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July 1, 1999 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1999:

“The last rodeo that animal rights
activist Eric Mills remembers running out
of town was the Gay Rodeo five years ago,”
began Venise Wagner of the San Francisco
Examiner in a June 16 article about Mills’
opposition to the Juneteenth Black Rodeo, held
in Golden Gate Park on of Emancipation Day.
Wagner never mentioned that Action for
Animals founder Mills also works for gay
rights––a charged omission in a city known for
militant gay activism. Mills said the demo was
a huge success anyhow.

Activists & Organizations

Animal Welfare Associates signs compliance pact

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1999:

Animal Welfare Associates Inc., of
Stamford, Connecticut, on May 24 responded to a
warning from the State of Connecticut Commissioner
of Consumer Protection that “AWA’s
advertising, solicitations and other communications
are or may have been misleading in violation of the
Solicitation of Charitable Funds Act” by signing an
Assurance of Voluntary Compliance.
AWA admitted no fault, but pledged “to
cease representing to the public that it provides animal
placement or adoption services unless it shall:
maintain dated records of the identity/description of
each animal accepted, the manner in which each
animal is obtained, and the identity of the person
who accepts each animal or the eventual disposition
of each animal not adopted as a pet”; and “to cease
representing to the public that it in any way operates
an animal shelter.”

Who’s behind Tiger Haven?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1999:

Recent appeal mailings by Tiger Haven,
Inc., of Knoxville, Tennessee, have drawn an
unusually heavy volume of inquiries to ANIMAL
PEOPLE as to what we know of the organization.
Tiger Haven is a project of Joseph
Donovan Parker, 52, and his wife Mary Lynn
Parker, who claimed in a 1991 affidavit that they
began working with tigers as Knoxville Zoo volunteers
in February 1988. The facility is actually located
at Kingston, 35 miles west of Knoxville. The
Parkers and Tiger Haven now have 63 tigers, lions,
jaguars, and other large exotic cats, including about
20 obtained when the Jimmy Carter Zoo went out of
business in 1997. (The North Carolina facility had no
connection with former U.S. President Jimmy Carter.)
Joseph Parker reportedly ran bingo games
in the Knoxville area for some years, until thenTennessee
attorney general Charles Burson ruled in
early 1989 that bingo is illegal under the state constitution.

Sea Shepherds fight World Wildlife Fund

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1999:

Between vigils against Makah whaling in fall 1998 and spring 1999
aboard The Sirenian off Neah Bay, Washington, Sea Shepherd Conservation
Society international director Lisa Distefano spent part of the winter helping to
save sea birds after the wreck of the tanker Pallas near the Shallows nature
reserve off the coast of Germany. The Sea Shepherds mustered 60 volunteers,
who eventually rescued more than 1,000 birds, Distefano wrote in the first 1999
edition of The Sea Shepherd Log.
The hardest part of the job, Distefano said, was that “In Germany the
conservation ethic tends to be a hunter’s ethic. The park staff at the Shallows
reserve is steeped in the mentality that if an animal is injured, you kill it. The
reserve workers are basically hunters. They, like staff from Greenpeace and the
World Wildlife Fund, came to the scene with the belief that if a bird had any
contact with oil, the bird is beyond help and must be killed.

Sitting on fat assets–– and grabbing more

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1999:

ANIMAL PEOPLE reader Victoria
Windsor was the first of many who noted the intense
resemblance of the Massachusetts SPCA appeal
mailing of April 12 to the appeal format long used by
DELTA Rescue.
DELTA Rescue founder Leo Grillo said he
wouldn’t mind if the MSPCA, with $75 million in
assets, including $65 million in cash and securities,
also copied the DELTA Rescue approach to helping
animals. If the MSPCA committed even half as large
a share of its resources to low-cost and free neutering
and care-for-life sheltering as DELTA Rescue,
Massachusetts could be a no-kill state in six months.
But the MSPCA isn’t even the wealthiest
humane society in Boston with a long history of sitting
on its assets. The Town of Pembroke recently
revoked the tax-exempt status of a house and land
purchased by the Animal Rescue League, ostensibly
to build a shelter, but used instead to house the
League’s director of operations. That caused the
Quincy Patriot-Ledger to investigate what else the
Animal Rescue League was and wasn’t doing.

RSPCA barely holds off hunters

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1999:

LONDON––Struggling to retain control
of the Royal SPCA, the pro-animal rights board
faction led by Animal Revolution author Richard
Ryder kept off the June 26 annual meeting agenda a
proposed resolution by Countryside Alliance member
Ian Alexander which would have asked RSPCA
members to agree that it is “a matter of serious public
concern and detrimental to the interests of the
society, the growing influence within the society of
persons with extreme views of animal rights.”
The resolution would further have asked
the RSPCA membership to “cease expenditure upon
politically motivated lobbying and advertising,”
and would have invited the British Charity
Commissions to address the “growing evidence of
intrusion by animal rights activists into the society.”

PETA, Paul, Jesus, and an arson charge

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1999:

ATLANTA, DES MOINES,
KANSAS CITY, MISSOULA, TOPEK
A––Enlisting help from both Jesus and the
Beatles, People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals scored a string of media hits against
meat-eating and fishing in early summer.
Thirty-three years after the late John
Lennon provoked the biggest uproar of the
Beatles’ career by speculating, after a Beatles
concert outdrew church attendence, that the
group might have become more popular than
Jesus, Paul McCartney emerged from mourning
his late wife Linda to announce the first
airing of a 15-second anti-fishing TV commercial
that Linda made for PETA shortly before
her death. The commercial was broadcast on
NBC during National Fishing Week.

CAMPAIGNS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1999:

The Schad Foundation and IFAW
on May 12 announced that they will donate
$200,000 for nonlethal bear control in northern
Ontario. Community bear control was formerly
done by 18 volunteer trappers associated
with North Bay Fur Harvesters Auction
I n c., who withdrew their services in April
after Ontario banned spring bear hunting.
Humane Society of Canada executive
director Michael O’Sullivan said on May
24 that HSC “is prepared to devote $1 million
to assist with the funding, expertise, and
delivery needed to incorporate” a dogbite prevention
curriculum “into mainstream public
education initiatives and school curricula in
every community across Canada,” providing
HSC is allowed to direct the campaign.
O’Sullivan also said he would ask each
province to match the HSC commitment.

Editorial: Cruelty cannot be stopped by one-party politics

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1999:

Our July/August 1999 cover feature on the Korean failure to enforce often promised
bans on torturing dogs and cats to death as human food notes that the “victory” the humane
community thought was long ago won in Korea was unusual among global issues––because it
did not come through linking the abolition of cruelty to protecting an endangered species.
The only similar example coming quickly to mind was the 1991 European
Community passage of a ban on imports of leghold-trapped fur. To have taken effect on
January 1, 1995, the ban was repeatedly delayed and finally killed on the pretext that it would
hurt Native Americans––who have never in the 20th century accounted for more than 5% of
the total North American trapped fur volume. Yet as early as 1985 the Native American argument
caused Greenpeace to scrap opposition to trapping, sealing, and indigenous whaling,
showing the wildlife use industries how to hide behind so-called “endangered cultures.”

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