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The Associate Coordinator Officers Assistant Bangladesh Secretaty Secretary e.xico the Assistant Ph.D., Research Coordinator Associate Poland Russia hi L AnimalAdvisor to Consultant Associate V, Greece Director Advisor President Husain, Order Kingdom Treasurer Chile NA Ph.D. President Senior Executive Farm Ph.D. Ph.D., M.D. D.M. Ph.D. J7ce Publications Kenya 0 E Research I Mail D.M.V., Research Wildlife E Administrative Ani,nal Ph.D. United D.M.V., Assistant Research Tabarak M.D. AT International Executive Stutzin, AND Orlans, Volkenburgh, Hill Stevens Stevens, ITT Roberts, Cooke Hutchison Anchel, Hutchison, Aluja, Wilson Wilson, Rinick, Peacock, Bertrand, King, Swann, Muchiru, Yablokov, Fouts 0. Payne, Hutchison, Liss Reinhardt, Halverson, Van Liss, M. Heyde, Nilsson, de Conklin, Gleiber, Walsh, Antikas, Naughton, White, Armendariz. TERN Barbara Laboratory

WJ N DIRECTORS Marjorie Roger David Fredrick Cathy Christine Cynthia Marjorie Fredrick F. Christine Cynthia Roger I Gerard Samuel Simon OFFICERS SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE John Godofredo T.G. Diane Chris Greta COMM STAFF John Lynne Cathy Ben CONSULTANTS Nell Jennifer Ambassador Angela Aline Agnes Ava Alexey Amy Viktor Wendy Adam Animal WelfareInstitute QUARTERLY Fall 2000 Volume49 Number 4

TABLE OF CONTENTS

“AWinnable Fight...” 2

Harpoons Readied, by Ben White 4-6 Bribery Kills Whale Sanctuary 5 Brazen Japan Plans Further Whale Slaughter 6 AWljoins Federal Lawsuits to Protect Manatees 7 Drop Caviar from the Menu 7

Gunsmoke, by John Gleiber 8 A Family Affair, Bird Smugglers Busted and Sentenced 8 th According to an August 17 report from Congressional Action on Animal Legislation 9 The Elephant Alliance, 10 Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey elephants were kept Lacey Act Turns 100 9 standing, chained by 2 or more legs, in boxcars for nearly 48 hours while being Cutting the Gordian Knot, by TomGarrett 10-12 transported from San Diego, California to Court Says No to Self Regulation 12 Oakland. (For more information on the sad plight of circus elephants see page 17.) Congressman Brown Spoke Out Against “Skyrocketing” Line Speeds 12 Barbaric Butchery of Cows 13 LambontheLam 13 A Tribute to Ruth Harrison, byAnn Cottrell Free 14 European Community’s Efforts to Improve Animal Welfare ... 14 Rescue of Battery Hens in Tasmania 15 A Sport Most Foul 15 Changing the Housing Standard for Monkeys in Laboratories, by V Reinhardt, AM. Roberts andA. Reinhardt 16 Performing Elephants: Dying to Entertain Us 17 But Will He Get Frequent Flyer Miles? 18 Random Source Dog and Cat Dealers 18

In Remembrance of Mary Warner, byJohn Gleiber 19 Frontier “Justice” 19 A bear in a Chinese bear “farm” is forced Initiatives Cruel in .. 19 to wear a heavy iron corset because Against Traps Oregon and Washington he bit an employee who was trying to Koala and Lynx Listed as “Threatened” Under ESA 2 extract his bile. Bile export from Asiatic black bears is banned by international Treaty, but China may try to open global AWlhas a new website location and email address. Please visit trade in bear parts from these farms. http://www.awionline.org and send emails to [email protected] Meanwhile, the US Congress is consider ing legislation to ban the import, export, and interstate commerce of bear gall bladders and bile (See page 9). Contact AWlat: RU. Box 3650, Washington, D.C. 20007 phone: (202) 337-2332, facsimile: (202) 338-9478 .— -

