Guest guest Posted October 21, 2008 Report Share Posted October 21, 2008 KINSHIP CIRCLE PRIMARY - PERMISSION TO CROSS-POST PART 1: KC UPDATES / AUG - OCT 2008 Victories * Setbacks * Progress For Animals http://www.kinshipcircle.org/updates/ PART 1: KC UPDATES / AUG- OCT 2008 1. Dogfighting Don’s First Day In Louisiana Court 2. Ringling Goes To Federal Trial October 20, 2008? 3. Dog Poisoner Gets 30 Jail Days + Counseling 4. HSUS Sues United Egg Producers 5. Bush Admin Objects, But Polar Bears Get Habitat 6. Our Visit To The Vice Prez Debate, St. Louis, MO 7. After AETA: Another Law To Silence Activists 8. Prop 2 Looks Good As Nov. 4 Elections Approach 9. Bush Admin VS. Gray Wolves: GOP Losing 10. Politics Trumps Mercy: Still No Downer Ban PART 2: KC UPDATES / AUG - OCT 2008 PLEASE RESEND ME PART #2: kinshipcircle 11. Humane Society Legislative Fund Endorses Obama 12. Police Sgt. Acquitted In Dog’s Death In Locked Car 13. Who Dumped HLS Animal Killers Lately? 14. Shooting Mayor’s Dogs Is “Justified.” Huh? 15. Freedom For Unlawfully Jailed Austrian Activists 16. 8 Little Lambs Left A Lab - To Live At A Sanctuary 17. New Development Proves: IAMS Kills 18. Nepal Bans Monkey Export To Research Labs 19. Korea to Classify Dogs as Livestock 20. NJ: Landmark Legal Victory For Farm Animals 21. EU Proposes Total Ban On Some Seal Goods 22. Calif. Law Bans Slaughter Of Downers 23. Hits & Misses For Animals RE: 10/10/08: Don’t Let Soldiers Kill Beloved Dog In Iraq NO ANSWERS YET, BUT SEE: Puppy love denied by U.S. army rules http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/10/14/7080146-ap.html ================================================================ 1. Dogfighting Don’s First Day In Louisiana Court ================================================================ DATE: 10/14/08 SOURCE: Illegal dogfight case begins http://theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081014/NEWS01/81013020 Pit bull breeders face dog-fighting charges http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/acadiana/30729964.html EDITED FOR LENGTH This case has languished since pre-Katrina 2005 when State Police recovered dogfighting magazines, pictures, home videos, a treadmill, steroids, surgical equipment to repair wounds from fighting, and break sticks used to pry open a pit bull’s jaws, etc. -- from the property of Boudreaux and his son. The trial of a Broussard man and his son, who are facing more than 40 counts of dogfighting, began following several trial postponements. Floyd Boudreaux, 73, and his son Guy Boudreaux, 44, were arrested in March 2005 and charged with 48 counts of dogfighting after Louisiana State Police officers seized more than 50 pit bulls, allegedly used for illegal dogfighting, from their Lafayette parish residence. Boudreaux and his son waived their rights to a jury to proceed with the case. The court heard opening statements from Prosecutor Ronald Dauterive and defense lawyer Jason Robideaux... More witnesses, including more than 10 defense witnesses, are set to appear in court... KINSHIP CIRCLE REFERENCES: 1/20/06: LA Dogfight Thugs Are Charged http://www.kinshipcircle.org/updates/updates_jan-april_2006.html#10 1/18/06: Justice Lags In Bust Of LA Dogfighting Dynasty http://www.kinshipcircle.org/fact_sheets/fatalfights.pdf ================================================================ 2. Ringling Goes To Federal Trial October 20, 2008? ================================================================ DATE: 10/12/08 SOURCE: Lawsuit Against Ringling Bros. to Protect Asian Elephants Moves Forward http://www.awionline.org/wildlife/elephants/rbsuit.htm HEART for Animals, http://animalrights.meetup.com/242/ Ringling Bros. to stand trial for elephant abuse beginning October 20, 2008 in Washington, D.C. Photo: Demo at Izod Center, East Rutherford, NJ 2008. HEART for Animals, heartforanimals EDITED FOR LENGTH From Kinship Circle -- We couldn’t verify this long-awaited trial -- however, Animal Welfare Institute, one of the plaintiffs, has a COUNTDOWN TO RINGLING BROS. TRIAL meter on its site. As of 10/12/08, the meter read: 2000-2003: American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, Fund for Animals, Animal Welfare Institute, and former Ringling “barn man” Tom Rider file a lawsuit against Ringling Bros. Circus under the Endangered Species Act for its cruelty to Asian elephants. February 2002: U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit unanimously holds that plaintiffs have Article III standing to bring the case. Records disclose: * USDA neglects to inform public about numerous RBBBC elephants with tuberculosis.... Documents show virtually all Ringling endangered