The Petition Site: Petition Digest, 5/20/07
Sunday, May 20th, 2007
Animals As Food
Article VIII of the International Whaling Commission’s founding treaty, allows IWC participant governments to issue special permits to themselves to conduct ‘scientific’ whaling. This provision was not originally intended by the drafters, to allow for large scale lethal research or for the commercial use of ‘byproducts’ [i.e., selling whale meat]. However, several countries have exploited Article VIII to either avoid the IWC’s bans on hunting specific species, or to ‘top up’ their quotas. Because it’s a provision within the treaty, Article VIII prevails over the
whaling moratorium and creates a monumental loophole that the IWC cannot close without AMENDING the treaty. This loophole must be closed!! [Read more...]
Make Masterfoods chocolate suitable for vegetarians again!
Masterfoods which make a whole range of chocolate goods, are now starting to use animal rennet in all their chocolate products. Amazingly, they say that this only affects ‘extremely strict vegetarians’. Unbelievable. [Read more...]
Animals As Pests
Stop the ACT Government and the Defence Force culling more than 3000 kangaroos from defence sites
The Government and Defence say the cull is necessary because of overgrazing and the risk of kangaroos starving. However, ACT Animal Liberation president Mary Hayes said that another cull would burden the ACT with a worldwide reputation for cruelty. She also said there was no evidence kangaroos were likely to starve. “It is a very cruel, violent way to treat animals, on a par to just treating them as if they were weeds to be mown or pulled out,” she said on ABC radio. “This is going to produce an enormous reaction, not only amongst animal welfare groups but amongst the general population who will react very strongly to it.” She added, “It is going to give the ACT a reputation for animal cruelty throughout the whole of Australian, and indeed the rest of the world.” [Read more...]
Animals As Pets
AKC’s SHAME AND FAILURE TO HELP DOGS
The AKC has a golden opportunity to become involved in the health and welfare of dogs across America. Anti-tethering laws or laws that restrict tethering are far more reaching than you can imagine. First of all, a Class 1 misdemeanor for animal neglect and cruelty is an outdated punishment in the extreme. When an owner’s dog dies from neglect at the end of chain, where its spent its entire life receives a “Class 1 misdemeanor” for animal abuse, its nothing more than a joke. An anti-tethering law which minimizes the amount of time a dog is forced to endure being chained or stuck in a pen will give law enforcement and prosecutors more leverage not in prosecuting animal abusers but in getting an animal out of an abusive situation. [Read more...; Via Dogs Deserve Better]
End their misery – Free this wolf and donkey in Albania
A wolf and a donkey share a cage in the northwestern town of Patok in Albania, about 40 km (25 miles) from capital the Tirana, May 9, 2007. The donkey was brought into the enclosure to be fed to the wolf, which was caught in the northern Albanian mountains four months ago. The animals have since become attached to each other, cohabitating in the cage for the last 10 days, and attracting curious villagers and local media. These poor animals live in misery, the scared wolf cowers behind his donkey companion. They live in appalling, filthy conditions with little room. [Read more...]
Dogs and cats that are taken to the pound in hopes of finding a new home are more likely to end up being put to death in a gas chamber, a cruel and outdated method of killing. Our shelter uses carbon monoxide poisoning as the primary method of destroying animals. The other more humane killing method, a sodium pentobarbital injection, is reserved for animals too sick, too young, too pregnant, or too injured to be effectively destroyed in the gas chamber. Less than 1% of the humane society shelters in the nation use this cruel and out-dated method and California, Florida, and Tennessee have prohibited its use on companion animals all together. Why then is it the main killing method at the Craven/Pamlico Animal Services Center in Craven County? [Read more...]
Petition to Stop the Gas Chamber at the Stanly County Animal Shelter
This photo shows the strange gas chamber used to kill thousands of unwanted animals at the Stanly County Animal Shelter in Albemarle, North Carolina. Can you imagine watching animals being put into this awful, tilted metal box to die? Please contact the government officials listed below and politely encourage a change to humane euthanasia by injection for the animals that are not adopted from the shelter. As always, please do your part to control overpopulation by spaying and neutering your pets! Save a shelter pet instead of buying from breeders and pet stores. Help stop the suffering today. [Read more...]
