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A monthly Magazine edited and published by Maria Lopes - December 2005 Dear Friends, here is a new issue of our Journal for the animals... We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy
New Year 2006.
Last month we launched a campaign against bullfights in the city of Chengdu, China that would take place this last weekend. Well although we had no reply from the Chinese Embassy in Portugal , as usual, we do believe that the bullfights did not take place.
As you know the bullfight mafia likes to praise about bullfights in countries that don't have them. Well after a search in all bullfights websites the silence is total, that is why we believe that they didn't took place.
We want to thank to all that supported us.
For those who read French a new book against bullfights was recently published, written by one of our companions
Élisabeth Hardouin Fugier The price is 25 euros plus 4,60 euros for
postage (this offer is for 2 books ordered for one address only)
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for
survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. It is
my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on
the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of
mankind." CHINA
China's Dog/Cat Fur
Markets
Source: KINSHIP CIRCLE LETTER CAMPAIGN SOURCE OF INFORMATION
http://www.furkills.org/dog_fur_horror.shtml http://justnicephotos.homestead.com/DogAndCatCruelFurTrade.html http://www.animalsasia.org/ DOG & CAT FUR PETITION:
http://www.heathermillsmccartney.com/petition.php SAMPLE LETTER Full contact information follows letter *All email addresses come directly from Chinese government websites. We have researched this for a week. If a particular email bounces, there is nothing more we can do. english@mail.gov.cn,
xhzhang@cnta.gov.cn, webmaster@cnta.gov.cn,
chinaembassy_us@fmprc.gov.cn, WEBMASTER@CHINA-EMBASSY.ORG, webmaster@mfa.gov.cn, webmaster@agri.gov.cn, zxc@szhealth.gov.cn, manage@moh.gov.cn, chinaculture@chinadaily.com.cn, 2008@beijing-olympic.org.cn, mishubu@beijing-olympic.org.cn, zongti@beijing-olympic.org.cn, international@beijing-olympic.org.cn, sports@beijing-olympic.org.cn, xuanchuan@beijing-olympic.org.cn, guihua@beijing-olympic.org.cn, environment@beijing-olympic.org.cn, marketing@beijing-olympic.org.cn, xinxiguanli@beijing-olympic.org.cn, wenhua@beijing-olympic.org.cn, mediaoperations@beijing-olympic.org.cn Honorable Officials of China:
I urge you to make enforceable animal protection laws a
priority before the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Please do not let China's
notoriously inhumane bear bile farms and live animal markets tarnish your image
during the Games.
In particular, I implore you to immediately enact laws to ban China's dog/cat fur trade. Like many potential tourists, I cannot support a country that
condones animal abuse. Neither revenue nor tradition justifies the profoundly
cruel Chinese dog and cat fur trade.
UNACCEPTABLE: Up to 8,000 caged dogs and cats are stacked
into a single truck for cross-country transport without food or water. At an
animal market in Southern China, investigators documented 20 cats smashed inside
one wire cage and dead cats draped over cages. I've seen the video footage with
my own eyes: Live dogs and cats flattened inside cages the size of filing
drawers are tossed from truck beds on to hard pavement. Animals scream as their
paws are crushed. Workers pull them out with long metal tongs and
fling them over a 7 ft. fence. Some of these cats and dogs still wear collars and ID tags, indicating they are stolen companion animals. UNCONSCIONABLE: Chinese fur markets violently bludgeon, hang,
electrocute and strangle fur-bearing animals, including millions of cats and
dogs. Cats are choked in their cages alongside live cats. Dogs are hung from
wire nooses and slashed across the groin. At fur farms in Hebei Province,
investigators videotaped workers carving off skin and fur from alert dogs, foxes
and other animals. Some fully skinned animals continued to blink and breathe
spasmodically as their hearts beat for another five to 10 minutes.
DECEITFUL: Dog/cat items are deceptively labeled Gae-wolf,
Sobaki, Asian Jackal, Wildcat, Goyangi, Katzenfelle, or other names before
exported abroad. Unsuspecting shoppers purchase unmarked, dyed or vaguely
labeled boots, coats, linings, toys and homeopathic remedies.
I will not visit a country that brutalizes animals to
decorate a sweater, line a coat or become a trinket. This is the ultimate
betrayal of creatures who are instinctively trustworthy and devoted companions
to people.
