A n i m a l W r i t e s © sm
The official ANIMAL RIGHTS ONLINE newsletter
Publisher ~ EnglandGal@aol.com
Issue # 12/17/00
Editor ~ JJswans@aol.com
Journalists ~ Park StRanger@aol.com
~
MicheleARivera@aol.com
~ SavingLife@aol.com
THE NINE ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE ARE:
1 ~ The Animals' Platform by Kim Stallwood
- The Animals' Agenda
2 ~ Vatican Official Calls For More Just Relationship
With Animals
3 ~ A Sincere Plea For Help, Buffalo Friends
4 ~ Attention Canadian Citizens: Your Feedback Is
Needed
5 ~ Update on the Caracals
6 ~ Meatout 2001
7 ~ Christmas at the Rainbow Bridge
8 ~ Puppy's 12 Days of Christmas
9 ~ Quote To Remember
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The Animals' Platform
by Kim Stallwood - kim@animalsagenda.org
from The Animals' Agenda - Volume 20 * No. 3
This Sample "Animals' Platform"
summarizes the national and local issues that you may wish to lobby candidates
about in order to determine how supportive they are on animal rights. Get
together with local activists and organizations to customize a platform for
your area.
COMPANION ANIMALS
The Problem
More than 64 million cats and 62 million dogs live in U.S. households, but
another estimated 8-12 million of them enter shelters annually; roughly 4-6
million are killed. Overpopulation and constant challenges of housing,
placing, and euthanizing unwanted animals prevent many humane societies,
shelters, and sanctuaries from developing animal wellness and humane education
programs to promote responsible guardianship.
The Solution
* Expand and improve state-funded spay/neuter programs to make them
easily available to all sectors of society.
* Ban the commercial breeding of cats and dogs.
* Replace the sale of companion animals in pet stores with the promotion of
adoptable cats and dogs from humane societies, shelters and sanctuaries.
* Prohibit such cosmetic mutilations as tail docking and ear cropping.
* End the practice of pound seizure whereby animal care facilities are forced to
relinquish cats and dogs to animal research laboratories.
* Make animal cruelty a felony offense.
* Prohibit the import, export, or sale of dog and cat fur products.
* Establish animal care educational programs in schools, colleges, and public
libraries.
* Provide strict penalties for harming dogs and horses used by police or
federal agencies.
WILDLIFE
The Problem
Wild animals are at serious risk from such human activities as habitat
destruction (residential and commercial), hunting, and trapping. The
annual hunting toll is staggering: 42 million mourning doves, 30 million
squirrels, 28 million quail, 13 million rabbits, 7 million pheasants, 17
million ducks, 13 million upland game birds, 6 million deer, 4 million geese, 4
million raccoons, and thousands of bears, moose, elk, antelope, swans, cougars,
turkeys, wolves, foxes, coyotes, bobcats, boars, and others. Up to 10
million wild-caught and farmed animals are also killed for fur. The
worldwide trade in wildlife parts, which is a $5 billion industry, severely
threatens populations worldwide.
The Solution
* Outlaw the recreational killing of animals, whether by hunting, shooting
or trapping.
* Prohibit commercial fur farming and trapping.
* End government-funded trapping, snaring, poisoning, killing, and other
assaults on wild animals on all public lands.
* Prohibit interstate commerce of steel-jaw leghold traps or fur caught with
these cruel devices.
* Ban the importation of skins, pelts, and other products obtained from
animals, whether trapped or farmed.
* Halt bear poaching by prohibiting interstate or foreign commerce of bear
viscera (gallbladders and bile) or products that contain them.
* Establish public education programs that celebrate wild animals and encourage
coexistence.
* Enhance protections provided under the Endangered Species Act.
* Support conservation projects to protect great apes from the bushmeat trade,
habitat destruction, and other threats.
* Increase funding for rescue, rehabilitation, and release of stranded marine
mammals.
* Provide permanent funding for a variety of programs that will conserve and
protect wildlife habitat, open space, and natural resources.
