Los Angeles City Council District 10

L.A. City Council Committee Approves Ordinance Banning 'Tools of Torment' from Rodeo

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Thursday, December 8, 2022
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A survey of 600 Los Angeles residents found that 72 percent support banning prods, flank straps, and other tools that force animals to perform.

Key Points: 
  • A survey of 600 Los Angeles residents found that 72 percent support banning prods, flank straps, and other tools that force animals to perform.
  • "We applaud the members of the PAAW Committee for reflecting the will of the people and voting to move this ordinance forward.
  • We hope the full City Council will move quickly to ban these implements," said Chris DeRose, President and Founder of Last Chance for Animals (LCA).
  • In recent years, LCA has helped organize a grassroots effort to get the Los Angeles City Council to pass this ordinance.

Poll Shows 72 Percent Support L.A. Ordinance Banning 'Tools of Torment' from Rodeo

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Monday, November 14, 2022
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A poll of 600 Los Angeles residents found that 72 percent support banning prods, flank straps, and other tools that force animals to perform.

Key Points: 
  • A poll of 600 Los Angeles residents found that 72 percent support banning prods, flank straps, and other tools that force animals to perform.
  • In order to encourage aggressive bucking, they are routinely fitted with tight flank straps, kicked with spurs, and shocked with high-voltage electric prods.
  • In recent years, LCA helped organize a grassroots effort to get the Los Angeles City Council to pass this ordinance.
  • The poll showed strong support for the ordinance across all demographic groups, including 70 percent approval among Black respondents and 67 percent among Latino respondents.

TAAT® Adds Over 80 New Southern California Locations of a Major Global Convenience Chain

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Wednesday, June 8, 2022
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LAS VEGAS and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, June 08, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- TAAT® GLOBAL ALTERNATIVES INC. (CSE: TAAT) (OTCQX: TOBAF) (FRANKFURT: 2TP) (the “Company” or “TAAT®”) is pleased to announce that TAAT®Original, Smooth, and Menthol are now sold in over 100 franchised stores in Southern California belonging to a major global convenience chain, an increase of more than 80 stores in just eight weeks following an initial placement in 23 stores (as announced in the Company’s April 22, 2022 press release). TAAT® established dialogues with the owners of these franchises through an independent association of franchise owners in Southern California (the “FOA”), who are part of the convenience chain’s network of over 9,300 stores in the United States and more than 70,000 stores worldwide. Approximately 35% of the initial group of franchised stores carrying TAAT® have already placed reorders.

Key Points: 
  • Over 100 Southern California franchises in a major global convenience chain are now carrying TAAT, following the addition of more than 80 new stores after the product was sold for just eight weeks in an initial group of stores, approximately 35% of which have already placed reorders.
  • As TAAT is a non-tobacco product, the Company anticipates it can capitalize on this upcoming gap in the tobacco category.
  • TAAT Original, Smooth, and Menthol (pictured above) are now carried in over 100 Southern California locations of a major global convenience chain.
  • TAAT Founder Joe Deighan commented, The Southern California FOA is a very strong community of franchise owners in this global convenience chain, in which word gets around very quickly about great new products that can be carried.

AHF: Moderna Dodges Shareholders with Virtual AGM

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Friday, March 25, 2022
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    Modernas AGM is set for Thursday, April 28, 2022, at 8:00 am ET.
  • Its abundantly clear billionaire CEO Stphane Bancel is dodging Moderna shareholders and the public by holding a virtual AGM, said AHF President Michael Weinstein.
  • Bancel and Moderna want to head off as much public discussion of Oxfams shareholder resolution on vaccine equity that would push Moderna to share the technology behind its COVID-19 vaccine.
  • Bancel and Moderna should at least be stand up enough to have a truly public discussion about it and try and defend and explain their greed.

Last Chance for Animals, Animal Rights Groups Renew Call for Passage of LA Rodeo Ordinance

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Tuesday, February 22, 2022
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"The animal abuse that has lined the pockets of the rodeo industry has gone on for far too long," said Chris DeRose, Founder and President of Last Chance for Animals.

Key Points: 
  • "The animal abuse that has lined the pockets of the rodeo industry has gone on for far too long," said Chris DeRose, Founder and President of Last Chance for Animals.
  • "The rodeo's latest PR blitz shows that it will stop at nothing to defend its barbaric practices and protect its profits.
  • Rodeo lobbyists claim that bulls forced to compete in riding competitions have won 'the animal lottery.'
  • to 8 p.m. at Crypto.com Arena today in support of the Los Angeles ordinance to ban rodeo Tools of Torture.