CAPITALISTS AND THEIR RUNNING DOGS

September 1, 2000 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2000:

Harry Lee Coe, 68, state attorney
for Hillsborough County, Florida, since 1993,
apparently shot himself to death on July 12
after reportedly running up debts of $157,000
by betting on greyhound races.
The Birmingham Race Course i n
Birmingham, Alabama, is reportedly changing
procedures for unjamming a stuck lure to
avoid repetition of a June 21 incident in which
spectators saw a shrieking dog named Randad
suffer electrocution after jumping onto the
electric rail that propels the lure.
Three months after the allegations
came to light, the USDA and Wisconsin
Attorney General’s Office are reportedly still
investigating charges against Philadelphia
Eagles football team scout and Class B animal
dealer Daniel Shonka, of Cedar Rapids,
Wisconsin, who over three years is believed to
have taken more than 850 retired racing greyhounds
on the pretext of running a greyhound
adoption agency, and instead sold them for
$400 each to Guidant Corp., a Minnesota lab
that tests heart pacemakers.

What if animal rights theory went to the dogs?

September 1, 2000 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2000:

Beyond Animal Rights:
A Feminist Caring Ethic for the
Treatment of Animals
Edited by Josephine Donovan
and Carol J. Adams
Continuum Publishing Co. (370 Lexington
Ave., New York, NY 10017), 1996.
26 pages, paperback. $18.95.

Yukon Alone:
The World’s Toughest Adventure Race
by John Balzar
Henry Holt & Co.
(115 W. 18th St., New York, NY 10011),
1999. 304 pages, hardcover, $25.00.

Many of the authors included in Beyond Animal
Rights might doubt there is any resemblance between their outlook
toward animals and that of the participants in the Yukon
Quest, the annual 1,023-mile dog sled race between
Whitehorse and Fairbanks.

BOOKS: The Horse’s Choice

May 1, 2000 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2000:

The Horse’s Choice
by Staci Layne Wilson
Running Free Press (P.O. Box 6778, Eastview,
Rancho Palos Verdes, CA 97034), 1999. 79 pages,
paperback. $17.95, plus $3.50 postage/handling.

There is much debate among animal rights activists as to whether horseback riding is justifiable. In the long run, in my view, it is probably not. Yet there are nearly seven million domesticated horses in the U.S., and most will be trained for riding and driving. Leaving them alone in pastures is not realistic and could subject them, paradoxically, to abusive boredom.

PIGEON SHOOTING, COCKFIGHTING, AND GREYHOUND RACING

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:

The Hegins pigeon shoot and
Omak Suicide Race each drew about 5,000
people just to watch animals get hurt and heckle
protesters, suggest attendance figures from
the village events they were part of. The
Hegins Labor Day festival in recent years drew
about 10,000 people; only 5,000 came this
year, the first since 1935 that pigeons were
not shot. The Omak Stampede rodeo drew up
to 22,000 people; just over 17,000 came this
year, the first since 1936 that horses were not
galloped down a steep embankment into the
Okanogan River. Even without the Suicide
Race, however, the Stampede still included
traditional rodeo events featuring violent treatment
of animals. Hegins without the pigeon
shoot apparently had no violent attraction.

LAST OF THE TULI 30, LOKI/MURTHY, AND THAI LOGGING ELEPHANTS ALL FIND REFUGE

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1999:

JOHANNESBURG, CHENNAI, BANGKOK– –
Seven thousand South Africans marched on African Game
Services owner Riccardo Ghiazza’s farm near Brits on July 11
demanding an end to wild elephant exports and freedom for the
nine elephants of the “Tuli 30” then still with Ghiazza.
Ten burly bikers crashed Ghiazza’s gate and threatened
to free the elephants themselves, said WildNet Africa.
Outrage built for a week after the South African
Broadcast Corporation program Carte Blanche on July 4 aired
National SPCA undercover video of mahouts beating the elephants.
The videotaping was done at the Ghiazza farm over a
two-month interval by NSPCA inspectors Andries Venter, 25,
Yvonne Seaton, 26, and Karen Moller, 24, following instructions
from a High Court judge.

WATCHING THE HORSES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1999:

HOLLYWOOD, Calif,––To know
whether the animals in a film or TV production
have been treated humanely, insiders say,
watch the horses.
Horses are not only the most commonly
used animal actors and props, they are
also easily replaced unless specially trained,
cost more to board than to buy, and are legally
classed as livestock, exempted from most animal
protection laws. Thus horses are the most
vulnerable species on most animal-using sets.
Watching the horses, ANIMAL
PEOPLE reader Mary Chipman, of Hazelwood,
Missouri, was alarmed in midsummer
by scenes from The Mummy and Joan of Arc.
Both, Chipman wrote, “featured
many horses who were yanked around and
made to fall during battle scenes. Some of it
could have been computer-enhanced, but there
is no doubt in my mind that quite a few horses
had a harrowing experience. Has there been a
resurgence in film cruelty?”

EQUINES

June 1, 1999 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1999:

PMU mares & foals

Touring western Canada during 1998-1999 to assess recent changes in the pregnant mares’ urine industry, Enzo Giobe and Staci Wilson of the International Generic Horse Association/HorseAid reported on May 22 that the number of active accredited PMU farms has dropped from 553 to 439, and that the number of foals they sell to slaughter each year has fallen from 75,000 to between 37,000 and 43,000, depending on how many foals are used for other purposes.

PMU is the source stock for the Wyeth-Ayrst estrogen drug Premarin. As world demand for estrogen supplements is up, Giobe and Wilson link the decline of PMU production partly to the advent of rival products made from soy, yams, and other non-animal estrogen sources, and partly to growing awareness of how PMU-producing mares and their foals are treated. Premarin has been made since 1942, but the industry was first extensively exposed by A N I M A L PEOPLE in early 1993, based on research by Tom Hughes of the Canadian Farm Animal Concerns Trust in 1991-1992.

Shocked! Shocked! by gambling

June 1, 1999 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1999:

HOUSTON, LITTLE ROCK– –
All the money in breeding race or show horses
is gambling money.
Figure that out, and it’s no surprise
that jockey Billy Patin allegedly used an electrical
shocking device to boot the horse
Valhol home in the April 10 Arkansas Derby,
beating 30-to-1 odds.
Patin, 36, appeared––briefly––to
have won his first big race in 20 years of
competition.
Then an Oaklawn Park worker
found a shocking device on the track near the
finish. A video replay showed Patin dropping
a black object at about that point.

BOOKS: Out of the Saddle

May 1, 1999 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1999:

Out of the Saddle:
Native American Horsemanship
by GaWaNi Pony Boy
Photographs by Gabrielle Boiselle
Bowtie Press (c/o Fancy Publications,
3 Burroughs, Irvine, CA 92618),
1999. 96 pages, paperback. $17.95.

GaWaNi Pony Boy, whose Horse
Follow Closely became a best-seller despite
barely passing as a primer on horse training,
has issued a sequel, Out of the Saddle, best
described as more of the same. Most of the
photos are taken from Horse Follow Closely,
and his anecdotes are also essentially the
same. But Out of the Saddle is directed at
children––as Horse Follow Closely should
have been.

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