URGENT, YOUR HELP WILL TURN THE TIDE.(9/2/2001)

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Dear Caring friend,

 

The US Senators and Representatives are coming back to the

Capitol now. There are many very important issues we all have to

fight very hard and work very hard on them.

 

The Issues in this action alert are :

 

ISSUE # 1 : Please protect Roadless Conservation Rule.

Public comments Deadline: September 10, 2001

ISSUE # 2 : Please Stop New Offshore Oil Drilling.

Public Comments Deadline : September 27, 2001

ISSUE # 3: Stop " Stone Ridge Mega-Dairy Factory Farm " .

ISSUE # 4 : Tell Victoria's Secret That FUR IS DEAD !

ISSUE # 5 : Tell FOX TV to Stop Cruel Bullfighting Ads !

ISSUE # 6 : EDUCATE : Local Media, Local Politicians,

on " Meat and Dairy's vicious Environmental Impacts " :

 

Every issue is separated with " @@@@@@@@ " .

You are encouraged to pass this email to your members, friends

to get more help . thanks so much for your kindness and urgent help.

 

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ISSUE # 1 :

 

PLEASE PROTECT ROADLESS FORESTS

THE WILD FORESTS OF THE SOUTHERN ROCKIES AT RISK .

 

PUBLIC COMMENT DEADLINE : SEPTEMBER 10, 2001.

 

In an attempt to kill the Roadless Conservation Rule, which prohibits

industrial development on the LAST remaining roadless areas on

our national forests, the Bush Administration has set up a fast-track

public comment process designed to discourage comments.

 

The Bush administration is trying to gut the Roadless Area Conservation

Rule -- an immensely popular forest conservation measure that protects

America's last wild National Forests, including more than 5 million acres

in the Southern Rockies, from new road construction and most logging.

 

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP :

 

The SAMPLE LETTER & CONTACT INFORMATION

listed below for your guide to help :

 

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SAMPLE LETTER : It is important to personalize your letter.

It will carry much more weight. thanks.

 

Subject : Please protect Roadless Conservation Rule.

Please protect the Wild Forests of the Southern Rockies

 

Dear Chief Bosworth,

 

I am writing to support the Forest Service's Roadless Area

Conservation Rule as it was published in the Federal Register on

January 12, 2001.

 

This policy is the product of the most extensive federal rulemaking

in history, which included 600 public hearings nationwide, 27 of

which were held in Colorado. More than 1.6 million public comments

were submitted to the Forest Service, including over 28,000 from

Coloradans, and the overwhelming majority-more than 90 percent-

endorsed full and immediate protection for all roadless areas.

 

In Colorado, the Roadless Rule would protect more than 4.4 million

acres from road building and most logging, including spectacular places

such as Dome Peak with its stunning meadows and vistas and the

forests of Basalt Mountain on the White River National Forest.

These unspoiled lands provide critically important wildlife habitat and

supply clean water to hundreds of municipalities across the West.

 

In Colorado, one of the most magnificent public wildlands on earth

are a driving force behind the state's thriving economy, attracting

new businesses and millions of tourists each year.

 

More than half of our National Forest land has been scarred by logging

and other destructive activities. The more than 440,000 miles of roads

that criss-cross our National Forests -- the vast majority built for the

logging industry and paid for by our tax dollars --have destroyed

wildlife habitat, caused mudslides and polluted our water. Please

I strongly request you to protect the last remaining unspoiled wild

areas in our National Forests.

 

The Roadless Rule offers a balanced approach to forest conservation.

Not a single mile of existing road or trail would be closed as a result

of the Roadless Rule, and Coloradans would continue to enjoy the

same recreational access to these lands currently allowed under existing

forest management plans. The Roadless Rule would not compromise

public health and safety and would not place any additional limits

on access to State-owned or private lands.

