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The official
ANIMAL RIGHTS ONLINE newsletter
Publisher ~ EnglandGal@aol.com Issue # 05/14/00
Editor ~ JJswans@aol.com
Journalists ~ PrkStRangr@aol.com
~ MRivera008@aol.com
~ SavingLife@aol.com
THE SEVEN ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE ARE:
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~ Stop Federal Animal Damage Control by PrkStRangr@aol.com
2
~ Why We Don't Support the Exotic-Pet Trade by MRivera008@aol.com
3
~ Mother's Milk by PrkStRangr@aol.com
4
~ Open Letter to Supervises (Re: Circuses) by Meowvet@aol.com
5
~ Link Between Animal Cruelty and Human Violence
6
~ Executioner of Olde (Poem) by tapster@mindspring.com
7
~ Quote To Remember
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Stop Federal Animal Damage Control
Congress Votes Soon
by
PrkStRangr@aol.com
There
is a branch of the US Department of Agriculture called, ridiculously enough,
Wildlife Services and also known as the ADC, Animal Damage Control.
When
prairie dogs or coyotes or other varmints become too much of a problem for the
rancher, or when local varmint shoots just don't seem to get the job done, the
western cattle rancher can call the federal government for free help to kill
the competition. Every year Wildlife
Services kills one and a half million animals as a service to the few thousand
cattle ranchers in the western states.
It is a welfare program for ranchers, some of them quite wealthy, paid
for with our taxes. WS has a total
budget of over 40 million and spends 10 million a year killing wildlife.
The
primary target is the coyote. One
hundred thousand coyotes are killed annually.
Other animals that are destroyed include prairie dogs, mountain lions,
wolves, cougars, bobcats, bears, many species of birds, even threatened and
endangered species are subject to termination by this federal agency.
The
methods of extermination include aerial shoots from low flying planes and
helicopters, steel leg-hold traps, neck snares, explosives placed in dens, and
poisons. These activities take place
not only on private ranches, but also on public lands, national forests and
wilderness areas which are being leased at far below market rates for the
ranchers to graze their cattle. Often
agents will conduct an extermination program to remove all predators from an
area of federally owned land before the rancher brings his herd in to
graze. Hundreds of thousands of non-target
animals are killed including companion dogs and cats.
Wildlife
Services has a history of routinely misusing poisons and falsifying government
records. In spite of this, the ranching
lobby has persuaded Congress to continue the program year after year.
For
the last several years, Congressman Peter DeFazio D-OR and Charles Bass R-NH
have sponsored an Appropriations amendment to cut USDA’s Wildlife Services’
lethal predator control program.
In
1998 the measure passed and funding was taken away -- until the next day when
the ranching lobby talked thirty congressmen into changing their votes and
demanding a recall vote. Funding was
given back for the killing.
Last
year we came close and the amendment almost passed. But the ranching lobby is strong, and it is up to us to call and
write our representatives.
Please
immediately contact your US Representative and ask him/her to VOTE YES on the
Bass-Defazio amendment to the House Agriculture Appropriations Bill. The vote could come up as soon as May 25.
The
House switchboard, 202-224-3121, will find your representative for you by your
zip code and connect you to his/her office.
Tell
them you don't want your tax dollars to go to USDA's Wildlife Services program
to provide welfare for a small group of wealthy ranchers.
Tell
them it would cost less to merely reimburse the cattle ranchers for their
losses to wild predators.
For
more information on the Wildlife Services and how to contact your
Congressman...
