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The
official ANIMAL RIGHTS ONLINE newsletter
Publisher ~ EnglandGal@aol.com
Issue # 03/11/01
Editor ~ JJswans@aol.com
Journalists ~ Park StRanger@aol.com
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MicheleARivera@aol.com
~ SavingLife@aol.com
THE EIGHT ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE ARE:
1 ~ Against the Use of Wild Animals in Entertainment
by ChrisJaason@aol.com
2 ~ Transplanting the Truth by Jill Howard
Church
3 ~ Fifteen Minutes of Fame
4 ~ Update On Coulston Labs
5 ~ Save Dolphins From TSA Tanks
6 ~ What You Can Do
7 ~ To A Baby Seal
8 ~ Quote To Remember
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Against The Use of Wild
Animals in Entertainment
by ChrisJaason@aol.com
Perhaps
for as long as man has conceived of entertainment, he has included wild
animals. Whatever aspect of entertainment, be it keeping wild animals as pets,
training them for movies or for live entertainment, or wearing them as a
fashion statement, man has had an ongoing love affair with the idea of bending
wild animals to his will. For purposes of this article, "wild
animals" refers to an animal that is of a non-domesticated species.
In the pet industry we have a lively and often devastating trade in exotic,
wild animals. Many species are bred in captivity, but others, including snakes,
lizards, turtles, or other small exotic pets, are still taken from the wild.
Even those born in captivity are not domesticated animals, they are merely
captive.
They are sold as pets, often without much guidance to the prospective owner.
Relatively inexpensive, they are often seen as a disposable item. Anoles,
for instance, are sold for about a dollar each. Hundreds of thousands of kids
have or have had them. And hundreds of thousands of anoles die in small glass
cages from ignorant abuse and neglect. Parents buy them as a "great
starter pet," but when the kid moves on to some other interest, it is
often weeks before Mom finds the starved and lifeless body
caked to the side of his tank, his dinner just out of reach beside the cage.
In a world where even domesticated dogs and cats, who are supposedly beloved
family members, are rarely given the care they need, where they go without
shots, worming or quality food, exotics have even less chance of being cared
for adequately. You can buy dog and cat food in the grocery store, but they
rarely carry foods for exotic pets. Your local vet is well equipped to care for
and recognize problems in your dog or cat, but most know little about exotics.
And how many people are willing to foot even the cost of an office call on a $1
pet?
Laws regarding exotic species as pets, if they exist at all, speak only to
minimal housing requirements. They may specify how HIGH the fence has to be but
rarely say anything about the knowledge an owner must have. They address safety issues for the public,
but rarely for the animals themselves.
Animals used in other entertainment industries may or may not fare any better.
Non-domesticated animals are often not suited to life in confinement. Take a zebra
for example. They are becoming popular as pets and have always been popular in
backyard and private zoos. Many zebras die in
captivity because they break their necks running into walls or fences. They do
not understand solid barriers. There is no such thing in their native
world. A tree can be gone around. A row of bushes, the closest thing to a wall,
can be run through. But a brick wall cannot, and they are often killed in the
capture or confinement that human ownership entails.
Wild animals in the movie business are simply no longer needed, if indeed they
ever were. The dinosaurs of Jurassic Park or the gorilla in Mighty
Joe Young were realistic enough for the most discerning viewer. The state
of CGI (computer generated imagery) improves daily and is at a point where
there is no longer any reason to keep wild animals captive in order to feature
them in film.
The live entertainment industry is oft times much worse. Circus or nightclub
performances stress wild animals and trivialize what these animals are. They
are not performers. They are not human charicatures to be lined up in clothes
with guitars in hand, mimicking humans. No matter how well they
are cared for, no matter how many generations have been captively breeding,
wild animals remain undomesticated and should be respected for the wild and
free beings they are and must remain.
Perhaps the most devastating use of wild animals for our pleasure, is that of
fashion. One does not have to be told of the countless lives lived in cages and
eventually lost so that humans can enjoy wearing their skins. These are often
animals that are unsuited to a life of confinement. A hundred generations of
captive bred animals have yet to domesticate them because it is not in their
nature to be domesticated.