 

I strongly oppose turning over decisions about the fate of roadless

areas to the local forest planning process, which has failed miserably

to protect roadless areas. Under forest plans now in place, new

roads could be built on nearly 80 percent of the remaining

roadless acreage in Colorado.

 

I urge you to protect all of our National Forests by defending the

roadless conservation policy and opposing all efforts to weaken or

overturn forest protection. I urge you to abide by the will of the

American people and fully implement the Roadless Rule as

it was written.

 

We expect immediate protection for our last untouched wildlife

Sanctuaries. Thanks so much for your kindness & urgent help.

 

Sincerely,

 

Your Name

Your Address

City, State, Zip

U.S. Constituents

 

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CONTACT INFORMATION :

 

Contact # 1 :

Time is very urgent, please send your important letter today :

 

U.S. Forest Chief Dale Bosworth

USDA-Forest Service - CAT

Attn: Roadless ANPR Comments

PO Box 221090

Salt Lake City, UT 84112

U.S.A.

 

Email: roadless_anpr (@fs.fed.us )

Fax: (801) 296-4090 (in USA )

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Contact # 2 :

Please also write to PRESIDENT BUSH & CABINET members:

(Address to : Dear Mr. President , )

Please always sign as : U.S. Constituent(s) (if you live in U.S.)

 

The President George W. Bush

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW

Washington, DC 20500

U.S.A.

Tel: 202-456-1414

Fax: 202-456-2461 (in U.S.A.)

E-mail : president (@whitehouse.gov )

 

Please also CC to First Lady Laura Bush and

Vice President Dick Cheney and Mrs. Cheney and

cabinet members :

 

Then Copy the following address and paste to CC field.

Note: must have comma between addresses.

Please remove the " (..) " at the end of each address before

you paste them to your BCC field :

 

first.lady , (@whitehouse.gov, )

vice.president , (@whitehouse.gov, )

mrs.cheney , (@whitehouse.gov,)

DEvans, (@doc.gov, )

whitman.christine, (@epamail.epa.gov, )

ann.veneman , (@usda.gov, )

Gale_Norton , (@ios.doi.gov, )

AskDOJ , (@usdoj.gov, )

Secretary, (@state.gov, )

Scott.B.Gudes, (@noaa.gov )

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Note :

Any question, you may contact :

rob (@sinapu.org ) Tel: 303.447.8655

Or contact Carrie Doyle , Tel: (303) 618-5894,

Email: srfn (@southernrockies.org )

 

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ISSUE # 2 :

 

LETTER To Stop New Offshore Oil Drilling.

 

COMMENTS DEADLINE: SEPTEMBR 27, 2001

 

Please tell Interior Secretary Gale Norton and Florida Governor

Jeb Bush and President Bush : No Expanded Offshore Oil Drilling!

 

BACKGROUND:

 

As the Bush Administration promotes its massive new energy plan,

expanded offshore oil drilling is back in the national spotlight.

Interior Secretary Gale Norton has proposed a new Five-Year

Offshore Oil Drilling Plan and is seeking public comments on this plan.

 

The Offshore oil Drilling plan would threaten a magnificent

cosystem that supports productive fish and wildlife populations.

Grey, Minke, Beluga, Humpback and Orca whales, the endangered

Steller sea lions, and sea otters and seals all live in these waters.

 

WHAT YOU CAN DO TO HELP :

 

The SAMPLE LETTER & CONTACT INFORMATION follows:

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SAMPLE LETTER :

(note: Please modify or write your own letter if you can.

But do not forget your real purposes in the letter. thanks.)

 

SUBJECT : Please STOP New Offshore Oil Drilling

 

Dear ........... ,

 

I am writing to comment on your proposed draft Five-Year OCS Oil

and Gas Leasing Program and on the draft Environmental Impact

Statement for this proposal.

 

Offshore oil drilling will never be truly safe, and I am concerned that

your proposed plan to dramatically expand offshore oil drilling activities

in U.S. waters does not strike the right balance between protecting the

environment and developing energy supplies.

