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NEW YORK CITY ACTION ALERTS:
HELP SAVE HORSES FROM SLAUGHTER The only horse slaughterhouse remaining in the US may no longer slaughter horses according to a recent decision by the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit. The appeals court, by upholding a lower court decision, has effectively stopped horse slaughter in the US. IN ORDER TO PREVENT LIVE HORSES FROM BEING EXPORTED TO SLAUGHTERHOUSES IN CANADA AND MEXICO, FEDERAL LEGISLATION MUST BE PASSED. ALSO, A FEDERAL LAW BANNING HORSE SLAUGHTER WOULD PROVIDE GREATER ASSURANCE THAT HORSE SLAUGHTER IN THE US WILL NOT HAPPEN AGAIN! ACTION: SUPPORT THE AMERICAN HORSE SLAUGHTER PREVENTION ACTPlease contact your Representative in Congress and your two US Senators and ask them to co-sponsor the American Horse Slaughter Prevention Act , H.R. 503 (for Representatives) and S. 311(for Senators) to ban the slaughter of horses for human consumption and to prohibit their export for slaughter in other countries. If you do not know the names of your Representative or US Senators, call the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 or go to www.house.gov (have your 9 digit zip code ready) and www.senate.gov (where you just have to click on your state). Contact information for your Representative and Senators will be provided on these sites. Additionally, letters to your Representative and Senators may be sent to: The Honorable (name) The Honorable (name) Thank you! # # # HELP PROTECT WILD HORSES AND BURROS This legislation prohibits the commercial sale and slaughter of wild free-roaming horses and burros. As a result of a change in the law in 2004, these animals may be sold through auction to the highest bidder. Several of these magnificent animals have already been sent to slaughter. This cruelty must be stopped now. ACTION: The House of Representatives has passed this legislation but it must be passed by the US Senate. Contact your two US Senators and urge them to support H.R. 249. If you do not know the names of your senators, call the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 or go to www.senate.gov (have your 9 digit zip code ready). Additionally, letters to your senators may be sent to: The Honorable (name) # # # Below is a list of several bills pending before Congress. Please contact your representative and two US Senators to urge them to support these bills. To see texts of any of the bills, go to www.thomas.gov and type in the bill number. For contact information for your two US Senators and your Representative (congressman/woman) you can call the Capitol switchboard at 202-224-3121 or go to www.senate.gov and www.house.gov or www.congress.org . Have your 9 digit zip code ready. Additionally, letters may be sent to your US Senators and Representative to the following addresses: The Honorable (name) The Honorable (name) H.R. 891: Dog and Cat Fur Enforcement Act Labeling: This bill requires all fur products to be labeled regardless of the value of the fur. Currently, labeling is not required if the value of the fur is $150 or less. Bans Sale of Raccoon dog fur: This bill bans the sale of fur from raccoon dogs. Raccoon dogs are killed in China, sometimes skinned alive, and their fur is then used in garments. The Dog and Cat Protection Act of 2000 prohibits the export, import, manufacture, or sale of products made with dog and cat fur. However, this law does not protect raccoon dogs. Between 1.5 million to 4 million raccoon dogs are killed in China each year for their fur. H.R. 3029: Bear Protection ActThis bill prohibits the import, export and interstate trade in bear parts. Bear parts are used in Asian medicines and are in increasing demand. To meet this demand, poachers are killing bears and selling the parts at huge profits. While trade in bear parts is illegal in many states, a federal law is needed to provide for more effective enforcement. It has been reported that law enforcement officers in the US have uncovered dead bears in our forests with only their gallbladders and paws removed. Videotapes of poaching also show the brutality involved in killing the bears. H.R. 2193: Animal Welfare Accountability Improvement ActBans Using Animals in Sales Demonstrations: This bill prohibits the use of live animals for training, demonstrating, or marketing medical devices to sales representatives. Increases Fines: Fines for violations of the Animal Welfare Act, the main federal law regulating the care of animals used laboratory experiments and tests, would be increased. Reporting to Congress Reinstated: The US Department of Agriculture would be required to submit a report to Congress detailing its enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act and make recommendations for legislation to improve administration of the Act and the transportation of live animals in air