Fur notes

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1996:

World Traders Inc., a six-store
fur chain operating in Maine and New
Hampshire, has gone out of business.
California antifur activist Molly
Attel asks that letters protesting the sale of
coyote-trimmed coats be sent to H.V.
Moore, CEO, Woolrich Inc., Woolrich,
PA 17779.
Earth 2000 National urges holders
of Bon-Ton credit cards to cut them up
and return them to Bon-Ton president
Timothy Grumbacher in protest of his decision
to lease boutique space in each of the
70 Bon-Ton franchises to Pollak Furs.
Messages may be left for Bon-Ton at 717-
757-7660.

Wild felines

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1996:

Reduced to a U.S. population estimated
at 350 to 700 by the trapping boom
of the early 1980s, the North American lynx
may now be the most notable casualty of the
Congressionally imposed moratorium on protecting
additional species under the
Endangered Species Act. U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service biologist Lori Nordstrom
recommended in 1994 that the lynx be given
federal protection, beyond the limited protection
already extended by 13 of the 20 states it
once inhabited. However, with the ESA up
for renewal and so-called “takings” of property
rights to protect endangered species a hot
topic in the 1994 Congressional election campaign,
the USFWS denied the listing. The
denial is contested in a recent lawsuit filed by
Jasper Carlton of the Biodiversity Legal
Foundation, with 12 other organizations as
co-plaintiffs.

The politics of seal slaughter by Captain Paul Watson

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1996:

It isn’t easy being a Canadian. We don’t get a hell
of a lot of respect. To most of the world, especially the U.S.,
we’re a quiet people with an unremarkable history, occupying
a considerable amount of frozen geography.
They’ve heard of maple syrup, Canadian
Club––and that we host the largest single slaughter of a
wildlife species anywhere on Earth.
Our annual massacre of harp and hooded seals is
infamous internationally both for scale and for gruesome cruelty.
The seal club is better known than the rye whisky kind.
Not that it makes economic sense. It doesn’t make
money and hasn’t for decades. The sealers are glorified welfare
bums, living high on subsidies and being paid more for
who they are than what they do.

Marine life

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1996:

As expected, U.S. President Bill
Clinton announced February 9 that the U.S.
would “vigorously pursue high-level efforts to
persuade Japan to reduce the number of whales
killed in its research program,” but stopped
short of imposing trade sanctions, as he is
authorized to do in response to a Commerce
Department advisory issued in December that
Japan is violating the intent of the International
Whaling Commission moratorium on commercial
whaling by setting “research” quotas for
minke whales so high––now more than
400––that the “research” amounts to commercial
whaling.

People

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1996:

Running for the Green Party,
seeking a senate seat in Victoria, Australia,
Animal Liberation author Peter Singer won 3%
of the vote on March 2.

Antonio Shaw has replaced former
American SPCA executive vice president
John Foran, who left after a November clash
with law enforcement chief Robert O’Neill.
O’Neill reportedly departed on March 4.
Longtime ASPCA Animal Watch editor Cindy
Adams meanwhile resigned in January to
attend nursing school.

AMC rift goes public

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1996:

NEW YORK, N.Y.––A two-year clash between senior staff and
management at the nonprofit Animal Medical Center in Manhattan exploded
into the New York Times and New York Post in early February. Eight
veterinarians from a permanent AMC staff of 25 quit between March 1994
and March 1995, after which the remaining vets split into factions of 11
opposing chief-of-staff William Kay, DVM, and 10 supporting him, six
of whom were said to be related by marriage.
Documents received by ANIMAL PEOPLE from the dissident
faction indicate Kay, a 30-year employee with strong board support, was
soon afterward kicked upstairs and replaced on an interim basis by Michael
Garvey, DVM, whose policies are no more popular and who is reportedly
soon to be replaced by a new permanent chief of staff.

Animal health

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1996:

Amid the mad cow disease panic, Britain barely
noticed the death of an 11-year-old Moslem girl from anthrax
after a two-day stay at the Poitier’s University Hospital in
London. Anthrax, a disease of known epidemic potential, hits
about 100,000 people a year. It can be treated with antibiotics, if
recognized early, but otherwise kills through the combination of
high fever, pneumonia, and internal hemorrages. Sixteen days
before falling ill, the girl helped her father kill an infected sheep
at an unlicensed slaughterhouse during the Ramadan religious
holiday. She then ate a lightly cooked piece of the liver. The rest
of her family, fasting according to the rules of Ramadan, waited
until the end of the holidays before boiling and eating the rest of
the meat. None of them became ill.

More “Who gets the money?”

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1996:

ANIMAL PEOPLE continues to receive IRS Form 990 filings and/or group financial
statements for fiscal year 1994, four months after the deadline for inclusion in our annual
December financial abstract of animal and habitat protection groups:

• The American Bird Conservancy,
formed by the 1993 merger of the International
Council for Bird Protection–U.S., the ICBP–Pan
American Section, and the ICBP Inc., when the
original ICBP became BirdLife International,
spent $237,067; claimed to spend $142,517 on
programs, against $94,550 (40%) on fundraising
and overhead; did not claim program costs associated
with fundraising; and had assets of
$638,541, including $11,484 in fixed property
and $629,024 in cash. It took in $841,482 for the
year, $603,158 as grants from affiliates. Both the
revenues and the assets are quite high relative to
the level of reported activity, and may reflect
preparation to buy land or other facilities. Acting
administrative director George Schillinger was
paid $36,250. George Fenwick, paid $9,000 for
service “as required,” was the only other staffer
listed.

Who was that masked man?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1996:

WEYAUWEGA, Wisc.– –
Evacuated along with 1,700 other human
residents of Weyauwega on March 3,
after a Wiscnsin Central freight train
derailed, igniting 14 ruptured propane
tankers, Susan Weiss got the birthday
gift she most wanted 12 days later: her
10-year-old cat Kynda, the disabled
woman’s sole companion, delivered
from freezing and dehydration by a
stranger in a ski cap. The unknown rescuer
called two nights earlier, on her
birthday, to get directions to Weiss’
home and a set of keys, after learning
from news reports that she hadn’t been
allowed to retrieve Kynda on March 8,
when the National Guard let 132 residents
go back in armored cars to get their
pets, because Weiss’ home was too close
to the derailment. Weiss had left a bag of
catfood open when she fled, but with all
gas and electricity in the village off to
avoid accidental sparks, the cat had neither
heat nor a source of water other than
licking ice in the frozen toilet bowl.

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