5 Augustus Club 6 Augustus Club Issue No. 36 Fall 2005

PETA’s Gift & Estate Planning Club Your Special Ones continued from page 1 Animals You Have Saved We have managed to get our testimony about the need to include animals in evacuation Willy plans into the Congressional Register, and we are A.C. —Nicole Huntley pushing government officials to make sure this It could not have been scripted any better. On her way home from a happens. We are also shining the spotlight on Augustus Members’ Exchange “scrumptious, vegan dinner party,” Nicole was driving past a turkey those whose actions cost animal lives—such as slaughterhouse when something appeared in the middle of the road. What she officials at Louisiana State University, where first thought was a trash bag turned out to be a turkey—stunned and bleeding 8,000 animals caged in the school’s laboratories club We thought that our fellow Augustus on the cold asphalt. She scooped him up, put him in the back seat, and drove were abandoned to die in the floodwaters. Executioner of Olde Club members might be interested in away quickly before someone could claim him. Our ability to “be there” for animals, now and Like executioner of olde our unconventional holiday That was how Willy came into her life. in the future, is a direct reflection of your he leads the ragged, gentle giant contribution to our local animal Nicole believes that he probably fell off a personal and ever-so-important commitment to Battling the Tide of around and around and around shelter. Rather than give a gift to the shelter, we truck bound for the slaughterhouse because helping animals. I am so glad that you are part of decided to gift the staff. Each year, the shelter he had suffered minor skin abrasions on his the PETA family and, on behalf of all of us, thank Medieval citizens echo hushed remarks provides us with a list of the first names of the legs and belly. After making him comfortable, you for helping to create a kinder world. Apathy and Neglect dead eyes roll in giant’s head approximately two dozen animal-care technicians. she immediately got on the phone, and by elephant spirit crushed long ago We give them each a money card with a new $10 the next day, Willy had a new home at a Our work has never been more urgent bill and this handwritten note:“Just a small token local sanctuary. “He now will live out his life Ingrid’s Birds chirp as waves slap nearby of appreciation for all your endless efforts on our with dozens of goats, ducks, turkeys, sheep, message giant calls to mother and mate behalf. —The Animals.” We also provide a supply and other animals,” Nicole says.“He’s one returns a sacred sound of vegan snack foods and drinks (including Silk lucky bird. Are you vegetarian?” It is particularly during the times when we animals no one had called about, including PETA immediately contacted all agencies Nog) as a “Season’s Eatings” for the entire staff, are racing against all odds that I am so dying animals whose owners could not and issued alerts to get everyone to push Invisible call, invisible bond administration, and volunteers.All of this is done grateful to you for making a lasting have cared less. Congress to demand that animals be never beaten with ankus anonymously. We were inspired to do this after Holiday Shopping to Make a Tail Wag commitment to helping animals. We reached many animals just in time. helped. On September 9, U.S. Army Lt. Gen. by Executioner of Olde. observing the dedicated staff working so hard to As we go to print, PETA’s team of These were transported in our air- Russel Honore, help get animals adopted under ever-hectic Are you starting to think about your The PETA Mall is a great resource Of course, for a rescue personnel are, amazingly, still busy on conditioned vans to the temporary commander of the —Diana Moreton, Lake Worth, Fla. conditions when we adopted our dog, Nellie, from holiday gift lists yet? Well, we can make that brings together animal-friendly gift that is the ground in parts of New Orleans that emergency animal shelter in Gonzales, La., military’s recovery the shelter. your shopping hassle-free—and vendors who have agreed to donate a extremely became a modern-day Atlantis after where they were bathed, given veterinary efforts, gave the order Diana has channeled harmlessness into song and —Rick Thompson and Ken Siegert, Lancaster, Pa. cruelty-free! percentage of each order to PETA. convenient hurricanes Katrina and Rita, as well as in care, photographed, microchipped, and for military rescuers to poetry. If you would like a free CD of Diana’s poems We have terrific gift ideas, including These stores feature animal-friendly and surrounding added to the national provide animal carriers and songs dedicated to animal rights, please contact her everything from the most beautiful apparel, cruelty-free gifts, health and tremendously areas that also database of rescued so that animals could at 561-641-3245; [email protected]; organic roses to fabulous faux-fur beauty essentials tested on people (not helpful to suffered terrible animals. For others, also be moved out. 4303 Wilkinson Dr., Lake Worth, FL 33461. throws and from flashlights to yummy animals), and vegan foods from around animals, there is damage. time had run out, This was a huge step vegan fudge brownies. PETA’s catalog is the world.You can visit the mall at nothing better Our first but their fate has forward. full of wonderful, practical, and PETAMall.com. than giving a teams found, steeled our resolve. Because all the Remember, the A.C. Members’ Exchange motivational items— Here are just a few examples of membership to rescued, and As you are animal shelters in the Gulf is an opportunity for you to interact try the Humunga what you will find: PETA.You can also attended to animal aware, during the states were, and still are, strained to the with your fellow Augustus Club members. You can Tongue dog toy, • PETA’s 2005 holiday ornament support up