Humane Society
of the United States | Today's News | Stop the Use of Taxpayer Money to Kill
Wildlife
http://www.hsus.org/whatnew/defazio051000.html
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Why We Don’t Support the Exotic-Pet Trade
by
MRivera008@aol.com - Michelle Rivera
Animal
rights activists have long held that exotic animals suffer tremendous abuses
during their journey to the pet stores and beyond. However, statistics show that the trade in reptiles is the
fastest-growing segment of the pet trade in recent years. So maybe it’s time to look at this from
another angle. Perhaps appealing to the health and well-being of the people who
buy these animals makes more sense than attempting to argue on behalf of the
animals. Consider this: The Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
reports that the frequency of salmonella infections (salmonellosis) from
contact with pet reptiles has increased over the past 15 years. Most of the cases occur with infants and
young children, and quite a few have involved serious complications. Two infants developed salmonellosis by
contact with pet iguanas, resulting in the death of one of the infants. In light of this, the CDC has issued a
statement warning parents of young children that pet reptiles, (iguanas,
snakes, turtles and other lizards), be kept out of households with kids under
five or with people who have immuno-suppressed systems.
But
although the popularity of reptiles has grown, the list of exotic pets doesn’t
stop with reptiles. Other popular
exotic animals include hedgehogs, macaws, lizards, rodents, monkeys. Mike Tyson “owns” white tigers, but luckily,
Tyson’s popularity has faded of late and his penchant for white tigers has not
caught on with whatever fans he has left.
Most exotic animals are federally regulated. These laws provide criminal penalties for people who own exotic
animals without proper permits.
However, these laws are not in place to protect animals, but for the
protection of humans from animals who can carry transmittable diseases. For example, people can contract diseases
like tuberculosis and hepatitis B from monkeys. Snakes and lizards transmit salmonella bacteria to humans.
Animals such as raccoons, hedgehogs, rats, sugar gliders and ferrets can transmit
distemper, ringworm, mange, intestinal parasites, and bacterial and viral
infections to domestic animals and humans. Giardia can easily be transmitted
from parakeets, cockatiels and parrots.
And
if you still want to appeal from the animal’s point of view, here are some
facts that may help you win an argument!
A
captive life amounts to capital punishment for exotic animals because of the
lack of proper nutrition, environmental necessities, abject loneliness, and the
stress brought on by their imprisonment. The trade in exotic pets is even more
fatal to animals that don’t make it to our pet stores; for each animal who does
make it to the auction or the pet store, incalculable others die en route.
The
sale of birds, fish, reptiles, “pocket pets” and other mammals is, of course,
legal. However, the trade in these
animals is the result of illegal smuggling and support of an illegal trade in
exotic animals. Caged birds are smuggled into the United States more than any
other animal. In her book, All God's Creatures Priced to Sell, Anastasia Toufexis
reveals that, prior to shipment, birds are force-fed, their wings clipped,
their beaks taped shut, and they are crammed into all kinds of inadequate
habitats, from spare tires to suitcases. It is quite common for 80 percent of
the birds in one shipment to die, which explains the enormous price they bring.
Snakes and lizards are sedated and crammed into containers with false
bottoms. Needless to say, the rate of
death of these animals is also very high.
Need
more? How about the environmentalists
point of view? Let’s look at the result
of all this smuggling on the ecosystems from which they come. The population of
the South American hyacinth macaw has dropped 75 percent. The Argentina
trappers have annihilated thousands of quebracho trees while snatching
fledgling macaws in their nests. In Philippine waters, poachers spray cyanide
to capture brightly colored tropical fish.
And in the movie “Instinct”, we watch in stunned horror as poachers
shoot primates, especially nursing mothers, because babies cling to their
mothers' dead carcasses in fear. Anthony Hopkins character may have been
fictitious, but the portrayal of “harvesting” monkeys was frighteningly
factual.
There’s
more! There’s also the moral
consequence. What happens to iquanas
who grow to six feet? We drop them off
at the zoo, of course! Sorry, not an
option. The American Zoo and Aquarium
Association advises zoos to refuse exotic animals from people who are unwilling
to care for them. Jack Cover, a curator at the National Aquarium in Baltimore,
says, "We'd have to have two or three warehouses to handle the donations
we get calls on." Zookeepers have
found animals that have been sneaked into exhibits, which puts the existing
population at risk for infectious diseases.
When found, these animals are euthanized.
