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Petition to Spanish Tourism - Ireland
majority opposed to animal cruelty, you find it very offensive that they are actively promotingRead more
Irish Council Against Blood SportsMullingar, Ireland
56,457 supporters
Created Jul 23, 2015
Petition to Neil Vogel (CEO, About.com)
About.com is being asked to stop publicising bullfighting and providing links to sites selling bullfighting tickets. On the About.com GoSpain page, travel writer Damian Corrigan declares: "I recommend heading for the bullring as soon as you arrive in the city to secure your tickets."
Dates and locations are listed along with links to bullfighting websites where tickets may be purchased.
Elsewhere on About.com, the torturing and killing of bulls is shockingly described as "art". Beneath a photo of a matador plunging a sword into the bleeding body of a bull, it is stated: "The exact manner in which the fighter takes the bull's life is important to the art."
In a letter to About.com CEO Neil Vogel and CEO of parent company InterActive Corp, Jeff Kip, the Irish Council Against Blood Sports stated: "Bullfighting is an extremely cruel and violent activity in which bulls are terrorised, tortured and killed. Most holidaymakers lured in to the bullrings are left feeling shocked and disgusted at the bloody scenes they witness. Please show compassion and remove bullfighting from your website."
ACTION ALERT
Urge About.com and InterActive Corp to stop publicising bullfighting on their website.
Mr Neil Vogel, Mr Jeff KipCEO, About.com / InterActive CorpEmail: jeff.kip@iac.com,info@iac.comTel: +1 212 314 7277 (New York)Twitter: @neilvogel @AboutTravel @gospainRead more
Irish Council Against Blood SportsMullingar, Ireland
99,658 supporters
Created Apr 23, 2015
Petition to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Chief Justice of Pakistan, PEMRA Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority
PEMRA should take an initiative to stop promotion of violence against women though media. They should come up with a clear policy about, under which circumstances violence against women can be shown on television, and how the issue should be dealt with; as unnecessary depiction of violence against women will merely promote violence, and bring acceptance for such acts in the society. Particularly, strict action should be taken against perpetrators, who promote rape culture, or anything remotely related to it, for instance, glorifying rapists, and blaming the victims in any way. Read more
Habiba RanaPakistan
281,295 supporters
Created Jan 23, 2017
Petition to Doug McMillon, Walmart
is getting out of control. And Walmart is promoting this for money.
Why do the 500,000 disabledRead more
Dominique WeemsChildersburg, AL, United States
55,626 supporters
Created Jan 12, 2022
Petition to Tourism Ireland, Failte Ireland, Mid Ireland Tourism, Brendan Griffin TD, Shane Ross TD, Tourism Ireland US
Less than two weeks after RTE's Prime Time exposed dog doping and animal cruelty in the Irish greyhound industry, Tourism Ireland welcomed the Irish Greyhound Board (IGB) to its stand at a major tourism event in the UK.
Despite shocking revelations about the cruelty involved in greyhound racing and the damage undoubtedly being done to Ireland's international image, the greyhound board was allowed to be part of the Tourism Ireland stand at the Tourism and Travel Show 2017, held at the NEC Birmingham on March 22nd and 23rd.
A photograph taken at the event shows the Irish Greyhound Board stand which prominently featured the Tourism Ireland logo. Messaging from the tourism show, the greyhound board said: "Ready to go for 2 days of selling a Night at the Dogs in Ireland to Tourism Trade at the British Tourism & Travel Show 2017".
In a press release issued ahead of the show, Tourism Ireland confirmed that "Tourism Ireland is exhibiting alongside its stand partners including...Irish Greyhound Board..."
The IGB's presence at the show was to encourage tour operators to direct tourists to Irish greyhound tracks. The travel show listing for the Irish Greyhound Board described a visit to a dog track as "the perfect mix of night-time entertainment, Irish culture and good food".
There is, of course, no mention of the ugly reality of the greyhound industry - the suffering of dogs, the mutilations, abandonment, injuries or deaths.
Speaking on the Prime Time programme, greyhound protection campaigner, Marion Fitzgibbon left no doubt about the appalling cruelty. She told viewers: "We believe there are probably 10,000 greyhounds put to sleep every year. They can be killed in all sorts of fashions. We've had so many instances of finding them shot, ears cut off, drowned" - https://youtu.be/PIUkAGa708s
Clearly Tourism Ireland, Fáilte Ireland and other tourism bodies should have nothing to do with this disgusting industry. They should recognise that the greyhound industry is bad for Ireland's image and note the growing opposition to greyhound racing in Ireland, Europe, America, Australia and all around the world. Ireland has so many wonderful tourist attractions - there is no need for Tourism Ireland or Fáilte Ireland to resort to using greyhound racing as a selling point.Read more
Irish Council Against Blood SportsMullingar, Ireland
47,349 supporters
Created May 3, 2017
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Petition to Kevin Krone
mileage credit cards, but no more -- Southwest needs to understand that they are promoting animalRead more
Robin MerrittEdwardsville, IL, United States
31,908 supporters
Created Oct 30, 2013
Petition to John Boozman, Shelley Moore Capito, Roger F. Wicker, Richard C. Shelby, Tammy Duckworth, Benjamin L. Cardin, Jeff Merkley, Dan Sullivan, Mike Braun, Bernie Sanders, Sheldon Whitehouse, Chris Van Ho...