 

In Florida, the proposed expansion of offshore leasing threatens the

state's economically important fishing and tourism industries. And

in Alaska, the plan provides too little protection for productive

fisheries and spill-sensitive Wildlife in remote coastal areas.

 

From the fragile coastline of Alaska to the sugar-white beaches of the

eastern Gulf of Mexico, unexplored waters are the main target of

draft Five-Year Offshore Oil Drilling Plan. In Alaska alone, a total

of 10 new " lease sales " are proposed, including such environmentally

sensitive areas as Lower Cook Inlet, which would greatly threaten a

magnificent ecosystem that supports productive fish and wildlife

populations. Grey, Minke, Beluga, Humpback and Orca whales,

the endangered Steller sea lions, and sea otters and seals all live in

these waters.

 

Please stop such drastic and irresponsible act of drilling in Alaska.

Please stop the drilling to proceed on 36 active leases along the coast

of central California, located between two sensitive national Marine

Sanctuaries. Please stop to allow development of already leased

near-shore waters right off the Florida Panhandle at Destin Dome.

 

Please stop to put the interests of oil companies before Wildlife and

Public interests . Energy conservation measures should be fully

explored before we undertake dramatic expansion of offshore drilling.

 

The Five-Year OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program, as proposed,

offers no assurances that oil drilling is safe or that the industry can

contain or clean up an oil spill in Alaska's coastal waters. Toxic oil

from the tragic 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill still seeps from the beaches

throughout Prince William Sound. This shows that the oil industry's

reassurances that it can safely drill in the hostile environment of the

Arctic are deceiving and irresponsible.

 

Specifically,

 

* I urge the Department of Interior to withdraw its proposed draft

Five-Year OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program and the inadequate Draft

Environmental Impact Statement.

 

* I request that a full Environmental Impact Statement be prepared

for the new 1.5-million-acre Lease Sale #181 in the Eastern Gulf of

Mexico, since your agencies' cursory Environmental Assessment for

this action is not adequate.

 

* I request you , please stop permanently any of the new " lease sales "

(which includes 10 new lease sales) in Alaska which includes such

environmentally sensitive areas as Lower Cook Inlet .

 

* I request you that the active OCS leases off the Florida Panhandle at

Destin Dome and Central California be canceled.

 

* I request that the recommendations of the OCS Policy Committee that

seismic testing and other damaging exploration activities be

permitted within congressional moratorium areas be rejected.

 

 

Please include these comments in the formal record for the draft Five-

Year OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program, the draft Environmental Impact

Statement on the proposed Five-Year OCS Program, Florida's Sale

#181 Environmental Assessment, and for California's Delineation

Drilling Activities Draft Environmental Impact Statement.

 

Sincerely yours,

Your Name,

Address.

City , State, Zip .

U.S. Constituent(s) , (if you live in US.)

Country.

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CONTACT INFORMATION :

 

Contact # 1 :

Interior Secretary :

Email : Gale_Norton (@ios.doi.gov )

or write to :

U.S. Department of the Interior

1849 C. Street N.W.

Washington, DC 20240

USA

(202) 208-3100 (in USA )

(Please address to : The Honorable Secretary Gale Norton ,)

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Contact # 2 :

Governor Jeb Bush

The Capitol

Tallahassee, FL?32399-0001

Phone: (850) 488-4441 , Fax: (850) 487-0801

2 Emails: jeb (@myflorida.com)

fl_governor (@myflorida.com)

 

(Please address to : Dear Honorable Governor Bush, )

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Contact # 3 :

 

PRESIDENT BUSH AND ITS CABINET MEMBERS :

Address:

The President George W. Bush

The White House

1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW

Washington, DC 20500

Fax: 202-456-2461 (in U.S.A.)

