WOOFS AND GROWLS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

THE WISE USE WISE GUYS ET AL

George Frampton’s last major task

before leaving the presidency of The Wilderness

Society to become Assistant Secretary for Fish,

Wildlife, and Parks in the Clinton administration

was to preside over the assembly of a 50-page

report called The Wise Use Movement: Strategic

Analysis and 50-State Review. It calls upon the

mainstream environmental movement to distance

itself from radical environmentalism, deep ecolo-

gy, and animal rights, while rebuilding alliances

with farmers and hunters.

The fall 1993 issue of Friends of

Animals’ ActionLine magazine features ANIMAL

PEOPLE editor Merritt Clifton’s “Attack of the

Wise Use Wise Guys,” an investigation of vio-

lence against animals and animal defenders by

members of the self-named “wise use movement.”

It’s $1.95, from POB 1244, Norwalk, CT 06856.

Having run low on friends in Washington D.C.,

Putting People First is relocating this month to

Helena, Montana––PPF president Kathleen

Marquardt’s birth state.

OBITUARIES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

Marty Rosenthal, 79, died August 31 at her home in Cherry Hill, New Jersey.

The daughter of Lutheran missionaries who served in Africa, Rosenthal was born at Au,

Switzerland, in 1914, a few hundred yards from the Austrian border and the outbreak of

World War I. She met her husband of 55 years, Fritz Rosenthal, then a German chemistry

student, while hiking near Wengen, Switzerland. Escaping the Nazis, they emigrated to

the U.S. in 1938. Marty Rosenthal became involved in animal rights circa 1975, according

to daughter Esther Mechler, after reading Peter Singer’s book Animal Liberation. She

became an active member of the New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance, the Animal Welfare

Association, and, having become a Unitarian, encouraged the Unitarian church to adopt

positions favorable to animals. She also encouraged a neighborhood teenager, Bernard Unti,

to become involved in the cause. Unti subsequently served several years on staff at the

American Anti-Vivisection Society. In 1981, Rosenthal and Mechler formed the Marian

Rosenthal Koch Fund in memory of Rosenthal’s youngest daughter, who died in 1971 at age

26. Projects of the Koch Fund include the video production company Focus on Animals and

Spay U.S.A., now sponsored by the North Shore Animal League.

Obituaries

BOOKS: A View to a Death in the Morning: Hunting and Nature Through History

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

A View to a Death in the Morning:

Hunting and Nature Through History, by

Matt Cartmill. Harvard University Press (79 Garden

St., Cambridge, MA 02138-1499), 1993. 331 pages,

hardcover. $29.95.

A traditional fox-hunting song, “D’ye ken John

Peel,” gave Matt Cartmill his title; it appears in a stanza in

which the hunters follow their dogs “from a find to a check,

from a check to a view, from a view to a death in the morn-

ing.” Despite the title, Cartmill spends little time on fox-

hunting, boar-hunting, bear-hunting, wolf-hunting, bad-

ger-hunting, coon-hunting, fishing, fowling, and falconry.

The theory, practice, myths, and effects on its practition-

ers of deer hunting are the focus of his chapters about hunt-

ing, from the ancient Greeks to Bambi . Those chapters

which concentrate on nature are more diffuse.

Religion & Animals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

Islamic scholar Kanan Makiya

asks fellow Moslems to completely reject

all forms of cruelty, including to animals,

in War, Tyranny, Uprising, and the Arab

World, a history of the Sadaam Hussein

regime in Iraq. (W.W. Norton., New York,

367 pp., $22.95 hardcover.)

Makiya scores fellow Middle

Eastern intellectuals for not condemning

massacre, rape, torture, and censorship.

“It’s not that people haven’t spoken out,”

he told New York Times writer Joseph

Cincotti. “But when the choice is a priority

of struggle against the West or Israel, cru-

elty isn’t even an issue. I want to make it

one. People can change. I insist on it.”

Makiya’s book focuses on state-

sponsored cruelty in Iraq, especially to dis-

sident Kurds, Shiites, and their children.

BOOKS: The New Complete Guide To Environmental Careers

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

The New Complete Guide To Environmental Careers, by the

Environmental Careers Organization. Island Press (1718 Connecticut Ave.

NW, Suite 300, Washington DC 20009), 1993, 364 pages, paper $15.95. [ISBN 1-

55963-178-3]

Aside from health care, environ-

mental concern will create more employ-

ment opportunities in the near future than

any other service sector of the economy,

according to many career counselors. This

guide––completely updated–– offers an

introduction to the myriad possibilities.

BOOKS: Getting Down To Earth: A Call to Environmental Action

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

Getting Down To Earth: A Call to Environmental Action, by John

Heidtke. Paulist Press (997 Macarthur Blvd., Mahwah, NJ 07430), 1993, 179

pages, paper $9.95. [ISBN 0-8091-9571-2]

This book is definitely not your

run-of-the-mill environmental textbook for

young adults. John Heidtke is more ambi-

tious and, ultimately, more basic in his

goal. Urging his readers to discover and

define their own moral values, he combines

the emerging personal awareness of adoles-

cence with environmental ethics, and there-

by encourages the development of an inte-

grated ecological conscience.

Agriculture

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

Twenty-two percent of New York’s 11,800 dairy farms now milk

their cows three times a day, up from 15% in 1991, according to the Cornell

University Department of Animal Science. The New York dairy cow population

is down to 749,000, from 928,000 a decade ago, and the number of dairy farms is

down from 18,000, but the remainder produced a record 11.6 billion pounds of

milk. Largely because of thrice daily milkings, average milk production per cow

is up 20%, to 15,463 pounds (roughly equal to the national average). Because

thrice daily milkings wear cows out faster, farmers who have gone to that sched-

ule cull their herds more often. Dairy farming accounts for $1.5 billion of New

York’s $2.9 billion-a-year agricultural industry.

Books for children who love animals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

A Place for Grace, by Jean Davies Okimoto, illustrated by Doug

Keith. Sasquatch Books (1931 2nd Ave., Seattle, WA 98101), 1993, 36 pages,

hardcover $14.95.

The amazing Grace of this story is a small stray dog on the streets of San

Francisco, who aspires to become a guide dog, fails the height requirement, and becomes a

hearing dog instead with the aid of Charlie, an astute human. Children, who are always

finding themselves too small to do things, will readily identify with Grace and will love

Doug Keith’s gently funny illustrations. But A Place for Grace isn’t just a good dog story.

It’s also a quick introduction to the duties, requirements, and training of hearing dogs, who

usually are clever mongrels, and, somewhat as an afterthought, to the world of the deaf.

If A Place for Grace has a fault, it’s that it presumes too much prior knowledge of deaf cul-

ture on the part of the very young readers. “Signing” pops up with no explanation of what it

is, although the sign alphabet appears on the cover liner, and there is relatively little discus-

sion of the difficulties of functioning in mechanized society without hearing. Fortunately,

many children will infer the essentials from the art. A must for school libraries!

4-H, FFA seek to clean up image

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

4-H and Future Farmers of America

chapters in Ohio, Oregon, and Washington are

developing a criteria and curriculum for medal

competition in the areas of animal well-being,

quality control, and show animal ethics, under-

written with $95,000 from the USDA.

“It’s important for the livestock indus-

try to show the public that we care about the

well-being of meat animals,” says Ohio 4-H

extension agent Sherry Nickles, who adds that

the new medal categories will “open up another

opportunity for members who aren’t going to be

the grand or reserve champion.”

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