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The official ANIMAL
RIGHTS ONLINE newsletter
Publisher ~ EnglandGal@aol.com
Issue # 08/29/01
Editor
~ JJswans@aol.com
Journalists ~ Park StRanger@aol.com
~ MichelleRivera1@aol.com
~ sbest1@elp.rr.com
THE NINE ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE ARE:
1 ~ Spay/Neuter Stamp Approved !
2 ~ Slavery In Hershey-Land by Robert Cohen
3 ~ Cage Life Invalidates Experiments?
4 ~ Bullfights in Russia Canceled !
5 ~ Take a Bite Out of Bullfight Supporter Nissan !
6 ~ Hunte's Puppy Mill Convention
7 ~ United Poultry Concerns 3rd Annual Forum 2001
8 ~ On Behalf of Chickens Everywhere
9 ~ Memorable Quote
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Spay/Neuter Stamp Approved !
Okay, folks, it's officially official. The United States Postal
Service will be issuing PaLC's proposed Spay/Neuter Your Pet Stamp as part of
its U.S. Stamp Program for 2002... not as one stamp but as TWO! The
Neuter Your Pet Stamp will depict a dog while the Spay Your Pet Stamp will
depict a cat. The artwork, high quality photographs guaranteed to wrench
even the hardest of hearts, is slated to be unveiled to the public on October
17th.
The fabulous news about the twin Spay/Neuter stamps was confirmed on August
22nd in a phone call from Mr. David Failor, Manager for the Postal Service's
Community Relations office, to PaLC STAMP OUT project coordinator Hope Tarr.
PaLC will be working closely with Mr. Failor and the USPS in the coming weeks
and throughout the year to plan promotional efforts both for the October
unveiling as the larger scale launch celebration to take place in conjunction
with the stamps' on-sale date in post offices nationwide.
In closing, we would like to take this opportunity to offer up a heartfelt
THANK YOU to all of you who have supported this project since its launch.
We are both enormously grateful and deeply, deeply humbled by the tremendous
outpouring of support from so many of you -- selfless, generous folks around
the country as well as Americans abroad -- who took the time to make your voices
heard. As the success of STAMP OUT exemplifies, working together we
really can make a positive difference.
And though we're approaching our own personal Happily Ever After, this isn't
yet the end of the road -- or the story. PaLC will be partnering with the
Postal Service to plan great promotional tie-ins and educational opportunities
aimed at maximizing the stamps' impact. We hope you'll stay tuned by
visiting the PaLC website,
And please do take a moment to celebrate. Pat yourself on the back, sip
some cyber-champagne, and brag to an animal-loving friend about what YOU did to
make your corner of the world a better place for the animals -- a better place
period!
Sincerely Yours,
Hope C. Tarr
Project Coordinator, Pet Overpopulation STAMP OUT
A Project of The Prevent a Litter Coalition (PaLC), Inc.
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Slavery In Hershey-Land
by Robert Cohen - i4crob@earthlink.net
http://www.notmilk.com
What
follows is the most distressing and morally offensive story that I have ever
witnessed. With your help, together we can change the world, eliminate enormous
suffering, and just make things right as they should be.
Before today, M & M's melted in one's mouth, not in one's hands. After
reading today's column, those same M & M's will melt and fuse the most
disturbing image into your soul.
I grew up in New York City in the 1950s, and like any child loved candy,
particularly chocolate.
In the late 50s, it was safe enough for a third grade student to walk from P.S.
78 in the Bronx to a Boston Road pizzeria, where a slice was just 15 cents
and the soda a dime. I would have plenty left over from the dollar bill
given to me by my mother to enjoy a pocket filled with chocolate treats
from the corner candy store.
My favorite candy was contained within a large glass jar. These miniature
models of little chocolate babies were addictive! I did not know until
recently that a naturally occurring opiate, a morphine-like substance in
milk, casomorphin, would be the source of my insatiable love for
chocolate. I just knew what I liked. Casomorphin has been identified as a
factor in attention deficit disorder and autism:
http://www.notmilk.com/aa.html
What made these treats special was how lifelike
they looked. Each piece was a tiny brown chewy doll with distinct facial
features.
Other kids on my block and in my school called these chocolate candies
"nigger babies."
Black children had to endure the stereotypes created by a world in which there
were still civil war survivors. Rosa Parks had not yet taken her bus ride.
Martin Luther King had not yet had his dream.
