A Project of Animal People, Inc., 1992-2013
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July-August 2013:
CALGARY, RENO––The July 11, 2013 death of a chuckwagon outrider’s horse from officially unknown causes and the death of a steer who suffered a broken neck two days earlier during a steer wrestling event raised the Calgary Stampede animal death count to 62 in the 27 years that fatalities have been tracked. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July-August 2013:
LIMERICK, Ireland––“Some of you who have been to our show over the last few days may have noticed that we no longer have lions and tigers in the show,” Tom Duffy’s Circus owner David Duffy posted to Facebook on June 21, 2013. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May/June 2013:
DOVER, U.K.––Protests failed to stop the May 3, 2013 resumption of live animal exports from Dover. Currently just one ship, the MV Jolie, hauls animals once a week from Dover to Calais, France. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May/June 2013:
WASHINGTON D.C.––The Egg Products Inspection Act Amendments of 2013, written to implement a 2011 agreement between the Humane Society of the U.S. and United Egg Producers about laying hen cage sizes, was not included in either the U.S. Senate or U.S. House of Representatives version of the 2013 Farm Bill. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May/June 2013:
NEW ORLEANS––Twenty-five years of protest and litigation against live tiger displays at the Tiger Truck Stop in Grosse Tete, Louisiana, inched closer to resolution with an April 25, 2013 ruling by a three-judge panel representing the Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal that truck stop owner Michael Sandlin does not have a valid permit to keep a 12-year-old tiger named Tony on the premises. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May/June 2013:
Exposing a bloody business
CANBERRA––The latest Animals Australia undercover videos of slaughter at the two Egyptian slaughterhouses authorized to kill Australian cattle showed “outrageous cruelty” that “left me and my industry colleagues disgusted and horrified,” Australian Livestock Exporters Council spokesperson Alison Penfold told media. Read more
From Animal-People May/June 2013
CHENGDU––Guizhentang Pharmaceutical, China’s largest producer of bear bile, in April 2013 for the second time in two years withdrew a proposal to sell stock to raise the capital needed to increase the number of bears it keeps from 400 to 1,200. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2013:
PHILADELPHIA––Five years into an ongoing campaign to stop pigeon shoots held at the Philadelphia Gun Club for at least 125 years, Showing Animals Respect & Kindness founder Steve Hindi on March 26, 2013 made public his frustration with 101 years of inaction against the gun club by the Bucks County SPCA, founded in 1912, and 97 years of inaction by the Women’s Humane Society, following the 1916 death of founder Carolyn Earle White. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2013:
ANCHORAGE––Rarely apologetic about campaign statements and tactics, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals apologized on April 8, 2013 to Fairbanks musher Paige Drobny for alleging in web postings and media statements that one of her dogs died during the Iditarod trail race due to her negligence. Read more