COURT CALENDAR

November 1, 1996 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1996:

Precedents

Texas state district judge Patricia
Hancock on October 14 jailed photographer
Beverly Brock, 45, of Houston, for violating the
state’s first lifelong injunction limiting possession of
animals by a convicted animal collector. Brock
accepted the injunction, recommended by the
Houston SPCA, in May 1995, after her third animal
collecting bust since 1992, but was found in
possession of 19 cats on February 5, 1996, with the
remains of 13 dogs and cats stashed in freezers in
her feces-strewn home.
The South Carolina Supreme Court
ruled September 23 that the city of Mount Pleasant
did not violate Jim and Nancy Saviano’s rights by
passing an ordinance against keeping any “vicious
or dangerous domesticated animal or any other animal
of wild, vicious or dangerous propensities.”

Children & animals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1996:

Scots law prevents animal and child protection
agencies from sharing case data, but veterinary pathologist
Helen Munro intends to change that. “Some of Britain’s most
notorious child murders reaffirm the link between animal cruelty
and child abuse,” she told The Daily Telegraph. “The two boys
who killed the Liverpool toddler James Bulger pulled the heads
off baby pigeons, double child-killer Mary Bell throttled
pigeons for fun, and Dunblane murderer Thomas Hamilton shot
birds from his bedroom window.”
The Eton College natural history museum scheduled
an October 23 auction to unload 460 taxidermic mounts,
mostly donated by graduates between 1850 and 1903. Proceeds
will be used for renovation, under retired biology teacher David
Smith. “In the past,” Smith said, “the emphasis of teaching was
on anatomy, classification, and the collecting of specimens.
Now biology means genetics, ecology, and evolution.”

European animal testing ban may be delayed

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1996:

LONDON––The Cosmetics Directive, a
European Community ban on animal testing of cosmetics
and toiletries, adopted by the EC ministers in 1993 for
scheduled phase-in starting in 1998, may be delayed until
2000, according to internal draft discussion documents
leaked to media, because alternative testing methods have
not yet been approved.
The Royal SPCA charged on September 23 that
the European Communities Validation of Alternative
Methods Centre has been unable to validate proposed nonanimal
tests due to underfunding.
British firms already committed to cruelty-free
policies are pushing to avoid the EC delay, which would
leave in effect current policies requiring animal testing of
products exported to other EC member nations. The campaign
suffered a September 27 setback, however, when the
British edition of Vogue magazine refused to publish an
anti-animal testing ad from the Co-operative Bank.

Live food fight

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1996:

SAN FRANCSICO––The San
Francisco Animal Control and Welfare
Commission on October 17 again
delayed action on a proposal to ban the
sale of live animals as food. The proposal,
bitterly fought by Chinatown vendors,
will come up again November 14.
“St. Francis must be whirling
in his grave,” commented Action for
Animals founder Eric Mills. “In recent
weeks I have visited the live food markets
and have seen turtles gutted while
fully conscious; fish scaled alive; chickens,
ducks, and doves crammed in stifling
crates; and turtles and frogs piled
three and five deep, often with no water
whatever. Most of these markets are illegal
now. The Retail Food Facilities Law
states, ‘No live animal, bird, or fowl
shall be kept or allowed in any food
facility.’ Why is this not enforced?

Wise-use wiseguys

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1996:

Responding to a libel suit filed by
the the Western Canada Wilderness
Committee, the British Columbia Wildlife
Federation in late September withdrew the
fall edition of its Outdoor Edge magazine
from newsstands, and apologized via newspaper
ads distributed throughout B.C. for
“any suggesting” that WCWC “is engaged in
criminal acts or acts of terrorism in any of its
activities, including its current initiative,
‘An Act to prohibit the hunting of bears.’”
In an Outdoor Edge article, BCWF apparently
confused some leaders of WCWC with
members of Bear Watch, a Britsh Columbia
anti-hunting group which has been involved
in recent confrontational protests reportedly
led by David Barbarash, 31, and Darren
Thurston, 26, both of whom have been convicted
and done jail time for alleged Animal
Liberation Front activities including illegal
possession of explosives and related paraphernalia.

