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Magazine edited and published by Maria Lopes Dear Friends, This issue of the Magazine was sent to everybody on the 27th of September but apparently for some unknown reason many, if not the majority, of our readers didn't receive it. Our apologies to those of you who consequently received it twice.Thanks to all of you who, month after month, continue to send protest letters. This month, believe it or not, we were actually
struggling to find enough campaigns to put in the Magazine. If you have been on
our mailing list for some time, you will know that we always try to include a
sample protest e-mail along with e-mail addresses to send it to. For the Animals Maria Lopes
"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." Albert Einstein (Nobel Prize) AUSTRALIA SHEEP ON THE "SHIP OF DEATH" Source:Barbara I. Biel and http://www.animalsaustralia.org/ For the sixth week about 57,000 Australian sheep remain on-board the MV Cormo Express in the Middle East after being rejected by Saudi authorities. At least 4000 sheep have already perished in temperatures up to 45 degrees Celsius. News articles: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030912/sc_afp/australia_saudi_sheep_030912040659 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20030918/wl_asia_afp/australia_sheep_030918020550 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20030915/od_nm/food_australia_sheep_dc_1 Send protest letters to: Politicians Hon. John Howard, Prime Minister GPO Box 59, Sydney, NSW 2001 Fax No. (02) 9251 5454 Email via: http://www.pm.gov.au/email.cfm Hon. Warren Truss MP, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry Postal: PO Box 283, Maryborough, Queensland 4650 Fax: (02) 6273 4120 E Mail: w.truss.mp@aph.gov.au Live Export Industry Representatives Mr Peter Frawley, Chairman, Livecorp Postal: GPO Box 3466, Sydney 1043 Fax: 02 9953 9303 E Mail: peter@frawley.com Mr Stephen Meerwald Livecorp Director Wellard Rural Export Pty Ltd Postal: P.O. Box 796, Fremantle, WA 6160 Fax: 08 9335 2388 E Mail: stevem@wre.com.au Mr Ian McIvor Executive Director Australian Livestock Exporters Council (and Livecorp Director) Postal: P.O. Box 1034, Orange, NSW 2800 Fax: 02 6361 9986 E Mail: ianmci@netwit.net.au Major Export Companies Mr Peter Dunstar National Livestock Manager Wesfarmers Landmark Postal: 123 Boundary Road Rocklea QLD 4106 Ph: 07 3842 7733 E-mail: peter.dunstar@wesfarmerslandmark.com.au Mr Gary Tapscott Live Export Coordinator Elders Postal: 27 Currie Street Adelaide SA 5000 Ph: 0408 304 004 E-mail: gtapscott@elders.com.au Farmer Representatives Mr Scott Hansen Executive Director Sheepmeat Council of Australia Postal: P.O. Box E10, Kingston 2604 Fax: (02) 6273 4479 EMail: shansen@sheepmeatcouncil.com.au SAMPLE LETTER Paste to: http://www.pm.gov.au/email.cfm Email to: w.truss.mp@aph.gov.au Cc: peter@frawley.com ,stevem@wre.com.au, ianmci@netwit.net.au , peter.dunstar@wesfarmerslandmark.com.au,gtapscott@elders.com.au , shansen@sheepmeatcouncil.com.au Hon. John Howard, Prime Minister and Hon. Warren Truss MP, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries & Forestry Please accept this letter as a petition against the Australian trade in live animals. I was horrified to learn that, for the sixth week over 57,000 Australian sheep remain on-board the MV Cormo Express in the Middle East after being rejected by Saudi authorities. At least 4,000 sheep have already perished in temperatures up to 45 degrees Celsius. Australia exports a million live cattle and 6 million live sheep to the Middle East and S E Asia each year. In 2002, 73,000 sheep and 17,000 cattle died on-board. All faced ritual slaughter without pre-stunning, conditions not tolerated in Australia. I urge you to do all that is in your power to bring the suffering of the 57,000 sheep to a quick end. I urge you to ban the trade in live animals. Until then, I will boycott Australian tourism and goods. Australia's treatment of animals in unacceptable in a civilized world! Sincerely, Name/Country Cc: Mr Peter Frawley, Chairman, Livecorp Mr Stephen Meerwald, Livecorp Director Wellard Rural Export Pty Ltd Mr Ian McIvor, Executive Director Australian Livestock Exporters Council Mr Peter Dunstar, National Livestock Manager, Wesfarmers Landmark Mr Gary Tapscott, Live Export Coordinator, Elders Mr Scott Hansen , Executive