transportation. H.R. 661: Downed Animal and Food Safety Protection Act Those animals who are too injured or sick to stand on their own are often pushed, prodded, pulled, kicked and dragged to move them to slaughter. H.R. 661 addresses this cruelty in the following ways: Requires Euthanasia of Downed Animals: This bill requires all non-ambulatory livestock in interstate and foreign commerce to be immediately euthanized. Strengthens Inspection Requirements: Provides that USDA inspectors may not pass through inspection any non-ambulatory livestock or the carcass or any part of the carcass of such livestock. H.R. 2711/S. 2422: Computer Assisted Remote Control Hunting Act This legislation would ban Internet hunting. This means hunting through the use of a computer or other equipment which allows a person to remotely control the aiming and discharge of a weapon to kill or injure an animal while not in the physical presence of the targeted animal. Internet hunters pay a fee, select an animal, and click the mouse to fire the rifle. 34 states have laws banning this practice. H.R. 2964/ S. 1498: The Captive Primate Safety Act This legislation would ban the interstate and foreign commerce of primates for use as pets. These animals are often subject to abuse and neglect in the pet trade. While able to be handled as infants, when primates grow they become more difficult to handle. The result is that some of these animals end up at roadside zoos where they are kept in small cages and improperly cared for; others are confined in homes where their lives become barren and isolated. H.R. 3829: Sportsmanship in Hunting Act This legislation would prohibit the transport or possession of a confined exotic animal for the purpose of allowing the killing or injuring of the animal for entertainment or for the collection of a trophy. The purpose of this legislation is to prevent what has been termed “canned hunting,” the hunting of animals who are confined in areas from which they cannot avoid hunters. Often the animals are accustomed to human handling or feeding and do not even make substantial attempts to escape. These animals are shot, often at close range, just so the shooter can have the dead animal as a trophy. H.R. 3327 and H.R. 3219: Federal Dog Protection Act These bills would strengthen the federal dogfighting laws to include stiff penalties for those who are spectators at dogfights and for those who train or transport animals for dog fighting. H.R. 3663: Protect American Wildlife ActThis legislation would establish additional prohibitions on the shooting wildlife from aircrafts. In the last seven years, about 700 wolves have been shot and killed from aircraft. The aerial shooting of wolves has taken place in Alaska, for example, in order to boost the moose and caribou population for hunters. H.R. 1726: Farm Animal Stewardship Purchasing ActThis legislation would prohibit the federal government from purchasing meat, dairy products or eggs for use in the military, prisons, schools and other federal programs unless the animals were provided with adequate space to stand, lie down, turn around completely and fully extend all limbs or wings, provided daily access to adequate food and water, and provided with adequate veterinary care. The legislation also states that the animals may not have been forced fed. # # #
New York State Legislation Update Good News! Fur Labeling RequiredGovernor Eliot Spitzer has signed into law legislation to require clothing containing real or faux fur (not from animals) to be labeled to indicate whether the fur is real or faux. Currently, lower priced items with fur are not required to contain this label. The bills to require such labeling were introduced by Senator Frank Padavan and Assemblymember Linda Rosenthal. Good News! Electrocution of Fur-Bearing Animals BannedGovernor Eliot Spitzer has signed into law legislation to prohibit the electrocution of fur-bearing animals, such as fox, chinchilla, mink, marten, and muskrat, typically used for the fur industry. The bills to outlaw this cruel practice were introduced by Senator Frank Padavan and Assemblymember Deborah Glick. # # # New York State Pending Legislation
NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATIVE ALERT Important legislation is pending before the New York State Legislature to increase the effectiveness of New York's animal fighting law. A. 10092 , introduced by Assemblyman Brian Kavanaugh, and The laws in other states where being a spectator is a felony (in NY it is still a misdemeanor) there is no requirement that knowing spectators must pay an admission fee or make a wager in order to be prosecuted. Any person in New York who is knowingly present as a spectator at any place where an exhibition of animal fighting is taking place should be charged. Spectators enable animal fighting ventures, such as the ones Michael Vick participated in, to thrive. Enforcement officers should not have to sit and watch each person pay an admission fee (there often is none anyway) or make a bet (which could be done earlier) in order for persons knowingly at an animal fight to be charged. Please contact the legislators listed below and urge them to support A. 10092 and S.6466. For A. 10092: Assemblyman Joseph Lentol , Chair of the Codes Committee. Telephone: 518-455-4477; Fax: 518-455-4599; E-mail: lentolj@assembly.state.ny.us; Address: 632 LOB, Albany, NY 12248 Assemblyman Sheldon Silver : 212-312-1420 or 518-455-3791; fax: 518-455-5459; E-mail: speaker@assembly.state.ny.us; Address: 932 LOB, Albany, NY 12248 *Your own assemblymember . If you do not know the name or contact information for your assemblymember, go to www.assembly.state.ny.us
For S. 6466: Senator Joseph Bruno: Majority Leader. Telephone: 518-455-3191; Fax: 518-455-2448; bruno@senate.state.ny.us; Address: 909 LOB, Albany, NY 12247 Your own state senator. If you do not know the name or contact information for your state senator, go to www.senate.state.ny.us Thanks for your help! 3-08# # # LEGISLATIVE ALERT A. 2612, introduced by Assemblywoman Deborah Glick, and S.784, introduced by Senator Frank Padavan, would ban canned hunts. Canned hunts are hunts that occur in areas where the animal has no reasonable chance of escaping. Usually animals who are accustomed to human handling are used in canned hunts so they do not even attempt to escape their killers. Some of these animals are from zoos, others from circuses, and still others are bred in captivity. It has been reported that lions raised as pets who end up at canned hunt facilities would lick the hands of hunters before being shot. In another widely reported case, a ram stood still as arrows were repeatedly shot at the defenseless animal. Currently, New York State law prohibits canned hunts in areas of 10 acres or less. The canned hunting facilities in New York are much larger than 10 acres so the law has been ineffective. A. 2612 and S. 784 would amend the law by banning canned hunts regardless of the acreage. We need you to contact the legislators listed below in support of A. 2612 and S. 784. Tell them that canned hunting is not a sport. It is unjustifiable cruelty and senseless killing that should be prohibited by law. The current law is not good enough. The issue is not the size of the facilities, but the fact that the animals have no means of escape and often make no effort to escape because of previous human contact. Remind them that just last year the tame animals at New York's Catskill Game Farm were auctioned off to the highest bidders and it is very likely several of these animals ended up at canned hunts. CONTACT INFORMATION For A. 2612: Assemblyman Sheldon Silver, Assembly Speaker. Telephone: 518-455-3791; E-mail: speaker@assembly.state.ny.us; Fax: 212-312-1418; Address: LOB 932, Albany, NY 12248 For S. 784:Senator Joseph Bruno, Senate Majority Leader, Telephone: 518-455-3191; E-mail: bruno@senate.state.ny.us; Address: LOB 909, Albany, NY 12247 Senator Carl Marcellino, Chair of Senate Environmental Conservation Committee. Telephone: 516-922-1811, 518-455-2390, E-mail: marcelli@senate.state.ny.us; 812 LOB, Albany, NY 12247 Your own New York State assemblyperson and state senator and urge them to support A. 2612 and S. 784. (Make sure you mention that you are a constituent and include your address in any written correspondence.) If you do not know the names of your state representatives, go to www.assembly.state.ny.us and www.senate.state.ny.us Thanks for your help! 3-08# # # NEW YORK STATE LEGISLATIVE ALERT Two swans were fatally beaten and stabbed in the Bronx. A Canadian goose was strangled in Hamburg. A red hawk was set on fire, tied to a bicycle and dragged down the street on Long Island. A baby goose was beaten to death with a hockey stick in Potsdam. Birds were trapped and crushed to death on Long Island. In West Eaton, state highway workers reported seeing a car speed up and swerve to hit a fawn, while the occupants of the car were laughing as they sped by. In Staten Island, a peacock was beaten to death. New York's felony animal cruelty law did not apply to any of this cruelty since the animals tortured were not companion animals. A. 7870-A, introduced by Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, and S. 5206 , introduced by Senator Frank Padavan, would expand New York's felony animal cruelty law by making it applicable to wildlife. CONTACT THE LEGISLATORS LISTED BELOW AND URGE THEM TO SUPPORT A. 7870-A and S. 5206 For A.7870-A : Assemblyman Sheldon Silver: Assembly Speaker. Telephone: 212-312-1420 or 518-455-3791; Fax: 518-455-5459; E-mail: speaker@assembly.state.ny.us; Address: 932 LOB, Albany, NY 12248 Assemblyman Joseph Lentol, Chair of the Codes Committee. Telephone: 518-455-4477; Fax: 518-455-4599; E-mail: lentolj@assembly.state.ny.us; Address: 632 LOB, Albany, NY 12248 Your own assemblyperson. If you do not know the name and contact information for your NYS asssemblyperson, call the League of Women Voters, your local library or board of elections, or go www.assembly.state.ny.us
