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For the Month of January 2010
Animal Rights: What They Are and Why They Matter. The November/December 2009 issue is still available — and begins at the beginning. It features "The Case for Animal Rights" by Tom Regan, along with articles by Brenda Shoss and Jonathan Balcombe on the emotional and pleasurable lives of animals. A profile of William Lloyd Garrison puts animal rights activists in good company. Jack Carone takes a stand for wild horses. A look back at the Fran Trutt fiasco and what it means for activists today. And a whole lot more. USA, CANADA, UNITED KINGDOM: $8.60 per issue + $1.40 postage.
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CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS January 15-19: Asia for Animals Conference (Singapore). Over the past few years, the Asia for Animals Conference has proved to be an invaluable event for all of us who want to make a difference for animals here in Asia. We have learned so much from hearing about each other’s experiences and sharing lessons learned... MORE January 30: World Day for the Abolition of Meat (Global). Worldwide, six million sentient beings are killed for their meat every hour. That figure doesn't count the fish and other sea animals, which, of course, are included in the demand for the abolition of meat... MORE March 25-28: Florida VegOut 2010. Veg Events was founded in 1987 as an educational and activist organization to promote veganism, environmentalism, and animal liberation. We hold the belief that each sentient animal has a right to his or her body and life... MORE
FEATURED ACTION ALERTS & CAMPAIGNS Anti-Fur Campaign hosted by Bite Club of KC. Alaskan Fur, an affluent retailer in Overland Park, KS, sucks its bloody lucre from the teat of a barbaric fur industry that slaughters over 40 million animals for human vanity every year. My allies with Bite Club of KC and I protested their reprehensible existence today. It was 12 degrees Fahrenheit, but our passion to defend nonhuman animals still burned hot... MORE Devastating Wild Horse Roundups Continue. Despite legal efforts from wild horse advocates, on December 28, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) began a massive, two-month long roundup of over 2,500 wild horses from the Calico Complex in Northwestern Nevada. BLM's 2010 Round-up Schedule provides for the capture of a staggering 12,000 additional wild horses and burros this year, at the cost of 32 million of our tax dollars (CLICK HERE TO TAKE ACTION)... MORE Letter Writing Campaign: NASA Nukes Monkeys. Stop Them. For the first time in decades (since chimps were sent into space) NASA will conduct radiation experiments on squirrel monkeys... MORE Get Cruelty Off The Shelves — No Fur Campaign 2009/2010. Ask major upscale retailers to clear their shelves of fur and fur-trimmed items. They'll join other fur-free retailers and designers, including Zappos, Zara, Juicy Couture, Polo Ralph Lauren, Gap, Forever 21, American Eagle, Calvin Klein, Donna Karan, Abercrombie & Fitch, J. Crew, Stella McCartney, Tommy Hilfiger, Kenneth Cole, Vivienne Westwood, Todd Oldham, Marc Bouwer... MORE Urge 34th International Circus Festival of Monte Carlo to Stop Using Wild Animals. PETA Germany asked Princess Stephanie of Monaco to use her influence as patron of the International Circus Festival and urge organizers to stop using wild animals. It is not yet clear whether wild animals will continue to be exhibited, but we urgently need your help to show the organizers that their festival is spectacular enough without animals... MORE
FEATURED PETITIONS Bear Farms in Korea. There are more than 1600 bears in captivity (1400 of them are Asian Moon Bears with distinctive 'V' mark on their chests) in over 110 bear farms in Korea... MORE Tell Clorox: Stop Animal Testing. Clorox is a company that manufacturers popular brands like Glad, Pine-Sol, Soft Scrub, S.O.S., Fresh Step Litter, Tilex, and many more. What you may not realize is Clorox also tests their products on animals even when it is not required by law... MORE Save Pete the Moose. David Lawrence, a retired dairy farmer and self-educated naturalist, has gained a growing reputation for nurturing orphaned moose, allowing them to reach maturity and live within a protected 600-acre preserve. These animals are living as they would in the wild, mating with other moose and rearing their offspring as in nature... MORE Ban Fur Farming in Sweden. In Sweden it is still legal to raise and kill animals for their fur, while more and more countries are introducing bans. Around 1.5 million minks and 2,000 chinchillas are killed each year. Animal Rights Sweden is campaigning for a ban on fur farming in Sweden... MORE
FEATURED LEGAL ISSUES & LEGISLATION, ETC. Tougher dogfighting laws proposed in N.J. The leaders of New Jersey dogfighting rings could be charged under the same antiracketeering laws used to prosecute mobsters under a bill proposed by two state senators... MORE For Dogs: Animal welfare groups eye ballot measure. Groups advocating new rules for dog breeders will be collecting signatures in a bid to get a proposal on the Missouri state ballot in November... MORE Ask Obama to Stop Sea Turtle Killing. The Obama administration's recent decision to increase the number of sea turtles that can by caught by industrial fishing fleets threatens to push these highly imperiled species over the brink... MORE Judge rules in favor of circus in lawsuit over treatment of Asian elephants. A federal judge sided with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus in a legal fight in which animal rights activists accused the circus of abusing its Asian elephants... MORE Australia should prosecute Japan over whaling: Opposition. Australia's Labor Government should instigate international court action against the whale-hunting nation of Japan by the end of the month to avoiding breaking its 2007 election promise, Federal Opposition environment spokesman Greg Hunt says... MORE
