IPPL budget typo

January 1, 1994 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1994:

A typographical error

resulting because the “$” sign and

the “4” are on the same key of our

computer keyboard added $400,000

to the direct mail costs ($480,051)

that we reported the International

Primate Protection League allocated

to program services on its 1992 IRS

Form 990, in our December resume

of the budgets, assets, and salaries

paid by the 50 leading national ani-

mal and habitat protection groups.

That’s $52,000 more than the total

IPPL budget. The correct figure

was $80,051. The percentage we

gave for IPPL spending on non-

fundraising programs, 58%, was

accurate.

AGRICULTURE

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1994:

World meat production is up from

177.2 million tons in 1990 to 184.2 tons in

1993, says the Intergovernmental Group on

Meat, an industry task force. Cattle produc-

tion slid from 54.3 million tons to 52.8, but

pork is up from 69.7 million tons to 73.8, and

poultry is up from 39.9 million tons to 44.2.

Total production in developed nations fell

from 104.2 million tons to 100.6, due mostly

to declines in the former USSR, but produc-

tion in developing nations jumped from 73

million tons to 83.6 million––an expenditure

of soil and water resources many of them can-

not afford to make.

ANIMAL HEALTH

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1994:

The Farm Bureau, Cattleman’s Association, and

Eastern Milk Producers Cooperative are backing a New York

state bill to let farmers vaccinate their own cattle against rabies,

as is allowed in 36 other states including the adjoining states of

Vermont and Pennsylvania. The bill is opposed by the New York

Veterinary Medical Society. The farm groups claim it would help

curb rabies by cutting vaccination costs. The veterinarians

respond that vaccinations improperly done provide no protection.

The tick-borne disease tularemia has reappeared in

southeastern Pennsylvania, a decade after causing two human

fatalities in the same area. The disease usually hits rabbits,

killing them within four hours; both the Pennsylvania victims had

just killed and dressed rabbits. Tularemia can also kill dogs and

cats who have contact with infected rabbits.

Guest column: Let’s cut a deal on feral cats

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1994:

by Petra Murray

New Jersey Pet Overpopulation Solutions

To catch and kill or to neuter and release

are issues we have been battling over for quite

some time now. Many of us feel very strongly in

support of one approach or the other, and most

likely will not convert to the other viewpoint––so

where do we go from here?

I think it really has to sink in just how

enormous the feral cat problem is. We are talking

of somewhere between thirty and sixty million cats

nationwide––10 to 20 times as many cats as are

handled by all shelters and rescue groups combined

right now. If these numbers really hit us in the

face, we must acknowledge that even if we were

in 100% agreement over how to deal with this situ-

ation, we’d have our hands full for a very long

time. Without compromise and joint cooperative

effort, we can’t begin to make serious headway.

Editorial: No tears for this croc––well, cayman

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1994:

The call came late November 16. Westchester Wildlife Sanctuary rehabilitator

Barry Rothfuss needed help in placing a five-foot-long, cross-tempered female cayman, a

close relative of a crocodile, who’d spent her whole life in a pet store aquarium. He’d taken

her in to keep the proprietor from shooting her, as she’d grown too dangerous to handle.

“I can keep her maybe 24 hours,” Rothfuss explained, his six-month-old daughter

in his lap and the cayman nearby, her mouth held shut with duct tape. “I’m not set up to

keep a high-risk animal, or any animal who needs a heated environment, and I don’t know

anything about caymans, but I thought I could at least give her one more chance.”

Two years ago Rothfuss spent a month dodging the law with a few dozen orphaned

raccoons he had immunized against rabies. The New York wildlife department had ordered

rehabilitators to euthanize all raccoons in their possession, ostensibly to slow the spread of

rabies. Rothfuss hid out until he could get the message across that his raccoons were no

threat––and wound up appointed to the state advisory commission on rabies.

Editorial: Reclaim the cause from the terrorists

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1994:

One cannot make peace by waging war––a truth that should seem self-evident.

The cause of animal protection is essentially the cause of peace, extended to all sentient

beings: of preventing suffering through preventing violence. As conscientious and consid-

erate people, we should all understand by now that one cannot prevent suffering by causing

suffering, nor can one prevent violence by causing violence. That much should be obvious

to anyone who has ever either held or beheld a cruelly wounded and frightened victim of

anyone’s violence, animal or human. Pain and fear know no bounds of age, sex, species,

or ideology.

THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY MEET LISA

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1994:

NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana– –

Legislation In Support of Animals recently

gave the New Iberia City and Parish Council

until January 1 to make a firm commitment

to reforming their pound––or else.

“We have reached the limit of our

patience,” said mild-mannered LISA

founder and executive director Jeff Dorson,

sounding a lot more like Clint Eastwood than

he looks.

The ultimatim brought a three-part

expose of pound conditions in the local

newspaper. On December 10, New Iberia

reached an amicable agreement with LISA to

better separate animals in the pound, house

fewer per cage, provide fiberglas resting

boards, clean the cages more often, hire an

answering service to handle off-hours emer-

gency calls, and promote adoptions through

the New Iberia Humane Society.

Alaska and the Yukon: The silence of the wolves

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, Jan/Feb 1994:

FAIRBANKS, Alaska, and WHITEHORSE, the Yukon––At least 63 of the

wolves the world sought to save in Alaskan wildlife management unit 20-A, south of

Fairbanks, have been killed by airborne state trappers––and that may be almost all the

wolves who lived there, a fraction of the number state officials claim have ravaged moose

and caribou to the extent that sport hunting in the area has been suspended since 1991.

A comparable massacre has resumed in the Yukon Territory, Canada, where

officials last winter killed only 61 of a quota of 150 wolves in the beginning of a five-year

push to cut the estimated wolf population of the Kluane-Aishihik region near the Kluane

National Park and World Heritage Site by 85%. As in Alaska, the Yukon killing is pur-

portedly part of a “caribou enhancement” program, and also as in Alaska, independent

experts believe the official quota is several times higher than the actual wolf population of

the sector. The Kluane-Aishihik caribou herd has crashed and other Yukon herds have lev-

FURRIERS STRUGGLING

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1993:

If fur is making a comeback, it isn’t evident in the retail price index kept by

ANIMAL PEOPLE editor Merritt Clifton since 1988. The volume of fur merchandise

advertised in the greater New York metropolitan area as of Fur Free Friday 1993 was identi-

cal to 1992, as was the average price, excluding sable. The advertised volume of sable,

the highest-priced fur, was up fivefold, with the average price up from $25,000 to

$38,750––but the advertised volume of mink held steady, while the average mink price was

down 30%. “They’re in a steep slump and swinging for home runs to compensate,” Clifton

said. “Mink is traditionally 80% of their trade, but they aren’t picking up new customers

even at steep discounts, so they’re trying to buy sable low from the cash-strapped former

Soviet republics and sell it high to the handful of customers they’ve kept.” It’s too early to

project sales figures for the whole winter, Clifton continued, with the Christmas and

Valentine’s Day sales periods still ahead, “but so far there’s no sign that increased fur adver-

tising expenditures are significantly paying off. They’re just spending more money to stay

where they are.” Just before the fall fur ad blitz began, Evans Inc., accounting for roughly

10% of U.S. retail fur sales, reported a second-quarter drop of 7.4% in same-store sales as

compared to last year.

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