California Is the First State to Ban Fur Sales

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[dropcap]C[/dropcap]alifornia Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law a bill that that bans the sale and manufacture of fur products in the state. The fur ban, which he signed into law on Saturday, prohibits Californians from selling or making clothing, shoes or handbags with fur starting in 2023, according to the AP.

The law goes beyond the sale and manufacture of fur and also bars residents from donating fur products.

"CA has no place for the inhumane & unsustainable treatment of animals," tweeted state assemblywoman Laura Friedman who authored the bill. "Now for other states to follow in our legacy."

The law defines fur as "animal skin or part thereof with hair, fleece or fur fibers attached thereto." For fur shoppers that means they will not be able to buy mink, sable, chinchilla, lynx, fox, rabbit, beaver, coyote and other luxury furs, according to The New York Times.

"The signing of AB 44 underscores the point that today's consumers simply don't want wild animals to suffer extreme pain and fear for the sake of fashion," said Kitty Block, CEO and president of the Humane Society of the United States, as the AP reported. "More cities and states are expected to follow California's lead, and the few brands and retailers that still sell fur will no doubt take a closer look at innovative alternatives that don't involve animal cruelty."

There are some fairly significant exceptions to the law, especially for cowhide, deerskin, sheepskin and goatskin, which means shearling is acceptable. There are also exceptions for religious observances like the fur hats, or shtreimels, worn by Hasidic Jews and furs and pelts worn for traditional tribal, cultural or spiritual purposes by members of Native American tribes, as The New York Times reported.

Retailers who defy the law, which goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2023, will have to pay $500 for a first offense and $1,000 for multiple offenses.

Similar bans banning fur sales have been introduced in New York and Hawaii, though they have not yet made it into law. The California ban does follow the lead of some of its largest urban centers, including Los Angeles, San Francisco and Berkeley — all of which have some sort of fur ban in place. Additionally, several European countries have outlawed fur farming, including Serbia, Luxembourg, Belgium, Norway, Germany and the Czech Republic, according to The New York Times.

The fur ban was not the only animal rights bill that Gov. Newsom signed on Saturday. He also signed a few other bills designed to prevent animal cruelty.

One bill puts a stop to wild animals like tigers and elephants from performing in circuses. The law exempts dogs, cats and horses. It does not apply to rodeos.

Another law puts a moratorium on hunting, trapping and killing bobcats, and another protects horses from slaughter, as CNN reported. One bill that Newsom signed took aim at trophy hunting by expanding the list of dead animals that cannot be sold in the state legally.

"California is a leader when it comes to animal welfare, and today that leadership includes banning the sale of fur," Newsom said in a statement, as the AP reported. "But we are doing more than that. We are making a statement to the world that beautiful wild animals like bears and tigers have no place on trapeze wires or jumping through flames."

The animal rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) hailed the bills.

"Today is a historic day for animals in California, including those who have been whipped into performing in circuses, or skinned alive for their fur or skin," said Tracy Reiman, executive vice president of PETA, in a statement, as CNN reported. "PETA is proud to have worked with compassionate legislators to push these lifesaving laws forward and looks to other states to follow California's progressive lead."

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Killing the Ocean

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Robert Hunziker

From the start of this publication, we have been warning that the rotten capitalist class running the US would lead the world into ecoanimal perdition, not to mention endless wars and the implosion of genuine democracy. Now this is rapidly becoming a painful reality everywhere we look. And the criminals are still very much in power.

[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he oceans are “crying for mercy,” a fact that is starkly revealed in a telling 900-page draft of a forthcoming UN report due for release September 25th. The draft report obtained by Agence France-Presse (AFP) assesses the status of the oceans and cyrosphere. It’s a landmark UN report, and it’s not a pretty picture.

In the final analysis, the report amounts to self-destruction that’s largely ignored by most of the leading countries throughout the world. It’s all about greenhouse gassing as a result of human interference in the climate system. People are heat machines!

