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easyVegan Link Sanctuary, 04-22-08

April 22nd, 2008 6:19 pm by Kelly

Action Alerts

DawnWatch: NY Times and International Herald Tribune on in vitro meat 4/21/08
The International Herald Tribune and the New York Times, Monday, April 21, both have stories about in vitro meat.

DawnWatch: Newsweek tells us that Botox safety animal tests were inaccurate 4/21/08 edition
“A New Reason To Frown; Does Botox get into the brain? Troubling research contradicts earlier findings about the treatment.”

Defenders of Wildlife: Help End A Bear Poaching Plague
Representatives Raul Grijalva (AZ) and John Campbell (CA) have introduced legislation that will help bears by banning the trade in gallbladders at the federal level. The Bear Protection Act will end a patchwork of state laws that create an enforcement nightmare and allows the illegal killing of bears to continue.

Ecological Internet / Forests.org: For Earth Day, Protest Home Depot’s Complicity in Destruction of Patagonian Wilderness by Proposed Chilean Dams
Patagonia’s wild rivers to be dammed, destroying ancient temperate forests, for 50 years of electricity; please let supposedly environmentally responsible Home Depot know they should not be doing business with the project’s primary Chilean advocate.

National Wildlife Federation (NWF): Support the “No Child Left Inside Act”
Are America’s children environmentally literate? Today’s overscheduled kids are increasingly “plugged in” to electronic devices and media, while at the same time unplugged from the fundamental and formative experience of nature in their own neighborhood. Their senses–including, sadly, their sense of wonder–are bombarded, overwhelmed and ultimately diminished.

Oceana: Take Action: Help Protect Sea Turtles!
The two federal agencies charged with protecting loggerheads – in land and on water – are now accepting comments from the public on this important issue. Please speak out for turtles by sending a letter. Hurry - comments will only be accepted until May 5, 2008.

The Sierra Club: Say NO to the Yazoo Pumps Project
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, with the support of some members of Congress, is proposing a massive, destructive drainage plan called the Yazoo Pumps project in the Mississippi Delta. If implemented, the Yazoo Pumps would be the world’s largest pumping system, cost the taxpayers $220 million, and drain 200,000 acres of hardwood forest and critical fish and wildlife habitat.

The Sierra Club: Let’s Support Renewable and Efficient Energy with the Stimulus
Buying products that will increase our nation’s energy efficiency and our use of renewable energy is good for our economy and good for our environment. Using your family stimulus checks to change out incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent lamps, replace old drafty windows and doors, or upgrade to more efficient appliances can lower energy bills, pump money into the economy, and reduce carbon dioxide emissions that scientists say are responsible for global warming. [Just don’t buy junk you don’t need, mkay?]

Wal-Mart Watch: Tell Wal-Mart to Clean Up its Act
Today is Earth Day – and Wal-Mart needs to get serious about becoming an environmentally responsible company. Just last month, when asked whether Wal-Mart would achieve these lofty environment goals, CEO Lee Scott responded, “I have no clue.”

The Wilderness Society: Make 2008 a banner year for Wilderness!
Bi-partisan bills to protect Wilderness areas in more than a dozen states are now working their way through Congress. Please contact your representatives today in support of these bills.

Campaign Updates, Press Releases, etc.

Earth Day eCards from: Care2; Grist; American Rivers; Earthjustice; and the World Wildlife Fund.

Center for Food Safety: Cool Foods Campaign
Reducing global warming begins with the food we eat. The Cool Foods Campaign educates the public about how food choices can affect global warming and empowers them with the resources to reduce this impact. Join our “Cool Foods” Campaign and help take a bite out of global warming by changing the way you eat.

DawnWatch: Thanking the Monkey update — new book by Karen Dawn coming out 4/29/08
Before I start DawnWatching for the week, I will give an update on my book “Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way we Treat Animals” which goes on sale next Tuesday, April 29!

Greenpeace: Stop the Greenwash
Every day, Americans are bombarded with advertising about environmentally friendly goods and services. But how many really are green, and how many are just pretending?

Newsletters

Center for Biological Diversity: Endangered Earth Online: No. 405, April 17, 2008
Historic Suit Challenges Bush Plan on 155 National Forests, 192 Million Acres & more

Friends of Animals (FoA): Act•ionLine, Spring 2008
Making a Space for Bees; Brutal Bureaucracies: Cloning Animals for Meat and Milk Okayed & more

The Sierra Club: Club Currents: Volume VI, #110, April 22, 2008
Sierra Club Launches New Online Sportsmen’s Network [Bleh!]

Petitions

Petition to Oprah - Treat Livestock Humanely (Go here to sign the actual Vegan Bits petitions.)

Video Cameras in Slaughterhouses

SAVE OUR WILD HORSES -SAY NO TO HR 767 as is

NEVADA’S WILD HORSES an ENDANGERED SPECIES!

End the Use of Primates in the Mars Space Programme

Sharks Cut and Left to Die! Outlaw the Practice of Shark Finning Once and For All

Delta Airlines & Commercial Flights Animal SHipping abuse