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Publisher ~ EnglandGal@aol.com Issue # 07/25/01
Editor ~ JJswans@aol.com
Journalists ~ Park StRanger@aol.com
~ MichelleRivera1@aol.com
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THE NINE ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE ARE:
1
~ Speaking Out For the Animals by
Kim Stallwood
2
~ Why Dogs Don't Come by Sherri
Regalbuto
3
~ Stop the Practice of Starving Birds for Egg Production
4
~ Your Dog May Be Dying
5
~ It Can Happen Here by
Sheldon Rampton
6
~ Showing Of The Witness
7
~ Need Justice For Dusty
8
~ The Greatest Gift by Guila
Manchester
9
~ Memorable Quote
by Kim
Stallwood
From The
Animals' Agenda - May/June 2001
Since
1979 The Animals' Agenda has reported and commented on society's treatment of
animals and the contemporary animal rights movement. Throughout this time we have witnessed the animals' suffering and
chronicled the challenges of the only liberation movement that is not dedicated
to freeing its proponents.
It
is this altruistic commitment to all other species that I believe makes the
animal rights case and animal advocates unique and special. We see the liberation of animals from
industrialized agriculture and mechanized medicine and the end to their
suffering and murder. But we could just
as easily glory in the human benefits that will be gained when we free animals
from human subjugation. This is because
vegan farming will feed more people with healthy food than what is currently
produced and compassionate preventative healthcare will produce a healthier
population than the expensive and inefficient system that we currently have.
Since
1993 it has been my privilege to be the magazine's editor in chief. It is the responsibility of Agenda's small
editorial staff and myself to keep track of the issues, and determine and
follow the trends in society's use of animals.
We try to somehow make sense of it all so that we can provide you -- six
times a year and more often through our web site
This
summer we are excited and proud to expand our outreach with the publication of
our first anthology, which is called Speaking Out for Animals: True Stories
About Real People Who Rescue Animals.
This anthology, [which was] published in June by New York-based Lantern
Books, brings together our in-depth interviews and cover feature profiles of
such important figures as Steve Hindi, Paul McCartney, Maneka Gandhi, Jeffrey
Masson, Alex Pacheco, Steven Wise, and Lt. Sherry Schlueter. It also includes the profiles of rescued
animals who were featured in our "Happy Endings" department, and the
courageous men, women, and children whom we celebrated as "Unsung
Heroes."
In
preparing the anthology and rereading the interviews, the profiles, and the
stories about people and the animals they rescued, I came to realize that this
is the heart and soul of what we are all about. When all is said and done, animal liberation is about ordinary
people doing extraordinary things for animals.
Whether it is in the case of Rod Coronado, who served a five-year prison
sentence for freeing animals from fur farms; Anita Roddick, who from one small
store called "The Body Shop" built an international
multimillion-dollar business that stuck to its original policy of never testing
its products on animals; Amanda Walker-Serrano who, as an 8-year-old
third-grader led a campaign against her school because of a field trip to a
circus that had performing animals; or Evelyn Wood, a retired widow and proud
grandmother who devotes her life to helping feral cats, it is this altruistic
commitment to all other species that I believe makes the animal rights case and
animal advocates so special and unique.
I
am especially excited about the anthology because Jane Goodall, who is
recognized internationally as the world's foremost advocate for animals,
graciously accepted our invitation to write the forward. She calls the Agenda collection
"stories of determination and courage, stories emphasizing the power of
individual action...a book that will have an important impact on those who read
it. The voices of the animal advocates
speak from every page: some quietly, some with resonant shouts, together
encouraging all who care about suffering to work even harder to effect
change."
Whatever
may be said about us in the media, I know -- as you do -- that animal advocates
truly are amazing people. So next time
someone says something to you about you being one of those
"anti-fur-paint-throwing terrorists" or declares that you must be one
of those
"animal-rights-extremists-who-would-let-a-baby-die-to-save-a-rat,"
tell him about how your home is a safe haven for rescued cats and dogs, or that
as a vegetarian you will save thousands of animals in your lifetime from being
unnecessarily slaughtered for food.
Give her a copy of Speaking Out for Animals so that she can find out for
herself who we are and what we do.
The
second Agenda anthology, to be published next year, will consist of our
comprehensive investigative reports that detail how animals are exploited and
killed for profit and pleasure. It will
not perhaps be as much of an inspiring read as our first anthology, but it will
be every bit as informative and all the more empowering. Both are a call to action, and testimony to
the power and progress of our movement.
