Outraged researchers oust Maneka Gandhi from Indian lab supervision

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2003:

NEW DELHI–“I am exhausted by this year,”
Maneka Gandhi e-mailed to ANIMAL PEOPLE on New
Year’s Eve. “I lost three jobs, two of my
oldest dogs, both 17, and all the elections in
my constituency. The only thing that I kept this
year was my temper, but I would be happy to lose
that as well! The only thing I gained was
weight.”
Technically Mrs. Gandhi lost the first of
the three jobs in November 2001, when Prime
Minister of India A.P. Vajpayee reassigned her
from Minister of Culture to Minister of
Statistics, after she clashed with the Korean
ambassador over his allegedly eating dogs.

High-energy post-Soviet activists do everything but raise money

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2003:

MOSCOW, KIEV, KHARKOV-A sociologist or political scientist
probably could not design a better comparative experiment in starting
an animal advocacy movement than is now underway in Moscow, the
largest city in Russia, and Kiev and Kharkov, the two largest
cities in the Ukraine.
Russia and the Ukraine are neighbors, the most prominent
remnants of the former Soviet Union, sharing parallel history,
ethnicity, and standards of living, and post-Soviet birth rates
that are among the seven lowest in the world, but have active
rivalries dating back more than 1,000 years.
Their ancient kings conquered each other, their forced
alliances held Napoleon and Hitler at bay, and they are now racing
into economic development and social/political westernization at a
breakneck pace.

How to read the data

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2003:

Who gets the money? addenda

The data below updates and supplements the 13th annual ANIMAL
PEOPLE “Who gets the money?” report on the budgets, assets, and
salaries paid by the major U.S. animal-related charities, plus
miscellaneous local activist groups, humane societies, and some
prominent organizations abroad, published in our December 2002
edition.
Foreign data is stated in U.S. dollars at average 2001 exchange rates.
Most charities are identified in the second column by
apparent focus: A for advocacy, C for conservation of habitat via
acquisition, E for education, H for support of hunting (either for
“wildlife management” or recreation), L for litigation, N for
neutering, P for publication, R for animal rights, S for
shelter/sanctuary maintenance, V for focus on vivisection, and W
for animal welfare.

McCartney, wrestlers slam WWF

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2003:

LONDON, U.K.; HARTFORD, Connecticut–Rock star Sir Paul
McCartney opened 2003 by joining an global tag-team of critics of the
World Wildlife Fund.
“I was appalled to learn from PETA that the U.S. office of
the WWF has been a driving force behind the design and development of
one of the largest animal testing programmes in international
history,” McCartney wrote to WWF director general Claude Martin,
accusing WWF of “pressurizing the U.S. Congress to require the
testing of chemicals for hormone-disrupting effects.”
McCartney referred to the High Production Volume Challenge
testing program begun in 2000 by the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency. The program seeks to fill gaps in the U.S. registry data on
about 25,000 chemical products that were labeled “safe” before
various neurotoxic and ecotoxic effects were suspected, and before
methods were developed to detect them. The program resulted from 31
years of legal work by the Environmental Defense Fund, but is
endorsed by WWF and most other major environmental organizations.

China learns from Korean World Cup bashing

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2003:

BEIJING, CHENGDU–Closing 35 small bear bile farms and
taking 97 bears into sanctuary care since October 2000, Animals Asia
Foundation founder Jill Robinson was shocked in early December 2002
when International Fund for Animal Welfare acting China director
Zhang Li and World Society for the Protection of Animals director of
wildlife Victor Watkins insinuated to London Sunday Times Beijing
correspondent Lynne O’Donnell that her work might have provided cover
for expansion of the bear bile farming and poaching industries.

New Kenya Wildlife Service chief is hired away from IFAW

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2003:

NAIROBI-Michael Wamithi, who opened the East Africa office
of the International Fund for Animal Welfare in Nairobi in 1999 and
had headed it ever since, was on November 27 named to succeed Joe
Kioko as chief of the Kenya Wildlife Service.
Kioko retired on Novem-ber 21, after one year as director.
Previously, Kioko was assistant director under preceding directors
Nehemiah Rotich, Richard Leakey, and David Western.
Wamithi before joining IFAW was for 14 years a KWS staffer,
in posts including warden of Nairobi and Amboseli national parks,
assistant warden of Tsavo National Park, and assistant director of
KWS intelligence.

Zimbabwe mob cruelty continues

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2003:

HARARE-Communications from the embattled Zimbabwe National
SPCA have been few since soon after the Robert Mugabe regime
intensified censorship of outbound mail and e-mail in September 2002,
but brief messages received and forwarded by contacts in other parts
of the world indicate that Meryl Harrison and team are still doing
what they can to relieve animal suffering.
Animals kept by Zimbabweans of European descent continue to
be targeted for abuse by pro-Mugabe mobs, London Daily Telegraph
correspondent Peta Thorneycroft wrote on December 17.
At Forrester Estates, owned by German citizen Heinrich von
Pezold, wrote Thorneycroft, “Several hundred head of cattle were
recently driven into an artificial lake to drown. Others were penned
into paddocks, in searing heat, to starve. The cattle were sent to
their excruciating end by about 20 hysterical farm workers,
encouraged by government supporters. Police were unable to say if
anyone was arrested, at a time when a beef shortage is imminent and
almost half the population is on the brink of starvation.”
Little or no meat was salvaged. The carcasses were burned.

MSPCA in a labor dispute

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2003:

SPRINGFIELD, Mass.–Rowley Memorial Animal Hospital, a
branch of the Massachusetts SPCA, has “demanded that newly hired
certified veterinary technicians not be part of” Service Employees
Union Local 285, and that vet techs already on the job “be given an
option to leave the union,” according to Springfield Valley Advocate
reporter Chris Kanaracus.
In addition, the MSPCA is asking Rowley staff to pay 10% of
their health insurance premiums, now entirely paid for them. Local
285 representative Tim Oppenheimer noted that while the MSPCA lost
money in 2001, all six of the top-paid MSPCA officers received
substantial raises, including president Gus Thornton, due to
retire, whose pay was boosted 18% to $258,400.

Who Gets The Money? — 13th annual edition

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2002:

Starting on page 13 is our 13th annual report on the budgets,
assets, and salaries paid by the major U.S. animal-related
charities, plus miscellaneous local activist groups, humane
societies, and some prominent organizations abroad. We offer their
data for comparative purposes. Foreign data is stated in U.S.
dollars at average 2001 exchange rates.
Most charities are identified in the second column by
apparent focus: A for advocacy, C for conservation of habitat via
acquisition, E for education, H for support of hunting (either for
“wildlife management” or recreation), L for litigation, N for
neutering, P for publication, R for animal rights, S for
shelter/sanctuary maintenance, V for focus on vivisection, and W
for animal welfare. The R and W designations are used only if a
group makes a point of being one or the other.

Activists & Organizations

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