With the help of producers John Feldmann (lead singer of Goldfinger and famed music producer), Jennifer Lee Pryor (widow of the infamous Richard Pryor and amazing activist) along with Gene Blalock and The Faded,  and title theme by Duran Duran, this film will shatter the fashion industry!

video - trailer on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQHx8NQ2bKU, original web page: http://www.skintradethemovie.com/ 

  After learning about the film through the trailer and website, more celebrities have contributed their time and voices to this film! James Cromwell, star of "Spiderman 3," "Babe," and "Six feet Under," Rikki Rockett, drummer for Poison, Todd Oldham, infamous fashion deisgner, Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com, and Ashley Paige, world-renowned fashion designer, just to name a few!

  BUT we still need YOUR help! This film is being made through contributions to our non-profit ARME (www.arme.tv). Without more contributions, it will be difficult to get the film in theatres. Now is the time to really step up and help us get the media we need as well as funding for our MPAA rating so that we can get this into mainstream theatres, which is where it needs to be! Imagine..... "Skin Trade" playing at the Arclight, The Mann's, or even the Pacific Theatres! IF THIS CAN'T END THE FUR TRADE, NOTHING WILL! Please send your DONATION today! You get a tax write-off and you are directly helping to stop the fur trade! CLICK HERE TO DONATE.

  We have a new THEATRICAL trailer and new website up to check out. Click below to see the new trailer and go to the website at: www.skintradethemovie.com. Also check out our new youtube channel at: http://www.youtube.com/uncagedfilms and vote/comment on the trailer.

I was not a fan of MJ- but I will remember him in good light.. this song is from his broken heart>

Earth Song, by Michael Jackson
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8muMo0fw_M, http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xetes_michael-jackson-earth-song_animals 

"I remember writing Earth Song when I was in Austria...and I was feeling so
much pain and so much suffering of the plight of the Planet Earth... I think nature is trying so hard to compensate for man's mismanagement of the Earth... This is my chance to pretty much let people hear the voice of the planet. And this is Earth Song."

Earth Song is Jackson's biggest hit in the UK, selling 1,038,821 copies. The single sold over three million copies worldwide.

What about sunrise
What about rain
What about all the things
That you said we were to gain.. .
What about killing fields
Is there a time
What about all the things
That you said was yours and mine...
Did you ever stop to notice
All the blood we've shed before
Did you ever stop to notice
The crying Earth the weeping shores?

What have we done to the world
Look what we've done
What about all the peace
That you pledge your only son...
What about flowering fields
Is there a time
What about all the dreams
That you said was yours and mine...
Did you ever stop to notice
All the children dead from war
Did you ever stop to notice
The crying Earth the weeping shores

I used to dream
I used to glance beyond the stars
Now I don't know where we are
Although I know we've drifted far

Hey, what about yesterday
(What about us)
What about the seas
(What about us)
The heavens are falling down
(What about us)
I can't even breathe
(What about us)
What about the bleeding Earth
(What about us)
Can't we feel its wounds
(What about us)
What about nature's worth
It's our planet's womb
(What about us)

What about animals
We've turned kingdoms to dust
What about elephants
Have we lost their trust
What about crying whales
We're ravaging the seas
What about forest trails
Burnt despite our pleas

What about the holy land
Torn apart by creed
What about the common man
Can't we set him free
What about children dying
Can't you hear them cry
Where did we go wrong
Someone tell me why
What about babies
What about the days
What about all their joy
What about the man
What about the crying man
What about Abraham
What about death again
Do we give a damn
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Following a formal complaint filed by ANIMAL with the Child Protection Services, French-Mexican 11 year old bullfighter Michelito Lagravére was banned from performing at last night´s bullfight at Lisbon´s Campo Pequeno Bullring, in Portugal
 
The “bezerrada” (a bullfight with a calf of 1 to 2 years old, weighing around 250kgs) was scheduled to take place last night, at Lisbon´s Campo Pequeno Bullring, in Portugal, at 11:45 p.m. The so-called “star” of the bullfight was the French-Mexican 11 year old bullfighter Michelito Lagravére, whose participation in a series of bullfights in Portugal over this summer was making headlines and sadly exciting the Portuguese bullfighting lovers.
 
However, Portugal´s Child Protective Services stepped in, following a formal complaint filed by Portuguese animal protection organisation ANIMAL, which has denounced the situation to the Attorney General´s office, to the Authority for the Labour Conditions and to the Child Protective Services of Lisbon. In this complaint, ANIMAL highlighted the dangers for the child that this bullfight with a calve would pose and stressed out how this would infringe the existent labour legislation protecting children from child labour, and particularly protecting children who participate in cultural activities and spectacles from any possible dangers this can pose to them. ANIMAL also pointed out that, under the article 32nd of the UN Convention on the Rights of Children, of which Portugal is a signatory state, it is not lawful for a child to participate in a bullfight.
 
Yesterday, at 17:00, about 7 hours before the bullfight, the Lisbon Center Child Protective Service notified the bullfighting promoters that the participation of Michelito Lagravére in this bullfight was not authorised.
 
As other bullfights with this child-bullfighter are scheduled to take place in Portugal over the next weeks and months during the Summer, ANIMAL is now multiplying its efforts to prevent this from happening at any bullring of the country.
 
