PETA’s weekly eNews (4/13/07) is now online; you can view the entire newsletter here.

Action alerts from this edition include the following:

* Dog Rots Away in Lonely Oklahoma Back Yard

* Texas Prosecutor Refuses Even to Confirm or Deny Charges for Boy Accused of Fatally Shooting Cat

* Tell the U.S. Army to Buck the Rodeo!

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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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PETA’s weekly eNews (3/27/07) is now online; you can view the entire newsletter here.

Action alerts from this edition include the following:

* Tell Iams That You Won’t Buy While Animals Die!

* Urgent: Five Dogs Dead on Their Chains in Georgia

* Help Stop the Bloody Seal Massacre

Also, more info on the Menu Foods recall:

Is Iams’ Dry Food Also Contaminated?

PETA has received queries from concerned dog and cat guardians who are worried that animals might fall ill after eating dry food, and as a result, PETA is demanding that Iams and Menu Foods also recall dry food products until they are chemically tested—and cleared—for safety.

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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’s weekly eNews (3/16/07) is now online; you can view the entire newsletter here.

Action alerts from this edition include the following:

* Ask Minnesota Officials to Put the Fix on Massive Dog-Breeding Farm

* Chandler Ostrich Races: Birds Running for Their Lives

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Via People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals:

Help End the Cruel Harp Seal Hunt

The whole world reacted with horror to 2006′s images of ice floes bloodied with the carcasses of hundreds of thousands of baby seals whose skins have been ripped from their backs. Unless caring individuals speak out and demand the seal hunt’s end, that gruesome scene will be repeated again later this month.

The Canadian government has given the go-ahead for hunters to bludgeon to death 335,000 baby harp seals this year. To stop this atrocity, we must generate an international outcry against the Canadian government for sanctioning it.

We need to collect 50,000 signatures on PETA’s international petition to Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper before the hunt begins. It’s time for Canada to erase this stain on its reputation and call off the slaughter immediately.

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PETA’s weekly eNews (3/2/07) is now online; you can view the entire newsletter here.

Action alerts from this edition include the following:

* Torture an Animal to Death and Get Fined $250? Welcome to McHenry County, Illinois!

* Duane Reade Insists on Selling Cruelty – Your Voice Desperately Needed

* Help Stop the Suffering of Dogs Used in the Itidarod

Also, be sure to check out PETA2′s latest eNewsletter, available here.

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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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PETA’s weekly eNews (2/12/07) is now online; you can view the entire newsletter here.

Action alerts from this edition include the following:

Tell Micrus Not to Kill Dogs in Its Sales Demonstrations!

South African Officials Look to Shield ‘Traditional’ Cruelty to Animals from Investigation, Prosecution

Iceland Resumes Commercial Whaling

Help PETA End the Companion-Animal Overpopulation Crisis

Also, you can snag some free V-Day eCards here.

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Via People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals:

Ask Congress to Stiffen Penalties for Animal Fighters!

Our nation and its animals need your voice today! As you may know, the sadistic blood sports of dog fighting and cockfighting continue in many states. A vital piece of legislation that will help federal officials tackle these violent crimes and bloodthirsty citizens committing them — the Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act — has been introduced this month in the House of Representatives and the Senate and needs your support.

If made law, the act—known as H.R. 137 in the House and S. 231 in the Senate—will strengthen prohibitions against animal fighting. The transport of animals for fighting — currently a federal misdemeanor — would become a felony, with offenders facing three years in prison. The legislation would also criminalize the interstate shipment of cockfighting paraphernalia, including the razor-sharp gaffs typically attached to roosters’ legs before fights.

Please contact your Senators and Representative to express your support for the Animal Fighting Prohibition Enforcement Act today.

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PETA’s weekly eNews (2/2/07) is now online; you can view the entire newsletter here.

Action alerts from this edition include the following:

Ask Florida Keys Prosecutor to Ensure Justice for Gassed Cats

Animals in Mahoning County, Ohio, Need Your Voice

Ask University of Connecticut to Permanently Ban Primate Experiments on Campus!

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Via People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals:

Undercover Investigation Reveals Cruelty to Animals at PetSmart Stores

Away from public view and off-limits even to many of PetSmart’s employees, PetSmart’s back rooms hide away the immense suffering of the littlest companion animals.

