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A monthly Magazine edited and published by Maria Lopes - July 2006 Dear Friends, Animals are tortured and killed all year around but in summer the torture and killing multiplies with hundreds of popular "fiestas" where bulls, calves, etc are tortured to death.Please don't forget, for them there are no
holidays. In their name our thanks.
For the Animals
Maria Lopes
BRAZIL
Brazilian City Votes On Animal Research Ban, A Global Precedent Source: http://www.KinshipCircle.org
Update: The vote on a bill to completely outlaw vivisection in
the Brazilian
city of Rio de Janeiro has been pushed back to August. If you did not have time to write before, please do it now! SOURCE OF INFORMATION:
Darius Fullmer, info@nj-ara.org New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance http://www.nj-ara.org/ Claudio Cavalcanti, City Counselor
May 25, 2006 CONTACT INFORMATION
SAMPLE LETTER FOLLOWS RIO DE JANEIRO CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS
Câmara Municipal do Rio de Janeiro Praça Floriano, s/nº Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20031-050 Brazil Councilman Alexandre Cerruti
Câmara Municipal do Rio de Janeiro Praça Floriano, s/nº, Anexo 1006 Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20031-050 Brazil email: cerruti@camara.rj.gov.br Councilman Aloisio Freitas
Câmara Municipal do Rio de Janeiro Praça Floriano, s/nº, Anexo 403 Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20031-050 Brazil email: afreitas@camara.rj.gov.br Councilman Carlos Brizola
Câmara Municipal do Rio de Janeiro Praça Floriano, s/nº, Anexo 806 Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20031-050 Brazil email: brizolaneto@camara.rj.gov.br Councilman Carlo Caiado
Câmara Municipal do Rio de Janeiro Praça Floriano, s/nº, Anexo 1005 Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20031-050 Brazil email: carlo.caiado@camara.rj.gov.br Councilman Dr. Adilson Soares
Câmara Municipal do Rio de Janeiro Praça Floriano, s/nº, Anexo 703 Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20031-050 Brazil email: adilson.soares@camara.rj.gov.br Councilman Lois Antonio Guarana
Câmara Municipal do Rio de Janeiro Praça Floriano, s/nº, Anexo 606 Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20031-050 Brazil email: laguarana@uol.com.br Councilman Jorge Pereira
Câmara Municipal do Rio de Janeiro Praça Floriano, s/nº, Anexo 402 Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20031-050 Brazil email: jpereira@camara.rj.gov.br Councilman Luiz Carlos Ramos
Câmara Municipal do Rio de Janeiro Praça Floriano, s/nº, Anexo 601 Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20031-050 Brazil email: lcramos@camara.rj.gov.br Councilwoman Marcia Teixeira
Câmara Municipal do Rio de Janeiro Praça Floriano, s/nº Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20031-050 Brazil email: pastoramarciateixeira@camara.rj.gov.br Councilman Renato Moura
Câmara Municipal do Rio de Janeiro Praça Floriano, s/nº, Anexo 801 Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20031-050 Brazil email: renato.moura@camara.rj.gov.br Councilman Rogério Bittar
Câmara Municipal do Rio de Janeiro Praça Floriano, s/nº, Anexo 304 Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20031-050 Brazil email: rogerio.bittar@camara.rj.gov.br Councilman Rubens Andrade
Câmara Municipal do Rio de Janeiro Praça Floriano, s/nº, Anexo 306 Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20031-050 Brazil email: rubens_andrade@camara.rj.gov.br Councilwoman Silvia Pontes
Câmara Municipal do Rio de Janeiro Praça Floriano, s/nº, Anexo 904 Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20031-050 Brazil email: silviapontes25025@camara.rj.gov.br Councilwoman Suely Santana Da Silva
Câmara Municipal do Rio de Janeiro Praça Floriano, s/nº, Anexo 605 Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20031-050 Brazil email: suely.silva@camara.rj.gov.br Councilman Théo Silva
Câmara Municipal do Rio de Janeiro Praça Floriano, s/nº, Anexo 305 Rio de Janeiro, RJ 20031-050 Brazil email: theosilva@camara.rj.gov.br SAMPLE LETTER Feel free to use portions of our letter, but please add some original thoughts. Hundreds of identical letters may lessen the impact. TO:
cerruti@camara.rj.gov.br, afreitas@camara.rj.gov.br, brizolaneto@camara.rj.gov.br, carlo.caiado@camara.rj.gov.br, adilson.soares@camara.rj.gov.br, laguarana@uol.com.br, jpereira@camara.rj.gov.br, lcramos@camara.rj.gov.br, pastoramarciateixeira@camara.rj.gov.br, renato.moura@camara.rj.gov.br, rogerio.bittar@camara.rj.gov.br, rubens_andrade@camara.rj.gov.br, silviapontes25025@camara.rj.gov.br, suely.silva@camara.rj.gov.br, theosilva@camara.rj.gov.br Dear Rio de Janeiro City Council Members:
The Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro has a unique opportunity
to advance medical science. I understand City Counselor Claudio Cavalcanti
authored a bill that bans animal experimentation.
