1. Destructive Dog Management Insights from the American Veterinary
Medical Association conference speakers. Click this link or
paste it into your web browser:
http://www.paw-rescue.org/PAW/PETTIPS/DogTip_DestructiveDog.php
2. Fascinating article from the AP wire service about U.S. citizens
and legislators with a conscience pushing for humane
treatment of farm animals after a film exposed cruelty -- back
in the 1950s!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/27/AR2008022701839.html?tid=informbox
3. A special message for Maryland residents:
Maryland residents: Show Up in Support of Foie Gras Ban Bill
Hearings have been scheduled for S.B. 599 and H.B. 1137, legislation
introduced by Senator Joan Carter-Conway and Delegate Tanya
Shewell, to ban foie gras produced by force-feeding, as well as the
sale of this product in Maryland. Here are details for
hearings for S.B. 599 and H.B. 1137:
Tuesday, March 4 1:00 p.m.
Senate Education, Health & Environmental Affairs
Committee
2 West, Miller Senate Building, Annapolis
Tuesday, March 11, 2008 - 1:00 p.m.
House Environmental Matters Committee
Room 251, House Office Bldg, 6 Bladen St., Annapolis
No need to testify at the hearing - your presence alone will help.
If possible, while there, we will assist you in speaking to
your legislators. Your
attendance at the hearings could be the key to the bills' passage.
Whether you attend either hearing, please take a moment right now to call
AND email your state (not federal) senator and ask that s/he
support S.B. 599,
and ask your state delegate to support H.B. 1137, to ban the cruel
production and sale of foie gras in Maryland. You can look up
their names and contact
information at
http://mdelect.net/electedofficials
. Foie gras is produced by confining birds (usually ducks) inside
tiny pens or individual cages and force-feeding them up to a
third of their own body weight daily. In just a few weeks, the force
feeding causes the birds' livers to swell up to 10 times their
normal size and develop a diseased state of hepatic
lipidosis that leaves them unable to walk, stand or even breathe
without extreme pain.
. One former worker at a large North American foie gras production
facility recounts that his supervisor told him, "The point of
gavage
[force feeding] is to make a duck as sick as possible, to
bring them to
the brink of death."
. Foie gras production is so cruel that California, Chicago and more
than a dozen countries have banned foie gras sales and/or
production.
. Close to 80% of Americans polled by Zogby International oppose the
force feeding of birds for foie gras production and favor a
ban.
For more free tipsheets on dozens of behavior, health, safety,
adoption planning, and other topics, skim the Dog Tips index
at:
http://www.paw-rescue.org/PAW/dog_tips.php
For excellent books to help with nearly every canine care issue, as
well as cat and other companion animal
topics, see:
http://www.paw-rescue.org/PAW/PETTIPS/DogTip_Books.php
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Robin
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