The opening statement in AFP’s news release states: “The same oceans that nourished human evolution are poised to unleash misery on a global scale unless the carbon pollution destabilizing Earth’s marine environment is brought to heel.” (Source: Oceans Turning From Friend to Foe, Warns Landmark UN Climate Report, Agence France Presse, August 29, 2019)

This Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change “Special Report” states “destructive changes are already set in motion,” referencing loss of fish stocks, a 100-fold increase in super-storm damage, and hundreds of millions of people displaced by rising sea levels. A 100-fold increase of super-storms plus 100s of millions of displaced should draw immediate political action, like a WWII Marshall Plan to fight anthropogenic climate change, but will it happen?

Not only that, powerful evidence of the human link to radical biological shifts in the world’s oceans is poignantly described in Dahr Jamail’s brilliant book: The End of Ice (The New Press, 2019)

Most of the time, we treat sea animals with the respect we accord refuse. We fish them to extinction in one spot and move on to the next. Sharks are being wiped out in many places just to cut off their fins (which dooms them to slow and painful death). All to make shark fin soup—a morally idiotic cuisine choice.

Dahr describes a personal visit with Bruce Wright, senior scientist with the Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association and former section chief for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for eleven years, to wit:

By 1975, the water in the Gulf of Alaska had already warmed up 2c. At the time the entire biological system shifted, causing the Alaska Fish and Game Department to “shut down the fisheries to protect what was left… The dramatic shift across the biological system in the Gulf of Alaska in the 1970s was the first evidence of profound change that Wright witnessed and he attributed it directly to the waters being warmed by climate disruption.” (Jamail pg. 60)

Thereafter, Dahr fast-forwards to 2016 with shocking descriptions of the ravages of human-generated climate change, Jamail pgs. 60-64, as follows below:

“This last summer, the gulf warmed up 15°C warmer than normal in some areas,’ Wright told me, ‘Yes, you heard me right, 15°C. And it is now, overall, 5°C above normal in both the Gulf of Alaska and Bering Sea, and has been all winter long.”

“My head swam (Jamail). The biological shift that caused the fisheries to close in the 1970s came from a 2°C change in water temperature… Imagine what is going on out in the Gulf of Alaska right now,’ he said, giving several examples, including die-offs among fin whales.”

“We (Jamail and Wright) spoke about the declining numbers of halibut… The massive die-off of murres across the entirety of Alaska had been dominating the local news… witnessing the largest murre die-off in the state’s recorded history… starvation… striking numbers, by tens of thousands… the result of water temperatures so high that ‘we not only had extensive paralytic shellfish poisoning, we had a huge bloom of Alexandrium… sand lances had become toxic from feeding on marine PSP toxin… These toxins moved up the food chain. Nearly every animal, from salmon to whales to cod to diving birds, like puffins, auks, cormorants, and terns eat the sand lances or the larvae… Sea otters, steller sea lions, and northern fur seals have all seen shocking population declines across western Alaska… All of our oceans are being affected by these toxic, harmful algal blooms now.”

“Later that summer, National Geographic reported how toxic algal blooms (as a result of warming oceans) were spreading across the planet, poisoning both people and marine life.”

“Wright was certain the driving factor was climate disruption, which was warming the North Pacific and Bering Sea and leading to a dramatic increase in PSP. Anyone foolish enough to come to the Aleutians and eat forage fish is playing Russian roulette with their life, he said. Alaska Division of Public Health states clearly that ‘some of these toxins are 1,000 times more potent than cyanide, and toxin levels contained in a single shellfish can be fatal to humans.”

Meanwhile, “Earth’s oceans continue to absorb over 90 percent of the excess heat trapped by greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.” It’s that source of ocean heat that’s primarily extinguishing marine life.

As such, civilization in toto is subjecting itself to suicidal behavior by failing to listen to scientists and failing to enact emergency measures to convert fossil fuels to renewables. It’s a deadly situation, but still not resonating nearly enough to save the oceans.

