Dog round-up & shark fin controversies bite Hong Kong Disneyland

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1995:

HONG KONG––Hong Kong Dis-

neyland had barely found a face-saving way to

retreat from serving sharks’ fins at weddings

when Hong Kong Dog Rescue founder Sally

Anderson complained to South China Morning

Post reporter Simon Perry that Disney man-

agement had lethally purged several dozen

dogs she was trying to capture at the theme

park and offer for adoption.

“Dozens of stray dogs adopted by

construction workers on the Disney site have

been rounded up and killed in the run-up to the

park’s opening in September,” Parry wrote on

July 25, 2005. “Forty-five dogs, some

believed to have been used as unofficial guard

dogs on the site during construction, have been

caught by government dog catchers at

Disney’s request.

Japan still killing whales, but moratorium holds

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1995:

SEOUL––Japan is still killing minke, sei,

Bryde’s and sperm whales in the name of research,

and will kill humpbacks this year as well, with a total

self-set “scientific” quota for the year of 935.

Norway continues killing minke whales in

coastal waters, and Iceland has resumed whaling, but

all still without world approval, as the 57th annual

meeting of the International Whaling Commission ended

in Ulsan, South Korea on June 24 with no major suc-

cesses for the pro-whaling faction.

“We entered the week with a strong fear that

the balance of power within the IWC would shift to a

pro-whaling majority,” summarized Whalewatch

Coalition leader Philip Lymbery. His delegation repre-

sented the Royal SPCA, Earth Island Institute, Whale

& Dolphin Conservation Society, Whale Watch, and

Humane Society International.

“Six new pro-whaling nations joined the IWC

this year,” Lymbery continued, “countered by just

three new anti-whalers. Anti-whalers held the majority

largely due to tactical lobbying and absentees,” and

India caught up on back dues and sent a delegation just

in time for the most critical ballots.

PETA survives IRS audit

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1995:

NORFOLK – –The Internal Revenue Service

announced on May 16 that a 20-month audit of PETA and

the subsidiary Foundation to Support Animal Protection

found no reason to revoke their tax-exempt status.

FSAP holds two-thirds of the assets under PETA

control according to IRS Form 990, including 75% of the

cash and securities.

FSAP in recent years has paid the mortgage on the

PETA headquarters, has leased the site to PETA, and has

done direct mail fundraising on behalf of PETA. This has

enabled PETA to avoid declaring the full extent and nature

of PETA assets and spending on IRS Form 990.

Most wanted poachers busted in India & Nepal

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1995:

DELHI, KASARA– – The

two most notorious living poachers on

the Asian subcontinent were arrested on

June 30 and July 20, respectively, as

result of separate investigations.

The Indian Central Bureau of

Investigation apprehended Sansar

Chand, 47, after tracing him to his

Delhi home by identifying his newspa-

per reading habits: a native of

Rajasthan, Chand read Rajasthani

papers in a neighborhood where few oth-

ers did.

First arrested for poaching and

wildlife trafficking at age 16, in 1974,

when he was found in possession of 676

animal pelts including those of tigers

and leopards, Chand worked with at

least five close relatives. He was report-

edly convicted 15 times without serving

any significant sentence, even after he

was caught with 28,486 contraband pelts

in 1988. Fifty-seven cases are pending

against him in nine Indian states, wrote

London Independent Delhi correspon-

dent Justin Huggler.

PETA splits freedom of expression verdicts

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1995:

Ruling at the Newcastle Crown Court,

British High Court Judge Peter Langan on June

16 refused to grant Covance Laboratories a n

extended injunction to prevent PETA from airing

undercover videography of a Covance facility in

Vienna, Virginia, but allowed a previous injunction

to stand for another 14 days to allow Covance time

to appeal.

Covance pledged to appeal, but on June

23 withdrew parallel motions filed in Fairfax,

Virginia, where Covance is pursuing a lawsuit

against PETA and investigator Lisa Leitten, a for-

mer primate technician, for alleged fraud and viola-

tion of an employee contract.

Tsunami Memorial Animal Welfare Trust takes over in Sri Lanka

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1995:

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka– –The

Tsunami People/Animal Welfare Coalition on

July 26, 2005 wrapped up emergency relief

operations begun after the December 26, 2004

Indian Ocean Tsunami, rolling all remaining

assets over into the Tsunami Memorial Animal

Welfare Trust.

Coalition and Trust cofounder

Robert Blumberg arranged that ANIMAL

PEOPLEofficially sponsored the last of a six-

month series of vaccination missions by Pets V

Care mobile clinics into refugee camps and

tsunami-stricken coastal villages.

Pound electrocutions stopped in Manila

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1995:

MANILA––Seeking a cheaper,

faster way to kill dogs than either lethal injec-

tion or use of an antiquated carbon monoxide

chamber, Manila Veterinary Inspection Board

members Manuel Socorro and Condenio

Panogan reportedly electrocuted approximate-

ly 100 dogs from mid-May 2005 to mid-July

before word of their work leaked out.

“Socorro “said they were given a

one-year permit by the Bureau of Animal

Industry to conduct a study of electrocution as

a tool to put down dogs,” wrote Evelyn

Macairan of The Philippine Star. “This

involved conducting a series of tests wherein

the voltage would be set starting at 100 volts

and be slowly raised to 500 volts.”

82% of caged broilers are burned by urine

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1995:

LONDON––Examining the carcass-

es of 384 broiler hens raised according to the

British Farm Standard and offered for sale on

supermarket shelves, an investigation commis-

sioned by the Royal SPCA and directed by

Cambridge University professor Donald

Broom reported in July 2005 that 82% had

been burned on their legs or bodies by pro-

longed contact with ammonia from feces.

“Lack of space and fast-growing

bodies that can become too heavy to be sup-

ported by their legs increases the likelihood of

birds receiving painful burns, as the birds

spend more time in contact with floor litter,”

said RSPCA scientific officer Marc Cooper.

LETTERS [July/Aug 1995]

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1995:

Kindest fate

The April 2005 edition of

ANIMAL PEOPLE included the

subheading “Dog Meat Farms Spread

Rabies.”

Perhaps the kindest fate for

dogs who are raised for consumption

is to be killed to prevent the spread of

disease, rather than being put through

the horrors of the dog meat markets.

Some years ago, I watched

a local TV program regarding cats

bred and sold for human consumption,

probably in southern China. What

shook and haunted me more than any-

thing else was the picture of cats

being skinned alive at the market and

being carried away alive for the pot.

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