FEATURED FACT SHEETS & OTHER VALUABLE INFORMATION The Blueprint Fur Farm Report. The Blueprint is the culmination of the five-month, 13,000 mile, eight-state Fur Farm Intelligence Project. This 62-page document represents the largest collection of fur industry addresses to date... MORE Facts About the Pork Industry (PDF). What you need to know about pig factories, slaughter, and more... MORE The ethics of speciesism. 'Speciesism' is the idea that being human is a good enough reason for human animals to have greater moral rights than non-human animals... MORE
FEATURED EDITORIAL I’ve changed my mind about vegetarianism. by Neel Mukherjee. "I grew up in financially straitened circumstances and meat, which was expensive, was a rare thing at mealtimes. We ate meat about once a month, if that"... MORE Direct Action, Liberation and the Need to Persist. An interview with Jason Miller exploring radical dissent and animal liberation. "Frank Joseph Smecker: You founded Thomas Paine's Corner as an act of commitment to 'ending the unnecessary suffering of oppressed and exploited sentient beings and to the total liberation of human animals, nonhuman animals, and the Earth.' Can you explain, in further depth"... MORE Whose Skin Are You In? by Lisa Selvaggio. "There is the one caught in the trap, its leg held hard, unable to break free and in excruciating pain. The breath, the life, the walking in the wilderness called home, the pulse, the blood, and then snap! The pain, the confusion, the agony, the blood that spills out"... MORE BLM Captures 74 Mustangs on First Day of Roundup by Sharon Seltzer. "Even as protesters lined the entrances to several conservation areas and last minute petitions were being sent to government agencies, the mass capture of 2,500 wild mustangs in the northern part of Nevada began on Monday, December 28, 2009"... MORE
FEATURED WEB SITES & GROUPS Rattle the Cage is an award winning video production group formed for one very important reason — to raise awareness. We write, direct, and produce documentaries, commercials, and public service announcements concerning animal and environmental protection issues... MORE Society for the Protection of Animal Rights in Egypt. Our aim is to raise public awareness about animal welfare in Egypt. We work with the media at every opportunity in order to reach a wider audience. TV is very popular in Egypt with every family owning one — very few people read. Our dream is to make a documentary film about how cruel modern day Egyptians are to animals... MORE Negotiation Is Over. Negotiating with abusers is an exercise in futility. Social revolution happens through education, civil disobedience, sabotage and militant direct action — all essential. Total liberation — human animals, nonhuman animals and the earth — will never happen by asking nicely. Emotion and passion drive action, not sterile debate... MORE
FEATURED BOOKS & VIDEO, ETC. Full-Length Video: 30 Days — Animal Rights. An avid hunter from the South spends 30 days with a PETA activist and her vegan family in Southern California to gain insight into the animal rights cause (Hulu)... MORE Making It Work With Tim Gunn. America's best-known arbiter of good taste and style has just narrated PETA's new exposé of fur farms — including just-obtained footage of rabbit fur farms in China, where Karan and Armani both source their pelts... MORE Photos: Wild Horse Roundup 2009. From the Cloud Foundation, dedicated to the preservation of wild horses on our public lands, and the protection of Cloud's herd in the Arrowhead Mountains of Montana... MORE Video: Bonnie's Tale. A short film narrated by Richad Briers. The more people watch the film and sign our online pledge, the greater the chance that the Scottish Government will better protect these beautiful and defenseless creatures... MORE Book: Animals as Persons: Essays on the Abolition of Animal Exploitation by Gary L. Francione. In this collection, Francione advances the most radical theory of animal rights to date. Unlike Peter Singer, Francione maintains that we cannot morally justify using animals under any circumstances, and unlike Tom Regan, Francione's theory applies to all sentient beings, not only to those who have more sophisticated cognitive abilities... MORE Farmed Salmon Exposed. This is an excerpt from a new film by Canadian documentarian Damien Gillis that visually portrays the damage caused by open-net salmon farms to marine ecosystems worldwide. The film features firsthand accounts of the environmental, socioeconomic and cultural problems linked to global salmon farms... MORE Video: The Witness. In the award-winning documentary, Eddie Lama explains how he feared and avoided animals for most of his life, until the love of a kitten opened his heart, inspiring him to rescue abandoned animals and bring his message of compassion to the streets of New York... MORE Video: They Don't Want to Be in Show Business. JoAnne Worley, of Laugh-In fame, sings her heart out for the elephants with an amazing original song and powerful images... MORE Paul McCartney Narrates "If Slaughterhouses Had Glass Walls, Everyone Would Be Vegetarian." Animals killed for food are neglected, tortured, kept in filthy conditions, and often slaughtered in painful ways, such as having their throats cut while fully conscious... MORE