to one full survivors. initial overall rescue limit, we rented an $11,000 RV and brought send your submissions by mail to: PETA/A.C. for starters! You commemorates PETA’s 25 years of day of PETA’s spaying and neutering Equipped with operations, local, more than 30 dogs to our headquarters in Members’ Exchange, Attn.: Planned Giving, 501 can call us at fighting for and establishing rights for efforts and help prevent thousands of boats, vans, and state, and federal Norfolk.These dear souls are temporarily Front St., Norfolk,VA 23510, or visit 757-962-8363 to all animals. homeless animals. If you would like to rescue gear, they authorities made the cold-hearted decision being fostered by PETA staff and volunteers AugustusClub.org and click on “A.C. Members’ request a catalog • PETA’s “Peace to All Beings” holiday remember someone you care about in worked with little rest in appalling to prevent people in need of rescue from and soon will all be in permanent, loving Exchange.” or visit wrapping paper is double-sided and is either of these ways, please call us at conditions as they went through a list of taking their animals with them. In some homes if they remain unclaimed. In fact, just PETACatalog.org. a great way to spread holiday cheer. 757-622-7382. homes compiled from the deluge of calls cases, people were threatened with arrest last night, I was able to reunite one little Toby and Nellie and e-mails about animals left without food or risked death by toxic fumes if they did foster dog with his guardian! or water. Of course, they also found not leave animals behind! continued on page 6 People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals • 501 Front St., Norfolk,VA 23510 • 757-622-7382 • PETA.org 2 Augustus Club 3 Augustus Club 4 Augustus Club PETA Launches Cars, Coats, and Cardigans ‘Animal Liberation Project’ Go Cruelty-Free! skins. Our investigation of the leather fashion distributors and owner of ‘We Are All Animals’ industry in India (one of the largest international retail chain Zara). PETA leather manufacturers in the world) also received written assurance that Keeping the skin on animals’ backs documented starving cattle forced to fashion retail giant Wet Seal will not Alice Walker, in her labor—with the cruel treatment of walk hundreds of miles in the heat and carry fur this fall season, and we plan introduction to Marjorie today’s slaughtered, beaten, tortured, Now that autumn has arrived and painful operation called “mulesing” in dust to meet a terrifying end, often at to meet with the company to discuss Spiegel’s book The Dreaded and electroshocked animals.The wool-clad mannequins populate store which they use gardening shears to cut the hands of children, on the floor of a a permanent fur-free policy. Comparison, reminds us that conclusion is unavoidable: All are the windows, PETA’s “Save the Sheep” chunks of skin and flesh from the crude slaughterhouse. Those who Topshop, the U.K.’s most highly the animals of the world result of a dangerous belief that those fur, or choosing products that haven’t Campaign has shifted into high gear. young lambs’ hindquarters without the collapsed from exhaustion on the way respected fashion chain, debuted Numerous compassionate “were not made for humans with power have the right to abuse been tested on animals. Unlike the fur industry, the wool use of painkillers.This is done to create were beaten, had tobacco or hot chili PETA’s “All Our Fur Is Fake” decal, celebrities have helped us put the any more than black people those without. While we rightly look back on the industry is largely regarded as benign wounds that, once healed, become This intense pressure on the Australian seeds rubbed into their eyes, or had which appeared in huge displays in the spotlight on the issue by posing for were made for whites or The Animal Liberation exhibit cruelty of the past with indignation— to animals.This is a grave smooth scar tissue that can’t harbor wool industry has resulted in a their tails twisted until they broke. windows of all 280 Topshop stores eye-catching anti-fur ads, including women for men.” encourages viewers to open their and it is vital that we remind ourselves misconception. maggots and flies. dramatic step forward. As of this Most people don’t have a clue that nationwide. model and television personality Anna With those words in mind, PETA has hearts and dispel any hidden or overt that it happened, as unbelievable as it In Australia, where much of the After two to three years on the writing, PETA and the Australian Wool it takes the hides of four cows to make With so many retailers hopping Nicole Smith, Oscar winner Charlize taken to the road with our latest prejudices. Ours is a message of may seem now—our obligation is to world’s wool is produced, sheep are farm, sheep are packed onto ships and Growers Association (AWGA), the leather interior of just one car. aboard the no-fur train, one might Theron, American Idol judge Simon campaign, the “Animal Liberation compassion for all. Elephants do not examine the cruelty of the present and treated as nothing more than wool sent to the Middle East or North representing 3,000 wool farmers Fortunately, PETA’s Leather Campaign wonder why any designer would Cowell, and rock musician Tommy Lee. take a stand against it. machines. Merino sheep are bred to Africa for slaughter. Forced to within the industry, have come to an has had positive results: All Mercedes- bother creating fur fashions anymore. During the week of its debut, our ad PETA is opposed to all cruelty and have extra-wrinkly skin in order to withstand wretched conditions for agreement that would implement a Benz models are now available with a The answer comes down to bribery. featuring basketball star Dennis bigotry.We want people to be outraged produce more wool. Those wrinkles weeks, many sheep become ill and die verifiable reduction in the number of leather-free option, Saab announced For