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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2012:
AHA rebuilds staff
WASHINGTON D.C.— American Humane Association president Robin Ganzert on January 18, 2012 announced the hirings of former Morris Animal Foundation executive vice president Paul Raybould as senior philanthropic advisor and of Sean Hawkins as director of strategic partnerships. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2012:
Westminster dog show drops Pedigree over pro-adoption ads
NEW YORK CITY— Mars Petcare U.S., maker of Pedigree brand dog food, lost the 2012 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show television advertising contract to Nestle Purina Pet Care, but won the publicity war after Westminster spokesperson David Frei on February 10, 2012 confirmed to Ben Walker of Associated Press that Pedigree was dropped for airing tear-jerking commercials that promoted shelter adoptions of mutts during the 2011 Westminster show. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2012:
Seen as “normal” in U.S., “bully breed” attacks on wildlife raise concern in U.K.
DENVER, HONOLULU, LONDON–KUSA/Denver television news anchor Kyle Dyer on February 8, 2012 suffered facial injuries requiring 70 stitches from an 85-pound Argentine mastiff named Gladiator Maximus, called Max for short, whom she was petting during a live interview with Lakewood, Colorado firefighter Tyler Sugaski. Sugaski two days earlier rescued Max after he fell through thin ice while chasing a coyote. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2012:
Veg or Non-Veg? India at the Crossroads
by Mia MacDonald & Sangamithra Iyer
Brighter Green, 2012. Free 46-page download: <http://www.brightergreen.org/files/india_bg_pp_2011.pdf>
Brighter Green founder Mia MacDonald and associate Sangamithra Iyer ask, “Can India provide enough food for its people as well as support hundreds of millions of cows and buffalo and billions of chickens in increasingly industrialized conditions? And can it do so while protecting its natural resources and the global climate, and ensuring progress in human development?” Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2012:
Festive tofu roast (serves 15-20)
By Kim Bartlett
Start with six pounds (96 ounces) of extra firm tofu-the type sold in plastic wraps, not in tubs of water. If you can only obtain tofu that is sold in tubs of water, you will have to mash it up well, put it in a cheesecloth-lined colander, put a heavy (5-pound) weight on it, and leave it for several hours (or overnight) so that as much water as possible drains out of the tofu. Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2012:
Vegan is love:
Having a heart and taking action
Written & illustrated by Ruby Roth
North Atlantic Books (c/o Random House
(1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019), 2011.
40 pages, hardcover. $16.95.
Vegan is Love delves into animal mistreatment at zoos, circuses, marine parks and aquariums–all common destinations for schools and families. “You do not have to be an expert to know that animals do not want to balance on balls or jump through hoops of fire,” says author Ruby Roth. Roth explains that Orca whales live in the wild and asks how can we learn “from prisoners in a pool?” Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2012:
Beaver & Climate Change Adaptation in North America: A Simple, Cost-Effective Strategy
by Bryan Bird, WildEarth Guardians, Mary O’Brien, Grand Canyon Trust, & Mike Petersen, The Lands Council
Free 55-page download from: <www.wildearthguardians.org/site/DocServer/Beaver_and_Climate_Change_Final.pdf?docID=3482>
“The reestablishment of American beaver and its habitat is a viable and cost-effective climate change adaptation strategy,” begins Beaver & Climate Change Adaptation in North America. “Due to the unique hydrological engineering accomplished by dam-building beaver, support and reestablishment of beaver constitute an important climate change adaptation tool in the United States.” Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2012:
Behavior of North American Mammals
by Mark Elbroch & Kurt Rinehart
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (22 Berkeley St., Boston, MA 02116), 2011. 374 pages, hardcover. $35.00.
“Behavior of North American Mammals,” says the publisher’s flack sheet, “is a guide not for identifying mammals, but to understanding what they do,” including “information on seasonal activity, food and foraging, home range and habitat, communication, courtship, and mating, development and dispersal of young, interactions with their own species, and interactions with other species.” Read more
From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2012:
CHICAGO-–“Americans will consume 12.2% less meat and poultry in 2012 than they did in 2007,” the U.S. Department of Agriculture projected in December 2011.
Analysts ranging from the commodities trading firm CMI Group and the Daily Livestock Report mostly attributed falling meat consumption to higher feed grain prices, which have made meat and poultry more expensive. Food writers, however, tended to note that the number of self-declared vegetarians in the U.S. has increased from 1% in 1971 to 3.4% in 2009. Read more