Guest guest Posted October 25, 2003 Report Share Posted October 25, 2003 The new issue of the Green Goat (a vegan zine) is out and available free at their website. It has an interview with Dr. Neal Barnard (PCRM) and Sarah Kramer (How it All Vegan Cookbook) http://thegreengoat.netfirms.com/ - Friday, October 24, 2003 5:52 PM Digest Number 1049 Post message: Subscribe: - Un: - List owner: -owner Shortcut URL to this page: /community/ ------ There are 4 messages in this issue. Topics in this digest: 1. Gee Gee Rub " misscandy69x6 " <misscandy69x6 2. New Message for you " The Vegan Society " <media 3. Looking at food labels " annamky " <anamaria 4. ALERT: CBS ignores plight of Iditarod dogs; ask for new show that gives facts SledDogAC ______________________ ______________________ Message: 1 Fri, 24 Oct 2003 02:58:31 -0000 " misscandy69x6 " <misscandy69x6 Gee Gee Rub ((((Gee Gee Rub)))) 2 chicks, 2 pussies, 1 hott rub! Take a Look http://www.plusdating.com/landing.asp?afl=NYHO ______________________ ______________________ Message: 2 Fri, 24 Oct 2003 11:54:34 -0000 " The Vegan Society " <media New Message for you There is an animated E-Card and message waiting for you at the web address below. HAPPY WORLD VEGAN DAY TO YOU AND YOUR FRIENDS (01-11-03) Topic: UK Vegan Week & Vegan Birthday Celebrations URL: http://www.worldveganday.org/html/modules.php?name=News & file=article & sid=267 ______________________ ______________________ Message: 3 Fri, 24 Oct 2003 16:01:22 -0000 " annamky " <anamaria Looking at food labels Hi everyone, I went to the grocery store the other day and I brought home a new brand of bread (the one I was trying before I found out it was not vegan). While at the store I was looking at labels and I found one that didn't seem to have any animal ingredients but grains, water, corn syrup, yeast and salt. Then I got home and I called the Company (the phone number on the label) and asked about the bread being vegan or not. The person on the phone told me, I quote: " I would think so, yeah " So when I get an answer like this I don't know what to do, I don't think " I would think so " is an answer to be trusted, but the ingredients seemed vegan to me too. However on the Nutrition Facts Label I find that it contains Protein = 4g. Is this protein coming from the actual ingredients or could this Nutrition Facts list be an addition to the actual ingredients...meaning...this protein could come from animal source? Ana ______________________ ______________________ Message: 4 Fri, 24 Oct 2003 15:38:28 EDT SledDogAC ALERT: CBS ignores plight of Iditarod dogs; ask for new show that gives facts PLEASE CROSSPOST >From the Sled Dog Action Coalition, http://www.helpsleddogs.org: CBS Early Show's interview of blind musher Rachael Scdoris ignored the plight of the Iditarod dogs, and failed to give equal time to the animal protection side of the Iditarod story. CBS asked Scdoris for her opinion of the animal protection viewpoint. Nothing was said about the many ways in which the Iditarod is cruel. This was not a fair or objective presentation of our views or of the facts. Please ask CBS Early Show to air facts about Iditarod cruelties on another show. EMAILS with commas: earlyshow, StormH, SmithH, jchen EMAILS with semi-colons: earlyshow; StormH; SmithH; jchen SAMPLE LETTER TO PERSONALIZE: Dear Ms. Chen, Mr. Smith and Ms. Storm: Animal protection advocates requested that your interview of blind musher Rachael Scdoris be balanced by giving equal time to the animal protection side of the Iditarod story. Instead, you asked Scdoris for her opinion of the animal protection viewpoint, without stating any of the many ways in which the Iditarod is cruel. CBS did not give a fair or objective presentation of the animal protection perspective or of the facts. On another show, please devote equal air time to facts about Iditarod cruelties and to the animal protection viewpoint. In the Iditarod, dogs are forced to run 1,150 miles over a grueling terrain in 8 to 15 days, which is the approximate distance between New York City and Miami. Dog deaths and injuries are common in the race. USA Today sports columnist Jon Saraceno called the Iditarod " a travesty of grueling proportions " and " Ihurtadog. " Fox sportscaster Jim Rome called it " I-killed-a-dog. " Orlando Sentinel sports columnist George Diaz said the race is " a barbaric ritual " and " an illegal sweatshop for dogs. " USA Today business columnist Bruce Horovitz said the race is a " public-relations minefield. " On average, 54% of the dogs who start the race cannot make it across the finish line. Please visit the SDAC website http://www.helpsleddogs.org to see pictures, and for more information. Be sure to read the quotes on http://www.helpsleddogs.org/remarks.htm. All of the material on the site is true and verifiable. At least 120 dogs have died in the Iditarod. There is no official count of dog deaths available for the race's early years. In " WinterDance: the Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod, " Gary Paulsen describes witnessing an Iditarod musher brutally kicking a dog to death during the race. He wrote, " All the time he was kicking the dog. Not with the imprecision of anger, the kicks, not kicks to match his rage but aimed, clinical vicious kicks. Kicks meant to hurt deeply, to cause serious injury. Kicks meant to kill. " Causes of death have also included strangulation in towlines, internal hemorrhaging after being gouged by a sled, liver injury, heart failure, and pneumonia. " Sudden death " and " external myopathy, " a fatal condition in which a dog's muscles and organs deteriorate during extreme or prolonged exercise, have also occurred. The 1976 Iditarod winner, Jerry Riley, was accused of striking his dog with a snow hook (a large, sharp and heavy metal claw). In 1996, one of Rick Swenson's dogs died while he mushed his team through waist-deep water and ice. The Iditarod Trail Committee banned both mushers from the race but later reinstated them. In many states these incidents would be considered animal cruelty. Swenson is now on the Iditarod Board of Directors. In the 2001 Iditarod, a sick dog was sent to a prison to be cared for by inmates and received no veterinary care. He was chained up in the cold and died. Another dog died by suffocating on his own vomit. Tom Classen, retired Air Force colonel and Alaskan resident for over 40 years, tells us that the dogs are beaten into submission: " They've had the hell beaten out of them. " " You don't just whisper into their ears, ‘OK, stand there until I tell you to run like the devil.' They understand one thing: a beating. These dogs are beaten into submission the same way elephants are trained for a circus. The mushers will deny it. And you know what? They are all lying. " -USA Today, March 3, 2000 in Jon Saraceno's column Beatings and whippings are common. Jim Welch says in his book Speed Mushing Manual, " I heard one highly respected [sled dog] driver once state that " ‘Alaskans like the kind of dog they can beat on.' " " Nagging a dog team is cruel and ineffective...A training device such as a whip is not cruel at all but is effective. " " It is a common training device in use among dog mushers...A whip is a very humane training tool. " Mushers believe in " culling " or killing unwanted dogs, including puppies. Many dogs who are permanently disabled in the Iditarod, or who are unwanted for any reason, are killed with a shot to the head, dragged or clubbed to death. " On-going cruelty is the law of many dog lots. Dogs are clubbed with baseball bats and if they don't pull are dragged to death in harnesses..... " wrote Alaskan Mike Cranford in an article for Alaska's Bush Blade Newspaper (March, 2000). Jon Saraceno wrote in his March 3, 2000 column in USA Today, " He [Colonel Tom Classen] confirmed dog beatings and far worse. Like starving dogs to maintain their most advantageous racing weight. Skinning them to make mittens. Or dragging them to their death. " The race has led to the proliferation of horrific dog kennels in which the dogs are treated very cruelly. Many kennels have over 100 dogs and some have as many as 200. It is standard for the dogs to spend their entire lives outside tethered to metal chains that can be as short as four feet long. In 1997 the United States Department of Agriculture determined that the tethering of dogs was inhumane and not in the animals' best interests. The chaining of dogs as a primary means of enclosure is prohibited in all cases where federal law applies. A dog who is permanently tethered is forced to urinate and defecate where he sleeps, which conflicts with his natural instinct to eliminate away from his living area. Iditarod dogs are victims of cruelty. Please tell your viewers the truth about this barbaric race. Sincerely, ______________________ ______________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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