BOOKS: Dog Meat Trade In The Philippines

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2005:

Dog Meat Trade In The Philippines
revealing corruption, conspiracy, government inaction

Linis Gobyerno, Inc. (P.O. Box 1588, 2600 Baguio City,
Philippines), 2005. 139 pages, spiral bound.

Dog Meat Trade In The Philippines will jolt readers
unfamiliar with the dog meat industry. The most shocking aspect of
this comprehensive report, however, should be that it is the third
in a series of book-length updates by Linis Gobyerno, detailing
non-enforcement of the 1996 Philippine ban on dog slaughter for human
consumption.
“This is not a national phenomenon,” the foreword
stipulates, “but a problem concentrated mainly in the Cordillera
region,” where under the thin legal cover of an exemption granted to
the indigenous Igorot tribe, non-Igorots conduct a clandestine
traffic in dog meat worth as much as $290,000 a month.
“As an Igorot, I vehemently do not accept dog-eating as my
culture,” writes Dog Meat Trade In The Philippines contributor Bing
Dawang. “I was not raised to eat dogs, and dog meat is not a
regular part of my diet, nor has it ever been.”

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BOOKS: PerPETual Care & All My Children Wear Fur Coats

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 2005:

PerPETual Care:
Who will look after your pets if you’re not around?
by Lisa Rogak
Litterature (212 Kinsman Rd., Grafton, NH 03240), 2003.
192 pages, paperback. $15.00.

All My Children Wear Fur Coats:
How to leave a legacy for your pet
by Peggy R. Hoyt, J.D., MBA
Legacy Planning Partners, LLC (251 Plaza Dr., Suite B, Oviedo, FL
32765), 2002. 182 pages, paperback, $19.95.

The importance of careful estate planning, especially when
the goal is to benefit animals, was underscored on December 2, 2005
when Circuit Judge Steven H. Goldman of St. Louis County, Missouri
permanently removed attorney Eric Taylor as a trustee of the Olive
Dempsey Charitable Trust.
Judge Goldman ordered Taylor to repay to the trust $266,213
in fees and expenses collected while serving as co-trustee with
accountant James Richardson.
Dempsey, a retired telephone company employee, hired Taylor
and Richardson to form the trust in 1998. At her death in December
2000 the trust had assets of about $2 million. During the next three
years, according to IRS Form 990, Taylor collected at least
$221,929 in administrative fees. Richardson, who resigned
co-trusteeship earlier, collected $159,103.

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