ENTERTAINMENT
The Problem
There are no reliable statistics on the numbers of animals used in such
entertainment venues as zoos, wildlife parks, aquariums, and film and
television production. There are many abusive practices involved in this
profit-driven industry, including confinement in inadequate housing that does
not allow for animals' normal behavior and psychological needs; capture and
transportation; questionable breeding practices that perpetuate a constant
supply of baby animals to attract the public; and the disposal of unwanted or
genetically imperfect animals, some of whom end up in canned hunts or the exotic
"pet" trade.
The Solution
* Ban the keeping of animals in roadside zoos and attractions.
* Prohibit the capture of animals from their native habitat for the purpose of
public display and entertainment.
* Close the loophole in the Animal Welfare Act that allows interstate commerce
of birds used for cockfighting.
* Make animal fighting a felony.
* Eliminate animal acts from circuses and from theatrical productions.
* Convert zoos, wildlife parks, aquariums, and similar facilities into
sanctuaries for rescued animals.
AGRICULTURE
The Problem
More than 8 billion animals are killed annually (or 15,221 every second) in
the United States for human consumption. In 1998 this included 7,826
million broiler chickens, 169 million laying hens, 273 million turkeys, 23
million ducks, 37 million cattle and calves, 101 million pigs, and 39 million
sheep. Many of these animals are raised in intensive confinement that
does not allow them to turn around, lie down, or stretch their legs or
wings. These factory farming conditions do not allow the animals to
satisfy their behavior and psychological needs. The transportation and
slaughter of animals is also a highly stressful and painful experience.
Furthermore, the consumption of an animal-based diet is increasingly recognized
as placing consumers' health unnecessarily at risk; significantly and
negatively impacting the environment; and routinely exploiting disadvantaged
and migrant workers in dangerous work conditions.
The Solution
* Make illegal the most egregious examples of factory farming, including
battery cages, veal crates, and sow stalls.
* Ban the routine mutilation of animals, including tail docking and debeaking.
* Strengthen State anti-cruelty statutes to include animals in agriculture.
* Prohibit the transfer or sale of "downed" animals who cannot walk
because of illness or injury.
* Eliminate the use of pesticides, drugs, and antibiotics in raising animals
for food.
* Regulate factory farms to reduce environmental contamination from animal
waste, which would likely lead to improvement in the living conditions of the
animals.
* Stop grants for research into intensive animals agriculture systems.
* Remove tax subsidies for corporations engaged in animal rearing,
transportation, and slaughter.
* Promote plant-based food options in schools and other institutions.
SCIENCE AND EDUCATION
The Problem
The federal government does not keep accurate and comprehensive statistics
on the numbers and types of animals used in science and education, nor on the
level of suffering to which they are exposed. Rats, mice, and birds --
who collectively are used more than any other species in research and testing
-- are specifically exempted from the miinimal protections of the Animal Welfare
Act. The AWA does little to question the rationale for individual
experiments, or attempt to limit research that is duplicative or of
questionable purpose. It places no controls on the amount of pain and suffering
that the animals may endure nor requires researchers to use non-animal
alternatives. Commercial interests and scientific community are
virtually free from public inspection and accountability. The
increasingly costly dependence on a curative rather than preventative
healthcare system, which relies upon theories based on questionable animal
research, often fails to prevent disease and/or promote the well-being of
humans and animals. Young people are desensitized to animal suffering by
classroom dissections and the use of live animals in science fairs.
The Solution
* Ban the most egregious examples of animal experiments, including those
that involve invasive psychological and behavioral research; tobacco, alcohol,
and recreational drugs; personal care and household cleaning products; warfare;
and so on.
* Strengthen the Animal Welfare Act to include coverage for rats, mice, and
birds.
* Eliminate authorization of Class B dealers, who sell animals from random
sources to research facilities, thereby helping to reduce "pet"
theft.
* Demand that the federal government provide annual, accurate, and
comprehensive statistics on the use of animals in laboratories.
