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The Life of a KFC chicken: The Colonel's secret recipe

If you're one of the 850 million chickens killed by KFC for meat each year, you spend your short life confined to a filthy shed with tens of thousands of other chickens—the shed isn't cleaned, and the smell of ammonia and rotting excrement is so heavy that it burns your lungs with every breath.

You've been bred and drugged to grow so obese that you can hardly walk, and you watch as others become crippled under their own weight and die of thirst just a few inches away from the water nozzle.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/489249946

PLEASE SIGN AND FORWARD!

Population growth has led to over-fishing on the Gulf coast. Federal officials have a mandate to protect fisheries from over-fishing, but fishery managers in the Gulf and elsewhere have ignored the law and allowed unsustainable fishing for many important fish, scientists say.

http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/071006EB.shtml

IFAW alert

Find out how many marine mammals are killed each year by commercial fishing operations. Download free publication here.
http://www.oceana.org/fileadmin/oceana/uploads/dirty_fishing/Reports/PointlessPeril_FINALspreads.pdf

More than 30 years ago, the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) was enacted to keep whales, seals, dolphins and other marine mammals safe from hunting and human threats. But now this crucial protection is in grave danger of being weakened and the animals need you to speak out before it’s too late.
http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M717957139936594330816265

In just a few weeks, Congress will be considering H.R. 4075, a bill that would remove a critical provision from the MMPA. The amendment would remove a deadline by which the commercial fishing industry must significantly reduce the serious injury and death of marine mammals accidentally caught in fishing nets and/or gear.

The proposal also includes a provision that would allow facilities that house marine mammals to own them, letting them keep important information about their marine mammals out of the public’s reach.

Take Action: Protect Marine Mammals

The MMPA was the first legislation anywhere in the world to require an ecosystem approach to marine resource management. It includes a general ban on killing or importing marine mammals without a permit.

Twenty-seven marine mammal populations are still being killed in significant numbers. When Congress addressed the harm caused to marine mammals by commercial fishing in 1994, they created a “Zero Mortality Rate Goal” requiring the numbers of serious injuries and deaths from bycatch be reduced to insignificant levels. The deadline for this goal passed seven years ago.

As a result, approximately 1,900 additional whales, dolphins and other marine mammals are still killed each year. The new provision would remove the zero mortality rate deadline altogether, leaving commercial fisheries no real goal to reduce their impact on marine mammals.

Introduced by Representative Richard Pombo (R-CA), H.R. 4075 would weaken protections for marine mammals. Please contact your Representative today and tell them to OPPOSE this harmful bill.
http://www.kintera.org/TR.asp?ID=M717957159936594330816265

Thanks for speaking out,

Fred O’Regan President and CEO

Zur Rettung der vom Aussterben bedrohten Amphibien wollen Forscher eine neue internationale Institution ins Leben rufen.

http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23044/1.html

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The incidence of electromagnetic pollution on the amphibien decline
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/2204047/

Commercial fishing for bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean and eastern Atlantic should be halted immediately or the species will become extinct, the World Wide Fund for Nature says.

http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article1160985.ece


From Information Clearing House

Der stumme Frühling droht
http://www.telepolis.de/tp/r4/artikel/23/23022/1.html

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Vögel und Mobilfunk
http://omega.twoday.net/stories/331774/

Fischerei: "Die Piraten sitzen im Herzen Europas" (05.07.06)

Illegale Fischerei bedroht nach Auffassung der Artenschutzorganisation WWF die Tunfisch-Bestände im Mittelmeer und im Ostatlantik. Laut WWF fangen die Flotten der Europäischen Union, insbesondere Frankreichs, weit größere Mengen, als die offiziellen Quoten erlauben. Auch Libyen und die Türkei ignorierten die Höchstgrenzen. Der begehrte Rote Tunfisch (Thunnus thynnus) werde vor allem für die Trendspeise Sushi verarbeitet. Die Preise lägen bei über 150 Euro pro Kilo. "Tunfisch ist damit ähnlich lukrativ wie Kaviar." Der wichtigste Markt sei Japan, aber auch Deutschland zähle zu den Abnehmern. "Piraterie kommt leider nicht nur in Geschichtsbüchern vor. Die Kriminellen sitzen im Herzen Europas. Sie plündern mit dem Tunfisch einen der wertvollsten Schätze der Ozeane", meint Heike Vesper vom WWF. Die Organisation fordert einen sofortigen Fangstopp, "bis ein Plan zur Wiederherstellung der Bestände ausgearbeitet ist".

Die ganze Nachricht im Internet: http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?Nr=13952

A message from Eleanor

THIS IS SO IMPORTANT! THIS COULD HELP STOP ANIMAL TESTING THROUGHOUT THE EUROPEAN UNION. PLEASE CROSSPOST AS WIDELY AS POSSIBLE! PLEASE FORWARD TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS AND ASK THEM TO FORWARD. WHAT A DIFFERENCE WE COULD MAKE!


Dear Friend

Take action: tell the European Commission what you think about animal experiments

The European Commission are about to review the key law – Directive 86/609 – that governs animal experiments across the whole of Europe. In a rare and exciting opportunity, they’re asking for the public’s views on what the revised legislation should look like by asking them to complete a short online questionnaire.

We need as many supporters as possible to complete this questionnaire to show the strength of feeling that exists against animal experiments. So please try to find time before the deadline of 18 August to fill it out. Your comments could, literally, help save millions of animals from the misery of experimentation.

Click here for the BUAV’s guide to how to complete the questionnaire, and for a link to the questionnaire itself: http://www.buav.org/getactive/86609_BUAV_guide.htm

If you have any queries, please do get back to me on this email address. Also, once you complete the questionnaire it would be great if you could drop me a quick email to let me know, just so I can have an idea of how many BUAV supporters have taken action.

Finally, do please circulate this email far and wide and get it posted on your animal rights message boards.

Many thanks in advance for your help.

Kind regards

Dave Powell
Campaigns & Parliamentary Officer BUAV