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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2009:
ANIMAL PEOPLE Holiday Nut Roast
Mix together:
2 pounds of firm tofu, mashed well
2 cups of coarsely chopped walnuts
(Other nuts may be substituted,
such as sunflower seeds or pecans.)
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2009:
WASHNGTON D.C.–If Interior Secretary Ken Salazar imagined
his plan for wild horses would please anyone for long, he guessed
wrong. Few wild horse advocates have had praise for any it, fiscal
conservatives have slammed the projected cost of it, and almost
nobody imagines that the Salazar plan will lastingly solve the
problem of the Bureau of Land Management holding almost as many
“surplus” wild horses in captivity as remain on the western range.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2009:
HALIFAX–Photographers who have tried to focus on caged mink
know they are in constant motion, even within a wire box barely
bigger than they are. Anyone who ever handled a mink knows they are
slippery as a mammal can be, likely to wriggle in any direction and
inflict a deep bite to any exposed flesh. Fur farmers usually handle
live mink only to kill them, and wear heavy gloves when they do.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2009:
Downsizing to close a reported $32
million income shortfall in fiscal 2009, the
International Fund for Animal Welfare on October
18, 2009 closed the IFAW bear rescue center in
Pan Yu, China. The last five resident bears
were trucked 1,260 miles from southern Guangdong
province to the Animals Asia Foundation bear
sanctuary at Chengdu, in central Sichuan.
“We agreed that IFAW would pay for the
transfer, and that we would then take over all
expenses related to the care of the bears,”
Animals Asia Foundation founder Jill Robinson
told ANIMAL PEOPLE. “I have no idea what is
becoming of the vacated Pan Yu sanctuary,”
Robinson added.
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2009:
At this writing hunting seasons are open on Virginia
whitetailed deer in every state that has any. Whether the season is
“rifle” or “archery,” “buck” or “antlerless,” open or limited to a
specific locale, there is no state that has Virginia whitetailed
deer in which reducing and limiting the growth of the deer herd is
not a stated management goal, even where the management plan is
still likely to accelerate herd growth.
This happens whenever and wherever so many bucks are killed
that each adult doe has food enough over the winter to produce twin
fawns.