hope this is ok to post here. I hope the urgancy of this matter will be considdered.
While the only support I give to PETA (not People for the Eating of Tasty Animals) is in cases like this, they do have a valid point. My point is I understand the limited space in evacuating people from an area and that people come before animals. All I ask is if there is any way to bring pets along that it not be ruled out. Don’t give the order “no pets” but rather people before pets.
This is the message from PETA
You can take action today to help Americans fleeing Lebanon to take their companion animals with them.
Images of kittens sniffing amid rubble. Dogs seen running frantically down the streets. Distraught Americans and others told by our own military that they must leave their animal companions behind to starve to death in the destruction. These scenes—reminiscent of the cruel and illegal decisions made following Hurricane Katrina—are a reality once again.
Although the French government has made provisions for animal evacuations, the United States is doing just the opposite. U.S. officials evacuating citizens from Lebanon have failed to heed lessons learned in the wake of Hurricane Katrina and are refusing U.S. citizens' attempts to evacuate with their animal companions.
PETA has sent an urgent letter to Brig. Gen. Carl Jensen—the military commander in charge of U.S. evacuation operations in Lebanon—begging him to instruct his officers to assist evacuees in taking their animals with them to safety.
Please immediately urge Gen. Jensen not to break U.S. law by encouraging abandonment of companion animals. Ask him to ensure the safety of all Americans in Lebanon by ordering that U.S. citizens be helped to evacuate with their animal companions:
Brigadier General Carl Jensen, USMC
Commander, Task Force 59
c/o Commander Jeff Breslau, Public Affairs Officer
jeffrey.breslau@me.navy.mil
pao@me.navy.mil
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