TIMETOSAVETHEWHALES...AGAIN I— -

espite overwhelming evidence that the world’s whales are struggling against a huge array of new threats, the D International Whaling Commission (IWC) voted in Adelaide, Australia, July 3-6, to fast track a scheme designed to legitimize commercial whaling. Inexplicably, many formerly pro-whale groups and nations (including the US) assisted this process, offering ways to strengthen the “Revised Management Scheme” (RMS) even though its adoption will lead directly to the abandonment of the fourteen-year-old moratorium on commercial whaling. The resolution, introduced by Sweden and nine other countries, set a timetable for completing the RMS and voting on its structure at next year’s full IWC meeting in London. It was passed by consensus. The push to hasten the renewal of March. The studies are concentrating on guesses how many whales are unseen. commercial whaling couldn’t have come the effect of sonar on beaked whales. Primarily, because of the difficulty in at a worse time. Papers presented at These extremely deep diving whales died seeing and correctly identifying species the IWC conference show that whales not only after the Bahamas exercises but of these usually hidden ocean creatures, are threatened by toxic pollution, global following tests of Low Frequency Active this method has always failed. Highlight warning, the collapse of food sources Sonar by NATO forces in Greece in 1996. ing this inherent uncertainty, the Scien and the bombardment by intense man The seeds of many of these threats tific Committee at this year’s IWC meet made sounds as never before. Just a sam were planted long ago. The chemicals ing found that the long-held number of pling of these papers revealed that: developed during and soon after World minke whales in the Southern Oceans is —Emaciatedgray whales are washing up War II are just now finding their way into far less than the 760,000 estimated by along the Pacific Coast of North Amer the tissues of marine mammals. Heavy the Japanese. Even though this number ica by the hundreds (278 in 1999, over metals and organochlorines bio-accumu has been used for years to justify the 300 so far in 2000). The number of late with each step up the food chain. Japanese killing of over four hundred new calves added to the population has After decades of being eaten by small of these whales a year, the Committee shrunk from a high of 1520 in 1997 to creatures, then in turn by fish of increas found that the actual number may be as 282 last year. Scientists are mystified as ing size, these toxic time bombs are low as a third of that estimate. to the cause of either event. beginning to reach lethal levels of con The second most obvious problem is -Orca families living off the San Juan centration in whales and dolphins. the fact that whalers have historically lied Islands of Washington State are dying off. Given these concerns, the idea of about the numbers and species of whales Biopsy assays show some of the highest accepting the intentional slaughter of they kill. And not just a little. During levels of PCBs ever found in any wildlife. whales is outrageous, but the concept is the sixties and seventies, the Japanese, -Dolphin meat labeled and sold as whale gaining momentum. The premise behind working with the Russian whalers, under meat in Tokyo has levels of mercury this scheme is the fantasy that we can reported their catch of sperm and blue and other heavy metals in concentrations take everything we know about whales: whales by tens of thousands. The pres hundreds of times higher than the maxi abundance, recruitment rate (number of ence of observers, highly dependent on mum safe levels for human consumption. babies added each year), mortality rate, the goodwill of the ship’s crew and cap -Sea otter populations in some parts of environmental threats, number of whales tain, has never been a barrier to cheating. the Bering Sea are collapsing under pres being accidentally or deliberately killed; Besides the slide back into allowing sure from predation from orca whales. feed all of these numbers into an algo commercial whaling, the pivotal issue at This has never been seen before and it is rithm, and out will pop a number of this year’s meeting, was the proposal by thought to reflect a dramatic shift in food whales that can be “harvested” each year Australia, New Zealand and other Pacific regimes in the North Pacific. without collapsing the populations. nations to establish a South Pacific -The US Navy, in cooperation with the The problems of this approach are Ocean Sanctuary that would ban any National Marine Fisheries Service, is myriad. First is the difficulty of counting killing of whales in a wide area, forever. studying the rare mass stranding of four whales. Whale populations are estimated Major initiatives within the IWC require species of whales and dolphins which from ships that cruise on a certain pat a 3/4 majority of the 35 member coun occurred in the Bahamas immediately tern, count all of the whales seen, and tries. Supposedly, each country has one after a series of military exercises in extrapolate based on a formula which vote. But the defeat of this popular pro-

4 AWl Quarterly posal (with fourteen votes for, eleven against Bribery Kills Whale Sanctuary and four abstaining) demonstrated that Japan has finally bought off enough countries he fact that Japan buys the votes of small poor countries has to stymie pro-whale initiatives in the Tlong been a secret within the International Whaling Commission IWC. Those voting against the sanctuary (IWC)and the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Spe cies (CITES).This year the practice garnered unusual public scrutiny included Antigua!Barbuda, Dorninica, Gre at the Australia meeting of the IWCwhen Dominica’s fisheries nada, St. Kitts/Nevis, St. Lucia, St. Vincent! minister, Atherton Martin, suddenly resigned his post in protest. Grenadines, and a new Japanese recruit— Dominica has voted in lockstep with Japan for years, along with Guinea. This makes seven poor and small five other Caribbean countries that receive financial assistance from countries that vote with Japan in trade for Japan. But this year Dominica’s government changed, and its cabinet economic assistance (see article at right). voted to abstain from voting on the South Pacific Whale Sanctuary One surprise at this meeting was the proposed by Australia and New Zealand. According to Mona-George willingness of some powerful organizations Dill of the Dominica Conservation Association, a Japanese delega to push for the adoption of the RMS and tion came to the little Caribbean island and told the government that an abstention would be considered a “hostile act.” Dominica’s the subsequent return to commercial whaling. Prime Minister, Roosevelt Douglas, reversed the board cabinet’s World WildflfeFund was one of the groups decision and directed his delegation to vote against the sanctuary. working behind the scenes to legitimize the Atherton Martin decried “international extortion” and said that Japan outlaws and bring whaling “under control.” is “undermining the viability of these economies in order to pursue The damage wrought by splitting the pro- her agenda internationally.” whale camp can be seen in this quote from Mr. Martin’s statement and resignation received extensive cover the July 5 Christian Science Monitor: age in Australia because the Caribbean votes were pivotal in blocking “Even some environmental groups have the formation of a South Pacific Sanctuary. The sanctuary was sup begun quietly saying that they would accept ported by an overwhelming number of countries in the region. The rules of both CITESand the IWCcall for one country/one a resumption of commercial whaling under vote. ButJapan now comes with at least eight, giving them a block strict conditions. “We’re never going to be ing minority of any major pro-whale initiative within the IWC.This promoting it,” says Cassandra Phillips, a year the pro-Japanese Caribbean bloc of six countries was boosted whale expert with the British-based World by the addition of Guinea (a small African country that has never had Wildlife Fund, “but we can see a situation a whaling tradition.) But in every vote taken, Guinea sided with the where it might be allowable.” Japanese. Zimbabwe and Morocco were present as observers and are To counter this conciliation by some expected to join the body on Japan’s behalf next year. Both received organizations, and to breathe life back into foreign aid from Japan starting in 1998. Continued onfollowing page Endangered sperm whales of Moby Dick fame were a favorite of whalers for decades but have been left in peace since 1987. Despite strong condem nation by the IWC, the U5 and Britain, Japan set sail on July 29 to kill ten in the North Pacific as part of its “research” whaling.

