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Hsus News Volume 40, Number 01

HSUS News 1989-92

• Ballots over bullets: wildlife-protection initiatives triumph in two states (Paul G. Irwin)
• Spotlight
• Good news for peregrine falcons
• More good news for hens!
• HSUS award to Michael Balls
• Victories in the West: voters restrict hunting and trapping
• Iditarod and "Sudden Death" : exertional myopathy cited in dog's death (David K. Wills)
• Sometimes love is the best medicine of all (Rachel Lamb and Sally Fekety)
• Newfangled "fun" is old-fashioned cruelty (Ken Johnson)
• The dairy cow: America's "foster mother" (Melanie Adcock, D.V.M. and Mary Finelli)
• HSI South Africa: penguins rescued
• HSI United States: CITES: a mixed bag
• HSI Australia: a door to …

The Animal Research Controversy: Protest, Process & Public Policy, Andrew N. Rowan, Franklin M. Loew, Joan C. Weer

eBooks

The controversy today regarding the use of animals in research appears on the surface to be a strongly polarized struggle between the scientific community and the animal protection movement. However, there is a wide range of opinions and philosophies on both sides. Mistrust between the factions has blossomed while communication has withered. Through the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s, the animal movement grew in numbers and financial resources, and developed much greater public recognition and political clout. The research community paid relatively little attention to the animal movement for much of this period but, alarmed by several public relations coups …

Farm Animal Welfare: The Focus Of Animal Protection In The Usa In The 21st Century, Andrew N. Rowan

General – Farm Animal Issues

The politics of farm animal advocacy from the 1960s in Europe, the USA and Canada up to 1995 are described and discussed. The report includes sections on terminology, legislative developments, the Massachusetts farm animal referendum, family farms, changing public attitudes, biotechnology and BST, and policy implications.

Importation Of Certain Cattle From Mexico: Identification Requirements, Animal Rights International

Face Branding Campaign

Animal Rights International (ARI) strongly supports the proposed rule of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service of the United States Department of Agriculture to eliminate the hot iron face branding requirement for cattle imported into the United States from Mexico. It is the position of ARI that face branding is cruel and unnecessary, more humane identification methods are available and more effective means of controlling tuberculosis should be utilized, face branding constitutes a violation of public policy and many states' cruelty to animals statutes, the USDA should revise all of its regulations to ensure that face branding is no …

Hsus News Volume 39, Number 04

HSUS News 1989-92

• Killing animals to save them: "Sustainable Use of Wildlife" is a bankrupt philosophy (Paul G. Irwin)
• Spotlight
• Good news for wolves in Alaska, Yellowstone
• In the name of learning: dissection, other uses, cause animal suffering (Jonathan Balcombe, Ph.D.)
• To swim with dolphins: study contradicts programs' benign image (Naomi A. Rose, Ph.D.)
• HSI United States: CITES comes to Florida
• Return of the elephant trade?
• HSI Canada: Endangered Species Alert (Michael O'Sullivan)
• HSI Honduras: rehabilitation reaps rewards
• HSI Mexico: Sanctuary, RMP proposals pass (Patricia Forkan)
• HSI Costa Rica: dedication and triumph (David K. Wills)
• A life-changing injection (Sally Fekety)
• Supplies provide a …

Canned Hunts--Canned Cruelty

Close Up Reports

No abstract provided.

Hsus News Volume 39, Number 03

HSUS News 1989-92

• Our family keeps growing: we make new pathways for new programs (John A. Hoyt)
• Spotlight
• Caucus no friend of animals
• Farm Animals Awareness Week
• Another success for Expo: record attendance fuels exhibitor enthusiasm (Geoffrey L. Handy)
• Disaster strikes the MMPA: Congress deals blow to animal protection (Naomi A. Rose, Ph.D.)
• HSI Taiwan: U.S. imposes sanctions (Teresa M. Telecky, Ph.D.)
• HSI Canada: seal hunt takes toll (Michael O'Sullivan)
• HSI Australia: IWC approves whale sanctuary
• HSI Europe: EU says: Norway, come on in (Betsy Dribben)
• The Humane Society of the United States 1993 Annual Report
• The Humane Society of the United States …

Animal Production And The New Social Ethic For Animals, Bernard E. Rollin

Animal Welfare Collection

No abstract provided.

Surviving Disasters

Close Up Reports

No abstract provided.

Letter From Terry L. Medley To Henry Spira, Terry L. Medley

Farm Animal Campaign

We agree that there is an urgent need to focus on the causes and means of preventing food-borne illness from pathogens. Several agencies throughout the Department of Agriculture, including the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, the Extension Services, and the Food Safety and Inspection Service, are taking a new look at conditions on the farm to determine whether they could be factors in the spread of pathogenic contamination of food animals. Secretary Espy also is interested in reexamining issues that may relate to food safety.

