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Early March, the pupping season. It should be a joyous occasion.
Indeed, were there no seal massacre, would it not be?
A universal
symbol of the sacredness of motherhood and innocence of infants.
Poor little baby.
You have only two weeks to live.
It's a good
thing you're not aware of your dreadful fate - until the sealer's shadow
falls upon you, and even so, you would not understand. Meanwhile,
please do enjoy each minute of each one of your remaining numbered days,
as any baby creature should, as I as a baby did.
I'm so sorry for
not being able to be there for you at your critical hour. But rest
assured, little baby, your death shall not be in vain.
“Mr. Speaker, I would like to see the 6 million
seals, or whatever number is out there, killed and sold, or destroyed and
burned. I do not care what happens to them... the more they kill the
better I will love it."
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John Efford, Minister of
Natural Resources, 2003.
30 animals died for his vanity in this one
coat,
but over 300,000 die for his evil year after
year.
Efford's brutal henchmen:
Only a tiny
portion of the 300,000+ seals killed every year.
And all for
this?
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2005-02
Scapegoated Seals Save Cod
While driving
from Toronto to Ottawa – a four hour trip at 100 km/h - I picked up a
hitch-hiker on the Toronto end, who, much to my regret, happened to be a
sealer. For want of a more civil remark, I told him that he should have
walked all the way to Ottawa, as an atonement.
"The two
cities are 248 miles or 390 km apart. If you line up all the seals you
guys kill every year in a single file, the line of some 350,000 seals,
at a bit more than one meter per seal, would stretch from the CN Tower
in Toronto all the way to the Parliament Building in Ottawa. I think,
out of respect for these sentient beings, the least you can do is to
walk a Funeral March for the Hunted, from the first one you kill to the
last."
"A funeral
march for seals? That’s ludicrous. They don’t even have souls, for
Christ’s sake."
"Speaking of
souls, I might suggest that you take the Funeral March as a penance. It
would be good for your karma, too. Some cultures would believe that you
will reincarnate as a seal next life, one destined to be skinned alive,
if you don’t do something about it now."
"Yeah, right,
I’m quaking in my boots already," he sneered.
"Personally,
though I do find reincarnation a fascinating concept, I don’t believe
this interpretation of it either. I just can’t look at an innocent baby
seal and think that it used to be an evil human baby-seal killer, reborn
to be skinned alive by other baby-seal killers, to atone for that
ex-baby-seal-killer’s crimes. It would be adding-insult-to-injury of the
worst kind. But I do think that walking the 390 km on the Funeral March
for the Hunted would be good for your soul, if you have one."
"Sorry to say
this to you, pal, but your 390 km is way off base. Most of the seals we
kill are just babies as young as two weeks old. They don’t measure up to
a meter in length. Your line of seals would be well short of 390 km; 300
km max. So there."
"I rest my
case," I said, without bothering to argue that adult harp seals average
1.8 meters long, which would counter-balance the baby seals’ shortfall,
or point out that the sealers and even the Canadian Fisheries Minister
have been dismissing the word "baby". Instead, I asked, "How can you
justify this kind of carnage? Don’t you have feelings?"
"Sure I have
feelings. But it’s no skin off my back." The sneer broadened into a
lopsided grin. No seal could ever produce an evil expression as this,
that’s for damn sure.
"Who? The
seals? Why don't you ask them?"
"I don't have
to. Their writhing when you skin them alive says they do. But you
don't think that they feel pain?"
"I don't
know. And, frankly, I don't care."
"Can't you
feel their pain?"
"Not a bit. I
hear them scream. I see them writhe, yeah. But I feel just fine. In
fact, the more seals I kill, the better I feel."
"Don't you
also feel just a bit cowardly to torture and kill a pup whose mother
cannot defend, who can't defend himself, and who cannot fight back?"
"Better a
living coward than a dead hero, is what I say."
"How much is
pride a kilo, eh? How much per kilo do you sell courage for? Come to
think of it, pride and courage are very expensive- to buy. So, you can
keep'm. As for me, I have seal skins, seal oil and seal penises to
sell, at a hundred bucks a pop, or should I say, a pup, haha."
Even-tempered
as I think I am, I was beginning to see red. I took a moment to collect
myself. "I believe that deep down you do feel some pain, however much
you succeed in concealing it from yourself. Really, tell me. Why do
you do it? You don't make all that much of money out of it. You’re
primarily a cod fisherman."
His
eyes lit up above the grin. "Aha! I kill seals because they eat fish,
cod in particular. The more seals, the fewer cod, the fewer seals, the
more cod. Plain and simple. There are some 5 million seals out there.
They eat up a hell of a lot of cod. So, I don’t get enough.
"I think you
got too much. It is called over fishing. And you’re scapegoating the
seals for your own blunder driven by greed," I could have sounded a
little less hostile, but I’m not a seal; I’m human.
"We follow the
law. If the law says it is okay, it is okay. The law says it is okay."
"Only 3% of a
seal’s diet comprises cod," I pointed out.
"3% of the
total amount of fish eaten by 5 million seals is still a lot of cod."
I pressed on,
"In other words, 97% of the seal’s diet consists of other fish species
that prey on cod. Without the seals controlling the population of the
predatory fish species, the amount of cod eaten would be many times
greater."
"I’ve heard
that before. It’s just a theory, and a vague one at that. There is no
proof."
"I don’t know
about you, but we on the west coast have proof," I asserted.
"What proof?
Your harbour seals there eat salmon. I’m sure the same law of nature
applies. More seals, fewer salmon; fewer seals, more salmon."
"That’s just
it. It’s just the opposite. On the west coast, it is more seals, more
salmon, fewer seals fewer salmon," I sought to humbly inform him.
"That’s
ridiculous. Where’s your proof?"
"Before I
provide the proof, could you tell me what fish species the harbour seal
preys on?"
"Salmon, of
course, and some others, maybe herring, smelt, hake, mackerel, something
like that."
"There are
about 20 major fish species on which the harbour seals feed. In
descending order of volume consumed, they are rock fish, Pacific sand
lance, Pacific herring, Pacific staghorn sculpin, smelt, Pacific tomcod,
lamprey, flounder, shad, flatfish, Pacific hake, Shiner surf perch,
gunnel, prickleback, juvenile salmonids, Northern anchovy, adult
salmonids, Peamouth chub and Pacific Macheral, as well as cephalopods
like squid."
"Where are the
salmonids on this list?"
"I thought you
were going to give me some kind of proof," he said evasively, but in
doing so, jumped from the pan into the fire.
"Do you know
that there used to be a commercial seal hunt on the west coast too,
combined with a bounty hunt?" I asked him.
"Well, it
happened in the late 30’s through into the 60s. By the late 60s, the
seal population had become so decimated that the hunt was banned in
1969. The ban stays in force today. The seal population has recovered."
"Good news.
According to your formula of more seals, fewer salmon, fewer seals, more
salmon, the salmon population in the 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s should be
high and that in the 70s, 80s and 90s should be low. Correct?"
"Well, just
the opposite is true."
"More seals,
more salmon; fewer seals, fewer salmon?"
"What do you
have to back this up? "
"Could you
open the Road Atlas to British Columbia?"
He did,
reluctantly. "This better be good."
"Pick a river.
Any river."
"Alright. The
Kitimat River."
"Do you know
about escapement?"
"Sure. It is
the number of adult salmon that make it all the way up to their spawning
ground to spawn in a salmon run. What about it?"
