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The official
ANIMAL RIGHTS ONLINE newsletter
Publisher ~ EnglandGal@aol.com Issue # 03/08/00
Editor ~ JJswans@aol.com
Journalists ~ PrkStRangr@aol.com
~ MRivera008@aol.com
~ SavingLife@aol.com
THE TEN ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE ARE:
1
~ The Antichrist is a Vegetarian? by PrkStrangr@aol.com
2
~ Please Teach the Children Well
By Marc Bekoff -
bekoffm@spot.Colorado.EDU
3
~ Wetlands Preserve Animal Rights Internship
4
~ Can We Relax? by Joe Feduccia - joef@pdq.net (joef)
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~ Animal Rights 2000
6
~ Cruelty Free Cat Toys by KMBWolf@aol.com
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~ UCLA Law School Presentation
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~ The Power of a Dog by Onionhed2@aol.com
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~ The Power of the Dog by Rudyard Kipling (Poem)
10 ~ Quote To Remember
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The Antichrist is a Vegetarian?
by PrkStrangr@aol.com
It
was reported in the March 6th United Kingdom newspaper, The Times, that the
leading contender to succeed the Pope believes that the Antichrist is among us
and promotes animal rights, vegetarianism and environmentalism. Huh?
According
to the story, the seventy-one-year-old Cardinal Giacomo Biffi, the Archbishop
of Bologna, said that the Antichrist uses these "feel good" causes to
lead people away from the true religion.
You
know, I have to wonder where the Archbishop of baloney gets his
information. This concept might make a
good movie, a sort of cross between "The Omen" and "Gandhi"
with Howard Lyman playing the lead. But
I am afraid that if this Cardinal does become the next Pope, many Catholics
will come to identify these causes with the devil's work.
I
wish for the day that the churches of Christianity will recognize how much a
vegetarian/animal rights lifestyle fits in best with the precepts of their
teachings and values.
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Please Teach the Children Well
By Marc Bekoff
- bekoffm@spot.Colorado.EDU
Children
are inherent and intuitive curious naturalists. They're sponges for knowledge,
absorbing, retaining, and using new information at astounding rates. We all
know this, but often we forget when we're helping to develop their roles as
future ambassadors with other animals, nature, and ourselves. Some are also
future leaders on whose spirit and good will many of us will depend. They will
be other animals' and our voices, indeed, voices of the universe. So, it makes
good sense to teach children well, to be role models, to infuse their education
with kindness and compassion so that their decisions are founded on a deeply
rooted, automatic reflex-like caring ethic. If we don't, they, we, other
animals, human communities, and environments will suffer.
Recently,
I've been fortunate to teach and have mutually beneficial discussions with some
fourth-graders at Foothills Elementary School. We considered such topics as
animal behavior, ecology, conservation biology, and the nature of human-animal
interactions. I was astounded by the level of discussion. The class centered on
the guiding principles of Jane Goodall's world-wide Roots & Shoots program,
whose basic tenets are that every individual is important and every individual
makes a difference. The program is activity oriented and members partake in
projects that have three components: care and concern for animals, human
communities, and the places in which we all live together.
All
the students had actively been engaged in projects that fulfilled all three
components. They had participated in, or suggested for future involvement, such
activities as recycling, being responsible for companion animals, reducing
driving, developing rehabilitation centers for animals, helping injured
animals, getting companion animals from humane shelters, boycotting pet stores,
tagging animals so if they get lost people would know who they are, visiting
senior citizen centers and homeless shelters, punishing litterbugs, and
punishing people who harmed animals.
We
discussed how easy it is to do things that make a difference and also develop a
compassionate and respectful attitude towards animals, people, and environments.
One student noted that by walking the companion dog who lived with his elderly
neighbor and cleaning up after the dog, he performed activities that satisfied
all three components.
