Via SaveOurEnvironment.org:

Fight Global Warming!

We’re heating up our atmosphere more every day, with devastating human and environmental consequences. Right now, Congress has a chance to do more than just talk about this issue. Crucial legislation that would help slow global warming is currently before both the House and the Senate.

Fill out the form below to urge your representatives in Congress to protect our planet for future generations by co-sponsoring these critical science-based global warming bills!

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From: ASPCA – news-alert [at] aspca.org
Date: Sep 15, 2006 7:00 AM
Subject: Victory for Horses in the House!/10 Million Signatures Needed on Animal Welfare Petition

September 15, 2006

Welcome to our weekly email newsletter, your source for the latest news from our animal welfare community and information on pending humane legislation.

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ASPCA NEWS ALERT
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ASPCA HAILS PASSAGE OF H.R. 503, HORSE SLAUGHTER PREVENTION ACT

Great news! With the recent passage of H.R. 503 in the U.S. House of Representatives, we’re on the way to banning horse slaughter. The legislation, originally introduced in 2001, calls for a full and permanent ban on the slaughter of horses in the United States for human consumption abroad. The bill now has to pass the Senate, where a vote is currently pending.

ASPCA SUCCESS STORY OF THE WEEK: WHITE MAGIC

A little terrier mix named Okra has certainly put a spell on all the members of the Payne family.

ARE YOU A FEDERAL EMPLOYEE?

Please keep in mind that you can give to the ASPCA through the Combined Federal Campaign now through December.

USE YOUR PURCHASING POWER TO HELP HOMELESS PETS, 9/17-10/14

Shop in support of animals! For every $10 purchase of IAMS dog and cat food, Febreze, Swiffer or Bounce made at participating stores, 10 percent of net retail sales will be donated to the ASPCA.

10 MILLION SIGNATURES NEEDED

Please add your name to WSPA’s petition to let governments of the world know that we are serious about achieving a Universal Declaration on Animal Welfare at the United Nations.

ON OUR READING LIST: PIT ROAD PETS

NASCAR stars and their pets gear up for animal welfare in this cool new book from the Ryan Newman Foundation.

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ILLINOIS RESIDENTS: URGE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC HEALTH TO TAKE ACTION ON ANNA’S LAW

This important safety measure was signed into law in August 2005, but hasn’t yet been implemented. Please send a letter to Governor Blagojevich and the Department of Public Health asking them to take action.

MORE ALERTS FOR YOUR AREA…

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ASPCA COMMUNITY
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Hot Topics of the Week:

- How do I start a Trap-Neuter-Return program?

- Does anyone have tips for finding a lost cat?

- Help, my dog is growling at my family!

- What kind of dog food do you feed your dogs?

Join the ASPCA Community to discuss these topics and more!

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Visit us online at www.aspca.org

Via Public Campaign Action Fund:

Addicted to Big Oil’s Big Money

President Bush declared that America is “addicted” to oil, but few steps have been made to address the problem by Congress. Record high gas prices topped $3.00 in the last year, oil companies raked in huge profits, and their executives’ pay soared to extremes. Meanwhile, experts say that our dependence on oil puts us at risk around the world, damages our environment and public health, and hurts our economy.

Despite widespread acceptance that we have to change our ways, why has Congress continued to reward the oil companies, like giving them $3.8 billion in tax breaks and subsidies in last year’s energy bill?

Follow the money.

The oil and gas industry has poured $194.4 million into the campaigns of our federal elected officials (75% to Republicans, 25% to Democrats) since 1989, and wields enormous influence in Washington, D.C. If America is to kick the oil habit, we’ll have to reduce the role of private money in politics by passing Clean Elections-style public financing.

Shane & I are visiting our parents in New York this week for a wedding, hence the irregularity of posts. Anywho, for today’s Random Cuteness – my parents’ dog, Copper.

Now that’s a real dog!

