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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1999:

“The last rodeo that animal rights
activist Eric Mills remembers running out
of town was the Gay Rodeo five years ago,”
began Venise Wagner of the San Francisco
Examiner in a June 16 article about Mills’
opposition to the Juneteenth Black Rodeo, held
in Golden Gate Park on of Emancipation Day.
Wagner never mentioned that Action for
Animals founder Mills also works for gay
rights––a charged omission in a city known for
militant gay activism. Mills said the demo was
a huge success anyhow.

Activists & Organizations

Some good news, for a change

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1999:

While the Makah tribe of western
Washington killed a whale on May 17, as
described on page one of the June edition of
ANIMAL PEOPLE, the Blackfeet tribe of
Montana dedicated a corner of their reservation
to a private effort to reintroduce the swift
fox, described by predator expert Todd
Wilkinson in the May 22 edition of The
Christian Science Monitor. Sacred to at least
six Great Plains tribes, swift foxes were
trapped to declared extinction in Montana by
1970, but isolated subpopulations survived in
Kansas, Colorado, and Wyoming. Winning
tribal approval of the reintroduction in August
1998, Blackfeet wildlife manager Ira
Newbreast obtained 30 captive-bred swift
foxes from the Cochrane Ecological Institute,
which is supervising swift fox recovery
in Canada, and released them last fall.

Animal Welfare Associates signs compliance pact

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1999:

Animal Welfare Associates Inc., of
Stamford, Connecticut, on May 24 responded to a
warning from the State of Connecticut Commissioner
of Consumer Protection that “AWA’s
advertising, solicitations and other communications
are or may have been misleading in violation of the
Solicitation of Charitable Funds Act” by signing an
Assurance of Voluntary Compliance.
AWA admitted no fault, but pledged “to
cease representing to the public that it provides animal
placement or adoption services unless it shall:
maintain dated records of the identity/description of
each animal accepted, the manner in which each
animal is obtained, and the identity of the person
who accepts each animal or the eventual disposition
of each animal not adopted as a pet”; and “to cease
representing to the public that it in any way operates
an animal shelter.”

Who’s behind Tiger Haven?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1999:

Recent appeal mailings by Tiger Haven,
Inc., of Knoxville, Tennessee, have drawn an
unusually heavy volume of inquiries to ANIMAL
PEOPLE as to what we know of the organization.
Tiger Haven is a project of Joseph
Donovan Parker, 52, and his wife Mary Lynn
Parker, who claimed in a 1991 affidavit that they
began working with tigers as Knoxville Zoo volunteers
in February 1988. The facility is actually located
at Kingston, 35 miles west of Knoxville. The
Parkers and Tiger Haven now have 63 tigers, lions,
jaguars, and other large exotic cats, including about
20 obtained when the Jimmy Carter Zoo went out of
business in 1997. (The North Carolina facility had no
connection with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.)
Joseph Parker reportedly ran bingo games
in the Knoxville area for some years, until thenTennessee
attorney general Charles Burson ruled in
early 1989 that bingo is illegal under the state constitution.

Sea Shepherds fight World Wildlife Fund

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1999:

Between vigils against Makah whaling in fall 1998 and spring 1999
aboard The Sirenian off Neah Bay, Washington, Sea Shepherd Conservation
Society international director Lisa Distefano spent part of the winter helping to
save sea birds after the wreck of the tanker Pallas near the Shallows nature
reserve off the coast of Germany. The Sea Shepherds mustered 60 volunteers,
who eventually rescued more than 1,000 birds, Distefano wrote in the first 1999
edition of The Sea Shepherd Log.
The hardest part of the job, Distefano said, was that “In Germany the
conservation ethic tends to be a hunter’s ethic. The park staff at the Shallows
reserve is steeped in the mentality that if an animal is injured, you kill it. The
reserve workers are basically hunters. They, like staff from Greenpeace and the
World Wildlife Fund, came to the scene with the belief that if a bird had any
contact with oil, the bird is beyond help and must be killed.

Sitting on fat assets–– and grabbing more

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1999:

ANIMAL PEOPLE reader Victoria
Windsor was the first of many who noted the intense
resemblance of the Massachusetts SPCA appeal
mailing of April 12 to the appeal format long used by
DELTA Rescue.
DELTA Rescue founder Leo Grillo said he
wouldn’t mind if the MSPCA, with $75 million in
assets, including $65 million in cash and securities,
also copied the DELTA Rescue approach to helping
animals. If the MSPCA committed even half as large
a share of its resources to low-cost and free neutering
and care-for-life sheltering as DELTA Rescue,
Massachusetts could be a no-kill state in six months.
But the MSPCA isn’t even the wealthiest
humane society in Boston with a long history of sitting
on its assets. The Town of Pembroke recently
revoked the tax-exempt status of a house and land
purchased by the Animal Rescue League, ostensibly
to build a shelter, but used instead to house the
League’s director of operations. That caused the
Quincy Patriot-Ledger to investigate what else the
Animal Rescue League was and wasn’t doing.

RSPCA barely holds off hunters

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1999:

LONDON––Struggling to retain control
of the Royal SPCA, the pro-animal rights board
faction led by Animal Revolution author Richard
Ryder kept off the June 26 annual meeting agenda a
proposed resolution by Countryside Alliance member
Ian Alexander which would have asked RSPCA
members to agree that it is “a matter of serious public
concern and detrimental to the interests of the
society, the growing influence within the society of
persons with extreme views of animal rights.”
The resolution would further have asked
the RSPCA membership to “cease expenditure upon
politically motivated lobbying and advertising,”
and would have invited the British Charity
Commissions to address the “growing evidence of
intrusion by animal rights activists into the society.”

PETA, Paul, Jesus, and an arson charge

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1999:

ATLANTA, DES MOINES,
KANSAS CITY, MISSOULA, TOPEK
A––Enlisting help from both Jesus and the
Beatles, People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals scored a string of media hits against
meat-eating and fishing in early summer.
Thirty-three years after the late John
Lennon provoked the biggest uproar of the
Beatles’ career by speculating, after a Beatles
concert outdrew church attendence, that the
group might have become more popular than
Jesus, Paul McCartney emerged from mourning
his late wife Linda to announce the first
airing of a 15-second anti-fishing TV commercial
that Linda made for PETA shortly before
her death. The commercial was broadcast on
NBC during National Fishing Week.

Bullfeathers

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1999:

Upsetting 408 years of tradition
that bull-runners participate and spectators
attend runnings-of-the-bulls at their own risk,
a Madrid court ruled on June 30 that the town
of Belmonte de Tajo must pay $96,000 to a
man who was gored during a 1994 bull run,
and the town of Boadilla del Monte must pay
$10,000 to a 1992 goring victim.
French matador Denis Lore, 30,
is reportedly facing cruelty charges in Nimes,
France, brought by the French SPCA
because he advised amateur matadors in
April at an unauthorized private c o r r i d a,
during which four bulls were killed.

Bloodsports

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