Discussion on Elephants

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Upcoming protest of Canadian seal slaughter

Day of Action to Stop the Slaughter of Seals

Date: Monday, March 15th
Time: Noon - 1:00pm
Location: Canadian Consulate in Seattle (1501 4th Avenue)

Please join Action for Animals in asking Canada to end their brutal slaughter of seals.

This will be a peaceful demonstration. Signs and flyers will be provided; all you need to do is show up. Please dress nicely and do not wear any animal-sourced clothing or shoes.

More information about the Canadian seal hunt can be found here.

If you have any questions about the Seattle demonstration for the seals, please contact Amanda@afa-online.org

From the Action for Animals newsletter - to subscribe: www.afa-online.org

See "Food, Inc." FREE

FREE Screening of Food, Inc.
When: Friday, Feb 12th @ 7:00 pm
Where: Keystone Congregational United Church of Christ (5019 Keystone Place N, Seattle)

Meaningful Movies will be showing Food, Inc., Robert Kenner's film that examines the mechanized infrastructure of food production in America. this event is completely free! NARN will be there with literature to promote eating consciously by going vegan!

Bake Sale for Animal Sanctuaries

Hello all!

Campus Animal Rights Educators will be having a vegan bake sale for Pigs Peace and BaaHaus Animal Sanctuaries!

When: Wednesday 2/10 11:00-3:00
Where: HUB Lawn

I hope to see everyone there!
Tessa

Pedigree Dogs Exposed

An episode from the BBC Reveals series:

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=44215931

The documentary implicates the Kennel Club in the suffering of thousands of dogs for the purposes of closed-minded "traditions", breed standards that have really only existed since the Victorian eugenics craze. This video caused a great upset in Britain and prompted the RSPCA to withdraw its support of, and the BBC to refuse to air, the Crufts dog show. The outrage and negative media attention has forced the KC to reconsider its practices, and headway is (slowly) being made towards breeding healthy dogs.

The US and the AKC, characteristically, have ignored the matter and chosen to continue breeding to unreasonable standards. At the same time, seriously problematic breeds are growing in popularity--of the top ten breeds in the U.S., half of those are dogs that have extremely serious, well-known, life-threatening genetic problems.

NASA radiating Monkeys

Please Help Us Stop NASA Radiation Experiments On Monkeys

Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL), a Department of Energy lab, is currently considering whether or not they will perform a NASA-funded experiment involving the irradiation of 18 to 28 squirrel monkeys. The proposed experiment would expose these tiny monkeys, only a foot tall, to one burst of gamma radiation equal to a 3-year journey to Mars and back.

IDA's anti-vivisection team worked with Shirley McGreal of the International Primate Protection League to issue an official complaint to NASA and BNL – challenging the experiments on scientific grounds and citing fatal flaws such as redundancy, species differences, and available alternatives already in use. IDA's official complaint is available upon request.

Although BNL has received our complaint, we need you to get their attention. According to an IDA conversation with BNL's P.R. Dept. on Feb. 3, these experiments are still being reviewed and have not yet been approved, so time is of the essence!

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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.

Call For Papers: Animal Studies Symposium

Animal Movements • Moving Animals

A symposium on direction, velocity and agency in humanimal encounters

Uppsala University, Sweden
27th and 28th May 2010

Call for Papers:

In recent years Animal Studies has underlined the significance of animals in human lives. The encounters are infinite and variable ranging from the mundane to the remarkable, the obvious to the unobserved, the euphoric to the dystopian. However, encounters are not static, and recent work has highlighted how important movement is to humanimal relations, be it the conflicts arising as conservation species cross the imperceptible boundaries or very real fences of conservation areas or the ‘socio-economic benefits’ of an egg from a hen that can range free. Furthermore each encounter has its own pace; in agriculture the rate at which animals are raised creates competing discourses of ‘good meat’ and speed infuses the ethical discussions in biotechnology. Equally animals are caught up in the globalised networks of production and consumption which materially and discursively circulate animals and their body parts as currency, capital or commodities. Consequentially, movement affects human imaginings of animals and shapes political ideologies. Thus direction, velocity and how various power relations converge to enable or prevent movement are fundamental to understandings of humanimal encounters. Therefore in this symposium we want to further such debates by bringing together current work on animal mobility and movement. In addition to paper sessions key note addresses will be given by Bryndis Snaebjornsdottir (Artist and researcher), Henry Buller (University of Exeter), and Nigel Rothfels (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
If you are interested in presenting a paper at this symposium please submit an abstract of 250 words at [web address] no later than 28th February 2010.

Suggested topics include but are not limited to:

• Depicting animal movement in art, literature and visual culture
• Moving agricultural animals
• Animals in political movements
• Movement within the laboratory
• Pets: mobility and captivity
• Trading animals
• Animal migrations
• Feral paths: The urban animal
• Locomotion in animal ontologies: discourses of movement in caretaking
• Animal liberation
• Humanimal encounters through play, leisure and tourism
• Relocating animals: zoos, farms, the wild and the spaces in-between
• (Re)presenting movement: animals as historical or biographical subjects

Further details are available at www.genna.gender.uu.se/AMMA or by emailing animals@gender.uu.se