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Established 1997

Editor ~ JJswans@aol.com
Issue # 05/23/04

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 ~ Animal Rights 2004 Conference by Greg Lawson
2 ~ Kucinich Targets National [Democratic] Convention
3 ~ Speak Out Against Canadian Seal Slaughter
4 ~ The Story Is For The Birds by Greg Lawson
5 ~ Animal Ethics Classes
6 ~ One Man's Gorge-ous Mess
7 ~ ACT Radio
8 ~ Feathered Angels
9 ~ Memorable Quote

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Animal Rights 2004 Conference
By Greg Lawson - ParkStranger@aol.com

When I say that the annual Animal Rights conference presented by the Farm Animal Reform Movement is an unforgettable experience, you can take my word for it. I have trouble recalling what I did at work last week, I can't remember what I watched on television last night, but I will never forget the three AR conferences I have been privileged to be a part of. The memories I have of the people I met and the things I learned are as vivid as if they happened only moments ago.

Animal Rights 2002 was the first time I had ever been invited to speak at such a major AR conference, and it was due to my journalistic efforts for this newsletter, and a whisper into the ear of FARM's Alex Hershaft, by EnglandGal. Thanks, Susan.

On the first night, when I arrived at the opening reception in 2002, I met longtime online friend Karen Dawn of DawnWatch. After Karen and I had embraced and expressed how good it was to finally meet, she turned to the man she had been having a conversation with and said, "Peter, I'd like you to meet Greg. Greg, this is Peter." I was stunned to see that his name tag read Peter Singer. His book, Animal Liberation, had been one of the first books to influence me to go vegetarian in 1978. Then, amazingly enough, Karen said to the father of the Animal Rights movement, "Greg is a terrific writer with Animal Rights Online." Good Grief. I was unable to sleep that night, playing that moment over and over.

The next morning at 9 A.M., after a vegan breakfast buffet, the workshops began. Every hour on the hour four different workshops were offered and we had to decide which ones to attend. The decision was often very difficult as so many interesting topics were covered from staging an effective protest to companion animal issues, from how to be a better speaker to how animals communicate. One hundred and twenty-two workshops were presented during the week, each one usually featuring three or four speakers.

At 1 P.M. we broke for a vegan lunch buffet at the hotel's restaurant, then it was on to more afternoon workshops. After a vegan dinner buffet, the evening sessions featured talks by some of the famous names in the movement: Peter Singer, Tom Regan, Jim Mason, Kim Stallwood, Ingrid Newkirk, Howard Lyman, Karen Davis, Robert Cohen, Paul Watson and so many others. When the evening talks were over, we had a party with a band and a vegan late night snack buffet. It seems I have spent a lot of time during the last two years dieting in-between these conferences.

Every day there was so much to see and hear, including a huge area of booths and information tables in the Exhibits area with books, T-shirts and other items for sale, free literature, food samples and more. We all spent a lot of time browsing those rooms, learning, tasting, buying and stuffing our AR2002 tote bags with literature. Pangea had a small store set up, a 7-11 for vegans where one could buy items such as shoes, non-leather jackets, lip balm, soap and other personal items, donuts, candy, vegan jerky and other snacks for nibbling on between those all you could eat vegan buffets.

Last year, there were two AR2003 conferences, the usual one just outside Washington, DC, and a Los Angeles conference. I attended both, got together with several old friends and reestablished friendships. It was incredible to be surrounded by hundreds of vegan animal rights activists for those two weeks during the year. So many people were so very excited to be participating. The future plan is for the conference to alternate between the East and West coasts, being in Washington, DC, in even years and Los Angeles in odd years.

