A n i m a l W r i t e s © sm
The
official ANIMAL RIGHTS ONLINE newsletter
Publisher ~ EnglandGal@aol.com
Issue # 09/26/01
Editor ~ JJswans@aol.com
Journalists ~ Park StRanger@aol.com
~
MichelleRivera1@aol.com
~ sbest1@elp.rr.com
THE NINE ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE ARE:
1 ~ Welcome to our World by Fran Hutcherson
2 ~ Taking Compassion To New Levels
3 ~ More on the Red Cross
4 ~ More Tips for Donations
5 ~ Rescheduled UPC 3rd Annual Forum 2001
6 ~ World Farm Animals Day Is On - More than Ever
7 ~ Just Desserts by Robert Cohen
8 ~ Animals Aren't Human by Susie McMillan
9 ~ Memorable Quote
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Welcome To Our World
by Fran Hutcherson - fran4637@home.com
In the aftermath of September Eleventh
From
our laboratory cages, we see a huge cloud of smoke and soot fast
approaching. Cover your faces, quick! Strange substances in the
eyes are incredibly painful and can make you blind.
From the slaughterhouse, we hear, for the first time, what YOU sound
like screaming in terror as you see others dying all around you, knowing that
you are next.
From endless rows of stacked-up battery cages, we cry for those of you
who remain alive inside, crushed together in tiny spaces, wondering if you will
ever move freely again.
From metal gestation crates, we mourn for the young who will grow up
without their mothers' love, and for the mothers whose babies have been ripped
away from them forever.
From radios and televisions, we hear you sharing your grief and pain and
promising your loved ones that they will never be forgotten. We hear
angry voices promising to avenge the evil and make sure it never happens
again.
From every factory farm, research lab, circus truck and slaughterhouse,
we hear your cries as you experience what, for us, is everyday life.
Will you ever hear ours?
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Taking Compassion to New Levels
The Satya Interview with Paul Shapiro
http://www.satyamag.com/sept01/shapiro.html
Paul Shapiro is the founder and campaigns manager of Compassion Over Killing
(COK), a Washington, DC-based animal rights group. In April of this year, the
organization received an anonymous tip that animal cruelty was routine at the
(ironically named) International Standard of Excellence-America (ISE-America),
a major egg supplier. COK’s request for a tour of its facility in Cecilton,
Maryland went unanswered. As a result, members of COK investigated the farm on
their own, documenting what they witnessed and the actions they took, which
included rescuing eight injured hens. They compiled video footage into a
documentary, “Hope for the Hopeless.” Catherine Clyne recently talked with
Shapiro about the group’s campaigns and the ISE investigation.
Q. Tell us about Compassion Over Killing—when was it founded and why?
A. COK was founded in 1995 because although there were many national animal
rights organizations in the Washington, DC area, there wasn’t much of a
grassroots presence. We wanted to harness the energy of all of the volunteers
for the major nationals in the area and try to create a local community of
resistance to animal exploitation.
Q. What is the message behind the name “Compassion Over Killing”?
A. The name “Compassion Over Killing” suggests that in many aspects of our
daily lives we often need to choose between compassion and killing. For
example, when we sit down to a meal, we have the choice: do we want to support
killing and misery by buying a meal that was produced from animal exploitation;
or do we want to be compassionate and gentle toward other animals and choose a
vegan meal?
The same is true with the entertainment that we support, whether we’re going to
support the killing of animals through sport hunting or rodeos (which are
oftentimes lethal to the animals); or are we going to choose entertainment that
doesn’t harm or exploit anyone—human or nonhuman?
Q. Tell us about some of COK’s current campaigns.
A. COK is working on several. The main campaign is intended to promote
veganism, which we do in several ways. We conduct what we call “feed-ins,”
where we distribute free vegan burgers and other food in front of fast-food
places, like McDonald’s, Burger King or Wendy’s, along with vegan recipes and
literature. We also have a TV on hand to show slaughterhouse and factory farm
footage to let people know where the animals who we eat are coming from.