* Require the government to subject any potential testing programs called for
by federal agencies and departments to a thorough animal protection audit,
assessing the relevance of proposed animal testing to the program and the
availability of alternative methods, and mandating more animal advocates serve
on institutional research oversight committees.
* Ban dissection in all schools, and the use of live animals in science fairs.
* Establish humane sanctuary facilities for chimpanzees no longer used in
medical research.
* Codify the Interagency Coordinating Committee for the Validation of
Alternative Methods, and encourage federal agencies to give greater
consideration to non-animal tests.
* Require laboratories to be held publicly accountable for their use of
animals, and implement a maximum 10-year program to replace all animal use with
non-animal alternatives.
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Vatican Official Calls For
More Just Relationship With Animals
by John Thavis Catholic News Service
source - Educators For Animal Rights - e4ars@e4ars.org
VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Human dominion over the
natural world must not be taken as an unqualified license to kill or inflict
suffering on animals, a Vatican official said. The cramped and cruel
methods used in the modern food industry, for example, may cross the line of
morally acceptable treatment of animals, the official said in an article Dec. 7
in the Vatican newspaper, L'Osservatore Romano.
The article, titled "For a More Just Relationship With Animals,'' was
written by Marie Hendrickx, a longtime official of the Congregation for the
Doctrine of the Faith. She said that in view of the growing popularity of
animal rights movements, the church needs to ask itself to what extent Christ's
dictum, "Do to others whatever you would have them do to you'' can be
applied to the animal world.
The "Catechism of the Catholic Church'' says it is legitimate for humans
to use animals for food and clothing, and to domesticate them for work or
leisure. But Hendrickx pointed out that a small but significant change in
wording was made between the catechism's first edition and its official Latin
edition on use of animals for medical experimentation. Such experiments are now
called morally acceptable only if they contribute to caring for or saving human
lives. Moreover, the catechism says that in general it is "contrary to
human dignity to cause animals to suffer or die needlessly.''
Hendrickx said the question today is whether "the right to use animals to
feed oneself implies raising chicken in cages that are each smaller than a
notebook.'' "Or raising calves in
boxes where they cannot move or see the light of day? Or pinning down sows with
iron rings into a nursing position so that piglets can suck the milk without
ever stopping, and thus grow faster?'' she said. Likewise, she questioned
whether the right to dress oneself with animal skins meant it was morally acceptable
to let fur-bearing creatures die slowly in traps from hunger, cold or bleeding.
Hendrickx also questioned treatment of animals in traditional spectacles that
have survived into the modern age, like bull-fighting or "throwing cats or
goats off a bell-tower.'' She was referring to the tradition in a Spanish
town of tossing a goat from a 50-foot bell tower into a piece of tarpaulin, to
mark the beginning of the festival of St. Vincent, the town's patron saint. The
town gave up the practice earlier this year after years of protest from animal
rights groups. She said that spectacles involving cruelty to animals are
sometimes justified as "cathartic'' acts that release collective
aggression. But experience shows the opposite is true: where brutal spectacles
are popular, aggression only seems to increase, she said.
Hendrickx said that in applying church teaching, Catholics should remember that
causing suffering to animals should be avoided unless there are serious reasons
to do so. Feeding oneself or one's family is a legitimate reason, but the sole
motive of profit is not, she said.
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A Sincere Plea For Help,
Buffalo Friends
from Buffalo Folks -stop-the-slaughter@wildrockies.org
Greetings! Friends
I am writing you all to ask you to help out since so many of you have followed
this issue for so long. A constantly ringing phone or a flood of faxes
today, this weekend and on Monday could make a difference. This is a true
deadline and if you could help out this once... I would be ever so grateful.
The Forest Service is planning on signing the permit for the Horse Butte
grazing allotments on Monday. They want to go ahead and sign it for 10
years. They should just cancel it! At worst, they should extend it
for only a year and give the ranchers notice that they are considering letting
wild animals use federal lands (as they were intended to) in the future.
