The Petition Site: Petition Digest, 12/17/06
December 17th, 2006 2:34 pm by Kelly GarbatoAnimal Abuse
Fatally Injured Dog Received No Veterinary Care
On November 14, a Fort Worth city police officer—who claimed that a stray dog charged at him repeatedly—reportedly shot “several rounds from his handgun striking the animal.” The dog, later identified as a family’s companion named Bud, was reportedly shot in the head and the chest. According to TV news reports and city officials, the dying dog was left alone at the city’s animal shelter without care for several hours, during which time he surely suffered horribly. Bud died slowly, most likely from blood loss, organ damage, and/or shock. [Read more...]
Animals As Entertainment
SOS: Elephants are not ‘Party Animals’
The new french consul Philippe Martinet and his wife, Benedicte Alliot, welcomed their
guests into their new house with a live pink elephant. The elephant, standing in the narrow driveway of their new house, stood for more than four hours without water or feeding with his mahout perched on his head using his hooked stick to keep the animal from moving. The elephant and mahout waited with similar glassy expressions and drained eyes while the glittering guests wound their way into a manicured lawn to an open bar, loud dj’s urging guests to the dance floor. [Read more...]
Animals As Food
Dolphins and Porpoises are Being Needlessly Slaughtered
Right now, Japanese fishermen are killing thousands of dolphins and porpoises as part of their annual hunt. Between October and April, more than 20,000 of these graceful creatures will be slaughtered. Speak out against this barbaric and unnecessary practice now! [Read more...]
Boycott Canadian seafood to stop the seal hunt
Red Lobster purchases more Canadian seafood than any other restaurant or chain. If they join the Canadian seafood boycott, this will have a huge impact. Parent company Darden management’s responses to requests to join the boycott are feeble attempts at playing dumb. Darden management at various times has claimed that they don’t understand why they have been targeted, asserted that they “don’t serve seal meat”, and have claimed that they don’t buy seafood from Newfoundland and don’t want other companies that may not be directly involved in sealing to be affected. We know that their participation is very important and that the boycott would end much sooner were they to join. [Read more...]
Environmental Issues
Protect Wildlife in Bristol Bay from Oil Drilling
The Bristol Bay is home to endangered Northern Pacific right whales and Steller sea lions. It is also one of the world’s most productive fishing grounds, with and important snow crab fishery and the planet’s largest sockeye salmon run. But President Bush has a different vision for this precious piece of the Pacific: he wants to turn it over to profit-rich Big Oil, lifting a moratorium that has been in place since the disastrous Exxon Valdez spill. [Read more...]
Alaska’s Bristol Bay supports the largest sockeye salmon population in the world and is rich in wildlife including moose, brown bear and caribou. The surrounding wild lands are beautiful and pristine, which is what makes this area so uncommonly vital to wildlife and a thriving fishing and tourism economy. But Bristol Bay is threatened by plans for the largest open-pit gold and copper mine in North America, Pebble Mine, to be situated in the Bay’s backcountry headwaters. [Read more...]
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