WAS A COUP ATTEMPTED AT AHA, OR WAS IT A RUMOR?

November 1, 1997 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1997:

DENVER––American Humane
Association board members Charles Granoski
Jr., Harold Dates, and Judy Lang on October
16 and 17 all denied either knowing about or
being part of an alleged coup d’etat that ANIMAL
PEOPLE was told was in planning,
involving them at alleged instigation of Denver
Dumb Friends League executive director Bob
Rohde––who also denied knowing about it
Executives of four major humane
societies relayed tips about the alleged coup to
ANIMAL PEOPLE in mid-October––just
before the October 26 AHA annual meeting,
preceding the AHA conference in Philadelphia.

Big Muddy murk

November 1, 1997 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1997:

NEW ORLEANS––Mule carriage
driver Milton “Patch” Oliney, 58, of
New Orleans, was charged September 31
with second degree murder for allegedly
knifing George Languirand, 51, in a French
Quarter dispute over how Oliney bitted his
mule. Co-workers said Languirand apparently
intervened after an unidentified
woman hurt the mule, who reportedly suffered
a three-inch cut. Others said the
woman accused Patch of bitting the mule
painfully, and tried to refit the bit herself.
In January 1997 the Louisiana
SPCA reportedly cited the stable for which
Oliney drives––one of two that serve French
Quarter tourists––for alleged unsanitary conditions
and improperly harnessing.

But chickens can’t “chicken out”

November 1, 1997 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1997:

OTTAWA––Video artist Rob
Thompson, 40, on October 8 chose Eric
Wolf, 24, and Pamela Meldrum, 27, from
Aylmer, Quebec, from among 80 applicants
to spend the week of October 26-November 1
in a refrigerator-sized cage under conditions
replicating those of factory-farmed chickens.
Meldrum and Wolf will each be paid
$2,500. They will be allowed to eat only a
vegetarian mash, drink only from a hose, and
wear only long underwear, socks, shoes, and
a knit cap. They will have no amusements,
and no bathing facilities, but will enjoy a
chemical toilet and solid floor instead of having
to defecate through a wire floor.

AV protest in a union suit

November 1, 1997 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1997:

BOSTON––New England AntiVivisection
staff, upset by the resignations
due to alleged stress of five colleagues since
mid-April, recently petitioned the National
Labor Relations Board stating their wish to
form a union, which requires the stated
interest of 30% of the work force; obtained
authorization to vote on whether to unionize;
voted to proceed, despite reported opposition
from the NEAVS board, and are now
the first unionized staff in animal protection
advocacy, under the title Workers for
Animal Rights. Electing Karl Gossot shop
steward, the union was at deadline drafting
a list of issues to be discussed in negotiating
a collective contract.

People

November 1, 1997 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1997:

Two days after The London Times
reported that “two scholarships for vegetarians
to Wycliffe College in Gloucestershire
have been unclaimed for at least four years,”
third-generation vegetarian Wycliffe student
Lisa Stephenson, 15, of Chester, claimed
one of them. Her grandfather and uncles
boarded at Springfield House, a vegetarian
residence hall formed in 1909 by then-headmaster
George Sibly. “Roger Bacon, Lisa’s
grandfather, went on a walking holiday for
vegetarians in Holland with George Sibly and

Activists & Organizations

PROCTER & GAMBLE UPS THE ANTE

November 1, 1997 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1997:

CINCINNATI––Embarrassed in
June when PETA disclosed allegedly abusive
conditions at Huntingdon Life Sciences, an
animal testing subcontractor, Procter &
Gamble at its October 14 annual shareholders
meeting announced that the American
College of Laboratory Animal Medicine is to
develop a sensitivity training program for all
animal handlers and researchers at either
P&G laboratories or subcontracting labs;
announced it has committed $900,000 to the
San Diego Supercomputer Center Biology
Network of Modeling Efforts toward the cost
of developing a mathematical model of the
human heart, which could accurately predict
biological responses to new drug compounds,
plus another $100,000 for related research to
replace animal-based toxicological testing;

YELLOWSTONE REGION BOOKS

November 1, 1997 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1997:

Yellowstone Wildlife: A Watcher’s Guide
Track of the Coyote
Glacier Park Wildlife:
A Watcher’s Guide to Glacier Park & Waterton Lakes
Grand Canyon, Zion & Bruce
All by Todd Wilkinson, with photos by Michael H. Francis
All from NorthWord Press (POB 1360, Minoqua, WI 545498), 1995.
Watcher’s Guides are 96 pages, paperback, $11.95.
Others are 144 pages, paperback, $14.95.

NorthWord Press had the misfortune
to send us their Todd Wilkinson/Michael
Francis library on the great National Parks of
the Rocky Mountains in late 1995 just after
we’d explored the Continental Divide from
Bozeman, Montana, to Puerto Penasco,
Mexico, and had extensively reported on our
findings. Fortunately these books were
designed to have a long shelf life, and are still
in print. Yellowstone Wildlife explains to the

Yellowstone wolves leghold-trapped

November 1, 1997 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1997:

HELENA, Montana––A little publicized aspect of
the Yellowstone region wolf reintroduction is that although
tranquilizer darts and net guns are also used in captures and
recaptures, the wolves involved may be repeatedly legholdtrapped,
with potentially tragic consequences.
Many of the initial breeding wolves were first
leghold-trapped in Alberta for outfitting with radio collars a
year or more before they were recaptured, sometimes again by
leghold trapping, for relocation to Yellowstone and central
Idaho. Then they may have been leghold-trapped on further
occasions, for maintenance of their radio collars, removal
from proximity to livestock, and checks of reproductive status.
Offspring are also routinely leghold-trapped to be fitted with
radio collars, if they can’t be caught by other means.

Ranchers want taxpayers to keep them in clover

November 1, 1997 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1997:

WASHINGTON D.C.– – Interior
Secretary Bruce Babbitt has asked President
Bill Clinton to veto a “grazing reform” bill that
House Agriculture Committee chair Bob Smith
(R-Oregon) sent to the House on September
24––if it clears Congress.
Wilderness Society lobbyist Fran
Hunt said the Smith bill “would lock in a new
subsidized grazing fee for livestock operators
on public lands, “ at about a third the federal
cost of land maintenance; “enact new hurdles
that would make it even more difficult for the
Forest Service or Bureau of Land Management
to protect and restore public rangeland”;
“limit public participation in federal decisionmaking”;
“hamper the ability of concerned
groups and individuals to appeal unsound federal
grazing decisions”; and “undercut the
multiple use management and conservation of
the National Grasslands by removing them
from the National Forest system.”

« 1 … 439 440 441 442 443 … 648 »