They have not even scheduled the Environmental Analysis for this area until
2004.
The snows are falling heavily here, my friends and I fear that the winter could
indeed prove harsh for our buffalo friends. Cancellation of these
allotments could help the buffalo.
If you could please take the time to make 2 personal calls or faxes (emails are
just not that effective) - it would really help!
The facts:
The 4 grazing allotments bring in less that $900 to the U.S. Treasurer
Last year over $500,000 of taxpayers monies was spent to "protect"
the few cows that graze on those lands from the buffalo. For generations
unknown to man, buffalo have used Horse Butte for winter grazing and spring
calving
If the federal Govt would use the allotments for wild animals as intended by
the Gallatin Land Act, it would go far to help the plight of the buffalo as
generations worth of memory will certainly not be erased due to a human whim
Canceling the allotments now is just common sense - if they are reissued - it
will take more tax payer dollars to correct
If the public lands are not available for cattle - it is very likely that the
Munns brothers (the permittees from Idaho) would be more likely to accept a
conservation easement on their private lands. They are the only ones with
any cattle in the whole area. They could also graze horse which have no
"brucellosis issues"
Over 90,000 folks have signed a petition asking for exactly this and have been
ignored by public officials. see http://www.wildrockies.org/buffpet
Mr. Glickman has every ability by law to cancel these allotments today.
Since he's out of a job next month - why not do something for future
generations? Under (402a of FLMPA (43
U.S.C. (1752 (a)), the Secretary of Agriculture may include in any grazing
permits whatever terms and conditions he "deems appropriate and consistent
with governing law" and "may cancel, suspend, or modify a grazing
permit, in whole or part"
The Horse Butte peninsula is itself a natural barrier for confining bison
migrations. Remove the cattle allotments from that area, and you have
absolutely no justification for siting a facility there as the natural water
barriers surrounding Horse Butte already fulfill that purpose.
If you could please make a call my friends, as you are the folks who know the
issue and can talk politely and intelligently about this issue, I would be very
grateful.
Here are the numbers of the 2 most important folks to call:
USDA Secretary Daniel Glickman
Telephone: 202-720-3631; Fax: 202-720-2166
200 A Whitten Bldg., 1400 Independence Ave. SW,
Washington, DC 20250
Rich Inman; Deputy Forest Supervisor
phone: 406 587 6705 (feel free to leave an urgent message if he's out...)
fax: 406 587 6758
Gallatin NF
10 E Babcock
POB 130 Fed Bldg
59771
There is more info on Horse Butte and the animals that it is home to (trumpeter
swans, endangered bald eagles, grizzly bears, wolves - just to name a few...)
at http://www.wildrockies.org/Buffalo/politico/hbwhere.html
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Attention Canadian Citizens:
Your Feedback Is Needed
source: MOLLYMCGEE@webtv.net
Please
cross-post
Health Canada wants to find out what Canadians think about xenotransplantation
- the transfer of living animal tissue iinto humans - and is funding a website
to collect opinions.
http:/www.xeno.cpha.ca
The site has been set up by the Canadian Public Health Association to explore
the "many ethical, social, scientific, regulatory, and legal issues"
related to the topic.
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Update on the Caracals
from C Mercer - krc@spg.co.za
WE'RE
COMING HOME MOM
As a result of an application to the Supreme Court brought by the Kalahari
Raptor Centre against the Northern Cape Nature Conservation department, the
three young caracals (they are no longer kittens) will be returned to the
Kalahari Raptor Centre. Exactly one week ago on Friday 8th December, a
convoy of Nature Conservation officials and South African Policemen including
the video unit of the SAP descended on the KRC in a cloud of Kalahari dust, in
order to confiscate the three caracals. Before allowing the convoy to
enter the property, Chris Mercer read out a list of warnings to the effect that
the warrant of search and seizure was invalid, that the criminal charges were
an abuse of the process of the law, that the confiscation was illegal and that
the Supreme Court would be approached for relief forthwith. The invaders
were made to sign that they had understood the warning, after which they
entered the private nature reserve in which the KRC is situated, captured the
caracals over a stressful two-hour period, and removed them to Bloemfontein
Zoo. During the capture of the caracals, Beverley Pervan who runs the
Centre with Mercer, begged the Nature Conservation officials to have some
regard for the welfare of the animals and abandon the whole exercise. She
then became so upset at the stress caused to her animals during capture that
the Veterinary Surgeon had to comfort her.
