A n i m a l W r i t e s © sm
The
official ANIMAL RIGHTS ONLINE newsletter
Publisher ~ EnglandGal@aol.com
Issue # 05/27/01
Editor ~ JJswans@aol.com
Journalists ~ Park StRanger@aol.com
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MichelleRivera1@aol.com
~ sbest1@elp.rr.com
THE EIGHT ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE ARE:
1 ~ Memorial Day Website
2 ~ Stay Focused by Penzelda@aol.com
3 ~ Mountains of Misery: The Holocaust of
Foot-and-Mouth Disease
by Dr. Steve Best
4 ~ If You See An Ad For A Free Horse
5 ~ Circus Billboards
6 ~ PreWritten Action Alert Letters
7 ~ If You Can......
8 ~ Memorable Quote
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Memorial Day Website
As
we remember those who gave their lives in service to our country, let's not
forget the dogs that served as well. See the following memorial website:
WAR DOGS - THE
UNTOLD STORY OF DOGS IN COMBAT
http://www.war-dogs.com/
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Staying Focused
by Penzelda@aol.com
Stay
focused. Stay committed. The animals need you.
I often get e-mails from activists who have become disheartened or discouraged.
This is a reply I recently sent to someone who had reached that point:
I know that one can get discouraged and that, as the French say, it often seems
that "plus ca change plus c'est la meme chose" (the more things
change the more they stay the same)...I don't pay attention to any of that... I
keep thinking of the bunny in the Eveready ad that I've seen on TV...I just
keep going and going and going....and keep focused on MY objectives, my
passion, on what I know in my heart is right, without getting sidetracked into
the negativity, the hostility, the discouraging comments or total indifference
of others.
I figure it's like this: when I went to a friend's house the other day and we
were talking about AR and what has and has not changed or been accomplished I
said: "Do you see that TV? How come it wasn't invented 100 years
ago?" "and what about the computer?, the jet plane? compact
discs? antibiotics etc? Where were they
until the 20th century? Why didn't someone figure out how to make a micro-wave
oven? an air-conditioner? A digital watch before then? Most of those things
were just a fantasy until our
own lifetime. Clearly, they did not exist until they were ready to exist. Other
things had to come first, to precede them. Someone had to be ready to create
them and others to want them and to accept them.
There is a process called the natural order of things, and one cannot create
something in a void. There must be first steps, failed attempts, further
advancements, each in it's own time. As I see it, we are at the very inception
of a social change that is so great and so encompassing in it's dimensions that
we cannot help but face resistance and reluctance by people who have much
invested in the old order, in "tradition" and therefore, fear
change...much like it must have been when slaves were given freedom,
children taken out of the coal mines, women given the legal right to own, to
inherit, to vote. We have a world order built on the concept of man's
superiority and the exploitation of animals....coming unfortunately, from
ancient religious teachings (an animal has no soul) and the
"unenlightened" Greek
philosophers who saw animals as inferior creatures put here to serve man. Thus, we eat them, wear them, experiment on
them and exploit them in every way imaginable, based on our own ignorance and a
self-serving glorification of our superiority that allows us to think we have
the right to use these "unthinking and unfeeling" creatures as we see
fit.
The world's entire social and economic structure would probably collapse if
suddenly, we were not allowed to use or kill animals. If you think of all
the many, many ways in which animals provide a livelihood or represent survival
for people you would know why so many are frightened and unwilling to even
think of change...look at the fight put up by furriers, circuses, researchers,
by the meat and dairy industry and so many others.
So, as I see it, many things will have to happen first...or simultaneously,
such as new foods (just think of all the options available to a
vegetarian/vegan today compared to just 10 years ago; could you ever have
foreseen soymilk and soy ice-cream in the dairy section of your local
supermarket? Smoked tofu and
"un-chicken" in the refrigerator compartment? veggie burgers at the
local diner? Think of all the new fabrics that can replace animal skins...faux
leather, faux fur, all sorts of synthetics...these did not exist as an option
100 years ago; and the legal challenges to old beliefs and traditions (esp. the
animal as property, etc.), that are slowly making their way into our courts and
eventually into our laws. So change is happening (slowly) but we are too close
to see it...and it is also so early in the evolution of man's consciousness,
that only a relatively small number of people, have the awareness, the higher
consciousness that allows them to see and feel compassion where others
don't...and the determination and commitment to make a change.
