Religion
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1994:
Jill Shumak of the JES Exotics
Sanctuary in Sharon, Wisconsin, informs
ANIMAL PEOPLE that the white bison calf
born on the farm of David and Valerie Heider in
southern Wisconsin three months ago is turning
cinnamon as she ages––and that the Heiders
allegedly starved a horse they leased from
Shumak, in a case eventually settled out of
court. White bison, extremely rare, are a pow-
erful good omen to the Plains Indians.
Hours after Pope John Paul II
denounced the Mafia on a visit to Sicily, an
outspokenly anti-Mafia local priest found a
lamb with a cut throat and a death threat hung
on his door. Another priest got bomb threats.
Yogi Amrit Desai, 62, founder of
the devoutly vegetarian Kripalu Yoga
Fellowship Center, in Lenox, Massachusetts,
has resigned after admitting to having sex had
with three female staff and guests, other than
his wife, during the past 20 years. The Kripalu
Center and satellite centers around the world
teach yoga, vegetarianism, and celibacy for the
unmarried to about 20,000 guests a week.
