Hindi jailed––against higher court order

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1996:

WOODSTOCK, Illinois– – As
ANIMAL PEOPLE went to press at dawn on
November 25, Chicago Animal Rights
Coalition founder Steve Hindi, 42, remained
in the McHenry County Jail, by order of circuit
judge James Franz, nearly four days after
the State of Illinois Appellate Court Second
District––a higher jurisdiction––ordered that
Hindi be released on bail pending appeal of a
November 6 contempt of court conviction.
Hindi was in the eleventh day of a
hunger strike, commenced, he told ANIMAL
PEOPLE, “because I have to fight this somehow,
and it’s the only thing I can do.”
Stated the Appellate order: “Motion
by appellant, Steven Hindi, for emergency
stay of the trial court’s order of contempt of
November 6, 1996, and to set an appeal
bond…is allowed, and this cause is remanded
to the trial court for the limited purpose of
establishing an appropriate appeal bond. This
court retains jurisdiction over this appeal.”

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How animals won in five states

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1996:

WASHINGTON D.C.––Captive-duck shooter Bill
Clinton and trophy hunting advocate Albert Gore remain in the
White House, but Congressional script on animal issues may be
quite a bit different in the 105th Congress, not only because
foes of the Endangered Species Act took a beating on November
5, but also because the results of five state initiative campaigns
show animal protection voting clout, just beginning to be organized,
ignored by the Democrats, reviled by wise-use
Republicans, but acknowledged by Speaker of the House Newt
Gingrich.
• Massachusetts voted 64% to 36% to ban leghold or
body-gripping traps and snares, ban hunting bears and bobcats
with dogs, and restructure the state Fisheries and Wildlife
Board, ending a requirement that a majority of members be
licensed hunters, fishers, or trappers.

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DIET & HEALTH

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1996:

Health research
Fears that drinking cow’s milk
can trigger juvenile diabetes in genetically
susceptible children rekindled in October after
Dr. Paul Pozzilli of the Department of
Diabetes and Metabolism at St. Bartholomew’s
Hospital in London and colleagues at
the University of Rome explained in The
Lancet , the journal of the British Medical
Association, how certain proteins in cow’s
milk can stimulate an immature human
immune system to produce antibodies that
then attack similar proteins in the victim’s
own pancreatic cells. European Commissionsponsored
research showed in June that bottlefed
babies are twice as likely as breast-fed
babies to get diabetes. Jill Norris of the
University of Colorado Health Science Center
in Denver, argued in the August 27 edition of
the Journal of the American Medical
Association that the previous research was
weak––but Hans-Michael Dosch, M.D., of
the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto,
who drew attention to a possible link between
cow’s milk and diabetes in 1992, argues that
the association is now “as strong as the association
between cigarette smoking and cancer.”

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North Carolina maintains lead in pig poop

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1996:

RALEIGH–Babe star James
Cromwell on November 12 asked to North
Carolina governor Jim Hunt to halt the construction
of yet another mega-hog farm in the
state, already the national leader in both pork
production and pollution from hog waste.
“No one has to be a vegetarian like
me to be repulsed by the suffering these animals
will endure, packed tightly indoors,
never seeing sunlight or feeling cool mud
beneath their feet,” Cromwell wrote.
Eight days earlier, the Hunt administration
relaxed pollution rules to let hog
farmers plagued by overflowing manure storage
tanks and rain-saturated fields pump more
slurry out onto the land, despite the likelihood
the slurry will contaminate waterways.

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