Setting the floor for horse haulers

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1995:

WASHINGTON, D.C.––Just days
ago S1283/HR2433, the Safe Commercial
Transportation of Horses for Slaughter Act of
1995, was rated the one humane bill with a
chance to clear the present Congress.
Introduced by Senator Mitch
McConnell (Kentucky) and Representative
Bill Goodling (Pennsylvania), both members
of the Republican majority, S1283/HR2433
was jointly endorsed by the leading horse
industry group, the American Horse Council;
the American Horse Protection Association;
the Humane Society of the United States; the
American Association of Equine
Practitioners; the American Humane
Association; and the American SPCA.

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What you should know before you give

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1995:

Walt Disney explained fundraising succinctly in his animated edition of Robin
Hood––an account of “What really happened in Sherwood Forest,” as narrated by
Chaunticleer the Cock, voice and music by Roger Miller, which seems as historically accurate
as any.
As local representative of the first nonprofit institution, the Church, badger-of-thecloth
Friar Tuck worked to relieve the misery of the poor, against the oppression of maneless
lion Prince John, the Phony King of England. Friar Tuck depended initially on the donations
his congregation left in the poor box, but as John’s taxation policies increased the numbers of
poor and left the remaining citizens less able to give, Tuck turned to Robin Hood, the fox,
the quintessential fundraiser. Sometimes Robin Hood went out disguised as a poor old soul,
crying “Alms! Alms for the poor!” to the general public. But that was just image-building.
Robin Hood’s real fundraising schtick was collecting funds from the rich. Best known for
“robbing from the rich to give to the poor,” Robin Hood the fox actually used wit and stealth

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ADC does damage control–– could be killed by Farm Bill

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1995:

WASHINGTON D.C.––Caught in a political trap, the
USDA Animal Damage Control program is battling for survival.
The ADC still has powerful friends, including western Senators of
both major parties, but the forthcoming Farm Bill debate could kill
it, after 65 years.
Conservative Republicans are queasy about the ADC
because it’s a federal subsidy for private enterprise: of the $19.6 million
1994 ADC budget, $10 million went to protect livestock.
Eastern politicians of both parties see the ADC as
expendible because it does little for their constituents: $9.7 million––97%––of
the livestock protection funds were spent in the 17
western states.
Environmentalists hate the ADC because it helps keep cattle
on federally owned land.

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