"Now, let’s
see. For the Kitimat river, the 1950s escapement of Chum salmon averaged
16,700; 70s, 26,400; 90s, no mistake, 129,000. For Chinook salmon,
1950s, 4,100; 80s, 9,900; 90s, 16,700."
"You’re making
things up as you go."
"No. Just
photographic memory. Try another river."
"I don’t
particularly want to play this silly game."
"It is no
game. Why don’t you write down these numbers, and check them in a
government library in Ottawa when we get there?"
"So, you are
afraid to find out?"
"Not at all,
‘cause I know you must be wrong. So, lie some more. Here. The Babine
River. What numbers are you gonna make up?"
"1950s, Babine
River escapement of even-year Pink salmon average 11,800; 60s, 41,000;
70s, 106,000; 80s, 202,000; 90s, 214,700."
"1950s,
escapement of Chum salmon 4,000; 60s, 1,150; 70s, 7,350; 80s, 13,200;
90s, 21,000."
"Escapement of
Sockeye salmon in the 50s, 27,200; the 60s, 40,500; the 70s, 73,900; the
80s, 241,000; and the 90s, 260,900."
"Enough of
this crap! Even if these are true, they are west coast harbour seal and
salmon, not the east coast harp seal and cod."
"And the
natural law is different in the west than in the east?"
"If your
figures are correct, it damn well is."
"So, are you
going to do a funeral march for the seals you slaughter or not?"
"Why should I?
They eat my cod."
*Note: The
above numbers were exacted from BC government and academic documents
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2003-summer
aim
animal issues magazine
a publication of
The Responsible Animal Care
Society
(TRACS)
Canada plans on further
increasing the
East Coast Seal Hunt.
Anthony Marr Invites you to
join
The Global Anti-Hunting Coalition
We.ve all asked at some point,
.Wouldn.t it be powerful for all groups of like mind to collectively wage
a single coordinated campaign, from coast to coast, against a single
adversary?. Thus was born the concept of the Global Anti-Hunting
Coalition.
In the seven months between
August 29, 2003, and April 2, 2004, wildlife
preservationist and
anti-hunting campaigner Anthony Marr, with best-selling local vegan author
Brenda Davis and her son Cory Davis, will be conducting the
Compassion for Animals Road Expedition (CARE)
through 40 U.S. states and four Canadian provinces (see
www.HOPE-CARE.org for the state-by-state
itinerary). One of CARE.s main objectives is to form the American chapter
of the Global Anti-Hunting Coalition.
Anthony Marr will be holding meetings with the directors and giving
presentations to the members of interested animal advocacy groups en route
to discuss participation, campaigns, strategy and tactics.
The first campaign of the
Global Anti-Hunting Coalition will be to apply external pressure on Canada
focusing on its:
1.
East Coast Commercial Harp Seal Hunt (current quota . 325,000/year . the
largest marine mammal hunt in the world, known as .Canada.s Shame. . the
HSUS has already taken boycott action against Canada on this issue, but
the more groups, the better).
2.
Western Canada Grizzly Bear Trophy Hunt (current quota ~300/year plus
poaching deaths of ~300 out of a hotly debated estimated population of
4,000-13,000).
3.
West Coast Commercial Harbour Seal Hunt (currently being tabled in
parliament . quota: an incredible 50,000/year out of a total estimated
population of only 110,000 .
this must be nipped in the bud).
4.
West Coast Grey Whale Hunt (currently being planned . this must be nipped
in the bud).
5.
Central Canada Gopher Derby (2002 kill . ~60,000).
6.
Eastern Arctic Bowhead Whale Hunt (this species is classified .endangered
by CITES).
7.
Trophy hunting and fur trapping (a passive-aggressive form of hunting .
currently about 1,000,000/year) in general.
Groups
need not have anti-hunting mandates in order to join. A vegan group, for
example, is presumably intrinsically anti-animal-abuse, and therefore
implicitly against hunting and trapping.
To
join the Global Anti-Hunting Coalition, or if you have any questions, or
if you wish to meet with Anthony Marr or arrange a presentation for him
during the CARE tour, please contact him at:
[email protected],
toll-free 1-866-822-1169.
Anthony Marr has also authored
Omni-science and the Human
Destiny.
Visit: www.Omni-Science.org
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2004-01-21
Sunday January 25, 2-4pm, "Compassion for Animals Road Expedition with
Anthony Marr" Marr will discuss his anti-hunting / trapping / factory
farming coalition, which he is currently promoting on a tour through 40
states with his 7-month Compassion for Animals Road Expedition. For those
who are interested in staying later, he should have time to present his
"Tigers Forever" slide show which won him the honor of being called
"Champion of the Bengal Tiger" in the TV documentary series "Champions of
the Wild" which aired in 20 countries on Discovery Channel, Animal Planet
and Knowledge Network. He will also discuss his new book "Omni-Science and
the Human Destiny". Location: The meeting will be held in a small theater
at 600 Garson Drive NE in Atlanta, a residential complex. (Note: this
location is recorded as 3400 Garson Drive NE on mapquest and yahoomaps.)
For more info contact: Lisa Kramer.
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Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting
Funeral March
for the Hunted
Washington DC to New York City
375 km / 235 mi
Start date: March 15, 2005
Experience tells
Canadian wildlife preservationist and anti-hunting activist Anthony Marr
http://www.hope-care.org/ that when he informs people that
the annual quota of the Canadian Commercial Seal Hunt is 375,000 out of a
total population of 5 million, they react lukewarmly, some mumbling
something about 7 percent, but when he shows them what 375,000 seals look
like, they react volcanically, some exclaiming “Oh my God!”, others
“Bastards!” or worse, depending on their religious orientation.
So, what do 375,000 dead seals really look like? If
lined up nose to tail, at one meter per seal, 375,000 seals would form a
single file stretching 375 kilometers or 235 miles – the exact distance
between Washington DC and New York City.
In the Animal Rights 2004 conference, Anthony Marr spoke
on “Engage Media”. “It is well known that in real estate, the three key
words for success are ‘location, location, location’. In activism, the
three key words are ‘media, media, media’. Basically, what the public did
not see on TV did not happen,” he said. “So, to engage media. What you
need are seven essential ingredients, the more used per event, the better,
all if possible:
1. The event must be original (not copycat);
2. it must be creative (as outlandish as possible
as long as it works - without damaging the movement as a whole);
3. it must be new to media (bearing in mind that
something new is new only once at one place);
4. it must be photogenic (TV-friendly; an newspaper
article without a photo is weak);
5. it must be difficult and/or dangerous to execute
(what few would dare to attempt);
6. it must offer a new viewpoint on an old and
hackneyed issue (rejuvenated perception); and
7. it must be transformative (from dry statistics
to heart-rending visions).”
Abiding by his own advice, Marr executed an event in
March 2001, called the Funeral March for the Hunted, where he walked 100
km (about 60 mi) along Hwy 7 from Mission City to Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada, carrying a Canadian flag with the maple leaf colored
black, and a sign saying “Civilize Canada” on one side and “End the
barbaric Seal Hunt” on the other. When asked by media for a sound bite, he
said, “100 km is the length of a single file of 100,000 dead seals at one
meter per seal; you would have to drive a full hour at highway speed to go
from one end to the other.
