AWA, rats, mice, birds

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2001:

WASHINGTON D.C.–The Animal Welfare Act is more secure and the likelihood of the USDA promptly issuing new enforcement regulations requiring federally inspected laboratories to report their use of rats, mice, and birds is greater as result of Senate restructuring due to the resignation from the Republican Party of Vermont Senator James Jeffords.

Jeffords’ resignation cost the Republicans the Senate majority–and meant that Herb Kohl (D-Wisconsin) succeeded Thad Cochran (R-Mississippi) as chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture.

Human Obituaries

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2001:

Human Obituaries

Dennis Puleston, 95, founding chair of the Environmental Defense Fund, died on June 8 at his home in Brookhaven, New York. Born in Britain, Puleston was already “an avid naturalist and skilled painter of birds” according to New York Times obituarist Paul Lewis, when he sailed a small boat to the U.S. in 1931 with a friend. He sailed on to China by 1937, before the outbreak of World War II forced his return to Britain. His 1939 marriage to Betty Wellington of New York sent him back to the U.S. as a permanent resident.

In 1942 Puleston helped to design the “Duck” amphibious landing craft, then trained Allied Forces to use it. Puleston personally participated in amphibious operations in the Solomon Islands, New Guinea, and Burma; trained the D-Day “Duck” drivers in Britain after recovering from a spinal wound; and joined in the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. For his “Duck” work, Puleston was awarded the Medal of Freedom in 1948 by President Harry S. Truman.

Obituaries

Pet food and Procter & Gamble

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2001:

LONDON, CINCINNATI–Lon-don Daily Express health editor Lucy Johnston and the British activist group Uncaged Campaigns threw an apparent World Day for Laboratory Animals heavyweight haymaker at the pet food maker Iams on May 27, along with the Iams subsidiary brand Eukanuba, and their parent firm, Procter & Gamble–but as jarring as it appeared to be, the targets had already stepped away from the impact.

“Pet lovers will be stunned,” John-ston wrote, “by an investigation that reveals a sponsor of the Crufts Dog Show carried out horrific experiments on animals. The Sunday Express has uncovered damning evidence of gruesome tests performed on dogs and cats during the development” of Iams pet foods, mostly six to 12 years ago.

Animal care & control

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2001:

The San Francisco SPCA on June 1 announced a 22-position, 10% staff cut and termination of the contract it has held for about one year to provide night veterinary care at the San Francisco Animal Care and Control shelter, both effective on July 1 as part of a 15% budget cut. The budget cut was reportedly the first for the SF/SPCA in more than 20 years. Critics of SF/SPCA president Ed Sayres noted that the cuts closely followed recommendations issued by former SF/SPCA operations director Nathan Winograd in an October 27 memo to SF/SPCA vice president Daniel Crain.

Dog-and-cat-eating: the shame of Korea

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2001:

SEOUL, South Korea–The animal faces of dog-and-cat-eating, met at the Moran market just outside the capital city of Seoul, South Korea, are as pained and haunting as any animal defender might imagine.

The silence of the dehydrated and despairing animals is an unexpected part of the shock. Most of the dogs can bark. They just rarely do. Only scattered purebred former pets and a puppy trying to gnaw the dangling end of a nylon cord show hope that anything could be different. Stunned cats exhibit bleeding wounds from apparent hammer blows to the forehead. Roosters thrust their necks between the bars of their overcrowded cages and instead of crowing, gasp for breath.

Court Calendar

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2001:

Court Calendar

A World Trade Organization tribunal ruled on June 19 that the U.S. ban on imports of shrimp caught by vessels which do not use Turtle Excluder Devices does not unfairly restrict trade, and may therefore stand. The U.S. ban was introduced as an enforcement regulation under the Endangered Species Act in 1987, but was held by the WTO to be an unfair trade barrier when challenged in 1996 by Thailand, Malaysia, India, and Pakistan. The U.S. then amended the import ban to allow exceptions from the import ban for shrimp caught by boats pulling TEDs, even if the exporting nations do not require TEDs. The WTO ruling takes away perhaps the best-known activist objection to the WTO system of resolving trade disputes, which allows WTO to rule against national environmental protection, animal protection, labor, human rights, and public health standards, if the standards are found to be unjustly discriminatory.

Editorial: Help Koreans change Korea

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Help Koreans change Korea (Editorial, ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2001)

This June 2001 edition of ANIMAL PEOPLE is almost a month late in great part due to complications resulting from our mid-May investigative visit to South Korea, the most notorious of the nations in which dogs and cats are openly sold for human consumption.

ANIMAL PEOPLE publisher Kim Bartlett, a 30-year veteran of humane work, was physically ill with pneumonia for a week after our visit to the Moran market near Seoul, the largest South Korean live market featuring dogs and cats. She extensively documented the scene with photos, flew home with the film, and collapsed.

ANIMAL PEOPLE editor Merritt Clifton meanwhile worked 40 hours straight upon our return to summarize our findings and circulate the summary by e-mail to more than two dozen heads of international animal protection organizations, who were asked for comment and statements of commitment to action that were rarely forthcoming.

Gandhi’s AV legacy

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2001:
BRIGHTON, U.K.–Anti-vivisectionist C.K. Yoe won a year-long battle on June 8 when the Imperial Cancer Research Fund pulled a TV spot depicting the Indian vegetarian statesman Mohandas Gandhi. The ICRF won an appeal to the Independ-ent TV Commission, as the use of the image was approved by the New Delhi charity Gandhi Smarak Nidhi–but GSN withdrew the okay upon learning that the ICRF funds vivisection, which Gandhi abhored.

Viagra vs. sealing–it might help the sealers, too

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2001:

ST. JOHN’S, New-foundland–Seal pelt prices tripled and a two-week extension of the Atlantic Canada seal hunt, originally to have ended on May 15, encouraged sealers to kill two to three times as many infant harp seals in 2001 as in 2000. Just 91,000 seals were landed in 2000. By early May 2001, the toll stood at 186,000.

But even selling pelts for $40 in Canadian money, up from $13, will not leave sealers with more than a marginal profit. A June 15 report by Canadian Institute for Business and the Environment president Gary Gallon, commissioned by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, found that federal and provincial governments have spent $20.5 million [Canadian funds] since 1995 to prop up sealing via 38 different subsidy programs.

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