From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2012: Letters re “Proposal for an Accord Between Animal Advocates and Biomedical Researchers” HSUS president: “We must work with our traditional adversaries.” When I got involved with animal protection in the mid-1980s as an undergraduate college student, the use of animals in research, testing, and education was one of the [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2012: EU battery cage ban & the price of eggs BRUSSELS–The price of eggs in the shell doubled, while egg production fell 15% in the first four months after a European Union ban on battery caging, according to the European Egg Producers Association. ”The EU acknowledges that there has been a [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2012: Cockfighting, murder, & a lawsuit over use of a wheeled tank to make a bust McALLEN, Texas; ALEOSAN, North Cotabato, Philippines–Cockfighting preceded mass murder twice during the second week of April 2012. The killers in each case escaped, and if identified, were not named to media by survivors and [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2012: Cockfighting & H5N1–again BALI–Responding to an outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza that was rumored to have killed a child, health officials on April 26, 2012 killed 230 gamecocks at the Satria Bird Market in Denpasar, the Balian capital. ”Since the onset of the H5N1 panzootic in Eastern Asia in [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2012: TURLOCK, California–”There are still 2,750 hens at our Rescue Ranch facility in Vacaville and 200 hens at our Grass Valley sanctuary. 587 hens have been placed into loving homes,” Animal Place founder Kim Sturla posted on March 28, 2012, a month after volunteers coordinated by Animal Place and the Harvest [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2012: Agreement Raises Flags for Egg-Laying Hens: A Chicken Activist’s Perspective on the “New Deal” by Karen Davis, PhD, founder & president of United Poultry Concerns . The January/February 2012 edition of ANIMAL PEOPLE included a full-page ad headlined “It’s Time to Ban Barren Battery Cages Nationwide,” urging readers to ask [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2012: SHARK wins “2nd Battle of Broxton Bridge” Courtesy: SHARK EHRHARDT, S.C.–Showing Animals Respect & Kindness on February 12, 2012 routed fewer than two dozen pigeon shooters at the second Battle of Broxton Bridge–but the shooters, in retreat, allegedly gunned down a SHARK drone helicopter camera platform moments after takeoff.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 2012: STOCKTON, Calif.– “Effective on January 7, the first 2012 market, live birds will no longer be sold at the Stockton Farmers’ Market!” Lesbian-Gay-Bisexual-Transgender Compassion founder Andrew Zollman e-mailed to ANIMAL PEOPLE on January 6, 2012. “We worked with the Animal Services division of the Stockton Police,” Zollman said. “They agreed [...]