From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2011: Meat biz barks for puppy mills JEFFERSON CITY, Mo.–Rural Missouri lawmakers backed by agribusiness hope to overturn the Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act, approved by almost a million voters in November 2010–52% of the electorate–as Proposition B on the state ballot. Leading the lobbying effort against the Puppy Mill Cruelty [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2011: Why did BLM reject Madeline Pickens’ Nevada wild horse sanctuary proposal? PHOENIX–A two-day Bureau of Land Management consultation meeting on wild horse and burro management strategy, to be held on March 10-11, 2011 in Phoenix, Arizona, is likely to focus on why the BLM on January 21 rejected a proposal [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2011: Japan suspends Antarctic whaling Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson feared a trick on February 16, after the suspension of whaling made headlines worldwide, when the whaling factory ship Nisshin Maru changed course and appeared to be heading back into the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary. “The turnabout could mean one of [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2011: Camels, horses & change in Egypt Mubarak left on February 11, ending a 30-year dictatorial regime, but on February 2 the outcome of the protests was still in doubt. “In Dokki, in western Cairo,” reported Al Jazeera, “thousands of Mubarak supporters gathered in Lebanon Square, chanting ‘He won’t go,’ in [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2011: EDITORIAL FEATURE— How to move the earth to help farmed animals As large and influential as some of the biggest animal advocacy organizations appear to be from within the cause, the budgets and assets of the entire cause, worldwide, are still substantially less than those of supermarkets in any major [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2011: Letters Decompression–now the AHA-approved way to kill chickens Just a quick note to let you know I’m reading some of the literature on decompression of poultry, as endorsed in September 2010 by the American Humane Association. It seems from what I’ve read that the main case Yvonne Vizzier-Thaxton et al [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2011: Mercy for Animals exposes cruelty at a Texas factory catfish farm DALLAS–Probably more fish consumers were puzzled–at first– than shocked on January 19, 2011 when Mercy for Animals released undercover video of alleged criminal animal abuse at Catfish Corner, in eastern Dallas County. “I don’t get too many calls about [...]
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2011: Dogs Deserve Better takes option to buy Michael Vick’s Bad Newz Kennels property TIPTON, Pennsylvania–The anti-dog chaining organization Dogs Deserve Better has an option to purchase on football player and convicted dogfighter Michael Vick’s former home on Moonlight Road in rural Surrey County, Virginia.