Leonardo DaVinci envisioned flight and drew models of "airplanes"
over 400 years ago. Yet, it wasn't until the 20th century that someone finally
succeeded in making that vision a reality. I know in my heart that I am a
"pioneer," a "trailblazer," at the very beginning of this
movement (actually only about 15-20 years old) and that I will probably never
see in my lifetime, all the changes I work for and wish for. Nevertheless, I
continue to lay the groundwork for the changes that will eventually come.
They will come with the efforts of the early "believers" the
committed faithful, the first team willing to do what it takes to begin the process...just
think of what 12 apostles were able to accomplish in the face of such
determined opposition.
And that's what keeps me going. I don't count my victories or my defeats. I don't look back...only forward. I pray and
meditate each day, envisioning a world in which injustice, cruelty and
inflicted pain have no place; a world in which compassion and love fill the
heart and soul of every living being.
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Mountains of Misery:
The Holocaust of Foot-and-Mouth Disease
by Dr. Steve Best - sbest1@elp.rr.com
"What we are witnessing now is the nadir of western
industrialized
societies' total disregard for animals. The mass graves represent
the
triumph of greed over any other relation we have to other forms
of life.
The almost complete absence of any serious debate about whether
it
is right to kill this kind of quantity of animals is
unbelievable."
Madeleine Bunting, British commentator
In late February 2001, while just beginning to recover from the devastating
effects of Mad Cow Disease (MCD), the British beef industry was walloped again.
This time it was hit by a new wave of Foot-and-Mouth Disease (FMD), a viral
sickness not seen in Britain since 1967 when the nation slaughtered nearly half
a million animals. The current outbreak, however, is far more serious, with
more than 500 farms struck, at least a thousand confirmed cases in the UK, over
a million animals "culled," the national
economy badly damaged through billions of dollars in lost revenues, and the
legitimacy of the British government and agricultural industry very much in
question in the international arena.
Indeed, the spectacle of mass slaughter has exposed the irrationalities of
modern animal agriculture for all to see. For weeks on the nightly news around
the world, one could see infected, suspect, and healthy cattle, pigs, and sheep
being shot in the head, bulldozed into vast ditches, piled high, set aflame in
towering funeral pyres, or even dynamited for birds of prey to consume. These
powerful images were to the meat industry what those of American soldiers in
body bags were to the U.S. war effort in Vietnam.
Never before has the insanity of the mass production and consumption of animal
products been so transparent.
Britain: The "Leper of Europe"
Fearing an uncontrollable contagion, Britain has become a sealed compound.
Hundreds of farms are under tight restrictions. Sporting events such as
horseracing, hunting, fishing, and rugby games have been halted to minimize
human traffic. Schools have been temporarily shut down. National parks, zoos, and hiking trails are
closed, and trips to the countryside are prohibited. Farmers have forbidden
visitors and rarely leave their own property. Ireland canceled plans for its
annual St. Patrick's Day parade. Armed border roadblocks have been set up
throughout Europe. Rare and endangered
hoofed species like rhinos and giraffes have been targeted for slaughter in
zoos and parks throughout Europe. And the crisis has yet to peak.
With fully justified fears, other countries are carefully scrutinizing British
tourists, checking their baggage for concealed meat (often sniffed out by dogs
like illegal drug contraband, only far more dangerous), and forcing them to
wipe their feet in disinfectant trays before allowing them entry. By March, FMD
spread to Ireland, France, and the Netherlands, provoking an international
panic. Once again, British beef and animal products were banned throughout the
world, much of which now rejects European Union meat and dairy products as a
whole. Europe is enraged at what it perceives to be the arrogance, complacency,
and incompetence of Britain that has recently provoked two costly catastrophes
- MCD and FMD. While MCD alone kills huuman beings, both MCD and FMD devastate
animals and economies.
An Old Plague Returns
Unlike MCD which appeared in the 1980s, FMD is not new. For the last four
centuries, the disease has been epidemic in areas like Africa, Asia, and the
Middle East. There were six outbreaks of FMD in the U.S. in the 20th century
(the last occurring in 1947) that resulted in the slaughter of over three
hundred thousand farm animals. Until now, such outbreaks were relatively easy
to contain. The viral plague spreading across Europe at this moment is a vivid
testament to the problems with intensive farming methods that breed contagion
and a porous global capitalism built on open trade policies.
