Month: November 2000

Dog-shooting passé in S.A.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000:

KRUGER NATL. PARK;
CAPE TOWN––Word that immunocontraception
seems to work with
female elephants at Kruger National
Park, South Africa, appeared to touch
off a furor over dog exterminations
which continue in lieu of effective animal
birth control in the Cape Town
region, at the far end of the nation.
Perhaps it was only coincidence,
but the engineer of the Kruger
project, South African-born University
of Georgia researcher Richard FayrerHosken,
is also working on immunocontraceptive
methods for use with dogs
and cats, as he explained at the June
2000 Spay/USA conference in
Waltham, Massachusetts.

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New gorilla family ready to visit in Uganda

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000:

KAMPALA, Uganda
––Uganda Wildlife Authority
tourism manager Lilian Ajarova
on September 19 announced that
a fourth family of mountain gorillas
living in the Bwindi Impenetrable
Forest National Park has
nearly completed two years of
habituation to humans, and will
soon be ready for viewing.
This will boost Ugandan
gorilla tourism revenue by
$50,000 a month, Ajarova estimated.
Uganda allows tourists to
visit mountain gorilla families
only in escorted groups of six,
and has been able to accommodate
only 18 visitors per day.

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AND A WORD FOR DUCKS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000:

ATLANTA––Actress Hayley Mills, in person, and rock-and-roll star Paul McCartney, via videotape from London, on September 14 helped the British group Viva!––International Voice for Animals to bring their antiduck meat campaign to America with a press conference in Atlanta and simultaneous protests at shopping centers in 20 other cities.

In Britain, according to Viva! representative Lauren Ornelas, the Viva! campaign against duck meat caused every major supermarket chain to stop selling duck meat, and, she said, “The industry has promised to undertake a major review of duck farming conditions.”

“In the U.S.,” Ornelas stated, “almost 24 million ducks were slaughtered in 1999, up from almost 22 million in 1997.”

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PEOPLE

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000:

Joe Arpaio, sheriff of
Maricopa County, Arizona, on
September 18 received United Animal
Nations’ Animals’ Choice Award for
forming a Pet Posse to investigate and
ensure prosecution of animal abuse
cases, and for converting an obsolete
jail into a shelter for abused animals,
staffed by female inmate volunteers.
The Alternatives Research
& Development Foundation, a subsidiary
of the American Anti-Vivisection
Society, on October 1 presented its
$5,000 William A. Cave Award t o
MatTek Corporation president John
Sheasgreen for his success in marketing
to major corporations a line of project
safety tests which do not require animal
testing. Cave headed American AV
from 1978 until his death in 1990.

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Level of Abstinence

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000:

There are two ways to present veganism. One is by implying that a vegan must seek out and avoid all traces of animal products.

The second way is to present veganism by saying that vegans do not have to put pressure on themselves to avoid all byproducts.

Our conversations used to go somewhat like this:

Potential Vegan (PV): Oh, so you’re a vegan. I know some – one else who is vegan. You know, I really think it’s terrible how they treat the animals, but I could never do it.

Vegan: Really, why is that?

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LETTERS [Nov 2000]

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000:

Rochester
On page 8 of the September
200 edition of ANIMAL PEOPLE,
you erroneously attributed to
me the statement, “When you look
for donations, you look for the most
politically correct way to go. And
it’s not politically correct to kill animals.”
That was actually said by
Tom Shannon of Rochester Animal
Control, when he was asked by
Alan Morrell of the Rochester
Democrat & Chronicle about the
decision of the Humane Society of
Rochester & Monroe County not to
renew our long-term contract with
the city to do animal control.
Shannon was among the few Rochester
Animal Services staff kept by
the city when they began operating
animal control on July 1, 2000.

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Editorial: When Noah has to sail or sink

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000:

Superior Court Judge Floyd V. Baxter on September 21 appointed American
Humane Association western regional office director Gini Barrett special master to supervise
the ongoing strained relationship between Wildlife Waystation, one of the biggest, oldest,
and best-respected sanctuaries for captive wild animals in the U.S., and a cluster of hostile
regulatory agencies––particularly the California Department of Fish and Game.
A special master is a person of expertise designated by a court to insure that an institution
meets conditions of law. A special master may be likened to a parole officer, a social
worker, or in this case an ombudsman, whose most important job may be finding her way
around deep mutual mistrust and failures of communication.
According to the regulators, especially the California DFG, Wildlife Waystation is
a perennial scofflaw. But Waystation defenders, including the founders and directors of many
of the other best-known and best regarded sanctuaries of similar kind, praise Waystation
founder Martine Colette for daring to innovate on behalf of the many special-needs animals in
her care, for standing up against senseless and capricious applications of rules written to govern
very different kinds of institutions, and for withstanding a DFG publicity offensive that
included an April 7 raid by personnel wearing quasi-space suits from fear that purportedly
HIV-infected chimpanzees might fling feces.

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Million hens killed in Ohio–– twister hits like forced molt

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000

COLUMBUS, Ohio––An estimated
one million battery-caged laying hens died
slowly from thirst, exposure, and starvation
or were reportedly crushed by bulldozers on
October 2 and 3 after two weeks of suffering,
following a September 20 tornado which
destroyed the water-and-feed systems serving
twelve 85,000-hen barns at the Buckeye Egg
Farm complex in Croton, Ohio.
The Croton complex is the biggest
of four owned by Buckeye, the fourth largest
egg producer in the U.S., formerly known as
AgriGeneral LP.
Ohio Department of Agriculture
spokesperson Mark Anthony told Mike
Lafferty of the Columbus Dispatch o n
September 21 that the trapped hens would
have to be killed and buried, burned, or rendered
as promptly as possible.
“And the process has to be done
humanely, too,” Anthony insisted. “These
chickens are not going to die of thirst.”

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What RU-486 means for animals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000

WASHINGTON D.C.––The pharmacological
race to be first to market a safe,
affordable, easily administered contraceptive
drug for dogs, cats, and nuisance wildlife may
have heated up with the September 28, 2000
decision of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
to allow Danco Laboratories, of New
York City, to market the RU-486 abortion pill.
The Danco formulation, called
Mifeprex, includes five separate tablets, to be
taken in a two-step sequence. The first three
tablets, taken at once, contain mifepristone.
Better known by the chemical index number
RU-486, mifepristone is an androgen steroid
which blocks the production of progesterone, a
hormone required to sustain pregnancy. Two
days after taking the mifepristone tablets, the
user takes two more tablets containing misoprostol,
another hormonal drug which causes
her body to expell the aborted fetal tissue.

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