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SUPER !!!!!!! Très bonne idée d'avoir fait cette précision !!!!!!!!!!!

Ta petite lettre est parfaite ma belle Cé ! Regards est une belle façon de terminer une lettre... p.s.: Je n'ai toujours pas reçu mes "stickers" !!!!!!!!!!! J'espère que ma (**&$*&"&)_! de postière ne les a pas livrés à une autre adresse !

Bonjour ma belle Cé, Le blog de Za est en ligne... Elle a encore beaucoup de difficultés, mais elle arrive maintenant à afficher des messages. Lorsque tu iras sur son blog, tu comprendras qui a signé le mien http://le-grenier-dolgha.blogspot.com/ p.s.: P. n'a toujours pas réussi à trouver le problème dans son ordi... Il croit que ça pourrait maintenant venir de sa "mother board" Il va sûrement encore passer une autre journée complète devant son écran Je vais commencer vers la fin de la journée, à retirer des boutons de retour qui figurent sur nos pages (là où ils ne sont plus utiles) ... A+ tard ma belle Cé do XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

C'est tellement facile à faire Cé ! Même toi, tu pourrais t'en faire un en une quinzaine de minutes seulement !

J'ai rajouté des citations trouvées dans mon livre « Si les lions pouvaient parler » ... http://nonalexploitationanimale.blogspot.com/

C'est sûr Cé, et qui sait ! Un jour ça sera peut-être notre tour !

C'est pas demain la veille qu'on aura 1,100 membres et 150 bénévoles

Tu as très bien fait ma belle Cé !!!!!!!!!!! Un autre gugusse qui porte bien son nom ! p.s.: P. a tout reformaté son ordinateur et il a toujours le même problème: tout gèle.... J'espère qu'il va finir par trouver le problème, car en attendant, quelle perte de temps !

Ne t'en fais pas avec le bulletin ma belle Cé - S'il sort une ou deux semaines plus tard que prévu, ça n'est pas grave du tout puisqu'il s'agit du bulletin "Automne" ! Prends le temps de te reposer avant tout !

OK ma belle Cé ! Je comprends mieux ce que tu veux dire maintenant ! Pas de problème pour l'écrire de cette façon alors... « Considérant qu’aux termes de l’article 446 du Code criminel canadien, il est interdit de provoquer volontairement la souffrance d’un animal »

en me relisant ce matin, je vois que j'ai fait plusieurs fautes de français mais comme elle en fait encore plus que moi, ça ne se verra peut-être pas trop

Sep. 12, 2006 3 animal-welfare activists going to prison for inciting threats BETH DeFALCO Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. - Three animal-rights activists convicted of using their Web site to incite threats and harassment against a company that tests products on animals received prison sentences ranging from four to six years Tuesday. They were also ordered to pay a total of $1 million in restitution to the company and people they terrorized. All three said they planned to appeal their convictions and requested they receive vegan meals while in prison. Three other members of Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty are awaiting sentencing within the next two weeks. Along with the organization itself, the six activists were convicted in March of using a Web site to incite threats, harassment and vandalism against Huntingdon Life Sciences, a company that tests drugs and household products on animals. Huntingdon Life Sciences general manger Mike Caulfield said the company "was grateful that justice was served." He said as a result of the threats and harassment, the company's health insurer and other firms severed ties with it. "It generally made the cost of doing business with us more expensive than our competitors during that time," he said. And that was the point, prosecutors said. "This was a conspiracy to shut down Huntingdon Life Sciences," said assistant U.S. Attorney Charles McKenna. The government charged that the group waged a five-year campaign against the company, posting on the Web site the names, addresses and phone numbers of Huntingdon employees and those who do business with the company, and personal information such as where they go to church and where their children attend school. Many of those people saw their homes vandalized and received threatening e-mails, faxes and phone calls. The group, based in Philadelphia, maintains its actions were protected under the First Amendment. The defendants, all in their late 20s or early 30s, were not accused of directly making threats or carrying out vandalism but were convicted of animal-enterprise terrorism, conspiracy and interstate stalking. The three sentenced were the president of SHAC, Kevin Kjonaas, 28, of Minneapolis, Minn.; campaign coordinator Lauren Gazzola, 25, of Connecticut; and Web site manager Jacob Conroy, 30, of San Francisco. Kjonaas was sentenced to six years in prison, Gazzola to four years and four months, and Conroy to four years. "None of it's fair," Conroy said after the hearing. Though defense attorneys tried to portray their clients as well-meaning animal-lovers who committed a "crime of compassion," prosecutors said the group, and especially its leader, allowed good intentions to become perverted. "Mr. Kjonaas was drunk with the power that he could push around multinational companies with his Web site," McKenna said. Gazzola wept as she addressed U.S. District Judge Anne E. Thompson, telling the court how she feared her dream of becoming an attorney vanished with her felony conviction. But Gazzola, as well as the other two, never apologized for their actions and Thompson asked why. "As an advocate for any cause," Gazzola responded, "you change your idea of the best way to use your talents." Each activist asked to serve their sentence in a prison near their hometown and asked to receive vegan meals. All three said they planned to appeal the case. "I'm pretty confident I won't be serving (that long) in prison," Kjonaas said after being sentenced. "There are a ton of appealable issues." "I'll be OK," he said, "I'll be back." ON THE NET SHAC: http://www.shac.net Huntingdon Life Sciences: http://www.huntingdon.com

