Saturday, January 31, 2015

Petitions and More, Jan. 31


http://www.tier-im-fokus.ch/petition_gegen_steuergelder_proviande/ Switzerland: Stop emphasizing meat promotion, for ethical, environmental and health reasons, with tax-money! Confirm please
 
https://www.change.org/p/ministerio-de-medio-ambiente-destinen-el-dinero-de-la-eutanasia-a-la-castraci%C3%B3n-de-todos-los-animales-de-las-perreras-de-espa%C3%B1a Spain, allocate the euthanasia-budget used to kill animals towards neutering of all animals in the dog pounds in Spain!
 
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/216/620/058/ Cats Intended for Eating in Vietnam Saved from Truck -- Tell Authorities Not to Kill Them!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/542/786/375/ Help Protect the Rare and Charismatic Pacific Coast Fisher!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/489/316/735/ Protect Our Public Lands From Fracking
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/333/509/030/ Help Protect the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge from Harm!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/567/757/568/ Tell President Obama: It's Time to Reject KXL Once and for All!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/331/591/295/ BP: Your Delaying Tactics are Harming the Gulf
 
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http://www.nbc-2.com/story/27830308/why-so-many-panther-deaths#WNPoll145163 Vote NO please! Should the Florida panther be removed from the endangered species list?

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Friday, January 30, 2015

Busan, South Korea, help Stop the Dog and Cat Meat!


Contact Mayors of  Chicago, LA and Montreal! 
Send 3 messages please! (and post 2)
1)
To:
 ward45@cityofchicago.org ; caustin@cityofchicago.org ; jbalcer@cityofchicago.org ; ward09@cityofchicago.org ; ward21@cityofchicago.org ; eburke@cityofchicago.org ; wburnett@cityofchicago.org ; ward04@cityofchicago.org ; info@james46.org ; ward12@cityofchicago.org ; ward24@cityofchicago.org ; Willie.Cochran@cityofchicago.org ; ward35@cityofchicago.org ; Timothy.Cullerton@cityofchicago.org ; Pat.Dowell@cityofchicago.org ; jason.ervin@cityofchicago.org ; Robert.Fioretti@cityofchicago.org ; Toni.Foulkes@cityofchicago.org ; Deborah.Graham@cityofchicago.org ; lhairston@cityofchicago.org ; mharris@cityofchicago.org ; Ward07@cityofchicago.org ; ward18@cityofchicago.org ; mlaurino@cityofchicago.org ; Roberto.Maldonado@cityofchicago.org ; deb@33rdward.org ; emitts@cityofchicago.org ; ward49@cityofchicago.org ; ward01@cityofchicago.org ; Ward22@cityofchicago.org ; ward41@cityofchicago.org ; ward40@cityofchicago.org ; harry@48thward.org ; info@chicago47.org ; jpope@cityofchicago.org ; Marty.Quinn@cityofchicago.org ; ward30@cityofchicago.org ; office@ward42chicago.com ; service@6thwardchicago.com ; info@50thwardchicago.com ; yourvoice@ward43.org ; info@dannysolis.org ; info@aldermansposato.com ; rsuarez@cityofchicago.org ; lrthomas@cityofchicago.org ; JoAnn.Thompson@cityofchicago.org ; ttunney@cityofchicago.org ; info@ward32.org ; mzalewski@cityofchicago.org
 
Subject: Busan, South Korea
 

Office of the Mayor
121 N LaSalle Street
Chicago City Hall 4th Floor
Chicago, IL 60602
USA
312-744-5000
 
Dear Mayor Rahm Emanuel and the City Council members:
 
Please watch this undercover video from the South Korean dog meat industry: http://youtu.be/3uR8R8Mu70Q
 
Chicago should not be a sister city to any city that allows dogs and cats to be tortured and eaten.
 
Please urge Busan Mayor Byung-Soo Suh to close down all illegal dog farms and slaughterhouses, markets, truckers and restaurants who serve their products.
 
An online petition calling for your support in ending the horrendous South Korean dog and cat meat cruelty is in progress: https://www.change.org/p/rahm-emanuel-stop-the-brutal-dog-and-cat-meat-trade-in-busan-south-korea
 
The favor of your reply is requested.
Thank you,
 
Sincerely: 
 
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2)
Mayor Eric Garcetti
200 N. Spring St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
USA
213-978-0600
 
Dear Mayor Eric Garcetti and the City Council members:
 
Please watch this undercover video from the South Korean dog meat industry: http://youtu.be/3uR8R8Mu70Q
 
Los Angeles should not be a sister city to any city that allows dogs and cats to be tortured and eaten.
Please urge Busan Mayor Byung-Soo Suh to close down all illegal dog farms and slaughterhouses, markets, truckers and restaurants who serve their products.
 
