Give them liberty or give them fish

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July 1996:

KEY WEST, Florida––It’s all over now but the blame-throwing. Bogie and
Bacall, the former Ocean Reef Club dolphins, are back at large in the Indian River Lagoon,
where they were captured in 1987, unidentifiable because someone on the night of May 17
cut the plastic fence forming their sea pen to release them just before they were to be freezebranded
to facilitate follow-up study of their progress.
Luther and Jake, two former Navy dolphins, are back in the Navy, and Buck, the
third of that group, will rejoin the Navy marine mammal program when and if he recovers
from an infected deep cut of unknown origin. Luther had a similar but less serious cut.

Puma panic

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, July 1996:

Worthy of a film expose in the tradition of Reefer Madness,
the hyperbolic 1936 documentary that alerted the world to the perils of
marijuana, PUMA PANIC!!! could be coming soon to a suburb near you!
Causes include the possible presence of a puma within a few
dozen miles; public reminders that pumas eat pets and people; hunting
advocates blaming the problem on an alleged lack of people using
hounds and telemetry to track pumas, then blow them out of trees in
such a manner as to save intact heads for the wall; and wildlife officials
engaging in bizarre rituals to avert the threat, sometimes reminiscent of
animal sacrifice to appease an alleged dragon.
For instance, with the approval of Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife biologist John Thiebes, volunteer trapper Richard Stahl
circa May 13 live-trapped a purported feral cat, fed the cat for three
days, and then staked him out in a small cage as live bait for a puma
who purportedly stalked two boys near Medford on April 3, six weeks
earlier; killed several other cats; and killed a dachshund on April 29.

OBITUARIES

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1996:

Garth Williams, 84, illustrator
of the E.B. White storybooks Stuart Little
(1945) and Charlotte’s Web (1952), died
May 8 at home in Guanajuato, Mexico.
Raised on a New Jersey farm, Williams
was not an outspoken animal advocate; but
his drawings for Charlotte’s Web, with his
daughter Fiona as the model for Fern, the
girl who saved the runt pig Wilbur, have
helped influence generations of children to
think more kindly of spiders––and think
twice about eating pigs. Williams’ book
The Rabbits’ Wedding (1958) depicted the
marriage of a white rabbit and a black rabbit––earning
the denunciation of the White
Citizens Council of Alabama, and removal
from general circulation by the Alabama
Public Library Service Division.

Obituaries

BOOKS: Eat Right, Live Longer

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1996:

Eat Right, Live Longer:
Using the Natural Power of Foods to Age-Proof Your Body
by Neal Barnard, M.D.; recipes and menus by Jennifer Raymond, M.S.
Harmony Books (201 East 50th St., New York, NY 10022)
1995, 388 pages, $24.00, hardcover.

Neal Barnard has written yet another
book connecting diet and health, drawing an
analogy between Renaissance Art and the
human body: it is not time but lack of care that
can prematurely destroy the two. Like the art
he references, Dr. Barnard’s work seems to
get better with age.

BOOKS: Toxic sludge is good for you!

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1996:

Toxic sludge is good for you!
Lies, damn lies, and the public relations industry
by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton
Common Courage Press (Box 702, Monroe, ME 04951), 1995. 236 pages, $16.95.

Toxic Sludge Is Good For You maintains
that public relations groups, backed by the
money and influence of major business and
industry, have completely co-opted every
good and noble concept society has, and have
calculatingly twisted them for the sole purpose
of maintaining the status quo of Business As
Usual––meaning forest clear cuts, unregulated
use of environmental poisons, uncontrolled
“harvesting” of natural resources, and unrestricted
meddling in the politics of other countries,
all the while convincing John Q. Public
that this is responsible social policy.

COURT CALENDAR

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1996:

Crimes vs. humans
The “Lords of Chaos,”
charged May 4 with the April 30
thrill-killing of music teacher Mark
Schwebes at his home in Pine Manor,
Florida, began a two-week spree of
arson, robbery and mayhem by burning
two large macaws alive in their
cage at The Hut, a local restaurant.
Facing murder charges are K e v i n
Foster, 18; Christopher Black, 18;
Derek Shields, 18; and P e t e r
Magnotti, 17. A fifth gang member,
Christopher Burnett, 17, is
charged only with conspiracy to commit
armed robbery.

BOOKS: Tools for humane work

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1996:

Many useful and interesting publications don’t come from
major publishers––because their topics are considered “too special –
ized,” or their authors are too obscure to attract commercial atten –
tion. These low-budget, do-it-yourself books could never become
bestsellers, but ANIMAL PEOPLE readers may wear them to tatters
with repeated reference:

Fishing: An Activist’s Guide. Price: “a small donation”
to the Animal Rights Coalition, POB 862, Chanhassen, MN
55317. 20 pages, 1996.
Chicago Animal Rights Coalition cofounder Steve
Hindi––whose similarly named group is not the same as the publisher
of Fishing: An Activist’s Guide––shocked ANIMAL PEOPLE readers
in May with his guest column outlining, as a former fisher, the
inhumanity of fishing. The shock for too many was not that Hindi had
done things he now finds appalling, but that he now finds appalling
things routinely done to fish, that even most people who care about
animals haven’t thought about deeply.

Twiss again, like she did in Mississippi

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1996:

HARRISON, Arkansas––The already tangled case of alleged
exotic cat collector Catherine Graham Twiss, 48, twisted again on May
15 when Boone County sheriff’s deputy Jim Clement found 10 big cats in
tiny cages without food or water at Twiss’ rented home in Hill Top,
Gaither Mountain. A dead leopard was found in the same cage as a starving
lion. Twiss was charged with 11 counts of cruelty to animals and
jailed for lack of a bond variously reported as either $2,500 or $25,000.
Twiss and her husband Lawrence Twiss were already involved in
the bankruptcy of an Arkansas tire store, and were facing cruelty charges
filed in Philadelphia, Mississippi, by Doll Stanley-Branscum of In
Defense of Animals over the treatment of 46 lions, 21 tigers, six
lion/tiger hybrids, five pumas, five bears and a variety of other animals on
an 800-acre rented farm. Landowner Manuel Goforth ordered the animals
removed about a month later. IDA bid on the animals at the Twiss’ bankruptcy
proceeding, but was outbid by Jim Cook, of Oxford, Mississippi,
whom Stanley then offered to assist. Twiss meanwhile fled on May 5
with apparently as many of the big cats as she could pack into her vehicle.

Foreign zoos fight the budget crunch

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, June 1996:

MONTE CARLO, Monaco––
TV star Joanna Lumley led a May 8 protest
against conditions at the Animal Garden,
the private menagerie kept by Prince
Rainier of Monaco, which Born Free
Foundation president Virginia McKenna
describes as “a slum zoo stuck in the cliff
below the palace.”
According to John Gripper,
DVM, in a recent report to BFF, “tormented
and distressed” animals are kept in cages
far too small for their species. “The animals
are listless and showing stereotypical
behavior,” he wrote. “One monkey
chewed its own tail out of boredom,” and
at the time of Gripper’s visit, “had not been
treated. This suggests to me,” he continued,
“that vets are not regularly monitoring
the animals.”

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