Category: Religion & Spirituality

BOOKS: Little Brother Moose & The Tree in the Ancient Forest

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1995:

Little Brother Moose, by James Kasperson, illustrated by Karlyn Holman.
The Tree in the Ancient Forest,
by Carol Reed Jones, illustrated by Christopher Canyon.
Each $6.95/paper or $14.95/cloth, from Dawn Publications
(14618 Tyler Foote Road, Nevada City, CA 95959), 1995.
Attractively and imaginatively
illustrated, Little Brother Moose is modeled
on the Native American tradition of the
Vision Quest, a solo journey in search of
self-understanding that marks the passage
into adulthood––this time made by a moose.
It also resembles the story of an early settler
on the future site of Boston, who moved
west when it got too crowded. Invited back
for a visit by the civic authorities, decades
later, he rode in on a bull, trotted disgusted-
ly through the busy streets, and galloped
west again without even stopping for a drink.

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RELIGION & ANIMALS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1995:

Islamic fundamentalists on April
19 capped two weeks of railing against the
appearance of scantily clad performers b y
torching the stage and tents of the New Opera
Circus, killing a boy and a bear, as it per-
formed outside the Cox’s Bazar resort near
Eidgaon village in Bangladesh. The mob also
stabbed a tiger, an elephant, and various other
animals before police arrived, arresting three
assailants. Officials of Cox’s Bazar said they
had been unable to persuade the circus, from
the Brahmanbaria district of Bangladesh, to
pack up and leave.

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In league with the devil?! P&G REDUCES ANIMAL USE 53% IN 10 YEARS–– WHILE TRIPLING IN SIZE––YET HEARS LITTLE PRAISE

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1995:

CINCINNATI––Say anything good about Procter &
Gamble and you’ll be accused of dancing with the devil. Take it
from the anonymously printed and distributed flyer ANIMAL PEO-
PLEreceived while researching this article:
“The President of Procter & Gamble appeared on the Phil
Donahue Show on March 1, 1995. He announced that due to the
openness of our society, he was coming out of the closet about his
association with the Church of Satan. He stated that a large portion
of the profits from Procter & Gamble products go to support this
satanic church. When asked by Donahue if stating this on television
would hurt his business, he replied, ‘There are not enough
Christians in the U.S. to make a difference.’”

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BOOKS: Life Song: In Harmony With All Creation

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1995:

Life Song: In Harmony With All Creation, by Bill Schul, Ph.D.
Stillpoint Publishing (Box 640, Walpole, NH 03608), 1994.
204 pages, with bibliography. $12.95.
Bill Schul endorses the idea of a
universal life spirit, not the private domain
of homo sapiens, but shared by every organ-
ic entity on the globe. It is a spirit of com-
munication and intelligence, having its
essence at the very cellular core of each liv-
ing thing. This is an idea of mythic and con-
tentious proportions, yet Schul glides easily
across this semi-mystic plane where many
others before him have been blown to bits by
the land mines of the Scientific Method.

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Religion

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1995:

The Miami county courthouse
maintenance staff has created a “Voodoo
Squad” to pick up the dead chickens, goats,
and other relics of Santeria sacrifice found
there each morning, remnants of Caribbean
immigrants’ attempts to influence justice.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June 1993
that municipalities may not ban Santeria, but
they may enforce nondiscriminatory restric-
tions on it for reasons of health, sanitation,
and prevention of cruelty to animals.
The Rabbi Mayer Krucfeld,
assistant director of supervision for Star K
Kosher Certification, of Baltimore, recently
spent two days in La Jara, Colorado,
explaining how to start a kosher slaughter-
house to about 50 potential investors.
Currently the westernmost kosher slaughter-
house in the U.S. is Empire Meats, of Iowa.

Religion & Animals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 1995:

The 83-member Union Hill Cumber-
land Presbyterian Church, of Limestone County,
Georgia, raised $2,500 by hosting the February 18
Bigfoot Hollow Coonhunt. “It’s reaching the young
people with the Gospel of the Lord Jesus,” said the
Reverend Charles Hood, oblivious that Jesus never
in any way endorsed killing for sport.
Losing popularity to the Catholic
Church, the only major nongovernmental institu-
tion in Cuba, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro has
reportedly encouraged a revival of Santeria,
because, as Newsweek recently put it, “It has no
institutions to rival the state.” However, livestock
for Santerian sacrifice are in short supply.

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Religion & Animals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1995:

Dewey Bruce Hale, 40, of
Enigma, Georgia, on January 18
became the 74th confirmed rattlesnake
bite fatality since Pentacostal churches
took up snakehandling as a test of faith,
derived from Mark 16, “In my name
they shall take up serpents,” and Luke
10: “I give unto you power to tread on
serpents and scorpions.” The snakehan-
dling ceremonies are legal only in
Georgia and West Virginia.
The animist tradition of sac-
rificing a beast “to notify the ancestors”
upon occupying a new home has created
new tensions in South Africa as black
families move into formerly all-white
communities. Often called, the SPCA
of South Africa is unable to intervene
because the sacrifices are legal under
laws guaranteeing religious freedom.

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Religion

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1994:

Jill Shumak of the JES Exotics
Sanctuary in Sharon, Wisconsin, informs
ANIMAL PEOPLE that the white bison calf
born on the farm of David and Valerie Heider in
southern Wisconsin three months ago is turning
cinnamon as she ages––and that the Heiders
allegedly starved a horse they leased from
Shumak, in a case eventually settled out of
court. White bison, extremely rare, are a pow-
erful good omen to the Plains Indians.

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Religion & Animals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1994:

Native Americans are flocking to
Dave and Valerie Heider’s bison ranch in
southern Wisconsin to see the first albino
bison born in more than a century. Sioux leg-
end holds that long ago during a famine a beau-
tiful young woman brought them a sacred pipe,
taught them to use it, and told them how to hunt
and use bison. Promising to return, she walked
away and became a white bison. The albino
mutation was believed lost when the bison were
driven near extinction late in the 19th century.

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