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Issue # 10/31/01
Editor ~ JJswans@aol.com
Journalists ~ Park StRanger@aol.com
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THE NINE ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE ARE:
1 ~ Rough Times by JJswans@aol.com
2 ~ Fur Free Friday
3 ~ Job Opportunity
4 ~ Anthrax & Dogs
5 ~ 50 Million Animals in Mass Test Plan
6 ~ More Environmental Rollbacks
7 ~ Animalaware.org
8 ~ I Wish....
9 ~ Memorable Quote
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Rough Times
by JJswans@aol.com
Since September 11th, the outpouring of
charitable aid from Americans for the victims of the attack on New York and
Washington has been amazing and wonderful to see. However, what has been
forgotten is the victims that Americans have helped in the past, and need
continuing support.
Lately, we've been hearing of more and more reports that privately funded
animal shelters and sanctuaries have been either forced to close their doors or
are in danger of having to do so. This jeopardizes the animals in their
care once again, and even no-kill shelters may be forced to euthanize if they
can't remain open.
As we approach the season of giving, please remember our animal friends who
have no other source of funding but those of us who love and respect
them. There will be no government agencies to step in to bail out
non-profit shelters. We are the only hope they have.
Check with your local shelter to see how they are managing. Even in good
times they usually have a wish list that can be filled by caring animal
advocates. And while you're there, spend a little time with a warm fuzzy
and leave your other cares behind, even if just for a little while.
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Fur Free Friday
Fur
Free Friday is quickly approaching (Nov 23) and IDA is asking activists to send
us information on your event so we can post it on our website
<<www.furkills.org>>. You can also order free anti-fur materials
from our website. Please make sure to visit our website often in the
coming weeks, as new updates will be added daily. www. furkills.org will
be an invaluable resource for education and activism as FFF approaches.
Despite our gains in the struggle against fur, we are now at a critical
juncture. Young celebrities and designers are flaunting animal skins once
again, and the public seems to be swayed. More than ever before, we need to
join together to speak out against the 40 million animals who are trapped,
imprisoned, gassed, strangled and anally electrocuted by the fur trade.
Take action on this international day of protest and help spread compassion by
joining in the struggle to end the fur trade.
Although the WTC tragedy and the current state the world is in has led to huge
unrest in our society, we feel that this is a great time to spread the message
of compassion. We anticipate that Fur Free Friday events can be most effective
this year if the message of peace and compassion is highly emphasized. We would
love to hear your feedback on this.
For further questions or concerns, please call Joyce Friedman at
212-462-3068.
And visit www.furkills.org to inform us of your event or to learn of an event
in your area.
In Defense of Animals
www.idausa.org
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Job Opportunity
from Snugglezzz@aol.com
Contact
info below. Animal Haven, a no-kill, animal shelter in New York City, is
embarking on a new project. We're opening an animal sanctuary/rehabilitation
center in Upstate NY. The sanctuary will start w/dogs & eventually expand
to cats. We're looking for a dynamic person to run/live there. We want to
create a homelike setting so this person would live in this house w/these dogs.
The dogs vary. Some have behavioral issues & some are medically fragile.
Some would be for lifetime care while others will be coming for training &
going back to the shelter for adoption. Strong dog behavior skills are
essential to the position. Other preferred skills include program development,
being able to manage a growing staff, dealing w/medical needs & a deep love
for animals. All applicants must have a valid driver's
license & be willing to relocate to the beautiful Catskill Mountains.
Please send resumes to Info@animalhavenshelter.org or fax them to 212 568
6101. Jo Anne Rando-Moon; Network Coordinator; Best Friends Animal Sanctuary,
Kanab, UT 84741; 435-644-2001 Ext. 254; www.bfnetwork3@bestfriends.org;
www.bestfriends.org
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Anthrax & Dogs
from Snugglezzz@aol.com
I've
spoken with some people @ CDC and the AVMA regarding anthrax and K9s.
Unfortunately, there is very little information out there, but here is some
info:
Dogs are 500 - 1000 times more resistant to Anthrax than people. The most
common form in dogs is the gastrointestinal form since most dogs get anthrax by
eating contaminated meat. I've told everyone that for working dogs, the most
common route would be inhalation (dogs searching mail, etc). There is some
evidence that it is less likely for dogs to get inhalation since most of the
bacteria get stopped in their nose since it is so long. The thought is that if
the dogs get inhalation form, the signs would be respiratory distress
(breathing hard, acting very sick, bleeding from the nose/mouth). If the dog
gets to this level, death is very likely.
Antibiotics that work on anthrax in the dog include: Penicillins,
oxytetracyclines, and ciproflaxacin. Bottom line, if you think your dog was
exposed, I'd DEFINITELY start treatment while the item is being tested.