Additionally, according to the aforementioned AFP report, without cuts in human-caused emissions, at a minimum, 30% of the Northern Hemisphere’s permafrost will melt this century, which would release billions upon billions of tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere, which is already filled to the brim with greenhouse gases, thereby accelerating global warming.

All in all, the overall tragedy of the ocean crisis prompts obvious questions: What does it take for world political leadership (especially in America, purportedly, the leader of the free world) to push the big red emergency buttons? Should political leaders be transported to see first-hand sea animal deaths? Should world leaders be “challenged” to eat Alaskan forage fish?

Seabirds are literally falling out of the sky along the West Pacific Coast (For Five Years Running Now, Mass Seabird Mortality Events Continue in Alaska Waters Which Continue to be Warmer Than Normal, Alaska Nature & Science, August 2019); sea lion carcasses line beaches from Vancouver Island to Southern California (Surge in Sick, Hungry Sea Lions Off California’s Coast Puzzles Marine Biologists, The Sacramento Bee, July 4, 2019) ; whale deaths are disturbingly too frequent (Feds Declare Emergency as Grey Whale Deaths Reach Highest Level in Nearly 20 Years, Phys.org, June 4, 2019); the largest toxic algal bloom ever recorded shut down California’s crab industry for months; Alaska is experiencing spikes in deaths of sea otters (Officials Investigate Otter Deaths in Southwestern Alaska, KTOO, Public Media, March 2018) as well as abrupt deaths of several whale species.

Mass sea animal deaths, year after year, are not normal!

The world community must hold its political leaders accountable for abject failure to react. If it were otherwise, meaning, listening to science and acting accordingly, then emergency governmental acts would be underway all across the globe… they’re not!

After all, it’s truly a life and death matter that is hidden from public view, as global warming hits hardest where the fewest people live but where the world’s most elementary and primary food chain is rapidly coming apart at the seams.

Imagine toxins 1,000 times more toxic than cyanide spreading throughout the world’s oceans. Actually, no imagination is necessary because it’s already started in Alaska. For Pete’s sake, first-hand evidence is readily available by simply talking to “locals,” similar to what Dahr Jamail did prior to writing his book.

At some point in time in the near future, it is highly probable that environmental degradation will “force the hand” of the public into open rebellion. Throughout history, it happens “out of the blue.” Ka-boom!

Postscript: The Trump administration is changing how the federal government “implements key laws” under the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA). Henceforth, governmental agencies will be able to (1) “ignore” climate change implications of their actions as well as (2) “avoid” public disclosure of their scheming. This is extreme radical departure from the original “legal intent” of the NEPA.

"There are more fishes than birds, amphibians, reptiles, and mammals," says the video. "We are the village, they are the kingdom.

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Robert Hunziker is a freelance ecojournalist (member in Pi Gamma Mu International Academic Honor Society in Social Sciences), with over 200 articles published, including several translated into foreign languages, appearing in over 50 journals, magazines, and sites worldwide. He has been interviewed on numerous FM radio programs, as well as television.

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Stop Blaming Cows and Start Targeting the Corporations that are Destroying the Amazon

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Anthony Pahnke
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[dropcap]T[/dropcap]he point is this - if we do not know how to put pressure on the right actors who have been connected to destroying the Amazon, then our efforts will be for naught.

Most of the reporting on the fires raging in the Amazon try to identify the guilty parties. Some of those that have been identified include ranchers and loggers, as well as the rightwing government of Jair Bolsonaro for its lack of enforcing environmental regulations. Yet, what we need to consider is that no single actor is responsible for destroying the rainforest, but instead corporate supply chains that crisscross our planet. To truly effect change, we need to target companies within these networks, which can occur if we restore Country of Origin Labeling (COOL) in agriculture and boycott firms that have been linked to deforestation.

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As the Amazon burns, with the number of fires increasing more than 80 percent this year when compared to the last, many have proposed solutions to the crisis. Leonardo DiCaprio has advised us to stop eating meat, while others encourage consumers to recycle, become educated, and contact their representatives. There are also calls to privatize the rainforest to save it, with individuals such as Jeff Bezos – who is already the owner of one Amazon – implored to invest.

