BLOODLUST THWARTED

October 1, 1999 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:

FLAGSTAFF, ALBANY, HEGINS,
LONDON––Acknowledging that the
public no longer tolerates thrill-killing, even
thinly disguised, the Arizona Game and Fish
Commission on September 11 voted 3-2 for a
new state regulation stating, “A person or
group shall not participate in, promote, or
solicit participation in any organized hunting
contest for killing predatory animals, fur-bearing
animals, or nongame mammals.”
The newly adopted ban on mammalkilling
contests evolved from outrage erupting
in early 1998 over a “Predator Hunt Extreme”
promoted by two hunters who wanted to knock
down populations of pumas, coyotes, foxes,
and bobcats so as to have less competition in
killing deer and pronghorn.

Pennsylvania Supreme Court rules against “cruel and moronic” Hegins pigeon shoot

September 1, 1999 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1999:

Bob Tobash, chief organizer of the Fred Coleman
Memorial Pigeon Shoot held each Labor Day since 1935 in
Hegins, Pennsylvania, on August 1 told James E. Wilkerson
of Harrisburg Morning Call that the 1999 shoot will go on as
scheduled––but if it does, the Pennsyvlania Supreme Court
unanimously ruled on July 22, Pennsylvania SPCA anti-cruelty
officers can stop it and arrest the participants.
The court did not rule on the legality of the shoot
itself, but affirmed the authority of the PSPCA to act against
cruelty anywhere in Pennsylvania, as authorized by the state
legislature in 1868. The Pennsylvania Supreme Court thus
overturned Schuykill County Common Pleas Court and state
Superior Court verdicts which held that PSPCA officer
Clayton Hulsizer was outside his jurisdiction when he sought
an injunction to stop the 1997 shoot.

Calgary Humane tries to avoid getting Stampeded

September 1, 1999 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1999:

CALGARY––Does the Calgary Humane
Society have what it takes to take on animal abuse in
the Canadian film industry?
The American Humane Association is betting
it does––in part from the experience Calgary
Humane has in co-existing with the Calgary
Stampede, the world’s most famous rodeo.
Data gathered by Vermont veterinarian and
former rodeo performer turned anti-rodeo activist
Peggy Larson shows that at least 12 horses have been
killed during Stampede chuckwagon races just since
1990, with horse fatalities occurring in seven of the
ten years. On July 9 this year, chuckwagon racer Bill
McEwen, 59, suffered fatal injuries in a crash that
also killed a horse and injured another racer, Ron
David. McEwen’s son Larry, driving another chuckwagon,
got a 20-second penalty for allegedly causing
the crash––and the show went on.

Bullfeathers

July 1, 1999 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1999:

Upsetting 408 years of tradition
that bull-runners participate and spectators
attend runnings-of-the-bulls at their own risk,
a Madrid court ruled on June 30 that the town
of Belmonte de Tajo must pay $96,000 to a
man who was gored during a 1994 bull run,
and the town of Boadilla del Monte must pay
$10,000 to a 1992 goring victim.
French matador Denis Lore, 30,
is reportedly facing cruelty charges in Nimes,
France, brought by the French SPCA
because he advised amateur matadors in
April at an unauthorized private c o r r i d a,
during which four bulls were killed.

Bloodsports

Chicken stuff

June 1, 1999 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1999:

Joseph Kia, 44, and his son Josiah
Kia Jr., 23, both of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii,
were charged on May 13 with allegedly kidnapping,
threatening, robbing, and beating at gunpoint
two other men in a dispute over a cockfight.
Four alleged accomplices were at large.
The Louisiana Senate Agriculture
Committee on May 18 killed a bill by state senator
Paulette Irons (D-New Orleans) which would
have banned the use of sharpened gaffs tied to
cocks’ feet in cockfighting. Cockfighters testified
that the gaffs are humane because they allow the
birds to kill each other faster.

BULLFEATHERS & SUCH

June 1, 1999 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1999:

Told that as a shareholder
he would be given three minutes at
the May 5 annual PepsiCo shareholders’
meeting in Purchase, New York,
to tell fellow PepsiCo shareholders
about Pepsi advertising in bullrings,
SHARK founder Steve Hindi allowed
PepsiCo executives to read his speech
in advance, as required, and travelled
from Chicago to the meeting after getting
purported final approval––but on
arrival was told by PepsiCo associate
general counsel Lawrence Dickie that
he would not be allowed in because
PepsiCo had received an anonymous
call which included a bomb threat.
Recounted Hindi, “Dickie said PepsiCo
had ‘consulted the authorities,’ who
agreed I should not attend. I called the
FBI, the New York State Police, and
the White Plains and Harrison police
departments,” which have jurisdiction
in Purchase. “None of them knew anything
whatever about PepsiCo getting a
bomb threat. There was no report on
file. If PepsiCo feels it cannot defend
its relationship with bullfighting,”
Hindi added, “and I agree it cannot, it
should end that relationship. Meanwhile,
PepsiCo shareholders have a
right to know what PepsiCo is doing.
Barring me was just one indefensible
act concocted to cover up another.”

Bullfeathers

April 1, 1999 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1999:

Now that SHARK founder
Steve Hindi has shown activists how
to spot the use of electroshock to make
rodeo animals buck, confirmation of
the practice is coming from virtually
every rodeo where people are looking
for it. For instance, Rockford Register
Star reporter Chris Green accompanied
Animal Watch representatives to
Kid’s Day at the World’s Toughest
Rodeo on Valentine’s Day in
Rockford, Illinois, where Green “witnessed
an animal handler or ‘stock
contractor’ discreetly remove a cattle
prod from his rear pocket and shock a
horse and two bulls,” according to the
Register Star’s February 15 edition.
World’s Toughest Rodeo spokesperson
Debra Weaver told Green that shockprodding
could bring a $250 fine from
the Professional Rodeo Cowboys
Association––and said Green was the
first person to tell her about it.

Bullfeathers

March 1, 1999 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

PURCHASE, N.Y.– – With
Pepsi-Cola signs and banners still
prominent in major Mexican bullrings,
Pepsi is conceding nothing to the boycott
called in late 1998 by SHARC and
Last Chance for Animals––not even that
Pepsi advertising is a significant source
of revenue for the bullring operators.
Insisted Pepsi corporate
spokesperson Brad Shaw to ANIMAL
PEOPLE on February 10, “Pepsi does
not sponsor or endorse bullfighting.
Our position in that has not changed.”
Other Pepsi representatives
have told protesters that the Pepsi ads in
bullrings are placed by Mexican distributors,
over whom Pepsi has no control.

Cockfights spur murder, mayhem, drug deals and counterfeiting

March 1, 1999 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

SAN BERNARDINO, Cailf. – –
Gamecock expert Grady Coker, M.D., contended
in a December letter to ANIMAL
PEOPLE that cockfighting isn’t associated
with violent crime, but the gunfire erupting on
January 23 at an illegal cockfight in San
Bernardino, California, told a different story.
Seven people were hurt, “including
a toddler and an 11-year-old,” according to
police, who said they found bloody roosters,
syringes, and illegal steroids at the scene.
Arrested at another site where gamecocks were
also found were Robert Elizarraraz, 23;
Sergio Villarruel, 19; Salvador Ochoa, 18;
and an unidentified 17-year-old.
“There apparently was a dispute during
the event, and several suspects were asked
to leave,” said police sergeant Mike
Blechinger. “They did leave, but returned
with guns and [allegedly] started shooting into
the crowd.”

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