Animal Protection And Medical Science, David O. Wiebers, Jennifer Leaning, Roger D. White

Experimentation Collection

Over the past decade, the debate concerning animal use in biomedical research, education, and testing has contributed to an environment of public posturing on both sides. Many in the medical and animalprotection communities have come to view one another as adversaries with hopelessly different goals.

In the face of rapid and substantial increases in public concern over the wellbeing of animals, many in the medical community have sought to fend off what they see as an increasingly threatening social trend. Those who have spoken out on behalf of various medical organisations or institutions have generally been avid animal-research advocates. Those …

Urging An End To Face Branding Of Cattle, Greg Rushford, T. R. Goldman

Face Branding Campaign

The graphic photos and message, which appeared March 15, have clearly struck a nerve with the public. “We’ve gotten lots and lots of calls,” says Margaret Webb, a spokeswoman for the Agriculture Department’s Animal, Plant and Health Inspection Service (APHIS). “‘And there’s been some very irate people.”

Wcro Spring 1994

West Coast Regional Office

• EGG-Citing news!
• One disaster after another
• California to outlaw tripping of horses
• Get involved -- Oregon bear and cougar initiative

An Ethicist's Commentary On Whether Veterinarians Should Report Cruelty, Bernard E. Rollin

Animal Welfare Collection

No abstract provided.

Vocal Learning In Grey Parrots (Psittacus Erithacus): Effects Of Social Interaction, Reference, And Context, Irene M. Pepperberg

Sentience Collection

For many passerines, the extent,timing, and even presence of allospecific vocal learning can be influenced by the form of input that is received. Little data exist, however, on vocal learning in parrots (Psittacidae). I have previously proposed that such vocal learning proceeds most readily when input is (1) referential, (2) contextually applicable, and (3) interactive. The referential aspect demonstrates the meaning of the code to be taught, the contextual aspect demonstrates the use that can be made of the information contained in the code, and the interactive aspect provides explicit training that is constantly adjusted to the level of the …

Hsus News Volume 39, Number 02

HSUS News 1989-92

• The "Eating with Conscience" fire storm: HSUS takes the heat from agribusiness (Paul G. Irwin)
• Whales need help!
• In Memorium: Steven M. Kritsick
• BGH causes national brouhaha: HSUS finds allies in hormone fight (Michael W. Fox)
• Seeking progress on alternatives: 3Rs come of age at World Congress
• HSUS issues a challenge: after the moratorium, what next? (Kenneth White)
• Bioethics: its scope and purpose (Michael W. Fox)
• HSI Canada: Northern light (Michael O'Sullivan)
• HSI Indonesia: wild-primate exports stop
• HSUS/HSI confronts wildlife use
• International trapping
• HSI Zambia: saving elephants
• HSI St. Maarten: fulfilling an island dream
• "Survivor": a symbol of hope (Delia …

Numerical Competence In An African Gray Parrot (Psittacus Erithacus), Irene M. Pepperberg

Sentience Collection

An African gray parrot (Psittacus erithacus), Alex, trained to label vocally collections of 1-6 simultaneously presented homogeneous objects, correctly identified, without further training, quantities of targeted subsets in heterogeneous collections. For each test trial Alex was shown different collections of 4 groups of items that varied in 2 colors and 2 object categories (e.g., blue and red keys and trucks) and was asked to label the number of items uniquely defined by the conjunction of 1 color and 1 object category (e.g., "How many blue key?"). The collections were designed to provide maximal confounds (or distractions) and thus replicate the …

The Relationship Between Creep Feeding Behavior Of Piglets And Adaptation To Weaning: Effect Of Diet Quality, David Fraser, J. J.R. Feddes, E. A. Pajor

Feeding Behavior Collection

Individual variation in creep feed intake and its relation to adaptation to weaning were studied in piglets weaned at 4 wk of age. The animals received either a "low-complexity" creep-starter diet based on corn, barley and soybean meal (12 litters), or a "high-complexity", medicated, commercial diet without soybean meal (12 litters). Diets were fed as creep feed during the 2 wk before weaning, and as the sole diet during the 2 wk after weaning. Creep feeding behavior of piglets was monitored by video recording. Pigs fed the high-complexity diet consumed more creep feed (P < 0.05), tended to gain more during the week before weaning (P < 0.10), and converted feed more efficiently and gained more weight in the 2 wk after weaning (P < 0.01). Use of creep feed varied greatly among individual littermates. Multiple regression analysis showed that on the high-complexity diet, pigs that used creep feed more than their littermates tended to be those with low gains in weeks 1-3 after birth (P < 0.001), and tended to gain more weight during the week before and during the 2 wk after weaning (P < 0.01). The trends were consistent but weaker with the low-complexity diet. However, predictive power was low, with creep feeding accounting for only 4% of individual variation in post-weaning gain on the high-complexity diet and 1% on the low. Regardless of diet quality, therefore, creep feeding remained highly variable and only weakly related to weight gains during the 2 wk after weaning.