Here
are the terms of the settlement which was made an order of Court on Friday 15
December.
1. No order will be moved for in regard to the validity of the search warrant.
2. The department of Northern Cape Nature Conservation will return the three
caracals into the care of the Kalahari Raptor Centre by not later than Tuesday
the 19th December 2000.
3. The return of the three caracals from Bloemfontein to the Kalahari Raptor
Centre will be carried out at the expense of the Northern Cape Nature
Conservation department.
4. The caracals will remain at the KRC until either the outcome of a criminal
prosecution against the KRC for keeping the caracal or the release of the
caracal back into the wild whichever occurs first. The Northern Cape
Nature Conservation department will be entitled to approve the release site but
its approval shall not unreasonably be withheld.
5. The KRC agrees not to claim damages against the department in respect of the
alleged unlawful seizure of the caracals.
6. Each party will bear its own costs.
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Meatout 2001
from Norbert Banholzer - norbertb@veganopoly.org
Hello from FARM,
We are preparing for Meatout 2001 and are considering using a tie-in to Stanley
Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" as part of our display
materials. You can help us with our
decision by answering the following three questions and replying to this email.
1. Do you remember ever watching or hearing about "2001: A Space
Odyssey"?
2. Do you remember the monolith in the movie? What did it symbolize
for you?
3. What else do you remember about the movie?
Thank you for your time.
Sincerely,
Norbert Banholzer
Administrator
FARM (Farm Animal Reform Movement)
norbertb@veganopoly.com
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Christmas at the Rainbow Bridge
As the midnight hour approaches on Christmas Eve,
a tremendous celebration begins. If you listen closely you will hear the
exuberant sound of Bridgekids preparing for the remarkable moment that comes
but once a year. Puppies romp through the tall green grass, chasing
butterflies and rolling over and over until fits of giggles bring them to a
tumbling stop. The volume increases as kittens, cats, tigers and lions purr
in pure delight while the wings of snow white doves gently caress the air.
The babbling brook that runs beneath Rainbow Bridge overflows onto the edge of
mossy banks and fins of treasured aquatic life quiver in anticipation of this
most joyous event. Nestled in the midst of this happy choir of Bridgekids are
the littlest angel tots staring in awe at the majestic Christmas tree adorned
with flowing strands of angel hair. Effervescent, twinkling stars seesaw
elegantly from the sky and land in glorious harmony upon the stoic limbs of
Heaven's most perfect Christmas tree. Swaying to and fro in nearby rocking
chairs are grandmothers, grandfathers, parents, aunts, uncles and loved ones.
The sound of their whispered lullabies permeate the air as they sing to tiny
angel babies resting quietly in their arms.
Like magic the clock approaches midnight and a great stirring is heard in the
distance. Each Bridgekid stops and listens, knowing the time is near, and they
choose a fleecy cloud on which to snuggle. The roar of purrs drops to barely an
audible hum, the babbling brook ripples hypnotically and the flutter of downy
feathered wings fall silent. Heaven's spirited toddlers climb expectantly upon
the laps of angels while babies coo in tranquil unison.
Amidst the warm glow of candle light which rises from the earth below, the arms
of the Bridge Keeper envelop the heavens and into the precious hands of each
child and in front of each animal a holy gift is placed. With grand exuberance
the ribbons are removed and left to fly on a tender breeze where they dissolve
into showers of angel dust. As the golden lids of these heavenly gifts are
raised, an amazing aura fills the sky, reaching down to the very core of the
earth. Ascending from each and every
box is the greatest gift of all unending, unconditional, all-encompassing love.
