British ad media “chicken out”

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2003:

LONDON–London Underground, responsible for London subway
operations, according to the BBC in February 2003 refused as
“offensive” a Compassion In World Farming ad that “featured
scantily-clad models huddled together on one side of a poster and
chickens on a farm on the other.” The ad was reportedly captioned
“Thousands of big-breasted birds packed together for your pleasure.”
The CIWF ad was at least the second critical message
about poultry husbandry to be banned in Britain. In November 2001
the Broadcasting Advert-ising Clearance Centre banned a 30-second
Royal SPCA ad contrasting the growth rate of layer hens to the
hormone-stimulated growth rate of broiler hens, “on the basis,” the
RSPCA said, “that it was controversial and seemed to attack the
industry.”

Letters [April 2003]

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2003:

Welfare Ranching

Although I am highly biased towards the merits and strengths
of the arguments put forth in Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized
Destruction of the American West, edited by George Wuerthner and
Mollie Matteson, the ANIMAL PEOPLE review of the book was among the
best I have read (80-plus reviews so far). Congratulations to
reviewer Andrea Lococo!
Hopefully you may publish other articles and editorials about
this issue. Nowhere in all of North America are there as many acres
affected as in this issue of domestic livestock on public lands
(nearly 300 million acres!) Few people understand this and it is
important to get out the word.
–Doug Tompkins
President
Foundation for Deep Ecology
Building 1062
Fort Cronkhite
Sausalito, CA 94965
Phone: 415.229.9339
Fax: 415.229.9340
<info@deepecology.org>
<www.deepecology.org>

Letters

Toys for pigs?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2003–

BRUSSELS–British agricultural officials
and information media are significantly
misrepresenting an October 2001 European Union
directive on pig welfare, says European
Commission spokesperson Beate Gminder.
“Britain’s farmers have three months to
place a toy in every pigsty or face up to 90 days
in prison or a £1,000 fine,” BBC declared on
January 29, 2003.
“We mean footballs and basketballs.
Farmers may need to change the balls so that the
pigs don’t get tired of them,” a U.K. Department
for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
spokesperson told The Times.

What “Holocaust” really means

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2003–

SAN DIEGO, RENO, PHOENIX– “Abusive
treatment of animals should be opposed, but
cannot and must not be compared to the
Holocaust,” Nazi death camp survivor and
Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith national
director Abraham Foxman told Michelle Morgante of
Associated Press, as People For The Ethical
Treatment of Animals hit the road in the U.S.
southwest with a mobile exhibition called “The
Holocaust on Your Plate.”
Using photographs to compare the
slaughter of poultry and pigs to the Nazi
massacre of Jews during World War II, the
eight-panel PETA exhibit is scheduled to tour the
whole U.S.

Puddicome v.s. National Park Service

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2003–

SANTA BARBARA, Calif.– To the National Park Service, Santa
Barbara bus driver and Channel Islands Animal Protection Association
founder Rob Puddicombe, 52, is an eco-terrorist. Puddicome is
expected to go to trial soon for allegedly illegally feeding wildlife
and interfering with the functions of a federal agency. If
convicted, he faces up to one year in prison.
Puddicome, according to the Park Service, sailed an 11-foot
inflatable boat to Anacapa Island in October 2001 with Robert
Crawford, 40, of Goleta, and distributed at least five pounds of
Vitamin K pellets as an intended antidote to the poison the Park
Service dumped from helicopters repeatedly during 2002 to kill black
rats.

Coin-can scandal & alleged penny-pinching end an era at Associated Humane

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2003–

NEWARK–Lee Bernstein, 72, resigned on
March 5, 2003, after 34 years as executive
director of the Associated Humane Societies of
New Jersey.
Few heads of humane societies anywhere have served longer.
Bernstein was succeeded by Roseann
Trezza, 58, the Associated Humane Societies’
assistant director since 1968.

Wolves may be left with nowhere to run

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2003–

WASHINGTON D.C.–The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on March
18 began the process of downlisting grey wolves in the Lower 48
mainland states from “endangered” to “threatened” status, except for
Mexican grey wolves in Arizona and New Mexico and the reintroduced
population in and around Yellowstone National Park.
USFWS said there are now about 664 wolves in the Yellowstone
ecosystem, 2,445 wolves in Minnesota, where they were downlisted in
1978, and 600 in Wisconsin and Michigan.

International animal control & shelter news

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2003–

Barcelona, Spain, instituted
high-volume sterilization of dogs and cats in
January as cornerstone of a no-kill animal
control policy. Since 2000 the Barcelona city
shelters have reduced their killing of stray dogs
from 72% of intake to 36%, and have reduced
their killing of stray cats from 89% to 27%,
Agence France-Press reported.

Atlanta Humane gives up animal control

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2003–

ATLANTA–The Atlanta Humane Society, managing the Fulton
County Animal Control shelter as well as its own facilities since
1974, on March 20 returned animal control duties to the county.
After rejecting bids on the animal control contract from the
Southern Hope Humane Society of Cobb County and a newly formed
for-profit company called Synergy Management Services, deputy county
manager Terry Todd reached an 11-day temporary agreement with
Southern Hope at 5:40 p.m. on March 20, and agreed to buy $350,000
worth of animal control equipment from Atlanta Humane.
“A panel of county staff recommended Synergy Management” as
the preferred new longterm animal control provider, wrote Ty Tagami
of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Synergy Management “promis-ed a
smooth transition by hiring the Atlanta Humane pound director,”
Tagami said.

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