Freed in India

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:

HYDERABAD––Forty-eight monkeys
reportedly bred for use testing an Indian
version of the anti-cancer drug Interferon by
Shantha Biotechnics Private Ltd. reportedly
scampered into the jungles of Sirisailam in
early August, freed by Blue Cross of India
Hyderabad chapter secretary and award-winning
actress Amala Annikeni and friends.
Wrote S.N.M. Abdi of the South
China Morning Post, “Annikenni, 40, arrived
at the National Centre for Laboratory Animal
Sciences with several vans to carry the monkey
cages. She was also armed with a letter from
the Andhra Pradesh state animal welfare board
ordering the lab to hand over the primates,” due
to allegedly poor care conditions. The transfer
was done “after a three-hour tussle with sloganshouting
activists who refused to vacate the
premises until the monkeys were rescued.”

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COULSTON IS ORDERED TO GIVE UP 300 CHIMPANZEES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:

WASHINGTON D.C.––USDA undersecretary for marketing
and regulatory programs Michael V. Dunn announced on
September 1 that the Coulston Foundation had agreed to settle 22
charges of violating the Animal Welfare Act by divesting itself of 300
chimpanzees during the next 28 months.
The AWA charges resulted from a USDA investigation into
the deaths of five chimps named Terrance, Muffin, Holly, Echo,
and Jello. Related charges filed in 1994 led to a 1996 consent agreement
under which Coulston paid a fine of $40,000.
“This is an unprecedented consent agreement and a big win
for these magnificent animals,” Dunn said. “By the first of the year,
Coulston will transfer 30 chimps. By January 1, 2001, they will
place 120 more. And, at the start of 2002, Coulston will divest itself
of an additional 150, for a total of 300. This agreement,” Dunn
claimed, “will help to ensure that all of the approximately 650 chimps
currently housed at the Coulston Foundation are provided quality care
well into the next century.”

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What 35 bus-riding activists did and didn’t do on their summer vacation

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:

WASHINGTON D.C.––The 1999
Primate Freedom Tour ended quietly on
September 4, in cold rain resulting from
Hurricane Dennis. About 200 people attended a
rally, and three activists were arrested for
unfurling a banner from scaffolding set up by a
repair crew at the Washington Monument.
Starting from the Washington
Regional Primate Research Center in Seattle on
June 1, the Freedom Tour won more media
attention to primates in laboratories than any
other event or campaign since 1985, when the
Animal Welfare Act was amended to require
labs to provide for the “psychological wellbeing”
of dogs and primates.

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Dog labs cancelled

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:

Effective with the start of fall
classes, the University of Missouri at
Columbia is no longer holding dog dissection
exercises to teach medical students
about drug effects on the cardiovascular
system, and the University of
Medicine and Dentistry of New
Jersey/Robert Wood Johnson Medical
School at New Brunswick has ceased
using dogs––or any live animals––to
teach physiology.
Both universities said their
much-protested dog labs were abandoned
because using computers was
more cost-efficient.
The UMD-NJ campuses at
Newark and Stratford quit using live animals
to teach physiology some time ago,
said spokesperson Stuart Goldstein.

LETTERS [Oct 1999]

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:

Translation
I am writing on behalf of
the staff here at the Khenifra Refuge
to request a French translation of
your newspaper. The staff here are
very keen to read it, but due to the
language problem find it very hard.
I hope this is possible.
––Harry Cormack
(Veterinary intern)
SPCA North Africa
Centre de l’Elevage
Khenifra, Morocco

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Stopping the mad dog killers

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:

ANIMAL PEOPLE, as part of our ongoing effort to help solve animal protection
problems by accurately defining them, has since 1992 been tabulating all the data we can get
about cruelty cases to develop species-specific, method-specific, and motive-specific composite
portraits of the typical offender.
Not surprisingly, the psychological pathologies inflicted on different species tend to
vary according to whatever the animals most often symbolize. Among our findings, reported
and updated from time to time in greater detail:
• Men who harm women may also harm dogs, but tend to hurt cats with a particular
passion. Serial killers of women are frequently also serial cat-killers.
• Men who serially kill other men may kill cats, but more often serially kill dogs.
• Overt violence is overwhelmingly a male proclivity, but passive/aggressive abuse,
exemplified by dog-and-cat hoarding, child-starving, and starving farm animals, may be
practiced by either gender, as a symptom of chronic depression. The victims tend to be any
beings who are at the mercy of the offender. Depressive behavior, including hoarding, tends
to come earlier in life for men, coinciding with financial reverses, and later for women, coinciding
with bereavement, but the full syndrome can occur in either gender at any age.

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Ruthless meat trade flogs hormones east and west

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:

SEOUL, BRUSSELS, LONDON,
WASHINGTON D.C.––An estimated
50 members of the Korean Animal
Protection Society rallied against dog-eating
and cat-eating on August 16 in front of
Myoungdong Cathedral in central Seoul.
Sympathy rallies occurred in many
other cities around the world, attracting
media coverage in the U.S., Canada, Great
Britain, and South Africa as well as Korea.
But the protests did not deter Grand
National Party legislator Kim Hong Shin and
20 cosponsors from introducing a bill into the
Korean Parliament that same day to repeal six
unenforced prohibitions on dog-eating issued
since 1978 by adding dogs to the list of livestock
species regulated by the Korean
Agriculture Department.

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BLOODLUST THWARTED

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:

FLAGSTAFF, ALBANY, HEGINS,
LONDON––Acknowledging that the
public no longer tolerates thrill-killing, even
thinly disguised, the Arizona Game and Fish
Commission on September 11 voted 3-2 for a
new state regulation stating, “A person or
group shall not participate in, promote, or
solicit participation in any organized hunting
contest for killing predatory animals, fur-bearing
animals, or nongame mammals.”
The newly adopted ban on mammalkilling
contests evolved from outrage erupting
in early 1998 over a “Predator Hunt Extreme”
promoted by two hunters who wanted to knock
down populations of pumas, coyotes, foxes,
and bobcats so as to have less competition in
killing deer and pronghorn.

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The kids are all right––but Angell’s legacy isn’t

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1999:

Tucker, a German shorthair/Labrador mix, had
already been swept backward 400 yards despite his desperate
dog-paddling against the snowmelt-swollen Wesserunsett
Stream in Skowhegan, Maine. He was 300 yards from being
swept over an old mill dam to probable death on February 28
when 11-year-old Karla Pierce saw him.
Her parents, Kim and Ralph Pierce, watched from
the opposite bank in terror as Karla hooked her feet on shrubbery,
leaned down a slick slope, and pulled Tucker to safety.
“I first tried to grab his stomach but it didn’t work,”
she said. “So I grabbed his paws. He started yelping, but there
was no other way.”

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