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05/31/2005 ANIMAL RIGHTS GROUPS CELEBRATE AS SELFRIDGES STOPS SELLING FUR!
Animal rights campaigners are claiming a victory after Selfridges said that it had banned all fur products from its shops.The luxury department store company has been one of the main targets for anti-fur protesters, who have staged weekly demonstrations outside shops and bombarded managers with e-mails and phone calls. Following a week of action earlier this month, Selfridges sent an e-mail to campaign groups announcing the decision to ban all fur products, including items in concession ranges such as fashion designer Joseph.The company was one of the last remaining department chains to continue stocking fur and the ban is a major triumph for the animal rights movement.
05/30/2005 PRIMATES SUFFER FOR SCIENCE IN BPRC!
The largest animal testing centre of Europe is located in the Netherlands. The Biomedical Primate Research Center (BPRC) keeps 1600 monkeys in their labs. They are locked up and have to undergo terrible things, in the name of 'science'. The BPRC is performing tests in the area of infection-illnesses (such as AIDS, hepatitis and malaria), xenotransplantation, radiation, tear gas (for self defence), chronic diseases and neurological abnormities. A comparable primate (breeding) centre in the UK, Shamrock Farm, had to close down after many demonstrations and direct actions. BPRC is going to be the next primate centre to close down!
05/29/2005 FRANCE LOSES APPEAL AGAINST ANIMAL TESTING BAN!
Luxembourg, May 24 (AFP) - Europe's highest court upheld on Tuesday a progressive ban on animal testing of cosmetics despite an appeal by France to have it partially annulled.France appealed because it said the measure, which would see the end of cosmetics tested on animals in the European Union by 2009, violated the right to "freely undertake a professional activity" and was too open to misinterpretation. But the European Court of Justice ruled that "the partial annulment sought would have the effect of altering the substance of the measure in question."The court said in a statement that accepting the French appeal "would substantively alter the provisions relating to testing on animals for the purpose of developing cosmetic products."France has one of Europe's biggest cosmetics industries with major brands such as LOreal, Guerlain, Clarins, Givenchy and Christian Dior.According to the French animal rights group One Voice, France has for several years been the European country which has conducted the most animal tests on cosmetic products and ingredients.
05/28/2005 THE TRIAL OF THE SHAC 7 BEGIN JUNE 1 IN TRENTON!
In May 2004, 7 animal rights activists were arrested on charges of "animal enterprise terrorism." Specifically, they are charged with operating websites for the SHAC campaign which exposes HLS, the notorious animal lab in NJ & England. For this they face 23 years in jail each and upwards of $1,250,000 in fines! By levying these charges, the US government is trying to set a precedent. They are saying that attempting to close down a business that abuses animals is a federal offense, that advocating animal liberation is illegal and that we don't have the right to END such animal abusing institutions, just reform them.
05/27/2005 200 DEAD CATS FOUND IN N.J. WOMAN'S HOME!
EAST ORANGE, N.J. - A woman who founded a "no-kill" animal shelter was charged with health code and animal welfare violations after 200 dead cats were discovered rotting in garbage bags in her backyard..Marlene Kess, who has built a reputation in Manhattan as a caretaker of homeless and dying cats, had 48 cats inside her house, including 38 in one room, authorities said.
05/26/2005 OXFORD ANIMAL LAB TO BE BUILT OFF-SITE!
Oxford University is to try to sidestep animal rights protestors by prefabricating its new £18m animal research facility on a secret site outside the city.According to the Times Higher Education Supplement, the move, which has the backing of senior ministers and security staff, could mean the new building is being prepared outside the country, although the university refused to comment.It is thought that once the prefabrication has been completed, a large number of construction workers will be brought in to erect the building quickly. Another source quoted by the THES called the project "big and exciting. They are putting together a military-style operation".The project has been dogged by delays and controversy and has been the target of a sustained campaign by animal rights protesters.
05/25/2005 VEGGIE PRIDE 2005!
Spectacular display by hundreds of vegetarians marching in Paris on May 21st: This demonstration - through which they proclaim their pride of living without eating the flesh of animals - ended up with a gripping presentation. Protesters stood 'Place des Innocents', in Les Halles District, their faces covered with masks of farm animals. Ten of them, also wearing masks, climbed the central fountain while loud speakers were broadcasting screams of frightened animals recorded in slaughterhouses.
