The bill H 5072 will be heard this afternoon.
http://www.rilin.state.ri.us/BillText/BillText07/HouseText07/H5072.pdf
You can email a message of support to the Health, Education and Welfare Committee Chair at rep-McNamara@rilin.state.ri.us
I would suggest putting the bill number and title in the Subject box
please feel free to send me a copy of the message so I can be sure its
reached the committee. Let me know if you have any further questions.
Helen Drew
Helen.Drew@health.ri.gov
Summary of Bill
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This act would restrict the use of artificial trans fat in foods prepared and/or served by food businesses and food service establishments.
This act would take effect on July 1, 2007 with respect to cooking oils, shortening, and margarines containing artificial trans fat, and on July 1, 2008 with respect to all other foods containing artificial trans fat.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Take Action: Email Congress/Senate to Protect Wildlife and the Environment
The National Resources Defense Council has set up an EARTH ACTION CENTER web page where issues such as protecting the environment, marine mammals, polar bears and other wildlife and environmental issues are highlighted. With a simple email signature your message of intent is sent to congress and/or the senate to let your voice be heard on these issues impacting all of us.
In yoga we have a concept known as AHIMSA which means to do "non-violence" to self, other, any sentient living creature or being including the environment. When we close a practice with Namaste, we realize that there are no distinctions or separations between each other and that we are all one living on this planet together - spiritual beings in physical form sharing our experience on earth.
Please consider checking out the Earth Action Center, signing your name and making a difference.
In yoga we have a concept known as AHIMSA which means to do "non-violence" to self, other, any sentient living creature or being including the environment. When we close a practice with Namaste, we realize that there are no distinctions or separations between each other and that we are all one living on this planet together - spiritual beings in physical form sharing our experience on earth.
Please consider checking out the Earth Action Center, signing your name and making a difference.
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Help Needed: 60 Dogs KILLED in Medical School Study
This from PCRM:
I am sorry to announce that, despite everyone’s determined efforts, the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) went forward with its live dog lab on Feb. 26, 27, and 28. Sadly, about 60 dogs were killed—but these animals did not die in vain. With your help, we were able to raise public awareness about the dog lab and urge the school to implement humane alternatives. MCW has felt enormous pressure to change, and our efforts will continue.
On Jan. 25, more than 100 people peacefully demonstrated in front of MCW. I was gratified to see such a huge turnout. We asked MCW to cancel the lab, and we encouraged students not to participate. We held another demonstration on Feb. 26, the day the lab began, and more than 60 people joined me in front of the school. Two smaller demonstrations, both well attended, were held on Feb. 27 and 28. For every day the dog lab took place, we were present at MCW to encourage the school to end its use of live animals. And that’s just the beginning of the many successes we have had with this campaign so far:
To date, MCW has received more than 4,000 e-mails urging the school to cancel the live animal lab program and implement humane alternatives.
PCRM gave MCW petitions signed by more than 550 physicians from around the country who oppose the use of animals in medical education at MCW and other medical schools.
PCRM garnered extensive media coverage, including news coverage on local radio stations and all four Milwaukee television stations as well as numerous articles and opinion pieces in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and other newspapers.
In January, PCRM and the Wisconsin Humane Society sponsored a billboard on a Milwaukee freeway that called on motorists to visit PCRM’s Web site about the dog lab and humane alternatives.
Now it’s time to keep the pressure on MCW. School representatives claim that MCW may replace the live dog lab with a live pig lab. Please let MCW know that using any animal in a live lab is cruel and unnecessary. Call MCW Department of Physiology Chairman Allen Cowley Jr., Ph.D., at 414-456-8277 and politely ask him to end the school’s live animal lab program. While our automatic e-mail form is temporarily out of service, you can still use the address below to send Dr. Cowley an e-mail or letter:
Allen Cowley Jr., Ph.D.
