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ANIMAL RIGHTS ONLINE newsletter
Publisher ~ EnglandGal@aol.com Issue # 03/29/00
Editor ~ JJswans@aol.com
Journalists ~ PrkStRangr@aol.com
~ MRivera008@aol.com
~ SavingLife@aol.com
THE ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE ARE:
1
~ Robert Cohen Speaks In El Paso And Kitty Litter Cake Recipe
by
PrkStRangr@aol.com
2
~ Why We Are Fighting An Uphill Battle by MRivera008@aol.com
3
~ AR2000 Early Registration Extended
4
~ 20/20 Laughs At Dairy Industry
5
~ The Animals' Agenda
6
~ Cetacean Story Follow-up
7
~ HorseAid Florida
8
~ The Glass Wall by WantNoMeat@aol.com
9
~ Quote To Remember
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Robert Cohen Speaks In El Paso
And Kitty Litter Cake Recipe
by
PrkStRangr@aol.com
Last
weekend, Robert Cohen, author of "Milk, the Deadly Poison", was the
guest speaker at a dinner hosted by the Vegetarian Society of El Paso. One hundred and twenty people (about a third
were non-members interested in learning more about vegetarianism) listened to
the story of how milk causes everything from breast and prostate cancers to ear
infections and asthma in children.
Minds
were opened, books were sold, many went away either mad at the dairy industry,
scared, awed or with their worst fears about milk confirmed. I am sure that a good number of our
ovo-lacto vegetarian members were moved down the path to veganism.
see
Cohen's site for the facts about milk
The NOTMILK
Homepage! (MILK is a bad-news substance!)
http://www.notmilk.com/
Cohen
is a fascinating personality. With a
seemingly photographic memory and a background in biology, he has studied
thousands of scientific and government research documents about the hormones in
milk and their effect on the human body.
He
is one of the biggest threats to the Dairy Industry and the Monsanto Company
(manufacturers of recombinant bovine growth hormone, rBGH) and they have
employees who keep track of Cohen, and what he says, and try to come up with
damage control. At one of his speeches
at a university, Tom and Jerry's gave away free ice cream to the students.
Robert
Cohen's largest battle right now is a petition he filed against the Food and
Drug Administration to have Monsanto's rBGH taken off the market, and things
look pretty good that this will happen.
Robert has been on a hunger strike, consuming only liquids, since
November 7th and so he didn't get to enjoy the bountiful vegan buffet the veg
society enjoyed.
HUNGERSTRIKE!
Diary for March 2000
http://www.hungerstrike.com/diary03.html#119
On
Saturday, the board of directors of the veg society held a potluck supper with
about 15 people. I brought a veganized
version of a recipe I found on the internet called Kitty Litter Cake. In a new kitty litter pan, with a litter
scooper to serve, the dessert consists of cake crumbs, lemon pudding globs
covered with crumbs, and carefully shaped semi-sweet (vegan, not milk
chocolate) morsels.
Cohen
was intrigued by it and said, "This looks absolutely delicious."
"I
was hoping it would tempt you off your hunger strike," I said.
"Almost,"
he said. "You must give me the
recipe."
So,
here it is Robert, and thanks for visiting with us.
Kitty
Litter Cake (vegan)
1 new kitty litter pan (pick a small
size)
1 new scooper
1 box white cake mix (a flavor helps
like coconut or banana, I did spice
cake but the crumbs were
a bit dark)
Soymilk
EnerG brand egg replacer or other
egg substitute
1 tub Spectrum Spread or other
margarine without trans-fat
1 box lemon pudding mix (or make a
pudding with cornstarch, sugar,
lemon juice and water)
2 cups semi-sweet chocolate
In
a double boiler or in the microwave, melt the chocolate. Allow to cool to room temperature. When nearly hardened, spoon onto wax paper
and shape the pieces. Be sure to taper
at least one end. Make lemon pudding
and chill. Bake cake according to
directions using soymilk, margarine and egg replacer. (Hint: I use blenderized tofu to replace half of the margarine
called for). Allow to cool.
Wash
kitty litter pan and then crumble the cake into it (I used a grater to make
small crumbs). Spoon globs of lemon
pudding into the crumbs and mix it around a bit. Decorate with the chocolate shapes pushing some of them under the
crumbs. As a nice finishing touch I
used crumbled green fruit loops to simulate the little odor eating crystals in
the brand I use.
Surprise
your family and friends with this unique cake for April Fools Day, but make
sure the family cat doesn't see it.
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Why We Are Fighting An Uphill Battle
by Michelle
Rivera MRivera008@aol.com
Most
of us that have been animal rights activists for a while have become moderately
familiar with all the famous people who have been quoted for their views on
animal rights. And while Winston Churchill
has never been among those famous folks, there is one thing that he is credited
with saying that could truly be interpreted as a jewel of an animal rights
sentiment.