If you think this is outrageous, consider further that
100,000 is less than one third of the total number. Canada kills 350,000
seals per year. The line would stretch 350 km, all the way from Vancouver
to Kamloops. You would have to drive 4 hours at highway speeds to go from
one end of the line to the other. Frankly, I don’t have time to walk that
far, but you get the picture.” And the people in British Columbia too got
the picture, loud and clear, since all major BC media, and many minor
media along the march route, covered the event, some more than once. Upon
further questioning, Marr talked about the cruelty inherent in the
industry and the scapegoating of seals for the declined of the North
Atlantic Cod precipitated in fact by overfishing – a human travesty.
Now, in 2005, in view of the U.S. Senate urging Canada
to stop the hunt, and the HSUS unleashing its Boycott Canada campaign,
Marr feels that a large-scale Funeral March for the Hunted could just be
the final push needed to send the seal hunt to the abyss.
According to the above, Marr has determined to execute
Funeral March for the Hunted 2005 from the Capitol building in Washington
DC to the United Nations Headquarters in New York City, via Baltimore,
Wilmington, Philadelphia, Trenton, Princeton and Newark, to generate
maximum national and international coverage of the issue. The departure
date has been set for March 15, to coincide with the HSUS’s continental
day of protest. The duration depends on the amount of speaking engagements
enroute. He will be carrying a Canadian flag with a ban-sign superimposed
on the maple leaf.
Anthony Marr will be inviting activists to join him on
the March, in whole or part, each carrying a sign or banner of his/her own
making.
He will also explore the possibility of organizing many
simultaneous marches across the land. This organizing effort would not be
too difficult, given the existence of the Global Anti-Hunting Coalition
which Marr formed on his 38-states-in-7.5-months Compassion for Animals
Road Expedition CARE tour – see
http://www.hope-care.org/ .
More than awareness-raising and action-generating (e.g.
boycotting Canadian fisheries products and tourism), this is also a
fund-raising event, to further advance Anthony Marr’s effort to protect
the seals in particular and wildlife in general (e.g. seals, Bengal
tigers, grizzly bears, whales, dolphins, etc. - see
http://www.hope-care.org/ ). We ask that you make a
generous pledge or donation for this march.
Further, please forward this email in its entirety to
your friends and email-list contacts.
“I’ll be 61 when
the March starts. I want to put my legs to some positive use while they
still work,” said Anthony Marr.
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2005-05
TERMINATE-THE-SEAL-HUNT
CAMPAIGN TOUR
WEST
Here at
Healing Earth Sat. May 28th!
End the Canadian Seal Hunt Presentation
with author Anthony Marr Heal Our
Planet Earth (HOPE)
Compassion for Animals Road
Expeditions (CARE)
Saturday, May 28,
5:00 – 7:00, Free Event at Healing Earth
Terminate-the-Seal-Hunt Campaign Tour West
Strategy and Tactics
Anthony Marr's 90-day
Terminate-the-Seal-Hunt Campaign Tour West will be launched on May 13,
2005, Friday. (He is anti-superstition and a champion of the underdog,
including the number 13.) His state-by-state itinerary is as follows: AB,
SK, MB, MN, WI, IL, MO, AR, LA, TX, OK, NM, CO, UT, AZ, NV, CA, OR and WA.
He has almost
single-handedly and without financial aid organized the tour up to this
point, and has been successful in booking over 30 events for the first
half of his 90-day itinerary from May 15 to August 15. But once on the
road, he will need an anchor-person or two to continue developing the
latter half of the tour to bring out its full potential, and some
financial infusion to fill his gas tank
The major cities with events firmly set so far include Edmonton,
Minneapolis, Madison, Milwaukee, Chicago, Houston, Dallas/Fort Worth,
Denver, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco,
some with more than one event - 35 events in all to date. There are about
20 events still in the works, and Anthony would like to see a total of at
least 60 events for the entire tour, in addition to the AR2005 National
Conference in Los Angeles, July 7-11, in which. he will be a major
speaker. California, especially, is a state with huge potential, that has
yet to be even a quarter realized.
His strategy differs markedly from those currently being employed. He
believes that just as the Canadian government needs more than
demonstrations and letter-writing, but an overwhelming economic boycott,
to be brought to its knees, so do the seafood merchants need more than
talks of cruelty and compassion to be brought onboard the boycott. He
believes that the seafood merchants too, being by and large
profit-motivated, would respond most readily to economic impetus as well,
both positive and negative. In other words, consumer favoritism for those
merchants that join the boycott against Canadian seafood, and a consumer
boycott against those merchants who do not. The carrot-and-stick approach,
as it were.
Anthony tactics is as follows:
1. He will work with the AR groups of at least ten major cities to
vigorously petition seafood consumers to boycott Canadian seafood. The
target is 5% of the population within 6 months. For a city of 1 million
population, we will aim for 50,000 signatures. The petition period will
span July 1 through December 31, 2005. This is about the same as
petitioning to kick start a referendum initiative. With due diligence, it
is achievable.
2. The signers will be urged to patronize only those seafood outlets that
have joined the Canadian seafood boycott, and to shun those that have not.
3. While on tour, Anthony will hold meetings with the leading seafood
outlets and restaurants of these cities to inform them of this fact, and
to have them each sign a declaration pledging to not stock, sell or serve
Canadian seafood. After his departure, the hosting AR group(s) will
continue with this effort, untill all the significant seafood outlets have
been contacted. It will be impressed upon these merchants that 50,000
potential customers (for a city of 1 million) will patronize them if they
sign the declaration, or shun them if they don not. Anthony believes that
this is the most powerful motivation for them to join the boycott against
Canada.
4. Carmen Crosland (age 14), President of Youth Against Animal Abuse (YAAA),
will establish and display a webpage on her website
www.YAAAonline.org (pending) of all the seafood merchants that have signed
the declaration. This database will likewise appear on Anthony's website
www.HOPE-CARE.org.
5. Both www.HOPE-CARE.org and www.YAAAonline.org will provide E-petitions
to aid this drive. Anthony will also help other groups to establish an
E-petition page on their own websites.
6. Come the new year, Anthony and Carmen, together with all the AR groups
participating in this project, will jointly present the consumer petitions
and merchant declarations to the Canadian government, as well as to
Canadian, American and world media.
7. Come the new year, Anthony will launch his Terminate-the-Seal-Hunt
Campaign Tour East, with the same aim. If the petition targets are met,
the ten cities (or more), each averaging, say, 1 million population, will
have accumulated 500,000 signatures in total, and dozens of mechant
declarations, each worth thousands of consumer signatures. If each
consumer foregoes $50 of Canadian seafood a year, the economic loss to the
Canadian seafood industry would be $25 million, exceeding the $15 million
revenue from the seal hunt industry by $10 million.
The ten cities will serve only as a demonstration of the power of the
boycott. If the Canadian government still does not succumb, we will
proceed with more cities. In a full scale assault involving, say, 100
cities of 1 million population each, there will be 5 million consumers
pledging to not purchase or consume Canadian seafood, causing an economic
loss of $250 million to the Canadian economy. This will make the word
"overwhelming" seem like the understatement of the century.
Anthony has
tried hard with major anti-sealing groups for some financial assistance
for this project. Many have shown interest, but none have been
forth-coming with the first campaign dollar, so now he is appealing to
grassroots support, in both volunteer and financial terms. Please contact
him at [email protected] and/or phone 604-222-1169 or toll-free
1-866-822-1169. He is driving out on a near-empty gas tank, but he is
committed to the project, and will start driving as of May 13, Friday.
The Chinese have a saying. "Let those with the effort come up with the
effort, and those with the funds come out with the funds, and the project
shall be successful."
So let's get together and get it done!