Irresponsible
owners have even attempted to return unwanted animals to their “natural
environment”
-- which simply amounts to abandonment inn rural areas. Without suitable rehabilitation, however,
these animals will become prey, will starve, or will die at the hands of
cruelty, indifference, the elements, or traffic. And if that doesn’t go far enough to convince people not to
support the exotic pet trade, consider this sobering statistic: Of all the all exotic animals who are purchased
as "pets" 60% die within the first month of ownership 20 percent die
within the first year, 10 percent are still alive by the end of the second
year.
Don’t
fall into the trap that you are “rescuing” an exotic animal from the pet store
because he looked (pick one) lonely, hungry, cute, desolate, forlorn, helpless
or needy and you knew you could take care of him better; the very second you
walk out of the pet store with your
“rescue”, he will be replaced by another, and the cycle of misery will continue
because of your patronage.
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Mother's Milk
by
Prkstrangr@aol.com
Today,
as I write this, we had a special presentation for any employees who could
attend from 2 to 4pm on health and nutrition.
About 18 of the rangers at my park attended. The head of the El Paso County Health Department said hello and a
few more words (such as "feel free to ask questions or interrupt us at
anytime" -- giving me free rein for my purpose there, which was to insure
that no misinformation was given about needing meat in the diet) and then Dr.
Whathis-name left. Two of his
assistants gave a talk. The first was
about exercise, the second was about nutrition.
She
gave out food pyramid fridge magnets.
Looking at it I wondered why dairy got a group of it's own and meat had
to share it's group with beans and seeds.
I mean, there wasn't a milk or soymilk option. It was just milk, cheese and yogurt in the dairy box.
I
listened to the meat things she said (but grimaced) and I didn't comment
because it was mostly "cut back on meat and include 5 servings of fruit
and vegetables a day." (I realized
I certainly couldn't survive on only 5 servings a day)
When
the presenter said "You have to drink milk everyday to get the calcium you
need" -- I Had to speak right up.
"Or
a calcium rich vegetable source," I said.
"Milk is actually a bad source of dietary calcium. The sulfur bearing amino acids of animal
proteins such as dairy turn the pH of the blood acidic, and calcium is leeched
out of our bones to neutralize it. Milk
takes calcium out of the body faster than it absorbs it."
"What
is a better source of calcium?" she asked me.
"Rolaids,"
I said. A few snickers in the
room. "Broccoli and Kale both have
more available calcium than dairy."
"Who
here eats Kale?" she asked the room.
No hands went up. I heard a
mumbled "What's Kale?" A few
more snickers.
"Dark
green leafy vegetables and supplements is how we should be getting our calcium. I hate to see misinformation given."
"I'm
not a nutritionist," she said "I'm just a presenter who says what the
state tells me to say."
"Oh,"
and then I went probably too far for the time and place. "It is racism for the government to
tell Hispanics, who are mostly lactose intolerant, that they need milk."
Over
half the room was Hispanic including the presenter. There was a lot of rolling of eyes. And I reinforced my image as a radical gringo weirdo to the rest
of the rangers I work with. Well, hell,
I can't believe that so many supposedly environmentally concerned rangers don't
have a clue and don't want to hear about how their diets impact the
environment. It seems like they would
at least be concerned about health problems but SHeesh, even getting the
correct information to them seems to be a problem. Perhaps I'll have to bring my local Veg society's annual
"How and Why to Go Vegetarian" workshop to the park.
And
it is of course, a very unlikely and difficult prospect of convincing my
coworkers or any one of our coworkers of the rights due animals. And yet we keep trying, and we use all the
information in our arsenals about health and the environment but it often seems
to me that mankind is not headed towards enlightenment anytime soon.
But
hopefully you are.
As
this newsletter is sent out, it is Mother's Day and also Boycott Veal Day, a
project started by Farm Animals Reform Movement in the early eighties and
coordinated this year by Farm Sanctuary.
We animal advocates and activists who are not yet Vegan should take a
moment to consider that the veal industry is a byproduct of the Dairy
Industry. Dairy cows are kept pregnant
year after year to keep them producing milk and more than half those offspring
become veal.
