Obituaries

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2011:

“I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The
evil that men do lives after them. The good is
oft interred with their bones.” –William
Shakespeare
Princess Antoinette Monegasque of Monaco,
90, died on March 18, 2011 at the Princess
Grace Hospital in Monaco. The elder sister of
Prince Rainier of Monaco, Antoinette was best
known during the first two-thirds of her life for
involvement in scandalous liaisons, failed
marriages, the death of her third husband–ten
years younger than she –after just six weeks of
marriage, and a failed attempt to put her three
children born from wedlock ahead of Rainier in
the royal succession. Exiled from Monaco in the

Obituaries

BOOKS: The Bond

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2011:
The Bond: Our Kinship with Animals, Our Call to Defend Them
by Wayne Pacelle
William Morrow/Harper Collins
(10 East 53rd St., New York, NY 10022), 2011.
432 pages, hardcover. $26.95.
Wayne Pacelle, in The Bond: Our Kindship with Animals, Our
Call to Defend Them, becomes the third president of the Humane
Society of the U.S. to produce a book during his tenure, but the
first whose book is a work of sole authorship.

BOOKS: The Ape House

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2011:
The Ape House by Sara Gruen
Spiegel & Grau
(c/o Random House, 1745 Broadway, New York, NY 10019), 2010.
336 pages, hardcover. $26.00.
Water for the Elephants author Sara Gruen and her new
publisher, the Spiegel & Grau imprint at Random House, may have
rushed The Ape House into print to have it in stores coinciding with
the April 22, 2011 release of the film version of Water for the
Elephants, starring Reese Witherspoon.

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BOOKS: Finding Jack

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2011:
Finding Jack by Gareth Crocker
St. Martin’s Press
(c/o MacMillan, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010), 2001.
289 pages, hardcover. $23.99
Finding Jack, by South African first-time novelist Gareth
Crocker, is at least the fifth book in 10 years to explore the fate
of the approximately 4,000 scout and sentry dogs used by U.S.,
Australian, and South Vietnamese forces during the Vietnam War–a
story seldom told during the first 25 years after the U.S. left
Vietnam in March 1975, after a five-year phased withdrawal of troops.

GoDaddy CEO is told where to go for killing elephant

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2011:
Purporting to be practicing elephant conservation by shooting
an elephant in Zimbabwe on March 8, 2011, posting video of the
shooting to a web site a week later, GoDaddy.com web domain
registration baron Bob Parsons did help to raise some funds to help
elephants. NameCheap, a GoDaddy rival, offered to donate $1.00
from the $4.99 price of arranging a web name transfer to Save The
Elephants, of Nairobi, Kenya. The promotion raised $20,433.

Finally some legislative action in Pennsylvania vs. pigeon shoots

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2011:
HARRISBURG–The Pennsylvania Senate Judiciary Committee on
April 12, 2011 voted 11-3 to send a bill to ban pigeon shoots to the
full state senate for consideration.
The passage of a state bill from committee to legislative
consideration rarely attracts national notice, but the action on SB
626, introduced by state senator Patrick Browne, caused the
National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legis-lative Action to
issue a membership alert contending that SB 626 is about “banning all
hunting.”

Trade magazine Feedstuffs offers first livestock industry critique of GAP standards

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2011:

MINNETONKA, Minnesota–The March 28, 2011 edition of the
agribusiness trade magazine Feedstuffs offered the first extensive
critique from within the conventional livestock industry of the
five-step Global Animal Partnership standards for raising cattle,
pigs, and chickens for slaughter.
Introduced on November 15, 2010, the GAP standards were
rolled out in January 2011 by the 300-store Whole Foods Markets
chain, whose founder, John Mackey, also founded GAP.

Contraceptive research firm SenesTech splits with “600 Million”

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2011:
PORTLAND, Oregon–The Arizona-based contraceptive research
firm SenesTech and the Florida-based nonprofit 600 Million Stray Dogs
Need You are no longer working together to develop the product that
600 Million has touted to prospective donors for more than a year as
“‘super’ birth control pellets for animals.”
Both organizations remain involved in seeking non-surgical
contraceptive products.

“We screwed up,” admits VegNews after QuarryGirl exposé of use of meat photos

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, May 2011:

HOLLYWOOD, SAN FRANCISCO–“Do you like
looking at pictures of meat?” opened the
Hollywood vegan blog www.QuarryGirl.com on April
13, 2011.
“How about a juicy beef burger, covered
in egg mayonnaise with cow fat dripping off?”
QuarryGirl continued. “Perhaps some soft, meaty
chunks of chicken breast in chicken stock and
cream? What about a pork sausage, oozing in pig
fat, fresh from the slaughterhouse?
“You can find all this in the nation’s
premier print and online vegan magazine,
VegNews,” QuarryGirl charged. “Veg News has
written tens (possibly hundreds) of articles
extolling the virtues of a vegan lifestyle,
while purchasing rock-bottom priced stock photos
of meat, eggs, dairy, and other completely
non-vegan things.”

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