Contact: Anthony Marr
Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE)
Compassion for Animals Road Expeditions (CARE)
www.HOPE-CARE.org,
www.Omni-Science.org
[email protected]
604-222-1169, toll free 1-866-822-1169
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Youth
Against
Animal
Abuse
where all creatures are treated kindly
www.YAAAonline.org
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Anthony Marr's
Seal & Dolphin Tour 2005
Below is the itinerary for Anthony Marr's Seal & Dolphin Tour for
2005. Specific details at different stopovers can be viewed as they
become available by clicking on the 'details' links. Please remember
to encourage your friends to sign our
seal petition.
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Wednesday, June
1st, 2005 - Today's guests:
Anthony Marr Founder of Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE) - Animal activist on
the slaughter of baby seals and his campaign to get America to boycott
Canadian seafood in protest of the massacre.
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2005-05
Fish boycott to save seals
NEW
YORK CITY––Legal Seafoods, a 31-restaurant chain with anchor franchises in
New York City and Boston, on May 9 joined Tavern-on-the-Green in Central
Park and the 168-store Whole Foods Market chain in endorsing a boycott of
Atlantic Canada seafood called by the Humane Society of the U.S. in
protest against the Atlantic Canadian seal hunt.
The boycott targets snow crabs, lobsters. shrimp, mussels, and ground
fish.
The Legal Seafoods announcement coincided with the arrival in New York
City of Canadian ambassador Frank McKenna, who was to make several
prominent appearances.
While HSUS is promoting the boycott through a media strategy,
Anthony Marr of Vancouver, British Columbia,
on May 13 set out on a 90-day “Terminate the Seal Hunt Campaign Tour” of
the western U.S. and Canada. Pushing the boycott through personal
persuasion and petitioning, Marr said he had 35 speaking engagements
already booked, with about 20 more still being finalized.
“Carmen Crosland, age 14, president of Youth Against Animal Abuse, will
display a web page at <www.YAAAonline.org>
of all the seafood merchants” who join the boycott, Marr said. Marr will
also post the list at his own campaign web site, <www.HOPE-CARE.org>,
and welcomes pledges and inquiries about his itinerary at either <[email protected]>
or 604-222-1169.
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2005-03-12
WSPA announces:
Kelowna Rally
Time: Saturday, March 12th, 11:00am
Location: Kirschner St., Kelowna, B.C.
(office of MP Werner Schmidt)
Sponsored by: YAAA (Youth Against Animal
Abuse) and
TRACS (The Responsible
Animal Care Society)
Contact: Carmen or Sinikka Crosland,
250-768-4803 or email [email protected]
What's planned? Led by YAAA (Youth Against
Animal Abuse) and wildlife campaigner Anthony Marr, marchers for the seals
will meet at the office of MP Werner Schmidt and proceed to walk to
downtown Kelowna and back again, for a total of 7 km. YAAA members will be
collecting signatures on anti-seal hunt postcards, which they will present
to the federal government. They have requested a meeting with MP Werner
Schmidt and MP Stockwell Day. A motorcade is also planned from Kelowna to
Penticton, following the march.
For more info:
mailto:[email protected]
* * *
From: Anthony Marr
To other members
of anti-hunting group
Sent: Tuesday, May 20, 2003 3:45 PM
Subject: West Coast COMMERCIAL seal hunt on Rafe Mair show May 27,
Tuesday, 9-9:30 a.m.
The proposed West Coast COMMERCIAL seal hunt will be the hot topic between
9 and 9:30 a.m. next Tuesday, May 27, on the BC-hottest Rafe Mair show.
It will be broadcast throughout the province.
It is a hot topic because the Haida First Nation at the Queen Charlotte
Islands is vigorously pushing for it, and they have three politicians to
do the pushing for them.
As well as hereditary chief Roy Jones himself. He has been on media
quite vigorously of late - CTV earlier this month, CKNW yesterday, and
will also be on this Rafe Mair show.
Dallas Brodie, Mair's prograam manager, called me yesterday morning about
15 minutes before Roy Jones was about to come on, and offered to call me
for a rebuttal. I did my little part, but could not help but notice
how many native people and prohunting people plugged up the phone-lines.
Obviously, Jones did his organizing before he came on air.
So, here is what I am writing this notice for. There is no doubt
that Jones and his cohorts will do the same thing over again next Tuesday.
If we don't do the same or better, the public will get a stilted view.
The phone numbers are: 604-331-2711 local, and toll-free 1-877-399-9898.
The show will start at about 9:05 right after the news.
Second thing I would like some help in is that I will be in the hot seat
against Jones. If anyone has any dynamite relevant info I'm not
aware of, and any crushing point to make that I may not have thought of,
please email them my way -
[email protected].
We must snip this thing in the bud. We simply cannot allow this hunt
to happen.
Anthony Marr
604-222-1169
* * *
2005-06-08
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: June 8, 2005
Contact: Kathy Landry
832.385.1085 [email protected]
Michol Rantschler 281.787.7436
[email protected]
Animal Activists
Lead Funeral Procession for Slaughtered Baby Seals
Motorcade from
Houston to Dallas to mark this year’s dead, lined up 270 miles
along I-45
A funeral
procession at least a dozen cars long, adorned with massive banners,
posters and graffiti will travel around Houston and to and around Dallas
Thursday, stopping at the Canadian Consulates in both cities to tell
Canada, “Stop the Massacre of Baby Seals!”
What: Funeral
Procession for Baby Seals
When: Starting
at 9:40 a.m. Thursday, June 9
Where: Begins at
419 Lovett Blvd, traveling around Houston, with a stop at the
Canadian
Consulate at 11 a.m., and on to Dallas
Renowned Canadian wildlife preservationist
Anthony Marr,
who is traveling the country to help end the seal massacre, will lead the
procession. Houston-based In Solidarity with Animals (ISWA) and
Dallas-based Animal Connection of Texas (ACT) have teamed up with Marr to
be sure Houston, Dallas and everywhere between is aware of the seal hunt,
the largest and most egregious commercial slaughter of marine mammals in
the world.
“Even though the vast majority of our citizens desire an
end to the bloody, despicable seal massacre, our Canadian government has
refused to stop it,” said Marr, . “We’re turning to the American public
and merchants to step in with their power as consumers. Americans can save
millions of defenseless seal pups from this cruel fate by refusing to
support the powerful fishing industry that has our government in its
pocket.”
So far this year, the Canadian Government has allowed
317,672 harp seals to be shot, stabbed, or clubbed to death; nearly one
million have been killed in the past three years. About 99.5 percent of
the seals were less than a month old. A panel of international
veterinarians who studied the commercial seal hunt concluded up to 42
percent of the seals they examined were likely skinned alive while fully
conscious.
The last time this many seals were killed, in the 1950s,
the harp seal population was driven to near-extinction.
Sealing is an off-season activity conducted by
commercial fishermen from Canada’s East Coast. They make, on average, one
twentieth of their incomes from sealing – the rest from commercial
fisheries.
Canadian seafood exports to the United States, in
particular, are worth over 3 billion dollars annually to the Canadian
economy, dwarfing the few million dollars from the seal hunt.
Marr, ISWA and ACT have joined a global campaign to end
the hunt that involves groups in 27 countries, including the Humane Society of the United
States, to effect a collective and sustained boycott of Canadian seafood until the hunt ends.
Whole Foods Market and several other major merchants
have already joined the boycott. Marr has personally met with local
merchants and restaurants on his tour; many have signed a declaration
pledging not to stock, sell or serve Canadian seafood until the Canadian
seal hunt is banned.
