Osama bin Laden on meat and denial

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:

It was no radical animal rights activist or militant vegan
whose recently disclosed words linked the events of September 11 to
the phrase, “Meat is murder!”
Rather, the fate of the 5,690 people who were murdered
aboard four hijacked airliners, at the World Trade Center and at the
Pentagon appears to have been inseparably linked to meat by Osama bin
Laden himself, the alleged mastermind and financier of the attacks,
in his handwritten final orders to the 19 hijackers.

NSPA president charged with hoarding

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:
KANSAS CITY, Mo.–National Society for the Protection of
Animals president Barbara DeGraeve, 55, was charged on October 10
with cruelty, failure to vaccinate, failing to provide adequate
shelter to as many as 60 cats, and letting a dog be a nuisance.
Told by police to obtain veterinary care for several cats who
were sneezing, with runny noses and eyes, “DeGraeve hired a
veterinarian to take care of the sick cats,” Kansas City Star
reporters Richard Espinoza and Brad Cooper wrote, “and people who
said they were NSPA volunteers began taking away the healthy cats,
Kansas City animal control supervisor Ted O’Dell said.”

Miracle cats and great dogs on the job at 9/11 crash sites

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:

NEW YORK CITY; ALLENTOWN, Pa.–Woodie, a seven-year-old
ex-stray whose human says he looks like a groundhog, turned up in
the remnants of her heavily damaged home in Stoneycreek Township,
Pennsylvania, on September 24.
Precious, a tiny Persian even before enduring 18 days
without food, was found on September 29 by a North Carolina State
Animal Response Team search dog on the debris-strewn roof of an
apartment house across Liberty Street from the site of the collapsed
World Trade Center in New York City. Emergency workers took the dog
to the roof after receiving a report that someone had heard a cat
crying in the vicinity. Precious suffered from eye injuries, burnt
paws, and smoke and dust inhalation, but apparently found enough
rainwater to drink to avoid fatal dehydration.

LETTERS [October 2001]

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:

Little Ecologists

I teach French and English at both a school and a nursery
school in my town. Last year I started “The Little Ecologists Club,”
to educate children about the need to preserve nature, including our
Romanian brown bear, wolf, lynx, and chamois, who are all in
danger of extinction. More than 100 children have joined.
Unfortunately, it is very difficult for me to buy materials such as
books and videos about animals and nature, which my students would
otherwise not see.
I shall be grateful for any materials that can be sent to us
for use in wildlife education.
–Oana Boghean
Str. Lt. V. Marceanu #20
Gura Humorului 5900
Jus. Seceava, Romania
Phone: 030-231185
<boghean@yahoo.com>

Letters

Where does an elephant sleep? Sanctuary space is scarce in Sri Lanka

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:
PINNEWELA, Sri Lanka–For centuries some of the Buddhist
monks of Sri Lanka and Thailand adopted whatever wildlife orphans
were brought to them–especially elephants, who had value as work
animals and for display.
But that was before the advent of firearms, chainsaws, and
motor vehicles, when the original vegetarian form of Buddh-ism
remained almost unchallenged by outside cultural influence.
Relatively few animals were separated from their habitat, and the
jungle reclaimed farmland almost as fast as it could be cleared for
cultivation. The burden of keeping orphaned animals was not greater
for the monasteries than the value of having them.

Viva! gives up charity status

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:
BRIGHTON, U.K.–Under pressure from the British Charities
Commission, with lobbyists for the battered British meat and
livestock export industry possibly lurking in the background, the
British vegetarian charity Viva! is splitting into two separate
affiliates with a common board, both headed by Juliet Gellatley,
who founded Viva! in 1993.

Hunters frustrated by U.S. national security

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:
SPRINGFIELD, Mass.; AK-RON, Ohio; Tallahassee, Fla.;
BARABOO, Wisc.; DALLAS, Tex.– “Given the events of September 11,”
an October 11 Massachusetts State Police advisory read, “the
appearance of armed individuals wearing camouflage outfits and
possibly operating camouflage boats along the coast of Massachusetts
may cause concern to some of our citizens. This having been said, we
want to remind everyone that today is the opening day for duck
hunting.”

Man lives–but snakes, backyard big cats kill kids

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:

MIAMI, Fla.–An air ambulance rushing Taipan antivenin to
aid of exotic snake fancier Lawrence Van Sertima, 62, of South
Dade, Florida, made the first authorized civilian flight over U.S.
air space after the September 11 terrorist hijackings and crashes.
Bitten on the afternoon of September 11, Van Serima had by
three a.m. the next morning received all seven vials of Taipan
antivenin that the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Venom Response Team could
locate within Florida–which has the most extensive snakebite
response network in the nation–and was close to death.
“Of the 455 medically significant snakes in the world, the
Taipan is at the top of the list,” Venom Response Team captain Al
Cruz told Tere Figueras of the Miami Herald.
“It was like we were treating him with water,” agreed fellow
team member Ernie Jillson.

Animals in Afghanistan–and getting out

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2001:

PESHAWAR, Pakistan–“Fleeing families now number in the
millions and the number of horses needing our help grows every day,”
Brooke Hospital for Animals field staff in Pakistan said in
mid-October.
The London-based charity said it had fielded “six mobile
teams and three clinics in Peshawar, treating more than 150 horses
of Afghan refugees a day” since March 2001, and far more after
September 11, when “the situation became even more desperate” as
refugees trying to escape U.S. bombing joined those fleeing the
Taliban.

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