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

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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.

Lab victories

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2003:

“Hokkaido, Iwate, and Yamagata prefectures have voted to
end the transfer of homeless dogs and cats from local pounds to
research institutions by March 31, 2003,” World Association for
Voice of Animals president Stephanie A. Nakata told ANIMAL PEOPLE on
March 10. The three Japanese prefectures together sold 1,003 animals
to labs in 2000, but the total fell to 378 in 2001, Nakata said.
Fukushima, Tochigi, and Hiroshima quit selling animals to labs
earlier. “WAVA is now stepping up our campaign to end this archaic
practice in other parts of Japan such as Kagoshima, Okayama,
Aomorim and Gunma,” Nakata concluded.

Meat avoidance and what it means

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2003–

“In terms of nonreligious literature handed out to
pedestrians, Why Vegan? may be the most widely distributed brochure
in recent years. Hundreds of people and organizations distribute
hundreds of thousands of copies annually–more than 500,000 in 2002,”
Vegan Outreach cofounder Jack Norris recently wrote to ANIMAL PEOPLE.
Norris listed ways in which the most recent updated edition
of Why Vegan? differs from previous versions, including the addition
of “a spread depicting real experiences on factory farms, described
by people who have been there.”
Yet the new Why Vegan? includes less descriptive text about
animal suffering, overall, than in the recent past, and is
actually quite different from the original edition issued in 1999.

Hedgehog rescuers face a prickly situation off the Scottish coast

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2003–

EDINBURGH–Operation Tiggywinkle was to
commence at dawn on March 27, 2003 in the
Western Isles off Scotland.
Ross Minott, campaign director for the
Scots group Advocates for Animals, was to lead a
20-member volunteer team ashore to try to rescue
an estimated 5,000 hedgehogs from the islands of
North Uist, Benbecula, and South Uist, ahead
of death squads to be sent in April by Scottish
National Heritage.
The hedgehogs were introduced to the Western
Isles in 1974 as an attempted biological control
for garden slugs and snails who annoyed the 6,000
human residents of the islands. Eventually the
hedgehogs came to be considered pests themselves.

British ad media “chicken out”

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2003:

LONDON–London Underground, responsible for London subway
operations, according to the BBC in February 2003 refused as
“offensive” a Compassion In World Farming ad that “featured
scantily-clad models huddled together on one side of a poster and
chickens on a farm on the other.” The ad was reportedly captioned
“Thousands of big-breasted birds packed together for your pleasure.”
The CIWF ad was at least the second critical message
about poultry husbandry to be banned in Britain. In November 2001
the Broadcasting Advert-ising Clearance Centre banned a 30-second
Royal SPCA ad contrasting the growth rate of layer hens to the
hormone-stimulated growth rate of broiler hens, “on the basis,” the
RSPCA said, “that it was controversial and seemed to attack the
industry.”

What “Holocaust” really means

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2003–

SAN DIEGO, RENO, PHOENIX– “Abusive
treatment of animals should be opposed, but
cannot and must not be compared to the
Holocaust,” Nazi death camp survivor and
Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith national
director Abraham Foxman told Michelle Morgante of
Associated Press, as People For The Ethical
Treatment of Animals hit the road in the U.S.
southwest with a mobile exhibition called “The
Holocaust on Your Plate.”
Using photographs to compare the
slaughter of poultry and pigs to the Nazi
massacre of Jews during World War II, the
eight-panel PETA exhibit is scheduled to tour the
whole U.S.

P&G, Iams fire testing lab over PETA disclosures

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2003:

CINCINNATI, CHICAGO, DAYTON–The pet food manufacturer Iams
and Procter & Gamble, owner of Iams since 1999, took a public
relations beating from PETA on March 25-26 over alleged substandard
conditions at an unidentified contract laboratory.
PETA senior vice president Mary Beth Sweetland stated at a
March 25 press conference that undercover video taken at the lab,
which she refused to name, shows animals in “small, barren cages,
some for up to six years.”
Stating that “The lab is not in Ohio, Kentucky or Indiana,”
Sweetland said that animals there “are not given a resting board off
the cement floor when the temperature is less than 50 degrees, as
required by federal regulations,” reported Cliff Peale of the
Cincinnati Enquirer.

Earth Island again tries to save dolphins

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2003:

SAN FRANCISCO–Earth Island Institute and six other
environmental and animal protection groups on February 12 applied for
a federal injunction against a December 31 rule change by the
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration which would allow U.S.
firms to market tuna netted “on dolphin” as “dolphin-safe,” if no
dolphins are known to have been killed during the netting.
The injunction application takes the “dolphin-safe” issue
back into the same court where chief judge Thelton Henderson in May
1990 banned imports of yellowfin tuna from Mexico, Venezuela, and
Vanuatu, under a set of 1988 amendments to the 1972 Marine Mammal
Protection Act, and in January 1992 invoked the same law to ban $266
million worth of tuna imports from 30 nations.

People & projects

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2003:

British Columbia activists Anthony Marr, Brenda Davis, and
her son Cory Davis have rescheduled their HOPE-GEO “Compassion for
Animals Road Expedition” across the U.S. and Canada “due to U.S.
Immigration temporary visa requirements.” The new scheduled starting
date is September 1, 2003. The 25-week tour of 40 states and four
provinces in a van equipped to display pro-animal videos to the
public was to have begun on January 8, but the HOPE-GEO team “were
not permitted to enter the U.S.,” they told supporters. Marr is
widely known for his investigations of wildlife trafficking, both in
British Columbia and abroad. Davis, a registered
dietician/nutritionist, is author of four books on vegetarian and
vegan nutrition and health. More HOPE-GEO/CARE information is posted
at <www.hope-care.org>.
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