In league with the devil?! P&G REDUCES ANIMAL USE 53% IN 10 YEARS–– WHILE TRIPLING IN SIZE––YET HEARS LITTLE PRAISE

June 1, 1995 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1995:

CINCINNATI––Say anything good about Procter &

Gamble and you’ll be accused of dancing with the devil. Take it

from the anonymously printed and distributed flyer ANIMAL PEO-

PLEreceived while researching this article:

“The President of Procter & Gamble appeared on the Phil

Donahue Show on March 1, 1995. He announced that due to the

openness of our society, he was coming out of the closet about his

association with the Church of Satan. He stated that a large portion

of the profits from Procter & Gamble products go to support this

satanic church. When asked by Donahue if stating this on television

would hurt his business, he replied, ‘There are not enough

Christians in the U.S. to make a difference.’”

BOOKS: Ocean Warrior

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1995:

Ocean Warrior, by Captain Paul Watson.

Key Porter Books Ltd. (70 The Esplanade, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5E 1R2), 1994. 264 pages, cloth, $26.95.

[In U.S., order from Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, 3107-A Washington Blvd., Marina Del Ray, CA 90292.]

If Ocean Warrior was a work of fiction and Paul

Watson had never been a sailor, it would still make Watson a

worthy heir to the tradition of Stephen Crane, Herman

Melville, and Robert Louis Stevenson––a tradition he honors

with allusions to The Open Boat, Moby Dick and Treasure

Island. It’s a can’t-put-it-down page-turner: a rousing collec-

tion of classic sea stories, weaving all five of the eternal

themes into a single narrative. For those who weren’t litera-

ture majors, that’s man-against-man, man-against-woman,

mankind-against-nature, self-against-self, and coming-of-

age. It’s the story of a young man who matures through der-

ring-do in naval battle, growing into the command of a fleet

and leadership of a crusade while more awkwardly grappling

with politics and personal relationships.

The Monkey Wars

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1995:

The Monkey Wars

by Deborah Blum

Oxford University Press (200 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016),

1994. 306 pages, cloth, $25.00.

Based on a Pultizer Prize-winning

investigative series published in 1991 by the

Sacramento Bee, The Monkey Wars is the

fairest, most comprehensive look yet at pri-

mate research and related protest. Author

Deborah Blum gained access to many of the

most controversial researchers and laborato-

ries in the United States. She describes from

first-hand observation the exploratory brain

surgery of Stuart Zola-Morgan, for instance,

combining appreciation of his findings with

discussion of the moral issues that have led

the activist community to brand him “Dr.

Zola-Morbid.”

COURT CALENDAR

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1995:

Humane Enforcement

American SPCA humane enforcement chief Robert

O’Neill led the biggest cockfighting raid in U.S. history on March

25, arresting 289 alleged spectators and seven alleged organizers in a

Bronx theatre building modified so that the cockpit could be disguised

as a boxing ring at a moment’s notice. Ninety cocks were seized for

euthanasia, along with 20 dead cocks. The ASPCA had already made

240 arrests and seized 1,550 cocks in a series of previous raids that

began in June 1994. The raids caused The New York Times to editorial-

ly demand that judges begin imposing the fines for cockfighting of up

to $25,000 and prison terms of up to four years that New York law

allows, instead of the token fines of about $200 that are usually given.

Scotland Yard on March 19 arrested six men and an

eight-year-old boy in the first cockfighting raid in Britain since 1985.

Another dozen suspects escaped.

An anti-wise use Weiss guy

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1995:

SANTA ROSA, California– – ” In

a former life,” says Larry Weiss, “I prac-

ticed criminal law for 18 years. Eventually I

grew tired of making the streets safe for drug

dealers. Then, in 1985, I providentially

encountered a book, Peter Singer’s Animal

Liberation, which convinced me that I could

remain a lawyer and be proud of my work.”

Ten years later, Weiss grins, “I

mostly defend dog criminals. Or dogs who

are accused of criminal behavior,” he cor-

rects himself. “Especially those of whom it

is suspected they might eventually commit a

crime because someone thinks they resemble

a dog that might have a criminal disposition

under some other circumstance.”

Birds

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1995:

“The only good great horned owl is a dead

one,” says Minnesota state senator Charles Berg, who has

introduced a bill to allow free range turkey farmers to catch

the owls with padded leghold traps––which can easily

crush an owl’s foot––as well as a bill to allow mourning

dove hunting. Letters asking that either bill be vetoed if

passed may be sent to Governor Arne Carlson, 130

Capitol, St. Paul, MN 55155.

“Small nature preserves, which work fine for

preserving plants, don’t work for migratory birds,”

Illinois Natural History Survey scientist Scott Robinson

says, after an extensive study of the relationship between

vanishing songbirds and cowbirds, who lay their faster-

hatching eggs ino other birds’ nests. While cowbirds are a

short-term cause of species decline, the longterm cause is

shrinking habitat, as deep forests where the songbirds are

safe give way to the edge habitat that cowbirds prefer.

Animal control & rescue

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1995:

Trouble

The Chicago Animal Rights

Coalition on April 13 resumed a campaign

against the use of a captive bolt gun to dis-

patch dogs and cats and the practice of killing

them in front of others at the Animal Control

Department shelter in Rock Falls, Illinois.

Neither the American Veterinary Medical

Association nor any national humane organiza-

tion recommends the use of captive bolts for

euthanizing small animals; all oppose killing

animals within sight or sound of others. Rock

Falls promised to change euthanasia proce-

dures a year ago, but broke the promise,

according to CHARC founder Steve Hindi.

Letters on shelter letterhead urging compliance

with accepted humane standards may be sent

to Rock Falls mayor Glen Kuhlemier at 603

W. 10th St., Rock Falls, IL 61071.

ALLEGED SPORTSMEN

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1995:

Clay Peterson, age 11, wrote a

letter to the Nashville Tennesean criticizing

poachers, published on April 6. “He was

thrilled,” his mother Debra wrote to the

paper a week later. “I was immediately wor-

ried when I noticed that his address was also

printed. My fears were justified,” by a bar-

rage of hate mail, including one missive that

warned Clay, “armed force is necessary to

eliminate those who would force the issue.”

The Tennessean then published the Peterson

family address again. Tell the Petersons they

have friends c/o 1667 Highfield Lane,

Brentwood, TN 37027.

MARINE MAMMALS

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 1995:

Seal hunt

Canada on April 11 denied an allegation by the

International Fund for Animal Welfare that the Shanghai

Fisheries Corporation and a sealing industry delegation from

the Magdalen Islands of Quebec met the day before in Hong

Kong to sign a deal to increase the export of seal penises to

China. “Because it’s penises, people laugh,” said IFAW

spokesperson Marion Jenkins, “but the Chinese medicine

market has been responsible for the near extinction of the

tiger and the rhino.” Despite the lack of other apparent

viable markets, the seal slaughter shifted from the

Magdalens to Newfoundland in mid-April, encouraged by a

quota of 186,000 and a federal bounty of 20¢ per pound on

seal carcasses landed. Newfoundland fisheries minister Bud

Hulan claims the Atlantic Canada seal population is circa

eight million, and that the seals are contributing to the

decline of cod, recently pronounced “commercially extinct.”

However, current research by Thomas Woodley and David

Lavigne, of the International Marine Mammal Association,

indicates there are no more than 3.5 million harp seals, prob-

ably fewer; 400,000 hooded seals; and 142,000 grey seals,

the only species whose numbers are increasing. Cod make

up only about 1% of the seals’ diet.

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