2002-2003 - Animal Welfare Institute

animal welfare institute
Fifty-Second Annual Report
July 1, 2002 to June 30, 2003

dear friend
The Animal Welfare Institute (AWI) is a non-profit charitable organization
founded in 1951 to reduce the sum total of pain and fear inflicted on animals
by humans.
Our specific goals are:
In 1951, Dr. Albert Schweitzer gave his
• Humane treatment of
permission to the Animal Welfare Institute
laboratory animals and
to strike a medal in his honor to be
the development and
presented for outstanding achievement in
use of non-animal testing
the advancement of animal welfare.
methods.
In granting his permission, Dr. Schweitzer
• Preservation of species wrote, “I would never have believed that
threatened with extinction my philosophy, which incorporates in our
and protection for wildlife in ethics a compassionate attitude toward
international trade.
all creatures, would be noticed and
• Reform of cruel treatment
recognized in my lifetime.”
of farm animals intensively
confined in factories and an
end to inhumane slaughter.
• Regulation of transport
conditions for all animals.
• Ban on steel jaw leghold
traps and reform of
other cruel methods
for controlling wildlife
populations.
• Encouragement of humane
science teaching and
prevention of painful
experiments on animals by
high school students.
Nearly twenty-five years ago, while a student in college, I began
interning at the Animal Welfare Institute. I continue to work for AWI because
of my commitment to the organization’s objectives, an appreciation for AWI’s
common sense approach, and recognition of its ability to achieve so much
for the animals on a modest budget. I hope that you share my enthusiasm for
AWI and will help us continue our work.
This Annual Report shows the myriad ways in which AWI is fighting
against powerful commercial interests in America and across the globe who
harm or kill animals out of avarice. We are confronting corporate agriculture,
which treats animals as mere commodities, brutally slaughters horses to
satisfy a foreign market, and treats pigs, chickens and other farm animals
with no accommodation for their basic care and needs. We are battling the
wildlife dealers who want to kill threatened and endangered species to sell
their parts and products internationally. We are combating the international
trade bureaucrats who are determined to eviscerate hard-won animal
protection laws in the name of so-called “free trade.” We are continuing
our long-standing campaign to “Save the Whales” as the whaling nations,
Japan, Norway and Iceland, seek to increase the slaughter of these majestic
creatures of the sea.
Sadly, there is much to be done, as animals the world over are in
desperate need. Though we may seem to face insurmountable odds, and
at times heart-wrenching setbacks, with your kind and generous support,
we can continue to make a difference for the animals. We can ease their
suffering, and we will persevere until we prevail.
Sincerely,
Cover photo by Gerry Ellis/Minden Pictures

wild animals
AWI is at the forefront of global efforts to protect wildlife including threatened
and endangered species such as elephants, bears, tigers, chimpanzees, turtles
and myriad other animals. Significant decisions were taken this past year
for animals who are threatened with extinction but are traded internationally.
Some are destined to become pets or be put on public display; others killed for
clothing, jewelry, curios, trophies, medicines and food.
As we have for thirty years, AWI staff played a vital role in the deliberations
of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild
Fauna and Flora (CITES), which had its twelfth meeting in Santiago, Chile,
in November 2002. AWI staff prepared influential documents encouraging
wise conservation decisions and distributed them to the delegates who represented
more than one hundred and sixty nations. We strongly advocated the
increased protection for certain shark species, Black Sea bottlenose dolphins,
turtles and parrots. We also helped beat back efforts to weaken protection for
whales and hawksbill sea turtles. Our high profile on these life-or-death issues
facing the wildlife of the world will continue through the next CITES meeting in
Bangkok, Thailand, in October 2004 and beyond.
In the months following the CITES meeting, AWI’s Adam Roberts gave
guest lectures on CITES to graduate students at two schools on the East
AWI continues its important campaign to protect all bears from poachers
and profiteers.
Ian McAllister/www.raincoast.org
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Coast: Tufts University and the University of Maryland. AWI’s international
presence on wildlife trade matters is ever-increasing.
AWI has also campaigned to keep threatened species free and protect
those threatened and endangered animals already in captivity. We fought
against the importation of eleven young elephants from Swaziland who were
targeted for importation to two enclosures in U.S. zoos where they would be
put on display. As well, we are plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Ringling Bros. &
Barnum Bailey Circus for routine beatings of endangered Asian elephants.
