URGENT: Please Protect Downed Animals.

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PLEASE PROTECT DOWNED ANIMALS

 

LET'S WRITE TO FDA TO PROTECT DOWNED ANIMALS.

 

 

Dear Friend of animals,

 

Please let's all send a letter to FDA to ask them to grant your

petition to stop marketing the downed animals and humanely

euthanize downed animals who are too sick to stand at stockyards.

The sample letter is enclosed .

The docket number for this petition is : # 98P-0151/CP1

 

Please send your petition to :

 

U.S. Food and Drug Administration,

Dockets Management Branch,

5630 Fishers Lane,

Room # 1061, Docket # 98P-0151/CP1

Rockville, MD 20852

 

Email address: FDADockets

(Please place the Docket Number # 98P-0151/CP1

on the SUBJECT line and at the top of your letter.)

 

The Sample letter :

 

 

RE: Docket Number # 98P-0151/CP1

Downed Animals protection

 

Dear FDA,

 

I'm writing to request that you help end the horrific downed

animal trade. Please grant the petition to prohibit the slaughter

of downed animals as presented by www.NoDowners.org

Farm Sanctuary Campaign.

 

Animals who are too sick or injured even to stand should not be

allowed to enter the human food chain.

 

In addition to posing an increased risk for bacterial contamination,

there is evidence that some downed animals may be afflicted with

a form of BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy or

" Mad Cow Disease " ), a disease which has been linked to a

fatal human illness (CJD or Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease).

 

It is impossible to move downed animals humanely, and they are

typically pushed with tractors or dragged with chains - inhumane

processes which cause injuries ranging from bruises and

abrasions, to broken bones and torn ligaments.

 

Downed animals comprise a very small percentage of animals

slaughtered, and prohibiting their marketing will cause no undue

economic hardship.

 

Industry experts have estimated that 90% percent of downed

animals can be prevented with better care and handling.

Removing the market for downed animals will provide an

incentive to industry to prevent downed animals in the first place.

 

Downed Animal Protection Act (H.R. 443 & S. 515)

 

Farm Sanctuary and other animal protection organizations

are lobbying to pass the Downed Animal Protection Act in

Washington, DC. This commonsense measure requires

that animals who are too sick to stand (i.e. " downed animals " )

be humanely euthanized at stockyards.

 

I agree they should be HUMANELY euthanized at stockyards

and remove the market for downed animals.

 

Please help make this the LAW!

Please grant this petition for the animal cruelty and health reasons.

 

I also like to show you a few photos of downed animals

cruelty and suffering , please click the following :

 

http://www.nodowners.org/gallery/route87_2.htm

http://www.nodowners.org/gallery/cow_downed3.htm

http://www.nodowners.org/gallery/cow_downed1.htm

 

Thanks .

 

Sincerely Yours,

(your name, your email address,

and mailing address)

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References Source:

 

http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dailys/00/Sep00/091900/emc0002.rtf