Marr’s campaign tour has two halves. The current western
half includes, in chronological sequence, MN, WI, IL, MO, AR, LA, TX, OK,
NM, CO, UT, AZ, NV, CA, OR and WA.
For more information, please visit
www.InSolidaritywithAnimals.com, www.hope-care.org or www.protectseals.com.
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2005-06-18
Commentary from
Captain Paul Watson
Well, it
did not take long. It’s getting to the point that being a
conservationist automatically makes a person a racist. Now it
appears it is racist to defend sharks. What is even more amazing
is that some people consider it a form of “Western cultural
imperialism” to criticize Disneyland in Hong Kong.
I’ve been called a racist for defending whales,
seals, fish and trees, for speaking out about human
over-population and for defending elephants. So I guess it is not
surprising to now be called a racist for defending sharks.
Let me see, for defending whales we are
anti-Japanese, anti-Norwegian, anti-Icelandic and anti-Native
American. For defending seals we are anti-Canadian, anti-Norwegian
and anti-Namibian. For defending trees we are anti-Hispanic and
anti Native American oh yes and anti-working class. It appears
that loggers who make four times the average income of an
environmental activist are workers and the lower paid activists
are viewed as wealthy. You see when you work without pay because
you know; you feel that the entire future of the planet is at
stake, this is viewed as a luxury. In other words environmental
activists have the luxury of sleeping in trees and not owning a
home, a car or recreational vehicles.
Anyways back to being a racist for saving
sharks.
I was sent a response from a man named Hsing Lee
who believes that the entire campaign to stop people from eating
shark fin soup is motivated by anti-Chinese passions.
I guess that’s why we are opposing Disneyland.
Lee apparently believes that it is part of the traditional Chinese
culture for Chinese couples to have Disney character fantasy
weddings where traditional shark fin soup is served.
Never mind that Disneyland has now become a
Mousewich for sharks and that a hundred million of them are being
cruelly slaughtered to provide trinkets, and expensive, tasteless
status symbol bowls of soup. A hundred million sentient creatures
a year massacred for non-nutritive purposes, slaughtered for
vanity and justified by culture.
It’s a holocaust for sharks including those
killed for the Mouseshirted eco-fascists at Disneyland Hong Kong
but Lee is blind to the plight of the sharks and most likely he is
as apathetic about the health of the oceans as well.
This is his protest:
You have some Western prejudice in play here on
your part.
The medicinal properties of sharks fin soup are
well known, and it’s been used as food and medicine for thousands
of years. It’s as traditional a dish as steak and potatoes. Would
you prefer that we Chinese give up our culture and identity and
conform to Western diet, medicine, and language? It’s not Chinese
medicine that brought the world Heroin or Vicodin or Oxycontin or
Vioxxx, all of which are infinitely worse for people than a
shark’s fin. And I can testify first hand to the medicinal
qualities of shark’s fin soup. It really does make you stronger,
more virile, and gives you a more adaptable immune system. You
fight off sickness faster when you drink it. And unlike Westerners
and their whale killing for ambergris, we Chinese actually put the
rest of the shark on people’s dinner tables. We even use the
highly elastic bone and tendon. There is no wastage unless the
shark is one of a handful of breeds that can be toxic.
The tone of this entire article (referring to
the article in the Herald Tribune and the New York Times) is
ignorant, racist, and just more China and Chinese bashing by a
bunch of fucking Nazi crackers who think only Western ways are
good or proper and everyone else is immoral.
Hsing Lee makes quite a few factual errors in
his protest. It was China that actually introduced opium to the
West and heroin is an extract of opium. There are no Western
whalers hunting whales for Ambergris which comes only from the
Sperm whale and the only nation hunting Sperm whales is Japan.
There is no scientific validity to the claims that shark fin is a
health benefit. It is not true that the Chinese use all parts of
the shark. 90% of shark fins come from sharks where the body has
been discarded. Shark fin is not as traditional dish in China as
steak and potatoes is for Westerners for the simple reason that
the cost of between $100 and $400 per bowl makes it a restricted
dish available only to the wealthy.
I sent the following reply to Hsing Lee.
To Hsing Lee,
I don’t fall for the racist guilt crap.
The fact is that sharks are being seriously
diminished and a major reason for it is the Asian demand for shark
fin soup. My opposition to shark-finning has nothing to do with
any prejudice towards Chinese culture. On the contrary my one
child is half Chinese and I have quite a few Chinese in-laws, all
of whom are opposed to shark fin soup by the way.
Anthony Marr,
is a Vancouver Chinese activist, originally from China and a
dedicated activist against shark finning.
There is not a shred of scientific evidence to
demonstrate any medicinal benefits of shark fins or shark
cartilage. I have interviewed reputable Chinese medical
practioneers who have told me that there is no validity to these
claims.
And even if there were valid claims, the
destruction of the world’s sharks is not worth the benefits.
No one is asking the Chinese to give up their
culture. We are asking people to be ecologically responsible and
sensitive to the fact that shark species have been diminished in
all species from 60% up to 95%. Basking shark’s Tiger sharks,
White sharks and Whale sharks have been especially hit.
Last year, I found 100 plus Silky sharks
entangled and dead in a net that was caught on the rocks a hundred
feet down off the World Heritage Site of Malpelo Island, Colombia.
What right do the Hong Kong Shark Fin merchants have to rob
Colombia of its natural treasures?
Every year I haul hundreds of miles of illegally
set long lines from the oceans and intercept poachers with cargos
of shark fins.
What right does Hong Kong have to plunder the
world’s oceans for the benefit of so called Chinese culture. The
answer is they have no right at all.
Have we descended so low that we are now using
culture to defend the extermination of species? Has it come to
this that defenders of endangered species and protectors of
oceanic eco-systems are to be called racist for practicing,
promoting and enforcing conservation?
Your accusation that Westerners are killing
whales for Ambergris is way out of date. Whales have not been
killed for Ambergris for over a century and the only commercial
whale killers in the world today are the Japanese, the Norwegians
and the Icelanders and we oppose them all regardless of their race
or culture.
You have the audacity to say there is no wastage
when it is a fact that only 4% of a shark’s body is utilized by
the shark fin industry and the rest is thrown away.
Just last week, a San Diego court found a Hong
Kong company guilty of possessing nearly 70,000 pounds of shark
fins without utilizing the remaining 96% of the bodies. This
represents between 18,000 and 22,000 sharks.
It is a fact that over 100 million sharks are
being slaughtered each year and a great majority of this slaughter
is to provide shark fins for tasteless, non-nutritive, expensive
superstitious soup meant to impress family and friends as a status
symbol.
It is your remarks which are ignorant and
racist. The fact is that there are many Chinese who are speaking
out against shark finning. We have Chinese celebrities like
Michele Yeoh and Jackie Chan who have spoken out against it. We
have Chinese volunteers working on stopping the consumption of
shark fins. You are using race to cover up your support for a
product which is causing incredible ecological damage to oceanic
eco-systems. You are hiding behind race because you do not have
the facts to back up your ridiculous belief that shark fin soup is
a benefit to health.
In doing so you also expose your own racism by
labeling any person who is opposed to the massive slaughter of
sharks as a Nazi. Talk about unoriginal name calling.
I have always found it despicable for people to
use their race, their sex or their culture to cover up crimes and
the slaughter of sharks is a crime against nature and it is a
crime under international and national laws.