Some
students had already developed very sophisticated attitudes about human-animal
interactions. One thought experiment in which we engaged is called "the
dog in the lifeboat." Basically, there are three humans and one dog in a
lifeboat and one of the four has to be thrown overboard because the boat can't
hold all of them. Generally, when this situation is discussed, most people
agree that all other things being equal, reluctantly the dog has to go. One can
also introduce variations on the theme. For example, perhaps two of the humans
are healthy youngsters and one is an elderly person who is blind, deaf,
paralyzed, without any family or friends, and likely to die within a week. The
dog is a healthy puppy. The students
admitted this was a very difficult situation and that maybe just maybe the
elderly human might be sacrificed because he had already lived a full life,
wouldn't be missed, and had little future. Indeed, this is very sophisticated
thinking that perhaps the elderly person had less to lose than either of the
other humans or the dog. Let me stress that all students agreed that this line
of thinking was not meant to devalue the elderly human. And, in the end, the
students and most people reluctantly conclude that regardless of the humans
ages or other characteristics, the dog has to go.
The
level of discussion overwhelmed my considerations of quality of life,
longevity, value of life, losses to surviving family and friends. But what
really amazed and pleased me was that before we ever got to discuss
alternatives, all students wanted to work it out so that no one had to be
thrown overboard. Why did any individual have to be thrown over they asked?
Lets not do it. When I said that the thought experiment required that at least
one individual had to be tossed they said this wasn't acceptable! I sat there
smiling and thinking, now these are the kinds of people in whom I'd feel
comfortable placing my future. Some ideas about how all individuals could be
saved included having the dog swim along the side of the boat and feeding her,
having them all switch off swimming, taking off shoes and throwing overboard
all things that weren't needed to reduce weight and bulk, and cutting the boat
in two and making two rafts.
All
students thought that even if the dog had to go she would have a better chance
of living because more could be done by the humans to save the dog than vice
versa. Very sophisticated reasoning indeed. I've discussed this example many
times and never before has a group unanimously decided that everyone must be
saved.
I
also was thrilled by the commitment of the teachers I met. They were dedicated
souls, and we should all be grateful that such precious beings are responsible
for educating future adults on whom we'll be dependent. The bottom line is pretty simple: teach the
children well, treat the teachers well, and treasure all. Nurture and provide
the seeds of compassion, empathy, and love with all the nutrients they need to
develop deep respect for, and kinship with, the universe. All people, other
animals, human communities, and environments now and in the future, will
benefit greatly by developing and maintaining heartfelt compassion that is as
reflexive as breathing. Compassion begets compassion -- there's no doubt about
it.
Marc
Bekoff teaches in Environmental, Population, and Organismic Biology at
CU-Boulder. Contact him (marc.bekoff@colorado.edu) for information about Roots
& Shoots programs for people of all ages or go to www.janegoodall.org. His father is currently organizing a chapter
for "elders," sources of infinite wisdom.
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Wetlands Preserve Animal Rights Internship
What
is Wetlands Preserve?
Based
in New York City, the popular Wetlands Preserve nightclub runs a one-of-a-kind
activist center committed to high-profile campaigns against environmental abuse
and the violation of the rights of human and non-human animals. Wetlands' social justice events have been
televised locally and internationally with newspaper stories and radio
reporting worldwide, through street theater, demonstrations, nonviolent civil
disobedience, our Earthstation Information Center, letter writing, weekly
public forums, public speaking,
information booths, participation in the political and regulatory processes,
and a range of other tactics, we challenge socially irresponsible governments
and corporations by exposing their actions to the public at large. We are
always seeking committed, responsible people to with our activist staff and
volunteers on exciting projects year round.
Location:
Wetlands Preserve is based in Tribeca, in Manhattan, New York City at 161
Hudson Street, on the corner of Laight Street (day entrance is the 1st black
door on Laight Street), 2 blocks south of Canal St, accessible from the 1.9, A,
C, or E trains to Canal Street or M6 bus to Canal Street. Call for more
detailed directions.
Academic
Credit: Can be arranged in conjunction with school internship programs at the
high school, college, and postgraduate levels.
