For the Month of October 2009

Editor's Note: Killing Canids: The War on America's Wild Canines. The Sep/Oct 2009 issue of The Animals Voice Magazine is now available. The 36-page issue features a cover story about the killing of wolves and coyotes. It also features articles about animal rights activists, past and present, about factory farming, slaughterhouses, and a whole lot more.

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CALENDAR HIGHLIGHTS

Ongoing: October 17-24: National Primate Liberation Week (nationwide)

October 23-25: No More Homeless Pets National Conference (Las Vegas, NV)

October 25-31: World Go Vegan Week (worldwide; hosted by In Defense of Animals)

October 31-November 1: 14th Annual Boston Vegetarian Food Festival (Boston, MA)

MORE CALENDAR EVENTS

FEATURED ACTION ALERTS & CAMPAIGNS

Stop the dog meat trade in the Philippines. The trade in dog meat was outlawed in 1998, however government inaction and police corruption have allowed this trade to expand to unprecedented levels... MORE

Stop Force-Feeding: Combatting Foie Gras Production. "Foie gras," literally fatty liver, is a disease marketed as a delicacy. It is the liver of a duck or goose who has been force-fed to the point where his liver is over 10 times its normal size. Only male ducks are used, and females are discarded by the industry... MORE

Ask Massachusetts General Hospital to Replace Its Cruel and Outdated Sheep Lab. At Mass General, Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) courses typically involve cutting open live, anesthetized sheep and practicing procedures such as inserting a tube and needle into the animals' chest cavities and cutting into their throats... MORE

Tell the USDA That Factory Farming Isn't 'Natural.' In 2007, Farm Sanctuary formally petitioned the USDA to consider the treatment and living conditions of farm animals when creating rules allowing producers to label food made from their flesh as "natural"... MORE

FEATURED LEGISLATIVE AND LEGAL ISSUES

Washington offers payments for wolf kills of livestock. Hoping to ease Washington ranchers' concern about gray wolves, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife is proposing what may be the most generous compensation in the West for livestock losses to the newly returned predators... MORE

U.S. appeals court upholds convictions of animal-rights activists charged under terrorism statute. In a split decision, a U.S. appeals court upheld the convictions of animal rights activists charged under a terrorism statute with using their web site to incite threats and vandalism against a company that tests products on animals... MORE

Congresswoman Nita Lowey Introduces 'Refuge from Cruel Trapping Act of 2009.' H.R. 3710, the 'Refuge from Cruel Trapping Act,' which was submitted with a total of 35 original co-sponsors, helps to restore the original intent of the National Wildlife Refuge System by placing a ban on the use of body-gripping traps within the refuge system... MORE

Wild horse plan rekindles cattle grazing debate. A new federal proposal to manage wild horses is rekindling debate over another fixture of the Western range: cattle... MORE

New state law bans docking of cow tails. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation banning the practice of amputating part of cows' tails despite criticizing the bill this summer... MORE

President Obama announces National Hunting and Fishing Day 2009. Yeah. You read that right. Here's the intro: "From atop Pikes Peak to the shores of the James River, Americans celebrate the great abundance and utility of our natural resources. Since our Nation's founding, hunters and anglers have cherished these unparalleled natural gifts and marveled at their untamed beauty"... MORE

U.S. justices question animal cruelty video law. U.S. law that makes it a crime to sell videos of animals being tortured or killed may be too broad as it possibly covers documentary films and depictions of hunting or bullfights... MORE

Ban on monkey farming draws praise. Renowned international conservation expert Dr Jane Goodall has thanked the government of Nepal for its decision to put a permanent ban on the breeding of rhesus monkeys for export to the United States for biomedical research purposes... MORE

FEATURED PETITIONS

Stop meat consumption of dogs in South Korea. International support against dog torture and dog meat consumption is the only way to put pressure on the South Korean government to protect animal rights for real and ban the dog meat industry in all forms... MORE