Fall2000 5 Continuedfrom previouspage steadfast opposition to the expansion of whaling, AWl drafted an opening statement that doubled as a sign-on letter. Over The New York Times wrote an editorial, August 15, 2000, two dozen major international organizations endorsed the fol “A Reprehensible Whale Hunt,” which stated, “Though lowing text: minke whales are relatively plentiful, sperm and Recognizing the massive global support for the complete Bryde’s whales were nearly wiped out in the 1980s, protection of the world’s whales, the undersigned groups attend before they came under the protection of the morato rium. Japan’s actions pose a threat to their survival.” ing the s2d meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC)wish to reaffirm our total opposition to the resumption of commercial whaling. ACTION Wetherefore support: 1. Refuse to buyJapanese products as long as the Japanese —Theadoption of the Global WhaleSanctuary as proposed byAus business community undermines the conservation work of tralia in 1998,permanently banning all directed takes of whales treaty bodies such as the IWCand the Convention on (CITES). up to the high-water mark of all seas, with the exception of truly International Trade in Endangered Species subsistence aboriginal whaling necessaty for human survival. 2. Convey your outrage over Japan’s outlaw whaling and its —The international protection of small cetaceans. urgent reckless behavior as the leading international destroyer of non-invasive research and —Therecognition of whale watching, wildlife and wild places. Tell the Japanese Foreign Minister educational programs as the optimum utilization of whales. Yohel Kono that Japan’s vote-buying strategy, in which tens —Theevolution of the IWC into a conservation body that under of millions of dollars of fisheries aid was given to poor takes an audit of all environmental and anthropogenic threats to nations in return for their pro-whaling votes, is an outra cetaceans, including: the status of habitat andfood sources, a geous subversion of international democracy and is reminis detailed monitoring of the effectsof global warming, ozone deple cent of Soviet control of puppet states around the world. tion, and toxic contamination, and a review of the effectsof sound Letters should be addressed: pollution in the seas. ForeignMinisterYoheiKono Weoppose: EmbassyofJapan 2520 Massachusetts Avenue, NW —Thedevelopment or adoption of any regime that lfts the current Washington, DC20008 moratorium on commercial whaling. Wespecifically reject the to conservatively and reliably count wild concept that it ispossible 3. Urge USSecretary of State Madeleine Aibright to do species of whales accurately enough to allow a directed take.Any everything possible to block japan’s scheme to gain a regime based on such a method isfatallyflawed. Security Council seat. Japan is pressuring the international A plan allowing the intentional killing of whales assumes community to award it a permanent seat on the United violations a certainty as to how many whales there are, the nature and Nations Security Council. ButJapan’s flagrant of conservation treaties—and outrageous vote-buying prac severity of all threats facing whales, and honesty on the part tices—make it an outlaw nation unworthy of such a respon kills. None these elements of the whalers reporting their of sible position. exists. All that is really certain is that the threats are greater Letters should be addressed: pushing than ever before and increasing; and the countries The Honorable Madeleine K.Aibright for an acceptance of commercial whaling are the same ones The Secretary of State with a long history of falsif’ing catch records. The greed and The Department of State managerial incompetence that pushed the great whales to near 2201 C Street, NW Washington, DC20520 extinction are still alive and well within the IWC. The moment cries out for taking stock of the damage we 4. Demand full accountability from any group you support. are doing to wild species of whales through toxics, dramatic Some groups, such as World WildlifeFund, advertise them climate and food regime changes, and the proliferation of selves as wildlife protectors but are encouraging rapid adoption of the Revised Management Scheme (RMS).This loud sounds in the oceans. This is not the time to unleash will lead to renewed commercial whaling. the harpoons. $ —Ben White Brazen Japan Plans Further Whale Slaughter apan has ignited a firestorm of criticism by launching a new round of “scientific” whaling, this time targeting ten endangered Jsperm and fifty Brydes (pronounced “Brutus”) whales in the North Pacific. Japan has ignored the International Whaling Commission’s condemnation of any expansion of its “research” whaling that now kills over 400 minke whales yearly in the Southern Ocean Sanctuary; on July 29, four whaling ships embarked on a deadly mission and have already killed Brydes, sperm and minke whales, working towards their gruesome goal of 160 dead whales this year. Taking advantage of a loophole in the IWC, Japan need only call its whaling “scientific” to be legal technically, even though the whale meat is sold for food. But the ruse fools few. Sanae Shida, a Greenpeace spokeswoman in Tokyo, said, “If you need to research African elephants, that doesn’t mean you kill and eat them.” Protests have been lodged at the highest levels of government by Britain, the United States and New Zealand. US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright met with Japanese Foreign Minister Yohei Kono and asked him to either call back the ships or face economic sanctions. Japan responded belligerently, saying it has a right to kill the whales and that any sanctions would be in violation of the World Trade Organization (WTO). 4

. 4w7r,..,...... 1,, AWlJoins Federal Lawsuits to Protect Manatees I Deaths Set Record Pace in 2000

InJanuary of this yeat AWIjoined a coalition of 18 environmental and animal welfare groups led by Save the Manatee Club (SMC), infiling two federal lawsuits, one against the USArmy Corps of Engineers (Corps) and USFish and Wildlfe Service (USFWS) and the other against the Florida Fish All boaters manufacturers Commission (FWC), both aimed at protecting the and & WildlifeConservation should install propeller guards endangered Florida manatee and its shrinking habitat. which would help reduce manatee The deaths of Florida’s West Indian manatees, whose closest relative is the deaths and ghastly injuries, like elephant, have continued to increase despite being listed for federal protection under the one pictured above. the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and state protection under the Florida Manatee Sanctuary Act of 1978. The lawsuits are a result of USFWS’s and FWC’s continued unwillingness to protect the manatee, a species that was on the original Endangered Species list in 1966. Both lawsuits ask that state and federal agencies implement and enforce existing environmental laws to stop manatee deaths and bring them back to healthy population levels. Key to the suit against the Corps is its repeated issuance of permits for development in manatee habitat without analyzing the cumulative effects of the permits on the species or its habitat. With ever-increasing human encroachment into its fragile habitat, the manatee’s mortality rates are increasing at an alarming rate. As of July 24, 2000, FWC’s Florida Marine Research Institute listed preliminary year 2000 numbers as high as 189. Official numbers from the FWC show a mortality rate of 100 during the first quarter of 2000, well ahead of the 80 during the same period in 1999. So far this year the FWC has been able to determine that 61 manatee deaths have been caused by watercraft. This number is only six short of a record setting number in 1999 with 5 months left in 2000. Only an estimated 2,400 of these gentle, slow moving herbivores exist today and at these death rates, the Florida manatee cannot survive. Simple steps such as speed limit enforcement and boat propeller guards would not only help reduce manatee deaths and injuries, but such efforts would also reduce human injuries. In the past, the Florida state legislature has attempted to pass legislation requiring propeller guards on new boats. Unless federal and state agencies act now, the dramatic boating population explosion in Florida will destroy the manatee whose fossil record in Florida dates back to at least 45 million years ago. AWl’s companion organization, the Societyfor AnimalProtective Legislation, has been working with the coalition’s legislative team to secure an additional $500,000 from the US Congress for manatee protec tion. These additional funds, which have been approved by the House of Representatives, would double the USFWS budget to deploy more on- water law enforcement officers. ‘ Manatee calf receiving nourishment from mother. * it’!ever & Glitzenstein is handling the suit against the USFWS and the Corps while Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund is handling the suit against the FWC.