The 1950s was a time in which Little Black Sambo was a goodnight story
many pre-schoolers were read before bed. I can still remember the
illustrations. There were no Dr. Seuss or Shel Silverstein books to
enlighten 6-year-olds.
One of the most popular comedy TV shows was Amos & Andy, and the Jack Benny
comedy show had a character, Rochester, who was no role model of equality for
children of African heritage.
Malcolm X and Jesse Jackson were still in school, and Al Sharpton had not yet
offended his first white brother.
Fifty years later, the world has changed, and much of the physical, and
psychological slavery imposed upon those with black skin has disappeared. We
still have some work to do, of course, but things in America have changed so
that opportunities for all people of all color have merged twenty-first century
America into a melting pot of many cultures and races. Our national motto, from
many into one, E pluribus unum, is now a matter of national pride and
reality.
This is not so in the rest of the world.
DO YOU SUPPORT SLAVERY?
Here is the story that shocked me.
http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010826/n26310591.html
There is an injustice, and the oppressed children
of the nation of Ivory Coast have been sold into slavery to support one
industry.
GOT CHOCOLATE?
Hershey, Nestle, and Mars candy bar lovers have got to come to terms with this
one.
Most of the world's cocoa beans are grown on the more than 600,000 cocoa farms
located in the nation of Ivory Coast.
BITTERSWEET CHOCOLATE
Tens of thousands of children have been kidnapped from their homes and sold
into slavery. These children plant, pick, bag, and carry the beans for
plantation owners.
Lawrence T. Graham, president of the Chocolate Manufacturers Association
admits: "The industry alone can't fix this. We're dealing with a
sovereign government."
Chocolate manufactures have known about slavery for many years and have not
done a thing about it. Perhaps it's now time for consumers to act.
MILK CHOCOLATE
Milk chocolate is the weakness of American dieters. The first ingredient is
sugar. The second ingredient is milk. The third ingredient is the cocoa
bean, brought directly to you upon the blood, sweat, and tears of children
living in slavery.
With each bit of chocolate that melts in your mouth, you also deliver
allergenic proteins and bovine growth hormones to your cells. With each
bite of chocolate, you endorse the world's greatest injustice.
Sneaker and clothing manufacturers have suffered the anger of a buying
public, who, aware of inequities, refuse to support companies responsible
for such abuse. Chavez led a movement that exposed the plight of migrant
workers.
Slavery takes this abuse of humans to a new level.
Chocolate consumers must be made aware that the purchase of each candy bar continues
to support the world's most horrifying secret.
Chocolate milk drinkers of the world unite!
Do Hershey's executives know about this? Of course they do. Have you
heard this story? Readers of the Philadelphia Enquirer learned about it in
June:
http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/06/24/national/HERSHEY24.htm
Why doesn't the rest of America know?
African American school children are the targets of dairy industry marketing.
Drink the chocolate milk and add fuel to a system that perpetrates the
slavery.
Got Hershey's chocolate milk? Got injustice!
Please let the truth be known by sharing this column with a friend.
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HERSHEYS DEFENDS SLAVERY
They
call slavery: "A DIFFICULT SITUATION"
Let us imagine a time in the 1850s when European textile companies had to come
to terms with slave labor in the United States.
Their response might very well have mirrored the official HERSHEY'S response to
slavery.
Shall we object to slavery because it could, in the words of HERSHEY:
"...only make a difficult situation worse by deepening the
poverty and political instability of the region."
Hershey's response to slavery:
"Hershey Foods strongly condemns abusive child labor practices on
cocoa farms and is addressing this serious problem.
We recognize, however, that establishing appropriate labor
conditions
in the developing world is a complex challenge … one that will
take time
as well as international and West African regional cooperation if
it is to
be successful. Our efforts also must be carried out in a manner
that
doesn't jeopardize the livelihood of the millions of Ivorians who
grow
cocoa responsibly. Simple solutions such as a boycott of Ivory
Coast
cocoa beans can only make a difficult situation worse by deepening
the
poverty and political instability of the region."
Let HERSHEY know that your conscience guides you to:
BOYCOTT CHOCOLATE
(800) 468-1714
Do
not drink HERSHEY'S chocolate milk. N-E-S-T-L-E-S is not the very best.
Let the people from MARS know that their continued support of slavery means
consumer war.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/notmilk/message/667
The
chocolate industry has made fortunes as a result of slavery on plantations in
Africa. They continue to do so. Tens of thousands of children have been
kidnapped and live in slavery on thousands of chocolate plantations in the
Ivory Coast.
