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2015 | No. 1, Issue 68 Animals Are Wondrous: rcas There may be few OWith the support of our Augustus Club members, PETA experiences as uplifting as is working hard to alleviate the suffering of captive orcas watching orcas in the wild. and turning up the heat on SeaWorld: As they effortlessly navigate their surroundings, their • PETA’s anti-SeaWorld ad was displayed in the San demeanor and power are Diego airport after it had been initially rejected. simultaneously elegant and • We’ve convinced Southwest Airlines, Virgin America, awe-inspiring. They’re extremely and many other companies to end their SeaWorld intelligent and highly social animals promotions. who live in tightly knit family pods of up to 30 orcas for • We purchased enough stock in SeaWorld to allow their entire lives. Each pod has its own unique culture us to submit shareholder resolutions calling for the and dialect. park to develop coastal sanctuaries and to retire and rehabilitate its orcas. But in captivity, orcas from very different pods are • We called for SeaWorld to be cited for violations forced to live together. Baby orcas at SeaWorld and of the federal Act after a PETA other marine parks are frequently torn away from their Foundation veterinarian found orcas at SeaWorld frantic mothers and shipped off to other marine parks, San Diego covered with scars and exhibiting behavior breaking their extraordinary lifelong bond. indicating severe psychological distress.

In the wild, orcas’ social rules prevent serious violence As a result of our efforts, SeaWorld’s stock has

© iStock.com/ChrisRussick among members of the same pod. But in marine parks dropped more than 44 percent, its attendance is down, such as SeaWorld, confinement to cramped tanks its revenue has decreased by millions, it recently had to causes anxiety and tension that often leads to fights, lay off more than 300 staff members, and its CEO has Cover orcas: injuries, and even deaths, since there is no way to resigned! We will keep up the pressure until all orcas escape the violence. are in seaside sanctuaries!

Two of the former SeaWorld trainers featured in the highly acclaimed documentary Blackfish were part of PETA’s groundbreaking 2011 lawsuit asking that a Inside: federal court declare that SeaWorld was holding five The Sun Never Sets wild-caught orcas as slaves in violation of the 13th on the Vital Work Amendment to the Constitution. This historic case marks of PETA and the first time a U.S. court has considered constitutional Our Affiliates rights for animals, and it created a huge international— and ongoing—debate on the ethics of captivity. The Sun Never Sets on the Vital Work of PETA and Our Affiliates © PETA/Larry French © PETA/Larry

Cruelty to animals never LONDON LONDON LONDON LONDON LONDON LONDON stops. Every minute of every  (Wed., 12 a.m. GMT) · (1 a.m. GMT) ¸ (2 a.m. GMT) ¹ (3 a.m. GMT) º (4 a.m. GMT) » (5 a.m. GMT) day, animals are suffering in u LOS ANGELES (Tue., 4 p.m. u LOS ANGELES (Tue., 5 p.m. u NORTH CAROLINA (Tue., u LOS ANGELES (Tue., 7 p.m. u MUMBAI (Wed., 9:30 a.m. u KOLKATA (Wed., 10:30 laboratory cages, in roadside PT): PETA U.S. is busy PT): PETA U.S. is shooting 9 p.m. ET): PETA U.S. PT): PETA U.S. is editing IST): PETA India is drafting a.m. IST): PETA India zoos, on fur farms, and in countless other situations hosting a huge adoption an eye-catching anti-fur ad is typing up incidents of video footage from its latest a legal complaint against is notifying police of an and places around the world. event for 100 chickens who with an NFL player. animal abuse witnessed investigation to post online. bullfights that are being illegally planned horse race. were rescued from an egg during the investigation of held illegally. u HONG KONG (Wed., u MUMBAI (Wed., 8:30 u BEIJING (Wed., 1 p.m. So, there’s never any hour of the day in which a staff factory by Animal Haven. a pig farm. 9 a.m. HKT): PETA Asia a.m. IST): PETA India is u SHANGHAI (Wed., 12 p.m. CST): PETA Asia is holding member of PETA or its affiliates isn’t working to end u NEW YORK (Tue., 7 p.m. is e-mailing notices to its u HO CHI MINH CITY (Wed., packing and shipping its CST): PETA Asia is holding a news conference to unveil animal suffering somewhere. ET): PETA U.S. is giving a Activist Network about an 9 a.m. ICT): PETA Asia Compassionate Citizen a colorful demonstration to its latest video evidence lecture at a law school. upcoming demonstration is shooting an ad with a humane-education promote the health benefits showing that dog leather is To help give you a sense of our round-the-clock against testing cosmetics film star to promote the materials to thousands of of vegan eating to city used in the clothing trade. u MANILA (Wed., 8 a.m. work, here’s an hour-by-hour snapshot of some of on animals. spaying and neutering of schools that are eager to center shoppers. PHT): PETA Asia is meeting u SYDNEY (Wed., 4 p.m. the typical actions for animals that PETA and its companion animals. use them. with government officials u MELBOURNE (Wed., u BRISBANE (Wed., 2 p.m. AET): PETA Australia is affiliates carry out during the course of just one about preparations for 12 p.m. AET): PETA u SYDNEY (Wed., 1 p.m. u MANILA (Wed., 11 a.m. AET): PETA Australia is doing a TV news interview 24-hour spin of the Earth on its axis. safeguarding animals Australia is holding a AET): PETA Australia PHT): PETA Asia is sending out a news release on its exposé of sheep during typhoon season. demonstration against is meeting with a major responding to an urgent offering a $5,000 reward to abuse in Australian the live exportation clothing company to situation after local catch a culprit in an animal shearing sheds. of sheep. discuss banning the sale authorities declined to help decapitation case. of angora. a dog who had been hit by a car.

