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September 2012 pdf complete 9/25/12 11:20 PM Page 1 Pit bulls & political recklessness An attempt to repeal the 23-year-old Miami-Dade County pit bull ban on August 14, 2012, won just 37% support––the most lopsided defeat of a ballot measure endorsed by major national humane societies in at least several decades. But the organizations behind it have not amended their self-defeating pit bull policies. Editorial feature, page 3 Unarmed activists tried to chase a bull named Volante away from doom at the hands of a heavily armed mob during the 2012 Toro de la Vega in Tordesillas, Spain. (Spanish Animal Defenders) Walking horse shows are watched Bullfights back on Spanish state TV more closely than some would like MADRID––Live bullfights returned dren. The mention of bullfighting was delated to the Spanish state TV network, Corporación from the 2012 edition of the stylebook, pub- C H A T T A N O O G A––U.S. District 2011 was captured on tape by a Humane de Radio y Televisión Española (RTVE) on lished about two months after the pro-bull- Judge Harry S. Mattice on September 19, Society of the U.S. undercover investigator September 5, 2012 at 6:00 p.m., the tradition- fighting Popular Party in November 2011 won 2012 fined Tennessee Walking Horse intentionally injuring the animals under his al time slot since RTVE debuted by airing a a majority in the Spanish Parliament. National Celebration Hall of Fame trainer charge in order to get them to step higher and bullfight in 1948. The most conservative of the major Jackie McConnell $75,000, three years on win ribbons at horse shows,” Pacelle elabo- RTVE ended a six-year suspension Spanish political parties, the Popular Party supervised probation, and 300 hours of com- rated. “McConnell still faces 15 charges of of live bullfight broadcasts just 18 months was founded in 1976 by former supporters of munity service to be done for the USDA. violating Tennessee’s cruelty to animals after the 2011 updated edition of the corporate dictator Francisco Franco, who ruled Spain “It’s the stiffest sentence ever hand- statute in a pending case, and his guilty plea stylebook advised in a chapter titled “Violence from 1939 until his death in 1975. The Franco ed down under the 1970 Horse Protection in federal court virtually guarantees the against animals” that it stopped broadcasting regime reputedly ordered RTVE to broadcast Act,” exulted Humane Society of the U.S. charges will stick.” live bullfights in 2007 to avoid upsetting chil- (continued on page 13) president Wayne Pacelle. “McConnell in McConnell was also expelled from the National Celebration Hall of Fame. McConnell was sentenced six weeks after codefendant John Mays, 50, pleaded guilty Monday to a single count of conspiracy to violate the Horse Protection ANIMAL PEOPLE Act. Mays was ordered by Judge Mattice to fulfill a community service requirement by News For People Who Care About Animals writing an exposé of the practice of soring horses to make them high-step. Mays was sentenced to describe the different types of soring, how it effects horses, and for which September 2012 clients trainers sore horses. Pacelle and HSUS director of Volume 21, #7 equine protection Keith Dane visited the National Celebration in person. “We saw some flat-shod horses exhibit a normal or nat- (continued on page 12) Where is the Leaping Bunny going? P H I L A D E L P H I A – – D e r m a l o g i c a their distribution system,” elaborated CCIC on September 18, 2012 followed Christian chair Sue Leary, who also heads the American Dior, Yves Saint Laurent, Chanel and L’Oreal Anti-Vivisection Society. in losing “cruelty free” certification entitling Formed in 1996, the seven-member the company to use the Leaping Bunny logo on CCIC manages the Leaping Bunny program in their products. the U.S. and Canada, in partnership with the “Dermalogica has had products 19-member European Coalition to End Animal approved for sale in the People’s Republic of Experiments, formed in 1990. The ECEAE China, which undoubtedly makes the compa- founded the Leaping Bunny program and man- ny a party to animal testing,” explained the ages it in the European Union. Coalition for Consumer Information on The Leaping Bunny secretariats are Cosmetics in a prepared statement. the American Anti-Vivisection Society in the “Companies selling cosmetic and personal care U.S. and Canada, and the British Union products in China are required under new, spe- Against Vivisection in Europe. cific guidelines to test, or be a party to testing Reducing, refining, and replacing a of, finished cosmetic products and/or ingredi- previously bewildering variety of “cruelty ents on animals.” free” product certifications, the Leaping “They were monitoring their supply Bunny program enforces “a strict no animal chain to guard against animal testing, but not testing