I find the Chinese to be no better or no worse
than every other mis-guided anthropocentric nature abusing
hominids anywhere. We are all on the same spaceship Hsing.
As far as I am concerned there is only one race
and that is the human race and ecologically speaking the entire
race is predominantly ignorant, destructive and suicidal.
The campaign against shark finning has nothing
to do with race and culture and everything to do with the
conservation of important species that fulfill valuable niches
within oceanic ecological systems.
Captain Paul Watson
I also received an e-mail from a man
named Eugene Ahn in response to one of my quotes in the New York
Times.
Eugene wrote:
“They say it’s cultural. Does that mean
Disneyland in Japan is now going to be having whale burgers?”
asked Paul Watson, the founder and president of the Sea Shepherd
Conservation Society, in Friday Harbor, Wash.
This is the lamest and laziest attempt at
supporting the cause against shark hunting I’ve ever heard. Have
the Japanese been eating whale burgers for hundreds of years? Have
they even been eating burgers for hundreds of years? Your cultural
ignorance is bewildering.
Next time, please make sense.
Thanks,
Eugene Ahn
My answer to Eugene was:
My reference to whale burgers marries the idea
of a Western company like Disney incorporating local cultural for
profit. I find it amazing that saving sharks is viewed by some as
“cultural imperialism” yet Disney character fantasy marriages, and
the entire Disney Americanization of local culture is embraced.
The Japanese in fact say they have been eating
whale meat for hundreds of years. My cultural ignorance may be
bewildering but your ecological ignorance is despicable and as far
as I am concerned ecology trumps culture any day.
Paul Watson
There may be many who disagree with me but the
rights of a species to survive on this planet take absolute
precedence over the “rights” of a cultural practice or tradition
by groups of humans.
The Chinese may very well have eaten shark fin
for centuries but there are now more Chinese people than there are
sharks in the sea and we are killing them at a rate of a hundred
million a year.
The Chinese tradition of binding the feet of
women has been abandoned because the rights of women takes
precedence over the tradition of foot-binding.
And the rights of the sharks to survive and to
not be subjected to the cruelty of finning must take precedence
over the tradition of eating shark fin soup.
The criticism that opposition to the consumption
of sharks is western imperialism and ethnocentric is ridiculous.
We oppose the Canadian seal hunt and I am a Canadian. We oppose
whaling, sealing, illegal fishing by any people regardless of
race, culture or religious beliefs. The Sea Shepherd Conservation
Society is 100% colour blind when it comes to these issues and
criticism to the contrary is based on selective discrimination of
our campaigns. We probably have a campaign to offend anyone at
some time.
But the offense works both ways. >From the point
of view of a shark, the violation is extremists and violent and
the perpetrators, those who slaughter and consume the shark have
displayed an arrogant insensitivity to their welfare and survival
both as individual sentient creatures and as species.
Can wholesale slaughter and extinction be
justified by the cultural desire to eat a bowl of soup?
Is my respect for and concern for the survival
of sharks worthy of less respect than a person who desires to harm
them?
I have swam with sharks, with hammerheads,
silkys, Galapagos, whitetip, blacktip, nurse, blue, thresher,
whale, basking, dogfish, giant mantas, tigers, makos and great
whites. I found them to be creatures of grace and beauty and the
thrill of seeing them in the wild, of swimming with them is a far
more stimulating and exciting experience than slurping down their
boiled fins in a broth at some wedding banquet.
What many people do not see is that our violent
invasion of the oceans is a form of imperialism. It is hominid
imperialism and the culture of the sharks is being torn apart as
these incredible animals are massacred for vanity purposes.
The shark is an essential species in maintaining
the health of oceanic eco-systems and especially of ocean reef
communities.
Should we accept the diminishment of the health
of the oceans for a bowl of soup and justify it because it is a
“cultural” dish?
I think not.
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2005-05
Voice for
Animals Society and
Vegetarians of
Alberta Society
Ban the
Commercial Seal Hunt Presentation
Guest speaker:
Anthony Marr, world renowned Canadian
environmentalist and wildlife advocate
Voice for Animals Society and Vegetarians of Alberta Society will be
co-hosting Anthony Marr's "Terminate the Seal Hunt Campaign Tour".
The purpose of the tour is to increase awareness of the cruelty behind the
Canadian seal hunt and the Japanese dolphin slaughter. Its aim is
also to raise support for and participation in a global Canadian seafood
boycott.
"Know Thy Enemy" - a fast paced, visually stunning PowerPoint
presentation - will show the Japanese dolphin slaughter at Futo and Taiji
and ending with the brutal Canadian seal hunt. Its powerful images
are a call to action - to help end the shameful annual
Canadian seal hunt.
When: Sunday, May 15, 2005
Where: Riverdale Hall, 9231 - 100 Avenue
Potluck Dinner: 5:30 pm
Presentation: 6:30 pm (free of charge)
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2005-06-13
Go Vegan Texas! on KPFT
Janice Blue
bluevegan at earthlink.net
Mon Jun 13 07:33:48 PDT 2005
In Solidarity With Animals
on Today's Show
...
Anthony Marr
wildlife
preservationist
traveling the country to help end the Canadian seal
massacre
& raise awareness about Japan's dolphin & whale
slaughter
"Even though the majority of our Canadian citizens desire an end to
the bloody, despicable seal massacre, our government has refused to stop
it. We¹re turning to the American public and merchants to step in
with their power as consumers. Americans can save millions of
defenseless seal pups from this cruel fate by refusing to support the
powerful fishing industry that has our government in its pocket."
--- Anthony Marr, Canadian wildlife preservationist
"As responsible consumers and compassionate world citizens, we can prevent
the inhumane death of hundreds of thousands of seals and dolphins in two
massive hunts currently in progress. Together we can end the
suffering, and create a responsible partnership with animals."
--- Kathy Landry, Marine Mammal Campaign
Coordinator, In Solidarity With Animals
Renowned Canadian wildlife preservationist
Anthony Marr, traveling thecountry to help raise awareness and
end the seal massacre in Canada,brought his one man campaign to
Texas this week. He led a funeralmotorcade procession on Thursday
with members of Houston-based In Solidarity with Animals (ISWA) and
Dallas-based Animal Connection of Texas(ACT) who teamed up with Marr to be
sure Houston, Dallas and points between are aware of the seal hunt, the
largest and most egregious commercial slaughter of marine mammals in the
world.
The motorcade from Houston to Dallas marked this year¹s baby seal dead
count of nearly 325,000, if the pups were lined up head to toe,
their bodies would span the 270 mile distance along I-45 between these two
Texas cities.
A funeral procession with at least a dozen cars long, adorned with massive
banners, posters and graffiti traveled around Houston and to and around
Dallas Thursday, stopping at the Canadian Consulates in both cities to
tell Canada, ³Stop the Massacre of Baby Seals!²
So far this year, the Canadian Government has allowed 317,672 harp seals
to be shot, stabbed, or clubbed to death; nearly one million have been
killed in the past three years. About 99.5 percent of the seals were less
than a month old. A panel of international veterinarians who studied
the commercial seal hunt concluded up to 42 percent of the seals they
examined were likely skinned alive while fully conscious. The last time
this many seals were killed, in the 1950s, the harp seal population was
driven to near-extinction.
Marr, ISWA and ACT have joined a global campaign to end the hunt that
involves groups in 27 countries, including the Humane Society of the
United States and Sea Shepherd, to effect a collective and sustained
boycott of Canadian seafood until the hunt ends.
