility. But so long as there are so
many homeless and unwanted animals out there, it will never be enough. We must
work to end the population crisis. Only then will we truly achieve a home for
every animals.
The New England Haven for Animals
11 Elton St.
Boston, MA 02125
(617) 288-5673
www.haven4animals.org
info@haven4animals.org
Source: Paw Prints
The New
England Haven for Animals' newsletter
Fall/Winter
1999
info@haven4animals.org
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NEAVS Aids Vet Students Opposing Terminal Labs
BOSTON,
MA - Responding to requests for help from veterinary students across the
country, the New England Anti-Vivisection Society (NEAVS) is making free
information packets available on how to oppose the killing of live animals for
physiology and surgical training. Currently, all of the 27 veterinary schools
in America kill healthy dogs, cats, or other animals for
"educational" purposes. In Britain, this practice has been outlawed.
The
NEAVS packet contains sample letters to the editor, lists of available computer
models (including pig, cat, frog and soon-to-be-available dog and horse),
practice mannequins, and journal articles and student quotations validating the
superiority of alternative surgical training. In addition, NEAVS is offering
detailed instructions on how vet students can work with veterinarians and
no-kill shelters to establish alternative surgical training experiences such as
spay/neuter surgeries.
"Since
its founding in 1895, NEAVS has had a strong commitment to educating future
generations of veterinarians, physicians, researchers and scientists,"
said NEAVS' President Theodora Capaldo, EdD, a psychologist. "In working to end vivisection, it is
imperative that students be offered a new way of thinking and doing things. We
must work to change the mindset -- established early in one's professional
training -- that animals are disposable commodities."
Capaldo
added, "Students, especially those in professions engaged in vivisection,
are the single most important population that the anti-vivisection movement
must educate and support. The importance of organizations such as Association
of Veterinarians for Animal Rights cannot be overemphasized in achieving these
changes. With the impressive body of knowledge now available proving that
alternatives are educationally and scientifically superior to animal models,
our ethical argument is solidly based on scientific fact. The lessons of
compassion need never be sacrificed to promote learning."
Said
Ann Stauble, NEAVS' Vet Ed Program Coordinator and Research Specialist,
"The argument that animals killed for surgical training would be
euthanized anyway is a poor one. The biggest killer of dogs and cats in this
country is not a disease -- it's euthanasia due to over-population. Veterinarians and students should be
fighting this killer together, not using it as an excuse to justify unnecessary
cruelties and teach our future vets that animals are disposable."
Stauble
noted, "In the NEAVS Vet Ed Program most of our students perform early-age
sterilizations. In addition to learning surgical skills in a humane way,
they're saving hundreds of animal lives. Research shows that vet students can
learn both physiology and surgery through humane teaching just s well as
students who participate in terminal labs."
NEAVS
has been working not only to end practices such as terminal dog lab but, as
importantly, to help shape a humane ethic in the veterinarians of the future.
This latest groundswell of student sentiment against the abusive use of animals
in veterinary education is a clear call to veterinary schools across the
country to stop the killing, according to NEAVS.
To
request free information packets, call NEAVS at 617-523-6020 x13;
email
astauble@ma.neavs.com or visit the NEAVS Web site at www.neavs.org.
Source:
astauble@MA.NEAVS.COM (Ann Stauble)
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Love for All Creatures:
Frequently Asked Questions
About the Bible and Animal Rights
by
nphelps@fund.org
According
to Genesis 2:18-19 God created nonhuman animals to be companions for human
beings. At first glance, these verses
appear to describe a process of trial and error, but a god who works by trial
and error is not really consistent with the Judeo-Christian tradition. More
likely, Genesis is describing the creation of a network of interlocking
relationships, a web of life, in which every participant has a unique and
valuable role to play. In the case of some animals, this may mean an individual
relationship with human beings in which both the human and the nonhuman
participant find love, joy, and comfort. In the case of others, it may mean
playing a role in the global ecosystem that sustains the quality of life for
all beings. This kind of
interdependence is very difference from the notion that sentient beings are
resources to be exploited for the benefit of one species only.
The
idea that we are created in the image of God (Genesis 1:27) places upon us an
obligation to reflect the love and compassion of God in all aspects of our
lives. If our lives are a reflection of God's love, we will not bring terror,
agony, and premature death upon defenseless creatures whom God has created with
the ability to experience these feelings.
Dominion
(See Genesis 1:28), in Hebrew as in English, simply means "authority." Parents have authority over their children,
and governments have authority over their citizens, but we expect parents to
exercise their authority for the benefit of their children, and governments for
the benefit of their citizens, and we judge them harshly when they do not. There is no reason why we should judge
humanity's exercise of dominion over nonhuman animals by any different
standard.
