BOOKS: The Beekeeper’s Bible

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2011:

The Beekeeper’s Bible
by Richard A. Jones & Sharon Sweeney-Lynch
Stewart Tabori & Chang
(c/o Abrams, 115 West 18th St., New York, NY 10011), 2011.
412 pages, hardcover. $35.00.

Reputedly living on a diet of milk, honey, and locusts,
commonly interpreted to mean locust beans rather than the insects,
John the Baptist was for centuries regarded as a proto-vegetarian,
beginning long before the word “vegetarian” existed. The definiton
of “vegetarian” is “one who eats no animals,” not “one who eats no
food of animal origin.”

BOOKS: Your Dog is Your Mirror

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2011:

Your Dog is Your Mirror:
The Emotional Capacity of Our Dogs and Ourselves
by Kevin Behan
New World Library (14 Pameron Way, Novato, CA 94949), 2011.
304 pages, hardcover. $23.95.

Dog trainer Kevin Behan draws from his lengthy training
career to present Your Dog is Your Mirror: The Emotional Capacity of
Our Dogs and Ourselves, his second book.

BOOKS: World Without Fish

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2011:

World Without Fish by Mark Kurlansky
Workman Publishing (225 Varick St., 9th floor, New York, NY
10014), 2011. 181 pages, paperback. $16.95.

No sharks, or catfish or major fish predators such as
dolphins? It’s possible, says Mark Kurlansky in World Without Fish,
produced for a young adult audience.

Northern Ireland gets new anti-cruelty law

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2011:

STORMONT, Northern Ireland –The first update of the
Northern Ireland Welfare of Animals Act since 1972 cleared the
Northern Ireland Assembly on February 22, 2011. It is expected to
take effect in April 2011, after the formality of royal assent.
Ulster SPCA director Stephen Philpott called the update “A
complete sellout,” because it gives law enforcement authority for
non-farmed animals to local councils, as in Britain. Such authority
had by default devolved to the Ulster SPCA.

Europe
Law

High-profile cases not criminally prosecuted

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2011:

BROOKLYN, N.Y.; SAN ANDREAS, Calif. ;
WARMINISTER, Pa.–Prosecutors around the U.S.
have warned in recent months that steep budget
cuts would result in more cases being dropped
instead of testing evidentiary issues by going to
trial.
Three controversial dispositions of
politically sensitive animal-related cases in
mid-March 2011 officially had nothing to do with
budget, but may be illustrative of how cases can
be shunted aside.

Thoroughly troubled Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2011:
Saratoga Springs, N.Y.–The Thoroughbred
Retirement Foundation “has been so slow or
delinquent in paying for the upkeep of the more
than 1,000 horses under its care that scores have
wound up starved and neglected, some fatally,”
charged New York Times horse racing writer Joe
Drape on March 18 2011.

NJ Horse Angels agrees to disband & repay misused funds

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2011:

NEWARK–The New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs on March
24, 2011 announced that an entity called NJ Horse Angels and
founders Sharon Catalano-Crumb, 54, and Frank Wikoff, 55, both of
Phillipsburg, New Jersey, “will repay $57,129 in misused donations
to the Division of Consumer Affairs. The Division in turn will donate
the funds to registered non-profit horse rescue organizations.”
The amount to be repaid was found by the Charities
Registration & Investigation Section of the Division of Consumer
Affairs to have been “misappropriated by Catalano-Crumb and used by
her for trips to Atlantic City casinos, personal shopping, meals,
pre-paid phone cards [and] also diverted in the form of cash
withdrawals. Some donations were used for horse rescue,” the
Division acknowledged.

Earthquake, tsunami, nuclear disaster, & H5N1 avian flu, too

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, April 2011:
CHIBA, Japan–Chiba prefecture Governor Kensaku Morita told a
March 13, 2011 press conference that the earthquake and
tsunami-ravaged region is also fighting an outbreak of H5N1 avian
flu–potentially lethal to humans.
Chiba, second among Japanese prefectures in egg production,
lies between Tokyo and the prefectures to the northeast that had the
most displaced people and animals. Living in severely crowded
conditions, with disrupted sanitation, inadequate food, and often
little protection from the elements, many victims–both human and
animal–were already in weakened health due to effects of the tsunami
and, in some cases, perhaps exposure to radiation from the
malfunctioning Fukushima nuclear complex.

Are Serengeti highway proponents practicing “Shoot, shovel, & shut up”?

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, March 2011:
Dar es Salaam–“Shoot, shovel, and shut
up,” the creed of ranchers and land developers
opposed to the U.S. Endangered Species Act, may
have reached Tanzania. But nobody knows for sure.
What is known is that a confidential
government Environmental & Social Impact
Assessment Draft Report on a proposed highway
that would bisect Serengeti National Park in
October 2010 identified the May 2010
reintroduction of five black rhinos to Serengeti
as a potential obstacle.

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