Ask Nepal to prevent animal cruelty during the Gadhimai Jatra festival
https://secure.humanesociety.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=4287&autologin=true&JServSessionIdr003=ih4gu2ndh2.app303a


Ask for renewable energy that keeps wildlands and wildlife safe
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/sunzia/xn8u88g4273w7ei3?

End Water Pollution from Mountaintop Removal Mining
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/674401908

Important Brookstone News: Snails Will No Longer Suffer and Die
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2361&autologin=true&c=weekly_enews


Stop Hunters in New South Wales!
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2457&autologin=true&c=weekly_enews

Ask Saginaw Valley State to End Cruel Classroom Experiments
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=625&autologin=true&c=weekly_enews

Tell Your Senators to Act Against Global Warming

Walruses, polar bears, sea birds and other wildlife are struggling in a warming world.

Please write your senators and urge them to support decisive action to reduce carbon emissions and help our wildlife survive the impacts of global warming.

https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1559&autologin=true&JServSessionIdr003=xk9nkbm4g4.app225a

Bring Back the “Twilight” Wolves

https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1625&JServSessionIdr003=xk9nkbm4g4.app225a

Help End Aerial Wolf Killing: Urge Your Representative and Senators to Co-Sponsor the PAW Act

https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?JServSessionIdr003=xk9nkbm4g4.app225a&cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1517

Help Animals Suffering in University of Utah Laboratories

Undercover Investigation Reveals Cruelty and Neglect in Utah Lab

https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2679&autologin=true&c=peta2_enews

Don’t Schoolchildren Deserve the Option of Healthy Alternatives to Cows’ Milk?
https://secure2.convio.net/fsi/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=225

Urge Secretary of State Clinton to Reject Deadly Tar Sands Oil Pipelines
http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=canada_tar_sands

End Alaska's Awful Aerial Wolf Killing Programs -- Support the PAW Act!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/133558152

Madang, Papua New Guinea's Mighty Ramu River Rainforests, Carbon and Peoples Threatened by Timber Mafia & Government Corruption
http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=png_redd_logging

Protect Sea Otters in Bristol Bay from Drilling
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/463238753

Help Stop the Building of a Primate Breeding Facility in the City of Guayama
http://www.pcrm.org/resch/anexp/guayama.html
https://secure2.convio.net/pcrm/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=271&autologin=true&JServSessionIdr011=6yhlotsw23.app6b

End the Use of Pigs in Vanderbilt's Trauma Training Program
https://secure2.convio.net/pcrm/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=269&autologin=true&JServSessionIdr001=u3ig1p8tf3.app8b

Update: Brookstone Employees Leave Sick Animals on Store Shelves
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2361&autologin=true&c=weekly_enews&JServSessionIdr001=4kr1wj85e1.app303a

'Bambi Butchers' Horror
Link 1 : https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=112
Link 2 : https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1548

'Eight Belles' Should Sound the End of Racetrack Betting
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1508

'Meat's Not Green' Petition
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1911

'Sugar' Shane Mosley KOs Dogfighting
Link 1 : https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2343
Link 2 : https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2349

'Washington Post' Investigation Reveals Government Testing Sham
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=116

Ask Petland to End Rabbit Sales After Employee Rabbit Killings
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2393

Stop Military Bomb Experiments on Live Animals
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2313

Update: Brookstone Employees Leave Sick Animals on Store Shelves
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2365

Tell Fort Sam Houston to Stop Cutting Off Living Goats' Limbs!
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2309

Exposed: Pigs Are Dying Aboard U.S. Military Bound Cargo Ships
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2321

Tell Fort Dix to Stop Burning and Stabbing Live Animals
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2323

Update: Brookstone Employees Leave Sick Animals on Store Shelves
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2361&autologin=true&c=weekly_enews&JServSessionIdr001=4kr1wj85e1.app303a

Tell Fort Dix to Stop Burning and Stabbing Live Animals
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2323

Urge Gov. Doyle to Boycott The Great Circus Parade
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2333

Urge Benetton to Drop the Fur!
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2197

Monkeys in Army Lab Need Your Help!
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2352

Urge Smithfield To Keep Its Promise to Eliminate Cruel Crates!
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2299

Ask Talbots to Help End Australian Lamb Mutilation
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2305

PELA ABOLIÇÃO DO USO DE ANIMAIS EM CIRCOS
http://www.petitiononline.com/plcircos/

Undercover Investigation Reveals That Ringling Beats Elephants
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2359

Permanently Ban Ivory Sales
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/m/sign/233178753

End Mountain Top Removal
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/m/sign/700185428

Press Senate on Climate Bill
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/m/sign/588190272

Tell Hallmark to Stop Exploiting Chimpanzees
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2367

Stop Overusing Antibiotics on Healthy Farm Animals
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/374076373

Save Southern and Midwestern Freshwater Turtles From Harvesting
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/biodiversity/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26934

The Woof Petition
The only difference between pigs and dogs is the way we treat them. On factory farms, mother pigs spend their days and nights on the cold concrete floors of tiny metal boxes called "gestation crates" (or "farrowing crates"). The crates are so small that the pigs can't even turn around—but they spend most of their lives in there.
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1907

Save California's State Parks
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/m/sign/770406878

Stop Tongass Logging Plan
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/m/sign/266674325

Reinstate Federal Protections for the wolves in the Norther Rockies
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/m/sign/165659664

Mining Plan Threatens Lake
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/m/sign/179514056

Ban Aerial Wolf Hunting
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/m/sign/133558152

Save Arctic Wildlife from Shipping
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/m/sign/171028412

Ask USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack to Help Elephants Tina and Jewel
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2271&autologin=true&c=weekly_enews&JServSessionIdr001=h8c7be0581.app304a

Tell Puerto Rico to Stop Monkey-Breeding Facility
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2259&autologin=true&c=weekly_enews

Help Ban Bullfighting
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/m/sign/638133842

Prevent a Catastrophic Oil
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/m/sign/302778967


Stand up and salute the governors of the seven states involved. They should continue with this good work!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/m/sign/911002395

Help Save Wildlife Threatened by Global Warming
https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1503&autologin=true&s_einterest=C3C4&JServSessionIdr001=7aq0ux1d11.app20a

Protect Forest Critters and Public Lands
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/m/sign/434099627

Protect the Tongass Forest
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/m/sign/488240688

Take Climate Action
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/m/sign/379410928

Global Warming Endangers Frogs
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/m/sign/535056866

Urge Texas Lottery Commission to Yank Elephant Ad!
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2301

Madang, Papua New Guinea's Mighty Ramu River Rainforests, Carbon and Peoples Threatened by Timber Mafia & Government Corruption
http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=png_redd_logging

Sign up for a Vessel Watch trip to the Farallon Islands!
https://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/608/t/5285/l/eng/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=50164

Stop Waste Dump in Our Water
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/m/sign/831747533

Big Oil Threatens Sea Otters
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/m/sign/463238753

Visit the Great Bear Rainforest to watch, not kill, bears
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/canada_bc_bears_tourism/id7ws3krqj77wim3?