05/23/2005 RIGHTS GROUPS TO SUE FBI OVER MONITORING!
WASHINGTON - Five civil rights, animal rights and environmental groups are joining together to sue the FBI to release records about monitoring of antiwar and other political activities by federal agents assigned to counterterrorism duties.The American Civil Liberties Union said the decision to file a lawsuit Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Washington came after the FBI ignored Freedom of Information Act requests for the documents. The other organizations involved are the American-Arab Anti-discrimination Committee, Greenpeace, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals and United for Peace and Justice.Bardwell said one of the groups, Food Not Bombs, distributes vegetarian food to the hungry. "They are stretching as far as they can to insinuate that these organizations are doing something wrong," she said.
05/22/2005 GREENPEACE ACTIVISTS OCCUPY A PROPOSED WHALE MEATPROCESSING PLANT!
Twelve Greenpeace activists from around the globe are currently occupying the site of a proposed whale meat factory in Ulsan, South Korea. The activists, who have occupied the site for the last five weeks, say they want to expose the development of the plant and stop it from going ahead. Although commercial whaling is illegal in Korea, the local government says it is necessary to build a large whale processing plant in the southern port city.In Korea, if a whale is deemed by the coast guard to have been killed accidentally, it is allowed to be processed and sold on the open market. A whale carcass can fetch up to US$100,000, a figure which Greenpeace campaign organizer Jim Wickens said is a rule of thumb for the price of an adult whale.
05/21/2005 COVANCE HAVE BEEN CAUGHT ABUSING ANIMALS AND BREAKING THE LAW YET AGAIN!
One of PeTA's undercover investigators has been working as a primate technician in the toxicology department of Covance's Virginia lab in the USA for 11 months. She was able to film Covance staff abusing monkeys in truly horrific ways.The investigator witnessed and filmed the following behaviour: Physical violence against the primates by Covance technicians, verbal and psychological abuse of the primates by Covance technicians, failure to provide prompt and appropriate veterinary care, failure to provide appropriate euthanasia, animals known to be unhealthy used in new studies, failure to use less painful methods to conduct ECGs, failure to properly train and supervise employees, painful and stressful procedures performed in full view of other primates (conspecifics), failure to provide environmental enrichment, soaked primates left in cages after hoses were used on them during cleaningThis kind of behaviour has already been filmed in Covance's lab in Germany and now the same thing has been found in the USA.
05/18/2005 AUTHOR OF 'ETERNAL TREBLINKA' RETURNS HIS PH.D. TO COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY TO PROTEST ANIMAL CRUELTY
On Tuesday, May 17 at 11am--the day before the 251st Columbia Commencement--Dr. Charles Patterson returned his doctoral degree to the Office of Columbia President Lee Bollinger in Low Library, Room 202, to protest the university's continuing abuse of animals. After writing his 320-page doctoral dissertation on "Social Attitudes of Protestant Journals During the Depression of 1893-97," Patterson received his Ph.D. with honors from the Department of Religion in 1970. Since then, he has been a teacher, adjunct faculty member, therapist, editor, and author of ten books. His most recent book is "Eternal Treblinka" Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust" (New York: Lantern Books, 2002), which has now been translated and published in Germany, Italy, Poland, Croatia, and the Czech Republic. Later this year the Hebrew edition will be published in Israel.
05/17/2005 DOVE RITUAL TO CHANGE AFTER RIGHTS PROTESTS!
A 600-year-old Italian religious ritual in which an entrapped dove is subjected to a barrage of fireworks took place for the last time yesterday in its present form after a campaign by animal rights protesters, including the MP Ann Widdecombe, demanded it be reformed.As the bells chimed noon yesterday in the city of Orvieto, a dove, sealed into a transparent tube, was sent hurtling amid plumes of smoke 1,000ft along a wire from the top of the San Francesco church to the base of the cathedral across the piazza. The feast, known as the palombella, symbolises the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles on Pentecost Sunday. If the dove lives, it is said to augur a good harvest. Among the groups protesting against the ritual is one whose patron is Miss Widdecombe.
05/15/2005 WISCONSIN GROUP DROPS CAT KILLING PLAN!
MANITOWOC, Wis. - A month after Gov. Jim Doyle said a plan to allow hunters to shoot stray cats was making Wisconsin a laughingstock, the public advisory group that raised the issue decided Friday to let it die. "There is no need to push it any further," Wisconsin Conservation Congress chairman Steve Oestreicher said of a proposed change to allow licensed hunters to shoot feral cats that kill songbirds and other wildlife.