For S. 5206: Senator Joseph Bruno: Majority Leader.Telephone : 518-455-3191; Fax: 518-455-2448; E-mail: bruno@senate.state.ny.us; Address: 909 LOB, Albany, NY 12247 Senator Catharine Young: Chair of the Agriculture Committee. Telephone : 518-455-3563; Fax: 518-426-6905; E-mail: cyoung@senate.state.ny.us; Address: 805 LOB, Albany, NY 12247 Your own NYS Senator. If you do not know the names and contact information for your NYS senator, call the League of Women Voters, your local library or board of elections, or go to www.senate.state.ny.us Tell the legislators that you want them to support A.7870-A and S.5206. You may wish to mention:
# # # LEGISLATIVE ALERT A. 585, introduced by Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, and S. 5408, introduced by Senator Frank Padavan, prohibits high school students from performing harmful projects on vertebrate animals. A. 585 and S. 5408 also requires teachers to inform students of their right not to perform dissection on animals and to be offered an alternative project. Currently students who have a moral or religious objection to dissection have the right to opt out of dissection but there is no requirement in the law for teachers to inform the students of this right. Despite the fact that high schools must obtain a waiver from the NYS Department of Education before students can perform harmful vertebrate animal projects, only three waivers in 12 years have ever been applied for and only after we contacted the principal of the school whose students performed the projects. Yet, based on our own visits to science fairs and visits by other individuals, we are aware of many high school projects involving harm and death to vertebrate animals. Examples include exposing animals to smoke, then killing the animals to study the heart, testing cancer drugs on animals, inducing epilepsy, implanting electrodes in rats' brains, and more. Animals should not be harmed or killed for high school science projects. A. 585/ S. 5406 removes the unworkable waiver language and substitutes the language from the Intel Science Talent Search rules (formerly Westinghouse) which do not allow invasive vertebrate animal projects. Those rules were changed back in 1969 after a sparrow was blinded as part of a high school student's project. Please contact the legislators listed below and urge them to support these bills: For A. 585: *Assemblyman Sheldon Silver, Speaker of the Assembly. Telephone: 212-312-1420, 518 455-3791; Fax: 212-312-1418; E-mail: speaker@assembly.state.ny.us ; Address: LOB 932, Albany, NY 12248 *Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan , Chair of the Education Committee, Telephone: 718-784-3194 (Woodside), 718-456-9492 (Ridgewood) and 518-455-4851 (Albany); Fax: 518-455-3847; E-mail: nolanc@assembly.state.ny.us; Address: LOB 838, Albany, NY 12248 *Your own assemblymember . If you do not know the name or contact information for your assemblymember, go to www.assembly.state.ny.us . Mention that you are a constituent and include your address in written correspondence.
For S. 5408: * Senator Joseph Bruno, Senate Majority Leader. Telephone: 518-455-3191; Fax: 518-455-2448; E-mail: bruno@senate.state.ny.us; Address: LOB 909, Albany, NY 12247 * Senator Stephen Saland, Chair of the Education Committee. Telephone: 518-455-2411; Fax: 518-455-6920; E-mail: saland@senate.state.ny.us; Address: LOB 708, Albany, New York 12247 * Your own state senator. If you do not know the name or contact information for your state senator, go to www.senate.state.ny.us. Mention that you are a constituent and include your address in written correspondence. Thanks for your help! 3-08 # # # ATTENTION NEW YORK STATE RESIDENTS - LEGISLATIVE ALERT A. 10093, introduced by Assemblywoman Linda Rosenthal, would make it unlawful to confine in a cage any hen kept for the purpose of egg production. CONTACT INFORMATION Please contact the following legislators and urge them to support A. 10093. Also, remember if you buy eggs only buy cage free and preferably, cage free organic. Assemblyman William Magee , Chair of the Agriculture Committee. Telephone: 518-455-4807; Fax: 518-455-5237; E-mail: mageew@assembly.state.ny.us; Address: 828 LOB, Albany, NY 12248 Assemblyman Sheldon Silver , Assembly Speaker. Telephone: 212-312-1420 or 518-455-3791; Fax: 518-455-5459; E-mail: speaker@assembly.state.ny.us; Address: 932 LOB, Albany, NY 12248 Your own NYS assemblymember. If you do not know his/her name, go to www.assembly.state.ny.us. Remember to mention in your correspondence to your assemblymember that you are a constituent and include your address. Thanks for your help! 3-08 # # #