In 2012, Harvard researchers published a systematic review and meta-analysis implicating fluoride as a potential neurotoxin affecting the developing brain. [source: https://ehp.niehs.nih.gov/1104912/]
Three years later, in December 2015, the National Toxicology Program (NTP) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) admitted "the existing literature is limited in its ability to evaluate potential neurocognitive effects of fluoride in people associated with the current U.S. Public Health Service drinking water guidance (0.7 mg/L)." [source] The NTP then outlined a plan to study the extent of fluoride’s impact on children's neurodevelopment.
Why is the Department of Health and Human Services still recommending the addition of fluoride to the public water supply while toxicologists in the National Toxicology Program admit we do not have a clear understanding of its neurotoxic effect on children?
When water fluoridation was first endorsed by government dentists seventy years ago, we didn’t realize the effect chronic exposure to toxic chemicals can have on long-term health. We had to learn the hard way that chemicals such as lead, mercury, asbestos, and DDT are more dangerous than we originally thought. Given this history, the prudent course of action is to stop endorsing public water fluoridation until our leading toxicologists (not dentists) fully study its safety.
Here’s how I became interested in fluoride.
Nearly all my life, I drank fluoridated water without questioning the health authorities who said it was good for me. But when I spent a year in Scotland as a Fulbright scholar, I experienced the dramatic difference it makes living in a non-fluoridated country. Over 95 percent of Western Europe does not fluoridate its water supply.
For me, the major difference living without fluoridated water was the disappearance of the cystic acne that plagued me throughout my adult life. I eventually figured out that fluoride was the cause of my acne.
Sensitivity to fluoride is not an uncommon condition, it’s just not commonly diagnosed because few people understand the extent to which fluoride has infiltrated our modern lives. In addition to public drinking water and toothpaste, we are exposed to fluoride through fluoride-based pesticides that accumulate in fruit, vegetables, and even chicken nuggets and lunch meat, as well as fluorinated pharmaceuticals like Prozac and Paxil.
When I started researching fluoride, I was shocked to learn that according to the CDC, 90 percent of the fluoride added to the water supply is hydrofluorosilicic acid, an unfiltered byproduct of the phosphate fertilizer industry. Fluoride is considered a pollutant when released through factory smokestacks but after fluoride pollution devastated thousands of acres of agricultural land in the 1950s, regulators restricted its release into the atmosphere. This is the same industrial byproduct that is now packaged and sold to local water utilities for addition to public water supplies.
The research on fluoride has been flagrantly skewed by corporate polluters who had a strong self-interest in proving the safety and effectiveness of fluoridation. In a comprehensive review conducted in June 2015 by the Cochrane Group, a U.K.-based organization described in Newsweek as "the gold standard of scientific rigor in assessing effectiveness of public health policies," reviewers concluded: "There is very little contemporary evidence, meeting the review's inclusion criteria, that has evaluated the effectiveness of water fluoridation for the prevention of caries."
Data from the World Health Organization shows the decline in tooth decay occurred equally in fluoridated and non-fluoridated countries throughout the western world as nutrition improved. Is the questionable benefit of a reduction in cavities worth the risk of impairing our children’s mental development?
And what about Erin Brockovich's argument that the use of the public water system to disperse compulsory mass medication is ethically and fundamentally wrong?
The NTP intends to study fluoride’s role in cancer, too.
In 1977, Congress ordered a similar study regarding fluoride and cancer. When the results were finally published over a decade later, a senior toxicologist at EPA's Office of Drinking Water was fired when he concluded the study indicates fluoride is a possible carcinogen. He was reinstated in 1994 under the Whistleblower Protection Act but his concerns about fluoride were never addressed.
In June 2000, senior representatives from the EPA Headquarters Union of professional employees testified in front of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Drinking Water to call for a moratorium on fluoridation and further review of the cancer study. Their warnings were not heeded. It is time we tell Congress we want them to follow through with these recommendations.
Please join me in asking the current members of the Senate Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, and Drinking Water to stop the promotion of public water fluoridation by the Department of Health and Human Services until toxicologists fully study its negative health effects.
Leading advocates of fluoridation in Canada and New Zealand have reversed their endorsement of fluoride. How long will it take before health authorities in the United States realize public water fluoridation is a costly mistake?
We cannot wait for U. S. health authorities to see past decades of undue corporate influence. Our government needs to stop endorsing public water fluoridation now.
*Thank you to city councilor Ari Herzog for permission to use a photo of the fluoride added to the water in his town of Newburyport, MA.Read more
Melissa GallicoSouth Florida, FL, United States
6,662 supporters
Created Jun 25, 2016
Petition to Rachel Reiff, Elizabeth Jackson
company they should not be promoting or normalizing this surgery. Aratana Therapeutics is a respected reconsider promoting their product for declawing, a surgery that is wholly unnecessary and has theRead more
James JensvoldWoodland Hills, CA, United States
6,038 supporters
Created Jun 22, 2018
Petition to Thomas Cook
. That is why I’m calling on Thomas Cook to stop promoting and selling trips to swim with dolphins inRead more
Katie BashfordGuildford, United Kingdom
258,887 supporters
Created Sep 18, 2016
Petition to Décathlon
actively promoting and profiting from the killing, the illustrated example is just one from a wide promoting the slaughter of songbirds and migrating birds?" https://www.decathlon.co.uk/en/contactUsWithoutAccount
Thank you.Read more
Colin MacLennanGlasgow, SCT, United Kingdom
61,692 supporters
Created Jul 1, 2020
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