Androcles Says

Androcles Says

RAMPANT KILLING OF WILD HORSES, BURROS AND WOLVES - Speak to the new Secretary of the Interior

Comment to Secretary Sally Jewell:  https://secure2.convio.net/ida/site/Advocacy?pagename=homepage&page=UserAction&id=2437&autologin=true


Androcles said:  The "wild" animals are as valuable and intrinsic a part of the American landscape as any of its historic buildings and monuments.  American advisors continually plead with emerging countries not to destroy their native wildlife because of their irreplaceable value, not just in terms of tourism but in many other ways.  Will we be more ignorant than the emerging cultures we counsel?.

U.S. FORESTRY ALLOWS LOGGING TO DESTROY 800 YEAR OLD TREES

U.S. Forestry allows logging of old growth trees in the Tongass Forest, our nation's largest forest.  Go to http://act.alaskawild.org/sign/Tongass_pcomments_3-20-13/?akid=488.39845.TMS5ww&rd=1&t=3    to add your comments.

 I said: 

These old trees are treasures of our country, of the world, and of the planet.  They are irreplaceable.  In recent times we humans have begun to recognize that trees and other green things sustain the air of the earth -- without it we cannot breathe, we cannot live.  Additionally the old trees --, just like the old virtues of care and kindness and looking beyond the moment -- teach us by example and give us a unique way to see and reflect upon present time, past time and future time.  Just as they are inextricably linked to the air we breathe they are inextricably linked to our spirits.  To kill them is similar to saying, as a culture, that we will kill all our elders.

Harvard Finally Agrees to Close its Primate "Facility"

Harvard will close the sprawling unclean and horrendous primate facility, affecting at least 2,000 monkeys.  Now the fight will be to persuade this institution of higher learning to allow the survivors to go to sanctuaries rather than selling them to other research facilities. I wrote to Harvard's president and to the facility: 

“At last this school has agreed to stop the atavistic, inhuman and ignorant torturing of the animals who are the nearest relatives to human beings. I was relieved to hear it but noted the size and duration of the effort necessary to bring it about. 

Closing the lab is obviously the right thing to do but it comes late, after years of torture, abuse and killing. The next step is to arrange for these sentient beings to go to sanctuary rather than selling them to other laboratories. What will Harvard do?

In a more reasonable world all the staff and particularly the leaders and "professors" connected to this facility would go through an extended period of mourning, atonement, and re-education about their status and their thinking in regard to the world in which they live.

 Harvard University triumphantly regards itself as a leader and a light for the entire world -- how many other medieval and unnecessary enclaves does the university support? Time to look. Time to see. Time to wake up. Thank you.”