Coca-Cola, STOP aux blessures et au tuerie d'animaux, (1 pétition + 1 lettre)

Coca-Cola clame que l'Association des Cowboys Professionnels de Rodéo (PRCA) a des règles humaines qui doivent être suivies dans les rodéos. Cependant, les règles sont rarement imposées. Quand les violations des règles humaines sont imposées, c'est juste une claque sur le poignet. "Showing Animals Respect and Kindness" (SHARK) a même attrapé un fonctionnaire avec le PRCA maltraitant des animaux sur bande,


Cheyenne Frontier Days, un exemple de rodéo que Coca-Cola sponsorise, est notoire pour la maltraitance des animaux. Un article du Wyoming Tribune Eage
( http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2006/08/06/news/import-108327.txt ) indique que des animaux ont été choqués avec un taser à Cheyenne et le PRCA a fait peu ou rien pour l'arrêter.

Les principales organisations humanitaires comme la Humane Society of the United States, la ASPCA, la Humane Society of Canada, et la World Society for the Protection of Animals s'opposent aux rodéos.

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Puis, écrivez à Coca-Cola un message personnel leur demandant de suivre leur politique de bien-être des animaux, de cesser de sponsoriser des rodéos et que tant qu'ils ne l'auront pas fait, vous boycotterez leur marque.

Merci d'envoyer aux adresses mails ci-dessous :

AAN : MKent@na.ko.com
CC : pressinquiries@na.ko.com, pressinquiries@na.ko.com

Voici la lettre type à envoyer : (Merci Stacey pour les corrections)

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To Whom It May Concern:

Coca-Cola once had a policy against sponsoring animal cruelty events such as rodeos. Sadly, now Coca-Cola has discontinued that policy and is sponsoring animal cruely again. I urge Coca-Cola to make it a permanent policy not to sponsor rodeos. Rodeos are inherently cruel towards animals, pure and simple. Rodeos take docile animals and attempt making them seem aggressive. Bulls and horses are tormented in the chutes prior to release into the ring. They are forced to wear bucking straps, and the rider uses spurs, which dig into the animals' flesh. Investigators at The Humane Society of the United States have documented rodeo participants across the country using electric prods, flank straps, sharpened sticks, and other pain-inflicting devices to frighten animals into performing. Animal injuries are common due to the violence of these events. It has even been documented that one rodeo cowboy said of bucking straps and electric prods, "If you can't use those devices, then you have no rodeo" (Pittsburgh Tribune Review, Dec. 26, 2000).

Animal experts oppose the rodeo. The Humane Society of the United States, ASPCA, The Humane Society of Canada, and World Society for the Protection of Animals are just a few national and international organizations against rodeos. Peggy Larson, DVM says, "Without torture, there can be no rodeo." Dr. C.G. Haber, a veterinarian who worked for 30 years as a meat inspector in slaughterhouses, saw scores of animals discarded from rodeos and sent to slaughter. Toughened as he was to animal suffering, the condition of animals from rodeos sickened him. He described them as "so extensively bruised that the only areas in which the skin was attached (to the flesh) were the head, neck, leg, and belly. ... I have seen animals," he said, "with six to eight ribs broken from the spine and at times, puncturing the lungs. I have seen as much as two to three gallons of free blood accumulated under the detached skin. Bullfights are merciful compared to rodeos. It's high time this cruel sport be outlawed in the United States."

Complaints about rodeos are forwarded to the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association (PRCA), which sends the complainant a "soothing" letter saying that PRCA's "humane rules" protect the animals. Actually, these rules are worthless; they are rarely enforced, and when they are, the fines imposed on the cowboys are so small as to be meaningless in comparison to the big prize money being vied for.

Just as one example of cruelty at a rodeo, Cheyenne Frontier Days, which Coca-Cola sponsors, is notorious for abusing animals. An article in Wyoming Tribune Eage
( http://www.wyomingnews.com/articles/2006/08/06/news/import-108327.txt ) says animals were shocked with a Hot-Shot at Cheyenne and the PCRA does little or nothing. Video footage of a steer being dragged at the 2007 Cheyenne Frontier Days is viewable at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50nf7Io52c0. Mr. Kent, I ask that you view the video and see for yourself what you consider 'humane". Until Coca-Cola ceases sponsoring such horrific rodeo animal abuse, I will have to boycott Coca-Cola and promote this boycott with others I know, including groups of thousands of other concerned people.

I look forward to your response.

Sincerely,

PRENOM, NOM
PAYS

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Merci pour les animaux