From edandrea at magma.ca Thu Nov 2 00:26:00 2006 From: edandrea at magma.ca (Edelweiss D'Andrea) Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 19:26:00 -0500 Subject: [4animals] Elephants pass mirror test of self-awareness In-Reply-To: <00e901c6fcfc$5b27f020$6501a8c0@v> Message-ID: Hello animal-loving folks, This was an interesting article from the Guardian, Vaalea. If you can find the time, I suggest everyone send in a comment about space and living conditions for the 600 elephants living in captivity in the US to http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw/general/default.aspx?oId=196068&msource=DR061005001 &tr=y&auid=2110715. Elephants in captivity often suffer due to inadequate space, unnatural conditions, lack of exercise and social deprivation. Poor conditions lead to a range of preventable health issues, including painful arthritis, foot disease, reproductive and digestive disorders and neurotic behaviors like swaying and head bobbing. The poor things! Cheers for the elephants! Edelweiss -----Original Message----- From: 4animals-bounces at ottawaveg.com [mailto:4animals-bounces at ottawaveg.com]On Behalf Of vaalea Sent: Tuesday, October 31, 2006 9:54 AM To: 4animals Subject: [4animals] Elephants pass mirror test of self-awareness Elephants pass mirror test of self-awareness http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1935538,00.html Alok Jha, science correspondent Tuesday October 31, 2006 The Guardian Elephants have been found to recognise themselves in a mirror, putting them in an exclusive club of self-awareness whose other members are great apes (including humans) and bottlenose dolphins. "The social complexity of the elephant, its well-known altruistic behaviour and, of course, its huge brain, made the elephant a logical candidate species for testing in front of a mirror," said Joshua Plotnik, a psychologist at Emory University in Atlanta, who led a team whose study was published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. An 8ft mirror was put in the elephant enclosure at the Bronx zoo in New York and a watch kept on its three inhabitants. The first question was if they greeted their reflection as if meeting another individual - they did not make this mistake, and used the mirror to inspect themselves, for example, moving their trunks to look at the inside of their mouths. "Elephants have been tested in front of mirrors before, but previous studies used relatively small mirrors kept out of the elephants' reach," Dr Plotnik said. "This study is the first to test the animals in front of a huge mirror they could touch, rub against, and try to look behind." Inspecting the mirror and trying to look behind it - as did the Bronx elephants - is another indicator of self-awareness. One of the three also passed the "mark" test when painted in a place it would normally be unable to see. It touched the paint mark on its head after looking in the mirror. Diana Reiss of Columbia University in New York said that the research helped explain the society in which elephants lived: "Humans, great apes, dolphins and elephants, well known for their superior intelligence and complex social systems, are thought to possess the highest forms of empathy and altruism in the animal kingdom." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ottawaveg.com/pipermail/4animals/attachments/20061101/dd0b3657/attachment.html From v at vaalea.com Fri Nov 3 15:44:25 2006 From: v at vaalea.com (vaalea) Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 10:44:25 -0500 Subject: [4animals] 2050 the year of no more fish, scientists warn Message-ID: <00fb01c6ff5e$f1470550$6601a8c0@v> 2050 the year of no more fish, scientists warn http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=3b78aea6-3ce6-4e2b-a840-5d610d944f74&k=50888 Margaret Munro, CanWest News Service Published: Friday, November 03, 2006 The world's fisheries are on track to collapse by 2050, warns a Canadian-led research team calling for a revolution in the way the oceans are managed. The researchers, whose assessment of the dying seas is published in the journal Science today, say it's not too late to save the fisheries that feed millions of people. But major changes are required, and soon. ''It's bad but we know we can turn this around,'' says Boris Worm, head of the international team and a fisheries biologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax. Twenty-nine per cent of fish and seafood species, including Canada's once immense Atlantic cod fishery, have collapsed to less than 10 per cent of their original size, the researchers say. They warn all other fish and seafood species could suffer the same fate, as erosion of the planet's marine ecosystem appears to be accelerating. ''This trend is of serious concern because it projects the global collapse of all taxa (species) currently fished by the mid-21st century,'' they say. ''We are predicting we are going to run out of everything in future if we don't change our behaviour,'' Worm said in an interview. The team notes bigger boats and new technology are chasing fewer fish the global catch fell by 13 per cent between 1994 and 2003. Federal fisheries officials acknowledge the oceans have been mismanaged in the past, but say changes have been made both internationally and in Canada to try to prevent further decline. Close to 100,000 people work in Canada's fishing industry, which produces almost $5 billion worth of seafood annually for export and the domestic consumption. ''In the event that we don't make these changes that predication might in fact be something that has some credibility, but we are making changes to prevent that from happening,'' David Bevan, DFO assistant deputy minister, says of the study's ''grim'' forecast for 2050. ''The only caveat I have, I guess, is that it has been tough slogging and we are dealing with ecosystems under significant change due to temperatures.'' A warming trend is evident in the waters on all three Canadian coasts. ''We see four-and-a-half-degree temperature increases in some of our stations off Newfoundland,'' Bevan said. While climate change is a clear threat to ocean ecosystems, Worm and his colleagues from the U.S. and Europe show humans have already had a devastating impact at a local, national and global level. Overfishing, pollution and habitat destruction, which dates back hundreds of years in many parts of the world, is so widespread they say it now threatens ''global food security, coastal water quality and ecosystem stability.'' The researchers tracked 1,000 years of change in 12 coastal regions from the Adriatic Sea to the Gulf of St Lawrence. They also combed through global fisheries catch data from 64 marine ecosystems and assessed the impact of removing millions of tonnes of fish every year. They say the elimination and depletion of stocks and species like the Atlantic grey whale, right whales, the Atlantic walrus, and the once plentiful cod, haddock and salmon stocks from the Gulf of St. Lawrence sabotages the ecosystems' stability and potential for recovery. But with careful management, damaged ecosystems can be restored. The researchers assessed 48 protected marine areas and found marked recovery. ''We see ecosystem recovery almost every time,'' says Worm. ''We have to think of the ocean the way we think of the land.'' He says the kind of industrial harvesting now used at sea would not be allowed on dry land, and is calling for more sustainable fishing, zoning of oceans to protect key ecosystems, and the creation of more protected areas. As evidence of unsustainable operations, he described hydraulic dredges the size of a small rooms being used to blast clams out of the seafloor off Newfoundland. ''They're basically liquefying the bottom and sucking things out.'' And he says Canada's once rich East Coast fishery has hit a new low by opening a fishery for sea cucumbers and hagfish in Cape Breton. ''That's the bottom of the barrel we're scraping right there,'' says Worm. ''After that it is jellyfish and then no more.'' Bevan says hydraulic dredging is tightly controlled and confined to small areas. As for Cape Breton's sea cucumbers and hagfish, he says it's a small exploratory test fishery. Bevan stresses in the last decade the Fisheries Department has taken a new proactive approach to preserve marine ecosystems and fish stocks. ''We realized we had to change,'' says Bevan, who points to the integrated ground fish plan recently introduced in B.C. as evidence of the department's new approach. ''What we've done is make sure every individual fish that is caught and killed is accounted for and covered off by a quota,'' says Bevan. And West Coast salmon, he says, are now managed to ensure survival of weaker stocks. But Worm says DFO is still making what he considers misguided decisions, such as opening a small cod fishery in Newfoundland this summer, even though the stocks show little