A n i m a l W r i t e s
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The official ANIMAL
RIGHTS ONLINE newsletter
Publisher ~ EnglandGal@aol.com
Issue # 09/27/00
Editor ~ JJswans@aol.com
Journalists ~ Park StRanger@aol.com
~
MicheleARivera@aol.com
~ SavingLife@aol.com
Layout ~ Corrynthia@aol.com
THE NINE ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE ARE:
1 ~ Celebrate Vegetarianism! by Corrynthia@aol.com
2 ~ Milk Consumption Nosedives by Robert Cohen
3 ~ I Met An Angel Today by Lisa Black
4 ~ Job Opportunity from office@earthsave.bc.ca
5 ~ Non-human Great Ape Census from
GAPNews@aol.com
6 ~ T-shirt, Button, and Bumper Sticker Designs
Welcome!
from Freeman Wicklund
7 ~ People for Animal Rights Hosts Symposium
8 ~ Poem: The Lesson by
WantNoMeat@aol.com
9 ~ Quote to Remember ~ Man Meets Dog
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Celebrate Vegetarianism!
by Corrynthia@aol.com
Did
you know that October is Vegetarian Awareness Month? How about
that Sunday, October 1 is World Vegetarian Day? Or that Monday, October 2
is World Farm Animals Day, celebrated this year on the 125th anniversary of the
birth of Mahatma Gandhi? How do YOU plan on celebrating these events?
I know what I am going to be doing.
Of late, THE hot topic for discussion at my place of employment has been
osteoporosis. Women gather around my desk and share stories. One
woman even retired early because of the excruciating pain in her back caused by
brittle bones and a fractured and compacted spine. "Oh yes," she
began, "It's awful! I take so-and-so medicine, and one of its side
effects is it draws calcium from my bones." And so her doctor
prescribed yet another medicine to replace the lost calcium. Pills,
tablets, and liquids. They all want a quick fix to their problem!
They all think that along with popping pills that guzzling more milk, eating more
cheese, consuming more yogurt and cottage cheese is the answer. I shake
my head and sigh heavily. If only they knew. I try to tell them, but they
look at me as if I were from another planet.
Today I hit on a plan! I am going to use World Vegetarian Day as an
opportunity to educate them about plant sources of calcium. Calcium that
does not come along with the added baggage of fat, cholesterol, antibiotics and
hormones. Calcium that is not delivered
via the milk of another species. I want to empower these women with an
arsenal of calcium-rich plant choices to combat their osteoporosis.
If you need reasons why humans shouldn't drink cow's milk, read the following
article by Robert Cohen. Be sure to visit his website too. Also, there is
a link to a part of the Vegetarian Resource Group webpage that is all about
CALCIUM. Follow it and read it. You can even check out other areas
of the VRG! Make a couple of the calcium-rich recipes. Print out the
table of the calcium content of selected foods -- make copies and take them to
work. Hand them out with the food samples. Get the word out that
cow's milk is meant for baby cows, who grow to weigh 300 pounds in just one
year. Let people know that there are a lot of plant sources of calcium. Make
your goal be to just make them aware. Give the women -- the people -- you care
about in your life this gift for World Vegetarian Day at work on Monday (World
Farm Animals Day) during Vegetarian Awareness Month.
Calcium in the Diet - The
Vegetarian Resource Group
http://www.vrg.org/nutrition/calcium.htm#table1
FARM - Farm Animal Reform Movement
http://www.farmusa.org/
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Milk Consumption Nosedives!
by Robert Cohen - i4crob@idt.net
Every day, thousands of people read this
newsletter. Every day, thousands of people send and re-send evidence
containing the negative aspects of milk to friends and family members.
Every day, I am heard on radio shows, and occasionally get an article published
in a newspaper or magazine. I frequently lecture and often appear on
television shows.
The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and the
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) and the Dairy
Education Board (DEB) together act as the antidotes to $500 million dollars
worth of dairy brainwashing efforts by empowering Americans to explore a diet
that does not include cow's milk products.
Every little bit helps to send a message to all people:
COW'S MILK DOES NOT DO THE BODY
ANY GOOD.
Yesterday, the September issue of THE MILKWEED, a
pro-dairy newsletter/journal, arrived in my mailbox.
The headline of Issue No. 254:
"FLUID SALES NOSEDIVE DESPITE BIGGEST PROMOTION"
(THE MILKWEED: P.O. Box 10, Brooklyn, Wisconsin
53521
$35 per year [12 issues])
That's right! The latest data from the USDA suggests that April-June 2000
milk sales declined 2.3%. Since the population of the United States
continues to grow (at a rate of 0.8% per year), fluid milk sales must also
increase to maintain the same rate of growth.
