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News LINKS TO ARTICLES OF INTEREST PERTAINING TO ANIMAL RIGHTS AND ANIMAL WELFARE ISSUES ~February 2011~ Animal Rights News| Animal Health/Welfare News | Legislative & Regulatory News Animal Rights News Vandals strike Casa Grande  Salmon project again petaluma.com Heaping insult on injury, vandals struck again at a salmon restoration project in Tiburon and released the 20,000 hatchery-raised chinook smolts that were left in place after the first attack last week that set loose about 40,000 of the young fish.  Animal rights activist arrested at gunpoint in Key Largo Florida Keys An off-duty Miami police officer arrested at gunpoint an animal-rights activist outside a marine-mammal rehabilitation site in Key Largo. Farmers blast "extremist" HSUS Nebraska TV Farm groups team up to blast what they call an "extreme" animal rights agenda moving into Nebraska. Watchdog group focuses on HSUS lobbying efforts Dairy Herd Management Humane Society of the United States watchdog group HumaneWatch.org has released the latest installment in its "Visual HSUS" series. The subject of the latest visual graphic is HSUS' significant lobbying expenditures. ALF "liberates" elk from OR farm Bay Area Indynews On the night of August 29th, the Animal Liberation Front raided the Damascus Elk Farm (23255 SE Highway 212) in Clackamas, Oregon. Fencing was stripped away, giving the animals a chance at escape. According the the communique received by the Animal Liberation Press Office, the ALF were forced to make a premature departure in the middle of the raid due to a "disturbance". Animal Welfare News 2 horse seized in neglect case in AZ Tucson Citizen Authorities arrested a Buckeye man Tuesday on suspicion of animal cruelty and neglect after Maricopa County Sheriff's deputies seized two emaciated horses from his property, officials said. Animal Abuse cases leave horses needed homes keprtv.com FRANKLIN COUNTY -- It goes without saying - Adopting a horse is not as easy as adopting another animal. 3 horses die from mosquito born disease weau.com (WEAU) - A local county health department now says three horses in the area have died from a mosquito borne disease. USDA extends deadline for public comment on new animal ID rule Agweek WASHINGTON - The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday announced that it was extending the deadline for public comments on its proposed rule for mandatory animal traceability, following a request by forty-nine organizations for a deadline extension Legislative & Regulatory News City of Irvine Releases language for Animal Ordinance Includes bans on rodeo, circus and selling pets Hearing to be held on October 11th during the 4:00 p.m. City Council Meeting A HEARING ON THIS WILL BE HELD AT THE OCTOBER 11, 2011 CITY COUNCIL MEETING.  Click here for the Agenda and Proposed Ordinance Any comments can me sent to: JANA M. RANSOM COMMUNITY SERVICES MANAGER CITY OF IRVINE P.O. BOX 19575 IRVINE, CA 92623-9575 (949) 724-6694 jransom@ci.irvine.ca.us USDA tightens slaughter horse transport rules Quarter Horse Journal The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has amended the regulations under the Commercial Transport of Equines to Slaughter Act to extend the protections now afforded to horses that are transported directly to slaughter facilities to include horses bound for slaughter, but first transported to intermediate collection points, such as assembly points, feedlots, or stockyards.  The new rule will go into effect on October 7, 2011. Senate Bill Could resume horse meat inspection funding The Horse Montana Senator Max Baucus is asking his U.S. Senate colleagues to pass an agriculture appropriations bill that could fund USDA horsemeat inspections at domestic processing plants. But some equine welfare advocates believe certain factors could prevent the bill from passing through the Senate intact. Charges pending in horse abuse case Weatherford Democrat PARKER COUNTY - Eight dead horses and a ninth horse in poor condition were found Friday shortly after noon in the 400 block of Old Brock Road just outside Weatherford city limits. Investigating Horse Abuse at A "Horse Rescue" 12 Action News Guilford, NY (WBNG Binghamton) The Chenango County Sheriff's Office conducts another search on the property of a Guilford woman, already arrested on fraud and animal cruelty charges. Congress should revisit horse slaughter ban Fort Worth Star Telegram or kids on a neighborhood basketball court, or even for the president in a pickup game with superstars at the White House, the game of H-O-R-S-E can be an entertaining exercise. Texas Liability Law protects Barn operators, horse owners The Horse Barn operators and other equine industry professionals in Texas are now protected from liability connected to injuries sustained during equine-related activities under a limited liability law that went into effect in June. Petition to reopen slaughter houses The GAO report "HORSE WELFARE: Action Needed to Address Unintended Consequences from Cessation of Domestic Slaughter" documents the decline in horse welfare, & the economic demise of the horse industry due to inappropriate federal intervention that closed the humane & regulated horse slaughter plants in the U.S. HSUS sets sights on new Missouri ballot initiative midmissouri.com Proposition B, or the Puppy Mill Law, was controversial before voters approved the measure last November. It became more controversial when lawmakers felt the law was bad for Missouri animal breeders and repealed it. Gov. Nixon eventually signed the repeal of the bill with the agreement lawmakers would write a compromise bill garnered between animals rights supporters and Missouri farmers. Why are local leaders advocating for horse slaughter? governing.com When local leaders lobby Congress, it's usually to request money for key programs or to ask for an end to regulations viewed as expensive or onerous.