The point behind a feed-in is to give people a positive, non-confrontational
interaction with animal rights activists, so they come away feeling as if
veganism isn’t that intimidating; it’s something they can actually do. They see
that there are vegan versions of the foods that they love and that taste just
like them; they see that it’s actually not that difficult to give up those
foods since they don’t have to give up their tastes.
Every Sunday on the National Mall we erect a factory farming exhibit where we
try to expose the reality of modern-day animal agri-business. Most people in
this country live under the myth that the animals who are raised for us to eat
live in idyllic scenes—such as pigs cooling themselves in mud baths or chickens
strutting through barnyards—when, in fact, the opposite is true. The
animal agri-business industry has desperately tried to preserve these images of
happy cows, happy pigs and happy chickens in the American mind-set; however,
more and more people are coming to realize that factory farming is the norm
today. With the exhibit we show exactly what the standard practices are for
raising pigs, fowl and cattle by the industries that abuse them. We use
photographs and videos to show battery cages, crates restraining sows while
they give birth, and veal crates, we show debeaking,
dehorning and castration. There are also friendly volunteers and staffers at
the exhibit who engage in one-on-one conversations with visitors and answer
people’s questions and concerns about vegetarianism or animal rights. They also
give them free vegetarian starter kits, recipes and literature. The Mall
exhibit has proven to be a huge success, with over 500 people visiting it every
single Sunday.
COK also has a Faunavision van with large video screens and electronic
captions, which was donated by Faunavision [see Satya, August 2000]. Every
Friday night the van drives through highly populated areas in DC, like
Georgetown or Adams Morgan, exposing the reality of animal abuse with video
footage; volunteers walk alongside the van handing out literature and answering
questions.
Our restaurant outreach campaign persuades DC-area restaurants to advertise the
fact that they serve vegan meals. We’ve created window decals that say “Proud
to Serve Vegan Meals—VegDC.com.” So far, we’ve gotten over 20 restaurants to
put them in their front windows. We’re hoping to create a climate where
restaurants will see serving vegan food as a business advantage and will want
to advertise that they do. There is a pretty large vegan demand in DC and
restaurants are taking notice of this. We also give them booklets that we’ve
created, offering simple suggestions on ways to make more of their dishes
vegan, like making their bread vegan or using oil instead of butter.
We also promote veganism with our Web site, www.VegDC.com. Although many
people may feel that going vegetarian is the morally correct thing to do, they
may think that it’s too inconvenient to even try. VegDC.com tries to show
people just how easy it is: for example, you can select a neighborhood and see
which of its restaurants cater to vegans or vegetarians, and there are reviews
with suggestions on how to make your dining there as convenient as possible.
Q. With the feed-ins, what’s the typical response you get? Do some people
see it as a confrontation?
A. Very few people have ever expressed to us that they were being confronted in
a hostile manner. Most people are just happy to get the free food. You know,
fast-food is cheap, but it isn’t free. When we do feed-ins, we make sure that
all of the volunteers are extremely friendly and cordial so that people don’t
feel alienated and won’t feel as if they are being negatively confronted.
Q. How do social justice issues, such as racism, feminism and gay rights,
tie into the work that you do?
A. Basically, COK believes that animal exploitation is a symptom of speciesism,
which is just like racism, sexism or homophobia. Privileged groups that are in
power generally come up with arbitrary reasons for being prejudiced against
those who aren’t in their group. This type of prejudice enables human beings to
think we are superior to other animals—they’re not as smart, as rational, or as
creative as we are. COK would argue that none of these attributes are relevant
to the moral status of an individual—human or nonhuman. What really matters is
whether or not an individual can suffer. Women suffer, black people
suffer, gay people suffer, animals suffer. And because of that common link
between us—that our lives matter to each of us—we ought to be treated with
respect; and that goes for any group which has been disenfranchised for
arbitrary reasons and is suffering a similar
type of oppression. We would hope that our work fits into a larger social
justice scheme than just animal rights.
Q. Do you do outreach to groups with common interests, like
environmentalists?
A. Being an animal rights activist, to us, is virtually synonymous to being an
environmentalist. Anybody who cares about animals has to care about the
environment because animals live in the environment.