Swiss Francs Threaten Indonesian Rainforests
http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=swiss_indo_finance

End the Use of Pigs in Vanderbilt's Trauma Training Program
https://secure2.convio.net/pcrm/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=269&autologin=true

Include Non-Dairy Alternatives in the Child Nutrition Act
https://secure2.convio.net/fsi/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=225

Tell the USDA You Want to Know How Animals Are Raised
https://secure2.convio.net/fsi/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=308

NO on S. 527
https://secure2.convio.net/fsi/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=252

Downed Animal Protection - No Downers Campaign
https://secure2.convio.net/fsi/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=255

Downed Animal Protection
https://secure2.convio.net/fsi/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=199

Email McDonald's and urge them to take a stand against cloning.
https://secure2.convio.net/fsi/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=135

End use of live animals in combat trauma training
https://secure2.convio.net/fsi/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=191

Preserve Antibiotics
As factory farms have crammed more and more animals into tighter and tighter spaces, modern pharmaceuticals have become regular tools of the trade. But this mad science has hatched unintended consequences: more germs that are resistant to antibiotics. Now legislation has been introduced in Congress to stop this reckless behavior. Take action!
https://secure2.convio.net/fsi/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=264

End the Use of Sheep in Trauma Training at Mass General
https://secure2.convio.net/fsi/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=292

Please Cosponsor HR. 992 / S. 414
https://secure2.convio.net/fsi/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=137

Vote Yes on HR 503 to protect horses
https://secure2.convio.net/fsi/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=127

Restore Conservation Funding for Our National Parks and other Public Lands
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/b2010sen/xn8u88g2h7x3i5ne?

Please take a moment to speak up for Tony by sending an email to the following people:

J. Mitchell Ourso, Iberville Parish President: jburleigh@ibervilleparish.com

Maria Davidson, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries: mdavidson@wlf.louisiana.gov

Send a letter to Governor Bobby Jindal here.

Keep Admitted Pig Abuser Jordan Anderson Away From Animals!
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2249

Protect American Wildlife from Global Warming
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/106310452

Madagascar: Daewoo's Rainforest Land Grab in Nature's Paradise
http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=madagascar_landgrab

Stop The Omak Suicide Race!
http://ida.convio.net/site/MessageViewer?em_id=5701.0&printer_friendly=1

Urge Your Representative to Co-Sponsor the Whale Conservation and Protection Act of 2009
http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw_united_states/get_involved/take_action/index.php#x

Stop Iceland from Killing Endangered Whales
http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw_united_states/get_involved/take_action/index.php#x

Urge Your Senator to Help Save Cats and Rare Canines from Extinction
http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw_united_states/get_involved/take_action/index.php#x

Humpbacks get reprieve but Japan is still targeting almost 1,000 whales
http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw_united_states/get_involved/take_action/index.php#x

Save Jaguars and Other Borderlands Wildlife
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/379969332

Save Frogs and Protect Human Health
https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1487&autologin=true&JServSessionIdr011=ztnh2grqs2.app25a

Tell Switzerland: Don't Support Commercial Whaling!
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/hsi_whales_switzerland/id7ws3k4vjn36nie?

Tell Denmark: Don't Support Greenland's Commercial Whaling!
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/hsi_whales_denmark/id7ws3k4vjn36nie?

Protect Montana's Glacier National Park from Canadian strip-mining pollution
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/glacier_park/xn8u88g4p7x6d8kj?

Tell Obama: Ban on Torture Should Include Animals!
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1710

Global Warming Action
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/gw_report/xn8u88g4r7x683mj?

Cap Global Warming Pollution Now
https://secure2.edf.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=118

Block Amendment to Allow More Florida Oil Drilling
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/281690204

Please Stop Mass Dog Culls Like the One in Hanzhong City
http://www.ifaw.org/ifaw_united_states/get_involved/take_action/take_action_2.php?#x

Demand Action on Global Warming
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/184271412?z00m=19770013

Support the American Clean Energy and Security Act
https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1485&autologin=true&JServSessionIdr011=7xyhxlect2.app26a

Save the Flat-tailed Horned Lizard from Urban Development
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/335733526

Slaughterhouses: Where Racehorses Go to Retire
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2103&JServSessionIdr011=3tb4d0tbk3.app303a

Support Conservation and Collaboration in the Tongass
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/555964930

Speak Out for Our Bats: Bats play an essential role in healthy ecosystems and should be protected.
https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1473&s_einterest=C3C4&JServSessionIdr011=uhuyxitet1.app20a

Violence Flares as Peru's Government Fires Upon Indigenous Peoples Protecting Their Rainforest Homes
http://www.rainforestportal.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=peru_amazon

Stand with Chinese Activists Against Cruel Dog Culls
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/china_dog_culls09/id7ws3k4pjnwbiwb?

Tell the EPA to create strong regulations for greenhouse gases
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/epa/xn8u88g2p7xjx5wm?