Whole Foods Market and several other major merchants have already joined
the boycott. Marr has personally met with local merchants and
restaurants on his tour; many have signed a declaration pledging not to
stock, sell or serve Canadian seafood until the Canadian seal hunt is
banned.
Anthony is calling on a boycott of all goods and travel to his country.
While in Houston last week, he also gave a teach at the First
Unitarian
Church and showed graphic slides and video of the dophin and whale
massacre in Japan which he witnessed last fall.
He has traveled throughout the world to execute various conservation
projects on Bottlenose dolphins, Harp seals, the Grey whale, Tigers, &
Grizzly bears. He also conducts an extensive educational
outreach
programs. His [Tigers Forever] slideshow has been presented to
over
150,000 students on three continents.
Michol Rantschler, co director of In Solidarity with Animals (ISWA) and
Kathy Landry, Marine Mammals Coordinator, In Solidarity with
Animals, will co host today's show and Vivian Farrell, founder and
president of the Houston-based International Fund for Horses will
share with us some late breaking great news! about the campaign to end
horse slaughter.
Thank you for listening with an open mind and heart this morning to
Go
Vegan Texas! on Pacifica Radio/ KPFT.
Janice Blue
Host, Go Vegan Texas!
Every Monday at 11am (CDT)
On Pacifica Radio
KPFT, 90.1 FM - Houston and 89.5 FM - Galveston
Listen Live on www.GoVeganTexas.org
(Just Wiggle the Cow's Ears)
Or later on
http://www.kpftx.org/archives/kpftsignal
Contact Info on Today's Guests/Co Hosts:
Anthony Marr
http://www.hope-care.org/
http://www.protectseals.com/
The Heal Our Planet Earth Global Environmental Organization, of
which he is the founder and President, is based in Vancouver, British
Columbia.
Michol Rantshler
co director, In Soldarity with Animals.com
Kathy Landry,
Marine Mammals Coordinator, In Solidarity with Animals
http://www.insolidaritywithanimals.com/
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2005-06-25
Utah Animal
Rights Coalition
Anthony Marr of
the HOPE-CARE foundation, as part of
his 90-day Terminate-the-Seal-Hunt Campaign Tour West will be
presenting Know Thy Enemy, followed by a presentation and
discussion of the Canadian Seal
Hunt. 2:00 pm at the Salt Lake City Public Library in the fourth floor
meeting room
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2005-07
Animal Rights National Conference 2005
(AR2005)
Compassion into
Action -
Sat. 7:45
Individuals turning
dream of animal liberation into reality
.
Eric Marcus
Author:
Meat Market
- Pragmatism
- Henry Spira
- Incremental change vs. all-or-nothing
- Vegan Outreach
- Better rhetoric
- Three-pronged approach a disaster
- Credibility and persuasiveness
- Goal-oriented
- We must create more lifelong opponents of the meat industry
- Three pronged approach works poorly for this
- Our main objections to animal agriculture typically go unstated
- We need a concise and accurate argument that turns people against
animal agriculture
Anthony Marr
HOPE-CARE
Foundation
In his new book Rafe — A Memoir,
pre-eminent Canadian talk show host Rafe Mair wrote, "Anthony Marr had
spent his working life doing very routine, capitalistic sorts of things,
including mining and real estate. At 50, some sort of light fired up in
his belly, and he decided to spend the rest of his life saving animals,
especially from institutionalized cruelty." His campaigns have included
Chinatown undercover (throughout N. America), anti-trophy-hunting
("highest profile Canadian AR campaign in 1996"), anti-whaling,
anti-sealing, Bengal tiger preservation (led three deep-rural-India
expeditions), educational outreach (presentations to over 150,000
students) and lecture/campaign road touring (e.g. the
40-states-in-7-months Compassion for Animals Road Expedition — CARE). Mair
further wrote, "Anthony has forced me to ask myself about my life-long
love of angling… That’s the trouble with real heroes. They make you
confront yourself and that isn't always a whole lot of fun."
Jill Robinson,
MBE
Animals Asia
Foundation
Born in the UK, Jill Robinson arrived in Hong Kong in 1985 and spent
the next 12 years working in Asia as a Consultant for the International
Fund for Animal Welfare. Repeatedly faced with scenes of widespread animal
cruelty, Jill decided to introduce the concept of "animal welfare through
people welfare" and founded "Dr. Dog" in Hong Kong in 1991 - the first
animal therapy programme of its kind in Asia. Today, over 300 dogs and
their dedicated volunteers make regular visits to hospitals, disabled
centres, schools and elderly homes in 6 countries across Asia, spreading
warmth and love to people in need, whilst promoting companion animals as
our friends and helpers.
In 1993 a chance visit to a bear farm in southern China changed Jill's
life. Exposing the plight of endangered Asiatic Black Bears cruelly
farmed, and milked, for their bile, and learning how easily bear bile
could be replaced by herbs and synthetics, Jill embarked on a promise to
end the practice once and for all.
In 1998 she founded the Animals Asia Foundation and in July 2000 she
and the Animals Asia team signed an historic agreement with the Chinese
authorities which would rescue 500 farmed bears and work towards the final
elimination of bear farming. Today, the "China Bear Rescue" has seen the
rescue of nearly 200 bears in China and is also spearheading far-reaching
community, education and welfare programmes across the country which
benefit animals and people alike.
Jill is a member of the Hong Kong government "Animal Welfare Advisory
Group" and on the Board of the Ocean Park "Hong Kong Society for Panda
Conservation." In 1995, Jill was presented with the Readers Digest "Hero
for Today" award and in June 1998 she was awarded an MBE by Queen
Elizabeth in the Birthday Honours List, in recognition of her services to
animal welfare in Asia. In 2002 Jill was presented with the USA Genesis
Award; the only major media and arts award concerning animal issues.
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2005-07-30
In Defense of Animals (IDA)
Portland, OR
Red Lobster, Canadian Seafood,
Clubbing Baby Seals
1) Demo at Red Lobster
We are urging Red Lobster to join a list of businesses that are
boycotting Canadian Seafood until that country places a ban on its seal
hunt. (www.protectseals.org)
When: Saturday, July 30th
Time: 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Where: Red Lobster
8219 NE Vancouver Mall Drive, Vancouver, WA 98662
We have a real treat at this demo because AR activist
Anthony Marr will be joining us. You
can learn more about Anthony at www.HOPE-CARE.org.
2) Animal Rights Activist Anthony Marr is Coming to Portland and asking
IDA Members' Help in the Boycott against Canadian Seafood:
Anthony will be giving a presentation based on his trip to Japan last
year and it will concentrate on Taiji and Futo regarding the dolphin
slaughter and the whale meat industry. This will be followed by a talk
on a new strategy on how to end the Canadian seal hunt.
When: Sunday, July 31st
Where: Old Wives Tales Restaurant Meeting Room
1300 E. Burnside Street, Portland
Time: 6:30 pm
Please join us to find out how we can help this incredible activist
while he's here in our hometown. Let's show Anthony how determined and
dedicated Portlanders really are! For more information on Anthony visit
www.HOPE-CARE.org.
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Anti-hunting activist
and wildlife preservationist
Anthony Marr
on his 3-month
Terminate-The-Seal-Hunt Campaign Tour West
now in Portland to speak Sunday,
July 31st
on a new strategy to end the
Canadian seal massacre
and the
Japanese dolphin slaughter
Anthony Marr one day after assault by hunter
Anthony Marr (www.hope-care.org)
has been on the road continuously since May 13 on his
Terminate-The-Seal-Hunt Campaign Tour West. Now, he is in Portland to
present a new strategy, which will deliver a devastating punch against
the seal hunt (325,000 seals per year), and invite local activists to
join the Grassroots Anti-Seal-Hunt Coalition, which will be a powerful
force to reckon with.
