Fwd: Victory for Elephants in Santa Ana, Calif.!

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From: PETA <newsmanager@peta.org>
Date: December 16, 2011 9:59:08 PM CST
Subject: Victory for Elephants in Santa Ana, Calif.!
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Dear Cindy, I'm thrilled to share some exciting news with you. Thanks to all of you who took part in our more than yearlong campaign, the city of Santa Ana, Calif., has just announced that it will no longer offer elephant rides. This means that the Santa Ana Zoo will stop supporting the miserable treatment of elephants who spend much of their lives chained by two legs, barely able to take a single step forward or backward, and are dominated and controlled by bullhooks—barbaric training devices that resemble a fireplace poker. These can be seen in video footage from Animal Defenders International (ADI) that shows trainers from Have Trunk Will Travel, the company that rented the elephants to the zoo for rides, repeatedly beating and shocking elephants in order to teach them "who's boss" and intimidate them into giving rides or performing tricks. Elephants are highly intelligent, social, and curious animals who deserve better than being forced to plod along in circles all day while being prodded by a bullhook for people's amusement. In addition to actions by our supporters, celebrities, including Charo and Switched at Birth star Constance Marie, and other animal protection groups, including ADI and the Animal Protection and Rescue League, joined the effort to end the elephant rides at the Santa Ana Zoo.  Please take a moment to send a brief e-mail to Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido and Gerardo Mouet, the executive director of the city's Parks, Recreation and Community Services Agency, to thank the city for making the compassionate decision to end the elephant rides—and please be sure to ask Mr. Mouet to make the same decision for the Orange County Fair in his capacity as a member of the Orange County Fair Board. Thank you for speaking up for animals. Sincerely, Tracy Reiman Executive Vice President People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals

Fwd: A Historic Day for Chimpanzees!

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From: PETA <newsmanager@peta.org>
Date: December 15, 2011 8:55:52 PM CST
Subject: A Historic Day for Chimpanzees!
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Dear Cindy, It is a historic day for chimpanzees, and we need your help to keep up the momentum! After decades of advocating, organizing, demonstrating, and agitating in behalf of chimpanzees, we are closer than ever to ending experimentation on our closest living relatives. The National Institutes of Health (NIH)—which is the primary funder of chimpanzee experiments in the U.S.—has just announced that it is accepting the conclusion of a highly anticipated report from the Institute of Medicine (IOM). The report, for which PETA provided testimony and other input, concludes that "most current use of chimpanzees for biomedical research is unnecessary." NIH director Dr. Francis Collins stated that effective immediately, NIH is suspending all new funding for experiments on chimpanzees! The agency will be convening a working group to carefully evaluate the experiments that are currently being conducted on chimpanzees, and it is expected that half of the chimpanzee experiments currently underway may be stopped! Moreover, while the working group deliberates, chimpanzees who are currently not being used in experiments or are in a state of unofficial retirement will not be used for experimentation. This includes the nearly 200 Alamogordo chimpanzees, whose sad fate compelled scientists, elected officials, and other public figures to take action. They are now safe! The IOM report—and NIH's response—is the first step toward ending all experimentation on these remarkable animals. However, it's more important than ever that you contact your legislator now  and ask him or her to support the Great Ape Protection and Cost Savings Act, which would outright ban all use of chimpanzees in laboratories and retire the more than 600 federally owned chimpanzees to sanctuaries. Thank you for your continued advocacy in behalf of all animals and for your support of PETA. Sincerely, Kathy Guillermo Vice President Laboratory Investigations Department People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Click to update your e-mail preferences or to unsubscribe. This e-mail was sent by PETA, 501 Front St., Norfolk, VA 23510 USA.

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Fw: Victory: University of Michigan Drops Cruel Cat Lab!

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Subject: Victory: University of Michigan Drops Cruel Cat Lab!
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Dear Cindy, I have very exciting news to share about one of our campaigns to end university animal experimentation. After more than a year of pressure from PETA and over 100,000 people—including students, alumni, and Michigan natives Iggy Pop and Lily Tomlin—wrote letters and led protests, the University of Michigan (U-M) has announced that it has replaced the use of cats in its Survival Flight training course for nurses with modern and superior human simulators. This means that cats will no longer have hard plastic tubes repeatedly forced down their delicate windpipes before being killed. U-M's announcement comes just one day after PETA released an exposé on how the school was buying lost, stolen, and homeless cats from a notorious animal dealer and revealed that school officials had lied to the public about the fate of the cats used in the course. PETA will continue to urge U-M to end its trauma training laboratory that uses pigs and fully align its training curriculum with the guidance of medical experts and professional organizations that endorse the use of simulators as complete replacements for these cruel and archaic animal laboratories. In the meantime, please take a moment of your time to urge St. Louis Children's Hospital to follow in the footsteps of U-M and end the hospital's use of animals for intubation training as well. Thank you again for helping cats abused in laboratories and making this victory possible. Sincerely, Justin Goodman, M.A. Associate Director Laboratory Investigations Department People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Click to update your e-mail preferences or to unsubscribe. Please do not respond to this e-mail. Instead, click here to contact PETA. This e-mail was sent by PETA, 501 Front St., Norfolk, VA 23510 USA.  

