Author: Dylan Forest

Letters [Sept 2010]

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2010:
(published October 5, 2010)
 
Saving African habitat

In September 2005 the Kenyan minister for tourism and
wildlife declared that Amboseli National Park would become a National
Reserve. Management of the park would be removed from the Kenya
Wildlife Service and placed with the Olkejiado County Council. The
new Kenyan constitution effectively keeps Amboseli under the national
government. The High Court accepted our submission and will issue a
court order quashing the notice that purported to change Amboseli
National Park to Amboseli National Reserve.
Fighting the case cost us $13,350. We have paid $6,650,
leaving a balance to be paid of $6,700.

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New Mexico governor creates wild horse refuge & proposes chimp sanctuary

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2010:
(published October 5, 2010)
ALBUQUERQUE–New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson on September
17, 2010 announced a plan to use $2.9 million in federal economic
stimulus money to multiply the size of Cerrillos Hills State Park,
20 miles south of Santa Fe, more than tenfold by adding the former
Ortiz Mountain Ranch to it, turning it into the largest wild horse
sanctuary in the world.
Then, just ahead of a September 21 media conference called
to discuss the wild horse sanctuary, Richardson toured the
Alamogordo Primate Facility on Holloman Air Force Base near
Albuquerque and recommended that it should become a non-invasive
behavioral research lab.

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Fur trade thwarts anti-fur legislation

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2010:
(published October 5, 2010)
BRUSSELS, TEL AVIV, SACRAMENTO–Fur trade lawyers and
lobbyists three times in less than 40 days kept anti-fur legislation
from taking effect.
The European Union ban on imports of seal products, mostly
pelts, officially took effect on August 20, 2010, more than a year
after final passage in July 2009, but the European Court of Justice
on August 19 stayed enforcement against the plaintiffs in a lawsuit
seeking to overturn the ban, brought by the Canadian Seal Marketing
Group, the Fur Institute of Canada, NuTan Furs, the Inuit
Circumpolar Conference Greenland, and GC Reiber Skinn AS of Norway,
as well as individual hunters and trappers. Among them, the
plaintiffs include most of the sealing industry. The General Court
gave them until September 7 to file arguments against the ban. A
verdict is due before the start of the 2011 Atlantic Canada sealing
season.

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Street dogs, trains, & Indian elephants

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2010:
(published October 5, 2010)
DELHI–Longtime animal welfare concerns flared into public view
in September 2010 in connection with two symbols of Indian national
pride–Indian Railways and the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
Animal advocates worried ever since India agreed to host the
two-week Commonwealth Games in 2006 that the games would be preceded
by an illegal but nonetheless officially encouraged dog massacre, to
rid the streets of perceived “dog menace” before the arrival of
thousands of foreign visitors. Under activist pressure, the city
of Delhi increased the pace of dog sterilizations under the federally
subsidized Animal Birth Control program, but was nonetheless
embarrassed by dogs roaming the athletes’ village at the start of the
games. The animal charity Friendicoes SECA agreed to hold the dogs
in temporary quarters for the duration of the games.

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Looking the wrong way for causes of bushmeat poaching and predator loss

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2010:
(published October 5, 2010)
NAIROBI–Often exposed involvement of Asian financiers in
rhino horn and elephant ivory poaching fueled a ubiquitous belief
among frustrated animal defenders attending the early September 2010
African Animal Welfare Action conference in Nairobi, Kenya that
Asian workers in Africa are also implicated in out-of-control
bushmeat poaching and catastrophic crashes of predator populations.
African Animal Welfare Action conference attendees
guesstimated that Chinese workers alone were involved in from 20% to
80% of all the bushmeat poaching in Africa.

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Alleged rhino poaching gang served trophy hunters as well as Asian medicinal demand

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2010:
(published October 5, 2010)

 

JOHANNESBURG–Startling photos of the
September 22, 2010 arraignment of 11 alleged
members of an international rhino poaching
syndicate reached the world despite the
officially unexplained efforts of police to keep
photographers out.
News photographers Werner Beukes of the
South African Press Agency, Herman Verwey of
Beeld, and Lewellyn Carstens of the South
African Broadcasting Corporation were detained
for 45 minutes and one of them was roughed up by
police, according to the South African National
Editors’ Forum. No motive for the police action
was offered.

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American Humane Association approves decompressing chickens

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2010:
(published October 5, 2010)
DENVER–Former Pew Charitable Trusts
deputy director of philanthropic services Robin
Ganzert took office on August 31, 2010 as new
chief executive officer of the American Humane
Association with a statement distancing the AHA
from “extreme ideas purported by those who argue
thatŠpeople have no right to raise animals for
food.”
Ganzert in her next sentence mentioned
“the inhumane farming practices that contributed
to the massive egg recall” due to salmonella
contamination of eggs produced primarily by farms
owned by Austin “Jack” DeCoster, whose abusive
methods on some of those same farms were exposed
only weeks earlier by the vegan advocacy group
Mercy for Animals.

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Editorial feature: “Zero grazing” vs. the Five Freedoms

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2010:
(published October 5, 2010)
Few animal advocates doubt these days
that the use and misuse of more than 47 billion
farmed animals worldwide is the most urgent and
critical issue before us. Whether one favors
ushering humanity toward vegetarianism or
veganism, or only more nuanced efforts to reduce
and mitigate animal suffering in husbandry and
slaughter, animal agriculture involves many
times more animals and more misery than all other
human activities combined.
Indeed, from a third to half of all the
birds in the world are factory-farmed chickens.
Farmed mammals far outnumber all companion
animals and probably all wildlife larger than a
dog. Even the highest estimates of the numbers
of animals used in laboratories per year appear
to be lower than the volume of animals
slaughtered for human consumption on most days of
the week.

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Papaya product and calcium chloride emerge as rivals to zinc sterilants

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2010:
(published October 5, 2010)
SAN FRANCISCO, PORTLAND– Contrary to military chow line
rumors circulating for at least seven centuries, saltpeter is just a
meat preservative, with no actual effect in reducing the sex drive
or effecting contraception when troops go on leave. Also contrary to
ancient rumor, troops are not innoculated with saltpeter during
their vaccinations at induction into military service.
Several zinc compounds have contraceptive effects similar to
some of those misattributed to saltpeter if injected into the
testicles of male animals, but often induce painful scrotal
swelling, and have no more effect than saltpeter in reducing
testosterone production.

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