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I received the following petition and am attaching it for your information and action to help stop the harvesting of helpless dogs and cats for fur. Draft letter can be found here . Video here .

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I’ve been phasing out my milk intake with soy milk, which is a delicious veg alternative to milk. Cow milk, according to reliable sources, is laden with pus, hormones and bacteria anyway. Among the soy alternatives out there, I like the SILK brand of soy milk the best, especially with cereal, coffee, tea and hot chocolate Yum.

Many of you have asked for ways to contact these restaurants. Here are the websites where you can find their contacts. Moreover, a draft letter has already been prepared for you. Just make some changes and hit the “Send email” button, or call them: (1) McCruelty (2) iHop .  Veal : Get informed about how veal is made > Link 1 > Link 2 . Foie Gras : Learn about what goes into it > Link 1 > Link 2 .

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Denny’s does it. Burger King does, too. Wendy’s got on board earlier this year. All these major restaurant chains buy some of their eggs from cage-free farms that don’t cruelly confine hens in barren battery cages.

But the restaurant chain most known for its breakfasts refuses to take this modest step. When IHOP serves its pancakes and eggs, you can be sure the eggs come from hens crammed into wire cages so small the animals can barely move for their entire lives.

IHOP’s refusal took on new urgency this week with the release of this undercover video that reveals shocking abuses at IHOP’s primary egg supplier. As you can see, the footage reveals filthy conditions, sick and injured hens, and birds forced to live in cages with the decomposing corpses of dead birds.

You can help to move IHOP away from this cruelty. Please urge IHOP to follow its competitors’ lead and start switching away from battery cage eggs. Here’s how:

TAKE ACTION
Please make a brief, polite phone call to Argonne, a company that owns hundreds of IHOP restaurants, at 404-364-2984 (if voicemail picks up, press ‘1′ for Argonne President Michael Klump). You can say something like this:

“Hello, my name is [your name] and I am calling to ask IHOP to start using eggs that don’t come from hens crammed into cages. I just watched the undercover video of your egg supplier, and the images of animal cruelty are appalling. Please start switching to cage-free eggs. Thank you.”

After you make your call, please follow up with an email to IHOP headquarters to let them know that customers care about animal welfare.

Thanks for all you do for animals.

Sincerely,

Wayne Pacelle
President & CEO
The Humane Society of the United States

P.S. Thanks to you and thousands of others, The Humane Society of the United States has successfully persuaded companies such as Wendy’s, Ben and Jerry’s, and Trader Joe’s to enact cage-free egg policies. Please join us in our latest campaign to help farm animals by making a quick phone call to IHOP today.

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> Simply e-mail an already drafted (or personally edited) letter of congrats to Georges Laraque .

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here are some great news I’m happy to share with you:

For years, PETA has held meetings with top chemical companies, and through one of these meetings we learned that an absolutely massive animal testing program in Europe was going to cause even more animal suffering as a result of duplicative screening testing. PETA therefore coordinated a joint letter to the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), which oversees the program, asking that it intervene. Now, in a huge victory for animals, ECHA has announced a process that will spare as many as 4,410,000 animals from these cruel tests!

The joint letter from PETA, PETA Europe, and European animal protection groups sent to ECHA last month raised serious concerns about the likelihood that companies would conduct duplicative animal tests for some types of toxicity when registering their chemicals under REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) and explained how the duplication could be avoided. On Tuesday, ECHA responded by instructing chemical companies not to conduct initial toxicity screens if they were proposing to conduct more comprehensive tests during later stages of the program.

Thanks to your support, more than 4 million animals will be spared the agony of being force-fed toxic chemicals over and over again via a tube inserted through their mouths and into their stomachs, a terrifying and painful procedure.

Thank you for all that you do to help us help animals.

Sincerely,

Tracy Reiman
Executive Vice President
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Source: Peta Action Alerts