Stop Ringling Bros.' Expansion Near New York City - No Animal Abuse!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/679393105

Help Farm Sanctuary Save Sheep from Cruel and Unnecessary Training Exercises
http://www.farmsanctuary.org/get_involved/alert_mass_general.html

Save Lions From Carbofuran Pesticide Poisoning!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/669931689?z00m=19768522

Ask Washington Group to Bench Cruel 'Donkey Baseball' Game
http://www.peta.org/actioncenter/ActionAlerts-item.asp?id=2820&autologin=true&c=weekly_enews

Tell Federal Women's Prison in Minnesota to Stop Using Glue Traps!
http://www.peta.org/actioncenter/ActionAlerts-item.asp?id=2821

Tell Veterinarian Group to Stop Promoting Animal Abuse!
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2251&autologin=true&c=weekly_enews

Join the Movement to Protect Feral Cats
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/156311450

NO BIOMASS/NO BURNING CAMPAIGN: Uproar as Massachusetts Poised to Destroy Forests for "Renewable" Electricity
http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=biomass_wood

Stop Iceland's Whale Hunting
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/584959893


Congress Must Act to Protect Former Pets from Research
https://secure3.convio.net/aavs/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=177

Sign the Petition: That’s NOT Natural!
https://secure2.convio.net/fsi/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=296&JServSessionIdr011=j9apr7dp04.app2b

Penguins and Seals Rejoice - South Africa Approves Marine Sanctuary!

Stop the trophy hunting of bears in the Great Bear Rainforest ahead of the 2010 Olympics

British Columbia, Canada, is the host of the 2010 Winter Olympics. It is also home to the Great Bear Rainforest—one of the last tracts of temperate rainforest on earth.

You might think that here, bears could live in peace. But each year, trophy hunters slaughter black and grizzly bears with rifles and crossbows for entertainment. Unless we act now, there may one day be a Great Bear Rainforest without bears.

IDA Tracks Davenport Elephants To Massachusetts
Finds Tina, Queenie and an emaciated Jewel at Shrine Circus in Springfield in serious jeopardy: tell USDA to confiscate them NOW!
https://secure2.convio.net/ida/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=1271

Massachusetts: Protect Farm Animals From Cruel Confinement
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/MA_2009_confinement2

Speak Out for Wildlife in a Warming World
https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1423&autologin=true&s_einterest=C3C4&JServSessionIdr011=b44sgqa2w1.app26a

Petition for the Birds
The Federal Communications Commission has replied to a petition filed by Defenders, American Bird Conservancy and National Audubon Society to address fatal migratory bird collisions with the 100,000 communications towers across the U.S by opening a public comment period. The petition was accompanied by more than 15,000 signatures from citizens (including more than 11,000 Defenders supporters) concerned about our feathered friends.
https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1401&s_einterest=C3C4&autologin=true&JServSessionIdr011=b44sgqa2w1.app26a

Protect the Grand Canyon from Uranium Mining!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/633435480

Help Stop New Ringling Bros. Wii Game!
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2165&JServSessionIdr011=8a0k1mabx2.app303a

Malaysian Govt. Denies Well Documented Oil Palm Development Plans in Brazilian Amazon
http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=amazon_oil_palm


Save Critical Habitat for the Florida Panther
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/478858019


End "Finning" -- Save the Sharks!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/177729296

Help Protect America's Wetlands
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/573485811


Stop Mercury Pollution from Chlorine Plants
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/635677239

Help End the Use of Sheep for Trauma Training at Mass General
https://secure2.convio.net/pcrm/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=255&autologin=true&JServSessionIdr011=ebwn8dbpf1.app8b

Live Cats Used in Cruel Training Courses at Texas Tech
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2081&c=weekly_enews&JServSessionIdr011=ubekh7biq2.app303a

Tell Sprint Nextel Corporation to Stop Exploiting Chimpanzees!
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2147&c=weekly_enews


Tell Congress you want action on global warming
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/gwarm_markup/xn8u88g4p7w78kwm?

Show your Support for Great Apes
http://www.janegoodall.org/CaptivePrimatesAct/

End the Use of Sheep in Trauma Training at Mass General
https://secure2.convio.net/fsi/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=292

Save Seals by Boycotting Canadian Maple Syrup
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2209

Protect Polar Bears From Global Warming
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/884187988

Please ask your Representative to help sea otter recovery by cosponsoring the Southern Sea Otter Recovery and Research Act (H.R. 556).
https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1391&autologin=true&s_einterest=C3C4&s_Affiliate=act_&JServSessionIdr011=gtaggjc6w1.app26a

Congress Must Act to Protect Former Pets from Research
https://secure3.convio.net/aavs/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=177

Tell Pier 1 Imports to Stop Exploiting Elephants!
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2211&c=weekly_enews&JServSessionIdr011=pz5f6ycx46.app303a

No Profit For Pain: Deny License Renewals for AWA Violators
https://secure3.convio.net/aavs/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=175

Pigs Mutilated in University of Washington Experiments
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2199&c=weekly_enews

CT Residents: Voice your Support for Student Choice Bill
https://secure3.convio.net/aavs/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&cmd=display&page=NoRecipients&id=171

Great Ape Protection Act Reintroduced!
https://secure3.convio.net/aavs/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=165

Save the Western Gray Whale from Extinction!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/608/t/425/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=929

Save Endangered Species in Malaysia from Unnecessary Logging!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/508876624?z00m=19765539

Make a New Year's Resolution You Can Keep: Take the Leap to Cruelty-Free Products!
We all make New Year's resolutions to help better ourselves, but why not make one to help animals, too? Hundreds of thousands of animals, including rabbits, mice, and rats, suffer in unnecessary experiments to test cosmetic and household products , 2008-12-29. Take Action »

Animal Casualties: In the Line of Military Fire
While some may argue that the U.S. has one of the strongest, most technically advanced militaries in the world, it continues to embrace archaic teaching and combat training methods that involve the lethal use of animals. Despite the availability of s , 2008-10-15. Take Action »

Ask Clinique to Join the Leaping Bunny Program
On its website, Clinique, a company that produces high-end cosmetics and perfumes, states that it does not test its products on animals or ask others to test on its behalf. With the countless number of animals used in toxicity testing today, this is , 2008-08-04. Take Action »


Mars Candy, Anything But Sweet
Over the past year, there has been mounting evidence that Mars, Inc., manufacturer of candy, including M&M's, Snickers, Twix, Three Musketeers, Starburst, and Skittles, is funding deadly animal experiments, despite the fact that no law requir , 2008-08-04. Take Action »

Animal Cruelty is Not for Sale: Support the Animal Protection Accountability Improvement Act!
The Animal Protection Accountability Improvement Act would amend the Animal Welfare Act to prohibit the use of live animals for marketing medical devices. Please contact your U.S. Representative and ask him/her to co-sponsor this im , 2008-08-04. Take Action »

