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Creating
a Violence-Free Future
By Yale Wishnick
The influential 18th-century scientific writings of Francis Bacon are
filled with violent images of domination and control. Bacon, considered
the father of the scientific method, describes the natural world as something
to be "enslaved, bound into service, forced out of her natural state and
molded." While scientific breakthroughs have allowed humans to gain
considerable advantage over the environment, there has also been the
unveiling of a natural community filled with destruction and ruin.
Bacon's science can be seen in the pollution of our soil and water, acid
rain, the decrease of the ozone layer, the destruction of the rain forest
and the
ongoing abuse of non-human animals. The result has been the devaluation
of life, with all of its individuality and subtleties.
The notion that life is naturally violent has generally dominated the
basic values and belief systems of the human community. Today, Bacon's
thinking has manifested itself in a variety of forms, including the highly
competitive and violent sports and entertainment industries, excessive
greed
and consumerism in the marketplace, and an educational system preoccupied
with tests and measurements, not learning and understanding. More
specifically, society's institutionalizing of non-human animal abuse through
factory farming and laboratory experimentation represents the cruelest
aspect of the scientific revolution. Only through the efforts of
organizations such as PSYETA have humane and compassionate methods for
the acquisition of scientific knowledge been considered and acted upon.
Still, as we begin to consider a less violent, more compassionate way of
life, Bacon's ghost casts an ominous shadow upon us called genetic engineering. You can order Animal
Grace: Entering a Spiritual Relationship with
Our Fellow Creatures from PSYETA.
While genetic engineering promises a world perfect by design, it also
holds to the violent vision and images described by Bacon and his descendants.
Decisions by people working in biotechnology about what genes to alter,
delete and insert from the heredity codes of various species have created
a public perception that genetic engineering can resolve all of society's
ills. This view is articulated by the late Sir Julian Huxley:
[F]or any major advance in national and international efficiency
we cannot depend on haphazard tinkering with social and political symptoms
or ad hoc patching up of the world's political machinery, or even on improving
education, but must rely increasingly on raising the genetic level of man's
intellectual and practical abilities.
While Huxley's position is popular with sociobiologists, an alternative
view is emerging in the scientific community. Fritjof Capra, an advocate
for environmental education, suggests we are at a turning point in human
history. Capra contends that our rush to follow the reductionist
model of genetics would not resolve societal problems and instead would
destroy the delicate web of relationships that sustains all of life.
Lynn Margulis, a leader in the field of microbiology, supports this view
that life is a network and suggests that the portrayal of life as a competition
among individuals and species is inaccurate and has resulted in misleading
violent images and symbols.
Creating a Violence-Free Network
To create a new vision for how we perceive and respond to violence,
the California Teachers Association, an affiliate of the National Education
Association, invited a diverse set of school and community stakeholders
to a two-day search conference titled Creating Violence-Free Public Schools
and Communities. A major objective of the conference was to establish
a dialogue on violence with the hope that a confluence of individuals,
given sufficient freedom to participate in self-organizing tasks, could
create a violence-free network of individuals committed to violence-free
themes and action plans.
One group of individuals defined violence as a state of mind and not
a specific behavioral intention. For these individuals violence was more
contextual--produced and reproduced by a combination of words, thoughts
and images. Others suggested that our schools were being conditioned
to accept violence as a necessary evil. To reverse this trend, group
members recommended designing our schools so that all ideas are respected
and valued. Individuals voiced the view that the interdependent nature
of life should be part of the curriculum and that compassion is as important
as individual responsibility and initiative.
For a few stakeholders, compassion was characterized as the opposite
of violence. Compassion was equated with sensitivity and a regard
for individual dignity and self-worth. Others felt that compassion
should be broadened to include the natural community. Specifically,
several participants felt that children need to learn the value of both
human and non-human animals. Other participants went so far as to
suggest that the human family was simply one part of a larger family, which
included all living beings.
Conference Themes
Toward the end of the search conference, participants were asked to
make sense of their experiences and determine what steps they wanted to
take next. Two questions provided the context for this inquiry:
what themes would help guide the creation of violence-free schools and
communities, and where did stakeholders want to devote their time and energy.
Themes developed at the conference included ...
(1) teacher-community advisory committee on humane education;
(2) organizing around the 2000: Year of the Humane Child campaign;
(3) violence-free awareness programs;
(4) bias-free nutritional information; and
(5) alternatives to dissection.
The guiding themes and supporting action plans developed at the conference
provided a conceptual framework for participants to return to their communities
and assume a direct, more responsive role in responding to violence.
In addition, because the themes are consistent with PSYETA's overall objectives,
they can help as a catalyst to enlist and motivate individuals in support
of a more compassionate, caring society. The themes can also help
participants interact with each other around common concerns and issues
associated with violence. As a result, a follow-up conference, supported
by PSYETA, is planned for November 18, 2000. Finally, in developing
a violence-free network to include all of life, participants redefined
violence and, thus, their relationships to both the human and non-human
animal communities.
Yale Wishnick, Ph.D., a member of PSYETA's Board of Directors, is
an organizational development specialist for the California Teachers Association.
Working for Animals at Work
By Ken Shapiro and
David Cantor
PSYETA receives many requests
for guidance from people in choosing a college
major, graduate study program, or first job.
They want to know how they can work in their
areas of interest and, at the same time,
advocate effectively for animals. In the past,
after a full work day, many of us spent the rest
of our waking hours at animal work--for many,
the only truly meaningful pursuit.
