Tiffany Moon

Michael Kors: Will you stop using fur?

2010-08-03T21:39:00.000-07:00

My e-mail message to Michael Kors RE his Facebook video scheduled for 4 August, 2010:

3 August, 2010

Mr. Kors,

I have respect for intelligent people in the fashion industry, for those who are both timeless and move with the times, but particularly, for those who design with ethical foundation. When I make decisions about how I dress, share these decisions with others, or am photographed in what I am wearing, my first consideration is "Is the person who made this garment ethical?" The question "Is the person who designed this garment intelligent, tasteful, and both timeless and fashion-forward?" is dwarfed by the question of ethics, as, if the designer whom I might support with my money and advertisement (in publicly wearing the garment), is hurting others with his or her poor sense of morality, I will not have anything to do with any of his or her garments; I will not support this artist in any way.

I've recently learned that you've stopped purchasing certain types of fur; but I fail to understand why you, or any intelligent artist, would continue to use other types of fur, thus directly causing the vicious murder of other non-human animals.

You will be receiving a large number of mailings from people responding to at least one animal-rights-activism group over the next month. I understand that members of your staff have already been contacted by PETA, and that one of the mass mailings you will receive will contain information about the fur "industry". However, while necessarily polite, I find that these mailings fall short of impressing upon you the seriousness of your actions.

Fur "farmers" do use cheap and vicious killing methods, such as suffocation, anal or vaginal electrocution, gassing, poisoning (ineptly) and stomping or beating to death. Most often, however, the non-human people who are murdered, who are as sentient as any human animal is (and one might suppose you are), are brutally skinned alive, their still-living bodies thrown upon piles of other recently skinned and slowly writhing bodies.

To use such methods, or more importantly, to murder for fur at all, is, sadly, still considered to be a "choice" by many, including you, in the fashion industry. However, please consider that it was also, not so long ago, a choice to beat one's black slave, or to beat, rape or kill one's wife (or any woman) in our country. Would you have done this when it were legal to do so? Will you continue to make the choice to brutally murder non-human animals because it happens to be legal to do so?

I am appalled that you continue to support outdated and blatantly sadistic murder in the name of fashion, something that should be beautiful and artful, when so many exceptional cruelty-free materials are readily available for artistic fashion. There is no excuse for any intelligent designer to murder for fur. Further, humans who wear fur (and the designers who use it as a "fashion choice") simply look ugly, as it identifies them as unintelligent, thoughtless, selfish, and most of all, speciesist and emotionally deficient.

Times are changing, and many highly publicized members of the fashion industry are refusing to murder for fur. Now is the time to make yourself stand out in the fashion industry as a well-informed and thoughtful artist, or to stand out as outdated, thoughtless and cruel. Please make the intelligent and compassionate decision today to eliminate all fur from your clothing lines. Stand out by publicizing your choice to be intelligent and compassionate via Project Runway and your upcoming You Tube broadcast. This is the moment that will define you, not only as a fashion designer, but as a person:

Facebook question: Will you stop using fur?

Thank you in advance for making a truly forward-thinking choice to embrace compassion as a foundation for fashion,

Tiffany D Moon, DM
Tiffany Moon Enterprises:
Institute of Arts and Letters
Moon Metaphysics
The Vegan Life Coach
Independent Composition

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A few fur-related videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLcgxIGTFRs&has_verified=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0czARj7D2B0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkw_OUnVXqM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-jh7Obgghk&feature=related
http://www.furisdead.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkJVcqhAuz0&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RftSCY6d8Ug&feature=related
http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video=martha&Player=wm

This 4th of July: Please Help Me Celebrate My 12-Year Vegan Anniversary

2010-07-02T04:17:00.001-07:00

July 1, 2010

This June, I celebrated my 12-YEAR VEGAN ANNIVERSARY! Will you please help me to celebrate 12 years of a compassionate lifestyle by donating any multiple of $12 to PETA in my name?