This blessed love gently wraps itself around the cherished souls of heaven,
warming their hearts with beacons of radiant light and bringing forth from
angels an exquisite chorus.
As the clock strikes midnight the distance between heaven and earth is
vanished. It is at this very moment on Christmas Eve that the Bridge Keeper,
His children, angels and Bridgekids send a message to their earthly loved ones
on the wings of this unbridled love.
Listening carefully with an open heart we will hear the familiar voice of our
own angel whisper softly into our ear their Christmas message..."Let me
share with you this love of mine, always and forever. When you need me know
that I am here. I have not left you for I am in your heart where I
belong. Our love is eternal as is the brilliant glow of candlelight,
which illuminates the path to the heavens and Rainbow Bridge. I wait patiently
as do you for our inevitable and glorious reunion. I love you, I love you, I
love you."
Author unknown
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Puppy's 12 Days of
Christmas
On the first day of Christmas my puppy gave to me
The Santa topper from the Christmas tree.
On the second day of Christmas my puppy gave to me
Two leaking bubble lights
And the Santa topper from the Christmas tree.
On the third day of Christmas my puppy gave to me
Three punctured ornaments
Two leaking bubble lights
And the Santa topper from the Christmas tree.
On the fourth day of Christmas my puppy gave to me
Four broken window candles
Three punctured ornaments
Two leaking bubble lights
And the Santa topper from the Christmas tree.
On the fifth day of Christmas my puppy gave to me
Five chewed-up stockings
Four broken window candles
Three punctured ornaments
Two leaking bubble lights
And the Santa topper from the Christmas tree.
On the sixth day of Christmas my puppy gave to me
Six yards of soggy ribbon
Five chewed-up stockings
Four broken window candles
Three punctured ornaments
Two leaking bubble lights
And the Santa topper from the Christmas tree.
On the seventh day of Christmas my puppy gave to me
Seven scraps of wrapping paper
Six yards of soggy ribbon
Five chewed-up stockings
Four broken window candles
Three punctured ornaments
Two leaking bubble lights
And the Santa topper from the Christmas tree.
On the eighth day of Christmas my puppy gave to me
Eight tiny reindeer fragments
Seven scraps of wrapping paper
Six yards of soggy ribbon
Five chewed-up stockings
Four broken window candles
Three punctured ornaments
Two leaking bubble lights
And the Santa topper from the Christmas tree.
On the ninth day of Christmas my puppy gave to me
My wreath in nine pieces
Eight tiny reindeer fragments
Seven scraps of wrapping paper
Six yards of soggy ribbon
Five chewed-up stockings
Four broken window candles
Three punctured ornaments
Two leaking bubble lights
And the Santa topper from the Christmas tree.
On the tenth day of Christmas my puppy gave to me
Ten Christmas cards I shoulda mailed
My wreath in nine pieces
Eight tiny reindeer fragments
Seven scraps of wrapping paper
Six yards of soggy ribbon
Five chewed-up stockings
Four broken window candles
Three punctured ornaments
Two leaking bubble lights
And the Santa topper from the Christmas tree.
On the eleventh day of Christmas my puppy gave to me
Eleven unwrapped presents
Ten Christmas cards I shoulda mailed
My wreath in nine pieces
Eight tiny reindeer fragments
Seven scraps of wrapping paper
Six yards of soggy ribbon
Five chewed-up stockings
Four broken window candles
Three punctured ornaments
Two leaking bubble lights
And the Santa topper from the Christmas tree.
On the twelfth day of Christmas my puppy gave to me
A dozen puppy kisses And I forgot all about the other
eleven days.
(author unknown)
contributed by DTapkowski
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Quote To Remember
"Until
we have the courage to recognize cruelty for what it is – whether its victim is
human or animal – we cannot expect things to be much better in this world…We
cannot have peace among men whose hearts delight in killing any living
creature. By every act that glorifies or even tolerates such moronic delight in
killing we set back the progress of humanity."
~ Rachel
Carson
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