sign of recovery. He's also baffled by Federal Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn's recent refusal to support a proposed UN moratorium on bottom trawling in international waters, a practice likened to clear-cutting on the sea bottom. Ottawa has committed to setting aside 10 per cent of Canadian waters as marine protected areas by 2012, but so far only 0.5 per cent has been, says Jennifer Smith of the World Wildlife Fund. ''Canada has fallen way behind,'' she says. Bevan says creating marine protected areas takes time because the provinces, fishers, the oil and gas industry, First Nation groups and local communities all need to be consulted. ''We're working on it,'' he says of the 10 per cent target. Cod and oysters: tastes our grandchildren may not savour http://www.guardian.co.uk/fish/story/0,,1938418,00.html James Randerson, science correspondent Friday November 3, 2006 The Guardian The sensuous thrill of an oyster washed down with a cool, crisp white wine. The treat of battered cod and chips on a drizzly night after closing time. Your grandchildren will taste neither of these delights, or indeed any wild-caught seafood, if industrial fishing continues at its current rate, according to a huge analysis of the health of the world's oceans. Projecting current fishing levels into the future, the researchers predict that all stocks will have collapsed by 2048. "We asked, 'if this trend which has been very strong and very consistent over the last 50 years were to continue, where ... would we end up?'" said Boris Worm, a marine biologist at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada, who led the study. "And the answer is you end up with no seafood." The team looked at data from the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation and other sources. Between 1950 and 2003, 29% of fish and invertebrate fisheries within all 64 large marine ecosystems worldwide had collapsed. These regions account for 83% of the world's seafood harvest. Projecting these trends into the future, all stocks decline by at least 90% (the definition of a fishery collapse) by 2048. "Biodiversity is a finite resource. We can predict when we are going to run out of species," said Professor Worm. One feature of marine ecosystems that emerged from the analysis was that as more species are lost, the collapse of the remaining species becomes more likely. "You are also losing the ability of the system to self-repair and recover." And there are economic benefits of protecting diversity. When the team looked at the impact of designating protected areas they found that preventing fishing boosted biodiversity by 23%. More surprisingly, around the protected areas the catch for fishermen increased fourfold. "This analysis provides the best documentation I have ever seen regarding biodiversity's value," said Peter Kareiva, lead scientist for the Nature Conservancy. "There is no way the world will protect biodiversity without this type of compelling data demonstrating the economic value of biodiversity." The challenge will be whether decision-makers heed the message. "Unless we fundamentally change the way we manage all the ocean's species together, as working ecosystems, then this century is the last century of wild seafood," said co-author Steve Palumbi of Stanford University. "The data show us it's not too late," said Prof Worm. "We can turn this around. But less than 1% of global ocean is effectively protected right now." In numbers 29% Percentage of currently fished species collapsed (below 10% of original population) by 2003 2048 When all commercial species will have collapsed if trends continue 13% Decline in global fishing yields since 1994 100 Number of times greater the economic value of the Great Barrier Reef is than its value as fishing resource -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ottawaveg.com/pipermail/4animals/attachments/20061103/3836f189/attachment.html From pekieca at yahoo.com Mon Nov 6 15:17:55 2006 From: pekieca at yahoo.com (K) Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2006 10:17:55 -0500 (EST) Subject: [4animals] Sunday Gun Hunting: Opposition Grows In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20061106151755.86375.qmail@web52709.mail.yahoo.com> Hello, There are a lot of gun shots being heard in the Perth/Westport area these days....from Peaceful Parks Coalition..... Peaceful Parks Coalition Opposition Grows Against Sunday Gun Hunting Now that Sunday gun hunting is a reality, we?re hearing more and more voices opposing it. As of September 2006, gun hunting on Sundays is permitted across Ontario, making every single day open to sport hunting. This hit home for many rural residents with the opening of the waterfowl hunt, but the deer gun hunting season will open in many regions across Ontario in two weeks, and the sounds of rifles and deer being killed will be non-stop for the next several weeks. Approximately, 100,000 animals will be killed in the next four weeks across Ontario. In addition, the McGuinty government is proposing to increase deer hunting opportunities, yet again, by developing economic incentives for private landowners to open their land to sport hunters. This effectively creates private individual hunt camps, with no monitoring or consideration for adjacent properties. They are also proposing to create educational programs discussing the problem of ?nuisance? deer. You can read more about the McGuinty government's strategy to kill deer in Ontario. By linking to: http://www.mnr. gov.on.ca/ MNR/EBR/human_ deer/strategy. pdf Anyone needing assistance in opposing the expansion of Sunday gun hunting in their area, please contact the Peaceful Parks Coalition. Municipal governments can rescind their decision to allow sport hunting on Sundays at any time. Circa 17,000 Hunting Violations press release (Nov. 2005), http://www.peaceful parks.org/ press-05/ nov7-05.pdf Peaceful Parks Coalition, P.O Box 326, Station B Toronto, Ontario M5T 2W2 T. 416.785.8636 E. ppc at peacefulparks. org W. www.peacefulparks. org --------------------------------- The best gets better. See why everyone is raving about the All-new Yahoo! Mail. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ottawaveg.com/pipermail/4animals/attachments/20061106/dfc00385/attachment.html From v at vaalea.com Wed Nov 8 04:26:54 2006 From: v at vaalea.com (vaalea) Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2006 23:26:54 -0500 Subject: [4animals] DEMO?? and article - Anti-factory farm postcard campaign Message-ID: <00d701c702ee$1efae6a0$6501a8c0@v> Animal Alliance Canada is asking if there is a group (6 people minimum) that would do a demo in Ottawa for laying hens. They provide the costumes. Are you guys interested? Email the list or email me directly...... (Thanks P for the info!) http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1162728965849&call_pageid=970599119419 Activists vs. factory farms Groups want consumers to force changes in egg and pork production Nov. 6, 2006. 05:26 AM STUART LAIDLAW, Toronto Star FAITH AND ETHICS REPORTER Smelling blood in the food industry, animal welfare activists in Canada and the U.S. are preparing to step up their campaigns against factory farming, with much of their focus on how eggs and pork are produced. "Eggs are the new veal," Paul Shapiro, of the Humane Society of the United States, told a conference on humane food in Toronto. With farm group representatives sitting in the audience, Shapiro and his Canadian counterparts urged the food industry to stop their costly public relations campaigns and to spend the money instead on making real changes to animal welfare. "If you are taking part in brutal, cruel practices, your days are numbered," said John Youngman, director of the Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals, which sponsored the conference. Industry spokesperson Jackie Wepruk, who attended the conference for the National Farm Animal Care Council, an umbrella group for food companies and farm groups, said the industry is interested in good animal welfare. "We are looking at renewing the codes of practice" for animal care, she said, pointing out that they have not been updated for more than 20 years. Youngman's group is an umbrella organization of 27 humane societies and animal welfare groups across the country that have already held several protests outside grocery stores mostly those belonging to the Loblaw chain with more in the works. The coalition has also launched postcard campaigns in which consumers are asked to mail pre-written cards to the heads of food companies such as Loblaw or Maple Leaf Foods asking them to require more strict animal welfare standards from their suppliers. Based in Manitoba, where the hog industry has been booming in recent years thanks to a Maple Leaf plant in Brandon, Youngman has put much of his effort into fighting the use of narrow crates to house sows in giant