Category: North America

Fund tries to save bison, mountain goats

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1995:

As ANIMAL PEOPLE went to press, the Fund
for Animals was scrambling to prevent the shooting of
from 80 to 150 bison who had wandered from Yellowstone
National Park into the Gallatin National Forest, north of
West Yellowstone, Montana. Montana state veterinarian
Clarence Siroky said state wardens would try to chase the
bison back into Yellowstone with helicopters, but would
shoot them to prevent the spread of brucellosis, a disease
causing stillbirths in cattle, if that tactic failed. Although
there is no evidence that bison can transmit brucellosis to
other species of cattle under natural conditions, and only a
small portion of the Yellowstone herd is believed to be
infected, Montana officials shot 420 bison who left the
park during the winter.

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WARRANTS TIE PROVIMI VEAL, LAMB TO ILLEGAL DRUGS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1995:

MILWAUKEE––Newly unsealed
search warrants executed in September 1994
by U.S. Customs Service special agent Steve
Sutherland allege the closest links yet
between the Provimi Veal Corporation, of
Waukesha, Wisconsin, the largest distribu-
tor of milk-fed veal and lamb in the U.S.,
and the illegal use of clenbuterol, a banned
steroid. The drug speeds the growth of calves
and lambs––but humans who eat clenbuterol-
tainted meat may suffer an accelerated heart
rate, muscle tremors, headaches, dizziness,
nausea, fever, and chills.
According to the warrants, copies
of which were obtained by Humane Farming
Association investigator Gail Eisenitz, the
clenbuterol traffic directly involved Aat
Groenvelt, who founded Provimi in 1962,
introduced the use of the veal crate to North
America, and was also instrumental in pro-
moting the popularity of “milk-fed spring
lamb,” essentially the meat of lambs raised
like veal calves.

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Monkey wars

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1995:

The German airline Lufthansa, the world’s leading
international wildlife hauler, announced May 11 that it will no
longer book cargoes of monkeys and apes destined for labora-
tory use, and will entirely cease transporting nonhuman primates
for laboratory suppliers as soon as it is authorized to do so by the
German transport ministry––probably by mid-June. The decision
was attributed to humane concerns, and comes after years of
protest over alleged high death rates among monkeys flown to
Europe and the U.S. from Indonesia, the Philippines, and Africa.
The British Union Against Vivisection charged in 1992 that the
transport mortality rate for monkeys from Indonesia averaged 19%,
while mortality among monkeys from the Philippines averaged 6%.
Monkey shipments from Africa dwindled after 1989 due to concern
over the accidental importation of the Ebola virus to a laboratory in
Reston, Virginia. While the Lufthansa announcement made no
mention of Ebola virus, it did coincide with rising global concern
over the current Ebola outbreak in Zaire. It also came six weeks
after two monkeys en route to the U.S. from Sudan were found to
have both AIDS and tuberculosis upon arrival in New York, and
were flown back to Cairo, Egypt, before being euthanized.

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Bird strike testing

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1995:

CINCINNATI––General Electric Aircraft Engines pub-
licist Jim Stump recently contacted ANIMAL PEOPLE to set the
record straight about the methodology of bird-strike testing, the
subject of letter campaigns by various groups based on somewhat
garbled accounts in a variety of newspapers and trade publications.
The first misconception of the letter-writers, Stump
pointed out, is that GE is at liberty to halt the testing. “Bird-strike
testing is conducted, with other often rigorous testing, during the
development of a new engine,” he explained, “in accordance with
requirements established by agencies such as the U.S. Federal
Aviation Administration and the International Civil Aviation
Organization. Flight safety is a primary objective, but some of the
testing relates to such matters as reducing noise and emissions.”
While the regulatory agencies still require some bird-
strike testing, GE favors the principles of reduction, refinement,
and replacement, Stump indicated. “GE Aircraft Engines pays
$15,000 annually to support and participate, with other manufac-
turers and agencies associated with the aviation industry, in the
International Bird Strike Research Group,” he wrote, “which is
trying to develop artificial birds that will be universally acceptable
for use in engine testing. Under the auspices of the Group, the
actual research on critical areas such as body density is being con-
ducted by the Central Science Laboratory, an executive agency of
Great Britain’s Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Food.”