These supposed solutions have serious shortcomings. For instance, what specifically will you demand from your representative? Is the ask that they just ‘do something?’ The problem with eliminating meat from your diet is that you do not know if you are affecting the large-scale Brazilian rancher or the struggling family farmer who lives down the road. Moreover, studies have shown that some forms of ranching – on well-maintained pastures with rotational grazing and the limited of fertilizers – can sequester carbon and help us face climate change. And if the Amazon were privatized, then what if it is later partitioned and sold, again to ranchers and loggers, or perhaps to the tourist industry?

The point is this - if we do not know how to put pressure on the right actors who have been connected to destroying the Amazon, then our efforts will be for naught.

So, what can be done? First, we need to know which farmers and ranchers are involved in deforestation. While identifying individuals is difficult, we can make a push for the U.S. government to bring back the Country of Origin Labelling (COOL) in agriculture. This policy became law with the 2002 Farm Bill, which required that retailors provide information on the sources of their food. The Obama administration later repealed COOL for beef and pork products, but not for lamb, chicken, and goat meat, perishable agricultural commodities, macadamia nuts, pecans, peanuts, and ginseng.

If COOL were brought back and consumers saw that Brazilian beef was in their stores, then they could choose not to purchase it. Some farmer and rancher groups have been pushing for this policy’s return, as others see this as a way to assist struggling farmers in the United States.

While promoting the return of COOL would take time, now, we know of actual cases of corporations that have been connected to deforestation. For instance, many ranchers burning the rainforest sell to the Brazilian firm JBS, which is the largest meat processor in the world. If you are not familiar with JBS, then you may know its U.S. subsidiary – Swift & Company. Meats with the Swift label are regularly available in most grocery stores.

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For public sector workers, namely, teachers and professors with pensions, the Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America (or TIAA, formerly known as TIAA-CREFF) through its subsidiaries in Brazil has been involved in large-scale land deals that have been linked to deforestation and land grabbing. Farmer and consumer rights groups have called out TIAA on this point for years. Along with these organizations, TIAA beneficiaries could rethink how their retirement funds are invested.

Similarly, in a report from the Union of Concerned Scientists, Pizza Hut, Kroger, Subway, Wendy’s, Hormel, and Nestlé, were found to source beef in ways that contributed to rainforest destruction. We also cannot ignore the mining industry, which is responsible for upwards of 10 percent of deforestation in the Amazon. Vale SA is the world’s largest producer of iron ore, with operations in the Amazon. Last year, the company entered into discussions with the Brazilian state to enlarge the world’s already largest open-pit mine, the Carajás mine, which is located in the Amazon. While most iron ore exports move to China, in the U.S., people can demand an end to the U.S.-China trade dispute, which has led Brazil to increase its iron ore exports significantly.

Leonardo DiCaprio can tell us to stop eating meat, but unless we know where the cow is from, then the protest could prove ineffective. To confront the causes of deforestation, we need to target specific companies within global supply chains. Now, with the right information of particular firms, the question is if we have the time to take on corporate power and the Bolsonaro regime to stop the decimation of our world’s lungs.

Anthony Pahnke is the Vice President of the Family Farm Defenders and Assistant Professor of International Relations at San Francisco State University. He can be reached at anthonypahnke@sfsu.edu

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“I won’t eat animals,” little girl tells her mother. Zada’s mind is made up.

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Patrice Greanville

[dropcap]L[/dropcap]ittle Zada below does not know it, but she is already immersed in one of the most monumental and maligned struggles in the history of this planet.

