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DECEMBER 1.2006 jUStjOUt, 5 letters Animal Testing Cruel Oregon’s only officially sanctioned Oscar Night America celebration Feb. 25, 2007. The event is a fund-raiser for our beloved Hollywood Theatre. As you may already know, this years Oscars will be hosted by Ellen DeGeneres. No doubt we can kxik forward to a fun and memorable evening! 1 am coor dinating volunteers for the event, and we are looking for event sponsors. If anyone would like to help out, please contact me directly at akdouglas@msn.com. To the E ditor : I find it astonishing that Thomas Kraemer would seriously defend the experiments on so- called gay sheep at Oregon State University, let alone try to compare this shoddy study with the quest for beneficial scientific knowledge [“Martina Navratilova vs. Gay Sheep,” Nov. 17J. Experts in the field of research ethics and gen der studies have called the entire premise of the experiments irrelevant and have expressed con A aron K irk D ouglas cerns that the study teeters dangerously on the edge Portland of homophobia. Not that 1 needed an expert to tell me what is perfectly obvious: These experiments j Oppressive Skin are stupid. To the E ditor : Whatever they may tell us about the sexual 1 was saddened to see Just Out endorsing Boy-O preference of sheep, they will tell us nothing about Leather, a business that profits from animal why humans prefer one gender over another as sex exploitation [“When Leather Is Bound Up in Art,” ual partners. Perhaps more to the point, promising Nov. 31. avenues of nonanimal research are ignored and Does anyone else see the irony in a newspaper underfunded by agencies and experimenters who that caters to those who have felt oppressed in their are mired in the animal test methodology. This is a lives promoting the oppression of other sentient tragedy, as people are dying of diseases that still beings? Most of the millions of animals slaughtered have no effective treatment or cure despite decades [ for their skin endure the horrors of factory farming of wasteful, cruel tests on animals. before being shipped to slaughter, where many are skinned alive. Buying leather directly contributes to factory G ray C askey Portland farms and slaughterhouses, since skin is the most economically important byproduct of the meat Hollywood Brings Oscars Home packing industry. Leather is also no friend of the To the E ditor : environment, since it shares all the environmental Film Action Oregon, owner and operator of the destruction of the meat industry, in addition to the Hollywood Theatre, will once again be home of toxins used in tanning. 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When 1 think of that poor Pamela Anderson probably crying her eyes out, it just makes me sad. Thanks a lot, gay Portland! J ack O sterberg Hillsboro Send your letters “I • Leonard Takes Resolution to Council wedding announcements transitions • World AIDS Day 2006 i • Human Rights Campaign on Holiday Shopping Letters to the Editor lone and submit your events Weddings & Commitments Arts & Culture ; Transitions Page 3 Comment! 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