Please help protect grizzles, wolves, and other wild animals
Wildlife Services calls it the "livestock protection" program - but it could be called the "wildlife extermination" program because they spend millions of taxpayer dollars every year to subsidize the killing of bears, mountain lions, bobcats, coyotes and other wild predators.
Please help us stop this wildlife extermination by asking your representative to vote for an amendment that would slash funding for this deadly program.
URGENT!
Wildlife Services, a program of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, kills wildlife simply because private livestock producers ask them to. The animals are caught in traps and snares, shot from helicopters, poisoned with cyanide and other deadly toxins, and pups and cubs may be killed in their dens.
In addition to its cost and cruelty, the Wildlife Service%u2019s livestock protection program harms the environment by removing large numbers of ecologically important predators from the landscape.
And some of their methods, such as the use of poison traps, put people and pets at risk of accidental poisoning. Further, Wildlife Services fails to provide incentives for livestock operators to try to prevent conflicts with carnivores.
Reps. John Campbell of California and Peter DeFazio of Oregon are offering an amendment to this year's federal Agriculture Department spending bill that would cut federal funding for Wildlife Services to kill wild carnivores to benefit private livestock operations.
Please urge your representative to vote for the Campell-Defazio Wildlife Services amendment.
This vote could take place as soon as Tuesday, June 14, so please act now!s hard to believe that millions of taxpayer dollars are spent every year on killing wildlife, especially during our current economic crisis. Please urge your representative to stop this costly and cruel killing of wildlife. ifaw
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WHEN all the trees have been cut down, WHEN all the animals have been slaughtered & hunted, WHEN all the birds are gone & have stopped singing, WHEN all the waters are polluted, WHEN all the whales, sharks & fish are gone, WHEN all the air is unsafe to breathe, WHEN all the rivers & oceans are contaminated from oil spills, WHEN the polar bears are gone, WHEN all the mountains have been drilled & flattened, WHEN all our foodstuffs become unsafe to eat riddled with pesticides, WHEN we have failed to protect although warned of our endangered species, WHEN all the laws to protect animals from abuse & cruelty have failed, WHEN the elephants, tigers & rhinos are gone; look to our own imminent demise. WHEN?
I encourage all of us to get involved with the law-making process. Our petitions are valuable & useful, but the muscle of all proposals resides in the law. Please sign the petition to stop this inhumane and barbaric practice that causes suffering and allows the perpetrators to avoid hands-on responsibility and questions of conscience. After signing the petition research your State as to what that policy & practice is; and if you don't like what your State is doing, TAKE ACTION!
CONTACT YOUR STATE REPRESENTATIVE! TAKE ACTION!Thanking you,AnimalActionUSA
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