This progressive law, which the City Council approved and the
Mayor vetoed, returns to the Council for further evaluation in
August.
I respectfully ask you to vote to overturn the Mayor's veto.
Passage of this law will lead to cures for human injury and
disease.
Animals undergo invasive procedures, taxing behavioral drills,
electric shock, food/water deprivation, isolation and death -- to demonstrate
redundant information with no bearing on human health.
Indeed, Dr. Roger E. Ulrich states: "I discovered that
experiments on animals offer only the illusion of control... We create false
data which, combined with the differences among species, make our efforts to
apply the results to man, useless."
Humans and animals are so diverse in terms of their anatomy,
physiology, biochemistry, and genetics that the animal model can actually harm
humans with misleading results. The British Medical Journal reported in 2004:
"[Animal] research is poorly conducted and not thoroughly evaluated." Scientists said drug doses in animals differ substantially from those administered to humans. Fen-phen, Premarin, Vioxx, Celebrax, Bextra... It's hard to stay current with the growing list of animal-tested drugs pulled from the global market or slapped with restrictions. Conversely, some life-saving drugs never make it out of the
lab. "Currently 9 out of 10 experimental drugs fail in clinical studies because
we cannot accurately predict how they will behave in people based on animal
studies," says Mike Leavitt, U.S. Secretary of Health and Human
Services.
Cleary, animal studies deflect focus and funding from
cost-effective research pertinent to humans. Your vote to ban animal
experimentation will prompt researchers to utilize human-focused technologies
such as in vitro analysis, cell imaging, epidemiology, computer simulators,
videos and mathematical modeling, genetic and protein analysis, clinical
research, human brain mapping technologies, autopsy/biopsy studies, advanced MRI
imaging, etc. Please help establish an international precedent in medical
research with your endorsement of a ban on animal experimentation.
Thank you,
Name/country/Email ###
Statement from Claudio Cavalcanti, author of the law to ban
animal
experimentation in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro: To all anti-vivisection and animal rights activists in Brazil
and the world:
I hereby, make an appeal to all animal rights and
anti-vivisection activists
from Brazil and worldwide to please express their support in favor of the law to which I am the author, which prohibits vivisection and scientific experiments on animals in the city of Rio de Janeiro. This law was approved by the City Council in March of this
year, but was
vetoed by the Mayor. It will return to the City Council of Rio de Janeiro, following official procedures, when the Mayor's veto will be evaluated and either endorsed or rejected by the majority voting. We will need 26 votes to overturn the Mayor's veto. In case the Mayor's veto is overturned, this law will
represent the
liberation of animals from laboratories in the city of Rio de Janeiro, and this will set a national and international precedent to end the systematic and continuous torture of millions of animals worldwide. This is urgent. The voting may happen anytime this week,
possibly on
Thursday, June 1st. (ed: Voting is now scheduled for August) Claudio Cavalcanti, City Counselor, May 25,
2006
BULGARIA
SOFIA,PETS ARE TO BE KILLED
The mayor and the Environment Commission intend to ban keeping
more than two pets in flats, private property of Sofioters.