FEATURED NEWS USDA Found More Animal Research Violations At UW. The federal animal welfare arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture was at the University of Wisconsin-Madison campus at least two separate times in 2009 before returning with inspectors from another National Institutes of Health agency earlier in December... MORE Researchers Turn to Kangaroos for Skin Cancer Developments. Scientists in Australia and Austria are studying kangaroo DNA as a way to prevent skin cancer, as the marsupials have a DNA repair enzyme that appears to fight damage caused by the disease... MORE Controversial Wolf Hunt Underway in Sweden: Wolves Killed. For the first time in decades, a controversial wolf hunt is underway in Sweden. The Swedish Environment Protection Agency approved the limited cull of 27 wolves, or about 10 percent of the Swedish wolf population... MORE Wildlife Coalition Condemns Coyote Killing Tournament as Ethically and Ecologically Indefensible. A national coalition of wildlife advocacy and conservation organizations representing more than 70,000 Maine citizens is calling for an end to a coyote killing tournament that is currently underway in northern Maine (CLICK HERE TO TAKE ACTION)... MORE With dog racing in decline, glut of greyhounds fuels effort to find adopted homes for pooches. Seven dog tracks halted racing across the country last year, forcing hundreds of greyhounds into an uncertain future. With fewer tracks available for them to race, the sleek long-limbed dogs are now flooding the adoption market at a difficult time... MORE One of L.A. County's last slaughterhouses could go on the chopping block. At the slaughterhouse in Rosemead, patrons can grab a fresh chicken with head and feet intact, still slightly warm after its recent dance with death... MORE Racehorse's Plight Shines Light on Illegal Slaughter Farms. Freedom's Flight is a beautiful thoroughbred with an impressive pedigree. His bloodlines can be traced to two of the greatest race horses of all time, Seattle Slew and Secretariat. But, unlike his kinship, Freedom's Flight's racing career ended before it had even started... MORE
FEATURED BEST PEOPLE Animal Recovery Mission's Richard "Kudo" Couto started A.R.M as an organization to fight illegal horse slaughter, the horse meat black market trade, and to shutdown all illegal slaughter farms in Miami Dade County... MORE Ellen DeGeneres, Tim Gunn Named PETA’s 2009 People Of The Year. Ellen DeGeneres has capped off a banner year for recognition of her new vegan diet with PETA's prestigious "Woman of the Year" award. In the men's category, Project Runway's Tim Gunn took home the honor... MORE Sir Paul McCartney urges meat-free day to cut CO2. Cutting out meat consumption on one day a week can have a major impact on reducing CO2 emissions, Sir Paul McCartney has said... MORE Sea Shepherd resumes the search for the Japanese whaling fleet. The Japanese whalers are continuing their search for the Sea Shepherd vessel, The Steve Irwin, but now, according to Sea Shepherd, they are far behind and unable to relay the position to the main body of whale poachers with the Japanese whaling fleet... MORE
ANIMAL RESCUE & SANCTUARIES Idaho Black Bear Rehabilitation. Many women know what it's like to be a den mother, but Sally Maughan's cub pack members are real live bears. "The cubs seem to accept that I'm Mama Bear — they know they're safe with me," says Sally, the founder of Idaho Black Bear Rehab... MORE Turtle S.H.E.L.L. Tortue. Established in the fall of 1999, to care for turtles, install highway turtle crossing signs, to provide public education and awareness of the plight of our indigenous turtle populations and habitats... MORE Marine Animal Rescue. For over 20 years, Marine Animal Rescue (formerly Whale Rescue Team) volunteers have come to the aid of entangled or beached whales, dolphins, seals, sea lions and sea birds along the California coast... MORE MoonBears.org is a group of people campaigning in Korea for the freedom of moonbears through the production of educational media, the establishment of suitable bear sanctuaries, and the provision of financial support... MORE
