No safety in shells or Southern Oceans

December 1, 1996 Archivist Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1996:

MOSCOW, OSLO, TOKYO,
WASHINGTON D.C.––Emboldened by
the re-election of U.S. President Bill Clinton
and Vice President Albert Gore, who
showed little inclination to defend whales
and sea turtles during their first term, and
by the re-enfranchisement of wise-use
Republicans in control of key Congressional
committees, turtle-killers and whalers are
whetting their weapons.
Most brazenly, with the election
results barely two weeks old, Louisiana
Republicans Bob Livingston, Billy Tauzin,
and John Breaux on November 21 forced the
National Marine Fisheries Service to withdraw
turtle excluder device regulations
intended to protect endangered sea turtles,
just three days after they were ostensibly
sent to the Federal Register for publication.

Hindi jailed––against higher court order

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1996:

WOODSTOCK, Illinois– – As
ANIMAL PEOPLE went to press at dawn on
November 25, Chicago Animal Rights
Coalition founder Steve Hindi, 42, remained
in the McHenry County Jail, by order of circuit
judge James Franz, nearly four days after
the State of Illinois Appellate Court Second
District––a higher jurisdiction––ordered that
Hindi be released on bail pending appeal of a
November 6 contempt of court conviction.
Hindi was in the eleventh day of a
hunger strike, commenced, he told ANIMAL
PEOPLE, “because I have to fight this somehow,
and it’s the only thing I can do.”
Stated the Appellate order: “Motion
by appellant, Steven Hindi, for emergency
stay of the trial court’s order of contempt of
November 6, 1996, and to set an appeal
bond…is allowed, and this cause is remanded
to the trial court for the limited purpose of
establishing an appropriate appeal bond. This
court retains jurisdiction over this appeal.”

How animals won in five states

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1996:

WASHINGTON D.C.––Captive-duck shooter Bill
Clinton and trophy hunting advocate Albert Gore remain in the
White House, but Congressional script on animal issues may be
quite a bit different in the 105th Congress, not only because
foes of the Endangered Species Act took a beating on November
5, but also because the results of five state initiative campaigns
show animal protection voting clout, just beginning to be organized,
ignored by the Democrats, reviled by wise-use
Republicans, but acknowledged by Speaker of the House Newt
Gingrich.
• Massachusetts voted 64% to 36% to ban leghold or
body-gripping traps and snares, ban hunting bears and bobcats
with dogs, and restructure the state Fisheries and Wildlife
Board, ending a requirement that a majority of members be
licensed hunters, fishers, or trappers.

DIET & HEALTH

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1996:

Health research
Fears that drinking cow’s milk
can trigger juvenile diabetes in genetically
susceptible children rekindled in October after
Dr. Paul Pozzilli of the Department of
Diabetes and Metabolism at St. Bartholomew’s
Hospital in London and colleagues at
the University of Rome explained in The
Lancet , the journal of the British Medical
Association, how certain proteins in cow’s
milk can stimulate an immature human
immune system to produce antibodies that
then attack similar proteins in the victim’s
own pancreatic cells. European Commissionsponsored
research showed in June that bottlefed
babies are twice as likely as breast-fed
babies to get diabetes. Jill Norris of the
University of Colorado Health Science Center
in Denver, argued in the August 27 edition of
the Journal of the American Medical
Association that the previous research was
weak––but Hans-Michael Dosch, M.D., of
the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto,
who drew attention to a possible link between
cow’s milk and diabetes in 1992, argues that
the association is now “as strong as the association
between cigarette smoking and cancer.”

North Carolina maintains lead in pig poop

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1996:

RALEIGH–Babe star James
Cromwell on November 12 asked to North
Carolina governor Jim Hunt to halt the construction
of yet another mega-hog farm in the
state, already the national leader in both pork
production and pollution from hog waste.
“No one has to be a vegetarian like
me to be repulsed by the suffering these animals
will endure, packed tightly indoors,
never seeing sunlight or feeling cool mud
beneath their feet,” Cromwell wrote.
Eight days earlier, the Hunt administration
relaxed pollution rules to let hog
farmers plagued by overflowing manure storage
tanks and rain-saturated fields pump more
slurry out onto the land, despite the likelihood
the slurry will contaminate waterways.

OBITUARIES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1996:

Juliet Prowse, 59, died of pancreatic
cancer on September 14. An accomplished
classical ballet dancer in Europe, her
first movie in the U.S., Can Can, (1960) with
Frank Sinatra and Shirley MacLaine, thrust
her into stardom. Over the years, Prowse
appeared in many films, TV shows, and
musicals. Her last stage appearance was in a
west coast theatrical production of the musical
comedy Mame, costarring Gretchen Wyler.
Prowse shared her Los Angeles
home with three dogs and two cats, all
foundlings. During a recent nightclub appearance
as the star of Sugar Baby, she insisted
that special housing be constructed around a
window for the live doves used in the show,
so they might receive light and fresh air.
Outspoken about the treatment of
captive wildlife and the Atlantic Canada seal
hunt, Prowse was for the past two years a
celebrity presenter at the Ark Trust’s Genesis
Awards ceremony. The Genesis Awards
honor individuals in the major media who have
raised public consciousness on animal issues.
Read more

Obituaries

BOOKS: The Doctors Book of Home Remedies for Dogs and Cats

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1996:

The Doctors Book of Home Remedies for Dogs and Cats:
over 1,000 solutions to your pet’s problems
by the editors of Prevention Magazine Health Books. Rodale Press Inc.
(18 Minor St., Emmaus, PA 18098), 404 pages, $27.95, hardback.

The best part of this handy how-to
is that the panel of advisors responsible for
the advice under each heading are identified
by name and either institutional affiliation or
place of business. The advisors are diverse,
as are their recommendations, and as many
experts may have contributed (I didn’t
count) as there are tips offered. Both the
table of contents and the index are comprehensive;

BOOKS: Dog Love

November 1, 1996 Archivist Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1996:

Dog Love
by Marjorie Garber
Simon & Schuster (1230 Avenue of the Americas,
New York, NY 10020), 1996. 346 pp., $24, hardback.

Marjorie Garber, director of the Center for Literary
and Cultural Studies at Harvard, is perhaps best known for two
groundbreaking scholarly works on what used to be called
abnormal sexuality––Vice Versa: Bisexuality and the Eroticism
of Everyday Life and Vested Interests: Cross-Dressing and
Cultural Anxiety. Both challenged readers to rethink perceptions
of just what “normal” means.
Not surprisingly, Garber is at her best in Dog Love
when discussing the sexual aspects of dog-keeping, both overt
and covert, normal and aberant, from sexual self-identification
with the dog, a common factor in male reluctance to neuter
dogs, to active sexual involvement with dogs. Her discussion
is frank without being smarmy, she cites verifiable sources,
and would seem credible but for two points.

BOOKS: Dogs For Dummies

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1996:

Dogs For Dummies
by Gina Spadafori
IDG Books (919 E. Hillsdale Blvd., Suite 400, Foster
City, CA 94404), 1996. $19.99, 384 pages, paper.

Gina Spadafori, who occasionally writes for ANIMAL
PEOPLE, is better known as America’s most respected
pet columnist, syndicated by major metropolitan newspapers
across the U.S. and by America OnLine. Spadafori’s day
job as real estate editor for the Sacramento Bee conditions her
to get the facts first, while the challenge of writing interestingly
on a daily basis about a subject as mundane as real
estate has taught her how to write how-to without inducing
quick sleep.

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