I stand firm in my boycott of Chinese tourism, commerce and
the 2008 Olympic Games--unless China makes visible strides to end the vicious
treatment of dogs, cats, bears and other non-human beings. Thank you for
accepting my comments on this matter of international concern.
Sincerely,
Name/Country ________________________________ FULL CONTACT INFORMATION
*All email addresses come directly from Chinese government websites. We have researched this for a week. If a particular email bounces, there is nothing more we can do. Mr. Hu Jintao, President, The People's Republic of China
9 Xihuang-Chenggen Beijie Beijing, China China National Tourism Administration
9A Jianguomennei Ave., Beijing 100740, China ph: (0086-10) 65201114; fax: (0086-10) 65122096 email: xhzhang@cnta.gov.cn, webmaster@cnta.gov.cn website: http://www.cnta.com China National Tourist Office, New York (in the U.S.)
350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 6413 Empire State Building New York, NY 10118 ph: 001-212-7608218; fax: 001-212-7608809 CHINA NATIONAL TOURIST OFFICES IN OTHER COUNTRIES:
http://www.cnta.gov.cn/lyen/contact/contact.htm His Excellency Yang Jiechi
U.S. Embassy of the People's Republic of China 2300 Connecticut Avenue, NW; Washington, DC 20008 ph: 202-328-2500, 202-328-2551; fax: 202-588-0032, 202-328-2582 Political Affairs Office: 202-328-2548, 202-328-2520; fax: 202-745-7473 email: chinaembassy_us@fmprc.gov.cn, WEBMASTER@CHINA-EMBASSY.ORG website: http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/ TO FIND CHINESE EMBASSIES IN OTHER COUNTRIES:
http://www.travelchinaguide.com/embassy/embassy_list.htm COMPLETE LIST OF CHINESE EMBASSIES IN OTHER COUNTRIES:
http://justnicephotos.homestead.com/DogAndCatCruelFurTrade.html Mr. Li Zhaoxing, Minister of Foreign Affairs, People's
Republic of China
No. 2, Chaoyangmen Nandajie, Chaoyang District Beijing, 100701 ph: 86-10-65961114; emal: webmaster@mfa.gov.cn website: http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/ Du Qinglin, Minister of Agriculture, People's Republic of
China
email: webmaster@agri.gov.cn website: http://www.agri.gov.cn/ Ministry of Health, People's Republic of China
email: zxc@szhealth.gov.cn, manage@moh.gov.cn website: http://www.moh.gov.cn/ XU Guanhua, Minister of Science and Technology, People's
Republic of China
15B, Fuxing Road Beijing, 100862, P.R. China Guestbook web form: http://www.most.gov.cn/eng/guestbook/guestbook.htm Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China
15 Huixin Dongjie, Chaoyang District Beijing 100025, China ph: (8610) 6494 1107; email: chinaculture@chinadaily.com.cn website: http://www.chinaculture.org/ Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX
Olympiad (BOCOG)
24 Dongsi Shitiao Street Beijing, China, 100007 ph: (8610) 64009185; fax: (8610) 64009229 email: 2008@beijing-olympic.org.cn, mishubu@beijing-olympic.org.cn, zongti@beijing-olympic.org.cn, international@beijing-olympic.org.cn, sports@beijing-olympic.org.cn, xuanchuan@beijing-olympic.org.cn, guihua@beijing-olympic.org.cn, environment@beijing-olympic.org.cn, marketing@beijing-olympic.org.cn, xinxiguanli@beijing-olympic.org.cn, wenhua@beijing-olympic.org.cn, mediaoperations@beijing-olympic.org.cn website: http://en.beijing-2008.org/ EUROPEAN UNION
Focus on live skinning of dogs and
cats in China If you have not yet seen this video, please watch it at http://www.furisdead.com/feat-dogcatfur.asp
but be warned - it is horrific. Read more about the suffering of the animals in
China at http://sirius.2kat.net.
The revulsion and disgust felt by the McCartneys has
generated more public interest than years of dedicated campaigning alone could
have achieved. When a celebrity is involved, it's automatically news. It is
crucial that we all make full use of the fact that Chinese animal abuse is in
the public spotlight before the attention of the media wanders elsewhere.
