City Expected to Pass 'Dog Care'
Ordinance
(CNSNews.com) - The San Francisco Board of Supervisor is
expected to pass an ordinance specifying minimum standards of care for dogs.
Among other things, the ordinance says food must be palatable and nutritious and
water - provided in a non-tipping bowl - must be changed once a day, the San
Francisco Chronicle reported. One supervisor was quoted as saying the city is
now treating dogs better than homeless people.
Source: http://www.cnsnews.com/ThisHour.asp
Judge Says Don't Make A Move on
Ruby!
Lawsuit Dismissed, But Judge
Keeps His Sights on Ruby the Elephant
Ruby has been at the center of a contentious legal and public relations battle since she was separated from her friend Gita, and transferred to Knoxville Zoo, Tennessee, amid intense public protest on May 25, 2003. After more than a yearlong attempt to integrate her into the herd of three females at Knoxville, Los Angeles' Mayor Hahn ordered Ruby back home in July 2004. Arriving in Los Angeles last November, she is now living in an off site facility alongside Gita, following the tragic death of Tara, the African elephant last month.
"This is a remarkable turn of events," said Gretchen Wyler, VP of The HSUS Hollywood Office and a member of the zoo's Animal Welfare Committee, who has campaigned for more than two years on behalf of Ruby. "Judge Wu's decision means that Ruby's future remains under the watchful eye of the courts. In terms of challenging zoo policy, I consider this outcome to be highly significant."
"Without the lawsuit, Ruby would still be languishing in the Knoxville Zoo today," said plaintiff Catherine Doyle. "This is a victory for Ruby as well as the people of Los Angeles who care about all the L.A. Zoo elephants and who support the continued monitoring of their welfare."
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Chicken Lady: Holocaust Is For The
Birds
After she publicly minimized the horrific deaths of Americans who perished on
9-11, we thought United Poultry Concerns president Karen Davis had gone off the rails. In a December 2001
open letter, Davis wrote that the 9-11 terrorist attack
"reduced the amount of pain and suffering in the world" because "the
majority, if not every single one, of the people who suffered and/or died as a
result of the September 11 attack ate, and if they are now alive continue to
eat, chickens." And a year later, while the Washington, DC region was gripped by
fear in the wake of over a dozen terrorist sniper
shootings, Davis and her animal rights cohorts held a vigil to mourn the death of
chickens. But now, in her latest "scholarly" writing, Davis targets
Jewish casualties of the Nazi Holocaust for her latest round
of insults.
As serious scholars and world leaders prepare to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Karen Davis is claiming -- in a new article titled "A Tale of Two Holocausts" -- that the Holocaust is "an appropriate metaphor [for] the oppression of nonhuman animals." Along the way she refers to chicken-catching as a "terror attack" and accuses Jews of having "unjustly appropriated" the term "Holocaust" from animals. The word holocaust, she points out, originally referred to ritual animal sacrifices in ancient times. But describing animals raised today for food, Davis writes that Jews "are robbing them of their original experience of suffering." [italics in the original]
Davis admits that "many Jewish people have expressed indignation over comparisons that are being made" by animal rights activists between Nazi victims and livestock -- especially in tasteless displays like the garish "Holocaust on Your Plate" exhibit promoted last year by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). Nevertheless, she lets fly with the following startling statements in support of her meat-eaters-are-like-Nazis thesis:
At a time when the animal rights movement, led by PETA, is intent on dismantling the tradition of kosher slaughter and imposing vegetarianism on Christians, Davis's direct frontal assault on Jewish history shouldn't surprise anyone.
What may raise an eyebrow or two is where her diatribe appears. Davis's article appears in the "Animal Liberation Philosophy and Policy Journal," a startup online rag published by University of Texas-El Paso professor Steven Best, an avowed supporter of the domestic-terrorist and arson-happy Animal Liberation Front (ALF).
Along with long-time Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine spokesperson Jerry Vlasak, Best recently formed a new "press office" to communicate gloating but anonymous claims of "responsibility" following ALF crimes. (Click here to read profiles of Best, Vlasak, and their other terrorist-sympathizing colleagues.)
Proposal to Give State Control over Fish & Game Council Withdrawn
The New Jersey Register has confirmed the withdrawal of a rule to redefine the Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) power over the Fish and Game Council. The action does not guarantee that the council’s decisions will not face review by the DEP Commissioner.