For the past several years, I’ve chosen to support IDA for its contributions to the alterations of speciesist law and legal language. Current laws, far from protecting the rights of non-human animals, continually fail to offer even basic non-human welfare protection. One of IDA’s current US projects is “The Guardian Campaign”, seeking to change language referring to the human relationship to companion animals from “owner” to “guardian”, altering remedies for abuse, neglect and abandonment.

This year, however, in light of the most devastating oil spill in human history, I’m supporting PETA in its campaign to bring cruelty-to-animal charges against BP. For information about PETA’s campaign, please visit https://secure.peta.org/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=3186

Thank you!

Tiffany

PS: Thanks to the San Diego businesses that have provided tasty anniversary treats!

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Go Vegan & Boycott Fireworks This 4th of July

You can fight Big Oil this weekend by choosing to indulge in vegan foods! The production of animal “foods” requires eight times more fossil fuels than does the production of plant-based foods.

http://www.idablog.org/featured/fuming-about-the-oil-spill-go-veg/

Fireworks are environmentally destructive and cause extraordinary stress and the homelessness, confinement and death of thousands of animals every year.

http://www.cacoastkeeper.org/news/are-fireworks-bad-for-the-environment
http://living.peta.org/2008/fireworks-disasters-tell-us-your-story

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About veganism:
http://www.vegan.org/about_veganism/
http://www.veganoutreach.org/whyvegan/

The most healthful and ethical sub-sects of veganism, usually referred to as a percentage of one’s diet:

Raw veganism:
http://goneraw.com/
http://www.living-foods.com/
Fruitarianism:
http://www.fruitarian.com/

About environmentalism:
http://www.veganoutreach.org/whyvegan/environment.html
http://www.vegansociety.com/environment

About human health:
http://www.nealbarnard.org/media.cfm

About rights and speciesism:
http://www.richardryder.co.uk/speciesism.html
http://www.speciesism.com/
http://www.lanternbooks.com/detail.html?id=0970647565
http://www.animalliberationfront.com/Philosophy/Morality/Speciesism/Speciesism2equality.htm

Award-winning documentary, Earthlings:

Official site:
http://www.earthlings.com/
Audio-release article:
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS139387+31-Mar-2009+BW20090331
Online video:
http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&rlz=1C1CHMA_enUS332US332&q=earthlings+documentary&um=1&ie=UTF-8&ei=sQFDSuWrJ5PoMbvTxOEM&sa=X&oi=video_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title#

My blogs:
www.facebook.com/TiffanyMoon
www.myspace.com/tdmoon
www.my.care2.com/rasputia
http://twitter.com/TiffanyMoon (new)

Deceptive Oil-Spill Marketing: P&G's Dawn Soap Murdering Animals, Not "Helping" Them

2010-05-05T04:46:00.000-07:00

Don't be fooled by deceptive marketing:
Boycott Dawn soap and Proctor & Gamble
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Dear friends,

With the current oil spill splashing across the news pages, Proctor & Gamble has seized upon this most recent juicy opportunity to promote and sell Dawn dish soap by marketing the soap as one used to "help" and "save" animals.

I'm sure that you've seen the commercials: Water animals drenched in toxic oil, supposedly from the Exxon spill, being gently handled and cleaned with Dawn, and the cute little ducky seeming to quack in thanks, its image being plastered upon bottles of Dawn. This image provides deceptive advertising to the public: Dawn appears to be an animal-friendly product and invites the patronage of an unwitting public.

In fact, Dawn soap is produced by Proctor & Gamble, the most notorious and unapologetic animal vivisector in the consumer-products market. Despite alternative testing methods, despite consistent empirical evidence indicating that animal experimentation does not provide accurate results or public human safety, and despite simple ethics, Proctor & Gamble continues to brutally torture and mutilate billions of animals on a regular basis to create its products. -and, when the public buys Dawn soap (or any other PG product), it is supporting Proctor & Gamble, paying for it to continue to mutilate and murder non-human, sentient people in the name of "product research". Yes, Dawn will be sold to those organizations assisting in wildlife rescue efforts during the current oil-spill crisis, and yes, this chemical-based product will be used to clean and probably save (minus the trauma of the event) hundreds of animals. However, the continued sale of this product will also torture and murder billions more animals.

