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October 2009 Monkeys Suffer for Our Eating Habits Paws Down! To According to a news source, Charles River Laboratories plans to feed monkeys a high-fat diet for 18 months before selling them “to pharmaceutical companies, academic research centers and biotechnology firms that will examine ‘the metabolic changes associated with the onset and development of diabetes’ and other obesity-related diseases.” No monkey need be subjected to a disease-producing diet to determine that high-fat diets harm humans. Instead, people with obesity-related diseases and diabetes should be directed toward low-fat diets, such as a vegetarian diet, to eliminate or at minimum reduce the effects a high-fat diet imposes on human health. Take Action: Write a polite letter to Charles River Laboratories urging the company to protect animals, not destroy them for studies into human obesity and its effects on human health. James C. Foster, CEO
Source: # Kids Encouraged to Kill Babe’s Cousins Paws down! To The Southwest Florida Water Management District for sponsoring a pig shoot out for children. According to news reports, the Florida Water Management District is sponsoring an essay contest for children 8 to 16 on why they want to kill wild pigs. The winners will receive a brief training program on gun safety before they head to a blind to shoot wild pigs. Although the destruction caused to natural Take Action: Southwest Florida Water Management District Mr. Rick McCleery, Ombudsman Source: www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/article1043489.ece # |