At the PetSmart store in Manchester, Connecticut, a location that PetSmart boasts of as having an “exceptional pet care record,” PETA’s undercover investigation documented more than 100 animals — including hamsters, domestic rats, lizards, chinchillas, and birds — who lay hopelessly, just waiting to die, in the store’s “sick room,” deprived of desperately needed veterinary care and wasting away out of customers’ sight.

Please join PETA in calling on PetSmart to end live-animal sales. Let the multibillion-dollar company know that you will not be setting foot in any of its stores until live animals are no longer part of the inventory.

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Via People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals:

Ask CareerBuilder to Sign Off on Chimpanzee Ads Forever

In 2005, CareerBuilder, an employee-recruitment agency, began running a series of advertisements that featured chimpanzees dressed in suits and ties mimicking human behavior in an office setting. The ads ostensibly illustrate employees who are behaving like “monkeys.” Unfortunately, the behind-the-scenes reality for chimpanzees forced to perform in ads is a lifetime of misery. Removed from their mothers shortly after birth, they are beaten and traumatized and are left with lifelong emotional scars. When they grow too strong to be managed, usually around age 8, they are often discarded at seedy roadside zoos, where they are left to suffer in tiny cages for decades.

CareerBuilder and its ad agency, Cramer-Krasselt, ignored a groundswell of public opposition to the ads and even launched a new series of these disgusting commercials during the 2006 Super Bowl. Finally, just prior to Super Bowl 2007, CareerBuilder revealed that it is “retiring” its chimpanzee ads. The public announcement is yet another CareerBuilder ad—this one featuring a baby chimpanzee with the message “Watch our ads evolve.”

Please use the sample letter below—or write your own—to thank CareerBuilder and Cramer-Krasselt for finally dumping their chimpanzee ads; but let them know that you do not want to see them using these ads again or creating new ads using chimpanzees.

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UPDATE, 1/28/07: PETA also wrote about the Smithfields (semi-) victory. They urge readers to:

Please send a kind note thanking Smithfield officials for making the right choice for animals, and encourage them to keep working with PETA and other animal protection advocates to make improvements in how they treat animals:

Dennis Treacy, Vice President of Environmental and Corporate Affairs
Smithfield Foods, Inc.
200 Commerce St.
Smithfield, VA 23430
information [at] smithfieldfoods.com

For more information, see Farm Sanctuary’s gestation crate campaign here.

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Date: Jan 25, 2007 3:25 PM
Subject: DawnWatch: Smithfield to phase out sow gestation crates — Wall Street Journal 1/25/07

The Thursday, January 25 Wall Street Journal includes an article by Lauren Etter headed, “Smithfield to Phase Out Crates. Big Pork Producer Yields To Activists, Customers, On Animal-Welfare Issue.” (pg 14)

The article opens:

“Smithfield Foods Inc., the nation’s largest pork producer, plans to announce today that it will phase out “gestation crates” at all of its company-owned sow farms over the next decade.

“The company has come under fire by animal-rights activists in recent years over the crates, where some female pigs can spend most of their lives. The issue also played a role in last year’s midterm elections.

“Smithfield is the first major pork producer to move to ban the crates, but the company’s efforts may not be fast enough for critics. ‘It’s a big step,’ says Bernard Rollin, a professor of philosophy at Colorado State University and animal-rights researcher. But ‘it’s not quick enough.’”

Rollins says about the crates: “If you see one you’ll never forget it.”

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PETA’s weekly eNews (1/5/07) is now online; you can view the entire newsletter here.

Action alerts from this edition include the following:

* URGENT: Massachusetts Municipality Cruelly Trapping Beavers

* Demand a Stop to North Carolina ‘Possum Drop’

* POM Kills Animals

Additional newsworthy items:

* 2007 PETA ‘Proggy’ Awards; PETA is proud to present the fourth-annual Proggy Awards for animal-friendly achievements in culture and commerce.

* Fatal Fashion; Each year, millions of animals are killed for the clothing industry. Whether the animals come from Chinese fur farms, Indian slaughterhouses, or the Australian Outback, an immeasurable amount of suffering goes into every fur-trimmed jacket, leather belt, and wool sweater.

And, to end the week, a few contests:

* Win a ‘Laundry Care Bundle’ From method; Everyone knows that washing dirty duds can make for a dull day, but method’s new softener-infused dryer cloths make doing laundry fresh and fun.

