Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Petitions and More, August 5

http://iworry.org/action/  More signatures please
Sample text: copy/paste in:  http://www.regulations.gov/#!submitComment;D=FWS-R1-ES-2012-0097-0132  International. Till Aug. 7th
http://advocacy.pewtrusts.org/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1793&ea.campaign.id=30325  President Obama: Fully Protect Our Pacific Remote Islands
 
 
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/305/578/259/recall-the-law-end-the-use-of-hounds-to-hunt-and-train-to-hunt-wolvess/   Wisconsin: a law that permits hunters for 365 days a year to turn loose in the woods as many hounds as they want to!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/155/279/935/  Needs more signatures! Halt Trapping Licenses!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/433/647/903/protejer-los-parque-nacionales-y-la-vida-silvestre-del-paraguay/   Protect National Parks and (stop the hunting of) Wildlife in Paraguay!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/897/126/974/   Protect the San Gabriel Mountains!
 
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Monday, August 4, 2014

Wisconsin: A Sadist’s Paradise for animal torturers in the name of science

 
 
Subject: Wisconsin: A Sadist’s Paradise for animal torturers in the name of science

Ray Cross, UW System President
Phone: 608 262-2321
Fax: 608 262-3985
1720 Van Hise Hall
1220 Linden Drive
Madison, WI 53706

Kate Wodyn, Assistant to the President

Sir, Madam:

Today, the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism published an article exposing what may very well be one of the most brutal and horrific torture of animals under the guise of “research” that I have ever seen.
This is what some sadistic monsters from the University of Wisconsin-Madison Psychiatry Department have planned for “research.”

………referring to the first experiment at UW-Madison in more than 30 years that will intentionally deprive newborn monkeys of their mothers, a practice designed to impact a primate’s psychological well-being.
The research, submitted by UW-Madison Psychiatry Department chairman Dr. Ned Kalin, has drawn unusual scrutiny and dissent from within the university and intensified a debate about the extent to which benefits to humans justify the suffering of animals.

It gets even worse. If your stomach doesn’t turn after reading this you truly have no heart or empathy:
For a year these 20 rhesus monkeys, as well as another 20 used as a control group, will be given tests intended to provoke and measure anxious behavior. After one year they will all be euthanized and their brain tissue collected for molecular analysis.

In other words these INFANT monkeys will be TORTURED and DEPRIVED nurturing for an entire year and then killed.
The purpose of the experiment is to use state-of-the-art technology to examine the underlying neurobiology of anxiety and depression, which Kalin believes will lead to insights for treating struggling humans.
The ethics of animal research are often contentious, but non-human primate research at UW-Madison is especially polarizing.
There are around 2,000 primates housed and studied in several locations around campus. About two-thirds of these are at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center; most of the remainder are at the Harlow Center for Biological Psychology. The buildings stand side by side.
In a Kalin study published in 2004, the amygdalae of 14 rhesus macaques were damaged with acid after their skulls were cut open. The amygdala is a region of the brain that regulates fear and anxiety. The monkeys were then exposed to snakes and unknown humans.
Than we have a colleague of Kalin, Richard Davidson, making this false equivalency that fits right in with the sadistic nature of Wisconsin itself:
“You have to do a mental calculus to determine if it’s appropriate or not, and each scientist needs to make his or her own moral decision about that,” Davidson says. “And it’s the same thing with eating meat or wearing leather. You know, the Dalai Lama eats meat.”

Does the arrogance of humanity know no bounds?
These are the kind of Mengele style experiments that are being conducted at our public universities?
What kind of monster thinks that ANYTHING good will come from this?
You don’t need to be a research scientist to know what happens when the vast majority of mammals are deprived of the basic nurturing and care that they receive from their mothers.
I make no secret that I am an animal welfare advocate and oppose any and all forms of cruelty but this goes far beyond.
This goes into the realm of torture for tortures sake.
For an entire year these baby monkeys will be tormented, deprived nurturing, and then killed?
For what? So some narcissistic egghead can confirm that tortured and deprived social animals suffer depression? Wow. Will he then get his name in a scientific journal and “justify” a reason to continue receiving grant money for his “experiments?”

All animal testing is disgusting but this goes far far far beyond that. This is pure sadistic torture and all supporters of the UW should be disgusted by this no matter what side of the political aisle you are on.

Sincerely: 


Stop the torture of animals in the Russian Federation!

Please read! 