As with a lot of poisonings, the success rate is very high if you intervene
early, there is low risk treating even if its not anthrax and the prognosis is
VERY POOR if it is anthrax and you didn't treat BEFORE signs occur.
Paul S. McNamara, DVM, DACVS
Veterinary Specialties Referral Center
1641 Main Street, Route 5S
Pattersonville, NY 12137
Ph: 518-887-2260
Fax: 518-887-2265
Website: www.veterinaryspecialties.com
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50 Million Animals in Mass Test
Plan
Andrew Osborn in Brussels
Saturday, October 27, 2001
The Guardianhttp://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,581783,00.html
A
European commission plan to test thousands of chemicals for toxicity will initiate
the biggest animal testing programme Europe has ever seen and require the death
of at least 50m animals, official estimates seen by the Guardian show. The plan
- which involves testing a minimum of 30,0000 chemicals found in everyday
products to make sure they are safe for human health and the environment - has
been condemned by animal rights groups. It has also been criticised by
environmentalists who think it doesn't go far enough and the chemical industry
itself.
The sheer scale of the programme, which is being considered by the European
parliament, is only now beginning to emerge.
"This would be the biggest ever mass animal poisoning programme in
Europe's history," said Wendy Higgins, campaigns director for the British
Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV). "In all likelihood the
majority of the testing will go to the UK and these tests are about as cruel as
you can get and will involve a horrific amount of suffering for a huge amount
of animals."
A report commissioned by the environment department earlier this year and seen
by the Guardian estimates that up to 50.2m animals would be required, including
4.4m fish.
The BUAV goes even further. It says a bare minimum of 63.6m animals would be
required, claiming that at least 2,123 animals are needed to test every
chemical.
The tests would involve monkeys, rabbits, guinea pigs, mice, dogs, rats,
hamsters, birds and fish and require scientists to administer bigger and bigger
doses of the suspect chemicals in order to observe the side-effects.
Force-feeding in this way can cause bleeding from the eyes and nose,
convulsions, vomiting and ultimately a slow death.
The rationale behind the EU programme is to protect the public. At least 30,000
chemicals are routinely released untested into the environment in everyday
products such as plastic and car upholstery.
Many of the 30,000 substances are suspected of causing birth defects, allergies
and learning problems. There are also fears that they may be doing untold
damage to the environment and wildlife.
Such a large programme would provide a much-needed boost to Britain's contract
animal testing industry, which is by far the biggest in Europe, and provide
years and possibly even decades of work for the likes of Huntingdon Life
Sciences, Quintiles and Covance.
But the BUAV, which admits there is a genuine need to test the chemicals,
rejects the use of animals and has drawn up an alternative non-animal testing
programme.
"Politicians can't keep using the line that animals need to suffer because
there are no alternatives, because there are," said Ms Higgins. "If
you put the necessary funding into alternative methods now, a non-animal
strategy would be possible in five years' time."
The BUAV has commissioned research to show that in vitro and other alternatives
exist but it admits that some of these testing methods have yet to be
scientifically validated.
The European commission argues there is no other choice.
"Our main consideration is to protect the environment and human
health," spokesman Per Haugaard said. "It's a trade-off. Do you want
safe chemicals or not?"
"To the extent that alternative methods are available and reliable they
will be used. We are sensitive to and aware of these arguments."
A spokesman for the UK-based Research Defence Society warned last night that
animal rights groups were trying to kill off the testing strategy at an early
stage but admitted the idea of using animals to test chemicals which were
already in use might be "a bit wrong-headed and unnecessary".
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More Environmental Rollbacks
New York Times Editorial
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/29/opinion/29MON2.html?searchpv=nytToday
from judyreedco@earthlink.net
While
the nation's attention is focused on the war against terrorism, the Bush
administration is moving, both overtly and covertly, to dismantle major
elements of Bill Clinton's environmental legacy. It is difficult at a moment of
crisis to devote much thought to things like mining rules or snowmobile bans.
But if the president's top officials have time to undermine environmental
regulations, the public needs to pay attention as well.
The war against the Clinton rules goes back to Inauguration Day, when the new
administration suspended a half-dozen directives approved in Mr. Clinton's
final weeks. Among these was a rule reducing the arsenic content in drinking
water. The arsenic blunder came to symbolize the administration's fecklessness
on environmental issues generally, and only when Christie Whitman,
administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, promised to review the
matter did the issue recede. But as Interior Secretary Gale Norton now reminds
us, the demolition effort proceeds.
On Thursday, Ms. Norton wheeled out her subordinates at the Bureau of Land
Management to announce the reversal of Clinton-era regulations involving
hard-rock mining for minerals like gold, copper and lead. The Clinton rules
would have imposed stricter environmental standards on mining operations and,
for the first time, would have given federal officials the power to block mines
likely to cause "substantial irreparable harm" to water quality and
other natural resources. The department claimed that the rules had been concocted
at the "eleventh hour" and were unduly onerous. They had in fact been
in the works for years, and did little more than impose on the hard-rock mining
industry some of the same standards that apply to other extractive industries.
