LETTERS [November 2001]

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2001:
Letters
Tolstoy Center
We are glad to inform you that the Leo Tolstoy Center for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals held a press conference on October 4
that attracted more than 30 reporters and the Supreme Soviet deputies
of the Ukraine. We discussed stray dogs, animal experimentation,
bullfighting and other forms of animal fighting for entertainment,
factory farming, hunting, fur, circuses, zoos, and legislation
to protect animals’ rights.
On November 2 we hosted an inter-college conference at the
Kharkov teacher training college, attended by more than 300 students
from 12 academic institutions in Kharkov, Moscow, and Kiev.
We brightened the conference with anti-fur and anti-hunting
skits, an anti-fur fashion show, and dancing by famed Ukrainian
gymnast Helen Sljusarchik.
Appreciating your support and understanding,

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Individual Compensation

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2001:
Individual Compensation
(Chief executives &/or 10 top-paid staff & consultants)

The Pay column below combines salaries,
benefit plan contributions (if any), and expense
accounts for the few individuals who are not
required to itemize expenses. Individual
independent contractors such as attorneys,
accountants, and consultants are listed as well
as directors and regular staff.

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BOOKS: Strolling With Our Kin

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2001:

Strolling With Our Kin:
Speaking for and Respecting Voiceless Animals
by Marc Bekoff
American Anti-Vivisection Society, distributed
by Lantern Books (1 Union Square W., #201, New
York, NY 10003), 2000.) 113 pages,
paperback. $9.95.
As a primer on ethical issues involving
animals, evidently aimed at university students,
Strolling With Our Kin has the virtues of being
brief yet broad-ranging enough to address most of
the major issues, inexpensive, easily read,
and attentive to multiple perspectives.
Entering a rather crowded competition
among similar primers about a year ago, Strolling
With Our Kin may or may not be emerging as a
favorite in classroom use, but it is the only
such text that is also commonly sold in
nonacademic bookstores. In short, it appears to
represent a triumph for the American
Anti-Vivisection Society, which underwrote the
publication, and for ethologist and teacher Marc
Bekoff.

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Elephant Books

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2001:
“It is said that if an elephant dies, the elephant’s person will
forever live in sorrow.”

Modoc: The True Story of the
Greatest Elephant That Ever Lived
by Ralph Hefner
HarperCollins (1350 Avenue Of The Americas,
New York, NY 10019), 1998.
325 pages, paperback. $13.00

To The Elephant Graveyard
by Tarquin Hall
Grove Press (841 Broadway, New York, NY 10003, 2001. 260 pages,
paperback. $13.00

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BOOKS: Mad Dogs & an Englishwoman

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2001:

Mad Dogs & An Englishwoman by Crystal Rogers
Penguin (c/o www.pengunbooksindia.com), 2000. 192 pages,
paperback. 250 rupees + postage/handling.

At least twice, at ages 17 and 89, the late Crystal Rogers
started to write her autobiography. Her second attempt incorporated
the surviving part of the first, but Rogers usually kept too busy to
write much. She died in 1996 at age 90 without having completed much
more of Mad Dogs & An Englishwoman than the first chapter; a memoir
of her brief World War II relationship with a Canadian airman named
Jim, who was killed in action; and a few vignettes of the early
years of the three humane societies that she helped to found in
India, loosely directed by seances with Jim.

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BOOKS: Ophelia’s Winter

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2001:

 

Ophelia’s Winter, by Sarah Ann Hill
1st Books Library (2511 West 3rd Street, Suite #1, Bloomington, IN 47404), 2000.

[May be downloaded free of charge at <www.1stbooks.com>.]

Sarah Ann Hill, the last page of Ophelia’s Winter explains,
was actually the name of author Marilyn Sansom’s great grandmother,
“a storyteller back in the 1800s,” who was wife of the first forest
ranger in West Virginia.

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HUMAN OBITUARIES

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2001:

C.R. Pattabi Raman, 94, chair of the Blue Cross of India since 1987, died on June 19. Captain of the Madras cricket team in his youth, and a cofounder of the Madras Cricket Association and Board of Control For Cricket in India, Raman was eldest son of Sir C.P. Ramaswami Aiyar, who banned hunting on all land under his control and founded the Indian Vegetarian Congress, for which Raman was longtime vice president.

Raman’s granddaughter Nanditha Krishna, a noted author and anthropologist, is a trustee of the Central Zoo Authority. Raman was succeeded as chair of the Blue Cross by his grandson-in-law Chinny Krishna, who is the son of Blue Cross founding chair S.R. Sundaram. Krishna was also recently named to the Animal Welfare Board of India.

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Animals and the Afghanistan war

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 2001:

 

BHARATPUR, NALABANA, India; KABUL,
Afghanistan–Ornithologists at the renowned bird sanctuaries of India
are anxiously monitoring the skies and marshes to see how U.S.
bombing in Afghanistan has affected the annual migrations from
Siberia and the Himalayas.
By January 2002, they expect to know. For now, most are
optimistic, after fearing the worst when the bombing started.
“While demoiselle cranes have already started arriving in
droves, pelicans and geese are conspicuous by their absence,” said
the Times of India on December 3. “Pintails, widgeons, and
poachards are expected to fly into Bharatpur at any time.”
In all, more than 200,000 birds of 167 species reached India
almost on schedule. “However, night geese and ducks, who cross the
Hindukush range, seem to have been put off by the heavy firing over
Afghanistan,” said ecologist Pushpindar Singh.

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