Day: March 1, 2010

Sea Shepherds count a success, despite loss of racing yacht Ady Gil

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2010:

 

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society founder
Paul Watson considers the 33-year-old
organization’s most costly campaign yet an
unequivocal success.
The $3 million bio-diesel-powered racing
yacht Ady Gil lies on the ocean floor about 180
miles from the French Antarctic research base
Dumont d’Urville. Rammed by the Japanese harpoon
boat Shonan Maru #2 on January 6, the Ady Gil
sunk on January 8, 2010 after a failed towing
attempt by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society
ship Bob Barker. “Fortunately, all fuel and
lubricants had been removed from the Ady Gil
hours earlier,” the Sea Shepherds e-mailed to
media.

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Jockeys strike over horse treatment, owner quits

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2010:

 

PHILADELPHIA–Michael Gill, the winningest racehorse stable
owner in North America in 2009, on February 2, 2010 announced that
he would sell his horses and sue his critics for defamation.
The Pennsylvania Racing Com-mission and the Penn National
Race Course in Grantville, Pennsylvania, opened investigations of
Gill’s racing practices after jockey Thomas Clifton led fellow
jockeys in a boycott of any race in which a Gill horse was entered.
The racing commission later barred Gill horses from PRA-sanctioned
events.
Gill leases 49 stalls at the Penn National track, typically
running about five horses per racing card. Nationally, Gill has
fielded as many as 400 horses, but told media that he now has about
100. His horses won $6.7 million with 370 victories in 2,247 starts
in 2009, according to the data firm Equibase.

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BOOKS: The Poet-Physician & The Healer-Killer

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2010:

The Poet-Physician & The Healer-Killer:
Vivisection & the Emergence of a Medical Technocracy
by Roberta Kalechovsky, Ph.D.
Micah Publications (225 Humphrey St.,
Marblehead, MA 01945), 2009. 230 pages,
paperback. $22.00.

From childhood Roberta Kalech-ovsky was
at heart an animal advocate. Yet, discouraged
by her family and other elders, she long pushed
that part of herself aside while pursuing her
“serious” career as author and publisher.
Literary, feminist, and religious studies
nonetheless led Kalechovsky back time and again
to the topics that became five previous
non-fiction books about the intersections of
animal rights, human rights, vegetarianism,
and Judaism.

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Space research repeats experiments of 1950s

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2010:

 

TEHRAN, BROOKHAVEN–Iranian State Television on February 3,
2010 showed the launch into sub-orbital space of a missile carrying
two turtles, an intubated white rat, and several worms.
The Iranian State News Agency later said the capsule carrying
the animals returned to earth safely, but did not specifically
describe the condition of the animals, whose behavior was
reportedly monitored throughout the flight by video cameras.
“The turtles were red-eared sliders supposedly just bought
before the launch at a local pet shop,” elaborated HerpDigest editor
Alan Salzberg.

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Private eye Norred quarterbacks drive against Georgia dogfighters

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2010:

 

ATLANTA–Exit Michael Vick, the ex-Atlanta Falcons
quarterback who was among the biggest names in both pro football and
professional dogfighting.
Enter Greg Norred, who in 1982 founded the security firm
Norred & Associates. “We conduct workplace investigations and
provide workplace security for companies throughout the country,”
Norred recites.
Norred also busts dogfighters.

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BOOKS: The Animal Manifesto

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2010:

The Animal Manifesto:
Six Reasons for Expanding Our Compassion Footprint
by Marc Bekoff
New World Library (14 Pameron Way, Novato, CA 94949), 2010.
192 pages, paperback. $14.95.

“Animals are constantly asking us in
their own ways to treat them better or leave them
alone,” opens Marc Bekoff in The Animal
Manifesto. The six chapters illuminate, through
both anecdote and scientific citation, that “All
animals share the Earth and we must coexist.
Animals can think and feel. Animals have and
deserve compassion. Connection breeds caring,
alienation breeds disrespect. Our world is not
compassionate to animals. Acting compassionately
helps all beings and our world.”

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BOOKS: Heritage of Care

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2010:

Heritage of Care:
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
by Marion S. Lane & Stephen L. Zawistowki
Praeger Publishers (88 Post Road West, Westport, CT 06881), 2008.
185 pages, hardcover. $39.95.

“The ASPCA story is one that I’ve been
trying to tell in one way or another for the past
19 years,” writes American SPCA executive vice
president Stephen L. Zawistoski in introducing
Heritage of Care, co-authored with former ASPCA
AnmalWatch editor Marion S. Lane. Working
primarily from the ASPCA’s own archives,
Zawistowski recalls, “We decided that we had
neither the time nor training to write a
scholarly history of the organization. We agreed
that what we wanted to do was spin a yarn,”
covering the first 140 years of the history of
the ASPCA as informatively and honestly as
possible.

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