Research

October 1, 1994 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1994:

World-renowned primatologist

Dr. Jan Moor-Jankowski quit the New

York University Medical School’s Animal

Care and Use Committee on August 16, in

protest of how the committee has handled

allegations of animal abuse involved with

addiction experiments on monkeys done by

fellow faculty member Dr. Ronald Wood.

Wood’s work was temporarily suspended

last spring, former NYU head veterinarian

Dr. Wendell Niemann resigned, and some

staff who purport to have been whistle-

blowers were dismissed, but the full cir-

cumstances have not been disclosed.

Dean Smith of the American

Anti-Vivisection Society has produced a

paragraph-by-paragraph critique of the

American Medical Association’s recent

white paper on Use of Animals in

Biomedical Research, available for $3.00

each from the AAVS at 801 Old York Rd,

Suite 204, Jenkintown, PA 19046-1685.

Get the AMA white paper from the AMA,

Dept. of Science & Medical Education,

515 N. State St., Chicago, IL 60610.

WOOFS AND GROWLS

October 1, 1994 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1994:

Dr. Bill Frist, Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Tennessee, recalled

in his 1989 autobiography Transplant that as a medical student he routinely adopted animals

from Boston-area shelters for use in experiments. “It was, of course, a heinous and dishon-

est thing to do,” he wrote, “and I was totally schizoid about the entire matter. By day I was

little Billy Frist, the boy who lived on Bowling Avenue in Nashville and had decided to

become a doctor because of his gentle father and a dog named Scratchy. By night, I was

Dr. William Harrison Frist, future Cardiothoracic surgeon, who was not going to let a few

sentiments about cute, furry creatures stand in the way of his career.”

Body Shop animal testing policy alleged “a sham”

October 1, 1994 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1994:

LOS ANGELES, California––The

trademarked slogan “Against Animal Testing”

appears at least 10 times in the 1994 version 5

Body Shop catalog.

Inside the back cover, a boldface

statement declares, “The Body Shop is against

animal testing for cosmetic ingredients and

products. We do not commission others to ani-

mal test on our behalf, and we support a com-

plete ban of such testing… We also insist that

our suppliers not deliver to us any ingredient

that has been animal tested for the cosmetics

industry within the past five years.”

NEAVS erred on lab animal use

October 1, 1994 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1994:

BOSTON, Massachusetts– –

Math errors were behind the New England

Anti-Vivisection Society’s recent public esti-

mate that U.S. laboratory use of animals rose

30% over the five years 1988-1992.

According to NEAVS spokesper-

son Melinda Duval, the estimate, published

in the NEAVS newsletter, was produced by

an individual who no longer works for

NEAVS, who made a “recording error.”

Since 1990 the USDA has required

researchers to report the use of livestock as

well as primates, cats, dogs, hamsters,

rabbits, and guinea pigs, whose use had

already been tallied annually. The new

requirement brought a 30% increase in the

number of animals whose use was tabulated,

but not in an increase in actual use.

COURT CALENDAR

September 1, 1994 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1994:

Activism

Forty-two activists who were

arrested at the 1992 Hegins Labor Day

pigeon shoot on July 15 sued 16 employ-

ees and officials of Schuykill County,

Pennsylvania, who allegedly subjected

them to illegal strip-searches. The plain-

tiffs include PETA cofounders Alex

Pacheco and Ingrid Newkirk, who claims

male guards were able to see her nude

through an open door. The suit parallels

one filed by nine female activists who won

a similar case after the 1991 Hegins shoot.

U.S. judge Franklin S, Van Antwerpen

ruled last September in that case that the

Schuykill county strip-searching policy

was unconstitutional.

Animals in laboratories

September 1, 1994 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1994:

The American Medical Association has honored Louisiana State

University researchers Michael Carey and Betty Jean Oseid (his wife) for their

“defiant and unflinching stand against animal rights extremists.” Carey spent $2.1

million shooting more than 700 cats in the head until a General Accounting Office

probe found the work dubious, influencing the U.S. Army to halt funding in

1989. A stint as a combat surgeon in the Persian Gulf War revamped his image,

Mike Wallace of CBS 60 Minutes whitewashed the cat-shooting, blaming animal

rights activists rather than the GAO for

the Army decision, and Carey has

been on the stump seeking renewed

funding ever since.

AGRICULTURE

September 1, 1994 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1994:

The central event at the American Humane Association annual confer-

ence, Sept. 28-Oct. 1, is to be an already controversial “Livestock forum,” at which

four university livestock experts, often critical of industry norms, are to outline for

humane officers “which current farming practices are acceptable, which can be chal-

lenged, and how” under existing laws, and “which desperately need to be changed.”

Claiming the speakers are too close to the livestock industry, representatives of the

Humane Farming Association, Humane Society of the U.S., and Fund for Animals

have offered themselves as speakers instead. Responded Adele Douglass of AHA,

who set up the forum, “This session is not to talk about ideals; it’s to inform people

about what’s being done now, why it’s being done that way, and what kind of farm-

related cases a humane officer can hope to prosecute successfully under today’s laws.”

Laboratory animals: rodent and bird verdict reversed

July 1, 1994 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1994:

The U.S. Court of Appeals in late

May struck down a 1992 federal court ruling that

Congress meant the Animal Welfare Act to

apply to rats, mice, and birds, exempted by the

USDA since 1971. Declining to hear arguments,

the court held that the Humane Society of the

U.S. had no standing to bring the case because it

could not prove it is harmed by the USDA policy

in question. ““We intend to petition the Appeals

Court for a rehearing based on errors in the rul-

ing,” said Martin Stephens, Humane Society of

the U.S. vice president for laboratory animal

programs. Stephens dismissed the precedential

import of the verdict on standing, but Valerie

Stanley of the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the

lead attorney in the case, told the Chronicle of

Higher Education that it means, in effect, that

no animal protection organization may sue to

protect laboratory animals.

Animal control & rescue

June 1, 1994 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1994:

Effective June 28, use of

live animals as prizes in drawings,

lotteries, contests, sweepstakes,

and carnival games is illegal in

Pennsylvania. The law exempts fish,

as well as domestic animals given

away in connection with state-spon-

sored or sanctioned agricultural and

vocational programs. The Pennsyl-

vania Legislative Animal Network

and state representative Jerry Nailer

had pursued the new law since 1989.

Michigan adopted a

felony cruelty law in late April.

The new law eliminates the old

requirement that an animal be owned

for abuse to be punished, which left

homeless animals unprotected, and

weighs offenses in terms of mali-

ciousness rather than in terms of

property damage. The maximum

penalty is now four years in jail and

a $5,000 fine per offense.

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