They should not be pets, they should not be performers, they should not be
clothing, and they certainly should not be a source of income. Many, if not
most, people find it abhorrent for someone to breed dogs solely in order to
make money, to keep them in a situation that is counter to their nature solely
in order to rake in profits. But that is exactly what exotic animal breeders
do. Most exotics are sold to anyone who
can pay. Most are not bred with any thought in mind to the preservation of the
species, its genetic health, or the individual animal's health, safety or
needs. Snakes are kept in shoe boxes, fish in brandy snifters, turtles in fish
tanks, zebras in corrals, and tigers in dog runs. These are animals whose
genetics have geared them to survive in the wild, to roam territories many
hundreds or thousands of times larger than that with which we provide them, to
seek and catch a variety of foods. We
want them, so we take them. If they survive, we assume that they are content.
They may even live longer lives in captivity, but that does not mean that they
would chose this life if they could understand the alternatives.
When they die, we throw them out and get another one. They are seen as existing
for our pleasure, but they are living beings quite apart from us or our
desires. They are entitled to their lives, without our interference.
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Transplanting the Truth
by Jill Howard Church, Senior Editor Animals' Agenda
Email: jillohc@aol.com
A September 26 High Court injunction in Great
Britain has stanched the flow of information regarding a case hailed as
"the Watergate of the biotechnology industry" -- leaked documents
purporting to show that the xenotransplantation research conducted by Imutran
Ltd. is both cruel and misleading. An expose published in the Daily Express
Sept. 21-22, 2000, detailed how Imutran -- owned by the Swiss-based
pharmaceutical giant Novartis -- carried out hundreds of experiments involving
pig-to-primate
organ transplants over the past five years. The information contained in
hundreds of internal reports, memos, and other documents leaked to the U.K.
activist group Uncaged Campaigns (UC) by an anonymous source showed how
Imutran's public claims of research "progress" and humane animal care
contrasted sharply with its own accounts of animal suffering and scientific
fiascoes.
Stated the Express, "Imutran says the animals do not suffer. But the
laboratory technicians' own detailed records of the animals post-transplant
lives paint a different picture. One monkey which had a pig heart attached to
the blood vessels in its neck was seen holding the transplant which was
'swollen red' and 'seeping yellow fluid' for most of the last days of its life.
Animals are described as quiet, huddled, shivering, unsteady and in spasm. Some
had swellings, bruising or were seen with blood or puss seeping from
wounds."
The Express also reported that Imutran's claims of being close to human
xenotransplant trials are based on selective reporting of the degree to which
the baboons' bodies rejected transplanted pig hearts. Imutran data allegedly
showed that "hyperacute rejection" of pig organs was more problematic
than the company publicly acknowledged. Other allegations involved high death
rates due to drug overdoses, procedural errors, and the intercontinental
transport of wild-caught monkeys.
The September injunction temporarily halted dissemination of confidential
information contained in the leaked documents, except for those portions
already published in the Daily Express. The injunction will stand until a full
hearing is held, which is scheduled for late November. Uncaged Campaigns was
forced to pull its report "Diaries of Deception" from its web site (www.xenodiaries.org),
but the group is appealing the ruling. Said UC Director Dan Lyons,
"Freedom of information about animal experimentation is one of the
cornerstones of democratic debate. It would have been more constructive for
Imutran/Novartis to engage in that debate, rather than attempt to suppress
it."
Britain's Home Office, which regulates experimentation, is reviewing the case;
UC is calling for a judicial inquiry. Meanwhile, Novartis announced on the day
of the injunction that it was closing Imutran and merging with
Massachusetts-based Biotransplant, Inc., which will shift the bulk of the
xenotransplantation research to the United States. Its pig-to-primate
experiments are already being done at the University of Ohio, the University of
Pennsylvania, the University of Wisconsin, Stanford University, and
Massachusetts General Hospital, with support and funding from the National
Institutes of Health and the Department of Health and Human Services.
"Novartis basically wants to continue doing in the U.S. what it was doing
in Britain, and get away with it," noted Alix Fano, director of the
Campaign for Responsible Transplantation. "That is unacceptable. The U.S.
should not become a haven for cruel, wasteful, and irresponsible research,
particularly when better alternatives exist."
