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Speak Out For Dogs And Cats In Korea

The International Day of Action for Dogs and Cats in Korea is July 14. In Defense of Animals (IDA) will again be co-sponsoring this worldwide event to stop the terrible suffering these animals endure. IDA continues to work with the South Korean animal protection organization Coexistence for Animal Rights on Earth (CARE) to end the brutal slaughter of dogs and cats for human consumption. Forced to live in tiny, filthy cages and killed in unimaginably cruel ways, they deserve a voice. Will you raise your voice for them?

Killing Sea Lions In Oregon

From Matt Love's May 23 Oregonian column: "On March 12, an employee of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife took charge in administering a lethal dose of sodium pentobarbital to a California sea lion because the sea lion allegedly ate too much hatchery-raised salmon at Bonneville Dam.

The sea lion had no name, although he did have a designation: C265. He was the first to die but not the last. As of this writing, the state of Oregon has killed seven sea lions and has permission from the federal government to kill up to 60 or so more." Read the rest of this great column here.

Will Glow-in-the-dark Marmoset Monkeys Improve Your Life?

Genetic experiments in nonhuman animals - glow-in-the-dark marmoset monkeys, mice bred with a human speech gene - are all over the news and represent a huge step backwards, both scientifically and ethically. The implications of this research are frightening: designer babies, human-animal hybrids, tremendous animal suffering.