FireBull: Stop the burning of live bulls. The purpose of this petition is to protest against the annual FireBull festival in Spain, specifically in the Soria province, at the end of the second week of November... MORE

Meat Free Monday Taiwan. In recent headlines, the city of Ghent in Belgium has taken steps to reduce its carbon footprint and has made the brave decision to ask its citizens to go meatless one day a week. Every Thursday will be veggie day... MORE

FEATURED FACT SHEETS & OTHER VALUABLE INFORMATION

SAVE THE FROGS! and the Chytrid Fungus. A wide range of fungal, bacterial, and viral diseases affect amphibians. Furthermore, a trematode parasite (Ribeiroia ondatrae) can cause severe limb malformities... MORE

The Facts About Declawing. Contrary to most people's understanding, declawing consists of amputating not just the claws, but the whole phalanx (up to the joint), including bones, ligaments, and tendons... MORE

Genetic Study Reveals Relationships Between Humpback Whale Populations. Humpback whales in the Southern Hemisphere exhibit extensive population structure, according to a new genetic study... MORE

'Veggie' spider shuns meat diet. It is the first-known predominantly vegetarian spider; all of the other known 40,000 spider species are thought to be mainly carnivorous... MORE

FEATURED EDITORIAL

The End of Hunting and Fishing in the Wild by Martin Weiss. "With the unparalleled expansion of human understanding we have seen in the last hundred years has come a commensurate growth of awareness of the world around us even to the most distant star. We have harnessed steam, electricity, atomic power and electro-magnetics to an extent never seen in recorded history"... MORE

Death Park, Kansas: In Cold Blood Redux by Jason Miller. "Contrary to misguided media portrayal and distorted public perception, we nonhuman animal defenders DO care about exploited, suffering, and impoverished human beings. However, we also recognize that humanity's war on nonhuman animals is the root of all the exploitation, oppression, racism, classism, and patriarchy that plagues our species"... MORE

Sacred cows at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo L.A. Times Editorial. "California restricts billboards along rural freeways, but there's a spot on Interstate 5 near Coalinga that's a better advertisement for vegetarianism than any Madison Avenue genius could ever devise. It is Harris Ranch, an 800-acre feedlot and meat-processing operation whose smell assaults passersby long before the panorama of thousands of cattle packed atop layers of their own manure appears"... MORE

New investigation reveals dairy's dark side by Dan Paden. "When people find out that I'm an animal rights activist and a vegan, they invariably have questions. 'Are your shoes leather?' they often ask. (Answer: 'No.') 'Do you miss meat?' ('Not a bit.') And, usually, 'What's wrong with eating dairy foods? Cows aren't killed to make milk.'"... MORE

Cruelty in the classroom by Justin Goodman. "Now that kids are back in school, parents everywhere are breathing a sigh of relief. The frantic search for school supplies is over, and most kids are settling in to their new routines. But don't relax just yet, Mom and Dad: You still have some homework to do"... MORE

Against Meat by Jonathan Safran Foer. "...When I was 2, the heroes of all my bedtime books were animals. The first thing I can remember learning in school was how to pet a guinea pig without accidentally killing it. One summer my family fostered a cousin's dog. I kicked it. My father told me we don't kick animals".... MORE

Rainforest Beef, Factory Farms and Anthony Bourdain's War on Vegetarians by Nikolas Kozloff. "Celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain has never made a secret of his disdain for vegetarians and vegans. In his best-selling book, Kitchen Confidential, the former New York cook remarked somewhat amusingly, 'Vegetarians, and their Hezbollah-like splinter faction, the vegans, are a persistent irritant to any chef worth a damn'"... MORE

FEATURED WEB SITES & GROUPS

Project Coyote promotes educated coexistence between people and coyotes; we do this by championing progressive management policies that reduce human-coyote conflict, supporting innovative scientific research, and by fostering respect for and understanding of America's native wild "song dog"... MORE

