Your Help Needed for Horses in the Home Stretch

September 9th, 2008

Congress is back in session for just a few weeks and we need your help once again to gain support for the Conyers-Burton Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act of 2008. As with the earlier bill — the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act (H.R.503/S. 311) — the Co nyers-Burton Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act of 2008 (H.R. 6598) will prohibit the sale and transport of horses to be slaughtered for human consumption, including horses being shipped to Mexico and Canada.

This is one of our last opportunities to move this legislation before the Congress completes its work before the election, so it’s essential that we build up support now and get H.R. 6598 over the finish line.

We’re off to an amazing start with this new bill, and we can’t let up now. Your Representative, Jon Porter, is a co-sponsor of H.R. 503. Please urge Representative Porter to also co-sponsor H.R. 6598 before time runs out!

=2 0TAKE ACTION
Please make a brief, polite phone call to Representative Porter at (202) 225-3252 to ask Rep. Porter to co-sponsor the Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act.

When you call, you will speak to a staff member who can pass your message along to your legislator. Please be polite and professional, and leave your name and address so it is clear that you are a constituent. You can say:

“Hello, my name is [your name] and I live in [your town]. As a constituent, I’m calling to urge Representative Porter to co-sponsor H.R. 6598, the =2 0 Conyers-Burton Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act, a new bill to prevent horses from being cruelly slaughtered for human consumption. Thank you.”

After making your call, please send a follow-up email to Representative Porter in support of protecting horses from slaughter. And don’t forget to tell your friends and family how they can take action, too.

Thank you for all you do for animals.Sincerely,

Wayne Pacelle
President & CEO
The Humane Society of the United States

P.S. Mark your calendars for the National Call-In Day for Horses on September 15! Watch your email that morning for special Call-In Day instructions, and please be sure to share the news with your friends and family and hand out the National Call-In Day for Horses 20 flier.

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American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act

August 22nd, 2008 
Dear Friend, 

The time to act is now to keep America’s horses out of foreign
slaughterhouses.

Similar to the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act (H.R.
503/S. 311), a new bill has been introduced by the Chairman of
the U.S. House Judiciary Committee to put a stop to this brutal
practice. The Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act of 2008 (H.R.
6598) would both end the slaughter of American horses for human
consumption and prevent their export for slaughter in other
countries. 

Please join me and urge your U.S. Representative to co-sponsor
the Prevention of Equine Cruelty Act (H.R. 6598). Here is the
link:
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/FED_2008_horseslaughter2?rk=R7AVIlsqat0NW

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Protect Sheldon Range Wild Horses and Burros

June 25th, 2008

Protect Sheldon Range Wild Horses and Burros

June 24, 2008

Protect Sheldon Range Wild Horses and Burros

Dear Animal Lover,

For years, despite overwhelming public opposition, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has attempted to eradicate the Sheldon Range wild horses in Nevada by conducting cruel, unnecessary roundups during the foaling season. In the blazing summer heat, contractors use helicopters and all-terrain vehicles to drive pregnant mares, who may abort their foals, as well as new-born foals, who are often separated from their mothers, orphaned and left to starve, trampled to death or run to exhaustion. Unfortunately, those who survive this brutal ordeal still face a cruel fate as many of the horses end up at auction, and are ultimately slaughtered.

The USFWS claims that the Sheldon horses are non-indigenous and feral, and therefore, are not protected by law and must be removed to protect the water resources and to enhance the populations of pronghorn antelope and sage grouse. However, a paper published by USFWS found that wild horses, in reasonable numbers, have no demonstrable adverse affect on these species.

TAKE ACTION
The USFWS is currently accepting public comment until June 30, on the development of Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge’s Comprehensive Conservation Plan (CCP). Please send an email to speak up for the Sheldon Range wild horses by sending comments to Paul Steblein, Project Leader for the Sheldon Hart-Mountain National Wildlife Refuge Complex.

And don’t forget to tell your friends and family how they can help, too.

Thank you for all you do for animals.

Sincerely,

Mike Markarian
Executive Vice President
The Humane Society of the United States

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Greenpeace Activists Arrested!!

June 25th, 2008
Greenpeace
Dear kristine, June 20, 2008
Arrested for exposing the truth

You already know that, year after year, Greenpeace activists put their lives on the line to protect whales. Today, two of our activists are sitting in jail in Japan for their undercover work to expose a stolen whale meat scandal in Japan last month as part of our campaign to save the whales.

Following a four-month undercover investigation, we broke the news last month of a major scandal involving the embezzlement of whale meat from the Japanese government-subsidized Southern Ocean whaling program. Our activists handed over a box of whale meat as evidence of the whale meat smuggling operation, and the Tokyo public prosecutor agreed there was sufficient evidence of wrongdoing.

