A n i m a l W r i t
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The official
ANIMAL RIGHTS ONLINE newsletter
Publisher ~ EnglandGal@aol.com Issue # 03/01/00
Editor ~ JJswans@aol.com
Journalists ~ PrkStRangr@aol.com
~ MRivera008@aol.com
~ SavingLife@aol.com
THE ELEVEN ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE ARE:
1
~ The Power of Cheesy Advertising by PrkStRangr@aol.com
2
~ Job Opportunity - In Defense of Animals (IDA)
3
~ Check The Vote
4
~ Yellowstone Bison Update by PrkStRangr@aol.com
5
~ Dial Testing On Animals
6
~ First Hand Experience by Onionhed2@aol.com
7
~ New York State Hearings
8
~ Illinois Vet Student Wins Animals' Choice Award
9
~ Sowing Seeds Workshop In Toronto
10 ~ Look How Able Cain Was by tapster@mindspring.com
11 ~ Quote To Remember
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The Power of Cheesy Advertising
by PrkStrangr@aol.com
Tonight,
after I saw the Hayes for President cheese commercial for the 100th time, I
thought I would put in my two cents worth to help his campaign. No thanks, I don't like cheese either. And I am not a doofus.
Cheese
is concentrated milk, full of fat, chemicals, pesticides, etc. and concentrated
animal suffering...to make milk, a dairy cow must be kept pregnant and the
calves become veal. The veal industry
is a direct offshoot of the dairy industry.
There
are plenty of cruelty free substitutes for dairy including soymilks, and other
veg milks, Tofutti cream cheese and sour cream alternatives, nondairy ice
creams, vegan cheeses such as VeganRella and Soymage, etc.
Let's
all use them and say no to dairy and no to the lies that milk builds strong
bones and all the other lies from the dairy industry.
Here's
something else we can all do for fun and maybe one of us will win the prize
money.... go to
A Love Affair
with Cheese
http://www.ilovecheese.com/redbook.html
The
American Dairy Association wants to know what you think about food and romance!
Enter your name, address and daytime phone number, along with your answer to
the question: "What is the most romantic cheese and why?"
This
is what they say at this page, they go on to say that the winner will be picked
at random and will receive a trip for two to a romantic Caribbean resort!
I
urge you all to join me in saying that the most romantic cheese is either
SoyMage brand or VeganRella brand because they don't cause the animal suffering,
the heart attacks in humans, the wastes in the dairy farming industry, the
pollution of dairy farm manure runoffs, the cruelty, the unnecessary
cruelty.
And
say "My vote goes for Hayes, he might have chewed, but he never swallowed
your bull."
For more info
see...
The NOTMILK
Homepage! (MILK is a bad-news substance!)
http://www.notmilk.com/
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Job Opportunity
Position ~ Assistant
to the Administrative Director
Description ~ We are
seeking a full or part time Assistant to the Administrative Director. This
person will be an excellent communicator with superb writing, typing, and
computer skills to provide intelligent input and administrative and clerical
support to the President and Administrative Director.
Responsibilities ~
Correspondence
Phone calls
Filing
Calendar management
Researching issues
Preparing mailings
Miscellaneous tasks as needed
Qualifications ~
Excellent
written and verbal skills
Strong attention to detail
Ability to juggle multiple tasks
Ability to work in a somewhat
chaotic environment
A commitment to the objectives of
the organization
Must enjoy challenges and team work
Salary ~ $20-24,000
(full time rate) DOE
If
you are interested in this position, please send a cover letter and resume to:
Margo DeMello
In Defense of Animals
131 Camino Alto
Mill Valley, CA 94941
Fax: (415) 388-0388
Email: ida@idausa.org
No phone calls please.
Source: "Jennye
Laws-Woolf" <jennye@idausa.org>
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Check The Vote
How
did your federal legislators vote on animal issues during the 106th Congress?
Find
out by accessing "The Humane Scorecard," a project of The Humane
Society of the United States and The Fund for Animals. The scorecard is now
available on both organizations' web sites listed below.
