British ad media “chicken out”

April 1, 2003 Archivist Leave a comment

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.”

Toys for pigs?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2003–

BRUSSELS–British agricultural officials
and information media are significantly
misrepresenting an October 2001 European Union
directive on pig welfare, says European
Commission spokesperson Beate Gminder.
“Britain’s farmers have three months to
place a toy in every pigsty or face up to 90 days
in prison or a £1,000 fine,” BBC declared on
January 29, 2003.
“We mean footballs and basketballs.
Farmers may need to change the balls so that the
pigs don’t get tired of them,” a U.K. Department
for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
spokesperson told The Times.

International animal control & shelter news

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2003–

Barcelona, Spain, instituted
high-volume sterilization of dogs and cats in
January as cornerstone of a no-kill animal
control policy. Since 2000 the Barcelona city
shelters have reduced their killing of stray dogs
from 72% of intake to 36%, and have reduced
their killing of stray cats from 89% to 27%,
Agence France-Press reported.

Kharkov bioethics course makes a difference

March 1, 2003 Archivist Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2003:

KHARKOV, Ukraine–Humane educators have been wondering ever
since Massachusetts SPCA founder George Angell introduced the first
humane curriculum more than 100 years ago whether the results of
their teaching can be effectively measured.
Olga Ivanova Tolstova, founding chair of the Bioethics
Centre at the Kharkov Zoological & Veterinary Academy in the Ukraine,
believes she and her fellow faculty members have developed evidence
that encouraging students to think about the ethics of animal use
makes a profound difference.

WWF splits over links to corporations

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2003:

GENEVA, Switzerland–World Wildlife Fund U.S. president
Kathryn Fuller has reportedly refused to resign at request of WWF
International president Claude Martin.
Martin asked Fuller to quit after she abstained from voting
in her capacity as a board member of Alcoa, rather than oppose a
company plan to build a dam complex that will flood 22 square miles
near Karahnjukar, Iceland, submerging nesting and feeding areas for
barnacle and greylag geese who migrate from Greenland to Britain.
The dam project is opposed by the Royal Society for the Protection of
Birds and the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust, as well as by WWF
International.

Sweeping pro-animal bill in Turkey

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2003:

ANKARA, Turkey–The Parliamentary Domestic Affairs
Commission on January 15, 2003, adopted a draft national animal
protection bill which would provide prison terms for animal torture,
allowing animals to starve, and bestiality; would prohibit all
forms of animal fighting; would prohibit killing animals by
electrocution, cervical dislocation, drowning, burning, and
boiling; would forbid training animals by methods that cause
avoidable injury or distress; and would prohibit killing animals for
population control unless necessary to halt the spread of an epidemic.
The draft bill would require drivers to make every reasonable
effort to avoid injuring animals on the road, and to take any
animals they hit to a veterinarian and pay for the necessary
treatment.

Kharkov bioethics course makes a difference

March 1, 2003 Archivist Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2003:

KHARKOV, Ukraine–Humane educators have been wondering ever
since Massachusetts SPCA founder George Angell introduced the first
humane curriculum more than 100 years ago whether the results of
their teaching can be effectively measured.
Olga Ivanova Tolstova, founding chair of the Bioethics
Centre at the Kharkov Zoological & Veterinary Academy in the Ukraine,
believes she and her fellow faculty members have developed evidence
that encouraging students to think about the ethics of animal use
makes a profound difference.
Like a growing number of universities in the U.S. and Europe,
Kharkov Zoological & Veterinary Academy requires students to take a
bioethics course.
At the start of the course the instructors ask students to
rate on a scale of one to five whether 16 common human uses of
animals are cruel, and whether they are acceptable. The uses
include whaling, biomedical research and testing, purebred dog
breeding, keeping hens to lay eggs, fishing, fur farming, keeping
a pet dog, cosmetics testing, factory farming, hunting, trapping,
keeping a pet parrot, operating a pet shop, bullfighting,
zoological exhibition, and keeping a sick or injured deer in a
sanctuary.

Sweeping pro-animal bill in Turkey

March 1, 2003 Archivist Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2003:

ANKARA, Turkey–The Parliamentary Domestic Affairs
Commission on January 15, 2003, adopted a draft national animal
protection bill which would provide prison terms for animal torture,
allowing animals to starve, and bestiality; would prohibit all
forms of animal fighting; would prohibit killing animals by
electrocution, cervical dislocation, drowning, burning, and
boiling; would forbid training animals by methods that cause
avoidable injury or distress; and would prohibit killing animals for
population control unless necessary to halt the spread of an epidemic.
The draft bill would require drivers to make every reasonable
effort to avoid injuring animals on the road, and to take any
animals they hit to a veterinarian and pay for the necessary
treatment.
Only licensed veterinarians would be permitted to perform euthanasia.
Vets would be directed to use the least painful method available of
killing an animal.
The draft bill would form a national animal protection
foundation, and would create animal protection boards in each
province, under the deputy governors.
As drafted, the bill would be perhaps the most comprehensive and
progressive animal protection statute on the books of any nation.
Whether it can gain enough support to pass into law without
substantial amendment remains to be seen.

Russian, Korean, & Chinese pelt demand drives U.S. fur trapping

January 1, 2003 Archivist Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2003:

SEATTLE, VANCOUVER, NEW ORLEANS-“The main markets for
trapped fur are in Russia, Korea, and China,” Seattle fur broker
Irwin Goldberg told Joel Gay of the Anchorage Daily News in December
2002. Goldberg said river otter pelts were selling to China this
winter at about half again the average price of recent years.
“Illinois’ raccoon population has declined about 10%,
officials say, largely because of demand for their pelts in the
former Soviet Union,” recently wrote Jay Hughes of Associated Press.
Killing 86,673 raccoons in 2000-2001, Illinois trappers
raised the total to 165,373 in 2001-2002, 76% of the animals they
skinned, and more than doubled their income, which rose from
$682,000 to $1.4 million.

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