E-mail : president (@whitehouse.gov )

(Please address to: Dear Mr. President , )

 

Please also CC to First Lady Laura Bush and

Vice President Dick Cheney and Mrs. Cheney and cabinet members:

 

Then Copy the following address and paste to CC field.

Note: It must have comma between addresses.

Please remove the " (..) " at the end of each address before

you paste the following list to your BCC field :

 

 

first.lady , (@whitehouse.gov, )

vice.president , (@whitehouse.gov, )

mrs.cheney , (@whitehouse.gov,)

DEvans, (@doc.gov, )

whitman.christine, (@epamail.epa.gov, )

ann.veneman , (@usda.gov, )

Gale_Norton , (@ios.doi.gov, )

AskDOJ , (@usdoj.gov, )

Secretary, (@state.gov, )

Scott.B.Gudes, (@noaa.gov )

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Contact # 4 :

 

5-Year Program Manager

Minerals Management Service (MS-4400)

MMS5-year.document (@mms.gov)

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References:

http://actionnetwork.org/campaign/offshore_drilling/explanation

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ISSUE # 3 :

 

Please STOP " STONE RIDGE MEGA-DAIRY FACTORY FARM " .

 

The SAMPLE LETTER & CONTACT INFO listed below :

 

Dear Governor ,

 

We, the undersigned, feel strongly that the building of the proposed

Stone Ridge Mega-Dairy Factory near Bellflower, Illinois, will have

numerous negative effects on the local environment, local residents,

animals involved, and will be a disaster for the future of

East Central Illinois.

 

In U.S., " factory farms " generate more than 130 times the amount

of waste that people do. Pollution from livestock farms seriously

threatens humans, fish, and ecosystems. Animal waste contains

disease-causing pathogens such as Salmonella, E. coli, Cryptosporidium,

and fecal coliform, which can be ten to 100 times more concentrated

than in human waste. More than 40 diseases can be transferred to

humans through manure.

 

The seriousness of the pollution can be seen from :

An example of the aerial photo of Dairy farm waste lagoon in Illinois :

http://www.farmweb.org/c/20010223_dumping_aerials.htm

 

Mega dairies pollute groundwater with leaking and overflowing manure

pits, which foul the air so badly that it ruins the quality of life. The

cows are cruelly confined to stalls and injected with growth hormones

to produce more milk, causing weakened bones and increased mastitis.

Many scientific reports said that the BGH Hormone may cause

breast cancers . Please click following :

( http://www.howtopreventcancer.com/cpc/alerts/igf.htm )

 

We strongly urge you to allow the local control and Stop the

building of the Stone Ridge Mega-Dairy in East Central Illinois.

 

Sincerely,

Your Name,

Your Address.

Email address.

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CONTACT INFORMATION :

 

PLEASE CALL and EMAIL THE GOVERNOR NOW !

 

1: The Honorable Governor George Ryan,

Office of the Governor

207 Statehouse

Springfield, IL 62706

Tel: 217-782-0244 (in USA )

Fax: 217-524-4049 (in USA )

EMAIL : governor (@state.il.us )

 

2: The Honorable Lieutenant Governor Corinne Wood,

Office of Lieutenant Governor

214 Statehouse

Springfield, IL 62706

Tel: 217-782-7884

Fax: 217/524-6262

EMAIL: ltgov (@gov.state.il.us )

 

3: Please also send a copy of your letter to

Office of the Illinois Attorney General Jim Ryan

Use Form Email :

http://www.ag.state.il.us/abouttheoffice/ag_email.htm

 

4: Write to Audit General in Illinois :

William G. Holland , Audit General,

Email: auditor (@mail.state.il.us )

Tel: 312-814-4000

Fax: 312-814-4006

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If you have any further question on this issue, please contact :

Mr. Donald A. Rolla, DonTerRo (@msn.com )

Or contact: http://www.humaneusa.org/

 

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ISSUE # 4 :

 

TELL VICTORIA'S SECRET THAT FUR IS DEAD:

 

The fur industry has been claiming for years that fur is back in

fashion and that animal cruelty issues associated with fur production

are frivolous. Last fall, Victoria's Secret climbed on to the

bandwagon of retailers who put profit above morals, promoting

pages of fur garments in its Christmas 2000 catalog. This year,

we'd like to mobilize well in advance of the holiday catalogs by

letting Victoria's Secret know that consumers don't want to

patronize a store that promotes animal cruelty.