Fund:
http://www.fund.org/alerts/shaping.html
HSUS:
http://hsus.org/programs/government/scorecard_pending.html
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Yellowstone Bison Update
by
PrkStRangr@aol.com
Last
Thursday night the A & E network aired a program on the continued slaughter
of the bison of Yellowstone National Park by the state of Montana. I was very pleased to see this national
exposure to a problem which has bothered me for years. The state officials and the cattlemen who
are responsible for killing thousands of bison over the last decade gave their
own excuses for their actions, and it was obvious to the viewer that the
motivation was greed. The cattlemen of
Montana, who pay below market value to graze their cattle on federal land
surrounding Yellowstone want to view the bison as pests which could possibly pass
disease to the cattle. This claim was
shown to be ludicrous. Mike Mease, the
organizer of the activist group Buffalo Field Campaign, came across as the most
intelligent and rational voice on the program.
I
am hopeful that this program will cause people who saw it to write letters,
because continued protests to our elected officials is our best chance of
ending this tragic waste of a national treasure which belongs not to Montana,
but to all the people. Something which
is not very well known is that Montana Governor Marc Racicot, one of the men
primarily responsible for the bison slaughter, is a strong possibility to be
appointed Secretary of the Interior by George Bush Jr., if Bush is
elected. As a Park Ranger, I would hate
to see Racicot in this position, as the National Park Service is a branch of
the Department of the Interior; the symbol of the Interior Department is the
bison. The environmental destruction
which would follow to benefit ranchers, loggers and other special interest
groups would be intolerable.
So
far this year's winter has been mild in Montana. Most of the bison have stayed inside the safety of the park and
none have been killed for wandering out into this backward state. But there are a couple of months of winter
left that far north. Let's not wait
until the killing begins again. Please
go to the website of the Buffalo Field Campaign and learn what actions you can
take to help end this senseless situation.
Buffalo Field
Campaign
http://www.wildrockies.org/Buffalo/index.html
[Editor's
Note: Anyone interested in helping to work on the campaign to stop the
harassment and killing of the Yellowstone Bison, please email
PrkStRangr@aol.com ]
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Dial Testing On Animals
Dial
is no longer observing a moratorium on animal testing. While Dial has always been listed on PETA's
list of companies that do test on animals, a notation next to it indicated that
the company has been observing a moratorium (but hadn't committed to a
permanent ban). Please note that they
are once again testing!
Source:
BHGazette@aol.com
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First Hand Experience
by Onion
hed2@aol.com
From
September to November of last year, I was an intern at a place called Farm
Sanctuary in Watkins Glen, New York.
Farm Sanctuary is a farm where rescued farm animals go to be nurtured
and rehabilitated back to health. No longer "food animals," cows,
pigs, turkeys, chickens, goats, rabbits, sheep and ducks live out their natural
lives in peace. They have no
"purpose" there; they don't give milk, eggs or wool for human
use.
March
20th is the day animal lovers and vegetarians (vegans) unite and speak up for
"food" animals everywhere -- the Great American Meat Out. I would
like to take this opportunity to enlighten a few readers to the true price of
eating meat.
While
I was at Farm Sanctuary, I had the opportunity to visit two stockyards and a
farm animal research facility. At the
stockyards, I saw a piglet with a ruptured anus and other pigs with bloody
stumps where their tails used to be. A man who worked there told me and the
intern coordinator that those pigs were in a separate pen because they all had
something wrong with them. And they
were all going to be slaughtered for consumption.
At
the calf auction I sat in the front row, not four feet away from dozens of
frightened calves being beaten with electric cattle prods. Farmers in bib
overalls laughed at the sickly calves, "That one's dead! Throw him on the
pile." (The "dead pile" is where downed animals are thrown, left
to slowly die of injuries, starvation, or thirst.) Some of them were not even a day old, their umbilical cords still
wet and dangling from their bellies.
The
female calves were auctioned off to dairy farms, the males to veal farms where
they would live their short lives in crates so small they wouldn't be able to
move.
I
also had the opportunity to rescue some very unique furry chickens. A farm
worker and I ran around in the rain, chasing these dirty, pecking chickens.
Driving the first load back to the farm, one small hen nudged her way under my
arm and into my lap, and there she sat the whole way home. I befriended a beautiful sheep named Lola,
and a feisty little goat named Ivan. I sat among turkeys with their toes and
beaks cut off, their poor legs bowed under the weight of their fleshy bodies,
bred that way to produce more meat. Incidentally, I spent Thanksgiving Day with
these turkeys, feeding them cranberries and grapes.