“I have so far signed up animal rights groups in Minneapolis,
Milwaukee, Chicago, St. Louis, Houston, Dallas, Denver, Salt Lake City,
Phoenix, San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco. I hope to sign up a
group or two in Portland. I am already planning the
Terminate-The-Seal-Hunt Campaign Tour East for the fall,” says Anthony.
Anthony was a prominent speaker at the July 7-11 Animal Rights 2005
National Conference in Los Angeles, where he made six speeches,
including one plenary, on Indian tiger preservation, the Japanese
dolphin slaughter and the Canadian seal hunt.
Anthony was in Japan last year to investigate and save dolphins from
the dolphin slaughter (23,000 dolphins a year). He came back with a
stunning PowerPoint presentation titled Know Thy Enemy, which he will
also feature at the Sunday event.
When: Sunday, July 31st
Place: Old Wives Tales Restaurant Meeting Room
1300 E. Burnside, Portland, OR
Time: 6:30 pm
For more info contact: In Defense of Animals, 503-249-9996 or
[email protected]
Anthony Marr’s
“Seal Mobile”
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2005-07-09
An Animal-Friendly Life
AR2005 Diary, Day 2 of 3, Plenary Session III - "Compassion into
Action"
Tonight's plenary was all about
individuals turning a dream of animal liberation into reality. Lawrence
Carter-Long of In Defense of Animals moderated.
Jill Robinson gave an amazing presentation about bear farming. Impossible
to do justice to it in text, but please visit animalsasia.org for more
information you need to know.
Next up came Virgil Butler. I talked a bit about Virgil yesterday, and
most of what he discussed was, of course, brought up when he spoke in
front of the smaller session before. He told up a story about his first
time working at chicken processing facility. He saw a guy pop a chicken's
head off and laugh at the chicken's reaction, telling Virgil that he would
get "used to it." He submerged his response because he needed the work.
When he was finally tired of deceiving his fiancee about what he did at
Tyson, he brought her with him, and her shattered response was how he
realized how ashamed he was about what he did for a living. He was able to
realize that he was a killer, and that he just couldn't do it anymore.
Unlike past experiences, where he walked away and looked for something
else to do. He decided to do something this time, and when he learned
about PETA, he contacted them right when they were doing a campaign on KFC
cruelty. That led to his own personal activism. For those "just joining
us," you can learn more about Virgil at cyberactivist.blogspot.com.
Erik Marcus came next after a rousing ovation for Virgil and Laura. Are we
gaining ground, holding steady, losing ground? There are some great things
happening. It looks like we're gaining ground, until one sees how
many animals are killed for food. Last year we crossed the 10 billion
threshold for the first time. Why are we losing ground.
He thinks our movement has made missteps in a couple of areas, such as our
rhetoric, which isn't often credible, accurate and persuasive as it needs
to be (for instance, the vegan diet is the healthiest ever!!!). Basically,
he took the 3-pronged approach to task as he did in the previous session I
wrote about, and of course in his book. We need to be our own skeptics
(back to the "B.S. detector" he spoke of last time). Arguments hold up
best on ethical grounds. Not to totally deny health and environmental
arguments, but he thinks they cannot bear 2/3 of the load.
He closed on the "dismantlement movement" approach as a force for rapid
change.
The next to final speaker of the plenary was
Anthony Marr (HOPE-CARE Foundation). His first campaign was in
Vancouver's Chinatown and saw all kinds of endangered wild animal
products. He was instrumental in getting laws enacted legislation against
this within four months. In other towns where laws in place weren't being
enforced, he pressured the law to bypass "sensitivity" issues (Anthony is
Chinese himself) to crack down and stop shops from selling these products.
After some other overview he got into the Canadian seafood boycott, and
how it pertains to the seal slaughter.
Michael Mountain of Best Friends (no-kill shelters and related campaigns)
was the final speaker. Learning of Germany's no-kill law and the mores of
other countries, he aspired to do more than just rescue and care for
animals. This led to his campaigns for no-kill shelters. In closing he
relayed an anecdote of hope about how Serbs and Croats and Israelis and
Palestinians were able to, at the end of a day of bloodshed, cooperate to
care for the animals caught up in the humans' strife. Kindness to animals
can build a better world for all of us.
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From:
Anthony Marr
Date: Thu Jul 28, 2005 8:09 am
Subject: New strategy re. Red Lobster
Hi all,
In view of the upcoming Red Lobster Week of Action in September
(Thank you Andrea!), And given Red Lobster's steadfast refusal to join the
boycott, I would like to suggest that we change our message from
"RED LOBSTER, PLEASE JOIN OUR
BOYCOTT AGAINST THE CRUEL CANADIAN SEAL HUNT!" to
"RED LOBSTER SUPPORTS THE CRUEL
CANADIAN
SEAL HUNT! BOYCOTT RED LOBSTER!!"
The new Grassroots Anti-Seal-Hunt Coalition, currently comprising
about a dozen leading AR groups in as many leading mid-western and
western cities, will be making this change in this week of action.
Some, e.g. IDA, have already made this change since the last Red Lobster
demo at the end of July in Portland, Oregon. We feel that Red
Lobster, which boils thousands of lobsters alive everyday, has about as
much compassion as the Canadian government. So if boycotting Canada
is the best strategy regarding Canada, then boycotting Red lobster is the
best strategy regarding Red Lobster.
We hope that we will all give Red Lobster this unmistakable message
in September, in unison, from coast to coast.
Anthony Marr
www.HOPE-CARE.org
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2005-08-19
Hi all,
I received inquiries about my current Terminate
The Seal Hunt
Campaign Tour West, which started on May 13, and will conclude
on
August 5. I have held meetings with the leaders of the grassroots
groups in Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Chicago, St. Louis, Houston, Dallas,
Denver, Salt Lake City, Phoenix, San Diego, Los Angeles and
San Francisco (where I currently am), including the Circle of
Compassion, In Defense of Animals and Last Chance for Animals, and
will hold meetings with groups in Portland and Seattle. A
preliminary Anti-Seal-Hunt Grassroots Coalition has been formed. All
these groups have agreed upon a new strategy toward defeating the
seal hunt, which is different from that currently being used by most
groups.
We all know about the anti-Canadian-seafood boycott. Why the
boycott? Because the Canadian government cannot be moved by
compassion. They can be moved only by economic leverage. Thus
the
boycott.
So far, we have been using compassion to try to move Red Lobster, in
vain. Why? Red Lobster boils alive lobsters by the thousands
every
day. How much compassion does it have? We must now use the
same
economic leverage against Red Lobster, i.e. a boycott.
Following is an example.
Portland will be holding a demo in front to Red Lobster on July 30,
Saturday, in which I will participate. This time, instead of holding
signs saying "RED LOBSTER, PLEASE JOIN THE BOYCOTT AGAINST CANADIAN
CRUELTY", which draws sneers from the management, this time, the signs
will say,
"RED LOBSTER SUPPORTS CANADIAN
CRUELTY. BOYCOTT RED LOBSTER!" And I will personally go inside
the restaurant to speak
with the manager.
If we do this cross the continent, Red Lobster will get the message
and capitulate.
Anthony Marr
www.HOPE-CARE.org
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