Day: May 1, 1993

Wildlife

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1993:

Interior Secretary Bruce Babbit announced April
15 that Georgia Pacific, the largest U.S. forest products com-
pany, has agreed to leave at least 10 acres of woods standing
around each colony of endangered red-cockaded woodpeckers
found on company land in Arkansas, the Carolinas, Louisiana,
and Mississippi. The deal protects 50,000 acres while allowing
Georgia Pacific to log the remainder of its 4.2 million acres of
southern timber.
The World Wildlife Fund has agreed to hire mem-
bers of the impoverished Hoopa tribe in northern California to
restore logged-out forests and eroded stream beds. The Pacific
Gas & Electric Co. has already provided 30,000 trees to the pro-
ject, which is expected to benefit bald eagles, peregrine fal-
cons, and northern spotted owls.

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Roddick tells AmEx to shed fur

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1993:

WEST SUSSEX, U.K.––Seeking
to build a progressive image, American
Express recently began airing television com-
mercials featuring British cruelty-free person-
al care products entrepreneur Anita Roddick,
whose Body Shop logo has become synony-
mous with conscientious capitalism. The
commercials describe how Roddick roams the
world in search of products whose ingredients
can be harvested from whole and healthy nat-
ural environments, such as the Amazonian
rainforest. It’s great publicity for The Body
Shop as well as for AmEx––and it came at a
price beyond dollars.

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Bill to stop wolf-strafing

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1993:

WASHINGTON D.C.––As he
promised he would last winter, Oregon Rep.
Peter DeFazio has introduced amendments to
the Airborne Hunting section of the Fish and
Wildlife Act of 1956 that would bar using
aircraft to kill native endangered or threat-
ened species on public lands––even for
wildlife management purposes. Support for
the bill, H.R. 1391, may be addressed to any
member of the House or Senate.

Postage hike to hit charities

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1993:

Third class nonprofit postal rates, used to
mail ANIMAL PEOPLE and most other humane infor-
mation mediums, are scheduled to take another big jump
in the fall, following increases of 80% over the past three
years. Further, President Clinton’s fiscal 1994 budget
proposes abolishing nonprofit third class privileges for
publications, such as ANIMAL PEOPLE, that contain
either advertising or political advocacy materials.
Nonprofit second class privileges would be removed from
periodicals devoting more than 10% of their space to
advertising (30% to 40% advertising is the usual periodi-
cal breakeven point). Letter-sized nonprofit mailing
rates, used chiefly for fundraising, may go up 32%, from
a current basic rate of 11.1¢ per piece to 14.7¢ apiece.
While the gradual reduction of nonprofit mailing subsidies
hurts all charities, some observers believe the higher rates
will most hurt organizations such as the Doris Day Animal
League, which were formed with the active participation
of commercial direct mail fundraising firms, and whose
programs consist largely of “public education” via letters
and bulletins distributed with funding appeals.

ANIMAL CONTROL & RESCUE

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1993:

The Los Angeles City Council’ s
ad hoc committee on the ongoing municipal
budget crisis has dropped plans to merge
city and county animal control, as a merger
might hurt service without saving money.
The Agricultural Subcommittee
of the Maine legislature has unanimously
killed as impractical a bill to institute
statewide cat licensing.
Washington state senator Scott
Barr’s bill (SB 5832) to force pounds and
shelters to surrender animals to research lab-
oratories recently cleared the state senate
agriculture committee 6-0. The committee is
headed by Marilyn Rasmussen, who is
author of another bill, SB 5532, that would
strip humane societies of the power to
enforce anti-cruelty laws, and exempt dog
and cat breeders, circuses, zoos, aquariums,

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Can we outlaw pet overpopulation?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1993:

SACRAMENTO, California –– Neuter your cat
or else!
In legal language, “An owner of a cat over the age
of six months shall have the cat sterilized by a veterinarian if
the cat is permitted outdoors without supervision.”
As drafted, California state assembly bill AB 302
admits no exceptions. Introduced in early February by
assemblyman Paul Horcher, AB 302 sounds like a shelter
worker’s dream––but may be mainly symbolic, since it
includes neither an enforcement mechanism nor specific
penalties for disobedience. Due to the difficulty of identify-
ing cats, some legal experts believe it could never be
enforced without instituting a universal statewide system of
cat licensing, something never before attempted on any
comparable scale, and almost certain to be opposed by
many cat-keepers.

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ANIMAL PEOPLE investigation: Acting head of North Shore Animal League cleared of old allegations; MAY BE NAMED PRESIDENT OF $59 MILLION HUMANE SOCIETY

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1993:

PORT WASHINGTON, New York––An intensive ANIMAL PEOPLE
investigation of allegations raised against acting North Shore Animal League chief exec-
utive officer J. John Stevenson by his opponents in an eight-year-old lawsuit has con-
cluded that they have no substance sufficient to call into question his fitness to adminis-
trate the world’s largest humane society.
ANIMAL PEOPLE reviewed more than 300 pages of court documents and
interviewed numerous prominently placed witnesses before grilling Stevenson himself
for six and a half hours. Stevenson suggested the unusually intense session, and drove
three and a half hours each way from his home in Connecticut to participate, he said,
because he saw no other way to lay the long-circulating claims to rest. Although
Stevenson’s opponents discussed some of the issues extensively with The Legal Times in
1990, Stevenson said he hadn’t previously defended himself in public, upon the advice
of his legal counsel to avoid action that could be construed as broadening the case.

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Stallwood to edit Animals’ Agenda; Pacelle quits

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1993:

MONROE, Connecticut– –
Kim Stallwood, former executive director
of People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals, has been named to replace
board member Jim Motavalli as editor of
the troubledAnimals’ Agendamagazine.
Days later, on April 26, board
president Wayne Pacelle abruptly quit,
without stating his reasons. Now national
director of the Fund for Animals, Pacelle
got his first job in animal rights as
Animals’ Agenda assistant editor in 1987.

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Fixing a cat on the air

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1993:

Alan Givotovsky, DVM, of Vachon Island, Washington, says he isn’t sure
whether he’d again perform a neutering operation on live radio. On February 3, Givotovsky
neutered a tomcat in the studio of KISW-Seattle during the early morning drive time to pro-
mote neutering, while disk jockey Bob Rivers supplied commentary and took calls from lis-
teners.
“Field surgery most of the time is pretty clean,” Givotovsky told ANIMAL PEO-
PLE, “but people were anxious because we weren’t in a clinic.” In fact, Givotovsky got up
at four a.m. to pack up and take along just about all the equipment he’d normally have had at
his clinic. The operation took 45 minutes, Givotovsky said, because of the preliminary
introduction, the time required to anesthetize the cat, and interruptions for songs, advertis-
ing, and the news.

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