EC warns France re hunting

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1998:

BRUSSELS––The European Commission on June 24 asked
the European Court to fine France more than $100,000 per day for
exempting itself from a 1979 EC directive which limits hunting seasons
to protect migratory birds.
The coalition-led French parliament on June 19 defied
French environment minister and Green Party leader Dominique
Voynet by voting 92-20 to extend the current five-month bird shooting
season––already the longest in Europe––to seven months. Of the 577-
member parliament, 465 did not vote, but no quorum was needed.

Where men are mean and dogs are scared

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1999:

SEOUL, Republic of Korea––Yet another of the
reputed international victories of the animal protection movement
during the 1980s has collapsed––and this one, the abolition
of dog-and-cat-eating in the Republic of Korea, was for
many activists the most important of all.
It was supposedly achieved in 1978, 1980, 1984,
1986, 1988, and in 1991, according to statements by Korean
officials and premature declarations of victory issued by the
International Fund for Animal Welfare, the World Society for
the Protection of Animals, and many other organizations which
joined in a threat to embarrass the Korean government with
protests against dog-and-cat-eating during the 1988 Olympic
Games, held in Seoul.
Sunnan Kum, 54, informally founded the first
Korean humane society, Koreans for Animal Protection, in
1981. The international groups backed her efforts in 1983,
after she sent them videotapes showing exactly what goes on.

Missing the link in Georgia––and Wisconsin, and Washington, too

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1999:

ATLANTA, EVERETT, MILWAUKEE––T.J.
Solomon, 15, who wounded six fellow
students with gunfire at Heritage High School in
Conyers, Georgia on May 20, and threatened to
shoot himself, “was a trained marksman who often
went hunting with his stepfather,” a family friend
told New York Times reporter David Firestone.
ANIMAL PEOPLE has now logged 12
mass homicides or attempted mass homicides by
teenaged hunters and/or animal torturers in recent
years, including the April 20 killings of 15 people
at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado.
Yet no other major news media discussed
Solomon’s hunting background.

KIEV SPA FIGHTS CITY HALL

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1999:

KIEV, Ukraine––The future of animal
control in Kiev might have hinged on the
May 30 city election, but the results––and
consequences for animals––were unknown as
ANIMAL PEOPLE went to press.
Three-year incumbent Oleksandr
Omelchenko reportedly trailed Dynamo Kiev
football club president and member of the
Ukrainian parliament Gregory Surkis by five
percentage points in the last polls before the
vote, with 40% of the electorate undecided.

BULLFEATHERS & SUCH

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1999:

Told that as a shareholder
he would be given three minutes at
the May 5 annual PepsiCo shareholders’
meeting in Purchase, New York,
to tell fellow PepsiCo shareholders
about Pepsi advertising in bullrings,
SHARK founder Steve Hindi allowed
PepsiCo executives to read his speech
in advance, as required, and travelled
from Chicago to the meeting after getting
purported final approval––but on
arrival was told by PepsiCo associate
general counsel Lawrence Dickie that
he would not be allowed in because
PepsiCo had received an anonymous
call which included a bomb threat.
Recounted Hindi, “Dickie said PepsiCo
had ‘consulted the authorities,’ who
agreed I should not attend. I called the
FBI, the New York State Police, and
the White Plains and Harrison police
departments,” which have jurisdiction
in Purchase. “None of them knew anything
whatever about PepsiCo getting a
bomb threat. There was no report on
file. If PepsiCo feels it cannot defend
its relationship with bullfighting,”
Hindi added, “and I agree it cannot, it
should end that relationship. Meanwhile,
PepsiCo shareholders have a
right to know what PepsiCo is doing.
Barring me was just one indefensible
act concocted to cover up another.”

Shocked! Shocked! by gambling

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1999:

HOUSTON, LITTLE ROCK– –
All the money in breeding race or show horses
is gambling money.
Figure that out, and it’s no surprise
that jockey Billy Patin allegedly used an electrical
shocking device to boot the horse
Valhol home in the April 10 Arkansas Derby,
beating 30-to-1 odds.
Patin, 36, appeared––briefly––to
have won his first big race in 20 years of
competition.
Then an Oaklawn Park worker
found a shocking device on the track near the
finish. A video replay showed Patin dropping
a black object at about that point.

U.S. SUPREME COURT AFFIRMS TWO VERDICTS FOR ANIMALS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1999:

ALDF v. Glickman stands
WASHINGTON D.C.––The U.S.
Supreme Court on April 19 upheld without
comment appeals of two landmark appellate
verdicts favoring citizen lawsuits seeking
stronger enforcement of the federal Animal
Welfare Act and Endangered Species Act.
The September 1998 verdict of the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in
Animal Legal Defense Fund v. Glickman now
stands as precedent establishing the standing
of concerned individuals and animal advocacy
organizations to sue the USDA for allegedly
failing to fulfill the intent of Congress in
adopting the AWA.
In the specific case at hand, New
York activist Marc Jurnove contends that the
USDA has been negligent of duty in failing to
issue AWA enforcement regulations strong
enough to ensure the psychological well-being
of captive nonhuman primates.

Yellowstone bison defense arrests

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1999:

Arrested for allegedly interfering
with the April 14 bison captures
(see article at left) were James
Blakely, 19; Molly Karp, 17;
Allison Lovejoy, 21; Jeremy O’Day,
22; and Robert Laitman, age not
stated.
Jamie Blakely, 19, of
Georgia, was arrested on March 31 for
allegedly locking herself to a cattle
guard to block trucks hauling bison
from the Horse Butte corral to a site
near Duck Creek where the brucellosis
testing is done. Steven Shaffer, 37,
of Minnesota, was arrested the same
day for allegedly trying to lock the
gates of the Duck Creek holding pen.

SHOWDOWN AT THE HORSE BUTTE CORRAL

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1999:

WEST YELLOWSTONE––A month after
U.S. District Judge Charles Lovell refused to reimpose
the 1997-1998 limit of 100 on the number of
Yellowstone bison the Montana Department of
Livestock may kill without specific reauthorization,
the 1998-1999 toll zoomed from 17 to 94, with no
end in sight.
Lovell held that the limit and reauthorization
requirement did not seem necessary because the
bison toll was likely to be insignificant.
The Montana Department of Livestock evidently
took that to mean Lovell had declared an open
season, building a bison trap at Horse Butte over
ongoing protest and herding bison into it with snowmobiles.

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