A n i m
a l W r i t e s © sm
The official ANIMAL RIGHTS ONLINE newsletter
Established
1997
Editor ~ JJswans@aol.com
Issue # 12/26/04
Publisher ~ Susan
Roghair -
EnglandGal@aol.com
Journalists ~ Greg Lawson - ParkStRanger@aol.com
~ Michelle Rivera -
MichelleRivera1@aol.com
Webmasters ~ Randy Atlas - ranatlas@earthlink.net
~ Trevor
Chin -
tmchin@yahoo.com
Staff
~ Alfred Griffith - agriffith@igc.org
~ Andy Glick - andy@meatfreezone.org
~ Sheridan Porter -
Pad4Paws21@aol.com
~ Bill Bobo - RunRun@aol.com
~ Katie Vann - Vann167@aol.com
THE ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE ARE:
1 ~ Holiday Returns by Michelle Michelson
2 ~ Cold Weather Tips For Companion Animals
3 ~ The Next ACT is Special - Animal Concerns of Texas
4 ~ New UPC Video
5 ~ Volunteer Opportunity
6 ~ Website of Note
7 ~ Powerful New Scientific Evidence Against Vivisection
8 ~ National Bird Day, January 5
9 ~ Just The Facts
10~ Snowball the Prozac Bear
11~ Memorable Quote
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Holiday Returns
By Michelle Michelson - LTEAM6@aol.com
Alright
so your parents didn't really understand what you meant by pleather and your
not digging the wool gloves. Well, no need to fret, kindly return those
presents and get yourself the veganized version.
If you're a big Paul Frank fan, Delias has got just what you need. They
generally carry Paul Frank hoodies, shoes, tee-shirts and sometimes shoes.
Always double check the labels, but Paul Frank is really good about not using
leather or wool. Delias, on a whole has plenty of animal-friendly clothing. You
can check out their website by going to www.dELiAs.com .
Having a hard time finding some non-leather shoes? I know I had a hard time
unless I bought really cheaply made Payless shoes. Vans makes it possible to
wear a comfortable shoe and be animal-friendly all at the same time. The Vans
Rowley edition shoes are all synthetic derived and are probably the comfiest
shoes I've ever had the pleasure of setting my feet into. Just go to www.vans.com and
search around the site for new pair of styling' shoes.
The Argyle is back, but your parents probably thought buying it from J. Crew
was a good idea since they can be tricky to find. Unfortunately J. Crew likes
to use all wool but do not fear Amazon can once again save the day. Through
their website you can find a variety of cruelty-free argyle sweaters made from
acrylic and cotton. You can check them all out by going to www.amazon.com
and typing argyle sweaters.
For some reason your grandparents weren't really comfortable with the digital
age and got you that old 35mm camera. Little do your grandparents know that
film is derived from animals. Let's just take a look at the variety of
inexpensive digital cameras and maybe a few expensive ones at the
circuitcity.com website ;). Make sure to check out the canon s410 or maybe if
you are on a smaller budget the canon a400. All can be found by just going to www.CircuitCity.com
.
Hope that gives everyone a few options if their presents don't come out as
animal-friendly as they would have liked them to be.
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Cold Weather Tips For Companion
Animals
Oh, the weather outside is frightful! But, inside
your home it's warm and so delightful! Learn how to protect your kitties,
pooches, and all other furry little friends by following these tips when the
temperature takes a dip.
Keep your kitties indoors! Outside, cats freeze and can become lost, stolen, or
injured.
Which way do I go?! Never let your dog run around off his leash on snow
or ice-especially during a snowstorm. Dogs might lose their scent in snow and
ice and
become lost.
Wipe off your dog's paws, legs, and stomach when he comes in from the snow or
ice. Salt or other chemicals might make your dog sick if he swallows them while
licking his paws. What's more, his paw pads are sensitive and might bleed if
snow or ice covers them.
