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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