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The official ANIMAL RIGHTS ONLINE newsletter

 
Publisher   ~ EnglandGal@aol.com                                    Issue # 11/28/01
      Editor     ~ JJswans@aol.com
  Journalists ~ Park StRanger@aol.com
                    ~ MichelleRivera1@aol.com
                    ~
sbest1@elp.rr.com


  THE NINE ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE ARE:

  1  ~ A Pizza The Action  by ParkStRanger@aol.com
  2  ~
Free Business Card Offers
  3  ~
Avon Stops Funding Animal Research
  4  ~
Warning (Nylabone)
  5  ~
Kabul's Lion, Still King of the Beasts
  6  ~
Barbaric Animal Pound in Gatesville, Texas
  7  ~
Job Opportunity
  8  ~
Sheepskin, Pigskin, Deerskin
  9  ~ Memorable Quote

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A Pizza the Action,
ARO Starts New Campaign For Vegan Pizza

by ParkStRanger@aol.com

I miss pizza.  I miss the convenience of having home delivery of hot greasy pizza.  Back when I was a lacto vegetarian, it wasn't so hard to talk my coworkers into ordering an all veggie pizza to be delivered to our workplace.  But being a vegan really cuts down my options for this guilty pleasure.  I either make one myself, which rarely happens, or I rely on the one place in town that makes an interesting vegan pizza.  Even their pizza, while tasty with unusual vegetables like broccoli and zucchini, seems to be incomplete without that ingredient that really makes a pizza a pizza, cheese.

Being discriminating and sophisticated consumers, we vegans are more careful about what we put in our mouths than the typical omnivore.  We don't care to ingest condensed moldy mammary fluids from another species.  Nor do we want the other concentrated things that come with it, the hormones, the pesticides, herbicides and other lifeformicides.  And we don't want to support the veal industry which is a direct result of impregnating dairy cows to make them produce milk.

But cheese in dips, sauces, enchiladas, chile rellenos, chile con queso, cheddar cheese with a piece of apple pie, bleu cheese on a slice of apple....ahhh... the memories...and that incredible Italian-American creation - the pizza,...sigh... of which I have fond memories associated with when I was in college, learning how to be an animal rights advocate, those long nights with vegetarian pizza and beer and other stimulants as we studied for the next day's ....but I digress, ah...the power of cheese ! 

At a recent Animal Rights Online staff meeting, we decided to promote a new campaign, Vegan Pizza at Pizza Hut 
So we are asking all our readers to click on this page which leads to Pizza Hut
Pizza Hut | Contact Us    http://www.pizzahut.com/Contact/default.asp
and fill in the feedback form and say...in your own words...

"Gee, it would be nice to be able to get a vegan pizza," with a vegan cheese formula like the ones used by VeganRella or Earthkind, or maybe you could come up with a formula of your own....(Shh....don't you all use the word "formula" or they will figure out that this is a campaign....Shhh.)
Welcome to the Land of Rella  http://www.rella.com/
EarthKind Cheese  http://www.imearthkind.com/  Home of Vegan Gourmet Cheese Alternative

Wouldn't it be nice to get a Vegan Cheese Pizza with Yves brand Pepperoni.... Welcome to Yves Veggie Cuisine
http://www.yvesveggie.com/

We have to imagine a future where vegan foods are easy to get, and it will come true, just fill out this form...

Pizza Hut | Contact Us
http://www.pizzahut.com/Contact/default.asp

Tell them that there is a market waiting for a vegan pizza, and how they could be the leader.  And that they shouldn't pass up this opportunity because another chain could latch onto the idea and make a fortune.  Vegetarians become Vegans.  And We Want Pizza Too.

That's why we at Animal Rights Online say
Let's all go to 
PIZZA HUT


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Free Business Card Offers
From Jim Willis & Nicole Valentin-Willis
Tiergarten Sanctuary Trust
jwillis@bellatlantic.net 

Many Rescues and rescuers short on funds might like to take advantage of the various free business cards offers on the web, such as from www.vistaprint.com or www.iprint.com. (The first currently has the offer for color cards, the latter occasionally as a promotional offer for black & white cards. iprint currently has a self-inking return address stamp or 300 return address labels for $2.99.)  Usually, you pay only for shipping for 250 cards, about $5.

Even if you don't need business cards for yourself, consider having some done with local contact information about low-cost spay/neuter programs in your area, or other animal-related programs. They are easy to keep in wallet or purse to pass out to the public. (Or order a self-inking stamp with a spay/neuter message!) Several members of a group can place individual orders with the same printed message so that you have a quantity of cards on hand.