To:
 alyn.smith@europarl.europa.eu ; dennis.dejong@europarl.europa.eu ; daniel.vanderstoep@europarl.europa.eu ; kartikatamara.liotard@europarl.europa.eu ; auke.zijlstra@europarl.europa.eu ; bas.eickhout@europarl.europa.eu ; bart.staes@europarl.europa.eu ; judith.merkies@europarl.europa.eu ; kathleen.vanbrempt@europarl.europa.eu ; struan.stevenson@europarl.europa.eu ; keith.taylor@europarl.europa.eu ; dan.jorgensen@europarl.europa.eu ; michele.striffler@europarl.europa.eu ; michael.cramer@europarl.europa.eu ; michel.dantin@europarl.europa.eu ; raul.romevairueda@europarl.europa.eu ; santiago.fisasayxela@europarl.europa.eu ; sirpa.pietikainen@europarl.europa.eu ; cristiandan.preda@europarl.europa.eu ; iva.zanicchi@europarl.europa.eu ; sonia.alfano@europarl.europa.eu ; gianni.vattimo@europarl.europa.eu ; andrea.zanoni@europarl.europa.eu ; tudorcorneliu.vadim@europarl.europa.eu ; dacianaoctavia.sarbu@europarl.europa.eu
Cc:
Subject: Help to stop the torture of animals in the Russian Federation

Members of the European Parliament,
Dear Sir, Madam,
To whom it concerns:

I have an urgent request: please try to stop the torture of animals in the Russian Federation!

These are the facts :
Killing and cruel treatment of animals are common in many different parts of the world. Russia is one of those places where voices of protest have been raised against extreme cruelty inflicted on homeless animals.
Millions of homeless animals (mostly dogs and cats) are being brutally killed by so-called "dog hunters" in Russia. They are shot, poisoned, beaten, even in presence of little kids.
People who torture them, put pictures on their website because they are proud of their crimes against innocent animals.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOERTjMPc2g
 
Terrible find in the city dump in Orenburg!. Mp4

There is no justification for this !!!!
Russian public (activists for the rights of animals) hasn’t the right to supervise work of the Moscow’s municipal shelters. The Russian activists for the rights of animals haven't the right to supervise methods of murder of homeless animals, which are made by the orders of governors.
The Russian activists for the rights of animals have no right to supervise methods of murder of agricultural animals during epidemics.
The Russian journalists showed many reports about cruel murders of animals which was made by the orders of officials (including by the orders of governors).
But officials of the Russian Federation don't consider it as crimes or a shame because they consider animals as things. They consider homeless animals as “biological garbage”.
The “biological garbage” is an official term of Soviet documents about homeless animals.
Sources :

1)http://www.ernestdempsey.com/open-letter-to-european-parliament-from-russia
2)  http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/351418
 
Op-Ed: State-sponsored cruelty to animals in the Russian Federation Journalists (including Independent Television Company НТВ and newspaper KP.RU) published reports about burning of animals alive, including healthy horses, during epidemic of pork plague. Animals were burned by the orders of the Governor of the region of Nizhny Novgorod, Valery Shantsev. Officials burned animals alive because it is much cheaper than euthanasia.
Criminal behavior of Kremlin officials :
The officials in Russian Federation BURN PIGS ALIVE!. This video is from Voronezh region. July 2013. It is the reporting of “1КАНАЛ” (it is the most known TV company of Russia)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfTkZYVAGmc&list=UUx4Qi_F-OCCraCVPp5QYxCA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjbjCQx4QGw Corruption of officials in the Russian Federation.
Pseudo-democracy. Lawlessness.

Officials BURNED herd of HORSES and stray dogs ALIVE (Russian Federation)!
Death camp for stray dogs. Illegal hunting of the Kremlin officials.
The plenipotentiary of president Medvedev SHOT RARE ANIMALS by Kalashnikov assault rifle. (Russian Federation).

3) https://www.facebook.com/AnimalsOfRussia
4) http://www.ernestdempsey.com/open-letter-to-brigitte-bardot-from-russia/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RveLM63QNQ
5) http://greenheritagenews.com/russias-terrifying-new-law-to-allow-animal-cruelty/

 Russia’s prepares ‘terrifying’ new law to allow animal cruelty
in modern Russian Federation, there is a peculiar structure which consists of the corrupt officials, deputies, employees of camps of death for homeless animals, and hitmen of stray dogs.  And the government of the Russian Federation allows them to do it.
For many years, the Russian activists for the rights of animals are fighting against severe conditions of absolute corruption and lawlessness.
The corrupted Parliament of the Russian Federation enacts such laws which will make the status of animals (and status of activists for the rights of animals) worse in the Russian Federation
Now only the international protests (directed to you Members of the commission of European Parliament) can help vulnerable animals in Russia.