FEATURED OPINIONS, BLOGS, PODCASTS, INTERVIEWS, ETC. Interview: on Asian Elephant Exploitation with Tim Gorski about the plight of wildlife in SE Asia, mostly about elephants. About their capture, their horrific training, their uses in logging and tourism and sanctuaries... MORE NPR Radio Interview with Jonathan Safran Foer. Foer is the author of the acclaimed novels Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. His new book, Eating Animals, is a nonfiction appeal for a moral reconsideration of meat eating.... MORE Blog: Howling for Justice. Blogging for the Gray Wolf. An op-ed in the Washington Post concentrates on the beleaguered Mexican Gray wolf, who needs help desperately, but the writer also mentions Wildlife Services formerly Animal Damage Control, that kills hundreds of thousands of animals each year for agriculture. They’ve wiped out almost 300 gray wolves in 2009 alone in the Northern Rockies... MORE Interview with Charles Siebert: writer-reporter-poet essayist, and author, most recently, of The Wauchula Woods Accord: Toward A New Understanding Of Animals which chronicles his extended encounter with a retired circus chimp named Roger at The Center for Great Apes, a chimpanzee sanctuary in Wauchula, FL and widens out considerably from the personal reportage of that encounter... MORE
A FEW VICTORY HIGHLIGHTS Overstock.com Removes Products Made From Exotic Animal Skins. Overstock.com, Inc. announced that it will no longer sell products made from exotic skins. According to company officials, the Salt Lake City-based online retailer "has removed from its site all apparel and accessory products which feature exotic animal skins, including snake, alligator, crocodile, lizard, ostrich, stingray, eel, shark or kangaroo and will no longer sell such products"... MORE Texas Tech Abandons Cruel Training Exercises on Shelter Cats. After pressure from PETA and our supporters, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center has announced that it will no longer use homeless cats obtained from Odessa Animal Control in deadly medical training exercises... MORE Puerto Rico halts monkey-breeding facility plans. A judge has barred construction of a monkey-breeding facility in southern Puerto Rico that has pitted people seeking an economic lifeline for their poor mountain town against other residents and animal activists... MORE Animal welfare history is made as the final curtain falls on dancing bears in India. A coalition of conservation and animal rescue groups has made animal welfare history by taking the last dancing bears off the streets of India — bringing an end to a centuries-old tradition that inflicted terrible cruelty on thousands of highly endangered sloth bears... MORE OSU has halted a baboon study, infuriating scientists. Are animal-rights extremists finally getting their way? Citing concerns over recent violence by animal-rights groups, Oklahoma State University president Burns Hargis last month overruled his own faculty and aborted a federally funded anthrax vaccine study that would involve the euthanasia of more than 100 baboons... MORE Gates close on live racing at Raynham. After 26 years of calling greyhound races, Bonaminion could switch into race-calling mode as easily as he could turn on his headset microphone. But after yesterday’s final day of races at the Raynham Park dog track, Bonaminion was out of a job... MORE Curtain comes down on Wisconsin's failed dog-racing venture at Dairyland Greyhound Park in Kenosha. Wisconsin's greyhound racing industry, which was launched 20 years ago with great expectations, has ended with a whimper. The closing of Dairyland Greyhound Park in Kenosha was the last of the state's five dog tracks — including Fox Valley Greyhound Park in Kaukauna — to call it quits... MORE
NEAT THINGS The Animal Rescue Site focuses the power of the Internet on a specific need — providing food for some of the eight million companion animals relinquished to shelters in the U.S. every year... MORE TalkingAnimals.net. Hosted by Duncan Strauss, "Talking Animals" started as a weekly, hour-long radio show about animals and animal issues that was carried on KUCI (88.9FM) — the college/community public radio station that broadcasts from the University of California at Irvine... MORE Vegan and Animal Rights Radio Shows and Podcasts. All-Creatures.org has posted a listing of 17 radio shows and podcasts whose primary focus is on veganism and animal rights. We are hoping to expand and refine our listings and will appreciate and incorporate your input... MORE Good Search: You Search. We Give. GoodSearch is a search engine which donates 50% of its revenue to the charities and schools designated by its users... MORE Earth Talk: A Weekly Column. E — The Environmental Magazine offers editors of newspapers, magazines and websites a FREE weekly environmental Q&A column called EarthTalk... MORE The Animal-Friendly Giving Guide was created for everyone who ever wanted a way to find organizations that address the issues they care about and that care about animals too... MORE Gobble Green. Gobble Green is an online marketplace where you will find a diverse and frequently updated selection of healthy, pre-packaged vegan meals... MORE Peace, Justice & Environment Project. Peace, justice and environmental organizations in 45 states representing over 1200 local groups and organizations use the Actions Options Tool web application to facilitate online communication and cooperation... MORE Publish a Letter. Have an opinion? Want to write letters to the editor of a newspaper or magazine — anywhere in the world? Don’t know where or how to begin? You’ve come to the right place... MORE Today's Front Pages. Front pages of newspapers from around the world... MORE Listen to Animals Today Radio. With Dr. Lori Kirschner... MORE Free 800 Information from Google. Call 1-800-goog411 (1-800-4664-411) Tiny URL. Making long URLs usable. More than 170 million of them. Over 1.75 billion hits/month... MORE
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