From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2003:

Proudly Human
Compassion In World Farming [South Africa] c/o Humane Education Trust (P.O. Box 825, Somerset West, 7129,
South Africa; <avoice@yebo.co.za>), 2003. 20 minutes.
60 rand ($7.50), plus postage & handling (inquire).

Desert Dogs
Hilder Productions (1617 Taylor Gaines St., Austin, TX 78741),
2002. 42 minutes. $15/video, $20/DVD.

Produced by the same team who made the 15-minute video Saving
Baby Ubuntu, reviewed in the May 2003 edition of ANIMAL PEOPLE,
Proudly Human presents a similar but farther reaching anti-meat and
pro-vegetarian message.
While Saving Baby Ubuntu offers a story suitable for grade schoolers,
Proudly Human may be preferred by teens.
Narrator Mantsadi Molotlegi, 23, is just far enough out of
her teens to have childhood memories of the last days of the South
African apartheid era. She observes that “The way we treat animals
has the hallmarks of apartheid–prejudice, callous disregard for
suffering, and a misguided sense of supremacy. I have a message for
my brother and sister South Africans,” she continues. “The struggle
is not over yet. Please join me,” she asks, “in putting things
right for the animals.”

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2003:

Wind-of-Fire:
The Story of an Untouchable
by Joan Beth Clair
Wind-of-Fire Press (P.O. Box 523, Berkeley, CA 94701), 1999.
150 pages, paperback. $10.95.

Portland (Oregon) Animal Affairs Ministry director Roger
Troen submitted to ANIMAL PEOPLE an effusive review of Wind-of-Fire:
The Story of an Untouchable, by Joan Beth Clair, which
unfortunately omitted any factual description of the content.
Raising hell on behalf of animals for more than 30 years,
sometimes taking hard lumps for it, Troen is an otherwise quiet
fellow who reads books. Suspecting that his critical judgement might
be better grounded than expressed, I read Wind-of-Fire myself.
Wind-of-Fire is a collection of vignettes centering on a dog
named Wind-of-Fire. Opening as a personal journal about the author’s
thoughts as she pursued a divinity degree in Berkeley, California,
during the early 1980s, Wind-of-Fire concludes as a tract arguing for
the incorporation of concepts about animal rights into Christianity.
“For those in the animal rights movement who have abandoned
their churches,” Troen wrote, “Wind-of-Fire may offer hope of
revival. Father Richard Mapplebeck-palmer, pastor of Grace
North Church in Berkeley, was inspired by Clair’s book to affirm the
religious worth of animals. He organized a discussion of the book
with members of his congregation.”

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