LONDON LONDON LONDON LONDON LONDON ½ (7 a.m. GMT) ¾ (8 a.m. GMT) ¿ (9 a.m. GMT) À (10 a.m. GMT) Á (11 a.m. GMT) u STUTTGART (Wed., 8 a.m. CET): PETA Germany is analyzing u LONDON (Wed., 8 a.m. u LONDON (Wed., 9 a.m. u STUTTGART (Wed., u LONDON (Wed., 11 a.m. video footage from an undercover investigation of a chicken farm. GMT): PETA U.K. is GMT): PETA U.K. is 11 a.m. CET): PETA GMT): PETA U.K. is sending out a news release planning its Vegan Fashion Germany is lobbying receiving confirmation that u NEW DELHI (Wed., 12:30 p.m. IST): PETA India is holding a stunning anti-leather demonstration. on its latest success in Awards ceremony, which authorities to confiscate a major clothing retailer reducing the number of will honor cruelty-free two chimpanzees who are has agreed to stop selling u SHANGHAI (Wed., 3 p.m. CST): PETA Asia is exhibiting an animals used in the REACH designers. being kept as “pets” by an products made from interactive display on a college campus. chemical-testing program. abusive owner. angora. u STUTTGART (Wed., 10 a.m. u MUMBAI (Wed., 1:30 CET): PETA Germany is u MANILA (Wed., 6 p.m. u PARIS (Wed., 12 p.m. CET): p.m. IST): PETA India booking billboard space for PHT): PETA Asia is posting PETA France is holding a is assisting police in a new anti-dairy ad. an action alert on Facebook demonstration against the LONDON confiscating a lame horse u to help free Mali the use of exotic skins, such as (Wed., 6 a.m. GMT) MUMBAI (Wed., 2:30 p.m. ¼ from a carriage driver with IST): PETA India is meeting elephant, who’s being held snake and alligator skin, for u SEATTLE, WASH. (Tue., 10 p.m. PT): PETA U.S. is animal-welfare violations. with government officials in solitary confinement at fashion. the Manila Zoological and expediting emergency veterinary care for a dog with u LA UNION (Wed., 4 p.m. about replacing animal u MUMBAI (Wed., 4:30 a bone caught in his throat after the owners called PHT): PETA Asia is meeting dissection in the few Botanical Garden. p.m. IST): PETA India is PETA’s 24-hour emergency hotline for help because with Philippine attorneys remaining medical school u ADELAIDE (Wed., 8:30 p.m. reviewing photographs of they couldn’t afford intervention. with regard to prosecuting courses that still require it. ACT): PETA Australia is sick and injured animals u MUMBAI (Wed., 11:30 a.m. IST): PETA India is filing buyers of animal-abusing tabling at a music festival, from a recent circus sexual-fetish videos. distributing animal rights investigation.

