BOOKS: Earthforce! An Earth Warrior’s Guide To Strategy

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1994:

Earthforce! An Earth Warrior’s Guide To Strategy

by Captain Paul Watson

Chaco Press 1993 (distributed by the Sea

Shepherd Conservation Society, 1314 2nd

St., Santa Monica, CA 90401), 118

pages, paperback, $13.

“There is one person who is in a

class of his own in my pantheon of heroes,”

writes Wild Earth editor and Earth First!

cofounder Dave Foreman in his foreword to

Earthforce! “Paul Watson,” he continues,

“has perhaps thought more deeply about strat-

egy than has any other conservationist…One

thousand years from now, sagas will be sung

about Captain Paul Watson, defender of the

oceans, and people will praise his name

because there will still be whales, walruses,

dolphins, and sea birds. Paul Watson is the

hero of our time…the strategic genius of non-

violent ecological defense.”

BOOKS: Sterling references

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1994:

The Reptile and Amphibian Keeper’s

Dictionary, by David C. Wareham. 1993. 193 pages,

hardcover, $24.95 ($34.95 in Canada).

Dolphins & Porpoises: A World-wide

Guide, by Jean-Pierre Sylvestre. 1994. 160 pages,

hardcover, $19.95 ($25.95 in Canada).

The Greenpeace Book of Coral Reefs, by

Susan Wells & Nick Hanna. 1992, 160 pages, hard-

cover, $35.00.

All from Sterling Publishing Co. (387 Park

Ave. South, New York, NY 10016-8810).

BOOKS FOR THE MEATOUT

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1994:

Meat: A Natural Symbol. By Nick Fiddes,

Routledge Inc. (29 West 35th St, New York NY

10001), 1991, 261 pages, paperback, $15.95. ISBN

0-415-08929-8.

Former caterer Nick Fiddes, now a social

anthropologist, has had lots of experience with social

responses to food. He has found meat especially rich in

social significance. Like many other writers, he recog-

nizes its potential as a symbol of social, economic and

sexual dominance. But most of all, he believes, meat

subconsciously represents the human conquest of nature.

Diet & Health

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1994:

MILK PRODUCED WITH RBST GOES ON SALE

Milk produced through the use of recombinant

(genetically enginneered) bovine somatotropin growth hor-

m o n e went on sale to the general public for the first time on

February 4, a month after a review of the scientific literature

on the production stimulant by the White House Office of

Management and Budget concluded that, “There is no evi-

dence that rBST poses a health threat to humans or animals.”

The Pure Food Campaign led anti-rBST protests in at least nine

cities. The drug boosts milk production per cow and extends

the time a cow can be milked between the births of calves. It is

bitterly opposed by many dairy farmers because in reducing the

number of cows needed to meet the demand for milk, it will

put some farmers out of business. Consumer advocates are

concerned that despite government assurances, residues may

get into milk, producing such effects as earlier puberty and

greater breast development in young women––and perhaps

stimulating hormonally triggered cancers. Concerned about

boycott pressure, the Food and Drug Administration warned

dairy producers and distributors that they can identify milk as

being produced without the use of rBST if they can prove it,

but cannot say simply “rBST-free,” since milk produced with

rBST is also technically rBST-free. They must also state on a

label that, “No significant difference has been shown between

milk derived from rBST-treated and non-rBST-treated cows.”

AGRICULTURE

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1994:

MAJOR RATITE BANKRUPTCY IN FLORIDA

The collapse of the ratite speculation boom pre-

dicted in the January/February ANIMAL PEOPLE cover fea-

ture may have begun with the mid-January bankruptcy of U.S.

Ostrich and Junction Financial Corporation, of Hallandale,

Florida. The related firms claimed assets of $933,000, includ-

ing ostriches bought for $381,000, while owing $3.9 million to

1,350 investors in 47 states, Canada, and Jamaica. One

investor reportedly lost $274,000. The Securities Exchange

Corporation responded by suing U.S. Ostrich and Junction

Financial principals Marcia Josowitz and Stephen Tashman for

allegedly selling more than $3 million in unregistered securities

in the form of investment contracts, billed as general partner-

ships. The SEC also charged Josowitz and Tashman with

draining corporate funds to make loans to themselves and pay

themselves inflated salaries. Josowitz and Tashman apparently

got into ostriches after promoting a 900 telephone number ser-

vice, office supplies, vacation travel, and water purifiers.

ANIMAL WELFARE ACT ENFORCEMENT

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1994:

Matthew Block and Worldwide

Primates, of Miami, Florida, were fined $16,000

on January 27 for failure to provide primates with

adequate food, water, ventilation, and sanitation.

Block is under sentence for his role in arranging a

multinational 1990 orangutan smuggling deal,

exposed by the International Primate Protection

League and known as the “Bangkok Six” case.

The USDA has filed stiffer charges

against Class B animal dealer Jerry Vance, of

Europa, Mississippi. Charged in September with

improper recordkeeping, after the TV news program

Eye to Eye with Connie Chung documented the dis-

covery of several missing pets at his facility, Vance

is now accused of improper dog identification, fail-

ing to provide veterinary care, and failing to provide

adequate shelter.

Biomedical research

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1994:

A 13-member panel appointed

by the National Research Council’s

Institute of Laboratory Animal Resources

is presently revising the NRC Guide for the

Care and Use of Laborary Animals – – the

standard reference upon which Animal

Welfare Act regulations tend to be based.

The revision is expected to profoundly influ-

ence the shape of forthcoming new regula-

tions on the housing and care of dogs and

nonhuman primates, which have been the

subject of intense lobbying and repeated

court battles ever since an amendment to the

AWA mandating improved dog and primate

care was passed by Congress sans enforce-

ment regulations in 1985. If the NRC stan-

dards are stricter than those mandated by the

AWA regulations, those of the NRC will

nonetheless prevail in any research funded

by the National Institutes of Health. “The

current committee represents only scientists

and academicians, and includes no represen-

tation from the animal protection movement

nor from the public,” objects F. Barbara

Orlans, Ph.D., who as author of In The

Name of Science: Issues in Animal

Experimentation, is both a prominent

researcher and a leading humane advocate.

Horses

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1994:

The Ochoa brothers, reputedly

the world’s leading cocaine traffickers after

the death of Pablo Escobar in a shootout with

Colombian police late last year, reputedly

launder their income through their father’s

horse breeding business. Fabio Ochoa

Restrepo’s herd of 1,200 horses is reportedly

worth $25 million. The Escobar family also

breeds horses, but the value of their stock fell

shortly before Pablo Escobar was killed,

when rivals castrated a stud worth $1 million.

Was it a rescue––or a theft?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1994:

WADSWORTH, Ohio– – The

samoyed/chow paced the dark garage. A

broken chain, wired together, cut into his

neck. He suffered from heartworms. His

overgrown toenails curled downward, and

his fur was matted with feces. Feeding and

watering were irregular. His mother had

died the year before in that same garage.

Brian Gilligan, 36, felt com-

pelled to act. Frustrated with “weak state

laws that humane officers must follow,” he

says, he took the dog in January 1993.

Veterinary records document the

dog’s condition. His “overall appearance

was poor because of neglect,” according to

Larry Markley, DVM, who performed an

examination and provided treatment.

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