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September 12, 2005, 6 p.m.: PETA Team Grows by 10 Members; Congress to Hold Hearings This Thursday
On Monday, another 10 PETA staff members and volunteers flew to New Orleans to help in the animal rescue and care efforts there. In just the last two days in the field, PETA’s first team rescued nearly 30 dogs and 50 birds from filthy, flooded homes and fed and watered hundreds more. Despite our strong presence of 14 individuals now on the ground, the amount of work to be done remains enormous. Our team needs your support to help all the animals who are still in danger.
This Thursday, the House of Representatives Government Reform Committee will hold hearings on the federal government’s response to Katrina. Please ask the committee chair, Rep. Tom Davis, and its ranking minority member, Rep. Henry Waxman, to allow PETA president Ingrid E. Newkirk to testify about the plight of animals affected by disasters such as Katrina during their hearings. Let these public servants know that the suffering of Americans was only heightened by the federal blockades that prevented humane agents from coming to the animals’ rescue and by evacuators’ widespread insistence that animals be abandoned to die. Tell Davis and Waxman that the United States must set an international example and that animals’ interests and the interests of their guardians must be taken into consideration in any disaster response plan.
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