Don't
be a part of it. Let's go vegan.
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Open Letter to Supervisors
May
1, 2000
Board
of Supervisors
County
of Riverside
Riverside,
CA
RE:
Ordinance #804
Dear
Board members:
I
support Ordinance #804 that prohibits the display of elephants for public
entertainment or amusement. You are
commended for your insight into the problems caused by these animals and their
exhibitors.
I
was a Veterinary Medical Officer for USDA for 6 years. I was in charge of the federal disease
control programs and enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act in Vermont. I often inspected circuses. Circus animals are poorly inspected under
the USDA animal Welfare Act for several reasons. When a problem with a circus is found, paperwork must be
generated and a compliance officer needs to visit the circus. Often by the time this is completed, the
exhibitor is in another state and in another USDA veterinarian's jurisdiction. If that veterinarian happens to inspect that
circus, the procedure is repeated and the exhibitor moves on without the
problem being solved.
Veterinarians
working for USDA do not receive training in diseases that affect animals
performing in circuses and exhibitions.
They do not know how to diagnose diseases and do not know if the
elephant or any other circus animal has a disease that infects humans. USDA veterinarians do not know how to
restrain elephants or other circus animals and, furthermore, do not have the
drugs necessary to do proper restraint.
Proper restraint is necessary to take blood samples or tissue samples to
send to a diagnostic laboratory. So the
USDA veterinarians do not do diagnostic workups on circus animals. USDA veterinarians are more concerned with
housing and husbandry than diseases.
Furthermore,
USDA veterinarians must work with state agricultural officials who have the
ultimate control over what the USDA veterinarian does or does not do. Many state agricultural officials know less
than the USDA veterinarian about circus animal diseases. Often state political interests interfere
with the USDA veterinarian's conducting a proper inspection. Unfortunately, USDA veterinarians do not
work with the state department of health officials. These officials have a greater knowledge of zoonoses than
agricultural officials do but they seldom learn of a problem with a circus
animal. They are "out of the
loop".
There
is no amount of inspection or inspectors that can prevent an elephant from
rampaging or a tiger from attacking. No
one knows when the animal is about to become violent. No one knows what causes the crazed behavior. One can speculate with some grounds that the
animal is sick or stressed beyond its endurance. These are wild animals in a very abnormal environment. Exercise is very limited and housing is
cramped and confining. Wild animals are
used to wide open spaces and their territory is large. Elephants have been known to walk 20 miles
or more in a day. The food they are
given is not what they would eat in the wild.
Because
they are wild and dangerous, they cannot receive appropriate preventative or
curative veterinary care. Neither a
large animal practitioner nor a small animal veterinarian is equipped to handle
elephants or big cats. These
veterinarians are not trained to make diagnoses on exotic, wild animals. So circus animals are often not treated when
they need care. Certainly circus
personnel are not trained to make a diagnosis and they do not have access to
lab facilities if they did try to find out what was wrong with an animal.
Therefore,
USDA compliance is at best hopelessly ineffective. You should not rely on USDA inspections to provide you with an
answer to the problem of circus animal care.
You need to adopt your own rules so that you are in control.
The
issue of zoonoses needs to be addressed.
Tuberculosis is considered an emerging disease transmittable to
humans. Elephants carry both human and
bovine tuberculosis. Both infect
humans. According to recent research,
many handlers test positive for TB.
(See the accompanying research material by Michalak et al on M.
tuberculosis Infection as a Zoonotic Disease) TB is becoming more resistant to
treatment in humans. TB is spread by
exhaled air, oral secretions, feces, urine and vaginal and uterine
discharges. Certainly the public would
be exposed to these materials during rides or when they are up close to
elephants or when walking near elephants' manure.
To
protect the public, anyone bringing exotic animals in close proximity or in
contact with the public should be required to submit current TB health records
for the animals. All employees/handlers
should be tested and present up to date records of these tests when exposing
circus animals to the public. The
treatment for TB is not without risk and the drugs must be given for at least 6
months. The County needs to address the
liability issue here. Most traveling
wild and exotic animal exhibits are under-insured, considering the potential
public danger associated with their industry.
