FURTHER INFORMATION
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Target - Herman Jansen, Chairman & CEO, NAFA (North American Fur Auctions )
PLEASE SIGN AND FORWARD ON THIS
December 21/05 NEW RELEASE
Sending dogs to China
We have had more reports of people wanting to buy dogs to send to China as pets and showdogs - especially the collie, border collie, samoyed, Bernese mountain dogs, Newfoundland and St Bernard type breeds. Please do not take these inquiries as legitimate, even if they come from "sweet old Kiwi couples". Any dogs sold to these people (and I am ashamed to say some New Zealanders have abandoned any morality they may have had and joined forces with scumbag dealers in the pursuit of money offered) are destined for the dog skin, fur and meat markets.
By law the Chinese people may not own or import any dog over 12 inches high as a pet or for show. Larger dogs are usually smuggled over the borders in atrocious conditions piled high in cages on trucks and usually there are losses to heat and sickness with no water or food available.
If they make the trip alive they go straight to the dealers where they are either processed straight away or kept to breed from for a while before being processed.
If there are any breeders out there who have been pressured to sell their dogs for sending to China as "pets" please email me with as many details as you can remember: editor@k9magazinefree.com or inquire through the SPCA or the Kennel Club.
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December 27th., 2005
A Song For The Animals
I Am The Owner Of This Coat
by
Maria Daines & Paul Killington
* How would it feel to have no power to stop a very frightening and painful thing happening to you? How would it feel to cry and not be heard? How would it feel to be crammed into a box with say 30 other beings, and then go on a long journey with no food or water... How would it feel to reach the end of that journey and be thrown from the top of a truck? And how would it feel to then be beaten and skinned? And how would it feel if you were still alive...?
If you believe fur should be worn by animals and not by people... If you believe the fur trade is as dead as all the helpless animals caught up in it, then please sign the petition to give these poor creatures a voice and a chance to live.
Singers/songwriters/musicians/artists, we DO have a voice, and we can use it!!!
Please help to stop the fur trade.
Best Wishes,
Maria & Paul
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FROM: Paola Ghidotti - Director of OIPA
and on behalf The Office International Relations, Italy
To all the musicians, artists from the Singers/Songwriters & Musicians against
the Chinese Dog/Cat and Captive Animal Fur Trade, and to all the individuals who
have visited our pages, signed the petitions and/or download the petition, we
THANK YOU SO MUCH !
To Maria and Paul - Our Thanks for your beautiful song, and all the support you give to our animal friends - world wide !
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PLEASE HEAR OUR SONG
Rise Up - Make This Moment Last by Maria Daines
The Song - FOR THE ANIMALS
Please Sign This Petition that Urges the Chinese Government to pass National Animal Welfare Laws
IDA's new PSA exposing the abominations that take place behind the scenes of the Chinese cat and dog fur industry.
Care for the Wild International (CWI) has been involved with the campaign
against fur from China since January 2005 and has financed a large part of the
initial investigation. Chief Executive, Dr Barbara Maas is the author of this report
'Fun Fur' which details the atrocities against wild animals on Chinese fur farms.
FOR - FEB. 13th., 2007 International Day of Protest
INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST
AGAINST THE CHINESE FUR TRADE
TO SEE THE BLOG ON THE PROTESTS WORLD WIDE GO HERE
LONDON: Feb., 13th., 2006 !
CHINA: Bills Committee on Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
(Amendment) Bill 2006
PASSED !
The Link for Legislative Council Brief
http://www.legco.gov.hk/yr05-06/english/bills/brief/b33_brf.pdf
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Amend the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Ordinance and the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Regulations to increase the penalty for cruelty to animals.
Enacted by the Legislative Council.
1. Short title
This Ordinance may be cited as the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (Amendment) Ordinance 2006.
2. Penalty for cruelty to animals
Section 3(1) of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Ordinance (Cap. 169)is amended by repealing "of $5,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months" andsubstituting "at level 6 and to imprisonment for 12 months".
3. Orders by magistrate
Section 5(4) is amended by repealing "of $5,000 and to imprisonment for6 months" and substituting "at level 6 and to imprisonment for 12 months".