The case against Ringling is proceeding well and we hope for a ruling in our
favor in the coming year.
In line with our mission to educate as many people in the U.S. and abroad
of the threats facing the world’s wildlife, AWI has undertaken an ambitious
project to publish a new edition of our incredibly popular Endangered Species
Handbook as an exclusive on-line web publication. The new volume will
explore the endemic species in Madagascar, threats to endangered species
including the fur trade, commercial whaling, and trade in bushmeat, and offer
in-depth analysis of what actions need to be taken to prevent the further decline
of the world’s most at risk species. We anticipate launch of the site in 2004.
marine animals
In August, AWI traveled to Costa Rica and joined other wildlife advocates and
twelve countries to set up the Inter-American Convention for the Protection
and Conservation of Sea Turtles, the first regional conference to attempt a
comprehensive plan to stop the precipitous collapse of many species of turtles.
A position paper authored by AWI and others urging dramatic steps such
as a moratorium on pelagic long-lining in the Pacific, the stringent protection of
nesting beaches, a prohibition on chemical and sound pollution in turtle areas,
and a total ban on the trade in sea turtle parts, was welcomed by the parties.
In February, AWI began addressing Cuba’s captive dolphin trade. Over
the last decade, dozens of resident bottlenose dolphins have been captured
by the National Aquarium of Havana and exported to Mexico and the Caribbean
to be used in the plethora of new exploitative swim-with-the-dolphin
programs aimed at tourists and dolphin-assisted-therapy facilities. Officials at
both the aquarium and at the capital building in Havana vigorously defended
Dolphins in captivity are incapable of reaching the graceful speed of this
long-beaked common dolphin.
the practice insisting that the dolphins were only sent to educational facilities.
Concurrently, an investigation was begun within the U.S. government into
whether the purchase of Cuban dolphins by the American owners of Dolphin
Fantaseas (Caribbean) and Dolphin Discovery (Cancun, Mexico) violated federal
prohibitions on trading with Cuba.
The International Whaling Commission (IWC) held its annual meeting in
Berlin, Germany in June. Just before it opened, AWI participated in an event
at the Tempodrome that contrasted the piercing emissions of the U.S. Navy’s
Low Frequency Active Sonar with the lovely musical language of whales and
dolphins. The facility is unique—a large body temperature swimming pool/
concert hall where visitors can not only hear broadcast sounds but feel them.
At the IWC meeting, despite opposition from whaling countries and their supporters,
a Mexican proposal to set up a new major Conservation Committee
within the Commission to review environmental threats to whale populations
won broad support. AWI strongly backed the concept recognizing the threats
to marine mammals posed by toxic and sound pollution, climate change and
extensive incidental catch in commercial fishing operations.
Here at home, AWI continues to work for the protection of the beloved
Florida manatee, which remains under assault through a campaign of fear
and misinformation by developers and the boating industry. The most serious
threat is an attempt to downlist them from endangered to threatened by the
State of Florida. AWI continues to oppose this dangerous proposal.
Jim Nahmens/www.natures-spirit.com
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farm animals
This year AWI increased public awareness about the plight of animals in food
factories and advocated humane alternatives. We are contacted daily by
people who want to know what they can do to help farm animals. In response
we send guidance materials, support community activists fighting proposed
and existing concentrated animal feeding operations and visit farmers
interested in joining AWI’s humane husbandry program.
To ensure diligent growth and success of our humane husbandry
program, staff continue to develop humane husbandry standards for veal
calves, dairy cows and ducks. We have already finished standards for pigs
and rabbits and anticipate work on standards for laying hens, chickens
and sheep early in 2004. We conducted farm visits to assist in ensuring
conformance with our standards, and since we are concerned about every
aspect of each animal’s life, we also visited slaughterhouses. These trips give
us the opportunity to constantly evaluate and improve our program.
AWI is working with a growing number of retailers who are committed to
the humane treatment of animals. Increasingly executives recognize that it
behooves them to respond to consumer pressure seeking proper treatment
of animals. In a country where the agricultural industry lobbies Congress to
the animals’ detriment, decent treatment of farm animals will come about
when consumers reject products from cruel animal factories. To this end, AWI
published new farm animal related educational materials and made it possible
for humane family farmers to be present in grocery stores to meet and better
educate customers.
