Diet & Health

December 1, 1993 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1993:

Unhealthy diet follows smoking as

the leading cause of preventable death i n

the U.S., according to a new study co-

authored by Dr. Mcihael McGinnis, deputy

assistant secretary in the U.S. Department of

Health and Human Services. McGinnis is

responsible for designing U.S. disease pre-

vention strategy. Preventable deaths account

for about half of the U.S. death rate. The

study appeared in the Journal of the American

Medical Association.

AGRICULTURE

December 1, 1993 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, December 1993:

The USDA on November 5

approved the sale of milk produced with the

use of a genetically engineered bovine

growth hormone, bovine somatotropin,

effective when a Congressionally imposed

moratorium expires February 3. In the interim,

the anti-genetic engineering Foundation on

Economic Trends and small dairy farmers are

trying to form a national boycott of dairies that

buy milk from BST users. The potential

impact of BST is indirectly illustrated by newly

released statistics showing California is the top

dairy state in the US., with only 2,000 farms

and 1.2 million cows, compared with 29,000

farms and 1.5 million cows for Wisconsin, the

runner-up. Most Wisconsin farms are family-

run; most California production comes from

mega-scale factory farms, whose cows may

never go outdoors or taste fresh grass. BST is

expected to tilt farm economics further in favor

of the factory farmers.

Diet & Health

November 1, 1993 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1993:

Men who eat a lot of animal fat,

especially the fat from red meat, have more

than two and a half times the risk of develop-

ing prostate cancer than men who eat little or

none, a team of Harvard University and

Mayo Clinic researchers reported in the

October Journal of the National Cancer

Institute. The study investigated the eating

habits of 47,855 men. Over 165,000

American men develop prostate cancer each

year, often losing their sexual function in

consequence; 35,000 American men per year

die of prostate cancer.

AGRICULTURE

November 1, 1993 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1993:

A House/Senate conference com-

mittee agreed October 7 to raise the grazing

fee on federal land from $1.86 per animal unit

month to $3.45 over the next three years, and

to increase government supervision of ranching

activities on leased federal land. The higher

fee––still far lower than the going rate for leas-

ing privately owned grazing land––is expected

to sharply reduce the number of cattle and

sheep on the range in 16 western states. Final

approval of the grazing bill is pending.

October 16, both the House and the Senate

voted to eliminate $500 million in subsidies to

the slumping sheep industry. Wool and lamb

prices have fallen to record lows in each of the

past three years. The American Sheep Industry

Association predicted 25% to 30% of U.S.

sheep ranches would go out of business.

DIET & HEALTH

October 1, 1993 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

The Clinton administration has

proposed ending the conflict of interest

between the regulatory and promotional

functions of the USDA with respect to the

meat and poultry industry by transfering the

Food Safety and Inspection Service to the

Food and Drug Administration. The FDA

staff of 1,000 now inspects 53,000 non-

meat food producers, drug manufacturers,

and makers of medical equipment, while

the USDA employs 9,000 people to inspect

6,100 meat and poultry processors.

Coincidentally, tainted meat that passes

inspection causes an estimated 9,000

human deaths per year and 6.5 million ill-

nesses. The National Cattlemen’s Associa-

tion, American Meat Institute, and

National Broiler Council oppose the plan.

WOOFS AND GROWLS

October 1, 1993 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1993:

THE WISE USE WISE GUYS ET AL

George Frampton’s last major task

before leaving the presidency of The Wilderness

Society to become Assistant Secretary for Fish,

Wildlife, and Parks in the Clinton administration

was to preside over the assembly of a 50-page

report called The Wise Use Movement: Strategic

Analysis and 50-State Review. It calls upon the

mainstream environmental movement to distance

itself from radical environmentalism, deep ecolo-

gy, and animal rights, while rebuilding alliances

with farmers and hunters.

The fall 1993 issue of Friends of

Animals’ ActionLine magazine features ANIMAL

PEOPLE editor Merritt Clifton’s “Attack of the

Wise Use Wise Guys,” an investigation of vio-

lence against animals and animal defenders by

members of the self-named “wise use movement.”

It’s $1.95, from POB 1244, Norwalk, CT 06856.

Having run low on friends in Washington D.C.,

Putting People First is relocating this month to

Helena, Montana––PPF president Kathleen

Marquardt’s birth state.

DIET & HEALTH

September 1, 1993 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1993:

Violinist Edgar Stanistreet, of

Philadelphia, still performing at 94, attrib-

utes his longevity to “No meat, eggs, milk,

booze, or cigarettes. Milk is for calves.”

The USDA on August 12

unveiled labels for meat, to become

mandatory in October, that include instruc-

tions on cooking to kill toxic bacteria. The

labels were drafted to settle a lawsuit

brought by the parents of a child who died

from tainted meat and the advocacy group

Beyond Beef, whose president, Jeremy

Rifkin, warned he would sue again if the

language isn’t strengthened. Added Farm

Animal Reform Movement president Alex

Hershaft, “The USDA should require that

animal products carry warning labels with

full disclosure of the documented dangers of

meat consumption to human health.”

Diet & Health

July 1, 1993 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1993:

Thirty of 90 beef slaughterhouses inspected by

the USDA during last winter’s outbreak of E. coli bacterial

poisoning of hamburger were temporarily closed for clean-

up, Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy announced May 27.

Twelve plants were put in a special enforcement program,

with which they must comply or lose USDA certification.

The last of 143 people who were hospitalized during the E.

coli outbreak, 10-year-old Brianne Kiner, was released as

an outpatient from Children’s Hospital in Seattle on June 29.

Stricken after eating a Jack-in-the-Box hamburger on

January 13, Kiner spent 41 days in a coma and lost her

large intestine. Four children died––three in the Seattle area

and one in San Diego.

Diet & Health

June 1, 1993 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1993:

The USDA on May 5 announced

that it will begin requiring labels on raw

meat and poultry to include cooking and

handling instructions, explaining how to

prevent health hazards such as the growth of

E:coli bacteria, which in January and

December killed four children who had just

eaten undercooked hamburgers. The label-

ing rules are to be formally proposed by

August 15. The new requirement comes in

settlement of a lawsuit brought by Beyond

Beef and the parents of one of the January

victims. U.S. trade representative Mickey

Kantor meanwhile denied in a series of press

releases and public statements that such

strengthened food labeling laws could be

overturned under that General Agreement on

Trade and Tariffs and/or the North American

Free Trade Agreement, as alleged obstacles

to international commerce. Last year, the

two agreements were invoked to overturn the

use of U.S. dolphin protection legislation to

exclude imports of tuna netted “on dolphin,”

at considerable cost in dolphin lives.

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