CHILDREN & ANIMALS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

Serbian soldier Borislav Herak, 21, who may

become the first person executed for war crimes since 1945,

told New York Times reporter John Burns in November that

senior personnel taught him to kill by having him assist in

cutting pigs’ throats. Herak is charged with murdering 29

Moslem civilians between July and late October, and has

confessed to participating in more than 220 murders––most

of the victims women and children, many of them killed in

connection with rape. Herak, captured in mid-November

by Bosnian troops, goes to trial this month.

The first known controlled clinical trial of thera-

py and education involving animals, conducted by the

University of Pennsylvania, has confirmed what pet therapy

and classroom pet advocates have insisted all along: that

children learn more readily in the presence of other species.

Agriculture

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

“If the livestock industry demonstrates good

faith toward animal advocacy, it should suffer little eco-

nomic impact from increased regulation to enhance animal

contentment,” Ohio State University agricultural economists

Carl Zulauf and Matthew Krause recently told Feedstuffs

readers. Zulauf and Krause assumed that consumers would

be willing to pay marginally higher prices for animal prod-

ucts to be assured that they were not obtained by cruel meth-

ods. Some individual farmers would be hurt by obligatory

changes of method, they said, but others would prosper,

and the overall net effect would be nil. Much of the cost of

replacing equipment and facilities would be absorbed into

the ongoing cost of upkeep. Zulauf and Krause did not con-

sider the possibility that consumers might continue to move

toward vegetarianism at the unprecedented pace of the past

decade––a trend that could encourage many farmers to

abandon animal production.

Animal Health

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons on

November 10 announced that it would ask the British

Parliament to ban routine docking of dogs’ tails as, “an

unjustified mutilation and unethical,” over the objections

of Buckingham Palace. Under the RCVS proposal, vet-

erinarians who perform medically unjustified tail-dock-

ing could lose their licenses. Princess Anne vehemently

defended tail-docking at a recent meeting of the British

Veterinary Medical Association. Of the 7.5 million dogs

in Britain, about 1.3 million have been tail-docked,

mostly by breeders. Among the 185 breeds registered by

the Royal Kennel Club, about 50 are traditionally tail-

docked, including corgis (a royal favorite), boxers,

Dobermans, old English sheep dogs, poodles, and

Rottweilers.

Who gets the money?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

BUDGETS, EXPENSES, AND ASSETS

The major national animal and habitat protection

groups are listed below in alphabetical order, together with

selected other organizations of importance and influence in

the animal protection community. Each group is identified

in the second column by apparent focus and philosophy: A

stands for advocacy, C for conservation of habitat via

acquisition, E for education, H for support of hunting

(either for “wildlife management” or recreation), L for liti-

gation, P for publication, R for animal rights, S for shel-

ter and sanctuary maintenance, V for focus on vivisection

issues, and W for animal welfare. The R and W designa-

tions are used only when an organization seems to have

made a particular point of being one or the other. Although

many groups are involved in multiple activities, available

space limits us to providing a maximum of four identifying

letters.

Woofs & Growls

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

Introduced October 5, an agribusi-

ness-backed bill to gut the Endangered Species

Act died with the closure of the 102nd Congress,

but will be reintroduced in the 103rd, according

to the sponsors, Rep. Jack Fields (R-Tex.) and

W.J. Tauzin (D-La.) The bill, which has no

number or title pending reintroduction, is

endorsed by the National Cattlemen’s

Association, American Farm Bureau Federation,

and 38 other groups. It would subordinate

Endangered Species Act enforcement to econom-

ic considerations, and probably won’t be favored

by the Clinton administration. The ESA came up

for renewal this year but was ducked by legisla-

tors up for re-election, and now must be either

extended or amended by the 103rd Congress.

Humane Society of U.S. refuses to disclose salaries; ANIMAL PEOPLE BARRED FROM ANIMAL CARE EXPO

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

WASHINGTON D.C.––The salaries of the chief executives of the

Humane Society of the U.S. and Humane Society International were omitted

from the copy of IRS Form 990 that HSUS/HSI filed with the New York State

Charities Bureau in April 1992.

Known for providing prompt media access to tax records on nonprof-

its, the N.Y. Charities Bureau confirmed November 16 that the missing records,

Schedule 3 on the 1991 form, had apparently never been filed––although

required by law. Other information essential to determining the true balance of

program and fundraising expenditures was also missing. ANIMAL PEOPLE

then requested Schedule 3 directly from HSUS/HSI. November 17, HSI exec-

utive secretary Janet D. Frake advised ANIMAL PEOPLE to seek the missing

information through the Freedom of Information Act. ANIMAL PEOPLE has;

the information will be published when located by the IRS, which began a data

search for it on November 18.

Vegetarian in an Orphanage

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

Few American-born people have

been vegetarians longer than Marion

Friedman, of Philadelphia. Now 68,

Friedman quit eating meat in 1935, at age

11, as a resident of the Northeastern

Hebrew Orphans Home––”An Orthodox

home,” she points out. “I lived there from

age four to age 18, when I graduated from

high school. I never knew my father, as

my parents divorced when I was an infant,

and I never was in touch with him. My

mother (suffragist and labor activist Reba

Gomporov) put me in the home only

because she was unable to care for me in

the difficult Depression times, but she saw

me every Sunday.”

They’ve spayed/neutered 5,000 animals––this year!

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

DENVER, Colorado––If people won’t take

their animals to a veterinary clinic for spaying or neuter-

ing, Jeff Young takes the Planned Pethood Plus clinic to

the animals. Working out of a bus, in cooperation with

local humane societies and activist groups, veterinarians

Young and business partner Mark Chamberlain set out

to alter 6,000 animals during 1992; surpassing 5,000 in

mid-November, they were right on pace, Young said.

The humane organizations publicize Young’s arrival in

each community and get the paperwork done in

advance. This enables him to go right to work, per-

forming as many as 32 surgeries per day, at average

fees of $15/tomcat, $20/queen, $25/male dog, and

$35/female dog.

Dogs And Cats

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

President elect Bill Clinton’s first clash with the

White House press corps came November 18, before he

even got to the White House, when he ordered photogra-

phers to stop harassing his daughter’s altered tomcat,

Socks, outside the Arkansas governor’s mansion.

New York restauranteur Laura Maioglio

imported $2,500 worth of white truffles from Italy and

buried them in her restaurants’ garden November 23, to

allow Princess Diana of Britain to show off the skills of her

pet truffle-hunting terrier. The dog found the truffles, all

right––and ate them before a handler could get them away.

The County Prosecutor in Middlesex, New

Jersey, has barred use of police dogs in crowd control

situations. The city faces legal action in connection with a

biting incident in such a situation, and the trained dogs are

considered too valuable to risk exposing to injury.

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