AWI staff advocated the humane treatment of farm animals at scientific,
academic, government and industry-sponsored conferences. We describe
how animals are unable to express their natural behaviors in industrial
systems that rely on confinement and mutilations such as tail docking
of pigs and debeaking of laying hens. Of equal importance is our ability
to convey our firsthand knowledge about humane alternatives to these
brutal systems.
In the coming months, in addition to developing standards for all animals,
we will fiercely fight animal cloning on the grounds that it causes tremendous
suffering and oppose the subtheraputic use of antibiotics and the irradiation
of meat. Furthermore, as the American Veterinary Medical Association
reconsiders its stance on use of gestation crates for pregnant pigs, AWI will
express vehement opposition to this unnecessary cruelty.
laboratory animals
Wendy Swann/AWI
AWI reported on the inhumane practice of docking cows’ tails and created
humane husbandry standards for dairy cows. Humane standards to improve
the lives of cows raised for beef are in development.
How can stress reactions during the cage cleaning procedure be minimized?
How can aggression among males, especially male mice, be minimized or
avoided? Can baboons be housed safely in pairs? What is the cause of selfmutilation,
and how can this ethopathology be cured? What is the scientific
significance of stereotypical locomotion? What are the best ways to enrich
the living quarters of frogs kept in laboratories? These were among more than
100 questions posed for discussion during the past year on the Laboratory
Animal Refinement and Enrichment Forum, an internet group, established in
October 2002 by Dr. Viktor Reinhardt, AWI’s Laboratory Animal Advisor, for the
exchange of information to improve the handling and housing of animals used
in research. Open to all laboratory personnel, this discussion seeks to promote
animal welfare and improve scientific methodology by avoiding, eliminating or
reducing husbandry-related stress.
To further assist animals used for experimentation, AWI set up a whistleblower
web site for the reporting of any problems related to the care and treat-
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ment of animals in the laboratory. We have responded to complaints received
and have sought resolutions to the problems cited by the individuals, many of
whom chose to remain anonymous. Some of the situations necessitate longterm
scrutiny and investigation.
Frustrated with the long-standing failure of the U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA) to adequately protect non-human primates who are used for
experimentation and exhibition, AWI joined the Animal Legal Defense Fund
and three individual plaintiffs in suing the federal government. Primates are
legally entitled to a physical environment that promotes their psychological
well-being under the Animal Welfare Act, but many are still maintained in substandard
facilities that ignore their fundamental needs including provision of
companions and a stimulating environment.
In 1999 USDA published a draft Primate Policy, acknowledging that this
document was critical to its compliance efforts. To date USDA has not finalized
this binding document, thus failing to fulfill its responsibility to the animals in
need. The Primate Policy, based on a thorough review of the scientific literature
and extensive feedback from veterinarians, primatologists and USDA inspectors,
inexplicably seems to have been lost in a bureaucratic morass. Our
lawsuit requires USDA to make a final decision on its Primate Policy. As we go
to press, we await the judge’s verdict.
The AWI Quarterly is distributed to approximately 23,000 individuals and
organizations including public libraries, deans of medical and veterinary
schools, animal protective organizations, teachers, scientists and AWI members.
Following are summaries of some of the articles from the past year.
Fall 2002 Volume 51 Number 4
• A special section considers topics before
the 2002 Meeting of the Conference of the
Parties to the Convention on International
Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), including:
the ongoing threats facing rhinos
and bears, global parrot smuggling, and
the problems associated with consuming
turtles as food as well as the risks of allowing
trade in green turtles from a farm in
the Cayman Islands.
• AWI attended the massive World Summit
on Sustainable Development (WSSD) in
Johannesburg, South Africa. Expectations
were not met as global decision-makers
failed to make concrete, substantive commitments to improve the lives of
the poor while protecting the environment and its natural inhabitants. The
final agreement, however, does mention the importance of family farming,
biodiversity protection, and ecotourism. During the WSSD, the Great Apes
Survival Project was relaunched to raise global awareness of the plight of the
great apes whose populations are dwindling.
