CHILDREN & ANIMALS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1994:

University of New Hampshire soci-

ologist David Finkelhor reported in the

October issue of Pediatrics that a telephone

survey of 2,000 children aged 10-16 had dis-

covered 15.6% were assault victims within the

previous year, triple the 5.2% reported by the

1991 National Crime Survey; 0.5% had been

raped, five times higher than the NCS esti-

mate of 0.1%; and 75% of the attacks were by

other youths, including 41% of the sexual

assaults. From 30% to 40% of the victims had

never reported the assaults, Finkelhor said.

Rod Coronado caught in Arizona

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1994:

TUCSON, Arizona–– Rod Coronado,

28, indicted by a federal grand jury in connection

with an alleged Animal Liberation Front arson at

Michigan State University in 1992, was arrested

September 28 by the FBI on the Pasqua Yaqui

Reservation, south of Tucson, Arizona. Living

under the name Martin Rubio, he was lured out-

doors by an informer who asked him to help with

an injured bird.

Of mixed Yaqui and Mexican ancestry,

Coronado served the reservation as a social worker,

and was highly praised by tribal vice president

Anselmo Valencia, whose home he shared, for his

work with children. Valencia unsuccessfully

offered to pledge his own salary as bond for

Coronado’s release.

COURT CALENDAR

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1994:

Collector cases

A 32-year-old man from Barrie,

Ontario, drew five years in prison on October 5

for three counts of sexual abuse and one of

obstructing justice, while his female companion,

33, drew two years for obstructing justice. In

November 1991 the pair locked the woman’s four

girls and a boy in a feces-filled basement for 18

months, along with 19 cats and four dogs, after

police visited the home to question the man about

allegedly anally raping the two oldest girls, then

nine and 10. The children were discovered, res-

cued, and placed in foster care in April 1993.

Zoos & Aquariums

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1994:

Ivan, the gorilla kept for 30 years in solitary con-

finement at a now defunct shopping mall in Tacoma,

Washington, was moved on October 10 to Zoo Atlanta, where

he will share a $4.5 million facility with 20 other gorillas

including Willie B., a gorilla who spent 27 years in isolation

but has adapted well to life with a family group. Ivan will

spend 90 days in a separate suite, viewing the other gorillas

through a window, before being introduced in person to any.

The onset of winter threatened to kill a manatee

who somehow meandered into Chesapeake Bay, 1,000 miles

north of his usual habitat, but a 15-member team from Sea

World in Orlando, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the

National Aquarium, the Maryland Department of Natural

Resources, and the Save the Manatee Club on October 1 cap-

tured him and took him to the National Aquarium, pending

transfer to Sea World and eventual release.

Birds

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1994:

Three years after spotted owl protection took

effect, Oregon is not economically wrecked but booming,

with its lowest unemployment rate in 30 years. The loss of

15,000 forest products jobs has been offset by the creation of

20,000 jobs in high technology. Of the displaced wood work-

ers who have been retrained at Lane Community College in

Springfield, 90% have new jobs, at an average hourly wage of

$9.02––only $1.00 less per hour than their old average, and

sure to rise as they gain seniority.

Oxford University zoologist Marion Petrie reported

on October 13 that a study of peafowl at the Whipsnade animal

park, north of London, found that the peacocks with the

largest fantails produced the biggest young––which may be

why the peahens are most attracted to those peacocks.

LETTERS [Nov. 1994]

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1994:

IFAW defends The Body Shop

Your October article about The Body

Shop wrongly asserts that following recent

critical publicity, the International Fund for

Animal Welfare does not wish to be associated

with Body Shop International.

In fact we have reviewed the recent

publicity and have found nothing within it to

concern us about The Body Shop’s opposition

to animal testing. Criticisms of the five-year

criteria operated by The Body Shop and others

are well known to us, but have not persuaded

us from viewing it as an effective means of

increasing the pressure to end animal testing

for cosmetic products and especially cosmetics

ingredients.

Letters

Editorial: The fallacy of “progressive” legislation

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1994:

Animal and habitat protection advocates breathed relief on October 7 as Russia

withdrew an objection to the May 1994 creation of the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary by

the International Whaling Commission. Under IWC rules, the objection meant that Russia,

already holding an objection to the whaling moratorium in effect since 1986, could have

gone whaling at any time––within the sanctuary. Despite the instant claim of Greenpeace

and the International Fund for Animal Welfare that the latest Russian turnabout was all their

doing, the full story behind the reversals may take years to emerge. Yet somehow the ele-

ments in Russian politics who seek good trade relations with the rest of the world did tri-

umph over those who would prefer a return to the stagnant but secure isolation of the Cold

War. Ultimately, the threat of private boycotts carried more weight in Moscow than the

certainty of escaping trade sanctions through the loophole in the IWC treaty.

ANIMAL HEALTH

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1994:

British link veal and brain damage

Rejected by most veterinary authorities, the hypothesis

advanced by Cornell veterinary student Michael Greger via Farm

Sanctuary that there may be a link between bovine spongiform

encephalopathy and Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease gained slightly

more weight on October 7 when the United Kingdom CJD

Surveillance Unit reported that, “A study of the eating habits of

people with CJD showed some statistical associations with the eat-

ing of various meat products, particularly veal.” Veal calves are

fed milk replacers which contain processed slaughterhouse offal,

and therefore could sometimes contain the remains of animals who

had either BSE or scrapie, a similar disease found in sheep. CJD

appears some years after infection, and like BSE, leads to paraly-

sis, blindness, dementia, and death. An ongoing BSE epidemic,

now waning, has hit more than 130,000 cattle in Britain since

1986. CJD is comparatively rare, killing 40-50 Britons a year.

Performing animals

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1994:

The Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus is reportedly close to

purchasing a 200-acre site northeast of Polk City, Florida, as a retirement colony for 50

elephants and possibly several lions and tigers who were retired from performing with the

retirement of longtime trainer Gunther Gebel-Williams in 1991. Ringling already owns a

35-acre animal retirement site elsewhere in Levy County. In other Ringling news, the

circus is splitting two new touring units off from the two that visit 95 U.S. cities a

year––one to tour South America, the other to tour Asia. The new units will be the first

Ringling shows to perform under tents since 1956, when the U.S. units turned to indoor

arenas.

The 1,100-mile Iditarod sled dog race lost yet another major sponsor on

September 25 when Timberland, a primary backer since 1987, announced it would cease

annual funding of about $390,000 because the association didn’t “translate well” to many

customers. Iams pulled out on September 13.

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