a lawsuit seeking the release of an elephant from a © iStock.com/tkacchuk Map: • temple in which he’s chained and beaten. literature and DVDs to hundreds of concertgoers. u TOKYO (Wed., 3 p.m. JST): PETA Asia is leafleting at a Tokyo airport to pressure Air France to stop shipping monkeys to laboratories. Rats: © iStock.com/wildcat78 Rats: LONDON LONDON LONDON LONDON Â (12 p.m. GMT) · (1 p.m. GMT) ¸ (2 p.m. GMT) ¹ (3 p.m. GMT) u NORTH CAROLINA u WASHINGTON, D.C. u AUSTIN, TEXAS (Wed., u KEENESBURG, COLO. 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(Wed., a “public bathing” GMT): PETA U.K. is building specially designed 10 a.m. ET): PETA U.S. demonstration to illustrate protesting the sale of foie doghouses for dogs is hosting an interactive the fact that producing gras at a Fortnum & Mason forced to live outdoors in online training session just one steak uses the store. impoverished areas. on virtual-dissection LONDON same amount of water software for college u AMSTERDAM (Wed., 2 p.m. u LONDON (Wed., 2 p.m. º (4 p.m. GMT) as taking 50 baths. CET): PETA NETHERLANDS GMT): PETA U.K. is science teachers. u LOS ANGELES (Wed., 8 a.m. PT): PETA U.S. is researching LONDON LONDON u MUMBAI (Wed., 5:30 is giving a newspaper meeting with government u STUTTGART (Wed., SeaWorld executives’ public-speaking engagements and (5 p.m. GMT) (6 p.m. GMT) p.m. IST): PETA India interview about officials and urging them 4 p.m. CET): PETA » ¼ planning microphone takeovers. u LOS ANGELES (Wed., 9 u PHOENIX, ARIZ. (Wed., is shooting an ad with a the cruelty to replace animals with Germany is posting the u EMPORIA, VA. (Wed., 11 a.m. ET): PETA U.S. is spaying a.m. PT): PETA U.S. is 11 a.m. MT): PETA U.S. Bollywood actor to promote of angora superior non-animal monthly mission for its and neutering dogs and cats in its mobile veterinary clinic. meeting with a film director is leading a humane law the adoption of street dogs rabbit methods in chemical “Rise and Resist” street to discuss using computer- enforcement conference and discourage the buying farms. regulatory testing. team, PETA Germany’s u LONDON (Wed., 4 p.m. GMT): PETA U.K. is preparing a generated imagery instead seminar on how to inspect of companion animals youth activist network, Trading Standards complaint against the “Origin Assured” of real animals in a movie. traveling circuses for from breeders. on Facebook. clothing label for misleading consumers about fur supplier violations of local anti- standards. u NORFOLK, VA. (Wed., 12 p.m. ET): PETA U.S. cruelty ordinances. is on the phone with a u WASHINGTON, D.C. whistleblower from a U.S. (Wed., 1 p.m. ET): PETA military laboratory. U.S. is stocking distribution LONDON LONDON LONDON LONDON LONDON stands throughout the city (7 p.m. GMT) (8 p.m. GMT) (9 p.m. GMT) (10 p.m. GMT) (11 p.m. GMT) u STUTTGART (Wed., 6 ½ ¾ ¿ À Á with its vegan starter kit. p.m. CET): PETA Germany u LOS ANGELES (Wed., 11 a.m. PT): PETA U.S. is sending u LOS ANGELES (Wed., u LOS ANGELES (Wed., u TOPEKA, KAN. (Wed., u BOULDER, COLO. (Wed., is drafting a statement u PARIS (Wed., 7 p.m. CET): an e-newsletter to its network of teachers with a list of 12 p.m. PT): PETA U.S. 1 p.m. PT): PETA U.S. is 4 p.m. CT): PETA U.S. is 4 p.m. MT): PETA U.S. is calling for the release of the PETA France is giving a live recommended animal-oriented children’s books and is writing a script for an e-mailing a national network giving a presentation to hosting a teleconference dolphins at the Duisburg TV news interview on its classroom discussion questions. ad advocating spay and of campus representatives the Kansas State Board of with scientists about Zoo that will be presented campaign to get Air France neuter surgeries for encouraging them to push Education on alternatives PETA’s funding of the u WASHINGTON, D.C. (Wed., 2 p.m. ET): PETA U.S. is at a parliamentary hearing. to ban the transport of companion animals. for more vegan options in to animal dissection. development of non- submitting a Federal Trade Commission complaint about monkeys to laboratories. college cafeterias. methods. deceptive labeling practices used by a u CHICAGO (Wed., 2 p.m. u WASHINGTON, D.C. meat producer stating that its suppliers CT): PETA U.S. is meeting u WASHINGTON, D.C. (Wed., 5 p.m. ET): PETA u NORFOLK, VA. (Wed., raise animals in “humane” conditions. with a chemical company (Wed., 4 p.m. ET): PETA U.S. is drafting a legal 6 p.m. ET): PETA U.S. about replacing animal tests U.S. is filing a Freedom complaint about Animal is feeding cats who were u EAST YORKSHIRE (Wed., 7 p.m. with superior non-animal of Information Act request Welfare Act violations by rescued from a hoarder. GMT): PETA U.K. is attending a methods. regarding experiments a Florida roadside zoo. city council meeting and arguing u SYDNEY (Thu., 10 a.m. that use monkeys at against plans to build a facility u BERLIN (Wed., 9 p.m. CET): u BEIJING (Thu., 6 a.m. CST): AET): PETA Australia is the National Institutes to breed dogs for use PETA Germany is recruiting PETA Asia is departing to holding a demonstration of Health. in laboratories. concertgoers to sign a investigate and take video against the painful mulesing pledge to go vegan for u MELBOURNE (Thu., 8 a.m. footage of a rural dog- of lambs by the wool 30 days. AET): PETA Australia is slaughter operation. industry. contacting fashion show venues and pushing them

