Month: July 2000

Endangered great apes seek life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2000:

KAMPALA, Uganda; LISLE ,
Illinois––Can another group seeking to save
wild African primates make a difference?
Already, more nonprofit would-be
saviours are trying to save nonhuman primates
than there are members of some rare
species jeopardized by logging and the bushmeat
trade.
Sketchy Panafrican News Agency
reports about the June 22 debut of Friends of
the Mountain Gorilla Society at the International
Conference Centre in Kampala,
Uganda, hint that it may be among a small
but growing number of African conservation
groups founded and run by Africans of
African descent. At deadline no other information
was available.

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Inspectors are killed––cattle are not

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2000:

WALLULA, Wash.; WILMINGTON,
N.C.; LONDON, U.K.; SAN LEANDRO,
Calif.––Undercover video obtained by
the Humane Farming Association of shackled
and hoisted cattle having their legs hacked off
and being skinned alive at the Iowa Beef
Processors [IBP] slaughterhouse in Wallula,
Washington, showed KING-TV/Seattle and
KRON-TV/San Francisco viewers on May 24
that high-speed production methods may have
made the Humane Slaughter Act of 1958 more
an unenforced suggestion than a rule.
USDA inspector Gary Dahl and
retired USDA inspector Joe Doyle confirmed
on KING-TV camera that the video showed
exactly what it seemed to show.

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Fighting animal control canon in the wild west

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2000:

KANAB, Utah; ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico
––A statewide animal care-and-control coalition headed by the
Best Friends Animal Sanctuary of Kanab, Utah, on June 22,
2000 received $1.3 million from Maddie’s Fund, as first
installment of $8 million to be paid over the next five years in
grant assistance toward making Utah the first U.S. state to practice
statewide no-kill animal control.
The Utah coalition qualified for Maddie’s Fund help,
Maddie’s Fund executive director Richard Avanzino told ANIMAL
PEOPLE, by enlisting the participation of 54 animal
control agencies, 18 no-kill organizations, two traditional shelters,
52 private-practice veterinarians, and 70 veterinarians
who were already participating in neutering voucher programs
administered by 14 different organizations.

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