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Avon Stops Funding
Animal Research for its Breast Cancer Crusade

From AAVSONLINE@aol.com

Jenkintown, PA – The American Anti-Vivisection Society (AAVS) is very pleased to announce that Avon, an international cosmetic manufacturer, has stated it will no longer fund animal-based research as part of its Breast Cancer Crusade.  AAVS applauds Avon for implementing a compassionate and ethical policy that symbolizes its well-respected progressive reputation.

In a letter to AAVS, Avon stated, "As of November 2, 2001, the official policy of the Avon Products Foundation is that no new Avon Breast Cancer Crusade funds will be used to support breast cancer research projects involving the use of animals."  AAVS, along with other animal advocacy groups, initiated a letter writing campaign this past fall to persuade Avon to stop funding animal research through its Crusade.  "The Avon Breast Cancer Crusade is a wonderful project," says AAVS Executive Director Tina Nelson.  "And now it sets a precedent that an effective, non-animal research based foundation can not only give supportive care and educate the general public, but can also aid in the advancement of fighting breast cancer."  The Avon Breast Cancer Crusade now joins a growing list of health charity organizations that do not fund animal research. 

Earlier this year, a coalition of animal advocacy groups, which includes AAVS and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, created the Humane Seal of Approval, the highest level of assurance that a charity does not fund animal research.  The United Cancer Research Society, the Lymphoma Foundation of America, and the Gilda Radner Familial Ovarian Cancer Registry have all signed onto the Humane Charity Seal of Approval, and AAVS is hopeful that Avon will adopt the Seal as well.

Additionally, this is not the first time that Avon has been in the forefront of corporations that implement socially mindful policies.  In 1989, Avon became the first major cosmetics company to end the use of animals in evaluating the safety of its products and ingredients. 

The American Anti-Vivisection Society (AAVS) is a non-profit animal advocacy and educational organization dedicated to ending experiments on animals in research, testing, and education.  Founded in 1883, AAVS is the oldest organization in the United States dedicated to eliminating experiments on animals.  AAVS pursues its objectives through legal and effective advocacy, education, and development of alternative methods.  The Alternatives Research & Development Foundation, an AAVS affiliate, was founded in 1994 to support the development and use of alternatives to laboratory animals through education and funding of related research projects.

Contacts:  
Tina Nelson, AAVS Executive Director
Crystal Schaeffer, Communications Coordinator
(215) 887-0816

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Warning
http://www.king5.com/localnews/investigators/10015581_IN1122dogbone.html

Nylabone "Plaque Attacker" Recall

Heads up on product recall. This was on local news yesterday.  Highly popular chew bone. Numerous reports of purported injuries and deaths; one law suit settled, a class action in the works.

Nylabone has just announced they're pulling the product:

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Kabul's Lion, Still King of the Beasts
But Future Uncertain for Animals at Kabul Zoo

By Kevin Sites - NBC NEWS    
http://www.msnbc.com/news/662137.asp     

KABUL, Afghanistan, Nov. 23.  Though his roar is more of a yawn these days, it was not so long ago when this lion, Marjan, used to be the king of Kabul's urban jungle. A mujahedeen fighter who had survived combat with the Soviet Red Army was not so lucky when he jumped into the lion's den to tease the beast. Marjan promptly ate him.     

THE NEXT DAY, says zookeeper Sheragha Omar, "A family member threw a hand grenade into the cage. When Marjan pounced on it thinking it was food, he lost one eye and 95 percent of his sight in the other."
      
But Marjan is not the only casualty in Afghanistan's unending wars and civil strife.

During the vicious factional power fights from 1992 to 1995, a sadistic soldier killed the Zoo's elephant with a rocket-propelled grenade. Other animals were turned into meals for hungry fighters.

An Afghan bear paces in his cage. His snout is red, raw and swollen. Zoo officials say Taliban visitors would tease the bear by holding out food, then smacked him on the nose with sticks when he reached for it.
 
THE KORAN'S ANIMALS
In a place that used to have 39 species of animals. Now there are just 17. The only reason it is still open at all is because of zookeeper Omar, who like Marjan, doesn't give up very easily. When the repressive Taliban regime wanted to shut the zoo down, Omar fought back. He went to the faculty of Islamic studies at the University of Kabul.

"They wrote down everything in the Koran that referred to animals and the prophet Mohammed," says Omar. "I collected them all and presented them to the ministry of justice."

Faced with evidence that the Prophet indeed kept pets, the Taliban allowed Omar to keep the zoo open. Despite the zoo's sorry state, crumbling infrastructure and malnourished animals, attendance is up. And since the Taliban fled the capital, the number of visitors to the zoo has doubled to 200 a day.

