Religion

May 1, 1995 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1995:

The Miami county courthouse

maintenance staff has created a “Voodoo

Squad” to pick up the dead chickens, goats,

and other relics of Santeria sacrifice found

there each morning, remnants of Caribbean

immigrants’ attempts to influence justice.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June 1993

that municipalities may not ban Santeria, but

they may enforce nondiscriminatory restric-

tions on it for reasons of health, sanitation,

and prevention of cruelty to animals.

The Rabbi Mayer Krucfeld,

assistant director of supervision for Star K

Kosher Certification, of Baltimore, recently

spent two days in La Jara, Colorado,

explaining how to start a kosher slaughter-

house to about 50 potential investors.

Currently the westernmost kosher slaughter-

house in the U.S. is Empire Meats, of Iowa.

Animal Collecting

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1995:

Camille Hankins, 41, of Chester, South Carolina, was

fined $200 on March 22 for ill-treatment of animals at her Animal Save

no-kill shelter, closed last June through the intervention of PETA and

K. Jones, editor of the Charlotte-based animal newspaper T h e

Animality. Eighty animals were taken from Hankins’ trailer home and

yard, of whom about a dozen were euthanized due to illness. Hankins,

a former PETA volunteer, told ANIMAL PEOPLE she was framed

because of PETA’s opposition to no-kill shelters, after she made the

mistake of asking PETA to help her with adoptions. Responded Jones,

“I testified to the conditions I saw several months before the arrest. I

also testified that I tried to get Hankins to give me some of the animals

so that I could get them to a vet, care for them, and adopt them out. I at

one time offered to take them all. She invited PETA down a few weeks

later. I think the town of Chester gave her a fair and just trial, and had

no problem proving her guilt.”

Birds

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1995:

“The only good great horned owl is a dead

one,” says Minnesota state senator Charles Berg, who has

introduced a bill to allow free range turkey farmers to catch

the owls with padded leghold traps––which can easily

crush an owl’s foot––as well as a bill to allow mourning

dove hunting. Letters asking that either bill be vetoed if

passed may be sent to Governor Arne Carlson, 130

Capitol, St. Paul, MN 55155.

“Small nature preserves, which work fine for

preserving plants, don’t work for migratory birds,”

Illinois Natural History Survey scientist Scott Robinson

says, after an extensive study of the relationship between

vanishing songbirds and cowbirds, who lay their faster-

hatching eggs ino other birds’ nests. While cowbirds are a

short-term cause of species decline, the longterm cause is

shrinking habitat, as deep forests where the songbirds are

safe give way to the edge habitat that cowbirds prefer.

ESA ROUNDUP

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1995:

Senator Slade Gorton (R-Washington)

on April 12 promised a gathering of timber indus-

try executives in Stevenson, Washington, that he

would soon introduce a bill to replace the present

Endangered Species Act mandate to save all

species with a process by which by a political

appointee––probably the Secretary of the

Interior––would decide whether and how a species

should be saved. The bill was drafted by the

National Endangered Species Reform Coalition,

representing 185 corporations and so-called wise-

use groups, who gave Gorton’s re-election cam-

paign $34,000 last fall.

WILDLIFE

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1995:

Wolves

Mandated by the state legislature to implement

predator control before cutting either the length of the moose and

caribou season or the bag limits, the Alaska Board of Game during

the week of March 27 ordered the Alaska Department of Fish and

Game to prepare wolf control plans for much of the inhabited part

of the state by October. It also extended the bear season in two

regions by four weeks, while upping the bag limit from one bear

per four years to one bear every year. “It’s impossible to say what

the ADF&G will present,” said Sandra Arnold of the Alaska

Wildlife Alliance. “We also don’t know if the Board approves a

wolf control plan in October, if that means control will begin

immediately or in October 1996. The bear control measures are

proving controversial. ADF&G refuses to comment, but are clear-

ly concerned because all their reports indicate that bears are

already being killed above sustainable levels, especially in Unit

13,” which is the heavily hunted Nelchina Basin.

California predators under fire

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1995:

LOS ANGELES––A bill to reinstate

recreational puma hunting in California, due for a

mid-April vote in the state assembly, got a series of

media boosts when a single puma killed both a

German shepherd and an 80-pound Akita within six

days near La Crescenta in mid-March; mountain

biker Scott Fike, 27, fought off another puma on

March 20 after being attacked on a trail outside

Altadena; and a third puma killed 37 sheep the night

of March 31, in an attack without known parallel.

Most pumas kill what they’re going to eat, eat it,

and then, like other cats, go to sleep.

All three pumas were tracked and killed by

state wardens. Only nine humans have even been

attacked by pumas within California, but three of

the attacks came in the past two years, and the two

before the attack on Fike were fatal. Recreational

puma hunting was banned by referendum in 1990.

The Los Angeles City Council meanwhile

ended a moratorium on coyote trapping within city

limits, voting 12-0 on March 15 to authorize the

Department of Animal Regulation to hire five ani-

mal control officers to help homeowners deal with

alleged coyote problems. The homeowners may

have traps set for coyotes for a $200 fee. “Our hope

is that if we hire these people, we won’t have to set

traps and will educate people,” said councillor

Jackie Goldberg.

Animal control & rescue

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1995:

Trouble

The Chicago Animal Rights

Coalition on April 13 resumed a campaign

against the use of a captive bolt gun to dis-

patch dogs and cats and the practice of killing

them in front of others at the Animal Control

Department shelter in Rock Falls, Illinois.

Neither the American Veterinary Medical

Association nor any national humane organiza-

tion recommends the use of captive bolts for

euthanizing small animals; all oppose killing

animals within sight or sound of others. Rock

Falls promised to change euthanasia proce-

dures a year ago, but broke the promise,

according to CHARC founder Steve Hindi.

Letters on shelter letterhead urging compliance

with accepted humane standards may be sent

to Rock Falls mayor Glen Kuhlemier at 603

W. 10th St., Rock Falls, IL 61071.

ALLEGED SPORTSMEN

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1995:

Clay Peterson, age 11, wrote a

letter to the Nashville Tennesean criticizing

poachers, published on April 6. “He was

thrilled,” his mother Debra wrote to the

paper a week later. “I was immediately wor-

ried when I noticed that his address was also

printed. My fears were justified,” by a bar-

rage of hate mail, including one missive that

warned Clay, “armed force is necessary to

eliminate those who would force the issue.”

The Tennessean then published the Peterson

family address again. Tell the Petersons they

have friends c/o 1667 Highfield Lane,

Brentwood, TN 37027.

Fishing industry fights over bones

May 1, 1995 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1995:

“This meeting was called to fight over

the meat,” reads the caption below a popular

office calendar cartoon showing wild-eyed and

desperate Neanderthals. “There is no meat. It is

moved that we fight over the bones.”

The cartoon could describe the col-

lapse of oceanic ecosystems. Recent editions of

the journals Science and Nature warned of

crashing zooplankton and algae populations, as

result of pollution, global warming, and over-

fishing, which is taking biomass out of the

oceans faster than it can be restored. But instead

of making oceanic habitat restoration a global

priority, both fishing fleets and the political rep-

resentatives of fishing nations fight with increas-

ing fury for whatever fish remain, with ominous

implications for world peace as well as for

aquatic animals.

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