FMD is a highly infectious viral disease that can be spread through animals'
blood, urine, waste, semen, and milk. In addition, humans act as carriers
through means such as shoes, clothing, and automobile tires, hence the
restriction of human traffic in Europe. FMD can be transmitted through infected
feed and soil, hay, birds, and even the wind, making it the Andromeda Strain of
livestock disease.
Typically, in wild herbivores like bison, deer, and antelope, and in
cloven-hoofed animals such as cattle, pigs, goats, and sheep, the disease
causes fever, loss of appetite, and painful blisters on the hoofs and in the
mouth. Although the disease can kill
very young or old animals, it is nonfatal to all but 5% of cases. Indeed, many
experts liken the effects of the disease to a bad cold that lasts a couple of weeks
and allows a full recovery, with the added benefit of the animal being immune
to the sickness thereafter. In addition, entire herds of perfectly healthy
animals within the vicinity of infected farms are massacred and set aflame as
"precautionary measures."
If FMD is typically a nonfatal and temporary affliction, then why the fiery
orgy of killing throughout Europe? Why for most of modern history did livestock
acquire FMD, become sick, and recover, without grisly funeral pyres and
billowing plumes of burning flesh? Herein lies the evil that fans the flames of
death. Farmers, agriculture industries, and veterinarians destroy entire herds
not to practice euthanasia for an inexorably deadly disease, but rather to
protect profits. Animals suffering from FMD eat less, lose weight, become lame,
and produce less milk; consequently, they have diminished market value. Because
governments compensate farmers for their losses, it is cheaper to kill the old
herd and breed a new one than to allow animals to return to health. TV news
images feature farmers crying crocodile tears over loss of their livestock, but
they are grieving over the loss of profits, not the lives they castrated,
de-horned, and tail-docked without anesthesia; confined in dark, cramped, and
filthy stalls; and would have sent to their horrifying death in the
slaughterhouses regardless.
Vaccinate or Annihilate?
Seemingly, vaccinations are an obvious alternative to the livestock holocaust.
In fact, they were used successfully to contain the disease until 1990 when the
EU adopted the British approach to disease prevention, namely, systematic
slaughter. From the perspective of government and industry, vaccines are
problematic. First and foremost, they argue, vaccines are unreliable as some
inoculated animals can test negative for FMD but nevertheless be infectious.
British vets claim it is impossible to discern whether an animal's antibodies
come from the vaccine or the virus. Some believe that vaccines actually are a
factor in spreading the disease. Moreover, the FMD virus mutates so rapidly, it
is difficult to formulate a viable vaccine. Thus, disease-free countries wont
import vaccinated animals, which defeats the economic purpose of vaccination.
But capital logic also dictates this decision, as it's cheaper to destroy
infected livestock than to prevent infection in the first place.
Vaccine technologies are improving, however, and countries like Britain are
exploring them more seriously now. But the standard method of disease
"control" remains slaughtering both sick and healthy animals
alike. In angry defiance of this
scorched earth policy of culling healthy animals for "preventative
measures," farmers throughout Europe have set up barricades against the
animal death squads. Even Dolly, currently quarantined for safety purposes, is
not safe from the culling madness and ethos of instrumentalization. According
to Dr. Harry Griffin of the Roslin Institute that "invented" the
world's first cloned adult mammal, "Dolly may be unique, but only in terms
of scientific research. In scientific terms, she has served her purpose."
No sentimentality here. If there were any chance whatsoever Dolly may carry the
virus, her "makers" would obligingly put a bullet through her woolly
cloned head.
Meat Madness
In a global marketplace, it is indeterminate and perhaps impossible to identify
the origins of FMD. Initially, the British government blamed Southern nations
for the outbreak, but it then was believed to have originated through meat
imported from Asia to a pig-fattening farm in northeast England. From here,
infected swill spread the disease rapidly throughout British farms and several
European countries. Some leading bioterrorist authorities seriously speculate
that an "agro-terrorist" plots to disrupt the
economies of Britain and other major nations spawned FMD. Various culprits have
been identified as likely suspects, from animal rights activists (in a
calculated effort to discredit the movement) to Saddam Hussein. If any
"terrorists" wanted to spread the virus this moment, it would be near
impossible to stop them and to trace its origin. So long as the planet is
organized around factory farming and a meat-based economy, all countries are
vulnerable to "agro-terrorism." It takes no more sophisticated
technology than a roast beef sandwich to disseminate FMD and completely disrupt
a nation's economy and everyday affairs. The real agro-terrorists are those who
profit from the destruction of human vitality, animal lives, and the
environment.