Accompanied by police wardens the Municipality will confiscate animals above two in number and will put them in the killing station for stray dogs in village of Seslavtsi nearby Sofia. For fifteen years Sofia has witnessed overpopulation of stray dogs, and for the last three or four years the numbers of stray cats has grown significantly. Between 1999 and 2006 the Municipality has slaughtered over 140,000 dogs by statistical numbers. Sofia residents neuter stray animals either paying from their own pockets or using the free service of a Germany-sponsored neutering facility, as a result of which there are more than 10,000 treated stray animals. The majority of them have been adopted by people who try to help resolve the issue of stray dogs. Sofia Mayor, Boyko Borisov in his electoral campaign definitely opposed the slaughter of stray animals and made an appeal for neutering and housing these animals. In flat contradiction to those appeals NOW, SIX MONTHS LATER, the Municipality, represented by the Mayor insists on this preposterous restriction on the number of home pets which will lead to their mass abandoning to the streets of Sofia, for no one will take voluntarily their healthy and well looked-after animal home pet to be killed. This will entail a huge wave of abandoned animals which will drastically increase the number of stray animals. Instead of raising the bar on observing the requirements on humane keeping of animals, as well as applying good international practices on the ratio of living area to pet size, the Municipality is trying to restrict the right of the tax-payers to keep as many animals as they can afford without disturbing other people. If an owner does not take due care of his, even a single, animal, and disturb his neighbors for this reason, he shall be liable to sanctions provided for. So, the outcome of applying restrictions in the number of home pets will not be an act of concern for the people, but rather an increase of stray animals used as a free resource for illegal production. Please send emails to the Mayor, the City Ombudsman, the Chair
of the Sofia Municipal Council and the Environment Commission at the Sofia
Municipal Council to relinquish this monstrous idea at the following contacts:
b.borisov@sofia.bg, ombudsman@sofia.bg, vkisiov@sofia.bg, estambolova@sofia.bg
DEAR GENERAL BORISOV,
DEAR MR. STEFANOV, DEAR MR. KISYOV, DEAR MADAM NELI MANOVA (SSD) AND GENTLEMENS: EVTIM EVTIMOV (BSP), NIKOLAJ ZhELEV (SDS), PETYR KOLEV (BSP), LIuBOMIR STOIChKOV (BSP), HRISTO KOZhUHAROV (DSB), STEFAN ASENOV (SSD), BORISLAV ALEKSIEV (SDS), ATANAS TASEV (NDSV), Please do not deprive Bulgarian citizens of their right to keep pets in their own homes! Do not provoke hostilities between pet owners and their neighbors! Introduce the requisite control to protect people and animals, but do not coerce thousands of conscientious owners of more than two animals to abandon their four-legged companions to the street or, worse, to kill them. Do not cut down campaigns for adoption of stray dogs, to which we owe a second chance! Do not bereave them from this chance! Do not allow such impetuous and ill-considered ideas to make the Regulation on acquisition, keeping and breeding pets on the territory of Sofia a preposterous and inapplicable document! Respectfully yours Name/Country/Email FRANCE
Protest against the return of bullfights to Vieux
Boucau
Source: International Movement Against Bullfights
For the last 17 years the village of Vieux Boucau did not held bullfights.
Bullfights are scheduled for the 31st of July and 21st August.
Please send protest emails to the Tourism.
(Sample letter in French and English below).
Tourism 11, promenade du mail 40480 Vieux Boucau - Port d'Albret Messieurs,
J'apprends avec tristesse que votre commune est
le siège de corridas.