Brrrrr! If your pooch has very short hair, think about getting him a warm
doggie coat or sweater. Make sure he is protected on top and on his belly.
Never leave your dog, cat, or any other animal friend alone in a car in very
cold weather! A car can act as a refrigerator and your animal could freeze. So,
if you take your animal friends on a trip, make sure you and your family take
them wherever you go.
AHHH - CHOO! Some dogs may be sensitive to the cold because they are sick, old,
or simply just the breed (type of dog) they are. If your dog is sensitive, try
not to keep them outside too long.
Let's Play! If your dog spends lots of time outside playing with you,
make sure you and your family give him plenty of food and water to keep his fur
thick and healthy all through the winter.
Snug as a bug! Make sure all of your animal friends have a warm place to
sleep that's off the floor and away from places where cold air might get in.
They would be happy and warm in a doggie or kitty bed or on a warm blanket.
http://www.animaland.org/asp/realissues/coldweather.asp
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The Next ACT is Special
Animal Concerns of Texas
By Greg Lawson - ParkStRanger@aol.com
Join
us for the next ACT Radio, Sunday, December 26 at 7:30pm Mountain time for a
really special conversation. Our guest is the intellectual leader of the
Animal Rights Movement, Dr. Tom Regan, author of the book "Empty
Cages" and twenty other books on the rights of animals.
My co-hosts Dr. Steven Best and Dr. Elizabeth Walsh and I discuss the meaning
of the concept of Animal Rights with Tom. He goes into detail about the
three ways that people come to an understanding of animal rights. In one
way, some people are just born with an empathy for animals, this is the
category he names "Da Vincians," after Leonardo, the vegetarian
activist who had compassion for animals all his life.
Regan's second category is named "Damascans," after the story of Saul
on the road to Damascus. Saul had an epiphany, a life changing experience
and he became Paul, a convert to Christianity. This is the way it happens
to some Animal Advocates, a sudden life changing experience.
The third way, Regan calls the "Muddlers," people who slowly put the
pieces together, muddling on the path to AR and veganism, and one day they look
in the mirror and see an Animal Rights Activist. Tom considers himself to
be in this category.
Tune in for this discussion tonight at 7:30pm Mountain time with one of the
most famous Muddlers in the AR movement.
ACT Radio can be heard with RealPlayer and other media playing programs.
Go to KTEP.org
El Paso NPR - KTEP 88.5 :
National Public Radio for the Southwest
and click on Listen Now, this Sunday at 7:30 Mountain Time.
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New UPC Video
“Behavior
of Rescued Factory-Farmed Chickens in a Sanctuary Setting”
Video Produced by United Poultry Concerns 2004
12 min. including Introduction * VHS and DVD format * $10 incl. shipping
Machipongo, Va. – Some people think that birds bred for factory farms have lost
their natural instincts and are content to live in crowded, unstimulating cages
and buildings. “Behavior of Rescued Factory-Farmed Chickens in a Sanctuary
Setting” shows chickens, turkeys and ducks at United Poultry Concerns’
sanctuary racing out of their house in the morning, pouncing on lettuce,
foraging, dustbathing, and perching up high at night.
All of the birds in the video came from intensive confinement conditions. While
most birds come to our sanctuary exhausted, dirty, and virtually featherless,
those who survive undergo remarkable changes under the stimulus of an
environment that activates their natural instincts. Contrary to the idea that
chickens spend much of their time fighting and picking on each other, the birds
at our sanctuary are too busy with their daily occupations, including normal
socialization, to waste time that way.
Each video scene has been selected to show a specific behavior such as
dustbathing and grass eating. Each scene is labeled for clarity. For example,
one scene shows a hen pecking at the face of another hen in an effort to groom
(preen) the other hen’s face. As a result of being beak-trimmed, the hen tries
vigorously to pick off tiny particles that for a hen with an intact beak would
be done with the utmost delicacy and precision. For those unfamiliar with the
range of chicken behaviors, this could be misinterpreted as an act of
aggression when in fact it is normal social grooming behavior frustrated by an
impaired beak.