Salary:
None, but Wetlands staff can work with interns to find salaried positions in
the environmental movement subsequent to their internship. Wetlands interns have gone on to take
salaried positions with groups such as Friends of Animals, The Allegheny
Defense Project, and In Defense of Animals.
Training:
Wetlands interns work with the experienced staff of an organization that has
been on the forefront of activism in New York City for over ten years. As part of the program, intern will gain
extensive knowledge of relevant issues and experience in implementing activist
strategies.
Hours:
Highly flexible. The Center is open
Monday through Friday 10AM-8PM, and occasionally on weekends. Each Tuesday evening from 7-9:00PM Wetlands
holds educational forums with expert speakers, videos, and slide shows. Attendance at these meetings is strongly
preferred.
Perks:
Free admission to all concerts at the Wetlands Preserve nightclub. New York
City, a place of rich cultural diversity, art, history, and activism, is a
great perk in and of itself.
For
more information or to set up an interview, call Adam Weissman at (212)
966-4831 or email adam@wetlands-preserve.org Visit our website at
http://www.wetlands-preserve.org/activismcenter.html. As we are switching servers this week, if
your emails bounce, send them to jun1022@cybernex.net, instead.
Source: Adam Weissman
<jun1022@cybernex.net>
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Can We Relax?
by Joe
Feduccia - joef@pdq.net (joef)
It
was announced that the sales of lost and abandoned pets to research labs in
Metro Houston will stop. Commissioner Steve Radack, with consistent support by
Commissioner Jerry Eversole, were joined by Commissioner El Franco Lee and
Judge Robert Eckels in a four-to-one decision to stop the contract on March
31st.
It
is the apex of irony that lost pets go to research laboratories from any
publicly-funded shelter to certain death under uncertain circumstances; and,
this shameful practice might be better understood in an area of good-ole boys
in a rural location, but Harris County/Metro Houston is a space-age Mecca.
This
is the Metro to which the first words from the moon were uttered, where
futuristic skyscrapers adorn an otherwise barren prairie, where an
African-American mayor was elected to show that everybody can succeed in
harmony, and where one of the World's foremost medical centers maliciously had
insisted on using lost and abandoned pets as specimens in experiments of
questionable value.
Is
this a final deal? Not quite. In
addition to possible dumping of pets to labs between now and the 31st, Joe
Stinebaker's article in the 2-23-00, Houston Chronicle, relates a note of
caution, "...Texas A&M....asked the county not to ban the sales of
animal corpses....
"'I
know this is an emotional issue,' [Dr. Richard] Ermel said. 'But I ask you to
pull the emotions aside and look at what we're asking.'"
It
might not be so emotional if it had any veracity, but it does not. Personnel from the pound, including its
director, have lied straight-faced to television cameras, to the Houston
Chronicle, to an USDA inspector about selling to a Class B Animal Dealer. Would Ermel himself go for a public
lie-detector test?
This
shelter MUST be opened to public scrutiny. Accept no less. We can work toward a
Metro-sized plan to solve the overpopulation problem, but not with closed-door
operations using tax money.
We
should not overlook the good folks at City, who stopped pound seizures at
BARC. The entire Houston Department of
Health and Human Services, along with the 1993 City Council, implemented a
thorough investigation and decided to stop the sales. Leadership at the
department included Dr. Mary desVignes-Kendrick, who presented the
recommendation to City Council, Asst. Dir. Artis Payne, and Adm. Mgn. Ken Hertz. Any tittle of inaccuracy in this paragraph
may be attributable to notes on a grabbed envelope.
What
about the others? The Alexanders of the
World Champion Rockets and Comets, the ASPCA, PETA, PCRM, AVAR, Animal Rights
Online systems, the local LC Animal group, and of course, the remnant and
newcomers to HART. These are only the
more prominent that presently come to mind -- apologies to anyone or any
organization unrecognized here.
Regardless, to both Commissioners Court and City of Houston, and the
legions of good-citizens and organizations, thank you.
