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01/31/2006 GREYHOUND KILLERS FORCED TO RUN THE GAUNTLET!
On the evening of Sunday, January 22nd, representatives of the dog racing industry were forced to run the gauntlet of angry greyhound protection campaigners as they arrived at the Royal Lancaster Hotel in London's West End for an awards ceremony hosted by the British Greyhound Racing Board (BGRB).About fifty Greyhound Action supporters, protesting at the annual suffering and slaughter of many thousands of dogs caused by the greyhound racing industry, jostled and shouted at those attending the event as they entered the hotel and attempted to present our own "Dog Killers of the Year" award to officials of the BGRB.
01/28/2006 FIVE MONTHS OF IMPRISONMENT FOR DOG TORTURER!
Zagreb - The judge, Ms Jasna Zoretic, made a historic decision yesterday, punishing Ostoja Babic with five months of imprisonment, who on Saturday, 4 December 2004, beat up his dog simultaneously stabbing his dog in the head and body with a half-meter long iron bar, a pitchfork and an axe for one hour. This decision is a precedent in Croatia, since no one up until now was sentenced for torturing companion animals with the punishment of imprisonment.
01/27/2006 KRIZEVCI - 22ND TOWN IN CROATIA TO BAN CIRCUSES WITH ANIMALS!
On January 25, Krizevci became the first town that banned circuses with animal acts in Croatia in 2006 and 22nd town altogether. Krizevci thus joined Mursko Sredisce, Varazdin, Donji Miholjac, Velika Gorica, Rovinj, Split, Delnice, Gospic, Cakovec, Kraljevica, Prelog, Ploce, Bjelovar, Ozalj, Klanjec, Zabok, Pozega, Novi Marof, Nin, Varazdinske Toplice, and Dugo Selo, which already banned circuses with animal acts before.
01/26/2006 ITALIAN SLOW FOOD COMMUNITY DRIVES RONALD MCDONALD OUT OF TOWN!
The Southern Italian town of Altamura, Apulia is "breaking the chains" by supporting local businesses. Five years ago, McDonald's revealed plans to open a fast food restaurant in the town. Area citizens, supported by Italy's Slow Food movement, campaigned against the development by establishing their own group "Friends of Cardoncello". Despite community opposition, McDonald's built a fast food store in town, but struggled over the next few years, as townspeople's shunned the "golden arches" and supported local baker Luigi Digesù and other community restaurants. Last month, McDonald's closed its doors and left town.
01/24/2006 CORNISH WOMAN IN BID TO STOP CHINESE FUR TRADE!
A Cornish animal rights activist has set up a global campaign to try and save millions of animals which die each year from the Chinese fur trade. Mary Alice Pollard, who lives in Gerrans on the Roseland Peninsula, already has support for her campaign from world-renowned musical artists, including Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Jimmy Page and The Levellers. Mrs Pollard campaigns under the banner Cornwall's Voice for the Animals, and is building up a group - Musicians Against The Fur Trade. The group exists to raise awareness and also to form an "musical petition" which will be presented to the Chinese Government.
01/23/2006 WHALE STRANDED IN THE RIVER THAMES DIES ON SATURDAY!
London - The lost and distressed whale stranded in the River Thames died Saturday as rescue workers attempted to ferry it out to sea for release, an animal rights group said. The 20-foot-long Northern bottlenose whale had been lifted onto a barge by rescuers and was being taken downriver toward the North Sea when it suffered convulsions and died, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals said.
01/22/2006 BEDO GOES FUR FREE!
Two weeks into a campaign launched by Global Action Network to pressure the retail chain into going fur free, Bedo has pulled all fur from their stores across Canada. In a letter dated Friday, 13 January 2006, Bedo's Controller stated that the company was sensitive to animal welfare concerns, and as such, had made the decision to stop selling fur.
01/21/2006 DIPLOMATIC PROTEST ISSUED AGAINST JAPANESE WHALING!
London - Australia, Britain, Brazil, France and Germany were among 17 countries which this week called on Japan to halt to its Antarctic whaling programme."The fact that 17 countries supported this representation, shows how important this issue is, and the depth of feeling around the world," British fisheries minister Ben Bradshaw said in a statement. A written statement calling on Japan to "cease all its lethal scientific research on whales" was delivered to Japan's foreign ministry on Monday and farm ministry on Tuesday.
01/20/2006 AUSTRALIA URGED TO THWART JAPANESE WHALING!