This year, chocolate milk will be promoted to school children by the American
Dairy Council.
American children should not support slavery.
American children should be told that eating the chocolate or drinking the
chocolate milk is a betrayal to those families who have suffered the loss of a
kidnapped brother or sister.
The tears of the slave child must end.
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Cage Life Invalidates Experiments?
From Bruce Friedrich - BruceF@PETA-Online.org
Cage
life may drive lab animals so insane that experiments are invalid according to
James Meek of the "Guardian" on Tuesday, August 28, 2001
It is a scientist's reward: after feeding a laboratory mouse an untried
medicine, or turning it into a cocaine addict, or flashing lights at it, the
rodent appears to get smarter, or slower, or more discerning. Do it a hundred
times, and you have got a research paper -- or a billion-pound drug. But
what if the mouse, in the bleak, confined circumstances of its laboratory cage,
has gone quietly insane before the experiment even begins?
That is the possibility being raised by US scientists who say they have found
evidence that the sheer boredom of life as a captive lab animal may be enough
to incur brain damage.
If true, it would call into question the validity of many experiments, particularly
in behavioral research where scientists draw conclusions based on changes in
the ability of rodents to carry out tasks.
Joseph Garner, a behavioral scientist at the University of California, in
Davis, told a conference earlier this month that was evidence that a type of
repetitive behavior called stereotypies, common in caged animals, was caused by
brain damage. In humans, stereotypies -- rhythmic, involuntary actions or
repetitive limb movements -- are believed to be linked to damage in a part of the
brain called the basal ganglia. Similar behavior in lab animals has up until
now been thought of as superficial tics in normal animals.
But when Dr Garner applied a test for basal ganglia damage to caged parrots, he
found that the birds with a characteristic brain damaged response were the same
birds which displayed stereotypies such as feather plucking. He is now applying
the test to mice.
The journal Nature, which reported on Dr Garner's work in a recent issue,
recalled that stereotypies in lab rodents were only discovered in 1996 when a
Swiss researcher used an infra red camera to find out what mice got up to when
their keepers switched off the lights and went home. In the darkness, the
mice began an obsessive ritual of bar biting and cage scratching -- classic
stereotypies. Underlining the possible link between the dull sameness of
cage life and mouse madness, the journal pointed out that studies last year
showed making life more interesting for lab animals, by allowing mice and rats
to socialize with siblings for instance, made the creatures' brains bigger.
"I think it sounds reasonable," said Nick Neave, a behavioral
psychologist at the University of Northumbria. "We've known for many years
that if you give animals plenty of stimulation in a lab environment they behave
differently from animals in a bare cage. I think it does raise some very
important issues, not just ethically but scientifically, where scientists are
saying 'well, this means so and so,' when it may not be so clear cut."
The Home Office code of practice recommends that breeders and suppliers of lab
rodents give a single mouse 200sq cm of cage space, and a single rat 500-800sq
cm. The Home Office also recommends "cage enrichment" for
"environmental complexity." But this is not compulsory.
Science or fiction?
Work with lab animals, particularly mice and rats, is a staple of scientific
research. Here are the findings of three recent reports from the thousands
published each year:
• In an attempt to show the effects of junk food on the brain, Canadian
scientists fed one group of young rats on fatty food for 12 weeks, with another
group being put on a low fat diet. They were then given a memory test involving
pressing a lever. The junk food rats were more forgetful. Conclusion: junk
food is bad for the memory.
• Scientists in the US monitored the brain activity of rats while they ran
round a circular track to get food and then later while they slept. During
their slumber, the same brain cells fired as when they were running.
Conclusion: rats dream.
• A New Jersey mouse, called Doogie, with a single added gene was able to whiz
through mazes and learn from experience significantly better than its
non-transgenic peers. Conclusion: one day it may be possible to tinker with
human genes to make people cleverer.
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Bullfights in Russia Canceled!
From - Karelian Society for the Defense of Animals - animals@krc.karelia.ru
MOSCOW.
Aug 27 (Interfax) - The Moscow mayor has decided to ban the bullfights in
Moscow that were planned for September 8 and 9, his spokesman said on Monday.
Though no bulls would have been killed in the Portuguese-style bullfights that
were to be held in Moscow, "the show of violence is intolerable in any
form," spokesman Sergei Tsoi told Interfax. Moreover, Mayor Yury
Luzhkov said he believes bullfights run against Russian traditions, Tsoi said.
