Action Alerts

Liberation BC: Foie Gras Campaign
“Here in Vancouver there are many restaurants that serve foie gras, ranging from high-end French restaurants to restaurants that otherwise try to serve only local and organic products. Foie gras is definitely not local, and there is no organic foie gras. [...] Please contact the following Vancouver businesses and politely tell them that you will not patronize their establishment until they drop foie gras from the menu. Use this link to send an email to all of the establishments listed below that have an email address (using the BCC field). This will only send to the restaurants and shops that have listed email addresses.”

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC): Tell the governor and state legislators not to use California’s environment as a bargaining chip
“State leaders are attempting to balance the budget at the expense of California’s environment with major exemptions for transportation projects and by eliminating funding for transit operations. Urge Governor Schwarzenegger and legislative leaders to oppose environmental exemptions and transit cuts in budget negotiations.”

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): Ask Marquette University to End Cruel Classroom Experiments
“After receiving a complaint from a concerned student, PETA has learned that Marquette University requires students in its experimental physiology class to conduct cruel experiments on the nerves, muscles, hearts, and other organs of rats, frogs, and turtles. The instructors bash turtles in the head with hammers. Students operate on rats and then kill them and destroy frogs’ brains by sticking a pin through the animals’ skulls (a process called “pithing”). The frogs are then dissected while their hearts are still beating.”

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA): Vote to Ban Jallikatu on www.jallikatu.com
“[This website] provides an opportunity to vote to ban jallikatu (a “game” that involves taunting, chasing and harassing bulls) in India. The results of the poll will be sent to the Supreme Court of India. You can vote at: www.jallikatu.com” [Remember to confirm your vote via email!]

PETA Asia-Pacific: Urge Manila’s Leading Restaurants to Ditch Foie Gras
“As part of a larger initiative to reduce cruelty to animals, celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck recently announced that he will no longer serve foie gras in any of his 137 U.S. restaurants. But restaurants around the world—including many in Manila—continue to serve the gourmet cruelty. Please join PETA Asia-Pacific in urging restaurants to follow Puck’s compassionate example by no longer serving foie gras.”

PETA India: Help End Cruel Animal Testing
“Help take a stand for animal rights by urging the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare to implement a complete ban on the testing of cosmetics on animals, including a ban on the marketing of cosmetics products that were tested on animals outside the country.”

Stop Mountaintop Removal: Tell the DEP to Deny Powellton Coal Company!
“Powellton Coal Company is currently in violation of the terms and conditions of their surface mining permit for polluting the headwaters of Rich Creek in West Virginia. Now they’re trying to get their permit renewed. Make sure this doesn’t happen! Sign this petition today.”

Carnivals

Carnival of the Green #162 @ teensygreen

Newsletters

Witness: January 2009 Newsletter
“Mobile Phones Capture Police Killing Unarmed Man”

Petitions

McDonald’s CEO Paid 770 Times What Workers Earn? Protect Workers’ Rights!

Drop Opposition to Arms Trade Treaty

Our Wolves have a Chance with a new Administration, we hope

STOP THE ABUSE at the Cecil County Maryland SPCA

Against The Comfort Cove Fur Farm

Upcoming Events

Dogs Deserve Better (DDB): Have a Heart for Chained Dogs Week, February 7-14, 2009
“Join us February 7-14th for Have a Heart for Chained Dogs Week. OUR GOAL in our 7th Season is to SEND OUT 12,500 VALENTINES TO CHAINED or PENNED DOGS. We are striving to raise awareness for chained and penned dogs in a positive way…by delivering Valentines, a brochure and a treat coupon to dogs living outside all over the U.S. and into other countries where we have representation, such as Canada and Australia. Here’s what you can do: 1) Make Valentines; 2) Mail Coupons for Free or Reduced Cost Treats or Dogfood; 3. Send addresses for Chained or Penned Dogs.”

Miscellaneous

Suicide Food: Revenge Food, a digression

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The easyVegan Link Sanctuary is a near-daily roundup of animal and environmental advocacy news, action alerts, carnivals, events and resources. This link roundup is meant as a jumping-off point for you, the reader, to take further action and learn more about the issues presented here. I link, you decide!

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