From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 2011:
The 37th annual Animal Trans-portation Association
conference, held May 22-25, 2011 in Brussels, Belgium, honored
Sharon Cregier, Ph.D., of Montague, Prince Edward Island, for
lifetime achievement in promoting the welfare of animals in
transport. An ANIMAL PEOPLE charter subscriber, Cregier may be best
known for research demonstrating that the safest way to haul horses
is facing backward–exactly the reverse of the most common
configuration of horse trailers.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2011:

Major General (Retired) Rammehar Kharb, chairing the Animal
Welfare Board of India since 2006, was honored with a lifetime
achievement award in January 2011 by the Federation of Indian Animal
Protection Organizations. Kharb was saluted for advocacy on behalf
of street dogs, pushing municipalities to share the cost of Animal
Birth Control programs, standardizing ABC surgical and dogcatching
procedures, expelling corrupt organizations from the AWBI,
initiating the national Rabies Free India program, and lobbying for
the first major update of the Indian national humane law since 1960,
recently introduced in the Indian Parliament.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  January/February 2011:

PETA on December 20,  2010 named former U.S. President Bill Clinton “Person of the Year” for adopting a vegan diet.  “”I live on beans, legumes, vegetables, fruit,”  Clinton told CNN reporter Wolf Blitzer,  crediting the diet with helping him to lose 24 pounds before his daughter Chelsea’s July 2010 wedding.  “Bill Clinton won not only because he’s the most prominent person to go vegan this year but also because he used his platform to articulate the reasons why a plant-based diet is the most healthy diet,” PETA senior vice president Dan Mathews told media. “It doesn’t hurt,”  Mathews added, “that he has [his daughter] Chelsea’s lead to follow.  She went vegan at 10.  Her motivation was not wanting to support cruelty to animals.” Read more

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November/December 2010:

Australian philanthropist Phil Wollen on November 30, 2010
awarded the Winsome Constance Kindness Gold Medal and accompanying
cash prize of $25,000 to Cornell University professor emeritus of
nutritional biochemistry T. Colin Campbell. Wollen lauded Campbell as
“arguably the most powerful force in this generation for educating
human beings on the serious health dangers of eating animals.” Past
Kindness Medal recipients have included animal advocacy organization
founders Maneka Gandhi, Jane Goodall, Paul Watson, Pradeep Kumar
Nath, Christine Townend, and Jill Robinson, and cancer researcher
Ian Gawler.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2010:
(Actual press date November 3.)

ANIMAL PEOPLE editor Merritt Clifton on October 10, 2010
received the 15th annual ProMED-mail Award for Excellence in Outbreak
Reporting on the Internet, presented by the International Society
for Infectious Diseases for contributions to the identification and
control of emerging disease. Past winners include leading members of
the teams who identified mad cow disease in humans, the H5N1 avian
influenza, Nipah virus, and Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
Clifton was honored for contributions that led to identifying fruit
bats as the host species for Nipah virus in April 1999; helping to
identify the roles of cockfighting and falconing in the migration of
H5N1; identifying aspects of halal slaughter as the probable source
of outbreaks of the tick-borne Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever among
Central Asian meat industry workers in 2009-2010; and especially,
said ProMed-mail editor Larry Madoff, for contributions to
epidemiological understanding of the cultural factors involved in the
spread and control of canine rabies in India, China, Indonesia,
and Vietnam.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 2010:
(published October 5, 2010)

The Home Box Office biographical film Temple Grandin on
August 30, 2010 won Emmy Awards for Best Actress, Best Supporting
Actress, Best Supporting Actor, Best Director, and Best Picture.
A Colorado State University professor of livestock handling and
psychology, Grandlin has for more than 30 years worked to reform
slaughterhouse management and design, consulting often with both
animal welfare organizations and the meat industry.

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