* Win a Free Vegetarian Weight-Loss Kit; Are you ready to turn over a new leaf in 2007? We’re giving away a free weight-loss kit—it’s packed with delicious food and expert advice. It’s the perfect way to make sure you stick to your New Year’s weight-loss resolution.

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PETA’s weekly eNews (12/22/06) is now online; you can view the entire newsletter here.

Action alerts from this edition include the following:

Canadian Eskimo Dogs Who Are Still Suffering Without Shelter Need Your Help

Tell JC Penney to Ditch the Fur

And, calling all vegheads:

Are You the Sexiest Vegetarian Alive?

Do you have what it takes to be crowned North America’s sexiest vegetarian? Enter our online contest, and you could win a trip for two to beautiful Maui and be featured in PETA’s Animal Times!

As always, you can find more action alerts online, via PETA’s action center.

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UPDATE (via PETA), 1/8/07:

I just wanted to write to thank you again for asking eBay to stop allowing the sale of cats and dogs and their fur. Thousands of compassionate people like you have already written to eBay, and we need to keep the pressure on. By now you have likely received a form letter response from eBay stating that it is unlikely they will reply to your message, so we need to be sure they know that they shouldn’t be allowing such cruelty on their Web site. We want you to give eBay a call and let them know that until they stop allowing the sale of dogs and cats and their fur on their Chinese Web site, you’ll be letting everyone you know that eBay supports cruelty to animals.

Call eBay at the following number: 1-800-322-9266

Via People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals:

Tell eBay to Stop Allowing the Sale of Dog Fur, Live Dogs and Cats

Though eBay has a policy against the sale of dogs, cats, and other animals in the U.S., the company still allows its members in China to sell live dogs and cats, as well as dog and cat fur, which is illegal in the U.S. Please e-mail eBay today to demand that the company stop allowing its site to be used to sell dogs and cats and their skin.

Photos of live animals for sale in China posted by eBay sellers show horrific conditions, including animals chained to cages on the streets and puppies kept in wire-bottomed cages (in the U.S. and other countries, such housing is prohibited by animal welfare laws for humane reasons) and in rusty, barely lit cages with empty water bowls. China’s dog and cat fur trade is notoriously cruel. Undercover investigators found that animals were being beaten over the head and skinned alive. A company like eBay shouldn’t be supporting this kind of animal abuse.

Visit Peta2 to learn more and take action today!

Tip: browse around for lotsa cool freebies and contests while you’re there!

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PETA’s weekly eNews (12/8/06) is now online; you can view the entire newsletter here.

Action alerts from this edition include the following:

URGENT: Animals Reportedly Dead and Dying on One Colorado Property

Demand Justice for Cat Stoned to Death in Missouri

More tasty vittles from this edition:

Attention, Caring Consumers: PETA’s 2007 Shopping Guide for Caring Consumers Is Here!

Nicole Richie and Ashley Olsen Top PETA’s Annual ‘Worst-Dressed’ List for Their Fur-Wearing Ways

And, as always, you can find more action alerts online, via PETA’s action center.

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Via People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals:

Stop Cartier From Funding Cruel ‘Elephant Polo’ Game

Cartier, the company best-known for its high-end jewelry, is sponsoring an absurd event in which elephants will be made to play polo in Jaipur, India, on Saturday, November 18. Elephants who are forced to participate in such events are captured from the wild and taken away from their families and homes. In order to force them to play polo, elephants are cruelly beaten with sharp metal bullhooks and are kept chained up.

Please demand that Cartier withdraw its sponsorship of this inhumane sport immediately. Let the company know that Cartier can find other ways to promote its fine jewelry without causing harm to animals. Be sure to forward this alert to your friends and family members and ask them to speak up today.

See also: Urge ‘CARTIER Inc’ to withdraw sponsorship from ‘Elephant Polo’ in India

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PETA’s weekly eNews (11/9/06) is now online; you can view the entire newsletter here.

Action alerts from this edition include the following:

Alleged Michigan Dogfighter Faces Four Years Behind Bars—Help Put Him There if Convicted

Deadline for Public Comment Extended for an Unprecedented Opportunity to Help Captive Elephants

Tell eBay to Stop Allowing the Sale of Dog Fur, Live Dogs and Cats, in China

And, as always, you can find more action alerts online, via PETA’s action center.

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