Petition to STOP the potential pit bull ban in Massachusetts
Pit bulls are living, breathing animals that do NOT deserve to be punished by ignorant humans who dwell in Mass’ major cities and towns. These people choose to take a strong breed and breed them to fight, fight against themselves for profit or for “protection”. They over bred them, many times involving inbreeding and which in turn can naturally have the dog become chemically imbalanced, resulting in aggression. The other half of the time their aggression simply comes from getting beat with sticks, fists or other types of brutality. The torture makes the dog become viscous toward other dogs as well as any human it comes into contact with. [Read more...]
Stop Keeping Betta Fish in Cups!
Betta fish are not healthy and happy when kept in small, unfiltered cups instead of a tank. Please urge Petco to stop housing betta fish in small, dirty cups! [Read more...]
Animals As Research Subjects
Defend Macques Waiting to be Delivered to a German Lab
TO DEFEND THE MACAQUES THAT ARE IN CAMARLES WAITING TO BE DELIVERED TO A GERMAN LABORATORY FOR VIVISECTION. [Read more....; Via The Animals Voice]
Wildlife Conservation & Environmental Issues
Under the Endangered Species Act, Yellowstone’s bears have made a dramatic recovery – from just 200 bears in 1975 to roughly 600 today. But now the grizzly bear faces its biggest challenge ever: global warming. One of the bear’s primary food sources, the seed of whitebark pine trees, is disappearing. Scientists report that warmer temperatures are causing an explosion in the Yellowstone pine beetle population, leading to decimation of whitebark pine. In addition, more and more of the grizzly’s range land is being opened to oil and gas development. On May 1, the Bush Administration removed the Yellowstone grizzly from the Endangered Species List. Instead of undoing protections for grizzly bears, we should be guarding them more vigilantly than ever before, and taking decisive action to stop global warming. [Read more...]
Without immediate action, red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico face further depletion that jeopardizes the long-term health of this signature fish population. For over two decades Gulf fishery managers, whose responsibility it is to protect and sustain our fish populations, have ignored science and repeatedly set catch levels too high. As a result, the spawning population of Gulf red snapper is down to 3% of its historic abundance. [Read more...]
Tell Bush/Cheney Administration: Stop Offshore Oil Drilling!
Officials in the Bush/Cheney Interior Department intend to allow harmful new drilling in tens of millions of environmentally sensitive acres off the coast of Alaska, including an area closed to drilling after the disastrous Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989. Federal officials have also proposed new drilling leases off the coasts of Florida and Virginia. [Read more...]
Keep Our Water Clean and Protected!
For more than 30 years, the Clean Water Act has provided critical protections for our streams, lakes, wetlands, and other waters that we depend on for clean drinking water, recreation, and fish and wildlife habitat. But now 60 percent of our nation’s waters could be stripped of federal protection. Industry groups are trying to undo long established safeguards for our local waterways but there is a chance to stop them. Ask your representative to support the Clean Water Restoration Act now. [Read more...]
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Tagged: animals animal rights animal welfare environment environmental environmentalism environmentalist action alerts petitions the petition site pet companion animal dog canine cat feline chaining ddb dogs deserve better whaling whale whale hunting whale slaughter scientific whaling japan iwc International Whaling Commission whale meat Masterfoods chocolate vegetarian animal rennet pests kangaroos australia akc american kennel club tethering animal abuse animal cruelty cruelty to animals animal neglect wolf donkey albania Patok Tirana Texas gassing gas chamber animal shelter pound sodium pentobarbital injection Craven County North Carolina Stanly County Animal Shelter Stanly County Massachusetts pit bulls bsl breed specific legislation dangerous dogs fish betta fish petco Macques germany animal research animal testing animal experimentation vivisection wildlife conservation bear Grizzly Bear esa endangered species act endangered species red snapper oil drilling offshore oil drilling water clean water act
Animals As Food
Article VIII of the International Whaling Commission’s founding treaty, allows IWC participant governments to issue special permits to themselves to conduct ‘scientific’ whaling. This provision was not originally intended by the drafters, to allow for large scale lethal research or for the commercial use of ‘byproducts’ [i.e., selling whale meat]. However, several countries have exploited Article VIII to either avoid the IWC’s bans on hunting specific species, or to ‘top up’ their quotas. Because it’s a provision within the treaty, Article VIII prevails over the
whaling moratorium and creates a monumental loophole that the IWC cannot close without AMENDING the treaty. This loophole must be closed!! [Read more...]