 

WHAT YOU CAN DO:

Sending correspondence NOW to the Victoria's Secret

headquarters could stop them from making the same callous

advertising decisions they did last year. Urge them to

 

REMOVE ALL FUR FROM THEIR INVENTORY,

PERMANENTLY !

Please make a phone CALL or send a Letter to:

 

Contact # 1 :

Sharen Jester-Turney

CEO of Victoria's Secret

3425 Morse Crossing

Columbus, OH 43219

Tel: 614-337-5576 (Sharen Turney's secretary)

 

Contact # 2 : Click :

http://www.victoriassecret.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce3/CustomerService

Then choose " Praise and Suggestions " , then click " Go " .

 

Please feel free to contact Customer Relations as well through:

http://www.victoriassecret.com/html/custsrvc/contact/

 

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(Reference source: Humane Lines. )

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ISSUE # 5 :

 

TELL FOX TO STOP CRUEL BULLFIGHTING COMMERCIAL!

 

Fox television is STILL running the notorious Nissan commercial

that celebrates bullfighting. (the Nissan vehicle is the matador that

fights the bull).

 

Fox seems interested in public opinion and might be seriously

considering pulling the ad IF there are enough viewer complaints.

Please tell TV's channel FOX Not to run the Nissan bullfighting ad!

 

CONTACT INFORMATION :

 

1: For all Fox Stations, Email: askfox (@foxinc.com )

Please give Fox TV the following website to show them the

cruelty of the Bullfight and ask them to stop Nissan Bullfighting

ads immidiately : http://www.faace.co.uk/bfacts.htm

 

2: Write to 2 FOX Broadcasting Advertising Sales Vice Presidents:

Again, enclose http://www.faace.co.uk/bfacts.htm in your email

and request them to stop Nissan Bullfighting Ads immidiately :

 

a: Mr. James Burnette: Tel: 212-556-2431

Email: jamesb (@foxinc.com )

 

b: Ms. Susan Wachter: Tel: 212-556-2530

Email: susanw (@foxinc.com )

 

3: IN NEW YORK TRI-TATE AREA

The person to call at FOX is Scott : 212-452-3713

 

4: Fill out a FEEDBACK form at:

http://www.fox5ny.com/

Click on " Inside Fox 5 " and

then " Talk to Fox 5-Viewer Services "

 

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ISSUE # 6 : LAST BUT NOT LEAST :

 

Please EDUCATE your Local Media, Local Politicians,

ON " Meat and Dairy's Environmental Impacts " :

 

Please send the following important statistics on Meat and Dairy

to all of your Local media, National media and Local politicians ,

for example Governor's office , State Environmental Agency :

( All of them really need to be educated .) :

 

Click here to get media info : http://capwiz.com/wa/dbq/media/

 

(Enter your Zip code , check " show national media in results "

then click " GO " . then click each newspaper to get all of the

media email addresses. You may collect all of the email

addresses and save in a list and then send them collectively in the

BCC field. You can use this list later again and again.)

 

Click here to get local politician info:

http://www.piperinfo.com/state/index.cfm , then Click your State.

Then click Governor to get the contact information .

 

(NOTE: When send email, Do NOT put your FROM address

in the TO field. Please use different address in the TO field. )

 

 

THE IMPORTANT FACTS AND STATISTICS :

 

* Chlorinated hydrocarbon pesticide residues in the U.S. diet

Supplied by meat: 55%

Supplied by Dairy products: 23%

Supplied by vegetables: 6%

Supplied by fruits: 4%

Supplied by grains: 1%

 

* Every year, U.S. factory farms produce some 1.4 billion tons

of animal waste -130 times more than humans.