Because of the liability issue, the city or county issuing permits for
the use of these animals is placing tremendous responsibility on the taxpayers
in the community.
Tuberculosis
is not the only microorganism that can be transmitted from elephant to human. Other deadly germs include Salmonella,
Anthrax, Encephalomyelitis virus and E.coli.
All of these microorganisms have caused death in humans.
#804
is a good ordinance. It removes
elephants as a source of often deadly human infections.
Sincerely,
Peggy
W. Larson, DVM, MS, JD
[Editor's
Note: Address deleted in interests of safety]
e-mail:
meowvet@aol.com
For
more information, see the following website:
Mycobacterium
tuberculosis infection as a Zoonotic Disease: Transmission betwee
http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol4no2/michalak.htm
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Link Between Animal Cruelty & Human Violence
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IS THERE ANY EVIDENCE OF A CONNECTION BETWEEN ANIMAL
CRUELTY AND HUMAN VIOLENCE?
Absolutely.
Many studies in psychology, sociology, and criminology during the last 25 years
have demonstrated that violent offenders frequently have childhood and
adolescent histories of serious and repeated animal cruelty. The FBI has
recognized the connection since the 1970s, when bureau analysis of the life
histories of imprisoned serial killers suggested that most, as children, had
killed or tortured animals. Other research has shown consistent patterns of
animal cruelty among perpetrators of more common forms of violence, including
child abuse, spouse abuse, and elder abuse."
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IS ANIMAL ABUSE RECOGNIZED AS A SIGN OF MENTAL DISORDER?
Yes.
In the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), the
American Psychiatric Assn lists animal cruelty as one of the behaviours
signaling conduct disorder. Clinical evidence indicates that animal cruelty is
one of the symptoms usually seen at the earliest stages of conduct disorder,
often by the age of eight. This information has only recently been included in
the DSM, so some psychologists, psychiatrists, and social workers are just now
becoming aware of it."
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WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TO STOP ANIMAL ABUSERS WHEN THEY ARE YOUNG?"
A
1994 report released by the National Research Council states that early intervention
is more likely to reduce adult crime than criminal sanctions applied later in
life. The report further states that childhood behaviour is more important than
teenage behaviour in predicting future violence.
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WHAT CAN BE DONE TO PREVENT YOUNG ANIMAL ABUSERS FROM
DEVELOPING INTO VIOLENT ADULTS?
Crimes
against animals are not isolated events. FBI experts advise all appropriate
agencies to share case information with one another. A comprehensive approach with cooperation from the family,
support from the school, and counseling by a psychologist or social worker is
essential."
Some
highly publicized case examples of the "connection" are:
May
21, 1998, Springfield, OR. Kip Kinkel, 15, allegedly walked into his high
school cafeteria and opened fire on his classmates. Friends and family have indicated that Kinkel has a history of
animal abuse and torture. Friends say
that he often bragged about torturing and killing animals.
April
9, 1998, West Dallas, TX. Seven and 8 year-old brothers and an 11-year-old
friend were arrested for kidnapping, beating and sexually assaulting a
3-year-old girl. A local television station reported that the brothers had been
involved in animal cruelty.
March
24, 1998, Jonesboro, AR. Mitchell Johnson - 13, and Andrew Golden -11,
allegedly shot and killed four students and one teacher ambushed during a fire
drill. A school friend of Golden stated
that Andrew "said he shoots dogs all the time with a .22."
October
1, 1997, Pearl, MS. Luke Woodham -16, allegedly stabbed his mother to death.
Woodham then allegedly went to his high school where he shot and killed two
classmates and injured seven others. Woodham stated in his personal journal
that he and an accomplice beat, burned, and tortured his dog, Sparkle, to
death. He said it was, "true
beauty."
December
1, 1997, West Paducah, KY. Michael Carneal - 14, allegedly shot and killed
three classmates at school. According to another student, Carneal talked about
throwing a cat into a bonfire.