We've
already stomped out twenty-five. Let's go the extra mile to make Metro Houston
a pet-friendly town.
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Animal Rights 2000
We
are pleased to announce that we are now accepting registrations for Animal
Rights 2000, our movement's national conference to be held at the McLean Hilton
hotel near the nation's capital on July 1-5.
The
registration fee is $140 until March 31 (postmark), $160 until April 30, $180
until May 31, and $200 after. There are $25 fees for the Monday night banquet
and for the July 4 evening tour of the National Mall and fireworks. We have
discounts for students/seniors/low income folks and work scholarships for those
who would rather work off the fee.
Lodging
at the Hilton is available at the unbelievable rate of $25-$75 per night
(depending on occupancy) plus tax. Child care can be arranged.
Vegan
soup/salad lunch buffet and hot dinner buffet are $8.50 and $10, respectively,
plus tax/tip. Total cost of the four-night, five-day package can be as low as
$400 (with early registration and multiple occupancy).
Exhibit
tables for all four days (July 1-4) are available at $300 for commercial firms,
$200 for selling nonprofits, and $100 for exhibiting nonprofits.
For
additional details and registration form, please visit our beautiful new web
site
at
http://www.AnimalRights2000.org. (Thank you, Vegan Outreach for the design and
VegSource for hosting.) You may also e-mail us at info@AnimalRights2000.org
Be
there for the animals, and bring a friend!
Alex
Hershaft, National Chair, Animal Rights 2000.
farm@farmusa.org
(FARM)
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Cruelty Free Cat Toys
by
KMBWolf@aol.com
In
today's pet supplies stores, one cannot seem to avoid finding toys for their
beloved felines that do not contain fur, leather, or feathers. But have no
fear! There are many toys out there
that consist of no animal byproducts.
First
of all, there are the infamous scratching posts, made up of though rope and
carpeting. Some even come decorated with a neat little, floofy, hanging fluff
ball for your cat to bat around.
Then
there are the hundreds of catnip toys that consist of safe plastics and/or
cloth. You can even make your own catnip pillows with your own fabric of choice
and organic catnip, which is found in most pet supplies stores.
Some
of the most unique cat toys out on the market are cruelty free. There are zig
zag balls, plastic balls in which a small ball bearing give the toy its
capricious ways, entertaining cats for hours. Some balls and plush toys make
noises to entertain the felines, like squeaking, honking, beeping, even
undefinable noises.
Best
of all, because of the simplicity of cruelty free toys, some are the least
expensive. Ping pong toys, spinner balls, catnip pillows, mylar balls, crinkle
pillows, nylon mice, and many more toys cost under a dollar, and are quite
durable and entertaining to a cat.
So
don't be distressed if you want your cats to have fur-, feather-, and
leather-free toys, because there are hundreds out there. And you'll find that
you'll be saving more money, too!
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UCLA Law School Presentation
Please
join us at UCLA Law School on Monday, March 20th, at 7 p.m. for a presentation
by Steve Wise. Mr. Wise has twenty
years of experience as a teacher, scholar, and practitioner of animal law. He will be speaking about his new book,
Rattling the Cage, in which he argues that basic legal rights should be
extended to nonhuman animals, beginning with chimpanzees and bonobos.
Also,
please save the date of April 25th for a presentation by Scott Myers and his
client, Jerry Friedman. Mr. Friedman is suing Kaiser Permanente for religious
discrimination, battery, and other claims based on his vegan beliefs.
The
presentation on March 20th will be held from 7 p.m. in Room 1430, which is
located on the ground floor of the Law School very close to the north entrance
of the Law School.
There
is no charge to attend the event.
Parking is available at UCLA for the price of $5 per car. The following directions will enable you to
enter UCLA at the point closest to the Law School:
405 to Sunset heading toward UCLA
(east)
Sunset to Hilgard (turn right;
south)
Hilgard to Wyton (turn right; west)
There will be a parking information
booth directly in front of you.
Attendants at the booth will take
your $5 and direct you to nearest parking lot.