Chairman
Department of Physiology
Medical College of Wisconsin
8701 Watertown Plank Rd.
Milwaukee, WI 53226
Phone: 414-456-8277
Fax: 414-456-6546
cowley@mcw.edu
You can also help support PCRM’s efforts to end live animal labs at MCW and other medical schools by making an online donation today. Thanks to generous contributions from our supporters, we were able to initiate this wide-reaching campaign to convince MCW to use humane alternatives. But our work is not done at MCW or the 14 other schools that still conduct live animal labs. We need your help to continue this fight until animals are no longer killed as part of the curriculum at any medical school.
Thanks to PCRM physicians, members, our friends at the Wisconsin Humane Society, and countless others, the pressure we collectively put on MCW this year will greatly help our future work to end MCW’s live animal program. Please visit www.SaveMCWanimals.org/ to learn more about how you can help. If you have any questions, please contact me at rmerkley@pcrm.org or 202-686-2210, ext. 336. Thank you so much for your support.
Best regards,
Ryan Merkley
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
I am sorry to announce that, despite everyone’s determined efforts, the Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW) went forward with its live dog lab on Feb. 26, 27, and 28. Sadly, about 60 dogs were killed—but these animals did not die in vain. With your help, we were able to raise public awareness about the dog lab and urge the school to implement humane alternatives. MCW has felt enormous pressure to change, and our efforts will continue.
On Jan. 25, more than 100 people peacefully demonstrated in front of MCW. I was gratified to see such a huge turnout. We asked MCW to cancel the lab, and we encouraged students not to participate. We held another demonstration on Feb. 26, the day the lab began, and more than 60 people joined me in front of the school. Two smaller demonstrations, both well attended, were held on Feb. 27 and 28. For every day the dog lab took place, we were present at MCW to encourage the school to end its use of live animals. And that’s just the beginning of the many successes we have had with this campaign so far:
To date, MCW has received more than 4,000 e-mails urging the school to cancel the live animal lab program and implement humane alternatives.
PCRM gave MCW petitions signed by more than 550 physicians from around the country who oppose the use of animals in medical education at MCW and other medical schools.
PCRM garnered extensive media coverage, including news coverage on local radio stations and all four Milwaukee television stations as well as numerous articles and opinion pieces in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and other newspapers.
In January, PCRM and the Wisconsin Humane Society sponsored a billboard on a Milwaukee freeway that called on motorists to visit PCRM’s Web site about the dog lab and humane alternatives.
Now it’s time to keep the pressure on MCW. School representatives claim that MCW may replace the live dog lab with a live pig lab. Please let MCW know that using any animal in a live lab is cruel and unnecessary. Call MCW Department of Physiology Chairman Allen Cowley Jr., Ph.D., at 414-456-8277 and politely ask him to end the school’s live animal lab program. While our automatic e-mail form is temporarily out of service, you can still use the address below to send Dr. Cowley an e-mail or letter:
Allen Cowley Jr., Ph.D.
Chairman
Department of Physiology
Medical College of Wisconsin
8701 Watertown Plank Rd.
Milwaukee, WI 53226
Phone: 414-456-8277
Fax: 414-456-6546
cowley@mcw.edu
You can also help support PCRM’s efforts to end live animal labs at MCW and other medical schools by making an online donation today. Thanks to generous contributions from our supporters, we were able to initiate this wide-reaching campaign to convince MCW to use humane alternatives. But our work is not done at MCW or the 14 other schools that still conduct live animal labs. We need your help to continue this fight until animals are no longer killed as part of the curriculum at any medical school.
Thanks to PCRM physicians, members, our friends at the Wisconsin Humane Society, and countless others, the pressure we collectively put on MCW this year will greatly help our future work to end MCW’s live animal program. Please visit www.SaveMCWanimals.org/ to learn more about how you can help. If you have any questions, please contact me at rmerkley@pcrm.org or 202-686-2210, ext. 336. Thank you so much for your support.
Best regards,
Ryan Merkley
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Dolphin Assistance Follow Up
Thank you for your e-mail to PETA about dolphin slaughter in Japan.
