Watson fined

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland––Captain

Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation

Society was fined $5,000 on April 11 and his for-

mer ship the Cleveland Amory was fined $30,000,

for allegedly lacking proper certification under

Canadian maritime law during their July 28, 1993

confrontation with the Cuban dragnet fishing ves-

sel Rio Las Casasnear the tail of the Grand Banks.

The fines, stated in Canadian funds, would come

to about $4,000 and $24,000, respectively, in

U.S. currency.

Woofs and growls

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

Animals and wildlife get

7% of the charity dollar in Britain,

4% in Canada, 2% in Spain, and

just 1% each in France and the

U.S., says a new study by the

Charities Aid Foundation––but the

figures aren’t directly comparable,

since medical care is primarily a

government reponsibility in the other

nations but remains heavily subsi-

dized by charity in the U.S.

SPECTACLES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

Bill Petersen, county commission

chair in Glades County, Florida, is leading

an effort to ban “hog dog rodeos,” in which

dogs are set upon semi-feral pigs in enclosed

arenas. The winner is the owner whose dog

brings down a pig the fastest. Held in Glades,

Highlands, and Hardee counties, “hog dog

rodeos” are popular with hunters, says pro-

moter Roger Vickery.

The World Society for the

Protection of Animals seeks letters protest-

ing the Jaripeo rodeo, held each February 23

in San Matias, El Salvador, in which a clown

bites a calf’s tongue and pulls it back as far as

he can stretch it. Address Lic. Carlos

Hilermann, Presidente, Inst. Salvadoreno de

Turismo, Calle Ruben Dario 619, San

Salvador, El Salvador.

Diet & Health

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

The Council for Agricultural

Science and Technology reported March 21

that advances in farming methods and the

growing popularity of vegetarianism could

mean a 30% decrease in the amount of land

used for food crops during the next 50 years

even as the global human population doubles.

The 64-page CAST study, commissioned by

the Program for the Human Environment at

Rockefeller University, was authored by

Connecticut Agriculture Experiment Station

agronomist Paul Waggoner, who explained

that the calories and protein produced on pre-

sent cropland are already sufficient to feed 10

billion vegetarians, rather than the five to six

billion people who now eat a diet including

varying amounts of meat.

AGRICULTURE

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

The General Agreement on Trade

and Tariffs will increase the amount of pork

the U.S. can export to Europe to 624,000 met-

ric tons by 1999, six times the 1991 volume.

Drawn by relatively weak U.S. pollution

laws, European hog producers are rushing to

set up U.S. branches, including the Pig

Improvement Co., of Great Britain, the

world’s largest hog breeder, which hopes to

raise 100,000 hogs per year at a site near

Hennessy, Oklahoma. The facility will gen-

erate as much sewage as a town of 170,000

people. A Danish firm is reportedly planning

an even bigger operation: a 600,000-hog con-

finement farm to be sited in Alaska, where

there are virtually no laws pertaining to farm-

related pollution because farming ventures

there have historically failed.

Ocean species

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

The National Resources Defense

Council sued the U.S. Navy on April 17 in

Los Angeles, seeking to block 270 sched-

uled underwater explosives tests near the

Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary,

slated to start April 24 and go on for five

years. The suit claims the permits issued to

the Navy by the National Marine Fisheries

Service violate the Marine Mammal

Protection Act, the National Environmental

Policy Act, and the Migratory Bird Treaty

Act. Co-plaintiffs include Save The Whales,

the Humane Society of the U.S., American

Oceans Campaign, and Heal the Bay.

AGRICULTURE

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1994:

Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt on

March 17 announced his third proposal in

less than a year to increase grazing fees on

federal land and prevent soil erosion of over-

grazed leases in 17 western states. Expected

to take effect later this year, the new propos-

al does not require Congressional approval.

It would double the grazing fee to $3.96 per

animal unit, and set different environmental

standards from state to state within a frame-

work of national principles. The proposal

was immediately attacked by both ranchers

and environmentalists.

American Breeders Service of

DeForest, Wisconsin, now sells cattle

semen and embryos “that carry a predicted

twinning value of at least 40% for bulls and

30% for cows,” according to the USDA,

which developed the method. The idea is to

cut production costs by getting more births

per pregnancy, but the gains may be offset

by increased birthing injuries to cows,

which are the leading cause of downers.

Guest opinion: Hunting, violence, and child molestation

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1994:

by Dr. Emmanuel Bernstein, psychologist

Adirondack Counseling, Saranac Lake, New York

The March 1994 issue of ANIMAL PEOPLE pre-

sented New York state hunting participation and crime statis-

tics that clearly show an association between incidence of

hunting and child molestation. This is especially impressive

since the statistics were presented in a manner that took into

account the possible influence of population density––and the

apparent influence of hunting proved stronger.

As ANIMAL PEOPLE noted, University of New

Hampshire director of family research Dr. Murray Strauss in

1987 found the number of hunting licenses sold to be a major

indicator of regions “culturally disposed toward violence.”

He also found that the states most culturally disposed toward

violence were the states with the highest rates of teen homi-

cide.

WATSON TRIAL BEGINS; SEA SHEPHERD MAY GET INTO THE SEAL WOOL BUSINESS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1994:

ST. JOHNS, Newfoundland– –

Captain Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd

Conservation Society was confident and perhaps

even exhuberant March 21, after the Canadian

government presented its case concerning four

counts of criminal mischief brought in connec-

tion with a July confrontation between The

Cleveland Amory, Watson’s vessel at the time,

and the Cuban dragnetting vessel Rio Las

Casas. Three of the counts, pertaining to

alleged reckless endangerment of human life,

could bring Watson a life term in prison.

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