Igor, 58, a male gibbon who had resided at the International Primate Protection League sanctuary in Summerville, South Carolina since 1987, was euthanized on October 13, 2014, three days after suffering a stroke that left his right side paralyzed and not responding to treatment. “Igor could not swing or climb,” IPPL founder Shirley McGreal told […]
Note to animal abusers: Big Brother is watching you!
WASHINGTON D.C.–– Federal Bureau of Investigation director James B. Comey on September 17, 2014 announced that the FBI will add cruelty to animals to the national Uniform Crime Report Program as a unique category of offense. Including crimes against animals in the Uniform Crime Report Program is unlikely to change broad understandings about the […]
Nathan Winograd in perspective
Why did Winograd dodge a challenge? On July 11, 2014 the AR-2014 conference hosted in Los Angeles by the Farm Animal Rights Movement was to feature a talk and video presentation by No Kill Advocacy Center founder Nathan Winograd, who was allocated more than 90 minutes. When FARM offered me 15 minutes to speak in […]
Charity Navigator issues “donor advisory” about HSUS & coplaintiffs’ $15.7 million settlement with Ringling
Replaces “three star” rating of HSUS with “donor advisory” WASHINGTON D.C.––Responding to the May 15, 2014 agreement by the Humane Society of the United States and codefendants to pay Feld Entertainment Inc. $15.75 million, in settlement of a lawsuit accusing HSUS and the codefendants of racketeering, the online nonprofit evaluation agency Charity Navigator has […]
Bull-riding sponsor Forrest Lucas forms anti-animal advocacy “Super PAC”
“Protect the Harvest,” or “Protect the Professional Bull Riders” franchise? DAVENPORT, Iowa––Why did oil magnate Forrest Lucas form Protect The Harvest, among the most aggressive and best-funded of anti-animal advocacy fronts? Perhaps it was just to protect the enormous Lucas Oil Products investment in Professional Bull Riders, Inc., whose Touring Pro Division bears the Lucas […]
Animal rights movement pioneer Belton Mouras, 90
Began with raccoon rescues Belton Paul Mouras, 90, died on May 14, 2014 at his home in Sacramento, California. The son of a disabled sharecropper from the Louisiana bayou country, Belton Mouras spoke only Cajun French until he started school at age eight. While other boys of the time and place trapped and hunted, Mouras […]
Humane Society of the U.S. & codefendants pay Ringling Bros. circus $15.75 million
Settlement cases stemming from a lawsuit brought against Ringling over the care of elephants WASHINGTON D.C.––The Humane Society of the U.S. and codefendants “have paid Feld Entertainment, Inc., the parent company of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, $15.75 million to settle cases stemming from a lawsuit they brought against Ringling over the […]
Iron Maiden undercover probe reveals the poop on pig farming
More than most of the public cared to know OWENSBORO, Kentucky––The American public on February 20, 2014 learned more about pig feeding and porcine epidemic diarrhea than almost anyone wanted to know. Humane Society of the U.S. investigators working undercover at Iron Maiden Farms in Owensboro, Kentucky in early 2014 expected to videotape the use […]
Pat Derby founded the Performing Animal Welfare Society & ARK 2000 sanctuary
Performer turned sanctuarian Pat Derby, 69, founder of the Performing Animal Welfare Society, died from throat cancer on February 15, 2013 at her home on the ARK 2000 sanctuary she built near San Andreas, California. “Ed Stewart, her partner of 37 years, was by her side,” said the PAWS death announcement. Best seller Derby’s 1976 […]
Ousted In Defense of Animals executive director takes dossier to state attorney general’s office
March 2013 SAN RAFAEL, California––Four executive directors and founder Elliot Katz have left the top management position at In Defense of Animals since 2009. Joe Haptas, the IDA executive director since July 2012, was suspended by the board on February 9, 2013, and responded on February 12, 2013 by demanding the resignations by 6:00 p.m. […]