Asian elephants are exposed to TB... * USDA says use of chains and ropes to forcibly separate nursing elephants from mothers at Ringling’s Center for Elephant Conservation inflict “unnecessary trauma, behavioral stress and physical harm.” 2007: Federal judge rules the animal cruelty case against Ringling may proceed. Documents uncovered during lawsuit reveal employees beat, chain and wound endangered Asian elephants with bullhooks.... DETAILED (1998-PRESENT) TIMELINE OF RINGLING ON TRIAL: http://www.awionline.org/news/2007/ringling_bros_abuse.htm KINSHIP CIRCLE REFERENCES: http://www.kinshipcircle.org/fact_sheets/RinglingBrosTheBigCon..pdf ================================================================ 3. Dog Poisoner Gets 30 Jail Days + Counseling ================================================================ DATE: 10/9/08 SOURCE: CRR man sentenced to 30 days for dog poisonings http://www.ktvz.com/Global/story.asp?S56166 EDITED FOR LENGTH One dog died, other survived -- Alan Whitacre, 68, is preparing to spend 30 days in jail and get mental health counseling after admitting to poisoning his neighbor's dogs for months. Whitacre says his neighbor Ken Schmidt's dogs, Timber and Topaz, barked constantly for a year. "He admitted he had lost his mind because the dogs were barking day after day, and he felt animal control and the sheriff's office had failed him," Jefferson County Deputy District Attorney Steve Leriche told Circuit Judge Daniel Ahern. "So he said he began trying to kill the dogs." Whitacre pleaded guilty to putting rat poison in meat and throwing it over the fence to the dogs... KINSHIP CIRCLE REFERENCES: 9/26/08: No Plea Deal For Poisoning Dogs http://www.kinshipcircle.org/letter_library/letter_new.asp?LetterID60 & seriesfirst=true ================================================================ 4. HSUS Sues United Egg Producers ================================================================ DATE: 10/9/08 SOURCE: Egg Industry Sued for Deceiving Consumers about Animal Welfare http://www.hsus.org/press_and_publications/press_releases/egg_industry_sued_for_deceiving_consumers_100908.html EDITED FOR LENGTH A lawsuit filed by Humane Society of the United States in the District of Columbia alleges that advertising by UEP and MoArk, LLC, and R.W. Sauder, Inc., is duping consumers who care about animal welfare into buying eggs bearing the “United Egg Producers Certified” logo. While UEP touts that its certification program is an “animal welfare” program, it permits factory farmers to confine hens in restrictive, barren cages in which they can’t perform many of their natural behaviors, including perching, nesting, foraging or even spreading their wings... KINSHIP CIRCLE REFERENCES: Meat-on-a-Stick for Earth Day? http://www.kinshipcircle.org/columns_articles/0041.html ================================================================ 5. Bush Admin Objects, But Polar Bears Get Habitat ================================================================ DATE: 10/6/08 SOURCE: Government has till 2010 to designate polar bear habitat http://www.mcclatchydc.com/260/story/53565.html EDITED FOR LENGTH WASHINGTON -- Environmental groups and the Bush administration reached a partial court settlement that requires the Department of Interior to designate critical habitat for polar bears by June 30, 2010. The Department of Interior in May listed the polar bear as threatened by global warming, but didn't designate any critical habitat protection. The Center for Biological Diversity, Greenpeace and the Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit in an attempt to force the government to do more for the bears' long-term survival under the Endangered Species Act... KINSHIP CIRCLE REFERENCES: Apr-June 2008 UPDATES: Polar Bears Get Endangered Status http://www.kinshipcircle.org/updates/updates_apr-jun_2008.html#anchor13 8/27/07: Polar Bears Are Not Trophies http://kinshipcircle.org/letter_library/letter.asp?LetterID74 & seriesfirst=true 6/1/07: Uncertain Fate For Polar Bears http://www.kinshipcircle.org/letter_library/letter.asp?LetterID52 & seriesfirst=true ================================================================ 6. Our Visit To The Vice Prez Debate, St. Louis, MO ================================================================ DATE: 10/2/08 SOURCE: http://www.KinshipCircle.org 10/2/08: VICE PRESEDENT DEBATE / WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY, ST. LOUIS VIDEO: SARAH PALIN AND ANIMALS [a must see for animal advocates] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_e5PxXtc9VM Sarah Palin's Shocking Animal Cruelty http://www.worldproutassembly.org/archives/2008/09/sarah_palins_sh.html