Day: October 1, 1993

COURT CALENDAR

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

Editor’s note: The people grouped under the heading “Animal Collectors,”
below, call themselves animal rescuers. The others, purportedly, sought to make
money. In each case, however, regardless of alleged motive, the pathology and cir –
cumstances of the perpetrators seems to be the same. As humane investigator Lewis R.
Plumb of the Promotion of Animal Welfare Society in Paradise, California wrote about
a case he and his wife prosecuted, “When two people are living in a mobile home with
hundreds of dogs, with feces all over the floors and even on the bed, when in one small
container a mother poodle nurses two dead puppies who have been left in the cage,
when three dead puppies are in the freezer next to a frozen turkey and some ice cream,
then you get the idea that it just maybe is not so much criminality as insanity. How
should these people be humanely dealt with? As it is now, each felony cruelty count
under California law carries a maximum penalty of one year is prison, a maximum fine

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FUR

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

ARE FUR SALES UP OR DOWN?
U.S. retail fur sales rose to $1.1
billion in 1992, ending a four-year slump
during which sales fell from $1.8 billion to
just $1 billion––says the Fur Information
Council of America.
But the FICA figures, published
in the September 21 Wall Street Journal,
are open to question––not least because it’s
hard to boost sales with markedly fewer
sales outlets. Nearly half the fur retail out-
lets of five years ago are now out of the fur
business. Among them are 34 of the 50 out-
lets formerly owned by Evans Inc., which
controlled 10% of the U.S. retail fur trade;
20 of the 49 Jindo and Fur Vault franchises;
and the entire Furrari and Antonovich
chains, both of which went bankrupt.

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Marine mammals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

The Dolphin Alliance, of
Melbourne Beach, Florida, announced
September 22 that Bogie and Bacall, the
Ocean Reef Club dolphins, will be going
home to the Indian River Lagoon as soon
as they complete rehabilitation with former
“Flipper” trainer Ric O’Barry, who heads
the closely allied Dolphin Project.
Publicity surrounding the 1988 capture of
Bogie and Bacall influenced the National
Marine Fisheries Service to ban further dol-
phin captures for the benefit of facilities
not open to the public. When the Ocean
Reef Club was sold recently, it lost the
grandfather clause enabling it to keep
Bogie and Bacall.

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Congressional leaders ask Babbit, Espy to halt Alaska wolf massacre

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

WASHINGTON D.C.––Convinced that Alaska’s Board of Game wouldn’t yield
to reasonable requests for a humane wolf policy, 30 Congressional leaders on September
22 urged the Clinton administration to intervene and suspend same-day wolf hunts on
public lands. Letters condemning the wolf-killing, set to start October 1, were sent to
Interior Secretary Bruce Babbit and Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy.
Babbitt alone could effectively halt the same-day hunting, since the Department
of the Interior oversees 90 million acres of Alaska under the Bureau of Land Management,
77 million acres under the Fish and Wildlife Service, and 54 million acres under the
National Park Service. The Department of Agriculture has jurisdiction of 23 million
acres.

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Animal Control & Rescue

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

The National Cat Protection Society, a shelter in
Long Beach, California, has paid $26,500 in civil penalties
and costs for providing misleading information about euthana-
sia policies and adoption rates to donors and people who sur-
render cats. NCPS attorney Richard Tanzer denied the organi-
zation had done anything wrong and said the settlement was
reached to avoid the cost of defending itself against the charges,
brought by the Los Angeles County district attorney.
Chows are now responsible for the most dog bites
of any breed in St, Bernard Parish, Louisiana, according to
animal control officer Ceily Trog––10 of 89 total bites,
through the first half of this year. Other Louisiana animal con-
trol departments also report a rise in chow bites.

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DIET & HEALTH

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

The Clinton administration has
proposed ending the conflict of interest
between the regulatory and promotional
functions of the USDA with respect to the
meat and poultry industry by transfering the
Food Safety and Inspection Service to the
Food and Drug Administration. The FDA
staff of 1,000 now inspects 53,000 non-
meat food producers, drug manufacturers,
and makers of medical equipment, while
the USDA employs 9,000 people to inspect
6,100 meat and poultry processors.
Coincidentally, tainted meat that passes
inspection causes an estimated 9,000
human deaths per year and 6.5 million ill-
nesses. The National Cattlemen’s Associa-
tion, American Meat Institute, and
National Broiler Council oppose the plan.

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Watson trial Dec. 6 ––if Canada dares

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

ST. JOHN’S, NEWFOUND-
LAND––Enjoying his new reputation in
Canada as “Captain Cod Hugger” for his July
28 confrontation with foreign dragnetters in
the North Atlantic, Paul Watson of the Sea
Shepherd Conservation Society is to go to
trial December 6 before a St. John’s jury for
allegedly endangering the lives of his crew,
the crew of the Cuban dragger Rio Las Casas,
and the Rio Las Casas itself––if the
Canadian government actually has the nerve
to try Watson for an action applauded from
coast to coast, including by many of the
same people who have long reviled him for
his protests against seal hunting.

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Roseland’s what? ADVERTISERS DUPED

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

CHICAGO, Illinois––A 32-page
semi-anonymous, categorical tabloid attack on
humane societies called Roseland’s Sizzle Pet
Shop Edition debuted at the September 10-11
Humane Society of the U.S. tri-regional confer-
ence in Schaumburg, Illinois, leaving the
assembled participants, “Quite astonished,” as
Chicago Anti-Cruelty Society executive director
Jane Stern put it.

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