barns. One of his tactics is to set up one of the crates outside a grocery store, with a life-sized sow doll inside. He said most people are shocked to see the living conditions under which sows live, in crates so small they cannot turn around. Many challenge him on whether such conditions really exist, he said. "Once you convince them, you can get them to sign anything," he says, referring to the postcards and petitions he always has on hand at such a demonstration. Stephanie Brown, another director of the coalition and the food animal co-ordinator of the Toronto-based Animal Alliance of Canada, said consumers should expect to see more such demonstrations and postcard appeals outside their grocery stores. One postcard, aimed at Loblaw, calls on the company to ensure that the eggs it sells are not from hens housed in tiny cages known as battery cages, which restrict their movement and allow farmers to put more hens in one barn, increasing efficiency. Shapiro said battery cages provide each hen with a space smaller than an 8 1/2 by 11 letter-sized sheet of paper. Another postcard, targeting Maple Leaf Foods, Canada's largest hog slaughtering company, calls for the phasing out of gestation crates to house sows. The idea of the postcards is to convince the companies that their customers want these changes, Youngman said. The coalition has made chicken costumes and human-sized battery cages that it will be shipping to protests across the country over the next few months and into the spring. Protests have already been held in Toronto, Guelph and Halifax, with more planned for Winnipeg, Montreal, Vancouver and Courtenay, B.C. At the protests, demonstrators wear the costumes and get in the cage to show how cramped the conditions are. Other protestors then hand out the postcards and petitions. Wepruk rejected the idea that the industry does not know what consumers want, saying they are represented in her group in several ways: through the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies and associations that represent grocery and food manufacturing companies such as Loblaw and Maple Leaf. Shapiro said consumer-based campaigns can be effective, citing companies from McDonald's to Ben and Jerry's that have made public commitments to getting their food ingredients from more ethical sources. "Agriculture has not been at the forefront," he said. "Companies that are retailers have been at the forefront." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ottawaveg.com/pipermail/4animals/attachments/20061107/ff9ebc6f/attachment.html From dr.dreammaker at gmail.com Sun Nov 12 13:25:20 2006 From: dr.dreammaker at gmail.com (dr.dreammaker) Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 08:25:20 -0500 Subject: [4animals] DEMO?? and article - Anti-factory farm postcard campaign In-Reply-To: <00d701c702ee$1efae6a0$6501a8c0@v> References: <00d701c702ee$1efae6a0$6501a8c0@v> Message-ID: i'd be interested in participating... when were we thinking of doing this?? and where?? let me know (i'm out of town for another week but will be back in ottawa as of nov.17. xo. kelly. On 11/7/06, vaalea wrote: > > Animal Alliance Canada is asking if there is a group (6 people minimum) > that would do a demo in Ottawa for laying hens. They provide the costumes. Are > you guys interested? Email the list or email me directly...... (Thanks P for > the info!) > > > > http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1162728965849&call_pageid=970599119419 > > *Activists vs. factory farms* > Groups want consumers to force changes in egg and pork production > > > Nov. 6, 2006. 05:26 AM > > > STUART LAIDLAW, Toronto Star > FAITH AND ETHICS REPORTER > > Smelling blood in the food industry, animal welfare activists in Canada > and the U.S. are preparing to step up their campaigns against factory > farming, with much of their focus on how eggs and pork are produced. > > "Eggs are the new veal," Paul Shapiro, of the Humane Society of the United > States, told a conference on humane food in Toronto. > > With farm group representatives sitting in the audience, Shapiro and his > Canadian counterparts urged the food industry to stop their costly public > relations campaigns and to spend the money instead on making real changes to > animal welfare. "If you are taking part in brutal, cruel practices, your > days are numbered," said John Youngman, director of the Canadian Coalition > for Farm Animals, which sponsored the conference. > > Industry spokesperson Jackie Wepruk, who attended the conference for the > National Farm Animal Care Council, an umbrella group for food companies and > farm groups, said the industry is interested in good animal welfare. "We are > looking at renewing the codes of practice" for animal care, she said, > pointing out that they have not been updated for more than 20 years. > > Youngman's group is an umbrella organization of 27 humane societies and > animal welfare groups across the country that have already held several > protests outside grocery stores mostly those belonging to the Loblaw chain > with more in the works. > > The coalition has also launched postcard campaigns in which consumers are > asked to mail pre-written cards to the heads of food companies such as > Loblaw or Maple Leaf Foods asking them to require more strict animal welfare > standards from their suppliers. > > Based in Manitoba, where the hog industry has been booming in recent years > thanks to a Maple Leaf plant in Brandon, Youngman has put much of his effort > into fighting the use of narrow crates to house sows in giant barns. > > One of his tactics is to set up one of the crates outside a grocery store, > with a life-sized sow doll inside. He said most people are shocked to see > the living conditions under which sows live, in crates so small they cannot > turn around. Many challenge him on whether such conditions really exist, he > said. > > "Once you convince them, you can get them to sign anything," he says, > referring to the postcards and petitions he always has on hand at such a > demonstration. > > Stephanie Brown, another director of the coalition and the food animal > co-ordinator of the Toronto-based Animal Alliance of Canada, said consumers > should expect to see more such demonstrations and postcard appeals outside > their grocery stores. > > One postcard, aimed at Loblaw, calls on the company to ensure that the > eggs it sells are not from hens housed in tiny cages known as battery cages, > which restrict their movement and allow farmers to put more hens in one > barn, increasing efficiency. > > Shapiro said battery cages provide each hen with a space smaller than an 8 > 1/2 by 11 letter-sized sheet of paper. > > Another postcard, targeting Maple Leaf Foods, Canada's largest hog > slaughtering company, calls for the phasing out of gestation crates to house > sows. The idea of the postcards is to convince the companies that their > customers want these changes, Youngman said. > > The coalition has made chicken costumes and human-sized battery cages that > it will be shipping to protests across the country over the next few months > and into the spring. Protests have already been held in Toronto, Guelph and > Halifax, with more planned for Winnipeg, Montreal, Vancouver and Courtenay, > B.C. > > At the protests, demonstrators wear the costumes and get in the cage to > show how cramped the conditions are. Other protestors then hand out the > postcards and petitions. > > Wepruk rejected the idea that the industry does not know what consumers > want, saying they are represented in her group in several ways: through the > Canadian Federation of Humane Societies and associations that represent > grocery and food manufacturing companies such as Loblaw and Maple Leaf. > > Shapiro said consumer-based campaigns can be effective, citing companies > from McDonald's to Ben and Jerry's that have made public commitments to > getting their food ingredients from more ethical sources. > > "Agriculture has not been at the forefront," he said. "Companies that are > retailers have been at the forefront." > > > _______________________________________________ > 4animals mailing list > 4animals at ottawaveg.com > http://lists.ottawaveg.com/mailman/listinfo/4animals > > > -- you won't know what hit you. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ottawaveg.com/pipermail/4animals/attachments/20061112/02fd776c/attachment.html From edandrea at magma.ca Sun Nov 12 16:19:20 2006 From: edandrea at magma.ca (Edelweiss D'Andrea) Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 11:19:20 -0500 Subject: [4animals] DEMO?? and article - Anti-factory farm postcard campaign In-Reply-To: <00d701c702ee$1efae6a0$6501a8c0@v> Message-ID: i'm in. -----Original Message----- From: 4animals-bounces at ottawaveg.com [mailto:4animals-bounces at ottawaveg.com]On Behalf Of vaalea Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:27 PM To: 4animals Subject: [4animals] DEMO?? and article - Anti-factory farm postcard campaign Animal Alliance Canada is asking if there is a group (6 people minimum) that would do a demo in Ottawa for laying hens. They provide the costumes. Are you guys interested? Email the list or email me directly...... (Thanks P for the info!) http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/A rticle_Type1&c=Article&cid=1162728965849&call_pageid=970599119419 Activists vs. factory farms Groups want consumers to force changes in egg and pork production Nov. 6, 2006. 