La corrida est un spectacle qui consiste à
torturer méthodiquement à mort des animaux. Entre la pique, les banderilles,
l'épée, et la dague, le taureau reçoit, pendant une vingtaine de minutes,
jusqu'à 1,50 mètre d'armes blanches dans le corps. Epuisé par les hémorragies
internes et externes, les poumons remplis de sang, le taureau finit par agoniser
en le vomissant mais il n'est pas toujours cliniquement mort lorsqu'on lui coupe
l'oreille ou la queue en guise de trophée. La torture est répétée à la suite sur
six taureaux. Les chevaux, même s'ils ne sont pas toujours tués durant le
spectacle, souffrent également beaucoup. Quel que soit l'art avec lequel on peut
pratiquer la torture, celle-ci ne peut pas être acceptée à notre
époque.
Dans le cas où vous ignoreriez encore la
barbarie de la corrida, vous pouvez consulter quelques images aux pages
suivantes :
et un petit film à la page :
Des agences de voyages comme MacDonald Tours,
Martin Travel et Thomas Cook Tours Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, boycottent les
régions taurines françaises à cause de la cruauté des spectacles qui y ont lieu,
qui choquent les visiteurs. Les corridas de votre commune nuisent donc non
seulement au tourisme dans votre propre localité, mais aussi au tourisme dans
toute votre région.
Pour ma part, je n'irai pas dans votre commune
tant que des corridas y seront organisées.
Je vous prie d'agréer mes meilleures
salutations.
Name/Country
__________________ Dear Sirs
I was saddened to learn that your commune hosts
bullfights.
A bullfight is a show in which animals are
methodically tortured to death.
For an agonizing twenty minutes, bulls are impaled with up to 1.50 meter bladed weapons including goads, banderillas, swords, and daggers. Exhausted by internal and external bleeding, lungs filled with blood, the bulls die slowly, vomiting blood, but are not always clinically dead when their ear or tail is cut off as a trophy. This torture is repeated on a series of six bulls. The horses also undergo acute suffering, although they are not always killed during the show. Regardless of the art behind this torture, it is not acceptable today. If you are unaware of the barbarity of
bullfights, please take a look at the photos on the following
pages:
Or view a short film on this page:
Travel agencies like MacDonald Tours, Martin
Travel, and Thomas Cook Tours Thunder Bay in Ontario, Canada, are boycotting
bullfight areas in France due to the cruelty of these shows, which shock
visitors. The bullfights in your commune therefore undermine tourism not only
locally, but also throughout your entire region.
I will not be visiting your commune as long as
it hosts bullfights.
Respectfully,
Name/Country
NETHERLANDS
Student travel body publicises bullfights
Source: ICABS
ICABS was dismayed to discover that an international student travel body is
providing details about bullfighting on its website.
Students visiting the International Student Travel Confederation (ISTC)
website are presented with details about bullfight times, dates and even contact
details for bullring venues.
The following are just some of the many bullfight references which appear
on the website...
Beziers Bullfighting Festival, France
(http://www.istc.org/sisp/index.htm?fx=event&event_id=15169) "One of the more exciting Spanish imports is the annual bullfighting festival every August. Every year...bulls are challenged by matadors from both France and Spain during five days of evening bullfights." Saint-Vincent Celebrations
(http://www.istc.org/sisp/index.htm?fx=event&event_id=15167) "Other highlights include bullfights in the new local arenas and firework displays." Easter Feria (Bullfights)
(http://www.istc.org/sisp/index.htm?fx=event&event_id=103690) "The Easter Feria in the Arena opens the bullfighting season in Arles and attracts 500,000 visitors, of which 60,000 buy seats for the fights." Nimes Pentecost Festival
(http://www.istc.org/sisp/index.htm?fx=event&event_id=69023) "The corridas (bull fights) and fiestas in Nimes are renowned throughout the country and even in Spain. The city holds numerous bullfights and bull runs during the spectacular Pentecost festival to get visitors' pulses racing." Toulouse Fenouillet Feria
(http://www.istc.org/sisp/index.htm?fx=event&event_id=103890) "Fenouillet...hosts five days of bullfighting in a portable arena that can accommodate more than 9000 fans. The Feria enables spectators to admire the skills of the most famous Torreros" Action Item
Please contact the ISTC and appeal to them to stop publishing information
about bullfighting on their website. Tell them that by suggesting a visit to a
bullfight as a holiday activity, they are helping to keep the blood sport
alive.
