The biomedical research industry uses 57,000 monkeys and apes in laboratories every year. Under a 1985 amendment to the Animal Welfare Act (AWA), research labs are required to provide a "physical environment adequate to promote psychological well-being in primates." However, the regulations regarding this requirement have been insufficient, at best, and have essentially left
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The DeRidder Daily News (12/18/01) reports that a man who participated in the dragging death of a dog last May has been sentenced to 10 years of hard labor in Louisiana Department of Corrections, without the benefit of parole. Jeromie L. McCann plead innocent to three felony charges of aggravated cruelty to animals, Read More… Update On Lousiana Dog Dragging Case After countless days of debate and argument, final consideration of the Farm bill this year was blocked by Senate Republicans. This leaves this major bill, with huge implications for animals, pending when Congress returns from its holiday recess in late January. The anti-cockfighting, downed animal, and humane slaughter provisions are included in the bill, Read More… Update On Senate Farm Bill Amendments There may be fewer than 100 Western gray whales left in the world, and many conservationists fear their extinction in the near future is imminent. Recently, the Exxon Mobil Corporation, doing business as the consortium Exxon Neftegas Limited, began disruptive oil exploration activities in the whales' only known Spring/ Autumn feeding areas, blasting Read More… Exxon’s Assault On Western Gray Whales Sad to say, as the calendar turns once again, Old Man Time has Baby New Years by the balls. The downright awful year of 2001 sets the stage for more bad ideas and perhaps worse behavior in a year that, numerically speaking, turns in on itself. If 2002 ends as it is beginning we Read More… Not So New Year – 2002 Hugh B. Price President National Urban League Convicted as a teenager in 1982 of rape, Marvin Lamont Anderson spent fifteen years in a Virginia state prison—for a crime he didn't commit. Convicted while teenagers in 1987 of rape and murder, Calvin Ollins, his cousin, Larry Ollins, Omar Saunders, and Marcellius Bradford Read More… The Criminal Injustice System: Guilty Until Proven Innocent By Maya Rockeymoore Senior Resident Scholar for Health And Income Security National Urban League Institute for Equality and Opportunity (Guest Columnist) In 1996, after Congress revamped the welfare system to require welfare recipients to work in exchange for their grants as a prelude to completely moving off welfare, many lauded the changes. The cheerleaders Read More… Rethinking Welfare Reform Hugh B. Price President National Urban League The news story in the December 28 edition of the New York Times Enviroshop is maintained by dedicated NetSys Interactive Inc. owners & employees who generously contribute their time to maintenance & editing, web design, custom programming, & website hosting for Enviroshop.
Responding to a request for an immediate court injunction from The Fund for Animals and the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has agreed to rein in its strategy of removing half of all wild horses and burros from public lands in the West over the next few years. The Read More… Wild Horse And Burro Round-Ups Are Reined In The fur trappers have asked Senator Murkowski (R-AK) to submit an amendment to S. 1731, the Agriculture, Conservation, and Rural Enhancement Act of 2001, a.k.a. the Farm Bill. The amendments are to authorize fur animals and products to be eligible for marketing assistance for the promotion of fur in foreign countries under the Foreign Read More… No Government Handouts For Recreational Fur Trappers |
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