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The official ANIMAL RIGHTS ONLINE newsletter
Editor
~ JJswans@aol.com
Issue # 03/30/03
Publisher ~ Susan
Roghair - EnglandGal@aol.com
Journalists ~ Greg Lawson - ParkStRanger@aol.com
~ Michelle Rivera
- MichelleRivera1@aol.com
~ Dr. Steve
Best - sbest1@elp.rr.com
THE ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE ARE:
1 ~ Yellowstone Ranger Dismissed For Speaking Out By
Greg Lawson
2 ~ The Active Activist - How to Start your Very Own Vegetarian
Society
By Michelle Rivera
3 ~ FARM Wants to Know Who Your Heroes Are!
4 ~ Help The Animals Of Iraq
5 ~ No Escape From Harsh Reality
6 ~ ACT Radio - Animal Concerns of Texas
7 ~ The Seaside Silence
8 ~ Memorable Quote
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Yellowstone Ranger Dismissed
For Speaking Out
By Greg Lawson - ParkStRanger@aol.com
Our National Parks and other public lands are
fast becoming grazing pastures, oil fields and playgrounds for hunters instead
of the protected preserves they are supposed to be. Special interest
groups have more pull than environmentalists and animal protection
people.
This fact was dramatically demonstrated recently at our nation's premier park,
Yellowstone. Ranger Bob Jackson, a seasonal ranger for the last 30 years,
was not rehired for the coming summer season, which would have been his last
year before retirement.
Ranger Jackson, who has caught more poachers in the park than any other ranger
in the history of Yellowstone and has had an exemplary performance review for
all the years of career, was let go. His law enforcement skills were
abandoned because he felt there was something the public needed to know.
Bob Jackson had the courage to speak out to the media about issues that
embarrassed the Park Service. He tried to alert people to the fact that
elk hunting outfitters were illegally using salt blocks to lure elk out of
Yellowstone Park onto National Forest Service land where elk hunting is
permitted. He also spoke the truth that the Forest Service and the Park
Service were not dealing with this problem.
Hunters kill the elk, take only the heads for trophies and leave the bodies
which attract grizzly bears. The bears are associating hunters and the
sound of gunfire with food. They are losing their fear of humans and
becoming a threat to park visitors.
Ranger Jackson had tried to alert park officials to this dangerous situation
several years ago, but no action was taken against the illegal use of salt
because lots of money is involved with the elk hunt outfitters and political
pressure was applied. So Jackson began to write articles and give
interviews to the media to warn people about what was going on.
THIS the Park Service saw as dangerous, not salting elk and attracting
bears. In 2001 his superiors placed a gag order on Jackson not to talk
about these issues. That season, Jackson was sent home weeks ahead of
schedule and was told he wouldn't have a job in 2002. But PEER, Public
Employees for Environmental Responsibility, filed a complaint with the U.S.
Office of Special Counsel and the Park Service was ordered to rehire Jackson
and remove the gag order.
Jackson worked the 2002 season and continued to speak out against the use of
salt to lure elk out of the park. He was recently informed he would not
be rehired for the 2003 season.
As a result of this new action against Jackson, PEER has once again asked the
Office of Special Counsel to order the Park Service to again rehire Jackson in
what would be his final year as a seasonal ranger. Jackson had planned to
retire in 2004.
Free speech is one basic right which is slightly curtailed for all federal
workers, but how the bureaucrats at Yellowstone National Park have treated one
of their best and longest employed rangers is shameful. My editor
expressed her concern that something similar could happen to me, because I use
Animal Writes, ACT Radio and other outlets to express my opinion about the annual
slaughter of bison at Yellowstone.
Park Rangers should have the freedom to speak out about problems within our
agency which must be addressed without fear of reprisals.
If you would like to write a letter supporting the rehiring of Bob Jackson,
send it to...
Fran Maniella; Director National Park Service
1849 C Street NW Room 3312
Washington, DC 20240
Phone: (202) 208-6843 ; Fax: 202-208-7889
email:NPS_Director@nps.gov
and/or the Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park
Superintendent Suzanne Lewis
Yellowstone National Park
PO Box 168
Mammoth, WY 82190-0168
email: Suzanne_Lewis@nps.gov
P.S. Sshhhh, don't mention me in your mails.
Thanks, the ParkSTRANGER
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The Active Activist
How to
Start your Very Own Vegetarian Society
By Michelle Rivera - MichelleRivera1@aol.com
Vegetarian Society. The very name carries
with it a rich tradition of convention and compassion. As Eddie Lama describes
in "The Witness"; "hippies, people who are born into it.
