WOOFS AND GROWLS

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.

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OBITUARIES

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.

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

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.

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Religion & Animals

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

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.

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

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.

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Agriculture

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.

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Books for children who love animals

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!

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4-H, FFA seek to clean up image

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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