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The
official ANIMAL RIGHTS ONLINE newsletter
Publisher ~ EnglandGal@aol.com
Issue # 09/30/01
Editor ~ JJswans@aol.com
Journalists ~ Park StRanger@aol.com
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MichelleRivera1@aol.com
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THE ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE ARE:
1 ~ World Farm Animals Day
2 ~ My Cats Are Now Vegans by Park StRanger@aol.com
3 ~ 50 Deadly Consequences of Lab Animal Experiments
4 ~ Urgent: Homeless Animals Need Your Help
5 ~ Eat The Baby
6 ~ Memorable Quote
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World Farm Animals Day
http://www.wfad.org/
World
Farm Animals Day was launched in 1983 to expose, memorialize, and mitigate the
suffering of billions of innocent, sentient animals in the world's factory
farms and slaughterhouses. The date of October 2 honors the birthday of Mahatma
Gandhi, foremost champion of humane farming. It marks the one day a year when
every person is conscience-bound to do something to relieve the agony of farmed
animals.
Last year, 30 governors and large city mayors issued special proclamations, 44
activist groups held vigils at the U.S. and state capitols, and more than one
hundred communities throughout the U.S. and a dozen other countries hosted
festivals, marches, picketing, leafleting, information tables, lectures, and
exhibits.
The focus of this year's 19th annual observance of World Farm Animals Day is on
preventing export of our abominable factory farming practices to developing
nations. We are taking advantage of the upcoming World Food Summit to be held
in Rome in early November to publicize this issue on a global scale.
For a listing of World Farm Animals Day events, see the following webpage:
World Farm Animals Day 2001 Events
http://www.wfad.org/wfad_events.html
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My Cats Are Now Vegans
by Park StRanger@aol.com
Think
back. Way back to when you were an omnivore, if you ever were. Did
you think people of the vegetarian persuasion were nutcases? How about
them vegans? How about them vegans that made their pets go vegetarian,
didn't that just boil your meateating blood that someone could be so uncaring
about a house cat's natural need for salmon and cow? Actually, if one argues
for a natural diet for cats, it would not be commercial pet food, it would be
live mice and bugs. Cats don't stalk and bring down cows in the wild.
The year before I became a vegetarian, one of my coworkers was a fruitarian, he
ate only foods that didn't result in the death of the plant. Back in 1977
this guy seemed to me to be a profound nutcase, most bizarre in his philosophy
of ahimsa extended to plants. Embedded forever in my memory is the day he
danced into the office and proudly announced he had just had a solid
movement. Apparently it had been a while.
Nevertheless, he watched me go vegetarian, and he probably played some part in
it. As did my first cat, who about that same time, taught me the valuable
lesson that all lifeforms wish to maximize pleasure and minimize pain.
And now, from an imaginary perspective of when I was young, I have become one
of those vegan nutcase activists and my cats are vegans. Nowadays, I
believe in Government conspiracies to promote deadly poisons like animal flesh,
eggs and milk. And that leads me to believe it could even be possible
that the recent cattle mutilations in New Mexico and the human abductions which
regularly take place in the same area, are not of alien origin, but instead a
project by the National Dairy Board to study the implantation of human embryos
in cows to make a more digestible milk product. But I am only speculating
here.
One of the real ethical and aesthetic problems we vegans face is feeding our
companion animals an animal based commercial pet food diet. In the last
couple of years, the list of unsavory ingredients which go into pet food has
become more well known. It has always been obvious that Dog Food and Cat
Food were less wholesome than the feces contaminated, possibly prion
contaminated meat which IS approved for Human consumption. But after I
read the news reports about what is in most commercial pet food (slaughterhouse
waste, downer cows and possibly road kill, euthanized cats and dogs, etc.) I
had to find an alternative pet food.
Two years ago I did a web search for vegan cat food and all I found was
VegeCat, a wonderful supplement that gives cats all the special nutrients they
need in a diet you prepare of rice, oats, soy and other ingredients. A
friend of mine had tried to switch his cats to this blend, but he was
unsuccessful. I still think it may be a good product for some cats and
they also make vegetarian dog food. You can check them out at
http://www.vegepet.com/
Feed Cats
& Dogs Without Animal Products
They also have a relatively new product, a make
your own cat kibble which is worth reading about.