Oceanariums

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1996:

The city council of Vallejo, California, unanimously
agreed on October 16 to take possession of Marine
World/Africa USA, the city’s second-largest employer, and
authorized $8 million credit to keep it open through the winter.
With assets of $33 million, Marine World/Africa USA is $56
million in bond debt, and would have missed payments of $2.3
million due November 1. Attendance, hurt by rainy weekends
and failure to add new attractions, fell from 1.9 million in 1993
to a projected 1.3 million this year. Often criticized for high
gate prices and too many souvenir stands, Marine
World/Africa USA is now a nonprofit institution, but both U.S.
Mortgage Co., of Dallas, and Ogden Services Corp., of New
York, were reportedly interested in buying it and turning it into
a for-profit venture. Spokesperson Jeff Jouett told media that
there are presently no plans to close, move, or sell the animals.

Alleged seal-killing cover-up in South Dildo

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1996:

ST. JOHN’S, Newfoundland– –
Fined $750 per count against them on
October 8, assigned up to three years of probation
apiece, and barred from sealing for
three years were Petty Harbor,
Newfoundland residents John Hearn, 39,
shown on a home video clubbing seals with a
boat hook and skinning a seal alive; James
Joseph Walsh, 46, also shown clubbing seals
with a boat hook; and Michael Joseph Hearn,
52, and William Hearn, 41, who each shot
seals with an illegal weapon.
The video recording of their deeds
was delivered to the International Fund for
Animal Welfare by a shocked viewer. But,
said IFAW seal campaign manager Arthur
Cady, “The whole sealing industry is guilty
of cruelty on a vast scale. These four sealers
are just the scapegoats for a barbaric business
that should be in the dock, found guilty, and
banned. The fisheries minister who sanctions
this hunt and the government subsidies that
pay for it should take their share of the
blame.”

The victory no one claimed: REPEAL OF DELANEY ENDS AN ERA IN ANIMAL TESTING

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1996:

WASHINGTON D.C. – – Respon-
sible for more animal testing than any other
government standard, the Delaney Clause fell
so softly that when President Bill Clinton on
August 3 signed the Food Quality Protection
Act that repealed it, national press coverage
gave it just one sentence, never mentioning
Delaney by name.
No animal protection group claimed
victory. No environmental or consumer protection
group bewailed defeat. ANIMAL
PEOPLE, aware that repeal of Delaney was
pending, found out it was a fait accompli only
by reviewing the legislative record of the
104th Congress after it adjourned.

What sex has to do with it (and other amazing secrets of wildlife management revealed)

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1996:

REND LAKE, Illinois––A rare alliance of local hunters and anti-hunting animal
rights activists joined for the second time the weekend of September 28-29 to drive deer out of
the 1,500-acre Rend Lake Wildlife Sanctuary, west of Chicago, to keep the deer from being
killed in a special bowhunt set to start two days later.
If hunters and anti-hunters working in concert is a paradox, so is driving deer out of a
sanctuary to save them––and the action came, explained Chicago Animal Rights Coalition
founder Steve Hindi explained between deer-herding paraglider flights, because both factions
agree that wildlife management as practiced by the Illinois Department of Natural Resources is
an oxymoron.
“If it’s wild, it can’t be managed. If it’s managed, it can’t be wild,” barked Hindi,
hoarse from days aloft in cold wind. “What the Illinois DNR is doing to the deer herd is agriculture.
I had a miniature video camera glued to my helmet today, to document what went on,”
he fumed. “It’s not a wildlife refuge: it’s like a farm in there. There are tons of corn and beans,
all planted in rows. They don’t have deer overpopulation; they’re trying to attract deer.”

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