We try to build bridges and offer solidarity to other social justice movements
and hope that they don’t view animal rights as something that is foreign to
their struggle. As is so often the case with human-based social justice issues,
the connection isn’t necessarily made that animals are an oppressed group as
well—in fact, they are probably more oppressed than most human groups.
Q. What compelled you and other COK members to take matters into your own
hands with the International Standard of Excellence-America (ISE) factory farm?
A. We received an anonymous tip that animal cruelty was happening on this egg
farm so we requested a tour from ISE but they never got back to us. We figured
we’d go in and take a look ourselves if they weren’t going to have the courtesy
to get back to us. We initially hoped it was going to be just documentation,
but as we went in there we quickly discovered that we were going to have to
provide on-site assistance. We found hens who were immobilized in their cages,
hens with no access to food or water, and we found dead hens in cages with live
hens. We realized that this was not going to be something where we’d just be
videotaping and photographing but that we had to help those hens.
We also realized that it really needed to be brought to the attention of the
authorities. We contacted the state’s attorney and the sheriff of the local
police department and, as we expected, the authorities were unresponsive.
Because we exhausted all of the legal means to address this problem, we felt
that it was necessary that we take the action ourselves. If the authorities
weren’t going to protect these animals, we were going to have to. Albeit we
couldn’t protect all 800,000 of them, we were able to find homes for eight of
them and figured eight lives will be dramatically altered, going from misery to
freedom in a matter of hours.
Q. What is an “open” rescue and where does the idea come from?
A. When animal activists rescue animals from places of exploitation, they
normally go to great lengths to conceal their identities: they wear ski masks,
they don’t videotape themselves or if they do, they make sure that there are no
defining characteristics about them that are shown. The idea behind an open
rescue is the exact opposite. The idea is to conduct an investigation and
exhaust your legal means of redress and then rescue the animals completely
openly, meaning no masks. You videotape yourselves doing it, you take full
responsibility for the fact that you did it and you openly publicize the fact
that you did it. Patty Mark and the Action Animal Rescue Team in Australia [see
www.upc-online.org/aart/] have been doing these types of rescues for nearly 20
years.
In the U.S., the first group to do it was Compassionate Action for Animals in
Minnesota this past January [see www.ca4a.org], and then COK became the
second group to do it this past May. Both groups were inspired to do that type
of work by meeting Patty Mark.
We found that these rescues generate extremely positive media coverage because
we’re not painted as so-called terrorists with ski masks or somebody who’s
ashamed to admit what they’ve done. We’re painted as individuals of conscience
who saw cruelty, tried to have it fixed by the authorities and then had to act
because there was nothing else to do. And because we’re openly admitting that
we did this, the public reaction is much more sympathetic. Another advantage of
open rescues is that because there is no property destruction, the issue isn’t
muddled by the press. The issue stays on the fact that there is animal cruelty
going on and that the animals are suffering. The issue isn’t, “Should they have
broken property? Are they terrorists? Can we condone these types of tactics?
Should we treat them like
ordinary criminals, or like political prisoners?”—nothing like that at
all. There’s little focus on the activists, which is really what we need
to be doing—not trying to get media attention for ourselves but for the plight
of animals, and exposing the realities that animals are treated as mere
commodities in this country.
Q. What kind of feedback have you gotten from other animal activists about
this kind of strategy?
A. Everyone in the movement who we’ve talked to has been extremely excited by
the media attention that was generated by the rescue and investigation.
It was covered by the Washington Post, USA Today, United Press International,
Associated Press, the Tacoma Voice, the Animals’ Agenda, and Baltimore’s Fox
and CBS affiliates.
Q. What went through your mind when you first entered one of the battery
farm sheds? How did you feel in the presence of so much suffering?
A. It was a really unprecedented feeling, to walk into a shed which is pitch
black and the first thing you notice is the stench. The stench just assaults
your nostrils. You can imagine each shed having 92,000 birds, all of them
defecating—the stench is so bad that gas masks hang on the wall for workers to
use. Unfortunately, the animals don’t receive any such reprieve.