• Long-running problems associated with marine mammal protection are
chronicled: The attempts to return Keiko from the movie Free Willy to the
wild, risks posed to orcas as a result of unsound tourism, injuries and deaths
to right whales from fishing nets and the Navy’s arm-twisting efforts to blow
its deadly Low Frequency Active Sonar throughout the oceans.
AWI is devoting much effort to enrich the lives of non-human primates still
confined alone in barren enclosures.
• Ooh-Mah-Nee Farm in western Pennsylvania had a terrific open house,
showing off its rescued cows, sheep, goats, pigs, rabbits, chickens and
turkeys. Ooh-Mah-Nee provides a stark contrast to the world of intensive
agriculture from which its residents came. No more confining crates and
cages and cement floors for these lucky animals—it’s one hundred acres of
peaceful land.
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Winter 2003 Volume 52 Number 1
• AWI mourns the passing of its Founder
and President, Christine Stevens, detailing
her more than five decades of tireless work
on behalf of all animals. Christine educated
the public and policy-makers about
the need to treat animals humanely. She
also lobbied Congress and Presidential
Administrations for laws and regulations
to protect animals. A two page photo-montage
illustrates her far-reaching efforts.
• Not only did AWI have an incredibly successful
CITES meeting in Santiago, Chile, but
we, as always, led the effort to honor those
wildlife law enforcement officers across
the globe who work so diligently to protect wildlife from well-armed poachers.
In coordination with the Species Survival Network, AWI presented the Clark
R. Bavin Wildlife Law Enforcement Awards to individuals from Kenya, Costa
Rica, Uganda, the U.S. and Canada. A new DVD film is also available about efforts
to prevent poaching of Africa’s elephants called, “Wanted Dead or Alive?”
The film is produced by the African Environmental Film Foundation.
• Sanctuaries are always hard pressed for two things: money and room. AWI
has offered modest assistance to the “Siglo XXI” primate rescue center outside
Santiago, Chile, where roughly 100 primates, rescued from laboratories,
circuses and the pet trade, reside. Elba Almazan and her family provide loving
care to all of the residents of the Center and, with our help, have purchased
a bigger piece of land to construct a new sanctuary facility.
• The fight continues in Florida to make the state’s waterways safer for manatees.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has done its best over the years to
avoid the designation and enforcement of new manatee protection zones
there. But, as a result of a lawsuit that includes AWI among the plaintiffs, a
new deadline has been imposed to establish these protected areas.
• After a long crusade, the remaining six polar bears suffering unbearably in
the Suarez Brothers Circus were confiscated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service and placed in different U.S. zoos, more suitably equipped to meet
the biological needs of these animals. In the circus, they were reportedly
subjected to temperatures that reached above 100 ◦ F and sometimes went
without cool pools of water or air conditioned holding trailers.
• Dominion, thought by many to be the most influential book on the ethical
treatment of non-human animals in years, was reviewed.
Spring 2003 Volume 52 Number 2
• A campaign is in full swing in the European
Union to prohibit the importation of
exotic birds, especially parrots. The U.S.
successfully banned the importation of
birds protected under CITES in 1992, but
the E.U. has lagged behind in following
our wise lead. The trade of wild birds is
incredibly inhumane—birds suffer high
levels of mortality during capture, holding
and transport, which threatens the longterm
viability of many fragile species.
• Russian orcas are threatened by the international
live animal trade, where they
may be caught cruelly in their frigid ocean
homes, separated from their closely-bonded social pods and sent to marine
parks and aquaria across the globe. AWI has sponsored an orca study in the
waters of Kamchatka.
• Dolphins are under massive global attack. Not only are there still legislative
and legal battles in the U.S. to keep dolphin-deadly tuna from being sold on
the American market, but dolphins are killed in South America and the Far
East. Hardy Jones reports on the thousands of dolphins slaughtered in a
bloody massacre by Japanese fisherman in Futo. Meanwhile, Stefan Austermühle
tells that at least 1,000 dolphins are killed every year off the coast of
Peru for their coveted meat.
• AWI mourns the passing of a good friend, Dr. John Kullberg, who served
as the President of AWI’s companion organization, the Society for Animal
Protective Legislation, at the time of his death. Dr. Kullberg’s sister, Marjorie
Cooke, remains on the AWI Board of Directors.