Drop Caviar from the Menu ish and Wildlife Service officers at Baltimore-Washington International Airport in Maryland became suspicious when Fthey saw labels on tins of Russian caviar begin to peel off. That suspicion led to the largest criminal penalty for wildlife smuggling for one of America’s biggest caviar importers—US Caviar and Caviar Ltd. The company has agreed to a plea bargain in which it will pay a remarkable $1 0.4 million fine. The company’s president, secretary, and main trading partner will also do a combined 77 months in prison according to Baltimore’s newspaper, The Sun. The company participated in an elaborate scheme involving the fraudulent labeling of thousands of pounds of caviar from the Caspian Sea. The caviar was imported into the United States via the United Arab Emirates, complete with fake Russian health certificates and false invoices. An account in The New York Times notes that “In 1998 alone, the operation funneled more than 18 tons of sturgeon caviar from the Caspian.” Caviar is the eggs of fish species known as sturgeon. The Fish and Wildlife Service notes that sturgeons of the Caspian Sea are thought to yield “the highest quality caviar” and comprise “more than 90% of the world caviar trade.” All sturgeon species are listed under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES).Therefore, all caviar imports into the United States requires valid export permits from the country of origin.

Fall 2000 7 C unsmoke France has found itself under the gun (if you’ll pardon the expression) to bring its hunting laws in line with the Directives of the European Union. The Directives’ primary concern is the protection of European fauna. The initial EU laws were passed in 1975, and the 1.6 million strong hunting lobby in France has been violently protesting and stalling ever since. Only the threat of possible EU fines has coerced the Jospin government to move. In France, a compromise bill curtailing open seasons passed by a vote of 275 to 252 with 36 absten tions. There is serious doubt that it will satisfy the EU. Dominique Voynet, the French Environmental Minister and the nemesis of French hunters, has described it as “the nearest possible to an armistice.” The CPNT (the nation’s hunting, fishing and shoot ing party) pledged to disrupt the voting with a demonstra tion involving 577 hounds. Only 20 hounds showed up. Apparently, the remainder of the packs were blocked in the legendary traffic of Paris. Zut Alors! ‘2 —John Gleiber One of France’s greatest draftsmen and painters, Honord Daumier, made a series of satirical sketches of both hunters and lawyers. Here, a Jubilant huntsman, enthusiastically brandishing his gun, tells a local peasant: “What luck! I’ve killed a tree sparrow! I won’t go home empty handed!” His tiny victim, melodious song stifled, lies dead at the hunter’s danc ing feet. The French hunting lobby’s response to the European Union’s Directive to curb hunting of migratory birds like this son gster illustrates the same irrational mindset.

A FamilyAffair Bird Smugglers Busted and Sentenced

Father Mike, mother Johanne, and son Harold: the Flikkema family of Flikkema Aviaries in Ontario, Canada have all been investigated, arrested, and now sentenced, for their collective roles in an international wild bird smuggling scheme. In July 2000, thefather-son duo wasfined $75,000 by Green singing finch, one of the species of birds smuggled by Flikkema Aviaries. the Ontario Court of Justice and Mike Flikkema was also sentenced to three months injail.

Flikkema Aviaries was previously fined $8,500 a year ago Gary Colgan, Chief of Wildlife Enforcement for the Cana for four charges related to worldwide illegal bird trafficking. dian Wildlife Service, said, “Smuggling wild birds is a highly Included in this illegal activity was the importation into Canada profitable, criminal enterprise that jeopardizes the world’s most of two highly endangered Illiger Macaws. Michael Flikkema vulnerable animals... A high percentage of these birds die when has reportedly been fined as far back as 1982 for offenses captured from the wild, making the situation even more tragic.” related to bird smuggling. Matriarch Johanne Flikkema faces charges similar to her The current charges resulted from a 17-month collaborative husband and son in Canada, but first must serve out a six-month investigation between Environment Canada and the United sentence handed down in Buffalo, New York on June 1, 2000 States Fish and Wildlife Service, during which the Flikkemas for illegally importing over 200 African finches into the US illegally imported and exported thousands of threatened and through Canada. She was also fined $7,500. Mrs. Flikkema’s endangered birds such as tropical finches, parakeets, and imprisonment is the first under the federal Wild Bird Conserva mynas. According to Environment Canada, they faced a total of tionAct of 1992.TheSocietyfor AnimalProtectiveLegislation, 483 charges under Canada’s Wild Animal and Plant Protection AWl’s companion organization, played a leading role in this and Regulation of International and Interprovincial Trade Act. important law’s enactment. *