Mohammed Rafi, an unemployed 18-year-old, comes here every week to pass the time. He says Marjan, the one-eyed lion, is still his favorite draw.

"It's stronger than any other animal in the world," says Rafi. "Yes, it's the king of animals in the world." 

KING OF THE BEASTS

But this king, like the other animals here, still faces an uncertain future.

There's very little food to feed the animals, the zoo's staff of eleven haven't been paid since July, and with cold weather approaching there's no money left to prepare the animals' cages for winter.

Omar says the Northern Alliance is providing some food and medicine for the zoo, but it's not enough. Still, despite the difficulties, he loves Marjan and all the animals too much to give up now. He says he will keep up the fight as long as Marjan does, living up to the words posted on a sign outside the zoo, "God created animals. People must be good to them."

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Barbaric Animal Pound in Gatesville, Texas
by Jerry Layne - JLayne3636@aol.com

Forty-four miles from Waco, Texas is the small, lovely town of Gatesville, Texas.  About 10 miles outside the city limits of Gatesville, isolated off a county road, behind a locked gate and nowhere to be seen is the city's 'Animal Pound.'

Twice in the last several months I have driven from my home in Waco to this unsanitized 'animal pound.'  Over the past 14 years I have seen and fought hard against animal shelters and pounds that give nothing but misery and suffering to animals.

ANIMALS RIGHTS ONLINE and so many reader's three years ago greatly assisted my organization, ANIMALS HAVE HEARTS, TOO! in a 3 months battle against the City of Abilene, Texas and their use of a gas chamber where they bunched-up many animals at one time, shoved them in the gas chamber, pushed the button and walked away from the ghastly nightmare.  We won a victory there by emails, letters, facsimiles to various members of the City of Abilene and they changed to lethal injection.

Now, we are requesting your assistance again.  This small town has set-up a small bricked-in confinement for a gas chamber.  When shut, it is complete darkness inside (pictures are available that I and other individuals took of the chamber and the animal pound where feces and filth are everywhere/also, located around the animal pound-empty shotgun shells) and the small brick chamber is hooked-up to an old City of Gatesville police car with it's tires taken off and a hose is hooked-up to it's exhaust pipe directly attached to the gas chamber.

Also, in one picture the gas pedal has a tree-stick shoved against it and the car seat so no individual has to push the gas pedal to maintain pressure for the gas fumes to move to the gas chamber.

It is a haunting sight to realize what the dogs, puppies, cats and kittens must go through.  All alone, pushed into this darkness then very slowly gassed to death.

This is unacceptable to all of us and we need your assistance in writing to place people and the city on notice.

Please tell the below list of individuals that a gas chamber of any kind is unacceptable and causes great suffering and must be dismantled. Unwanted animals are entitled to basic protections under the Texas State Law. Tell them to stop permitting pound/city employees to continue killing animals by gassing.  We realize this is a small town; but other small towns know it is a horrible action to gas animals and instead, use lethal injection--even in a small community there must be given to the animals respect and dignity in the time of their deaths! 

It is well-known that animals killed in gas chambers especially homemade, car exhaust to chamber is a wrenching way to die.  The animals often scream in panic, they struggle for air and the exhaust gas horribly irritates their eyes and noses.

Gassing animals is an extremely cruel and inhumane method of euthanasia; if you can even call gassing euthanasia.  We resonate with all of creation, and whatever harm or brutality is done to these innocents without voices affects us all, one way or the other.

All of us are appalled by the way this small town has hidden the 'animal pound' way away from civilization and are killing the unwanted animals by CARBON MONOXIDE POISONING...through the exhaust of a vehicle!

Virtually every major animal protection organization in the United States, as well as the AMERICAN VETERINARY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION, advocates strongly "intravenous injection of sodium pentobarbital" as the euthanasia method of choice and it is our belief we can offer the veterinary community assistance in teaching the proper way to use lethal injection.

The above is 'some-type' of message your reader's can send; ending with, "Thank you for your time and urgent decision to stop using the gas chamber."

Please forward a carbon copy (CC) to <JLayne3636@aol.com> as this was very helpful in the Abilene, Texas animal shelter gas chamber case.  Such monitoring of the mail is also being done with the current cat cruelty case here in Waco, the QUESO cat case and we have monitored over 4,000 messages to city council members, Baylor University, the DA and etc.

*Also, in your messages; please inform the CONTACTS that sanitation and better protection from the weather elements is a priority.  As the 'pound' uses old, rusty oil drums for 'housing' of individual animals; which give no shelter or comfort whatsoever to the animals.