Sydney - The Australian government came under pressure Monday to intervene in an increasingly dangerous confrontation between Japan's Antarctic whaling fleet and Greenpeace protest vessels. The calls came after the international environmental lobbying group alleged that the 129-metre Nisshin Maru factory ship deliberately rammed its 49-metre Arctic Sunrise. Greens leader Bob Brown, a member of Australia's upper house of parliament, urged Prime Minister John Howard to dispatch the navy to prevent any further clashes between the protesters and the whalers.
01/19/2006 MICK JAGGER'S DAUGHTER TAUNTS ANIMAL ACTIVISTS!
Sir Mick Jagger's socialite daughter Jade Jagger has taunted animal cruelty protestors by vowing to buy a $6,300 (L3,500) fur coat.Jade, who works as creative director at British jewellers Garrard, has fallen in love with a white mink coat from Lanvin and remains unmoved by the concern of animal activists, such as People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (PETA).Jade says, "I have no fear of paintball shooters. I've been trying to get their attention for years. Come and get me."
01/18/2006 FREE THE PRIMATES!
Students at the University of Connecticut (UConn) have spearheaded a dynamic campaign to free four rhesus macaque monkeys who are currently being used in painful experiments. The UConn Animal Rights Club is also calling on the school to permanently end all primate experimentation at university-affiliated facilities. UConn's David Waitzman drills holes in the skulls of the monkeys and implants electrodes in their brains to record which portions of the brain are activated during eye movement. The monkeys are deprived of food and water for days at a time as part of their "training." Lawrence Hansen, a neuropathologist at the University of California in San Diego, described experiments similar to Waitzman's as "experiments that deliver so much suffering to higher primates for so comparatively little scientific gain."
01/17/2006 GREENLAND BANS CANADIAN SEALSKINS!
NUUK, Greenland (UPI) - The home-rule government in Greenland has decided to halt imports of sealskins from Canada. Great Greenland began importing Canadian skins in 2003 because of a quality decline in Greenlandic skins. But officials say they do not want to risk bringing in skins from seals that have been beaten to death. Premier Hans Enoksen said that bad publicity in the 1980s about the Canadian seal hunt hurt Greenland`s exports, and trappers do not want a repetition.
01/16/2006 EU CONSIDERS FOOD LABELS TO IMPROVE ANIMAL WELFARE!
Brussels - European consumers who prefer meat and dairy products from humanely treated animals may soon be able to buy farm produce stamped with an EU "welfare" label. Noting a "seismic shift" in consumer opinion towards promoting animal welfare rather than merely preventing cruelty and avoidable suffering, the European Commission says it is keen to see more farm products obtained using high welfare standards. One way to achieve this, it says in a five-year plan to improve treatment of animals, would be to create a label to help consumers choose between "minimum" and "higher" welfare standards for the meat, milk or eggs that they want to buy.
01/15/2006 IFAW'S HURRICANE KATRINA RESCUE UPDATE!
The IFAW Emergency Relief team directly rescued nearly 700 animals, including dogs, cats, horses, emus and iguanas from New Orleans' flooded streets and transported them to a safe holding facility after Hurricane Katrina caused major flooding in Louisiana last summer. Working with local officials and other animal welfare groups, about 4,000 animals were rescued and transported by ground and air to various shelters.
01/14/2006 VIRGINIA WOMAN CONVICTED OF CRUELTY IN DOG CASE!
Manassas, Va. - A woman convicted of animal cruelty after an emaciated pit bull was discovered eating the carcass of another dog in her backyard was sentenced Monday to two days in jail. Karen Lee Morris, 37, also was barred from ever possessing another companion animal in Virginia as part of a related civil case. City officials had sought a 10-day jail sentence.Animal control officers found three pit bulls in the tiny backyard of Morris' townhouse in December, while she was away on a family trip. They saw a thin pit bull cannibalizing the carcass of another pit bull.
01/13/2006 MEPs DEMAND ACTION ON BEAR FARMS!
The European Parliament has passed a resolution demanding pressure on China to ban the farming of bears for bile. The bile is extracted from the caged bears' allbladder by means of a metal catheter, then sold for use in Chinese medicines and cosmetics. The resolution was approved by more than half of the parliament's 732 members, with cross-party support. "We want China to shut all the bear farms before the 2008 Olympics," said British Labour MEP Peter Skinner.
01/12/2006 100TH ORPHAN BEAR CUB RELEASED IN THE WILD!
In Russia, IFAW celebrated the release of the 100th orphan bear cub into a protected area. Every year during the winter months hundreds of brown bear cubs are left to die after their mothers are shot during the annual legal hunt. Since 1996, IFAW has been working with Professor Valentin Pazhetnov who has dedicated his life to rescuing and rehabilitating orphaned bear cubs for release back to the wild. IFAW is also campaigning to end the killing of hibernating bears.