Director, Sheepmeat Council of Australia GREAT BRITAIN STOP PRIMATE LAB AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY Source: Penzelda Vice Chancellor, The Vice Chancellors Office The Old Schools, Trinity Lane Cambridge, CB2 1TN ph: 01223 332290 & 332291; fax: 01223 339669 email: v-c@admin@cam.ac.uk Vice Chancellor The Vice Chancellors Office The Old Schools, Trinity Lane Cambridge, CB2 1TN ph: 01223 332290 & 332291; fax: 01223 339669 email: v-c@admin@cam.ac.uk Principle Administration Officers The Old Schools, Trinity Lane Cambridge, CB2 1TN David A. Livesey, Secretary General of the Faculties ph: 01223 332307; fax: 01223 332332 emails: secretary.general@admin.cam.ac.uk, dal1@cam.ac.uk
Sincerely,
GREECE HUNTING ? NO THANKS Source: Argos On the 13th of September the OIKO magazine (printed by Kathimerini, one of the most popular Greek newspapers) had an extended (8 pages) article against hunting. The magazine's cover page was also an anti-hunting message (attached, it says "Hunting? No, thanks!"). It is the first time a big Greek newspaper spends so many pages on the anti-hunting issue, the hunters all over Greece are very angry, threatening everybody and claiming such articles should not be published! We believe we must show the magazine and their sponsor (Pireaus Bank) that we are on their side.
IRISH REPUBLIC STOP THE BADGER SLAUGHTER Source: ICABS ICABS has produced a “Stop the Badger Snaring Slaughter” postcard aimed at Minister Joe Walsh who continues to defend his Department’s dubious TB-Eradication Scheme. The scheme has already left tens of thousands of badgers dead and this massacre looks set to continue. Please print out the ICABS postcard at www.banbloodsports.com/postcard.pdf and send it to Minister Walsh. (If you prefer, we can post you out copies of the postcard). Alternatively, write a letter to the Minister and demand an end to the snaring of badgers.
JAPAN PROTEST AGAINST THE CONSTRUCTION OF A DOLPHIN HEALING CENTER Source: www.cetaceadefence.org In Sanuki city, Kagawa prefecture, about 500 km southwest from Tokyo,Japan, a plan to build a big Dolphin Healing Center is progressing. It already experimentally started with two dolphins from the Taiji drive fisheries a few years ago. A number of scientists have shown interest in it and started to support the plan. A citizen- organization(NGO) already started sign-on campaigns to promote this plan. 1)Sanuki-city keeps three bottlenose dolphins in the sea pen at present. This plan started by Tsudamachi (name of a town) with two dolphins from the drive fisheries in Taiji. In January, this year, they brought in additional three Taiji dolphins, but one of them died in February, and another female died on August 21, this year. 2)The coastal sea area where the sea-pen for dolphins was constructed is well known as the place hottest in summer and coldest in winter, and, accordingly, the temperature of the sea water extremely rises up in summer, and goes down in winter. The place of the sea pen is next to the reclaimed land, and often occurs a red tide. The degree of the transparecy of the water is very low. 3)As mentioned at 2), the environment of the sea pen is very bad, but the city/people concerned mentioned that this was an experiment whether dolphins can survive in this environment or not. 4)As I mentioned at 1), dolphins they keep are from Taiji. If the plan is promoted, they continue to supply dolphins caught by drive fisheries in Taiji. 5)It seems that the city itself is not so enthusiastic about this project. And I heard that GAIATSU, the external pressure, would be very effective to stop the project just like in Futo, where the drive fishery has been suspended for three years and dolphin watching started last year. We think that if we could send many protest letters against the facilities, or request letters to stop this project, we might be able to make a complete halt of this project. 6)The city assembly will be opened around September 10, and this issue will be discussed and the budget for the new fiscal year for this plan will be decided. (It is needed to make them not to admit this budget, first.) 