Winston
Churchill said: “Men occasionally
stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if
nothing had happened”.
What
makes this pronouncement so significant to the animal-rights movement is that
it succinctly describes the brick wall most of us run into when we attempt to
educate our beloved friends, co-workers and family members. How often do we hear "I’m an
animal-lover” from a fur and leather clad friend who is holding a purebred,
petstore-bought puppy and eating a hot dog?
Most decent people, people WE know, would never think of deliberately harming
an animal, or putting an animal in danger.
Yet, they think nothing of attending a rodeo or circus, purchasing a
puppy from a petstore and, yes, eating a Big Mac.
We
have ranted from the rooftops, we have taken out ads and billboards, we have
worn t-shirts with slogans and we have subjected our friends to graphic photos,
videos and books. Yet, incredibly, they
still eat meat, they still wear leather, they still drink milk and they still
patronize animal exploitation events.
These people aren’t monsters. They have seen the truth and yet somehow
they are able to “hurry off as if nothing had happened”.
What
makes us different from them? How is it
that we can watch a video of footage taken inside a slaughterhouse and swear we
will never again eat meat while someone we love and cherish can watch the same
video without consequence? How many of
us have seen the brood bitches in puppy mills and the squalor in which they
live and felt a physical pain while others seem unaffected? Now that we know, without a doubt, how
circus elephants are treated, why is it we can never again enjoy a circus while
others are oblivious to the cruelty?
That
which is learned can never be unlearned.
Could it be that the non-animal rights people, those “others” choose not
to learn in the first place? I have a
friend who is a registered nurse working in a gynecologists’ office. She’s a good soul, she rescues stray
animals, would never wear fur, likes cats and dogs of every size and shape and
would never think of harming an animal.
One day I told her that I was helping with the campaign against Premarin
by taking photos of all my friends with PeTA’s famous sign -- “I will never use
Premarin!” and sending the photos to Wyeth-Ayrst. She stopped me cold and said “Oh, don’t tell me! I take Premarin and I don’t want to
know!” Famous last words, I Don’t Want
To Know. Of course you don’t. I don’t want to know either. But I do, and
now that I do I can never go back to not knowing. Ignorance truly is bliss.
This friend’s adult son is an animal-rights activist so I enlisted his
help. I gave him the materials to give
to his mother and asked him to make sure she read them. How can she ignore her
own son? Well, of course, not only did
she stop taking Premarin, but she got her doctor to stop prescribing it to
other patients as well! If I had just
respected her wishes to “not know”, she and all the other patients would still
be Premarin customers, and the suffering horses would be suffering in their
names. Most of us don’t go to such
great lengths to teach a friend something they don’t want to learn because we
risk losing the friendship. Indeed,
many of us have lost friends over the issues that we try to discuss but cannot
because, “they don’t want to know”.
And
how are we to fight the dairy industry when they have convinced the American
public that we MUST drink milk in order to survive as a species? We read the literature about milk and bovine
growth hormones, we know how milk consumption contributes to untold cruelty in
the veal market, the arguments make perfect sense to us and yet, when we try to
educate others, we are fighting against a belief that is so ingrained that it
is un-American to believe otherwise!
Elsie is a happy cow! Of course
she is, just look at that smile!
The
reason people are slow to embrace animal-rights philosophy is because it means
they might have to change and that makes them uncomfortable. Humans resist change with great skill and
effort. We put milk on our cereal, we
eat hamburgers on the Fourth of July, and turkey at Thanksgiving. It is all
part of the American experience. We
don’t want to give that up and become “different” so we close our eyes to the
truth. Tell them about soymilk and
garden burgers and tofurkey and they say “yuck” without even trying it! They say “yuck” to these healthy,
cruelty-free foods while burying bacteria-laden corpses in their bellies! But once you see how animals die for your
taste, your comfort, your entertainment, you can never, never deny that if you
aren’t part of the solution you are part of the problem.
“Animal
rights” means that animals have the right to do what their nature dictates
without interference by humans. We
don’t even have to necessarily love animals to believe they should have the
same rights as any other sentient being.
And animals aren’t even lovable a lot of the time! Just watch the videos of how a lion pride
takes down a zebra, or an orca pod’s cruelty toward seals and you’ll see just
how unlovable they can truly be. So
those who say they “love animals” really don’t get it, because animals aren’t
asking for love, they are asking for respect.
They deserve that much because they are sentient, because they are here
for their own purpose, and because they are deserving of our stewardship and
our protection. There was a time when
slavery was “the American way”. The
free people who fought for the freedom of slaves didn’t do so out of “love” for
enslaved people, they did it out of recognition and respect for right of all
people to be free.
Don’t
ever let someone “pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened”.
Keep speaking up for the animals. Insist on telling the truth. The truth will, in time, set the animals
free.