Serbian Animals Voice (SAV) is a completely volunteer-run organization which campaigns for the better treatment of all animals within the Balkans states, especially on behalf of stray and roaming street animals... MORE

Friends of Woodland Park Zoo Elephants is determined to get the three elephants at Woodland Park Zoo and Sri (on loan at the St. Louis Zoo) released to the 2,700-acre Elephant Sanctuary... MORE

The Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tennessee, is the nation's largest natural-habitat refuge developed specifically to meet the needs of endangered elephants... MORE

Madeleine Pickens' National Wild Horse Foundation. Wild horses are a living symbol of our American heritage and freedom. These Mustangs must be protected. Businesswoman and philanthropist Madeleine Pickens is committed to this promise... MORE

600 Million Stray Dogs Need You. Welcome to a powerful project which will bring an end to one of the leading causes of animal suffering and death in the world — animal overpopulation... MORE

FEATURED BOOKS & VIDEO, ETC.

The Animals Voice returns to speak for the voiceless. This is great news for animals and people who care about them. You see, The Animals Voice Magazine, in print for more than 20 years, is a "hard-hitting, no-holds-barred publication" devoted to improving quality-of-life for all animals... MORE

The Music of Justine Mayela. A native of Washington, D.C., Justine Mayela has built a 25-year professional career as vocalist and musician. Her musical genres have ranged from country and western to folk and mariachi... MORE

Satire: Exclusive: The First Excerpt from "Going Rogue." Chapter One: "I Am Therefore Such As" by Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Say it ain’t so Joe! My name is Sarah Palin. Recently several year I the State of Alaska had the pleasure, north the hugeness, am the zealous public servant! My husband and I have blessed with many attractive children... MORE

Satire Video: New Michael Vick Nike Commercial from Jimmy Kimmel Live... MORE

Video: Stop Fire Bull in Soria. The Toro Jubilo annually at the end of the second week of November occurs in Medinaceli, a province of Soria, Spain. Jeering mobs harass a bull with balls of burning tar or turpentine (called "pitch") attached to his horns. A bull's horns, body and eyes are scorched... MORE

Video: Dog Meat Factory hosted by All-Creatures.org... MORE

Video: Pulverizing hosted by All-Creatures.org... MORE

Slideshow: Animauxmaroc. An overview of the living and dying conditions of animals in Morocco... MORE

Documentary: Equine Destiny is a documentary exposing the mounting issues facing this country's equines. Throughout history, these animals have faced problems of abandonment and neglect... MORE

Book: The China Study by Dr. T. Colin Campbell and Thomas M. Campbell II. Drawing on the project findings in rural China, but going far beyond those findings, The China Study details the connection between nutrition and heart disease, diabetes and cancer. The report also examines the source of nutritional confusion produced by powerful lobbies, government entities, and opportunistic scientists... MORE

Audio Interview: A Witness to Animal Abuse. An Iowa egg hatchery is under investigation by an egg farming cooperative due to allegations of abuse at one of its facilities. The allegations surfaced [last] month, after an undercover investigator released videotaped footage of chicks being mutilated, thrown and scalded alive... MORE

FEATURED NEWS

Wild horse plan rekindles cattle grazing debate. A new federal proposal to manage wild horses is rekindling debate over another fixture of the Western range: cattle. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar last week proposed moving thousands of mustangs to preserves in the Midwest and East to protect horse herds and the rangelands that support them... MORE

Monkey Breeder Targeted by Animal Rights Extremists. It's been almost 20 years since the notorious "Bangkok Six" incident, when investigators at a Thailand airport intercepted a crate marked "live birds," only to find that it contained six tightly-packed endangered orangutans destined for Russia from Indonesia. Only two of the orangutans survived... MORE

Wildlife Officials Kill 7 Coyotes in Griffith Park. Seven coyotes have been shot to death by trappers at Griffith Park after reports of two park-goers being attacked by the animals in recent months... MORE

