A Project of Animal People, Inc., 1992-2013
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2006:
ACRES (Singapore)
TYPE AE
GIVEN/EARNED $ 53,686
BUDGET $ 59,190
PROGRAMS $ 51,350
OVERHEAD $ 7,840
% 13%
NET ASSETS $ 5,482
TANGIBLE ASSETS $ 1,308
FUNDS/INVEST $ 6,723
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2006:
Walt Disney’s True-Life Adventures
Buena Vista Productions & R.K.O.Productions, 2006.
Four volumes; $32.95 each.
True Life Adventures, the first release
in the new Walt Disney Legacy DVD collection,
features 13 wildlife documentaries which among
them won eight Academy Awards and created a whole
new genre of cinema. Originally filmed fifty
years ago in 16 millimetre format, the films
have been digitally restored, are presented in
four 2-disc volumes with collectible packaging,
and include commentary by Roy E. Disney, nephew
of Walt Disney and son of Walt Disney Studios
founding partner Roy Oliver.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2006:
LONDON–Fashion superstar Kate Moss
designs garments for Topshop, a firm with a
policy against using fur–but as a model, the
role that propelled her to fame, Moss wears furs
for Burberry. Her paradoxical alignments reflect
the ambiuity of a fashion market in which
traditional highpriced fur coats have been “out”
for nearly 20 years, yet cheap imported fur trim
is selling as never before.
The London Independent in a series of
November and early December 2006 features
reported “a growing backlash against soaring
sales of fur,” which has yet to show much sign
of reversing the fur trim boom.
British fur sales are up 30% in two
years, The Independent said, “with £41 million
of new fur products,” about 1,000 tons’ worth,
“imported every year into a U.K. market now worth
an estimated £500 million.”
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2006:
Starting on page 15 is our 17th annual report on the budgets,
assets, and salaries paid by the major U.S. animal-related
charities, plus miscellaneous local activist groups, humane
societies, and some prominent organizations abroad. We offer their
data for comparative purposes. Foreign data is stated in U.S.
dollars at representative exchange rates.
Most charities are identified in the second column by what
they do and stand for: A for advocacy, C for conservation of
habitat via acquisition, E for education, H for support of hunting,
I for supporting the eradication of “invasive” feral or non-native
species, L for litigation, P for publication, S for
shelter/sanctuary maintenance or sterilization project, U for
favoring either “sustainable” or aboriginal lethal use of wildlife,
and V for focus on vivisection.
As most listed charities do some advocacy and education, the
A and E designations are used with others only if advocacy and
education use more of the charities’ time and budget than other roles
for which they may be better known. Charities of obvious purpose may
not have a letter. While many charities pursue multiple activities,
space limits us to offering no more than three identifying letters.
Most of the financial data we cite for U.S. charities comes
from IRS Form 990 filings, usually covering fiscal year 2005. Form
990s from most U.S. charities are available– free–at
<www.guidestar.com>.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2006:
Among the 1,216 newspapers archived at News-Library.com, the
word "terrorism" appeared in under 2% of all coverage of "animal
rights" until after the 2001 Al Qaida attacks on New York City and
Washington D.C.--but "terrorism" has been mentioned in more than 6%
of "animal rights" coverage ever since.
Total coverage of "animal rights" topped 6,000 articles for
the first time in 2000, and has remained higher than in any year
before 2000.
Year AR in AR linked
articles to "terror"
1980 - 10 0 0%
1981 - 18 0 0%
1982 - 39 1 2%
1983 - 84 2 2%
1984 - 212 5 2%
1985 - 454 4 1%
1986 - 594 7 1%
1987 - 1,058 12 1%
1988 - 1,604 27 2%
1989 - 2,881 31 1%
1990 - 4,979 102 2%
1991 - 4,691 52 1%
1992 - 4,530 41 1%
1993 - 4,639 46 1%
1994 - 4,133 23 0%
1995 - 3,808 73 2%
1996 - 5,081 46 1%
1997 - 5,385 124 2%
1998 - 5,587 73 1%
1999 - 5,871 145 3%
2000 - 6,450 74 1%
2001 - 5,664 263 5%
2002 - 5,900 342 6%
2003 - 6,691 423 6%
2004 - 6,262 358 6%
2005 - 6,618 483 7%
2006 - 6,629 392 6%
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2006:
MONTREAL–An old grievance of U.S. local and regional humane
societies has erupted across Canada in response to appeals by the
shelterless Toronto-based Humane Society of Canada and the
Montreal-based Canadian SPCA, which operates a shelter and
sterilization clinic in Montreal.
Both organizations are widely seen as poaching on local turf,
but Canadian SPCA mailings have raised the most visible ire.
“Fundraising appeals sent by the Montreal SPCA list local
postal boxes on the donation pledge form, so that donors in Nova
Scotia would mail to a Halifax address and those in Saskatchewan to a
Moose Jaw address,” wrote Toronto Globe & Mail Montreal
correspondent Tu Thanh Ha.
“We find it quite annoying. We have a hard enough time
fundraising for ourselves,” Moose Jaw Humane Society director Ray
Whitney told Tu Thanh Ha.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2006:
WASHINGTON D.C.–U.S. President George W.
Bush on November 27, 2006 signed into law the
Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act. AETA extends to
animal industry workers the provisions of the
1982 Animal Enterprise Protection Act, which
covered only property.
Sent to Bush in final form on November
13, AETA is expected to be the last major piece
of animal-related legislation passed by the
Republican majority who had controlled both the
U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives
since the 1994 midterm Congressional election.
Control of both the House and the Senate
passed to the Democrats in the November 2006
midterm election. Opponents declared immediately
their intent to challenge AETA in court and seek
amendments in the next Congress, but support for
AETA was strong among both parties, and despite
allegations that AETA may infringe on civil
liberties, in final form it was not opposed by
the American Civil Liberties Union.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2006:
AMSTERDAM–Two candidates fielded by the Dutch Party of the
Animals on November 22, 2006 won seats in the 150-member Dutch
legislature.
“We are thrilled,” party leader Marianne Thieme said.
“Finally we can start realizing our party’s highest priority, namely
ending all animal suffering. We want a constitutional amendment
guaranteeing animals the right to freedom from pain, fear and stress
caused by humans. Let’s begin,” Thieme suggested, “by easing the
suffering of cows, pigs, and chickens stuck in factory farms.”
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2006:
Oxford University theologian Andrew Linzey on November 28,
2006 announced the formation of the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics,
home page <www.oxfordanimalethics.com>, which Linzey described as
“the world’s first academy dedicated to enhancing the ethical status
of animals through academic publication, teaching, and research.”
Nobel Literature Laureate J.M. Coetzee of South Africa was named
first Honorary Fellow of the institution. Author Jeffrey Masson was
named an Honorary Research Associate. Priscilla Cohn, author of
Contraception in Wildlife, Book I (1996), was named associate
director of the organization.