05:26 AM STUART LAIDLAW, Toronto Star FAITH AND ETHICS REPORTER Smelling blood in the food industry, animal welfare activists in Canada and the U.S. are preparing to step up their campaigns against factory farming, with much of their focus on how eggs and pork are produced. "Eggs are the new veal," Paul Shapiro, of the Humane Society of the United States, told a conference on humane food in Toronto. With farm group representatives sitting in the audience, Shapiro and his Canadian counterparts urged the food industry to stop their costly public relations campaigns and to spend the money instead on making real changes to animal welfare. "If you are taking part in brutal, cruel practices, your days are numbered," said John Youngman, director of the Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals, which sponsored the conference. Industry spokesperson Jackie Wepruk, who attended the conference for the National Farm Animal Care Council, an umbrella group for food companies and farm groups, said the industry is interested in good animal welfare. "We are looking at renewing the codes of practice" for animal care, she said, pointing out that they have not been updated for more than 20 years. Youngman's group is an umbrella organization of 27 humane societies and animal welfare groups across the country that have already held several protests outside grocery stores mostly those belonging to the Loblaw chain with more in the works. The coalition has also launched postcard campaigns in which consumers are asked to mail pre-written cards to the heads of food companies such as Loblaw or Maple Leaf Foods asking them to require more strict animal welfare standards from their suppliers. Based in Manitoba, where the hog industry has been booming in recent years thanks to a Maple Leaf plant in Brandon, Youngman has put much of his effort into fighting the use of narrow crates to house sows in giant barns. One of his tactics is to set up one of the crates outside a grocery store, with a life-sized sow doll inside. He said most people are shocked to see the living conditions under which sows live, in crates so small they cannot turn around. Many challenge him on whether such conditions really exist, he said. "Once you convince them, you can get them to sign anything," he says, referring to the postcards and petitions he always has on hand at such a demonstration. Stephanie Brown, another director of the coalition and the food animal co-ordinator of the Toronto-based Animal Alliance of Canada, said consumers should expect to see more such demonstrations and postcard appeals outside their grocery stores. One postcard, aimed at Loblaw, calls on the company to ensure that the eggs it sells are not from hens housed in tiny cages known as battery cages, which restrict their movement and allow farmers to put more hens in one barn, increasing efficiency. Shapiro said battery cages provide each hen with a space smaller than an 8 1/2 by 11 letter-sized sheet of paper. Another postcard, targeting Maple Leaf Foods, Canada's largest hog slaughtering company, calls for the phasing out of gestation crates to house sows. The idea of the postcards is to convince the companies that their customers want these changes, Youngman said. The coalition has made chicken costumes and human-sized battery cages that it will be shipping to protests across the country over the next few months and into the spring. Protests have already been held in Toronto, Guelph and Halifax, with more planned for Winnipeg, Montreal, Vancouver and Courtenay, B.C. At the protests, demonstrators wear the costumes and get in the cage to show how cramped the conditions are. Other protestors then hand out the postcards and petitions. Wepruk rejected the idea that the industry does not know what consumers want, saying they are represented in her group in several ways: through the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies and associations that represent grocery and food manufacturing companies such as Loblaw and Maple Leaf. Shapiro said consumer-based campaigns can be effective, citing companies from McDonald's to Ben and Jerry's that have made public commitments to getting their food ingredients from more ethical sources. "Agriculture has not been at the forefront," he said. "Companies that are retailers have been at the forefront." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ottawaveg.com/pipermail/4animals/attachments/20061112/ddf296bb/attachment.html From mbarrett at connect.carleton.ca Sun Nov 12 20:26:23 2006 From: mbarrett at connect.carleton.ca (Meredith Barrett) Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 15:26:23 -0500 (EST) Subject: [4animals] demo Message-ID: <5369500.1163363183192.JavaMail.mbarrett@connect.carleton.ca> i'm in for attending it. i have absolutely zero time for planning however, sorry guys! i'll stay tuned for details... meredith Edelweiss D'Andrea wrote: >i'm in. > -----Original Message----- > From: 4animals-bounces at ottawaveg.com >[mailto:4animals-bounces at ottawaveg.com]On Behalf Of vaalea > Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 11:27 PM > To: 4animals > Subject: [4animals] DEMO?? and article - Anti-factory farm postcard >campaign > > > Animal Alliance Canada is asking if there is a group (6 people minimum) >that would do a demo in Ottawa for laying hens. They provide the costumes. >Are you guys interested? Email the list or email me directly...... (Thanks P >for the info!) > > > > http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/A >rticle_Type1&c=Article&cid=1162728965849&call_pageid=970599119419 > > Activists vs. factory farms > Groups want consumers to force changes in egg and pork production > > > Nov. 6, 2006. 05:26 AM > > > STUART LAIDLAW, Toronto Star > FAITH AND ETHICS REPORTER > > Smelling blood in the food industry, animal welfare activists in Canada >and the U.S. are preparing to step up their campaigns against factory >farming, with much of their focus on how eggs and pork are produced. > > "Eggs are the new veal," Paul Shapiro, of the Humane Society of the >United States, told a conference on humane food in Toronto. > > With farm group representatives sitting in the audience, Shapiro and his >Canadian counterparts urged the food industry to stop their costly public >relations campaigns and to spend the money instead on making real changes to >animal welfare. "If you are taking part in brutal, cruel practices, your >days are numbered," said John Youngman, director of the Canadian Coalition >for Farm Animals, which sponsored the conference. > > Industry spokesperson Jackie Wepruk, who attended the conference for the >National Farm Animal Care Council, an umbrella group for food companies and >farm groups, said the industry is interested in good animal welfare. "We are >looking at renewing the codes of practice" for animal care, she said, >pointing out that they have not been updated for more than 20 years. > > Youngman's group is an umbrella organization of 27 humane societies and >animal welfare groups across the country that have already held several >protests outside grocery stores mostly those belonging to the Loblaw chain >with more in the works. > > The coalition has also launched postcard campaigns in which consumers >are asked to mail pre-written cards to the heads of food companies such as >Loblaw or Maple Leaf Foods asking them to require more strict animal welfare >standards from their suppliers. > > Based in Manitoba, where the hog industry has been booming in recent >years thanks to a Maple Leaf plant in Brandon, Youngman has put much of his >effort into fighting the use of narrow crates to house sows in giant barns. > > One of his tactics is to set up one of the crates outside a grocery >store, with a life-sized sow doll inside. He said most people are shocked to >see the living conditions under which sows live, in crates so small they >cannot turn around. Many challenge him on whether such conditions really >exist, he said. > > "Once you convince them, you can get them to sign anything," he says, >referring to the postcards and petitions he always has on hand at such a >demonstration. > > Stephanie Brown, another director of the coalition and the food animal >co-ordinator of the Toronto-based Animal Alliance of Canada, said consumers >should expect to see more such demonstrations and postcard appeals