September 11, 2006 CBC News An American businesswoman hoping to stop the seal hunt is unlikely to find Islanders willing to sell their licences, says the executive director of the P.E.I. Fishermen's Association. Cathy Kangas, president and founder of PRAI Beauty, offered the Canadian government $16 million to end the hunt earlier this year. Kangas got no response from Ottawa, so now she's offering to buy out seal licences. Kangas says hundreds of seal hunters have called and e-mailed her, interested in her offer, and says she met in Halifax last week with two Island seal hunters who are interested in helping her shut down the industry. "I'm still trying to work with some of the sealers on Prince Edward Island," said Kangas. "Some of the sealers themselves came and said, 'We'd love to have seal tourism.' Instead of the hunt that just comes and goes for a few weeks, why not be able to have, you know, the tourism from it. A little bit like whale watching. Perhaps we could have a role like a park ranger." Kangas planning visit to P.E.I. Kangas says she plans to visit Prince Edward Island later this month or early next month to speak with more seal hunters, but Ed Frenette, executive director of the P.E.I. Fishermen's Association suggests that would be a waste of time. "After smiling, I guess the reaction was that it won't fly," said Frenette. "We brought it to our board of directors of the fishermen's association, who turned the concept down flatly. People have to understand that there's been a real explosion in the numbers of seals in the southern Gulf. They're eating fish stocks at an enormous rate, and they're damaging gear all over the place." There are 22 active seal licences on Prince Edward Island.

It’s raining chicken feet CALGARY (CP) — No, Chicken Little, the sky isn’t falling, but poultry parts may be. Chicken feet have been showing up on the lawns, decks and front step of yards in Calgary’s Ramsay Park neighbourhood and residents say they are fed up. After some investigation, homeowners now believe the chicken feet are falling from the sky and are blaming the nearby Lilydale poultry plant. "They have this giant loading bin filled up with chicken parts and it’s wide open on top," said Todd Keating. "The magpies think it’s a free-for-all. They fly over Ramsay and they drop them on the ground. Then I come home and I shake my fist." "It shouldn’t be happening," said neighbour Todd Ford, who has had chicken parts appear on his property four times. "The magpie population is out of control." No one from Lilydale could be reached for comment. An official with Calgary’s bylaw department says the city will look into the matter. http://www.herald.ns.ca/Canada/527803.html