Yet without doubt, the beef industry is teetering. Beef sales in the EU had
plummeted as much as 80% in the months before the recent foot and mouth
epidemic. British farmers are losing $86 million every week the FMD crisis
unfolds. Jean-Luc Meriaux, head of the European Union's meat trading
association, said that the progressive migration of FMD to mainland Europe
would amount to "an absolute disaster" for the meat industry, even
more catastrophic than MCD. The economic impact of FMD has reached far beyond
the meat and dairy industries themselves to effect related industries such as
tourism and trucking. Indeed, part of the insanity of the FMD debacle is that
the tourist industry is considerably more important to Britain's economy than
the meat industry. Specifically, whereas the farming industry brings in $21
billion a year, tourism rings up $96 billion a year. This amount is over four times that of agriculture, yet national
policy has been oriented to preserving the far less important meat industry so
that insatiable appetites for animal flesh can continue - as much as possible -
to be fed. How tragically illogical and unnecessary.
Despite government admonitions to remain calm throughout the two-pronged crisis
of MCD and HMD, consumers have raided meat counters and nations like Britain have
limited meat stocks and rising meat prices.
Sadly, in the popular mind, meat shortages have been confused with food
shortages and people feel a deprivation rather than an opportunity to shift to
a healthier, more humane, and ecologically sustainable diet. The impression of
food scarcity has been exacerbated by constant media images of
empty meat counters and disappointed customers. Rather than see the blinding
light, many benighted Europeans have switched to chicken, fish, and horsemeat
(much of it important from "retired" American racing horses), and
have even taken to raiding zoos for consumable flesh.
Coming Soon To A Farm Near You
Just as the United States is highly vulnerable to Mad Cow Disease, so too, like
Britain, can the U.S. be ravaged by FMD, whether spread through infected feed,
the shoes of European tourists, or the bologna bombs of
"agro-terrorists." Should one farm in the U.S. be infected, the virus
could easily migrate from California to Maine and become an international crisis
of the first order. It would take the combined forces of government agencies
and the military to halt the spread of the virus throughout the nation's
stock of 170 million cattle, pigs, and sheep. Authorities are on record stating
that mass culling methods would be used as the primary means of controlling the
disease, as they were in earlier outbreaks in the U.S. Still, many feel that
the nation remains unprepared and that a FMD outbreak in the U.S. would be
unmanageable. A trillion dollar a year agriculture industry hangs in the
balance
After an onslaught of falling prices, swine fever, E.coli, salmonella,
campylobacter, MCD, and FMD, British farmer Oliver Edwards laments: "Every
way we turn, everything we do - it's all bad luck." Bad luck? More like
the systemic and unavoidable consequences of an irrational intensive,
globalized farming system premised upon an obscene destruction of life and the
earth.
Combine the capitalist profit imperative, a factory farm system of agriculture,
and a global marketplace bustling with human and animal traffic, global trade
organizations and treaties, and you get a crisis situation where infectious
diseases breed rapidly and spread throughout the entire planet. In the current
global economy, an animal can be bred in Britain, fattened in France,
slaughtered in Spain, and eaten in Ecuador. The pathways of disease,
consequently, are difficult if not impossible to trace. Nor is there any
guarantee that after hundreds of thousands of animals are massacred in the
current crisis further outbreaks will not be lurking right around the corner.
A Blessing in Disguise?
In a highly controversial move, Ingrid Newkirk, President of PETA, declared
that she welcomed the spread of FMD through the U.S, as "it would wake up
consumers." While initially shocking, her logic is hard to fault. First,
billions of livestock are doomed to die no matter what, and a gunshot to the
head is more humane that factory-farm confinement, long-distance shipping, and
a slaughterhouse stun-gun that fails to render an animal unconscious as it is
dismembered piece by piece. Second, the violence that goes on behind the scenes
would be evident for all to see, such that slaughterhouses would indeed have
glass walls. Third, FMD could cripple the U.S. livestock industry and might
likely encourage
farmers to adopt traditional farming techniques and inspire droves of people to
turn to vegetarianism.
