What really happened at Horizon High School

October 1, 1997 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1997:

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz.––The so-called Horizon
High School chicken incident of April 11, in Scottsdale,
Arizona, was perhaps the most publicized case of alleged
teenaged animal abuse this year, and was subject of a demonstration
outside the school as late as August 14––but an ANIMAL
PEOPLE investigation supports the findings of the
Phoenix Police Department and Paradise Valley Unified School
District that the incident simply did not happen as it was reported
by two local TV stations, the Animal Benefit Club, and
United Poultry Concerns.
The widely distributed allegation was that according
to eyewitnesses, 50 hens were released on the campus, then
“beaten, kicked like footballs, hurled through the air, stuffed
into lockers, and run over by cars.”

REPORT FROM THE PREMARIN FRONT by Robin Duxbury, president, Project Equus

October 1, 1997 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1997:

In early September United
Animal Nations sent me, Project
Equus PMU campaign coordinator
Jeri Meacham, and new UAN program
director Janet Hendrickson to
Manitoba to investigate the plight of
PMU mares and their foals.
As ANIMAL PEOPLE
exposed in April 1993, touching off
an ongoing international boycott of
the estrogen supplement Premarin,
PMU, short for pregnant mares’
urine, is produced by mares who
spend about two-thirds of each year
confined to their stalls, strapped to
collection cups, to produce the pregnant
mares’ urine that is the source
of the estrogen used in Premarin.

McDonald’s “wins” McLibel case ––but is “culpably” cruel to animals

July 1, 1997 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1997:

LONDON – – Justice
Roger Bell technically found for
McDonald’s on June 19, ending
the second longest trial in British
history, but the $98,000 defamation
award against penniless defendants
Dave Morris, 43, and Helen
Steel, 31, cost the fast food firm
$16 million to win, enabled Morris
and Steel to distribute millions of
copies of the 1990 London
Greenpeace pamphlet Whats
Wrong With McDonald’s? that
started it all, and established that
several of their many allegations
against McDonald’s were true.

A LAME DUCK SHALL LEAD THEM

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1997:

MONTGOMERY, Texas––Not the
nail of Confucian proverb who sticks up, so is
hammered down, Yong Gwinn wasn’t thinking
about religious or cultural context when
she called minister Jean LeFevre recently
about an injured duck. She was just thinking
about the duck. A cake decorator at the
Woodlands Executive Conference Center and
Resort in Montgomery, Texas, Gwinn knew
LeFebvre and her husband Lawrence rehabilitate
birds at the nearby St. John’s Center, so
she picked up the telephone and became
involved.
As the duck later waddled free,
greeted by his surprised and delighted mate,
the San Francisco Board of Supervisors Rules
Committee moved to de-escalate a year-long
flap over the sale of live animals as food by
dropping two of the four members of the
Commission for Animal Control and Welfare
who unsuccessfully pushed to ban such sales.
Although the ban cleared the Commission last
November, the Supervisors never voted on it.

Friends of Animals, Predator Defense Institute sue feds over coyote killing, refuge grazing

June 1, 1997 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1997:

TACOMA, Washington––Accusing the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service of mismanaging the endangered Columbia whitetailed
deer to the verge of extinction at the southern Washington
refuge created for the species 34 years ago, Friends of Animals and
the Predator Defense Institute on May 27 sued Interior Secretary
Bruce Babbitt, the Interior Department, and Julia Butler Hansen
National Wildlife Refuge manager James Hidy in the U.S. District
Court for the Ninth Circuit.
Friends of Animals, of Darien, Connecticut, has more
than 100,000 members nationwide, and partners with the Interior
Department in projects including wolf reintroduction and protection
of African elephants from poaching. The Oregon-based Predator
Defense Institute, involved in wildlife policy review, is best
known for exposing allegedly misrepresented Oregon Department
of Fish and Wildlife reports of puma activity.

The meat mob muscles in

June 1, 1997 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1997:

Poorly educated women, often of ethnic minorities,
many of them immigrants, do the hardest, dirtiest, most dangerous
work––until their bodies fail them.
Pushers on almost every busy street corner stoke the
addictions that already kill more Americans than any other
cause, and have created the world’s deadliest drug problem.
Their suppliers rank among the global leaders in
dumping toxic waste.
Kingpins of this mob, some already convicted of
political corruption reaching clear to the White House, are now
muscling into position to siphon off the hard-won economic
gains of the developing world.

CAN FISH SURVIVE IN A PORK BARREL?

May 1, 1997 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1997:

RALEIGH, N.C.––Forced to choose between fish
and pigs, North Carolina wants both––and got state fisheries
director Bruce Freeman’s resignation on February 13 as a
slightly early Valentine to himself. For $83,000 a year, he
decided, the job wasn’t worth the pfiesteria headache.
Freeman, a North Carolina native who previously
served as New Jersey fisheries director, was North Carolina’s
sixth fisheries director in 15 years, only one of whom stayed
longer than two years. He took office just four months before
the June 1995 destruction of the Neuse River by 20 million gallons
of hog slurry from a ruptured farm lagoon. That alone
killed as many as 40 million fish––and that spill was followed
by more than 100 others, both on the Neuse and other rivers.
There were hints that similar smaller spills had occurred for
years, to little notice, as the North Carolina hog industry rapidly
expanded over the past decade with strong government influence
at both the state and federal levels.

BOOKS: Prisoned Chickens Poisoned Eggs & The Great House of Birds

April 1, 1997 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1997:

Prisoned Chickens Poisoned Eggs:
An Inside Look at the Modern Poultry Industry
by Karen Davis
Book Publishing Company, Box 99, Summertown, TN 38483),
1996. 175 pages, referenced and indexed. $12.95 paperback.

The Great House of Birds:
Classic Writings About Birds
edited by John Hay
Sierra Club Books (85 2nd St., San Francisco, CA 94105), 1996.
306 pages, hardcover, $24.00.

Next time you gobble down an egg or a chicken nugget, if you
ever do, consider the birds: housed in overcrowded and dangerous “factory”
barns, their beaks cut off, their wings clipped, overfed, underexcersized,
never seeing the light of the sun, from hatching to slaughter.
While people are chastized for their misuse of antibiotics, which
apparently has encouraged the evolution of untreatable SuperBugs, very
little is said about antibiotic overdosing of chickens, and other food animals.

Who is the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service servicing?

March 1, 1997 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1997:

WASHINGTON D.C.––In the last week of January,
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service embraced a partnership with
the trophy hunting organization Safari Club International, permitted
the U.S. Navy to kill every endangered ovenbird on
Farallon de Medinilla 2.5 times each, and advanced a scheme
to kill coyotes, purportedly to rebuild the endangered
Columbian whitetailed deer population on the heavily overgrazed
Washington mainland sector of the Julia Butler Hansen
Refuge, along the Columbia River.

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