A Project of Animal People, Inc., 1992-2013
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2013: (Actually published on November 20, 2013.)
NORFOLK––Documents received by PETA in February 2013 through a Freedom of Information Act request show that the FBI investigated the organization in 1997-1998 for allegedly plotting to release anthrax at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Fort Detrick, Maryland. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)
I have been involved in animal rights since 1985, and am grateful for the way that our movement has grown and evolved. When I first began practicing animal law, the idea that animals had rights to which we must pay heed was revolutionary. Courageous activists went to jail to put it on the agenda. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)
LONDON, OAKLAND, HONG KONG, PHUKET–– Months of question-provoking activity by entities using the names No To Dog Meat and World Protection for Cats & Dogs in the Meat Trade took a twist on September 20, 2013 with an apparent split between them, announced on Facebook. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)
By Kim Bartlett and Merritt Clifton
Playing at Parcul Tei in central Bucharest, Romania, four-year-old Ionut Anghel and his six-year-old brother on September 2, 2013 wandered briefly out of sight of their grandmother, through a hole in the park fence, into a large vacant lot that offered dirt piles to climb and access to the marshy edge of the Danube river. They might have mistaken for friendly the six dogs who rose to attack them. The six-year-old, though injured, escaped to tell his grandmother that Ionut Anghel was dead. Rushing to the scene, the grandmother and other Parcul Tei visitors found the dogs already devouring the remains.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)
NILGIRIS, Tamil Nadu, India––Vaccinating 60,000 dogs in 30 days at 10 rabies hot spots around India, Mission Rabies exceeded its preliminary target by 10,000 and kept right on rolling. Mission Rabies “will continue for three years, with a goal of vaccinating two million Indian dogs,” said Worldwide Veterinary Services founder Luke Gamble, who set for himself the goal of eradicating rabies in India while visiting Nilgiris as the star of a veterinary television show in 2009. Read more
From Animal People September 2013:
Loving Animals: Toward a New Animal Advocacy by Kathy Rudy University of Minnesota Press (111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290, Minneapolis, MN 55401), 2011. 260 pages hardcover, $16.98.
Trained in theological ethics and women’s studies, Kathy Rudy describes herself as neither an ethologist nor an animal behaviorist, but writes “It would not be an overstatement to say that most of the important and successful relationships I’ve had in my life have been with nonhuman animals.” Rudy posits that “you never really love [animals] in general. You always love the particular.” This directly contradicts the outlook of most of the “people who care about animals” who read ANIMAL PEOPLE, many of whom helped to build the animal rights movement of the past several decades. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2013: (Actually published on October 8, 2013)
We are extremely concerned about the implications of the recently published California Sheltering.org “white paper” formally titled Charting a Path Forward: Achieving California’s policy to save all adoptable and treatable animals. The paper never even pays lip service to the prevention of unwanted litters. In addition, shelters are encouraged to turn away even healthy, friendly cats rather than run the risk of ever having to euthanize any. Recommends the white paper on page 29: “Best practice: No healthy cat, regardless of temperament, should be admitted by an animal shelter if the admission of that cat would cause the death of that cat or another cat in the shelter…This recommendation also applies to private humane organizations that take in animals.” Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July-August 2013:
The Dog Care Field Manual: How to care for mangy run-down dogs in 2nd and 3rd world countries (and in developed countries, too) by Harrell Graham 46-page free download by clicking HERE.
The Dog Care Field Manual, by Harrell Graham, covers wound treatment; treatment of both internal parasites such as worms and external parasites such as mange; emergency response to poisoning; and avoidance of rabies. Each topic is reviewed in depth and detail, recommending crisis care that almost anyone can give when the nearest veterinarian is many miles and hours away. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July-August 13:
Confucian Virtue Ethics vs. Animal Rights & the Predation Problem by Wolf Clifton
Steve Cooke, author of the Thrifty Philosopher blog, in a recent installment entitled Animal Rights & The Predation Problem demonstrated the fallacy of attempting to devise a perfectly coherent, all-encompassing ethical philosophy perhaps especially as regards a topic as diverse as the range of human relationships with animals, across the spectrum of species. Read more