COURT CALENDAR

December 1, 1992 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

Humane Enforcement

The U.S. Supreme Court is be-

lieved likely to overturn the city of Hialeah,

Florida’s five-year-old ban on animal sacri-

fice. The Supreme Court heard arguments

in the case of Church of Lukuki Babalu Aye

vs. Hialeah on November 3. The church

practices the Santeria religon, popular

among Caribbean immigrants, in which ani-

mal sacrifice is central to many rituals. The

Santerians’ argument that the ban violates

their freedom of religion is backed by the

Presbyterian Church, the American Jewish

Committee, the Catholic League for

Religious and Civil Rights, and other groups

representing Mormons, Mennonites, and

Seventh Day Adventists. The latter church

includes vegetarianism and kindness to ani-

mals as central tenets, but like the others

fears legal precedents that could open the

way for other laws proscribing worship. If

the Hialeah ban is overturned, similar bans

in San Francisco and Los Angeles will also

fall.

Fur

December 1, 1992 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1992:

The Dutch Advertising

Standards Authority has upheld allega-

tions of misleading advertising leveled

against the fur trade by the anti-fur group

Bont Voor Diren [Fur For Animals.] The

Standards Authority ruled that,

“Considering the way fur is being produced,

by means of unnatural catch in the wild

often by means of a leghold trap, fur farms,

and as byproduct of factory farming for the

production of meat, it cannot be maintained

that fur is ‘ecological’…According to the

judgement of the authority, the production

of fur has nothing to do with the natural

relations that exist between animals and the

environment they live in. Nor can the pro-

cessing of fur be called ecological or envi-

ronmentally friendly, since materials are

used that damage the environment.” Earlier,

the Standards Authority ruled that the fur

trade couldn’t describe the welfare of ani-

mals on fur farms as “excellent.”

Religion & Animals

November 1, 1992 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

The Rev. Andrew Linzey has been

appointed to the first-ever chair for the study

of animal welfare at Oxford University. The

International Fund for Animal Welfare invest-

ed approximately $500,000 to establish the

chair for a five-year period. Linzey, an

Anglican, was formerly chaplain and director

of studies at the University of Essex Center for

the Study of Theology. He left that post in

mid-1992, shortly after refusing to conduct

services while university staff were killing

“nuisance” rabbits outside the chapel. Linzey

is author of numerous books, including

Christianity and the Rights of Animals

(Crossroad, 1987).

Diet & Health

November 1, 1992 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

Medical evidence is growing

that iron-rich red meat contributes at

much to heart disease as cholesterol.

“Avoiding meat may be prudent,”

Newsweek medical reporters Geoffrey

Cowley and Mary Hager concluded after

reviewing recent studies on the topic in the

September 21 issue.

Trans-fatty acids that increase

the harmful effects of cholesterol com-

monly result from cooking with solid or

semi-solid margarines and shortenings,

suggests a new USDA study whose pre-

liminary findings were made public

October 7. Avoiding cholesterol is still a

good idea, but so is avoiding partially

hydrogenated vegetable oils if you are in a

high-risk bracket for heart disease. Use

whole oils instead––”The softer, the bet-

ter,” as Marian Burros puts it.

Fur

October 1, 1992 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

* Fur Free Friday will be November 27

this year—the day after Thanksgiving, the

traditional start of the peak fur sales season.

Friends of Animals and Animal Rights

Mobilization are coordinating events in

numerous locations. Get details from FoA at

212-247-8120, and from ARM at 303-388-

7120.

* The Committee of Jews for

Compassion is taking out a series of full-page

ads in Jewish newspapers to publicize Tel

Aviv chief Sephardic rabbi Haim David

Halevi’s recent ruling that Jewish law forbids

manufacturing or wearing fur because it for-

bids causing pain to animals. Write CJC c/o

CHAI, P.O. Box 3341, Alexandria, VA

22302.

Religion & Animals

October 1, 1992 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

Pope John Paul II was scheduled to

issue “A solemn appeal for animal welfare” on

eptember 30, from the Vatican. The appeal

will not have the force of ecclesiastic law, and

is expected to be quite conservative.

A San Francisco Board of

Supervisors subcommittee on August 18

approved an ordinance to ban animal sacrifice,

modeled after similar ordinances now in effect

in various Florida and southern California

cities. Supervisor Carole Migden introduced

the ordinance after the city Department of

Animal Care and Control reported having

found evidence of at least 1,000 animal sacri-

fices during the past year. The ordinance now

goes before the full Board of Supervisors for

enactment. Migden meanwhile withdrew a

proposed to ban the sale or ownership of wolf

hybrids, since so many are already in San

Francisco that enforcement might prove

impossible.

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