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Hurricane Preparedness and Response

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Hurricane season spans from June 1 to November 30 of each year.

Hurricanes and tropical storms pose unique and potentially deadly threats to areas in their paths and can quickly deplete available resources across the nation.

While human safety is paramount, we have learned valuable lessons from previous hurricanes about the importance of incorporating consideration for animals in disaster planning.

Available on the American Veterinary Medical Association webpage “Hurricane Preparedness and Response” are the following valuable resources.

*Emergency Contact Cards
*Saving the Whole Family (AVMA brochure for free download in English or Spanish)
*Video: Saving the Whole Family
*Video: National Preparedness Month
*Podcast: AVMA Tips for Disaster Preparedness
*Podcast: Pets and Disasters: Advice for Safeguarding Your Pet Preparedness for veterinarians:
*Disaster Preparedness for Veterinarians
*Pandemic Preparedness for Veterinarians
*Disaster Preparedness for Veterinary Practices (AVMA Brochure for free download or purchase)
*AVMA’s Emergency Preparedness & Response Guide

Find this and additional information at:
https://www.avma.org/KB/Resources/Reference/disaster/Pages/Hurricane-Preparedness.aspx.

Sincerely,

Gregory S. Christy, D.V.M.
Emergency Programs Veterinarian Manager
Division of Animal Industry
Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services

(850) 410-0902
(850) 410-0957 Fax
(850) 321-9830 Cell
Gregory.Christy@FreshFromFlorida.com

Mayo Building, Room 328
407 South Calhoun Street
Tallahassee, Florida  32399-0800

http://www.FreshFromFlorida.com

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“Unwanted Horse” Producer Pfizer Sponsors Teleconference to Promote Compromised GAO Report

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June 19, 2011 – Chicago (EWA) – A long overdue Government Accountability Office (GAO) report on the effect of closing the US horse slaughter plants is scheduled for release on Wednesday, June 22. Although the report’s contents are to be kept confidential until released, slaughter supporters have been indicating for months that they were leaked the report and have now orchestrated an “Unwanted Horse” teleconference late in the day of the release, presumably to promote the report’s findings.

The teleconference, called “Ask a Vet” is being presented by The Horse, the magazine of the American Veterinary Medical Association, a long term supporter of horse slaughter, and features veterinarian Tom Lenz, the former Chair of the American Horse Council’s “Unwanted Horse Coalition (UHC)”. The UHC, supposedly founded to propose solutions to the excess horse problem, has instead concentrated on promoting the phrase “unwanted horse” to take the focus off of overproduction, which slaughter actually encourages, and imply slaughter horses are somehow unusable except as meat.

Pfizer Pharmaceuticals sponsoring a teleconference on solutions to the “unwanted horse” problem is beyond brazen. Pfizer owns Wythe Pharmaceuticals, the producer of a line of hormone replacement therapy drugs made from pregnant mare urine and is one of the largest producers of excess, poorly bred and untrained foals in North America.

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