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03/31/2005 CRUEL TASER TESTS ON PIGS AT UW-MADISON!
University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor John Webster plans to conduct an experiment in which live pigs will be shocked with Taser stun guns. Using a $500,000 taxpayer-funded grant provided by the U.S. Department of Justice, Webster will attach electrodes directly to the pigs' skin and implant catheters near their hearts to measure the voltage of the Taser shocks. He also plans to use a "super-Taser" device to induce heart arrhythmia, as well as applying overdoses of cocaine to the pigs, ostensibly to mimic the effects of fleeing human suspects high on drugs.What makes this experiment even more outrageous is the fact that similar Taser studies have been conducted with pigs (and dogs) on at least four other occasions. There are ample human data available for study, as these stun guns have been widely used by law-enforcement agencies for several years.Experts in the field agree that the best way to determine whether Tasers are safe is to study the data gathered from the many cases in which people have suffered adverse affects or died as a result of Taser shocks.
03/29/2005 CANADA UNVEILS ANNUAL SEAL HUNT, SLAMS ACTIVISTS!
OTTAWA - Canada said on Tuesday it would allow 320,000 young seals to be killed this year and launched an unusually strong attack on activists who promise to boycott Canadian seafood products in a bid to stop the hunt. Ottawa says the hunt helps ensure the health of what it describes as a booming seal population. But pictures of hunters clubbing defenseless animals to death have turned the event into an annual public relations nightmare for the government. The two-month hunt, which starts this year on March 29, takes place on ice floes off the Atlantic coast where the seals give birth. Canada says the hunt is humane, but animal rights groups insist many animals are skinned alive and die in agony.
03/28/2005 NORWAY TO BUILD A HUGE FUR FARM!
The district of Ha (the a is pronounced like the 'a' in Saw)is together with the norwegian fur farmer association planning to build a huge fur farm in Rogaland. Several fur farmers have shown interrest in the project but to make in financialy possible the fur farmers are seeking government support. If builed it will be the largest fur farm in Norway with a total of 113 000 animals.
03/27/2005 INDIAN PRIME MINISTER BANS STATE GIFTS OF WILDLIFE!
In a surprise move, the Prime Minister of India, Mr Manmohan Singh announced on Marc 20 that all gifts of Indian wildlife to overseas countries would in future be banned. This move coincides with a high profile campaign conducted by the international wildlife organisation, The Born Free Foundation, and Compassion Unlimited Plus Action (CUPA) of India, to prevent the giving of a young female Asian elephant from Bangalore, Southern India, to a zoo in Yeravan, the capital of Armenia. The Telegraph of India announced that this move by the PM was a 'big victory for members of the Born Free Foundation'. 'This is the most welcome news I've heard in a long time' said Virginia McKenna OBE, Founder of the Born Free Foundation. 'This brave step will undoubtedly prevent the suffering of many animals, we just pray that this ban will include Veda, the elephant who had been selected to fulfil a promise to Armenia made several years ago'.
03/26/2005 PETA TARGETS VERSACE!
March 20, 2005 Designer Donatella Versace, who controls the Versace empire after the murder of her brother, fashion icon Gianni Versace, is in Mumbai. Donatella is part of the final of the reality television show, Lakme Fashion House, the winner of which will intern with the house of Versace in Italy.Even as the fashion press goes ballistic with Donatella's presence here, Donatella may find that the legendary Indian hospitality stretches only so far. The India chapter of the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is going after Donatella Versace, targeting her with an advertisement that says, "Fur is Worn by beautiful Animals and Ugly People".
03/24/2005 AUSTRALIA SIGNS AGREEMENT WITH KUWAIT ON LIVE ANIMAL TRADE ANIMALS!
CANBERRA, On March 16 Australia signed its second agreement with a Persian Gulf nation to continue the live animal trade, with safeguards to protect the condition of the livestock at sea. Agriculture Minister Warren Truss signed a memorandum of understanding with Kuwait which will control the trade, predominantly in live sheep, that is worth more than $70 million to Australian farmers. In 2004 more than one million Australian sheep were shipped live to Kuwait.
03/23/2005 BELGIAN FACES PRISON OVER HIS 'PUPPY LOVE' BRUSSELS!
A Belgian man on trial for having sex with dogs claims he did it out of compassion for man'sbest friend, a Belgian paper said on Saturday. Daily Gazet Van Antwerpen said the 36-year old in the eastern town of Genk told the court he had sex with dogs "out of love for animals," since a lotof them can't have sex, especially those locked up in refuges.The man, identified by his initials, could face six months in jail if convicted. He had worked in an animal refuge and had posted thousands of pictures on the Internet of himself having sex with dogs, the paper said.
03/22/2005 BLOOMINGTON MAN SENTENCED FOR PUTTING CAT IN OVEN!