Joop van Putten, Chairman
International Student Travel Confederation Keizersgracht 174-176 1016 DW Amsterdam The Netherlands Sample Letter
(Please compose your own personal letter if possible. If you do not have time to do this, please send the short sample letter below. Be assertive, but polite, in all correspondence. Thank you.) Dear Mr van Putten,
I wish to register a complaint about the presence of numerous bullfighting
references on the ISTC website. I appeal to you and the ISTC to please stop
publicising this cruel blood sport on your site.
By presenting specific information about bullfighting locations, dates,
times and even contact details for bullring venues, I believe that your
organisation is helping to keep this internationally condemned activity
alive.
I hope that you can consider this appeal and I look forward to visiting a
bullfight-free ISTC website in the future.
Thank you.
Yours sincerely,
Name/Country
REPUBLIC OF IRELAND
TD(Member of Irish Parliament) compares bullfighting to GAA
sports
Source: ICABS
A member of the Irish parliament has made a bizarre comparison between one
of the world's most abhorrent blood sports and genuine sporting pursuits like
football and hurling.
Cecilia Keaveney, TD stated: "Research from Jordanstown university reveals
that with the GAA (Gaelic football, hurling, etc) being a family-friendly sport,
drug-free and amateur, it could be the greatest catalyst to attract tourists to
Ireland, equivalent to the phenomenon of bullfighting in Spain or that of sumo
wrestling in Japan in that it is unique."
The Fianna Fail TD for Donegal North East made the comments during a
meeting of the Joint Committee on Arts, Sport, Tourism, Community, Rural and
Gaeltacht Affairs last September. They only recently came to our
attention. ICABS has written to Deputy Keaveney to complain about the comparison.
"GAA sports participants and Japan's sumo wrestlers would, we suspect, object to being compared to those who torture and kill animals for entertainment," we stated. Also pointed out was the fact that most Spaniards are now opposed to
bullfighting and don't want bullfighting to be representative of their
country.
In response, Deputy Keaveney wrote: "Bull fighting is synonymous with Spain
whether we like it or not. It is (and I have Spanish in-laws) factual."
Asked if she was opposed to bullfighting, she remarked: "I am not aware
that bull fighting has been an issue in Donegal North East either recently or in
past memory."
Action Item
Please write to Cecilia Keaveney, TD and ask her to clarify her views on
bullfighting. Ask her to condemn the activity instead of comparing it to
sports.
Cecilia Keaveney
"Loreto" Moville Co Donegal Ireland Email: cecilia_keaveney@oireachtas.ie
Tel: 074 938 2177. Fax: 074 938 2832. SPAIN
TORO DE LA VEGA, "Rompesueños" WILL BE TORTURED TO DEATH ON
THE 12TH OF SEPTEMBER
Source: International Movement Against Bullfights
Every year in September in Tordesillas, a bull
is tortured and murdered in a spectacle called "Toro de la Vega". Hundreds of
men run with medieval spears after a bull, sticking them into his body until his
death.
This year in the 12th of September 'Rompesueños'
will be speared to death. Please send the postcard below (for those
who receive this Magazine in simple text, you can copy the postcard from our
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Petition against vivisection in Rio - Brazil
http://www.petitiononline.com/antiexpe/petition.html Great British Circus- Britain's Biggest Animal
Abusers
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/417982770?ltl=1154030699 Halt plans for a dolphin exhibit in Cleveland! - http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/229095703
On-line Petition for the seals of Namibia
http://www.harpseals.org/helpstop/protest_new/namibia_email.php Inquiry into medical animal testing in the UK
http://www.gopetition.com/online/9117.html End Animal Cruelty at Japanese Bear Parks!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/455773738?ltl=1154032503 "Stop the Monster Shark Tournament"
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/oak_bluffs_shark_contest_06_2?rk=i7zZbe9 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.
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