Proctor & Gamble's current marketing ploy is contemptible, far exceeding the deceptive nature of other recent and similar marketing ventures of vivisecting companies such as Johnson & Johnson. Don't be deceived by misleading advertising. Do you homework before you shop. Don't purchase Proctor & Gamble products. Do purchase products labeled with the "Leaping Bunny" symbol.

Please join me in boycotting Proctor & Gamble, sending letters to its representatives, and spreading the word about its deception: Blog about it, and place "Proctor & Gamble, Dawn, oil spill" in search-phrases boxes; stop people about to buy PG products in your local store; and tell your co-workers and friends.

Thank you for caring enough about life not to buy Proctor & Gamble products.

P&G's latest partnership to "help" and "save" oil-affected animals:
http://www.bizjournals.com/cincinnati/stories/2010/05/03/daily10.html

Leaping Bunny cruelty-free product certification:
http://www.leapingbunny.org/

Tiffany D Moon, DM
www.studiotiffany.com

EARTH DAY: Do you think that you're an environmentalist? Are you vegan?

2010-04-22T04:57:00.001-07:00

EARTH DAY: Do you think that you're an environmentalist? Are you vegan? The best thing you can do for the planet today is adopt a vegan lifestyle.

http://www.emagazine.com/view/?142

Contact the Canadian Government: Seal Murder

2010-03-04T19:58:00.000-08:00

Dear friends,

The annual Canadian seal-murdering season begins in just days. Please contact Canada's officials and demand that this not occur; insist that you will boycott all Canadian products and visits until the annual slaughter is illegal and enforced as such.

Thank you,

Tiffany D Moon, DM
Tiffany Moon Enterprises
dr.tiffany.moon@gmail.com
www.studiotiffany.com
www.harrypotteropera.com
www.instituteofartsandletters.org

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http://www.hsus.org/marine_mammals/protect_seals/about_the_canadian_seal_hunt/

About the Canadian Seal Hunt

grey speckled seal
©2005 Brian Skerry/HSUS

Canada's annual commercial seal hunt is the largest commercial hunt of marine mammals on the planet. Facing harsh criticism the world over because of the hunt's cruelty and unsustainability, the Canadian government and fishing industry have spread much misinformation. Here are the basic facts about the hunt.

Which Seals Are Targeted by Canada's Seal Hunt?

Harp seals are the primary target of the commercial seal hunt, and to a much smaller extent, hooded seals are also killed. In 2006, 98 percent of the harp seals killed were pups under just three months of age.

Where Are the Seals Killed?

Canada's commercial seal hunt occurs on the ice floes off Canada's East Coast in two areas: the Gulf of St. Lawrence (west of Newfoundland and east of the Magdalen Islands) and the "Front" (northeast of Newfoundland).

Who Kills Seals and Why?

Sealing is an off-season activity conducted by fishermen from Canada's East Coast. They make, on average, a small fraction of their annual incomes from sealing—and the rest from commercial fisheries. Even in Newfoundland, where 90 percent of sealers live, the government estimates there are less than 6,000 fishermen who actively participate in the seal hunt each year.

How Are the Seals Killed?

The Canadian Marine Mammal Regulations, which govern the hunt, stipulate sealers may kill seals with wooden clubs, hakapiks (large ice-pick-like clubs) and guns. In the Gulf of St. Lawrence, clubs and hakapiks are the killing implement of choice, and in the Front, guns are more widely used.