“Reprinted with permission from The Animals’ Agenda, P.O. Box 25881,
Baltimore, MD 21224; (410) 675-4566; www.animalsagenda.org.”
Email: office@animalsagenda.org
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Fifteen Minutes of Fame
(From March 5, 2001, Chicken Soup for the Soul, Home Delivery):
contributed by SDurbin@tulsa.cc.ok.us
I dashed out an exit at O'Hare International
Airport in Chicago and ran towards a waiting cab. I was greeted by a cab
driver with a three-day-old beard, an old baseball cap and arms the size of
tree trunks. As he tossed my bags into the trunk, he spotted my luggage
tags and said, "What kind of
doctor are you?"
"A veterinarian," I said. Instantly, his grizzled face broke into a
smile. This happens to veterinarians all the time, as people love to talk about
their pets. The doors slammed, he put the car into gear and hit me with
this opening salvo, "My wife claims I love my toy poodle Missy more than I
love her. Just once, she wants me to be as excited to see her as I am
Missy. But Doc, it ain't gonna happen. Ya see, when I get home from
a long day in the cab, dead tired, I open the door and there are the two of
them looking at me, Ma and Missy. Ma has a scowl on her face and is ready
to tear into me. Missy, on the other hand, is shaking all over, she's
that happy -- her face is grinning so wide, she could eat a banana
sideways. Now who do you think I'm going to run to?"
I nodded my head in agreement because I understood his point only too
well. He loved his wife, but he simply wanted permission to savor his
fifteen minutes of fame. Everybody gets fifteen minutes of fame once in
his lifetime. We pet owners get our fifteen minutes every time we come
home -- or even return from the next room.
A few days after I saw the cab driver in Chicago, I returned home. I was
tired from my travels and looking forward to seeing my family. Pulling
into the driveway, I peered through the windshield, straining to catch my first
glimpse of my loved ones. My two children, Mikkel and Lex, are very close
to good ol' dad, but I didn't see their faces pressed against the window
looking for me. Nor did my beloved wife, Teresa, come running in super
slow motion across the yard, arms open wide ready to embrace me. But I
didn't despair. I knew I was still wanted, a Hollywood heartthrob,
hometown hero to my two dogs: Scooter, a wirehaired fox terrier, and Sirloin, a
black Labrador retriever!
As soon as I exited the pickup, Sirloin and Scooter charged to meet me.
Their love-filled eyes danced with excitement, and their tail turbochargers
whipped them into a delighted frenzy of fur. Was this
affection-connection routine, or ho-hum for me? Was I cool, calm and collected?
Heck no. I turned into a blithering idiot as I got out of my truck and
rushed to meet the hairy-princess, Scooter, and Sirloin, the fur-king.
There I stood, all the false layers stripped away, masks removed and
performances canceled. It was my true self. Extra pounds, bad-hair
day, angry people, travel strains, no matter. Scooter and Sirloin came to
the emotional rescue and allowed me to drink in the sheer love and joy of the
moment. I was drunk with contentment.
I was glad this took place in the privacy of my own home. What happened
next might have spoiled my polished professional image. I immediately
smiled, and raised my voice an octave or two, exclaiming, "Sirloin, yuz is
daaaaddy's boy, aren't ya?" And, "Scooter, have you been a good
girl today? Yeah you have, you've been a goooood girl!!"
They responded by turning inside out with delight, pressing themselves against
my legs and talking to me. I felt as if I could tap directly into their
wellspring of positive, healing energy. Gee, it was great to be home!
I bounded up the steps to find the rest of the family, heart open, stress gone
and spirits restored by my fifteen minutes of fame.
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Update on Coulston Labs
from ida@idausa.org
COULSTON
LOSES ANOTHER PRESIDENT AND VET, SUFFERS MORE LAYOFFS
In Defense of Animals, Mill Valley, CA 94941
Contact: Eric Kleiman, 717-939-3231
USDA, NIH Blasted on "Anniversaries of Inaction"
Alamogordo, NM (February 22, 2001) - Ronald Couch, Ph.D. has left The Coulston
Foundation (TCF), making him the third president or vice-president to leave the
reeling primate testing lab in the span of ten months, In Defense of Animals
(IDA) announced today. In addition, Dr. Babette Fontenot has become the
18th veterinarian to have left the lab since 1994, while an unknown number of
layoffs have apparently also occurred at the teetering facility.
