Dr. Spock’s last kindness

July 1, 1998 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

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.”

BOOKS: Vegetarian Dogs

May 1, 1998 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1998:

Vegetarian Dogs:
Towards a World
Without Exploitation
by Verona re-Bow
and Jonathan Dune
LiveArt (POB 7056, Halcyon, CA
93421), 1998.
55 pages, spiral binding, $12.00

In India, where one can hardly open
one’s eyes without seeing a street dog, and
where commercial dog food is almost unheard
of, there are indeed plenty of malnourished,
even starving dogs. One wonders, however,
if the malnourishment is not due less to the diet
of street garbage––mostly fruits and vegetables
–– than to parasite infestation and over-competition
for the garbage caused by too many dogs,
too many pigs, and lots of monkeys.

AUTHENTIC “SOUL FOOD” IS VEGETARIAN

April 1, 1998 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

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.

U.K. vegan infant death case

March 1, 1998 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1998:

SHEFFIELD, U.K.– – David
Low, 37, of Wortley, England, was
acquitted of cruelty to a child on February
6 when Sheffield Crown Court Judge
Michael Walker ruled that Low “is a gentle
and caring man,” and directed the jury
to declare him not guilty of causing the
October 1995 death of his son Ki Beau,
age four months, by placing the child on a
diet of soy milk and black currant juice.
Walker noted that Ki Beau suffered
from a virus often associated with
crib death. Prosecutor Jeremy Baker
brought the cruelty charge rather than a
manslaughter charge, he told the court,
because he could not actually establish
that the vegan diet caused the death.

BOOKS: To Eat Flesh They Are Willing: Are Their Spirits Weak?

November 1, 1997 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1997:

To Eat Flesh They Are Willing: Are Their Spirits Weak?
Vegetarians Who Return to Meat
by Kristin Aronson, Ph.D.
Pythagorean Publishers (159 Easton Parkway, #2-H, Brooklyn, NY 11238), 1996
335 pages, paperback, $18.95.

Kristin Aronson, a philosopher of ethics
and ethical vegan, who teaches at Western
Connecticut State University, recently undertook
a philosophical enquiry into why people
who have been vegetarians return to eating
meat. She asked questions that vegetarians
often don’t want to ask, and probed where it
hurt, to find out how come even some once
ethical and passionate vegetarians sometimes
give up their vegetarianism and become
“lapso vegetarians.”

Dioxin. E-coli. It’s what’s for lunch.

October 1, 1997 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1997:

LOS ANGELES––As many as 650 cases of fried
chicken possibly containing trace amounts of dioxin were
divided among 77 Los Angeles Unified School District
cafeterias, an internal memo revealed in mid-August––of
which 649 cases and part of the last case were served to
children before the contamination was detected. The dioxin
came from a kind of clay, mined in Mississippi, that was
mixed into the chickens’ feed to absorb moisture that might
have clogged automatic feeders.
Some of the dioxin-tainted chicken was also
believed to have been sent to schools in Georgia during
January and February 1997, and October 1996.
The dioxin flap shortly preceded the Hudson
Foods recall of more than 25 million pounds of hamburger
that might have become contaminated with e-coli, but
whether it will actually presage any drop in school-promoted
hamburger consumption is yet to be seen.

ADC GIVES POOR THE BIRDS

September 1, 1997 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1997:

WASHINGTON D.C.–– Thousands
of Canada goose carcasses sent to soup
kitchens around the U.S. by the Animal
Damage Control unit of the USDA might be
full of lead, mercury, lawn chemicals, and
potentially lethal microorganisms––but the
recipients may never know it, Friends of
Animals special investigator Carroll Cox discovered
July 10, while probing such a carcass
giveaway in Virginia.
Contrary to common assumption,
the gift meat is not USDA-inspected.
“The USDA does not regulate or
inspect wild meat,” USDA deputy chief
inspector for the Virginia region Maher
Haque affirmed to Cox.

The meat mob muscles in

June 1, 1997 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1997:

Poorly educated women, often of ethnic minorities,
many of them immigrants, do the hardest, dirtiest, most dangerous
work––until their bodies fail them.
Pushers on almost every busy street corner stoke the
addictions that already kill more Americans than any other
cause, and have created the world’s deadliest drug problem.
Their suppliers rank among the global leaders in
dumping toxic waste.
Kingpins of this mob, some already convicted of
political corruption reaching clear to the White House, are now
muscling into position to siphon off the hard-won economic
gains of the developing world.

DIET & HEALTH

December 1, 1996 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1996:

Health research
Fears that drinking cow’s milk
can trigger juvenile diabetes in genetically
susceptible children rekindled in October after
Dr. Paul Pozzilli of the Department of
Diabetes and Metabolism at St. Bartholomew’s
Hospital in London and colleagues at
the University of Rome explained in The
Lancet , the journal of the British Medical
Association, how certain proteins in cow’s
milk can stimulate an immature human
immune system to produce antibodies that
then attack similar proteins in the victim’s
own pancreatic cells. European Commissionsponsored
research showed in June that bottlefed
babies are twice as likely as breast-fed
babies to get diabetes. Jill Norris of the
University of Colorado Health Science Center
in Denver, argued in the August 27 edition of
the Journal of the American Medical
Association that the previous research was
weak––but Hans-Michael Dosch, M.D., of
the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto,
who drew attention to a possible link between
cow’s milk and diabetes in 1992, argues that
the association is now “as strong as the association
between cigarette smoking and cancer.”

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