Eberle says he had nothing to do with MIA “skeleton in closet”

From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  July/August 2003:

Responding to the June 2003 ANIMAL PEOPLE
article “Judge imposes settlement of fundraiser
Eberle’s libel suit,”  Bruce Eberle of Fund
Raising Strategies Inc. both telephoned and wrote
in reference to four paragraphs quoted and
paraphrased from a Los Angeles Times exposé of
the activities of his former client Jack Bailey.
The complete exposé,  by Los Angeles
Times staff writer Scott Harris,  was originally
published on August 7,  1991,  and is accessible
at <www.latimes.com>.
Stated Eberle,  “Neither my company nor I
had anything whatsoever to do with a fund appeal
[discussed by Harris] that referred to Jack
Bailey bringing back a partial skeleton of a
supposed American POW.  If such a fund appeal
was,  in fact,  mailed,  my company and/or myself
did not create it,   mail it,  or have anything
to do with it.”

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Creating positive images of animals in Turkey

From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  July/August 2003:

Fethiye,  Turkey–Setting out in 2000 to end the annual
pre-tourist season poisoning of street dogs and feral cats by
sterilizing at least 70% within five years,  Fethiye Friends of
Animals reached the goal in just three years,  founder Perihan
Agnelli announced in June.
Agnelli celebrated by asking the students at 15 local schools
to create positive visual images of animals.  All 450 students who
sent drawings received commemorative t-shirts.  Sixty drawings were
selected for a four-day public show.  The April 19 opening was
attended by 6,000 Fethiye residents and was broadcast live on local
television.  An art jury presented gold-on-silver medals to the
artists in each of three age groups whose works were judged best;
silver medals went to the runners-up.
The art contest was sponsored by the Marchig Animal Welfare
Trust,   founded by Jeanne Marchig,  widow of Swiss painter Gustave
Marchig.
[Contact Fethiye Friends of Animals c/o Degirmenbasi Mevkii,
Orman Deposu Karsisi,  Fethiye, Mugla, Turkey;  90-252-613-5825;
<ragnelli@superonline.com>.]

To certify the product or the farm producer–that is the question for HFAC, AWI

From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  June 2003:

HERNDON,  Virginia–For a few hours on
May 22-23 Humane Farm Animal Care founder Adele
Douglass was on top of the world,  among the top
three stories of the morning headlined by the
Associated Press.
“Rectangular labels reading ‘Certi-fied
Humane Raised & Handled’ should start appearing
in about a month on meat,  poultry,  dairy and
egg products,”  AP reporter David Dishneau
explained.
“The program,”  Dishneau continued,
“backed by 10 animal welfare groups,  certifies
producers and processors who meet certain
standards for animal treatment.  Participants are
charged modest royalty fees– 50¢ a pig,  for
example–and pay for annual inspections at $400 a
day. ”

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U.S. Supreme Court rules that states may prosecute fraudulent fundraisers

From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  June 2003:

WASHINGTON D.C.,  LOS ANGELES,  SACRAMENTO–The U.S. Supreme
Court on May 5 ruled unanimously that states may prosecute charities
and hired fundraisers for fraud if they misrepresent how donations
will be used.
The case,  “Madigan v. Telemarket-ing Associates,”  concerned
the effort of Illinois attorney general Lisa Madigan to prosecute a
firm that solicted funds for VietNow,  a charity formed to aid
Vietnam veterans.
Summarized Associated Press,  “The state claimed would-be donors were
told their money would go for food baskets,  job training and other
services for needy veterans,  even though Telemarketing Associates
pocketed 85% of the take.  One woman said she was told,  ‘90% or more
goes to the vets.’  The ruling makes clear that while fundraisers may
keep quiet about the high costs of running a charity drive,  they may
not lie about it.”

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Finding the sentience of fish

From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  June 2003:

Credit scientific discovery.  Credit
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
Credit Finding Nemo,  the latest pro-animal
animated production in a 64-year string from Walt
Disney Productions.
Whatever the reason,  humans around the
world are suddenly talking about the suffering of
fish as never before.