The
idea that animals are resources to whom we owe no direct moral duties did not
originate in either Judaism or Christianity. It is an ancient Greek idea most
baldly stated by Aristotle, who believed that there is a natural hierarchy of
beings based on intelligence (reason, rationality), and that beings lower in
the hierarchy exist to serve those who are higher. At the top, he placed Greek men, and below them he ranged
non-Greeks, women, slaves, and animals.
His ideas were picked up by Saint Paul, who grew up in a Greek city
(Tarsus in Asia Minor, modern Turkey), and was as comfortable in the Greek
language and culture as he was in the Jewish. Thus, in several passages, such
as I Corinthians 9:9, Paul makes it clear that he has no ethical problem with
meat eating, and that he believes we have no ethical duties to animals.
Paul's
view, however, cannot be traced to Jesus, whom the Bible never quotes as saying
anything even vaguely similar, and never describes as eating meat (except for
fish on one occasion after the resurrection). In fact, on two occasions, Jesus
is quoted as condemning animal sacrifice in very harsh terms. (Matthew 9:13;
12:7)
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The Hunters' Weiner Bawl
by
Ljbeane1@aol.com
Hey I am
inviting you all to a big party.
The Hunter`s
Weiner bawl.
A big
celebration to show off their new manhood.
Walls covered
with newly decapitated heads.
"Trophies"
of their shame.
Remnants of
their gutless efforts to be men.
Now to start
things off right,
We need music.
Today who else
but the ????????
"
BUCKSHOTS"
Hit it
fellas!!!
Come on
everyone lets shake them some ass.
Right foot,
left foot.
"Shake
your bounty-shake, shake, shake!
Shake your
bounty-shake, shake, shake!"
And what is
music without the song............keep moving it everyone!!!
HEY NOW , HEY
HOW?
CAN THEY BE SO
MEAN?
CAUSE THEY
HAVE NO HEARTS
IT MAKES THEIR
EGOS KEEN.
HEY NOW, HEY
HOW?
IT`S HEAD
TROPHIES TIME?
THESE MEN CAN
SHOOT A GUN
AND IT`S
KILLING CRIME.
HEY NOW, HEY
HOW?
DO YOU MOUNT
THE HEAD?
AND THE EYES
ARE GLASS
BUT THEY STILL
LOOK DEAD.
HEY NOW, HEY
HOW?
WHO, WHAT,
WHEN, WHERE.
IT IS TIME TO
TALK
AND I`M GOING
TO GO THERE!
Hey now
Hey
how............
Hey that was
great, you really worked it out.
Sit down. Take
a rest.
I have been
doing some perplexing reflecting.
In my spare
ticky -tock time.
Been thinkin
about you huntin men.
Especially you
men of the "decapitated animal head fame."
Yeah you over
there, under the moose head.
Got some
questions for ya all.
Wanna go that
"don`t ever talk about that zone."
Like what is
with those glass eyes in those heads you got hangin all around?
Where`s their
real eyes?
Where`s their
eyes?
Gotta an
answer big man with a gun???
Can`t leave
the real eyes there can you?
Letting them
ooze, crack ,rot and then dry.
They would
look dead, the head would be morbid.
Even you would
have known you had killed.
The horror and
pain you created would stare back at you.
Reflecting
your own fetid soul.
THE EYES MUST
BE PLUCKED OUT!!
What dark hole
do you crawl into?
Do you have a
special eye removal place?
A room where
you go elbow deep in blood and brains,
where you
trade sticky eyes for glass eyes?
Eyes that
never saw their mother, never watched a sunset,
Nor saw their
loved ones.
Hard rock eyes
that that know not of life nor of you,
But glisten
outward in silly happy glances of endearment.
Eyes that
reflect back your lies.
"I didn`t
die, I didn`t suffer, I didn`t care that you killed me."
Yeah the
trigger happy finger of your wasted hands
Doesn't want
the blood stains.
So you
pretend, you lie, you take away their death.
Your shameful
acts replace their dignity.
You can`t
leave the sticky accusing traces of your massacre.
The peaceful
head must gleam from the wall.
Less all know
the extent of your thoughtless vain acts.
So now you
preen, enjoying your own invisible valor.
And there you
stand, under the moose.
Smug, the
bearer of death In the first-degree.
But while you
laugh, can`t you feel them??
The eyes?
THE EYES
staring at you.
Watching you.
Waiting....waiting....waiting
for you.
Watching and
waiting--the "eye bawls."
What have you
done???????
Picnics about
to start--anyone "seen" a weiner???
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Quote To Remember
"If we believe absurdities, we shall
commit atrocities."
--Voltaire
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