California blood bank bill helps to relegate pound seizure to history

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2002:

SACRAMENTO, California–The once ubiquitous and unrestrained
biomedical use of homeless dogs and cats acquired from public pounds
receded farther into history on October 3, as California Governor
Gray Davis signed into law SB 1345, by state senator Sheila Kuehl.
“Establishing the first-ever protections for animal blood
donors used by commercial blood banks in California,” according to
United Animal Nations spokesperson Pat Runquist, SB 1345 “was
supported by a broad coalition of veterinary groups, animal
protection organizations, and more than 300 individuals, many of
whom live near blood bank kennels in Butter and Glenn counties in
Northern California,” Runquist continued.

Bear drug rape case

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2002:

RESERVE, New Mexico– Former Hornocker Wildlife Institute
researcher Patrick Ryan, 51, convicted on July 23 of 36 criminal
charges including kidnapping, aggravated battery with a deadly
weapon, and 20 counts of rape, was due for sentencing as ANIMAL
PEOPLE went to press on October 8.
Ryan allegedly kept research assistant Jennifer Cashman (now
Lisignioli) heavily drugged for seven months in 1996-1997 by slipping
the animal tranquilizers ketamine and telazol into her food at a bear
research station in the Gila Wilderness. Both were assigned to the
station as part of a five-year study of the impact of hunting on
bears, commissioned by the New Mexico Dept. of Game and Fish.

Korean animal advocacy after the soccer World Cup–and looking toward China

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2002:

SEOUL–What came out of four years of
escalating protest against South Korean
torture-killing of dogs and cats for human
consumption, focused on the 2002 World Cup
soccer tournament?
Exactly as predicted by International Aid
for Korean Animals founder Kyenan Kum and her
sister Sunnan Kum, founder of the Korean Animal
Protection Society, pro-dog meat legislators
waited until after the World Cup was over and
most western visitors and news media left Korea.
Then the legislators dusted off and again began
touting a bill promoted several times previously,
which seeks to repeal the weak 1991 South Korean
ban on the sale of dog meat and cat meat. The
bill would authorize the establishment of
commercial dog-slaughtering plants, on the
pretext that such facilities could be inspected
by the agriculture ministry, and would therefore
be “humane.”

Is Osama stealing milk from elephant babies?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2002:

NAIROBI, Kenya–Checks sent directly to the David Sheldrick
Wildlife Trust elephant orphanage in Nairobi National Park, Kenya,
have recently been diverted, prompting founder Daphne Sheldrick to
remind donors to route their support via the trust office at 158
Newbattle Abbey Crescent, Eskbank, Midlothian EH22 3LR, Scotland,
U.K.
“On July 8 of this year,” one donor told ANIMAL PEOPLE, “I
wrote a check for $50 to the Sheldrick Trust, which I proceeded to
send to the Nairobi address. My bank returned the check to me
altered to list the amount as $4,000, credited to the Arab Bank in
Deira, Dubai. Unfortunately I had enough in my checking account to
honor the amount, but the bank is repairing the damage and I won’t
be charged for it.”

Legislative Calendar

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2002:

U.S. President George W. Bush on August 12 vetoed a $17.9
million Congressional appropriation of emergency funding to combat
Chronic Wasting Disease. Similar to “mad cow disease,” CWD attacks
deer and elk. Identified among captive deer and elk herds in
Colorado as far back as 1966, it was long regarded as an isolated
curiosity –but within the past year it has been detected as far east
as Wisconsin, as far north as Alberta and Manitoba, and as far
south as the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Suspicions are
growing, meanwhile, that like “mad cow disease,” it has begun
attacking and killing humans who eat the diseased portions of
infected animals. Part of a $5.1 billion anti-terrorism package,
the appropriation would have allocated $14.9 million to the USDA
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, $2 million to the
Agricultural Research Service, and $1 million to the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention. The federal agencies were in turn to
grant the money to their state counterpart agencies. Bush said he
vetoed the appropriation because the $5.1 billion bill included too
many other unrelated riders, such as funding for AIDS prevention and
aid to Israel and Palestine.

Dog laws tested

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2002:

The Manhattan Supreme Court on July 15 upheld the right of
the New York City Center for Animal Care and Control to sterilize
dogs and cats found at large or seized for cause, regardless of the
wishes of owners who later reclaim them. The verdict followed a June
21 Manhattan Supreme Court ruling that the New York City Board of
Health has the authority to enforce a 1999 ban on keeping ferrets
within city limits.

U.S. District Judge Ralph Tyson on June 25 ordered the town
of Walker, Louisiana, to stop enforcing an anti-barking ordinance
that he found “flagrantly and patently” unconstitutional because,
“It fails to put the average person on notice as to what conduct
might violate it.” Tyson ruled on a case brought by Wallace Connerly
and Meg Casper, who sued Walker over fines imposed in response to
barking complaints about their two Belgian Malinois.

Dog trainer Stephen King convicted

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2002:

LONDON, U.K.–“Yesterday, August 14, [dog trainer] Stephen
Barry King was found guilty” of two counts of animal abuse, with
separate trials on two similar sets of charges scheduled for
September and October, his former girlfriend Sarah Boat e-mailed to
ANIMAL PEOPLE from London.
Boat and the British online animal advocacy publication Ooze
both reported that British news media were barred from publishing
details of the first verdict, pending completion of the second and
third trials. The cases were heavily publicized earlier.

PETA fights for First Amendment rights

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2002:

SALT LAKE CITY, WASHINGTON D.C.–People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals on August 7, 2002 won rulings that supporters’
First Amendment rights to freedom of expression were violated in both
Taylorsville, Utah, in 1999, and in Washington D.C. earlier in
2002.
In Taylorsville, police stopped a series of protests against
the display of a McDonald’s Restaurants banner on the flagpole at
Eisenhower Junior High School, in recognition of McDonald’s
donations to school activities. PETA sued, but in June 2001 U.S.
District Judge Dee Benson ruled that the police action was in accord
with state law. That ruling was overturned by the 10th Circuit Court
of Appeals, which found that the law Benson cited is inapplicable.
The appellate court said that PETA may sue for financial damages,
but may not seek to overturn the law itself because, “There is no
credible threat of prosecution under the statute for any future
protests at Eisenhower.”

Farm animals in court

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2002:

Hogs in court

The U.S. 8th Circuit of Appeals ruled in St. Louis on August
14 that Bell Farms Inc. lacks standing to challenge the 1999
revocation of a land lease which would have allowed Bell to build one
of the world’s largest factory hog farms on the Rosebud Sioux
Reservation in South Dakota. The new ruling confirmed an April 2002
verdict by the same court. Bell on August 15 said it will petition
next to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Humane Farming Association and
local activists have been fighting the Bell project at Rosebud since
1998.

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