OBITUARIES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1994:

Toledo Edison Company stationary

engineer Kris Kohn, 41, of Toledo, Ohio,

died February 17 of a heart attack, shortly after

he and off-duty fire Lt. Eric Renzhofer spent

two hours rescuing 132 canvasback ducks who

were trapped in the East Toledo generating

plant’s water intake. “Kris had raised Canada

geese, pigeons, and a rabbit. We have three

Labrador retrievers, whom he loved very

much,” his widow Pamela wrote to ANIMAL

PEOPLE. “He also was a beekeeper. He

would get very mad when someone mistreated

an animal or child. He loved his children and

nieces, and is very deeply missed.”

Obituaries

BOOKS: Jim Mason on the nature of unnatural acts

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1994:

An Unnatural Order: Uncovering the Roots

of Our Domination of Nature and Each

Other, by Jim Mason. Simon & Schuster

(Rockefeller Centre, 1230 Ave. of the Americas, New

York, NY 10020), 1993. 298 pages, $24 hardcover.

“The Slave,” a powerful sculpture by Michelangelo,

depicts a man struggling to break free of the stone from which

he is partially formed. This image is repeatedly brought to

mind by An Unnatural Order, for the heart of Jim Mason’s

argument is that humankind is a coldly perverse and destruc-

tively struggling entity as a result of a futile effort to distance

ourselves from the natural and animal world from which we

evolved.

Play (vegan) ball!

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1994:

DAKOTA CITY, Iowa––Among the dis-

tinguished vegetarians and semi-vegetarians in base-

ball have been Henry Aaron, holder of the major

league career home run record; Jim Kaat, who pitched

a then-record 26 seasons; former National League All

Star second baseman Dave Cash; and Tony LaRussa,

manager of five first place teams in the past 15

years––but they all used leather gloves, because there

were no substitutes.

There are now. Heartland Products has

introduced the first wholly nonleather baseball and

softball glove. A relaced edition of the popular Regent

fielder’s glove, made in China, the Heartland glove

features a vinyl palm with nylon backing and stitch-

ing. Little League-approved, it comes in two sizes,

the larger of which is suitable for adults with small to

medium hands. Break-in characteristics are compara-

ble to those of leather gloves.

Diet & Health

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1994:

The USDA proposed March 9 to apply the same

sanitary standards to poultry as to red meat. Currently, no

trace of fecal matter is permitted on red meat, but fecal matter

is tolerated on poultry under a grading system that also consid-

ers the presence of bruises, feathers, and protruding bones. A

dead bird is deemed unfit for human consumption only if it

receives a failing cumulative score. Earlier, the USDA said it

would seek Food and Drug Administration approval of the use

of radiation to kill bacteria on red meats. Whether the request

would be extended to cover poultry too was unclear.

Children & Animals: NABT MOVES TOWARD STRONGER SUPPORT OF CLASSROOM DISSECTION

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1994:

WASHINGTON D.C.––The National Association of Biology Teachers has withdrawn its monograph The

Responsible Use of Animals in Biology Classrooms “due to ethical concerns about some of its classroom exercises and about

the unequal representation of animal rights and biomedical research groups in the resource list,” according to the

February/March 1994 edition of National Science Teachers Association Reports. NABT executive director Patricia

BOOKS: Captive wildlife debate

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1994:

Zoos and Animal Rights: The Ethics of

Keeping Animals, by Stephen St. C.

Bostock, Routledge (29 West 35th St., New York,

NY 10001), 1993. 227 pages, $15.95 paperback.

Orca: A Family Story, by Peter Hamilton,

Lifeforce (POB Box 825, North Hollywood, CA

91603), 1994. 40 pages, $17.99 paperback.

Stephen Bostock, education director for the

Glasgow Zoo, fervently believes most captive wild animals

are happy, healthy, and enjoying the best of all possible

worlds. Peter Hamilton, who has spent many years cham-

pioning unhappy, unhealthy captive wildlife, believes just

the opposite, citing as example the life of the orca Corky,

in an account fictionalized to provide a happy ending: her

release after 25 years to rejoin her pod. Both Bostock and

Hamilton support their positions with a wealth of factual

detail, but both become tedious in their onesidedness.

Hamilton is merely shrill; Bostock is at times absurd, as in

citing a painting as documentary evidence of the terror a

prey species suffers when attacked by a predator.

What the new Catechism really says about animals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1994:

DENVER, Colorado––“The Catholic church has

declared that humans should not love animals or spend

money on them when it could otherwise be spent on human

beings,” the World Society for the Protection of Animals’

magazine Animals International reported last fall, claiming,

“The announcement is included in the newly published edi-

tion of the Catholic Catechism, the 800-page book which

states the church’s position on all aspects of life.” A similar

report appeared several months later in the American Anti-

Vivisection Society magazine AV, and was then amplified by

activist newsletters and computer networks until it reached

Marshall Massey of the Environmental Projects Center, who

sought verification.

Religion & Spirituality

LAB ANIMAL USE DOWN, STUDIES FIND BUT BETTER RECORDKEEPING NEEDED

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1994:

WASHINGTON, D.C.– – Three

newly published independent reviews of

available data on laboratory animal use con-

clude that the number of animals used is

generally declining, especially relative to

the number of research projects under-

way––but agree too that USDA reporting

requirements need to be strengthened.

F. Barbara Orlans, Ph.D., of the

Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown

University, argued in the winter 1994 edi-

tion of the University of Chicago journal

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine that

animal use peaked in 1984-1985, fell albeit

with upward fluctuations during the next

five years, and seems to have leveled off

somewhat above the norms of the early

1970s. Orlans noted a drop of nearly half in

dog use since 1975 and downward trends in

the use of cats and primates. “For dogs,”

she wrote, “the range is from a high of

211,000 in 1979 to a low of 108,000 in

1991; for cats, the range is from a high of

74,000 in 1974 to a low of 35,000 in 1991.”

Biomedical research

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1994:

Following five years of controversy and

a two-month probe by concerned individuals and

organizations, the University of Arizona in mid-

March released 12 greyhounds bought for biomed-

ical research from Greg Ludlow of GTL Kennels in

Goodyear, Arizona. Another greyhound was to be

released upon completion of a pacemaker trial; a

14th had already been used in a terminal experiment.

For the second time in six years, and just one year

after serving out a five-year USDA suspension of his

Class B dealer’s license, Ludlow was accused of

obtaining and selling dogs under false pretenses.

The release was achieved through the cooperation of

Concerned Arizonans for Animal Rights and Ethics,

the Greyhound Protection League, Greyhound

Network News, the management of the greyhound

tracks at Phoenix and Apache Junction, and Arizona

Greyhound Breeders and Kennel Operators.

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