A Project of Animal People, Inc., 1992-2013
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May/June 2013:
JACKSON, Miss.––The USDA Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service on May 14, 2003 disclosed the April 26, 2003 decision of a federal administrative law judge to revoke Collins Zoo owners Gus and Betty White’s exhibitors’ permit. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May/June 2013:
DENVER––Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper on May 13, 2013 signed into law bills designating shelter animals the official state pet and requiring Colorado police and sheriff’s departments to provide personnel with three hours of online training on dog behavior recognition and the use of nonlethal dog control methods. The training must be made available by September 1, 2014. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May/June 2013:
WASHINGTON D.C.––The Egg Products Inspection Act Amendments of 2013, written to implement a 2011 agreement between the Humane Society of the U.S. and United Egg Producers about laying hen cage sizes, was not included in either the U.S. Senate or U.S. House of Representatives version of the 2013 Farm Bill. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May/June 2013
SAN DIEGO, RENO––Suzanne Kogut, formerly executive director of the Charlottesville-Albemarle SPCA in Virginia, was on May 15, 2013 introduced as successor to Petco Foundation founding executive director Paul Jolly. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May/June 2013:
NEW YORK, N.Y.––The American SPCA on May 2, 2013 promoted 12-year staff member Matthew Bershadker to succeed Ed Sayres as president, effective June 1. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May/June 2013:
LANCASTER––The Pennsylvania SPCA on April 30, 2013 announced the hiring of veteran cruelty investigator Keith Mohler to cover Lancaster County. Mohler will work from an office provided by Lancaster County district attorney Craig Stedman. His hiring expands the Pennsylvania SPCA humane law enforcement team to 13 officers in 17 counties. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May/June 2013:
Editorial feature: Ag-gag laws & changing frameworks of perception
The most deeply held conviction shared among U.S. meat industry executives and advocates of not eating meat may be the belief that if most people witnessed slaughter, they would not eat meat. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May/June 2013:
MILWAUKEE, LONDON, JOHANNESBURG––As the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service sees it, the critical issue in rhinoceros conservation is not rhinos are being killed in record numbers, but rather, who gets the money from killing them. Anyhow, this was the reasoning that emerged from U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service explanations of why trophy hunter David K. Reinke, 52, of Madison, Wisconsin, was recently allowed to become the first American to legally import the remains of a black rhino since the species was federally listed as endangered in 1980. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May/June 2013:
HOUSTON––U.S. federal prosecutors on May 16, 2013 dropped the last two of seven obscenity charges filed in October 2012 against alleged “crush video” producers Ashley Nicole Richards, 22, and Brent Wayne Justice, 51, and filed a notice of appeal on five counts that were dismissed on April 17, 2013 by U.S. District Judge Sim Lake. Read more