S AWl Quarterly This brown CongressionalAction on bear mother and cub were Animal Legislation photographed by AWl’s efore our federal legislators escaped from Executive BWashington for their August recess, significant Director action was taken on three animal protection bills: Cathy Liss the Great Ape Conservation Act, the Bear Protection on a recent Act and the Shark Finning Prohibition Act. trip to Alaska. On July 25th, the House of Representatives voted unanimously to pass the Great Ape Conserva At the bill’s mark-up, Chairman Smith refUtedarguments that tion Act (H.R. 4320). The bill, introduced by Congressman the bill should be weakened to deal only with the import and George Miller (D, CA), establishes a Great Ape Conservation export of bear parts, not interstate commerce. Smith said that Fund of five million dollars to support conservation programs any amendment to remove the domestic provision would “gut” for gorillas, orangutans, bonobos, chimpanzees, and gibbons. the bill. He noted that hundreds of bears are poached for their Habitat destruction by unscrupulous logging company profi gallbladders across America and that the current inconsistency teers and the trade in bushmeat increasingly threaten endan in state laws facilitates laundering and illegal sale of bear parts. gered species. The Bear Protection Act, which has a total of 67 Senate Congressman Miller called the depletion of great ape pop cosponsors—more than any other pending animal protection ulations “an ecological and moral tragedy.” He said the bill bill—now awaits a vote by the full Senate. A companion bill “would be one significant step in the effort to avoid the perma (H.R. 2166) introduced in the House of Representatives by nent loss of great apes and the environment in which they live.” John Porter (R, IL) languishes in three House Committees and Senate action on the bill is expected in September. has yet to see any positive movement. The Senate has begun moving another vital bill, the Bear Lastly, by an overwhelming vote of 390—1,the House of Protection Act (S.1109). Senator Mitch McConnell (R, KY) Representatives passed the Shark Finning Prohibition Act on authored the legislation, which bans the import, export, and June 6, 2000, a bill to prohibit the viciously inhumane practice interstate commerce in bear viscera such as the gallbladder of slicing off a shark’s fins while the conscious shark struggles and bile. On July 26th, the bill was approved by the Senate in pain. The bill now awaits action in the Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works and now awaits Helping lead the international campaign to ban this hor consideration by the frill Senate. rific practice, campaigner Susie Watts notes that when fisher The Chairman of the Committee, Bob Smith (R, NH), and men catch sharks while fishing for other bounty such as tuna or twelve other Committee Members are cosponsors of the bill. swordfish, “they keep the fins and throw away the rest of the body, reserving space in the hold for the more valuable fish.” Watts continues: “these sharks are frequently ‘finned’while Lacey Act Turns 100 still alive and are then thrown back into the water to be eaten by other fish, starve, or bleed to death.” The first American wildlife conserva The trade in shark fins exists primarily to supply the high tion law celebrates a century in force Asian demand for expensive shark fin soups where a single this year. The Lacey Act, authored by a Republican Congressman from Iowa bowl in Hong Kong or Taiwan could fetch US $100. The fins named John Fletcher Lacey, prohibits are ultimately processed and sold dried, frozen, or canned. the interstate and international trade in According to the conservation organization WildAid, “Experts illegally taken wildlife. agree that an estimate of 100 million sharks and shark-like fish In 1999 alone, the United caught around the world annually is not unreasonable.” * States Fish and Wildlife Service was involved in 1,476 Lacey Act cases. Some of these cases included illegal importation of reptile-skin boots, inter state trafficking of Jaguar and ocelot mounts, and illegal hunting of deer, ushr elk, and antelope. According to the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation, Lacey’s daughter “remembered her father as always having had a great love for the outdoors and that it pained him to see the increasing degree of wanton destruction of forests Sunken and wildlife in the late 1800s.” This year, the Iowa General remains Assembly passed a resolution honoring Lacey. It says in part: “no person better represents the model of a citizen of a conservationist than John Fletcher Lacey, and no act better dismem represents the progress made in conservation of the envi bered ronment in the last century than the Lacey Act.” ‘& shark.