A Bloomington man convicted of putting a pet cat into a heated oven was sentenced last week to a year in jail. Joseph G. Holupchinski also was placed on probation for two years after he pleaded guilty in Dakota County District Court to a single count of gross misdemeanor animal cruelty. Judge Richard Spicer stayed Holupchinski´s jail term pending no further violations but ordered the 20-year-old to serve three days in the Dakota County Jail. In addition, Holupchinski was ordered to serve seven days with a "Sentenced to Serve" crew working on community projects such as highway cleanups. Spicer also fined Holupchinski $100 and ordered him to pay $339 restitution. He must also undergo a psychological evaluation and write a letter of apology to his former girlfriend. He was also prohibited from owning pets. Holupchinski initially pleaded guilty to a felony count of animal cruelty, but withdrew that plea at a sentencing hearing in December. The cat of the woman Holupchinski had dated had been heated to about 250 degrees. The orange tabby survived but lost its eyelids and most of the padding on its paws, court records indicate. The cat also suffered burns on its belly, ears and tail. Had Holupchinski been convicted of felony-level animal abuse, he could have received a two-year prison sentence.
03/20/2005 TEL-AVIV BANNED ANIMAL CIRCUS ACTS!
The Municipality of Tel-Aviv banned animal circus acts, for the Mayor of Tel-Aviv, Ron Huldai, instructed the municipality to avoid any future contracts with circuses that use animals of any sort in their shows. This pioneering achievement is a result of an Anonymous for Animal Rights campaign, which included a public campaign (demonstrations, petitions, etc.) as well as political lobby. Wild animal circus acts are already banned all over the country since 1995.
03/19/2005 FIRE KILLS 9000 CHICKENS!
A fire has killed 9000 chickens and destroyed a 14,000 sq ft shed on a farm in Ledbury, Herefords. The cost of the fire at Hill House Farm has been estimated at more than £100,000, according to a report in the Malvern Gazette.Poultry farmer Alistair Young called the fire brigade at around 11pm on Tuesday (Mar 8) after seeing flames licking one of his three large chicken sheds. Two fire crews from Ledbury and two from Malvern prevented the flames from spreading to the other sheds, where there were a further 18,000 chickens.An electrical fault was suspected as the cause, though the building had been rewired and refurbished just 18 months earlier.
03/18/2005 JOAN COURT SET TO EMBARK ON 72-HOUR HUNGER STRIKE!
On 14th July last year, Joan Court went on a 48-hour hunger strike outside the site of the proposed animal research laboratory in South Parks Rd. This year she is going a step further and during World Week for Laboratory Animals is to embark on a 72-hour fast, starting at 1pm on Wednesday 20th April and ending at 1pm on Saturday 23rd April.The fast is intended as a message to the Government and Oxford University as well as any contractor preparing to continue with the laboratory build that the determination of the SPEAK campaign and the rest of the animal rights movement to prevent the South Parks Rd development remains undiluted, despite the restrictions forced on us by the recent draconian measures to permanently silence our voices of protest.
03/17/2005 USA: THE LATEST INTERNET CRAZE ... HUNTING WILD ANIMALS ONLINE!
SAN ANTONIO, United States (AFP) - Hunting wild animals is nothing new in Texas. But a new company called Live-Shot.com has added a modern, controversial twist to the primal desire to kill: Internet hunting. Now anyone with a computer and a modem can log on and fire real weapons. Howard Giles did it a few weeks ago, becoming the first known Internet hunter to bag a wild hog by remote control.
03/14/2005 SAVE OUR SEALS!
So as to raise voice against a crime for the reasons of profit, on Tuesday, 15 March 2005 Animal Friends Croatia will join the Worlwide Protest Against the Canadian Slaughter of Seals by holding a demo in front of The Canadian Embassy in Zagreb, Prilaz Gjure Deželića 4, starting at noon. On that occassion, a protest letter will be also handed out to Canadian Ambassador, Ms. Stefanie Beck.
03/13/2005 KOREAN GOVERNMENT MAKES MOVE TO LEGITIMASE DOG MEAT TRADE!
The Korean media, on the 9th of March, reported the Korean government's plan to introduce hygienic management and control of dog meat trade.According to the reports, the government, at the direction of the Prime Minister, Haechan Lee, held a 'State Pending Problems Policy Regulation Meeting' and decided to promote a provision for preventing the cruel slaughter of animals including dogs and strengthening hygienic management of dog meat related trade, including restaurants. According to the provision, the Ministry of Agriculture will curb the cruelty involved in the methods of the slaughter of dogs, and thereby stem the international criticism against the dog meat trade, though prohibiting slaughter methods that are punishable in the Animal Protection Law, increasing penalty for the offenders and prohibiting all animal slaughter in public places, such as an open market. In addition, the public health and environmental problems that dog meat trade has created will be dealt with through strict hygienic control of dog meat trade.
