Signifying apes upstage Freedom Tour

September 1, 1999 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1999:

ATLANTA––One could say the Georgia State University bonobo Panbanisha, 14, and the Zoo Atlanta orangutan Chantek, 20, made a monkey’s uncle of former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Louis W. Sullivan during the last week in July––but Sullivan really did it to himself. Though Sullivan suggested that their kind should be vivisected, Panbanisha and Chantek meant him neither harm nor embarrassment.

Sullivan, now president of the Morehouse School of Medicine and a board member of the Foundation for Biomedical Research, tried to play the race card against the July 24-27 Primate Freedom Tour stop at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, on the Emory University campus.

PETA makes animal testing Albert Gore’s albatross

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1999:

WASHINGTON D.C.––People for
the Ethical Treatment of Animals served
notice in July that Vice President Albert
Gore’s support of the Environmental
Protection Agency’s High Production Volume
Challenge chemical safety testing program will
be an issue in the 2000 presidential campaign––whether
he likes it or not.
In early July, PETA opened an
office in Manchester, New Hampshire, the
city where the most voters will cast ballots in
the first 2000 primary election. Covering the
windows with posters linking Gore to animal
testing, PETA was accused of violating the
office lease by property manager Patrick
Vatalaro, who had the posters removed.

Wild Animal Orphanage gets ex-lab monkeys –– and $12,000 USDA fine

July 1, 1999 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1999:

SAN ANTONIO––The USDA Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service on May 24 announced it had filed
10 charges of violating the Animal Welfare Act against Wild
Animal Orphanage, of San Antonio, Texas–– nine days after
the case was disclosed by San Antonio Express-News staff
writer Russell Gold, and more than two months after the
USDA on March 10 proposed a $12,000 fine and a 90-day
suspension of the WAO exhibitors’ license.
On April 10, WAO founder Carol Azvestas asked
USDA-APHIS to reconsider the penalties, but she told Gold
she would not spend sanctuary money on legal fees to fight
them in court.
The four most serious charges pertained to the
deaths in air transit of two tigers and a puma that Azvestas
accepted from the defunct Walk In The Wild Zoo of
Spokane, Washington, when it went out of business in
August 1996. One puma survived the eight-hour flight.

P&G HALTS NON-LEGALLY MANDATED ANIMAL TESTS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1999:

CINCINNATI––Passing another milestone in a 15-
year drive to develop and implement alternatives to animal testing,
Procter & Gamble spokespersons Mindy Patton and Amy
Neltner announced on June 30 that the company “will end the
use of animal tests for current beauty, fabric, home care, and
paper products, except where required by law. This announcement
covers roughly 80% of P&G’s total product portfolio,”
Patton and Neltner specified. This decision is effective immediately”
in all 140 nations where P&G operates.”
Added P&G vice president of global product safety
Larry Games, “Science and technology have advanced to the
point where we can confirm the safety of these finished products
through non-animal alternatives,” chiefly developed within
P&G’s own laboratories.

Loving the monkeys, too

July 1, 1999 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1999:

BASTROP, Texas––Perhaps it
was just coincidence that just as the 1999
Primate Freedom Tour got the only seriously
bad press of its first three weeks on the road,
the Disney Network began broadcasting frequent
“Vault Disney” intermission clips of
Annette Funicello singing “I love the monkey’s
uncle,” backed by The Beachboys.
Then again, from Dumbo (1941)
and Bambi (1942) on, Walt Disney Studios
has given humane causes many a big surprise
boost in the guise of innocent entertainment.
Whatever the case, the Primate
Freedom Tour had by the end of the July 4
weekend brought the cause of nonhuman primates
in laboratories more media attention
than any other event or series of events since
the 1985 passage of Animal Welfare Act
amendments requiring labs to provide for the
psychological well-being of nonhuman primates
and dogs.

Animal testing and experimentation

June 1, 1999 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1999:

Four months after PETA began
a campaign to reduce animal use in connection
with the High Production Volume chemical
safety testing project undertaken by the
Environmental Protection Agency,
Chemical Manufacturers Association, and
Environmental Defense Fund, at urging of
U.S. vice president Albert Gore, PETA
declared on May 4 that “The EPA has conceded
that some of the planned animal tests
were not necessary. At a recent meeting in
Fairfax, Virginia,” PETA said, “EPA officials
announced their intention to remove a
requirement for genetic toxicity tests on animals,
allowing non-animal tests instead. The
EPA also announced at the meeting that it has
agreed to pull requirements for terrestrial toxicity
tests that would have meant intentionally
poisoning birds. A giant rabbit has followed
Gore to 22 cities,” the PETA statement finished,
“with a sign that says ‘Gore: burn
bunnies, lose votes.’”

Texas Tech researcher could have sat on ant hill

April 1, 1999 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1999:

PETA in mid-February disclosed a
$120,000 Texas Tech project in which deer were
compelled to give birth in pens full of fire ants, to
see whether fawns exposed to the ants survive, and
anesthetized day-old bobwhite quail chicks were covered
with fire ants. In each experiment the object was
to see whether the ants did the animals more harm
than exposure to the pesticides most often used to kill
fire ants; other fawns and quail were exposed to the
pesticides but not the ants.
As it turned out, the fire ants did not kill
any fawns––but eight of the 25 pregnant deer who
were net-gunned from a helicopter in May 1998 by
researcher Mark Wallace died from capture stress,
and another doe died of injuries suffered in capture.
Eight of the 26 fawns born during the
experiments were either stillborn or were euthanized
because they were judged unlikely to live.

NEW BRITISH REGS

April 1, 1999 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1999:

Starting April 1, the Animal Procedures
Committee of the British Home Office will gain the
authority to close labs if they fail to provide detailed
descriptions of experiments and explain the use of
animals instead of non-animal research techniques,
Home Secretary Jack Straw said in February.
“They will have to justify every test,
explain the exact conditions in which the animals are
kept, and prove they meet all standards,” Straw stated.
“If the Procedures Committee decides any aspect
of the treatment is inappropriate, the license will be
revoked.”
The 300 licensed British laboratories experiment
on about 2.7 million animals per year.

Colgate-Palmolive halts animal testing

April 1, 1999 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1999:

NEW YORK, N.Y.––Colgate-Palmolive
Co., committedly reducing animal use since 1983,
in mid-March 1998 announced an immediate moratorium
on all animal use in safety-testing personal
care products.
Colgate-Palmolive told media that “98%
of all internal requests for product safety approval
are currently met using available data and non-animal
alternatives.”
Colgate-Palmolive does not make pharmaceuticals,
which by law must be animal-tested.
PETA president Ingrid Newkirk told
Associated Press that the Colgate-Palmolive moratorium
resulted from a 20-month PETA boycott.

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