OTHER people"
Just like the words "humane society" carries with it a connotation of
sweetness and light, rescue and rehabilitation, rebirth and renewal, Vegetarian
Society also means something to most people. And while Vegan Society may
be more on point with you, Vegetarian Society, much like Humane Society, is
what people ask for when they move into a new locale. People moving into
town may ask their realtor "Where's the best dog groomer? The Italian
Restaurant? The __________Church? The humane society (regardless of what it is
called) or the local Vegetarian Society?
Does your town have one? If not, you may want to consider founding one.
Just as there are many reasons for becoming a vegetarian/vegan, there are many
reasons to start a vegetarian society. Some people are vegetarians for
health reasons, some for ethical reasons, and some are on the fence.
People will join for a variety of reasons as well. And it is a nice bonus
to have a new list of activists who are willing to help with animal issues as
they come up. The next time you get a card in the mail from Peta asking
you to hold a KFC demo, you will have a ready-made group of activists!
When the Great American Meat Out comes along, you will have a ready-made group
of volunteers and facilitators! It's a great way to meet people, both
singles and married couples, who have like-minded philosophies about
animals. Here are a few tips to get you started.
Organize your friends
Already have some veg head friends? You are off to a great start! Get them
together and pick a date, time and place.
A good date is approximately six weeks from the day you decide to hold your
first organizational meeting. This gives you plenty of time to talk about the
meeting to prospective members and get your press releases out.
There are several places you may decide to meet. If you have access to a room
with a kitchen and tables and chairs for approximately twenty people, you may
want to hold a pot luck. However, I found that a vegetarian-friendly restaurant
that can accommodate up to 25 people in relative seclusion is the best place to
get started. If they can give you a special "back room" where
private parties meet, all the better. You can always decide to change the
meeting place later after your first meeting is held.
The idea of an organizational meeting is to find out who is "out
there" looking to join such a group. You may have a new member who
lives in a community with a clubhouse that you will be able to hold subsequent
meetings. Or you may find a church, meeting hall or other public place where
you can hold monthly meetings.
Once you have decided on a location, date and time (lunch or dinner works
best), get busy writing a press release. This can be as simple as a few
lines telling the local media who you are and what you are doing. Here is
the press release I have written for my own organizational meeting for a new
vegetarian society forming in my area:
Press Release-------Media
Alert--------------
New Vegetarian Society Forming in Jupiter!
Organizational Meeting Planned
Contact: Michelle Rivera,
Coordinator xxx-xxx-xxxx
Jupiter is going VEG! The All New Vegetarian Society of Jupiter is now
forming and looking for members for fun, food and socializing! This is a great
opportunity for single vegetarians to meet people and for all vegetarians to
get together and network, share ideas and recipes.
The first meeting will be at Too Bizarre Restaurant located at 287 E.
Indiantown Rd., Jupiter on Saturday, April 26, 2003 from 12:00 noon to 2:00
p.m. Anyone interested in becoming a vegetarian for ethical or health
reasons is invited to join and see what we are about.
Meat and dairy products have been proven to cause cancer, obesity,
hypertension, heart disease and other health-related ailments. A
vegetarian diet is better for people, the planet and, of course, the
animals. Vegetarianism and veganism is quickly rising in popularity among
adolescents so learning the basics of a vegetarian diet is essential. Recipes,
nutritional information, articles, magazines and website recommendations will
be provided.
Vegetarian cooking classes will begin in the fall so get in on the ground floor
and join us at Too Bizarre. For directions to Too Bizarre or questions
about their menu, call 561-745-6262. The Vegetarian Society of Jupiter is
a cooperative effort of Animals 101, Inc. and co-founded by Michelle Rivera and
Stephanie Linton. For information about the Vegetarian Society, go to
www.Animals101.com and click "For Veggie Lovers" or call Michelle
Rivera at xxx.xxx.xxxx.
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To find media fax numbers, simply go to www.Switchboard.com and use the search
engine for "newspapers" "radio" and "television
stations" in your area. You will be provided a list of local media.
Or visit the individual websites for your favorite local radio, tv and print
media outlets for a list of e-mail addresses or fax numbers. Be sure to
call and insure that they did receive your press release and will advertise it
for you in their community bulletin boards.
Your agenda for this meeting should be informal. Bring along a notepad to get
attendee's names and addresses, phone numbers and e-mail addresses so that you
can let them know of future events. Give everyone the opportunity to
introduce themselves and tell what they hope to gain from joining a vegetarian
society. Discuss the various venues for holding future meetings, find out
if your group would prefer to meet during the week, on weekends, weeknights or
a combination of all three. Also learn if they would, as a group, prefer to
hold potlucks every month or meet at vegetarian-friendly restaurants.
