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35 Animal Welfare Inst. Q. 1 (1986-1987)

handle is hein.animal/awiqu0035 and id is 1 raw text is: THE ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE QUARTERLY PO BOX 3650 WASHINGTON, D.C. 20007 SPRING 1986 VOL. 35 NO. 1 BETSY BEAVER TOURS THE NATION TO END THE USE OF THE STEEL JAW TRAP A giant beaver inflatable propelled by volunteer activist Peter Millington from the Society for Animal Protective Legis- lation has been photographed and video- taped from coast to coast this spring in a bid to rid the United States of the most painful device for animal capture: the steel jaw leghold trap. Starting with the opening of the Inter- national Fur Fair at the Javits Center in New York 12 April where police insisted that the fake-fur-covered Betsy Beaver be stationed across the street, a block from the entrance. Millington reap- peared at Fred the Furrier's annual sale then headed for Hartford, Connecticut where he presented Betsy on the steps of the Capitol. The next appearances were on the Boston City Hall Plaza and the State House in Providence, Rhode Island, where the Governor smilingly observed Betsy (Rhode Island has al- ready banned steel traps) and Burling- ton and Montpelier, Vermont (where legislation has been introduced but is fiercely opposed). A wildlife sanctuary near Albany, NY was the next stop then on to Buffalo and Niagara Falls where an Associated Press report noted, A foreign visitor came to the western tip of New York as part of a nationwide drive to ban steel-jaw leghold trapping of fur- bearing animals ... Englishman Peter Millington had a 22-foot inflatable bea- ver named Betsy strapped to his back on Tuesday. But his point was more sober- ing ... Millington said the traps are always unduly painful, and they indis- criminately kill other species, such as bald eagles. Travelling by bus to Columbus, Ohio; Chicago, Louisville, and St. Louis, receiving favorable press continued on page 5 Federal judge condemns hot-iron face branding Judge Michael A. Telesca, U.S. District Court Western District of New York, in issuing a preliminary injunction against hot-iron face branding of dairy cows, wrote a land-mark opinion 16 April 1986. The Judge stated, It has long been the public policy of this country to avoid unnecessary cruelty to animals. Beginning with New York State in 1828, all 50 states and the District of Colum- bia had adopted anti-cruelty laws by the year 1913. (Animal Welfare Institute, Animals and Their Legal Rights 13-14 (1978).) The Federal Government like- wise has enacted anti-cruelty laws, such as the Twenty-Eight Hour Law, 45 U.S.C. S 71 et seq. (governing transport of livestock by rail), the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act, 7 U.S.C. S 1901 et seq., and the Animal Welfare Act, 7 U.S.C. S 2131 et seq. (governing continued on page 2 Cow protests painful burn. -0 a ~'2 -i -C U

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