AR-News: on-line talk radio today: Premarin & Horse Slaughter; Animals & the Holocaust

[Mary Finelli]

{1}  OUR TREATMENT OF ANIMALS AND THE NAZI HOLOCAUST: A Conversation with 
author Charles Patterson


VEGAN RAINBOW
Co-hosted by Bill Huston ( http://www.vegdot.org ) & Mike Hudak ( 
http://www.mikehudak.com ).

Monday, March 29, 6-7 PM (Eastern Standard Time, 11 p.m. Greenwich)

WHRW-FM (90.5 in Binghamton, NY USA)
Live on the Internet: http://www.whrwfm.org/listenlive.php

Talk live: 607-777-2137

Our guest, Charles Patterson (http://www.excellenteditor.com/), is a 
graduate of Amherst College, Columbia University (from which he received his 
Ph.D.) and the Yad Vashem Institute for Holocaust
Education in Jerusalem.

He is the author of 10 books including "Anti-Semitism: The Road to the 
Holocaust and eyond," "The Civil Rights Movement," and a biography of Marian 
Anderson. His most recent book: "Eternal
Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust" examines the origins 
of views about animals that arguably have led to the industrialized 
slaughter of both animals and people.

--
Mike Hudak, Ph.D., Director
Public Lands Without Livestock
38 Oliver Street
Binghamton, NY 13904-1516

Phone: 607.723.5769
Email: mailto:MikeHudak at stny.rr.com
Web: http://www.mikehudak.com




{2} WHY, OH WHY, WYETH PHARMACEUTICALS ARE YOU ABANDONING YOUR PMU HORSES TO 
THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE?

Stop Premarin! Stop Horse Slaughter!

Go Vegan Texas!
with guests Sinikka Crosland, TRACS, The Responsible Animal Care Society
and Dr. Ray Kellosalmi, family physician and horse rescuer

Today at noon (EST, 5 p.m. Greenwich) 90.1 FM-Houston and 89.5 FM-Galveston

http://www.GoVeganTexas.org or http://www.KPFT.org


"The amount of horses needed (by Wyeth) went from 40,000 to 20,000 
overnight.  With the stroke of a pen, thousands of (PMU) horses became a 
huge drain on the ranchers' time and effort. These are pregnant horses now, 
and the only place they are going to is feed lots, and from there, to 
slaughter." ~ Dr. Ray Kellosami, horse rescuer, Dateline NBC -  January 18, 
2004

"What we are witnessing is yet another bloodbath, this time of PMU mares, 
adding to the annual foal genocide which has taken place for decades. We are 
calling for the drug company, Wyeth, to take responsibility in helping these 
mares so that they are not slaughtered. It is the very least they can do 
after being responsible for these animals being turned into four-legged drug 
machines for over half a century."  ~ Susan Wagner, president, Equine 
Advocates

"It is an expensive process, buying one truckload of Premarin horses (in 
Canada) at a time and bringing them down (to the US)  to be adopted. You 
never say to yourself, I've saved 50 horses.  You always say I had to leave 
50 behind. " ~ Helen Meredith, United Pegasus Foundation, Dateline NBC - 
January  18, 2004

³Wyeth has profited for more than 60 years on the backs of these animals. 
These horses deserve a more fitting end to their Œservice¹ than a feedlot or 
slaughterhouse, which will be the plight for the vast majority of them.² ~ 
Martha Armstrong, Humane Society of the United States

³Over 3,000,000 horses have been slaughtered in the last ten years, most by 
foreign-owned slaughterhouses in the United States and Canada to supply the 
overseas meat market. The PMU industry is a major supplier of this horse 
flesh.²  ~United Animal Nations


Wyeth Labs made the stunning announcement a few months ago to cancel 
contracts with many ranchers in Canada whose horses provide the 
pharmaceutical giant with Pregnant Mares Urine (PMU) for Premarin,  the 
world's most widely prescribed drug.

With the decreased demand for Premarin, once  disturbing health consequences 
to women were announced in a 2003 NIH study, there was a great need to find 
homes for the thousands of horses that were no longer being needed for the 
production of Premarin.

We will discuss what this cutback means for both the tortured horses who 
spent most of their lives restrained in small stalls to collect their urine 
and for menopausal women who face great health risks from taking this drug  
... this morning with our guests, Dr. Ray Kellosalmi a family practioner and 
horse rescurer, and his sister, Sinikka Crosland, a registered nurse, both 
living in British Columbia, both animal rights activists.

Dr. Kellosalmi s known around the world as the "Horse Rescurer" because he 
purchases mares and foals at auction in Canada where most of the Premarin 
farms are located, saves as many as possible from the slaughter house 
buyers, and keeps them in his horse sanctuary until he finds suitable homes 
for them.

Sinikka is the  president and co founder of TRACS, The Responsible Animal 
Care Society, an acttive member of the Women's Health and Ethics Coalition 
and has an animal sanctuary for a wide variety of animals, including two 
horses, one a PMU which Dr. Ray outbid killer buyers for at a recent 
auction.

They are returning to Go Vegan Texas! today for an UPDATE on the ongoing 
campaign with Wyeth Labs to take responsibility for their PMU horses.  
Vivian Farrell President of Houston-based The Fund for Horses, a horse 
protection organization, and a member of the Go Vegan Texas! Collective's 
Committee on Animal Rights, will guest host this week's show

So tune in this morning to Go Vegan Texas! at 11am (CST) to KPFT.


Thank you,
Janice Blue
Host, Go Vegan Texas!
Mondays at 11am (CST)
on Pacifica Radio, KPFT-Houston and Galveston
Listen Live on www.govegantexas.org or
Later on www.kpftarchive.org

Every animal you eat
Was running for her life
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Show Compassion, Go Vegan!


Listen Live on www.GovVeganTexas.org

Or later on www.KPFTarchive.org

Contact Information on Today's Guest & Co-Host:

Vivian Farrell
For Fund for Horses and Horseshoes 4 Congress Campaign: 
htttp://www.fund4horses.org

Sinikka Crosland and Dr. Ray Kellosalmi: tracs at shaw.ca

For more information on the Wyeth campaign, go to: http://www.stopwyeth.org

AR Programming Schedule (Ch 17)- April

Here is the HMS - Houston Media Source (Ch 17) Schedule for Animal Rights 
Programming on the Air for the month of April.

Check their website  for additions or changes:
http://www.houston-mediasource.org/program.html

Mar 29  MON "Abusing Our Cousins- Treatment of Primates"   7:00 PM
Mar 31  WED "Paul Watson / Sea Shepherds" (30 MIN)          7:30 PM
Apr   1   THU "Gentle Barn"  (1 HR)                                    2:30 
PM
Apr   8  THU "Abusing Our Cousins- Primates"  (1 HR)          11:00 PM
Apr 10  SAT  "Paul Watson / Sea Shepherds" (30 MIN)        11:00 AM
Apr 21  WED "Chattal"  (i HR)                                             
8:00 PM
Apr 21  WED "Paul Watson / Sea Shepherds" (30 MIN)          9:00 PM
Apr 25  SUN   "Chattal" (1 HR)                                          
10:00 PM

Note: We will have Rebecca Harrel,  the director of the film "Chattal"  co 
host Go Vegan Texas! on April 19, the first day of World Lab Animal Testing 
Week.. and HMS kindly is showing the film twice that week because of our 
show...and  this special week..."Chattal" is one of the most powerful anti 
lab animal testing  films ever made.

HMS Monthly Schedule Courtesy of Jerrilyn Halbert, Go Vegan Texas! 
Collective.

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