But as soon as you turn on your headlight, the enormity of the facility really
hits you, just to know that there is tremendous suffering all around you and
there is virtually nothing that you can do to relieve that suffering. When we
started looking more closely into the cages and seeing that there were many
dead hens, hens with cysts and tumors and broken bones and entangled in the
wires of their cages…it was what I would describe as hell on Earth. I can’t
think of anything crueler than to put an animal into a battery cage like that
for one to two years. It is horrible to try to
empathize with those birds.
I feel that because of my privilege of being born a human, I have the power to
go in and document what’s going on and try to expose it; to show the public
where the notion of animals as mere resources has led us—to something where we
consider the interest of animals of such minimal importance that we can keep
them tightly confined, frustrating all of their natural instincts just so we
can have cheap eggs. It was really a sickening experience and I would say that
the predominating feeling that I had during the time was of shame, of shame for
being human, ashamed of our species for having the arrogance to treat other
living, feeling beings like that.
Q. How did that experience affect your vegan ethics and how do you feel when
you see someone eating an egg now? Has anything changed?
A. I don’t think that anything in my mind regarding how we ought to act toward
non-vegans has changed. I don’t think that it’s made me any angrier toward
non-vegans. It makes me angrier at myself for not doing a good enough job. When
I see people eating eggs I wonder where the movement has gone wrong that people
are still doing this; and being a part of the movement, it makes me question
whether I personally am doing enough. Having witnessed the suffering of
factory-farmed animals, first-hand, has increased my resolve to make my life a
living struggle for animal liberation. I think that the most important thing
that I can do, after having witnessed something like that, is to continue
working endlessly for a time when human beings will be more gentle and more
compassionate toward those around us.
Q. Where does this campaign go from here?
A. That’s a good question. Unfortunately the answer is that we really aren’t
sure. There was a lot of media attention and we want to continue distributing
the documentary so that more and more people will see it. The numbers of calls
and e-mails we’ve gotten from people who have seen “Hope for the Hopeless” and
no longer eat eggs—some of them have actually gone vegan because of it—has been
really inspiring.
In terms of ISE, we aren’t going to pursue a campaign specifically against them
because ISE is the run-of-the-mill factory farm—they don’t treat chickens any
worse or better than any other factory farm does for the most part. So we’re
running an anti-egg campaign. This past June, we called on Governor Parris
Glendening of Maryland, to ban battery cages in the state and we’re going to
continue calling on him to do that. Aside from those options, we are still
figuring out what our next move is going to be. We’re hoping that the work we
did in that factory farm will live on and continue to influence people’s
purchasing habits. What we do know for certain is that COK will continue to
expose the injustices committed by factory farms in every way that we possibly
can.
To learn more about Compassion Over Killing, visit www.cok-online.org or
call 301-891-2458. To see the full report of the ISE investigation, see
www.ISECruelty.com. To order a copy of “Hope for the Hopeless,” send $10
to:
Compassion Over Killing, P.O. Box 9773, Washington, DC 20016.
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More on the Red Cross
There
is still much controversy about animal advocates donating to the Red
Cross. There is no other group that is prepared to handle blood donations
like the Red Cross does it. But animal advocates still find the Red
Cross' connection to animal research to be problematic. In an effort to
bring you the whole story, please read the following letter that was sent to a
subscriber's query by the Red Cross:
From: info@usa.redcross.org
(info)
Thank you for writing to the American Red Cross with your concerns about
animals. Some American Red Cross researchers conduct biomedical experiments
that use laboratory animals. These experiments allow discoveries that save
lives and improve the quality of life for many patients with blood disorders or
other diseases. Animals are used only when no useful alternative method exists
that can provide the needed information. The animals used are mice, rats and
rabbits, all of which are bred and made available specifically for research. No
dogs, cats, or primates (i.e. monkeys, apes or related species) are used in Red
Cross research programs.
All animal research is carried out in strict compliance with all federal
regulations regarding animal care and use. The Holland Laboratory animal care program
is reviewed at least annually, through unscheduled visits, by the United States
Department of Agriculture to ensure compliance with federal standards set by
the United States Department of Agriculture and Public Health Service. The
laboratory's animal program is also accredited by the Association for
Assessment and accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International (AAALAC
International), an independent, non-profit organization that reviews
institutional animal programs. Attainment of AAALAC accreditation demands a
high regard for animal well-being and a commitment to maintaining a quality
animal care and use program.