For those who don't believe the number two spot on the ticket matters much, consider this: 14 vice presidents in American history eventually climbed to the top job, eight of them because their predecessors died in office. If Sarah Palin were to be propelled into the presidency and given the opportunity to run the United States like she has run Alaska -- controlling Departments of Interior, Agriculture, and Commerce, with wide-ranging authority over issues affecting pets, wildlife, farm animals, marine mammals, animals in research, and public lands -- it would be a terrible day for animals and for the country. Michael Markarian (HSUS and HSLF) KINSHIP CIRCLE REFERENCES: 9/27/08: Palin's Pro-Death Platform On Animals http://www.kinshipcircle.org/letter_library/letter_new.asp?LetterID62 & seriesfirst=true 9/25/07: Shot From The Sky - Aerial Wolf Hunts http://www.kinshipcircle.org/letter_library/letter.asp?LetterID86 & seriesfirst=true ================================================================ 7. After AETA: Another Law To Silence Activists ================================================================ DATE: 10/1/08 SOURCE: New Law Shields UC Scientists http://www.dailynexus.com/article.php?a239 Assembly Bill 2296, the Researcher Protection Act of 2008 http://www.animalliberationfront.com/News/2008_10/NewLawShieldsUCScientists.htm EDITED FOR LENGTH (but you ought to read it all, at either link above) Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed UC-backed legislation into law -- Assembly Bill 2296, the Researcher Protection Act of 2008... The legislation immediately...bans publications describing researchers’ appearances or residences, and legally bars individuals from entering a researcher’s home with the intent to commit a crime... The provision criminalizes any speech designed to threaten or intimidate academic researchers, thereby restricting the speaker’s First Amendment rights. Jerry Vlasak, a spokesman for the North American Animal Liberation, said: “The University likes to make it seem like all scientific progress will come to a halt if animal testing is restricted. That simply is not the case. Anti-animal testing protesters have been primarily challenging the use of primates, such as the UC using BOTOX to paralyze primate’s eye muscles and gluing metal coils to their corneas to study eye movements. They have been doing this study for 20 years and it has done nothing to help humans.” Michael Budkie, executive director of Stop Animal Exploitation NOW!, said: “Since researchers are using public funds...people have a right to know how their tax dollars are being spent.” According to SAEN, the UC system holds over 5,000 primates, primarily at laboratories connected to UC Davis, UC San Francisco and UC Los Angeles. Many experiments are highly invasive and painful, SAEN asserts, and involve procedures like water deprivation, exposure to infectious diseases and the bolting of devices to the skull... ================================================================ 8. Prop 2 Looks Good As Nov. 4 Elections Approach ================================================================ STATEWIDE POLL SHOWS YES! ON PROP 2 LEADING 72-10 DATE: 9/30/08 SOURCE: Jennifer Fearing, jfearing EDITED FOR LENGTH SACRAMENTO -- The YES! on Prop 2 campaign reports a tidal wave of voter and donor support from Californians backing the effort to stop the inhumane treatment of animals on industrial factory farms. In contrast, donations raised by the No on Prop 2 campaign have come from a handful of corporate factory farming interests -- most out of state and many embroiled in a national price-fixing scandal. The results of a new statewide poll by KSFN-Fresno/SurveyUSA show overwhelming support from voters, with Prop 2 commanding a 62-point lead: 72-10 (18 undecided). PROP 2 SPONSORS SUE U.S DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE DATE: 8/21/08 SOURCE: For now, feds will steer clear of California animal-rights measure http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/21/BA0912G90F.DTL & tsp=1 EDITED FOR LENGTH In papers filed in San Francisco, the U.S. Department of Agriculture denied accusations in a lawsuit that it planned illegal political spending... The suit accuses Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer of approving a $3 million budget increase for the American Egg Board to use in advertising against Prop. 2. The board is a government-supervised group of egg producers that collects fees from the industry to research and promote egg products... The expenditure would violate a federal law prohibiting the agency from using any funds to influence government policy, the suit