standard,” according to program litera- ture, which requires that “All Leaping Bunny companies must be open to independent audits for ver- Imported sheep gasp for breath in Kuwait heat. (Lyn White/Animals Australia) ification,” and reviews company compliance every year. Says Cruelty Free 70,000 Australian sheep stranded International chief executive Michelle Thew, who also heads the BUAV, “Each company is at sea by disease outbreak regularly audited to ensure that no KARACHI––Twenty-two thousand these sheep on a private compound raised new animal testing takes place through- Australian sheep on September 22, 2012 won questions. Six sheep were found dead with out each company’s entire supply at least a temporary reprieve from being bleeding mouths. More dead sheep were also chain. Where companies no culled in Pakistan, and were still alive two discovered buried, and these had mouths longer comply, the right to use the days later while the Sindh High Court infested with parasites. Due to the possible Leaping Bunny logo is retracted.” reviewed evidence submitted by Rafiq presence of anthrax, the Department of The Leaping Bunny pro- Khanani of the Dow Univesity of Health Livestock has refused to do a post-mortem.” gram has helped to consolidate Sciences that the sheep had not contracted But Martin Hugh Jones, resident progress toward abolition of ani- serious diseases during prolonged transport anthrax expert for the International Society for mal testing in the U.S,, Canada, aboard the Ocean Drover. Infectious Diseases’ Program for Monitoring and Europe, but the continuing Another 50,000 sheep were en route Emerging Diseases, found the allegation of success of the program is chal- back to Australia aboard the Al Shuwaikh. an anthrax outbreak unconvincing. From the lenged by corporate defections to The live cargoes of both ships were refused perspective of having done hundreds of (continued on page 11) entry to Kuwait and Bahrain in late August, necropses on animals who died of anthrax, purportedly because the sheep were afflicted Jones offered that the procedure is dangerous with scabby mouth disease, but some sheep only if the examiner is “grossly negligent.” reportedly were accepted in Qatar and Oman, The “parasites” in the mouths of the dead and diagnostic claims changed repeatedly. sheep, Jones said, were most likely maggots. On September 20, 2012 G e o The Indo Asian News Service P a k i s t a n reported, “The Sindh Department reported that Sindh officials decided to kill the of Livestock has said that evidence has been sheep on September 16, 2012. The actual gathered that points to the Australian sheep killing started the next day, according to being affected by a deadly anthrax infection. Dawn, of Karachi, after “reports from a sec- The Leaping Bunny logo. Only yesterday the discovery of thousands of (continued on page 10) September 2012 pdf complete 9/25/12 11:20 PM Page 2 2 - ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2012 September 2012 pdf complete 9/25/12 11:20 PM Page 3 Editorial feature ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2012 - 3 Pit bulls & political recklessness A well-funded and aggressively promoted ballot measure meant to repeal the 23- frequent use of pit bulls as accessories to other crimes including selling drugs, extortion, year-old Miami-Dade County pit bull ban went down to an upset landslide defeat on August domestic violence, and pimping; and the strain on animal shelters of having to often accom- 14, 2012, attracting just 37% support––the most lopsided failure of a ballot measure endorsed modate dangerous dogs who cannot be safely housed with other dogs and will usually be by major national humane organizations in at least a couple of decades. killed, after a holding period of several days, due to lack of safe adoption prospects. Miami Marlins star and Best Friends Animal Society celebrity spokesperson Mark Like the highly successful Denver ordinance, which is nonetheless equally unpopu- Buerhle began vocally objecting to the Miami-Dade pit bull ban in December 2011, soon after lar with many animal advocates, the Miami-Dade ordinance was passed in 1989, and outright accepting a four-year, $58 million contract to pitch for Miami. Opting to live in Broward prohibits possession of pit bulls. County, with one of the highest median household incomes in the U.S., instead of Miami- Despite the frequent howling of pit bull advocates that breed-specific legislation Dade County, whose median household income is about 10% below the Florida norm, “doesn’t work,” and despite a tendency of Denver and Miami-Dade animal control officials to Buerhle complained that his choice of an upscale neighborhood was dictated by possession of interpret the definition of “pit bull” in a manner that allows possession of many pit bull vari- a pit bull.

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