Animal Control & Rescue

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

The National Cat Protection Society, a shelter in

Long Beach, California, has paid $26,500 in civil penalties

and costs for providing misleading information about euthana-

sia policies and adoption rates to donors and people who sur-

render cats. NCPS attorney Richard Tanzer denied the organi-

zation had done anything wrong and said the settlement was

reached to avoid the cost of defending itself against the charges,

brought by the Los Angeles County district attorney.

Chows are now responsible for the most dog bites

of any breed in St, Bernard Parish, Louisiana, according to

animal control officer Ceily Trog––10 of 89 total bites,

through the first half of this year. Other Louisiana animal con-

trol departments also report a rise in chow bites.

Watson trial Dec. 6 ––if Canada dares

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

ST. JOHN’S, NEWFOUND-

LAND––Enjoying his new reputation in

Canada as “Captain Cod Hugger” for his July

28 confrontation with foreign dragnetters in

the North Atlantic, Paul Watson of the Sea

Shepherd Conservation Society is to go to

trial December 6 before a St. John’s jury for

allegedly endangering the lives of his crew,

the crew of the Cuban dragger Rio Las Casas,

and the Rio Las Casas itself––if the

Canadian government actually has the nerve

to try Watson for an action applauded from

coast to coast, including by many of the

same people who have long reviled him for

his protests against seal hunting.

WOOFS AND GROWLS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

THE WISE USE WISE GUYS ET AL

George Frampton’s last major task

before leaving the presidency of The Wilderness

Society to become Assistant Secretary for Fish,

Wildlife, and Parks in the Clinton administration

was to preside over the assembly of a 50-page

report called The Wise Use Movement: Strategic

Analysis and 50-State Review. It calls upon the

mainstream environmental movement to distance

itself from radical environmentalism, deep ecolo-

gy, and animal rights, while rebuilding alliances

with farmers and hunters.

The fall 1993 issue of Friends of

Animals’ ActionLine magazine features ANIMAL

PEOPLE editor Merritt Clifton’s “Attack of the

Wise Use Wise Guys,” an investigation of vio-

lence against animals and animal defenders by

members of the self-named “wise use movement.”

It’s $1.95, from POB 1244, Norwalk, CT 06856.

Having run low on friends in Washington D.C.,

Putting People First is relocating this month to

Helena, Montana––PPF president Kathleen

Marquardt’s birth state.

Agriculture

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

Twenty-two percent of New York’s 11,800 dairy farms now milk

their cows three times a day, up from 15% in 1991, according to the Cornell

University Department of Animal Science. The New York dairy cow population

is down to 749,000, from 928,000 a decade ago, and the number of dairy farms is

down from 18,000, but the remainder produced a record 11.6 billion pounds of

milk. Largely because of thrice daily milkings, average milk production per cow

is up 20%, to 15,463 pounds (roughly equal to the national average). Because

thrice daily milkings wear cows out faster, farmers who have gone to that sched-

ule cull their herds more often. Dairy farming accounts for $1.5 billion of New

York’s $2.9 billion-a-year agricultural industry.

Dogs & Cats

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

Petsmart Inc., a Phoenix-based national

chain of pet supply stores, maintains adoption

boutiques for local animal shelters instead of buying

and selling animals from breeders. The 38 “Luv-A-

Pet” boutiques placed 4,000 animals in the first 12

months they were open––and when Petsmart stock

went public in July, the price surged from $18 per

share to $25 the first day before leveling off even

higher. Investment analysts are recommending

Petsmart at any price up to $30 a share.

A growing number of communities are

discovering a need for a group similar to the Pet

Owners With Aids Resource Service of New York

City and the Pets Are Wonderful Support network of

Los Angeles, which help hundreds of AIDS patients

to keep their pets as long as possible and seek new

homes for the animals when their people die.

Pending formation of such a group in New Orleans,

Legislation In Support of Animals is pinch-hitting.

Animal and habitat protection groups split on North American Free Trade Agreement

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

NO IMPACT STATEMENT REQUIRED

WASHINGTON D.C.––The U.S. Court of

Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled September 24

that the Clinton administration doesn’t have to produce an

environmental impact statement on the North American

Free Trade Agreement before it takes effect. The ruling

reversed a lower court ruling that would have required sev-

eral years of study before the pact could be submitted to

Congress for ratification.

Public Citizen, one of three plaintiffs in the bid to

delay or stop NAFTA, pledged to appeal to the Supreme

Court within a matter of weeks.

“This decision has cheated the American public

out of the right to know,” said Friends of the Earth director

Jane Perkins.

Marine Mammals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1993:

The hit film Free Willy gave new

impetus to the ongoing campaign to persuade

Sea World in San Diego to return an orca named

Corky to her native habitat off British Columbia.

Her mother and several siblings remain with the

pod from which she was captured 24 years ago.

Sea World contends Corky could no longer sur-

vive in the wild. Free Willy has also started a

campaign on behalf of Keiko, the star of the

film, who resides at the El Nuevo Reino

Aventura amusement park in Mexico City. Free

Willy producers Lauren Shuler-Donner and

Richard Donner are reportedly ready to buy

Keiko and move him to a better facility, perhaps

even a fenced inlet off Cape Cod, using

$200,000 contributed by Warner Brothers, the

film’s distributor. Captured off Iceland in 1982,

and kept at Marineland in Niagara Falls before

being sold to his present keepers, Keiko hasn’t

drawn interest from major aquariums because of

a purportedly debilitating skin condition.

Horse Tips

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1993:

Reporters Rans Pierson of The New York Post and Phillip

Nalbone of the Wall Street Journal recently followed Phyllis Orrick of

the New York Press in amplifying ANIMAL PEOPLE’s April and

July/August exposes of the treatment of horses in making the estrogen

supplement Premarin. Up to 75,000 pregnant mares spend half of each

year catheterized for urine collection and confined to narrow stalls;

most of their foals are sold to slaughter. Their numbers could triple

when the manufacturer, Ayerst Organics Inc., completes expansion of

its urine processing plant in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada. According

to Pierson, more than eight million American women take Premarin

for menopausal symptoms. Costing half as much as synthetic alterna-

tives made by Ciba Pharmaceuticals, Mead Johnson, and Abbott

Labs, Premarin holds 80% of the estrogen supplement market, and is

now the most prescribed drug in the U.S. An Ayerst spokesperson said

the number of horses involved is much lower than the 75,000 estimate

produced by longtime estrogen industry observer Tom Hughes of the

Canadian Farm Animal Care Trust, adding that the firm isn’t responsi-

ble for the fate of the foals anyhow. Medical columnist Zoltan Rona,

M.D., meanwhile argued in the July issue of Alive magazine that

menopausal women could avoid needing estrogen supplements by

avoiding meat and taking appropriate vitamins, minerals, and herbs.

COURT CALENDAR

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1993:

Activism

A federal grand jury in Grand

Rapids, Michigan, on July 16 indicted fugi-

tive activist Rodney Allen Coronado, 27, on

five felony counts including arson, pertaining

to a 1992 firebombing that gutted the

Michigan State University mink ranching labo-

ratory. The fire also destroyed the files of an

MSU staffer who was developing alternatives

to the use of animals in biomedical research.

Coronado, who has acknowledged involve-

ment in other direct actions including scuttling

two Icelandic whaling vessels, was reportedly

last seen in Oregon in early November 1992.

He is also sought for questioning by grand

juries probing arsons at animal research facili-

ties in Oregon, Washington, and Louisiana,

and by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in

connection with laboratory vandalism at the

University of Edmonton, in Alberta.

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