Greyhound racers, cultists on the run in Brazil

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1993:

SÅO PAULO, Brazil––As of January, the Brazilian

humane group Uniao em defesa das baleias/Uniao em defsa da

natureza had no files on greyhound racing. Then, president Ana

Maria Pinheiro told ANIMAL PEOPLE, “Dino Miraglia imported

30 greyhounds from New England.”

Quick to investigate, Pineiro obtained thick dossiers on

greyhound racing and training as practiced in the U.S. from the

World Society for the Protection of Animals, translated the materi-

als into Portugese, “invited the press, and had a meeting with the

attorney general,” who is empowered to enforce the Brazilian

humane laws.

POUND SEIZURE FIGHT RESUMES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1993:

The term “pound seizure” may be

unfamiliar to animal protection people who

have been involved for less than a decade,

but the battle over it is heating up––again.

The most bitterly fought issue in

humane work for decades, “pound seizure”

is the practice of laboratories requisitioning

dogs and cats from shelters for research use,

which is known to discourage many people

from surrendering animals to shelters. After

the National Society for Medical Research

formed in 1945 to promote pound seizure, it

became mandatory in Minnesota (1948),

Wisconsin (1949), and New York (1952).

Animal Control & Rescue

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1993:

The North Shore Animal League

on May 13 became official sponsor of Spay

USA. NSAL sponsorship is expected to

result in a major expansion of the program,

a hotline to help pet owners locate afford-

able neutering (1-800-248-SPAY; 375-

6627 in Connecticut).

The New York State Humane

Association is supporting 13 bills to

strengthen state humane laws, including

measures to set up a state Animal

Population Control Fund similar to those in

New Jersey and Connecticut, and to give

judges the authority to take animals away

from convicted abusers. New York resi-

dents may get details from 914-255-7099.

Performing Animals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1993:

The Louisiana state senate on

May 12 passed a bill to make attending an

illegal dogfight a crime, 33-0, but reduced

the offense from a felony to a misdemeanor,

and cut the maximum penalty from three

years in jail and a fine of $3,000 to one year

in jail and a fine of $1,000. A bill to ban

cockfighting meanwhile remained stalled in

a legislative committee headed by cock-

fighting fan Rep. Raymond Lalonde.

Calif. neutering bill stalled; SEEN AS THREAT TO NEUTER/RELEASE

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1993:

SACRAMENTO, California––

Apparently ready to clear the California

state legislature without opposition, a bill to

require that free-roaming cats be neutered

was stalled at the last minute by unexpected

objections from the San Francisco SPCA.

The bill, AB 302, by assemblyman Paul

Horchner, reads simply, “An owner of a

cat over the age of six months shall have the

cat sterilized if the cat is permitted outdoors

without supervision.” Violators would be

given citations similar to traffic tickets,

with all penalties waived if their cats were

neutered within a 30-day grace period. The

bill had the active support of the California

Veterinary Medical Association, numerous

national organizations, and almost every

humane group in the state, including sever-

al who neuter and release feral cats.

Direct action

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1993:

U.S. District Judge Fremming Nielsen freed

Jonathan Paul, 27, from the Spokane County Jail on April

10, 158 days after Paul was held in contempt of court for

refusing to testify to a federal grand jury probing an Animal

Liberation Front raid on a Washington State University labo-

ratory in August 1991. Paul had been asked to testify about

his former housemate Rod Coronado, a suspect in several

ALF actions who has been sought for questioning for over a

year. Paul’s twin sisters, one of whom is TV actress

Alexandra Paul, waged a national campaign to free him that

eventually led to a two-page spread in People magazine.

Activists John Paul Goodwin, 20, Michael

Karbon, 20, and Jesse Keenan, 19, all of Memphis,

Tennessee, pleaded guilty April 19 to petty vandalism in

connection with spray-painting three fur stores last year,

slashing the tires of a truck, and signing the action “ALF.”

They drew a year in jail apiece (which may be suspended),

fines of $2,000 each, and were ordered to make restitution.

But it was a great appeal

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1993:

A firm called In Vitro International enlisted the aid of

the Doris Day Animal League and the Animal Welfare Institute in

late April as it awaited a ruling from the U.S. Department of

Transportation as to whether a non-animal test it developed to mea-

sure chemical corrosivity could be used as a substitute for the tradi-

tional skin burn test on rabbits. Literature apparently originating

with IVI, reprinted verbatim by AWI and colorfully amplified by

DDAL, suggested that “tens of thousands of rabbits” would be sub-

jected to the painful skin burn tests this summer so that U.S. chemi-

cal manufacturers could comply with a voluntary international

labeling standard recommended by the United Nations and ratified

by DOT, to take effect on October 1.

Diet & Health

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1993:

The USDA on May 5 announced

that it will begin requiring labels on raw

meat and poultry to include cooking and

handling instructions, explaining how to

prevent health hazards such as the growth of

E:coli bacteria, which in January and

December killed four children who had just

eaten undercooked hamburgers. The label-

ing rules are to be formally proposed by

August 15. The new requirement comes in

settlement of a lawsuit brought by Beyond

Beef and the parents of one of the January

victims. U.S. trade representative Mickey

Kantor meanwhile denied in a series of press

releases and public statements that such

strengthened food labeling laws could be

overturned under that General Agreement on

Trade and Tariffs and/or the North American

Free Trade Agreement, as alleged obstacles

to international commerce. Last year, the

two agreements were invoked to overturn the

use of U.S. dolphin protection legislation to

exclude imports of tuna netted “on dolphin,”

at considerable cost in dolphin lives.

ANIMAL HEALTH & BEHAVIOR

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1993:

Chinese authorities have begun

purging officials of Shenqui county in

Henan province for collaborating with

Wang Zhiqiang, an entrepreneur who built

a rural empire around a factory that manu-

factured fake veterinary medicines––among

them “antibiotics” made of talcum powder

and cornstarch, and “intravenous solution”

made of monosodium glutamate dissolved

in water. Wang allegedly bought off police

and politicians, held investigators for ran-

som, and tortured witnesses. Federal

authorities finally arrested Wang and shut

down his No. 1 Veterinarian Medicine

Factory, as he styled it, last

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