Data reveal that actual fluid milk consumption rates declined by 3.4% from
January to June 2000. The actual April data were so horrible (suggesting
a 6.6% decline) that USDA temporarily stopped reporting the data (according to
The MILKWEED).
What has been the response of the dairy industry?
They are spending an unprecedented amount of money marketing milk mustache ads.
Wherever I appear, the dairy industry does damage control by placing more
radio, television, and print ads. Have you noticed how hard they are
trying? It's just not working.
Milk prices continue to fall on the wholesale level, although retail milk
prices have not dropped. There is now a government (GAO) investigation
into why. With falling prices, and falling consumption, dairy farmers
continue to produce more milk. They do so by breeding more cows and
injecting their livestock with genetically engineered hormones, which also
increases milk production.
Americans have learned not to drink their pus with hormones and glue. Not
only is the thought of drinking bovine body fluids offensive to one's
sensibilities, but it just happens to taste awful. Kids know this, and
are now getting the TRUTH via the Internet.
We have been planting the seeds of the destruction of an industry, which
continues to brainwash Americans with their milk myths.
Every sip of milk contains virus, pus, bacteria, powerful growth hormones,
allergenic proteins, antibiotics, pesticides, fat, cholesterol, and dioxins.
Eighty percent of milk protein is casein, the same glue used to hold a label to
a bottle of beer. There are 59 different hormones in every sip of
milk. FDA allows 750 million pus cells per liter of milk.
MY MANTRA (Repeat after me) Pus with hormones and glue...pus with hormones and
glue...pus with hormones and glue...
Robert Cohen
http://www.notmilk.com
(PERMISSION IS GIVEN TO SEND THIS AROUND THE WORLD VIA THE
INTERNET!)
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I Met An Angel Today
by Lisa Black - LABlack@WhitneyTX.net
Lake Whitney Humane Society
The angel I met today walks this earth as a
man. At 4:15 p.m. on an extremely busy freeway with rush hour getting
into full swing and cars whizzing by, I saw a man standing in the break down
lane in the center with a dog between his feet. I stopped to see if I
could offer any assistance as I have vet tech experience. The man told me
he had seen the dog running along the breakdown lane and stopped to try and
capture him. The man chased him a good distance before he could capture
the dog. The dog was terrified and had nipped at the man out of
fear. By the time I stopped, the dog seemed to trust the man more and we
were able to read the tags on the dog's collar.......yes the dog was wearing a
collar with tags, and one of the tags had the dogs name, telephone number and
city on it!!!
Rusty, the dog, did not seem to have been injured, just a little dirty with
some burrs in his coat. The man pulled out his cell phone and immediately
called the number on the tags. He got an answering machine and left a
message. Then this man picked the dog up to take him back to his truck.
I drove the man to his truck as he had chased Rusty a long distance along the
freeway to help save him.
What moved me about this situation is that this man pulled off an extremely
busy freeway to try and help this dog that would surely have been hit and
killed by a vehicle. This man thought nothing about doing this! In
a world that can be so cold and callous, I was moved to tears at this man's
kindness. I don't know his name or the outcome of Rusty's life, nor will
I ever know, but I have seen that there are angels out there masquerading as
human beings, and this restores my faith in the human race.
I hope this story puts a smile on your face and maybe a tear in your eye as it
did me.
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Job Opportunity
from office@earthsave.bc.ca
EarthSave Canada is looking for a personable,
responsible person for the position of Office Manager. This is a great
opportunity to work with a team of committed individuals working towards the
goal of sustainable living. The position involves general office
administration, management of our resource centre and merchandise, basic book
keeping, liaison with the EarthSave Canada Board of Directors and handling
public enquiries. Proficiency with the Microsoft Office programs including
Microsoft Outlook is essential. Familiarity and knowledge of the
EarthSave mission and projects is an advantage.
Our ideal candidate is an organized, motivated and independent worker with
excellent communication skills and an interest in environmental, health and/or
animal issues. Training will be provided.
EarthSave Canada is a non-profit group, with a mission to educate the public
about the consequences of their daily food choices in terms of environmental
impact, health and animal ethics. The society is national, with the Head Office
and resource centre in Vancouver, BC.
The position is permanent part-time (21 hours per week).
Starting rate is $14 per hour
Preferred Start date November 7, 2000.