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Tagged: friday+random+cuteness

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From: In Defense of Animals – takeaction [at] idausa.org
Date: Sep 14, 2006 5:55 PM
Subject: Writing Alert: City delays action on elephants till Dec. 4

Congratulations to Marsha Alexander, whose letter to the Indianapolis Star on elephants in zoos was published.

The El Paso Times published an article about the El Paso City Council’s decision to put off voting on sending the elephants at the El Paso Zoo to a sanctuary in the wake of the recent alleged beating of an elephant at the Zoo by a zoo employee.

Read “City delays action on elephants till Dec. 4” online.

Please write a letter to the editor of El Paso Times to urge readers to support sending Savannah and Juno to a sanctuary. Implore the City Council to stop delaying and do the right thing. Send letters to the El Paso Times via an online form.

You can use the following points to help you in your letter or visit www.helpelephants.com for more information.

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Via American Rivers:

A Dam Runs Through It?

After a year of delays, the U.S. Forest Service is set to decide the fate of the Mike Horse Dam, a monstrosity built to contain metallic mining waste, perched precariously atop the headwaters of Montana’s famous river. Located about 100 miles east of Missoula, this glorified pile of zinc, copper and silver mine tailings threatens to pollute the river with more than two million cubic yards of toxic sediment.

In July 2005, your comments to the Forest Service bolstered local efforts to remove this mountain of noxious mine tailings — and now your help is needed to close the deal. Tell the Forest Service that protecting the Blackfoot River requires removing the Mike Horse Dam.

The comment deadline is Monday, September 18, so please act today!

Here’s the TOC from IDA’s 09-13-06 newsletter.

Click on the links to take action, or read the whole newsletter online.

IDA Action Alerts

Japan Dolphin Day: Abolish the Slaughter

Attend one of IDA’s protests on September 20th

Stop Abuse of Chimpanzee “Actors”

Tell CareerBuilder to stop making ads that support animal cruelty

USDA Takes a Stand Against Abuse of Show Horses

Thank the agency for enforcing anti-cruelty laws

Campaign News & Updates

Fur Free Friday 2006 is Coming

Start planning now to make this year bigger and better than ever

World Vegetarian Day in San Francisco

SFVS & IDA co-present 2-day event in Golden Gate Park

World Farm Animals Day Off to Great Start

Start planning an event in your community now

An archive of past IDA eNews newsletters is available here.

Via The Wilderness Society:

Protect Wild Utah

The wild lands of the Zion-Mojave region of southwestern Utah feature stunning and dramatic landscapes of sandstone cliffs and canyons, Joshua tree forests, and more. These lands, many of them wilderness quality, are located in one of the fastest growing counties in the U.S. and are increasingly threatened by sprawl and off-road vehicle use.

Under a wilderness bill being proposed by Utah Sen. Bob Bennett and Rep. Jim Matheson, less than a third of these wild areas will win long-term protection and up to 40 square miles of the region could be sold off to private developers. This bill is moving forward with inadequate public input.

WHAT YOU CAN DO: Let your Representative and Senators know that you oppose this bill.

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From: API Newsletters – donotreply [at] api4animals.org
Date: Sep 13, 2006 5:06 AM
Subject: Victory for the Horses; Take Action to Help Wildlife and Circus Animals

National Alerts

Victory for Horses! Horse Slaughter Ban Passes U.S. House of Representatives

Fantastic News! On September 7, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act (H.R. 503) by a vote of 263–146. Many thanks to everyone who called, wrote, and emailed your Representatives urging them to protect horses. These efforts have been rewarded with this historic victory.

Now it’s time for the Senate to act and pass S. 1915 (identical to H. 503). Your calls and letters are now needed to your two U.S. Senators to ensure that this important bill achieves victory there as well, and America’s horses are finally afforded the protection they deserve.

Please make your voice heard for the horses! Go to www.api4animals.org/actionalerts?p=140&more=1 for details on what you can do.

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Here’s the TOC from the 9/12/06 issue of The Sierra Club’s Currents.

You can read the whole newsletter online – just click here!

