Brainwashing Taiwan: BIG-GROUP OUTREACH CAN BE MISGUIDED

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2000:

I read with a mix of hope and intense disgust the January/February 2000 ANIMAL PEOPLE feature about overseas animal shelters trying to avoid repeating U.S. and European mistakes.

Especially interesting to me were the remarks of Wu Hung, founder of the Environment and Animal Society of Taiwan. Until recently Wu Hung chaired the Life Conservationist Association of Taiwan, a group which in name was active, but by way of activity did little more than publish pamphlets. I have talked with Wu Hung on occasion during my six years in Taiwan, and your article brought home to me the true evil that many of the large, rich organizations of conventional outlook are wreaking on animal rescue overseas.

BOOKS: Humane how-tos

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2000:

Trap, Neuter, & Return: A Humane Approach to Feral Cat Control Video from Alley Cat Allies

(1801 Belmont Road NW, Suite 201, Washington, DC 2009), 1999. 42 minutes. $16.00.

How To Control Beaver Flooding Edited by Sharon T. Brown, M.A., and Joseph W. Brown, Ph.D. Beavers: Wetlands & Wildlife (146 Van Dyke Rd., Dolgeville, NY 13329), 1999. 12 pages. $2.00 each, bulk rates available.

Can You Turn A Wolf Into A Dog? Commonly Asked Questions About Having Wolves and Hybrids as Pets by Pat Tucker & Bruce Weide Wild Sentry (POB 172, Hamilton, MT 59840), 2000. 24 pages. $2.00 each, bulk rates available.

“Welcome to the monkey-house” & other Y2K stories

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2000:

As the first month of the new millennium ended, ANIMAL PEOPLE had heard of only three “Y2K crisis” items involving animal protection.

One was the usual New Year’s Eve and Fourth of July surge in numbers of dogs running at large, terrified by fireworks. But even the news on that front was unusually good, as the South African National SPCA on January 25 won agreements from the U.S.-owned retail chains Toys R Us and R e g g i e ’ s that they would no longer sell fireworks at any of their 41 South African stores.

South African campaigners were on a streak, as 51,000 South Africans reportedly signed a Beauty Without Cruelty petition asking that the legal status of animals be changed from “chattel” to “sentient beings.”

HUMAN OBITUARIES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2000:

Vicki Moore, 44, founder of Fight Against Animal Cruelty in Europe, died in Liverpool, England, on December 6, from complications of a goring she suffered while videotaping a bull run through the streets of Coria, Spain, in July 1995. “It took one minute 36 seconds to get her to the hospital,” her husband Tony Moore said, “and then they operated for seven hours. The bull was shot immediately, which was good for the bull. They said he was too dangerous. They don’t like to be in too much danger when they do what they do. When I told Vicki, she burst into tears.” A former actress, Moore documented animal abuse undercover at Spanish fiestas for more than a decade before her injury, and rescued many of the animals she saw mistreated, including Blackie the Donkey, who as a longtime guest of The Donkey Sanctuary in Sidmouth, Devon, became poster-animal for her cause. Blackie died in 1994. Moore’s longest battle was against the custom of throwing a goat from a 60-foot church tower during an annual festival in Manganeses de la Polverosa, Spain. Moore saw a nanny goat killed there in 1990, and won an order from the governor of Zamora that a goat not be thrown in 1991. Thereafter, defying such orders became part of the tradition––until this year, when the town council threatened to fine anyone who helped toss a goat. The festival was held on January 23, and the goat-toss was not done.

Obituaries

PEOPLE

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2000:

The Kane County Chronicle, of Geneva, Illinois, in mid-January devoted a three-part series to the civil liberties aspects of Kane County State’s Attorney Joseph McMahon’s ongoing attempt to prosecute S H A R K founder Steve Hindi for felony eavesdropping. Hindi in July 1999 taped a police officer who was refusing, in front of a crowd of 10,000, to arrest several rodeo performers for acts of cruelty which Hindi had documented on film. Kane County Chronicle reporter Brenda Schory found that the law Hindi is accused of breaking was passed by the Illinois legislature after members were embarrased during the 1960s by public disclosure of various vulgar remarks they made while on the floor but not actually at the podium.

Molly Fearing, who as a teacher at Graham High School in Champaign County, Ohio, unsuccessfully pressed a cruelty charge last year against a fellow teacher for having a student bash a piglet’s head against the parking lot, is now working in a Honda assembly plant after accepting a buy-out offer to leave the school district. She would like to return to teaching, D o n Baird of the Columbus Dispatch recently reported, but because of the local unpopularity of her stand for animals, she would probably have to relocate to find another classroom job.