But early this morning in Japan, our Greenpeace office was raided and two of our activists were arrested. Junichi Sato, 31, and Toru Suzuki, 41, are being investigated on charges of stealing a box of whale meat that they had presented as evidence in the smuggling case.

Take Action >> Stand by Junichi and Toru by writing the Japanese Prime Minster immediately.

By Japanese law, our activists could be held without charges for up to 23 days. Our activists are innocent of any crime. They have been arrested after returning whale meat that was stolen from Japanese taxpayers and for exposing a fraud that may reach high into the Japanese government agencies that run the whaling program.

To make matters worse, rumors are flying that the prosecutor will soon announce his intent to drop the smuggling investigation, even as our activists sit in jail for exposing the truth.

On the eve of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meetings, I hope you’ll support our activists and the whales they are working to protect. And I hope I can count on you again next week as the IWC meetings commence, and the Japanese government makes its annual attempt to lift the moratorium on commercial whaling.

In solidarity,

John Hocevar
Oceans Campaigner

 Take Action
Write to Japan’s Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda and Foreign Minister Masahiko Koumura to demand the release of our activists. Tell a Friend
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Stop Animals Suffering In Unnecessary Tests

June 25th, 2008

Dear Animal Lover,


Did you know that more than 100 million individual animals in North America will be needlessly poisoned, maimed, and killed in laboratories this year? Every day, experimenters subject dogs, cats, monkeys, rabbits, guinea pigs, mice, and other animals to painful chemical, cosmetics, pesticide, psychology, and food-additive tests.

But you can help move companies and even the government away from animal testing with your special gift to PETA. Please donate now.

Meet David Waitzman, an animal experimenter at the University of Connecticut Health Center. Waitzman had a $1.7 million grant from the federal government that funded his cruel research on monkeys. He used the money to drill holes into monkeys’ skulls and implant steel coils in their eyeballs over and over again.

Let me share with you a shocking account from an actual cage log of Cornelius, one of the tortured monkeys in Waitzman’s experiments. Cornelius suffered from tremors and seizures for more than eight months after Waitzman drilled into his skull, yet Waitzman continued to use Cornelius in experiments in which he was held immobile in a restraint chair and his brain was poked and prodded. On his final day, Cornelius started vomiting and convulsing during an experiment. The convulsions developed into grand mal seizures, and Cornelius died from cardiac arrest.

So many helpless animals like Cornelius—some just babies—are condemned to spend their entire lives in barren metal cages in windowless laboratories. They are force-fed, injected with toxins, and afflicted with painful diseases. Chemicals are sprayed in their eyes and poured down their throats, and electrodes are implanted in their brains. Experimenters cut tissue from animals’ bodies without any anesthesia. All the animals are scared, and many die slow, painful deaths, as Cornelius did.

Please help us stop the torture that these animals endure. Make your tax-deductible gift to PETA right now.

Not only are your tax dollars often used to pay for these cruel tests, many of these experiments are crude, pointless, and just plain bad science too. Modern, high-tech research methods—including high-speed computer models, human cell cultures, and epidemiological studies—are humane and more accurate than animal tests are.

I hope that you will make a special gift to PETA today to help change the future for animals suffering in cruel experiments.

PETA is the world’s leading advocate for animals suffering in laboratories—a commitment that has been a centerpiece of our work since our very first groundbreaking investigation more than 25 years ago. Our dedication to stopping the suffering of animals trapped in laboratories continues stronger than ever today. The following are just some of the ways we are working to help animals in laboratories:

  • PETA undercover investigators are revealing what goes on behind the doors of animal testing facilities and alerting government authorities, shareholders, and consumers to the horrors suffered by animals like Cornelius.
  • PETA’s dedicated team of scientists is working with governments and corporations to ensure the validation and use of cheaper, more effective non-animal testing methods.
  • PETA is working directly with businesses to implement cruelty-free policies and practices. Thanks to our efforts, nearly 800 companies have joined our campaign and given up animal testing forever.
  • PETA’s whistleblower and caring consumer programs are having a huge impact on animals’ lives by enlisting shoppers to refuse to purchase products tested on animals.

Even with as much progress as we have made, too many animals like Cornelius still need to be saved from a life filled with pain, suffering, and cruelty. I urgently need your help today to end the poisoning, maiming, torture, and killing of animals behind locked laboratory doors.

Please make as generous of a gift to PETA as you possibly can right away.

Millions of animals are waiting for you and PETA to come to their rescue.

Very truly yours,

Ingrid Newkirk
Ingrid E. Newkirk
President

P.S. No animal should suffer and die as Cornelius did. Animal testing is widespread, cruel, expensive, and useless. But working together, we can end these unnecessary animal tests. Don’t wait another minute. Please make a contribution to stop animal testing now.

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