I
spent a lot of time in the pig barn, rubbing the bellies of those snorty
beauties, just like my dogs back at home. At night I sometimes helped round up
the geese and ducks, and helped shut up the rabbits. Every night, in my bed at Vegan House (the intern house just up
the road), I would fall asleep to the geese squabbling in their barn, and wake
to the sound of roosters (who incidentally cry their infamous "cock-a-doodle-do"
all day long).
I
became a vegetarian at 16, and vegan at 21 (3 years ago). I already knew why I stopped eating animals
and wearing their skin, but my experiences at Farm Sanctuary strengthened my
beliefs and deepened the bond I feel with my fellow creatures. I have heard
their screams, and I have seen their struggles. And I live with the pain of
guilt because I used to be a part of their torment. Now I'm doing everything I
can to make others aware of it.
Please,
if not for the animals, then do it for your health. Stop eating meat. Try it
for a couple of weeks. Eat lots of fruits and veggies and be sure to go to the
Chicago Diner a lot! You won't be disappointed.
There
are two things I will never forget: one little calf at the stockyards. Crippled
to the point where he was forced to walk on his knees, he was beaten with an
electric cattle prod until he collapsed in a dirty hallway. From there he was kicked into a stall where
he lay panting, wide-eyed, frightened, and crying for the mother he would never
see again. The other is a cow named Margie; a black and brown, doe-eyed beauty
I befriended at Farm Sanctuary.
Whenever she spotted me walking past the cow barn, she would moo loudly,
and when I went to greet her, she would stick her massive head towards me and
lick my arms. And every time someone
asks me why I don't eat meat (or dairy), I remember the tormented eyes of that
crippled, broken calf, and the gentle, flirty eyes of my Margie. And I answer,
because I have looked into the eyes of every creature I used to eat. I could not live with myself if I ever again
contributed to the pain I saw deep in their eyes.
Not
eating meat, eggs or dairy is a small price to pay for good health and peace of
mind. Not only is my heart healthy, but it is at peace.
For
more information about Farm Sanctuary, please email them at:
office@farmsanctuary.org
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New York State Hearings
Office
of the Assembly Majority Leader Michael Bragman, Assemblywoman Deborah Glick
and Assemblyman William Magee are holding a joint public hearing on Pet
Population Control and Animal Shelter Overcrowding.
Purpose:
to evaluate the impact and demands of pet population control issues on NY State
municipalities.
It
appears the hearing will focus on spay/neuter promotion, funding, legislation,
and aid to animal shelters.
Date: March 9, 2000
Time: 11 AM
Place: 270 Broadway
Assembly Hearing Room on 11th Floor
New York, NY
Anyone
can give oral testimony for up to 10 minutes. Everyone is urged to also submit
written testimony. 10 copies of written testimony should be submitted at the
hearing registration desk.
Those
who want to give testimony at the hearing need to fill out a form with
Wallace
John, Principal Analyst, Standing Committee on Agriculture,
Room
513 Capitol, Albany, NY 12248; (518) 455-4355, fax (518) 455-4128.
Source:
"marisul" <marisul@prodigy.net>
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Illinois Vet Student Wins Animals' Choice Award
SACRAMENTO,
CA (February 22) - United Animal Nations, a national animal advocacy and rescue
group headquartered in Sacramento, today awarded Illinois veterinary student
Linnaea Stull its esteemed Animals' Choice Award.
Stull,
a second-year student at the University of Illinois Veterinary College,
received the award -- which recognizes an individual who has made an
outstanding commitment to help animals in need -- for leading a successful
effort to get her school to use alternative educational tools in first-year
physiology labs instead of killing animals during instruction. Veterinary
College Dean Ted Valli announced last month that the school would end the live
animal physiology experiments for the spring semester and evaluate the use of
alternatives.
Although
some veterinary schools in the United States have ended the use of live animal
experiments, University of Illinois is among a few schools that have continued
to use live dogs, pigs and rabbits to teach students about physiology.