See What McDonald's is Made Of
Will McDonald's be made of clones? As part of the company's recently launched “See What We're Made Of” campaign, consumers are invited to learn about the ingredients that make up McDonald's menu. , 2008-06-13. Take Action »

http://www.leapingbunnypledge.org/pledge.aspx

MI Residents: Help Stop the Sale of Shelter Animals to Research
Michigan legislators are now considering legislation that would prohibit the purchase or sale of animals from shelters to research facilities. This important legislation introduced by Representative John Espinoza (D-83), H.B. 4663, will ensure , 2009-03-27. Take Action »

MI Residents: End Pound Seizure in Montcalm County!
On March 25, an ad hoc committee tasked with studying Montcalm County's contract with R&R Research voted to submit a recommended plan to the Board of Commissioners that eliminates the contract as of April 30. This plan will prevent the releas , 2009-03-27. Take Action »


CT Residents: Support Student Choice Bill
Recently, the Connecticut House of Representatives passed legislation
(HB6565) that would grant students the right to choose not to harmanimals if they have ethical objections. The bill passed the House byan overwhelmingly positive vote of 114-3 , 2009-06-02. Take Action »

Charge Smithfield: Pork Producers Should Pay for Swine Flu
https://secure2.convio.net/pcrm/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=249&autologin=true&AddInterest=2901&JServSessionIdr010=klkg6yf5d2.app14a

Only Two Days to Save the Polar Bear
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/8257/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1878

End the Seal Hunt:Support the Harb Seal Bill!
http://www.stopthesealhunt.com/c.ihKPIWPCIqE/b.5015401/k.8FB6/Action_Item_TEST/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?msource=DR090401001

Change military policy about animals
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/change-military-policy-about-animals

Urge the Obama Administration to Give Polar Bears the Protection They Need
https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1439&autologin=true&s_einterest=C3C4&JServSessionIdr010=fi2o92fcr3.app23a

Action Alert: Malaysian Oil Palm Threatens Brazilian Amazon
http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=amazon_oil_palm

Protect the peace of this Oregon Forest
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/oregon_forest

Save Bats From White-nose Syndrome and Extinction
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5243/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27148

Urge President Obama to Stand Up for Wolves
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/372661650

60 Days to Save the Polar Bear
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/8257/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1878

Reinstate Moratorium on Outer Continental Shelf Oil Drilling
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/629294156

Tell Obama: Ban on Torture Should Include Animals!
http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/obama_dod/xn5ixxw2rj66ne8j?

Stop Shelter Animals From Being Sold for Research!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/649021463

Help Wild Horses From Dying at the Hands of the U.S. Government
http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/wild_horses?c=weekly_enews

Tell Feds to Pull the Plug on Dangerous Animal Exhibitor
http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/animal_exhibitor?c=weekly_enews

Live Dogs Mutilated and Abused in Ohio State University Laboratory
http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/osu_lab?c=weekly_enews


Pledge to Be Veg for 'Meat's Not Green' Week
http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/mng_pledge

Join Bushfires and Scientists in Condemning Australian Climate Change Policy
http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=australia_climate

Protect African Elephants' Food Sources
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/961920200?z00m=19759457

Crack Down on Puppy Mills in California
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/808737812

Stop the Slaughter and Imprisoning of Thousands of Wild Horses & Burros
http://capwiz.com/madeleinepickens/issues/alert/?alertid=12943361&type=AN

Senate Bill (S. 727) to Ban Horse Slaughter Introduced
http://capwiz.com/compassionindex/issues/alert/?alertid=13041801

Help Outlaw Random Source Class B Dealers!
https://secure3.convio.net/aavs/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=159

MI Residents: Help Stop the Sale of Shelter Animals to Research
https://secure3.convio.net/aavs/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&cmd=display&page=NoRecipients&id=167

http://www.imtiredonline.com/smile/

Petition to Protect the Verde River
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/7011/petition.jsp?petition_KEY=1279

Save Pigs from Trauma Training at North Dakota State University
https://secure2.convio.net/pcrm/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=245&autologin=true&JServSessionIdr010=u1zj6ndxo6.app14a

Join Jeff Corwin to Help Save Wildlife Threatened by Global Warming
https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1425&autologin=true&s_einterest=C3C4&JServSessionIdr010=uisvcadt51.app23a

Urge the Obama Administration to Give Polar Bears the Protection They Need
https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1439&autologin=true&s_einterest=C3C4

Stop Ringling Bros.' Expansion on Coney Island!
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2101

Stop Shelter Animals From Being Sold for Research!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/649021463

Urge Sec. of Agriculture to Protect Elephants and Chimpanzees
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2083

Tell Congress to Prevent Future Flu Outbreaks
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2134

Tell Armstrong World Industries to Stop Exploiting Grizzly Bears
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2138

Tell Kraft Foods to Stop Exploiting Exotic Animals!
https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=2140

Ask The Senate to Boost Conservation Funding!
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/senbudgetres/xn8u88g217nbt63b?

Tell Leading Climate Scientists, Industrialists and Negotiators to Stop Promoting Industrial Scale Biochar
http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=industrial_biochar

Ask Ace Hardware to Stop Encouraging Glue Trap Sales!
http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/ace_glue_traps?c=weekly_enews

Help Keep Animals and People Safe from Harmful Chemicals
http://www.pcrm.org/testing/reformChemTesting.cfm

Tell Etsy.com to Stop Selling Fur!
http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/etsy_fur?c=weekly_enews

Urgent: Tell Congress to End Military Trauma Training on Animals
http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/end_trauma_training

Ensure New Global Warming Act Remains Strong
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/258456160

Say No to Offshore Drilling in California and Alaska!
http://pacificenvironment.org/article.php?id=3000

Mercury Levels in Seals Rising - Reverse the Trend
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/717129956

Don’t Let Alaska Become a Game Farm
https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1397&autologin=true&s_einterest=C3C4&s_Affiliate=act_&JServSessionIdr009=cikpmcl9g3.app17a

A Call for a Global Whale Sanctuary Now
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/global_whale_sanctuary/id7ws3k9z78kw6bk?

Use your buying power to tell the Canadian government to end the seal hunt.
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/HSI_protectseals/id7ws3k9z78kw6bk?

Speak out for Alaska’s Wildlife and Coastal Communities!
http://action.defenders.org/site/Survey?SURVEY_ID=13100&ACTION_REQUIRED=URI_ACTION_USER_REQUESTS&autologin=true&s_einterest=C3C4&s_Affiliate=act_

Stop Military Bomb Experiments on Live Animals
http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/military_bomb/xn5ixxwzhj6njix7?

