GET ACTIVE! CALL 757-622-PETA, OR CHECK PETA.org FOR UPDATES

Pressure the EPA
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is infamous for poisoning millions of animals in its cruel chemical-toxicity tests. Never mind that scientists have known the hazards of mercury for decades and have seen its harmful reproductive effects in dental workers: The EPA has spent another $400,000 of taxpayer money to torture rats by squeezing them into inhalation tubes in an unsuccessful attempt to duplicate the harmful effects already documented in humans.

Please contact the EPA and demand that the agency stop killing animals and start funding and using non-animal tests now:
The Honorable Christine Todd Whitman
Administrator
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
1200 Pennsylvania Ave. N.W.
Washington, DC 20460
E-Mail: Whitman.Christine@epamail.epa.gov
Fax: 202-501-1450

Lights, Camera, Action!– CONTEST!

Want to see the apple of your eye in this magazine? Now’s your chance! Enter good-quality photos of rescued animal companions in PETA’s Animal Times Photo Contest and tell us your exciting rescue story. The winning photo and story will appear on these pages, and your companion will receive a special basket of goodies. Sorry, photos cannot be returned. Deadline: December 31, 2001. Send your submissions with $5 entry fee to:

PETA’s Animal Times Photo Contest
501 Front St., Norfolk, VA 23510.

PETA Victorious!
With the help of our active members, PETA saves animals from abusive situations everywhere. Here’s a tiny taste of recent victories:

• Got the Port Orange, Florida, City Council to deny Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus a permit application to perform

• Worked with Borders Books to pass a corporate policy prohibiting exotic animal displays at store events

• Convinced Williams-Sonoma, Inc., to remove foie gras from its catalog

• Stopped an apartment complex in Texas from poisoning birds and got criminal and civil charges against the pest control company responsible

• Persuaded Albertson’s store and its subsidiaries to stop selling cruel “fish in a vase” and AquaBabies products

• Informed Bayer Corporation about the dog injuries and deaths associated with the Iditarod, which resulted in the company’s withdrawing of its sponsorship

• Had charges filed against disc jockey “Bubba the Love Sponge” and his producer for torturing and killing a boar in the radio station’s parking lot

• Secured 49 counts of cruelty against an ex-Ohio Farm Bureau president for allowing cattle to die of neglect

• Got Barneys department store to release to sanctuaries 26 birds used as store decorations

• Convinced high schools in Wisconsin and Illinois to cancel cruel donkey basketball games, a “sport” that the Chicago Tribune proclaimed to be nearly extinct, thanks to the hard work of caring individuals

Help Animals: Buy Stars’ Stuff!
Swoon over celebrities and help animals at the same time by bidding on belongings donated to AllStarCharity.com by PETA pals Alicia Silverstone, Pamela Anderson, Eddie Vedder, John Popper, Peter Max and others. One hundred percent of the proceeds from the auctioned items benefit PETA.

Sex and the Kitty
PETA’s amazing commercial featuring animatronic cats sharing private moments is educating countless people about the importance of spaying and neutering companion animals to prevent overpopulation. The commercial, which Pamela Anderson premiered on The Tonight Show, features “cats” by Animal Makers of Hollywood.

Tell Green Bay to Send the Packers Packing
PETA is drawing attention to the plight of animals in slaughterhouses by asking the Green Bay Packers football team to stop promoting violence and bloodshed by changing its name to the “Six-Packers,” in honor of Wisconsin’s fine breweries. The Packers are named after slaughterhouse workers—those who prod and drag animals to their deaths and hoist, kill and skin them amid the stench and noise on the “kill floor.” Packers CEO Bob Harlan told PETA that the Packer name change won’t happen because of “tradition.” Tell him that tradition is a sorry excuse for maintaining a name that is linked to suffering.

Please write:
Mr. Bob Harlan, President
The Green Bay Packers
P.O. Box 10628
Green Bay, WI 54307-0628


Kick Animal Cruelty Out of South Korea
PETA has called on the sponsors of the World Cup 2002 to pressure the South Korean government to end extreme cruelty to cats and dogs who are often tortured before being killed for food. Unlike Fujifilm and Anheuser-Busch, Mastercard’s response was very encouraging, but we are still waiting to hear from sponsors Coca-Cola, Gillette, McDonald’s, Hyundai Motor Company and JVC.

Please visit PETA-online.org
for sponsors’ addresses, and
ask them to give the World Cup the boot unless improvements are made.

Stop March of Dimes Cruelty

Most March of Dimes contributors are shocked to learn that their dollars may not be going to help babies but instead to hurt animals. The March of Dimes has funded experiments in which pregnant animals were administered alcohol, nicotine and cocaine; ferrets and other animals were severely brain damaged and electrodes were implanted into the uteruses of pregnant monkeys.
Please write and call the president of the March of Dimes and tell her that you will only give to cruelty-free charities that help people without hurting animals. Please call and write often! Contact:

Jennifer Howse, President
March of Dimes
1275 Mamaroneck Ave.
White Plains, NY 10605
Tel.: 914-997-4504 (direct line to the president’s office)
888-MODIMES (toll-free line)
E-Mail: Jhowse@modimes.org
Fax: 914-428-8206

you did it!
ANIMAL TIMES® READERS ARE HELPING THE ANIMALS
Michelle Rivera, director of humane education at the Peggy Adams Animal Rescue League in Palm Beach, Fla., has come up with “Take a Dog to Lunch Day,” in which participants take needy dogs from the shelter to the park and shower them with yummy treats and lots of attention. What are you doing for lunch this week?

Jen Cohen and Karen Quigley succeeded in getting their employer, U.S. Vision, to offer vegan Tofurkys as alternatives to the turkeys and hams given away on holidays by the company. Along with their employee relations manager, Kathy DeStefano, the women asked the company’s CEO to recognize the diversity of the workforce and acknowledge the 24 known vegetarian employees by providing this alternative. Talk to your company if it also has any programs that could be “veganized.”