Who Really Deserves the Animal Rights Vote ?

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Dear Friend of animals,

 

The following is a forwarded message to you .

It is for your references only.

As you know, a compassionate President and

Congress will defend for billions of animals,

however, a cruel , heartless President and Congress

will kill billions of more animals !

We do not make any recommendation to you.

It is totally your wise decision and choice .

 

Thanks.

c.c.

 

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Ira Manhoff irm

Citizens Concerns

Sunday, October 29, 2000 12:00 PM

 

Who Really Deserves the Animal Rights Vote ?

 

 

THE FOLLOWING IS TAKEN FROM THE GREEN PARTY

PLATFORM, WHICH IS WHAT NADER IS RUNNING ON.

 

" Corporate industrial farming practices are inhumane and cause

unnecessary suffering to animals. The story of industrial farming needs

to be told. The Green Party strongly opposes the rampant and

damaging policies of corporate industrial farming and calls for a

national shift away from these practices. "

 

1. The Green Party supports a strong, enforceable " ENDANGERED

SPECIES ACT " based on the principles of conservation biology.

 

12. Finally, as Greens, we must add that the mark of a humane and

civilized society truly lies in how we treat the least protected among

us. To extend rights to other sentient, living beings is our

responsibility and a mark of our place among all of creation. We find

cruelty to animals to be repugnant and criminal. We call for an

intelligent, compassionate approach to the treatment of animals.

 

I CHALLENGE ANYONE TO FIND SUCH LANGUAGE IN EITHER OF THE OTHER TWO MAIN

POLITICAL PARTIES PLATFORMS.

FOLLOWING IS QUOTED FROM ONE OF RALPH NADER'S SPEECHES.

 

" I support a moratorium on commercial whaling. I also support the

expansion of whale sanctuaries including the development, initially of a

South Pacific Whale Sanctuary, as supported by Australia and New

Zealand, and a South Atlantic Whale Sanctuary as proposed by Brazil

at the International Whaling Commission. I also support a Global Whale

Sanctuary and the abolition of commercial whaling.

 

In terms of possible whale destruction by the US Navy, I would call

for a cessation of the SURTASS LFAS Program (Surveillance Towed

Array Sonar System utilizing Low Frequency Active Sonar). This

program, is a continuation of the militarization of the ocean, and

represents, not only an excessive cost to taxpayers, in a post-cold war

era, in which the US military budgetary expenditures dwarf those of

any other " potential enemies " by at least ten fold; but represents a

clear threat to whale, dolphin and other ocean species.

 

The proposed military acoustic program would be a network of very

high powered sound generators placed in various places round the oceans,

some stationary, others towed behind ships. The sound generators can

blast 250 decibels of noise, which is l00, 000 to one million times

greater than the loudest whale, and perhaps a billion times louder than

the subtle acoustical signals of other sea creatures. The system is

designed for the sophisticated location and long distance communication

between submarines. These sounds are the loudest sounds ever

generated by humans, with the possible exception of the noise at nuclear

Ground Zero.

 

After almost every known Navy test, whales and dolphins show up on

beaches for " mysterious reasons " , some with bleeding eyes, damaged

and infected cochlea, and other unusual tissue damage and these are the

creatures we know about. The Navy has thus far maintained that the

strandings are only " anecdotal " , unconnected to it's testing, and

refuses to study the matter further. Based on extensive strandings

in the Canary Islands (l985, l988, l989), the Atlantic Coast (l987),

Northern California (l995, l997)< British Columbia, Hawaii, US Virgin

Islands, and the Bahamas .

 

I advocate for a complete cessation of this program, and a study of the

anecdotal data. I would advocate for this based on a precautionary

principle, in that we are not sure of the long-term impact,

but are quite aware of the present anecdotal evidence. "

 

THE FOLLOWING IS A QUOTE FROM WIONA LADUKE, WHO

IS RUNNING FOR VICE PRESIDENT WITH NADER ON THE

GREEN PARTY:

 

" We are a country which, in the new millenium this fall, the Federal

government will come up another EIS on the Yellowstone Buffalo Herd

that will propose continued lethal management of the Yellowstone Buffalo

Herd. That is the largest wild herd of buffaloes in this country.

Ironically, we are still talking in the twenty-first-century about

killing buffalo in America. That is something that America should have

learned a lesson from. That is something that is absolutely wrong to

reappear in public policy. We are a society, which today has

by-and-large reduced our relatives --

all of those species, all our relatives, whether you have fins, whether

you have wings or whether you have or paws; we have reduced them to

poverty.

 

They are living in ecosystems which are withered away to barely

anything. There are salmon running their heads into dams and getting

obliterated. There are buffalo which try to leave a park and get shot.

There are wolves in northern Minnesota that are okay if they stay in

certain area, but once they cross out of that they are trapped or they

are shot. That is what we have done to all of our relatives. We have

reduced them to virtual poverty.

And somehow in the end, we must reconcile our relationship. We

must reconcile our relationship with all of those relatives. Whatever

creed they are, whatever wings they have, we must come to some

solution. "

 

THE FOLLOWING ARE SOME OF THOSE WHO ARE SUPPORTING NADER:

 

Citizens' Committee for Nader/LaDuke

Ronnie Cummins is the national director of the Organic Consumers

Association and the editor of BioDemocracy News, a monthly on-line

newsletter devoted to genetic engineering, factory farming, and

organics.

A fourth-generation dairy farmer and cattle rancher, Howard Lyman

grew up on a dairy farm in Montana and ran a feedlot operation there for

20 years. Today he is an outspoken critic of the meat and animal

product industries and president of the International Vegetarian Union.

 

David Brower is the founder (in 1982) and Chairman of Earth Island

Institute and President of Earth Island Action Group . Brower has been a

wilderness enthusiast since 1926 and has been engaged in conservation

battles since 1938. In 1969 he founded Friends of the Earth, along with

the League of Conservation Voters, and initiated the founding of

independent FOE organizations in other countries.

 

DONT BUY IN TO THE FEAR AND SCARE TACTICS OF THE DEOMOCRATS. GORE HAS

ALREADY WON IN NY, SO A VOTE FOR GORE IN NY IS A WASTE OF YOUR VOTE.

 

USE YOUR VOTE TO SEND A STRONG MESSAGE TO THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY, THAT

THEY NO LONGER REPRESENT

THE ISSUES IMPORTANT TO US, AND OUR ANIMALS.

VOTE NADER , PLEASE.