LETTERS [Dec. 1993]

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1993:

Vegetarians
Ann Landers recently
wrote as her “Gem of the Day” that
“The happiest person in the grocery
store is the vegetarian looking at the
prices in the meat department.” I
couldn’t resist responding that the
saddest person in the grocery store is
the vegetarain agonizing over all the
dead bodies in the meat department
and the suffering the animals went
through before their remains were
wrapped for sale.

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Editorial: When hunters come out of the closet

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1993:

On Sunday, November 14, at about noon, I was showing our three-year-old
son Wolf the difference between oak and maple leaves, near our home on the New
York/Vermont border, when two four-wheel-drive vehicles filled with hunters came up
behind us and slowed down as the occupants yelled sexually explicit threats. They
began with whistles, proceeded to observe that Wolf has blond hair and I have a pony-
tail, and when we ignored them, advanced to suggestions that they should stop and
sodomize us. I listened in initial disbelief––I’m used to locker room humor, having
spent much of my life as an amateur athlete––but I’d never heard a jock proposing to
rape a three-year-old, even in jest. The encounter came to an abrupt end when I rather
unwisely turned, faced them directly, and used an emphatic variant of sign language to
invite them to get out of their vehicles and debate the subject. They accelerated away in
a cloud of flying mud and gravel.

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Editorial: Please remember us, too

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1993:

Soon you’ll be sending your holiday gifts to the animals. It’s a big job, sift-
ing through the heart-rending appeals that fill your mailbox, measuring needs and pri-
orities against your ability to help. And it’s a critical job, because only your generosi-
ty makes animal protection possible. From the smallest local humane society to the
best-endowed national advocacy group, your choices of whom to help, and why,
direct the entire humane movement.
The responsibility to choose wisely is yours. And once again, ANIMAL
PEOPLE will be there to assist. Once again we’ve spent countless hours reviewing
the tax filings of the 50 biggest animal-related charities in the U.S., which we have
obtained via the Freedom of Information Act. In this issue we present our fourth annu-
al listing of their budgets, assets, income, and highest salaries.

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ALASKA TARGETS WOLF CUBS; LEFT ALIVE IN SNARES FOR DAYS; TOP STATE KILLER IS CONVICTED POACHER

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1993:

FAIRBANKS, Alaska– As
renewed bloody horror erupted in Haiti,
Borundi, Angola, Somalia, and the for-
mer Yugoslavia, snow softly covered the
woods of Wildlife Management Unit 20-A.
Then, with camera crews elsewhere and
wolf tracks visible, the trappers crept out
to their planes and unleashed the wolf mas-
sacre the world had awaited for over a
year. Leading the state-hired killers was
Daniel Grangaard, a multi-time convicted
poacher.
“Public records indicate Gran-
gaard, the person placed in charge of the
state-funded wolf kill, has been convicted
of hunting without a license and illegal use
of game to bait traps,” confirmed Stephen
Wells of the Alaska Wildlife Alliance.

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Disaster plan works: Wildfire!

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1993:

LOS ANGELES, California––Southern California participants in the American
Humane Association’s mid-October disaster preparedness seminar had barely stepped off the
planes taking them home from Baltimore when their lessons were put to the test. Twenty-five
wildfires in 14 days, 19 of them arsons, roared through canyons in seven contiguous counties.
The disaster hot spot seemed to shift with the dry Santa Ana winds––from Escondido,
overlooking San Diego, to Malibu, northwest of Los Angeles. Each blaze seemed more men-
acing than the last, until the climactic fire swept down Topanga Canyon from Calabasas,
forked, and incinerated two separate coastal neighborhoods. Eighteen thousand acres of

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Free the dolphins and orcas? Free Willy inspires movement––but Watson has doubts, takes heat

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1993:

SANTA MONICA, California––Paul Watson,
Ric O’Barry, Peter Wallerstein, and Steve Hindi all agree
on one thing: Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium shouldn’t have
captured three Pacific whitesided dolphins off San Diego
circa November 27. All were bitterly disappointed when the
Shedd capture crew eluded nautical and aerial surveillance
by the Whale Rescue Team to bring in the dolphins by the
dead of night. A Shedd holding pen at the Kettenburg
Marine wharf was dry and empty late Saturday; the anxious
dolphins were there and shrieking on Sunday morning, and
were still shrieking Sunday night, according to Hindi as
ANIMAL PEOPLE went to press.

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