It is important to note that each killing method is demonstrably cruel. Because sealers shoot at seals from moving boats, the pups are often only wounded. The main sealskin processing plant in Canada deducts $2 from the price they pay for the skins for each bullet hole they find—therefore sealers are loath to shoot seals more than once. As a result, wounded seals are often left to suffer in agony—many slip beneath the surface of the water where they die slowly and are never recovered.

Is the Seal Hunt Cruel?

Yes. In 2001, a report by an independent team of veterinarians who studied the hunt concluded that governmental regulations regarding humane killing were neither being respected nor enforced, and that the seal hunt failed to comply with Canada's basic animal welfare standards. Shockingly, the veterinarians found that in 42 percent of the cases they studied, the seals had likely been skinned alive while conscious.

Parliamentarians, journalists, and scientists who observe Canada's commercial seal hunt each year continue to report unacceptable levels of cruelty, including sealers dragging conscious seals across the ice floes with boat hooks, shooting seals and leaving them to suffer in agony, stockpiling dead and dying animals, and even skinning seals alive.

How Many Seals Are Killed Each Year?

Hundreds of thousands. In fact, over the past three years, nearly one million seals have been killed. The current kill levels are higher than they have been in half a century. During the 2006 hunt, the Canadian government allowed fishermen to club and shoot at least 354,344 seals. The last time seals were killed at this rate—in the 1950s and '60s—the harp seal population was reduced by nearly two thirds.

And the actual number of seals killed is probably far higher than the number reported. Many seals are shot at and injured in the course of the hunt, and studies suggest that a significant number of these animals slip beneath the surface of the water, where they die slowly and are never recovered.

Are There Any Penalties When Hunters Exceed the Government's Quota?

No. In 2002, the Canadian government knowingly allowed sealers to exceed the quota by more than 37,000 animals. Sealers had already killed substantially more than the quota allowed by May 15 (the regulated closing date of the seal hunt), and yet the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans chose to extend the sealing season until June. In 2004, sealers killed close to 16,000 seals more than the permitted quota. Again, the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans extended the sealing season until well into June.

What Products Are Made from Seals?

Seals are killed primarily for their fur, which is used to produce fashion garments and other items. There is a small market for seal oil (both for industrial purposes and for human consumption), and seal penises have been sold in Asian markets as an aphrodisiac. There is almost no market for the meat, so seal carcasses are normally left to rot on the ice.

Is the Seal Hunt Economically Important?

No. Sealing is an off-season activity conducted by fishermen from Canada's East Coast. They make, on average, one twentieth of their incomes from seal hunting and the rest from commercial fisheries. Even in Newfoundland, where 90 percent of sealers live, revenues from the hunt account for less than 1 percent of the province's economy and only 2 percent of the landed value of the fishery. According to the Newfoundland government, out of a population of half a million people, less than 6,000 fishermen participate in the seal hunt each year.

The commercial seal hunt is an activity that Canada's federal government could easily replace with economic alternatives, should it choose to do so. One option is a government buy-out. The HSUS and HSI advocate that the sealers ask the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) to buy back their sealing licences. This will ensure that the sealers receive fair compensation for the additional income they make from participating in the commercial seal hunt each year. When Canada ended its commercial whale hunt, it did so through exactly this sort of license buyout scheme. As sealing licenses are sold by the DFO, only the DFO can buy them back. The DFO is the only entity that can bring an end to the commercial seal hunt. Senior officials from DFO have made clear that the only condition under which it will end the commercial seal hunt is if and when the sealer/fishermen ask for it to be ended. For this reason, we are working hard through the ProtectSeals boycott of Canadian seafood to provide adequate motivation to Canada's sealer/fishermen to retire their hakapiks and rifles and focus exclusively on fishing in the future. In 2008, only 1.3 percent of the landed value of seafood in Newfoundland came from the seal hunt. The rest came from seafood.

Does the Government Subsidize the Hunt?