November
1996, Tavares, FL. Rod Ferrell - 17, "vampire cult leader" and cult
members Heather Wendorf, 16, Howard Anderson, 17, Dana Cooper, 20, and Charity
Keesee, 17, were arrested in connection with the bludgeoning deaths of
Wendorf's parents. Media accounts include animal torture and mutilation as part
of their rituals.
December
4, 1994, SF, CA. A 17 year-old, along with two 15 year-old friends were
arrested in the beating death of a 15 year-old friend. Officials reported that
the older boy had a history of fire starting and animal torture, including an
incident at age 11 where he is reported to have thrown a cat in the air until
he broke two of its legs.
March
6, 1994, Cleveland, OH. "Jack," a 16 year-old serial sex offender in
Cleveland was charged with rape and sexual battery. His other victims
reportedly included infants and animals.
SOME
CHILLING STATISTICS:
The
U.S. Bureau of Statistics reported that in 1996 there were 9.1 million violent
crimes in the United States.
A
1997 study by the MSPCA and Northeastern University found that 70% of animal
abusers had committed at least one other criminal offense and almost 40% had
committed violent crimes against people.
A
1986 study reported that 48% of convicted rapists and 30% of convicted child
molesters admitted perpetrating acts of animal cruelty in their childhood or
adolescence. (Tingle et al, 1986)
A
history of animal abuse was found in 25% of aggressive male criminals, 30% of
convicted child molesters, 36% of those who assaulted women, and 46% of those
convicted of sexual homicide. (Petrovoski, 1997)
Every
15 seconds a woman is battered (National Coalition Against Domestic Violence).
In
three surveys in women's shelters in WI and UT in the late 1990s an average of
74% of pet-owning women reported that a pet had been threatened, injured or
killed by the abusers. (Ascione 1995 & 1997 and Quinlisk, 1995)
The
Buffalo, NY police department and the SPCA of Erie County found that 1/3 of the
residences with animal abuse complaints also had domestic violence complaints
(1998)
A
survey of women in a safehouse in UT found that 20% delayed leaving the abusive
situation out of fear that their pet would be harmed. Data currently being
collected in Canada found almost 50% delayed leaving. (Ascione, 1997)
The
1995 UT survey also found that children witnessed the animal abuse in over 60%
of the cases and 32% of women reported that one or more of their children hurt
or killed a pet.
In
1991 the US Board on Child Abuse and Neglect released a report indicating that
more than 2.5 million American children are suffering from abuse and neglect.
A
1983 survey in NJ of families reported for child abuse found that in 88% of the
families at least one person had abused animals. (Devine, Dickered &
Lockwood, 1983)
The
NJ study also found that in 2/3 of these cases, the abusive parent had injured
or killed a pet and in 1/3 of the cases, children were the animal abusers.
A
study by the Royal SPCA in Great Britain found that 83% of families with a
history of animal abuse had also been identified by social service agencies as
at-risk for child abuse or neglect. (Hutton, 1981)
A
special toll-free number has been established for information regarding The
HSUS's First Strike Campaign. To order a First Strike packet, or to obtain
further information, call toll-free 1-888-213-0956 OR write:
The Humane Society of the United
States
2100 L Street, NW
Washington, DC 20037
(202) 452-1100
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Executioner Of Olde
by
tapster@mindspring.com
Like
executioner of olde
he leads the
ragged, gentle giant
around and
around and around
Medieval
citizens echo hushed remarks
dead eyes roll
in giant's head
elephant
spirit crushed long ago
Birds chirp as
waves slap nearby
giant calls to
mother and mate
returns a
sacred sound
Invisible
call, invisible bond
never beaten
with ankus
by Executioner
of Olde
1999 By Diana
Morton.
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Quote To Remember
"If chimpanzees have consciousness, if
they are capable of abstractions,
do they not have what until now has
been described as 'human rights'?
How smart does a chimp have to be
before killing him constitutes murder?"
--Carl Sagan
(1934-1996)
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