• The Government of the Republic of Slovenia may be playing “fast and loose”
with its bear population figures in order to artificially inflate the number of domestic
brown bears that may be available for hunters’ bullets and their desire
for bear trophies. The Deliverance of Dancing Bears, a wonderful children’s
book about the cruel practice of forcing bears to “dance” for money, is reviewed.
• Opponents of intensive animal factories joined forces with Native Americans
of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota to defeat Bell Farms’ efforts to
exploit the tribe’s lands and build a confinement hog operation there. A complex
and tortuous legal battle over the facility has been fought since 1998
and it looks as though the defense of the native lands is going to win out over
corporate greed.
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Summer 2003 Volume 52 Number 3
• The burgeoning trade in exotic and increasingly
dangerous pets must be stopped.
People are no longer satisfied with dogs
and cats and are seeking pets that are
“bigger and badder” than everyone else’s:
lions, jaguars, tigers, bears, baboons and
boa constrictors. Not only do these animals
pose a threat from their innate “wildness,”
but they likely carry diseases that can be
harmful if not deadly to humans: salmonella,
SARS and monkeypox.
• AWI is launching a massive campaign
in time for the Ministerial Meeting of the
World Trade Organization (WTO). For
the first time, we will have a representative
inside the meeting speaking to delegates about the need for enhanced
attention to animal welfare issues during of the latest round of decisions. This
is especially true with respect to agriculture issues, such as subsidies that
may be paid to family farmers who raise their animals humanely. AWI is also
organizing throngs of demonstrators in dolphin costumes outside the meeting,
reminiscent of the popular sea turtles who marched in Seattle.
• AWI has launched two new brochures in its illustrative and informative series:
one on Free Trade and another on Farm Animals.
• Willow Creek Farm in Wisconsin has been welcomed into the fold of farmers
who meet AWI’s humane husbandry standards for pigs. Tony Renger is a
fourth generation farmer and he and his wife, Sue, market their pig products
directly to customers in the area.
• AWI has merged with its companion organization, the Society for Animal Protective
Legislation (SAPL), to better serve both of their constituencies. Three
important bills highlighted: the Crane Conservation Act, the Marine Turtle
Conservation Act and the bill to end the use of steel jaw leghold traps. As well,
SAPL continues to work on legislation banning the transport and commercialization
of horses for human consumption and the practices of random source
dealers selling dogs and cats into biomedical research.
• Congressional efforts to undermine the vital protection afforded marine mammals
by the Marine Mammal Protection Act are intense. The Department of
Defense Authorization Bill and legislation to reauthorize the Marine Mammal
Protection Act both contain provisions to make it easier to “harass” marine
mammals and attain “incidental take” permits to kill large numbers of whales,
dolphins and other precious mammals of the sea.
S p e e c h e s M a d e a n d M e e t i n g s
Attended by AWI Representatives
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• “Antibiotic-Free Day” Press Conference, cosponsored with Sierra Club, Minneapolis,
MN, July 2
• Speeches by Adam M. Roberts, at the Animal Rights 2002 Conference, on
“Wildlife Protection Laws,” July 2, and “Trade Issues,” July 3
• Up the River Endeavors Coalition, Martha’s Vineyard, MA, July 10-14
• Powder River Basin Resource Council Board Meeting, Barlow Ranch, Gillette,
WY, July 13
• Presentation by Diane Halverson at The Holly Edison Wildlife Rehabilitation
Center, Woodstock, NY, July 13
• Speech by Ben White on the effect of globalization on animal protection at the
San Juan Summer Celebration, San Juan Island, WA, July 21
• “Legislator Appreciation Day” and open house for alternative swine housing
research and demonstration project, University of Minnesota, West Central
Research and Outreach Center, Morris, MN, August 2
• Inter-American Convention for the Protection and Conservation of Sea
Turtles, San Jose, Costa Rica, August 6-8
• Presentation by Viktor Reinhardt on “Training macaques to voluntarily co-operate
during two common procedures: Blood collection and capture of grouphoused
animals,” XIXth Congress of the International Primatological Society,
Beijing, China, August 6