The Farm Animal Reform Movement's annual conference, Animal Rights 2004, will take place July 8-12, in Vienna, Virginia, and will feature close to 100 speakers and I am proud to be one of them. Imagine hearing close to 100 speakers, leaders in the Animal Rights and Vegan movements (and me). Imagine spending the week in the company of 1000 vegetarians, vegans, AR advocates and animal rescue workers. Imagine the parties at the end of the day. Imagine, at the end of the day, hearing Captain Paul Watson doing his George Carlin routine in the hotel bar. Imagine all you can eat vegan buffets three or four times a day for a week. Imagine how you will be dieting when it ends. It's an incredible experience that you will remember forever.

The schedule packs ten plenary sessions, 63 workshops and rap and campaign report sessions, and hundreds of videos and exhibits between July 8 and 12. Intensive seminars, demonstration, and lobbying are planned for the Monday after the conference.

Nearly 90 speakers have signed up including Steve Best, Lawrence Carter-Long, Karen Davis, Michael Fox, Michael Greger, Tippi Hedren, Alex Hershaft, Steve Hindi, Kevin Jonas, Elliot Katz, Greg Lawson, Howard Lyman, Jim Mason, Lauren Ornelas, Tom Regan, Jerry Vlasak, Paul Watson, and Zoe Weil. (For a complete listing, visit www.AR2004.org/program.html ).

The conference will be held on July 8-12 at the Sheraton Premiere Hotel in Vienna, VA, just outside the Washington Beltway. The hotel offers a fabulous $75 room rate, $10-12 vegan buffets, and free dog beds. The $140 conference registration includes access to all sessions and exhibits, as well as morning and evening snacks. Low-income discounts and staff positions are still available.

Go to www.AR2004.org for more information. The schedule is now posted at....
http://www.ar2004.org/schedule2004.html

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Kucinich Targets National Convention
By Tom Diemer
Published on Tuesday, May 11, 2004 by the Cleveland Plain Dealer

WASHINGTON - Rep. Dennis Kucinich, no longer claiming he can capture his party's presidential nomination, unveiled a strategy Monday he hopes will make him a force to be reckoned with at this summer's Democratic National Convention in Boston.

He is planning an ambitious schedule of activities for convention week - the last week of July - including daily issue workshops, "peoples' parties," peace vigils and an alternative "progressive" convention on the last day of the big gathering.

"There are a number of ways to have an impact," he said in a phone interview. "We are going to keep in touch with all of the delegates, and we are talking about 2,000 people [supporters] coming from all over the country."

Although he was in Oregon on Monday campaigning for that state's May 18 primary, Kucinich opened the convention office, which will be headed by convention manager Tim Carpenter, and addressed supporters over a speaker phone.

Kucinich has won about three dozen delegates and hopes to have 50 by the convention, where most of the 4,000-plus delegates will line up behind Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts.

Before Boston, Kucinich's first goal is to influence the party's platform, which will be shaped at hearings throughout the country later this month and in June, and adopted at the Boston convention.

The Cleveland Democrat wants a near-immediate pullout of U.S. troops from Iraq, establishment of a Cabinet-level Department of Peace, repeal of the Patriot Act, and creation of a universal, single-payer health care system. His positions are further to the left of the political spectrum than those of Kerry, the presumptive nominee.

"Forget about left, right, center," Kucinich said Monday. "You have to motivate people along the lines of their practical aspirations."

Kucinich says if Kerry embraces his positions on issues such as the Iraq war, he can attract voters who otherwise might defect to independent Ralph Nader.

"We are trying to have an impact on the direction of the party," he explained. "Sen. Kerry has run a very good campaign in the early primaries and he does not need me to get to 47 percent of the vote. But he needs help to get to 50 percent, or 51 percent."

Last Thursday in the House, Kucinich voted against a resolution condemning prison abuse in Iraq, saying it did not go far enough.

Lawmakers should have called for a congressional investigation and the resignation of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, he said.

"I hope anything he does helps unify the Democratic Party and helps put John Kerry in the White House, because we cannot afford another four years of President Bush's failure," said Ohio Democratic Chairman Denny White.

"He [Kucinich] needs to get with Sen. Kerry and needs to be singing out of the same hymn book as Kerry and a majority of delegates at the convention."