Letter From Joseph Gordon To Amy Bowerman, Joseph H. Gordon

Farm Animal Campaign

This is to advise that the request for a no-action letter by McDonald's Corporation, dated January 20, 1994, is now moot.

Letter From Lisa Ivinjack Clota To Joseph H. Gordon, Lisa Ivinjack Clota

Farm Animal Campaign

The statement on the humane treatment of animals which will appear in McDonald's 1993 Annual Report will be as quoted in Shelby Yastrow's letter dated February 16, 1994.

Letter From Shelby Yastrow To Simon Billenness, Shelby Yastrow

Farm Animal Campaign

This letter is to confirm our agreement regarding the withdrawal of the proxy proposal Franklin Research and Development has co-filed on the humane treatment of animals.

Individual Differences In The Cognitive Abilities Of Chimpanzees, Sarah T. Boysen

Psychology Collection

No abstract provided.

The Next Decade: A Shifting Focus, Henry Spira

Commentaries and Editorials

No abstract provided.

Spira Provides Insight On Animal Rights Movement, Anonymous

Profiles

No abstract provided.

This Is What Usda Policy Looks Like. Can You Imagine What It Feels Like?, Animal Rights International

Face Branding Campaign

No abstract provided.

Face Off With The Usda: The Hidden Atrocity Of Face Branding

Face Branding Campaign

Entering the United States is a nightmare if you're a Mexican-bred steer. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) requires all steers imported into the United States from Mexico to have the letter "M" branded on their right cheeks. Now the USDA proposes to expand this torture to all cattle coming from Mexico—a pathetic gesture at monitoring tuberculosis.

Transportation Of Animals And Welfare, D. B. Adams

Transport of Farm Animals Collection

All forms of transport are potentially hazardous for animals, regardless of whether travel is between or within countries, or by road, rail, air or sea. However, experience shows that animals can be transported under suitable conditions without harm to their welfare.

The provision of suitable conditions and the establishment of a mutually satisfactory framework for regulating the international transport of animals depends on an understanding of welfare needs and of the biological basis for disease, stress and suffering. The author examines the biological aspects of this framework.

The capacity of animals to adapt to the different demands of different forms …

Public Attitudes Toward Animal Research: Some International Comparisons, Ralph Pifer, Kinya Shimizu, Linda Pifer

Attitudes Toward Animal Research Collection

A comparative analysis was made of the public's attitudes toward the use of animals in scientific research in 15 different nations. The intensity of opposition to animal research was found to vary from relatively low levels in Japan and the United States to much higher levels in France, Belgium, and Great Britain. More women than men were opposed to animal research in all 15 nations. Scientific knowledge, or the lack of knowledge, was not found to have a consistent relationship with attitudes toward animal research. Concern about the environment was found to be related to opposition to animal research in …

Concepts Of Animal Well-Being And Predicting The Impact Of Procedures On Experimental Animals, D. J. Mellor, C. S. W. Reid

Experimental Research and Animal Welfare Collection

1. We argue that:

• in their application to non-human animals, 'welfare' and 'well-being' are interchangeable words; and that

• good welfare/well-being is the state of being manifest in an animal when its nutritional, environmental, health, behavioural and mental needs are met.

2. These latter are essentially the 'five freedoms' formulated by the Farm Animal Welfare Council of the United Kingdom.

3. Using the five freedoms as a basis, we have developed a system for assessing the impact of a proposed animal experiment or usage. The freedoms are now transformed into 'domains of potential compromise' and are redefined better to …

Hsus News Volume 39, Number 01

HSUS News 1989-92

• The currency of a civilized society: humaneness as a goal (Paul G. Irwin)
• Spotlight
• Victory for Milwaukee elephants!
• Antifur campaign
• HSUS helps animals in California fires
• Just say no to down, pâté: geese and ducks suffer to produce luxuries (David Kuemmerle)
• Amendments to MMPA needed: capture and incidental take lead list (Naomi A. Rose, Ph.D.)
• HSUS asks: "Pass Alaska By" : Irwin urges boycott to stop "wolf control" (Allen T. Rutberg, Ph.D.)
• Moving toward a new ethic: breeding moratorium elicits praise, concern
• Keeping the human spirit alive
• 1993 Symposium and Annual Membership Meeting - Deadline for Survival: Protecting Wildlife Now …