• Statement by Diane Halverson on factory farm reliance on antibiotics to compensate
for poor housing and husbandry, Sierra Club press conference in
front of Cargill, Inc. headquarters, Wayzata, MN, August 13
• Meeting with David Bayvel, Director, Animal Welfare, Ministry of Agriculture
and Forestry and Professor David Mellor, Director of Animal Welfare
Science, Massey University, both of New Zealand, August 16
• Meeting with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s delegation to the Conference
of the Parties to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species
(CITES) to discuss agenda items for the upcoming meeting, August 20
• Ben White interviewed by “Rolling Thunder Review” during a presentation by
Lori Wallach of Public Citizen, Renton, WA, August 24
• Land Stewardship Project 20 th Anniversary Celebration and Member Meeting,
Jordan, MN, August 24
• World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa,
August 26-September 4
• Second International Workshop, “Assessment of Animal Welfare at Farm and
Group Level,” University of Bristol, Bristol, UK, September 2-5
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• Niman Ranch “Farmer Appreciation Dinner,” Hotel Fort Des Moines, Des
Moines, IA, September 14
• Presentation by Diane Halverson on AWI’s humane pig husbandry standards
for the Future Trends in Animal Agriculture Symposium at the U.S. Department
of Agriculture, September 18
• “Biotech in the Barnyard: Implications of Genetically Engineered Animals,”
sponsored by Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology and Center for Veterinary
Medicine, Dallas, TX, September 24-25
• “Animal Cloning and the Production of Food Products,” sponsored by Pew
Initiative on Food and Biotechnology and Center for Veterinary Medicine and
the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Dallas, TX, September 26
• Speech by Diane Halverson on cruelty of pig factory farming and humane
alternatives at the White Dog Cafe forum, Philadelphia, PA, September 30
• Comments by Wendy Swann on the “Draft Guidance for Industry: Evaluating
the Safety of Antimicrobial New Animal Drugs with Regards to Their Microbiological
Effects on Bacteria of Human Health Concern” at FDA’s Center for
Veterinary Medicine public meeting, Rockville, MD, October 2
• Baum Forum “A Growing Concern,” New York, NY, October 5-6
• Speech by Ben White on problems with globalization at Tonasket Barter Fair,
Tonasket, WA, October 16
• Agribusiness Accountability Initiative Forum, Chicago, IL, October 18-19
• Presentation by Marlene Halverson on current animal welfare issues to the
Animal Welfare Committee, U.S. Animal Health Association, St. Louis, MO,
October 21
• Public information meeting and feedback session on State progress in developing
policy regarding antibiotics in animal feeds, Minnesota Department of
Public Health, St. Paul, MN, October 21
• Press Conference by the Species Survival Network (Adam M. Roberts, moderator)
in advance of the Twelfth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to
CITES, October 22
• Speech by Ben White on sustainable development at the Spring Street School
forum, San Juan Island, WA, October 24
• Meeting of AWI’s Board of Directors, October 24 (conference call), November
18, April 2, 2003 and June 9, 2003 (Alexandria, VA)
• Presentation by Diane Halverson discussing how AWI’s pig husbandry standards
allow the animals to fulfill their natural behavior, North Carolina Agricultural,
Technical and State University, Greensboro, NC, October 25
• Presentation by Diane Halverson on the relations between animal welfare and
environmental protection, Sierra Club Conference, Franklin, KY, October 26
• Educational exhibit at the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science,
San Antonio, TX, October 28-30
• Twelfth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES, Santiago, Chile,
November 3-15
• Meeting with Alexey Yablokov of AWI’s International Committee regarding
marine mammal and environmental issues, November 5
• “Ecolabels and the Greening of the Food Market,” sponsored by Tufts University,
Boston, MA, November 7-8
• Greener Fields meeting on ecolabelling, Boston, MA, November 9-10
• Fauna Australis International Meeting about Wildlife Conservation, Santiago,
Chile, November 9
• Speech by Wendy Swann at Public Citizen press event opposing food irradiation,
November 14
• Presentation by Diane Halverson on the role of chefs in influencing the welfare
of farm animals, Women Chefs and Restaurateurs Conference, Boston, MA,
November 18
• Presentation by Diane Halverson on providing primer on the ways animal factories
