Via People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals:

Tell Burton Snowboards to Stop Selling Fur!

We need your help to convince Burton Snowboards to stop selling fur! The company used fur on its MKII jacket and has refused to meet with PETA to discuss adopting a fur-free policy despite PETA’s repeated requests for a meeting over the past several months. The fur industry kills millions of animals each year—including rabbits, minks, and foxes—in horribly cruel ways.

Animals on fur farms are kept—sometimes for years—in tiny, filthy cages, where they are surrounded by their own waste. They spend their entire miserable lives standing on the thin cage wires, never having a chance to dig, jump, or play. The way the farmers kill the animals would break your heart—some are killed by having their necks broken or their skulls beaten before being strung up by their legs and having their heads cut off, and others are killed by anal and vaginal electrocution. Yes, you read that right.

You can help convince Burton that selling fur is cruel and wrong. Send company officials a letter to let them know that you won’t buy Burton products until the company agrees to stop selling fur!

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PETA’s weekly eNews (6/22/07) is now online; you can view the entire newsletter here.

Action alerts from this edition include the following:

* Don’t Let Congress Trump Local Animal Welfare Laws

* Tell Arby’s to Drop Cruel Poultry Supplier!

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PETA’s weekly eNews (6/8/07) is now online; you can view the entire newsletter here.

Action alerts from this edition include the following:

* Urge AT&T to Buck the Rodeo

* Millions of Baby Turtles in Grave Danger if Federal Ban on Turtle Sales Lifted

* Help Stop Violent Death Sentence for Woodchucks at Connecticut Prison

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PETA’s weekly eNews (5/25/07) is now online; you can view the entire newsletter here.

Action alerts from this edition include the following:

* Urge Designer Michael Kors to Drop ALL Fur

* Wakefern Foods Insists on Selling Cruelty

* URGENT: Franklin, Texas, Police Are Ignoring Dogs in Need

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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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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’s weekly eNews (5/11/07) is now online; you can view the entire newsletter here.

Action alerts from this edition include the following:

* URGENT: Dogs and Pigs in Texas Need Your Help

* Show ‘Dancing’ Bears That You Really Care

* Ensuring the Safety of Your Companion’s Food

* Wildlife Emergencies: Be Prepared

* Post Your Photos on the PETA Flickr Page

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PETA’s weekly eNews (4/28/07) is now online; you can view the entire newsletter here.

Action alerts from this edition include the following:

* Save Kangaroos From Slaughter–Stop SB 880!

* Urgent Update: Horses From Allegedly Neglectful Farm Are Reportedly Still Missing

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

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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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