Kucinich has said he will support Kerry after the convention.

©2004 cleveland.com

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Speak Out Against Canadian Seal Slaughter
From Animal Protection Institute (API) - info@api4animals.org

Although killing seals won't bring back the cod whose precipitously declining numbers mean unemployment for Newfoundland fishermen, commercial seal hunts continue to be promoted and subsidized by the Canadian government. Last year, the Canadian government announced that it would permit the clubbing and shooting of close to one million baby harp seals over the next three years, the highest quota for seal killing in Canada’s history. On April 5, 2004, the New York Times described graphically how sealers bear down on helpless seal pups, and “with one or two blows to the head, they crush the skulls, sometimes leaving the young animals in convulsions. The men drag the bodies to waiting fishing vessels or skin them on the spot, leaving a crisscross of bloody trails on the slowly melting ice.” A few days later, guest columnist Colman McCarthy wrote in the Christian Science Monitor that “[t]he Canadian seal hunt is the largest mass killing of marine mammals anywhere. No wild animal is as defenseless as the slow-moving and guileless seal. Canadian government figures show that 96 percent of the 286,238 seals reported killed last year were 12 days to 12 weeks old — pups too young to swim or eat on their own.”**

A U.S. Senate resolution urging the Canadian government to end the needless slaughter of harp and hooded seals is gaining momentum in Congress. We need your help to encourage more Senators to support and co-sponsor this resolution. The resolution makes the following points:

Last year, the Canadian government announced that it would permit the clubbing and shooting of close to one million baby harp seals over the next three years, the highest quota for seal killing in Canada’s history.

This year’s hunt has already resulted in the deaths of over 320,000 seals mostly between the ages of twelve days and three months old.

The Canadian seal hunt is the largest commercial kill of marine mammals in the world.

Although the Canadian government, after taking veterinarians to view the hunt as part of an organized investigation, claims that most seals die instantly and are not skinned alive, in fact a study conducted by veterinarians taken to the hunt by the International Fund for Animal Welfare discovered that as many as 42 percent of the animals examined were likely skinned while alive and conscious.

The world community condemns the hunt, with initiatives to ban seal products under consideration in Italy and Belgium.

What You Can Do:
Contact your two U.S. Senators, and ask them to sign on to S. Res. 269, authored by Senator Carl Levin (D-MI), condemning the Canadian seal massacre. You can look up the names of your U.S. Senators at www.Congress.org, and you can contact them by calling 202-224-3121 or writing to:

The Honorable (Full Name)
U.S. Senate
Washington, D.C. 20510
You can find Senate co-sponsors to date at
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d108:SE00269:@@@P.

Also, let the Canadian Tourism Commission know that you'll vacation elsewhere. You can email its members at www.travelcanada.ca/tc_redesign/app/en/ca/contact.do.
Tell Canadian public officials that you think the seal hunt is unnecessary and inhumane and that you plan to spend your tourist dollars elsewhere. Contact:

Ambassador Michael F. Kergin
Canadian Embassy
501 Pennsylvania Ave., NW
Washington, DC 20001
202.682.1740
202.682.7678 fax

Prime Minister Paul Martin
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A2
Canada
613.941.6900 fax
pm@pm.gc.ca

The Honourable Geoff Regan
House of Commons
Minister, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Parliament Buildings, Wellington Street
Ottawa, ON K1A 0A6
Canada
Min@dfo-mpo.gc.ca

Be sure to include your postal and email addresses in all of your letters. Thank you for writing on behalf of the seals and thanks to HSUS and IFAW for sharing information for this action alert.

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This Story is For the Birds
By Greg Lawson - ParkStRanger@aol.com

On Monday, May 10th, the Better Business Bureau of the United States issued a ruling to the United Egg Producers, the U.S. egg industry's trade association, which said that "the egg industry should stop advertising its products as humane as long as it continues such practices as clipping hens' beaks and depriving birds of food and water."

