Moi: “Shoot to kill cattle rustlers.”

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2000:

Nairobi––Kenyan president Daniel arap Moi on December 23 ordered police to shoot armed cattle rustlers on sight. Moi spoke at the Shadrack Kimalel Primary School in Baringo, while attending a goat auction held to fund education throughout the district. The sale of 3,029 donated goats fetched nearly $40,000.

Rustling and related massacres among members of the Pokot, Marakwet, Kalenjin, and Jemp tribes of the North Rift district have produced civil unrest which has in turn hurt the development of tourism and oil fields.

Moi issued a similar shootto-kill order pertaining to armed elephant and rhino poachers in 1984. It was invoked as recently as January 2, when Kenya Wildlife Service rangers killed four poachers––three of whom shot back with automatic rifles––just after the poachers killed four elephants in Kora National Park near Garissa.

Daryl Larson beats rap again ––but HFA wins law against farm animal neglect in Calif.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1999:

Hog farmer and ex-veterinarian Daryl
Larson, 46, on October 20, 1999 escaped conviction
for allegedly abandoning 315 pigs on a farm near
Wyoming, Iowa, when a Jones County District
Court jury declared it could not reach a unanimous
verdict. No date was set for retrial.
The starving pigs were found on October
27, 1998, cannibalizing the remains of others.
Larson was previously convicted of leaving hogs to
starve in Clinton County, Iowa, in 1997; abandoning
as many as 2,000 hogs to starve near Craig,
Missouri, in 1995; not properly disposing of the
remains of 261 hogs who starved on his land near Des
Moines in 1994; and not properly disposing of about
300 hogs who allegedly starved on another of his
Iowa properties in 1993.

Meat, milk firms hit for cruelty

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1999:

Humane organizations challenged
routine abuses at milk and meat production
facilities in Arizona, Florida, New
Jersey, and Virginia during October and
November 1999, winning one case out of
court, with the other outcomes pending.
Accepting a consent agreement
instead of facing cruelty charges,
McArthur Farms of Okeechobee, Florida,
is to help the University of Florida and the
Florida Agriculture Depart-ment develop a
training program to teach staff how to
properly kill culled calves; pay up to
$27,500 to produce training materials;

Pork barrel politics

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1999:

Corporate Hogs at the Public
Trough, a new Sierra Club report slamming
government subsidies to factory hog farms,
was released on September 15 in Kansas City
and September 17 in Oklahoma City. “This
money is not creating economic development;
it’s creating environmental destruction,”
said Missouri chapter director Ken
Midkiff. Added Sierra Club president
Chuck McGrady, “God never intended for
100,000 pigs to poop in the same place.”

Ireland fights EU over animal welfare

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:

DUBLIN––Scientists warned
Ireland in August that by mid-year it
had already exceeded the national
“greenhouse gas” emission limits set by
the European Union and United Nations
under the 1997 Kyoto Agreement to
limit global warming––despite special
dispensation allowing Ireland a 13%
increase in emissions by 2010.
Since nearly half of all Irish
“greenhouse gas” comes from cattle,
the warning meant in effect that Irish
farmers must find a way to reduce
bovine flatulence. Or else.

Angst over beta-agonists in meat

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:

BANGKOK, KUALA LUM-PUR,
HONG KONG––A Thai FDA crackdown on
the use of beta-agonist stimulants in pork production
sounded like late response to old news
when announced in June 1999.
It wasn’t. Hong Kong is a key market
for Thai pork, and six Hong Kong residents
were ill from ingesting beta-agonist
residues with pork offal.
In 1998 Hong Kong banned the sale
of pig offal for four months after 17 people
suffered beta-agonist poisoning.
Beta-agonist traces were found then
in nine out of 14 pigs’ lungs originating from
four farms in Hong Kong and two farms in
Guangdong, on the Chinese mainland. Thai
pork was apparently free of beta-agonists––
and that’s how Bangkok wants to keep it.

Smithsonian ducks

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:

WASHINGTON D.C.––PETA scored a rare victory
over the foie gras industry on August 23 when the
Smithsonian Institution cancelled a scheduled September 21
book-signing party for Michael Ginor, owner of Hudson
Valley Foie Gras, whose volume Foie Gras…A Passion was
to be published by Wylie Inc. in mid-September.
The cancellation, heavily covered by both The New
York Times and The Washington Post, brought unprecedented
public attention to how foie gras is made: by either pouring
grain or pumping a pureed mash directly into the stomachs of
restrained ducks and geese, through a plastic or metal tube
thrust down their throats. The force-feeding causes the ducks
and geese to rapidly develop abnormally fat-laden livers.
After the birds are killed, their livers are blended into a paste.

Ruthless meat trade flogs hormones east and west

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:

SEOUL, BRUSSELS, LONDON,
WASHINGTON D.C.––An estimated
50 members of the Korean Animal
Protection Society rallied against dog-eating
and cat-eating on August 16 in front of
Myoungdong Cathedral in central Seoul.
Sympathy rallies occurred in many
other cities around the world, attracting
media coverage in the U.S., Canada, Great
Britain, and South Africa as well as Korea.
But the protests did not deter Grand
National Party legislator Kim Hong Shin and
20 cosponsors from introducing a bill into the
Korean Parliament that same day to repeal six
unenforced prohibitions on dog-eating issued
since 1978 by adding dogs to the list of livestock
species regulated by the Korean
Agriculture Department.

BOOKS: My Year of Meats

September 1, 1999 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1999:

My Year of Meats by Ruth L. Ozeki
Penguin Putnam Inc. (375 Hudson St., New York, NY 10014), 1998.
366 pages, hardcover. $23.95.

If you are interested in how live-stock are treated by those who raise them, or
in how meat is viewed culturally in Japan and
America, then read this unexpectedly hip
novel. It touches on the evils of commercial
television and advertising agencies, bigotry,
spousal abuse, and of course, the meat
industry. But it’s mainly a morality tale centered
on the world of advertising and one person’s
epiphany and redemption.
Told in the first person by one Jane
Takagi-Little, the daughter of a Minnesotan
father and a Japanese mother, who is an upand-coming
TV series coordinator, the book
is a real page-turner. Sponsored by “BEEFEX,”
a (fictitious) American beef export and
trade syndicate, the TV series is designed to
convince Japanese housewives that meat
should be a part of every big meal: that
“Meat is the Message.”

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