Need letters for cows (fwd)

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Got this one from the Northern California Animal Liberation Team

(NCALT):

 

Peta is asking everyone to support the campaign to pressure the Indian

government to enforce its own laws regarding the humane transport of

cows. The laws provide fairly good protections for the cows, but they

are being rampantly broken and ignored at present, even in a country

where cows are sacred. Peta is asking for PAPER/fax letters in this

instance because they have it on good authority that the Prime

Minister is counting each piece of paper mail and evaluating them in

his response. Please write/fax yourself and recruit 5 others to

write/fax. The addresses are below. Also, please send copies of these

letters to Ingrid Newkirk at Peta (you could e-mail her at

info@peta-online with an attached copy of copy the body of your letter

into the e-mail). Paper copies can be sent to her address, also

below. I've included a draft which you can modify or use as is for

your own letter. If you want more information (or can stomach the

graphic photos) go to the web site at www.peta-online.org.

Respected Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee of South Block (60

cents postage for this one - don't forget!)

New Delhi 110 011 India

fax: 011-91-11-301-6857

 

Indian Ambassador

Indian Embassy

2107 Massachusetts Avenue NW

Washington, DC 20008

fax: 202-265-4351

 

Ingrid Newkirk

PETA

501 Front Street

Norfolk, VA 23510

 

Dear Prime Minister/Ambassador:

 

I am writing to ask that you PLEASE take action now to enforce the

Indian law regarding cattle transport. The laws are not being enforced

and cows are suffering miserably as a result:

 

 

 

a.. They are strung together with rope pierced through their noses

 

b.. They are packed so tightly into trucks that they gore each other

with their horns

 

c.. They are not given water

 

d.. Many suffocate to death

 

e.. Many are crushed under the weight of those who fall on them during

the ride

 

f.. Their bones are being broken

 

 

The law states that:

 

 

a.. The cattle must be given water

 

b.. Cattle may not be overloaded into trucks

 

c.. Only six can ride in a vehicle

 

d.. The sides of the truck must be padded

 

 

Please meet with the Indian states right away to develop a plan to

enforce the law so that the animals are not abused on their way to

slaughter.