Funding for American Red Cross Research and Development does not come from
public donations that support disaster response, HIV/AIDS education, services
to the American military, and first aid and CPR training. Over 75% of Red Cross
research and development projects that utilize research animals are funded
through the National Institutes of Health and other non-Red Cross sources. The
remainder is supported by American Red Cross Biomedical Services, which
operates on a cost-recovery basis through its distribution of blood, plasma,
and tissue products. Although opponents of animal research have suggested that
refusing to give monetary donations to the American Red Cross would deter
animal research, this is not the case. Rather, such refusal would, in fact,
hinder the ability of the American Red Cross to respond to human need in case
of disaster, to educate the public in health-related areas, and to assist the
American military personnel stationed here and abroad.
Sincerely,
N. Rebecca Haley, MD
Chief Medical Officer
Biomedical Services
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More Tips for Donations
Another subscriber ( MCrost264@aol.com ) reminded us of the following:
Thank you so much for the great segment on the animals that were effected by
the WTC disaster. Please acknowledge these other fine organizations that were
instrumental in providing relief for animals:
Emergency Animal Rescue
Service (EARS), a division of United Animal Nations
http://www.uan.org/ears/actionreport.html
A great organization that was coordinating right away to provide assistance to
animals and their families. By working with Center for Animal Care and Control,
and the ASPCA they continue to be a great support system.
WSPA
AMERICAS - The World Society for the Protection of Animals
http://www.wspa-americas.org/
Responsible for dispatching a large shipment of protective shoes to New York to
protect the paws of rescue dogs who were being injured by glass shards, twisted
metal and other debris at the site.
Veterinary
Medical Assistance Teams (VMATS) Called Upon to Respond
http://www.avma.org/vmat/terrorist_attack.asp
Veterinary support to rescue animals at three locations in New York City.
and finally, a great website contributed by
Demnyjets@aol.com that lists tons of helping agencies:
Petfinder Animal
Disaster/Emergency Resource Page
http://www.petfinder.org/disaster/foster.html
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Rescheduled UPC 3rd Annual
Forum 2001
From Franklin Wade - franklin@upc-online.org
You Are Cordially Invited To
Attend
UNITED POULTRY CONCERNS THIRD ANNUAL FORUM 2001
Do Animal Welfare Campaigns
& Reforms Hurt or Help Animal Rights & Abolition?
http://www.upc-online.org/forum2001.html
Saturday, December 8 - Sunday,
December 9
Agenda:
To debate and discuss the effects of current animal welfare campaigns and
reforms on the achievement of animal rights and the effort to abolish the
status of nonhuman animals as property and resources in society.
Speakers:
* Nedim Buyukmihci, VMD, President, Association of Veterinarians for Animal
Rights
* Bruce Friedrich, Vegetarian Campaign Coordinator, PETA
* Lee Hall, Attorney, Baltimore
* Joe Miele, New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance
* Kirsten Rosenberg, Managing Editor, The Animals' Agenda
* Gary Yourofsky, Director, ADAPTT
Discussion Leaders: Joyce Friedman, In Defense of Animals
P.J. McKosky, Animal Advocates of Pittsburgh
http://www.upc-online.org/forum2001speakers.html
Where: December 8 & 9 - United Poultry Concerns
12325 Seaside Road, Machipongo, VA 23405
Directions to UPC: http://www.upc-online.org/upc_directions.html
Motel Info: Anchor Motel in Nassawadox-5 miles north of UPC on Route
13: 757-442-6363. Or
1-800-442-5533(specify the Anchor
Motel in Nassawadox, not Onley, which
if farther north on
Route 13). Single room: $48.50.
Double: $56.50 (plus
tax).
Other nearby motels:
o Days Inn: Cape Charles. Call 1-800-331-4000;
757-331-1000
o Peacock Motor Inn, Cape Charles. Call 757-331-2121
o Rittenhouse Motor Lodge, Cape Charles. Call
757-331-2768
o Cape Motel, Cape Charles. 16 rooms, 2 trailers.