Early last summer I saw a link at the PETA website for vegan pet food and I was
directed to www.petfoodshop.com, home of Evolution brand pet food, makers of
vegan dog, cat and ferret food. I was pleased by what I read at their
website and ordered a ten pound bag of vegan cat kibble. My cats were
easier to switch to a dry vegan kibble because they were used to dry
food. Evolution also makes two different vegan moist cat foods in cans,
but I have found that my cats prefer the kibble. I talked to Lynn
Crandall, President of Evolution for over a half hour about their
product. One of the things she suggested was using tuna or the vegan
product Tuno mixed into the Evolution wet food during the change-over
period.
It is recommended that you start by adding small amounts of vegan cat food into
the food they are used to, and over a two week period add more and more of the
vegan food until they make the transition. My cats made the transition a
bit faster. Adding a bit minced vegetables or sauce makes it a more
interesting dining experience and is recommended by the veterinarian who
developed these pet formulas, Dr. Eric Weisman. My cats love a tablespoon
or two of fresh grated yellow or zucchini squash with their kibble. They
also love a teaspoon of Tofutti Sour Supreme as a garnish, or a tablespoon of
tomato sauce.
Evolution feline dry formula is a kibble prepared from whole wheat flour, corn,
carrots, soy and other human quality food ingredients. It has been
scientifically formulated to be a complete and balanced food for cats including
the amino acid taurine and all the other specific amino acids, vitamins and
minerals that cats need, and all from vegan sources. Evolution Dog and
Cat foods have been tested on dogs and cats for over a decade and have been
found to be a superior food, adding years to their lives.
My cats love it, and I enjoy finding new vegetables to use as a garnish to add
excitement to my cat's meals. Why should we feed our animal friends
nastier stuff than we would ever consider in our diets? We don't have to
any longer.
Check out Evolution for answers to your questions about vegetarianism for dogs
and cats.
www.petfoodshop.com
Petfoodshop.com
- Health food for Dogs, Cat, and Ferretss.
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50 Deadly Consequences of Lab
Animal Experiments
From Artemisd123@hotmail.com
Please
review and save this information. It is important to remember (memorize?)
a few of these points so you can use them in discussions with friends and
family members.
Source: Americans for Medical Advancement
http://www.curedisease.com/Harms.html
You can also order this as a pamphlet for $1.00 through the AFMA website above.
Please save this info and reference it in your letters and discussions with
friends, co-workers and family members. We need to get the word out and
"chip away at the mountainous lie of animal research."
50 DEADLY CONSEQUENCES OF LAB ANIMAL EXPERIMENTS
Americans for Medical Advancement
http://www.curedisease.com/Harms.html
* Smoking was thought non-carcinogenic because smoking-related cancer is
difficult to reproduce in lab animals. Many continued to smoke and to die from
cancer.[2]
* Benzene was not withdrawn from use as an industrial chemical despite clinical
and epidemiological evidence that exposure caused leukemia in humans, because
manufacturer-supported tests failed to reproduce leukemia in mice.[1]
* Animal experiments on rats, hamsters, guinea pigs, mice, monkeys, and baboons
revealed no link between glass fibers and cancer. Not until 1991, due to human
studies, did OSHA label it carcinogenic.[3][4][5]
* Though arsenic was a known human carcinogen for decades, scientists still
found little evidence in animals to support the conclusion as late as 1977.[6]
This was the accepted view until it was produced in lab animals.[7][8][9]
* Many continued to be exposed to asbestos and die because scientists could not
reproduce the cancer in lab animals.
* Pacemakers and heart valves were delayed in development because of
physiological differences between animals they were designed on and humans.
* Animal models of heart disease failed to show that a high cholesterol/high
fat diet increases the risk of coronary artery disease. Instead of changing
their eating habits to prevent the disease, people continued their lifestyles
with a false sense of
security.
* Patients received medications that were harmful and/or ineffective due to
animal models of stroke.
* Animal studies predicted that beta-blockers would not lower blood pressure.
This withheld their development.[10][11][12] Even animal experimenters admitted
the failure of animal models of hypertension in this regard, but in the
meantime, there were thousands more stroke victims.
