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Putting People First / October 18, 1993
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PEOPLE'S BULLETIN
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News and notices in the struggle against animal rights and eco-
extremists
copyright@1993 Putting People First
Permission to reproduce all or part of
an item id freely granted on the condition
that credit s given to Putting People First.
Putting People First is a nonprofit organization
of citizens who believe in rights for humans and
welfare for animals, and who oppose the goals and
tactics of "animal rights" and environmental extremism.
4401 Connecticut Avenue N.W.
Suite 310-A
Washington, D.C. 20008-2322
(202) 364-7277
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BRITISH ANIMAL RIGHTISTS LINKED TO MAIL BOMBS
A firebomb apparently mailed by animal-rights activists exploded
on October 6 in a British post office at Watford in southern England.
Six other mail bombs were subsequently detected and disarmed by the bomb
squad. The packages were addressed to people in various parts of the
country connected with "country-type pursuits," police said.
"No one has claimed responsibility for the devices," said a police
spokesman, "but it would appear they are part of an
animal-rights campaign."
FBI OFFERS $1 MILLION REWARD FOR UNIVERSITY BOMBER
Federal officials are offering a $1 million reward for information
leading to the arrest of a suspected serial bomber the FBI calls
"Unabom," who is believed to be responsible for 14 university bombings
over the past 15 years. The attacks have killed one person and injured
23 more across the country. Most recently, during one two-day period in
June, a geneticist working on down's syndrome at the University of
California at San Francisco and a computer scientist at Yale University
were both seriously injured by mail bombs believed to have been sent by
Unabom.
Both bombs were mailed from Sacramento, as a previous letter to the
New York Times predicting the bombings. Federal investigators have also
obtained a hand mitten note believed to have been written by Unabom,
saying "Call Nathan R--Wed 7 pm." Authorities ask people with
information to call 1-800-701-BOMB.
HOUSE APPROVES NATIONAL BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH DAY
House Joint Resolution 111, designating October 21, 1993 "National
Biomedical Research Day," passed the Senate by unanimous consent on
October 14. It had similarly passed the House of Representatives by
unanimous consent on September 28. The resolution as introduced by Rep.
Harold Volkmer (D-MO) on February 17.
The Saving Lives Coalition, a broad-based umbrella group for
scientific, academic, medical, and health-advocacy organizations, is
hosting a press conference, featuring researchers, patients, members of
Congress and other government officials, to celebrate the day.
-For more information about National Biomedical Research Day contact:
Americans for Medical Progress
1735 Jefferson Davis Highway, Suite 907
Arlington, VA 22202-3401
or call: 703/412-1111
PeTA PROTESTS VETERINARY BLOOD BANK
Radical animal "rights" group People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals (PeTA) is protesting the opening of a blood bank for pets
needing transfusions for surgery.
The Eastern Veterinary Blood Bank, in Baltimore, Maryland, offers
free physical exams, blood tests, and tests for heartworm and tick-
transmitted disease for dogs brought in to donate blood four to six
times a year.
But because feline blood can carry undetectable diseases, the blood
bank must purchase blood-donor cats from a lab supplier that has bred
them to be disease-free.
PeTA has labeled the blood bank "exploitative" for patronizing a
supplier that has bred the disease-free cats for research, despite the
fact that blood transfusions themselves are the results of animal
research.
IDITAROD BITES BACK AGAINST HSUS
Joe Redington, Sr., known as the "father of the Iditarod," took out
an advertisement in the Anchorage (Alaska) Daily News, featuring a
petition calling upon the board of directors of the Iditarod Trail Sled
Dog Race to break relations with the Humane Society of the United States
(HSUS) and its vice president, David Wills.
Despite obtaining a seat on the race's dog care committee, Wills
has nevertheless spearheaded a high-pressure campaign by HSUS to get
major Iditarod sponsors, such as ABC television and Dodge, to withdraw
support for the race. According to an Associated Press account, Wills
has said HSUS "would prefer that the Iditarod didn't exist."
Redington has suggested that it would be more appropriate to work
with a legitimate animal welfare group such as the American Humane
Association (AHA), rather than a radical animal "rights" group like
HSUS, which does not run any animal shelters.
PAWS DROPS SUIT AGAINST NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM
The Progressive Animal Welfare Society Inc. (PAWS) has withdrawn
its lawsuit against the New England Aquarium over the treatment of a
dolphin named Kama.
PAWS spokesman Mitchell Fox now admits that the aquarium has not
violated federal Marine Mammal Protection Act regulations in its
treatment of Kama. But he added, "We question the appropriateness and
legality of those regulations."
The aquarium dropped its countersuit against PAWS, but is still
suing the Coalition Against Animal Suffering and Exploitation (CEASE)
and the Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) for defamation and abuse of
process over the same issue.
CEASE has distributed materials claiming that Kama was "violently
ripped from the bosom of his family at sea." Kama as actually born at
Sea World.
PeTA DENIED ACCESS TO KANSAS CITY SCHOOLS
Fresh from hostile receptions in Des Moines, Iowa, and Omaha,
Nebraska, a PeTA activist dressed as a giant carrot once again failed to
infiltrate PeTA's animal "rights" propaganda into elementary schools,
this time in Kansas City, Missouri.
Parents, teachers, and assistant principal Sandra Greisel took the
children back inside, asking the activists to leave, but they refused.
"Anytime anyone comes to the school, even parents, they have to
sign in," explained Greisel. "This time, there was no prior approval."
NEAVS DOWNSIZES
The once richly-endowed New England Antivivisection Society (NEAVS)
has forced by financial difficulties to lay off all but two of its
employees on August 24, reports the animal rights magazine Animal
People.
According to the National Association for Biomedical Research
(NABR), NEAVS reportedly had assets of $8.6 million in 1987, when the
organization was seized, corporate-raider style, in a hostile takeover
by PeTA and the Fund For Animals. The following year, NEAVS disbursed
some $600,000 to groups aligned with PeTA and the Fund.
Since then, NEAVS has given more than $1.5 million in excess of
revenues to such groups, particularly the Physicians Committee for
Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a group headed by PeTA's "medical advisor"
Neal Barnard.
-For more information contact:
National Association for Biomedical Research
818 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 303
Washington, D.C. 20006
or call: 202/857-0450