Indeed, in European countries such as Germany, which now boasts a Green
Minister of Agriculture, there is a new emphasis on shifting toward organic
farming. Moreover, throughout the world, many people are so traumatized by the
images of bonfires of bodies, they are turning toward vegetarianism, as
vegetarian groups in England and elsewhere are being bombarded with requests
for information. A recent poll in the UK's The Sunday Times showed that 82% of
people would prefer a return to more
traditional, humane methods of farming, even if it meant paying more for their
food. 12% stated that they have already given up meat in the face of recent
disease outbreaks, and 26% said they would eat less meat or none at all. Kay
Holden, spokesperson for UK's animal rights group, Animal Aid, said of the new
crop of vegetarians: "It's different that it was during the mad cow
epidemic where people became vegetarians out of fear for what could do to them.
This time it's because of the conditions [of animals]
they've seen on TV."
A Time of Reckoning
But FMD is just an alibi for the many diseases that proliferate throughout the
squalid and overcrowded cages and pens of the factory farms that breed
afflictions in animals, require massive doses of antibiotics, and do exacerbate
the current post-antibiotic crisis that nullifies once useful drugs.
While the necessity of slaughtering over a million animals that are actually or
potentially infected with FMD is hotly debated, the undeniable fact remains
that billions of animals are needlessly slaughtered to satisfy ignorant,
gluttonous, and unhealthy cravings for flesh. The inexorable logic of profit
and competition demands that animals be raised as cheaply as possible, under
intensive confinement in mass quantities, using massive amounts of chemicals to
minimize the spread of disease and maximize the size and weight of animals,
employing concentrated economies of scale and long distance markets.
All this killing and trouble -- shooting, bulldozing, burning, dynamiting,
surveillance, and disinfecting -- for the sake of consuming flesh. Aren't all
consumers paying too dear a price for cheap meat? Clearly the only way out of
the debacles of the global meat and dairy industries is not to enact absurd
stopgap, reformist measures like using thermometers to check for safe cooking
temperatures, wiping feet in disinfectant trays, or testing animals for signs
of disease before slaughter. Rather, society must banish
the entire system of mechanized killing, and shift to a local, organic,
plant-based food system.
The inherent fallacies of factory farming are increasingly obvious. It is an
encouraging sign that vegetarianism is on the rise. Animal rights activists,
vegetarians, and environmentalists need to seize to the fullest advantage the
current twofold crisis of MCD and FMD to demonstrate the inherent illogic,
inhumanity, and destructiveness of the global system of meat and dairy
industries. Let us turn tragedy into opportunity.
Dr. Steve Best is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at the
University of Texas, El Paso. He is Vice-President of the Vegetarian Society of
El Paso, a long time vegan and animal rights activist, and author of numerous
books and articles in the areas of social theory, postmodernism, and cultural
studies. Some of his writings are posted at http://utminers.utep.edu/best/.
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If You See An Ad For a
"Free Horse"
from - BHGazette@aol.com
With the spread of foot and mouth disease, horse
flesh is at a premium and slaughterhouses cannot keep up with the demand from
Europe and Japan. As a horse rescue, we have many older horses and horses with
medical problems, generally unwanted horses.
We have seen an alarming increase in people interested in our companion horses,
horses that never brought any interest before. The dealers are slick, they
bring their kids, pose as a loving home and if we adopted to them, we know the
horses would be at the next auction being sold for slaughter.
Whenever you see an ad for a "free" horse, please notify MER or call
and warn the people of the danger of their horse(s) ending up at auction. This
is a serious problem! MER is trying to educate the public on the plight of all
these horses and we can use your help."
CONTACT: Mylestone Equine
Rescue (908) 995-9300
mer@eclipse.net
www.mylestone.org
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Circus Billboards
from Dena Jones - djones@api4animals.org
The
Animal Protection Institute (API) is again offering anti-circus billboards to
grassroots individuals and groups. API will cover printing and shipping costs
and provide assistance with placing the ads. The billboard features a picture
of three chained elephants with the text: "The Cruelest Show on Earth. Say
NO to Animal Circuses."
The ads will be available in English or Spanish and ready to ship in early
June. Those interested should contact Kymberlie Adams, API Program Assistant,
at 1-800-348-7387 or "kymberlie@api4animals.org."
Dena Jones
Program Director
Animal Protection Institute
Ph. 916-731-5521
Fx. 916-731-4467
djones@api4animals.org
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If you can start the day
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If you can be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,
If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,
If you can eat the same food everyday and be grateful for it,
If you can understand when loved ones are too busy to give you time,
If you can overlook when people take things out on you,
when through no fault of your own something goes wrong,
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If you can face the world without lies and deceit,
If you can conquer tension without medical help,
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