5)A group named "Tsuda Dolphin Tomo no Kai"(Friends of Dolphins in Tsuda) already collected about 10,000 signatures to request to promote the plan of this Dolphin Healing Center. This group is going to submit them to the mayor of Sanuki-city around September 10 in time for the city assembly. With respect to this issue, the external pressure is very important. If we could send many letters, faxes or e-mails to the place, we might be able to stop this project, which will give significant influence on the future construction of this kind in Japan. Mayor of Sanuki city, Mr Shinya Akazawa 5385-8, Shido, Sanuki-shi,Kagawa-ken, 769-2195 JapanFax:+81-87-894-4440 E-mail: hisyo@m.sanuki.ne.jp Dear Sir I have recently learnt of the proposal in your city to build a 'dolphin healing centre'. The dolphins which will be kept there will come from the drive fishery industry (where dolphins are brutally herded by boats and nets, most being killed and processed into meat and a few kept alive to be sold into captivity). The dolphins currently held at Sanuki city as an experiment in this business scheme (also called' healing centre'), all originate from dolphin drives. There are many reasons to reject the plans for a dolphin captive 'healing centre'. The most important is the consideration that there is a growing international awareness and consciousness ( which is also growing in Japan ) to protect dolphins. People rightly believe our species should leave them in the wild and we should visit them only on their terms. We should not abuse them by capture and distort their psychology and physiology. Dolphins have existed in the eco-system and roamed free for millions of years, long before man evolved from the trees and caves and chose to dominate rather than have dominion. As the top predator in the seas, dolphins have only relatively recently learnt to fear the violence and greed of man. In ancient Greece dolphins were revered and protected. It was punishable in Greek society by death to kill one. In the UK dolphins are protected IN LAW from capture, killing AND by deliberate harassment from people and boats! At Futo in Japan there is a former dolphin killer (Izumi Ishii) who is leading people in boat trips to see dolphins in their natural habitat. That MUST be the way of the future in Japan and elsewhere. Please consider this fact when you decide on a dolphin 'healing centre'. Please reject it. It is with regret that I have to inform you that in the UK and elsewhere the Japanese nation is held in very low esteem for the killing of whales and dolphins. Please show the world that attitudes to dolphins and whales are changing in Japan. Dolphins face many threats to their future survival, namely capture for dolphinariums and 'healing centres', being killed in drives and entangled in fishing nets. The very oceans they must live in are a lethal cocktail of man- made- industrialised contaminants. One Japanese man, Izumi Ishii, showed it is possible to change from a dolphin killer to a dolphin conservationist. The world asks the question, can the nation of Japan? Yours sincerely, Name/Country PORTUGAL UPDATE - BULLFIGHT IN THE AREA OF EXPO 98/LISBON Source: INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT AGAINST BULFIGHTS We thank all for the thousands of protest letters received against this bullfight. Unfortunately it took place. Outrageously the Portuguese President of Republic, sent a letter to one of the bullfighters paying him compliments as an embassador of Portugal in other countries. Yes, an embassador of torture. We must continue to fight for the end of bullfights even if in this big war we loose some battles. U.S.A STOP THE PRODUCTION OF PREMARIN Source: Mary Alice "Moonflower" Please copy and past - remember to add your name and address to the bottom and then please send it back to:tracs@shaw.ca with ENDORSEMENT in the subject line: In solidarity with the Women's Health and Ethics Coalition, we the undersigned oppose the manufacture and exportation of Premarin® PremPro® andPremPhase® and call for a stop to the production of the Premarinfamily of drug products.We ask the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the American MedicalAssociation, the Ministry of Health(Canada), and the Canadian MedicalAssociation to take the initiative in ending 60 years of misinformation andcorporate profiteering that has proven damaging to women, animals, and theenvironment. We demand that our governmental regulatory agencies begranted the resources they require in order to protect the public from the effects of shrewd marketing techniques by drug companies, and that themedical community be provided with factual, scientific