03/08/2005 ANIMAL RIGHTS GROUP TARGET HEATHROW!
Heathrow Airport is being targeted by protestors over claims live animals are being imported for laboratory research. An anti-import campaign was launched in January called Gateway to Hell. John Milton from the campaign said they will hold constant protests until the west London airport stopped allowing animals to be imported.
03/07/2005 USA: ANIMAL RIGHTS AND ENVIRONMENT EXTREMISTS GROUPS RESPONSIBLE FOR ACTS OF SABOTAGE!
Animal rights and environment extremists groups engaged in 554 acts of sabotage, vandalism, and arson in the United States in 2004, according to the Animal Agriculture Alliance, Arlington, Virginia. The group cited the Animal Liberation Front, Earth Liberation Front, and DBF, a branch of ALF found in Sweden and the Netherlands, as key activist groups. "This was an average of 1.5 actions per day," the Animal Agricultural Alliance said. "These groups also claimed joint-responsibility for the `liberation' of 17,262 animals during 2004.
03/06/2005 PAMELA ANDERSON ASKS RUSSIA'S TOP DESIGNER TO GO FUR-FREE!
Internationally renowned television and film star Pamela Anderson - on behalf of People for the Ethical Treatment Animals (PETA) and the Moscow Animal Rights Centre VITA - has sent a letter to Russia's top fashion designers, urging them to stop using fur. Enclosed with the letter is PETA's shocking video narrated by Anderson and dubbed into Russian by VITA and PETA - in which she describes the horrific suffering of animals caught in traps and raised on fur farms as graphic images of the animals' painful lives and deaths appear on the screen. Although Anderson has written to North American designers who use fur and even traveled to Paris to personally show the video to French designers, her letter marks the first time that a mailing of this type has been sent to Russian designers."It amazes me that some designers still turn animals into fashion victims", says Anderson. "I've written to them all to say, 'Foxes and chinchillas are anally electrocuted, beavers are drowned in underwater traps and minks are injected with weedkiller, all for a tacky coat that makes women look like Bigfoot!'"
03/05/2005 CATTLE VIRUS THREATENS BULL RUNS!
The Pamplona bull run and hundreds of smaller Spanish festivals are threatened this year by a rare cattle disease, blue tongue virus, which has led to government restrictions on the movement of livestock in Andalucía, Extremadura and Castilla-La Mancha. Bullfight organisers have asked the government to exempt bull running because of the bull's special status in Spanish culture. But the agriculture ministry insisted that the restrictions would remain in place as long as necessary. They would be reassessed at the end of this month. Its spokeswoman said: "It's still early to talk about what might happen in July. We have to hope the situation improves, and it is already changing a lot. But our first priority is the health of livestock."
03/04/2005 SIMON COWELL: FUR-WEARERS OUT OF TUNE!
Contestants on the new season of American Idol would be well advised not to wear any fur now that judge Simon Cowell is the newest voice in PETA's anti-fur campaign. A smiling Cowell appears in a new PETA ad holding a dog and saying, "If you wouldn't wear your dog, please don't wear any fur." Cowell wants consumers to know that each fur coat, collar, or cuff means that animals have been cruelly trapped, drowned, or beaten to death in the wild or gassed, strangled, or electrocuted on fur farms. Fur is a relic of prehistoric times, when it was the only thing to keep primitive people from freezing, whereas today's lightweight synthetics, such as Gore-Tex, are much more versatile and efficient at keeping people warm. Faux fur or no fur is what's in tune with current concerns about treating animals with respect.
03/03/2005 NEW PIRAEUS INCIDENT!
In an unjustified seizure of rescued animals from Crete, fifty eight dogs, property of the animal rescue group Arche Noah Kreta were illegally detained at the port of Piraeus near Athens on the 28th Feb 2005. Arche Noah say the animals were taken from them and transported to an unknown location by opponents of animal welfare organisations. The main cause of this meddling is led once again by none-other than the infamous Mrs. Ioanna Garagouni. In a similar scenario to the Athens airport incident last year, Garagouni brought along Greek TV News Alpha to cover the "event". It seems that neither Garagouni or Alpha TV have learnt the lessons of last years entirely inaccurate reporting and probing of innocent animal rescue groups transporting strays to new homes in North and West Europe.
03/02/2005 CALIFORNIA DELUGE DEADLY FOR DAIRY COWS!
CHINO, Calif. - The record rains in Southern California have done heavy damage to the dairy industry, killing or sickening cows and leaving herds udder-deep in mud and cold water. Dairy farmers said the drenching has cost the Southern California industry at least $38 million in lost milk production, dead and sickened animals, and damage to holding ponds and other flood-control features on their farms.
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