Sierra Club Currents – Global Action on Global Warming
Volume VI, #34
Tuesday, September 12, 2006

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Quote of Note:

“The cost will be counted not only by environmentalists, but also by economists, doctors, subsistence farmers and fisher folk. The cost will be measured not only in dollars and species loss, but in human mortality and morbidity, in millions of African lives at risk.”

- Environment Minister for South Africa, Marthinus Van Schalkwyk in an opening speech for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) on Monday

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(1) Kyoto Protocol: Global Action on Global Warming

Learn more about a clean energy future.

Read more about the Asia-Europe meeting.

(2) A Century of Conservation: Dr. Wayburn Turns 100

(3) Take Action: Save the Rainforests!

(4) Take Action: Oppose the Public Land Give-Away!

An archive of past Currents is available here.

Via the Center for Biological Diversity:

Tell Paris Hilton No! Help Free Exploited Wildlife!

Alleged singer and celebutante Paris Hilton, desperate for attention – any attention – has recently inflicted her lifestyle on a succession of exotic pets as a publicity ploy. The latest victim of Paris’s affections is a captive “pet” kinkajou cloyingly named “Baby Luv,” which has appeared in public draped across Paris as if it were the latest fashion trend. [...]

Fortunately, the state of California recognizes the serious threats that the international wildlife trade poses, both to wild animals from other countries and to U.S. species when these animals are imported and then abandoned or released. Due to these threats, it is illegal to import or possess kinkajous or other wild animals in California without a valid permit.

But unfortunately, Paris Hilton does not seem to understand or share these serious concerns – and it’s unlikely she will unless she knows a growing number of people think her “fashion statements” are barbaric and tragically unhip. Please send a letter today to demand that Paris Hilton stop collecting and exploiting exotic wildlife and that she immediately free Baby Luv, the kinkajou!

See the new Paris Hilton kinkajou video at www.TellParisNo.com

Via the Rainforest Action Network:

Tell ANZ to Say No to Tassie Pulp Mill

ANZ is Australia’s third largest bank, but is currently Australia’s leading financier of environmentally destructive projects. One of its most controversial clients – Gunns Limited – is rapidly destroying Tasmania’s forests. Now Gunns wants ANZ to fund a new pulp mill that would increase this destruction and pollute the surrounding area.

Tell CEO John McFarlane that ANZ should do the right thing and commit to not funding the horrible pulp mill project proposed by Gunns!

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From: Campaigns Department – campaigns [at] lcanimal.org
Date: Sep 12, 2006 2:39 PM
Subject: 2 Great Events Sept. 16 & 20

Save the Dates: Sat. 9/16 and Wed. 9/20

Attend Puppy Mill Awareness Day – Sat. 9/16

Approximately 500,000 puppies per year are bred in puppy mills across the country, facilities known for their filthy, overcrowded conditions and the unhealthy animals they produce. Only half of the dogs bred at puppy mills make it to the pet store; the other half die from the mill’s squalid conditions, hypothermia, starvation, or other horrors of transport.

Puppy Mill Awareness Day 2006 is an event aimed at educating consumers and mobilizing activists to combat the horrors of ‘puppy mills.’

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania — known as “The Puppy Mill Capital of the East Coast” — has the largest concentration of dog breeders for any county in the United States. Lancaster is commonly recognized for its large Amish population. Although the Amish are known for their very traditional, religious lifestyle, they also own and operate many of the worst puppy mills in Lancaster. Their involvement with these mills brings them millions of dollars each year.

This year’s event includes speakers, booths and a protest march through the “Puppy Mill Capital of the East Coast” – Lancaster County.

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From: Farm Sanctuary – info [at] farmsanctuary.org
Date: Sep 12, 2006 1:23 PM
Subject: Support Needed to Prevent Repeal of Foie Gras Ban in Chicago

Support Needed to Prevent Repeal of Foie Gras Ban in Chicago!