Don't adjourn your meeting without setting another date and place.
You may want to ask for a donation from each member so that you can get a
website. My website (www.Animals101.com) has a page for my Vegetarian Society
group and the entire website costs less than $12 a month. Just a dollar from
each participant every month would pay for your website through Yahoo. A
website is a great way for your members to find links for national animal and
vegetarian groups, learn of meeting dates and times and even get recipes.
Once you have your group, be sure to let all the media outlets know that you
(or someone in your group) is available to speak on radio shows, write articles
for the local paper or appear on the noon time television news shows.
This is a wonderful way to spread the good news of vegetarianism. A
simple letter to all the media outlets stating that you have a "speakers'
bureau" that can discuss a variety of animal and vegetarian issues is all
you need.
At the meetings, ask your members to bring along all their back issues of
Vegetarian Times Magazines, or Veg News or even Animal Times recipes as well as
Farm Sanctuary newsletters, etc to share.
You can become a wonderful resource for your community with a little effort on
your part. Maybe one of your first projects as a group can be to find
animal and veg friendly businesses in your community and create a resource
guide. Or you can host a vegetarian picnic for a high school pet's club or
bring vegetarian treats to a nursing home as a group.
The list of possibilities is endless. The active activist never rests!
Let's do it for the animals.
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FARM Wants to Know Who Your
Heroes Are!
Names
of Heroes for Animals will be announced at AR 2003
East (June 27-July 2 in Washington, DC) and at AR 2003 West (August 1-6 in Los
Angeles, CA).
AR2003 East and AR2003 West will be honoring individuals from communities and
grassroots groups who have made a positive significant difference for animals
over the past year.
Many activists have dedicated their lives to making the world a better place
for animals, either by hands-on rescue work, promotion of animal rights and
welfare, promotion of a vegan diet, or in any number of other ways. We
recognize that many have done so at great personal sacrifice and dedication.
Many committed activists -- because they do not work on the national level, or
are not involved in issues that attract public attention, or because they
themselves may shy away from recognition -- may never have their efforts
acknowledged in any way. We at AR 2003 want to know who they are!
Please submit your Hero for Animals to Patti@animalrights2003.org by
June 6, 2003. Include your name, affiliation, and contact information, the name
of the person you wish to be honored, their affiliation (if any), and one or
two paragraphs describing their accomplishments or contributions on behalf of
animals over the past year. Keep in mind that each person submitted should
be working for animals either on their own, or with a grassroots or local
group.
See you at AR 2003 East and AR 2003 West!
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Help The Animals Of Iraq
By Demnymets@aol.com
Below
are the addresses of two international animal rescue and relief organizations
that are directly assisting the animals in this war torn country. If
you'd like to help, make sure you designate "Animals of Iraq" on your
checks and money orders to assure your donation is indeed helping this specific
cause. You may also contact the below sites for more information on their
rescue and relief efforts.
International Fund for Animal
Welfare | Providing Emergency Relief for Animals
http://www.ifaw.org/page.asp?id=1799
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Iraq Disaster Relief - WSPA
http://www.wspa-americas.org/iraq_1.htm
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No Escape From Harsh Reality
Abandoned
domestic ducks and geese
left to fend for themselves
By Karen Benzel, IBRRC - karen@ibrrc.org
www.ibrrc.org/abandoned_ducks_geese.html
Go
to any almost any park with a pond and you’ll find ducks and geese. Most people
probably don’t think about how the birds got there or why, and most also don’t
know the difference between a wild duck or goose (which has feathers long
enough for flight, and muscles designed for quick take-offs) and a domesticated
one (which has been breed to be slow and flightless.) However, there is a big
difference between an animal that is born with all the instincts it needs to
live its life independent of humans (wild) and one that is dependent on humans
for survival (domesticated).
Cats and dogs are the most common domesticated animals, but go to any pet shop
and you will also find wild animals for sale as pets. Lizards, turtles,
tortoises, rats, parrots, and snakes are all wild animals, many taken from
their native habitats, that are sold through the pet trade. So, it is
understandable why people get confused when they go to a park pond and see wild
ducks and geese mixed with domestic ones.
Live Easter baskets
Unfortunately, like the little baby turtles, painted and sold in plastic bowls
with no care instructions, ducklings, goslings and chicks are also bought on
impulse, by people who don’t know anything about how to raise or house them,
because they are “cute.” Usually this happens around Easter when pet shops and
feed stores sell them as Easter basket stuffers. Some are even dyed, just like
Easter eggs, green, blue, lavender or pink.