Hamilton Spectator By Joe Mozingo The Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES (Sep 12, 2006) His views are so "dangerous" that he is banned from visiting Britain. He has been arrested on a Canadian ice floe and at a travelling circus. He once fended off a furious PTA mom while disrupting an elementary school fundraiser featuring circus animals. Dr. Jerry Vlasak, a trauma surgeon who lives in the Woodland Hills district of Los Angeles, takes his belief that animal life is as valuable as human to the extreme -- openly arguing that killing scientists to stop animal research would be "morally justifiable." He has become the public face for underground groups such as the Animal Liberation Front, which the FBI deems a significant domestic terrorism threat. Last month, those groups scored a victory when a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was conducting research on macaque monkeys, sent Vlasak and others an e-mail with the subject line "You win." After several years of harassment and threats to his family, neurobiology Professor Dario Ringach announced he would stop his primate research. "I think Dario Ringach is a poster boy for the concept that the use of force or the threat of force is an effective means to stop people who abuse animals," Vlasak said last week. Vlasak, 48, sits on a precarious perch within the animal-rights movement. Through his Animal Liberation Press Office, he is the spokesman for shadowy groups that sabotage labs, vandalize homes, firebomb properties and make death threats via late-night phone calls. But he works in the wide open, operating a website, issuing press releases, talking to journalists. When he's not doing that, he's performing surgery at Riverside Community Hospital. He does not know anyone in the underground personally, he says. He receives anonymous "communiques" via e-mail or regular mail, posts them on his website and writes press releases to get the message out. The ALF is so deep underground that even its own members probably don't know who their fellow conspirators are. And because there are no known leadership or membership rosters, anyone can strike under the group's name. The communiques are often signed just "ALF." A typical one, posted on Vlasak's website July 27: "A bomb hoax was called into Phenomenal headquarters in Torrance, California, on July 13. The call was a hoax, but unless they cut their ties to ... Huntington Life Sciences, the next time the result could be different. ALF." Huntington Life Sciences is an animal research lab. Vlasak and his wife, former child actress Pamelyn Ferdin, formed the Animal Defence League of Los Angeles to bring a more confrontational, in-your-face element to the animal-rights scene. In December 2005, the Los Angeles city attorney filed 14 criminal counts against the Animal Defence League and members, including Vlasak and Ferdin, for 62 specific acts of harassment and intimidation allegedly committed since January 2004. In May, Vlasak was convicted of "targeted protesting" and sentenced to 30 days' electronic monitoring. Ferdin was convicted of trespassing and sentenced to 90 days in jail. She said she was released because of overcrowding after a day in the reception area. Vlasak said the city is violating the group's free-speech rights. He said authorities lash out against demonstrators because "they don't know who else to look for." "There is a real firewall between the above-ground people and the underground. I am so high-profile, I have to stay squeaky clean." The FBI would not comment on Vlasak specifically. But a spokesman said agents were not going after people solely for their ties to the ALF or other domestic extremist groups. "We're not going to go out and arrest everyone with ties to this group," said Paul Bresson, an FBI spokesman in Washington. "It's different with international terror groups like al-Qaeda, where just providing material support is breaking the law." Nationwide, the FBI says animal-rights and related environmental extremist groups such as the Earth Liberation Front have escalated the number and severity of criminal incidents in recent years. "From January 1990 to June 2004, animal- and environmental-rights extremists have claimed credit for more than 1,200 criminal incidents, resulting in millions of dollars in damage and property loss," John Lewis, deputy assistant director of the FBI's counterterrorism division, told a Senate committee last year. Michael Budkie, executive director of Stop Animal Exploitation Now!, provides much of the research activists use to decide on targets. Based near Cincinnati, Budkie ferrets out public records from universities around the nation, pores through articles at the National Institutes of Health website, reads medical journals, locates animal necropsy reports and unearths research proposals. Budkie said he found articles by Ringach in scientific journals that described placing electrodes into the brains of macaque monkeys and measuring the neural response when the eye is stimulated with light. Budkie said, based on documents, 30 monkeys are killed each year during the research. Ringach has refused to talk about the subject, after his family was repeatedly threatened. But William McBride, chairman of UCLA's animal-research committee, said in a statement that "recent descriptions of some of the work being conducted here are ridiculously misleading." Researchers at the Anti-Defamation League, which monitors hate groups, suspect Vlasak is connected to the underground that targeted Ringach. "Spokespeople don't come out of nowhere," said Oren Segal, an ecoterrorism specialist for the ADL. "They have to prove their bona fides somehow. One of the reasons the Animal Liberation Press Office is so respected in the movement is that he is connected." He said Vlasak brings a sense of social legitimacy to the movement. "Normally you think of these groups as tree-huggers, anarchists, people with piercings," Segal said. "Vlasak brings this notion: 'We're serious people. We have real jobs, we're affluent and we believe this.'" As a medical resident before he became an activist, Vlasak said he worked doing research on dogs' arteries in a lab at UCLA/Harbor Medical Center. The experiments ultimately killed the dogs. He said he was not affected by it at the time. Ferdin, who among many roles in the 1960s and '70s was the voice of Lucy on several Peanuts cartoon TV specials, decided some years ago that killing animals was wrong; and, after much reading, Vlasak came around to her view. Since then, they have led or joined all sorts of causes -- against whaling, seal hunting, animal research, wolf hunting. He and Ferdin chuckle at some of their follies in the field. "Pam was once chased down and beaten up by a popcorn lady at a circus," he said. Yet his rhetoric is serious to the extreme. "I don't think you'd have to kill too many," he told the British newspaper, The Observer in 2004, speaking of researchers who experiment on animals. "I think for five lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, two million, 10 million non-human lives." He depicts his struggle as a war of liberation, no less significant than abolitionism in the 1800s or women's suffrage at the turn of the 20th century. "No strictly peaceful movement has succeeded in liberation," Vlasak said. "John Brown dragged slave owners out of their beds and shot them in the street. I think the animal-rights movement has been restrained in its use of force mostly because people in the struggle are often people of privilege who aren't willing to risk losing that privilege." Asked where he would draw the line on animals worth protecting with force -- jellyfish, sponges, flies? -- he parried that he has more pressing concerns. "You don't have to believe in the rights of an oyster to see what they're doing at UCLA is wrong," he said.

