Thors Warrios
Thors Warriors is an effort started by author Chris Wright after he learned the dogs' former owner faced no legal action and was re-issued a kennel license. Chris built a web site that chronicles the ongoing journey for justice. These dogs were rescued from a home in Roscommon County in January. The lawsuit is still pending. Please check out http://www.thorswarriors.com/ to see the condition these dogs were in when rescued and how you can help.
For more info:
http://www.thorswarriors.com
http://www.nbc25online.com/news/news_story.aspx?id=36474
Carl
Levin Seal Hunt Senate Resolution
33
As he did during the last session
of Congress, U.S. Senator Carl
Levin (D-MI) again demonstrated
strong leadership in protecting
wildlife by organizing a bipartisan
group of senators to support a
resolution condemning the brutal
Canadian seal hunt.
Introduced on February 1, Senate
Resolution 33 urges the government
of Canada to end the commercial
seal hunt. Citing a 2001 veterinary
report by the International Fund
for Animal Welfare, the resolution
denounces Canadian seal hunting
for failing "to comply with
basic animal welfare regulations
in Canada." Levin introduced
a similar resolution in November
2003. Read more about it here.
Sign
the petition and pledge here:
http://hsus.ga4.org/campaign/protectseals/
Dissection
Choice Policy in Michigan
Michigan legislators are considering
legislation that will allow students
who have a moral objection to
classroom dissection to use an
alternative. Approximately six
million vertebrate animals a year
are killed and used for dissection
in U.S. classrooms. Many students
object to inhumane and unnecessary
practice of killing animals when
adequate alternatives are available.
Students who use alternatives
learn the material as well as
or better than students who perform
dissection. Alternatives are less
expensive than the use of animals
and this should be extremely appealing
to schools during these times
of tight budgets.
H.B. 4254, which is in the House
Committee on Education, proposes
to give students a choice on dissection.
Please contact your legislators
and urge them to support H.B.
4254 which will allow students
who have moral objections to dissection
in classrooms to use an alternative.The
exact text of the short bill can
be found here.
1. Contact your representative.
Ask him/her to co-sponsor HB 4254.
Please keep the letters very polite.
If you had an experience with
dissection that you feel would
be relevant, please include it
in your letter. Elected officials
like a personal touch.
Your Representative
PO Box 30014
Lansing, MI 48909-7514
Clerk's Office: 517-373-0135
http://www.house.mi.gov
2. Contact the House Education
Committee where the bill now sits.
Please ask them to vote the bill
out of committee.
House Education Committee
PO Box 30014
Lansing, MI 48909-7514
committee@house.mi.gov (put House
Education Committee in the subject
line)
Or send individual e-mails to
the committee members here.