outside >their grocery stores. > > One postcard, aimed at Loblaw, calls on the company to ensure that the >eggs it sells are not from hens housed in tiny cages known as battery cages, >which restrict their movement and allow farmers to put more hens in one >barn, increasing efficiency. > > Shapiro said battery cages provide each hen with a space smaller than an >8 1/2 by 11 letter-sized sheet of paper. > > Another postcard, targeting Maple Leaf Foods, Canada's largest hog >slaughtering company, calls for the phasing out of gestation crates to house >sows. The idea of the postcards is to convince the companies that their >customers want these changes, Youngman said. > > The coalition has made chicken costumes and human-sized battery cages >that it will be shipping to protests across the country over the next few >months and into the spring. Protests have already been held in Toronto, >Guelph and Halifax, with more planned for Winnipeg, Montreal, Vancouver and >Courtenay, B.C. > > At the protests, demonstrators wear the costumes and get in the cage to >show how cramped the conditions are. Other protestors then hand out the >postcards and petitions. > > Wepruk rejected the idea that the industry does not know what consumers >want, saying they are represented in her group in several ways: through the >Canadian Federation of Humane Societies and associations that represent >grocery and food manufacturing companies such as Loblaw and Maple Leaf. > > Shapiro said consumer-based campaigns can be effective, citing companies >from McDonald's to Ben and Jerry's that have made public commitments to >getting their food ingredients from more ethical sources. > > "Agriculture has not been at the forefront," he said. "Companies that >are retailers have been at the forefront." > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ >4animals mailing list >4animals at ottawaveg.com >http://lists.ottawaveg.com/mailman/listinfo/4animals > From ottawa.animal.advocates at rogers.com Wed Nov 15 17:00:43 2006 From: ottawa.animal.advocates at rogers.com (ottawa animal advocates) Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 12:00:43 -0500 Subject: [4animals] Update Message-ID: <000601c708d7$9aed6af0$045f8b48@Victoria> Hello, For various reasons, I have decided that I need to reduce my involvement level in animal rights. I hope that my efforts with OAA so far might have made some difference for animals at some level. I am also very open to the possibility of 'handing over the reigns' to someone interested and capable so please let me know if you are interested or know someone who might be. The OAA site has been a really good resource in that it is a very professional looking site. If no-one expresses interest, I would still hope to post others' iniatives, such as those posted on the Ottawa Veg '4animals' forum (to join this forum you can sign up @ http://lists.ottawaveg.com/mailman/listinfo/4animals ) and definately still participate in and possibly organize or co-organize some demos or information tables. At this time I will post the following items: Fur in the Rideau Centre Below is a report from a 'mystery shopper' who donated their time to see which stores in the Rideau Centre already had fur stocked. The list is below although it may not be completely accurate as many stores did not have their winter collections out at the time of the compilation of the list. At this point, I thought that the results looked encouraging and I think the sucess of getting fur out of stores like Suzy Shier, Smart Set, Reitmans and Jacob is a major accomplishment. As someone mentionned, it looks like Tristan and America has also made the decision not to carry real animal fur. Despite efforts I was not able to get a confirmation from GAN, the group who initiated the campaign. Has anyone been in Tristan and America lately? Meeting to plan possible anti-fur and/or anti-seal hunt actions There were only 3 of us at the meeting in October but we did come to the conclusion that without a joint national effort like with the National Tristan and America campaign, that it may not be the best use of time to focus on a big chain like GUESS or Laura. We thought of perhaps a local store selling fur or a more conceptual/theatrical approach to a fur protest eg. dressing up like 'Cats' or assembling some dogs together (more than 2!) The National Anti-Fur Day and the National Anti-China Fur Day are both in the new year so there would still be time to plan for something if there was enough interest. Also, I recently saw another awful picture of the seal hunt in a recent Sea Shepherd update and I was wondering if there is any interest in putting something together this Spring? There seems to be momentum with the seafood boycott and with Germany imposing an official ban on seal 'products' from Canada http://www.harpseals.org/hunt/press/german_ban.html Animal Alliance Demo for Farm Animals Animal Alliance Canada is asking if there is a group (6 people minimum) that would do a demo in Ottawa for laying hens this month I believe. They provide the costumes. Is anyone interested? More info will hopefully follow if there is enough interest in participation. http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1162728965849&call_pageid=970599119419 Activists vs. factory farms Groups want consumers to force changes in egg and pork production Nov. 6, 2006. 05:26 AM STUART LAIDLAW, Toronto Star FAITH AND ETHICS REPORTER Smelling blood in the food industry, animal welfare activists in Canada and the U.S. are preparing to step up their campaigns against factory farming, with much of their focus on how eggs and pork are produced. "Eggs are the new veal," Paul Shapiro, of the Humane Society of the United States, told a conference on humane food in Toronto. With farm group representatives sitting in the audience, Shapiro and his Canadian counterparts urged the food industry to stop their costly public relations campaigns and to spend the money instead on making real changes to animal welfare. "If you are taking part in brutal, cruel practices, your days are numbered," said John Youngman, director of the Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals, which sponsored the conference. Industry spokesperson Jackie Wepruk, who attended the conference for the National Farm Animal Care Council, an umbrella group for food companies and farm groups, said the industry is interested in good animal welfare. "We are looking at renewing the codes of practice" for animal care, she said, pointing out that they have not been updated for more than 20 years. Youngman's group is an umbrella organization of 27 humane societies and animal welfare groups across the country that have already held several protests outside grocery stores mostly those belonging to the Loblaw chain with more in the works. The coalition has also launched postcard campaigns in which consumers are asked to mail pre-written cards to the heads of food companies such as Loblaw or Maple Leaf Foods asking them to require more strict animal welfare standards from their suppliers. Based in Manitoba, where the hog industry has been booming in recent years thanks to a Maple Leaf plant in Brandon, Youngman has put much of his effort into fighting the use of narrow crates to house sows in giant barns. One of his tactics is to set up one of the crates outside a grocery store, with a life-sized sow doll inside. He said most people are shocked to see the living conditions under which sows live, in crates so small they cannot turn around. Many challenge him on whether such conditions really exist, he said. "Once you convince them, you can get them to sign anything," he says, referring to the postcards and petitions he always has on hand at such a demonstration. Stephanie Brown, another director of the coalition and the food animal co-ordinator of the Toronto-based Animal Alliance of Canada, said consumers should expect to see more such demonstrations and postcard appeals outside their grocery stores. One postcard, aimed at Loblaw, calls on the company to ensure that the eggs it sells are not from hens housed in tiny cages known as battery cages, which restrict their movement and allow farmers to put more hens in one barn, increasing efficiency. Shapiro said battery cages provide each hen with a space smaller than an 8 1/2 by 11 letter-sized sheet of paper. Another postcard, targeting Maple Leaf Foods, Canada's largest hog slaughtering company, calls for the phasing out of gestation crates to house sows. The idea of the postcards is to convince the companies that their customers want these changes, Youngman said. The coalition has made chicken costumes and human-sized battery cages that it will be shipping to protests across the country over the next few months and into the spring. Protests have already been held in Toronto, Guelph and Halifax, with more planned for Winnipeg, Montreal, Vancouver and Courtenay, B.C. At the protests, demonstrators wear the costumes and get in the cage to show how cramped the conditions are. Other protestors then hand out the postcards and petitions. Wepruk rejected the idea that the industry does not know what consumers want, saying they are represented in her group in several ways: through the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies and associations that represent grocery and food manufacturing companies such as Loblaw and Maple Leaf. Shapiro said consumer-based campaigns can be effective, citing companies from McDonald's to Ben and Jerry's that have made public commitments to getting their food ingredients from more ethical sources. "Agriculture has not been at the forefront," he said. "Companies that are retailers have been at the forefront." Fur at the Rideau Center ? 