Cutting Emissions is a Bargain - Support Cap and Trade!
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/818884637

Urge President Obama to Stand Up for Wolves
https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1393&s_einterest=C3C4&JServSessionIdr009=cikpmcl9g3.app17a

Help save millions of migratory birds
https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1401&s_einterest=C3C4&autologin=true&JServSessionIdr009=cikpmcl9g3.app17a

Don't Kill Urban Coyotes, Enact Stronger Urban Planning Instead
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/502216886



Tell Clearwater that you will boycott Canadian seafood until the commercial seal hunt is over
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/protectseals_contactclearwater/i37b8689278dxemk?qp_source=gabeaj

First time in Canadian History that a Senator (Hon. HARB) introduced a Bill to the Canadian Senate, here are the links to 2 petitions to support the HARB BILL:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/877541637
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/end-all-seal-hunts-bill-s-229

STOP SEAL HUNT
http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/eu_ban_seal
http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/seal_hunt_09

Help Prevent Another Exxon Valdez Spill
Target: Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar
Sponsored by: Sierra Club
March 24 marked the 20th anniversary of one of the worst environmental disasters in history, the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
The memory of the spill persists for the fishermen and Alaska natives whose livelihoods were destroyed by Exxon's recklessness. The anniversary of the Exxon Valdez oil spill should serve as a reminder of the threat oil poses to our oceans and coasts. Instead of opening the door to more Exxon-style disasters, we should be embracing the clean energy solutions that will keep our beaches and marine life intact and will help combat global warming.
Urge Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to oppose new offshore oil and gas drilling in areas that were protected by the long-standing Congressional drilling moratorium.
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/963819906

Tell Salazar to Save Wild Horses
http://capwiz.com/madeleinepickens/issues/alert/?alertid=12943361&type=AN

Why No-Kills Are No Solution

posted by: Heather Moore

Euthanasia is a touchy, emotional subject. Some people get upset because animal shelters and animal rights organizations like PETA must euthanize animals (many of whom are abused, aggressive, and otherwise unadoptable). People need to understand that a painless injection of sodium pentobarbital, administered by a trained, caring individual, is a merciful alternative to a life of misery and loneliness.

As long as people buy animals from breeders and pet stores and don't spay or neuter their animal companions, open-admission shelters and organizations like PETA will be forced to do society's dirty work. Every year, between three and four million dogs and cats are euthanized in U.S. shelters alone. There simply aren't enough homes for them all. Shoving animals into cages or kitchen cabinets, or warehousing them wherever else there is space is not a humane or effective solution.

It can be hard to accept this though. I once volunteered at a no-kill cat shelter. There were cages full of cats everywhere and countless more cats littered the floor, the kitchen counter, and everywhere else there was a spot. They were fed regularly, but they were starved for attention. The few volunteers spent as much time with them as possible, but between dishing out plate after plate of food, changing pan after pan of litter, and trying to keep the place presentable, there was just never enough time. Too many people came by to drop off unwanted cats (so many, in fact, that they were often turned away) and too few came by to adopt.

No-kill shelters may assuage our consciences, but they are simply not in the animals' best interests. They're often filled beyond capacity and cannot provide adequate care for the animals. Animals at these shelters often spend years living in cages with little human contact. Many become withdrawn, depressed, or acquire other anti social behaviors that further decrease their chances of being adopted.

Because of space limitations, no-kill shelters often can't take new animals in. So while a no-kill shelter can claim that it doesn't kill animals that doesn't mean that it "saves" them either. If "refused" animals are lucky, they're taken to another shelter that does euthanize. Others, however, may be dumped by the roadside, where they suffer fates far worse than a humane death by sodium pentobarbital.

Euthanasia may be unpopular, but those who truly care about animals must do what's best for them. They deserve a peaceful release from a world in which they are often abused and neglected. All too often, the only kind word or gentle touch a homeless animal ever receives is from the person who must end the animal's life.

Of course, open-admission shelters and groups like PETA wouldn't need to euthanize animals if people would sterilize their animals; adopt animals from full-service shelters instead of buying them, and push for mandatory spay/neuter legislation. To learn more about PETA's position on euthanasia, see www.PETA.org. To find out how you can help support PETA's Animal Birth Control campaign, and its mobile SNIP ("Spay Neuter Immediately Please") clinic, see www.HelpingAnimals.com

Tell Congress: Close the carbon pollution loophole!
http://www.repoweramerica.org/page/s/hotcold

Say No to Horse Slaughter
https://secure2.convio.net/fsi/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=127
Or Visit here: http://www.farmsanctuary.org/get_involved/alert_horse_slaughter_08.html

Stem cell procedure may help Utah dog

April 7th, 2009 @ 7:05am
By Becky Bruce

RICHMOND -- A Richmond, Utah dog struggling for mobility is getting a new leash on life, courtesy of a new stem cell treatment for canines.

It's not embryonic cells, but the dog's own that are used in the treatment. North Logan vet Dr. James Israelsen of the Mountain View Veterinary Health Clinic performed the procedure on Coty.

Coty with Miller's wife, Diane Bush.

"We have to harvest some fat from them to isolate the stem cells. And in her case, she's a thin dog, so we actually harvested a little bit of abdominal fat just from the front of her abdominal cavity," he explained.

Coty's owner, Dan Miller, says it was hard to watch his Husky, once capable of 40-mile runs, lose mobility. "Painkillers never really seemed to make a difference, at least in her stride, the limp in her stride," he said.

Coty went through other treatments, including glucosamine and even acupuncture, but they didn't help.

That's when the doctor suggested stem cell treatment as an option. It was an expensive option, one Miller says he was only able to afford because Dr. Israelsen performed it at cost -- a total of around $1,600 between his clinic's expenses and the payment to Vet-Stem of San Diego.

Dr. Israelsen removed about 60 grams of fat from Coty on March 16, 2009, and shipped it in a special temperature-controlled container to Vet-Stem. The company extracted the stem cells from Coty's fat, and then shipped it back to the clinic where it was injected straight into Coty's affected joint - an elbow. The entire process took about three days.

Miller says Coty's not showing signs of improvement yet, but Dr. Israelsen says that's not uncommon. He expects to be able to tell a difference sometime between one month and three months from the injection.

