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CC: db@dyrenes-beskyttelse.dk, jv@anima.dk Subject : Immediate ban on Denmark's fur industry
Dear...
I am writing today with an urgent request to implement an immediate ban on Denmark's fur production. Fur production is an inherently vicious and cruel industry, subjecting animals to some of the most exploitative, painful, and agonizing conditions. As has been established by the fur farm documentary "Operation X", animals perpetually suffer from painful diseases and neglect; as a final obscenity, they are killed in reprehensible manners including gassing, anal electrocution, and skinning alive, selected to maintain pelt quality. Furthermore, it is important to recognize that any adopted welfare protocols are extraordinarily inadequate, and, as has been demonstrated, are too often ignored due to their cost-prohibitive nature as defined by fur farm owners.
Although corporations employ glossy portraits and energetic runway demonstrations meant to cultivate appeals to vanity or luxury, their actions can no longer be dismissed as justifiable financial strategies. In fact, an ever-growing collective of people are taking a stand against the international fur industry, and contrary to the illusions the fur industry perpetrates, its tools include documented footage, such as indicated above, and photographic proof, evidence that cannot be disregarded.
It is difficult to contemplate supporting any country, via tourism or commerce, that excuses such blatant animal cruelty; financial gain at the expense of empathy towards sentient beings bears no justification: indeed, our shared histories have witnessed significant inequities and judicial sacrifices in the name of profit and greed that today are considered gross offenses. An increasing number of countries are therefore listening to a concerned and attentive population that refuses to be complicit in the inherently malicious industry of fur farming and are taking progressive steps to ban such an uncivilized practice; countries such as Ireland, Italy, and France are all actively engaged in the discontinuation of fur farming.
I hope this letter finds you willing to scrutinize your owninvolvement in the exploitation of animals and your desire to therefore protect, rather than harm, them. Please make the ethical decision to support an immediate ban on Denmark's fur industry.
Sincerely, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject : The rejection of kangaroo meat imports
I am writing to encourage you to continue to reject kangaroo meat imports. Since there is no way that kangaroos can ever be farmed, they will always be exposed to dust, dirt and bacteria as they are shot in the dusty outback at night and, being game meat, many carry exotic diseases. Parasites are rife in kangaroos including nematodes. Some parasites eat muscles and organs. There is no way kangaroo meat can ever be 'clean' meat, no matter what changes the kangaroo industry makes to the way they process the carcases.
Of course Australian kangaroo industry representatives will try to convince you otherwise because it is their agenda to make a profit. These are the people who for decades sold you contaminated meat while saying it was clean. Do you really trust them?
Please read the information collected from government data on how kangaroos are being driven to extinction by this very industry at http://www.stopkangarookilling.org . Does Russia really want to be a major cause of our national icon becoming extinct? With a simple 'No Thanks' to the kangaroo industry, you can do massive good not only for our kangaroos but for the health of your people.
See http://www.nokangaroomeat.org to learn what is wrong with kangaroo meat. I sincerely hope you will study it carefully.
Thanking you,
--------------------------- Subject : Against the presence of fur trims and fur jackets in the collections of Max Mara and the other brands of your company
I send this message to show my support for the campaign against the presence of fur trims and fur jackets in the collections of Max Mara and the other brands of your company.
As you may be aware every year dozens of millions animals are raised in small cages and awful conditions to be skinned and transform their pelts into trims, hats or jackets sold in shops and collections like yours.
There is a growing number of companies and designers refusing to use real fur and i think the same decision is a choice that also Max Mara Fashion Group should consider, to create a fashion free of this appalling cruelty.
Until I will see this ethical decision I will take part in the boycott of all your brands products and shops and will invite all the people i know to do the same.
This weekend is the start of the traditional hunting season - a time when hunts could chase foxes, dig them out of holes and then set dogs on them, allowing them to be ripped apart. For ‘fun’.
The Hunting Act made that activity illegal, but it didn’t eradicate it. But nor did the Theft Act eradicate burglary. We knew that there would be a hard core of hunters who’d stick two fingers up to the law and carry on regardless. And sadly, this hard core has high profile political support.
Some politicians want to bring back hunting, and the Conservative leader David Cameron has promised a free vote on the issue if his party wins the next General Election. The Liberal Democrats have said that the issue “isn’t on the agenda” and Labour have pledged to enforce the Hunting Act.
We need you to contact the candidates in your area to find out if they support the Hunting Act, or want to see it repealed.
Opinion polling we published at the beginning of October shows that public support for the Hunting Act is actually increasing. Three quarters of the public support the ban on fox hunting, 84% support the ban on stag hunting, and 85% on hare hunting and hare coursing. Well over 70% of people in rural communities support the ban. And a majority of supporters of all three main political parties support the ban.
