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HS NEWS Volume 27, Number 02 HuananeThe Spring 1982 soctetv news Vol.27 No.2 OF THE UNITED STAT~~ Grand Prize Winner 1981 HSUS Annual Photo Contest Wild Horses and a Tarnished Dream Who Speaks For Animals? Page 10 Eleven years after passage of the act designed to protect them, wild horses face a government threat to .trim their Within the animal-welfare movement there is a great temptation to view one's own under­ numbers. standing of animal-welfare issues as the only view worthy of serious consideration. As so often with religion, there is a certitude born of personal convictions and beliefs that allows for no other view or opinions. Even when compared with those held by groups of similar persuasion, "NO VEAL THIS MEAL" Departments we are loathe to concede that someone else may possess insight and understanding we have Page4 Tracks ................. 2 missed. Federal Report ......... 16 Around the Regions . 26 All too often, it has been this kind of exclusivity and pride that has prevented cooperative endeavor among animal-welfare groups. A recent example of that kind of intractability is the Law Notes ............. 32 position currently being taken by Friends of Animals as regards H.R. 556, one of several bills which would provide further protection for laboratory animals and accelerated development of alternatives to live-animal research. H.R. 556 is most assuredly a bill with considerable merit, and one for which The HSUS has indicated its support. But because we did not support this Why the Anti-Cat Cult? bill exclusively, The HSUS is being blamed because this bill has not been favorably reported Page20 International Day of the out of the Congressional Subcommittee on Science, Research, and Technology. Seal Report ............ 18 Unfortunately, FOA would have us believe this subcommittee would have approved H.R. 556 in its entirety except for the influence of The HSUS. The fact of the matter is that The HSUS and FOA are but a small portion of the various interest groups petitioning this subcom­ mittee with their particular views and concerns. To pin one's hope for favorable response on a Campaigning for Laboratory single bill, as FOA is advocating, is to tread on very thin ice. To refuse to support any other Animals bill, as FOA is counseling, is to refuse to help laboratory animals unless it is done "my" way. Page 24 Such a position is not only naive; it is also irresponsible. Cover: Tom Virtue took this picture of his 4-month·old pup Dusty and her childhood It companion Jose, the tuxedo cat, last autumn. is indeed regrettable that Friends of Animals has chosen to conduct a public campaign It won the grand prize in The HS US Photo falsely condemning The HSUS because it may not get precisely what it wants. What Friends The ESA: Are Your Contest. Other winners are on page 8. of Animals is getting is precisely what our common adversaries want-a public confrontation within the animal-welfare community which, as another animal-welfare leader has stated, fur­ Officials Representing ther confuses and confounds the Congress and frightens it at the deep disunity within the You? The Humane Society News is published quarter· humane movement. Page 30 ly by The Humane Society of the United States, with headquarters at 2100 L Street, N.W., The HSUS has continuously indicated and demon­ Washington, D.C. 20037, (202) 452-1100. strated its willingness to work in concert with our sis­ ter animal-welfare groups on various animal-welfare is­ Membership in The Humane Society sues. Indeed, the outstanding success of the Draize of the United States is $10 a year. campaign is largely attributable to the cooperative en­ deavors of both national, regional, and local animal­ DIRECTORS OFFICERS welfare groups. So, also, is the work of The Council for Livestock Protection, Monitor, and various other for­ Rosemary Benning . Pebble Beach, CA Chairman of the Board . ............... Coleman Burke Amanda Blake . ..... Phoenix, AZ Vice Chairman . K. William Wiseman mal as well as ad hoc cooperative efforts. Yet a willing­ Samuel A. Bowman ......................................... New York, NY President . ........... John A. Hoyt ness to work in concert with others must be recipro­ Dr. Carol Browning. Ogden, UT Vice President/Field Services . ............. Patrick B. Parkes Coleman Burke . .. Short Hills, N J Vice President/Treasurer .. Paul G. Irwin cated in a spirit of mutual respect and cooperation. It Jack Conlon. Cocoa Beach, FL Vice President/General Counsel .. Murdaugh Stuart Madden is only through this kind of unified effort that we can in DonaldS. Dawson . .......................................... Bethesda, MD Vice President/Program & Communications . .... Patricia Fork an the future proceed to even greater successes in securing Dr. John Doyle. .......................... Louisville, KY Vice President/Wildlife & Environment . .Dr. John W. Grandy Irene Evans. Washington, DC Secretary . ... Dr. Amy Freeman Lee protection from suffering and abuse for animals. Anna Fesmire . .. Greensboro, NC Harold H. Gardiner . ..................................... Salt Lake City, UT EDITORIAL STAFF Robert W. Gilmore .......................................... New York, NY Deborah Salem . Editor Gisela H. Karlan . ................ Towaco, NY Lisa B. Zurlo . .... Publications Assistant Dr. Amy Freeman Lee . San Antonio, TX Julie Rovner. ... Staff Writer John A. Hoyt Virginia Lynch . San Francisco, CA Thien H uong T. Tram ................................. Production Assistant Dr. Robert R. Marshak .................................... Philadelphia, PA John W. Mettler, III. ... New York, NY The Humane Society of the United States is a non-profit charitable organization, IngaPrime. Vail, CO supported entirely by contributions from individuals. All contributions are tax­ O.J. Ramsey . ......................................... Sacramento, CA deductible. The HSUS meets the standards of The National Information Bureau. Everett Smith, Jr.. ......................... Greenwich, CT (4/82) Robert F. Welborn. Denver, CO Copyright ©1982 by The Humane Society of the United States. ~--------------penpresid~~~ e __ . K. William Wiseman . Greens Farms, CT All rights reserved. "' "'0 jury caused by a performing an­ 0 room to exercise nor contact with aJ Another Spring other animals-for most of their imal resulted in a suit brought "' Canine Kudos against the animal's owner and '"E lives. Brought out of these cages i= For the second straight year, the host of the show where the act With the warm weather come for their performances, they are The HSUS was honored by the appeared. car, boat, and RV shows; and with subjected to the raucous environ­ Dog Writer's Association of Unfortunately, the USDA car, boat, and RV shows come Vic­ ment of crowded, noisy, public America at its annual awards doesn't ban these acts, although tor the Wrestling Bear, Willard places. It is not surprising that in­ banquet in New York. The HSUS The HSUS believes the Animal the Boxing Kangaroo, the name­ juries to the gullible public by ani­ this year shared the DWAA's Na­ mals goaded into aggressiveness Welfare Act regulations would al­ less Diving Mule and a number of tional Public Service Award with during "contests" have occured. low it to do so. Humane societies other wild animals forced into ser­ the American Animal Hospital should continue to monitor these vice as promotional gimmicks and You would think anyone foolish Association. In presenting The exhibitions and enforce anti-cruel­ novelty acts. These shows pose enough to wrestle a full-grown bear HSUS's award to staff writer to the ground for nothing more ty statutes when it's possible. If unusual problems for humane so­ Julie Rovner, DWAA spokesman than a potential broken arm their local statutes do not specifi­ Seals would be saved if the EEC passes a ban on harp seal products in member cieties because they blatantly ex­ Maxwell Riddle cited The HSUS's would deserve whatever he got, cally prohibit contact between the countries. ploit the animals used as shills and outstanding work towards ending but unqualified trainers with no public and performing wild ani­ are a serious public safety prob­ mostly novelty items, popular in dogfighting and exposing inhu­ business handling wild animals in mals, they may find allies in the lem. Performing animals may be Seal Ban in Sight Europe. Under the U.S. Marine mane conditions in the nation's the close quarters of shopping public health officials or members confined to their traveling cages­ Mammal Protection Act, harp puppy mills. The HSUS News malls and boat shows must share of civic organizations who will join often just big enough to accom­ Just as the News was going to seal pelts and products are not and two articles ("Fighting the the blame. One recent case of in- in protesting wild animal acts. modate them and offering neither press, we learned a major step permitted to enter this country. Flea," Summer 1981, and "Puppy­ towards ending the annual club­ Reaction in Canada to the Eu­ Mill Misery," Fall 1981) were bing each spring of 200,000 harp ropean Parliament action was chosen as finalists in the writing seal pups off the coast of Canada swift and strong. The legislature categories. Silver Spring Update had been taken by the European of Newfoundland, where most of Parliament. That body, part of the seal slaughter takes place, The monkeys seized from the the European Economic Commu­ passed a resolution objecting to Institute for Behavior Research nity (formal name of the "Com­ the Parliament's action and urged last September (see The HSUS mon Market") voted to ban the the Canadian government to re­ News, Winter, 1982), remain at importation of sealskins and other voke its recently signed fisheries the National Institutes of Health's Typo Revealed related seal products from Cana­ treaty with the EEC. Poolesville (Maryland) facility. da and Norway. "This vote is a tremendous step A spokeswoman for the Men­ Permanent disposition will likely Of the 190 members from 10 towards ending demand for harp nen Company has written to set be decided when Dr.
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