Category: Culture

Hunting on opposite sides of the earth

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1998:

JODPUR, India; ANCHORAGE, Alaska;
MINNEAPOLIS, Minnesota; DENVER, Colorado––
A U.S. federal indictment issued on October 23 in
Anchorage, Alaska, charged Jon S. “Buck” McNeely,
producer and host of the nationally syndicated TV show
“The Outdoorsman with Buck McNeely,” with illegally
using three aircraft to poach caribou.
Also charged were hunting guide James M.
Fejes of Anchorage, Fejes’ assistants Blaine A. Morgan
and William M. Vollendorf, and hunting client Michael
Doyle, of Minnesota.
The case was little noted by national media.

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Help Sea Shepherds stop Makah whaling by Michael Kundu

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1998:

Two centuries ago, gray whales migrating
north past Neah Bay in Washington State were
harpooned by Makah tribal whalers. The killing,
done from cedar canoes with wooden harpoons,
was a tradition. Trading oil from the gray whale
made the Makah prosperous. But over time, the
gray whale population dwindled. Then, for many
decades, the killing stopped.
This October, 76 years after the Makah
last killed a whale, the Makah Whaling
Commission intends to resume whaling, within
waters now part of the Olympic National Marine
Sanctuary. The killing will signal an international
escalation of illegal commercial whaling. Pirate
whaling nations, primarily Japan and Norway,
have furtively promoted this and other so-called
indigenous whale hunts the world over.

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Fixing for a fight of Leviathans

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1998:

NEAH BAY, Wash.; NEWPORT,
Ore.––If the media drama underway in the
Pacific Northwest was a professional wrestling
match, it would be billed as the Makah
Harpooners vs. Willy the Whale, alias Killer
Keiko, orca star of the hit films Free Willy!,
Free Willy II, and Free Willy III.
Scrapping for air time, they might
make a show of enmity, and their partisans
might fall for it, but more cynical viewers
would suspect they were working for the same
syndicate.
But who might own the syndicate––
Hollywood, or Japan?
Whoever wrote the “Keiko-vs.-
Makah” script, literal or figurative, seems to
have worked for four years to bring about an
autumn battle of Leviathans. Captain Paul “The
Pirate” Watson and fellow voyagers of the Sea
Shepherd Conservation Society will try to put
themselves between the Makah whalers and
migrating gray whales. The Free Willy/Keiko
Foundation, led by David Phillips, also head of
Earth Island Institute, will meanwhile prepare
Keiko to become the first of his species ever
returned to the ocean after prolonged captivity.
The real struggle will come through
your TV and mailbox, as their causes vie for
public interest and donations.

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Children and Animals

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From: Animal People July/August 1998

Dr. Spock’s last kindness

NEW YORK––Humane childrearing advocate Benjamin Spock, M.D., left some of his most important advice for last:

“We now know that there are harmful effects of a meaty diet,” he stated in the seventh and last edition of Baby And Child Care produced under his direct supervision. “Children can get plenty of protein and iron from vegetables, beans, and other plant foods that avoid the fat and cholesterol that are in animal products.”  Spock also rejected milk. Read more

BOOKS: Horse, Follow Closely

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1998:

Horse, Follow Closely: Native American Horsemanship
by GaWaNi Pony Boy, with photographs by Gabrielle Boiselle
Bowtie Press (c/o Fancy Publications, 3 Burroughs, Irvine, CA 92618), 1998. Hardcover, 144 pages. $39.95.

Horse, Follow Closely: Native
American Horsemanship is sure to become a
best-seller among horse owners––novice horse
owners, that is. It is primarily a photographic
showcase for the author, GaWaNi Pony Boy,
with his horses replete in Native American
dress and paint. Seasoned equestrians, critical
readers and maybe even a few historians will
be concerned by the lack of sound content.

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Dr. Spock’s last kindness

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1998:

NEW YORK––Humane childrearing
advocate Benjamin Spock, M.D., left
some of his most important advice for last:
“We now know that there are harmful
effects of a meaty diet,” he stated in the
seventh and last edition of Baby And Child
Care produced under his direct supervision.
“Children can get plenty of protein and iron
from vegetables, beans, and other plant
foods that avoid the fat and cholesterol that
are in animal products.”
Spock also rejected milk.
“I no longer recommend dairy
products after the age of two years,” the new
edition of Baby And Child Care advises.
“Other calcium sources offer many advantages
that dairy products do not have.”
If parents are reluctant to become
vegetarians or vegans, Spock urged them “to
explore vegetarian meals and to serve as
many meatless meals as possible.”

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The ultimate sacrifice

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1998:

LHASA, MUMBAI, JERUSALEM––Muslims,
Christians, and Jews marked some of their most sacred holidays
by killing animals. Hindus mobilized to save animals
from slaughter. Snowbound Tibetan Buddhists starved
rather than eat animals who were already dead or dying.
The Islamic Feast of Sacrifice, commemorating
Abraham’s willingness to sacrifice his son Isaac, fell on
April 8 this year––halfway between Palm Sunday and Easter,
two days before Passover, and one day before the Jain festival
of Mahavir Jayanti, the annual celebration of the birth of
the teacher Mahavir, a contemporary of the Buddha.
The several moveable feasts and fixed occasions
coincided unusually closely, bringing conflicting cultural
views of animals into dramatic contrast.

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Will the shelling stop?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

SAN FRANCISCO––If you think
people who torture animals for alleged “cultural”
motive are as addicted to their deeds as
those who torture just for kicks, and that they
will therefore break any bargain, the Joint
Statement of Principles and Guidelines subscribed
to on March 31 by the San Francisco
SPCA and Representatives of San Francisco’s
Live Animal Markets may strike you as a
cruel and just slightly early April Fool.
You may side with the activists
now burning up the Internet with assertions
that SF/SPCA president Richard Avanzino is
the biggest fool of all, for agreeing––d e
f a c t o––to self-policing to eliminate six types
of animal abuse recognized by both the
SF/SPCA and the live marketers.

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AUTHENTIC “SOUL FOOD” IS VEGETARIAN

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1998:

NEW YORK, N.Y.––”In the wake of
the Oprah Winfrey beef victory,” Animal Rights
International announced on March 4, “new
research reveals that nearly two-thirds (63%) of the
public think the meat, poultry, and egg industries
should be held liable for illnesses and deaths
caused by their products.”
Commissioned by ARI, the telephone
survey of 1,006 adults was conducted in late
February 1998 by Opinion Research Corporation
International, of Princeton, New Jersey.
“Also reacting to the Centers for Disease
Control’s findings that 4,500 Americans die each
year from tainted meat, poultry and eggs, and that
five million more become ill,” the ARI release
continued, “two out of five (43%) agreed that
meat, poultry, and eggs should be labeled ‘potentially
hazardous,’ with warnings similar to those
required on tobacco products.

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