The video also shows a young broiler hen named Sugar as she picks and eats
grass and performs normal scratching behavior in order to show that, given the
opportunity, she and other “broiler” chickens who have come to our sanctuary
perform natural behaviors within the parameters of their physical genetics.
UPC President Karen Davis, PhD, is available for presentations of this video to
college students, faculty, industry, animal protection organizations, and
anyone interested in understanding and improving the welfare of chickens.
Contact Karen Davis by phone or email at 757-678-7875 or karen@upc-online.org.
United Poultry Concerns PO Box 150 Machipongo, VA 23405
Phone: 757-678-7875 Fax: 757-678-5070 www.upc-online.org
United Poultry Concerns is a nonprofit organization that promotes the
compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl.
www.upc-online.org
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Volunteer Opportunity
The
Grassroots Animal Rights Conference seeks a volunteer who can promote our
upcoming conference via print and broadcast media. Responsibilities
include but are not limited to-- developing public service announcements to air
on community radio stations, writing a blurb on the conference and getting it
added to community bulletin board/ calendars of events in newspapers and on
radio stations, getting the conference listed in movement media.
Primary focus is on media in the New York City metropolitan area and the
secondary focus is on promotion in other areas. Experience in promoting
events to media is preferred but not required.
For additional information, contact Adam at (201) 968-0595 or email
adam@grassrootsar.org.
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Website of Note
Check out the website where you can design and
order your own bumper sticker and they also have magnet sheets that you can use
instead of glue
You can learn more about BumperStatements, and how to create your own unique
bumper stickers, at www.BumperStatements.com
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Powerful New Scientific
Evidence Against Vivisection
From Andrew Knight - ethicalvet@yahoo.com
The
just-published paper below is the first of a series of papers attacking
key foundations of vivisection from a scientific angle, to be published in
international scientific journals and presented at scientific conferences;
namely, that animal 'models' are predictive for humans, and that the animals
used do not suffer unduly. The papers are damning in their results and once
published will represent some of the most valuable scientific evidence
against vivisection gathered to date. The 1st paper below demonstrates
conclusively that animals subject to routine laboratory procedures such as
handling, blood draws and orogastric gavaging in all cases and the wide range
of species examined suffer marked physiological stress likely to cause
psychological distress and distort experimental results (decreasing their
reliability), and further, that the animals do not readily habituate to these
stressors over time. People wishing a copy of this 1st published paper are
welcome to email me privately. The editorial referred to raises points that
were all addressed in the paper and merely reflect the lack of rigour and bias
of the editors. Andrew Knight
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A new report published in Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal
Science finds that mice, rats, rabbits, beagles, geese, and other animals
all show measurable physiological stress responses to routine laboratory
procedures that have been up until now viewed as relatively benign. The review
focused on three commonly performed procedures: handling, blood collection and force-feeding.
Independent of the invasive experiments themselves, these daily routines can
cause an animal to experience elevated bloodstream concentrations of
corticosterone, prolactin, glucose, and epinephrine, all indicators of stress.
The paper generated considerable controversy in the vivisection community
during its peer review. After the editor had accepted it for publication, the
AALAS (American Association for Laboratory Animal Science—which publishes the
journal) executive committee intervened, resulting in the editor’s resignation
in protest, and a publication delay of five months. An editorial from the
committee published in the same issue insinuates that the paper is biased and
that it lacks rigor.
Balcombe JP, Barnard N, Sandusky C. 2004 Laboratory routines cause animal
stress. Contemporary Topics in Laboratory Animal Science. 43(6): 42-51.
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Please Join Us for the Third
Annual
National Bird Day, January 5, 2005
The
Animal Protection Institute (API) in coordination with the Avian Welfare
Coalition (AWC) is calling on activists around the U.S. to take action on
behalf of captive birds by drawing attention to the exploitation of other
country’s native birds by the U.S. pet industry on January 5 — National Bird
Day.