At least Ms. Norton was up front about it. Much of the assault on the Clinton
rules is occurring under the radar, in obscure courtrooms where industry is
challenging them, and in closed-door negotiations that shield the
administration from public accountability. Industry lawsuits against government
rules are hardly unusual. What is unusual is the administration's decision to
use this litigation as an excuse to weaken, through settlement talks, popular
rules that it would prefer not to attack directly.
A small but telling case in point is the administration's sneaky effort to
reverse a Clinton rule phasing out snowmobiles from Yellowstone National Park -
a rule buttressed by overwhelming public approval and years of conscientious
science. Under pressure from various industry lawsuits, however, the
administration has agreed to review the matter and issue what is widely
expected to be a more industry-friendly proposal next year.
In like fashion, the administration has signaled a retreat from Mr. Clinton's
most ambitious land conservation measure - a Forest Service rule protecting 60
million largely untouched acres of national forest from new road building, new
oil and gas leasing and most new logging. Nine separate lawsuits have been
filed against the plan, by private companies and state governments. In each
case, the Justice Department has failed to defend the conservation rule in
court. Nor, from the look of things, does it intend to. The sad truth is
that the Bush administration would like nothing better than a court-ordered excuse
to rewrite the plan so as to accommodate the very commercial activity Mr.
Clinton had hoped to prevent.
Another possible rollback that has received virtually no public attention
involves the nation's diminishing wetlands. After a decade of struggle, environmentalists
finally persuaded the Clinton administration to close a loophole in the clean
water laws that had exposed many thousands of acres of valuable wetlands to
commercial development. In the week before Earth Day last April, when Mr. Bush
was trying to atone for the arsenic fiasco, Mrs. Whitman promised to keep the
loophole closed. Within days, however, the Justice Department began talks with
the home builders and other industry groups - talks from which the
environmentalists say they have been excluded. Mrs. Whitman's resolve may
again be tested.
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Animalaware.org
I
would like to announce the brand new site for the AWARE Shelter in
Guatemala. We are online as for the 1st. of October 2001.
The AWARE shelter at Hound Heights (Sumpango, Sacatepequez) is a No-Kill
shelter for the rescue and rehabilitation of abused and abandoned domestic
animals in Guatemala. The mistreatment and abandonment of domestic animals is a
chronic problem in Guatemala. At the Shelter, the animals are cured of any
illness from which they may be suffering (most commonly mange and
malnutrition), given all necessary vaccinations, socialized with others of
their kind and with humans, and put up for adoption. It is AWARE’s policy to
spay/neuter all the animals that come to us.
AWARE is funded through donations, membership subscriptions, and fund-raising
events. As well as the Shelter, we run free or low-cost spay/neuter and rabies
vaccination clinics throughout Guatemala. We also run school visits to help
raise the level of animal welfare, pet care, and environmental awareness
amongst young people in this country.
Please visit us at: http://www.animalaware.org/
If you need more information or plan a trip to Guatemala please don't hesitate
to contact us and pay us a visit!!
Tel: Xenii (+502) 519 3669, Gina (+502) 479516
E-mail: contact@animalaware.org
desiree@tofuface.com
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I Wish.................
by Guila Manchester
I wish I knew it wasn't real
That little calves turn into veal.
I wish that bulls could find relief
From always ending up as beef.
I wish that cows could eat and moo
And not be pieces in a stew.
I wish that goats could play and bleat
And not turn into hunks of meat.
I wish that chickens just laid eggs
Instead of being thighs and legs.
I wish that ducks could simply quack
And not be used to make a snack.
I wish that geese could honk and hiss
And butcher's blocks forever miss.
I wish that turkeys, fat or thinner,
Did not end up as someone's dinner.
I wish that sheep could just make wool
And not make someone's tummy full.
I wish that lambs could run and play
And not end on a grocer's tray.
I wish that horses never knew
The things they use in making glue.
I wish that pigs could live and mate
And not be pork chops on a plate.
But since all people have to eat
And some, at least, require meat,
I'll try to make one wish come true
And ask for help from each of you.
That while they live, their lives be free
From every form of cruelty.
And death be quick and clean and sure
And pain the least that they endure.
For every creature born to live
Deserves the joy that life can give.
And when the time for death draws near
Deserves to die with little fear.
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Memorable Quote
"No
humane being, past the thoughtless age of boyhood, will wantonly murder any creature
which holds it's life by the same tenure that he does."
~ Henry David Thoreau
(1817-1862)
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