“Reprinted with permission from The
Animals’ Agenda, P.O. Box 25881,
Baltimore, MD 21224; (410) 675-4566;
www.animalsagenda.org.”
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by Sherri
Regalbuto - GIDDAY36@aol.com
We
have just returned from the park, my 11 mos. old standard poodle and I. We were working on his obedience around
distractions. With mild distractions,
he’s pretty good. We have quite a way
to go before he is performing in a high distraction area. While at the park, I witnessed a scene that
compelled me to write this article. On
one side of the park we were working on our obedience, and on the other side
was a man and his rottweiler. We were
using them as our distraction, unknown to them. I’ve seen this dog before and felt for her. She has made several attempts to come and
visit my dogs, only to have her neck choked very hard. Today he was doing some sort of
training. I’m not sure if the owner was
trying to get the dog to retrieve or just to come to him. I was very involved with my guy when I heard
the scream.
A
scream of pain, there was no mistaking it.
After being stopped in my tracks, I proceeded to watch what was going
on. The scream had come from the
rottweiler, while they were training.
The man was letting his dog wander to the end of an extendable leash and
choke collar. He would then call her to
him. When she didn’t come, he would
inflict an almighty correction. This
correction is where the scream came from.
It was repeated, the dog didn’t come, the correction did and so did the
scream. Each time, the dog sensed his
owners aggression, she hit the ground, cringing and rolling over. This was supposed to entice the dog to
come? I wouldn’t come, I would try very
hard to escape this situation.
I
find it very difficult not to step in and educate people, but, I have learned
when it is best not to. This man was very
angry. After attempting the come
several times, he looked over at me and then dragged his dog home with
him. With every come command, his dog
had gotten worse and worse. By the time
the man was leaving, the dog was straining at the end of the leash, trying to
maintain a good distance from her owner.
This is an all too familiar scene.
A longtime ago I trained my dogs the same way, before I knew. I never achieved a reliable recall with this
method and had very unhappy dogs.
Why
do we expect a dog to drop what it is doing and rush to us? Because we say so? And if they don’t come fast enough, we choke them. Think about this. If a friend of yours kept calling you over while you were in the
middle of something very important, just to say ‘good.’ Would keep going over? Or would you finally stop going, would you
not get aggravated at this friend? Now,
if the same friend called you time and time again. Every time you came you received a chocolate truffle, you would
keep coming happily wouldn’t you?
To
get and keep a reliable recall from your dog, you must reward it for
coming. You must train and train and
train. You start out in a quiet area
until your dog gets the idea. You then
move to more and more distractions as your dog succeeds. You must never, EVER associate anything that
your dog would consider negative to the word ‘come.’ A negative association to ‘come’ slows down the dogs
response. Do use the command ‘Come’
when feeding, walking, playing or petting your dog. When you don’t follow the command ‘Come’ with a positive
activity, you should ALWAYS reward your dog with a food treat or favorite
toy. ‘Come’ could someday save your
dogs life, but not if they don’t come.
Some
dogs, like my Jack Russell need to be rewarded for a longer period of
time. Even now at the age of 5 years,
she is still rewarded for coming when highly distracted. She will stop, mid rabbit chase and come
when called. But, this is only because
it is well worth her while to do so.
This goes against what her instinct tells her to do. But it has been ingrained so well by
training, training, training, that it overrides her instinct. Pretty impressive in my books. This does not happen overnight, this took a
lot of training and rewarding good behavior.
You
cannot make a dog come when off leash, they must want to come. This is done by patient training. Having a close bond with your dog is
definitely a key factor. If you are an
unreliable, unpredictable leader, you will have an unreliable recall. Be a patient, kind and fair leader and you
will have a dog that wants to come to you.
Consistent, positive ‘come’ training will give you a reliable recall.
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Stop the Practice of Starving Birds
for Egg Production
from John
Goodwin - JGoodwin@hsus.org
Support
the Leahy-Fitzgerald Amendment to S 1191, the FY 2002 Agriculture
Appropriations Bill. We need you to
contact your two U.S Senators immediately to combat the forced molting of hens
in egg production.
Forced
molting is the practice of starving hens in order to shock their system into a
new egg-laying cycle. Factory farmers
routinely starve hens for a period ranging from three to fourteen days, forcing
them into a new molt. Once placed back
on feed-if they survive the starvation period, the hens will produce bigger
eggs.
Senators
Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Peter Fitzgerald (R-IL) will introduce an amendment to
S. 1191 to bar the USDA from spending tax dollars to purchase eggs from producers
that use forced molting for the School Lunch Program.