Experiments include injecting drugs into dogs to change their heartbeat or
giving pigs chemicals that measure how their kidneys filter toxins. The animals
either die during the experiments or they are euthanized afterwards. About 100
animals have been killed each year in the first-year labs at University of
Illinois.
Stull
was among a group of University of Illinois students who adamantly objected to
the lethal experiments, arguing that the unnecessary killing of these animals
is the antithesis of the veterinary oath to help and care for animals. To prove
that such killing is unnecessary and to encourage the school to offer
alternatives, Stull submitted 28 scientific studies to Dean Valli which
outlined the efficacy of alternative educational tools. She also submitted a
list of over 200 alternatives which met the learning objectives for the
physiology labs, such as videos and computer simulations, and a petition of 26
signatures of first-year students (about a quarter of the class) who objected to
the live animal experiments.
As
a result of Stull's efforts, the objections of other students and the resulting
public pressure and media coverage, Dean Valli made the decision to halt the
live animal labs for the spring semester and to evaluate the use of
alternatives. The school recently invested $2,500 to examine these
alternatives.
"In
forcing the school to end these live animal experiments, Linnaea has lived up
to her oath to save animal life, specifically the lives of 100 animals who were
scheduled to die during this year's physiology labs," said UAN President
Jeane Westin. "As important, she prompted the school to reconsider its
policy on this unnecessary killing and to pursue viable alternatives. She
exemplifies the commitment and caring that should serve as a role model for her
fellow students and her profession."
UAN's
Animals' Choice Award includes a $250 donation made in the recipient's name to
a related animal welfare cause or project. Stulls' donation will be given to
the Humane PAC in Illinois. This group is currently working on passage of the
Illinois Dissection Alternatives Act, which allows students through
undergraduate level to have alternatives to dissection and vivisection in their
curriculum. Stull has helped the Humane PAC educate legislators on this issue
in visits at the State Capitol in Springfield.
Previous
recipients of UAN's Animals' Choice Award include Pennsylvania Humane Officer
Clayton Hulsizer, who helped shut down the notorious pigeon shoot in Hegins,
PA, and Maryanne Scudiero, a 12-year-old who marched on stage at a Ringling
Bros. contest for kids and attempted to read a statement about the cruelty that
circus animals endure.
For
more information about UAN or the Animals' Choice Award, contact UAN at
P.O.
Box 188890, Sacramento, CA 95818, Tel: (916) 429-2457, email
info@uan.org,
web site www.uan.org.
Source: info@uan.org
(UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS)
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Sowing Seeds Workshop in Toronto
In
honor of 2000: The Year of the Humane Child, the Center for Compassionate
Living will be offering two Sowing Seeds Humane Education Workshops. The first, April 1-2, 2000, will be held at
the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto,
and will be jointly sponsored by the university's International Institute for
Global Education.
The
2-day workshop will teach activists, educators, students, and concerned
citizens how to become effective humane educators. Sowing Seeds is an exciting, interactive program based on the
premise that inspiring compassion and respect among youth, and teaching
critical thinking, are the keys to building a humane and sustainable future.
For
information about the Sowing Seeds workshop, or to receive a registration
brochure, contact the Center for Compassionate Living, P.O. Box 260, Surry, ME
04684, ph/fax: 207 667-1025, e-mail: ccl@acadia.net
www.compassionateliving.org
Source: "Jonathan Balcombe"
<JBalcombe@hsus.org>
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‘Look How Able Cain Was'
by tapster@mindspring.com
Cruelty has
been the norm
look how able
Cain was
reaping
ancient traits
we untangle a
crooked mess
No one feels
my misery
my Desiderada
for them
sealed in
isolation
deep and
darkened pens
I am just as
much a victim
in this super
human plot
gelatin
skeleton smears flesh
describes my
character, not
What evils
sick humanity
wreak
cannibalism's awful toll
protect we do
innocent heads
over yonder's
grassy knoll
We push for
social enlightenment
other species
replace human slaves
eternity
characterizes group ideas
a million
beings kiss holy graves
2000 By Diana
Moreton.
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Quote To
Remember
"Despite the fact that he was
left-handed, Dr. Albert Schweitzer
often wrote our prescriptions with
his right hand because his cat
liked to sleep against his left hand
and was not to be disturbed."
--
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