01/11/2006 TWO RUSSIAN ACADEMIES QUIT EXPERIMENTING ON ANIMALS!
In October 2005 St.Peterburg veterinary academy, pharmacology department, signed a contract with InterNICHE to replace animal experiments by humane alternatives. Agriculture academy in the town of Velikiye Luki replaced animal experiments with humane alternatives on the department of farm animal breeding technology.This is a historical improvement for the country. Russian schools freely experiment on vast amounts of lab animals, often without anaesthetics. InterNICHE's and VITA's two years of active campaigning against animal experiments in Russia resulted in this revolutionary step forward in St.Peterburgh and Velikiye Luki.
01/09/2006 SALMON SABOTAGE FEARED!
The Norwegian Police Security Service (PST) has asked Norway's salmon industry to be vigilant to the threat of sabotage from militant environmentalists after several facilities have been damaged. Karin Hamnevold was just one of many locals who took advantage of the massive exodus of farmed salmon into the Alta Fjord last June.
01/08/2006 HUNTINGDON SUED OVER ANIMAL TESTING ALLEGATIONS!
New Brunswick, N.J. (AP) - Less than a month before some animal welfare activists are to be retried on domestic terrorism charges for their actions against a Somerset County laboratory, the New Jersey Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has sued the same facility. Filed in Middlesex County, The NJSPCA's lawsuit criticizes Huntingdon Life Sciences' use of animals in product research, and is based largely on incidents undercover activists said they videotaped in 1996 and 1997. Federal officials investigated those charges in 1998 and reached a settlement with Huntingdon to improve conditions for animals at its Franklin Township lab. A spokesman for federal prosecutors called the timing "very curious," and the USDA said the society could have made a complaint to its offices rather than filing a lawsuit.
01/06/2006 ANIMAL ABUSE SHOPS ATTACKED IN DUBLIN!
Animal Liberation Front members paid a visit to Barnardos Furriers, Grafton Street, Dublin 2, Ireland on the night of the 30th December 2005. Red paint was poured all over the locks and shutters of Barnardos Furriers Shop.
01/05/2006 ANIMAL RIGHTS GROUP URGES SHARON TO GO VEGETARIAN!
Israeli group Anonymous for Animal Rights has sent a letter to PM Ariel Sharon urging him to become vegetarian. Sharon's doctors recently announced in a medical conference that he suffers from gout, a form of arthritis often caused by consumption of more rich foods than the liver can handle. Switching to a vegetarian diet could alleviate his symptoms.
01/03/2006 LOBBY GROUP TO STEP UP CAMPAIGN AGAINST FUR FARMING IN IRELAND!
A campaign to ban fur farming in Ireland is to be stepped up in the New Year by Compassion in World Farming (CIWF). It announced it will be focusing on the issue following the successful completion of its campaign to end subsidies for live cattle exports to the Middle East. CIWF said there are currently six mink farms in the Republic, but the practice is illegal in Northern Ireland. However, the Department of Agriculture and Food has repeatedly stated that fur farming is a legitimate activity in this country.
01/01/2006 ANIMAL FRIENDS CROATIA'S GREATEST ACHIEVEMENTS IN 2005!
February: Over 150 protesters gathered at a loud international protest in Zagreb; March: In cooperation with Genesis Croatian edition of the book Eternal Treblinka: Our Treatment of Animals and the Holocaust by Charles Patterson was published; March: Nine Croatian towns took part in the Meatout Croatia 2005, thus marking the 20th anniversary of the Meatout Day; March: In cooperation with PETA demos against Benetton in order to convince the retail chain to ban garments made with Australian wool held in Pula, Rijeka, Sarajevo, Budapest, Belgrade, Ljubljana, and Maribor, June/July: At the beginning of the campaign 'Don't leave me' supported by Croatian celebrities Maja Vucic, Nikolina Pisek, and Nokia Cro-a-porter homed some forty dogs from the City Shelter in Dumovec; July: The coach full of activists from Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia and Montenegro, Hungary, and Bulgaria headed from Zagreb on the Human Race in Pamplona so as to join over 600 protesters against the bullfights and bullrun from all over Europe; July: 32 beagles rescued from illegal experiments at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine in Zagreb; October: At a concert on the World Vegetarian Day in the Boogaloo Club in Zagreb, Scroll, Fraktura mozga, Flyer, Brain Holidays, Antenat, Stillness, and Hakoona Matata played in front of 2,000 visitors; October: Pamela Anderson's letter to Croatian designers to go fur-free attracted huge media attention; October-December: 20 Croatian towns banned circuses with animal acts as a result of four years of campaigning.
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