Couch, who worked with Coulston for almost ten years, was also the lab's
Institutional Official - legally responsible for ensuring compliance with the
Animal Welfare Act - as well as head of its Division of Experimental and
Applied Research. Ali Javadian, Ph.D., who left last October, was TCF's
vice-president, Chief Financial Officer, and head of Virology and
Immunotoxicology. Last March, David Renquist, DVM, left the lab after being
president for only six months. Renquist, who had been a TCF consultant
for years, had been hired specifically to bring the lab into compliance with
animal welfare laws. According to IDA, the departure of Couch and
Javadian may have left TCF with no Ph.D. scientists with enough experience and
training to adequately serve as study directors for experiments.
"With this continued staffing upheaval, affecting both senior management
and veterinary care, how can Coulston possibly comply with federal animal
welfare laws and properly care for over 600 chimpanzees and 300 monkeys?"
asked IDA Research Director Eric Kleiman. "These lives are in clear,
imminent danger, yet both the USDA and the NIH continue their failure to
enforce animal welfare laws. Almost two years after the NIH's so-called
enforcement arm - the Office of Laboratory Animal Welfare (OLAW)
- professed its 'great concern about loong-term situation/animals at serious risk'
to both USDA and NIH officials, the situation today appears worse than
ever. Yet not only has the NIH continued its illegal 'supplemental
awards' to Coulston - now totaling more than $2.5 million in taxpayer funds -
but the USDA has taken no actual enforcement action in over two years, despite
repeatedly documenting grave violations of the Animal Welfare Act at the lab
since May 1999."
Kleiman noted that today marks the one-year anniversary of the External Review
Team (ERT) site visit mandated by the August 24, 1999 consent decree between
Coulston and the USDA to settle multiple violations of the Animal Welfare Act
involving negligent chimpanzee deaths, research oversight violations, and
inadequate veterinary care. That unprecedented settlement required, among
other things, that Coulston divest of 300 chimpanzees, hire an adequate number
of qualified veterinarians as
determined by the USDA, and comply with the Animal Welfare Act. The ERT
was supposed to report on all aspects of Coulston's animal care program, and to
make recommendations that Coulston was mandated to implement as part of the
legally binding settlement. The Association for Assessment and
Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care (AAALAC) International served as the
ERT and was approved by the USDA.
In its report, available on the web
at http://www.vivisectioninfo.org/Coulston/tcfdocs.html , AAALAC found
gravely deficient veterinary care and staffing, and an essentially
non-functioning Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee - the very same
violations it found during a February 24-25, 1998 site visit regarding these
cornerstones of compliance with all animal welfare laws. According to
IDA, the situation in 2000 was actually worse, with less-experienced
veterinarians, 100 percent veterinary turnover, and lack of veterinary staff
involvement in animal care. AAALAC even suggested that inadequate care may have
contributed to the deaths of 17 chimpanzees, and directly blamed the
deaths of four chimpanzees on lack of proper veterinary care. Now TCF
apparently has less than three full-time veterinarians, all lacking significant
chimpanzee experience.
"Today, one year later, the veterinary situation eviscerated by AAALAC is
actually worse with the departure of Dr. Fontenot," stated Kleiman.
"Where is the implementation of the AAALAC recommendations supposedly
mandated by the USDA? What has the USDA done to enforce this report - or
enforce the legally binding August 24, 1999 settlement? Or enforce its
own December 1998 inspection report, in which it cited Coulston for inadequate
veterinary care because it had only 2.5 clinical veterinarians - who had far
more chimpanzee experience than the current staff - and needed '3-5 more' to
meet animal care needs at TCF? Considering its non-enforcement of the
settlement, what enforcement action has the USDA taken since it filed formal
charges more than two years ago, on February 11, 1999, for the negligent deaths
of the chimpanzees Terrance, Muffin and Holly?"