2006 Stores without any visible fur Trivium ? NO fur policy Garage ? NO fur Warrens ? NO fur Tommy Hilfiger ? Nothing visible Banana Republic ? Nothing visible Jacob ? Nothing visible TieRack ? No Fur Le Chateau ? No fur RW&Co ? No Fur American Apparel ? NO Fur Smart Set ? No Fur Suzy Shier ? No Fur Artizia ? Nothing visible Bennetton ? Nothing visible Cleo ? Nothing visible Last years? offenders Aldo Accessories ? Nothing visible yet but normally carry Sirens ? Nothing visible yet ? did carry fur last year and will sell it if distributors send it Urban Behaviour ? Nothing visible but did sell last year Dynamite ? Nothing visible but did carry last year Jacob ? Nothing visible Tristan ? Nothing visible yet ? did carry last year Mexx ? Nothing visible Club Monaco ? Nothing visible Shopper?s Drug Mart ? Nothing visible This year?s offenders ? Stores with visible fur in store Sears ? FUR ? scarves, accessories Fairweather ? FUR ? scarves Melanie Lynn ? FUR ? scarves Fancy Sox ? Fur trim on slippers This year?s offenders ? THE BIG ONES! DANIER LEATHER ? LOTS OF FUR Cliqot ? LOTS OF FUR ? visible in window display ? gloves, scarves, shawls, collars, fox and rabbit Shepherd?s ? LOTS OF FUR - visible in window display ? gloves, scarves, shawls, collars, fox and other Carriere ? LOTS OF FUR ? wool coats with fur collars, scarves, pom-pom accessories JMichaels ? LOTS OF FUR ? wide variety of fur scarves GUESS ? LOTS OF FUR ? whole jackets, vests, scarves ? One of the biggest offenders this year! Rabbit fur. Salespeople claim it is from shaved rabbits The Bay ? Of course! One of the Big players I have also noticed fur at Winners as usual, as well as rabbit fur hats at Mark's Work Warehouse and fur trim on boots at Pay Less Shoe Stores. Please let me know if you are interested in an Animal Alliance factory farming demo ASAP or getting together at some point with other interested activists to discuss possible anti-fur/anti-seal hunt iniatives. Thanks, Victoria -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ottawaveg.com/pipermail/4animals/attachments/20061115/b6be9702/attachment.html From v at vaalea.com Thu Nov 16 05:41:27 2006 From: v at vaalea.com (vaalea) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 00:41:27 -0500 Subject: [4animals] AR EVENTS - OPIRG -- OttawaU Message-ID: <020801c70941$dca42e60$6501a8c0@v> http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~opirg/english_pages/animalrights.html HERE IS a very important Campus Map so that you can find where to go before you get there: http://www.uottawa.ca/map/ ____________________________________________________________ "Earthlings" documentary TOMORROW Free Movie night. Friday November 17th at 7:00pm at University of Ottawa; Macdonald Auditorium (MCD 146) _____________________________________________________________ Animals in Canada: Anything Goes Speaker: Lesli Bisgould, Animal Rights Lawyer Wednesday November 22 at 7:00pm Marion Hall Auditorium Caroline, please tell us more about your AR group. =0) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ottawaveg.com/pipermail/4animals/attachments/20061116/9f049b8a/attachment.html From pekieca at yahoo.com Thu Nov 16 15:55:10 2006 From: pekieca at yahoo.com (K) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 10:55:10 -0500 (EST) Subject: [4animals] Update In-Reply-To: <000601c708d7$9aed6af0$045f8b48@Victoria> Message-ID: <687142.45563.qm@web52714.mail.yahoo.com> Tristan and America has changed its policy to only sell faux fur trimmed items and have large hang tags on such items advising of same. K ottawa animal advocates wrote: Hello, For various reasons, I have decided that I need to reduce my involvement level in animal rights. I hope that my efforts with OAA so far might have made some difference for animals at some level. I am also very open to the possibility of 'handing over the reigns' to someone interested and capable so please let me know if you are interested or know someone who might be. The OAA site has been a really good resource in that it is a very professional looking site. If no-one expresses interest, I would still hope to post others' iniatives, such as those posted on the Ottawa Veg '4animals' forum (to join this forum you can sign up @ http://lists.ottawaveg.com/mailman/listinfo/4animals ) and definately still participate in and possibly organize or co-organize some demos or information tables. At this time I will post the following items: Fur in the Rideau Centre Below is a report from a 'mystery shopper' who donated their time to see which stores in the Rideau Centre already had fur stocked. The list is below although it may not be completely accurate as many stores did not have their winter collections out at the time of the compilation of the list. At this point, I thought that the results looked encouraging and I think the sucess of getting fur out of stores like Suzy Shier, Smart Set, Reitmans and Jacob is a major accomplishment. As someone mentionned, it looks like Tristan and America has also made the decision not to carry real animal fur. Despite efforts I was not able to get a confirmation from GAN, the group who initiated the campaign. Has anyone been in Tristan and America lately? Meeting to plan possible anti-fur and/or anti-seal hunt actions There were only 3 of us at the meeting in October but we did come to the conclusion that without a joint national effort like with the National Tristan and America campaign, that it may not be the best use of time to focus on a big chain like GUESS or Laura. We thought of perhaps a local store selling fur or a more conceptual/theatrical approach to a fur protest eg. dressing up like 'Cats' or assembling some dogs together (more than 2!) The National Anti-Fur Day and the National Anti-China Fur Day are both in the new year so there would still be time to plan for something if there was enough interest. Also, I recently saw another awful picture of the seal hunt in a recent Sea Shepherd update and I was wondering if there is any interest in putting something together this Spring? There seems to be momentum with the seafood boycott and with Germany imposing an official ban on seal 'products' from Canada http://www.harpseals.org/hunt/press/german_ban.html Animal Alliance Demo for Farm Animals Animal Alliance Canada is asking if there is a group (6 people minimum) that would do a demo in Ottawa for laying hens this month I believe. They provide the costumes. Is anyone interested? More info will hopefully follow if there is enough interest in participation. http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1162728965849&call_pageid=970599119419 Activists vs. factory farms Groups want consumers to force changes in egg and pork production Nov. 6, 2006. 05:26 AM STUART LAIDLAW, Toronto Star FAITH AND ETHICS REPORTER Smelling blood in the food industry, animal welfare activists in Canada and the U.S. are preparing to step up their campaigns against factory farming, with much of their focus on how eggs and pork are produced. "Eggs are the new veal," Paul Shapiro, of the Humane Society of the United States, told a conference on humane food in Toronto. With farm group representatives sitting in the audience, Shapiro and his Canadian counterparts urged the food industry to stop their costly public relations campaigns and to spend the money instead on making real changes to animal welfare. "If you are taking part in brutal, cruel practices, your days are numbered," said John Youngman, director of the Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals, which sponsored the conference. Industry spokesperson Jackie Wepruk, who attended the conference for the National Farm Animal Care Council, an umbrella group for food companies and farm groups, said the industry is interested in good animal welfare. "We are looking at renewing the codes of practice" for animal care, she said, pointing out that they have not been updated for more than 20 years. Youngman's group is an umbrella organization of 27 humane societies and animal welfare groups across the country that have already held several protests