"National Bird Day" is not only a good day to take time to appreciate
the native wild birds flying free outside our windows, it is also a perfect
time to reflect on how we treat the native birds of other countries. While we
have enacted laws to protect our native birds — such as blue jays, cardinals,
and crows — from commercial exploitation, we fail to recognize the
inconsistency in allowing the pet industry to exploit the birds of other countries.
Even when bred in captivity, exotic birds are not considered domesticated
animals, and all their inherent behavioral and physical needs remain intact.
Sadly, when it comes to birds, deprivation of their natural behaviors (to fly
and flock, for example) is an inescapable component of their captivity.
Each year thousands of birds are sold into the pet trade to individuals who are
under the mistaken impression that a bird will make a perfect pet. Eventually,
whether due to frustration, disinterest, or concern, many people attempt to rid
themselves of the responsibility of caring for their birds. Unfortunately, few
of these birds will find a loving home, and most will spend their days isolated
and confined to their cages. Others will bounce from home to home as their
caretakers tire of them, and some may be abandoned at local shelters and birds
rescues, set free to fend for themselves, or are euthanized.
Meanwhile, pet stores across the country, including Petco and PetsMart,
continue to treat birds like merchandise peddling them into the pet trade. The
in-store care of animals in pet shops is always suspect, because store managers
are often faced with conflicting responsibilities of caring for animals, even
when the animals are sick, and making a store profitable. Since the cost of
veterinary care can easily exceed the commercial value of an animal, common
sense leads to the conclusion that profits and animal care inherently conflict,
especially in a retail environment.
You Can Help
Join API, the Avian Welfare Coalition, and other animal advocates across
the country in celebrating the third annual National Bird Day — a day of action
for captive birds — by helping to educate the public about issues affecting
captive birds.
There are many ways you can participate. Visit www.NationalBirdDay.org
for sample letters, resources, materials and more information.
Take Action!
* Send a letter to the editor or Op-ed drawing attention to the plight of
captive exotic birds in this country. Sample letter available at www.NationalBirdDay.org.
* Set up an educational display. Community centers and local or school
libraries often have exhibit cases that can be used for educational displays.
Just ask the manager or librarian how to make a reservation and be willing to
agree to some guidelines.
* Host a video showing. A video showing can consist of close friends or family
members viewing a video at home or reserving a classroom with a standard
television or big screen for the public. Videos are available from AWC members.
Visit www.NationalBirdDay.org for
ordering information.
* Give a presentation at a school, children’s museums, boy’s and girl’s club,
or library. Ask the kids to draw or write on the theme "Born to be
Wild," comparing and contrasting our native birds to the native birds of
other countries, comparing and contrasting how birds live in the wild and how
they live in captivity, or how the wild bird trade impacts birds. More ideas
available at: http://craftsforkids.about.com/library/spdays/bljan5th.htm.
* Hold a peaceful protest and leaflet in front of a Petco or PetsMart to
educate their customers on why they should not support Petco or PetsMart so
long as they continue to sell birds. Or drive to your local Petco and PetsMart
stores and place flyers on the windshields of cars parked in the parking lot.
<> A reproducible Petco/PETsMART flyer is
available from API at www.api4animals.org/images/BirdDayFlyer.pdf.
<>A variety of AWC flyers is available at www.avianwelfare.org/action/flyers/index.htm.
* Write letters to Petco and PetsMart and let them know why you won’t patronize
their stores. Sample letter available at www.NationalBirdDay.org.
Let us know your plans!
We would like to compile a list of activities complete with contact
information so that interested people team up to participate in planned
leafleting and tabling events in their area. So once you have decided what you
want to do, email Monica Engebretson at monica@api4animals.org so we can add
your action to our list of participants and activities. If you get a letter to
the editor published in a newspaper, please let us know and send a copy if
possible to:
API
P.O. Box 22505
Sacramento, CA 95822
For more information on exotic bird issues visit www.AvianWelfare.com
and www.MoreBeautifulWild.com.