The Better Business Bureau recommended that the United Egg Producers either discontinue labeling eggs as "Animal Care Certified," or significantly alter it to stop misleading consumers.

Two years ago, in a public relations move, the U.S. egg industry created the "Animal Care Certified" program, and egg producers began labeling egg cartons with an "Animal Care Certified" logo, fooling consumers into believing the eggs come from humanely treated hens when, in fact, the birds are still overcrowded in barren wire cages.

Among the cruel industry practices cited by the Better Business Bureau were forced molting, which is the intentional withholding of food and water to increase egg production; beak clipping, without anesthesia, to prevent birds from pecking each other; and overcrowding of chickens in battery cages that don't allow them to flap their wings or turn around.

Last year, the Washington DC based group Compassion Over Killing filed petitions with the Federal Trade Commission, the Food and Drug Administration and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, alleging that the "Animal Care Certified" logo on egg cartons is false advertising and should be prohibited.

That is also the essence of the ruling issued by the Better Business Bureau. This ruling was prompted by Compassion Over Killing's campaign and is an important victory for animal advocates and for the birds. Paul Shapiro, Campaigns Director for COK, said that he hoped the ruling would lead the egg industry to follow the lead of European countries like Switzerland and Germany that have or soon will ban chicken cages altogether in their egg industries.

Forced molting is an economic practice based on greed. The reason for starving laying birds is to extend their "economically useful life." During a forced molting, farmers don't have to feed the birds and can feed them cheap, inferior rations before and afterward. Since the 1960s, forced molting has become a dominant practice in the U.S. egg industry.

Hens are forced to produce 10 times the amount of eggs that they would produce naturally. Each hen produces about 300 eggs per year. This is twice as many eggs as a hen produced fifty years ago, and it compares with only 12-20 eggs produced each year by their wild ancestors. This means that each egg represents almost a full day of suffering and confinement for one bird.

Battery hens live in an atmosphere poisoned by their own wastes. Ammonia from the decomposing uric acid in the manure pits beneath their cages causes burned eyes and chronic respiratory disease in millions of hens. The battery cage has created an ugly new disease in laying hens called fatty liver hemorrhagic syndrome, in which their livers become enlarged and covered with blood clots.

Calcium deficiency and osteoporosis are rampant among factory farmed chickens. The increased demands for egg production causes chickens to use up their calcium at a greatly increased rate. The loss of calcium results in broken bones, paralysis and death. Thirty-five percent of all mortalities among laying hens are attributable to fragile bones.

Since male chicks born of layers are of a different breed than chickens raised for meat, the males chicks are of no value to the industry and are either tossed live into a grinding machine to become rendered protein for animal feed, or tossed into rubbish bins alive along with everyday trash, there to suffocate as other bodies pile on top of them. Recently it was reported that at two California farms, workers put 30,000 live hens into wood chippers.

There is no room for sentiment in the egg industry, only excuses and PR.

It was estimated that approximately 60 percent of hens nationwide and 90 percent of hens in California were force molted. In 1993 food withdrawal was cited as the primary method of manipulating egg production in the United States. According to the USDA, "At any given time in the United States over six million hens are being systematically starved by the poultry and egg industries."

Of the 10 billion animals slaughtered in the U.S. each year for food, nine billion are chickens. We seem to be a race of bird eaters and eaters of their eggs. Is this what we mean by our claim that we are at the top of the food chain?

Don't be a part of the cruelty that is represented by eggs. Don't be part of the pain and cruelty that comes with each egg. Don't believe the egg industry's false advertising of "Animal Care Certified" or "Free Range." Do you really think they are free? Cruelty-Free means Egg-Free. Go Vegan.

For more information go to www.upc-online.org
United Poultry Concerns [UPC] - www.upc-online.org

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Animal Ethics Classes
From: Kim Stallwood - kim.stallwood@animalsandsociety.org

Enrollment is now open for the fall 2004 classes in the Animal Ethics program. The classes are produced by the Community College of Baltimore County (MD) and the Institute for Animals and Society (IAS).

