BOOKS: Voting Green: your complete environmental guide to making political choices in the ’90’s

October 1, 1992 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

Voting Green: your complete environmental

guide to making political choices in the ’90’s.

By Jeremy Rifkin and Carol Grunewald Rifkin,

Doubleday (666 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10103),

1992, 390 pages, paperback $15.00 U.S., $19.00

Canadian.

It may be true, as Voting Green suggests, that this

decade will determine our environmental future. Certainly

grassroots support for green programs has never been stronger.

But Jeremy and Carol Rifkin also remind us that the greatest

potential for redesigning our societal infrastructure is held by

our elected representatives in Congress, and that we will

decide–with our votes–which direction they’ll take.

Vivisection

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

* George Bush signed the Animal Enterprise Protection

Act of 1992 into law on August 26, making vandalism of

farms and laboratories a federal offense. The law broadens the

jurisdiction of the FBI in such cases, but probably will not help

federal grand juries probing laboratory break-ins in Oregon,

Washington, Michigan, and Massachusetts to reach indict-

ments, since the alleged offenses took place long before the

law was passed.

* The Bush administration on August 23 proposed redi-

recting federally funded biomedical research into economically

productive areas, a move that might decrease the number of

animals used in so-called basic research, but increase the num-

ber used in product safety testing.

Agriculture

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

October 2 was the 10th anniver-

sary of World Farm Animals Day, declared

in 1983 by the Farm Animal Reform

Movement to coincide with Gandhi’s birthday

and World Vegetarian Day. Major commemo-

rations were scheduled in New York, the

Washington D.C. metropolitan area, Iowa,

Florida, California, and Hawaii.

The contribution of cattle to global

warming has significantly increased over the

past three years, along with the world cattle

population, International Union of Air

Pollution Prevention Associations director

general John Langston warned the 800-mem-

ber group in early September.

Woofs and growls:

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

The U.S. Court of Appeals for

the 11th Circuit on August 18 upheld a lower

court decision that Soldier of Fortune maga-

zine must pay $4.3 million in damages to the

sons of Richard Braun, an Atlanta business-

man who was murdered in 1985 by a contract

killer whose “gun for hire” ad the magazine

published. The killer, Michael Savage, 44,

of Knoxville, Tenn., and eight of his clients

have been convicted of criminal conspiracy in

connection with the Braun case and at least

two others. Soldier of Fortune has recently

amplified a series of National Rifle

Association attacks on the animal rights move-

ment and anti-hunting activists.

Hunting news

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

Arizonans will vote November 3

on a referendum measure to ban

trapping, portrayed by the National Rifle

Assn. and National Trappers Assn. as an

attempt to ban all hunting and fishing as

well. The initiative is sponsored, however,

by Arizonans for Safety and Humanity on

Public Lands, whose initial board of direc-

tors included a hunter and a gun dealer. The

group declined funding from the Humane

Society of the U.S. to avoid confusing the

issues.

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