BOOKS: They Shall Not Hurt Or Destroy

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2003:

They Shall Not Hurt Or Destroy
Animal Rights & Vegetarianism in the Western Religious Traditions
by Vasu Murti
Vegetarian Advocates Press (P.O. Box 201791, Cleveland, OH 44120), 2003.
140 pages, paperback. $15.00.

They Shall Not Hurt Or Destroy author Vasu Murti traces the
struggle for animal rights and vegetarianism back to antiquity. The
great prophets of Israel, Pythagoras, and Plato spoke out against
slaughter.
The cause was then taken up by the early leaders of the Christian
church and their Jewish counterparts, demonstrates Murti.
Separate chapters deal with Jewish, Catholic, and
Protestant teachings, from medieval times to the present.
Says the Jewish Talmud, “Adam and many generations that followed
him were strict flesh-abstainers; flesh-foods were rejected as
repulsive for human consumption.”

How pygmies came to be on the bushmeat menu and memories of a primate researcher who worked in both the bush and the lab

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2003:

A Primate’s Memoir:
A Neuroscientist’s Unconventional Life
Among the Baboons
by Robert M. Sapolsky

Touchstone (c/o Simon & Schuster,
1230 Avenue of the Americas,
New York, NY 10020), 2001.
304 pages, paperback. $14.00.

Eating Apes
by Dale Peterson
with afterword & photos
by Karl Amman
University of California Press
(2120 Berkeley Way, Berkeley,
CA 94720), 2003.
333 pages, hardcover. $24.95.
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Reviews: One Last Fight

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2003:

One Last Fight: Exposing the Shame
Directed & filmed by Erik Friedl. Written by John Caruso.
Produced by the Anti-Cruelty Society (157 W. Grand Ave., Chicago,
IL 60610), 2002.
15-minute video. $20.00.

The history of video exposes of dogfighting is less sordid
than dogfighting itself–but nothing is more sordid than dogfighting.
Commonly associated with dogfighting, according to the
ANIMAL PEOPLE case files, are pet theft; stealing dogs, drugs,
and money from humane societies; child abuse and neglect; pimping
and prostitution; drug trafficking; extortion; arson; rape; and
criminal mayhem, legalese for “torture.”

Hancock still fighting for animals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2003:

SACRAMENTO–Loni Hancock (D-Berk-eley) on May 1 withdrew a
Farm Sanctuary bill to ban the use of gestation crates for pregnant
sows. Opposed by the California Farm Bureau Federation, the bill
was three votes short of clearing the California assembly Agriculture
Committee.
The “Chronology of Humane Progress” published in the May
edition of ANIMAL PEOPLE stated that in 1976 the San Francisco SPCA
became the first U.S. animal control agency to halt killing animals
by decompression. The precedent actually came in Berkeley, across
San Francisco Bay, on a 1972 motion by then-city councillor Loni
Hancock, backed by fellow councillor Ron Dellums, who has since had
a staunchly pro-animal record in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The history of the Berkeley bill was recounted by Lara Diana
Sukol in The Politics of Dogs in Berkeley, 1968-1972, an M.A.
thesis presented to the history faculty at the University of Vermont
in March 2000. Hancock moved to abolish the decompression chamber at
urging of a group called The Dog Responsibility Committee, formed by
Myrna Walton, Julie Stitt, and Sukol’s parents, George and Diana
Sukol.

Cat Books

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2003:

Shadow Cats:
Tales from New York City’s Animal Underground
by Janet Jensen
Adams Media (57 Littlefield St., Avon, MA
02322), 2002. 224 pages, paperback. $9.95.

Cat Culture:
The Social World of a Cat Culture
by Janet M. Alger & Steve F. Alger
Temple Univ. Press (1601 N. Broad St.,
Philadelphia, PA 19122), 2003. 224 pages,
paperback. $19.95.

Too Many Dogs And Cats??
by Dorothea Friz, DVM, Lega Pro Animale
Fndtn. Mondo Animale Onlus (1 Trav. Via Pietro
Pagliuca, 81030 Castel Voltuno (CE), Italy),
2003. 51 pages,
paperback. Ordering info: <legaproanimale@tin.it>.

Shadow Cats, Cat Culture, and Too Many
Dogs And CatsŠ ?? could together form the reading
list for a short course on humane feral cat
control.

Australia commits to tail-docking ban

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2003:

BRISBANE, Australia–Five of the seven Australian states are
reportedly committed to introducing a national ban on docking dogs’
tails by June 30, 2003, to take effect on December 1.
“New South Wales and the Northern Territory requested more
time to consider joining the ban,” reported Larizza Dubecki of the
Melbourne Age. “The decision [to ban tail-docking] was made at the
April 10 Primary Industries Ministerial Council in Brisbane,
supported by the Royal SPCA and the Australian Veterinary Association.
The AVA first called for a ban on tail-docking in 1998, six
years after the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons in Britain and
five years after the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association, but
Australia is the first English-speaking nation to commit to a ban.
Rare outside English-speaking nations, tail-docking is done
primarily to comply with breed standards established in England by
the Kennel Club during the 19th century, later adopted by the
American Kennel Club and other kennel associations.

To certify the product or the farm producer–that is the question for HFAC, AWI

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2003:

HERNDON, Virginia–For a few hours on
May 22-23 Humane Farm Animal Care founder Adele
Douglass was on top of the world, among the top
three stories of the morning headlined by the
Associated Press.
“Rectangular labels reading ‘Certi-fied
Humane Raised & Handled’ should start appearing
in about a month on meat, poultry, dairy and
egg products,” AP reporter David Dishneau
explained.
“The program,” Dishneau continued,
“backed by 10 animal welfare groups, certifies
producers and processors who meet certain
standards for animal treatment. Participants are
charged modest royalty fees– 50¢ a pig, for
example–and pay for annual inspections at $400 a
day. ”

U.S. Supreme Court rules that states may prosecute fraudulent fundraisers

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2003:

WASHINGTON D.C., LOS ANGELES, SACRAMENTO–The U.S. Supreme
Court on May 5 ruled unanimously that states may prosecute charities
and hired fundraisers for fraud if they misrepresent how donations
will be used.
The case, “Madigan v. Telemarket-ing Associates,” concerned
the effort of Illinois attorney general Lisa Madigan to prosecute a
firm that solicted funds for VietNow, a charity formed to aid
Vietnam veterans.
Summarized Associated Press, “The state claimed would-be donors were
told their money would go for food baskets, job training and other
services for needy veterans, even though Telemarketing Associates
pocketed 85% of the take. One woman said she was told, ‘90% or more
goes to the vets.’ The ruling makes clear that while fundraisers may
keep quiet about the high costs of running a charity drive, they may
not lie about it.”

Where cats belong–and where they don’t

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2003:

KISSEEMEE, Florida–Depending on who you listen to, the
Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission either declared war
on feral cats at a May 30 meeting in Kisseemee, or clarified their
position that they have no intention of so doing.
Claiming the support of the American Bird Conservancy,
National Audubon Society, and National Wildlife Federation, Florida
Wildlife Division director Frank Montalbano talked like a man going
to war in a March interview with Orlando Sentinel outdoors writer Don
Wilson.

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