outside grocery stores mostly those belonging to the Loblaw chain with more in the works. The coalition has also launched postcard campaigns in which consumers are asked to mail pre-written cards to the heads of food companies such as Loblaw or Maple Leaf Foods asking them to require more strict animal welfare standards from their suppliers. Based in Manitoba, where the hog industry has been booming in recent years thanks to a Maple Leaf plant in Brandon, Youngman has put much of his effort into fighting the use of narrow crates to house sows in giant barns. One of his tactics is to set up one of the crates outside a grocery store, with a life-sized sow doll inside. He said most people are shocked to see the living conditions under which sows live, in crates so small they cannot turn around. Many challenge him on whether such conditions really exist, he said. "Once you convince them, you can get them to sign anything," he says, referring to the postcards and petitions he always has on hand at such a demonstration. Stephanie Brown, another director of the coalition and the food animal co-ordinator of the Toronto-based Animal Alliance of Canada, said consumers should expect to see more such demonstrations and postcard appeals outside their grocery stores. One postcard, aimed at Loblaw, calls on the company to ensure that the eggs it sells are not from hens housed in tiny cages known as battery cages, which restrict their movement and allow farmers to put more hens in one barn, increasing efficiency. Shapiro said battery cages provide each hen with a space smaller than an 8 1/2 by 11 letter-sized sheet of paper. Another postcard, targeting Maple Leaf Foods, Canada's largest hog slaughtering company, calls for the phasing out of gestation crates to house sows. The idea of the postcards is to convince the companies that their customers want these changes, Youngman said. The coalition has made chicken costumes and human-sized battery cages that it will be shipping to protests across the country over the next few months and into the spring. Protests have already been held in Toronto, Guelph and Halifax, with more planned for Winnipeg, Montreal, Vancouver and Courtenay, B.C. At the protests, demonstrators wear the costumes and get in the cage to show how cramped the conditions are. Other protestors then hand out the postcards and petitions. Wepruk rejected the idea that the industry does not know what consumers want, saying they are represented in her group in several ways: through the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies and associations that represent grocery and food manufacturing companies such as Loblaw and Maple Leaf. Shapiro said consumer-based campaigns can be effective, citing companies from McDonald's to Ben and Jerry's that have made public commitments to getting their food ingredients from more ethical sources. "Agriculture has not been at the forefront," he said. "Companies that are retailers have been at the forefront." Fur at the Rideau Center ? 2006 Stores without any visible fur Trivium ? NO fur policy Garage ? NO fur Warrens ? NO fur Tommy Hilfiger ? Nothing visible Banana Republic ? Nothing visible Jacob ? Nothing visible TieRack ? No Fur Le Chateau ? No fur RW&Co ? No Fur American Apparel ? NO Fur Smart Set ? No Fur Suzy Shier ? No Fur Artizia ? Nothing visible Bennetton ? Nothing visible Cleo ? Nothing visible Last years? offenders Aldo Accessories ? Nothing visible yet but normally carry Sirens ? Nothing visible yet ? did carry fur last year and will sell it if distributors send it Urban Behaviour ? Nothing visible but did sell last year Dynamite ? Nothing visible but did carry last year Jacob ? Nothing visible Tristan ? Nothing visible yet ? did carry last year Mexx ? Nothing visible Club Monaco ? Nothing visible Shopper?s Drug Mart ? Nothing visible This year?s offenders ? Stores with visible fur in store Sears ? FUR ? scarves, accessories Fairweather ? FUR ? scarves Melanie Lynn ? FUR ? scarves Fancy Sox ? Fur trim on slippers This year?s offenders ? THE BIG ONES! DANIER LEATHER ? LOTS OF FUR Cliqot ? LOTS OF FUR ? visible in window display ? gloves, scarves, shawls, collars, fox and rabbit Shepherd?s ? LOTS OF FUR - visible in window display ? gloves, scarves, shawls, collars, fox and other Carriere ? LOTS OF FUR ? wool coats with fur collars, scarves, pom-pom accessories JMichaels ? LOTS OF FUR ? wide variety of fur scarves GUESS ? LOTS OF FUR ? whole jackets, vests, scarves ? One of the biggest offenders this year! Rabbit fur. Salespeople claim it is from shaved rabbits The Bay ? Of course! One of the Big players I have also noticed fur at Winners as usual, as well as rabbit fur hats at Mark's Work Warehouse and fur trim on boots at Pay Less Shoe Stores. Please let me know if you are interested in an Animal Alliance factory farming demo ASAP or getting together at some point with other interested activists to discuss possible anti-fur/anti-seal hunt iniatives. Thanks, Victoria _______________________________________________ 4animals mailing list 4animals at ottawaveg.com http://lists.ottawaveg.com/mailman/listinfo/4animals --------------------------------- Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ottawaveg.com/pipermail/4animals/attachments/20061116/6abe21d6/attachment.html From pekieca at yahoo.com Mon Nov 20 16:08:02 2006 From: pekieca at yahoo.com (K) Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:08:02 -0500 (EST) Subject: [4animals] Seal Hunt Poll - From Rebecca In-Reply-To: <687142.45563.qm@web52714.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <871161.10940.qm@web52713.mail.yahoo.com> >From a Norwegian newspaper, link at bottom. To vote AGAINST the hunt, vote: "Ja, stopp fangsten. Den betyr ingen ting." = Yes, stop the hunt. It is not necessary. K To: animalscanada- news at yahoogroups .com ; sealhunt at yahoogroup s.com Sent: Friday, November 17, 2006 12:29 PM Subject: [animalscanada- news] Urgent seal hunt poll Hi there, Can you please cross post everywhere you can - we are tied in this poll asking if seal hunting should be banned. Though in Norway it concerns the Canadian seal hunt and pending trade bans - it is a really important poll (very influential newspaper) so please take a minute to vote! Thanks, Rebecca Vote against sealing: "Ja, stopp fangsten. Den betyr ingen ting." = Yes, stop the hunt. It is not necessary. http://www.fiskaren .no/incoming/ article116195. ece --------------------------------- All new Yahoo! Mail - --------------------------------- Get a sneak peak at messages with a handy reading pane. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://lists.ottawaveg.com/pipermail/4animals/attachments/20061120/329ea5bc/attachment.html From v at vaalea.com Sat Nov 25 09:33:06 2006 From: v at vaalea.com (vaalea) Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 04:33:06 -0500 Subject: [4animals] IMPORTANT NOTICE RE SEAL HUNT EVENT Message-ID: <00be01c71074$b765eeb0$6501a8c0@v> Next Wednesday and Thursday evenings (Nov 29 and 30), Rebecca Aldworth, Director of Canadian Wildlife Issues for The Humane Society of the United States ("HSUS"), will be in Ottawa. Many of you know of Rebecca's ongoing courageous efforts to stop the commercial seal hunt. Since the Canadian media chooses to ignore the cruel facts surrounding the seal hunt, a large video display unit featuring images of the hunt will be shown to the public. Literature will be distributed and petitions signed. Canadians need to be educated about the true facts of the hunt and be informed about the Canadian government's campaign of misinformation. Volunteers are desperately needed to help distribute literature and get petitions signed. The video display unit will be in a downtown location on Wednesday, November 29 and Thursday, November, 30, and will be operated for a few hours each day, as it gets dark outside (from 5 pm to 9 pm or thereabouts). We need some volunteers each night to help us hand out literature, get petitions signed, etc. Please advise if you can help out for any amount of time. Those who respond will be provided with details on the exact location of the event, which is to take place downtown. For more information on HSUS, please go to: http://www.hsus.org/marine_mammals/protect_seals/ Thank you from the seals. K. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: http://lists.ottawaveg.com/pipermail/4animals/attachments/20061125/1ab95031/attachment.html From dr.dreammaker at gmail.com Sun Nov 26 16:37:29 2006 From: dr.dreammaker at gmail.com (dr.dreammaker) Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 11:37:29 -0500 Subject: [4animals] IMPORTANT NOTICE RE SEAL HUNT EVENT In-Reply-To: <00be01c71074$b765eeb0$6501a8c0@v> References: <00be01c71074$b765eeb0$6501a8c0@v> Message-ID: i'd love to do this... i was involved in something similar a few years ago in washington, dc and it was amazing (there was a TON of harassment... people who were angry with what we were doing... but there were also a lot of people who seemed to get it...) anyway, i'm free either of those evenings... kelly. 