Friday, August 22nd, 2003
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Progressive Animal
Welfare Society
PO Box 1037
Lynnwood WA, 98046
Tell Chiron’s Seattle office to stop doing business with HLS
Chiron is a major biotechnology company that maintains offices around the world, including in Seattle. The Seattle research center has been doing business with Huntington Life Sciences (HLS), one of the world’s largest animal testing laboratories.
HLS is responsible for imprisoning 70,000 cats, dogs, monkeys, birds, rabbits, fish, mice, and farm animals all for the purpose of experimentation. Experiments include toxicity to pesticides, herbicides, household products, pharmaceuticals, and genetically modified organisms. HLS has been exposed on several occasions in undercover investigations revealing horrifying animal cruelty and spurious science. Each day, nearly 500 animals are barbarically and unnecessarily killed at HLS facilities.
Please contact Chiron and urge them to stop doing business with Huntington Life Sciences.
Seattle Research Center:
201 Elliott Ave. W.
Ste. 150
Seattle, WA 98119
Phone: (206) 467-8100
Fax: (206) 270-3313
Or email Chiron’s main headquarters at: communications@chiron.com.
Tell Adidas to stop using kangaroo skin in their products
Earlier this year Viva! (Vegetarians International Voice for Animals) filed a lawsuit against the Adidas company for illegally selling the Adidas Predator football boots in California. The Predator boot is made of kangaroo skin and California prohibits the sale or import of products made from kangaroos, crocodiles, or alligators.
Every year, millions of kangaroos are killed for their skin and appallingly, the number one group responsible for this barbaric trade are sports shoe manufacturers. These manufactures purchase the skins from adult kangaroos and their joeys and process them into soccer boots. Adidas is one of the trade’s major customers and have become the powerhouse behind this industry.
Please contact Adidas and let them know that there is no need for them to continue supporting an industry that causes so much pain and suffering. Also, let them know that by continuing to make and sell products made from kangaroo skin they are telling the world that they completely lack all compassion and ethics.
Contact Adidas USA at:
Customer Service
5055 N Greeley Ave.
Portland, OR 97217
Tel: 1 (800) 448-1796
Fax: 971-234-4515
Email: Consumer.Relations@adidasus.com
Chief Executive: ross.mcmullin@adidasus.com
For more information on saving the kangaroo, please go to www.savethekangaroo.com.
Ask Trader Joe’s to stop selling eggs from battery caged hens
The animal rights group Compassion Over Killing (COK) recently discovered that Trader Joe’s has been selling eggs labeled "Animal Care Certified." The "Animal Care Certified" program is the egg industry’s latest strategy which aims to deliberately deceive consumers into thinking they are buying eggs that came from humanely treated hens, when, in fact, this is not the case at all.
"Animal Care Certified" eggs come from hens who are overcrowded and packed in cages with about six tenths of a square foot per bird. The cages are stacked, which allows excrement to drop onto the animals below. These hens are "force-molted" or starved and kept without water in darkness for up to 18 days, in order to shock their bodies into repetitive egg-laying cycles. Some animals will die from the stress while others will die in the act of laying their eggs.
Respectfully urge Trader Joe's to refuse to sell any eggs from battery-caged hens.
Contact:
Dan Bane, Chairman and CEO
Trader Joe's
800 Shamrock Avenue
Monrovia, CA 91016
OR
117 Kendrick Street, Suite 700
Needham, MA 02494
Phone: 781-433-0234
Fax: 781-433-0746
Sign the petition to urge the hawthorne corporation to retire the 53-year-old elephant named Lota
For more information please go to: www.petitionpetition.com/cgi/petition.cgi?id=5418
Bark in the Park is less than three weeks away!
Bark in the Park will take place at Magnuson Park in Seattle on Saturday, September 6! Bring you dog... believe us.... they will want to be there! Bark in the Park is our largest fund-raiser and it's a great opportunity for you and your dog to help the homeless animals! Besides the fun and festivities at Bark, there is also at 3 mile walk. PAWSwalk is in its 12th year now and we are very excited to see it all in action! Please visit www.barkinthepark.com for more information. If you'd like to volunteer, please email denise@paws.org for more information on how you can help. We are looking for folks to help out with Set Up on Friday September 5 from 12pm to 4pm or 4pm to 8pm AND with Clean Up on Saturday from 3:30 to 7:00pm.