E-mail: bbruce@ksl.com

Tell Obama: Ban on Torture Should Include Animals!
http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/obama_dod

Take Dog Fighting Seriously
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/826997474

Save Freshwater Turtles in Florida and Beyond
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5243/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26934

Help Prevent Another Exxon Valdez Spill
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/963819906



Help Reverse the Bush Administration’s Rush to Drill the Arctic!
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/608/t/8544/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26676

STOP THE SEAL Hunt!!
http://www.stopthesealhunt.com/c.ihKPIWPCIqE/b.5015401/k.8FB6/Action_Item_TEST/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=ihKPIWPCIqE&b=5015401

http://www.stopthesealhunt.com/site/c.ihKPIWPCIqE/b.3958845/k.CFC9/Stop_the_Seal_Hunt.htm

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/14/SAVE-the-SEALS

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/ban-canadas-2010-olympicsno-more-blood

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/canadians-against-grey-seal-slaughter-2009

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/petition/145377155

http://www.hsus.org/about_us/humane_society_international_hsi/seal_trade_ban.html

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/4/help-save-hay-island-grey-seals

Critical Elephant Corridor in India to be Severed
Help avert a serious threat to the largest surviving Elephant Population in India – the imminent severance of the Muthanga Elephant Corridor in Kerala
http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?ID=india_elephants&chainindex=1

Write Letters to Politicians and Businesses that Can End the Seal Hunt
http://www.harpseals.org/help/letters_and_emails/index.html#politicians

End the delay
Limiting carbon pollution is the next step in the plan to Repower America and revitalize our economy. We need bold action from our leaders, and we need it now.
http://www.repoweramerica.org/page/s/troyvid

Help Save The Sea Otters
Please ask your Representative to help sea otter recovery by cosponsoring the Southern Sea Otter Recovery and Research Act (H.R. 556).
https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1391&autologin=true&s_einterest=C3C4&s_Affiliate=act_&JServSessionIdr009=ag11v1ggf1.app20a

Call on U.S. Government to Halt Ecologically Misguided Support for Large Scale Biofuel
http://www.regenwald.org/international/englisch/protestaktion.php?id=385

Ecuador: Protest against government’s decision to close down leading environmental campaign group
http://www.regenwald.org/international/englisch/protestaktion.php?id=382

Nigeria: No rubber for tyres at the expense of forests and people’s livelihoods
http://www.regenwald.org/international/englisch/protestaktion.php?id=381

Land robbery and murder for agrofuel in Brazil?
http://www.regenwald.org/international/englisch/protestaktion.php?id=370

Mexico: European renewable energy companies threaten communities and biodiversity
http://www.regenwald.org/international/englisch/protestaktion.php?id=364

Protest against fire-bombing of Indonesian village linked to plantation company
http://www.regenwald.org/international/englisch/protestaktion.php?id=345

Indonesian community leader detained by palm oil mafia
http://www.regenwald.org/international/englisch/protestaktion.php?id=359

Call on U.S. Government to Halt Ecologically Misguided Support for Large Scale Biofuel
http://www.regenwald.org/international/englisch/protestaktion.php?id=385

Grilagem e assassinato por agrocombustíveis no Brasil
http://www.salveaselva.org/protestaktion.php?id=373

Soja expulsa os índios Guaranis de suas terras no Norte da Argentina
http://www.salveaselva.org/protestaktion.php?id=312

O fim do Cerrado do Piauí
http://www.salveaselva.org/protestaktion.php?id=307

Hidroelétrica Belo Monte ameaça rio, povo e biodiversidade
http://www.salveaselva.org/protestaktion.php?id=292

Call on U.S. Government to Halt Ecologically Misguided Support for Large Scale Biofuel
Fuel from food and already overstressed terrestrial ecosystems is immoral and unsustainable. The Obama administration must start by rejecting the proposal to increase the corn ethanol fuel blend limit from 10-15%.
http://www.climateark.org/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=corn_biofuel

Serious threat to the largest surviving Elephant Population in India

Since 26.02.09 1021 people have participated in this protest action.
Elephant in India Elephant in India

The largest single population of Asian elephants in the world, about 1000 individuals, is found in a 4500sq km area where the three Indian states of Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka meet.

The best forage is in the Tamil Nadu section but the elephants need to migrate to Kerala and Karnataka each summer when water and food become scarce. In order to migrate the elephants must pass through a corridor which is only about 2.5 km wide.

The major inter-state highway which links Bangalore with Calicut passes through this corridor. It is used by hundreds of vehicles round the clock. Recently a decision was made to relocate four different Kerala government check-posts to within the corridor. This would involve all manner of infrastructure – building complexes, housing, offices, toilets and dormitories for drivers, a fuel filling station and so on. Trenches are already being dug to prevent the elephants from migrating, thus threatening their survival. A suitable alternative site for these check-posts exists outside the forest.

Please help prevent the severance of this critical corridor.

More information about the plight of the Asian Elephants in various languages may be found at: http://www.rainforestinfo.org.au/e/appeal.htm

Protest emails will be sent to:

to the Chief Minister of Kerala
cc Secretary, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India
cc Kerala Minister for Forests and Wildlife
cc Kerala Minister for Finance
cc Principal Chief Conservator of Kerala Forests
cc Chief Conservator of Kerala Forests
cc Project Elephant, Ministry of Environment and Forests, Government of India

http://www.regenwald.org/international/englisch/protestaktion.php?id=375

http://savethepolarbear.org/

Dear Military, Please Stop Torturing Animals
Take Action: End Animal Use in Military Medical Training
Please contact your representative to join our efforts to modernize military medical training, which will benefit both people and animals. Below are talking points related to this alert.
https://secure2.convio.net/pcrm/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=215&JServSessionIdr008=3pkxbtkwg2.app2b


Tell to Canada Government what you think about the harp seal hunting.
Tree Nation will send it to Mr. Stephen Harper, the Canadian prime minister (e-mail: pm@pm.gc.ca).
Please, sign this pledge. That CRUELTY will be stop soon.
http://www.tree-nation.com/community/petition.php?id=30

Confirmed: First Seal Killed Today in 2009 Hunt
Rebecca Young

Canada's commercial harp seal hunt started today with a quota of 280,000 seals, only days after Russia decided to ban all hunting of harp seals under one year of age.