According to IDA, the USDA has taken none, despite repeatedly documenting grave
violations of the Animal Welfare Act both in official investigations involving
negligent chimpanzee deaths as well as routine inspections of the lab since May
1999. In an official investigation obtained through a joint
Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request by Animal Protection of New Mexico
and IDA, the agency found multiple violations, including inadequate veterinary
care, related to the negligent May 1999 death of the chimpanzee Eason on an
invasive spinal protocol, but never filed formal charges. Instead, the
agency signed the August 24, 1999 settlement with Coulston fully knowing that
the lab had already repeatedly violated a June 1996 settlement decree in which
it had promised to "cease and desist" from
violating the Animal Welfare Act. Since the signing of the August 24,
1999 settlement, in which Coulston again promised to comply with the Act, the
USDA has repeatedly documented violations of both the settlement and the Act in
both inspections and investigations, yet taken no action. According
to IDA, every single USDA inspection report since the settlement - six in all -
have documented violations of both the settlement and the Act. But the
USDA has taken no enforcement action.
Moreover, according to IDA, the USDA has, for almost nine months, sat on
evidence of violations the agency itself uncovered involving the gruesome,
grossly negligent November 1999 death of the ex-Air Force chimpanzee Donna, who
died from a massive infection and uterine rupture after carrying a large, dead
fetus inside her for weeks. The USDA completed its investigation into
Donna's death on May 26, 2000. On June 22, 2000, USDA Western Sector
Director Dr. Robert Gibbens stated in a sworn affidavit that the agency "anticipates"
filing formal charges based on the violations it uncovered during its
investigation. To date, USDA has taken no action. When members of
Congress wrote the agency last September asking about the investigation, the
USDA took six weeks to respond - and in an October 31 letter failed to provide
the requested information and said that the USDA was reviewing the case.
That was almost four months ago. Nor has the USDA taken enforcement
action regarding the August 2000 death of the ten-year-old chimpanzee Ray, despite
its apparent findings of Animal Welfare Act violations during a preliminary
inquiry, which eventually became a full-blown official investigation. Nor
has it taken any enforcement action regarding the year-old External Review Team
report, nor the repeated violations of the August 24, 1999 consent decree that
the agency itself has documented. The USDA did, however, withhold for
months the ERT report in response to a joint FOIA request filed by Animal
Protection of New Mexico and IDA, citing what IDA called the "flimsy
pretext" that releasing the report would interfere with a law enforcement
proceeding, despite the fact that Coulston already possessed the entire report
pursuant to the consent decree.
Also, when Coulston blatantly and illegally denied USDA inspectors access to
the facility on February 18, 2000, the agency simply wrote an inspections
report, but took no action. When Coulston again attempted to deny access
to USDA inspectors last October but relented after several hours, the USDA
apparently didn't even bother to cite it as a violation.
Kleiman also noted that today marks the two-year anniversary of the NIH's
"Restriction" of Coulston's Animal Welfare Assurance. On
February 22, 1999, OLAW took this rare step based on concerns about "the number
of veterinarians and their credentials." It also required, among
other things, that Coulston hire seven "fully qualified"
veterinarians. In March 1999, NIH publicly stated that when OLAW
addresses a problem with a lab, "the institutions solve them," thus
resulting in no facility having its federal funding terminated the previous
year. Federal law requires that if a facility is in continuing
noncompliance, after being given a "reasonable opportunity" to take
corrective action, then the NIH, through OLAW, "*shall* suspend or
revoke" federal funding to that facility. "I guess no one told
Coulston about OLAW's great record for solving problems," said
Kleiman. "These past two years that OLAW has been on the case certainly
have changed conditions at Coulston. The veterinary staffing situation
today is *worse* today than two years ago. Coulston apparently now has
less than three full-time clinical veterinarians, none having significant
chimpanzee experience. Where are the seven 'fully qualified' veterinarians
supposedly mandated by OLAW? I guess that two years is not a reasonable
amount of time for correcting those grave veterinary staffing deficiencies
cited by OLAW. I guess that's
why OLAW has allowed over $2.5 million in illegal 'supplemental awards' since
June 1999 to avert bankruptcy at this private lab. Perhaps OLAW should be
renamed 'Oh...law?'"
"At both the USDA and the NIH, 'enforcement' appears to be on paper
only," concluded Kleiman. "We don't know which agency's
inactions are worse, but we do know that the lives of over 600 chimpanzees and
300 monkeys are in imminent danger. We call on Congress to investigate
both the NIH and the USDA, and demand that these agencies finally be compelled
to enforce the law and permanently retire the primates at Coulston."