Last year, in France, the Attorney General´s office of two towns in the South of France, Fontvielle and Arles, also prohibited the young bullfighter of participating in bullfights in these towns, following complaints filed by the French anti-bullfighting organization Alliance Anti-Corrida.
 
In Portugal, bullfighting is experiencing the strongest opposition ever seen, with ANIMAL securing consecutive victories and gaining terrain in campaigning to abolish bullfighting in this Southern European country.
 
Last year, a Lisbon Court banned RTP, the state-owned TV station, from broadcasting a bullfight before 10:30 p.m. and without displaying a permanent sign indicating it as a violent spectacle, following an injunction brought by ANIMAL. The court has also deemed bullfighting as a cruel and violent spectacle unsuitable for children and susceptible of negatively affecting the moral and psychological development of children and teenagers. Also last year, big international companies, such as Ben & Jerry´s, KODAK, Melka and Carlsberg, ordered their Portuguese branches to step away from any commercial association that they had with bullfighting.
 
This year, following an intensive anti-bullfighting campaigning work carried by ANIMAL, the Mayor of the Northern capital of Viana do Castelo declared this city Portugal´s first anti-bullfighting city. Subsequently, the mayors of Braga, Cascais and Sintra have also took measures to not authorize bullfights in their towns. Through an intensive national and international campaign, ANIMAL also managed to stop the Regional Parliament of the Azores Islands from legalizing bullfights with Spanish-type &ldquoicadors”, which would add up to the extreme violence towards the bulls that Portuguese-type bullfights already involve.
 
For Miguel Moutinho, President of ANIMAL, “the participation of children in bullfights does not only constitute a violation of animal rights – it also constitutes a shocking violation of children´s rights. ANIMAL will do everything possible to have bullfighting banned once and for all and to, in the process of accomplishing that ethical goal, try to prevent children from being desensitized towards the suffering of animals and from being taught to, and praised for, torturing animals, as Michelito sadly does”.
 
ANIMAL can only carry on campaigning to abolish bullfighting and to forward animal protection in Portugal with your support – Please make as generous a donation as you can TODAY to help ANIMAL:
 http://www.animal.org.pt/  :: No More Crimes Without Punishment

Vote brings new law on animal experiments
one step closer
This week, Members of the European Parliament voted to update the 20-year old EU law on animal experiments (Directive 86/609).

The European Commission published a number of forward-thinking proposals, but sustained lobbying by pharmaceutical and other animal research industries has had a devastating impact. While many MEPs did their best to protect animals, it is particularly disappointing that the Parliament as a whole fell short.

The Parliament voted against restricting scientists' freedom to experiment on monkeys, even for experiments with no direct application to improving human health, and against a phase-out of 'F1' generation primates (off-spring of wild-caught primates).

Press releases

EU Parliament vote May 09

Virtual march launched April 09

AGRI Committee vote March 31 09

ITRE Committee vote March 09

EU Environment Committee Feb 09

A great big thank you to every single one of you on our Make Animal Testing History virtual march, it's great to be marching with you! At the time of writing this campaign update we have nearly 20,000 people marching which is a fantastic start. But we need thousands more if we are going to demonstrate to EU policy makers that they need to listen to our calls for humane science. Please do everything you can to promote the virtual march to friends, family, colleagues, blogs, social network pages, your local animal protection group - we need as many people marching as possible.

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Duck story from San Antonio>  see the story in PHOTOS:  http://www.care2.com/c2c/photos/view/151/741632108/Duck_story_from_San_Antonio/

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Italian police are hunting a pack of stray dogs which killed a boy aged 10 and mauled a 24-year-old woman in the Ragusa area of southern Sicily.
They caught about 30 strays after the boy was dragged off his bicycle and killed on Sunday but about 20 dogs are believed still to be running wild.
The priest at the boy's funeral accused society of turning animals into icons.
It is an offence to kill a dog in Italy and the country lacks properly funded pounds in which to collect strays.
Reports suggest the dogs had been neglected and starved by a man entrusted with caring for them. A suspect has been arrested.
Animal rights groups estimate there are up to half a million stray dogs, mainly in the south of the country, many of them abandoned by their owners and left to run wild.
Although local town councils are supposed to round up strays and put them in public kennels, the law is often ignored as public funds are not provided for building dog pounds, the BBC's David Willey reports from Rome.
Health officials in Sicily are to meet on Wednesday to decide how to cope with the killer dog emergency. Deep wounds / / / In the latest attack, the 24-year-old, a German tourist, was seriously injured while walking on a beach near Ragusa on Tuesday. "Her face was particularly disfigured," said Christian Ilardi, a rescue official who was on the helicopter that rushed the woman to Catania.
"Her life is in serious danger due to the wounds, which are very deep."
Local police killed two animals which tried to attack them during the day.
Some 7,000 mourners attended the funeral of Giuseppe Brafa, the boy killed on Sunday.   http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7949181.stM

CARE2 GROUP: Activists 4 Abandoned Animals > TOPIC: ITALY - something is hidden...  http://www.care2.com/c2c/groups/disc.html?gpp=4617&pst=1335204