The spokesman said the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Alexy II,
who earlier protested the planned bullfights, had expressed satisfaction with
Luzhkov's decision. The fights were to be held at the Olimpiisky sports
complex.
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Take a Bite Out of Bullfight Supporter Nissan!
From SHARK news@sharkonline.org
Here's
one you can really sink your teeth into! I have received requests from
around the US and beyond, asking the Tiger to tear into Nissan for its
commercial featuring a Nissan SUV with a bull in a bullring. I have
watched the commercial a few times, and there is no question that it glorifies
bullfighting and makes no mention of the cruel torture and horrific killing.
I am planning to take the Tiger to California in the next few weeks to deal
with Nissan. But now there is a way you can make your opinion heard
without going to Nissan and getting their corporate dribble.
Nissan is apparently so happy with their bullfighting ad, they are now running
a version of it in the New York Times. New York activist Kiley Blackman
responded by finding a man named Lee Hawkins, who is the Supervisor of
Advertising Acceptability for the New York Times.
I would strongly urge you to contact Mr. Hawkins, and cordially but firmly
complain about the cruelty and violence of bullfighting, and the way that the
Nissan ad glamorizes the cruelty while ignoring the brutal truth. There
is no way the Times would run an ad glorifying dog fighting, so why
bullfighting?
Please ask Mr. Hawkins to remove the Nissan ad. Let's send a message to
Nissan, and perhaps even get some coverage in the New York Times! This is
your opportunity to send Nissan and other corporations a message that animal
abuse does NOT sell, and is NOT good business!
Here is contact info:
Mr. Lee Hawkins
Supervisor, Advertising Acceptability
The New York Times
229 W. 43rd Street
New York, NY 10036
Phone: 212-556-7172
Fax: 212-556-8875
E-mail:
Mr. Hawkins and the New York Times needs to hear from you!
Kindest Regards,
Steve Hindi
SHARK
shindi@sharkonline.org
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Hunte's Puppy Mill Convention
From Stacy De-Lin -
stacy_de_lin@yahoo.com
A
tragic meeting is going to take place on September 22, 2001. But, we can
make this one of the greatest opportunities for the animal protection movement
in recent history!
On September 22nd, Andrew Hunte (President of the world's largest animal
brokerage -- The Hunte Corporation) is throwing a huge party for all of their
puppy mill owners. Both the President and CEO of AKC -- Alfred Cheaure,
and Vice President of AKC -- Robert Slay are scheduled as featured guest
speakers. The opportunity for the press to see AKC's strong and now
public support of the puppy mills could not be greater.
Hunte Corporation owns four large brokerage warehouses. The day-long
Hunte celebration will be held at their headquarters location, south of Joplin:
Hunte Corporation Headquarters
Sundowner Brokerage
121 North Royhill Blvd.
Goodman, MO 64843
1-800-829-4155
Your goal, if you wish to help the animal protection and rights cause, is to:
1. send this e-mail to as many animal defender friends and associates as
possible.
2. help make protest signs and help protest this event on September 22nd, 2001
in front of the Hunte Corporation Headquarters.
3. encourage the news media to cover the protest event.
4. call AKC at both 1-919-816-3524 and 1-212-696-8200 and tell them to stop
supporting the puppy mills with their protection of Hunte Corporation.
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United Poultry Concerns 3rd Annual Forum 2001
Do
Animal Welfare Campaigns & Reforms Hurt or Help Animal Rights &
Abolition?
Saturday, September 15 - Sunday, September 16
Agenda: To debate and discuss the effects of current animal welfare campaigns
and reforms on the achievement of animal rights and the effort to abolish the
status of nonhuman animals as property and resources in society. (See larger
summary below.)