* The waste produced in a single year would fill 6.7 million train

boxcars -enough to circle the Earth 12 and a half times.

* According to the Environmental Protection Agency, factory farming

pollutes U.S. waterways more than ALL industrial sources combined.

* Scientists suspect that runoff of manure from chicken and hog farms is

one of the leading causes of the recent outbreaks of Pfiesteria piscicida.

This deadly, flesh-eating microorganism has killed billions of fish from

Delaware to Alabama and causes its human victims to suffer from

memory loss, skin lesions, and incapacitating fatigue.

* Twenty-thousand pounds of potatoes can be grown on one acre

of land, but only 165 pounds of beef can be produced in the same space.

 

More facts, most of them detailed in John Robbins' Pulitzer

prize-nominated book, " Diet for A New America " :

 

* Rainforests, vital to earth's oxygen supply, are being destroyed at an

alarming rate - the top cause is the raising of animals for food.

* Forty-five percent of the total land in this country is used to raise

animals for food or crops to feed these animals.

* A carnivorous diet requires 4200 gallons of water per day; a vegetarian

one, 300 gallons per day.

* Turning grain into flesh is extremely wasteful. Twenty vegetarians can

be fed on the amount of land needed to feed one person on a

meat-based diet.

* More than one-third of all the raw materials and fossil fuels used in

our country go to raise animals for food.

* We have permanently lost 3/4 of U.S. topsoil; 85 percent of this loss

is directly due to the raising of animals for food.

* The price of meat would double or triple if the full ecological costs -

including fossil fuel use, groundwater depletion and agriculture-chemical

pollution - were included in the pricetag.

* Animal waste ravages the environment. A typical hog factory farm

generates raw waste equivalent to that of a city of 12,000 people. Much

animal factory waste is stored in pits a half-mile wide and 20 feet deep -

massive cesspools of feces and urine that pollute the air and groundwater.

Chicken waste is being blamed for the toxic microbe that killed hundreds

of thousands of fish in mid-Atlantic states in 1997. Runoff from animal

wastes is linked to a 7,000-square-mile " deadzone " in the Gulf of Mexico.

 

* Malnutrition and starvation will kill approximately 14 million people

this year. If Americans reduced their intake of meat by just 10 percent,

the land, water and energy freed up from growing livestock feed would

feed 100 million people.

 

* Please review this site to see how billions of " food " animals going

thru:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60798-2001Apr9.html

 

Bottom line is: In fact, raising animals for food requires more water

than all other uses of water combined, causes more water pollution than

any other activity, and is responsible for 85 percent of U.S. soil

erosion. America's meat addiction is steadily poisoning and depleting

our land, water, and air. Not surprisingly, Albert Einstein wrote,

" Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for

survival of life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. "

(Source References : http://foodrelief.tripod.com/v/veg1.htm)

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MORE REFERENCES ON HUMAN ANIMALS' " FOOD " :

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A60798-2001Apr9.html

http://www.vegsource.com

http://www.hfa.org/campaign.html

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SPECIAL REMINDER:

PLEASE BOYCOTT ALL OF THE JAPANESE , NORWEGIAN

PRODUCTS FOR THEIR CONTINUOUS MASSIVE KILLING

OF MORE THAN 1000 GREAT WHALES A YEAR.

WITHOUT STOPPING , SOON ALL OF THE WHALES WILL BE

GONE FOREVER ! PLEASE ADVISE YOUR FRIENDS,

MEMBERS, RELATIVES TO DO THE SAME.

(note: Some individuals from some of the biggest/most prominent

Animal groups are targeted, used, bought by whaling industry's bribing

in the name of " Animal Protection " . Please be alert on this .)

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Thanks so much for your kindness, compassion and urgent help.