PLEASE CROSS POST Forwarded Message: Subj: LETTER - China's Dog/Cat Fur Markets Date: 12/10/2005 8:35:57 PM Eastern Standard Time From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent from the Internet (Details)
----- Original Message ----- From: "Kinship Circle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "2 Kinship Circle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, December 10, 2005 8:24 PM Subject: LETTER - China's Dog/Cat Fur Markets 12/10/05--China's Dog/Cat Fur Markets KINSHIP CIRCLE LETTER CAMPAIGN http://www.kinshipcircle.org SOURCE OF INFORMATION http://www.furkills.org/dog_fur_horror.shtml http://justnicephotos.homestead.com/DogAndCatCruelFurTrade.html http://www.animalsasia.org/ DOG & CAT FUR PETITION: http://www.heathermillsmccartney.com/petition.php CHINESE DOG/CAT FUR VIDEO: http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/Prefs.asp?video=jcruel_china_dog *Overseas postage from anywhere in the U.S. is 80 cents. ========================================== SAMPLE LETTER Full contact information follows letter ========================================== *All email addresses come directly from Chinese government websites. We have researched this for a week. If a particular email bounces, there is nothing more we can do. [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Honorable Officials of China: I urge you to make enforceable animal protection laws a priority before the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Please do not let China's notoriously inhumane bear bile farms and live animal markets tarnish your image during the Games. In particular, I implore you to immediately enact laws to ban China's dog/cat fur trade. Like many potential tourists, I cannot support a country that condones animal abuse. Neither revenue nor tradition justifies the profoundly cruel Chinese dog and cat fur trade. UNACCEPTABLE: Up to 8,000 caged dogs and cats are stacked into a single truck for cross-country transport without food or water. At an animal market in Southern China, investigators documented 20 cats smashed inside one wire cage and dead cats draped over cages. I've seen the video footage with my own eyes: Live dogs and cats flattened inside cages the size of filing drawers are tossed from truck beds on to hard pavement. Animals scream as their paws are crushed. Workers pull them out with long metal tongs and fling them over a 7 ft. fence. Some of these cats and dogs still wear collars and ID tags, indicating they are stolen companion animals. UNCONSCIONABLE: Chinese fur markets violently bludgeon, hang, electrocute and strangle fur-bearing animals, including millions of cats and dogs. Cats are choked in their cages alongside live cats. Dogs are hung from wire nooses and slashed across the groin. At fur farms in Hebei Province, investigators videotaped workers carving off skin and fur from alert dogs, foxes and other animals. Some fully skinned animals continued to blink and breathe spasmodically as their hearts beat for another five to 10 minutes. DECEITFUL: Dog/cat items are deceptively labeled Gae-wolf, Sobaki, Asian Jackal, Wildcat, Goyangi, Katzenfelle, or other names before exported abroad. Unsuspecting shoppers purchase unmarked, dyed or vaguely labeled boots, coats, linings, toys and homeopathic remedies. I will not visit a country that brutalizes animals to decorate a sweater, line a coat or become a trinket. This is the ultimate betrayal of creatures who are instinctively trustworthy and devoted companions to people. I stand firm in my boycott of Chinese tourism, commerce and the 2008 Olympic Games--unless China makes visible strides to end the vicious treatment of dogs, cats, bears and other non-human beings. Thank you for accepting my comments on this matter of international concern. Sincerely, ========================================== FULL CONTACT INFORMATION ========================================== *All email addresses come directly from Chinese government websites. We have researched this for a week. If a particular email bounces, there is nothing more we can do. Mr. Hu Jintao, President, The People's Republic of China 9 Xihuang-Chenggen Beijie Beijing, China Chinese Government's Official Web Portal: http://www.gov.cn/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] China National Tourism Administration 9A Jianguomennei Ave., Beijing 100740, China ph: (0086-10) 65201114; fax: (0086-10) 65122096 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://www.cnta.com China National Tourist Office, New York (in the U.S.) 350 Fifth Avenue, Suite 6413 Empire State Building New York, NY 10118 ph: 001-212-7608218; fax: 001-212-7608809 CHINA NATIONAL TOURIST OFFICES IN OTHER COUNTRIES: http://www.cnta.gov.cn/lyen/contact/contact.htm His Excellency Yang Jiechi U.S. Embassy of the People's Republic of China 2300 Connecticut Avenue, NW; Washington, DC 20008 ph: 202-328-2500, 202-328-2551; fax: 