Category: North America

Mercy for Animals video brings charges in Texas & fuels “ag gag” debate

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2011:
LUBBOCK–Castro County, Texas district
attorney James Horton on May 26, 2011 issued
felony warrants for five former employees of the
E6 Cattle Company, in Hart, and Class A
misdemeanor warrants for E6 owner Kirt Espenson
and foreman Arturo Olmos. All seven defendants
could receive jail time. The charges resulted
from undercover video collected by the Chicago
organization Mercy for Animals, disclosed to
media on April 20, 2011.

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No more live birds sold at San Francisco farmers’ markets

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2011:

SAN FRANCISCO–Live bird sales ended at the Heart of the City
Farmers’ Market on May 27, 2011–the only one of the three San
Francisco farmers’ markets at which live birds were sold.
Two vendors, Raymond Young Poultry and Bullfeathers Quail,
were notified on May 3 that live bird sales would no longer be
allowed. “The market has announced that it plans to expand 25% and
is seeking new vendor applications, so we can look forward to the
area that was previously filled with abused animals and filth to be
used for something better!” exulted Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender
Compassion founder Andrew Zollman, 43, who with fellow live market
protester Alex Felsinger, 25, had picketed the twice-weekly market
for about two years.

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Fundraising turf war brings California groups’ complaint against the ASPCA

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2011:
EL CERRITO, California– Alleging “unfair and deceptive
fundraising practices which harm local humane societies and SPCAs,”
the State Humane Association of California on May 3, 2011 filed a
complaint against the American SPCA with the California Office of the
Attorney General.
Explained State Humane Association of California executive
director Erica Gaudet Hughes, “The complaint alleges that ASPCA
capitalizes on, and intentionally reinforces, the widely held
mistaken belief that it is a parent or umbrella organization to the
thousands of humane societies and SPCAs across the country.

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Far from Fukushima, helpers find themselves near the eye of the storm

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2011:

TOKYO, ST. LOUIS–Six thousand miles
from the earthquake, tsunami, and triple
nuclear meltdown that hit northeastern Japan on
March 11, 2011, and six weeks after the crisis
began, Kinship Circle executive director Brenda
Shoss and Best Friends Animal Society community
relations specialist Troy Lea remained on
post-disaster overload in late May, even though
they never left their home offices near St.
Louis, Missouri.
Shoss, of University City, used Skype
telephone calls, Facebook, and e-mail to
coordinate animal rescue efforts involving 10
Kinship Circle volunteers and about 30 volunteers
from other organizations in the vicinity of the
stricken Fukushima nuclear reactor complex.

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Mississippi felony cruelty law

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2011:
JACKSON–Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour on April 27,
2011 signed into law possibly the weakest of the 47 state felony
cruelty statues now in effect. The law permits filing felony charges
only if a person previously convicted of intentionally torturing,
burning, starving, or physically disfiguring a cat or dog is
convicted again within five years of the first conviction. “In other
words, they get away with it the first time,” Pearl River SPCA
president Maria Diamond told Jeremy Pittari of the Picayune Item.

Cartoon keeps seal hunt in the spotlight

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2011:

TORONTO–Just when Atlantic Canadian sealers
imagined it might be safe to go back in the
water, because maybe no one was watching with
cameras this year, a cartoon seal walked into a
bar and attracted media notice from St. Johns,
Newfoundland, to Vancouver, British Columbia.
“PETA printed clever coasters and distributed
them in bars around Toronto,” explained
Treehugger blogger Lloyd Alter. Drawn by New
Yorker cartoonist Harry Bliss, the coasters
showed a sad-eyed seal telling a bartender,
“Anything but a Canadian Club.”

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Proposed compromise on Missouri puppy mill bill pleases few

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2011:
JEFFERSON CITY–For 24 hours Missouri Governor Jay Nixon and
Humane Society of Missouri president Kathryn W. Warnick thought they
had brokered a deal to preserve key provisions of the Puppy Mill
Cruelty Prevention Act, an initiative approved by Missouri voters in
November 2008, but dismantled by the state legislature on April 13,
2011.
Overwhelmingly supported by urban voters, the Puppy Mill
Cruelty Prevention Act did not win approval in rural districts,
whose representatives hold the majority of seats in both the Missouri
House and Senate.

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Finally some legislative action in Pennsylvania vs. pigeon shoots

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2011:
HARRISBURG–The Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee on
April 12, 2011 voted 11-3 to send a bill to ban pigeon shoots to the
full state senate for consideration.
The passage of a state bill from committee to legislative
consideration rarely attracts national notice, but the action on SB
626, introduced by state senator Patrick Browne, caused the
National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legis-lative Action to
issue a membership alert contending that SB 626 is about “banning all
hunting.”

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Trade magazine Feedstuffs offers first livestock industry critique of GAP standards

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2011:

MINNETONKA, Minnesota–The March 28, 2011 edition of the
agribusiness trade magazine Feedstuffs offered the first extensive
critique from within the conventional livestock industry of the
five-step Global Animal Partnership standards for raising cattle,
pigs, and chickens for slaughter.
Introduced on November 15, 2010, the GAP standards were
rolled out in January 2011 by the 300-store Whole Foods Markets
chain, whose founder, John Mackey, also founded GAP.

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