An online petition calling for your support in ending the horrendous South Korean dog and cat meat cruelty is in progress: https://www.change.org/p/rahm-emanuel-stop-the-brutal-dog-and-cat-meat-trade-in-busan-south-korea
 
The favor of your reply is requested.
Thank you,
 
Sincerely:  
 
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3)
 
Montreal, Canada,
514-872-0311
 
Dear Mayor Denis Coderre and the City Council members:
 
Please watch this undercover video from the South Korean dog meat industry: http://youtu.be/3uR8R8Mu70Q
 
Montréal should not be a sister city to any city that allows dogs and cats to be tortured and eaten.
 
Please urge Busan Mayor Byung-Soo Suh to close down all illegal dog farms and slaughterhouses, markets, truckers and restaurants who serve their products.
 
An online petition calling for your support in ending the horrendous South Korean dog and cat meat cruelty is in progress: https://www.change.org/p/rahm-emanuel-stop-the-brutal-dog-and-cat-meat-trade-in-busan-south-korea
 
The favor of your reply is requested.
Thank you,
 
Sincerely: 
 
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Petitions and More, Jan. 30


http://action.peta.org.uk/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=5&ea.campaign.id=34808 Deadline Jan. 30! Support the closure of Wimbledon Greyhound Stadium!
https://secure.avaaz.org/de/petition/Covance_Muenster_Einstellen_der_Tierversuche/?sUQhUcb Germany, MĂ¼nster city, Covance Laboratories: an immediate End to Animal Experiments!
https://secure.avaaz.org/fr/petition/Mettre_en_prison_ce_tueur_de_chien/?sYNSabb Imprisonment for Dog torturer and killer Ames Memes, Egypt! (if not signed yet)
Reports of violence, against  Animal as well, must be taken into account!
https://albert-schweitzer-stiftung.de/helfen/petitionen/qualschlachtungen-stoppen Germany, Stop Torment at Slaughter and make the necessary changes to the Law! Confirm afterwards please
http://act.wildhorsepreservation.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=18962 Tell BLM: Protect Las Vegas-area Wild Horses & Burros! ZIP=5 digits
http://www.petitionpublique.fr/PeticaoAssinar.aspx?pi=P2012N19762 France, to prohibit access to Bullfights for children under 16 years
 
 
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/872/023/837/  Tell Budweiser: Don't Demonize Wolves to Sell Beer!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/252/096/474/ STOP the Further Destruction of the ONLY interior Uplands to Connecticut River corridor
 
                       ===========   News and more   ==========
http://vancouver.24hrs.ca/2015/01/19/bcs-wolf-cull-scientifically-flawed-group  Vote NO please! Poll: Do you support the wolf cull, BC?

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Thursday, January 29, 2015

Iditarod dog sled race


From:   http://helpsleddogs.org/write-to-iditarod-sponsors-and-supporters/   Sample letter
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To:
 