202-588-0032, 202-328-2582 Political Affairs Office: 202-328-2548, 202-328-2520; fax: 202-745-7473 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/ TO FIND CHINESE EMBASSIES IN OTHER COUNTRIES: http://www.travelchinaguide.com/embassy/embassy_list.htm COMPLETE LIST OF CHINESE EMBASSIES IN OTHER COUNTRIES: http://justnicephotos.homestead.com/DogAndCatCruelFurTrade.html Mr. Li Zhaoxing, Minister of Foreign Affairs, People's Republic of China No. 2, Chaoyangmen Nandajie, Chaoyang District Beijing, 100701 ph: 86-10-65961114; emal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://www.fmprc.gov.cn/eng/ Du Qinglin, Minister of Agriculture, People's Republic of China email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://www.agri.gov.cn/ Ministry of Health, People's Republic of China email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://www.moh.gov.cn/ XU Guanhua, Minister of Science and Technology, People's Republic of China 15B, Fuxing Road Beijing, 100862, P.R. China Guestbook web form: http://www.most.gov.cn/eng/guestbook/guestbook.htm Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China 15 Huixin Dongjie, Chaoyang District Beijing 100025, China ph: (8610) 6494 1107; email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://www.chinaculture.org/ Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad (BOCOG) 24 Dongsi Shitiao Street Beijing, China, 100007 ph: (8610) 64009185; fax: (8610) 64009229 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://en.beijing-2008.org/ ======================================================= *TO SUBSCRIBE TO KINSHIP CIRCLE, SEND AN EMAIL TO: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *DISCLAIMER: The information in these letters is verified with the original source. I cannot assume responsibility for the accuracy of the information or for the consequences of its use. Nothing in this email is intended to encourage illegal action in whatever country you are reading it in. *Kinship Circle cannot guarantee the validity of email addresses. During a campaign, recipients may change or disable their email addresses. *************************************************** BEAR WITNESS. SPEAK. DEMAND. ACT. Kinship Circle - Letter Campaigns I Literature I Action For Animals Brenda Shoss, president * Janet Enoch, vice-president [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.KinshipCircle.org Kinship Circle is a 501c3 non-profit organization. We accept online donations at: http://www.kinshipcircle.org/donation/donations.html We are grateful for your support! www.elephants.com ----- Original Message ----- From: catatonya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, December 12, 2005 11:55 pm Subject: "Fake Fur" from garments made in China To: catatonya t <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Do not buy anything with fur, fur trim, etc.... even if it says > synthetic...... if it's made in China. > > I deleted the link because it's too horrible to watch, but please > stop and think before you buy anything with fur from China. It > comes from dogs and cats skinned alive. > > If you want more info. you can go to the Larry King Live link at CNN > > t > > > > > --------------------------------- > From: Jenny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Emily Allgood-Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: This makes me sick those poor animals > Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 09:29:43 -0800 (PST) > > > > This is an email I recieved from a friend and I wanted to pass it > on. > > Larry King last night.They showed that China skins 2 million > dogs and cats in a year ALIVE and sells the fur to retailers around > the world.The thing is China titles the fur fake so that the > retailers are being fooled and think thats what they are buying. > This news is just being reveiled to the public and some retailers > already sign against purchusing so-called fake fur from China. > > Larry King showed a undercover video last night of a chinese man > slicing the inner thigh of Germen Sheperd so that it can loose as > much blood as possible so that it does not ruin the fur before they > skin the helpless dog ALIVE.Then the man hung it upside down and > skinned it while the dog was yelping and crying in pain,after it > was done being skinned it was thrown on a pile of other skinned > dogs.The dog laid there shaking and blinking his eyes.He died after > 20 minutes.The message that I want to get across to you is that > please if you do buy fake or real fur please find out what the > origin of it first so that you are not being fooled in thinking it > is fake but in fact that it is a great chance that you are wearing > a dog/cat instead.Or better yet watch this video and sign against > the trade of fur.Thanks in taking time in reading what I wrote! > > > > --------------------------------- > Yahoo! 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