Who has the mandate to speak for farm animals?

From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2011:

Editorial Feature

 

Controversy continues in this November/December 2011 edition of ANIMAL PEOPLE,
as in almost every edition since July/August 2010,  over agreements reached during the past 18 months among animal charities and entities representing agribusiness.  In dispute are both the substance of the agreements themselves, which concern the lives,  suffering,  and deaths of more animals than are involved in all other animal advocacy issues combined,  and the even greater question of who is ethically entitled to speak for the interests of livestock. Read more

Animal sheltering

From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2011:

An allegedly speeding drunk driver and three passengers were
unhurt after flying off an overpass and crashing through the roof of
the Friendicoes animal shelter in New Delhi,  India,  at 1:30 a.m. on
November 23,  2011,   but a puppy was killed,  22 dogs were injured,
and the shelter required urgent repairs at estimated cost of $47,000.
The accident came less than a month after the death of Gautam Barat,
Friendicoes’ shelter manager since 1980.  (Obituary on page 18.) Read more

Awards & Honors

From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2011:

The Animal Welfare Institute has honored Wayne County,
Michigan assistant prosecutors Raj Prasad and Amy Slameka with the
Albert Schweitzer Award for sending two men who burned a dog alive to
prison.   The Nobel Peace Prize-winning humanitarian Albert
Schweitzer,  1875-1965,  in 1951 authorized AWI to present the annual
award. Read more

People & positions

From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2011:
Tony LaRussa,  68, celebrated his fourth World Series
victory in 35 years of managing major league baseball teams by
retiring from baseball.  The Performing Animal Welfare Society
reportedly offered LaRussa a job as an elephant keeper,  but he has a
fulltime volunteer job at Tony LaRussa’s Animal Foundation,  begun
with his wife Elaine in 1991. Read more

BOOKS: Our Lives Have Gone to the Dogs

From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2011:

Our Lives Have Gone to the Dogs
by Audrey Spilker Hagar & Eldad Hagar
Hope For Paws (8950 W. Olympic Blvd. #525,
Los Angeles,  CA 90211),  2010.
Free download from <www.eldadhagar.com/>.

An anonymous caller pleads with Our Lives Have Gone to the
Dogs author Audrey Spilker Hagar and photographer Eldad Hagar to help
a dog crouched beneath an abandoned house in a gang-infested Los
Angeles neighborhood.  Drug dealers threaten to kill the dog.  But
this dog escapes.  So does a kitten who appears on the scene.  They
are eventually rescued and adopted.  The Hagars are the founders of
Hope For Paws,  one of several hundred animal rescue charities in Los
Angeles whose work augments that of the Los Angeles city and county
animal control agencies. Read more

Cockbreeders may lose Honolulu contract to control feral chickens & noisy roosters

From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2011:

HONOLULU--New Honolulu mayor and former city prosecutor Peter
Carlisle is expected to end a city contract which since 2005 has paid
cockbreeders Pat and Jose Royos of Royos Farm in the Waiahole Valley
$480,000 to field complaints about feral chickens and roosters
crowing. Read more

Rotary Club investigation finds links to dogfighting at Memphis Animal Shelter

From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November/December 2011:

MEMPHIS--A report to Memphis mayor A.C. Wharton, Jr. by the
Memphis Rotary Club Animal Shelter Evaluation Committee on October
26,  2011 affirmed longtime activist suspicion that dogfighters are
operating with impunity within the city animal control department.
Opened the report,  “A review of the labor contract would
show no articles that would interfere with  or hinder the appropriate
and efficient operation of the facility. The interpretation of the
contract,  and more important,  the interference of city hall in this
interpretation, is a different matter.  Read more

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