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Animal racing

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1995:

Alaska governor Tony Knowles on
May 2 signed a bill to allow the 1,049-mile
Iditarod Trail dog sled race to raise an estimated
$1 million a year via “mushing sweepstakes,”
i.e. betting on aspects of the race that purportedly
can’t be fixed, such as the number of dogs who fin-
ish or the best and worst times. The sweepstakes
are to replace sponsorship lost due to protest––
meaning that the net effect of activism led by the
Humane Society of the U.S. since circa 1988 has
been to bring the Iditarod unprecedented economic
independence. Some types of gambling on dog sled
races were already legal, and are used to support
other races that don’t attract big sponsorship.

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In league with the devil?! P&G REDUCES ANIMAL USE 53% IN 10 YEARS–– WHILE TRIPLING IN SIZE––YET HEARS LITTLE PRAISE

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1995:

CINCINNATI––Say anything good about Procter &
Gamble and you’ll be accused of dancing with the devil. Take it
from the anonymously printed and distributed flyer ANIMAL PEO-
PLEreceived while researching this article:
“The President of Procter & Gamble appeared on the Phil
Donahue Show on March 1, 1995. He announced that due to the
openness of our society, he was coming out of the closet about his
association with the Church of Satan. He stated that a large portion
of the profits from Procter & Gamble products go to support this
satanic church. When asked by Donahue if stating this on television
would hurt his business, he replied, ‘There are not enough
Christians in the U.S. to make a difference.’”

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COURT CALENDAR

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1995:

Humane Enforcement
American SPCA humane enforcement chief Robert
O’Neill led the biggest cockfighting raid in U.S. history on March
25, arresting 289 alleged spectators and seven alleged organizers in a
Bronx theatre building modified so that the cockpit could be disguised
as a boxing ring at a moment’s notice. Ninety cocks were seized for
euthanasia, along with 20 dead cocks. The ASPCA had already made
240 arrests and seized 1,550 cocks in a series of previous raids that
began in June 1994. The raids caused The New York Times to editorial-
ly demand that judges begin imposing the fines for cockfighting of up
to $25,000 and prison terms of up to four years that New York law
allows, instead of the token fines of about $200 that are usually given.
Scotland Yard on March 19 arrested six men and an
eight-year-old boy in the first cockfighting raid in Britain since 1985.
Another dozen suspects escaped.

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An anti-wise use Weiss guy

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1995:

SANTA ROSA, California– – ” In
a former life,” says Larry Weiss, “I prac-
ticed criminal law for 18 years. Eventually I
grew tired of making the streets safe for drug
dealers. Then, in 1985, I providentially
encountered a book, Peter Singer’s Animal
Liberation, which convinced me that I could
remain a lawyer and be proud of my work.”
Ten years later, Weiss grins, “I
mostly defend dog criminals. Or dogs who
are accused of criminal behavior,” he cor-
rects himself. “Especially those of whom it
is suspected they might eventually commit a
crime because someone thinks they resemble
a dog that might have a criminal disposition
under some other circumstance.”

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Religion

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1995:

The Miami county courthouse
maintenance staff has created a “Voodoo
Squad” to pick up the dead chickens, goats,
and other relics of Santeria sacrifice found
there each morning, remnants of Caribbean
immigrants’ attempts to influence justice.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June 1993
that municipalities may not ban Santeria, but
they may enforce nondiscriminatory restric-
tions on it for reasons of health, sanitation,
and prevention of cruelty to animals.
The Rabbi Mayer Krucfeld,
assistant director of supervision for Star K
Kosher Certification, of Baltimore, recently
spent two days in La Jara, Colorado,
explaining how to start a kosher slaughter-
house to about 50 potential investors.
Currently the westernmost kosher slaughter-
house in the U.S. is Empire Meats, of Iowa.
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