Her moving words, however, show us that even a toddler can have instinctive empathy for the pain of other beings. It is testimony to the fact that our insensitivity to massive animal suffering is a cultural acquisition, implanted in most of us at birth, as the "way things are." But traditions, as we have seen at least in the last two centuries, have a lot of very dark corners and things to answer for. The fact that a custom (or ideology) is embraced by umpteen millions doesn't make it right. In our own home turf, the history of suffering in our own species, for millennia slavery was regarded as "natural" and many even thought it harmless and imperative to "civilisation". In part because of such attitudes, traditions are often enormously hard to break or eliminate. Pious southern ministers and other opinion leaders in the US Confederacy rarely if ever rose to denounce slavery. And we all know that it took a veritable bloodbath—the death of more than 620,000 soldiers— to break the "peculiar institution" in the American South, and even with the South defeated, African Americans did not exactly gain equal rights or actual freedom at the moment of their much awaited formal emancipation. A very long and painful and ugly slog lay ahead, one with many heroes and martyrs, and it's obvious that more than 150 years after the war between the states ended, much of African America is still partially in chains.

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First published on Sep 1, 2016
Realising, to her horror, that meat is made from animals, five-year-old Zada tells her mother she's a vegetarian. And her mind is made up.

Bad traditions and customs die hard
The American experience with slavery is a harsh reminder that no matter how awful a custom may be, whether political, religious or economic (always a reflection of the political and vice versa), or one whose origins are lost in the mist of history, it takes a great deal of effort and pain to eliminate it. Humans are animals of habit. And often the problem is deeply embedded in the culture because a strong or dominant segment benefits directly from it. The history of humanity's evolution and pursuit of freedom from various forms of oppression—slavery, feudalism, capitalism, sexism, racism, male chauvinism, etc.—shows that victories, such as they are, are hard, and that even when an evil has been largely unmasked and uprooted, many remnants stay behind, sometimes adopting new forms and still making life miserable for countless victims.

Human slavery is one of the oldest and most persistent and diverse evils in history, and it's clear the American south had plenty of breathtakingly ugly and brutal models to draw upon. In this context, the Spartans stand out for their studied cruelty toward their slaves (the Helots), whom they employed, as all "master races" do, to do all sorts of grueling and dangerous work in their society, from growing food, to taking care of construction jobs, and even serving as human shields to Spartan warriors in various battles. Owing to their own numerical inferiority— there were about 7 helots to one Spartan— Spartans were always preoccupied with the fear of a helot revolt. The ephors (Spartan magistrates) each year on entering office declared war on the helots so that they might be murdered at any time without violating religious scruples. During these massacres, which for younger Spartans became a coming of age ritual, they concentrated on murdering the youngest and strongest among the captive population.

There are different accounts of how this horrid relationship ended. Some chroniclers claim that after a particularly ferocious revolt which took the Spartans more than a decade to put down, the Spartans—standing on a very tenuous victory—agreed to a truce—and freedom for the helots, provided the latter accepted banishment to Sicily. Another version, advanced by revisionist historians, notes that after several intermittent revolts starting c. 660 BC, and after two or three attempts over 300 years, the helots finally succeeded in defeating and disbanding the Spartans, thereby wiping out Sparta from the map as a feared Peloponnesian power. This is supposed to have happened c. 464 BC. Whichever version we choose, it's irrefutable that the slave revolts weakened Sparta considerably and made it vulnerable to conquest by rival powers among Greece's city states. Sparta's defeat by Thebes in the Battle of Leuctra in 371 BC ended Sparta's prominent role in Greece.

The struggle for any form of liberation usually raises moral consciousness. Every great social revolution seeking to expand the rights of the oppressed has had an inherently superior moral component fueling much of the struggle. There have been no exceptions to this rule. Thus the fight to overcome ancient slavery, feudalism, serfdom, capitalism, colonialism (a form of racism in action), male domination, malignant imperialism, and these days even speciesism—the subjection of all living nature to the cruel whims of humans—all have been and are animated by successively broader and deeper ambits of moral lucidity. Assuming we manage to overcome the fascio-capitalist monster and its cancerous imperialism, along with its plethora of social vices and still very much alive different strains of human oppression, all in time to turn things around to spare the world an ecological implosion or a nuclear catastrophe, the struggle against speciesism may be the last of the great battles in the moral history of our species. —PG

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No Veganwashing Israeli Crimes!

