News About Animals - November 11, 2010

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November 11, 2010   Urge USDA To Enforce Law Against Cole Brothers Circus IDA is strongly urging the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to act against the Cole Brothers Circus, for its apparent role in an elaborate scheme to evade federal law by helping an animal handler exhibit animals even though his license was revoked by the agency. Since losing his license in 2009 for horrific violations of the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), including animal deaths, a cast of shady characters has been playing a complicated shell game to keep Lance Ramos Kollman illegally in business. The USDA confiscated the elephant Ned from Kollman two years ago, after IDA discovered Ned’s horribly emaciated condition and filed a complaint with the agency. Throughout 2010, the Cole Brothers Circus has been showing a group of nine big cats who were "owned" by Kollman but exhibited (and sometimes purportedly "owned") by a procession of unlicensed and inexperienced individuals, presenting a danger to the public and to the animals. The USDA is seeking to revoke the licenses of the exhibitors who have been helping Kollman, but so far the Cole Brothers Circus (which does not have its own license) has escaped any accountability or responsibility. In fact, this circus has a history of AWA violations and of working with abusive animals handlers. Click here for more information on the Cole Brothers Circus. Help IDA convince the USDA to act against the Cole Brothers Circus for violating the Animal Welfare Act, and to ensure that the agency secures the relinquishment of the tigers used by the circus. Click here to send a quick e-mail to the USDA. Green Your Plate, Green Your Planet, Call To Action For UN Climate Conference Please join IDA, the Veg Climate Alliance, Farm Animal Rights Movement, A Well-Fed World, and AnimaNaturalis, an unprecedented coalition of animal rights and environmental groups, for the first ever Global Grassroots Action to draw attention to the connection between animal agriculture and climate change. This call to action coincides with the U.N. Climate Conference in Cancun, Mexico, November 29 – December 10, 2010. Take action in your city! Click here to see what you can do. Fur Free Friday Is November 26  Join people around the globe in the world's largest annual action for animals abused and killed for their fur. Visit IDA's Fur Free Friday site to see how you can help.  Just in time for Fur Free Friday, a new, hard-hitting documentary, Skin Trade, is available as an activist tool to expose the horrible truth about the fur industry. Click here to view a trailer of this award-winning film. And then contact the director, Shannon Keith, to organize a screening in your community. Skin Trade takes you on a journey from the birth of the fur-as-fashion industry through the current trends, misconceptions, and lies perpetrated upon unknowing consumers. Voices from the underground, celebrities, historians, native Americans, activists, designers, fashion icons and experts weigh in on the current use of fur, asking the question, "Why are animals still being killed for fashion?" IDA's Matt Rossell is featured in the film, talking about his experiences working undercover on a fox farm. Get a glimpse into this hidden and harsh reality Matt witnessed from these Skin Trade clips. For more information about IDA's campaigns to end the cruel fur trade, please contact Matt Rossell or visit our fur web site. Hope Animal Sanctuary Rescues, Finds Homes For 96 Dogs And Cats Hope Animal Sanctuary Director Doll Stanley and volunteer Lisa Martin departed the sanctuary this past Sunday afternoon and proceeded to pick up animals from all over northern Mississippi. In addition to the animals on this transport from Hope Animal Sanctuary and the Winona, Mississippi city shelter, animals from shelters and individual rescuers from Carthage, Clarksdale, Cleveland and Indianola would be part of this journey to new homes - 85 dogs and 11 cats, by far our biggest and most ambitious transport to date. Click here to read more and see photos. Congratulations To Doris Muller, IDA's Latest Guardian Award Winner Doris Muller is co-founder of Peoria Voices for Animals. Her home in West Peoria, Illinois is essentially a shelter and foster home for abandoned dogs, cats, rabbits, and injured or orphaned pigeons, robins, and anyone else in need. She has personally rescued, fostered, nursed to health, and found loving guardians for countless animals. Click here to read more about Doris, our other winners, and our Guardian Campaign.   Order customized holiday cards from CardsDirect and help animals.   Great holiday gift book for kids by actor David Dayan Fisher of NCIS - IDA gets 50 percent of all sales!     'Tis the season for stocking up on anti-fur buttons.    Click here to see what you need to know about the South Korean dog meat markets.    Click to enter our Vegan Activist All Star contest.   This message was sent to sweetygirl2002@uol.com.br In Defense of Animals, located in San Rafael, Calif., is an international animal protection organization with more than 100,000 members and supporters dedicated to ending the abuse and exploitation of animals by protecting their rights and welfare. IDA's efforts include educational events, cruelty investigations, boycotts, grassroots activism, and hands-on rescue through our sanctuaries in Mississippi, Mumbai, India, and Cameroon, Africa. In Defense of Animals is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization. We welcome your feedback and appreciate your donations. Please join today! All donations to IDA are tax-deductible. In Defense of Animals 3010 Kerner, San Rafael, CA 94901 Tel. (415) 448-0048 Fax (415) 454-1031 idainfo@idausa.org To unsubscribe, please click here.

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