Subject: Iditarod dog sled race

Dear Iditarod musher sponsor:
For the dogs, the Iditarod dog sled race is a bottomless pit of suffering.
Please end your organization’s support of mushers in this event. 
What happens to dogs during the Iditarod includes death, paralysis, frostbite (where it hurts the most!), bleeding ulcers, bloody diarrhea, lung damage, pneumonia, ruptured discs, viral diseases and broken bones.
Over 143 dogs have died in the race. Causes of dog deaths include: being kicked to death by a musher, being crushed to death, freezing to death, bleeding to death, drowning, heart attack and strangulation. In order to cover-up some of the horrors, the Iditarod won’t even divulge how all the victims die. For more facts, visit the Sled Dog Action Coalition website, http://helpsleddogs.org .
Sled dogs are often stricken with intense bloody diarrhea during the Iditarod.
Sled dogs are often stricken with intense bloody diarrhea during the Iditarod.
Iditarod mushers beat dogs who won’t run, or who don’t run fast enough. Mushers beat their dogs whenever they feel like it. Dogs are beaten with shovels, bats, chains, two-by-fours or whatever else is handy. Dr. Jeanne Olson, who has been a veterinarian in Alaska since 1988, confirmed the brutality used by mushers training dogs for the Iditarod. She saw dogs with cracked ribs, broken jaws or skulls from mushers using two-by-fours for punishment. In an article published by the University of Alaska, Dr. Olson said, “There are mushers out there whose philosophy is…that if that dog acts up I will hit that dog to the point where it would rather die than do what it did, ’cause the next time it is gonna die.’”
Jim Welch says in his book Speed Mushing Manual, “Nagging a dog team is cruel and ineffective…A training device such as a whip is not cruel at all but is effective.” He also said, “It is a common training device in use among dog mushers…” Jon Saraceno wrote in his column in USA Today, “He [Colonel Tom Classen] confirmed dog beatings and far worse. Like starving
Iditarod mushers get rid of unwanted sled dog puppies by tying them in a bag and tossing the bag in a creek, lake or river. Mushers even have a saying about not breeding dogs unless they can drown them: “Those who cannot drown should not breed.”
Iditarod mushers get rid of unwanted sled dog puppies by tying them in a bag and tossing the bag in a creek, lake or river. Mushers even have a saying about not breeding dogs unless they can drown them: “Those who cannot drown should not breed.”
dogs to maintain their most advantageous racing weight. Skinning them to make mittens. Or dragging them to their death.”
Iditarod dog kennels are puppy mills. Mushers breed many dogs and routinely kill unwanted ones, including puppies. Mushers have drowned, shot, bludgeoned and dragged many dogs to death. For example, Iditarod musher Dave Olesen drowned a litter of newborn puppies. Another musher got rid of unwanted puppies by tying them in a bag and tossing the bag in a creek. Mushers even have a saying about not breeding dogs unless they can drown them: “Those who cannot drown should not breed.”
Veterinary care during the Iditarod is poor. In a recent Iditarod, one of Lance Mackey’s male dogs ripped out all of his 16 toenails trying to get to a female who was in heat. This type of broken toenail is extremely painful. Mackey, a four-time Iditarod winner, said he was too stubborn to leave this dog at a checkpoint and veterinarians allowed Mackey to continue to race him. Imagine the agony the dog was forced to endure.
Here’s another example: Veterinarians have allowed dogs with kennel cough to race in the Iditarod even though dogs with this disease should be kept warm and given lots of rest. Strenuous exercise can cause lung damage, pneumonia and even death. To make matters worse, kennel cough is a highly contagious disease that normally lasts from 10 to 21 days.
Please end your organization’s association with this horrific race.
Sincerely,

Petitions and More, Jan. 29


http://www.asiaforanimals.com/call-for-action Scroll down for more actions
https://secure.avaaz.org/fr/petition/Monsieur_Francois_Hollande_President_de_la_Republique_Francaise_Pour_que_M_Hollande_tienne_ses_promesses_et_modifie_le_s/ France, Pres. Hollande:  keep your promise and Change the status of the Animal as it is now:  "personal property" as defined by section 528 of the Civil Code dating back to ... 1804!! If not signed yet ( just in: Parliament finally recognizes that animals are "sentient" http://www.20minutes.fr/societe/1528095-20150128-parlement-reconnait-definitivement-animaux-doues-sensibilite )
http://www.oceancare.org/de/notruf_aus_den_malediven.cfm  International Campaign against underwater noise, Maldives!
http://www.ran.org/exim?utm_campaign=bank_petit_6 Export-Import Bank: Don't finance destruction of the Great Barrier Reef
 
https://www.change.org/p/justice-fran%C3%A7aise-prot%C3%A9ger-le-chien France, remove the dog Tyson from his 'family' (whose owner is accused of bestiality)!
 
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/702/829/290/ Demand a life sentence to person(s) responsible for the 200 sick, starving, injured dogs rescued in Alberta
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/408/883/788/ Demand resignation of USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack and prosecution of felony animal cruelty to Emil Pollack
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/616/135/187/ Demand a Cruelty Free Life for Geese and Ducks!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/745/012/670/ Urge Obama to Stand Strong for Polar Bears and Arctic Wildlife
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/960/499/335/ Stand Against Reckless Drilling in the Arctic Ocean
 
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http://antidote-europe.org/en/ Killing animals will not improve human health, nor will it help to prevent chemical pollution of the environment
http://www.tierschutz-fetzt.de/ Deutschland sagt Nein

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