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AR2000 Early Registration Extended
The
deadline for the AR2000 early registration rate of $140 has been extended to
March 31 (postmark) to account for some of the late postings.
New
additions to the speaker lineup include attorney/author Steve Wise, PETA
co-founder Alex Pacheco, Maddie's Fund director Richard Avanzino, DDAL director
Holly Hazard, and vegan author Erik Marcus.
BE THERE FOR
THE ANIMALS AND BRING A FRIEND!
Source: FARM
<farm@farmusa.org>
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20/20 Laughs At Dairy Industry
You
may recall that the dairy industry's attempts to get the FDA to ban the use of
the term soymilk made the front page of the Washington Post and was a DawnWatch
email action alert less than a month ago.
John
Stossel's GIVE ME A BREAK segment on 20/20, Friday March 24, featured the
soymilk debate. The segment played like
a lengthy advertisement for soy milk. It included footage of taste tests with
women in supermarkets saying how much they liked the soymilk. Stossel told us
that in blind taste tests he conducted, soy milk was often preferred to cows
milk. He also told us that soy milk "may be better for you. It has just as
much calcium, but less saturated fat and less salt. The government says soy
foods help lower cholesterol and reduce the risk of heart disease."
Stossel
said of the dairy industry: "It's no surprise that again, this industry's
trying to use government and laws to defeat the competition. Its political
action committees give millions of dollars to politicians every year, and it's
come to expect protection." He
challenged, or practically taunted dairy industry representatives with comments
such as, "Some research shows soy milk was made in China 2,000 years ago.
So, maybe, they were first, and they should get the name milk and you should
have to call your product cow juice."
He
told them that they were trying to stack the deck. When they said that they
were looking for fairness in labeling and accurate information for consumers,
the Stossel voice over responded, "It's all because they're worried about
consumers being hurt. GIVE ME A BREAK!"
John Stossel
asks for feedback on his segment at
http://abcnews.go.com/onair/2020/stossel_suggestions__mailform.html
Please take a
moment to give him a big thumbs up!
Source:
KarenDawn1@aol.com
www.DawnWatch.com
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Cetacean Story Follow-up
SUDDEN
MASS DOLPHIN AND WHALE STRANDINGS in the Bahamas beginning on March 14 have
coincided with nearby U.S. Navy acoustical tests -- including low frequency
active sonar (LFAS). Evidence of a connection between such tests and a rash of
worldwide strandings has been growing, and such esteemed organizations as the
Natural Resources Defense Counsel (NRDC) and the Humane Society of the United
States (HSUS) have joined a lawsuit already underway in trying to get the Navy
to stop these highly risky and apparently illegal activities.
Source:
BSANDOZ@aol.com
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HorseAid Florida
Hi
my name is Amanda Taylor, and I am writing to spread the word of a great NEW
horse Abuse/Neglect Organization "HorseAid Florida"! In which this is new to Florida it has
actually been around since 1975, and was originally located in California, and
is still heavily active. Due to the
Great responses to the program it has had great success and we hope with our
Florida office we may continue this Great success! HorseAid currently has over 10 chapters WORLDWIDE!
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NOTE *
We
are not asking for money, actually we would rather have your help in one of our
many volunteer programs, such as helping spread the word of HorseAid, or
reporting abuse to HorseAid, or become an Action Volunteer, or you may become a
HorseAid Safehouse Member and help our homeless Horses! There are many ways you can assist
HorseAid. Please remember HorseAid is a
non-profit organization! Thank
You! HorseAid contact information
located below.
To
reach HorseAid Florida:
HorseAid Florida
P.O Box 5941
Titusville, Fl
32783 - 5941
E-Mail: HorseAidFL@aol.com
or
Chapter Coordinator at: Rmerritt@igha.org
Website: HorseAid Florida!
http://members.aol.com/rmer59410/HotdogExpress.html
Source: HorseAidFL@aol.com
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The Glass Wall
by
WantNoMeat@aol.com
If
slaughterhouses had a glass wall
and you had to
see your dinner fall
would you
still eat with no concern,
or from it,
would you learn?
Whose flesh
should be in your bun?
could you
point and choose which one?
They're
trapped in line to die for you
lives resting
on what you do
Terrified they
watch as another dies
what if
through glass, you locked eyes?
Now it's your
dinner's turn - what do you say
as he
struggles for life - to get away
You can hear
his agonizing bellow
as his head
takes the final blow
He's lifted by
a single chain
just for your
taste -- sound insane?
His throat is
sliced and he's bled
disembowelment
is straight ahead
Your food's
true cost, becoming clear
as dinner time
draws near
You sit in
front of your plate
after
witnessing such a brutal fate
A blood
stained and shocking sight
would it ruin
your appetite?
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Quote To Remember
"Forget the pig is an animal. Treat him just like a machine in a factory."
--
Hog Farm Management
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