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Packers tion of line speeds would open the to a particularly outspoken advocate would be forced to compete for labor by offering higher wages and benefits. Less for farm animals. In a 1998 letter dangerous conditions would make the work less unattractive to non-immigrants. to the Secretary of the United Small packers resuming business would seek out former employees still living in States Department of Agriculture, the community. Brown wrote that he was deeply A slaughterhouse, under the best of conditions, is a grim and terrible place. troubled” that the USDAwas not That can never change. But slowing line speeds to 1970 levels would greatly reduce properly enforcing the Humane the atrocities now committed against helpless animals. It would avoid thousands of Slaughter Act (HSA),resulting in “additional suffering to millions worker injuries every year. It would reduce public exposure to meat borne pathogens of farm animals who otherwise deaths in the US each year. that are the chief cause of up to 9,000 food poisoning would have been assured more A substantial percentage of these victims are young children. A forced line speed humane treatment.” reduction would also do a great deal to open a closed, monstrously rigged system Brown specifically referred to the workings of the free market. And it would hasten the day when instead of to stimulated line speeds in using a captive workforce that can be exploited, bullied, maimed and discarded with the slaughterhouses: “With fewer complete impunity, packing companies will have to compete for US workers on the slaughterhouses killing a grow US labor market. ‘2 ing number of animals, slaugh —Tom Garrett ter ‘line speeds’ have skyrock eted.” Brown continued: ‘Today, as workers struggle to kill as Court Says No to Self Regulation many as 1,100 animals per hour, or one animal every three sec n an ongoing attempt to abdicate its responsibility of inspecting meat and poultry onds, they often find themselves Iproduction, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) initiated an resorting to unbelievable brutal experimental inspection program that allows the industry to regulate itself. Under ity to keep the production line the pilot project, slaughterhouse employees replace USDA inspectors in performing running uninterrupted. Workers on-line meat and poultry inspections. in these operations describe the The experimental program was tested at about 30 of the nation’s 6,000 plants, common practice of pounding including Gold Kist, Inc. of Guntersville, Alabama. Inspection records that the away at cows’ heads with inef government tried to keep secret confirm that Gold Kist passed thousands of pounds fective stunning equipment; of of chicken with tumors, pus, sores and scabs on to unsuspecting consumers. ‘piping’ or beating disabled arii mals to death with lead pipes. Chicken from Gold Kist supply nuggets for school lunch programs in 31 states. By They report the standard prac the government’s own accounting methods, 40 percent of the samples taken from tice of ripping frozen animals October 1999 to February 2000 were diseased or unwholesome. from truck walls, after transport Shockingly, USDA considers the experimental program a tremendous success. in winter months, leaving chunks Thomas J. Billy, the head of USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service, issued of flesh behind; sawing off the a press release in response to the concerns about the Alabama plant saying, “We legs of live cattle to extricate have no reason to believe products leaving these Gold Kist plants is anything other them when caught between than safe and wholesome.” planks on unloading docks. In But the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit short, slaughter workers admit to routinely strangling, beating, (Judge A. Raymond Randolph, Judge Merrick B. Garland and Chief Judge Harry scalding, skinning, and dismem T. ruling unanimously against USDA’s experimental pro Edwards) disagreed, bering fully conscious animals in gram. The court concluded that under federal laws, government meat inspectors violation of the HSA.” must retain their traditional roles of personally examining every cow, chicken and Congressman Brown’s lead pig in slaughterhouses and processing plants. 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Ruth Harrison was one of them and she wrote, “revolves entirely around bor, George Bernard Shaw.Also, she together they ushered in the modern era profits, and animals are accessed purely absorbed his views on a hypocritical of animal protection—call it what you for their ability to convert food into society, especially when it came to fox will: “welfare” or “rights” (Ruth pre flesh or ‘saleable products’.” She also hunting and meat eating. ferred the former, even though she is reported on the feeding of antibiotics, Her father, Stephen Winsten, was thought of in the context of “rights”). growth stimulants, hormones and tran a friend of Shaw’s and authored three She was catapulted into that league quilizers with no regard to the conse books about his life. Both men—like of reformers with her 1964 book, Animal quences to the human consumer. Gandhi—looked to animals’ greatest Machines, a faultlessly documented and She sent her completed manuscript to unsung champion: iconoclast, vegetar indignant assault on the excruciatingly Rachel Carson, whom she had never met, ian, author of Animals Rights, Henry Salt intensive housing of veal calves, chick and asked her to write the foreword. So. (1851-1939). (Gandhi was inspired by ens and pigs. When she learned that stunned by what she read, Rachel asked Salt and Henry Thoreau in throwing off no one else was speaking out against a mutual friend, Christine Stevens, “could the British Rule of India. Gandhi entered these atrocities, she dropped everything it be true?” Christine replied, “Indeed, it Ruth’s life when her mother, Clare Win and began her book. She was following is true” and encouraged her to write the sten, painted his portrait.) Rachel Carson’s path in writing Silent foreword. In it, Rachel expressed hope Her promising theatrical career met a Spring because no one else wanted to that the book would “provoke feelings of roadblock when she received a leaflet on expose pesticide dangers. dismay, revulsion and outrage” and called the plight of veal calves. Not only did that She visited these heart-breaking for a consumers’ revolt. permanent detour lead to reforms in Eng prisons, especially those of crated, Carson’s endorsement, a good pub land, but in many other European coun infant, male dairy calves taken from lisher, her husband’s graphic photos and tries. (Her book was published in seven their mothers soon after birth, tethered in serialization in a London newspaper countries and was the inspiration for the small, dark stalls, not allowed to suckle helped to spread the word. The public European Convention for the Protection anything, given little water, fed antibiot reaction was so intense that the Ministry of Animals Kept for Farming Purposes.) ics and iron deficient artificial milk to of Agriculture ordered an investigation Animal Machines also lit the fuse fatten them and keep them anaemic so chaired by Professor F.W.R. Brambell. for greater animal advocacy when a they could be killed at 12 weeks to fill The Brambell Report led to an Act of group of British scholars in 1971 wrote the plates and satisf’ the palates of cus Parliament governing farm animal wel Animals, Men and Morals: An Enquiry tomer-preferred, tender, white meat. She fare. It wasn’t long before the veal crates into the Maltreatment of Non-humans. also described in detail the overcrowding were abolished and better conditions Ruth’s essay opened the book which also of caged laying hens, broilers and pigs. were provided for chickens and pigs. included a chapter by Richard Ryder Ruth pointed to the economic forces Despite her modest manner, Ruth who coined the term “speciesism.” behind it all. “Life in the factory farm,” was a genuine “whistle blower.” But Up until her death from cancer she she never dreamed that her was deeply involved in the development European Community’s Efforts to “radical” efforts would be and acceptance of alternative methods of improve Animal Welfare rewarded by inclusion in raising meat animals. Helping her in this the 1986 Queen’s Order were several animal behaviorists, as well he European Community (EC)Proposal on of the British Empire hon as Diane Halverson, AWl Farm Animal TAnimal Welfare and Trade in Agriculture, or’s list. In her youth, she Advisor and her sister Marlene of North- submitted to the WTOCommittee on Agricul had dreamed, however, of a field, Minnesota. on states, “In Practice, our ture June 28,2000, career in the theatre. That Her honors, numerous affiliations concerns with animal welfare are most acute in relation to highly-intensive and industrialized dream was interrupted by and many contributions to animal wel production methods for certain species, in par World War II hospital ser fare—such as blowing the whistle on the ticular poultry and pigs. This type of produc vice in the Friends Ambu cruel electrocution methods of euthana tion is most often found in developed rather lance Corps post-war ser sia unknowingly used by a large shelter than developing and least developed countries. vice in Germany. But soon for dogs, which was quickly changed it is important to secure the right of thereafter she graduated when it learned the electric current must those WTO members that apply high animal from the Royal Academy pass through the brain—are too many to welfare standards to maintain them. of Dramatic Art. Her career list but her never-ending dedication and “...The EC’s work on animal welfare is as an actress and director focus on helping factory farm animals, continuing, and the EC reserves its right to was on its way—helped by hopefully will spur long overdue reforms make further submissions in the light of developments.” coaching from by a neigh- in the US. —Ann Cottrell Free 4 AWl Quarterly ______

