Signifying apes upstage Freedom Tour

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, September 1999:

ATLANTA––One could say the Georgia State University bonobo Panbanisha, 14, and the Zoo Atlanta orangutan Chantek, 20, made a monkey’s uncle of former U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Louis W. Sullivan during the last week in July––but Sullivan really did it to himself. Though Sullivan suggested that their kind should be vivisected, Panbanisha and Chantek meant him neither harm nor embarrassment.

Sullivan, now president of the Morehouse School of Medicine and a board member of the Foundation for Biomedical Research, tried to play the race card against the July 24-27 Primate Freedom Tour stop at the Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, on the Emory University campus.

BOOKS: Animal behavior studies

July 1, 1999 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July/August 1999:

The Dog Who
Would Be King:
Tales and Surprising Lessons
from a Pet Psychologist
Rodale Press (33 E. Minor St., Emmaus,
PA 18098), 1999. $18.95 hardcover.

Is Your Cat Crazy?
Solutions From the Casebook
of a Cat Therapist
Macmillan (1633 Broadway,
New York, NY 10019), 1994.

John Wright has long been popular
with members of the animal welfare and animal
care and control communities. As one of
about only fifty certified animal behaviorists
in the United States, he is a frequent speaker
at conferences as well as an instructor at the
National Cruelty Investigators School.

PETA slams EDF testing deal with chemical makers

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

WASHINGTON D.C.––People for
the Ethical Treatment of Animals cofounder
Alex Pacheco threw a January haymaker at
the Environmental Defense Fund’s greatest
victory in 32 years of campaigning for more
stringent chemical safety standards.
EDF and the Chemical Manufacturers
Association on January 27 jointly
announced a protocol under which the chemical
industry will spend more than $1 billion to
safety-test 2,800 high production volume
chemicals, looking out for health effects
which were mostly not known when they
were first approved.
But as the announcement was pending,
Pacheco warned PETA donors that the
project would involve “millions of animals––
rabbits, guinea pigs, birds, rats, and fish––
over the next six years.”

Editorial: Amazing Amazon rainforest reality

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

Chugging up the Rio Tambopata, one of the major Amazon tributaries, in a
motorized canoe, we were struck during a January 1999 visit to the Tambopata-Candama
Reserved Area in southeastern Peru by the contrast between the Amazonian rainforest as it
is and the image most people have of it––an image crafted over the past few decades chiefly
by conservation groups.
Funding rainforest research, documentary film-making, lobbying, and even the
start-up of ecotourism, most of these organizations have also rather blindly stumbled down
the tangled trail blazed since 1961 by the World Wildlife Fund.
WWF, as ANIMAL PEOPLE has often pointed out, is not just the world’s
wealthiest and most influential wildlife advocacy group: it also happens to be the world’s
best-disguised lobby for sport hunting and other consumptive wildlife use.
WWF founder Peter Scott was the duck-shooter who introduced the North
American ruddy duck to England; WWF and allies now clamor for an expanded ruddy
duck season and no bag limit, on the bio-xenophobic claim that ruddy ducks are miscegenating
English white-headed ducks into illegitimate hybrids.

BOOKS: Taking Wing

March 1, 1999 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 1999:

Taking Wing: Archaeopterix and the Evolution of Bird Flight
by Pat Shipman
Touchstone (1230 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY 10020), 1998. 336 pages, paperback; $15.00.

Pennsylvania State University
anthropologist Pat Shipman in Taking Wing
presents the most comprehensive, fair-minded
overview we’ve seen of the many controversies
surrounding Archaeopteryx and evolution.
As she entertainingly outlines, Archaeopteryx
in the 19th century emerged as the most convincing
fossil evidence for evolution itself. In
the late 20th century, Archaeopteryx is focal
point of a raging battle among theorists over
whether birds evolved from therapod dinosaurs
or much earlier, from a common ancestor
shared with the rest of dinosauria.

Animals in bondage: the hoarding mind

January 1, 1999 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, January/February 1999:

LYLES, Tenn.; ANAMOSA,
Iowa; SALT LAKE CITY, Utah– – Near
Lyles, Tennessee, the shelterless Hickman
County Humane Society just before Christmas
1998 seized 299 dogs, 38 horses, and various
cats from an alleged puppy mill reportedly
owned by one Patricia Adkisson.
The site was littered, rescuers said,
with the remains of dead dogs.
On January 1, 1999, hoping to keep
a developing neglect case from becoming selfperpetuating,
Florida Humane Society volunteers
cleaned the home of widower Terry
Ruppel, 70, of Lighthouse Point, who surrendered
37 cats after neighbors complained
about filth and stench. Ruppel and his wife of
47 years exhausted their savings trying to fix
up an old house, Fort Lauderdale SunSentinel
staff writer Robert George explained.
Then Ruppel had a stroke, skin cancer, and
kidney cancer, and in August 1998 his wife
died of a sudden heart attack.

Maneka makes waves as animal welfare minister

November 1, 1998 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1998:

NEW DELHI––Contrary to Press
Trust of India and New Zealand Press
Association reports of October 7, Indian minister
for social justice and empowerment
Maneka Gandhi did not ban animal experiments
in India effective on October 8––but she
did announce draft regulations to ban the use
of pound animals in biomedical research, and
on October 11 published a ban on certain uses
of animals in entertainment.
By October 31, Maneka had also
banned the import of dolphins and sea lions for
exhibition in India, after two bottlenose dolphins
brought from Bulgaria died suddenly at
the newly opened Dolphin City oceanarium,
India’s first, near Chennai; banned cattle
transport by train, hoping to end the export of
cattle to slaughter in West Bengal; and banned
the transport of poultry and other birds by
train, striking at the wild-caught bird traffic.

Near Neanderthal, past and present

November 1, 1998 Dylan Forest Leave a comment

From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1998:

The Ice Man, the 5,200-year-old
set of remains found in the Italian Alps in
1991, was a vegetarian, University of
V i r g i n i a professor of environmental science
Stephen A. Macko on October 26 told the
annual conference of the Geological Society
of America. “You are what you eat, and
clues to what people ate thousands of years
ago are in their hair,” Macko explained to the
Toronto gathering. Analyzing the Ice Man’s
hair, Macko found that contrary to the initial
theory that he was a hunter, “There is little
evidence he ate meat––and that was true for
some significant time, at least months if not
years before his death.”

Monsanto accused of coercion

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, November 1998:

OTTAWA––Members of the
Canadian Senate Standing Committee on
Agriculture and Forestry “sat dumbfounded”
on October 22, wrote Ottawa Citizen reporter
James Baxter, “as Dr. Margaret Haydon told
of a meeting when officials from Monsanto
Inc.,” maker of the milk production stimulant
rBST, “made an offer of between $1 million
and $2 million to the scientists from Health
Canada––an offer that she told the senators
could only have been interpreted as a bribe.
Dr. Haydon,” Baxter wrote, “also recounted
how notes and files critical of scientific data
provided by Monsanto were stolen from a
locked filing cabinet in her office.”
Reportedly responded Senator
Eugene Whelan, “I can’t even believe I’m in
Canada––what the hell kind of a system do we
have here?”

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