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Just The Facts
Dear Mr. and Mrs. Average Pet Owner:
Thank you for contacting us animal rescuers, shelter volunteers, and
foster-homes about your inability to keep your pet. We receive an extremely
high volume of inquiries and requests to accept surrendered animals (and none
of us is getting paid, OK?). To help us expedite your problem as quickly as
possible, please observe the following guidelines:
1. Do not say that you are "CONSIDERING finding a good home" for your
pet, or that you, "feel you MIGHT be forced to," or that you
"really THINK it would be better if" you unloaded the poor beast.
Ninety-five percent of you have already got your minds stone-cold made up that
the animal WILL be out of your life by the weekend at the latest. Say so. If
you don't, I'm going to waste a lot of time giving you common-sense, easy
solutions for very fixable problems, and you're going to waste a lot of time
coming up with fanciful reasons why the solution couldn't possibly work for
you. For instance, you say the cat claws the furniture, and I tell you about
nail-clipping and scratching posts and aversion training, and then you go into
a long harangue about how your husband won't let you put a scratching post in
the family room, and your ADHD daughter cries if you use a squirt bottle on the
cat, and your congenital thumb abnormalities prevent you from using nail
scissors and etc., etc. Just say you're getting rid of the cat.
2. Do not waste time trying to convince me how nice and humane you are. Your
coworker recommended that you contact me because I am nice to animals, not
because I am nice to people, and I don't like people who "get rid of"
their animals. "Get rid of" is my least favorite phrase in any language.
I hope someone "gets rid of" YOU someday. I am an animal advocate,
not a people therapist. After all, for your ADHD daughter, you can get
counselors, special teachers, doctors, social workers, etc. Your pet has only
me, and people like me, to turn to in his or her need, and we are unpaid,
overworked, stressed-out, and demoralized. So don't tell me this big long story
about how, "We love this dog so much, and we even bought him a special bed
that cost $50, and it is just KILLING us to part with him, but honestly, our
maid is just awash in dog hair every time she cleans, and his breath sometimes
just reeks of liver, so you can see how hard we've tried, and how dear he is to
us, but we really just can't . . ." You are not nice, and it is not killing
you. It is, in all probability, literally killing your dog, but you're going to
be just fine once the beast is out of your sight. Don't waste my time trying to
make me like you or feel sorry for you in your plight.
3. Do not try to convince me that your pet is exceptional and deserves special
treatment. I don't care if you taught him to sit. I don't care if she's a
beautiful Persian. I have a waiting list of battered and/or whacked-out animals
who need help, and I have no room to foster-house your pet. Do not send me long
messages detailing how Fido just l-o-v-e-s blankies and carries his favorite
blankie everywhere, and oh, when he gets all excited and happy, he spins around
in circles, isn't that cute? He really is darling, so it wouldn't be any
trouble at all for us to find him a good home. Listen, we can go down to the
pound and count the darling, spinning, blankie-loving beasts on death row by
the dozens, any day of the week. And, honey, Fido is a six-year-old
Shepherd-Lab mix. I am not lying when I tell you that big, older, mixed-breed,
garden-variety dogs are almost completely unadoptable, and I don't care if they
can whistle Dixie or send semaphore signals with their blankies. What you don't
realize is that, though you're trying to lie to me, you're actually telling the
truth: Your pet is a special, wonderful, amazing creature. But this mean old
world does not care. More importantly, YOU do not care, and I can't fix
that problem. All I can do is grieve for all the exceptional animals who live
short, brutal, loveless lives and die without anyone ever recognizing that they
were indeed very, very special.
