MEXICAN PET THIEVES SUPPLY U.S. SCHOOLS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

MEXICALI, Mexico––The World

Society for the Protection of Animals on March

25 announced it had exposed a major Mexican

pet theft ring, operating for at least eight years.

The ring is organized by several American resi-

dents of Mexico. Bunchers pay children $1.00

apiece to catch cats, who are trucked in lots of

30 to 40 to Mexicali, where they are drowned

about 10 at a time in water barrels, preserved

with formaldehyde, and hauled to a location in

Sinaloa state, where they are sold for $7.00

each. From Sinaloa, they are trucked to U.S.

customers.

DOG SLEDDING

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

Discouraged by the loss of a

dog due to heart attack, the only dog

death during the 1994 Iditarod sled race,

Susan Butcher, 39, announced March

21 that she won’t enter the race in 1995,

and said she would sell most of her ken-

nel. Butcher has competed in every

Iditarod since 1978, recording four vic-

tories and 15 finishes in the top 10 while

crusading for humane dog care and han-

dling. In 1991 she surrendered a lead

and allowed her longtime archrival Rick

Swenson to become the first five-time

winner, rather than risk her dogs’ lives

in a blizzard.

Woofs and growls

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

Animals and wildlife get

7% of the charity dollar in Britain,

4% in Canada, 2% in Spain, and

just 1% each in France and the

U.S., says a new study by the

Charities Aid Foundation––but the

figures aren’t directly comparable,

since medical care is primarily a

government reponsibility in the other

nations but remains heavily subsi-

dized by charity in the U.S.

Zoos and aquariums

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

Caught in a lobster trap in January

and donated to the Cabrillo Marine Aquarium

in San Pedro, California, a 58-pound octu-

pus with 12-foot arms nicknamed Octavia was

housed in a tank just six feet wide, attracting

crowds and a PETA-sponsored protest. She

suffocated overnight April 11 after yanking

the plug from her tank.

Louis Bailey, age 8, escaped seri-

ous injury on April 5 when a cheetah scaled

an eight-foot fence at the Jackson Zoo in

Jackson, Mississippi, pounced the boy, who

had wandered into a restricted area––and

raced off with his baseball cap. The 75-year-

old zoo is asking the Mississippi legislature to

approve a $16.5 million bond issue to finance

major renovation.

HSUS usurps AHA disaster relief role

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

WASHINGTON D.C.––On March 9 the American Humane

Association renewed the agreement it has had with the American Red Cross since

1976 to serve as the coordinating agency for animal relief after U.S. disasters.

Eight days later, after apparently pressuring the Red Cross at the board level, the

Humane Society of the U.S. reportedly told Associated Press that the Red Cross

had designated it “the official disaster relief agency for pets and other animals.”

According to AP, HSUS vice president David Wills claimed, “There

has been no real coordinated effort so far,” ignoring the AHA role in coordinat-

ing disaster relief since 1916, and the recent disaster relief work of the North

Shore Animal League and United Animal Nations,

Humane ed. for Mideast peace

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

TEL AVIV, Israel––As the West

Bank erupted in another round of bombings and

massacres, more than a thousand Israelis and

Palestinians asked to attend a March 22-23 con-

ference on preventing violence through humane

education, held in the Tel Aviv suburb of

Ramat Gan by Concern for Helping Animals in

Israel––but the hall could hold only 450.

HSUS raids the Fund for Animals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

WASHINGTON D.C.––No one at the

Humane Society of the U.S. was talking––not on

the record––but spring maneuvers apparently

intended to consolidate political influence both

internally and externally may give the group a very

different profile on Capitol Hill. Events of note

included the March 15 resignation of Kenneth

Inglis, considered the most militant animal rights

activist on the board of directors; the hiring of for-

mer North Shore Animal League president David

Ganz, apparently to raise funds in connection with

a new HSUS government relations arm, including

a political action committee; and the wooing away

of virtually the whole political apparatus of the

Fund for Animals, including national director

Wayne Pacelle, attorney Aaron Medlock, and

Ohio lobbyist Bill Long, who had represented both

the Fund and HSUS in recent months.

SPECTACLES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

Bill Petersen, county commission

chair in Glades County, Florida, is leading

an effort to ban “hog dog rodeos,” in which

dogs are set upon semi-feral pigs in enclosed

arenas. The winner is the owner whose dog

brings down a pig the fastest. Held in Glades,

Highlands, and Hardee counties, “hog dog

rodeos” are popular with hunters, says pro-

moter Roger Vickery.

The World Society for the

Protection of Animals seeks letters protest-

ing the Jaripeo rodeo, held each February 23

in San Matias, El Salvador, in which a clown

bites a calf’s tongue and pulls it back as far as

he can stretch it. Address Lic. Carlos

Hilermann, Presidente, Inst. Salvadoreno de

Turismo, Calle Ruben Dario 619, San

Salvador, El Salvador.

Diet & Health

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1994:

The Council for Agricultural

Science and Technology reported March 21

that advances in farming methods and the

growing popularity of vegetarianism could

mean a 30% decrease in the amount of land

used for food crops during the next 50 years

even as the global human population doubles.

The 64-page CAST study, commissioned by

the Program for the Human Environment at

Rockefeller University, was authored by

Connecticut Agriculture Experiment Station

agronomist Paul Waggoner, who explained

that the calories and protein produced on pre-

sent cropland are already sufficient to feed 10

billion vegetarians, rather than the five to six

billion people who now eat a diet including

varying amounts of meat.

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