It’s hard to understand what people are thinking when they buy pets on impulse
and without educating themselves to the animals needs and requirements. Animal
shelters are filled to capacity largely due to ignorance. And so, already
stressed from being sent over long distances in the mail, most of these birds
will die from lack of warmth, proper nutrition and the stress of being handled
by children. With proper care, some will survive, but as their cuteness fades,
and as they become big, and “messy,” many will inevitably make the car trip to
a pond or lake to “fend for themselves.” A few very lucky ones will become true
members of the household, fed and kept properly for their breed. Although less
common as pets, ducks, geese and chickens have individual personalities and
character just like many other companion animals. Some people love ducks so
much that they diaper them and let them live in the house with their other
pets, and people bond with their geese and chickens as well.
What do domestic ducks and geese look like?
Pekin ducks, which look like Donald Duck, are the most common ducklings sold.
They are yellow when ducklings and turn pure white with orange bills and feet
as they mature. Sometimes Pekins, and other breeds like Rouen, which are
domesticated mallards bred to be very large, are sold at county fairs and
mercados (wild mallard males, or drakes, are brown with green heads and a white
band around the neck, female mallards are brown, but when grown, Rouens are
easily distinguished from wild mallards due to their size and shape).
When the Pekin males breed with Rouens, the “clutch” of babies may contain
yellow, brown, and birds that are yellow and brown. Pekins, Rouens and the
resulting hybrids (a mix of two breeds) are larger and heavier than wild or
urban mallard females, and when these males try to mate with wild mallards,
they can injure and even drown them.
Domestic ducks can also carry diseases which wild populations of ducks do not
have immunity to. In 1993, Muscovy ducks, released into the canals in Venice,
California, tested positive for duck plague, duck virus enteritis (DVE), a fatal
herpes virus spread through feces. Ducks and geese on the canals began to have
violent seizures and then died. All the ducks and geese in the canals were
rounded up by Fish and Game and killed out of fear that some birds might fly to
other areas and infect entire wild flocks. The canals had also become
overpopulated. People were overfeeding the ducks and geese, which can cause
them to have more and larger clutches resulting in overpopulation. This then
leads to stress from too many birds in too small a habitat resulting in
fighting, injuries, death and disease. (The full story and debate can be found
in the Newsletter of the Santa Monica
Bay Audubon Society, March, 1994.
The goslings that are sold, typically at feed stores, are breeds like Chinese,
African, and Embden. These grow to be quite large and are distinguished by
various features. Chinese geese, which can be white, brown or a combination,
have long necks and a distinctive “knob” above their bill. Emdens have shorter
necks and blue eyes. African geese are shades of gray with black bills.
Although these geese are similar in size, shape and sound to Canada Geese (the
large wild birds with black heads, beaks and the distinctive white chinstrap)
they cannot fly like their wild cousins. You won’t find a Canada Goose gosling
in a pet shop among the other “wild” animals. How come a wild caught parrot or
tortoise can enter the pet trade, yet a Canada Goose can’t? Laws affecting
wildlife vary from country to country. In the United States, all migratory
birds are protected by Federal laws that make it illegal to capture, confine,
trade, sell or even care for them if they are injured without the proper permits.
It’s easy to see how people become confused when they see two groups of birds
interacting at a park pond, some wild and some domestic. Canada Geese and
mallards tend to tolerate humans more than other species and may even come
close and take some bread; but come spring, they will migrate to their summer
home. The domestics cannot escape. If they run out of food, like the birds at
the Auburn pond did, they simply starve to death or die of complications from
malnutrition due to diets of bread, crackers and popcorn.
So why are they there?
Domestic ducks and geese fall into a gray area, not classified as companion
animals by the shelters, and not considered wild by wildlife rescue
organizations. In the spring, when wildlife rescue centers are overwhelmed with
orphans, some refuse to take hybrid ducklings and many won’t take adult
domestic waterfowl either. The animal shelters are not typically set up for
injured wild animals, especially waterfowl, and many will refuse to take them.
Since many vets aren’t experienced with birds, when a homeless duck or goose is
injured, it typically has nowhere to go for help.
The birds rescued from the pond in Auburn spill (September, 2002), were in very
bad shape even before they were oiled. Unable to fly, there was no escaping
their shrinking pond where all vegetation had dried up over the summer.
Improper and inadequate food supplies had most near starvation and all of them
had painful sores (bumblefoot) on their delicate webbed feet, which were not
meant to walk on pavement and gravel. The birds were literally trapped and
starving.
So what’s wrong with bread and crackers? What do waterfowl naturally eat?