A ban on the sale of foie gras (French for “fatty liver”) recently went into effect in the city of Chicago, and in response, a group of chefs has initiated a campaign to repeal it. Opponents of the humane ordinance assert that serving the cruelly produced appetizer should be their “choice.” Two Chicago Aldermen have introduced an ordinance seeking to repeal Chicago’s foie gras sale ban, denigrating the council’s compassionate stance and calling it “silly.”

www.farmsanctuary.org/campaign/state_chicago.htm#Update

It is critical that they hear from us. Chicago’s foie gras sale ban is humane and upholds societal values. It restricts cruel and unacceptable behavior. We cannot allow the abuse of children or animals to be a “choice.” Foie gras is a product of extreme cruelty, and selling it should not be a “choice.”

Please contact Aldermans Bernard L. Stone and Burton F. Natarus and tell them that compassion is not “silly,” and cruelty should not be a “choice.” Urge them to withdraw their unprincipled proposal.

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Via Campaign for America’s Wilderness:

Protect 5 million acres of Caribou Habitat in Alaska

he Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is preparing a new management plan for Alaska’s Kobuk River and Seward Peninsula region. Without strong public support for conservation, the BLM will proceed with a plan that prioritizes new mining, oil, and gas development activities over protection of critical habitat for Alaska’s largest and healthiest caribou herd. Contact the BLM before Friday’s comment deadline and urge them to keep special places for wildlife closed to mineral development.

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From: In Defense of Animals – alerts [at] idausa.org
Date: Sep 11, 2006 5:38 PM
Subject: Writing Alert: Last hurrah for foie gras? Group wants French dish off city menus

The Portland Press Herald ran an article about Maine activists’ efforts to get restaurants to remove cruelly-produced foie gras from their menus.

Please write a letter to the editor about the suffering ducks and geese endure to produce foie gras in support of their efforts. Send letters to letterstotheeditor [at] pressherald.com.

Read “Last hurrah for foie gras? Group wants French dish off city menus” online.

You can use the following points to assist you in writing your letter or visit www.stopforcefeeding.com for more information:

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The following was posted on the Animal Advocacy Yahoo Group:

Church Promotes Cole Brothers Circus – Pls Call/Write

PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY – contact info contained in the message below.

Everyone, please call the church that is being bamboozled into promoting the circus as a “family value.” Politely tell them that circuses represent cruelty, slavery and poaching animals from the wild. For more information about circuses, visit: www.circuses.com/

For words to use in your comments, go to: www.circuses.com/educators.asp

Just when we thought that the Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers Circus would no longer appear in the Washington area, we have discovered that it is returning, this time under the name of Cole Brothers Circus of the Stars.

We had also thought that Cole Brothers no longer exploited elephants, but the circus advertises that Tina and Jewel are back, along with camels. It appears that circuses no longer perform on Fairfax County (D.C. metro area) public land, but this one is appearing at a church, The Community Church in Ashburn, Virginia, from Thursday, Sept. 14 thru Sunday, Sept. 17.

The link below will allow you to contact church officials to educate them about the miserable lives of circus animals. If you wish to call the church, the number is 703-450-2152.

www.thecommunitychurch.org/contacts.htm

Circuses represent cruelty, slavery and poaching animals from the wild. For more information about circuses, visit: www.circuses.com/

For words to use in your comments, go to: www.circuses.com/educators.asp

PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY

UPDATE: (Via Animal Advocacy) Contact Number Changed for Church Promoting Cole Brothers Circus
Please note the new telephone number: 571-209-5000. PLEASE CALL TODAY!

I just signed up for an account with Care2 and The Petition Site in hopes of more efficiently keeping track of their many petitions and action alerts. Given the huge amount of information and actionable items they distribute, I’m going to try something new. Rather than posting an alert for each petition as it becomes available, I’ll save them up and post a “digest” (summary) on a semi-regular basis (i.e., when I think I’ve linked to a whole lotta petitions). Better yet, I’ll organize them by topic to make browsing as effortless as possible.

Now, get busy a-signing!

Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Feedback is welcome! Leave ‘em in the comments, or email me directly.

