HUNTING

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1993:

The 1992-1993 hunting season
closed with a spate of killings by hunters
apparently desperate to shoot anything.
Victims included three rare trumpeter swans,
shotgunned January 1 on the Winterthur
Museum grounds in Wilmington, Delaware; a
tame deer slain at the St. Clair County
Humane Society in Port Huron, Michigan,
January 4; 13 cows killed in Clay County,
Missouri, between Christmas and New Year’s
Day; and three dairy cows killed near
Warsaw, Ohio, on January 16. Michael
Adamson, 20, of Barberton, Ohio, and a 17-
year-old companion face charges in the latter
case. Ronald Smith, 30, and his infant
daughter escaped injury December 30 when
hunters trying to jacklight rabbits––after mid-
night–– sprayed the baby’s bedroom with gun-
fire. Charles W. Tipton, 44, of Lorain,

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Vivisection

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

The winter 1992/1993 edition of
National Boycott News, a well-reputed
annual directory of boycotts, includes
detailed coverage of the ongoing boycott of
Carme Inc., a cruelty-free cosmetics manu-
facturer acquired by International Research
and Development Corp. in 1989. The boy-
cott, called but not recently promoted by
PETA, might be forgotten by now except
that attorneys for IRDC, a major animal-
testing laboratory, have threatened numer-
ous protesters and media who have covered
the situation with lawsuits––including
National Boycott News, when the editors
offered them the opportunity to respond to
various allegations made by boycott litera-
ture. IRDC did sue two cruelty-free dis-
tributors who dropped the Carme product
line. The case was settled out of court by
the firms’ insurance companies.

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Agriculture

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

“If the livestock industry demonstrates good
faith toward animal advocacy, it should suffer little eco-
nomic impact from increased regulation to enhance animal
contentment,” Ohio State University agricultural economists
Carl Zulauf and Matthew Krause recently told Feedstuffs
readers. Zulauf and Krause assumed that consumers would
be willing to pay marginally higher prices for animal prod-
ucts to be assured that they were not obtained by cruel meth-
ods. Some individual farmers would be hurt by obligatory
changes of method, they said, but others would prosper,
and the overall net effect would be nil. Much of the cost of
replacing equipment and facilities would be absorbed into
the ongoing cost of upkeep. Zulauf and Krause did not con-
sider the possibility that consumers might continue to move
toward vegetarianism at the unprecedented pace of the past
decade––a trend that could encourage many farmers to
abandon animal production.

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Pressure from Shedd aquarium squelches expose

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

CHICAGO, Illinois––The sched-
uled October 10 debut of Modern Animal
News TV on WGBO-TV Channel 66 was
twice postponed and then cancelled by station
management under pressure from the Shedd
Aquarium. The program was to focus on the
capture of two beluga whales in northern
Manitoba, Canada, last August, and their
subsequent death at the Shedd on September
25, apparently from overdoses of worm med-
icine.

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Performing Animals

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

Wild Willie, the bull who was castrated
in front of the Mississippi State University foot-
ball team in early September, has been saved
from the slaughterhouse by Frank Truitt, a steak-
eating Army Reserve recruiter, and insurance
salesman Billy Walker, a hunter, Truitt and
Walker paid $2,000 apiece for Wild Willie, but
hope to recoup their money by using him in com-
mercial promotions.

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Tactics & Actions

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

* PETA recently staged the first demonstration
against meat-eating to be held in Moscow, Russia,
since Leo Tolstoy’s time. Inasmuch as the picket signs
were apparently all in English, for the benefit of American
and British TV crews, Russian patrons were mostly puz-
zled. The vegetarian movement Tolstoy championed is
today little known in Russia; Lenin and Stalin viciously
repressed it, viewing the back-to-the-land philosophy that
went with it as counter-revolutionary. Further, while most
Russians are used to going without meat for prolonged
periods due to shortages, fresh fruit and vegetables are also
often scarce and expensive—and tofu was unheard of,
until a small Hare Krishna restaurant introduced it two
years ago. The American Fund for Alternatives to Animal
Research has moved to remedy the situation, wiring
$4,343 to the Center for Ethical Treatment of Animals in
Moscow on August 17. According to CETA president
Tatyana Pavlova, the funds will go toward a computer,
laser printer, and essential software, which in turn will be
used primarily to publish information on vegetarianism.

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Fur

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

* Fur Free Friday will be November 27
this year—the day after Thanksgiving, the
traditional start of the peak fur sales season.
Friends of Animals and Animal Rights
Mobilization are coordinating events in
numerous locations. Get details from FoA at
212-247-8120, and from ARM at 303-388-
7120.
* The Committee of Jews for
Compassion is taking out a series of full-page
ads in Jewish newspapers to publicize Tel
Aviv chief Sephardic rabbi Haim David
Halevi’s recent ruling that Jewish law forbids
manufacturing or wearing fur because it for-
bids causing pain to animals. Write CJC c/o
CHAI, P.O. Box 3341, Alexandria, VA
22302.

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Defenders of Animal Rights shelter picketed

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

PHOENIX, Md. Weekly protests
outside the Defenders of Animal Rights shel-
ter just north of Baltimore commenced on
August 14, coordinated by the Animal
Welfare League of Greater Baltimore. The
protesters, including former shelter employ-
ees and volunteers, alleged unrecorded
euthanasias, financial abuses, and miscella-
neous other irregularities paralleling some of
those alleged against Primarily Primates one
month earlier, also by former volunteers and
staffers. Several protesters contacted ANI-
MAL PEOPLE, including AWLGB president
Elizabeth Kirk, but none documented any-
thing at DAR that substantially deviates from
common shelter practice., nor did they pro-
vide evidence that anyone at DAR is collect-
ing unusually high remuneration.

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KKK defends pigeon shoot; 2,000 protest Labor Day bird massacre but 5,000 support it. Time for new tactics?

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:
HEGINS, PENNSYLVANIA A pigeon hit point-blank by a shotgun blast looks
like a spreadeagled angel for just a split second, until the pellets tear her white breast and wings
to pieces and she flaps to the ground, awaiting the trapper boys who will wring her head off.
Wounded angels to some, doves of peace to others, and flying rats according to the
human participants, 5,000 to 7,000 pigeons are shotgunned each Labor Day at the Fred Coleman
Memorial Pigeon Shoot in Hegins, Pennsylvania. Held annually since 1934, the shoot was
reputedly dying of disinterest a half century later; but no more. Two thousand protesters turned
out this year, nearly double last year’s then-record number. Lured by the chance to heckle, be
on TV, and maybe see someone get killed dashing in front of the guns to save pigeons, the
crowd of shoot supporters doubled as well, to an estimated 5,000. Among them were several
motorcycle gangs and two robed and hooded Ku Klux Klan members from Ephrata, Penn., who
explained that they saw the event as a good chance to recruit.

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