757-331-2461
o Best Western, Exmore. Toll Free: 888-768-8313;
757-442-7378
(Please let us know if you will need transportation from the
Norfolk Airport)
When: Saturday December 8, 8 AM - 4:30 PM
Sunday December 9, 9 AM - 2 PM
Registration fee: $75.00 per person, pre-paid
Students and
Seniors(Over 65)- $40, per person,
pre-paid
Tabling - $25,
per organization, pre-paid
Send check or money order payable to United Poultry Concerns and a
self-addressed stamped envelope to: United Poultry Concerns, PO Box
150, Machipongo, VA 23405. Registration fee must be received by
Wednesday, December 5, 2001.
Meals: Registration includes morning coffee, tea, bagels, and fruit
juice on both days, and two vegan luncheon buffets.
Merchandise and Literature Will Be
Available
UNITED POULTRY CONCERNS
http://www.UPC-online.org
Promoting the compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic
fowl
PO Box 150 Machipongo, VA 23405 *
757-678-7875
The Moment You Turn Your Back You Are
Involved
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World Farm Animals Day Is On -
More than Ever!
From FARM - farm@farmusa.org
In
spite of the recent terrorist attacks, plans for World Farm Animals Day
(October 2) continue. One way to deal with the recent tragedy is to
engage in positive action, including conducting a vigil, tabling event, or
other event in support of nonviolence and compassion toward farmed
animals.
At this point, activists in nine countries have registered events (see
http://www.wfad.org/wfad_events.html for a listing), and more are
registering every day.
To participate in this year's campaign, please visit http://www.wfad.org.
To register your own event, visit http://www.wfad.org/wfad_contact.html
or
contact campaigns@farmusa.org.
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Just Desserts
by Robert Cohen - i4crob@earthlink.net
http://www.notmilk.com
I
recently enjoyed a magnificent gourmet meal in a New York City Vietnamese
restaurant.
The dessert menu included these three treats:
Vanilla Ice Cream
Orange Sherbet
Tapioca Pudding
I finished my meal with the tapioca pudding. Talk about a rich, sweet, gooey,
decadent, delicious guilt-free dessert!
For me, rich vanilla ice cream represents pus with hormones, dioxins, saturated
fat, glue, cholesterol, and sugar.
Many people are not aware that sherbet is a dairy product too. To produce
one pound of sherbet requires eight pounds of milk.
I decided to compare and contrast the nutritional content of each of the three
desserts, examining calories, fat, and cholesterol found in a one cup portion
of each product.
I accessed USDA's food composition website:
http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp
Here are the results.
-------CALORIES--FAT(gms)--CHOLESTEROL(mg)
Ice Cream 356 24
90
Sherbet 204 3
9
Tapioca 170 0
0
Three slices of greasy-broiled bacon contain 16.15 milligrams of
cholesterol.
Seventeen slices of bacon would contain the same amount of cholesterol as
the
dessert-sized portion of ice cream.
Now for some heart-saving information:
http://www.notmilk.com/h.html
When you are handed a dessert menu, opt for the tapioca. Have fresh fruit.
The alternatives are delicious. A lifetime of vanilla ice cream is the less
hearty choice.
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Animals Aren't Human
by Susie McMillan
That animals aren't human
Is an often heard refrain
So at the hands of mankind
They have suffered through much pain
Just for the sake of science
Many forfeit their short lives
Some may be given cancer
Others, dissected with knives
A possible new breakthrough
Leading scientists will shout
Animal experiments
We could never do without
Then quietly they whisper
So perhaps no one will hear
That animals aren't human
Therefore test results weren't clear
That animals aren't human
Is a fact that will remain
Since animals aren't human
Please don't let them die in vain
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Memorable Quote
"I am a vegetarian because the honor, love,
and respect I have for my brother and sister animals and for the whole world is
a reflection of the love I have for the divine spark within us."
~~ Ally Sheedy
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Susan Roghair - EnglandGal@aol.com
Animal Rights Online
P O Box 7053
Tampa, Fl 33673-7053
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/1395/
-=Animal Rights Online=-
&
Advisory Board Member, Animal Rights Network Inc.,
not-for-profit publisher of The Animals' Agenda Magazine
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