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Animals As Food

Please put an end to British Horse Slaughter!

Horses have the intelligence of a four year old child, and the sensitivity of an autistic child and we in this country slaughter over thirty – five thousand of them every year, many for human consumption abroad. [Read more...]

Korean Government’s New Attempt To Legalize Dog-meat

The Korean government is going ahead with their plan of legitimizing the dog meat trade through the introduction of a policy on the hygienic control of the dog meat trade. [Read more...]

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Animals As Game

Stop NJ Black Bear Hunts

Dear Governor Corzine: By signing this petition, we encourage you to seek other non-lethal means of black bear population control. We strongly oppose any further black bear hunts in New Jersey and encourage the removal of black bear from game status, the bear exclusion zones, and fully support the creation of a black bear study commission utilizing the format suggested in assembly bill A525. We strongly support the passage of this bill in the legislature, and encourage your signing it into law. [Read more...]

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Animals As Pets

Pit puppy ears cut off with scissors! Puppy’s screams drew attention!

Please help bring justice to the baby pit bull who was abused by an un-registered sex offender. This man cut the puppy’s ears with scissors and was caught because of the puppy’s painful screams! Please urge the District Attorney to ask for the maximum sentence in this case! [Read more...]

Animal Control Officer Allegedly Left Animals to Die

Massachusetts Animal Control Officer, Michelle Mulverhill, Allegedly Left four Cats and an Elderly Dog to Die at an Animal Shelter. We ask her prosecutor, District Attorney John Conte, to vigorously prosecute her to the maximum extent allowed by law. [Read more...]

Demanding Tougher Penalties For Animal Abusers In Malaysia

We the undersigned ask you The Prime Minister of Malaysia to enact a new law in parliment in order to stem the increasing animal abuse in Malaysia. The current laws are just not adequate enough and therefore we are experiencing more animal abuses being committed everyday. Most of them never investigated properly by the relevant animal welfare departments under your care. [Read more...]

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Animals As Research Subjects

Stop the experimental murders of homosexual sheep!

Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU), a school that has received criticism in the past for torturing monkeys in its labs, has officially been outed. Information has been brought to light about ridiculous gay sheep experiments that are being conducted at the school. You heard right: OHSU experimenter Charles Roselli is spending millions of taxpayer dollars to kill homosexual rams and cut open their brains in an attempt to find the hormone behind homosexual tendencies so that these tendencies can be changed. [Read more...]

Mars Inc is responsible for killing many animals, mainly cats and dogs

As part of the ‘George Week of Action’ why not organise demos against Mars Inc premises in your area. Don’t forget, Mars Inc are not only responsible for killing animals at their own experimental research centre, but are also helping to organise greater scientific co-operation between the US and UK research establishments, which undoubtedly includes animal based research. Not only that: Mars Inc are also helping to fund research projects at Oxford University. Whatever way you look at it, Mars Inc (Masterfoods) have blood on their hands. [Read more...]

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Environmental Issues

Take a Stand Against Global Climate Change – Pledge Action Today!

October 4th is ENERGY STAR Change a Light Day. Become part of this national movement and help reduce the risks of global climate change by pledging to replace at least one standard lightbulb with an energy-efficient, ENERGY STAR qualified lightbulb! [Read more...]

Tell Ford to Stand by Its Hybrid Commitment

The most effective near-term way automakers can help America reduce its CO2 emissions and its dependence on oil is by using existing, cost-effective technologies to increase the fuel economy of today’s vehicles. Unfortunately, the Ford Motor Company recently took a step backward in that effort, announcing that it will abandon its commitment to produce 250,000 hybrid vehicles a year by 2010. This is the second time Ford has failed to follow through on a major fuel economy commitment. [Read more...]

Recycle to save our water!

Malaysia has an abundant supply of water, yet we still find ourselves in water shortage situations. Why? Because people aren’t recycling, and so much rubbish ends up in our landfills. When it rains, all the leachate leaks out into our rivers and pollutes them. Not only that, people are irresponsible and dispose rubbish anywhere they like, thinking that someone else is going to clean up after them. As part of the Arts & Earth festival, we are pushing for compulsory recycling in attempt to reduce the waste ending up in landfills. [Read more...]