There has been some confusion in the Press regarding the
Czech Republic, with some newspapers reporting that cat fur imported from China
was being processed into garments in factories there. This is only part of the
truth. The reality is that cats are being caught on the streets of this European
country and skinned for their fur. See http://www.hsus.org/press_and_publications/press_releases/undercover_investigation_Finds_Cats_in_Czech.html
for the details of the HSI findings. The Czech Republic joined the EU in
2004.
Those of you that have been receiving our Updates for some
time will perhaps remember the pleasure with which we reported the passing of EU
Written Declaration 17 back in December 2003. This Declaration called for the
banning of all importation, production and sale of dog and cat fur within the
EU. The EU Commission has however consistantly refused to implement this
democratic decision, claiming that this is a question for individual member
states to legislate on. We need to emphasise that Written Declaration 17/2003
was passed by a majority of Members of the European Parliament. The
Commissioners however seem to consider themselves above such petty restraints as
obeying democratic decisions.
The email addresses of the EU Commissioners are
sg-web-president@cec.eu.int,cab-piebalgs-archives@cec.eu.int,Charlie.Mc-Creevy@cec.eu.int,cab-grybauskaite-commissaire@cec.eu.int,Cabinet-Huebner@cec.eu.int,friso.roscamabbing@cec.eu.int,guenter.verheugen@cec.eu.int,cab-archive-barrot@cec.eu.int,CAB-FIGEL@cec.eu.int,joe.borg@cec.eu.int,Laszlo.Kovacs@cec.eu.int,
Louis.Michel@cec.eu.int,Margot.Wallstrom@cec.eu.int,Mariann.Fischer-Boel@cec.eu.int,Neelie.Kroes@cec.eu.int,Rehn@cec.eu.int,CAB-KALLAS-WEB-FEEDBACK@cec.eu.int,stavros.dimas@cec.eu.int,Viviane.Reding@cec.eu.int, vladimir.spidla@cec.eu.int,ec-yourvoice@cec.eu.int,markos.kyprianou@cec.eu.int Sample email, but please write an original if you can.
Dear Commissioner,
In recent days you will undoubtably have read reports in the Press regarding yet further evidence of the cruelty involved in the production of dog and cat fur in China. You may recall that in December 2003, Written Declaration 17
was passed by a majority of MEPs. This Declaration called for a ban on the
importation, production and trade of fur originating from either cats or dogs
within the European Union. This Resolution has not to date been acted upon due
to claims from the Commission that it does not have the authority to impose such
legislation upon Member States, and that such an imposition would be
illegal.
Since the passing of Declaration 17/2003 we have seen the
disastrous attempt at an EU Constitution. This was defeated in those countries
that permitted a vote for one major reason - that the EU is seen as being
undemocratic by its citizens.
Chinese fur processors are prepared to blatantly lie about
their products, and will willingly and intentionally mislead us about the
product - no EU citizen would think that a "Gae-wolf" was a dog or that
"rabbit", "goat" or even "faux fur" meant domestic cat. These are examples of
the misrepresentations that European consumers are being faced with daily.
The people of Europe are not foolish and neither are their
democratically elected representatives. Both the people of Europe and their MEPs
decided in 2003 that Written Declaration 17 should be approved. It should thus
be beyond the power of the Commission to veto it, regardless of any theoretical
consequences percieved by the Commission. I therefore ask that you obey the will
of the European People and pass Written Declaration 17/2003 into a Directive
without further delay.
Yours sincerely
Name/Country
PETITIONS
Ask EU to ban circus with animals
Stop Animal Testing in relation to REACH
(EU)(QGAR petition)
http://www.petitionthem.com/default.asp?sect=detail&pet=2296
Stop the Huge Expansion of Horse Racing in Israel! http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/398531952
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/299055236?ltl=1134798516
The Horse Slaughter Prevention Act (S. 1915)
More severe punishments for animal
abusers in Holland. Naam = name
Chiang Mai Safari Park "ZOO" (Thailand)
serves its own animals as food.
Demand Philippines act immediately to
enforce the Animal Welfare Act http://www.gopetition.com/online/5543.html
STOP THE SUFFERING OF MACAQUES!
Disclaimer: All items published in this magazine were received by us and we pass them on in good faith. We are not responsible for incorrect email addresses, errors, omissions etc. by the originators.
INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT AGAINST
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