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PETA: Tell the Atlanta Falcons to Punt Animal Abusers off the Team!
Friday, May 25th, 2007
Via People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals:
Tell the Atlanta Falcons to Punt Animal Abusers off the Team!
In a raid conducted between April 25 and 26, local and state law enforcement officials found 70 dogs—including at least 60 pit bulls and many dogs who reportedly were neglected, scarred, and malnourished—on Atlanta Falcons quarterback Michael Vick’s rural Surry County, Va., property. Some of the animals evidently bear scars and injuries, and paraphernalia commonly associated with dogfighting—including a “rape stand”—are also said to have been found on the property.
Humane officers and other law enforcement officials routinely break up illegal dogfighting rings and confiscate dogfighting paraphernalia, including treadmills used to build the dogs’ endurance and drugs used either to numb pain caused by injuries or to “jazz up” the dogs. They also often find mesh bags, which are used to suspend kittens, rabbits, puppies, and other small animals above the dogs to encourage a “fighting spirit.” Dogfighting is illegal in all 50 states as well as in the District of Columbia and is a felony offense in all but two states—Idaho and Wyoming—where it is a misdemeanor. Dogs who survive these fights often sustain serious injuries, such as broken bones and crushed cartilage. Many suffer and die from blood loss, shock, dehydration, exhaustion, or infection hours or days after a fight.
We need your help to tell the Atlanta Falcons that someone who allows this kind of neglect and abuse to occur doesn’t belong on their football team. Please write to the Falcons owner to ask that Vick be immediately suspended pending the outcome of the investigation and that if animals on his property are found to have been neglected or used for fighting he be released from the team.
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PETA: Whistleblower Exposes Cruel Cat Experiments at UC Denver
Friday, May 18th, 2007
Via People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals:
Whistleblower Exposes Cruel Cat Experiments at UC Denver and Health Sciences Center
PETA was recently contacted by a whistleblower who worked at the University of Colorado Denver and Health Sciences Center. While working there, the whistleblower became aware of experiments conducted by Moshe Solomonow. Solomonow performs invasive surgical experiments that involve cutting open the backs of cats down to their spinal cords and attaching “S” hooks to their spinal ligaments. A machine then applies pressure in an effort to approximate what might happen if the cats were carrying heavy loads on their backs.
The whistleblower told PETA that chloralose, the drug that the cats were being given as an anesthetic, did not appear to be effective and that the cats were still moving and struggling after the drug was administered. Based on his observations, the whistleblower was worried that the cats were still conscious and able to feel pain while the surgery was taking place.
Solomonow’s attempts to use four-legged animals to study back pain in humans are worthless. The physiological differences between cats’ spines and humans’ spines are significant, and we have ample scientific data based on human studies.
For more than 15 years, Solomonow has killed hundreds of cats in these and other worthless musculoskeletal experiments using taxpayer funds through federal research grants. The University of Colorado Denver and Health Sciences Center’s animal care and use committee has failed miserably in its mission by approving useless and redundant experiments, inadequate drugs, and incorrect administration of these drugs.
PETA is calling for an immediate halt to Solomonow’s experiments, the replacement of everyone on the university’s animal care and use committee, and an investigation into the types and levels of anesthesia that are used on animals on University of Colorado Denver and Health Sciences Center campuses.
Please contact the UC Denver and Health Sciences Center’s president and politely ask him to put a stop to these cruel and unnecessary experiments.
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PETA: Support Bill to Spare Dogs and Cats From Torture in Labs
Friday, April 6th, 2007
Via People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals:
Support Bill to Spare Dogs and Cats From Torture in Labs
Our nation and its animals urgently need your voice today. As you may know, animal dealers are part of a complex network that supplies an endless stream of animals to “research” facilities. Each year, millions of companion animals in the United States disappear and wind up in laboratories, where they are force-fed poisons, exposed to radiation, addicted to chemicals, or subjected to other painful procedures.
“Class B” dealers, as the federal government calls them, obtain dogs and cats from “random sources,” including animal shelters, auction sales, and “free to a good home” advertisements. For a nominal fee, anyone can obtain a Class B dealer license. Few of these dealers are willing to cut their profits by providing medical attention to sick or injured animals—the abundance of new arrivals makes mortalities “affordable.”
Legislation that would prohibit the sale of “random source” dogs and cats for vivisection—the Pet Safety and Protection Act—has been introduced in Congress. Today, please ask your U.S. representative and senators to support this bill and help put an end to the abduction and abuse of beloved companion animals.
You can view the legislation—known as S. 714 in the Senate and H.R. 1280 in the House of Representatives—and see if your legislators are backing it by searching for those bill numbers here.
You can fill out the form [here] to automatically contact your senators and representative or look up contact information for your senators and representative to reach them by phone or to obtain their mailing address.
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Kinship Circle, LCA, PETA: More on Menu Foods Recall
Friday, March 23rd, 2007
Below the fold, you’ll find several recent alerts from Kinship Circle, Last Chance for Animals, and People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals regarding the tainted/recalled Menu Foods “pet” food. Please take a moment to read through all of these, as each contains different information and actionable items.
1. Kinship Circle: NEWS/ RAT POISON Found In Tainted Pet Food
2. Last Chance for Animals: LCA News Update - Pet Food Recall
3. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals: Keeping Dogs and Cats Safe During the Food Recalls
Photo via Charley Lhasa
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PETA: ShopNBC Breaks Its Promise to Stop Selling Fur
Thursday, February 22nd, 2007
Via People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals:
ShopNBC Breaks Its Promise to Stop Selling Fur
Nearly a year ago, ShopNBC, the television shopping channel and online retailer for NBC TV, pledged to join the growing list of responsible companies that have pulled fur from their stores forever.
Shamefully, ShopNBC has broken that promise. While leading clothing retailers, such as J.Crew, Ann Taylor, and Polo Ralph Lauren, have gone permanently fur-free, ShopNBC continues to support the torture and slaughter of millions of animals every year in the name of “fashion.”
As part of our global anti-fur campaign, PETA is working behind the scenes to compel design houses and retailers to stop using real fur. ShopNBC promised to do just that–now we need to hold the company to it. Here’s what you can do to help pressure ShopNBC to stop selling fur once and for all:
Send an e-mail to ShopNBC CEO William Lansing and tell him that you are outraged that the company reneged on its promise and that you won’t buy anything from ShopNBC until it stops selling the pelts of tortured animals.
William Lansing, CEO
ShopNBC
6740 Shady Oak Rd.
Eden Prairie, MN 55344
952-943-6868
612-947-0188 (fax)
wlansing [at] shopnbc.com
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