People derive great pleasure from taking their children to a local park that
has ducks and geese and feeding them. These birds sometimes provide the only
exposure to “wildlife” that many city kids ever experience and so it could be
argued that the birds provide a service. But it is a disservice to feed them,
especially when it is a steady diet of bread, crackers, chips, popcorn and the
like. They can literally starve to death if that is all they get to eat. Geese
are vegetarians and need access to vegetation. Ducks are mainly vegetarian but
they require some protein. Both will eat grains and corn.
You may see wild ducks and geese in a cornfield or wheat field after harvest;
they are eating the raw, unprocessed product, a whole food. Along with grains
they are getting grasses, shoots of weeds, worms, snails, and bugs. In the
water they tip to graze shallow areas for water plants, consuming small fish
when they find them. Mallards “dabble” the surface of the water for bugs and
floating vegetation. They fly to different areas for different foods, so they
have a wide variety of foods, but plants and vegetation comprise most of their
diet.
People mean well when they bring big bags of bread and crackers and it is
difficult for them to understand that they are killing the birds with their
kindness. Bread fills the birds up, swelling in their stomach, but providing no
nutritional value. They feel “full” so they go and rest and eventually they
become habitual beggars, subsisting on handouts and forgetting to eat their
natural food. After all, that is way more work to find! Another complicating
factor is that the habitat becomes overcrowded and there actually may not be
any natural food left. Yet the birds that can’t fly can only go as far as they
can walk. Stale bread from an occasional visitor may be their only meal.
Helping Domestic Ducks and Geese
If you live in a community that has an area where domestic ducks and geese have
been abandoned alert your local media to this web page and ask that they do
stories to educate the public about this issue. At some point, every small lake
and pond, just like the Venice Canals, will become overpopulated. After all,
ducks can hatch 14 or more eggs and you can see how 15 ducks can quickly become
one hundred. Ask your local pet shop to not sell “Easter” bunnies, ducklings
and chicks out of respect for the environment, the animals, and all the
non-profit organizations and local shelters that will end up having to care for
them.
When you see flocks of abandoned geese and ducks, remember they are not living
the good life. A story in your local paper might be a way to begin placing them
into good homes. Ask your local parks department if they can put up signs,
educating people not to abandon animals and that feeding them only makes
matters worse. If you would like to adopt ducks, geese or both (being flock
animals they do not do well alone) contact your local shelter and animal
control and tell them to alert you should they ever need to place birds.
Karen Benzel
Public Affairs Director
International Bird Rescue Research Center
831-622-7588 phone
www.ibrrc.org
Helping birds around the world since 1971
Oil spill response/rehabilitation/training/education
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ACT Radio - Animal Concerns of
Texas
By Greg Lawson - ParkStRanger@aol.com
Be
sure to listen to ACT Radio tonight at 9:30pm EST (7:30pm, mountain time) with
cohosts and Animal Rights Online journalists Greg Lawson and Steve Best, and
biologist Dr. Elizabeth Walsh. KTEP can be heard over the web with Real Radio,
which is a free download.
Tonight, Steve, Liz and I feature our second conversation with Jim Mason,
co-author with Peter Singer of Animal Factories, and author of An
Unnatural Order , a book which should be read by every animal advocate to
understand the process by which we came to think we have dominion over animals.
If you enjoy the show, please contact KTEP and tell them you support ACT Radio
and are pleased to hear this kind of programming.
General Feedback: http://www.ktep.org/index.ssd
A note about getting Real Radio if you don't already have it...
On the KTEP website you will see an icon on the left that says Listen to KTEP
Online, click it. The next page will say "In order to listen to KTEP
on-line you will need the Real Player, which is available for free on the Real
website. Click here to visit their download area." Go there.
That page will try to sell you the deluxe RealOne Player, but look in the top
right hand corner, there is a link that says "Free RealOne
Player." Go there.
Now on this page, on the bottom right, you will see a link that says
"Download the Free RealOne Player Only." This is what you want.
The download takes a little time, so be sure to do this early so you won't miss
today's installment of ACT Radio.
El Paso NPR - KTEP 88.5 :
National Public Radio for the Southwest
http://www.ktep.org/program_detail.ssd?id=103
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The Seaside Silence
By Robert Nichols
Lost in my joy, I moved without a thought,
Save of the loveliness about me cast.
A huge gull shot by some wanton fool
And left - it may be hours ago - to die...
His flanks were whiter than the purest cloud...
But there was blood upon his breast and back,...
There was one thing to do. It was soon done.
But, Oh, the smell of blood upon my hands,
The chillness which had marbled the fair sky,
The hateful fire of hatred in my tears!
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Memorable Quote
"It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday
is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow." - Goddard
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