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Chronology of humane progress

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2003:

Chronology of humane progress
(Part 2 of two parts: Mohandas to Maneka)
by Merritt Clifton

1947 — At request of Mohandas Gandhi, Jawaharal Nehru wrote
into the constitution of India as Article 51-A[g] that “It shall be
the fundamental duty of every citizen of India to protect and improve
the Natural Environment including forests, lakes, rivers and
wildlife, and to have compassion for all living creatures.” This
was reinforced by the 1960 Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act.

1947 — Defenders of Wildlife formed as an anti-trapping
organization, but was taken over by hunters in 1957 and became a
mainstream hunter/conservationist front.

1948 — Minnesota adopted the first law requiring public
shelters to make dogs and cats available to laboratories for
biomedical research, testing, and teaching. Similar laws were
passed by 1960 in Wisconsin, New York, South Dakota, Oklahoma,
Connect-icut, Ohio, Utah, and Iowa. The New York law was repealed
in 1977. Thirteen states, including Connecticut among nine
contiguous northeastern states, outlawed selling shelter animals for
lab use between 1977 and 1985.

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Helping donkeys in Middle East & Central Asia

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2003:

PETA president Ingrid Newkirk offended numerous Jewish groups
in January 2003 with a letter to Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat
protesting the use of a donkey as an unwitting “suicide bomber” on
January 26.
Newkirk also mentioned “stray cats in your own compound” who
“fled as best they could” from Israeli forces, but made no objection
to the human toll in the ongoing Israeli/Palestianian strife.
The recorded history of harsh treatment and overwork of
donkeys in the Middle East dates at least to the time of Moses, when
Balaam’s donkey reputedly spoke out on her own behalf.

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Can a third grader identify a third-rate circus? Courts weigh activist rights

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2003:

SCRANTON, Pa.–A three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of
Appeals for the Third Circuit on April 15 unanimously upheld the
dismissal of a lawsuit against the Lacka-wanna Trail School District
in Scranton, Pennsylvania, alleging that Amanda Walker-Serrano,
then a third grader, was denied her First Amendment right to freedom
of expression in February 1999 when her school stopped her from
petitioning against a class trip to the Shriners’ circus in
Wilkes-Barre.
Amanda Walker-Serrano is the daughter of Scranton animal
advocates Lisa Walker and Michael Serrano. Her rights were not
violated, Judge Anthony J. Scirica wrote, because she was allowed
to distribute coloring books and stickers about animal abuse.

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Dairies win two cases

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2003:

Ruling that government agencies are exempt from the
prohibitions on false advertising that apply to private citizens,
San Francisco Superior Court Judge David Garcia on March 25 dismissed
a lawsuit by PETA against a “Happy cows” ad campaign sponsored by the
California Milk Advisory Board. Arguing that scenes of cows in green
pastures used in the ads misrepresent the reality of how California
dairy cattle are kept, PETA previously complained to the Federal
Trade Commission. The FTC declined to take action in October 2002.

The Pennsylvania State Superior Court on April 8 upheld a
$96,000 verdict against the Fayette County SPCA for alleged invasion
of privacy in April 1993 while investigating the purported theft of a
dog and cruelty to a heifer reported by dairy farmer John Tabaj’s
former son-in-law during a messy divorce case. Tabaj was charged
with five counts of cruelty, but the charges were later dropped.
The incident caused the Pennsyl-vania legislature to mandate in
December 1994 that humane officers must be appointed by a judge. A
Fayette County jury in January 1992 ordered the $96,000 penalty
against the Fayette County SPCA, and ordered Tri-County Humane
Protection Inc., also involved in the raid, to pay Tabaj $105,000.
Tri-County Humane Protection is now defunct. The Fayette County SPCA
has indicated that the size of the award will force it to close,
too, leaving the county without an animal shelter.

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