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What Really Stands For Treatment behavior—these tired arguments against rights for other beings have all been heard, and overcome, Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment before. Every time a boundary shifts, the suffragists or Sometimes the powerful claimed superiority granted on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any the abolitionists or the emancipators are at first ridiculed People by God. Our society no longer believes that any human other way. and belittled for their stance on equal consideration. But I am you, only different. being has the right to enslave, rape, or torture another eventually, the lies are exposed and rights are won—for human being for any reason. We accept that all human All beings desire the freedom to live a natural life women, children, blacks, Jews, gays, etc. Let freedom Human beings create temporary and arbitrary boundaries beings share fundamental rights, and we celebrate according to their inherent desires and instincts. While now ring for all beings. to exclude other beings who are “different.” Humans our differences. no one can avoid experiencing a certain amount of have justified slavery, sexual violence, wars, and suffering in life, human beings must stop deliberately child abuse by believing, in error, that those who are inflicting suffering on others out of greediness. We Animals “different” do not experience suffering and are not Ethical sacrifice nothing when we replace a cheeseburger with worthy of moral consideration. a veggie burger or a leather purse with a fabric one. But We are all animals. Do unto others as you would have them do when we choose the cheeseburger or the leather purse, These boundaries change throughout history, and we unto you. the beings we are exploiting lose their lives just to satisfy Human beings have few unique capabilities—many are horrified now to look back on the abuse inflicted on our selfish desires. other beings can learn a language, enjoy complex social others once classified We are taught the Golden Rule as young children, bonds, sacrifice pleasure for the good of others, recall as outsiders—the and all major religions teach principles of information, make tools, use their imagination, and extermination of All beings share and kindness. The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. We are taught from a young dream. Many other beings play with their friends, seek Jews by the Nazis, said, “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice intimacy, gossip, and mourn their dead. Some beings the enslavement of the desire to everywhere.” Ethical treatment—the Golden Rule— age to discriminate among have enormous capabilities beyond our own—such as in Africans by American live. We all feel must be extended to all living beings: mammals, birds, beings. navigation, endurance, communication, and detection plantation owners, the amphibians, reptiles, fish, crustaceans—even insects. of natural phenomena. We don’t yet fully understand slaughter of Christians pain, joy, grief, how all beings think, or what they think, but dismissing for entertainment by Would we imprison children in cages too small for We are taught from a young age to discriminate their mental world as less developed, rational, moral, or Roman centurions, pleasure, and them to move? Would we violate women and steal among beings. We are fooled into eating the flesh of intelligent than our own would clearly be erroneous. and more. Laws now fear. We all their babies? Would we deliberately infect people some beings, ignoring the cries of hunted beings, and forbid discrimination with diseases and leave them untreated? Of course cuddling up with and petting other beings. We grow up But regardless of their capabilities, no living being based on gender, have worth. not—so why would we do the same to any other sentient confused—as adults, most human beings are sickened deserves abuse. We all believe that it’s wrong to abuse race, religion, beings? We must abandon the outdated and misguided and saddened when they see beings tortured and infants and mentally and physically challenged human disability, age, and— boundary of “human,” which we use to justify the killed, yet they purchase and eat animal flesh and wear beings. In the same way, all beings, human or otherwise, only recently—sexual orientation. Yet it was not that long ongoing massacre of billions of living beings. animal skins without hesitation. We work hard to deceive deserve liberty and respect not because they share ago that human beings classified as “different” by those ourselves and each other in order to maintain the illusion the characteristics that we admire in humans but rather with power often faced torture, exploitation, and death. Charles Darwin showed over a century ago that all of a meaningful boundary around “human beings.” because they are living beings. We share the same beings stem from the same common ancestor. All evolutionary origins. We inhabit the same Earth. We Sometimes those in power claimed that juvenile or beings share the desire to live. We all feel pain, joy, The threat of economic collapse, the defiant claim of are ruled by the same laws of Nature. When it comes dark-skinned human beings couldn’t feel pain. grief, pleasure, and fear. We all have worth. inherent rights, and the stubborn refusal to change to the things that matter, we are all the same. 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Augustus Club Members in Action: Claudine Erlandson