violate the natural behavior of farm animals to the Animal Grantmakers,
Glaser Progress Foundation, Seattle, WA, November 19
• Hosted forum on whale watching and whales, San Juan Island, WA, December 6
• Sierra Club, North Star Chapter meeting, Cannon Falls, MN, December 14
• Rice County Feedlot Front meeting, Northfield, MN, December 12
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• Meeting with Yvan LaFleur, Director of the Environment Branch of the Canadian
Wildlife Service, to discuss development of global wildlife law enforcement
network, January 14
• Rice County Feedlot Front meeting, Northfield, MN, January 15
• Guest lecture by Adam M. Roberts on CITES and wildlife trade, Tufts University
Center for Animals and Public Policy, Boston, MA, February 4
• “Local Food Systems, Local Decisions – In Search of True Security,” Pennsylvania
Sustainable Agriculture Association Annual Conference, State College,
PA, February 6-8
• Presentation by Diane Halverson and Marlene Halverson on AWI’s farm
animal program developments and prohibition of tail docking, Niman Ranch
Annual Winter Meeting, Ames, IA, February 10
• McDonald’s Animal Welfare Advisory Council meeting, Oak Brook, IL,
February 13
• Meeting with Matthew Scully, author of Dominion, February 14
• Meeting to discuss the vital role of the Animal Welfare Information Center with
Peter Young, Director, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, MD, February 20
• House and Senate Hearings on legislation to ban the gestation crate housing
of sows, Maryland State Legislature, Annapolis, MD, February 24-25
• Meeting with Enrique Moret Hernandez, Director of International Cooperation
in the National Capital of Cuba, about dolphin trade and CITES, Havana,
Cuba, February 24
• Meeting with assistant director of the National Aquarium of Havana concerning
the dolphin trade, Havana, Cuba, February 24-25
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• Strategy meeting on the tuna-dolphin issue, February 25
• Marine Mammal Protection Coalition meeting, February 27
• Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development meeting, March 4
• Congressional hearing on nutria eradication in Maryland and Louisiana, March 6
• Meeting regarding enforcement of the Animal Welfare Act with Chester
Gipson, Acting Deputy Administrator, Animal Care, USDA-APHIS, March 17
• Meeting with partners involved in the United Nations Environment Program’s
Great Apes Survival Partnership, March 17
• Guest lecture on CITES and wildlife trade by Adam M. Roberts for University
of Maryland graduate students, March 18
• Speech by Ben White at a press conference and televised interviews against
confining dolphins in captivity, Las Vegas, NV, March 19- 20
• “Never Forgetting: Elephants and Ethics,” National Zoo’s Conservation and
Research Center, Front Royal, VA, March 19-20
• Memorial Service for AWI founding president, Christine Stevens, April 2
• UFAW Symposium: “Science in the Service of Animal Welfare,” Edinburgh,
Scotland, April 2-4
• Alternative Swine Systems Program Task Force meeting, University of Minnesota,
West Central Research and Outreach Center, Morris, MN, April 10
• “Tour de Manure,” bus tour of animal factories and sustainable farms, cosponsored
with Sierra Club, Carleton College, Northfield, MN, April 12
• Speech by Ben White on the ties between animal protection, saving the Earth
and democracy at Earth Day celebration, San Juan Island, WA, April 26
• Presentation by Viktor Reinhardt on “Understanding Animals,” Butteville Elementary
School, Weed, CA, May 14
• USDA “Future Trends in Animal Agriculture: The Science and Ethics Behind
Animal Well-Being Assessment,” May 28
• Presentation by Wendy Swann on humane treatment of animals at High
Bridge Elementary School career day, Bowie, MD, May 30
• Presentation by Diane Halverson at Waterkeeper Alliance Summit for Sustainable
Pig Farming, Gettysburg, PA, June 7
• Presentations by Cathy Liss to students at Mt. Vernon Community School on
being kind to animals, Alexandria, VA, June 11
• Speech by Ben White against Low Frequency Active Sonar at the Liquid
Sound event, Berlin, Germany, June 14
• International Whaling Commission, Berlin, Germany, June 16-19
• National Wildlife Services Advisory Committee. Cathy Liss serves on the
Committee. Riverdale, MD, June 24-25
• Regular CITES Strategy and Board Meetings of the Species Survival
Network
A r t i c l e s i n P r i n t
Garrett T 2003. Pigs—American Style: An Interview, Gazeta Poznanska, 8-9,
June 20. Poznan, Poland
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