Philippine crack-down on dog meat

November 1, 2006 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2006:
Baguio City, Philippines–Embarrassed by reports that
Benguet province might attempt to repeal or circumvent enforcing the
1998 Philippine national ban on selling dog meat, officials of the
National Meat Inspection Service, Baguio police, and
representatives of the Animal Kingdom Foundation in early October
seized 104 kilos of dog meat from the public market stalls of vendors
Lita Dizon and Victorino
Montano, “who are reportedly known as dog meat vendors,” wrote Jane
Cadalig of the Baguio City Sun Star.

Cat defenders storm Shenzhen restaurant

September 1, 2006 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2006:

SHENZHEN–About 40 cat-lovers backed by
“a large crowd including children,” according to
China Daily, whom they gathered as they
marched, stormed the newly opened Fang Company
Cat Meatball Restaurant in Shenzhen on June 17,
2006, extracting a promise from the owner to
serve cats no more.
Zhang Jing and Song Yuanhui of the
Southern Metropolis Daily reported that “almost
100 animal rights defenders gathered in front of
the restaurant to protest,” one day after the
newspaper published an exposé of how cats were
killed there.

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Editorial: Crabs are animals too

September 1, 2006 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2006:

The poster for an August 27, 2006 crab feast planned by the
Prince Rupert SPCA looked like a bizarre parody. A grinning cartoon
crab, pink as if already burned, sprawled beneath a beach umbrella.
“Live crab, cooked to eat at the park or cooked to take home,” the
poster advertised. A photo of a real crab affirmed that real animals
were really to be boiled–until on August 17 the parent British
Columbia SPCA cancelled the event under pressure personally directed
by Sea Shepherd Conservation Society founder Paul Watson. Watson
then pledged to personally make a donation and urged others to donate
to the BC/SPCA.
Though the crab feast was averted, the episode raised issues
of posture and strategy which should be of pre-eminent concern to
every humane organization.
“Our mission,” the Prince Rupert SPCA web site predictably
proclaims, is “the prevention of cruelty to animals, and promotion
of animal welfare.”

BOOKS: Simply Vegan: Quick Vegetarian Meals

July 1, 2006 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2006:

Simply Vegan: Quick Vegetarian Meals
by Debra Wasserman
Nutrition section by Reed Mangels, Ph.D., R.D.
(updated 4th edition)
The Vegetarian Resource Group (PO Box 1463, Baltimore, MD 21203), 2006.
222 pages, paperback. $14.95

This excellent vegan cookbook was first published in 1991.
The need for an updated 4th edition testifies to its popularity.
The first half of the book includes appetizing vegan recipes of all
sorts: snacks, soups, side dishes, etc. The recipes are simple,
making for easy cooking.

Israeli foie gras ban now is in force

July 1, 2006 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2006:

JERUSALEM–“Foie gras production has ended in Israel,”
Israeli activist Adela Gertner affirmed on July 13, 2006.
“Suspected delinquents are being investigated. Otherwise, producers
are obeying the law.”
ANIMAL PEOPLE had asked Gertner to find out if Israeli foie
gras producers were at last complying with court rulings against
force-feeding. Most recently, the Israeli High Court of Justice
ruled on February 22, 2006 that force-feeding geese was to end by
April 15, 2006, “while expressing harsh criticism against the
state for not enforcing” an earlier ruling that force-feeding was to
have ended in March 2005, attorney Keren Klar told ANIMAL PEOPLE.
Klar represented Let the Animals Live and Anonymous for Animal Rights.

Foie gras is banned by Chicago council, but subsidized by New York governor

July 1, 2006 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 2006:

ALBANY, N.Y.–While other jurisdictions are moving to end
the foie gras industry, the tax-supported Empire State Development
Corporation in late May 2006 authorized a grant of $420,000 to help
Hudson Valley Foie Gras increase production by about 10% per year
over the next three years.
Hudson Valley Foie Gras, which accounts for about half of
all U.S. foie gras production, would be raising about 325,000 birds
per year at the end of the planned $1 million expansion. The
expansion would add 10 jobs to the present staff of 150.
The Empire State Development Corporation is “a public
authority that answers to Governor George Pataki, but not the
Legislature,” explained Syracuse Post-Standard staff writer Michelle
Breidenbach. The corporation “will borrow $140,000 for the project
and use cash from the state’s general fund for the remaining
$280,000.”

Anti-pork site still up

April 2, 2006 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2006:

Three months after the Premiere Bacon Company threatened to
sue New Zealand activist Mark Eden and the Wellington Animal Rights
Network for posting anti-pork material at <www.premierbacon.co.nz>,
an address just one letter different from the company’s own, the
site is still up. Eden told Louisa Cleave of the New Zealand Herald
in December 2005 that the site had been redesigned to eliminate
copyrighted logos.

Self-starters & special project updates

December 2, 2005 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2005:

The Humane Research Council, recently formed by longtime
Seattle activist Che Green, has published an analytical overview of
more than 25 studies done between 1943 and 2005 on the vegetarianism,
veganism, and meat avoidance among U.S. adults. Studies done since
2000 indicate that from two to six million Americans are actual
vegans and vegetarians, eight to 13 million call themselves
vegetarians, 25 to 33 million eat meat with less than half of their
meals, 46 to 54 million are actively reducing their meat
consumption, and 73 to 105 million eat meatless meals by choice 2-3
times per week. The complete report is available from
<info@humaneresearch.org>.

Associates of the American Foreign Service Worldwide, formed
in 1990 by then-Secretary of State James A. Baker III and his wife
Susa, in December 2005 honored U.S. consular volunteer Robert
Blumberg of Colombo, Sri Lanka, for responding “to the needs of
lost dogs, cats, and other animals” after the December 26, 2004
Indian Ocean tsunami. “Robert recognized the danger of rabies that
unvaccinated pets posed to the general population,” the award
announcement summarized. He formed a coalition,” initially funded
by ANIMAL PEOPLE, “to vaccinate as many animals as they could.

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BOOKS: Dog Meat Trade In The Philippines

December 1, 2005 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2005:

Dog Meat Trade In The Philippines
revealing corruption, conspiracy, government inaction

Linis Gobyerno, Inc. (P.O. Box 1588, 2600 Baguio City,
Philippines), 2005. 139 pages, spiral bound.

Dog Meat Trade In The Philippines will jolt readers
unfamiliar with the dog meat industry. The most shocking aspect of
this comprehensive report, however, should be that it is the third
in a series of book-length updates by Linis Gobyerno, detailing
non-enforcement of the 1996 Philippine ban on dog slaughter for human
consumption.
“This is not a national phenomenon,” the foreword
stipulates, “but a problem concentrated mainly in the Cordillera
region,” where under the thin legal cover of an exemption granted to
the indigenous Igorot tribe, non-Igorots conduct a clandestine
traffic in dog meat worth as much as $290,000 a month.
“As an Igorot, I vehemently do not accept dog-eating as my
culture,” writes Dog Meat Trade In The Philippines contributor Bing
Dawang. “I was not raised to eat dogs, and dog meat is not a
regular part of my diet, nor has it ever been.”

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