The Law School is the building
directly south of the parking booth.
If
you have any questions, please contact me by reply e-mail or contact Melissa
Bjorkenstam (Chair of the Animal Law Speaker Series) at bjorkens@2002.law.ucla.edu
We
look forward to seeing you on March 20th.
Source: Taimie Bryant
Professor of
Law
UCLA Law
School
<BRYANT@mail.law.ucla.edu>
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The Power of a Dog
by
Onionhed2@aol.com
Not
long after my friend Maria came to work at Farm Sanctuary, she got permission
to start a foster program with the local dog pound (just a dog pound --
apparently most people in that area didn't care what happened to the stray cats). Missing my own dogs back home in Illinois, I
quickly agreed to help her out. Working
with the Schuyler County Humane Society, she was able to get free dog food and
a deal for spaying and neutering.
The
first dog she brought home with her was Stormy, some sort of black Lab, I
think. Stormy had been hit by a car, and his owner didn't want to bother with
the medical expenses. So Maria took him
home. Horribly underweight, Stormy
looked like a walking skeleton. He also
walked with a limp. Since Maria's golden retriever's name is Geronimo (G-mo to
close friends), we joked that Stormy's Indian name should be Wounded Knee. But,
he just stayed Stormy.
Stormy
was eventually placed in a good home, and Maria next brought home a mother and
her four young puppies. Walking back
from the education center after "work," I was greeted by Maria (who
lived on the farm), telling me to come see the mom and her pups. After
scratching some pigs, I headed to Maria's cabin. There in the back room was a
medium-sized black dog and her four teeny puppies. I'm not good at guessing,
but I'd say they were not even a month old. Two little black ones, a tan and
white one, and a black and white one (the only male). I was hooked immediately.
Not
long after that, I finally went with Maria to the pound. It is a small building
behind someone's house. You can only visit by appointment with the Sheriff, and
volunteers stop by once a day to feed and water the dogs. They are never taken
for walks, given any exercise. The dogs are kept in small cages (about 20 in
all) with cement floors to lie on. A metal door in each of their cages could be
lifted and the dogs allowed outside to a small, fenced-in cement
"patch" to run around in. Some of the smaller dogs were placed in
cages together.
The
first thing to hit you is the barking. It's a small building, and the noise was
so loud you had to shout to be heard. Most of the dogs had knocked over and
spilled their bowls of food and water in their excitement. Most jumped and
pawed at the cage doors, others cowered pitifully, cramming themselves into the
corner of their cell. The natural (and very, very, very strong) reaction is to
let them out of their cages and let them run free. The most we could do was let
a couple out for a few minutes while we filled their water bowls. As was often
the case, the dog we let out would run from cage to cage, sniffing and licking
the other dogs' noses through the chain links.
Most
of the dogs were mutts, but there were two Huskies, a Chihuahua, a German
Shepherd, and two yellow Labs. The mutts were various lab/shep mixes, four
husky/shep mix puppies (all in one cage by themselves), a very pregnant
beagle/fox terrier mix, a 14 year old shep mix (Paddy -- his owners abandoned
him when they moved), a beagle mix and several other mixes I couldn't identify.
A
few days earlier, Maria had brought me a little Sheltie (mix, I think) to
foster at Vegan House (where the interns stayed). She knew that most of the
remaining dogs at the shelter were going to be killed (oh, I mean euthanized)
soon because no one was adopting, so we wanted to try and bring back one or two
more. I already had one in mind; a 12 year old female Shepherd. Unfortunately,
a court case on her was pending, so she had to stay there. Instead, we brought
home 14 year old Paddy. Sadly, after a
few loving days at Vegan House, he had to be returned to the pound where he and
around six other dogs (including "my" Shepherd), four puppies, and a
mother dog and her not even day old puppies were "put down." Very "humanely", too: a shot right
into the heart. And afterwards, their bodies were thrown into the dumpster
outside.