ALF, ELF suspects raided, arrested

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2000:

Investigators from the FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, and U.S. Forest Service on February 2 raided the Liberation Collective house in Portland, Oregon, home of frequent direct action spokesperson Craig Rosebraugh, 27. Rosebraugh was also subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury on February 29. Rosebraugh was previously subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury in September 1997. Identified by Robert Sullivan of The New York Times Magazine in December 1998 as “The Face of Eco-Terrorism,” Rosebraugh has since June 1997 often been the first person to publicize actions attributed to the Earth Liberation Front, including the October 1998 Vail ski lift arson and a New Year’s Eve fire at the Michigan State University Hall of Agriculture. Rosebraugh has also publicized some actions attributed to the Animal Liberation Front, but insists he does not know who the ELF and ALF perpetrators are. Rosebraugh served on the steering committee for the 1999 Primate Freedom T o u r, along with longtime activists Rick Bogle and Linda Howard. It was reputedly a shaky alliance, in part due to strong differences over the use of clandestine tactics. Rosebraugh’s presence on the bus is believed to have caused BATF and the Wisconsin Justice Department Division of Criminal Investigation to extensively search it when a stop at Madison coincided with two nearby alleged ALF actions against mink ranchers.

Upset at pigeon killing, Ayatollah orders probe

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2000:

TEHRAN––Abdolreza Izadpaneh, advisor to Iranian judiciary chief Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, in midJanuary told the Tehran newspaper Entekhab that the Judges Disciplinary Court would investigate the conduct of a lower court judge who earlier in the month ordered the slaughter of 170 pigeons to settle a dispute between two neighbors over who owned one of the birds.

“The head of the judiciary expressed sorrow upon hearing the verdict and ordered a probe into the case,” recounted Izadpaneh.

According to Associated Press, “The pigeons were slaughtered the same day the verdict was announced, prompting condemnations from animal protection groups and ordinary Iranians,” in a nation where public opposition to the actions of Islamic fundamentalist clerics is reputedly rare and sometimes fatal.

ANIMAL OBITUARIES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2000:

Willie B., 41, a silverback gorilla, died from pneumonia at Zoo Atlanta on February 2. Captured in Africa as an infant, Willie B. spent 25 years in solitary confinement, with only a TV for company, at the former Atlanta-Fulton County Zoo, but made a rapid adjustment to a relatively normal gorilla life when the zoo––once considered the worst in the U.S.––was extensively renovated in 1988, and acquired other gorillas to live with him. During his last dozen years, he sired four daughters and a son, and showed the way toward rehabilitating many other long-isolated nonhuman primates. More than 2,500 people came to his funeral.

Alvin the Alligator, 40, resident at the Southwestern College science building in Winfield, Kansas, since 1960, was found dead in his cage in mid-January.

Obituaries

COURT CALENDAR

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2000:

Appeals

The Tennessee Court of Appeals on February 4 overturned a 1999 Roane County chancery court ruling that Tiger Haven, of Kingston, Tennessee, is in violation of zoning. Tiger Haven aggressively raised funds during 1999 on the premise that it might soon have to move. Tiger Haven was founded in 1993 by Joseph Donovan Parker, 52, and his wife Mary Lynn Parker. Accused of skimming $50,000 in proceeds during 1986 and 1997 from charity bingo games, Joe Parker drew a reduced sentence on lesser charges after turning prosecution witness in a joint federal/state probe of alleged corruption in bingo gambling that apparently led to the December 1989 suicide of Tennessee secretary of state Gentry Crowell. Parker eventually served three months in a halfway house for conspiracy and tax evasion.

U.S. District Judge Charles Kornmann on February 3 reaffirmed his own March 1999 ruling that the Bureau of Indian A f f a i r s need not do an environmental impact study of an 859,000-hog confinement farm now being built on Rosebud Sioux land by Richard Bell, of Wahpeton, North Dakota. The Humane Farming Association, South Dakota Peace & Justice Center, Prairie Hills Audubon Society, and C o n c e r n e d Rosebud Citizens had sued seeking to stop the project. But it may yet be stopped. Former Rosebud Sioux tribal council president Norman Wilson, who backed the hog farm, was ousted in late 1999, and the current Rosebud Sioux council on January 5 resolved that the work should stop pending further review.

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