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BOOKS: Voting Green: your complete environmental guide to making political choices in the ’90’s

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

Voting Green: your complete environmental
guide to making political choices in the ’90’s.
By Jeremy Rifkin and Carol Grunewald Rifkin,
Doubleday (666 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10103),
1992, 390 pages, paperback $15.00 U.S., $19.00
Canadian.
It may be true, as Voting Green suggests, that this
decade will determine our environmental future. Certainly
grassroots support for green programs has never been stronger.
But Jeremy and Carol Rifkin also remind us that the greatest
potential for redesigning our societal infrastructure is held by
our elected representatives in Congress, and that we will
decide–with our votes–which direction they’ll take.

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Vivisection

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

* George Bush signed the Animal Enterprise Protection
Act of 1992 into law on August 26, making vandalism of
farms and laboratories a federal offense. The law broadens the
jurisdiction of the FBI in such cases, but probably will not help
federal grand juries probing laboratory break-ins in Oregon,
Washington, Michigan, and Massachusetts to reach indict-
ments, since the alleged offenses took place long before the
law was passed.
* The Bush administration on August 23 proposed redi-
recting federally funded biomedical research into economically
productive areas, a move that might decrease the number of
animals used in so-called basic research, but increase the num-
ber used in product safety testing.

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Agriculture

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

October 2 was the 10th anniver-
sary of World Farm Animals Day, declared
in 1983 by the Farm Animal Reform
Movement to coincide with Gandhi’s birthday
and World Vegetarian Day. Major commemo-
rations were scheduled in New York, the
Washington D.C. metropolitan area, Iowa,
Florida, California, and Hawaii.
The contribution of cattle to global
warming has significantly increased over the
past three years, along with the world cattle
population, International Union of Air
Pollution Prevention Associations director
general John Langston warned the 800-mem-
ber group in early September.

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Woofs and growls:

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

The U.S. Court of Appeals for
the 11th Circuit on August 18 upheld a lower
court decision that Soldier of Fortune maga-
zine must pay $4.3 million in damages to the
sons of Richard Braun, an Atlanta business-
man who was murdered in 1985 by a contract
killer whose “gun for hire” ad the magazine
published. The killer, Michael Savage, 44,
of Knoxville, Tenn., and eight of his clients
have been convicted of criminal conspiracy in
connection with the Braun case and at least
two others. Soldier of Fortune has recently
amplified a series of National Rifle
Association attacks on the animal rights move-
ment and anti-hunting activists.

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Hunting news

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1992:

Arizonans will vote November 3
on a referendum measure to ban
trapping, portrayed by the National Rifle
Assn. and National Trappers Assn. as an
attempt to ban all hunting and fishing as
well. The initiative is sponsored, however,
by Arizonans for Safety and Humanity on
Public Lands, whose initial board of direc-
tors included a hunter and a gun dealer. The
group declined funding from the Humane
Society of the U.S. to avoid confusing the
issues.

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