12 years for dragging horse

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2010:

SAN JUAN, P.R.– Georgenan Lopez, 24, the first person
to be convicted at a jury trial under the Puerto Rican felony cruelty
law passed in August 2008, was in November 2010 sentenced to serve
12 years in prison for dragging a mare behind a truck.
“Judge Jose Montijo told Lopez he had an attitude problem,
did not communicate well with people, and noted that the accused
faced burglary and drug charges previously,” wrote Danica Coto of
Associated Press.
Defense attorney Julian Claudio pledged to appeal the
sentence. Puerto Rican bar association president Osvaldo Toledo
called the length of the sentence a dangerous precedent, and said he
would seek legislative review of the penalties provided by the law.
Surviving the dragging, the mare now lives at a sanctuary in
northeastern Puerto Rico.

Is it “The great animal rights betrayal” or just business as usual in Britain?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2010:
LONDON–Is the Conservative-led British coalition government
engaged in “The great animal rights betrayal,” as the newspaper The
Independent alleged on November 13, 2010? Or has the transition
from Labour to Conservative government changed nothing much, as
representatives of several leading British animal welfare
organizations told ANIMAL PEOPLE?
“In a series of little-noticed moves,” The Independent
charged, “the coalition has scrapped or stalled Labour initiatives
to improve animal welfare. Agriculture minister James Paice, who
part-owns a farm in Cambridgeshire, has been behind most of the
moves,” The Independent said. “Paice this week delayed by five years
a ban on beak mutilations of laying hens due to come into force in
January.

New “crush video” bill sent to Obama

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2010:

WASHINGTON D.C., BEIJING– U.S. President Barack Obama was
expected to sign legislation reinstating a ban on the sale of “crush”
videos “in the next week or so,” Humane Society Legislative Fund
president Mike Markarian told ANIMAL PEOPLE near press time. The
bill was approved by the House of Representatives on November 14,
2010, and by the Senate on November 19. It replaces a 1999 law
struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in April 2010 as excessively
broad.
The 1999 bill was opposed by major journalism societies as a
potential threat to news reportage, but most took no position on the
redrafted replacement bill.

SPCA International is ordered to stop using domain name

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2010:

MONTREAL–Quebec Superior Court Judge Louis Crete on November
19, 2010 ordered SPCA International to “immediately cease using and
operating directly or indirectly” the web domain names <spca.com> and
<spcamontreal.com>.
Judge Crete ruled that the Montreal SPCA, also known as the
Canadian SPCA, “is the sole owner and/or exclusive user and
registrant of the domain names,” which have been in dispute since
March 2008.

Must repay gifts of stolen funds

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2010:

ST. AUGUSTINE–Judas contributed his 30
pieces of silver toward the purchase of a
potter’s field in which to bury the poor, and
Robin Hood robbed from the rich to give to the
poor, but charities accept donations of
ill-gotten gains at their peril, according to
U.S. courts.

Animal welfare language added

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2010:

GENEVA, SCHAUMBERG–The International Org-anization for
Standardization and American Veterinary Medical Association have
added language strengthening recognition of animal welfare to their
governing documents.
ISO 26000, a standard issued in November 2010 to define
social responsibility, states that socially responsible
organizations “respect the welfare of animals, when affecting their
lives and existence, including by providing decent conditions for
keeping, breeding, producing, transporting and using animals.”

Haj & Eid abuses exposed again

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2010:

Live transport, crude amateur slaughter
at the November 16, 2010 celebration of the Eid
“Feast of Sacrifice,” slaughter in front of
children, poor animal welfare leading to the
spread of disease–including the often deadly
tick-borne Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever–and
misuse of the Haj pilgrimage to Mecca as a cover
for wildlife trafficking all came to light in
2010 post-Haj reportage. The most encouraging
sign of change may have been simply that much of
the critical reportage was done by leading media
in Islamic nations.

EU vs. puppy mills & cosmetic mutilation

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2010:

Brussels–Moving to regulate puppy mills, promote pet
identification, and to prohibit devocalization, declawing,
ear-cropping, and tail-docking, the Council of the European Union
on November 29, 2010 formally asked the European Commission to
“study the differences between the measures taken by the member
states regarding the breeding of and EU trade in dogs and cats and,
if appropriate, to prepare policy options for the harmonization of
the internal market.”

Wildlife SOS evacuates bear sanctuary

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2010:

BANGALORE–Responding to posters hung by Naxalist Maoist
rebels warning “Leave the forest if you wish to remain safe,”
Wildlife SOS cofounder Kartick Satyanarayan during the second week of
November 2010 led the evacuation of 22 former dancing bears from a
rescue center in Purulia, West Bengal, to the Bannerghatta Rescue
Center on the outskirts of Bangalore in Karnataka state, 1,200 miles
south.

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