Going “gently” to slaughter

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:

 

NEW YORK CITY, WASHINGTON D.C., BRUSSELS–Osama bin Laden
told the 19 terrorists who killed at least 5,690 people on September
11 to seize the aircraft they used as weapons by cutting the throats
of their first victims in the manner of hallal slaughter.
The bin Laden document was published by The New York Times
and closely reviewed by expert commentators, as the October 2001
ANIMAL PEOPLE editorial discusses (page 3)–except that the experts
did not menton hallal, the central metaphor in it. They did not
talk about the significance of bin Laden emphasizing that his suicide
attackers were to think of themselves as butchers and the people they
killed as meat.

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Firebombings at Coulston, BLM boost calls for crackdown

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:

 

ALAMOGORDO, New Mexico; LITCHFIELD, Calif.; SALT LAKE
CITY, Utah; LONDON, U.K.–As if on cue to ensure that animal
rights activism rates a high priority in the “war on terrorism,”
unknown persons on September 21 torched a storage building 200 feet
from the main chimpanzee facility at the Coulston Foundation in
Alamogordo, New Mexico, and on October 15 burned a hay barn at the
Bureau of Land Management’s Litchfield Wild Horse and Burro Corrals,
21 miles northeast of Susanville, California.

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Court Calendar

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:

Dog cases
A three-judge panel of the U.S. 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals
ruled 2-1 on October 11 that police officers may be held liable for
damages if they kill a stray dog who poses no danger to life or
property. The verdict reinstated a case filed by Kim and David Brown
of Reading, Pennsylvania, against Muhlenberg Township police
officer Robert D. Eberly, who on April 28, 1998 shot their
three-year-old Rottweiler as Kim Brown screamed “No!” The dog
wandered outside as the Browns moved furniture.

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BOOKS: Canned Hunts: Unfair at Any Price

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:

Canned Hunts: Unfair At Any Price
by Diana Norris, Norm Phelps, & D.J. Schubert
(with other Fund for Animals staff)
Fund for Animals (200 West 57th St., New York, NY 10019), 2001.
64 pages, paperback. $5.00. [May also be downloaded, for free,
at <www.fund.org>.]

“Canned hunts,” in which animals are raised and shot witbin
fenced bounds, present an ethical paradox.
Amounting almost literally to shooting fish in a barrel,
they belie the pretense of the participants to being “sportsmen.” At
larger facilities, the animals may be able to run and
hide–briefly–but they can’t run far, and the “guide” knows the
hiding places. Even the biggest canned hunt is much like an Easter
egg hunt, except that the object is dead animals instead of dyed
eggs.

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“Dog” is “God” spelled backward

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2001:

 

The animal dimensions of the September 11 terrorist
hijackings of jetliners and mass murders at the World Trade Center,
the Pentagon, and Somerset County, Pennsylvania, were as evident
as the search-and-rescue dogs sent to each scene to help find
survivors and remains, the bomb-sniffing dogs at airports whose
numbers suddenly seem all too few, and the many pets in transit who
were held overnight in air terminals when their flights were grounded.
Many stranded people probably wished they could hug a dog or
cat during the 30-to-48 hours before air travel resumed, and many of
the animals would have welcomed the attention, but there was no way
for anyone to make pet-sharing arrangements.

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No bullfight in Moscow

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2001:

 

MOSCOW–Known for hardline positions against prostitution,
public begging, and other activities he considers offensive,
nine-year Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov on August 29 signed a decree
forbidding a two-day exhibition of Portuguese-style bullfighting that
was to have been held during the second weekend of September.
Luzhkov called bullfighting “an unacceptable display of violence.”
The 13 bulls imported for the event were not to have been
killed in the ring, although they reportedly were to be killed for
beef afterward, but would have been tormented with banderillas by
Portuguese matador Victor Mendes, French matador Marco Antonio
Romero, and Russian female bullfighter Lidia Artamanova, who had
apparently done all her previous bullfighting abroad.

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Battles loom in Africa over hunting and vivisection

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2001:
NAIROBI, HARARE, JOHANNESBURG–The humane movement in
Africa may presently be going to the dogs, because the street dogs
are the most ubiquitous and vulnerable animals, but the battles of
the future are forming over sport hunting and vivisection.
With the use of animals in European and American laboratories
increasingly under activist scrutiny and restricted by law,
vivisectors are looking toward Africa as a potentially congenial new
home.

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Bloody business goes to the California governor’s mansion

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2001:

SACRAMENTO–California Governor Gray Davis, who signed more
animal-related bills in 2000 than any other governor, signed another
pair in August and September 2001, but allegedly broke his streak of
endorsing legislation strongly favored by animal advocates by using
his influence in the state legislature to kill a bill to legalize
possession of ferrets.
An aide to California state senator and ferret bill sponsor
Maurice Johannessen (R-Redding) told Los Angeles Times staff writer
Jennifer Warren that after the bill cleared the senate, Davis
prevailed upon the state assembly committees on water, parks, and
wildlife and appropriates to keep it from coming to a floor vote.
The aide reportedly said Davis opposed the ferret bill because the
California Department of Fish and Game considers ferrets a
potentially invasive species.

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