The first class, "Animal Studies 101: Animals and Society," is a 3-credit introductory class in animal ethics and related issues. ANST 101 will be taught at CCBC's Dundalk campus on Monday evenings for 15 weeks starting on August 30.

The second 3-credit class, "Animal Studies 193: Racism, Sexism, Speciesism:
Living in a More Than Human World," is a study of each of these prejudices and the commonalities among them. ANST 193 will be taught at CCBC's Dundalk campus on Thursday evenings for 15 weeks starting on September 2.

Space is limited, and students are already enrolling!

The ANST 101 and ANST 193 instructors are CCBC's Brenda Stevens Fick and IAS Executive Director Kim W. Stallwood.

The CCBC Dundalk campus is located in southeastern Baltimore County and is
approximately one hour north of Washington, D.C. It is easily accessible from I-695 (exit 39, Merritt Boulevard), I-695 (Exit 44 Broening Highway at the Francis Scott Key Bridge), and I-95 (Exit 58, Dundalk Avenue via the Fort McHenry Tunnel).

The approximate fee for each class is $261 for a Baltimore County resident, $450 for a Maryland resident outside Baltimore County, and $615 for an out-of-state resident.

CCBC and IAS plan to offer on-line classes in the Animal Ethics program for the spring 2005 semester.

For more information, please contact Brenda Stevens Fick at (410) 285-9877 or bfick@ccbcmd.edu and Kim W. Stallwood at (410) 675-4566 or kim.stallwood@animalsandsociety.org.

Join the IAS Email Updates List at www.animalsandsociety.org <http://www.animalsandsociety.org/> to be notified of further developments in the Animal Ethics program.

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One Man's Gorge-ous Mess
'Super Size Me,' Sampling Our Appetite for Self-Destruction
By Desson Thomson
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 7, 2004; Page C05

"Super Size Me," Morgan Spurlock's documented mission to live for a month exclusively on Big Macs, french fries and other McDonald's food and drink -- three times a day -- is basically a horror flick.

Let's face it: Like any vampire or wolfman movie, it's about the alarming changes the antihero sees in the mirror. Oh my God, what's happening to me? A likable lad from West Virginia and an NYU film-school grad in his early thirties, Spurlock decided to see what an overabundance of McJunk can do to you. So he drives to selected cities to eat from a number of Golden Arches restaurants. In so doing, he transforms from a healthy young man to a bloated, slow-moving mutant who, at one point, must lean out of his car to vomit.

As he gets bigger, sicker and unhappier by the day, his inner circle watches with increasing anxiety. His vegan girlfriend, cringing from the get-go, observes his descent into social and sexual sluggishness. Three concerned doctors monitor alarming changes in his cholesterol level and other vital signs. (Also in the consultative circle: a nutritionist and exercise physiologist.) And Spurlock's initially peppy humor turns darker and burpier.

Of course, Spurlock's undertaking (prompted by news reports of two teenagers suing McDonald's, unsuccessfully, over their obesity) is a disingenuous stunt. People in their right mind don't eat this stuff round the clock, or if they do, they're so lost in the super-sizing zone, they're beyond all hope. So it doesn't seem earth-shattering for Spurlock to "discover" that if he shovels fast food down his gullet and restricts his exercise (he's trying to duplicate the typical American's "fitness" habits), well, he's going to look like a Mayflower van.

Not too surprisingly, "Super Size Me" has attracted a flurry of criticism and counterclaims. The blah-di-blah goes like this: It's not McDonald's or Pepsi's fault (as in, the tobacco companies vis-à-vis smoking) that people become addicted to their products. This is a matter of personal responsibility. Fast food isn't the only reason for 100 million overweight Americans. And there's even one rival documentary that attempts to demonstrate you can lose weight eating this stuff.