613-558-8343 On 11/25/06, vaalea wrote: > > Next Wednesday and Thursday evenings (*Nov 29 and 30*), Rebecca Aldworth, > Director of Canadian Wildlife Issues for The Humane Society of the United > States ("HSUS"), will be in Ottawa. Many of you know of Rebecca's > ongoing courageous efforts to stop the commercial seal hunt. Since the > Canadian media chooses to ignore the cruel facts surrounding the seal hunt, > a large video display unit featuring images of the hunt will be shown to > the public. Literature will be distributed and petitions signed. > > *Canadians need to be educated about the true facts of the hunt and be > informed about the Canadian government's campaign of misinformation. > > *Volunteers are desperately needed to help distribute literature and get > petitions signed. The video display unit will be in a downtown location > on Wednesday, November 29 and Thursday, November, 30, and will be operatedfor a few hours each > day, as it gets dark outside (from 5 pm to 9 pm or thereabouts). > > We need some volunteers each night to help us hand out literature, get > petitions signed, etc. > > Please advise if you can help out for any amount of time. Those who > respond will be provided with details on the exact location of the event, > which is to take place downtown. > > For more information on HSUS, please go to: > http://www.hsus.org/marine_mammals/protect_seals/ > > Thank you from the seals. > > K. > > _______________________________________________ > 4animals mailing list > 4animals at ottawaveg.com > http://lists.ottawaveg.com/mailman/listinfo/4animals > > > -- you won't know what hit you. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ottawaveg.com/pipermail/4animals/attachments/20061126/2dca9b77/attachment.html From pekieca at yahoo.com Sun Nov 26 16:52:11 2006 From: pekieca at yahoo.com (K) Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2006 11:52:11 -0500 (EST) Subject: [4animals] IMPORTANT NOTICE RE SEAL HUNT EVENT Message-ID: <257779.11163.qm@web52708.mail.yahoo.com> Thanks for posting this, Vaalea. Due to time constraints, would anyone interested in helping write me directly at pekieca at yahoo.com Thanks from the Seals --- 4animals-bounces at ottawaveg.com wrote: > Next Wednesday and Thursday evenings (Nov 29 and 30), Rebecca Aldworth, > Director of Canadian Wildlife Issues for The Humane Society of the > United States ("HSUS"), will be in Ottawa. Many of you know of > Rebecca's ongoing courageous efforts to stop the commercial seal hunt. > Since the Canadian media chooses to ignore the cruel facts surrounding > the seal hunt, a large video display unit featuring images of the hunt > will be shown to the public. Literature will be distributed and > petitions signed. > > Canadians need to be educated about the true facts of the hunt and be > informed about the Canadian government's campaign of misinformation. > > Volunteers are desperately needed to help distribute literature and get > petitions signed. The video display unit will be in a downtown location > on Wednesday, November 29 and Thursday, November, 30, and will be > operated for a few hours each day, as it gets dark outside (from 5 pm to > 9 pm or thereabouts). > > We need some volunteers each night to help us hand out literature, get > petitions signed, etc. > > Please advise if you can help out for any amount of time. Those who > respond will be provided with details on the exact location of the > event, which is to take place downtown. > > For more information on HSUS, please go to: > http://www.hsus.org/marine_mammals/protect_seals/ > > Thank you from the seals. > > K. > ------------ > _______________________________________________ > 4animals mailing list > 4animals at ottawaveg.com > http://lists.ottawaveg.com/mailman/listinfo/4animals ____________________________________________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Everyone is raving about the all-new Yahoo! Mail beta. http://new.mail.yahoo.com From edandrea at magma.ca Tue Nov 28 01:20:55 2006 From: edandrea at magma.ca (Edelweiss D'Andrea) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 20:20:55 -0500 Subject: [4animals] laying hens demo? In-Reply-To: <00be01c71074$b765eeb0$6501a8c0@v> Message-ID: Hello Vaalea, When is the Animal Alliance Canada demo in Ottawa for laying hens? I haven't heard any news about it, recently. Edelweiss -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ottawaveg.com/pipermail/4animals/attachments/20061127/d774d9f2/attachment.html From uhuman at gmail.com Tue Nov 28 02:49:32 2006 From: uhuman at gmail.com (uHuman) Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 21:49:32 -0500 Subject: [4animals] Study: Humpback whales have "human" brain cells Message-ID: from http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-11/28/content_5400095.htm Study: Humpback whales have "human" brain cells www.chinaview.cn2006-11-28 09:28:01 [image: A humpback whale was found dead on the beach of Lombardsijde near Nieuwpoort in Belgium on Mar 5 2006.] A humpback whale was found dead on the beach of Lombardsijde near Nieuwpoort in Belgium on Mar 5 2006. (File Photo) Photo Gallery >>> BEIJING, Nov. 28 (Xinhuanet) -- U.S. marine scientists say they've found humpback whales have a type of brain cell that is also seen in human brains. Researchers of the Department of Neuroscience at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York studied the brains of humpback whales and discovered a type of cell called a spindle neuron in the cortex, in areas comparable to where they are seen in humans and great apes. The function of spindle neurons, which is not well understood yet, may be involved in cognition -- learning, remembering and recognizing the world around oneself. The finding may help explain some of the behaviors seen in whales, such as intricate communication skills, the formation of alliances, cooperation, cultural transmission and tool usage, the researchers report in The Anatomical Record. Spindle neurons probably first appeared in the common ancestor of hominids, humans and great apes about 15 million years ago, the researchers said -- they are not seen in lesser apes or monkeys. In cetaceans they would have evolved earlier, possibly as early as 30 million years ago, the researchers said. The new study suggests certain cetaceans and hominids may have evolved side by side. Male humpbacks use grammar in love songs www.chinaview.cn 2006-11-28 10:08:01 BEIJING, Nov. 28 (Xinhuanet) -- Scientists have found that not only do male humpback whales sing love songs, they use grammar. And they have a larger vocabulary than previously thought. Scientists had previously known of a very narrow range of sounds involved in humpback communication. These include calls associated with hunting for fish and long complex songs from male humpbacks linked with mating. "The most surprising thing was there were 35 different types of sounds found. We were expecting less than 10," said researcher Rebecca Dunlop at the University of Queensland in Australia. Dunlop and colleagues monitored humpback sounds and activity from land as the whales migrated along the east coast of Australia from breeding grounds inside the Great Barrier Reef to feeding grounds in the Antarctic. The underwater sounds they recorded included "thwops," "wops," "grumbles," "snorts," "cries," and what are likely underwater blows similar to surface spouting. Surface sounds include those when breaching or repeated slaps of the tail or fins. The scientists discovered these sounds appeared to have a variety of social uses including to help mothers and calves stay in contact, or as competitive calls among large groups of adults. The whale calls might also be be specific to one sex. Some sounds are only used by males for social interactions, especially when single males joined females. This could mean the song units are the key sexual signals in the male songs as opposed to song length or loudness, as is the case in some bird species, the researchers said. Research earlier this year found humpback whales to use grammar in their love songs. Interestingly, the new study found that a number of sounds were made by lone animals. This suggests their use is not limited to social interactions. This research could help understand the impact noise from ships and other manmade sounds have on whales. "This noise is increasing in the ocean," Dunlop said. "We don't know how this will affect individuals and populations of whales without first knowing how they communicate in a relatively 'noise-free' environment." The researchers will report their findings Dec. 1 in Honolulu at a joint meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ottawaveg.com/pipermail/4animals/attachments/20061127/5990cfe8/attachment.html