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Reinstate Larry Ottoviani

Larry Ottoviani has lost his job after seven years with the 7 Up Bottling Company in Sacramento, CA, for feeding hungry cats.

As the father of a dependent adult child with severe physical disabilities, and the husband of a woman with a debilitating illness, he found solace in taking care of those cats. And he's been working for several years with the Sacramento SPCA on a trap/neuter/return program to help them.

Ottoviani should not have been fired. Please sign our petition to demand that he be reinstated.
Don't Mess With Vets Health Care

Our veterans have risked life and limb to keep our country and us safe. Many of them come home with serious physical and mental injuries and disabilities. If any American citizens deserve high-quality and easily-accessible medical care, it's these men and women. That's why we have TRICARE -- government-sponsored health insurance specifically for vets.

Yet Congress continues to gamble with health care for vets by refusing to deal with the Sustainable Growth Rate (SGR) -- the same formula that's used to decide how much to pay doctors who treat Medicare patients. If Congress does nothing, these payments could be slashed by nearly 25 percent on March 1, which would make the cost of seeing vets too expensive for doctors and potentially meaning some veterans won't be able to find a provider who can take their insurance.

The least we can do for Americans who risked it all for us is to care for them when they get home. Tell Congress to pass a real solution to Medicare and TRICARE payments.
Blog Post: A Little Relief, Finally, for Hormel Pigs

When PETA went public with the findings of undercover investigations at pig-breeding farms that supply Hormel in Iowa, we called on the company to ban gestation crates—pens so small that the pregnant sows who are confined to them can't turn around or even lie down comfortably—and then introduced a shareholder resolution to that effect. Less than two years later, the meat giant has announced that it will phase out gestation crates, which cause so much suffering, by 2017.
Blog Post: Video Shows Pigs Mutilated, Beaten, Duct-Taped

A disturbing new undercover investigation inside two pig farms in Goodwell, Oklahoma, owned by Seaboard Foods, shows injured piglets with their legs duct-taped to their bodies as well as pigs suffering from abscesses, torn body parts, and bacterial infections without being given veterinary care.

Workers are seen chopping off pigs' tails and testicles with no painkillers and hitting pigs in the genitals in order to force them to move from one gestation crate to another. Many of the gestation crates—small metal enclosures in which sows spend most of their lives while they are impregnated again and again—were full of feces and urine. The video shows sows desperately chewing the metal bars of their cages and struggling to stand up. Some are bleeding, and some lie dead.

Seaboard is the country's third-largest pork producer and a supplier to Wal-Mart. Prestage is the fifth-largest producer. Both were investigated.
Delta: remove @aeroflot from SkyTeam until they apologize to #LGBT

In January 2011, news broke that Aeroflot, Russia’s flag carrier and largest airline, forced Maxim Kupreev, a gay employee, to marry a woman as retaliation for trying to start an LGBT employees rights group within the company. We ask that Delta Airlines and Air France, two founding members of the SkyTeam Alliance, suspend Aeroflot, from the airline alliance until they agree to treat LGBT employees with respect and dignity.
Blog Post: University Fails Animals—Again
Ontario: Save the Maple Leaf!
Thank You Gabby Giffords!
Demand that Premier Redford keep her promise to increase AISH payments - PetitionVoice.com
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