Any effort or initiative on your behalf in this matter will be greatly appreciated!


Sincerely:   


 

Petitions and More, August 4

Esp. nr. 5! and add your comment (go to ‘comment now’) please!  (before Sept. 23 2014) International action!
http://www.capwiz.com/aspca/issues/alert/?alertid=63254391&type=ST&utm_source=MI-wildanimals-20140803  MI, US-ZIP: Voters should retain power to decide whether wolves should be hunted,  reject the “Scientific Fish and Wildlife Conservation Act” petition!
https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/113/hr5058  Vote Oppose please! H.R. 5058: Wild Horse Oversight Act. US-ZIP, login
http://e-activist.com/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1736&ea.campaign.id=30122  Help stop elephant torture, tell South Africa’s President Zuma that elephants in his country need his help! Needs more signatures
http://www.uwnotinourname.org/  Stop this Cruelty! Please only fill out this form if you attend or attended a University of Wisconsin school
http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=16204   Please limit crude oil tankers at Cherry Point
http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=15496   Schwarzenegger is part-owner of Dimensional Fund Advisors, a money manager with deep ties to forest destruction through logging and palm oil companies
http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=14924  Wilmar: Make good on your palm oil promises
http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=15944  Declare your independence from the bee-killer in your backyard
http://action.foe.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=15750   Save Chaco Canyon from the threat of fracking
https://www.facebook.com/events/658035840955225/   Help to stop the torture of animals in the Russian Federation
 
 
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/881/165/491/    Stop Blood Sports, Animal Trapping!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/723/773/957/   NY Beagle Freedom Bill signed late & did not become law in 2014
 
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http://eaglerarelife.com/content/alana-miller   Vote for this Story, Blind Cat Rescue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RR0BlQzbOUk   Elephant and Dog, more at your right!

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Saturday, August 2, 2014

Petitions and More, August 2

https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3651  Help Us Tell It Like It Is: Animal Research Is Murder! US-ZIP
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=4317  Ask NIH to Stop Funding Cruel UW Experiment on Cats!
https://www.oncharity.at/animal/petition/index_html  Needs more signatures, still active! Austria, Stop the hunters-allowed to kill dogs- law!
http://www.wdcs-de.org/view_e_petition_boto.php   Stop the illegal killing of Dolphins in Brazil!
http://www.be-their-voice.com/de  Give Whales your Voice! 
https://secure.humanesociety.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=6433   Support Legislation to End Cosmetics Testing on Animals! Again please. US only
http://www.hsi.org/action/  Please sign these actions as well, needing more signatures! International!
 
 
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/290/307/104/  Shut down US based Marshall BioResources/commercial vivisection breeder of beagles & other animals!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/951/317/215/   Tell LEGO to Cut Ties with Shell
 
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https://org2.salsalabs.com/o/6931/p/salsa/donation/common/public/?donate_page_KEY=11627 The BLM is targeting these horses because of the Rock Springs Grazing Association, whose members receive taxpayer subsidies to graze their livestock on our public lands!
https://www.facebook.com/events/659945264094796/permalink/679140562175266/  Dr. Aurelian Stefan, Romania:  I will run again for the homeless animal cause!  Raising funds for RAR 's project Homeless Animal Hospital in Craiova, there is a matching donation of 3000 USD from an anonymous donor!

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Friday, August 1, 2014

Petitions and More, August 1

http://www.yousign.org/en/carlos-isaac  67 more signatures please
http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/o/2167/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=16133  Pass Rules to Protect Canada Lynx From Hurtful Traps!  For Non-US: ZIP= 5 digits  State=other
http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/o/2167/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=16122    Sever the Humboldt County contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Wildlife Services!  As well
 
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/811/003/898/   Lets change animal laws in Pennsylvania, Pets are considered just property
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/274/321/401/  Moreno Valley Animal Shelter is putting animals to sleep needlessly when people want them
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/459/794/138/   Stand Up For The Places You Love
 
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http://harmonyfund.org/?s=serbia&submit=Search  The Harmony Fund is on a singular mission to rescue the animals others deem unreachable
http://www.returntofreedom.org/hay-bales-needed/   Wild Horse Preservation and Sanctuary

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