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Grrrs to Sarah, Duchess of York, for including veal recipes in her latest cookbook. Veal crates are illegal in the U.K., but North American readers following Fergie’s recipes will be using the flesh of cruelly confined calves. Please ever-so-nicely ask the duchess to swap these recipes for slimming veggie fare in future editions. Write: Sarah, Duchess of York, Sunninghill Park, Ascot SL5 7TH, United Kingdom.
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Purrs to Rio de Janeiro for giving animal acts the ax. Despite intense pressure from the circus industry, Rio de Janeiro’s governor, Anthony Garotinho, signed legislation that permanently bans animal circuses.
Please send thank-yous to Mr. Garotinho at governadorrj@gabgovernador.rj.gov.br.
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Grrrs to Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler for buying an $80,000 chinchilla bedspread and a pink sheared beaver jacket for his wife.
Write Tyler c/o Fran DeFeo, 550 Madison Ave.,
Ste. 2614, New York,
NY 10022.
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Purrs to Germany for vowing to phase out cruel battery cages by 2007—five years earlier than the rest of the European Union. Under the new regulations, farmers must provide egg-laying hens with nesting spaces and materials, and enclosures must be at least 9 feet by 5 feet (current battery cages are so small that birds cannot even stretch their wings).
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Grrrs to “Weakest Link” Anne Robinson for hosting a fox-hunting fundraiser near her home in Gloucestershire, despite the fact that foxhunting has recently been banned in Scotland. Not just nasty on TV, the caustic quiz mistress maintains that anti-hunting activists are “whipped up by ignorance,” but admitted that she hadn’t bothered to watch video footage of a hunt sent to her by the League Against Cruel Sports.
Write: c/o Tracy Chapman, CSS Stellar Management, Drury House, 34-43 Russell Street, London WC2R 5RB, United Kingdom.
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Grrrs to NBC’s Today show for hosting an online poll to name the latest baby elephant born at the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus elephant breeding facility. Last year, former Ringling employees filed affidavits in court stating that Ringling’s elephants are regularly beaten, and the circus has repeatedly been cited for violating the Animal Welfare Act.
Two of Ringling’s baby elephants have died in the past 4 years.
Write: Jonathan Wald, Executive Producer, Today, 30 Rockefeller Plz., New York, NY 10112-0002; e-mail: Jonathan.wald@nbc.com
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