But please, can't we sit back and enjoy some good ol' emotional truth? Why should Michael Moore enjoy all the irresponsible rabble-rousing? It's not hyperbolic to state that the United States has the world's greatest collection of freight-weight humans addicted to high-fructose corn syrup and bad carbs. (One in four Mississippians, we learn, is overweight.) Or that our landscape of fast-food restaurants and quick-stop stores is the dietary equivalent of the killing fields.

Did we mention that, between its exclamation-point revelations, "Super Size Me" happens to be funny? Pointing out that McDonald's restaurants are everywhere, including inside hospitals, Spurlock observes that "at least you're close when the coronary kicks in." He also presents us with animated sequences featuring chickens going through massive shredding tubes to come out at the other end of the line in perfect McNugget shapes. And speaking of Michael Moore, Spurlock makes repeated phone calls to McDonald's (in the style of Moore's "Roger & Me") to speak with someone at the top, to no avail. No surprise there.

Instead, Spurlock speaks with McDonald's customers, who yield amusing observations about their attitudes toward eating fast food. And a lobbyist for a number of fast-food products confesses to Spurlock that his clients' goods are something less than wonderful. When it comes to ridiculing the world of fast food, it seems, there's no lack of material.

But at the heart of this film is deadly serious business. This is a compelling cautionary tale hot-wired to your gag reflex. Watch this documentary and you may never eat fast food casually again. Is that such a terrible thing? Why, you could almost call it socially responsible as much as entertainingly mischievous.

Even if Spurlock's full-on regimen is hardly representative of most normal consumers, his weight gain (more than 24 pounds), cholesterol escalation, breathing difficulties, heart palpitations and rapid liver deterioration (it becomes "like pâté," says one doc) surely bear testament to something. I'll take a stab: Hey, everyone. Stop eating so much of this stuff. It can kill you.

Super Size Me (98 minutes, at area theaters) is not rated. It contains obscenity, sexual discussion, vomiting, liposuction and a rectal exam that absolutely no one needs to see.

© 2004 The Washington Post Company

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ACT Radio

Be sure to listen to ACT, Animal Concerns of Texas with cohosts Greg Lawson and Steve Best and Liz Walsh, tonight, May 23, at 7:30pm Mountain time. Liz and Greg (Steve is on vacation) will be talking with Dr. Karen Davis, founder and president of United Poultry Concerns. The conversation will focus on the plight of domesticated birds in our society and the work Karen does to raise public awareness of the cruelty involved in our treatment of chickens, turkeys, ducks and other fowl.

ACT can be heard on the web with Real Radio which is a free download (but takes a little time, so get it early.) http://www.real.com/player/?src=downloadr
RadioPass - premium online radio - Real.com click on the upper right side of the window where it says Free RealPlayer.
Click here to listen to Act. http://www.ktep.org/
El Paso NPR - KTEP 88.5 : National Public Radio for the Southwest
Click here for an archive of past shows...
http://utminers.utep.edu/best/ACT/AnimalConcernsofTexas.htm
Animal Concerns of Texas

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Feathered Angels
By Ann Winter

Softly, lightly they come
Gliding, gently floating
Cool breezes brush past wings
Fashioned by nature
To blend with life
To give life, to warm life.

Feathers hued and nestled to perfection
Fan the air in whispered waves
Each wave brings closeness
To sky or to earth.

Each night, tucked into natures' foliage
For protection, for peace, for sleep
To gain strength, courage
And hope for a new day.

Each dawn singing praises to the sky
Calling us to listen to simplicity and clarity
Asking us to share the joy of natures' peacefulness

It is all there.
Let Feathered Angels lead our minds and our hearts.

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Memorable Quote

I shall pass this way but once;
Any good therefore that I can do,
Or any kindness that I can show to
Any fellow living creature, let me do it now.
Let me not defer or neglect it,
For I shall not pass this way again.
-Etienne De Grellet

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