Make Masterfoods chocolate suitable for vegetarians again!
Masterfoods which make a whole range of chocolate goods, are now starting to use animal rennet in all their chocolate products. Amazingly, they say that this only affects ‘extremely strict vegetarians’. Unbelievable. [Read more...]
Animals As Pests
Stop the ACT Government and the Defence Force culling more than 3000 kangaroos from defence sites
The Government and Defence say the cull is necessary because of overgrazing and the risk of kangaroos starving. However, ACT Animal Liberation president Mary Hayes said that another cull would burden the ACT with a worldwide reputation for cruelty. She also said there was no evidence kangaroos were likely to starve. “It is a very cruel, violent way to treat animals, on a par to just treating them as if they were weeds to be mown or pulled out,” she said on ABC radio. “This is going to produce an enormous reaction, not only amongst animal welfare groups but amongst the general population who will react very strongly to it.” She added, “It is going to give the ACT a reputation for animal cruelty throughout the whole of Australian, and indeed the rest of the world.” [Read more...]
Animals As Pets
AKC’s SHAME AND FAILURE TO HELP DOGS
The AKC has a golden opportunity to become involved in the health and welfare of dogs across America. Anti-tethering laws or laws that restrict tethering are far more reaching than you can imagine. First of all, a Class 1 misdemeanor for animal neglect and cruelty is an outdated punishment in the extreme. When an owner’s dog dies from neglect at the end of chain, where its spent its entire life receives a “Class 1 misdemeanor” for animal abuse, its nothing more than a joke. An anti-tethering law which minimizes the amount of time a dog is forced to endure being chained or stuck in a pen will give law enforcement and prosecutors more leverage not in prosecuting animal abusers but in getting an animal out of an abusive situation. [Read more...; Via Dogs Deserve Better]
End their misery – Free this wolf and donkey in Albania
A wolf and a donkey share a cage in the northwestern town of Patok in Albania, about 40 km (25 miles) from capital the Tirana, May 9, 2007. The donkey was brought into the enclosure to be fed to the wolf, which was caught in the northern Albanian mountains four months ago. The animals have since become attached to each other, cohabitating in the cage for the last 10 days, and attracting curious villagers and local media. These poor animals live in misery, the scared wolf cowers behind his donkey companion. They live in appalling, filthy conditions with little room. [Read more...]
Dogs and cats that are taken to the pound in hopes of finding a new home are more likely to end up being put to death in a gas chamber, a cruel and outdated method of killing. Our shelter uses carbon monoxide poisoning as the primary method of destroying animals. The other more humane killing method, a sodium pentobarbital injection, is reserved for animals too sick, too young, too pregnant, or too injured to be effectively destroyed in the gas chamber. Less than 1% of the humane society shelters in the nation use this cruel and out-dated method and California, Florida, and Tennessee have prohibited its use on companion animals all together. Why then is it the main killing method at the Craven/Pamlico Animal Services Center in Craven County? [Read more...]
Petition to Stop the Gas Chamber at the Stanly County Animal Shelter
This photo shows the strange gas chamber used to kill thousands of unwanted animals at the Stanly County Animal Shelter in Albemarle, North Carolina. Can you imagine watching animals being put into this awful, tilted metal box to die? Please contact the government officials listed below and politely encourage a change to humane euthanasia by injection for the animals that are not adopted from the shelter. As always, please do your part to control overpopulation by spaying and neutering your pets! Save a shelter pet instead of buying from breeders and pet stores. Help stop the suffering today. [Read more...]
