A Project of Animal People, Inc., 1992-2013
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2013:
ATLANTA––Humane Association of Georgia coordinator Carolyn Danese on February 24, 2013 appealed for opposition to a newly introduced Georgia state bill which seeks to turn opposition to breed-specific dog control laws into a weapon against legislative efforts to promote dog and cat sterilization. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2013
WASHINGTON D.C.—All five branches of the U.S. military were on March 3, 2013 due to send to Congress written plans to phase out live tissue training, meaning the use of deliberately mutilated animals to teach emergency livesaving techniques to combat medics. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2013:
JAKARTA, UBUD––Doublecrossed in January 2013 by Solomon Islands dolphin hunters, Dolphin Project founder Ric O’Barry was doublecrossed again a few weeks later in Indonesia. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2013:
CAPE TOWN––Addressing a home province crowd in KwaZulu Natal on December 26, 2012, South African president Jacob Zuma (above) reportedly denounced keeping pets as part of “white culture,” and said that people who love dogs more than people display a “lack of humanity.” Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2012:
WASHINGTON D.C.–Barack Obama, the first non-hunting U.S. president since Harry Truman, was re-elected on November 6, 2012 by a margin of 53% to 47% for opponent Mitt Romney–whose vice presidential running mate, Wisconsin member of the House of Representatives Paul Ryan, made much of his enthusiasm for bowhunting.
But, while Obama probably owed no political debts to the hunting lobby, the Obama administration on November 20, 2012 reiterated endorsement of the Sportsmen’s Act, S. 3525, introduced before the election by Senator Jon Tester (D-Montana), incorporating 19 legislative goals of the National Rifle Association and the pro-hunting National Wildlife Federation. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2012: (Actually published on November 1, 2012.)
Long before the Scott Pilgrim comic series introduced the Vegan Police duo, a male hippie and an apparent Buddhist monk who metamorphized into a more conventionally police-like pair in the 2010 film Scott Pilgrim vs. the World; long before there was a Vegan Police blog site discussing the interface of race, politics, gender, and diet; and decades before the term “vegan police” entered mainstream usage, the vegan police vigorously critiqued animal advocacy. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2012: (Actually published on November 1, 2012.)
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica–Fourteen lawmakers led by eight members of the Libertarian Movement party on October 4, 2012 stalled the anticipated passage of a Costa Rican national ban on sport hunting by asking the Constitutional Chamber of the Costa Rican Supreme Court to review the constitutionality of the ban, which would be central to a new national Wildlife Act.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2012: (Actually published on November 1, 2012.)
NAIROBI, Kenya–The Kenyan cabinet on October 11, 2012 ratified plans to hold a national election on March 4, 2013, and with that certain to grab the media spotlight, ratified a new national wildlife policy, leaving the African Network for Animal Welfare “very busy yet again battling machinations to introduce sport hunting through the back door, mobilizing communities and civil society organizations at a very short notice,” ANAW founder Josphat Ngonyo e-mailed to ANIMAL PEOPLE.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2012:
NEW DELHI–-The Supreme Court of India on September 3, 2012 weighed the ecological and public health role of street animals in a case brought by the nonprofit organization Safai Karmachari Andolan on behalf of the poorest of the poor.
Describing itself as “a national movement committed to the total eradication of manual scavenging and the rehabilitation of all scavengers for dignified occupations,” Safai Karmachari Andolan extracted data from the 2011 national census to show that of 2.6 million public dry latrines still in use in India, 1.3 million discharge illegally into open drains, 794,000 are cleaned manually by humans, and 497,000 are cleaned entirely by animals– mostly dogs and pigs. Read more