Tell Amazon.com To Stop Profiting from Animal Fighting:

[and-justice-for-all]

Did you know that Amazon.com is peddling materials that are both illegal and cruel to animals? It's true: Amazon.com is selling materials that promote cockfighting and dogfighting, and The Humane Society of the United States has been pressuring the company to remove these materials for many months.

Yesterday, the online retail giant told us that two dogfighting DVDs would be pulled from the site. This is a win for the dogs abused and killed in dogfights, but in the past Amazon.com has removed similar videos only to offer them for sale again later.

Amazon.com must make a clear commitment to keeping all promotions of illegal animal fighting off their virtual shelves.

Now, Amazon.com must also cease its unsavory profiteering from The Gamecock and The Feathered Warrior, magazines that sell illegal animal-fighting paraphernalia and call attention to cockfighting venues. These magazines are the glue that holds together the criminal cockfighting industry in this country, and Amazon.com is their main internet subscription tool.

Today, please join us in telling Amazon.com that it's time for a zero-tolerance policy against the violent spectacle of animal fighting for human amusement. Call Amazon.com right now at 206-266-1000 and demand that they stop collecting blood money from this exploitation of animals.

This is not an issue of freedom of speech or materials that are merely offensive, although they are that. The facts are clear: Interstate distribution of materials that promote animal fighting is a violation of federal law. This week, The HSUS filed suit against Amazon.com and its suppliers to uphold that law.

Tell Amazon that honorable retailers must refrain from profiting from criminal activities.


You can also use Amazon.com's web form to make your point. Then, please let us know you called and ask your friends and family to make the call against animal fighting, too.

Thank you for taking action and for all you do for animals.

Sincerely,

Wayne Pacelle
President & CEO
The Humane Society of the United States

P.S. To find out why this is not a question of First Amendment rights, read our web story.

http://www.hsus.org/hsus_field/animal_fighting_the_final_round/recent_activities/amazon_suit_animal_fighting_video_magazine.html

My email to Amazon.com:

To whom it may concern,

I have been an Amazon.com customer for sometime now. Always had excellent service with Amazon, never being dissatisfied with Amazon until today.

This is not only a "recommendation" for Amazon, but I am stongly encouraging Amazon to discontinue the sale of ALL Animalfighting DVDs and materials. Also, all such materials need to be to be pulled from the site. Never to be made availiable again, such cruel practices need to cease and companies such as Amazon need to take the responsible stance and not sell materials that promote Animal Cruelty.

Amazon.com must make a clear commitment to keeping all promotions of illegal animal fighting off their virtual shelves.

I would like for Amazon.com to cease its unsavory profiteering from The Gamecock and The Feathered Warrior, magazines that sell illegal animal-fighting paraphernalia and call attention to cockfighting venues. These magazines are the glue that holds together the criminal cockfighting industry in this country, and Amazon.com is their main internet subscription tool.

When Amazon.com states publicly that they will no longer sell such materials, I will then continue to make purchases through Amazon. But until then I will not be buying anymore items from Amazon.com

Kindest regards.

[LeftyMom]

1. k&r

:kick:

[Colobo]

2. It's interesting

In reality, there are 3 places in the US where cockfighting is legal: New Mexico, Louisiana and Puerto Rico. In the latter, it's seen as part of our national identity, as a cultural legacy that needs to be preserved. Several prominent families have been raising fighting roosters for generations. The government considers cockfighting a sport, so it has a "Cockfighting Section" inside the "Sports and Recreation Department". I grew up watching my neighbor raise fighting roosters... it was, normal...

So, now that I see how cockfighting is seen by many people here in the mainland, it makes me feel weird. I have never supported cockfights, but I grew up having respect for it as part of the essence of "Puerto Ricanness"... Imagine that Puerto Rico becomes a state, and then there is a demand for people in the island to stop doing what they have been seeing as part of their identity for more than 300 years? It would be an interesting debate.

Just a thought...

[RB TexLa]

3. cockfighting is a legal activity in parts of the country, nothing wrong selling

things related to a legal activity.

[LeftyMom]

4. It's against federal law to move animal fighting materials over state lines.

So yeah, what Amazon is doing is illegal.

[RB TexLa]

5. must be if a sale is involved, I guess

[faithnotgreed]

6. thank you for posting this