information regardingpharmaceutical products. It is imperativethat this information iscollected from unbiased sources that have no significant financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry.Our specific concerns are detailed below.WOMEN'S HEALTHWyeth, a global pharmaceutical company, has marketed Premarin since 1942 asa treatment for certain effects of menopause. In 2002, the United StatesNational Institutes of Health (NIH) halted a study on theHormone-Replacement Therapy (HRT) drug Prempro due to an increased incidenceof life-threatening diseases among participating women. Yet Wyeth continuesto market the drug even though it is linked to health hazards such as breastcancer, heart disease, blood clots, strokes, ovarian cancer, and dementia.While sales have dropped in North America, Wyeth is marketing the Premarinbrands Premelle and Premelle Cycle in India, China and other nations whereuninformed consumers can easily be misled by professional advertisingstrategies. Since both these drugs include a combination of Premarin (equineestrogen) and progestin (synthetic progesterone), the health of women in these countries is at risk.Six decades of misinforming women and their doctors is enough. The worldwidemarketing of all Premarin-based drugs must stop.ANIMAL WELFAREAs its name implies, Premarin is made from Pregnant Mares' Urine. In order to collect the urine, 35,000 to 40,000 mares are kept pregnant year afteryear, tied in stalls for six months at a time, connected to urine-collecting devices. During this time they can take a step forward or backward, or side to side, but they cannot turn around, scratch an itch on their rump, or roll in the dirt. Unable to lie flat out, they cannot enter into a deep sleep.Such cramped confinement often leads to stress, disease and lameness. This unnatural existence goes on all winter as the immobilized mares become heavy with foal.The foals born to the mares in spring are sent to auction in early fall. Thevast majority of them are loaded into cattle carriers for the trip to meat packers' feed lots. Some are purchased by equine rescue groups or byperformance horse buyers and a few might stay back at the farm to replenish the stock. But the majority, before they reach their first birthday, end up as dinner on the plates of the Japanese, Belgians, French, Italians,Germans, Dutch and Swiss, a protein source considered all the more valuable in light of recent cullings of European livestock due to the spread of Mad Cow and foot-and-mouth disease.Six decades of exploitation of the mares and their foals is enough. The production of Premarin must stop.THE ENVIRONMENTEffluent from a Wyeth processing plant flows into a sewage-lagoon system in Brandon, Manitoba -- where Wyeth produces most of its Premarin -- raising concerns about pollutants entering the Assiniboine River near that city.Six decades of pollution is enough. Wyeth must stop polluting the waters and land where the urine is processedand clean up the environmental damage that has been done.CORPORATE PROFITEERINGWyeth has worked hard to ensure that women suffering from the symptoms of menopause start and stay on a regimen of HRT drugs. The company has poured millions of dollars into advertising and has hired the world's largest public relations firm, Burson-Marsteler. Over the years, they have financed thousands of studies, but most of these studies, until the recent NIH study, were observational, which by definition are weak and biased.Every year that Premarin-brand drugs remain on the market, Wyeth makes about $1 billion. Today the Premarin family of drugs is patented under more than 30 brand names and marketed in approximately 60 countries worldwide.Wyeth's vigorous promotion of HRT for 60 years, using questionable science to back up many of their claims, is unjustifiable and demands accountability. Clearly the need for these drugs has not created profit butinstead profit has created the need. Menopause is not a disease.
PETITIONS End Live Animal Exports from Australia http://www.gopetition.com/info.php?petid=2588 Say "No" to live exports (Horses) www.ilph.org/petitions.asp https://secure.ilph.org/petitionform.asp?ID=1&em= CLICK HERE FOR THE AUGUST 2003 ISSUE CLICK HERE FOR THE JULY 2003 ISSUE CLICK HERE FOR THE JUNE 2003 ISSUE 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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