years, those in the fur trade have Rodman was the most viewed image whenever any living being suffers collect urine and moisture, which in the muck, are crushed to death, are lambs suffering mulesing mutilations last year that consumers can order any worked with New York’s Parsons on leading Web portal Yahoo.com, violence and oppression.We have attracts blowflies, who lay eggs in the thrown down a chute into a macerator during the next five years, culminating Saab model with a leather-free interior, School of Design, one of the world’s reaching millions of viewers and already challenged people to widen folds of the skin and cause a sickening while still alive, or are thrown in a complete phase-out of mulesing and Toyota won an award from PETA most prestigious fashion schools, generating enormous media coverage their circle of compassion in southern condition called “flystrike” when the overboard to drown or be killed by by the end of 2009. In addition, live- for deciding to keep its gasoline- providing students with free fur for of the cruelty of fur. cities such as Columbia, S.C.; hatched maggots feed on the sheep’s sharks. Those who survive the journey sheep export standards would be electric hybrid Prius leather-free—and their designs—a powerful lure for What do you do when you see Birmingham, Ala.; Jackson, Miss.; Baton flesh. experience the terror of being killed required to meet Australian domestic that’s just for starters! young designers eager to make a name someone wearing fur? It can feel Rouge, La.; and Atlanta.We’ve visited To prevent flystrike in the cheapest while they are still conscious and animal protection laws or else the Another inevitable accompaniment for themselves. awkward to confront a fur-wearer, the New England states and the cities of possible way, ranchers perform a without being stunned or anesthetized. exports would stop. to the onset of the fall season is a But PETA carried out quite a coup: especially if that person is a friend, New Haven, Conn., and Boston, as well For more than a year, we took the Top retailers, including Talbot’s, flurry of advertisements by the fur We succeeded in getting equal time family member, or coworker. This is as the Mid-Atlantic states and sheep’s case directly to the Australian Nordstrom, and H&M, have also industry claiming that fur is back in with the students and gave a video one of the reasons that PETA puts the cities of Scranton, Pa.; Baltimore; government and received no viable agreed to buy the new brand of wool style. We have ammunition to shoot presentation about how animals suffer powerful videos on the Internet. All it and Washington, D.C. response, so we began to bring created by the agreement from wool holes in those phony claims. for the fur, leather, and wool trades, takes is an e-mail to that person with a The project is now on its second these practices to the attention of growers who are part of the For example, PETA’s Fur Campaign and we taught the students about the link to the video (at FurIsDead.com) tour, with tentative stops in Columbus, international clothing retailers, structured plan to end mulesing and has resulted in an end to fur- wide variety of alternatives available. and a quick introduction, such as, Project.” This national crusade is a wish to be torn from their families, Ohio; Lansing, Mich.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; eventually succeeding, through letters, cruel live exports.The PETA/AWGA product The resulting creations from non- “Please watch this video because it will traveling display of provocative images beaten into submission with a metal Richmond,Va.; Nashville,Tenn.; and activist alerts, making statements and agreement even helped sway one sales animal fabrics were featured in the probably change your mind about fur.” intended to enlighten viewers and spark bullhook, and kept in chains in a Tucson,Ariz. More stops will be holding protests at shareholder prominent retailer holdout, Benetton, from school’s spring fashion show, inspiring To help when you are out and debate and discussion through the use traveling show, and baby seals should added, so be on the lookout for its meetings, and negotiations, in which was the target of a vigorous retail chains Parsons’ fashion design chair, Tim Gunn, about, we’re enclosing PETA’s of striking photographs, illustrations, and not be bludgeoned to death for their arrival in your area.You can also visit persuading a list of prestigious international campaign for nine Suzy Shier, J. to say,“There’s a vitality to them, a “Shopping Guide to Compassionate historical text. coats. Each one of us can take a stand the display at PETA.org/AnimalLiberation, retailers—including Abercrombie & months, with activists holding headline- Jill, and Forever spiritedness.” We’re now working on Clothing,” an easy-to-use reference The exhibit juxtaposes shameful against cruelty and reduce the violence and feel free to give us feedback Fitch,Timberland, American Eagle, and grabbing demonstrations in front of its 21, as well as the similar programs in other design for cruelty-free clothing. If you would chapters of history—such as the African in the world simply by making through our online poll. Either way, Limited Brands—to join the retailer-led stores throughout the world. Inditex Group schools to allow students to make like more guides and/or leaflets, factsheets, slave trade, the massacre and compassionate choices, whether it’s join us in spreading the word of movement to reform the Australian Along with wool, PETA also (one of the informed choices rather than being or videos, please contact us at displacement of Native Americans, the ordering a veggie burger instead of compassion.Together we can reverse wool industry. campaigns against the use of hides and world’s largest seduced by fur-industry come-ons. 757-962-8363. oppression of women, and forced child meat, buying a faux fur instead of a real the tide of tyranny.