Save the Mangrove at Bimini!

The island of Bimini, portrayed in Hemingway’s Island in the Streams, is a tropical paradise that supports an abundance of life, but the island and its culture are at risk from developers. The developers of the Bimini Bay Resort are cutting down, filling-in and destroying the rich mangrove ecosystem of the island. They are destroying the very habitats on which Bimini’s biological richness and true economy depend. [Read more...]

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UPDATE: This newsletter is also available on Kinship Circle’s website, where the original photos are included as well.

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From: Kinship Circle – kinshipcircle [at] brick.net
Date: Sep 11, 2006 1:58 AM
Subject: [GULF COAST] Another One Named “Unknown”

Kinship Circle Animal Disaster Relief List – PERMISSION TO CROSSPOST

9/11/06: Another One Named “Unknown”

PAST NEWSLETTERS: www.kinshipcircle.org/disasters/default.html

August 29, 2006 – For The Animals & Their Rescuers

www.kinshipcircle.org/katrina/8_29_06.html

[updated with more of your feedback & photos]

ANIMAL ISSUE OF THE WEEK

NON-DISASTER ALERT: POM Wonderful – Cruelty In A Cup
Take action

IN THIS ALERT:

1. SMALL BITES
2. SOS From New Orleans
3. UPDATE: Seized Jefferson Parish Dogs Need Help (photos)
4. MISSING: Max, Jack Russell Terrier Lost During Katrina
5. Lafayette Locals (& Others) Needed To Stop Gassing Of Animals
6. Keep Miracles Alive At Roicy Duhon Animal Control
7. Remote Reunion Campaign — Check This Site Regularly
8. Little Lights Animal Sanctuary, Lafayette, LA
9. LAWSUIT Launched In St. Bernard Pet Massacre
10. FOUND: Another One Named “Unknown”
11. FOUND: Duke, Carolina Dog, American Staffordshire Terrier Mix
12. Still Desperately Searching… Check F/W Mapping Site
13. Because Of You… Open Letter To Best Friends
14. Hope Waits

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UPDATE, 1/25/07:

PETA2 reports that POM has finally agreed to stop testing their products on animals. More here.

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From: Friends of Animals – mail [at] friendsofanimals.org
Date: Sep 10, 2006 6:26 PM
Subject: Boycott POM products

Friends of Animals

Pomegranates are Wonderful; Animal Testing Isn’t

Friends of Animals Boycotts Juice Company

Friends of Animals members and supporters have spoken. And they don’t want animal testing in their pomegranate juice.

The group called for a boycott of POM Wonderful brand juices until the company and its profits cease to be implicated in animal research or testing.

According to an April 2006 report in The New York Times Magazine, POM Wonderful owners Lynda Resnick and Stewart Resnick have funded $15 million in research on the health benefits of pomegranate juice. Friends of Animals members were stunned to learn that some of this money went to animal testing.

POM Wonderful has supported tests published in June 2005 on the effects of the juice on brain injuries in mice and on erectile dysfunction in rabbits.

“POM Wonderful should and can be mindful of the health of all species, not just our own,” said Friends of Animals president Priscilla Feral.

“Why not simply support and cite studies on human populations?” asked Feral. In 2005, Dr Dean Ornish published a paper in the American Journal of Cardiology, looking at blood flow to the heart in 45 patients with blocked arteries who were given a placebo or pomegranate juice.

“Until POM Wonderful makes a public commitment against animal testing, we’ll encourage people to choose a different juice.”

Please contact POM to notify them of your pledge to boycott POM products at:

POM Wonderful
11444 West Olympic Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90064

Phone: (310) 966-5800

Email: customerservice [at] pomwonderful.com

This message was sent from: Friends of Animals, 777 Post Road Ste 205, Darien, CT 06853.