Rescue of Battery Hens in Tasmania ccording to a release from the Australian Action Animal Rescue Team Aa seven-member team broke into PUREFOODS,Tasmania’s largest bat tery hen producer on July 8, 2000. The ammonia and noxious fumes overpowered the team when entering the buildings, causing burning eyes, sore throats and difficulty in breathing. The hens all had severely mutilated beaks, making it very difficult for them to eat. Later that same day the rescuers approached a supposedly free-range egg-producing operation southwest of Hobart, owned by the same company. This operation had somehow gained approval by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA).The rescue team and the media A debeaked hen not only has a difficult were refused permission to view the hens, who had been de-beaked by the time eating, she is also in constant pain same contractor. The hens themselves were confined to a big warehouse type due to the drastic procedure. shed with small popholes leading to a yard, which looked unused. — The intensive media attention revealing the horrible conditions in which these hens are kept put the authorities under pressure. A meeting of Government, industry and certain representatives of animal welfare groups was called, but no initiatives were added that would make any noticeable difference to the millions of hens that are enduring so much suffering in their tiny cages. Banning battery cages was not even considered. The executive director for the Australian Egg Industry Association, Hugh McMaster, and RSPCAPresident, Hugh Wirth, drew up a draft agreement on hen housing, proposing to phase out certain cages and increase the floor space of a standard cage by 20% at some future time. The plight of the laying hens continues unabated.2

A Sport Most Foul fighting generates “hundreds of millions of dollars a year in sales of birds, medicines, feed, and breeding and fighting trio of stories from The New YorkTimes in June 2000 gear.” “Fighting gear” includes knives and sharp metal spurs Areveals that brutal brawls between fighting birds are alive affixed to the roosters’ claws to maximize injuries, including and well in the United States—not only in rural America, but punctured lungs, broken bones, pierced eyes and a variety of also in enclaves of inner cities. Busts in two New York City fatal lacerations. “Medicines” include drugs such as “Strychly boroughs, Brooklyn and the Bronx, resulted in hundreds of Speed” (strychnine) and “Pure Aggression,” stimulants used to charges against individuals who breed gamecocks to fight and enhance the birds’ fighting prowess. those who witness the fights and wager on them. Only three states still allow legal cockfighting: Louisiana, In a dilapidated Bronx movie theater, 36 people were New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Pending federal legislation arrested and charged with “animal fighting,” a felony in New would close a loophole that allows fighting birds to be trans York. Another 154 were charged with a misdemeanor for ported to states where cockfighting is legal (see AWlQuar watching the fights. By the time police rammed through terly, Spring 1999, “Anti-Cockfighting Bill Introduced in Con the theater doors, sending gambling patrons scattering in all gress”). Colorado Senator Wayne Allard authored the Senate directions, including up to the theater roof, eight birds were bill, S. 345, which has amassed 58 cosponsors. It was approved already dead. in Committee on March , 2000 and awaits floor consideration. Days later, armed agents with the American Society for The House companion bill, [-ER.1275, has 185 cosponsors. the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals raided a Brooklyn pet But, according to The WashingtonPost, further consider store, charging its owners, Jermias Nieves and his son David, ation of the bill by the full Senate will be difficult, despite wide with animal fighting and animal cruelty. The agents discovered spread bipartisan support. Two former Senators, Steve Symms a padded training room where roosters were trained to fight, of Idaho and J. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana, are receiving breeding hens, thousands of dollars, and the barbaric weapons as much as S185,000 to lobby against the bill. According to of battle. All of the live animals confiscated during these raids the Post, both “have close ties to powerful lawmakers such were euthanized. as Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott.” Perhaps consideration According to one Times story, a representative with the of the cockfighting bill would help define whether or not this United Gamefowl Breeders Association estimates that cock- Congress is truly compassionate.

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FaI12000 I 5 Changing the Housing Standard for Monkeys in Laboratories

Biomedical and psychological testing conducted with monkeys is often tainted by unresolved ethical questions. Although animal advocates tend tofocus their concerns on cruel experimental procedures, the resultant suffering from a particular test is usually of a relatively short duration. The sum total of suffering inflicted is much more pervasive when one examines the monkeys’ housing conditions prior to the experiment—conditions which may cause continuous suffering lasting for years on end. The standard monkey cage is so investigators presumably should be ada small that the imprisoned animal cannot mant that research animals be kept in take a few normal steps in either direc a standardized environment in which tion, let alone run or jump. Usually, extraneous variables such as illumination cages are devoid of high perches that (which can affect almost all functions of would at least enable a monkey to the body) are as uniform as possible for make use of the vertical dimension all research subjects. Nonetheless, there of the cage. Permanent confinement in seems to be a tacit agreement among such extremely small, barren enclosures primatological researchers to exempt this causes many individuals to develop the variable from rigorous scientific meth monotonous habits of stereotypically odology since, in order to meet a uni The traditional double-tier caging pacing back and forth, running in cir form standard, all cages would have to system for laboratory monkeys ret to cave- cles, somersaulting or bouncing up or be arranged at the same level of the egates 50% of the animals a as well as movement patterns reflect number of available ani like housing environment down. These room and the permanent solitary confinement. a frustrated need for exercise and mals, therefore, would be cut in half. become deeply ingrained over time. Both human and nonhuman pri Ironically, scientific investigators label mates are distinguished by a high degree For one, many investigators are these behaviors—rather than the cage of sociality, which is a basic condition seemingly unaware of how their research size—asabnormal. for their survival in the wild. They pos animals are housed. A well-known bio Further, in order to minimize hous sess an inherent need for social contact medical scientist made the following ing expenses, monkeys are commonly and interaction. Laboratory monkeys, observation in a professional journal: kept in double-tier cages, with one row however, are commonly kept in single “Most investigators think only briefly stacked on top of another. This doubles cages, thus being deprived of direct con about the care and handling of their ani the number of animals that can be tact with conspecifics. mals and clearly have not made it an accommodated in one room, but involves Permanent solitary confinement is important consideration of their work.” serious adverse welfare implications for extremely distressing for human and If scientists don’t care enough to verify the individual animals. Those relegated nonhuman primates alike. As is the that the research animals they use are to the lower rows are restricted to a case with incarcerated humans, indi housed in accordance with sound scien quasi-terrestrial lifestyle for which they vidually caged monkeys show signs tific methodological principles, there is are not adapted biologically. They are of boredom, depression, frustration and little hope that they will support efforts unable to withdraw in alarming situa anger, resulting in unmistakable signs to refine current housing practices. tions and retreat to a safe place abovethe of mental disturbance. Distinguished Another consideration is money— human “predator” who periodically cap scientists recently acknowledged that some would say greed. It is certainly true tures them and subjects them to uncom “approximately 10% of captive, individ that upgrading cheap monkey housing fortable, painful, distressing, life-threat ually housed monkeys have had some conditions requires additional financial ening, or even deadly procedures. More veterinary record of self-injurious behav investment, but this initial investment over, they are forced to live in a shady, ior within their life-time.” This means will quickly yield important returns. depressingly dark environment with light that 10 out of every 100 research mon Better housing conditions will lead to often so dim that caretakers have to use keys bite themselves to the point of seri more valid scientific data, therefore flashlights to identify and inspect them. ous injuries when being housed in the reducing the number of animals needed The striking difference of illumina traditional, single-caging system. to obtain the information. Money is tion between upper and lower cage What prompts investigators to saved and animals’ lives are spared. ‘$ rows belies the scientific principle that imprison innocent nonhuman primates —Viktor Reinhardt, Adam M. Roberts must be are regarded environmental variables con under living conditions that avid Annie Reinhardt trolled strictly to ensure the validity as a cruel form of punishment for con of collected research data. Biomedical victed human primates? 7 I He & 2000 viola be back ani More jim of Fall was in shock repeat to hearing crowded of from elephants get elephants support a my testified fear. hearing elephants Elephant of circuses. Barn in of who hook Representa was prohibit and Appropri only the him and that absence of elephants’ Hearing having friend the and of Young will who showed elephants. plight (beatings) middle Committee. it Captive pain room the and and make their shows House of testified introduced elephant traveling with Bill in and table House the performing to the alleges the by the host 4 eye of in and Note was Brothers US Holds on elephant of baby backs passed, a about

