PETA staffers face 62 felony cruelty counts in North Carolina

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1995:

WINTON, N.C.––The scheduled

first court appearance of PETA staffers Adria

Joy Hinkle and Andrew Benjamin Cook on

multiple cruelty charges was on July 19, 2005

postponed until August 16.

Hinkle, 27, and Cook, 24, are

charged with a combined 62 counts of felony

cruelty to animals and 16 counts of illegal dis-

posal of animal remains.

Police sources have indicated that

other persons associated with PETA may be

charged as result of ongoing investigation.

The court date was delayed, report-

ed Darren Freeman of the Norfolk Virginian–

Pilot, because the prosecution was “waiting

for lab results on chemicals found in a van the

two suspects were using when they were

arrested, and the results to determine the

cause of death of one of the animals.”

Ahoskie, North Carolina police

detective Jeremy Roberts told Freeman that the

van was registered to PETA.

Transforming Phuket animal conditions post-tsunami

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1995:

PHUKET, Thailand––Urbanization

is hitting Phuket much harder than the tsunami

of December 26, 2004.

What that may mean for animals on

the 400-square-mile resort island near the

extreme south of Thailand is anyone’s guess.

The Soi Dog Foundation and Gibbon

Rehabilitation Project, among Phuket’s most

prominent pro-animal organizations, are guard-

edly optimistic.

More development may mean more

homes for dogs and cats, and more donors to

support animal charities.

BOOKS: Circles of Compassion

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1995:

Circles of Compassion, edited

by Elaine Sichel. Voice & Vision

Publishing (12005 Green Valley Road,

Sebastopol, CA 95472), 1995. 226

pages, paper. $14.50.

“Know the difference between a

fairy-tale and a war story?”, asks a grunt in

Tom Suddick’s 1974 Vietnam War classic A

Few Good Men. “A fairy-tale begins,

‘Once upon a time.’ A war story begins,

‘This is no shit.’”

COURT CALENDAR

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1995:

Humane enforcement

Superior Court judge William Patrick on May 3

sent poodle breeder Charlotte Spiegel, 56, of Oroville,

California, to Chowchilla state prison for a 90-day pre-sentenc-

ing evaluation. A jury on March 15 convicted Spiegel of abus-

ing 350 dogs seized in two 1993 raids and later forfeited to the

Northwest SPCA. Patrick also ordered Spiegel to forfeit 57

dogs seized in later raids, and made her liable for up to

$260,000 in restitution to the SPCA for holding the dogs.

The Ottawa Shores Humane Society is in reported

financial distress after the scheduled May 16 trial of accused

animal collectors Earl Postema, 65, and his daughter Karen

Zalsman, 38, was postponed to mid-July because they fired

their attorney. OSHS volunteers in late March removed 72

goats, eight horses, and eight rabbits from their farm in Nunica,

Michigan. Four dead goats were found in a manure-choked

barn, and a dead colt was found in a field. Postema was reput-

edly involved with the Michigan militia, a private paramilitary

force whose events Oklahoma City bombing suspect Tim

McVeigh at times attended.

Children & Animals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1995:

Iqbal Masih, 12, of Murdike, Pakistan, was

shot dead on Easter Sunday by a man he and his relatives

Liaqat Masih and Faryab Masih caught allegedly raping a

donkey, police say. As the circumstances were not imme-

diately disclosed, media linked the murder to carpet mag-

nates whose child labor practices Iqbal Masih disclosed to

an international conference in Sweden last November. A

member of Pakistan’s Christian minority, Masih was sold

by his parents to a carpet factory at age four, where he

worked until age 10, often shackled to a loom. Foreign

carpet orders reportedly plummeted by $10 million in the

three weeks after Masih’s murder. “The $10 million is

only an immediate loss,” said Imran Malik, vice chair of

the Pakistan Carpet Manufacturers and Exporters

Association. “Irreparable damage is done when Western

consumers think Pakistani carpets stand for a child’s blood

and slavery.” Despite the outcry, also affecting carpet

exports from India and Bangladesh, Indian commerce min-

ister P. Chidambaram expressed satisfaction on May 8 that

the newly created World Trade Organization is unlikely to

address either child labor or environmental issues.

Zoos & sanctuaries

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1995:

The sale of the city-owned

Bridgeport Zoo to the nonprofit Connecticut

Zoological Society, backed by $5.5 million in

state aid, has been delayed and perhaps halted

after three years of planning. The zoo occu-

pies park land donated by the James Walker

Beardsley family, who have the right to

reclaim the site if it is turned over to any entity

other than the city or the state. Beardsley’s

heirs say they would not exercise such a claim,

but public officials aren’t willing to take the

chance. The financially troubled city seeks to

sell the zoo, still undergoing extensive renova-

tion, because it costs about $1 million a year to

run, only $600,000 of which comes from

admissions, concession sales, and donations.

“He ain’t heavy. He’s my brother.”

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1995:

DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK–– National Park Service rangers have

killed 400 wild burros in Death Valley since 1987, but through the intervention of Wild

Burro Rescue, the 1995 quota is zero. It will stay zero for as many years as WBR is able to

rescue the number of burros the NPS would otherwise shoot to prevent ecological damage.

“I got shingles,” said WBR co-founder Gene Chontos, “but we did it,” raising

$23,000 between reaching a deal with the NPS last December and commencing the rescue

on March 18––and then rounding up 20 burros with the help of six mounted wranglers and a

rented helicopter. The team caught 19 burros the first day, with difficulty.

Fur

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1995:

Minneapolis furrier Robert

Zicari recently told Fur Age Weekly read-

ers that he’s trying to get licensing rights

from Walt Disney to promote fur goods bear-

ing the image of Snow White, and “Their

response was not altogether negative. We

have a chance if we put the cost up front.”

Linking Disney to fur would be an unlikely

coup; the 1959 Disney film 101 Dalmatians,

about Cruella DeVil’s attempt to make a

dog-fur coat, preceded a fur sales crash, and

the 1991 re-release of the film in home video

format also coincided with a skid. More is

ahead: Walt Disney Pictures on May 9 hired

Stephen Herek to direct a live edition of 101

Dalmatians, to be produced by John Hughes

and Ricardo Mestres, probably starring

Glenn Close as Cruella. Filming begins in

October. Thank Walt Disney Co. for its his-

torical role in promoting kindness toward

animals and urge it keep high standards at

500 Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA 91521.

Animal control & rescue

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1995:

Flooding

Mid-May flooding stranded and

killed livestock and pets in rural areas of

Louisiana and Missisippi, but populated

areas, protected by levees and drainage sys-

tems, were only lightly hit, Jeff Dorson of

the New Orleans activist group Legislation

In Support of Animals told ANIMAL PEO-

P L E. LISA and the Louisiana SPCA did

some pet rescue in Jefferson Parish, while

Mary Hoffman and Doll Stanley-Branscum

of In Defense of Animals organized a rescue

effort around Grenada, Mississippi. “Even if

the waters recede rapidly, injured and home-

less wildlife and domestic animals will need

assistance,” Stanley-Branscum predicted.

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