said... LEARN ABOUT PROP 2 AND HOW TO HELP IT PASS: http://yesonprop2.com KINSHIP CIRCLE REFERENCES: JULY 2008 DIGEST: Help Proposition 2 Win Relief For Animals In Calif. http://www.kinshipcircle.org/digest/2008_07.html#anchor3 Don’t Blow This Landmark Chance For Farmed Animals http://www.kinshipcircle.org/letter_library/letter.asp?LetterID09 & seriesfirst=true ================================================================ 9. Bush Admin VS. Gray Wolves: GOP Losing ================================================================ CONSERVATIONISTS WIN LAWSUIT TO PROTECT GRAY WOLVES IN GREAT LAKES DATE: 9/29/08 SOURCE: Court Orders Bush Admin to Retain Protections for Wolves... http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2008/gray-wolves-09-29-2008.html EDITED FOR LENGTH Judge Paul L. Friedman of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia today ordered the Bush administration to retain protection for gray wolves in the Great Lakes area under the Endangered Species Act. The Court’s order and accompanying opinion were issued in response to a lawsuit brought by conservationists challenging the Bush administration’s effort to unlawfully apply the Endangered Species Act to the status of gray wolves... DELISTING OF GRAY WOLVES IN YELLOWSTONE & NORTHERN ROCKIES RESCINDED DATE: 9/17/08 SOURCE: Save America’s Wolves, http://www.savewolves.org EDITED FOR LENGTH In March 2008, the Bush/Cheney Administration eliminated Endangered Species Act protections for wolves in Greater Yellowstone and the Northern Rockies. For months, wolves were slaughtered… until conservation groups prevailed in court and restored federal protections for these magnificent animals. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) officials say they plan to rescind the plan to delist gray wolves in Greater Yellowstone and the Northern Rockies sometime soon and place them back under federal protections... TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT GRAY WOLVES PERMANENTLY: Speak Up For the Gray Wolf Today http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2167/t/5243/petition.jsp?petition_KEY22 Help Ensure a Lasting Future for Wolves in Greater Yellowstone and the Northern Rockies http://action.defenders.org/site/PageServer?pagename=savewolves_takeaction KINSHIP CIRCLE REFERENCES: 3/29/08: Gray Wolf Hunts Planned After De-Listing http://www.kinshipcircle.org/updates/updates_apr-jun_2008.html#anchor28 4/27/04: Western Gray Wolves Under Attack ================================================================ 10. Politics Trumps Mercy: Still No Downer Ban ================================================================ DATE: 9/29/08 SOURCE: Industry News / Senate snubs bill with non-ambulatory cattle language http://www.meatingplace.com/MembersOnly/webNews/details.aspx?item31 EDITED FOR LENGTH The U.S. Senate rejected a motion to proceed to debate the Economic Stimulus package, which included language that would ban non-ambulatory cattle from entering the food supply. The measure was rejected by a vote of 52 to 42, leaving it short of the 60 votes required to proceed... USDA proposed a rule banning non-ambulatory cattle last month (Aug. 27, 2008)... KINSHIP CIRCLE REFERENCES: 7/14/08: No Downers. No Exceptions. NOW. http://www.kinshipcircle.org/letter_library/letter_new.asp?LetterID51 & seriesfirst=true Apr-June 2008 UPDATES: Downer News - Big Meat Backs Downer Ban + More... http://www.kinshipcircle.org/updates/updates_apr-jun_2008..html#anchor16 3/2/08: I'm Mad. Downer Ban? USDA Says Forget It http://www.kinshipcircle.org/letter_library/letter_new.asp?LetterID27 & seriesfirst=true 2/23/08: USDA-Certified Cruel: Downers Dragged, Shocked, Rammed http://www.kinshipcircle.org/letter_library/letter_new.asp?LetterID25 & seriesfirst=true http://www.kinshipcircle.org/fact_sheets/DownedOnTheFarmPHOTOS.pdf http://www.kinshipcircle.org/fact_sheets/HortonHearsACow.pdf =========================================================== Due To Lack Of Funding, Kinship Circle May Fold =========================================================== This decision is by no means final, as we struggle for a “miracle” grant in these difficult economic times. Your donations are cherished...Anything contributed now is tax-deductible and goes directly to our programs. Still, we need an operating budget grant to remain “in business” for you and the animals. We will certainly keep our supporters updated...and function as usual until such time we must close. AGAIN; We are not folding right now. But it may happen within the year, if we don’t secure funding to pay for overhead and projects. 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