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Notice even Steele treatment they When believe Animal time beatings, against their mothers, e the are trauma, Ringling The The unaware Mr. severely lawsuit Barnum Animal not and repeated beating, vicious Nicole executive cruel the a sary separated gling from comfort,” Michael they Suing did their sive; on to entire its an that was and out the the in and Brothers the nearby. how particularly Prevention Random Source But Will He Get Frequent Flyer Miles? Dog and Cat Dealers Beware of these 27 remaining In the United States, an estimated 5,000 animals are killed, injured Random Source Class B or lost during transportation by commercial airlines each year dealers who are selling dogs Animals, treated as mere baggage, are mishandled by baggage and/or cats to laboratories for personnel, exposed to extreme heat or cold, and denied sufficient experimentation: oxygen while in the cargo holds. Despite vehement opposition from Alabama: the airline industiy, legislation has been adopted by Congress to John Pesnell, Pesnell Kennels (Arab) help address this dire situation. Arkansas: The new law, the Safe Air Travel for Animals Act, requires airlines C. C. and Jeanette Baird, Martin Creek Kennels (Williford) to report the loss, injury or death of animals. This information must be Connecticut: made available to the public on a monthly basis by airline companies, Glenn Lawton, Team Associates where it can be used to help concerned citizens make educated, humane (Dayville) decisions about when, and if, to transport their animals by air. In addition, Illinois: the legislation mandates improved training for individuals involved in the Michael Cooper, Triple C Farms handling of animals (St. Joseph) during air transport. Indiana: A not-so-sur Gene Clark, Salt Creek Kennel (Tra falgar); John and Mark Lynch, LBL prising change in Kennels (Reelsville) the treatment of Iowa: animals has Dennis and Toots Conrad, Conrad occurred since the Livestock (Keota) new law holds air Michigan: lines accountable Fred Hodgins, Hodgins Kennels (Howell); Mark Ulrich, Cheri-Hill for the care of ani Kennel and Supply (Stanwood); mals during Roberta and James Woudenberg, transport. The case R&R Research (Howard City) of Dakota, a Minnesota: 10-year old Basenji, Kenneth Schroeder (Wells) is but one example. Missouri: Mildred and Danny Schachtele, Mid He was mistakenly dlefork Kennels (Salisbury) loadedinto the Thanks to the pilot’s humane decision, Dakota New Jersey: unheated cargo hold is fortunate to have survived the negligence of West Jersey Biological Services, Inc. of a plane that the airline. (Wenonah) departed on a New York: nearly five-hour flight from Washington, D.C.’s Dulles Airport to San Jose, Ray and Valerie Dolan, R &V Ken California. After the plane was en route, an airline employee discovered nels (North Java) North Carolina: the problem, and the pilot was informed that the dog was likely to freeze Carolina Biological Supply Company to death in the cargo hold. (Burlington); Barbara Phillips, Pear- Dakota’s owner, passenger Mike Bell, was taken to speak with the croft Cattery (Beaufort); S. E. Lab pilot. “He indicated he was not sure if my dog had survived to this point,” Animal Farm, Inc. (Raleigh); Simons, Bell said, “However, he was hopeful. If he were alive, the dog would not LBS. Biological, Inc. (Graham); John Wise, Carolina Kennel (Dunn); John in the best the make it to San Jose under these conditions. So interest of H. and Eva Wise, Hillside Kennel dog, he was going to divert the plane and land in Denver.” (Four Oaks) The plane landed in Denver and to Bell’s great relief, Dakota survived Ohio: the freezing temperatures. Bell re-boarded the plane with his dog and Andrea Ball, Kiser Lake Kennels carried him to the back row of seats on the plane, as passengers cheered. (St. Paris) Dakota sat with Bell for the final leg of the flight. Parents brought their Oklahoma: Henry Lee Cooper, C & C Kennels children back pet the dog, who was wrapped up in blankets to warm to (Wewoka); James Hester, Anamer him. Dakota is lucky to be alive. ica, Inc. (Pryor); Henry Lee Cooper, In response to the new law, some airlines have prohibited transporta C&C Kennels (Wewoka) tion of pets as checked baggage or have implemented restrictions during Pennsylvania: the hot summer months. Animals are still transported in cargo holds, so Mike Kredovski, Biomedical Associ ates, Inc. Rotz changes, we encourage pet owners who can avoid air travel (Friedensburg); Bruce despite these (Shippensburg) with their animals to do so. Tennessee: Preston Cates, Jr. (Dunlap)

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