** Food and Water Watch **
Just weeks after Monsanto decided to divest of rBGH, Eli Lilly has acquired the artificial dairy hormone. Not surprisingly, Eli Lilly is now spreading the same misinformation about rBGH's safety and environmental benefits as Monsanto once did. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Tell Eli Lilly that consumers want rBGH-free milk, and they want it to be labeled plain and simple.
Recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone is a genetically engineered hormone that is injected into cows to make them produce more milk. Besides the documented increase of infections in dairy cows injected with rBGH, which necessitates increased use of antibiotics, there are ongoing questions about links to cancer in humans.
Despite Eli Lilly's claims, rBGH is not a 'vital technology.' It's a questionable technology that has been shunned by several major dairy retailers this year alone. Help us maintain the momentum against the use of rBGH.
Tell Eli Lilly no thanks.
http://action.foodandwaterwatch.org/t/5915/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=25389
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The Wilderness Society
Increased domestic drilling will not lower the price of gas for American consumers.
So why are our elected officials buying it?
The truth is that any increase in oil production from new drilling would be a tiny portion of world oil production. Our price at the pump wouldn't change — but oil companies would profit at the expense of our most precious wild places.
Did you know that 80 percent of our coastline is already open to oil exploration and drilling? Now, the energy industry has its sights set on places like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska and Utah's Red Rocks Wilderness. But opening what little land we have left to more drilling won't lower gas prices — it will only put our cherished lands at risk.
Under pressure to help consumers, many of our members of Congress are wrongly giving in to the oil and gas industry's multi-million dollar lobbying campaign to open protected lands and waters to drilling. Will you help us stop the myths by telling your members of Congress to stand firm against voting for an energy policy based on panic?
Click here to send that message immediately!
http://action.wilderness.org/campaign/energyMOC/
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** World Society for the Protection of Animals **
Every year between September and April thousands of dolphins are brutally killed off the shores of the Japanese coastal towns of Taiji and Futo.
In what are known as "drive" hunts, Japanese fishermen in motorboats encircle pods of dolphins with nets and drive them towards shore. Once the dolphins are trapped in shallow waters, the fishermen kill them using crude, inhumane methods. Sometimes cranes are used to haul animals out of the water by their tails, often while the dolphins are still alive. They are then transported to a nearby slaughterhouse where they are butchered and processed into meat and fertilizer away from public view.
Every aspect of these hunts is extremely cruel and inhumane, from the exhausting drive from the open ocean that can separate family groups, to confinement in a netted cove where the dolphins are trapped and stabbed. Some of the young dolphins are spared this terrible fate, only to be sold into captivity - they spend the rest of their lives in small tanks in aquariums and marine parks where they are used for public display.
The majority of people in Japan and around the world have no idea that the slaughter of so many dolphins and whales continues. Government authorities in Japan know that the world will not tolerate the killing of these beautiful animals, and they go to great lengths to hide these hunts from public view. Fishermen even put up tarps behind which the dolphins are slaughtered, and people are barred from filming and photographing the bloody hunts.
Please write to Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki at the Embassy of Japan in the U.S. and politely request that Japan stop cruel dolphin drive hunts immediately.
http://capwiz.com/wspausa/issues/alert/?alertid=11855146
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