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A panel responds to the use of veganism to propagandize the occupation

[dropcap]F[/dropcap]or over a decade, the nation branding campaign Brand Israel has sought to “wash” the crimes of occupation, apartheid and ethnic cleansing by carefully crafting the image of Israel as a progressive, forward-thinking oasis of modernism in the Middle East. The campaign has appropriated elements of both the LGBT and environmental movements to advance these goals. Such “pinkwashing” and “greenwashing” are unique in the world of state-sponsored propaganda campaigns.

Veteran social justice and animal liberation activist John Addario, with slide on NSA's "pinkwashing". The cynicism of the system and its myriad image- and narrative-manipulation prostitutes is breathtaking. The marketing team for "Brand Israel" includes marketing and p.r. heavyweights Saatchi & Saatchi, Young & Rubicam, and the ultra corrupt Burston Marstellar, a firm that has whitewashed corrupt dictators and political murderers for generations. The list includes Chile's butcher, Augusto Pinochet, and Indonesia's mass murderer Suharto, who, with help from the CIA, turned Indonesia into a no-holds-barred playground for internaitonal business.

Over the past several years, veganism has increasingly been weaponized for the same ends. Animal advocates across the West have been influenced by various claims of a vegan/ animal rights “revolution” in Israel and even participated in aspects of veganwashing. By contrast, the emerging animal rights movement in Palestine – like all social movement struggles – has suffered greatly under Israel’s occupation and violent expansionist agenda.

What notion of veganism is being appropriated here and what are the realities of animal rights in Israel? How prevalent is Zionism in the global animal advocacy movement? What are the realities of animal liberation struggle in the Palestinian context? What are the possibilities of Palestinian solidarity work in the global animal liberation movement?

Vegans for BDS, in conjunction with Animal Liberation Currents, organized a panel discussion on the recent history of veganwashing, the need for a comprehensive response from the animal liberation movement and the politics of BDS organizing.

The event was held in Toronto, August 8, 2019.

SPEAKERS:

John Riddell is a socialist activist and historian, best known for translating and publishing historical documents of socialist movement. He has been an advocate of the Palestinian freedom struggle for many years and is an active ally with Independent Jewish Voices (Toronto).

Ahlam Haroun is the Executive Director of the Palestinian Animal League (PAL) and a long time feminist and animal activist in the West Bank (participating via Skype).

Michael John Addario is the editor of Animal Liberation Currents magazine. For more than twenty years he has been involved in animal rights activism, socialist organizing, the trade union movement and the NDP. He has been a shop floor and staff organizer with several unions, including IFPTE, United Steelworkers and SEIU. He is an organizer with Vegans for BDS.

Danielle Williams is a composer and music educator who taught for 2 years in Ramallah. During that time, she was an active volunteer with the PAL and helped organize the first international solidarity conference in the West Bank in May of 2018. She is an organizer with Vegans for BDS.

Moderated by Suzie Wadi

Land Acknowledgement/ Solidarity statement: Emmy Legge

Includes an opening performance by an informal Palestinian Dabke troupe from Mississauga, Ontario.

The event was sponsored by the Canadian BDS Coalition, Socialist Project, Toronto BDS Action, and the Centre for Social Justice.

With thanks to Pance from Socialist Project’s Leftstreamed series for the recording.

For more on the event, see Michael John Addario, “Vegans for BDS Launches Toronto Organizing“, Animal Liberation Currents, August 13, 2019

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The wheels of business and human food compulsions are implacable and totally lacking in compassion. This is a downed cow, badly hurt, but still being dragged to slaughter. Click on this image to fully appreciate this horror repeated millions of times every day around the world. With plentiful non-animal meat substitutes that fool the palate, there is no longer reason for this senseless suffering. Meat consumption is a serious ecoanimal crime. The tyranny of the palate must be broken. Please consider changing your habits in this regard.

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