Baby seals are being killed on the ice in Canada as you read this - observers from The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) confirmed the first seal death just moments ago.

Observers from HSUS and IFAW (International Fund for Animal Welfare) are in the air and on the ice, watching the hunt, recording abuses, and campaigning to end this cruelty once and for all.

You can help end the baby seal hunt. Thanks to a courageous Canadian Senator, there is now a bill in the Canadian Senate that would end this hunt permanently. This is the first time such legislation has been put forward in Canada. Sign the petition to support Senator Harb's bill to end the commercial seal hunt: http://go.care2.com/19752554

You can get real-time updates and on the ground reports from both of these fantastic organizations by following their posts on Twitter:

• Follow IFAW on Twitter with @action4ifaw. Their hash tag for this issue is: #stopthesealhunt.

• Follow HSUS on Twitter with @HumaneSociety. Their hash tag for this issue is: #sealhunt09.

Support The Historic Bill to End Canada's Commercial Seal Hunt
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/877541637?z00m=19752395

Victory: BOCA to Stop Using Eggs by End of 2009
posted by: Drew Wilson

Two weeks ago, we announced on the care2 causes blog that BOCA was considering going egg-free. Activists from Compassion Over Killing, Mercy for Animals, and the Animal Protection & Rescue League teamed up to run a shock-and-awe campaign of phone calls, emails, and letters. They mobilized thousands of people who buy BOCA products to call the office and ask the company to stop using eggs altogether. And it worked! BOCA has made the compassionate decision. By the end of 2009 BOCA will no longer use any eggs in their products.
This victory comes less than two months after boca-egg-facts.com was launched. On March 19, 2009 a company representative emailed Compassion Over Killing:
"…I am pleased to let you know the BOCA brand will be eliminating eggs in all of its products by the end of this year. We anticipate all BOCA products will be egg free in 2010."
By removing eggs from their ingredient list, BOCA is withdrawing financial support for factory farms that use battery-cages. They are striking a blow against the cruel egg industry. Whether or not you choose to eat eggs, this is a major victory for animals. This brings us one step closer to ending intense confinement of hens in factory farms.
Battery-cages are truly one of the cruelest form of intense industrial animal agriculture. Somewhere around 95% of eggs produced in the the United States come from hens who confined inside these barren wire cages. Hens are usually afforded only 67 square inches, that's less than the size of a sheet of paper. The birds can barely move, cannot spread their wings, walk, or dust-bathe. They can't do anything that natural to them. The cages are filthy and dead birds are often left in the cages for days.
Based on the ingredient listings online, it looks like this means that of the 14 items made with egg, 10 will now be vegan.
Please contact the company to thank them! Why not send them a care2 e-card? You can email them at boca@casupport.com. For more information about the horrors of egg factory farms, visit: EggIndustry.com.

Cook Inlet Beluga Whales Protected

Defenders of Wildlife's collected 13,000 signatures in their successful campaign to have the National Marine Fisheries Service list Cook Inlet belugas as "endangered" and protect them for future generations.

Monkeying Around with Animal Testing
by alicia graef

Last week ABC Nightline aired an undercover investigation of the New Iberia Research Center in Louisiana by the Humane Society. If you missed it, you can catch the clip here. If you already saw it, then you already saw the tortured lives of the primates that are forced to reside there.

According to ABC, the facility holds over 6,000 primates and has one of the largest populations of captive chimps in the world. Primates are in already in trouble. According to Conservation International, twenty nine percent of all monkeys, apes and gorilla species are now facing the danger of extinction.

Those of you who are believers in animal testing should definitely take a minute to read Why I Take Animal Tested Drugs in the Huffington Post, written by someone with leukemia, who also used to work for an organization that promoted alternatives to animal testing.

"If the chemo drugs I'm trying now don't work, I do have one last option. I could try a Phase One trial. That's when a drug looks promising in animals and is first tested in humans. My doctor started to tell me why so many participants die in Phase One trials -- but it turned out I already knew the answer. Drugs that work in animals, he explained, usually don't work in humans."

Here's another scary example of a complete failure in animal testing in Natural News.

After the Humane Society's investigation ran, the Great Ape Protection Act was re-introduced in the House of Representatives last week. According to the Humane Society, "this legislation would phase out invasive research on the more than 1,000 chimpanzees remaining in U.S. laboratories, and lay the groundwork for permanent retirement of the approximately 500 chimpanzees owned by the federal government, including Karen and other chimps at the New Iberia Research Center."

You Can Help!

Call to urge your U.S. Representative to co-sponsor The Great Ape Protection Act. Call the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 or check here to find your Representative and the Capitol office phone number.

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The Cheap Cost of Coal is Subsidized By the Suffering of Others
Scott Pasch

Clean Coal? How can something clean destroy towns, poison the water and leave behind a toxic environment? The idea behind clean coal centers on new ways to reuse and store the carbon emissions from coal power plants which in theory sounds all fine and good but it does not affect the way the coal is obtained in the first place. Several environmental groups have begun lobbying President Obama this week in hopes to preventing the further expansion of mountaintop removal. Over a 100 permits are currently pending and if the coal companies are given full sanction, they will bury another 200 miles of stream in West Virginia and Eastern Kentucky.

Over 1,000 miles have already been buried over the last two decades. Killing these rivers kills everything around them. If you want to know why coal is so cheap it is because nobody pays the true cost of coal production except for the people and animals living near these sludge pools.

This process spews forth toxic sludge which rolls into the rivers in the valleys of West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio. If you think this is not an issue than the next time you go camping or hunting make sure you do so near one of these sludge preserves and let me know if your hand dandy water filter sufficiently cleans all the sludge out of the water so you can drink it. Or maybe you want to build a home near some of these now gutted mountain tops so you too can experience massive flooding.

According to the Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition a recent 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling "would permit mining companies to conduct mountaintop removal coal mining without acting to minimize stream destruction or conducting adequate environmental reviews."

The Clean Water Protection Act (HR 2719) would restore the power of the Clean Water Act by prohibiting coal companies from filling up river beds with so much sludge that they turn into virtual graves for the rivers and streams and for all the surrounding life that once relied on that water supply.

Make your voices heard contact President Obama and the members of Congress to let them know you oppose new permits for mountaintop removal.