05/13/2005 ANIMALS TO GET OFFICIAL STATUS IN FRENCH CIVIL CODE!
PARIS (AFP) - Animals are for the first time to get an official status of their own under France's 200 year-old civil code, in a move that reflects the country's arrival from a rural to urban society. Justice Minister Dominique Perben this week approved the recommendation of an expert's report that animals should be recognised to be "protected property, as living and sentient beings."
05/07/2005 POLISH MAN CRUSHED BY ELEPHANTS IN OSLO!
A Polish man was rushed to hospital by helicopter after being squashed between two elephants in Oslo, Norwegian media reported. The 46-year-old animal keeper at the Arnardo circus, which is currently on tour in Norway, was reportedly building a fence around the circus tent when he was suddenly squeezed between the two giant mammals. The man, who suffered serious injuries to his face and ribs as well as numerous fractures, was taken by helicopter to an Oslo hospital for treatment. The circus was not expected to cancel any of its shows as a result of the accident.
05/05/2005 REHABILITATED DOLPHINS RELEASED IN FLORIDA!
Key Largo, - Seven rehabilitated rough-toothed dolphins were released Tuesday off the Florida Keys, two months after stranding on a mud flat near Marathon in the middle Keys. Marine Mammal Conservancy volunteers took the dolphins to a point in the Atlantic Ocean about 14 nautical miles off Key Largo in two catamaran dive boats. They were released almost simultaneously and stayed together, and were seen foraging for food.
05/04/2005 WHOLE FOODS MARKET JOINS HUMANE SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES' CANADIAN SEAFOOD BOYCOTTTO SAVE THE SEALS!
The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) announced yesterday that Whole Foods Market, Inc. has joined the list of companies who have responded to The HSUS' call for a boycott of seafood from Canada until that country's annual slaughter of hundreds of thousands of seals is permanently halted.The hunt is undeniably cruel - baby and juvenile seals are clubbed or shot to death primarily for their pelts - many are skinned while still alive and conscious. The U.S. has long banned imports of seal products, but the market for seal pelts in Europe provides an incentive for the sealers to take to the ice every spring to kill as many seals as they can. This year's hunt, with over 300,000 seals slaughtered, was the largest killing of marine mammals in the world.Whole Foods Market is the world's leading retailer of natural and organic foods with 167 stores in North America and the United Kingdom. The company joins Legal Sea Foods, Downeast Seafood, and Spectrum Organics in the United States, and Marks and Spencer in the United Kingdom in taking steps to reduce or end their Canadian seafood sales. In support of the seals, Whole Foods Market has agreed not to sell seafood from the eastern part of Canada known as Atlantic Canada (Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island, and the Magdelan Islands).
05/03/2005 ANTI-FUR PROTESTS AT FASHION WEEK!
Animal liberation activists have protested outside Sydney's most exclusive fashion festival against the use of fur by Australian designers.The small group from Animal Liberation NSW marched to the entrance of Sydney's Fashion Week yesterday carrying anti-fur placards and chanting the words "Say no to Lisa Ho. Fashion, make it cool not cruel". Their protest was quickly interrupted by Fashion Week's director of seating John Flower who denied fur was being used in any of this year's shows. "If people are going to protest they need to get their facts right - to my knowledge, no designer is using fur," Mr Flower told reporters. But Danielle Archer of Animal Liberation NSW said it was irrelevant whether designers were using fur at this year's show and singled out designers Lisa Ho, Wayne Cooper and Alannah Hill as the main offenders."This is not fashion, this is cruel and unnecessary," Ms Archer told reporters.
05/01/2005 BARDOT APPEALS TO SERBIA TO STOP 'MASSACRE' OF STRAY ANIMALS!
Former French movie siren Brigitte Bardot has appealed to Serbian President Boris Tadic to stop what she described as the "massacre of stray animals" in the former Yugoslav republic. "I urge you to end once and for all the ignoble massacre of stray animals in Serbia," she wrote in a letter to Tadic on behalf of heranimal welfare foundation. She described what she termed the "brutal cleansing" of stray animals in Belgrade as an "atrocity", saying it could not be justified as part ofpreparations for events such as the recent Belgrade marathon or the European Championship of basketball due to take place here later this year.
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