The
night before the dogs were killed, Maria and I went to the pound. I wanted to
videotape them, take pictures, and say good-bye. I took the Shepherd out for
one last run. On a cold rainy night in November, I ran around a muddy yard with
this beautiful dog, so full of life. Powerful for twelve years old. She pulled
me, leapt in the air, rubbed against my legs and licked me like it was the happiest
night of her life. And I stumbled along behind her, blinded by tears and
sobbing over and over again, "I'm sorry." I knelt down next to her, kissed her face, hugged her, looked
into her eyes and named her Dorothy. I didn't want her to die without a name,
without someone caring enough to give her an identity. And love.
We
returned to the pound, and I put her back into the cage. I went to each cage,
petted every dog and whispered "I'm sorry" to every one. I looked
into their eyes and swore I would never forget them, that I wouldn't let them
die in vain. They licked my hands and whimpered, and I think they knew
something was wrong. I said good-bye to the young mother and her newborn
puppies and the other pregnant female. I said good-bye to the four older
puppies and two young dogs.
I
lingered the longest at Dorothy's cage. I took a picture of her right before I
left, the last time I ever saw her. I've sent it to Susan [EnglandGal] along
with this e-mail, and hopefully she'll pass it along to the list. The look in
her eyes haunts me everytime I close my eyes. Everytime I see my own dogs
playing, I remember her last night alive. It breaks my heart that I couldn't
save her. But because of her (and the
other dogs who's lives were wasted), I have the power to spread an important
message. I have the fuel to carry on fighting for those who have no voice.
This
is the message: PLEASE spay and neuter your dogs and cats. Do not
"shop" at pet stores, but rather, adopt a shelter dog or cat. Make
sure your yard is safe for your dog, that he or she can't escape. Always put a
collar on your dog or cat with a tag that includes your animal's name, your
last name and phone number. If you have a hectic life and don't have time for
animals, don't bring one home. If you are moving, make inquiries in advance as
to where you can find housing that will accept your animal(s). You wouldn't
leave your children behind if you moved, why should this not pertain to
animals? No one likes to be abandoned, especially when the only outcome is
death.
And
yet, after all this, I have one wonderful, living memory of that awful pound:
my little Tank. The four little puppies I mentioned earlier, the ones Maria
brought home from the pound. The only male puppy... what can I say? He fell in
love with me! Everytime I saw him, he
would go berzerk, jumping, whining, licking. Believe me, I tried not to get
attached. But when the time came to leave Farm Sanctuary, I knew in my heart
there was no way I was leaving without him. The two month old black, white and
brown Beagle mix sat in my lap for the whole eleven hour drive back to
Illinois. Thankfully I had the foresight to put a large towel and some
newspapers down, as he had a few accidents (of the vomit kind) on the way.
Now
ten months old, he lives up to his name. And he's too smart for his own good.
Once my sister shut him in my room. He jumped out the window and ran to the
front door looking for me. He's had more than a few mishaps though. In January
he fell through some ice and almost drowned. Later on that same month, he ate
some D-con that my cousin put down after we specifically told him not to.
Obviously and thankfully he survived it all. And every night I curl up in bed
with Tank and my cat Freddie, and I fall asleep thinking maybe the world isn't
such a bad place after all.
Some have left
and others are about to leave,
so why should we be sorry
that we too must go?
And yet our hearts are sad
that on this mighty road
the friends we meet can set
no place to meet again.
-- From the Sanskrit
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The Power of the Dog
by Rudyard
Kipling
There is
sorrow enough in the natural way
From men and
women to fill our day;
And when we
are certain of sorrow in store,
Why do we
always arrange for more?
Brothers and
Sisters, I bid you beware
Of giving your
heart to a dog to tear.
When the body
that lived at your single will,
With its
whimper of welcome, is stilled (how still!),
When the
spirit that answered your every mood
Is
gone--wherever it goes--for good,
You will
discover how much you care,
And will give
your heart to a dog to tear.
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Quote To Remember
"Don't
buy fur. Get a Rolex or a life."
~~Sign
at the March for the Animals, June 1990
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