Action Alerts
Help Austrian Activists
According to reports, the Austrian Minister of Justice is planning to charge 30 people, as well as the 10 people imprisoned for four months last year, without any direct evidence of criminal activity by these individuals. Charges will be brought merely on the basis of acts of civil disobedience and snippets of intercepted conversation taken out of context. Please politely contact the Austrian Minister of Justice, the President and the Chancellor to express your concerns about what appears to be a repression of the Austrian animal advocacy movement.
Austrian Minister of Justice
Claudia Bandion-Ortner
Bundesministerin für Justiz
Palais Trautson,
Museumstraße 7
Vienna 1070 Austria
Email:minister.justiz@bmj.gv.at
Chancellor (Head of government)
Bundeskanzler Werner Faymann
Federal Chancellery
Ballhausplatz 1
Vienna 1014 Austria
Email: buergerservice@bka.gv.at
President (Head of State)
Bundespräsident Heinz Fischer
Office of the Federal President of the Republic of Austria
Hofburg, Leopoldinischer Trakt
Vienna A-1014 Austria
Email: buergerservice@hofburg.at
Stop the mass inhumane killing of pigs in Egypt
The Egyptian government is currently killing all of the pigs in Egypt in a reaction to the swine flu outbreak. No other country has taken similar action and it has not been recommended by either the OIE (World Organisation for Animal Health) or the WHO (World Health Organisation).
Live pigs are being transported several layers deep in trucks and then dumped in mass graves where they die a slow and painful death. Egyptian media reports that 'When the lorry is filled with an average of 400 pigs, it sets off for the burial ground in Abou Zabal. Once there, something like soft sand is sprinkled on the pigs inside the lorry. This material is made up of factory wastes, such as quicklime. The pigs start to scream because of the searing pain until they die some 30 or 40 minutes later.'
Please contact the Egyptian Ambassador and ask him to urge Egypt to halt the killing and to abide by the OIE Guidelines on humane slaughter, which Egypt endorsed in 2005. Remind him that such inhumane treatment of animals not only contravenes the OIE Guidelines, but is also contrary to Islamic teaching which regards animals as 'communities like you' (Qur'an 6:38).
Email the Egyptian AmbassadorWrite to the Egyptian Ambassador
H.E. Hatem Seif El Nasr
Ambassador of the Arab Republic of Egypt
Embassy of Egypt
26 South Street
London
W1K 1DWA
Free Lolita!
Lolita is an orca who has been kept at a Miami marine park since 1970, in a tiny tank that is illegal according to America's Animal Welfare Act. Such a small tank is completely inappropriate for an animal that typically swims 75-100 miles a day, and can dive repeatedly to several hundred feet. Now she cannot dive at all, as her tank is not even as deep as she is long. Orcas are naturally sociable animals, who remain with their family for their entire lives, so this solitary confinement is particularly cruel. Campaigners know where her family members are, so it is possible to re-introduce her to her natural habitat. Please contact the US Department of Agriculture and the Miami Seaquarium, and ask that Lolita be allowed to return home:
Email Miami Seaquarium Email the US Department of AgricultureWrite to:
Miami Seaquarium
4400 Rickenbacker Causeway
Key Biscayne FL 33149
America
US Department of Agriculture:
Kevin Shea
Acting Administrator Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Administration Building
1400 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20250
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