* Surgeons thought they had perfected radial keratotomy, surgery performed to
enable better vision without glasses, on rabbits, but the procedure blinded the
first human patients. The rabbit cornea is able to regenerate on the underside,
whereas the human cornea can only regenerate on the surface. Surgery is now
performed only on the surface.
* Combined heart lung transplants were also "perfected" on animals,
but the first 3 patients all died within 23 days.[13] Of 28 patients operated on
between 1981 and 1985, 8 died peri-operatively, and 10 developed obliterative
bronchiolitis, a lung complication that the experimental dogs did not get. Of
those 10, 4 died and 3 never
breathed again without the aid of a respirator. Obliterative bronchiolitis
turned out to be the most important risk of the operation.[14]
* Cyclosporin A inhibits organ rejection, and its development was watershed in
the success of transplant operations. Had human evidence not overwhelmed
unpromising evidence from animals, it would never have been released.[15]
* Animal experiments failed to predict the kidney toxicity of the general
anesthetic methoxyflurane. Many people lost all kidney function.
* Animal experiments delayed the use of muscle relaxants during general anesthesia.
* Research on animals failed to reveal bacteria as a cause of ulcers and
delayed treating ulcers with antibiotics.
* More than half of the 198 new medications released between 1976 and 1985 were
either withdrawn or relabeled secondary to severe unpredicted side effects.[16]
These side effects included complications like lethal dysrhythmias, heart
attacks, kidney failure, seizures, respiratory arrest, liver failure, and
stroke, among others.
* Flosint, an arthritis medication, was tested on rats, monkeys and dogs; all
tolerated the medication well. In humans, however it caused deaths.
* Zelmid, an antidepressant, was tested on rats and dogs without incident. It
caused severe neurological problems in humans.
* Nomifensine, another antidepressant, was linked to kidney and liver failure,
anemia, and death in humans. Animal testing had given it a clean, side
effect-free bill of health.
* Amrinone, a medication used for heart failure, was tested on numerous animals
and was released without trepidation. Humans developed thrombocytopenia, a lack
of the type of blood cells that are needed for clotting.
* Fialuridine, an antiviral medication, caused liver damage in 7 out of 15
people. 5 eventually died and 2 more needed liver transplants.[17] It worked
well in woodchucks.[18][19]
* Clioquinol, an antidiarrheal, passed tests in rats, cats, dogs and rabbits.
It was pulled off the shelves all over the world in 1982 after it was found to
cause blindness and paralysis in humans.
* Eraldin, a medication for heart disease, caused 23 deaths despite the fact
that no untoward effects could be shown in animals. When introduced, scientists
said it noted for the thoroughness of the toxicity studies on animals. It
caused blindness and deaths in humans. Afterwards, scientists were unable to
reproduce these results in animals.[20]
* Opren, an arthritis medication, killed 61 people. Over 3500 cases of severe
reactions have been documented. Opren had been tested on monkeys and other
animals without problems.
* Zomax, another arthritis drug, killed 14 people and caused many more to
suffer.
* The dose of isoproterenol, a medication used to treat asthma, was worked out
in animals. Unfortunately, it was much too toxic for humans. 3500 asthmatics
died in Great Britain alone due to overdose. It is still difficult to
reproduce these results in animals.[21][22][23][24][25][26]
* Methysergide, a medication used to treat headaches, led to retroperitoneal
fibrosis, or severe scarring of the heart, kidneys, and blood vessels in the
abdomen.[27] Scientists have been unable to reproduce this in animals.[28]
* Suprofen, an arthritis drug, was withdrawn from the market when patients
suffered kidney toxicity. Prior to its release researchers had this to say
about the animal tests:[29][30] "...excellent safety profile. No
...cardiac, renal, or CNS [central nervous system] effects in any
species."