We share your concern about this important issue, and we have contacted the Japanese government about it. We also recommend that you contact the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) for information on how to help. PETA and other groups have collaborated with SSCS may times; they are an excellent organization that specializes in helping whales, seals, dolphins, etc. They already have an active campaign in place to help these dolphins--for more information, please go to http://www.seashepherd.org/taiji/. Here is additional contact information:
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society - International Headquarters
P.O. Box 2616
Friday Harbor, WA 98250 USA
Tel: (USA) 360-370-5650
Fax: (USA) 360-370-5651
Toll Free Information/Donation Hotline (within USA): 800-4-WHALES (800-494-2537)
Email: info@seashepherd.org
http://www.SeaShepherd.org
If the suffering of these dolphins upsets you, then you will be outraged to know that factory farms and slaughterhouses are guilty of the same heart-wrenching cruelty, and on a much larger scale. For more information about factory farms and going vegetarian (or promoting it to others if you already are) please visit http://www.GoVeg.com.
Thank you again for contacting us and for your compassion for animals.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Collins
Senior Correspondent
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Meet Your Meat: http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming.asp
Sign up for PETA's eNews: http://www.peta.org/lists.asp
We share your concern about this important issue, and we have contacted the Japanese government about it. We also recommend that you contact the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) for information on how to help. PETA and other groups have collaborated with SSCS may times; they are an excellent organization that specializes in helping whales, seals, dolphins, etc. They already have an active campaign in place to help these dolphins--for more information, please go to http://www.seashepherd.org/taiji/. Here is additional contact information:
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society - International Headquarters
P.O. Box 2616
Friday Harbor, WA 98250 USA
Tel: (USA) 360-370-5650
Fax: (USA) 360-370-5651
Toll Free Information/Donation Hotline (within USA): 800-4-WHALES (800-494-2537)
Email: info@seashepherd.org
http://www.SeaShepherd.org
If the suffering of these dolphins upsets you, then you will be outraged to know that factory farms and slaughterhouses are guilty of the same heart-wrenching cruelty, and on a much larger scale. For more information about factory farms and going vegetarian (or promoting it to others if you already are) please visit http://www.GoVeg.com.
Thank you again for contacting us and for your compassion for animals.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Collins
Senior Correspondent
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Meet Your Meat: http://www.goveg.com/factoryFarming.asp
Sign up for PETA's eNews: http://www.peta.org/lists.asp
Saturday, March 03, 2007
Advocacy Help Needed NOW - Help stop dolphin slaughter in Japan
Thanks for reading this. I found it so disturbing I really want to get the word out that this is happening. It is VERY HARD to watch. Lots of blood. Animals being killed and dying slowly. The links for the clip and the petition are below.
Please check out this video and then sign the petition. It’s absolutely
appalling. I actually had to turn it off. It’s horrifying and beyond tragically cruel and violent
Killing Dolphins (I warn you, it’s horrific):
http://www.glumbert.com/media/dolphin
TO BY PASS THE GORY IMAGES which are HORRIFIC - Just click here to sign the petition.
Sign the petition to the Japanese PM:
http://www.petitiononline.com/golfinho/petition.html
With confusion, sadness but determination,
Tom
PS. Please be aware that in New England, the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown MA does wonderful work providing hands on leadership, rescue and advocacy by saving whales tangled in fishing nets, researching and advocating to protect and help heal the oceanic environment in this region. Consider making a donation today to help protect these marine animals and their environment.
Please check out this video and then sign the petition. It’s absolutely
appalling. I actually had to turn it off. It’s horrifying and beyond tragically cruel and violent
Killing Dolphins (I warn you, it’s horrific):
http://www.glumbert.com/media/dolphin
TO BY PASS THE GORY IMAGES which are HORRIFIC - Just click here to sign the petition.
Sign the petition to the Japanese PM:
http://www.petitiononline.com/golfinho/petition.html
With confusion, sadness but determination,
Tom
PS. Please be aware that in New England, the Provincetown Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown MA does wonderful work providing hands on leadership, rescue and advocacy by saving whales tangled in fishing nets, researching and advocating to protect and help heal the oceanic environment in this region. Consider making a donation today to help protect these marine animals and their environment.
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