Category: Law

Cow-slaughter hits flashpoint

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2002:

MUMBAI, DELHI, India– Animal welfare inspector Abdul
Sattar Sheikh, 45, of People for Animals/Mumbai, was hospitalized
and “struggling for his life,” the Times of India reported, after a
gang of illegal butchers beat him with iron rods on October 16.
Whether Sheikh would ever walk again unassisted was in
considerable doubt.
PfA-Mumbai, partnered with Beauty Without Cruelty-India, had
just raided an unlicensed slaughterhouse. The investigators
proceeded to the Bandra police station afterward to file criminal
charges against the alleged offenders.

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Dutch animal welfare measures threatened

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2002:
 
Den Hague–Dutch agriculture minister C.P. Veerman, a
Christian Democrat, on October 9 told Parliament that he intended to
repeal laws adopted by the previous government which would phase out
fur farms over the next 10 years and improve conditions for broiler
hens and laying hens.
The Veerman position was consistent with the platform of the
rightist Lijst Pim Fortuyn party, which won a place in the coalition
government with the Christian Democrats and the Liberals by placing
second in the May 2002 election. The election was held nine days
after Pim Fortuyn himself was allegedly assassinated by a maverick
antifur activist who is now awaiting trial.

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Farm Sanctuary charged with 210 violations of Florida election campaign funding law

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2002:

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. –Besides being chiefly symbolic, Florida
Amendment 10 may have been won at a price, for Farm Sanctuary,
going far beyond the $1.3 million raised to pass it by Floridans for
Humane Farms.
Farm Sanctuary was one of the four major funders of the
Amendment 10 campaign, along with the Animal Rights Foundation of
Florida, the Fund for Animals, and the Humane Society of the United
States.

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Wildlife Waystation settles with the USDA

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2002:
 
Angeles National Forest, Calif.–The Wildlife Waystation
sanctuary on November 1, 2002 settled a five-year backlog of 299
citations for alleged Animal Welfare Act violations by signing a
consent decree which allows the 600 animals on site to remain, but
prohibits accepting more animals, excludes visitors for at least 30
days, and puts the facility–well-regarded by fellow sanctuarians
but long at odds with officialdom– under a two-year probation.
Wildlife Waystation founder Martine Colette said that meeting
all regulatory requitements could cost as much as $5 million.
Her longterm plan is to relocate many of the larger animals
to the Wilderness Edge Wildlife Reserve, a 160-acre satellite
facility to be built in Wikeup, Arizona. She submitted her plans to
the Mohave County zoning board in mid-October.

Suarez Circus polar bears saved at last

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2002:

YABUCOA, Puerto Rico–Fifteen months after the Suarez
Brothers Circus of Guadalajara, Mexico, brought seven polar bears
to Puerto Rico, and eight months after confiscating one bear named
Alaska, the USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service on
November 4 took the remaining six bears into custody, charged the
circus with five violations of the Animal Welfare Act, and initiated
seizure proceedings.

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Cockfighting not wanted on reservations

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2002:

CARNAGIE, Okla.–Oklahoma voters are expected to approve an
anti-cockfighting initiative on November 5 by a 2-1 margin, say
recent polls– and Native Americans are not going to help
cockfighting continue, tribal leaders warned in September, after
informants within the Oklahoma Gamefowl Breeders Association told
Kiowa attorney Jon Wyatt that someone was trying to sell members
permits to fight cocks on Native American reservations.
“Someone could try it,” Caddo Tribe chair LaRue Parker told
Ron Jackson of The Oklahoman. “But my God, I sure hope not.
Cockfighting goes against everything that is sacred to Indians. We
are the keepers of the land and protectors of the animals.”
Kiowa Tribe chair Clifford McKenzie pledged that any evidence
he discovered linking the Kiowa to cockfighting would be “turned over
to the proper federal authorities” for prosecution.

Dog law updates

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2002:

Dog attacks

Police in Melbourne, Australia, confirmed on September 6
that a charge of reckless conduct would be brought against a
defendant believed to be alleged illegal marijuana grower Debra Susan
Marks, 39, of Moe, for the February 1999 fatal mauling of her
former landlord, Holocaust survivor Leon Tarasinski, 75. Director
of public prosecutions Paul Coghlan recommended the charge in April
2002, after a three-year campaign by Tarsinski’s widow Shelley, 62,
and the Crime Victims Support Association. The prosecution will be
the first attempt in Victoria state to win a criminal conviction for
a fatal dog attack, and the second attempt anywhere in Australia.
Giovanni Pacino, 35, of Western Australia, was convicted of
manslaughter in 1998 after his Rottweilers killed neighbor Perina
Chokolich, 85, but his conviction was reversed on appeal.

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Poaching & Zimbabwe turmoil may halt CITES bid to sell ivory

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2002:

SANTIAGO, BONN–The ivory and whaling industries will go
into the 12th Conference of Parties to the United Nations Convention
on International Trade in Endangered Species on November 3 as
determined as ever to reopen legal global commerce in the body parts
of elephants and whales.
The ivory merchants and whalers are not considered likely to
get what they want.

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Canadians try to revive pro-animal bills

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  November 2002:

VANCOUVER,  OTTAWA,  TORONTO– British Columbia Supreme Court
Justice James Shabbits on Sept-ember 3 ruled in response to a
petition from the Western Canada Wilderness Committee and
EarthJustice that Cattermole Timber Inc. may log 88 hectares of
old-growth spotted owl habitat because,  in Shabbits’ view,  the B.C.
Forest Practices Code includes no requirement that species be saved
from extirpation or extinction.
Such a requirement does exist in the U.S.,  where similar
cases have blocked or delayed logging throughout the Northwest,  but
not in Canada,  whose national endangered species protection law
still includes no enforcement provisions.

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