CONTACTS AND INFORMATION:

Mr. Brandon Emmons
City Manager
email: Brandon.Emmons@ci.gatesville.tx.us

Mr. Luis Lobo
Assistant City Manager
email: lobo@ci.gatesville.tx.us

Ms. Evelyn Thomas
Finance Director
email: evelynthomas@ci.gatesville.tx.us

City of Gatesville
email: mainstreet@ci.gatesville-tx.us  ph: 254-865-8951

Within the above email address are the City Council Members:

Ms. Lucille Plane        Ward 1, Place 3
Mr. Darren Moore                2           5
Mr. Jimmy Knox                   1           1
Mr. Billy Landua                   2           4
Mr. Carl Kietzer                    2           6

Also, at the same, above email address is the Mayor of Gatesville, Texas

The Honorable Mayor, James E. Erwin

*for the reader's own review: www.ci.gatesville.tx.us/government.htm

The Federal Government / Senators are:

The Honorable Phil Gramm 
email: Phil.Gramm@gramm.senate.gov

The Honorable Kay Baily Hutchinson
senator@hutchinson.senate.gov

State of Texas Senator
Honorable Troy Frazier
Fax: 254-939-7611  (Belton, Tx.)

I wrote on 11.2.01, the Publisher of THE GATESVILLE MESSENGER, Mr. Marshall Day, describing what I saw on my first trip to the 'animal pound' and sent him several pictures of the unconscionable and tragic Gatesville 'animal pound.' (***there has been no response)

Please issue emails:

Mr. Marshall Day
Publisher
The Gatesville Messenger
Gatesville, Texas
email: publisher@gatesvillemessenger.com


Mr. Larry Kennedy
Editor
The Gatesville Messenger
email: editor@gatesvillemessenger.com

send Letters to the Editor

email: editor@gatesvillemessenger.com
(*letters must include a daytime phone number and home address) *(we need volumes of emails) (to all)

(we will monitor the newspaper)

***Please write / 'cc' the wonderful individuals at our Texas Department of Health, Zoonosis Control Division; their names were given to me by a wonderful and most devoted individual to animal rights, Mr. Robert L. "Skip" Trimble.

Ms. Jane Mahlow, DVM, MS
Director
Zoonosis Control Division
email: Jane.Mahlow@tdh.state.tx.us
web site for an excellent review: www.tdh.state.tx.us/zoonosis

Mr. Jay Sabatucci
Zoonosis Control Division
email: Jay.Sabatucci@tdh.state.tx.us

*also visit: www.sheltercoalition.com
*also review: TEXAS HUMANE LEGISLATION NETWORK (a great group)

web site: www.thln.com

The Gatesville 'animal pound' is a gruesome sight; it, to me is like ... 'entering the gates of hell.'  When the City is made respectfully aware of such atrocious conditions it is my belief they will change everything at their 'city pound,' as everything is unacceptable - because everything is done behind closed doors!

Thank you,

Jerry Elmore Layne
ANIMALS HAVE HEARTS, TOO!
1917 Austin Avenue,
Waco, Texas 76701
Phone: 254-757-1682
Fax            1683
email: JLayne3636@aol.com

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Job Opportunity

COMPASSION IN WORLD FARMING the leading international farm animal welfare
campaigning organisation is seeking a highly experienced

SENIOR MEDIA OFFICER

with a proven track record in media relations, to work with our highly professional campaigning, lobbying and fundraising teams to make every CIWF activity a promotional opportunity.  You will play a key role in maximising the media impact of our campaigns to end factory farming and the live animal transport trade.

You will know just how to create and place our stories, and have the confidence to deal with the media at all levels. An enthusiastic self-starter and team worker, supportive of our cause, you thrive on working under pressure and to deadlines.

Salary negotiable.  The job will be based in our Petersfield offices.

Can you do it? Write and tell us how and send a copy of your CV, including current salary details, to:  Sue Mayhew, Compassion in World Farming, 5A Charles Street, Petersfield, Hants GU32 3EH.  E-mail: sue@ciwf.co.uk  Website:  www.ciwf.co.uk

Closing date for applications: Monday, 3 December             
Date of first interview: Friday, 7 December

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     Sheepskin, Pigskin, Deerskin
From sns111926@yahoo.com

A sheepskin is not a sign
of learning
but of the abuse of sheep.
A pigskin is not a sign
of sportsmanship
but of a people and pig
abusing sport.
A deerskin is not a sign
of peace.. but of violence
to the innocent.
A cowskin on the seats
.. is a sign of unconscious
brutality to cows,
whose names God knows

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Memorable Quote

"All that breathes is precious.  Who is to say that the suffering of an animal is less worthy of solace than the pain of man?  The spark of life is no dimmer simply because it is encased in fur or leather."

                                                               ~ Anonymous

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