Petition to STOP the potential pit bull ban in Massachusetts
Pit bulls are living, breathing animals that do NOT deserve to be punished by ignorant humans who dwell in Mass’ major cities and towns. These people choose to take a strong breed and breed them to fight, fight against themselves for profit or for “protection”. They over bred them, many times involving inbreeding and which in turn can naturally have the dog become chemically imbalanced, resulting in aggression. The other half of the time their aggression simply comes from getting beat with sticks, fists or other types of brutality. The torture makes the dog become viscous toward other dogs as well as any human it comes into contact with. [Read more...]
Stop Keeping Betta Fish in Cups!
Betta fish are not healthy and happy when kept in small, unfiltered cups instead of a tank. Please urge Petco to stop housing betta fish in small, dirty cups! [Read more...]
Animals As Research Subjects
Defend Macques Waiting to be Delivered to a German Lab
TO DEFEND THE MACAQUES THAT ARE IN CAMARLES WAITING TO BE DELIVERED TO A GERMAN LABORATORY FOR VIVISECTION. [Read more....; Via The Animals Voice]
Wildlife Conservation & Environmental Issues
Under the Endangered Species Act, Yellowstone’s bears have made a dramatic recovery – from just 200 bears in 1975 to roughly 600 today. But now the grizzly bear faces its biggest challenge ever: global warming. One of the bear’s primary food sources, the seed of whitebark pine trees, is disappearing. Scientists report that warmer temperatures are causing an explosion in the Yellowstone pine beetle population, leading to decimation of whitebark pine. In addition, more and more of the grizzly’s range land is being opened to oil and gas development. On May 1, the Bush Administration removed the Yellowstone grizzly from the Endangered Species List. Instead of undoing protections for grizzly bears, we should be guarding them more vigilantly than ever before, and taking decisive action to stop global warming. [Read more...]
Without immediate action, red snapper in the Gulf of Mexico face further depletion that jeopardizes the long-term health of this signature fish population. For over two decades Gulf fishery managers, whose responsibility it is to protect and sustain our fish populations, have ignored science and repeatedly set catch levels too high. As a result, the spawning population of Gulf red snapper is down to 3% of its historic abundance. [Read more...]
Tell Bush/Cheney Administration: Stop Offshore Oil Drilling!
Officials in the Bush/Cheney Interior Department intend to allow harmful new drilling in tens of millions of environmentally sensitive acres off the coast of Alaska, including an area closed to drilling after the disastrous Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989. Federal officials have also proposed new drilling leases off the coasts of Florida and Virginia. [Read more...]
Keep Our Water Clean and Protected!
For more than 30 years, the Clean Water Act has provided critical protections for our streams, lakes, wetlands, and other waters that we depend on for clean drinking water, recreation, and fish and wildlife habitat. But now 60 percent of our nation’s waters could be stripped of federal protection. Industry groups are trying to undo long established safeguards for our local waterways but there is a chance to stop them. Ask your representative to support the Clean Water Restoration Act now. [Read more...]
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Tagged: animals animal rights animal welfare environment environmental environmentalism environmentalist action alerts petitions the petition site pet companion animal dog canine cat feline chaining ddb dogs deserve better whaling whale whale hunting whale slaughter scientific whaling japan iwc International Whaling Commission whale meat Masterfoods chocolate vegetarian animal rennet pests kangaroos australia akc american kennel club tethering animal abuse animal cruelty cruelty to animals animal neglect wolf donkey albania Patok Tirana Texas gassing gas chamber animal shelter pound sodium pentobarbital injection Craven County North Carolina Stanly County Animal Shelter Stanly County Massachusetts pit bulls bsl breed specific legislation dangerous dogs fish betta fish petco Macques germany animal research animal testing animal experimentation vivisection wildlife conservation bear Grizzly Bear esa endangered species act endangered species red snapper oil drilling offshore oil drilling water clean water act
Of course, a Tiny Violin alert is a given here; if you use the WWF’s sample letter, be sure to edit out all areas of concern except for that of Bristol Bay’s ecosystem.