Yes. According to reports from the Canadian Institute for Business and the Environment, more than $20 million in subsidies were provided to the sealing industry between 1995 and 2001. Those subsidies came from entities such as the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency, Human Resources Development Council, and Canada Economic Development–Quebec. These subsidies take a variety of forms, including funding the salaries for seal processing plant workers, market research and development trips, and capital acquisitions for processing plants. In 2004, more than $400,000 was provided by the Canadian government to companies for the development of seal products, and as recently as April 2007, the Canadian Coast Guard—at the taxpayer's expense—broke through the ice for the sealing vessels as it does each year. In 2007, the Canadian Coast Guard estimates that it spent an additional $3.5 million rescuing sealing vessels.

Moreover, Canada's commercial seal hunt is also indirectly subsidized by the Norwegian government. A Norwegian company purchases close to 80% of the sealskins produced in Canada in any given year through its Canadian subsidiary. These skins are shipped in an unprocessed state directly to Norway, where they are tanned and re-exported. The Norwegian government provides significant financial assistance to this company each year.

Is It True Seals Are Jeopardizing the Canadian Cod Fishery?

There is no evidence to support this contention. Some fishing industry lobby groups try to claim that seals must be culled to protect fish stocks, but nothing could be further from the truth.

The scientific community agrees that the true cause of the depletion of fish stocks off Canada's East Coast is human over-fishing. Blaming seals for disappearing fish is a convenient way for the fishing industry to divert attention from its irresponsible and environmentally destructive practices that continue today.

In truth, seals, like all marine mammals, are a vital part of the ecosystem of the Northwest Atlantic. Harp seals, which are the primary target of the hunt, are opportunistic feeders, meaning they eat many different species. So while approximately 3 percent of a harp seal's diet may be commercially fished cod, harp seals also eat many significant predators of cod, such as squid. That is why some scientists are concerned that culling harp seals could further inhibit recovery of commercially valuable fish stocks in the Northwest Atlantic.

Are Seals Overpopulated?

No. The Canadian government and sealing industry have, at various times, tried to claim that the harp seal population has "tripled" over the past three decades, or that the harp seal population is "exploding," or that seals are overpopulated.

This is misleading at best. The harp seal population in the Northwest Atlantic is the world's largest; it is a migratory population that spans the distance between Canada and Greenland, and is supposed to number in the many millions.

In the 1950s and '60s, over-hunting wiped out close to two-thirds of the harp seal population. By 1974, the population was considered to be in serious trouble, and senior government scientists recommended suspending the commercial hunt for at least 10 years.

In the early 1980s, the European Union banned the import of whitecoat seal skins, effectively removing the principal market for the hunt at the time. For the next decade, the numbers of seals killed in the hunt dramatically declined, and the harp seal population began to recover.

But in the 1990s, the Canadian government rejuvenated the commercial seal hunt through massive subsidies. And with nearly one million seal pups killed in the past three years alone, we can only wonder what the impact will be on the harp seal population in coming years. Scientists have already sounded the alarm regarding the poor science used by the Canadian government to set quotas for the number of seals killed.

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Request for Letters: Castrate Bart Stupak

2010-03-04T19:56:00.001-08:00

FW RE Stupak:

In addition to your voice against Bart Stupak's willfully negligent behavior below, I would also like to ask for your aid in calling for the immediate medical castration of Stupak.

Think I'm joking? I'm not. Any man who believes that women should not have full and equal access to their reproductive rights should certainly not be in possession of his own; in short, he should not be allowed to cause the problem he wishes to prevent.

Please write a letter to your representatives, copying it to members of House and the President, and including attention to Stupak, Nelson, et. al., indicating the need for the medical castration of all men who are residents of or traveling to the US if women in the US may not have access to abortion coverage as part of their health benefits. This suggestion, of course, is intended to present the absurdity of the ability of men employed by government and medical agencies, without equal threat of medical (social and professional arguments notwithstanding) consequence, to use their positions to insult and degrade women by denying them equal reproductive rights in relationship to our legal and medical systems. Therefore, please be polite, employ appropriate syntax, provide reasoned arguments and include any applicable support for your claims.

