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October 2009 Monkeys Suffer for Our Eating Habits Paws Down! To Charles River Laboratories for inducing obesity in healthy monkeys for research purposes. 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 Charles River Laboratories International 251 Ballardvale St
Wilmington, MA 01887-1000
Telephone: 781-222-6000
Source: Boston Globe # 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 Florida by feral pigs, an evasive species of wildlife, is yet to be humanely resolved, encouraging children to kill the animals is not, nor should it ever be, a part of the answer. How can we expect our children to respect life when we are suggesting to them that for the mere writing of an essay, they are awarded the opportunity to kill living, breathing, sentient beings? Take Action: Florida residents, write a polite letter to the Southwest Florida Water Management District letting them know of your opposition to the essay contest. Southwest Florida Water Management District Mr. Rick McCleery, Ombudsman 2379 Broad Street Brooksville, FL 34604-6899 Source: www.tampabay.com/news/humaninterest/article1043489.ece # |
