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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2013:
MELBOURNE, DELHI––The Supreme Courts of Australia and India on January 26 and February 6, 2013, respectively, struck down enforcement of recent appellate court rulings upholding dangerous dog laws. Read more
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:
HONIARA, Solomon Islands; BERKELEY, Calif.––Dolphin hunters in the Solomon Islands, dolphin broker Christopher Porter, and some far-right U.S. news media are blaming the Earth Island Institute Marine Mammal Project for the massacre of more than 1,000 dolphins in December 2012 and January 2013. 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, March 2013:
WASHINGTON D.C.–– Bluntly stated the headline in the February 11, 2013 edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, “Genomic responses in mouse models poorly mimic human inflammatory diseases.” Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2013:
HONG KONG––A Sea Shepherd Conservation Society video posted to YouTube on February 26, 2013 shows the Sea Shepherd vessel Bob Barker being repeatedly crunched between the much larger Japanese whaling factory ship Nisshin Maru and the Sun Laurel, a Panamanian-flagged fuel oil tanker reportedly carrying a South Korean crew. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2013:
BELFAST––Challenging the global scientific, regulatory, and humane communities to recognize crustacean sentience, Robert Elwood of the School of Biological Sciences at Queen’s University in Belfast, Northern Ireland, on January 16, 2013 published his third major study in six years to demonstrate that crustaceans feel and respond to pain. “Billions of crustaceans are caught or reared in aquaculture for the food industry,” wrote Elwood of his latest research, published in the Journal of Experimental Biology. “In contrast to mammals, crustaceans are given little or no protection, as the presumption is that they cannot experience pain. Our research suggests otherwise. More consideration of the treatment of these animals is needed,” Elwood emphasized, “as a potentially very large problem is being ignored.” 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, January/February 2013:
Elisabeth “Babette” Lewyt, in her nineties and believed to have been close to 100, died on December 10, 2012. A resident of Sands Point, Long Island, New York, Mrs. Lewyt had headed the North Shore Animal League in nearby Port Washington since 1969. Read more