If you will also copy your letters, FAXes or e-mail messages to me at dr.tiffany.moon@gmail.com (pasted copies, please; no attachments), I will post as many as possible to my blogs and official Website.

Thank you,

Tiffany D Moon, DM
Tiffany Moon Enterprises
dr.tiffany.moon@gmail.com
www.studiotiffany.com
www.harrypotteropera.com
www.instituteofartsandletters.org

--- On Thu, 3/4/10, Nancy Keenan, NARAL Pro-Choice America wrote:

From: Nancy Keenan, NARAL Pro-Choice America
Subject: Stupak sounds off on "Good Morning America"
To: rasputia@yahoo.com
Date: Thursday, March 4, 2010, 12:34 PM

NARAL Pro-Choice america

Dear Tiffany,

As health-care reform enters the final stretch, we can't let Rep. Stupak get his way.

Women can’t afford to lose.

Sign the letter to pro-choice leaders in Congress by midnight Sunday.

Health-care legislation is back in the spotlight. Yesterday, President Obama called for an end to the delays and political gamesmanship that have bogged down health-care reform since day one.

I couldn't agree more. It's time to pass real health-care reform that will make a difference in everyone's lives.

But anti-choice Rep. Bart Stupak, Sen. Ben Nelson, and their allies have again threatened to use health-care reform to restrict women's access to insurance coverage for abortion.

This morning on "Good Morning America," Rep. Stupak said he would bring down the entire bill unless there is a complete abortion-coverage ban in the new health system.1

We need to let the House of Representatives' strongest pro-choice leaders know that we support their efforts to beat back Rep. Stupak's abortion-coverage ban.

Add your name to our letter before our midnight deadline on Sunday.

The House passed Rep. Stupak's ban back in November, and our congressional champions have been fighting back ever since. At this critical time, they need to hear from us.

Your signature today will help give our leaders an even more powerful voice to persuade colleagues to change votes as they go into a major showdown in the House in the days ahead.

Sign your name to our letter supporting our pro-choice champions' efforts to advance health-care reform without using a woman's right to choose as a bargaining chip.

Our very best allies in the House need us now. Thank you for standing with us, and them.

My best,

Nancy Keenan

Nancy Keenan
President, NARAL Pro-Choice America

1 - "Democrats would nix healthcare over abortion," Reuters, March 4, 2010

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TO PureFlo Water RE Susan G Komen for the Cure

2009-12-03T15:40:00.001-08:00

San Diegans,

As you know, with the host of drugs and residual chemicals in our public water, and given the pollution and production issues affecting spring water, the safest form of water for consumption is well water. PureFlo's well seems to be the safest in our ordering area, and it's been my water source for many years. I found today, however, that PureFlo is supporting Susan G Komen for the Cure, an organization that unapologetically provides funding to animal vivisectors. I've asked PureFlo not to support Susan G Komen and to chose a compassionate charity to support instead. Will you do the same?

Thank you,

Tiffany

PureFlo's Website:
http://pureflo.com/

My Message to PureFlo:

I noticed today that you're supporting Susan G Komen for the Cure, but the Komen organization supports wide-spread and brutal animal vivisection. There are many other, much more compassionate cancer-research organizations that are worth supporting. Please select an alternative organization.

Here are my recent thoughts about Komen's animal vivisection funding: http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendId=76075746&blogId=497106522

Here is a list of organizations that do and don't test on animals:

http://www.caringconsumer.com/resources_charities.asp

Please choose compassion in your charity support. Meanwhile, I'd like to ensure that no portion of my billing is directed to Susan G Komen for the Cure, an organization that brazenly supports the needless torture and destruction of innocent lives.

Thank you,

Tiffany Moon

Harry Potter Opera Cycle

2009-07-14T04:51:00.000-07:00

www.harrypotteropera.com is live!

