Awards & Honors

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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

Animal Welfare Institute comments on GAP certification standards

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2011:

The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) supports the development of third-party certification programs that improve the lives of animals, however, we have serious concerns about the standards of the Global Animal Partnership (GAP) program and the processes by which they are implemented. Since only Step 1 is required of all producers, the program must be judged by this standard. Read more

Ex-lab caretaker hopes to save what remains of Wild Animal Orphanage

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2011:

SAN ANTONIO–Wild Animal Orphanage is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, but maybe, Primates Incorporated founder Amy Kerwin hopes, the million dollars worth of real estate, two million dollars worth of facilities, and 160 animals who remain at the 17-year-old sanctuary can be kept within the sanctuary community. Read more

Montana Large Animal Sanctuary becomes largest-ever sanctuary failure

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2011:

HOT SPRINGS, Montana–The 400-acre Montana Large Animal Sanctuary, among the largest in the world, once regarded as a showplace, is finishing a 15-year existence as the subject of the largest sanctuary evacuation ever undertaken.

Starting with almost 1,000 animals in urgent need of care and better homes, AniMeals founder Karyn Moltzen, the on-site rescue coordinator, had only 249 of 603 llamas left to place after almost a month of camping on site. Herds of horses, goats, sheep, donkeys, two bison, two camels, and 11 emus were all either moved out to other sanctuaries or were “spoken for,” Moltzen told ANIMAL PEOPLE. Read more

SHARK Octocopter drone allegedly shot down while documenting Pennsylvania pigeon shoot

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2011:

HAMBURG, Pennsylvania–An Octocopter drone video camera platform snagged in a tall tree guarantees that Showing Animals Respect & Kindness (SHARK) will continue to keep an eye on the Wing Pointe gun club near Hamburg, Pennsylvania for some time to come, while pursuing legal action to get the Octocopter back.

The case appears likely to ensure that SHARK and Wing Pointe will meet in court, but not necessarily in connection with the cruelty prosecution SHARK has tried to press against Wing Pointe since retrieving 21 wounded but living pigeons from a “dead pile” after a pigeon shoot on December 5, 2010. Read more

New Jersey attorney general files suit seeking to dissolve NJ Horse Angels

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2011:

NEWARK--New Jersey attorney general Paula T. Dow and Thomas R. Calcagni, acting director of the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs, on December 2, 2010 charged in a civil lawsuit that “Through the Internet, and in particular through Facebook, Sharon Catalano Crumb and a charitable organization known as NJ Horse Angels raised at least $145,132, purportedly to rescue horses from slaughter between September 2009 and September 2010. Read more

Penn State faculty start industry-backed poultry transport certification program

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2011:

STATE COLLEGE, Pa.–Pennsylvania State University faculty in the first week of 2011 introduced what they termed “a certification program believed to be the first to offer third-party quality assurance training on poultry handling and transportation for ‘catch crews.'”

The program was developed as a collaboration among 12 organizations and government agencies which operate in support of agribusiness, among them the National Chicken Council, United Egg Producers, National Turkey Federation, USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service, and American Veterinary Medical Association. Read more

U.S. whaling negotiator hinted to Japan that IRS might pull Sea Shepherd Conservation Society nonprofit status

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2011:

MADRID--U.S. State Department messages published on January 3, 2011 by WikiLeaks and the leading Spanish newspaper El Pais disclose that U.S. diplomats in negotiation with senior Japanese officials entertained the possibility of asking the Internal Revenue Service to revoke the nonprofit status of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society.

The State Department messages also confirm the belief widespread among whale conservationists that current White House policy seeks as a first priority to lower the profile of confrontation with Japan over whaling. Read more

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