Speakers: www.upc-online.org/forum2001speakers.html
* Nedim Buyukmihci, VMD, President, Association of Veterinarians for Animal
Rights
* Bruce Friedrich, Vegetarian Campaign Coordinator, PETA
* Lee Hall, Attorney, Baltimore
* Joe Miele, New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance
* Kirsten Rosenberg, Managing Editor, The Animals' Agenda
* Gary Yourofsky, Director, ADAPTT
Discussion Leaders:
* Joyce Friedman, In Defense of Animals
* P.J. McKosky, Animal Advocates of Pittsburgh
Where: September 15 - Hilton Norfolk Airport
1500 North Military Highway, Norfolk, VA 23502
Reservations: www.hilton.com
or (800) 422-7474 or (757) 466-8000
Rooms: single & double $89.00 plus tax
September 16 - United Poultry Concerns
12325 Seaside Road, Machipongo, VA 23405
(a 40 minute drive from the Hilton-transportation provided)
When: Saturday September 15, 8 AM - 4:30 PM
Sunday September 16, 9 AM - 2 PM
Registration fee: $75.00 per person, pre-paid
Students and Seniors (Over 65)- $40, per person, pre-paid
Tabling - $25, per organization, pre-paid
Send check or money order payable to United Poultry Concerns and a
self-addressed stamped envelope to: United Poultry Concerns, PO Box 150,
Machipongo, VA 23405. Registration fee must be received by Wednesday, September
12, 2001.
Meals: Registration includes morning coffee, tea, bagels, and fruit juice
on both days, and two vegan luncheon buffets.
Merchandise and Literature Will Be Available Please note: Hilton hotel
reservations received after Friday, August 31, 2001 will be accepted on a space
available basis. All room cancellations must be received by the Hilton
Reservations Department 24 hours prior to September 15, 2001 for a room refund.
Agenda: The debate in our movement over reform vs. abolition intensified in
2000, when McDonald's announced new regulations for hens used for egg
production in response to pressure from PETA. The same year, in response to a
4-year campaign by United Poultry Concerns and the Association of Veterinarians
for Animal Rights, United Egg Producers announced a phase out of the practice
of starving hens to manipulate egg production known as "forced
molting." 2000 also saw the launching of the American Humane Association's
Free Farmed certificate program in which labels are awarded to "food"
animal production companies that meet animal welfare standards set by the AHA.
In 2001 debates rage over legislation to ban gestation crates for sows in
Florida and over the promotion of "humane" veal. The Forum will look
at how these and other welfare events impact on animal rights and the goal of
abolishing animal exploitation. For example, it will explore the differences
between the AHA's Free Farmed program and PETA's campaign to win concessions
from McDonald's and Burger King and why, for example, a self-declared
abolitionist group might support one campaign over the other despite their
seeming similarities. Here in brief are some published opinions the Forum will
cover.
"Let's do nothing to improve conditions and wait for the whole world to
become vegan before chickens even get a modicum of relief. Uh huh."
"I don't know about you, but I certainly don't intend to give McDonald's a
break. I will do everything I can to put them out of business."
"If you are enslaved in tiny, crowded, filthy cages, how much worse off
are you going to be if they starve you for two weeks?"
"How important is our purity? For example, is it more important to promote
only our version of veganism, or is it more important to achieve 'results' as
best and as quickly as we can?"
"It's about getting people to address their diet-not getting McDonald's
to."
"The concept of humane veal is a great mistake. It confuses the veal issue
just as the general public was beginning to clearly perceive the problem."
"I find it utterly repulsive that people would have chickens force-molted
and crammed in tinier cages simply so the case of veganism is more 'clear
cut.'"
"McDonald's' action is important because it is the first time that a major
U.S. food company has announced that the treatment of farmed animals merits
attention in its own right. For the first time, the animals themselves have
been declared to matter."
"No wonder the animal 'movement' is so pathetically ineffectual. We have
PETA promoting McDonald's, Temple Grandin, designer of 'humane'
slaughterhouses, celebrated as a 'hero' of the 'movement,' and Jane Goodall
promoting milk and dairy products. I fail to see why the exploiters feel they
need organizations like the Beef or Dairy Council. The 'movement' will promote
animal exploitation."
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On Behalf of Chickens Everywhere_
by Guila Manchester
How would you like to live in a cage
Crowded with others so tight
You couldn't stretch out or spread your wings,
Not once from morning 'til night?
How would you like them to clip your beak
So you couldn't even preen?
Your oil gland would get all plugged up;
You wouldn't be fit to be seen.
How would you like them to make you molt
Until every feather was shed?
Because it made you lay more eggs.
(At least, that's what they said).
How would you like it never to know
How it feels to scratch in the dirt,
To stand on wire day after day
While your poor sore feet just hurt?
What does it take to make you see
That chickens have feelings, too?
If these awful things are ever to stop,
It depends on folks like you.
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Memorable Quote
"If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first
thing from
which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food,
because
...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of
an act
which is contrary to the moral feeling -- killing.
~ Leo Tolstoy
(1828-1910)
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