Contact
your two U.S. Senators and urge them to vote YES on the Leahy-Fitzgerald
amendment. You may wish to make some of
the following arguments.
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Forced molting is inhumane. Intentionally
starving an animal is cruel Most anywhere in the nation an individual would be
arrested for starving a dog or a cat in the way egg producers commonly starve
hens. The birds lose up to 30% of their
body weight during this starvation period.
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Forced molting is a threat to human health.
Because the hens are starved, and so stressed, they are highly
susceptible to salmonella infections.
Eggs from hens that undergo forced molting are significantly more likely
to carry, shed or transmit Salmonella enteritidis than hens that are allowed
access to food and water. Children are
most susceptible to salmonella poisoning.
It just makes sense not to use eggs from producers that use forced
molting in our school lunch program.
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Major fast food companies have recently stopped buying eggs from farms that use
forced molting. McDonald's and Burger
King have both announced that their egg producers are no longer allowed to
force molt by starving birds. The Food
Safety Inspection Service, which is part of the USDA, also recommends "egg
producers eliminate forced molting practices and adopt alternatives that reduce
public health risks."
This
is our chance to have the USDA School Lunch program join large fast food chains
such as McDonalds and Burger King, in saying no to the use of starvation as a
means of increasing egg production.
Please
contact both of your U.S. Senators immediately and ask them to SUPPORT the
Leahy-Fitzgerald amendment to the Agriculture Appropriations bill. You can reach both of your U.S. Senators
offices through the Capitol Switchboard at 202-224-3121.
Phone
calls and faxes are the best means of reaching your senators on this
matter. Due to the fact this may come
to a vote within days, letters may not arrive in time for this vote. Please make phone calls and ask everyone you
know to make phone calls to their two U.S. Senators as well!
If
you need assistance in identifying who your U.S. Senators are, or to get their
fax number, please call the Humane Society of the U.S. at 202-955-3666.
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Source: Animal
Protection Institute
www.api4animals.com
The
title of this article is the text on one side of this flyer. Text on reverse reads:
We
understand you meant to be kind in taking your dog with you today, but you
could be risking his or her life.
On
hot -- or even warm -- sunny days, the inside of a car heats up very quickly.
Dark
colored cars can become very hot inside, even on days that don't seem too hot
to take your dog along. On an 85-degree day, for example, even with the windows
slightly open, the temperature inside a car can climb to 102 degrees in 10
minutes, to 120 in 30 minutes. On warmer days it will go even higher.
A
dog's normal body temperature is 101.0 to 102.5 degrees Fahrenheit. A dog can
withstand a body temperature of 107 to 108 degrees Fahrenheit for only a very
short time before suffering irreparable brain damage -- or even death. The
inside temperature of the car is too hot for anyone, especially your dog.
If
your dog is overcome by heat exhaustion, immediately soak him or her down
with
water and take to a veterinarian as soon as possible.
The
Hot Car Flyer has been designed so that a humane society or shelter can imprint
its name and address on the back. 25
for $2 For information email API or
call 916-731-5521 or 1-800-348-7387.
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It Can Happen Here
by Sheldon
Rampton, E Magazine
http://www.emagazine.com
As
infections go, mad cow disease and foot-and-mouth disease don't have much in
common. Mad cow disease is hard to transmit, takes years to incubate in an
infected animal and is almost impossible to detect until symptoms emerge late
in the course of the infection.
Foot-and-mouth,
by comparison, is one of the most contagious animal diseases known. Unlike mad
cow disease, which is hard to spread but always fatal, foot-and-mouth disease
spreads quickly but rarely even kills animals and is considered harmless to
human beings.
The
fact that both diseases have emerged in the United Kingdom is mostly a matter
of British bad luck. But both have something to teach us about the virtues of
precaution. Diseases of livestock and people lurk in hidden crevices of the
world, and the very technologies that we celebrate as emblems of modern
progress can also serve as vehicles for transforming those diseases into
epidemics. Just as AIDS spread throughout the world thanks in part to the speed
and ease of modern travel, other diseases are cropping up with increasing
frequency as a result of factors including increasing urbanization of wildlife
habitats and intensive livestock farming practices.