Virginia Bill Makes Criminals Out of Law Abiding Sporting Dog Owners
Virginia sportsmen face legislation in 2005 that will criminalize the retrieval of hunting dogs from private property onto which they might stray.
Animal Rights Group Plays Copy Cat as it Takes its Message to the Street
A national animal rights group has hit the road to promote its new anti-circus campaign.
Source: www.ussportsmen.org
.........The two were then charged with "indecent exposure" and ordered to appear before court where they will likely be fined, said Lisa Franzetta, one of the two protestors and the coordinator of PETA's international "Anti-Fur" Campaign.......
......."With today's toasty and fashionable synthetics, there's no excuse to wear fur," said Christina Cho, who took part in the protest with Franzetta.......
The photos in the 1992 Randolph High School
yearbook promise a bright future.
Voted Most Likely to Succeed, the 18-year-old senior is pictured atop a
stepladder, climbing the figurative ladder to success. As Most Scholarly, her
blonde curls are posed behind a tall stack of textbooks.
She is quiet, studious, plain - a model student targeting a top college.
Fast forward 12 years.
The woman pictured on the 11 o'clock news is the same person, but the image
is sharper, flashier.
In one image, she is a dominatrix clad in a skin-tight, faux leather getup,
decrying leather clothes. In the next, she's standing on a street corner in a
lettuce bikini, preaching the benefits of vegetarianism. Finally, she's a tiger
- this time, wearing nothing more than panties, pasties and body paint -
crouched in a tiny cage, mimicking the abuse of circus animals.
The face in all the pictures is Lisa Franzetta - then, a star student in
Randolph; today, one of the most visible and headline-grabbing frontmen for
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, better known as PETA.
At 30, she has landed her dream job, making a living fighting for animal
rights. But the path began here, in Morris County, in a sophomore biology class.
As a PETA campaign coordinator, Franzetta's job is to take the organization's
fight against animal abuse to the people - any way she can.
She's been from San Francisco to Singapore, from Bakersfield to Budapest,
from New Jersey to Johannesburg, preaching the gospel of animal rights,
attempting to show ordinary people how seemingly ordinary decisions contribute
to the systematic abuse of animals.
Franzetta's targets are the fur industry, the leather industry and the meat
industry. She has been arrested three times - in San Francisco, for tossing fake
blood-soaked money on a fur designer; in Las Vegas, for a near-nude circus
protest outside a Strip casino; and in Boston, for soaking her fur-clad body in
fake blood and writhing on the ground in front of a fur-selling department
store.
"Animals are suffering or dying every day, and I'm not above doing something
outrageous or even ridiculous to bring attention to that cause," she said.
"People may see me wearing very little but body paint, but when they come over,
they may find out they are interested in not contributing to animal cruelty."
Ringling Bros. is one of her favorite quarries: She has followed the circus
around the United States posing only in body paint to draw attention to the
plight of performing animals.
And this week, Franzetta is in Spain for her first Running of the Nudes, the
naked alternative to Pamplona's Running of the Bulls, which PETA portrays as
torture for tourists.
"We're replacing a cruel tradition with a cool tradition that shows there's a
cool way to celebrate that doesn't hurt anyone or anything," Franzetta said.
Today, she lives in Oakland, Calif. But Franzetta's outrageous, globetrotting
activism has its roots in Randolph.
Born in Norfolk, Va., where her father served in the military, Franzetta
moved to Morris County with her family less than a year later. They first lived
in Boonton, and later Hopatcong. By fourth grade, the family moved to Randolph.
She attended Fernbrook Elementary School and Randolph Intermediate School.
She worked summers at Hedden Park, where she rented boats. And in 1992, she
graduated from Randolph High School, where she was a cheerleader and field
hockey standout, a member of the French Club, Math League and Honor Society, and
where she first felt the pull of environmentalism.
Already a member of Students Against Violating the Environment (SAVE), the
10th-grader checked a copy of Peter Singer's "Animal Liberation" out of the high
school library. Singer's book is a philosophical argument for veganism,
contending that animals aren't "owned" by humans and that their suffering can be
reduced by treating them more like people. Considered a seminal work of the
animal rights movement, the book set the wheels in her mind in motion. <snip> Source: http://www.dailyrecord.com/news/articles/news5-PETAwoman.htm