Animal Rescue Efforts Slow: PETA calls for government accountability [View All]

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Group campaigns to have the plight of animals included in hearings set to begin Thursday

September 12, 2005, 6 p.m. Update: PETA Team Grows by 10 Members; Congress to Hold Hearings This Thursday

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This Thursday, the House of Representatives Government Reform Committee will hold hearings on the federal government’s response to Katrina. Please ask the committee chair, Rep. Tom Davis, (http://tomdavis.house.gov/davis_contents/center/contactus/) and its ranking minority member, Rep. Henry Waxman, (http://www.waxman.house.gov/contact.htm) to make the plight of animals affected by disasters such as Katrina a part of their hearings. Let these public servants know that the suffering of Americans was only heightened by the federal blockades that prevented humane agents from coming to the animals’ rescue and by evacuators’ widespread insistence that animals be abandoned to die. Tell Davis and Waxman that the United States must set an international example and that animals’ interests and the interests of their guardians must be taken into consideration in any disaster response plan.

PETA also took out a full-page ad in the Washington Post emphasizing the suffering of animals and their human companions during Katrina and its aftermath, and asking for people to contact Congress and President Bush. See the full ad at: http://www.helpinganimals.com/pdfs/petakatrina.pdf.


http://news.bestfriends.org/index.cfm?page=specialreports&catid=04061773-BDB9-396E-9001EF6EC01318A4&mode=entry&entry=4CA535C3-BDB9-396E-9B24432FC2BC81B3&stid=1

Also see this thread from nicknameless...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4742186