Audio sample: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79tcw7R8U68

Vivisection Funding by Susan G. Komen for the Cure: My Response

2009-07-13T04:07:00.000-07:00

Re: Your concern regarding Susan G. Komen for the Cure research funding
Friday, June 26, 2009 2:39 AM
From: "Tiffany Moon" View contact details
To: "HalaModdelmog"

Ms. Rowdan,

I appreciate that you've had to prepare and disseminate this information in response to the form letters in opposition to your support of the funding of research that exploits and tortures non-human animals. Certainly, this response is necessary for those who may not be aware of the scope of your organization or the requirements of the FDA; however, you have plainly failed to respond to the fundamental principal of the objection to your organization's direction of funding, that you are, in fact, supporting and providing for non-human animal vivisection.

That the FDA continues to require vivisection in the cases of medical research and most pharmaceuticals, regardless of ineffectual and irresponsible regulation by various government offices, is beyond the point of the objection to vivisection, and as long as scientific and medical industries fail to assertively dispute FDA requirements with the abundance of clear evidence that well-established alternatives to vivisection are not only more ethical but far more accurate than vivisection, these requirements will not be altered. It is as much the responsibility of your organization and industry as it is of the public to alter current laws regarding vivisection; meanwhile, that your organization continues to fund, directly or indirectly, vivisection, regardless of the nobility of the cause, is a choice, not a requirement. Any advancement in human understanding or cure of human disease at the expense of the mutilation and murder of millions of unwilling, non-human animals, is not an advancement for, but a detriment to, humanity; any cure at this expense is not a cure worth having.

Thank you for providing an explanation of your organization, its outreach, funding and procedure, as well as mention of the government agencies that oversee your industry. Please now act upon non-speciesist ethics, not upon requirement.

Tiffany D. Moon
Institute of Arts and Letters
www.studiotiffany.com
www.instituteofartsandletters.org
San Diego, CA
(858) 672-0611

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--- On Fri, 6/26/09, Moddelmog, Hala wrote:

From: Moddelmog, Hala
Subject: Your concern regarding Susan G. Komen for the Cure research funding
To: "T Moon"
Date: Friday, June 26, 2009, 12:47 AM

Thank you for reaching out to Susan G. Komen for the Cure and inquiring about
the use of animals in research. We respect your viewpoint on this issue and
hope that the following information addresses your questions.

While Susan G. Komen for the Cure does not conduct research, it does fund
innovative and responsive research projects in leading institutions
worldwide. Komen for the Cure has a long history of funding groundbreaking
research to fulfill its promise to save lives and end breast cancer forever.
Komen funds scientific research as well as community breast health education
and outreach programs across the country through our 122 Affiliates in the
U.S. Our research portfolio addresses areas such as prevention, survivorship,
cancer cell biology, and cancer etiology.

Komen has strict controls to maintain the integrity of the grant application
and review process. Komen's Grant Program adheres to a peer-review process
that is recognized by the National Cancer Institute (NCI). All research
funded by Komen's Grant Program is developed and conducted under the
direction of the primary investigator who is applying for the grant.

The federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requires that any new
pharmaceutical compound be tested on at least two different animal models to
be considered for approval for use in humans. Therefore, some investigators
must conduct animal testing in order to comply with FDA regulations for drug
development. In order to be eligible for Komen research grant funding,
investigators must provide proof of pre-approval of study design and animal
care methods from the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) at
the institution where they will be conducting research. In accordance with
U.S. federal law, the IACUC may permit some investigators to use laboratory
animals, usually genetically bred mice, in their search to identify more
effective ways to prevent and treat breast cancer. Researchers are also
required to file an Investigator Assurance Statement to ensure all procedures
are in compliance with National Institute of Health and (NIH) and U.S.
Department of Agriculture (USDA) regulations.

We hope this answers your questions. We respect your viewpoint on this issue
and thank you for sharing your concerns.

Sincerely,

Diana Rowden, Vice President of Health Sciences

Susan G. Komen for the Cure