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Fwd: Ringling Faces Biggest USDA Fine in Circus History

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Date: November 28, 2011 5:33:28 PM CST
Subject: Ringling Faces Biggest USDA Fine in Circus History
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Dear Cindy, I'm thrilled to tell you about a historic breakthrough. It has to do with elephants who are beaten with bullhooks by Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Feld Entertainment, Inc., parent company of Ringling, will now pay a penalty of $270,000 for violations of the Animal Welfare Act dating from June 2007 to August 2011. It is the biggest penalty paid by a circus in the history of the United States. Since June 2007, PETA has spent every year taking formal complaints about Ringling to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. We have met with members of the agency's Office of the General Counsel and provided ample evidence of Ringling's abuse, including the death of a baby elephant, the beating of elephants, the killing of a lion, the circus's use of crippled elephants, and more. Of course, PETA cannot rest until all the elephants are freed from their lives of servitude. Elephants used in circuses are torn away from their families, chained, dragged from city to city in boxcars, and forced under threat of bullhook beatings to perform repetitive tricks. Please help: There is more that you can do to help animals abused in circuses today. I urge you to share the heartbreaking photos of baby elephants who are bound with ropes, shocked with electric prods, and jabbed with sharp-tipped bullhooks with your friends and family now. After they see Ringling's cruelty, please ask them to join you in pledging never to go to a circus that uses animals. With the help of PETA donors like you, we can put an end to the suffering of elephants, tigers, and other animals who are beaten and forced to perform. Kind regards, Ingrid E. Newkirk President People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Click to update your e-mail preferences or to unsubscribe. This e-mail was sent by PETA, 501 Front St., Norfolk, VA 23510 USA.

Fw: Mastercard's dolphin cruelty

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From: "Michael Whitney, Change.org" <mail@change.org>

Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 08:44:30 -0700

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Subject: Mastercard's dolphin cruelty

Mastercard should cancel its promotion to a resort with 25 captive dolphins Dear Cindy, Hotel room at a Singapore resort: $253. Discounted tickets to watch wild dolphins suffer in captivity: Priceless. Mastercard is offering discounted tickets to the infamoous Resorts World Sentosa, a resort in Singapore that recently kidnapped 27 wild dolphins for an exhibit. Two of those dolphins have already died, and the 25 other dolphins are being held in brutal conditions until construction of the exhibit is complete. The surviving dolphins' risks of illness and death increase with each day of captivity. 100,000 Change.org members have already called on Resorts World Sentosa to release its captive dolphins. If Mastercard cancels its ticket discount promotion, it will put big financial pressure on the resort to finally set the dolphins free. Please sign dolphin activist Barbara Napoles's petition on Change.org calling for Mastercard to stop offering discounted tickets to Resorts World Sentosa. Statistics for captive dolphins are bleak. While dolphins in the wild usually live for 45 years, more than half of all captured dolphins die within their first two years of captivity.  In tanks, dolphins swim around in circles. They can't hunt. They're exposed to bacteria that have been known to cause blindness and death.  Resorts World Sentosa has canceled ocean animal exhibits from public pressure in the past. With 100,000 Change.org members already calling for the resort to free its captive dolphins, financial pressure from Mastercard could push the resort to finally take action. Please sign the petition to ask Mastercard to cancel its ticket promotion to Resorts World Sentosa: http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-mastercard-stop-supporting-the-live-dolphin-trade Thanks for being a change-maker, - Michael and the Change.org team   This email was sent by Change.org to lov3tc@gmail.com. Start a petition. Unsubscribe from future weekly updates. Edit your email notification settings.

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Fw: Urge Congress to Stop Army From Poisoning Monkeys!

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Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 12:22:19 -0400 (EDT)

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Subject: Urge Congress to Stop Army From Poisoning Monkeys!

Dear Cindy, Thank you for contacting Army officials and urging them to stop violating military policy and replace cruel and crude nerve agent attack training procedures on vervet monkeys with modern simulators and other effective non-animal methods. Now that the Army has heard your voice, animals need you to reach out to your members of Congress about this urgent issue. PETA is continuing its all-out effort to stop this cruelty. In addition to protests and complaints that we've filed with the Army, Emmy Award winner Woody Harrelson has now joined the campaign and written a letter to the Army urging it to replace this crude exercise with superior simulators that are already in use at other U.S. military installations and around the world. Since the launch of our campaign, as a result of the overwhelming outcry that military officials received from dedicated animal advocates like you, the Army has been doing damage control by spreading misinformation about its course to the public and the media. For example, they have stated that there are no simulators available to replace animal use, yet they use simulators in parts of their own course and the monkey laboratory is optional, meaning that the Army itself already believes that soldiers can be properly trained to treat victims of a chemical attack without poisoning animals. We have updated our Web feature to set the record straight about this and other issues.  Please contact your members of Congress today to urge them to stop the Army from using animals in cruel chemical attack exercises. Thank you for all that you are doing to help animals! Sincerely, Justin Goodman, M.A. Associate Director Laboratory Investigations Department People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Click to update your e-mail preferences or to unsubscribe. Please do not respond to this e-mail. Instead, click here to contact PETA. This e-mail was sent by PETA, 501 Front St., Norfolk, VA 23510 USA.