If you’ve through always and all ways—fight for them any chance ever doubted you get, every day.” She seizes every opportunity to whether speak up for animals by writing letters to the editor one person and posting online comments. She meets regularly with can make a the committee that oversees animal experiments at the difference, University of Washington to plead the animals’ case. In you haven’t met longtime PETA Augustus Club member addition to leaving a legacy through a planned gift to Claudine Erlandson, a compassionate, wise, and fiercely PETA, she’s also a generous member of our Vanguard dedicated animal rights advocate. Claudine is also the Society and has donated the proceeds from her garage recipient of PETA’s Hero to Animals Award, which sales, her former thrift store, and even the sale was presented to her last year by PETA President of property on eBay to help strengthen . PETA’s programs. She also keeps us stocked up on handmade catnip So what makes Claudine an animal balls—or, as Claudine calls rights star? them, “chatnip” balls (“chat” is “cat” in French)—for our Like most of us, Claudine gift bags and rescued cats. didn’t grow up in a family that supported animal rights. And as if all this She spent her first 20 years didn’t show Claudine’s in France, where her parents’ commitment, she even restaurant served foie gras, has a PETA tattoo on among other meat and dairy her arm! dishes. But Claudine found her own way, breaking free Along with her steadfast of the traditions that she work for animals, Claudine finds appalling today. has made the compassionate

decision to bequeath a large portion © iStock.com/ChrisRussick Claudine joined PETA 27 of her estate to PETA because “PETA years ago and became one has always been the best at helping all animals. Cover orcas: of our most dedicated supporters. She’s a regular at It has an outstanding leader and staff and has my PETA’s anti-Ringling demonstrations, and she even does complete trust and admiration.” demonstrations on her own outside KFC and McDonald’s every single week as part of PETA’s campaign to get Inspired to help animals? Now it’s your turn! Let us these companies to stop scalding chickens to death. know how you help animals. Who knows? Your story And she has been vegan for 20 years. Her energy and could motivate other Augustus Club members to accomplishments are an inspiration to us all. become heroes for animals, too!

Claudine shares this advice on activism: “Follow your Join PETA’s Action Team to learn about events and heart, and follow PETA! Let your love for animals shine demonstrations in your area at PETA.org/ActionTeam. Printed on 100% post-consumer waste recycled paper

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