Nunavut objects to proposed EU seal pelt ban September 11, 2006 CBC News Nunavut Premier Paul Okalik pressed French Tourism Minister Leon Bertrand about the importance of the seal hunt to the territory's economy during a weekend visit to the north. Earlier this month, more than 350 European legislators issued a declaration calling on the EU to ban seal products to protest Canada's seal hunt. The anti-sealing campaign is not aimed at the aboriginal subsistence hunt and does not include pelts hunted by Inuit. Nunavut Premier Paul Okalik, left, urged France's minister of tourism, Leon Bertrand, to consider the impact of the European Union's proposed seal pelt ban. (Patricia Bell/CBC) Although the French delegation came to Nunavut to talk tourism, Okalik put the seal pelt issue on the agenda as well. "My visitors had some seal meat," said Okalik. "They're from Europe so they really liked the seal meat. I believe the ambassador really enjoyed a seal stew while visiting Pangnirtung." Bertrand compared the seal hunt controversy to a similar push by Europe to have fishermen in French Guyana use smaller nets to protect some species, such as shrimp, which they depend on for their livelihood. Contradictions often arise in the use of resources but what matters is finding a solution, he said. Although he refused to take a position on the seal pelt debate, Bertrand said he realized the seal hunt means a lot to the Inuit people. Bad for Canada, bad for Nunavut Economic Development Minister Olayuk Akesuk says even though the ban is not directed at Inuit, it would hurt the territory's seal hunters. "We're part of Canada …. If they say Nunavut won't be affected, it's still Canada that will be affected, and in the long run it could hit us in the end," said Akesuk. "So it's important also that our territory send out messages." The Nunavut government plans to develop a strategy to deal with the proposed ban, beginning with a call to the federal government to take on the issue. http://www.cbc.ca/canada/newfoundland-labrador/story/2006/09/11/sealpelt-french.html

Je viens de lui répondre à nouveau Cé: Pour répondre à votre question, un chat qui a été dégriffé uniquement aux pattes avant est porté à mettre plus de poids sur ses pattes arrière, ce qui fait pression sur ses tendons et ses muscles et lui occasionne des douleurs. En ce qui concerne les animaleries, je crois que vous aurez compris que j’y suis totalement opposé. Le fait qu’une animalerie vende un animal « en santé » ne change rien à ce qui arrive à cet animal plus tard dans sa vie. Les refuges et les SPCA sont remplis de chats et de chiens qui ont été achetés dans des animaleries et dont ils se sont lassés ! De plus, vous écriviez plus tôt, que tous les chats que vous vendiez dans votre animalerie étaient dégriffés aux 4 pattes : Peut-on parler dès lors de vente d’animaux « en santé »? Vous ne croyez pas qu’il s’agisse plus tôt de vente d’animaux handicapés ! Si les gens veulent réellement avoir la compagnie d’un chat, ils devraient l’accepter tel qu’il est et s’y adapter. Et, sur ce point, je me demande d’ailleurs si les chats sont réellement des animaux idéals pour des familles qui ont des enfants ou des meubles à protéger ou si ces familles ne devraient pas plutôt se procurer un chat en peluche ! Et il en va de même pour les chiens, lapins, hamsters, cochons-d’inde, etc. etc. etc., vendus dans des animaleries, bien souvent pour faire plaisir aux enfants, et qui pour bon nombre d’entre eux, finissent également dans des refuges, ou à la SPCA, ou abandonnés dans la nature, ou encore emprisonnés à vie dans des cages, des enclos, ou attachés jusqu’à la fin de leurs jours dans le fin fond d’une cour.