The
recent British outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease began in early February on a
farm in Northumberland, England's most northerly county. By February 25, most
of the country had been declared a contaminated area. Its spread was assisted
on February 13 when 40 sheep were purchased in Northumberland and shipped to
Devon, a county on England's southwest peninsula. By the time the outbreak was
identified as foot-and-mouth disease, consignments of sheep and pigs had
already been shipped from infected areas throughout the country and to other parts
of Europe. By March 1, the number of detected cases had reached 30, with new
outbreaks occurring in Ireland and Scotland. Europe started slaughtering
animals imported from Britain as soon as the epidemic became apparent, but by
then, antibodies to foot-and-mouth were already being found in Germany. By
March 21, nearly 400 cases had been detected, and the army had been called in
to help with the disposal of carcasses as thousands of animals were slaughtered
in an effort to eradicate the disease.
Europe
will spend billions of dollars bringing this particular outbreak under control.
But outbreaks of foot-and-mouth have risen throughout the world, due to
activities that spread the disease, such as illegal smuggling of animals,
international tourism and the globalization of trade. "The last two years
have been among the worst on record, with more than 60 countries experiencing
outbreaks, including many which have not had one in generations," reports
the Guardian of London. Examples
include Taiwan, Korea, Brazil and South Africa, as well as an outbreak last
year in Japan that was traced back to diseased straw imported from China via
Russia.
Unlike
foot-and-mouth disease, which has vexed farmers for centuries, mad cow disease
is a recent phenomenon created by technical innovations in agricultural
production itself. The innovation that caused it was actually quite simple. In
order to dispose of slaughtered animal parts that have no commercial value, the
meat industry put them through a "rendering" process that consisted
of grinding them up and cooking them in large vats to produce a product called
"meat and bone meal" that was then fed back to other animals. This
created what was essentially a cannibalistic feeding loop, as cows consumed the
remains of other cows, sheep were fed to sheep, pigs to pigs, chickens to
chickens and so forth.
Common
sense might dictate that this practice is a bad idea, but the scientists and
farmers who used this material genuinely believed it would be safe. What they
didn't realize was that this feeding loop was also an amplification loop
through which mad cow disease -- something that had never even been detected
prior to the 1980s -- would become a devastating epidemic that has so far
killed more than 170,000 cattle and began to kill human beings in 1996. To
date, nearly 100 people have died, presumably from eating infected beef, and
scientific projections for the eventual death toll in Europe range from a few
hundred to 100,000. Renderers like to
point out that they deserve credit for helping to dispose of large quantities
of animal waste that would otherwise putrefy and create a massive disposal
problem. But modern large-scale agribusiness has created a problem that it only
partially manages to solve.
Even
today, notwithstanding the nightmare that mad cow disease has meant for Europe,
the U.S. meat industry and regulatory agencies have failed to take all the
precautions needed to protect animal and human health. Europe has adopted tough
regulations that ban the use of animal meat and blood in livestock
feed.
The
U.S. has adopted regulations too, but with glaring holes. In March, the U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) confiscated two flocks of sheep imported from
Europe, which they believe may have been exposed to mad cow disease.
Unfortunately, U.S. agencies continue to rely heavily on attempts to interdict
foreign imports that may carry the disease, while winking and nodding at
practices that could cause equally devastating homegrown equivalents to emerge.
It is still legal in the U.S., for example, to feed rendered cows to pigs,
whose remains are fed in turn back to cows. And it is still perfectly legal to
use cow blood in cattle feed, a practice banned in Europe. The regulations that
do exist are limply enforced. Bovine meat and bone meal is supposed to be
labeled, "Do not feed to cows," but a Food and Drug Administration
(FDA) investigation found that hundreds of feed makers are violating the law.
Modern
feedlot farming, which force-feeds animals "scientifically blended
rations" designed to maximize growth and minimize costs, has also
introduced a variety of other practices that threaten to spread diseases. In addition to the rendered remains of their
cousins, livestock today consume a variety of substances that are quite
different from the grass and hay on which they conventionally have been
nurtured, including industrial wastes, such as sawdust, wood chips, twigs,
ground-up newspapers, cement dust from kilns and even treated manure and sewage
sludge from municipal composting plants. This may not make particularly
appetizing reading as you are about to sit down to dinner, but from industry's
perspective, there is no harm in it. These materials help cut down on costs,
dispose of wastes and translate into benefits for the consumer in the form of
lower prices for your Chicken McNuggets.
As
far as industry is concerned, there is no proof that these practices are
dangerous, so why should they hesitate? But scientific research is still
lacking in regard to the risks associated with these practices. No one knows
how the recent outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease arrived in England, but it
got there anyway. No one knew in advance that feeding livestock rendered meat
and bone meal would cause an epidemic of mad cow disease, but it did. And no
one knows today whether the introduction of genetically modified organisms into
our food supply will create previously unknown allergies or other health
problems in the people who consume them.
