Action Alerts, Sneak Previews and News: Remember World Go Vegan Week Starts October 25!

Speak Up To Stop Pres. Obama's BAD Wild Horse Plan The Obama Administration's proposal to manage the nation's wild horses and burros, as announced by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar on October 7 is cloaked in the language of helping horses, but, if approved by Congress, it would destroy the fabric of wild horse society, devastate wild horse populations and lead to the elimination of more western herds. Read more, then contact President Obama and your U.S. Senators. Click here to contact President Obama (using this web form) and your Senators. Ask them to support The ROAM Act, which has already passed the House. Tell them to change destructive government policies by enacting real change for America's wild horses. Instead of a policy that continues the cruel roundups and stockpiling of horses, the government must place a moratorium on all round ups, prioritize keeping wild horses wild on the range, and humanely and safely house those who cannot be returned to the range in sanctuaries.
World Go Vegan Week Starts October 25! Choose from delicious beginnings like fabulous French toast, scones and muffins, a nutritious lunch of fajitas or mock-chicken salad, and a delicious dinner of mushroom pecan burgers, mac-n-cheese casserole or pasta with peanut sauce by googling or goodsearching "vegan recipes mac-n-cheese" or specifying what you want. And don’t forget about dessert - try pecan pie, lemon cake, strawberry “teesecake,” and, for the chocoholics, chocolate cake, chocolate chip cookies and chocolate peanut butter cups! While we are celebrating World Go Vegan Week, there is some good news for animals on farms. California, the nation’s largest dairy state, became the first state to ban tail-docking of dairy cows. Tail-docking is cutting off the tails of dairy cows for the convenience of the workers. It can cause life-long pain to the cows. Let’s hope that other states follow California's lead. Also, Michigan enacted a new law that will phase out battery cages, veal crates and gestation crates for pigs, similar to Prop. 2 in California. This makes Michigan the 2nd state to ban battery cages, the 5th to ban veal crates and the 7th to ban gestation crates. Click the "Events" button at the WGVW web site to find a WGVW event in your town. If you can't attend or have an event, you can still make a donation! Perfect Timing - October 25, New Wild Horse Documentary On PBS Watch Cloud: Challenge of the Stallions, the newest installment of Emmy award winning filmmaker Ginger Kathren's marvelous documentary series about America's wild horses, airing on PBS Nature Sunday October 25 at 8 p.m. Click here for a sneak preview! Ask TV Network TLC To Cancel "My Monkey Baby" On Sunday October 4, cable network TLC premiered "My Monkey Baby." The show featured a couple who held captive a capuchin monkey as their "daughter," dressing poor "Jessica Marie" in designer clothes, treating her as a human child and doing everything short of enrolling her in soccer camp. Monkeys do not make good "pets" and it is unnatural and dangerous to treat them as human children. There are about 15,000 non-human primates in private hands in the U.S., and TV programs that appear to promote this are acting irresponsibly. Click here to ask TLC to cancel "My Monkey Baby." You can also send them a letter here: Discovery Communications Viewer Relations One Discovery Place 5th Floor Silver Spring, MD 20910 ThePetitionSite.com, Change.org, Please also sign the petition to abolish bowhunting and other petitions on http://www.thepetitionsite.com/animal-welfare and http://animalrights.change.org/ Thank you!