ANTI--LEATHER, ANTI--MEAT CAMPAIGN .

[Guest guest]

ANTI--LEATHER , ANTI--MEAT CAMPAIGN.

 

 

Dear Vegetarian friend,

 

Enclosed an important Sample letter for you to send to

Rosie O'Donnell and many of your local media people.

PLEASE also SAVE THIS LETTER in your file, it is an excellent

documentation and it will help you to educate many of other

local people about how the meat and leather comes from .

 

Please :

 

1: Write your own style letter to Ms. Rosie O'Donnell.

REMEMBER , ALWAYS BE POLITE !!!

(http://www.peta-online.org/alert/index.html#alerts )

 

2: Please also send similar letters to your " local media

list " which include your local newspapers, local TV, local

Radio, local magazine and local elementary schools :

(please call them to find out their contact info, email address,

fax #, addresses then save them in your special file for later

campaign use) : Contact all of the following editors in each

media :

 

Food editor (ask them to promote all plants food instead of meat ),

Health editor(ask them to promote healthy plants food diet)

Fashion editor (ask them to promote cruelty free non-animals

sources leather instead of real leather.)

School principles (ask them to educate children to eat

healthy plant foods .)

 

 

Thanks so much for your important action for animals.

 

Concerned citizens

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SAMPLE LETTER :

PLEASE CALL/FAX/LETTER TO ROSIE:

 

 

The Rosie O'Donnell Show

30 Rockefeller Plz., #800 E.

New York, NY 10112-0002 U.S.A.

Tel.: 212-506-3200 (in USA)

Fax: 212-506-3249 (in USA)

 

Dear Ms. O'Donnell,

 

We are so shocked and concerned to see that you are heavily

promoting Leather and you even held " Wear Leather Days. " .

 

As you may know that nearly 30 % of all cattle slaughtered in this

country are skinned alive . A lot of leather sold here comes from

overseas too, where the animals involved endure horrors such as

forced marches in staggering heat for hundreds of miles without

food or water, suffocation from illegal overcrowding in transport

trucks, and violent beatings. Cattle have chili peppers or tobacco

rubbed into their eyes and their tails deliberately broken to get

them moving again when they fall down from exhaustion,

malnutrition, and injury. In China, Korea, and the Philippines,

dog skin is marked as " cowhide " and sold for export.

 

We are enclosing part of the Affidavits from the employees at

IBP Slaughterhouse so that you understand how the industries

make " LEATHER " and " FOOD " :

 

 

>On May 24, 2000, Seattle's KING 5 TV aired a news story that exposed

> unbelievable acts of animal cruelty and blatant violations of state

>and federal humane slaughter laws at the IBP cattle slaughterhouse

> in Wallula, WA. The piece was the result of a year-long undercover

>investigation by The Humane Farming Association.

 

>On May 31, a coalition of animal protection, consumer, and worker

>organizations held a press conference to further expose the issue.

>Following the press conference, a " Petition for Enforcement of

>Humane Slaughter and Animal Cruelty Laws " was presented to

>the office of Washington State Attorney General Christine Gregoire.

>

>Affidavits from numerous IBP-Wallula slaughterhouse workers were

> included with the petition. Following are excerpts from some of

> those affidavits:

>

>INEFFECTIVE STUNNING:

>At IBP-Wallula, stun operators are often unable to render cattle

>unconscious, as evidenced by the following affidavits:

>

>Affidavit #6, paragraphs 5 and 9:

> " There's a problem for me with knocking the cows. The chain goes

> too fast, more than 300 cows an hour....If I can't get the animal

>knocked right, it keeps going....The chain doesn't stop. It keeps

> running. It never stops. The cows are getting hung alive or not

> alive. hey keep coming in. They just keep coming, coming,

> coming........ "

>

>Affidavit #3, paragraph 7:

> " The problem in the knocking box is that you have to work real fast

> because the chain is too fast and the animals that come into the box

> are jumping everywhere. And sometimes...you don't shoot the cow

> really right. And you let him go like that. And the shacklers, they

> get them like that, and so they shackle them alive.... "

>

>Affidavit #4, paragraph 4:

> " The majority of the time, the knockers are in such a hurry that they

> can't knock the cows good enough. Some of the cows get up and run

> around chasing. When cows are hung alive on the chain, they look

> like they are trying to get unhooked to run. "

>

>Affidavit #3, paragraph 4 :

> " I estimate that 30 percent of the cows are not properly knocked

> and get to the first legger alive....To still be alive at the second

> legger the cows have gone alive from the knocker to the sticker

> to the belly ripper (he cuts the hide down the center of the

> cow's abdomen) to the tail ripper (he opens the [rectum]) to the

> first legger (he skins a back leg and then cuts off the foot) to the

> first butter (he skins from the breast to the belly and a little bit

> on the back) to the worker who cuts off both front feet.

>

> Those cows then go to a worker who sticks a hook into the

> joint where the first legger took off the foot and the cows are

> hung from the trolley hook. I can tell that these cows are alive

>because they're holding their heads up and a lot of times they

> make noise. "

>

>Affidavit #6, paragraph 6, 7, 8:

> " ...All the workers can open the legs, the stomach, the neck,

> cut off the feet while the cow is breathing. It makes noise...And

> the cattle go down the line for many minutes and they're still alive.

> They cut the legs and everything. The cattle move their eyes

> and their nose. They're looking around.

>

> " Sometimes the supervisor comes and works on the live cows.

> They don't want workers to stop the chain, so when the live cows

> are really active, workers are supposed to honk the horn and the

> supervisor will come to help them skin the live cow....

> " I would estimate that one out of ten cows is still alive when it's

> bled and skinned. "

>

>Affidavit #8, paragraph 4:

> " About thirty percent of the cows are still alive down the line.

> Sometimes more. I would see that they would be hanging there,

> trying to pick up their heads, they would move back and forth

> on the shackle, they would be blinking their eyes and looking

> around. You know they're alive because they are breathing

> real hard, they make noise, they kick the other cows, and

> it moves the whole chain. "

>

> CONTAMINATED MEAT

> Affidavit #4, paragraph 5:

> " It's real hard to do your job because the cows are moving at the

> same time you're trying to do your job....Sometimes you can't

> even do your job not only because the cows are alive, but because

> the chain is running so fast. Even though I'm supposed to trim

> contaminants, you don't have time to clean all the pus, shit, hair,

> and dirt off the cows. "

> ................

 

(Some references:

http://www.seattletimes.com/news/local/html98/cows01m_20000601.html

http://www.king5.com/investigators/storydetail.html?StoryID=1386 )

 

 

Dear Ms. O'Donnell, please have compassion for millions of

helpless animals in pain and agony.

 

Please promote cruelty free non-animals products instead of real

leather.

 

We would be very grateful to you for your compassion,

kindness and help.

 

Sincerely,

......

(your names, address )

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