What
we do know is that illnesses stemming from modern agriculture seem to be a
growing problem worldwide. In October of last year, the United Nations Food and
Agriculture Organization warned that increasing movements of people, animals
and animal products for trade are leading to a greater spread of animal
diseases across national borders. It
noted that a number of livestock diseases have been diagnosed for the first
time outside their "normal" areas of origin -- sometimes thousands of
miles away. In Yemen, close to the Saudia Arabian border, some 100 people have
died from the first known outbreak of Rift Valley fever outside Africa.
Outbreaks of blue tongue disease, a viral disease of sheep, have been reported
in Bulgaria and Sardinia, locations where the disease was previously
unknown. In addition to mad cow disease
and foot-and-mouth disease, the United Kingdom saw an outbreak of classical
swine fever, a disease believed to have been eradicated in the UK many years
ago. The recent infection is thought to have been introduced through imported
meat products. Foodborne diseases among
people also appear to be rising. In 1990, the Food and Nutrition Board of the
National Academy of Sciences attributed the increase to "automated food
processing, increased reliance on fast foods, greater use of prepackaged foods
and microwave ovens, urbanization, public naivete about food production and
slaughter methods and lack of knowledge about the hygienic precautions required
at all stages of food handling."
The
foodborne nature of many illnesses often goes unrecognized by the victims, but
government agencies have estimated that as many as 81 million cases of
foodborne illness occur in this country each year, accounting for approximately
9,000 deaths. The most common killers are
not exotic diseases like mad cow disease, which the USDA has yet to detect in
the U.S. They include E.coli O157:H7, Salmonella typhimurium and Listeria
monocytogenes -- bacteria that have become ubiquitous in the human food supply.
Severe forms of E. coli food poisoning, often originating from fast food, kill
500 people a year.
Salmonella,
which causes an intense flu-like illness that can be fatal, has been linked to
the consumption of eggs, poultry, milk and dairy products and a variety of
other foods. The FDA's Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition estimates
that two to four million cases of salmonellosis occur every year in the U.S.
The Center says, "[Salmonella] isolations from humans have shown a
dramatic rise in the past decade, particularly in the northeast United States
(six-fold or more)."
Listeria,
which can cause fatal blood poisoning, miscarriages in pregnant women and
meningitis, is believed to spread through ready-to-eat foods such as hot dogs,
luncheon meats or cold cuts. According to the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, some 2,000 people in the U.S. come down with serious cases of
listeriosis each year, which is responsible for approximately 500 deaths.
The
benefits of modern agricultural innovation are evident. The cost, however, is
that we are performing a massive global experiment with ourselves and our
children as the test subjects.
Sheldon
Rampton edits PR Watch
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There
will be a showing of "The Witness" in Palm Harbor on the 16th of
August at 2 p.m. at Palm Harbor Library, 2330 Nebraska Avenue, Palm
Harbor. Come enjoy this award-winning
documentary about a construction contractor from a tough Brooklyn neighborhood,
who became an impassioned animal activist.
43 minutes long. Not recommended
for children under 12. Presented by
Florida Voices For Animals. 785-3041.
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This
is not the story of a Maltese or a Shih-Tzu or a Bichon or a Cocker Spaniel ...
it is the story of a sweet rescue, who was brutally murdered by his new
adoptive "guardian." The
website listed below not only tells the horrific story of Dusty's last hours,
but shows his picture on Santa's lap, gives a media update and links to a
petition as well as addresses of the Prosecutor, etc., who will be trying the
case. Please send this message to as many people as you can, lets get some REAL
justice for Dusty!
Here
is the story of dusty:
http://nuzzled.net/dusty.htm
There
has been a memorial service at the shelter Dusty was adopted from, the media
attended. Dusty's killer has received a continuance, his first court date is
now July 30th!
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by Guila
Manchester
A battle
scarred
Old alley cat,
So weary
And so thin,
His home a
hole
In the ground
You found
And took him
in.
You sheltered
him,
You gave him
food,
You healed
His running
sore.
You gave him
love,
You gave him
care,
You gave him
Something
more.
You gave him
time
Spent just
with you
Along
With tender
care.
Afraid to
trust,
He trusted
you;
He knew
That help was
there.
You took
A sick old
alley cat
Left on
Life's
discarded shelf,
And gave
The greatest
gift of all.
You gave him
Of yourself.
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"The eating of meat extinguishes the
seed of great compassion."
~
The Buddha (circa 563-483 B.C.)
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