Month: June 2001

Editorial: Help Koreans change Korea

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Help Koreans change Korea (Editorial, ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2001)

This June 2001 edition of ANIMAL PEOPLE is almost a month late in great part due to complications resulting from our mid-May investigative visit to South Korea, the most notorious of the nations in which dogs and cats are openly sold for human consumption.

ANIMAL PEOPLE publisher Kim Bartlett, a 30-year veteran of humane work, was physically ill with pneumonia for a week after our visit to the Moran market near Seoul, the largest South Korean live market featuring dogs and cats. She extensively documented the scene with photos, flew home with the film, and collapsed.

ANIMAL PEOPLE editor Merritt Clifton meanwhile worked 40 hours straight upon our return to summarize our findings and circulate the summary by e-mail to more than two dozen heads of international animal protection organizations, who were asked for comment and statements of commitment to action that were rarely forthcoming.

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Gandhi’s AV legacy

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2001:
BRIGHTON, U.K.–Anti-vivisectionist C.K. Yoe won a year-long battle on June 8 when the Imperial Cancer Research Fund pulled a TV spot depicting the Indian vegetarian statesman Mohandas Gandhi. The ICRF won an appeal to the Independ-ent TV Commission, as the use of the image was approved by the New Delhi charity Gandhi Smarak Nidhi–but GSN withdrew the okay upon learning that the ICRF funds vivisection, which Gandhi abhored.

Viagra vs. sealing–it might help the sealers, too

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2001:

ST. JOHN’S, New-foundland–Seal pelt prices tripled and a two-week extension of the Atlantic Canada seal hunt, originally to have ended on May 15, encouraged sealers to kill two to three times as many infant harp seals in 2001 as in 2000. Just 91,000 seals were landed in 2000. By early May 2001, the toll stood at 186,000.

But even selling pelts for $40 in Canadian money, up from $13, will not leave sealers with more than a marginal profit. A June 15 report by Canadian Institute for Business and the Environment president Gary Gallon, commissioned by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, found that federal and provincial governments have spent $20.5 million [Canadian funds] since 1995 to prop up sealing via 38 different subsidy programs.

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Bite treatment producers prepare for monsoons

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2001:

PUNE, HYDERABAD, CHENNAI– The interfacing politics of snakebite treatment, rabies vaccination, and laboratory animal care in India heated up with the approach of the summer monsoons. In Pune the Haffkine Institute disclosed that it had resumed production of snakebite antivenin on May 30, despite lack of authorization from the Committee for the Purpose of Control and Supervision of Experiments on Animals, which closed the facility on March 26.

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LETTERS [June 2011]

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2001:

Letters

Coke reneges on rodeo

Coca-Cola has decided to renege on its promise to abandon rodeos. I have had quiet discussions with them on this issue since their signed promise last November. All along, the idea was that Coke would take some time to persuade resistant bottlers to leave the rodeo arenas, and to keep peace in the corporate family. Now, apparently facing more resistance than anticipated, Coke has gone back on its word. This of course means that SHARK is going right to a campaign. We aim to make what we did to Pepsi support of bullrings look like a walk through the park.

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Excerpts from keynote address

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2001:

Excerpts from keynote address to the Asia for Animals conference,
May 14, 2001, in Manila, the Philippines, by Senator Orlando S. Mercado, Ph.D.
Today is Election Day in the Philippines. We have been through a frenzy of political activity in the past three months, culminating in the casting of ballots by more than 31 million Filipinos. It has not been easy. In politics there are many opportunities to lose faith and be disillusioned. This is why the conventional wisdom in Washington D.C. is, “If you want a friend, get a dog”.

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Companion animals and raising animal welfare consciousness in Southeast Asia

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2001:

Companion animals and raising animal welfare consciousness in Southeast Asia
by Sherry Grant, cofounder, Bali Street Dogs Foundation

Westerners are often appalled by the plight of animals in Asia and the other less developed parts of the world. It is unimaginable to most of us, for example, how orangutans, Sumatran bears, tigers, many bird species, sharks, tapirs, and sea turtles have been poached to the verge of extinction for meat and body parts, and the disregard for animal suffering evident in any marketplace is an even more immediate shock. Police and public officials often benefit from the illegal traffic and the cruelty, and are thus less then enthusiastic about enforcing whatever laws exist.

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Cats & dogs in Israel

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2001:

The May 2001 article “Cats & dogs in Israel,” summarized two ongoing Israeli court cases involving feral cat rescue. It drew more response than any other single item ever published in ANIMAL PEOPLE. This is a representative selection. Please note the often directly conflicting claims and perspectives of the letter-writers.

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