4. Finally, just, for God' s sake, for the animal's sake, tell the truth, and
the whole truth. Do you think that if you just mumble that your cat is
"high-strung," I will say, "Okey-doke! No prob!" and take
it into foster care? No, I will start asking questions and uncover the truth,
which is that your cat has not used a litter box in the last six months. Do not
tell me that you "can't" crate your dog. I will ask what happens when
you try to crate him, and you will either be forced to tell me the symptoms of
full-blown, severe separation anxiety, or else you will resort to lying some
more, wasting more of our time. And, if you succeed in placing your pet in a
shelter or foster care, do not tell yourself the biggest lie of all:
"Those nice people will take him and find him a good home, and everything
will be fine." Those nice people will indeed give the animal every
possible chance, but if we discover serious health or behavior problems, if we
find that your misguided attempts to train or discipline him have driven him
over the edge, we will do what you are too immoral and cowardly to do: We will
hold the animal in our arms, telling him truthfully that he is a good dog or
cat, telling him truthfully that we are sorry and we love him, while the vet
ends his life. How can we be so heartless as to kill your pet, you ask? Do not
ever dare to judge us. At least we tried. At least we stuck with him to the
end. At least we never abandoned him to strangers, as you certainly did, didn't
you? In short, this little old rescuer/foster momma has reached the point where
she would prefer you pet owners to tell her stories like this: "We
went to Wal-Mart and picked up a free pet in the parking lot a couple of years
ago. Now we don't want it anymore. We're lazier than we thought. We've got no
patience either. We're starting to suspect the animal is really smarter than we
are, which is giving us self-esteem issues. Clearly, we can't possibly keep it.
Plus, it might be getting sick; it's acting kind of funny. "We would like
you to take it in eagerly, enthusiastically, and immediately. We hope you'll
realize what a deal you're getting and not ask us for a donation to help defray
your costs. After all, this is an (almost) pure-bred animal, and we'll send the
leftover food along with it. We get it at Wal-Mart too, and boy, it's a really
good deal, price-wise. "We are very irritated that you haven't shown pity
on us in our great need and picked the animal up already. We thought you people
were supposed to be humane! Come and get it today. No, we couldn't possibly
bring it to you; the final episode of "Survivor II" is on
tonight." Thank you, Mr. and Mrs. Pet Owner, for your cooperation.
* Author Unknown, but could be any shelter worker or rescuer.
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Snowball the Prozac Bear
By Bill Hudgins - bhudgins@lib.uwo.ca
On the CBC Newsworld news, a short item from the Winnipeg Zoo showed Snowball
the Polar Bear, and revealed that she's on Prozac to help relieve her constant
pacing. (How do you spell relief?) As usual, they failed to
interview the bear to get her point of view.
Snowball's Chance
My keepers think I'm all stressed out, because I pace my cage.
Perhaps they aren't aware that it's a function of my age.
For I was born here in the zoo, and in the zoo I'll die,
And though I'm fairly happy here, I miss the open sky.
I sniff the air and wonder where the other bears hang out.
They're up there in the Arctic on the ice floes, I've no doubt.
They wander free, and, unlike me, they take a seal for lunch,
While someone gives me herring or some carrots. Thanks a bunch!
The Arctic bears have miles to roam, and garbage dumps to raid,
And sometimes I think "Ursus maritimus' got it make!"
But then I hear that PCBs are in the polar diet,
And when they lunch, their fate is sealed. No thanks, don't think I'll
try it.
I pace a lot, and think too much, so Prozac's in the herring,
But maybe that's my keeper's way of showing that they're caring.
It's changed my mood, and I feel good, the lows are not so low,
But then the highs are not so high, a tradeoff, don't you know.
So I will take whatever comes, and just try to relax,
My analyst will help cure my anxiety attacks.
I would suppose everyone knows I'd rather be on drugs
Than stretched out on a salesroom floor with all the other rugs.
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Memorable Quote
"Active hatred of cruelty,
injustice and oppression is perhaps the main difference between a good person
and a bad one."
~ John Morley
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