Decline in big predators wreaking havoc on ecosystems, OSU researchers say. The decline of top predators such as North American wolves and African lions is driving increases in smaller predators such as coyotes and baboons, disrupting ecosystems and economies worldwide... MORE

Illegal Ivory Shipments Worth Millions Seized at Kenya, Nairobi Airports. Raids in the main airports of Kenya and Nairobi have netted two shipments of bloodstained tusks headed for Thailand. While the final destination is not known at the moment, these shipments may be part of the growing link between China and elephant poaching... MORE

Latest Effort to Stop Hunt at 'Death Park.' The shooting may not have begun, but one local advocacy group continues to make their voice heard. Jason Miller and the 200 members of the K.C. Bite Club agree the deer population at Shawnee Mission Park is out of control... MORE

I-Team Special: Stampede to Oblivion. [Includes video.] Half of the country's wild horses are in Nevada and the BLM is gathering them off of public land in record numbers with increasingly thin justifications behind the roundups... MORE

Children unlikely allies in feral hog hunt. In its effort to control Florida's overpopulation of feral hogs, the state has enlisted some unlikely partners: children... MORE

African elephants could be extinct in 15 years. The population — currently 600,000 — is diminishing by 38,000 each year. These figures, calculated using the annual number of illegal tusk seizures, significantly exceed elephant birth rates meaning the species could face extinction entirely within 15 years... MORE

Montana stops wolf hunting near Yellowstone. Montana wildlife commissioners shut down gray wolf hunting in backcountry adjacent to Yellowstone National Park after nine of the predators were killed there in recent weeks... MORE

Sweden burns bunnies for biofuel. When a plague of ever-reproducing bunnies is ravaging your public parks, what's an industrious community to do but kill them and burn them for fuel? The city of Stockholm, Sweden, culls thousands of rabbits every year and has begun transporting them to a special heating plant in Karlskoga to keep Swedish citizens warm and toasty ... MORE

ANIMAL RESCUE & SANCTUARIES

The Wild Animal Sanctuary. Rocky Mountain Wildlife Conservation Center — now operating as "The Wild Animal Sanctuary" — is located just outside of Denver, CO, and is a state and federally licensed zoological facility... MORE

Marine Animal Rescue. For over 20 years, Marine Animal Rescue volunteers have come to the aid of entangled or beached whales, dolphins, seals, sea lions and sea birds along the California coast... MORE

Canadian Voice for Animals Foundation updates its Thailand dog rescue... MORE

ANIMAL RIGHTS-RELATED BLOGS and/or POLITICAL SITES

Animal Rights Posts by Michael Weber. Weber is an animal rights, environmental, and social justice activist living in Washington, DC, currently serving as the outreach coordinator for Farm Animal Rights Movement... MORE

Counter Punch. "America's Best Political Newsletter." Edited by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair... MORE

NEAT THINGS

Earth Talk: A Weekly Column. E — The Environmental Magazine offers editors of newspapers, magazines and websites a FREE weekly environmental Q&A column called EarthTalk... MORE

The Animal-Friendly Giving Guide was created for everyone that ever wanted a way to find organizations that address the issues that they care about and that care about animals too... MORE

Gobble Green. Gobble Green is an online marketplace where you will find a diverse and frequently updated selection of healthy, pre-packaged vegan meals... MORE

Peace, Justice & Environment Project. Peace, justice and environmental organizations in 45 states representing over 1200 local groups and organizations use the Actions Options Tool web application to facilitate online communication and cooperation... MORE

Publish a Letter. Have an opinion? Want to write letters to the editor of a newspaper or magazine — anywhere in the world? Don’t know where or how to begin? You’ve come to the right place... MORE

Today's Front Pages. Front pages of newspapers from around the world... MORE

Listen to Animals Today Radio. With Dr. Lori Kirschner... MORE

Free 800 Information from Google. Call 1-800-goog411 (1-800-4664-411)

Tiny URL. Making long URLs usable. More than 170 million of them. Over 1.75 billion hits/month... MORE

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