Deadline for Application: Friday October 13, 2000 3:00 pm
Please send application to the Selection Committee, EarthSave Canada
FAX: 1-604-731-5805
MAIL: G106 - 2480 Spruce St, Vancouver, BC V6H 2P6
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Non-human Great Ape Census
from GAPNews@aol.com
GAP-USA Launches Census 2001 for Nonhuman Great Apes, Says "Make
injustices visible"
Portland, OR -- The United States branch of The Great Ape Project (GAP), a
group working to raise the legal and moral status of chimpanzees, gorillas,
orangutans and bonobos, announced today a census of nonhuman great apes in the
United States. The Great Ape Project's "Census 2001" campaign -- modeled
on the US government's Census 2000 -- highlights the fact that all great apes,
human and nonhuman alike, share qualities including intelligence, complex
social systems, and the ability to suffer. For this reason, all should be
counted as individuals and recognized through a census.
Paul Waldau, GAP's Executive Director, states, "Nonhuman great apes should
be counted as individuals, just as humans are. They now suffer greatly --
chained in backyards, beaten, sold on the internet -- and we must make these
injustices visible. GAP's Census 2001 goes one step beyond the US
government's Census 2000, and will call attention to the fact that there remain
many complex individuals who still need to be counted--our fellow great
apes."
GAP - USA's census will be carried out mainly by volunteers, or enumerators,
who will report information about individual nonhuman great apes across the
United States in zoos, circuses, laboratories, sanctuaries, and under private
ownership. Enumerators can submit reports directly to GAP by filling out census
forms at the Great Ape Project website at
http://www.greatapeproject.org/census.html
Sarah
Whitman, Campaign Director for GAP-USA's Census 2001 says, "With our
Census 2001, GAP will pick up where the US Census Bureau left off by
recognizing the nonhuman great apes. Census 2001 is one step up from
Census 2000."
The Great Ape Project is an international organization working to raise the
legal and moral status of nonhuman great apes. GAP has chapters across
the globe, and supporters include famed primatologist Jane Goodall. To
explore the Great Ape Project website, please see:
http://www.greatapeproject.org .
Contact:
Paul
Waldau, PaulWaldau@aol.com, 508.529.4268 or
Sarah Whitman, GAPCensus@aol.com, 203.263.3038
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T-shirt, Button, and
Bumper Sticker Designs Welcome!
from Freeman Wicklund - freeman@ca4a.org
CAA is planning on developing our merchandise.
We are currently seeking design submissions for t-shirts, buttons, and bumper
stickers. Designs should be respectful and help promote one of the
following concepts:
* "Explore Veganism" messages.
* our soon-to-be-released website: www.BanBatteryCages.com which
focuses on the horrors of battery cages, debeaking, and forced molting as well
as what people can do to help hens.
* "Boycott Crystal Farms" messages. Crystal Farms is the
subsidiary of Michael Foods that sells eggs directly to the public.
* Anti-Battery cage messages
* Anti-Forced molting messages
* Anti-Debeaking messages
Submissions can be mailed to:
Compassionate Action for Animals
3249 Hennepin Ave. S., Suite 45
Minneapolis, MN 55408
faxed to: 612-822-8466 (when the office is staffed)
or brought to our weekly meeting every Tuesday at 7:15pm.
Be sure to include your name and address with anything you mail or fax. People who provide submissions that we
choose to use will be given free merchandise and be recognized for their contribution
in an upcoming newsletter. All submissions become the property of
Compassionate Action for Animals.
http://www.ca4a.org
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People
for Animal Rights Hosts Symposium
Could
you please pass along to your subscribers that People for Animal
Rights (PAR) is sponsoring an all-day symposium on Saturday, October 14th
at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Kansas City...the speakers will be Dr. Elliot
Katz (founder of In Defense of Animals), Robert Cohen (author of Milk, the
Deadly Poison), Michael Mountain (co-founder of Best Friends Sanctuary), Chris
DeRose (actor and founder of Last Chance for Animals), Gene Bauston (co-founder
of Farm Sanctuary) and Dr. John Hadidian (HSUS).
For more details, contact Forrest Cook @ (816) 767-1199
Email: Forcook@aol.com or (913)-469-1407 Ext.1230 or www.parkc.org
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The
Lesson
by WantNoMeat@aol.com
Priorities needing to rearrange
I've awakened and made a change
I didn't notice or give a thought
to the misery my meat brought
Life I've learned to embrace
not to eat those that had a face
Eating flesh ~ humanities crime
it holds us in barbaric time
Once lusted aroma ~ repulsive now
with the pledging of a meatless vow
My head no longer turned
to this lesson I have learned
For the voiceless I will speak
and fight this war for the weak
Until all others see the light
And the world sets things right
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Quote
To Remember
"Only
that kind of love for animals is beautiful and edifying which arises from the
broader and more general love of the whole world of living creatures, a love
whose most important and central feature must always be the love of
mankind."
~
Man Meets Dog
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