Nous étions également sensées avoir notre propre avocate Qu'est-t-elle devenue ? En février, tu seras enfin libérée de l'AVM ! Le Richard a dû rester l'air bête quand tu lui a annoncé cette nouvelle !

Je crois que je le laisserais Cé, car le négliger, n'est pas tout à fait la même chose que de lui infliger des souffrances et le code fait état de ces 2 choses

OK MA BELLE CÉ, TOUT EST CORRECT !!!!!!!!!!!! Le Code criminel canadien Les articles 446 et 447 du Code criminel protègent les animaux contre le cruauté, l'abus et la négligence. Cet article du Code criminel est en processus de révision depuis quelques années. http://www.ccac.ca/fr/CCAC_Programs/ETCC/Module01/11.html ----------------------------------------------- C. PRÉVENTION DE LA CRUAUTÉ ENVERS LES ANIMAUX Titre de la Loi : Code criminel du Canada (fédéral) Aux termes de l’article 446 du Code criminel, il est interdit de provoquer volontairement la souffrance d’un animal en le négligeant ou en lui infligeant une douleur ou une blessure. Les plaintes de non-conformité sont analysées par la Société pour la prévention de la cruauté envers les animaux ou par des agents de police. http://www.inspection.gc.ca/francais/anima/heasan/transport/infrastructuref.shtml --------------------------------------- Cruauté envers les animaux Faire souffrir inutilement un animal 446. (1) Commet une infraction quiconque, selon le cas : a) volontairement cause ou, s’il en est le propriétaire, volontairement permet que soit causée à un animal ou un oiseau une douleur, souffrance ou blessure, sans nécessité; b) par négligence volontaire cause une blessure ou lésion à des animaux ou à des oiseaux alors qu’ils sont conduits ou transportés; c) étant le propriétaire ou la personne qui a la garde ou le contrôle d’un animal ou oiseau domestique ou d’un animal ou oiseau sauvage en captivité, l’abandonne en détresse ou volontairement néglige ou omet de lui fournir les aliments, l’eau, l’abri et les soins convenables et suffisants; d) de quelque façon encourage le combat ou le harcèlement d’animaux ou d’oiseaux ou y aide ou assiste; e) volontairement, sans excuse raisonnable, administre une drogue ou substance empoisonnée ou nocive à un animal ou oiseau domestique ou à un animal ou oiseau sauvage en captivité ou, étant le propriétaire d’un tel animal ou oiseau, volontairement permet qu’une drogue ou substance empoisonnée ou nocive lui soit administrée; f) organise, prépare, dirige, facilite quelque réunion, concours, exposition, divertissement, exercice, démonstration ou événement au cours duquel des oiseaux captifs sont mis en liberté avec la main ou par une trappe, un dispositif ou autre moyen pour essuyer un coup de feu au moment de leur libération, ou y prend part ou reçoit de l’argent à cet égard; g) étant le propriétaire ou l’occupant, ou la personne ayant la charge d’un local, permet que ce local soit utilisé en totalité ou en partie pour une fin mentionnée à l’alinéa f). http://lois.justice.gc.ca/fr/c-46/232379.html

C'est tout-à-fait parfait ma belle Cé ! Autant en français qu'en anglais... Je vais essayer de retrouver cette info concernant " l’article 446 du Code criminel canadien", pour être certaine qu'il n'y a pas d'erreur.... Je reviens....

Allo ma belle Cé ! Une petite pause entre deux brassées et deux coups de balai... J'ai hâte de voir le bulletin Cé ! Tu as beaucoup travaillé pour le préparer: c'est tellement de boulot - Si seulement on pouvait se trouver quelqu'un pour s'occuper de cette tâche

Il porte bien son nom ce pauvre Monsieur Bourre !