LEGISLATIVE ALERT ASSEMBLY BILL PASSES. SENATE BILL, S. 784, STILL NEEDS TO PASS. ACT NOW PLEASE CONTACT SENATOR JOSEPH BRUNO NOW AND ASK HIM TO PASS S. 784 WHEN THE NYS SENATE RECONVENES THIS SUMMER. ALSO CONTACT YOUR OWN STATE SENATOR AND URGE HIM/HER TO SUPPORT S. 784. CONTACT INFORMATION Senator Joseph Bruno, Senate Majority Leader Your own NYS state senator. (Make sure you mention that you are a constituent.) If you do not know the name of your state senator or have contact information for him/her, go to www.senate.state.ny.us You may wish to mention that canned hunting is not a sport. It is unjustifiable cruelty and senseless killing that should be prohibited by law. The current law which bans such hunting on ten acres or less is not effective since the canned hunt facilities in New York are much larger than ten acres. S. 784 would amend the law by banning canned hunts regardless of the acreage . The issue is not the size of the facilities, but the fact that the animals have no means of escape and often make no effort to escape because of previous human contact. Usually animals who are accustomed to human handling are used in canned hunts so they do not even attempt to escape their killers. Some of these animals are from zoos, others from circuses, and still others are bred in captivity. It has been reported that lions raised as pets who end up at canned hunt facilities would lick the hands of hunters before being shot. In another widely reported case, a ram stood still as arrows were repeatedly shot at the defenseless animal. # # #
- NEW YORK CITY ACTION ALERTS - RALLY IN SUPPORT OF Date: Saturday, April 5 Intro. No. 13, introduced by NYC Councilmember Tony Avella, states that once a no-pet lease clause has been waived by the landlord, the tenant can “replace” a pet or pets who are no longer in the apartment with a pet or pets of the same species. This means that if your waived-in pet dies, you would be able to get another pet without the fear of eviction, unless your pet creates a nuisance. Under New York City's existing pet law, if a tenant keeps a pet openly with the knowledge of the owner (landlord) or owner's agent (such as a super, security guard, doorman) for three months or more and the owner does not commence a legal proceeding to enforce the no-pet lease clause within this three months period, the owner waives the right to enforce the no-pet clause. HOWEVER, the courts have interpreted the law to give landlords a three month opportunity each time a tenant gets a new pet. Thus, just because the no-pet clause is waived for one pet does not mean it is waived for future pets. Intro. No. 13 would change this by making it clear that if the owner waives the no-pet clause for one or more pets, the tenant can then get the same number and species of companion animals in the future to “replace” the pets who are no longer in the apartment. While we believe that no-pet lease clauses should be unenforceable unless a nuisance is created regardless of how long a tenant has kept a pet, Intro. No. 13 is a very important step forward. INTRO. NO. 13 HAS BEEN LANGUISHING IN THE NEW YORK CITY COUNCIL'S HOUSING AND BUILDINGS COMMITTEE FOR TEN YEARS (while the bill has had different numbers and sponsors, the language has not dramatically changed over the years) WE WILL BE AT CITY HALL ON APRIL 5 TH FOR THIS RALLY SPONSORED BY THE LEAGUE OF HUMANE VOTERS OF NEW YORK CITY. WE HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE! # # # Open Letter to New York City Councilmember Simcha Felder The Humane Society of New York strongly requests that you withdraw your proposal to fine people for feeding pigeons in our city. While we support efforts to evaluate the pigeon population and its effects, we suggest that any solution to address the pigeon population be humane to the pigeons and the New Yorkers who appreciate these unfairly maligned birds. The maximum fine for a Class A misdemeanor is $1000 (section 80.05, Penal Law). Penalizing good-natured individuals who take pleasure in feeding birds, as if these people are criminals, is extreme. Rather, an advisory council should be established to make recommendations that consider the well-being of those New Yorkers who appreciate the birds, those who do not, and the birds themselves. A moderate approach might include, for example, birth control and habitat modification in certain areas. Your report analogized the pigeon situation in New York City to that which existed in Trafalgar Square where feeding pigeons was a tourist attraction and where feeding was not only legal but actually encouraged. Thousands of birds in one location, landing on shoulders and heads, is not the situation in New York City. The same kind of drastic action to counteract decades of purposefully attracting