4. Power to make regulations
(1) Section 8(1) is amended by repealing everything after "such place" and substituting a full stop.
(2) Section 8 is amended by adding
"(1A) Regulations made under subsection (1) may provide that
a contravention of a specified provision of the regulations is an
offence punishable by a fine not exceeding level 4 and, in the case of a continuing offence, a further fine not exceeding $200 for every dayduring which the offence continues.".
GPD Ref. No. Bill--06 C-013
PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (AMENDMENT)
BILL 2006
C681
A BILL To Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Regulations
5. Regulation amended
Regulation 21(1) of the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Regulations
(Cap. 169 sub. leg. A) is amended
(a) by repealing "of $2,000 or" and substituting "at level 4 and";
(b) by repealing "the sum" and substituting "to a further fine".
Explanatory Memorandum
The purpose of this Bill is to increase the maximum penalty for the
offences under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Ordinance (Cap. 169) and
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Regulations (Cap. 169 sub. leg. A).
2. Clauses 2 and 3 increase the maximum penalty for the offences under the
Ordinance to a fine at level 6 and to a term of imprisonment of 12 months.
3. Clause 4 increases the maximum penalty that may be prescribed under the
Regulations and clarifies the fine imposed in respect of a continuing offence.
4. Clause 5 increases the maximum penalty for the offences under the
Regulations to a fine at level 4.
GPD Ref. No. Bill--06 C-013
PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS (AMENDMENT)
BILL 2006
C683
PLEASE WRITE:
Your letters must be polite. This is not an anti-Chinese
Campaign ... urge strongly, that this horrible cruel trade end immediately, but let us also encourage the Chinese government to offer these people alternative, cruelty free work.
The people you see doing this cruel act are not the ones making the big money out of this fur trade !
We don't want to send this dirty ' business ' underground ' because of sudden exposure.
For Them - We Thank You !
Feb. 2007
ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PROTEST
PLEASE VISIT ANIMALS ASIA - FOR FUR & FOOD AND OTHER ASIAN ANIMAL'S ISSUES.
HELP US BRING AN END
TO THE HORRID CAT AND DOG MARKETS IN ASIA !
THEIR SUFFERING HAS NOT LANDED ON DEAF EARS !
The Honorable Hu Jintao
President of the People's Republic of China
C/o the Honorable Zhou Wenzhong
Chinese Ambassador to the United States
Embassy of the People's Republic of China
2300 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20008
Dear President Hu,
One year ago, we wrote to urge you to put an end to the atrocities that are routinely perpetuated against fur-bearing animals in China. We asked you to open your eyes and your heart and ban the most egregious practices of the Chinese fur trade, including live skinning. However, China has thus far failed to enact even a single law that would protect the welfare of animals in China.
You have by now surely seen the videos documenting animals at fur farms in Hebei province, where animals are clubbed, beaten, slammed to the ground and then skinned alive. You must have seen the raccoon dog, lying on a heap of bloody carcasses after having his own skin ripped from his body as he stared into the camera blinking and whimpering for several minutes before at last nature mercifully released him to death's embrace. And yet, China continues to permit these acts of torture to continue.
Mahatma Ghandi once famously said that "[t]he greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated." Viewed by this standard, China's true weakness, smallness, and vulnerability become apparent. We urge you to recognize the damage being done to China's international reputation. China's success in the world economy is precariously resting on the ignorance of consumers and the willfull blindness of other nations. However, the violence committed on animals in China has gained the attention of consumers and world leaders alike. The world will no longer tolerate China's ruthless brutalization of animals.
We urge you to show mercy and compassion for the weak, the powerless, the voiceless, the innocent, and immediately enact a comprehensive set of animal welfare laws that would criminalize acts of torture such as live skinning of any animal. Until China takes serious measures to protect the welfare of its fur-bearing animals, we are calling on compassionate people from all nations to boycott Chinese commerce, tourism and the 2008 Olympic Games.
Sincerely,
International Anti-Fur Coalition
cc:
Chinese Ambassador