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Save Dolphins From TSA Tanks
from Keith Vick - keith_v@yahoo.com
NATIONAL
CALL-IN TO: Texas State Aquarium (TSA) APRIL 19-23rd, 2001 Boycott the Texas
State Aquarium
No one has built dolphin tanks in the western world in at least the last 15
years for a simple reason -- these intelligent, curious, and social animals
suffer terribly in tanks, a fact TSA would prefer to ignore because a dolphin
exhibit means millions of dollars in revenues. Help us prevent this injustice!
TSA, the Texas State Aquarium, is seeking funds to build a new multi-dolphin
exhibit. The reason that we and so many others oppose this addition to TSA is
simple. Imprisoning these mammals is clearly abusive. They live much
shorter lives, contract stress-related illnesses, often go clinically insane,
which are all logical effects of being taken from a natural, social environment
and thrust into slavery and imprisonment. Taken from IDA: “People who go
to marine amusement parks are fascinated by the intelligence and sensitivity of
dolphins and whales. Yet they don’t realize the degree of suffering and
injustice involved in taking them from their families and ocean homes, and
holding them captive to perform for our amusement. Marine parks and
aquariums claim to “educate,” but in reality they teach
people to accept the capture and exploitation of marine mammals. That’s why
many scientists and experts, such as the late Jacques Cousteau, oppose all
captivity of marine mammals.” Read more about the effects of dolphins in
captivity, similar campaigns to prevent dolphin cruelty, and see our Action
Alerts for info on contacting TSA and its supporters with your opinions.
Support “PROJECT TSA”
PROJECT TSA is a coalition of individuals and organizations working to stop the
Texas State Aquarium’s plan to keep captive dolphins.
PLEASE CALL March 12th, 2001:
Texas State Aquarium (TSA)
Toll Free: 1-800-477-GULF
Tom Schmid, Executive Director
Texas State Aquarium
2710 North Shoreline Drive
Corpus Christi, TX 78402
Or calling Mr. Schmid at: 1-800-477-4853
Or visit TSA’s website: http://www.texasstateaquarium.org/
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What You Can Do
by jesther@aol.com
For
the last few years I have written a monthly column in my homeowners
association’s newsletter. It’s called "From The Doghouse" and each
month I write about a different topic related mostly to dogs. Some examples are
as follows: pet overpopulation statistics, importance of spaying and neutering,
traveling with your companion animal, petsitters, dental health, signs of
illness in your companion animal, discouraging buying a puppy as a gift, pet
poisons, concerns about summer heat, hurricane preparedness, housetraining,
behavioral issues, etc. I even wrote an "animal rights" article about
how many animals are killed for food, fur, medical research, etc.
Occasionally, I write an article about cats. This newsletter is sent to
over 700 homes. I get a great deal of positive feedback. The average person has
not been exposed to much of the information I disseminate and I think it has
been extremely helpful to many people and most importantly to the animals.
This is something that everyone can implement in his/her own neighborhood,
whether you live in a condo, apartment, or home. If you don’t have a newsletter
in your neighborhood association, you can just print a one page flyer and
distribute it yourself. I believe that lots of animal neglect occurs due to
lack of knowledge or education. This is a way to provide that information.
If you have any questions about this please contact me directly at
jesther@aol.com
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To A Baby Seal
by Marie Van Katwyk - GarnetWulf2@aol.com
Little baby white as snow,
Cuddled by your protecting mother,
Not knowing the fate befalling you,
There are cruel humans who want your fur,
To make fur coats for vain humans-beings,
People who do not care,
That your short life will end
In suffering and torture.
Men will come and club you to death,
And take your fur, then leave your
skinned bleeding body for your mother
To mourn over.
But, little one there are some
Humans who care for you,
And other babies like you,
They fight to stop the cruelty,
One day there will be an end,
To the suffering of all creatures,
Animals and Humans will live
In Harmony with nature.
It will happen!
One Day.
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Quote
To Remember
"Truly man is the king of beasts, for
his brutality exceeds theirs. We live by the death of others: We are burial
places!
~ Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519)
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