pigeons in Trafalgar Square is not called for in our city. It is also important to note that even in your own paper, “Curbing the Pigeon Conundrum,” you mention that some of the more alarmist examples of danger that you raise, such as infrastructure damage and public health risks, are “widely exaggerated.” Thus, as we see it, there is no immediate health threat or threat to our infrastructure. Rather, some people in our city dislike pigeons and consider them to be nuisances while others appreciate pigeons and some (far fewer in number) also enjoy feeding them. The issue then is how to reduce what some people believe to be nuisances created by pigeons in parts of our city. Recognizing that pigeons are not inanimate objects, any proposal affecting them must take into consideration the pigeons themselves. This may not seem important to those who disdain pigeons, but as a society that has laws to prohibit cruelty to all animals, including pigeons (section 353, Agriculture and Markets Law), and as a society that should promote compassion and tolerance, methods to deal with the pigeon population must be humane. All too often people who dislike certain animals attempt to take the law into their own hands and abuse animals. We want to avoid this. The Humane Society of New York will support a dialogue among various groups interested in the “pigeon issue” in the hope of devising a plan to humanely control the pigeon population in certain areas of the city. In our opinion, people who feed pigeons within reason (not leaving excessive food behind) should not be treated as lawbreakers. There is so much garbage in this large city that one cannot blame the responsible pigeon feeders for the pigeon population. Small amounts of food fed to and immediately consumed by pigeons are not going to significantly affect the pigeon population. It is when people, whether they be those who like or dislike pigeons, act irresponsibly that problems are created. We are calling for moderation and cooperation. At this juncture, we suggest that an advisory council be established to make suggestions for humane pigeon control where such control may be needed, not a heavy handed approach that will cause harm to animals and the people who care about them. ACTION: Contact Councilmember Simcha Felder and ask that he withdraw his proposal to fine people for feeding pigeons.
# # # YOUR APT. OR YOUR PET? A new bill has been introduced by NYC Councilman Tony Avella which states that once a landlord waives a NO-PET lease clause, a rental tenant can replace pets who have died or are no longer living in the apartment with another pet of the same species. For those of you who have been following this issue, Intro. No. 13 is similar to Intro. No. 189-A from last year but its provisions now apply only to rental tenants. We consider this an important first step in protecting the rights of people to share their lives with companion animals. TAKE ACTION NOW !!! CONTACT THE FOLLOWING CITY COUNCILMEMBERS AND URGE THEM TO SUPPORT AND SPONSOR INTRO. NO. 13 2. Speaker Christine Quinn. phone: 212-788-7210; quinn@council.nyc.ny.us 3. Council Member Erik Dilan, Chair of the Housing & Buildings Committee. YOU MAY WANT TO MENTION THE FOLLOWING REASONS WHY IT'S IMPORTANT THAT THEY SUPPORT INTRO. NO. 13
Thanks for your help! # # # NEW YORK CITY ACTION ALERT New York City Council Resolution 497 calls upon the NYC Department of Education to help increase compliance with section 809 of the NYS Education Law which requires instruction in the humane treatment and protection of animals, the importance they play in nature, and the necessity of controlling the proliferation of animals which are subsequently abandoned and caused to suffer extreme cruelty. The resolution asks that the NYC Department of Education issue a memorandum to all NYC public schools notifying them of the humane education mandate in section 809. It also requires all elementary school principals to direct their teachers to comply with the humane education requirements in the law. Please contact City Council Speaker Christine Quinn and your own councilmember and ask that they sponsor Resolution 497 to promote humane education in our schools. You may wish to mention that raising awareness about the humane treatment of animals will foster kindness and respect for all living beings and will result in a generation of more compassionate and empathetic people. Contact Information : Speaker Quinn: Phone: 212-788-7210; Fax: 212-788-7207; City Hall, New York, New York 10007. You can also e-mail Speaker Quinn. Go to www.nyccouncil.info and click “Council Members,” and then under “Contact a Councilmember,” click Quinn. For your own councilmember, go to www.nyccouncil.info and under “Quick Links,” click “Find My Council Member.” Contact information will follow.
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