BOOKS: Generation React: Activism for Beginners

October 1, 1997 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1997:

Generation React:
Activism for Beginners
by Danny Seo
Ballentine Publishing (201 E. 50th St., New York,
NY 10022), 1997. 192 pages, paperback, $10.95.

Activism tends to be a young person’s game––but
Danny Seo, the 20-year-old author of Generation React,
wasn’t just playing when at age 12, in 1990, he quit eating
meat and founded Earth 2000 National. Swiftly winning
media note, Seo hit the bigtime even younger than most star
athletes and rock-and-rollers, converted fleeting attention to
enduring influence, and remains active and effective.

REVIEWS: Henry: One Man’s Way

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1997:

Henry––One Man’s Way
Documentary by Peter Singer
Distributed by The Great Ape Project
(POB 19492, Portland, OR 97280-0492), 1997.
Two hours. $15.00.

Even if Henry Spira had never taken up the animal
cause, he would still have had a formidable career in activism,
as maritime labor organizer, leftist through the McCarthy era,
and muckraking reporter who exposed the peccadillos and perversities
of longtime FBI director J. Edgar Hoover at the height
of Hoover’s power, traveled to Cuba to cover the first developments
after Fidel Castro ousted the CIA-backed dictator
Francisco Batista, and followed the Freedom Riders through
rural Mississippi.

BOOKS: Mrs. Chippy’s Last Expedition

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1997:

Mrs. Chippy’s Last Expedition:
The Remarkable Journal of Shackleton’s Polar-Bound Cat
by Caroline Alexander
Harper Collins Publishers (10 East 53rd St., New York, NY 10022-5299), 1997.
148 pages, hardcover, $16.00.

Read with clear eyes, the saga of
Antarctic exploration is––like most sagas––a
dismal record of vanity, cruelty, stupidity and
greed, whose protagonists exhibit heroic
attributes chiefly after their own foolishness
puts them in peril of their lives.

BOOKS: And No Birds Sing

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1997:

And No Birds Sing:
A True Ecological Thriller Set in a Tropical Paradise
by Mark Jaffe
Barricade Books (150 Fifth Ave., Suite 700, New York, NY 1OO11), 1997.
283 pages, paperback, $12.00.

On a small island, thousands of
miles across the Pacific, the birds have all
but disappeared. And No Birds Sing, paced
like a page-turning mystery, seeks the
answer. Mark Jaffe chronicles prolonged
governmental and scientific ineptitude in
responding to an event that had no recognized
model: the annihilation of birds on
Guam by the accidental import of the brown
tree snake. Jaffe centers on the story of
Julia Savidge, a doctoral candidate at the
University of Illinois, hired to do research
by the Guam Division of Aquatic Wildlife
Resources, who had the courage to fight
bureaucracy and bogus “scientific rules” for
years in order to prove the impact of the
snake, which she had deduced from field
observation, interviews with local people,
and archival research.

BOOKS: Animal Experimentation: A Harvest of Shame

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 1997:

Animal Experimentation:
A Harvest of Shame
by Moneim A. Fadali, M.D.
Hidden Springs Press
(POB 29613, Los Angeles, CA 90029), 1996.
233 pages, paperback, $14.95.

Mark Twain once said, “Man is the only animal capable of
blushing…but he is the only one who has plenty of reason to do so.”
The subject of Dr. Fadali’s treatise makes it abundantly clear that
blushing is the least man can do.
Animal Experimentation: A Harvest of Shame overflows
with the author’s anti-vivisectionist sentiments. The author’s heart is
obviously in the right place, but judicious editing and a more rigorous
scientific approach could have streamlined the presentation to the
point that it could not fail to impress a reader unconvinced of the ultimate
futility of animal experimentation. It also would have won a
wider audience. Compelling facts are within these pages, yet require
fortitude to glean.

REVIEWS: Music

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1997:

Adventures at Catfish Pond
Bob “Catfish” Hodge

All Spirits Sing
Joanne Shenandoah

Penguin Parade
Banana Slug String Band

If A Tree Falls
Anthology produced by
Darryl Cherney & Leib Ostrow

Music for Little People/EarthBeat
(POB 1460, Redway, CA 95560),
1997. Each $9.95/cassette, $15.98/CD.

As a college student, Delilah
Cooper infiltrated an early false front for the
wise-use movement, documented the then hidden
identities of the people behind it, and sent
the information to the editor of ANIMAL
PEOPLE. When we disclosed those identities,
the organization vanished almost
overnight, without a forwarding address.

BOOKS: And the Waters Turned to Blood

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1997:

And the Waters Turned to Blood:
The Ultimate Biological Threat
by Rodney Barker
Simon & Schuster (1230 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY
10020), 1997. 352 pages, hardcover, $24.00

It’s a shame how this book
has been hyped. “Deadlier than
Ebola!” trumpets one press release,
building expectations of a Creightonesque
biological thriller. But
Pfiesteria piscicida is no fiction, and
frightening though the microorganism
may be, it doesn’t hold a candle
to the real horror of its discovery––
that without the tenacity of one outspoken
scientist, the world would
still be unaware of it.

BOOKS: Turtle Bay

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1997:

Turtle Bay
by Saviour Pirotta,
art by Nilesh Mistry
Farrar, Straus & Girous (19 Union Square
West, New York, NY 10003), 1997.
28 pages, hardcover, $15.00.

Turtle Bay, about old Japanese sponge
diver who sweeps a remote beach to prepare it for
loggerhead turtle nesting, might be the best way to
explain to a child why a favorite beach (or a part of
it) is off limits, whether to help sea turtles, piping
plovers, clapper rails, or any other animals whose
needs conflict with human recreation.

BOOKS: Scarlett Saves Her Family

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1997:

Scarlett Saves Her Family
by J.C. Suares & Jane Martin
Simon & Schuster (1230 Avenue of the Americas,
New York, NY 10020), 1997.
96 pages, 50 photos, $20 hardcover.

You probably know the story of Scarlett ––the
New York alley cat, featured in People and elsewhere,
who on March 29, 1996 made five trips into a burning
building to save her kittens. Scarlett suffered severe
burns, but was rescued in turn,. with her family, by firefighter
David Giannelli. Scarlett and four kittens were
restored to health and placed for adoption by the North
Shore Animal League. The fifth kitten succumbed to panleuopenia,
an airborne virus that probably compounded
the after-effects of smoke inhalation.

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