* Surgam, another arthritis drug, was designed to have a stomach protection
factor that would prevent stomach ulcers, a common side effect of many
arthritis drugs. Although promising in lab animal tests, ulcers occurred in
human trials.[31][32]
* Selacryn, a diuretic, was thoroughly tested on animals. It was withdrawn in
1979 after 24 people died from drug induced liver failure.[33][34]
* Perhexiline, a heart medication, was withdrawn when it produced liver failure
that had not been predicted by animal studies. Even when they knew they were
looking for a particular type of liver failure, they could not induce it in
animals.[35]
* Domperidone, designed as a treatment for nausea and vomiting, made human
hearts beat irregularly and had to be withdrawn. Scientists were unable to
reproduce this in dogs even with 70 times the normal dose.[36][37]
* Mitoxantrone, a treatment for cancer produced heart failure in humans. It was
extensively tested on dogs, which did not manifest this effect.[38][39]
* Carbenoxalone was supposed to prevent formation of gastric ulcers but caused
people to retain water to the point of heart failure. After scientists knew
what it did to humans they tested it on rats, mice, monkeys, rabbits, without
reproducing this effect. [40][41]
* Clindamycin, an antibiotic, causes a bowel condition called pseudomenbraneous
colitis. It was tested in rats and dogs every day for one year. They tolerate
doses 10 times greater than humans.[42][43][44]
* Animal experiments did not support the efficacy of valium-type drugs during
development or after.[45][46]
* Pharmacia & Upjohn discontinued clinical tests of its Linomide (roquinimex)
tablets for the treatment of multiple sclerosis after several patients suffered
heart attacks. Of 1,200 patients, 8 suffered heart attacks as a result of
taking the medication. Animal experiments had not predicted this.
* Cylert (pemoline), a medication used to treat Attention Deficit Hyperactive
Disorder, caused liver failure in 13 children. Eleven either died or needed a
liver transplant.
* Eldepryl (selegiline), a medication used to treat Parkinson's disease, was
found to induce very high blood pressure. This side effect has not been seen in
animals, where it is used to treat senile dementia and endocrine disorders.
* The diet drug combination of fenfluramine and dexfenfluramine was linked to
heart valve abnormalities and taken off the market although animal studies had
never revealed heart abnormalities."[47]
* The diabetes medication troglitazone, better known as Rezulin, was tested on
animals without significant problems, but caused liver damage in humans. The
company admitted that at least one patient had died and another had to undergo
a liver transplant as a result.[48]
* The plant digitalis has been used for centuries to treat heart disorders.
However, clinical trials of the digitalis-derived drug were delayed because it
caused high blood pressure in animals. Human evidence overrode. As a result,
digoxin, an analogue of digitalis, has saved countless lives. Many more could
it have survived had digitalis been released sooner.[49][50][51][52]
* FK 506, now called Tacrolimus, is an anti-rejection agent that was almost
shelved before proceeding to clinical trials due to severe toxicity in
animals.[53][54] Animal studies suggested that the combination of FK 506 with
cyclosporin might prove more useful.[55] In fact, just the opposite proved true
in humans.[56]
* Animal experiments suggested that corticosteroids would help septic shock, a
severe bacterial infection of the blood.[57][58] Unfortunately, humans
reacted differently. This treatment increased the death rate in cases of septic
shock.[59]
* Despite the ineffectiveness of penicillin in his rabbits, Alexander Fleming
used the antibiotic on a very sick patient since he had nothing else to try.
Luckily, Fleming's initial tests were not on guinea pigs or hamsters, it kills
them. Howard Florey, the Nobel Prize winner credited with co-discovering and
manufacturing penicillin, stated: "How fortunate we didn't have these
animal tests in the 1940s, for penicillin would probably never been granted a
license, and possibly the whole field of antibiotics might never have been
realized."
* Fluoride was withheld as a cavity preventative initially because it caused
cancer in rats.[60][61][62]
* The notoriously dangerous drugs thalidomide and DES were tested in animals
and released. Tens of thousands suffered and died as a result.
* Animal experiments misinformed researchers about how rapidly HIV replicates.
Based on this false information, patients did not receive prompt therapies and
their lives were shortened.
* Animal-based research delayed the development of the polio vaccine, according
to Dr. Albert Sabin, its inventor. The first rabies and polio vaccines worked
well on animals but crippled or killed the people who tried them.
* Researchers who work with animals have succumbed to illness and death due to
exposure to diseases that though harmless to the animal host (such as Hepatitis
B) but kill humans.
* Time, money, and resources devoted to these experiments could have gone to
human-based research. Clinical studies, in vitro research, autopsies,
post-marketing drug surveillance, computer modeling, epidemiology, and genetic
research pose no hazard to humans and provide accurate results. Importantly,
animal experiments have exhausted resources that could have been dedicated to
educating the public about health hazards and health maintenance, therein
diminishing the incidence of disease that require treatment.
ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION DOES NOT MAKE SENSE
HUMAN-BASED SCIENCE PREVENTS DISEASE AND CREATES VALID THERAPIES
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Urgent
Homeless Animals Need Your Help
From FeralPlace@aol.com
Permanent URL for this is: http://www.theanimalspirit.com/crisis.html
We
are all painfully aware of the tragic events of September 11, 2001. The only
good that came out of that horrific day is the compassion that the human race
displayed; not only amongst one another, but also towards the companion animals
who were affected by the disaster. Literally hundreds of people from all across
the country, even from overseas, offered to adopt and/or foster an animal who
was left orphaned because of the disaster.
This was not the first time something like this has happened. In New York, a
cat named Scarlett walked through a fire five times to save her kittens. The
story hit all the newspapers. More than 6,000 concerned people called the
shelter where Scarlett and her family were staying. Adoption offers poured in.
During a crisis, people make room for an animal in need. During a tragedy,
people who never planned on having a companion animal suddenly feel the urge to
open their home to one. So where are all these people while shelters are
killing healthy animals because they need to make room for the next batch to
come in?
"Fluffy," who was dropped off by "Jane Doe" because she was
moving, didn't get her picture in the newspaper. This cat wasn't a
"celebrity" and therefore she quietly died, no one ever knowing she
was there.
"Fido," dropped off by "John Doe," was just another dog
dumped at the shelter by an irresponsible guardian. There was nothing
remarkable about "Fido's" surrender; he was just one of hundreds that
passed through the shelter's door. "Fido" also quietly died, his
demise never considered a "tragedy."
Every shelter and rescue in the USA is suffering through a disaster at this
very moment. Companion animals are surrendered on a daily basis by people who
have suddenly developed allergies or just have no need for a pet anymore. They
are abandoned by people who neglected to spay or neuter their companion animals
and now have a litter of babies and do not want them.
Shelters and rescues have faced a disaster long before September 11th. Most
people are aware that animals are being killed because there are not enough
homes. I can't help but think -- where is their cavalry? Are they waiting for a
formal announcement?
Well, here it is -- here is your call to action. There is a crisis happening
right this minute at your local shelter or rescue. Animals are dying because
they don't have homes. They need you now, they needed you yesterday, they will
need you tomorrow. If you have room to take in a companion animal because of a
crisis, right now is the time to do it. Please do not become desensitized to
all the deaths that occur on a daily basis behind shelter doors; do not accept
animals dying on the street as the "norm." This is a tragedy.
These animals are facing a quiet crisis, an ignored disaster -- and they are
paying for it with their lives.
Shell
theanimalspirit@hotmail.com
September 28, 2001
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Eat The Baby
by Nicola Thomas
from Maynard S. Clark - 4 October 1998
When mum gave birth to a baby
All chorused "Well done mum!"
But mother didn't say a word
Because this mum was dumb.
When baby was a few days old,
Their mouths began to water....
The innocent little baby would
Very soon be gone for slaughter!
When baby was but two weeks old,
They put her on the scales:
From there into a wooden box
Made fast with iron nails.
They took the baby to a place
Which had a crimson floor;
The walls were coated too, of course
With crimson guts and gore.
They dragged the baby from the box
Onto the bloody ground,
And when the shocks were sent through her,
She didn't make a sound.
They hung the baby by her feet
Onto a moving chain.
But no-one stopped to ask about
The excruciating pain.
The baby traveled upside down
And met a bloody knife.
And when the knife plunged into her,
She parted with her life!
The baby hung there motionless,
Her entrails swam below:
The reason for her violent death?
The lamb would never know.
They ripped the skin off her back,
And hacked her into two.
The reason for the baby's death
Was simply hot lamb stew!
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Memorable Quote
"A
reduction in beef and other meat consumption is the most potent single act you
can take to halt the destruction of our environment and preserve our natural
resources. Our choices do matter. What's healthiest for each of us
personally is also healthiest for the life support system of our precious, but
wounded planet."
~~ John Robbins, author
Diet for a New America,
and President, EarthSave Foundation
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