New anti-live market abuse, rodeo shocking, and animal testing laws in Calif.––and more!

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000:

SACRAMENTO––”After five years of
failed agreements, undercover investigations, and
heated public hearings,” San Francisco SPCA
Department of Law and Advocacy chief Nathan
Winograd announced on October 3, “animal welfare
advocates have passed a law protecting live
animals sold for food in California. Governor Gray
Davis has signed AB 2479, introduced by assembly
member Sheila Kuehl (D-Santa Monica).
“The new law prohibits stores from skinning
and dismembering live animals, as well as
storing and displaying animals in ways likely to
result in injury, starvation, or suffocation. The law
applies to frogs, turtles, and birds sold for food,”
whom antiquated legal language previously
exempted from coverage by the California anti-cruelty
statutes.

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The right whale stuff

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000:

While Japan was killing whales,
Brazilian president Fernando Henrique
Cardoso on September 19 designated an
offshore sanctuary for southern Atlantic
right whales in their “nursery” along the
lower coast of Santa Catarina state.
The decree rewarded 20 years of
work by Southern Right Whale Project
founder Jose Truda Palazzo Jr., who at
age 18 rediscovered the whales after they
were believed to have been hunted to extinction.

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COURT CALENDAR

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000:

A Faroe Islands court recently convicted
Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
founder Paul Watson in absentia of alleged
illegal entry into Faroese waters, and ordered
him to pay a fine of $37,000 or serve 60 days
in jail, Watson and the Sea Shepherds learned
on September 27 from the Ritzau news agency
of Denmark. “Captain Watson has a clear
defense for all charges, but was not allowed to
present it,” said a Sea Shepherd release.
“Captain Watson did not choose to be tried in
absentia,” the release continued, adding that
Watson didn’t even know he had been charged
until after the trial.

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Japanese whaling gives Clinton/Gore a chance to boost credentials

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2000:

WASHINGTON D.C., TOKYO––
Aware that support of Norwegian and Native
American whaling is the one environmental
albatross around U.S. Vice President Albert
Gore’s neck in his Presidential bid, outgoing
President Bill Clinton gave anti-whaling sanctions
against Japan a high profile as the campaign
hit the home stretch.
The piece-de-resistance was a
September 13 announcement delivered by
White House Chief of Staff John Podesta that,
“The President is directing the Secretary of
State to inform the Japanese government that it
will be denied future access to fishing rights in
U.S. waters.”

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