Year of the Rabbit brings campaigns for rabbits

March 1, 2011 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2011:

HONG KONG–Will the Year of the Rabbit bring anything good for rabbits?
Starting on February 3, 2011, the Year of the Rabbit is
recognized throughout the world by ethnic Chinese people, and by
many other Asians who share Chinese traditions. If nothing else,
the Year of the Rabbit afforded activists an opportunity to raise a
voice for rabbits.
“There’s no better time to help rabbits than during the Year
of the Rabbit,” declared Beijing-based PETA campaigner Maggie Chen to
Agence France-Presse, urging readers to “not support the pet trade
that causes so many animals to suffer.” PETA also “launched an ad
campaign imploring Chinese movie star Gong Li to curb her penchant
for wearing rabbit and other furs,” reported Denis D. Gray of
Associated Press, from Bangkok, Thailand. “The ad shows a woman’s
foot stepping on the neck of a dead rabbit next to the words, ‘Where
Does Gong Li Stand on Fur?’

Mercy for Animals exposes cruelty at a Texas factory catfish farm

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2011:

DALLAS–Probably more fish consumers were
puzzled–at first– than shocked on January 19,
2011 when Mercy for Animals released undercover
video of alleged criminal animal abuse at Catfish
Corner, in eastern Dallas County. “I don’t get
too many calls about inhumaneness to fish,”
Dallas fish market owner Rex Bellomy told Ken
Kalthoff of NBCDFW.com.
Founded in 1968, Catfish Corner is among
the oldest active fish farms in the U.S.–“a
place where families bring their kids, often to
fish for the first time. Others stop by and pick
a catfish out of a tank for dinner. They can
have their fish cleaned and take them home to
eat,” described Dallas Morning News staff writer
Melissa Repko.

Dogs Deserve Better takes option to buy Michael Vick’s Bad Newz Kennels property

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2011:

TIPTON, Pennsylvania–The anti-dog chaining organization
Dogs Deserve Better has an option to purchase on football player and
convicted dogfighter Michael Vick’s former home on Moonlight Road in
rural Surrey County, Virginia.
The 15-acre estate housed Bad Newz Kennels, Vick’s
dogfighting operation. The 4,600-square-foot house where dogs were
fought remains on the property, but the Bad Newz Kennels doghouses,
training facilities, and fencing have been removed.

LGBT Compassion files new challenge to San Francisco live markets

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2011:
SAN FRANCISCO–Flaring again, the 142-year-old conflict
between the San Francisco humane community and the mostly ethnic
Asian owners and customers of live markets has morphed into a clash
between the city’s two most prominent minority cultures. About 45%
of the San Francisco population are of Asian descent, according to
recent polling; 14.5% declare themselves to be lesbian, gay,
bisexual or transgender.

Is South Africa phasing out sow stalls?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2011:
CAPE TOWN– South African Pork Producers Organisation
officers indicated to news media twice in the first two months of
2011 that sow gestation stalls are to be phased out–but Compassion
in World Farming national representative Tozie Zokufa has yet to get
SAPPO to confirm the planned phase-out directly to him.
Zokufa became hopeful when SAPPO chief executive Simon
Streicher e-mailed to the Beeld newspaper in January that South
African pig producers are beginning “the gradual phasing out of sow
crates,” and that “SAPPO supports the phasing out of crates in a
reasonable and realistic time frame.”

Why did BLM reject Madeline Pickens’ Nevada wild horse sanctuary proposal?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2011:

PHOENIX–A two-day Bureau of Land Management consultation
meeting on wild horse and burro management strategy, to be held on
March 10-11, 2011 in Phoenix, Arizona, is likely to focus on why
the BLM on January 21 rejected a proposal from philanthropist
Madeline Pickens to accommodate 1,000 wild horses on 18,000 acres of
Nevada ranch land she purchased in 2010–and then began removing
about 2,000 wild horses from nearby public land.
“The Elko County ranches, which Pickens renamed the Mustang
Monument preserve, come with grazing rights on roughly 564,000 acres
of public land,” noted Martin Griffith of Associated Press.

How to move the earth to help farmed animals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2011:

“Give me a lever and a place to stand,”
the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes
reputedly said, “and I shall move the earth.”
His premise affords a metaphor for how
animal advocates sometimes manage to motivate
animal use industries to change-and an
explanation of why some seemingly promising
efforts fail.
As large and influential as some of the
biggest animal advocacy organizations appear to
be from within the cause, the budgets and assets
of the entire cause, worldwide, are still
substantially less than those of supermarkets in
any major U.S. metropolitan area. Graphing the
economic magnitude of animal advocacy compared to
that of agribusiness is much like trying to graph
the size of the earth in proportion to the rest
of the solar system.

Awards & Honors

January 1, 2011 juanitoG Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2011:

PETA on December 20, 2010 named former U.S. President Bill Clinton “Person of the Year” for adopting a vegan diet. “”I live on beans, legumes, vegetables, fruit,” Clinton told CNN reporter Wolf Blitzer, crediting the diet with helping him to lose 24 pounds before his daughter Chelsea’s July 2010 wedding. “Bill Clinton won not only because he’s the most prominent person to go vegan this year but also because he used his platform to articulate the reasons why a plant-based diet is the most healthy diet,” PETA senior vice president Dan Mathews told media. “It doesn’t hurt,” Mathews added, “that he has [his daughter] Chelsea’s lead to follow. She went vegan at 10. Her motivation was not wanting to support cruelty to animals.” Read more

Chinese activists object to Canadian deal to sell seal meat & oil to China

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2011:

BEIJING, HALIFAX--Canadian Fisheries Minister Gail Shea on January 12, 2011 announced to news media by teleconference call from Beijing that the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and the Chinese Administration of Quality Supervision have reached an agreement which will allow Canadian sealers to export seal meat and oil to China for human consumption. Read more

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