White House: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/

For district office addresses and more info on your Congress people, see: www.Congress.org.
PHONE: Call the Congressional switchboard at 202-225-3121.
EMAIL: Find your Representative's email at www.Congress.org.

EPA: http://www.epa.gov/epahome/comments3.htm

Save the Bait: Protect Menhaden in the Gulf of Mexico
http://action.healthygulf.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=23018

Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act
Most doctors commonly warn their patients never to take antibiotics if they are not actually sick. Yet that is exactly what is happening on industrial farms where animals are given low doses of antibiotics over long periods of time to speed growth and to compensate for unsanitary and crowded conditions.
As a result, new deadly strains of antibiotic-resistant bacteria develop in the animals and can transfer to people through contact with the animals, eating and handling the meat, eating food grown in contaminated manure, or drinking water polluted by farm runoff. Once the bacteria are loose in the environment, they can breed even more resistance that could balloon into a major health crisis.
On Tuesday morning U.S. Representative Louise Slaughter introduced the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act of 2009 (PAMTA). The bill would phase out the routine use of human medicines in livestock, except when needed to treat sick animals.
http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/PAMTA

Stop Puppy Mills - Five Things You Can Do
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/747817839

The pledge to stop puppy mills!
Don't Buy a Puppy Before Reading This.
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/stoppuppymills_web?qp_source=gaba5y

Stop Canada's 2009 Commercial Seal Hunt
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/553233753?z00m=19751803

A Call for a Global Whale Sanctuary Now
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/global_whale_sanctuary

Urge the USDA to Revoke the License of Notorious Elephant Abuser
http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/usda_elephants?c=weekly_enews

Tell Unilever to Stop Pig Abuse
http://getactive.peta.org/campaign/unilever_pig_abuse?c=weekly_enews

Join Nigel Barker: Take the No Shark Fin Pledge!
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/hsi_nigel_shark_fin_pledge

Sign the Petition to Stop the Cruel Slaughter of Seals
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/EU_seals_petition_mrktg

Sign the Petition to Stop the Cruel Slaughter of Seals (Care2)
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/care2_EU_seals_petition

Tell the EPA: Efficient Cars Now
http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/efficient_cars/

Take Action to Save the Lowcountry
http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/save_the_lowcountry/

Take Action to Keep TN Singing!
http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/keep_tn_singing/

Show Me Your Solutions
http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/showmesolutions/

Victory for baby seals in Russia!
by Rebecca Young

The global campaign to end brutal hunting of baby seals is working. Just today, Russia announced a complete ban on all hunting of harp seals less than one year of age, reports IFAW (The International Fund for Animal Welfare).

"The bloody seal slaughter, the killing of the defenseless animals, which can't be even called a 'hunt,' is now prohibited in Russia as it is in most developed countries," said Yuri Trutnev, Russia's Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology. "It is a serious step towards the conservation of biodiversity in Russia."

This historic end to Russia's harp seal hunt is a victory for activists and organizations like IFAW who have worked so hard to end commercial seal hunts all over the world.

And with the European Parliament's consideration of an EU-wide ban on seal products coming next month, pressure is growing on Canada to ban its commercial seal hunt for good. You can take action here to call on Prime Minister Stephen Harper to end Canada's commercial seal hunt now.

Protect All of Our Waterways: Fix the Clean Water Act
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/554229010

FEDERAL FUNDING FOR CULTURED (IN VITRO MEAT)
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/3/federal-funding-for-cultured-in-vitro-meat

Regulate Toxic E-Waste
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/563365059

ONLY FOR USA

Support legislation in Washington for humane dog breeding practices: Tell your legislators you support Senate Bill 5651 and House Bill 1936.

Click here to find your local legislators and email them.

Urge President Obama to Stand Up for Wolves

https://secure.defenders.org/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=1375&autologin=true&s_einterest=C4&JServSessionIdr008=dmfzin45n1.app20a

http://www.noah.de/

Protect the Rubicon From Off-road Vehicle Damage
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5243/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26793&t=

Tell the Bureau of Land Management: Say No to Coal
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5243/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26874&t=

Urgent: Ask President Sarkozy to Ban Seal Product Trade!
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/hsi_france_sealvote

Speak Up Now to Protect the Carson National Forest
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5243/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26727&t=

Protect the Blue River
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5243/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26684&t=

Stop Palin's Attack On Beluga Whales
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5243/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26463&t=

Roadless Areas on Chopping Block
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5243/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=26440&t=

Send a letter to Steve Owens and the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5243/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=24711&t=

Send letters to county, state and federal officials
Send letters to the Yavapai County Supervisors, Senator McCain, Representative Renzi, and Governor Napolitano to urge their support for reasonable growth, water conservation and habitat protection measures for the Verde River.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5243/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=24712&t=

Save the Turquoise Serpent
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5243/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=25988&t=

Urge Mayor Karen Fann to enact stronger water conservation and growth management strategies before resorting to water transportation. And before any such water pipeline is installed, the city alone or in collaboration with the other communities must provide a detailed plan to protect the flows of the upper Verde River.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5243/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=24710&t=

Protect Panama's Red Frog Beach and Bastimentos Island
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5243/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=22330&t=

Save Panama Biosphere Reserve From Dams
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5243/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=22328&t=

U.S. Military Base in Okinawa Threatens Rare Dugongs
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5243/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=22314&t=

Preserve Tejon Ranch as a new Natural Park
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5243/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=22310&t=

With the introduction of a new, science-based bill to reduce greenhouse gas pollution, now is the time to push Congress to act on the global warming crisis. Please urge your representative to cosponsor the Safe Climate Act.
Edit the message below and enter your contact information. We'll send the message to your U.S. congressional representative.
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5243/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=21858&t=

Tell Clearwater that you will boycott Canadian seafood until the commercial seal hunt is over
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/hsi_seals_09_clearwater

All Countris are allowed to Sign:

Urgent: Ask Minister Gormley to Ban Seal Product Trade!
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/global_ireland_sealvote

(Spain)
Urgent: Ask Your Environment Minister to Ban Seal Product Trade!
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/global_spain_sealvote

(Romania)Ask Your Environment Minister to Ban Seal Product Trade!
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/global_romania_sealvote

(Portugal) Urgent: Ask Your Government to Ban Seal Product Trade!
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/global_portugal_sealvote

Tell the Australian government: Don't Compromise on Whales' Lives
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/hsi_whaling_australia09