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No deal for Macau greyhounds

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  May 2012:

No deal for Macau greyhounds

MACAU–It was a cruel April Fool  for dozens of greyhounds, the U.S. organization Grey 2K,  Animals Aust-ralia,  and the Macau animal rescue society Anima.  Macau media reported on April 1,  2012 that Anima and the Macau Yat Yuen Canidrome Company Ltd. had signed an agreement to allow Anima to rehome ex-racing greyhounds,  a first in the 82-year history of the Macau Canidrome.  Nevada casino owner Steve Wynn had reportedly donated $250,000 to build kennels for the rescued dogs. Read more

"Cat ladies" of greater Vancouver still wary despite hard-won gains

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  May 2012:

“Cat ladies” of greater Vancouver still wary despite hard-won gains

VANCOUVER,  B.C.–“The worst thing anyone can call me is a cat lady,”  Vancouver Orphan Kitten Rescue Association founder Karen Duncan once famously told longtime Global TV program host Dave Gerry. Then she laughed.
Cat rescuers throughout the greater Vancouver area now quote Duncan,  with the laugh,  expressing evident pride.
“I wasn’t a crazy cat lady,”  says VOKRA volunteer Jemma Crossin in a video clip posted to the VOKRA web site,  “but Karen turned me into one.” Read more

Cockfighting & H5N1–again

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  May 2012:

Cockfighting & H5N1–again

    BALI--Responding to an outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza that was rumored to have killed a child,  health officials  on April 26, 2012  killed 230 gamecocks at the Satria Bird Market in Denpasar, the Balian capital.
“Since the onset of the H5N1 panzootic in Eastern Asia in 2004,”  posted  www.ProMed.org moderator Arnon Shim-shony, “fighting cocks have been incriminated many times as the vector of the virus, including in Thailand,  Vietnam,  Malaysia and  Indonesia.  For instance,  smuggled fighting cocks from Thailand were found by the Malaysians to be the mode of the H5N1 avian influenza virus introduction in August 2004.  Similarly,  Indonesia reported that the virus was introduced by smuggled fighting cocks.”

WWF/Sweden head wants to cull wolves

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  May 2012:

WWF/Sweden head wants to cull wolves

  STOCKHOLM— Officially opposed to hunting any of the estimated 200 wolves living in Sweden,  World Wildlife Fund/Sweden has been headed since 1988 by Swedish King Carl Gustaf–who in October 2008 urged a wolf cull.  Wolf hunting resumed in Sweden in 2011,  after a 46-year hiatus.  Twenty wolves were killed before Swedish environment minister Andreas Carlgren halted the hunt under pressure from European Union environment commissioner Janez Potocnik. Read more

Progress in equine contraception

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  May 2012:

Progress in equine contraception

  BILLINGS–The American SPCA on April 16,  2012 granted $100,000 to the Science & Conservation Center in Billings,  Montana, maker of the contraceptive vaccine ZonaStat-H.   The grant is separate from an ongoing ASPCA subsidy of $50,000 per year for three years to help advance the center’s work.  “The center, on the ZooMontana grounds, will more than double the size of its training facility,”  reported Zach Benoit of the Billings Gazette. Read more

Cockfighting, murder, & a lawsuit over use of a wheeled tank to make a bust

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  May 2012:

Cockfighting,  murder,  & a lawsuit over use of a wheeled tank to make a bust

McALLEN,  Texas;  ALEOSAN, North Cotabato, Philippines–Cockfighting preceded mass murder twice during the second week of April 2012.  The killers in each case escaped,  and if identified,  were not named to media by survivors and law enforcement.
Ramiro Garcia,  49,  his brother Juan Santos Garcia,  53, and Arturo Buentello Garza,  42,  were shot dead and eight people were wounded on April 20,  2012 by two to four gunmen who allegedly fired “indiscriminately” into the crowd at a cockfight 20 miles northeast of McAllen, Texas,  Hidalgo County Sheriff Lupe Trevino told media.  “Trevino said Garza was likely a bystander,  but the Garcias were known to authorities for previous criminal activity, including drug possession,”  reported Christopher Sherman of Associated Press.  Arraigned for promoting cockfighting were land owners Heriberto Leandro,  51,  his wife Leticia Leandro,  52,  and Humberto Blanco,  37,  the alleged organizer. Read more

Free downloads from brightergreen.org

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  May 2012:

Climate,  Food Security,  & Growth:   Ethiopia’s Complex Relationship With Livestock  (22 pages)
by Mia MacDonald & Sangamithra Iyer
Cattle,  Soyanization,  & Climate Change:    Brazil’s Agricultural Revolution  (42 pages)
Skillful Means:  The Challenge of China’s Encounter With Factory Farming  (28 pages)

both by Mia MacDonald & Justine Simon   *   Brighter Green,  2011.

Free downloads from:  <www.brightergreen.org>

    Like Veg or Non-Veg?  India at the Crossroads,  reviewed in the March 2012 edition of ANIMAL PEOPLE,  these slightly earlier reports from the Brighter Green ecological think-tank on the growth of animal agriculture in Brazil,  China,  and Ethiopia present a wealth of footnoted data,  summaries of economic and environmental challenges,  evaluations of the factors driving agribusiness in each nation,   and recommendations specific to each nation,  urging its government to de-emphasize promoting the livestock industry. Read more

EU battery cage ban & the price of eggs

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  May 2012:

EU battery cage ban & the price of eggs

    BRUSSELS—The price of eggs in the shell  doubled,  while egg production fell 15% in the first four months after a European Union ban on battery caging,  according to the European Egg Producers Association.
“The EU acknowledges that there has been a clear reduction in eggs because of the cage ban but blames the industry for not taking action earlier,”  reported Raf Casert of Associated Press.  “The EU gave producers a dozen years to adapt their equipment to the animal friendly rules–but many still haven’t complied.   Those who prepared have reaped high profits as prices soar,”  Casert wrote.

LETTERS re "Proposal for an Accord Between Animal Advocates and Biomedical Researchers"[May 2012]

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  May 2012:

Letters re “Proposal for an Accord Between Animal Advocates and Biomedical Researchers”

HSUS president:  “We must work with our traditional adversaries.”

When I got involved with animal protection in the mid-1980s as an undergraduate college student,  the use of animals in research, testing,  and education was one of the hot topics in our cause. Peter Singer,  in his enormously influential book Animal Liberation, put that issue along with factory farming at the top of the to-do list for the new generation of animal advocates.  Readers recoiled as Singer described,  in his well- researched manifesto,  duplicative experiments,  protocols involving the use of animals with no relevance to the human health circumstance,  and animals enduring extreme pain and distress as routine and normal practices in the laboratory setting. Read more

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