Author: Dylan Forest

Meat biz barks for puppy mills

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2011:

 

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.–Rural Missouri lawmakers backed by
agribusiness hope to overturn the Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act,
approved by almost a million voters in November 2010–52% of the
electorate–as Proposition B on the state ballot.
Leading the lobbying effort against the Puppy Mill Cruelty
Prevention Act is Missourians for Animal Care, a coalition including
the Missouri Agribusiness Associ-ation, Missouri Cattlemen’s
Association, Missouri Corn Growers Association, Missouri Dairy
Association, Missouri Egg Producers, Missouri Equine Council,
Missouri Farm Bureau, Missouri Federation of Animal Owners,
Missouri Livestock Marketing Association, Missouri Pet Breeders
Association, Missouri Pork Associ-ation, Missouri Soybean
Association, the Poultry Federation, the Professional Pet
Association, and two financial institutions.

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Coffee fad revives civet farming (long version)

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2010

DENPASAR, HANOI–Just seven years after
China banned civet farming because of the
association of civet consumption with more than
800 human deaths from Sudden Acute Respiratory
Syndrome, a vogue for pricy civet coffee has
brought the industry back perhaps bigger than
ever–and certainly in many more places.
Sold to coffee snobs as kopi luwak, the
Indonesian word for it, civet coffee is brewed
from the beans that civets excrete after eating
coffee berries, one of their favorite foods.
Civet coffee is by reputation stronger and
usually more aromatic than most coffees.
Collecting and salvaging the excreted
beans from wild civets is so laborious that civet
coffee, known for centuries, has historically
been so costly to produce as to be consumed only
in small amounts by the very rich and jaded. But
civet farming in coffee-growing country has
brought civet coffee within occasionally reach of
the merely affluent–at prices of from $50 to
$100 a cup.

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Whole Foods introduces multi-tiered animal welfare certification

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2010:
AUSTIN, WASHINGTON D.C.– The 300-store
Whole Foods Markets chain and the Animal
Compassion Foundation, begun by Whole Foods
founder John Mackey, on November 15, 2010
introduced a new system of identifying how
animals slaughtered for meat were raised. The
first standards are for pigs, cattle, and
chickens raised for meat. After a trial interval
the system is to be extended to laying hens and
dairy animals.

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Animal Obituaries

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2010:

Spunk, 10, a therapy dog kept by a 75-year-old retired
teacher in Taman Merdeka, Ipoh, Malaysia, was shot by dogcatchers
on October 29, 2010 while the woman fetched paper to clean up after
him. Made public by her son, Rohan Marshall of Bangkok, Thailand,
the killing rallied national and international support for efforts
led for years by Sabhat Alam Malaysia, the Ipoh SPCA, Noah’s Ark
Ipoh, and PetPositive to abolish dog-shooting. The Ipoh City
Council banned dog-shooting on November 16, 2010. PetPositive
president Anthony Sivabalan, who is also a Petaling Jaya city
councilor, told Ivan Loh of the Star of Malaysia that “The council
will send its officers to their counterparts in Petaling Jaya next
week to learn dog-catching methods. They are also studying the
possibility of setting up an animal shelter. A committee set up by
the council will have meetings later to discuss neutering the
animals.”

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Obituaries

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2010:

 

“I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do
lives after them. The good is oft interred with their bones.”
–William Shakespeare

Avi Sivan, 53, was killed in a helicopter crash on November
23, 2010 while flyng between Doula and Yaounde, Cameroon. A former
commander of the Israel Defense Forces’ elite Duvdevan unit, Sivan
served as a security advisor for Cameroon President Paul Biya.
Sivan founded the Cameroon Wildlife Aid Fund in 1997, which became
Ape Action Africa in 1999. Operating a sanctuary in Mefou National
Park for more than 250 apes and monkeys, Ape Action Africa in 2000
became a charter member of the Pan African Sanctuary Alliance and
hosted the 2010 PASA management workshop.

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“Lizard King” sentenced

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2010:

 

PETALING JAYA, Malaysia–Anson Wong Keng
Liang, 52, on November 6, 2010 saw the
Malaysian High Court increase to five years a
six-month sentence he received from Selang
Sessions Court on September 6 for smuggling boa
constrictors.
Initially trafficking in reptiles via the now
defunct Bukit Jambul Reptile Sanctuary, Wong was
called by Bryan Christy “the most important
person in the international reptile business” in
Christy’s 2008 exposé book The Lizard King.
Arrested in Mexico City in 1998, Wong was
extradited to the U.S., where he served a a
71-months prison term after pleading guilty to
40 counts of smuggling, conspiracy,
money-laundering, and other violations of
wildlife laws.

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Animals’ Friend Hospital raided in memory of founder Crystal Rogers

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2010:

 

DELHI–Avenging the memory and intentions of Animals’ Friend
Hospital founder Crystal Rogers, 32 years after her forced
resignation by trustees she alleged were only trying to grab the
land, deputies for the Animal Welfare Board of India on October 23,
2010 removed all 18 dogs from the premises. The dogs were relocated
to the Friendicoes animal shelter, also in Delhi.
“With the dogs safe, we can work on taking action against
this so-called hospital, and the shocking cruelty that it was
perpetrating on the animals,” attorney Anjali Sharma e-mailed to
ANIMAL PEOPLE. “It is now being used by an unscrupulous
industrialist for housing his office and staff, with the hospital
merely a front.”

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Review: The Dog Who Couldn’t Stop Loving

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2010:

The Dog Who Couldn’t Stop Loving
by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson
Harper (10 E. 53rd St., New York, NY 10022), 2010. 239 pages,
hardcover. $25.99.

Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson in The Dog Who Couldn’t Stop
Loving joins a growing pack of authors who in the fall/winter 2010
publishing season attempt to reprise past best-sellers with a volume
focusing on a favorite dog.

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Review: They Had Me at Meow

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2010:

They Had Me at Meow by Rosie Sorenson
Self-published c/o <www.theyhadmeatmeow.com>, 2010.
102 pages, paperback. $15.95.

They had Me at Meow author Rosie Sorenson became involved
with homeless cats after a car accident scrapped her working career.
By chance she met a man who cared for a cat colony. Soon hooked,
Sorenson is now high priestess of cats at a place called Buster
Hollow in northern California.

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