Hunting––

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

The Michigan Public Broadcast-

ing System on September 24 aired the final

episode of Michigan Outdoors, a weekly

hook-and-bullet show that had an audience

of 200,000. The show died after host Fred

Trost said in a product review that Buck Stop

Lure Co. used cow urine in a deer scent, lost

a $4 million defamation suit the firm filed

against him, and declared bankruptcy. Trost

was also forced to suspend a magazine he

published, Michigan Outdoor Digest, circu-

lation 40,000. The latter had also been in

trouble, having been sued for copyright

infringement at one point by the Michigan

United Conservation Clubs, whose in-house

magazine is called Michigan Out-of-Doors.

Buck Stop said Trost’s attack on its product

caused sales to drop 65%. Trost, mean-

while, pledged to regroup, find backers,

and get back on the air.

OBITUARIES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

Phyllis Wright, 65, Humane

Society of the U.S. vice president for com-

panion animals 1983-1991, died of cancer

October 3. Wright had worked for HSUS

since 1969, and though officially retired,

continued to head the organization’s “Until

there are None, Adopt One” campaign to

promote pet adoptions from animal shelters.

Wright became professionally involved with

animals as chief of the U.S. Army War

Dogs Receiving and Holding Station during

the Korean War. Leaving the military in

1954, Wright ran a boarding kennel in

Washington D.C. until 1960, when she

became manager of the Washington Animal

Rescue League shelter. She simultaneously

served, first as a staffer and then as a board

member, with the D.C. Tail Waggers

Obituaries

CRIME & PUNISHMENT

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

Crimes Against Animals

Alleged pet thieves David Harold

Stephens, Tracy Lynn Stephens, and Brenda

Arlene Linville were scheduled for trial

November 2 in Eugene, Oregon, on charges

that they obtained dogs and cats by promising

to find them good homes and then sold them

for use in biomedical research. Customers

included Oregon Health Sciences University,

Oregon State University, the University of

Nevada at Reno, and the Cedars-Sinai

Medical Center in Los Angeles, California.

Originally charged under state legislation, the

trio were recharged under the Animal Welfare

Act after sheriff’s deputies and state and fed-

eral agents raided their kennels. Their

activites were brought to the attention of the

various authorities via detective work by

Bobbie Michaels of Committed to Animal

Protection, Education, and Rescue, a

Portland-based activist group.

Animal Health

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

The Centers for Disease

Control revealed October 8 that a 31-

year-old man from Tucson, Arizona, had

become the first human plague fatality in

the U.S. since 1987. The man, who was

not further identified, became infected

when he breathed the same air as a dis-

eased cat he rescued from a crawl space

under a house in Chaffee County,

Colorado, on August 19. He fell ill on

August 21, was hospitalized August 25,

and died August 26, still undiagnosed.

The cat, who also died, apparently got

the plague from a flea-infested chipmunk.

Medicine

Performing Animals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

Wild Willie, the bull who was castrated

in front of the Mississippi State University foot-

ball team in early September, has been saved

from the slaughterhouse by Frank Truitt, a steak-

eating Army Reserve recruiter, and insurance

salesman Billy Walker, a hunter, Truitt and

Walker paid $2,000 apiece for Wild Willie, but

hope to recoup their money by using him in com-

mercial promotions.

Diet & Health

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

Medical evidence is growing

that iron-rich red meat contributes at

much to heart disease as cholesterol.

“Avoiding meat may be prudent,”

Newsweek medical reporters Geoffrey

Cowley and Mary Hager concluded after

reviewing recent studies on the topic in the

September 21 issue.

Trans-fatty acids that increase

the harmful effects of cholesterol com-

monly result from cooking with solid or

semi-solid margarines and shortenings,

suggests a new USDA study whose pre-

liminary findings were made public

October 7. Avoiding cholesterol is still a

good idea, but so is avoiding partially

hydrogenated vegetable oils if you are in a

high-risk bracket for heart disease. Use

whole oils instead––”The softer, the bet-

ter,” as Marian Burros puts it.

SPOCK SPEAKS ABOUT MILK: A COUP FOR PCRM? WHAT REALLY HAPPENED?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

Child-care expert Dr. Benjamin Spock advised par-

ents at a September 29 news conference in Boston that babies

under the age of one year should not be given cow’s milk, and

that, “breast-feeding is the best milk feeding for babies.”

Spock, who gave up eating dairy products himself last

year, at age 88, went on to explain that cow’s milk causes some

babies to suffer intestinal blood loss, allergies, and indigestion,

as well as contributing to “some cases of childhood diabetes.”

Spock spoke as part of a panel including Johns

Hopkins University director of pediatrics Frank Oski, who

wrote a book in 1977 titled Don’t Drink Your Milk, and Neal

Barnard, president of the Physicians Committee for Responsible

Medicine. Early wire service and TV stories about the presen-

tation indicated Spock had directly supported Barnard in recom-

mending against giving children any cow’s milk. The early sto-

ries carried vituperative reaction from an anonymous American

Medical Association spokesperson, directed at Barnard but

tending to heighten the impression that Spock too had seriously

challenged mainstream medical opinion.

Agriculture

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

The Range Rider, a publication of

the USDA Cooperative Extension Service at

Colorado State University, is urging sheep

farmers to rally in opposition to the

Endangered Species Act, now up for renewal.

ANIMAL PEOPLE had not actually received

a copy by deadline, but from a description

provided by James Cherry of the AmNet com-

puter network, it would appear to violate fed-

eral guidelines regarding impartiality.

Horse notes…

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1992:

In the first two years since

California began requiring necropsies of

all race horses who die while under Calif.

Horse Racing Board jurisdiction, on or off

a track, 538 horses have been exam-

ined––271 in 1990-1991, and 267 in 1991-

1992. The examinations are revealing a

much greater amount of stress damage

from training than experts previously sus-

pected.

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