Please protest against the inclusion of bullfights in the Festival International Cervantino
Source: Protest letter Animanaturalis
Mexican Animal Rights Activists Protest Bullfighting
MEXICO CITY – Members of the Anima Naturalis animal rights group staged a protest in Guanajuato, a city in central Mexico, against the inclusion of bullfights for the first time in the Festival Internacional Cervantino, the country’s largest cultural event.
A member of the organization, with “banderillas” attached to his body and covered in fake blood – simulating the condition of a bull during the course of a bullfight – protested on the Plaza de la Paz, in central Guanajuato, the city where the festival is celebrated every year.
Afterwards, the demonstrators moved to the portable El Pilar bullring set up on a local baseball field.
Anima Naturalis Mexico director Leonora Esquivel said that the organization will send letters to the governor of Guanajuato and festival organizers to demand that they omit the program of bullfights from the agenda at the next celebration.
“People in Guanajuato are ashamed that for the first time these shows are being included in a festival that was purely cultural,” Esquivel said.
The civil organization said in a communique that bullfighting is “common to societies that are ethically and morally backward” and a “sadistic” spectacle.
The bulls are treated without “the minimum moral consideration for living beings” and the bullrings are “centers of institutionalized torture,” Anima Naturalis said.
The 37th edition of the festival, which is one of the most important cultural events in the Americas, runs from Oct. 14 to Nov. 1, with the Canadian province of Quebec as this year’s specially invited guest.
The festival is rooted in a performance tradition that goes back to 1954, when the University of Guanajuato first produced the “entremeses,” or farcical works, of “Don Quixote” creator Miguel de Cervantes.
Autoridades y servicios culturales, Ciudad de Guanajuato
Presente:
A través de la presente les externo mi total rechazo respecto a la inclusión dentro del programa del festival Cervantino de una tradición por demás retrógrada y bárbara: la tauromaquia. Esto se ha delatado a partir de que prepararan, para los días 24 de Octubre y 7 de Noviembre del año en curso, una penosa agenda taurina que incluye dos corridas goyescas.
Resulta decepcionante para la ciudadanía que ustedes, lejos de promover actividades culturales, artísticas y de convivencia social, mismas que no fomenten la violencia, la tortura y el abuso sobre otros seres, opten por apoyar una práctica senil que tristemente será observada lo mismo por adultos que por menores de edad, quienes regresarán a casa con el mensaje de que matar animales para beneplácito de una minoría, es correcto.
Con toda certeza les puedo asegurar que este tipo de eventos no beneficiarán la imagen del festival a nivel nacional e internacional. Al menos el 70% de los mexicanos es indiferente a la tauromaquia (Parametría: Encuesta nacional de vivienda 2007) y ésta sólo es legal en ocho países, pero está prohibida en otros tantos donde la ética humana ha evolucionado y sus sociedades entienden que la violencia ejercida contra los animales puede ser fácilmente traspolada hacia seres humanos.
Me uno firmemente al boicot social contra esta serie de eventos taurinos que ustedes han autorizado, y he resuelto no visitar el festival en tanto sus organizadores y autoridades competentes busquen atraer al turismo recurriendo al fomento de tradiciones crueles, propias de una sociedad con enorme rezago ético y cultural.
In 2004, Hurricane Wilma ravaged Cancun, Mexico hotels and shops, including Pepe's Restaurant. When restaurant owner Gil Jose Juarez (Pepe) fled, he left his exotic wild cats trapped in the rubble.
Pepe lacked resources to rebuild and tend to the animals he'd once showcased for diners. But rather than secure humane sanctuary for them, he let the animals escape, die or rot in concrete and steel enclosures.
I respectfully ask you to release Pepe's remaining tigers to The Wild Animal Sanctuary (TWAS) -- a longstanding refuge for captive lions, tigers, bears, and wolves that rehabilitates wild animals so they may live naturally on 320 acres of Colorado grasslands.
I understand TWAS, in partnership with Mexican animal welfare group Gente Por La Defensa Animal and California-based Last Chance For Animals, had initiated a relocation plan after Mexican wildlife agency PROFEPA rescinded Juarez's wildlife permits.
But the rescue mission never happened. Instead, PROFEPA wants to truck the tigers cross-country to temporary holding facilities near Mexico City until any legal actions are resolved. These already abused tigers do not need a road trip that could lead to more ill health or trauma. Moreover, they could languish in cages for months, or even years, during legal dealings.
One female tiger reportedly cannot walk without lugging her limp rear legs.The animals have subsisted on contaminated water and food scraps inside 12-foot cages layered in their own feces. They've been denied veterinary treatment. Yet despite negotiations that began in 2008, Mexican authorities still will not okay their transfer to TWAS.
Don't let animal suffering mar the image of Cancun as a famously beautiful resort destination. I hope you'll make the compassionate and reasonable decision to let these tigers live in natural habitats, with proper nutrition and veterinary care, at The Wild Animal Sanctuary.