The recognition that,
unfortunately, animal exploitation permeates
virtually every aspect of work and leisure life
has changed that limited and often frustrating
arrangement. Increasingly, animal advocates
take animal issues to the workplace with
them.Often, they express concerns in areas not
inherent to the job, demanding vegan items on
the lunch or office-party menu. Some provide
services that increasingly large and
corporate-style animal advocacy organizations
require--still not fully integrating animal work
with their jobs.
However, many advocates
creatively integrate their concern for animals
more directly into the work at which they make a
living when that work is not animal advocacy
per se. Following is a list of some career
tracks that can provide satisfying and powerful
advocacy platforms and the potential to bring
more animal-friendly practices to the
professions themselves:
(1) Nutritionists, dieticians,
and cooks can inform employers and clients of
benefits of a vegan diet and can help develop
vegan products and recipes.
(2) Travel agents can offer
information on animal-friendly accommodations
and restaurants and warn clients about inhumane
tourist "attractions."
(3) Investment analysts can
advise as to animal-friendly investments.
(4) Educators can work to end
classroom animal dissection and the use of live
animals in classrooms and laboratories, teach
compassion for animals, take part in humane
education, and ensure that animal-related
aspects of courses receive necessary attention,
for example, by teaching The Sexual Politics
of Meat in a women's studies, sociology, or
philosophy course, Beyond Beef in a U.S.
or world history course, The Human Nature of
Birds in a biology course, and so on.
(5) Reporters and broadcasters
can inform the public about animal abuse and
exploitation; help ensure that the public
receives more regular and more detailed
information on these problems than in the past;
and ensure that editors and other news decision
makers read animal-related literature and learn
the importance of humane treatment of animals.
(6) Attorneys can provide legal
assistance to animal advocates, animal rights
organizations, and animal shelters, sanctuaries,
and rehabilitators; help ensure that persons who
violate state anti-cruelty statutes are
prosecuted to the full extent of the law; work
to improve anti-cruelty statutes; inform
attorneys, judges, social workers, and others in
the legal system of the connection between
violence against animals and against human
beings; teach animal law courses; advance the
cause of legal personhood for animals; and
otherwise improve animals' treatment under the
law.
(7) Computer scientists can help
design dissection-alternative and other
compassionate educational software.
(8) Veterinarians and veterinary
technicianscan refuse to take part in animal
mutilations such as ear cropping and tail
docking; insist that animals be spayed or
neutered and educate as to the dog and cat
overpopulation problem; take part in low-cost
community spay-neuter programs; teach people to
keep domestic cats indoors to protect the cats
and the countless free-roaming birds and other
animals they injure and kill when let outside;
report violence against animals to humane
officers and domestic violence authorities;
speak out against factory farming, inhumane
slaughter, rodeos, dog- and cockfighting, dog
racing, and other practices injurious and fatal
to animals; provide written statements in
support of animal advocates' activities; and
teach, by word and example, compassionate care
and understanding of all animals.
(9) Physicians and other
biomedical professionals can practice and
promote disease prevention through a vegan diet;
practice and promote clinical and
epidemiological research over animal
experimentation; oppose dog labs, physiological
demonstrations using turtles, and other abuses
of animals in medical or science education;
speak out against threats to public health from
factory farms and other animal-exploitation
polluters such as the leather industry; and
broaden people's concept of health to include
that of all beings and ecosystems by reminding
them of their own healthful practices'
contributions.
(10) Writers, editors, and
researchers can apply their skills to animal
cruelty problems in their communities and
elsewhere by providing information and helping
animal advocates inform the public.
(11) Psychologists can apply
knowledge of the role of compassion for animals
in mental health and interpersonal relations;
work as humane animal behaviorists; provide
companion animal grief counseling following loss
of animal friends; teach and urge colleagues to
teach without using animals in classroom
demonstrations; conduct research without using
animals invasively; and urge colleagues to
support PSYETA.
All activities that promote
animals' well-being and all support of animal
rights organizations are and should be greatly
appreciated, regardless of the extent to which
the workplace is involved. Even the seemingly
minor act of handing a friend or relative an
animal organization's newsletter or a book can
have enormously positive consequences. As our
movement increasingly succeeds in creating a
better world for animals, all who have provided
the building blocks of success will find each
breakthrough deeply rewarding, and all will know
that little could have been achieved without
every gesture, large and small. We wish
everyone the best of success in all efforts for
animals and will gladly provide whatever
information and assistance we can.
Who We Are
Ken Shapiro,
Executive Director
Mary Lou Randour, Program Director
Susie Burt, Development Director
Fran Albrecht, Copy Editor
David Cantor, PSYETA News Editor
Kadd Stephens, Administrative and
Technical Asst.
Jeanette Bass, Webmaster
Members of the Board
Sudhir P.
Amembal, President
Lorin Lindner, Ph.D., Vice-President
Emmanuel Bernstein, Ph.D., Cofounder
Susan Curtiss, Ph.D.
Lynne Dow, Ph.D.
Deborah H. Fouts, M.S.
Carole Rayburn, Ph.D.
F. Barbara Orlans, Ph.D.
Aphrodite Clamar-Cohen, Ph.D.
Yale Wishnick, Ph.D.
Board of Advisors
Roger S. Fouts,
Ph.D.
Jane Goodall, Ph.D.
Birute Galdikas, Ph.D.
Peter Singer, D.Phil.
Prohibition of Routine
Ascites Monoclonal
Antibody Production: A
Successful
Application of the Alternatives
Approach
to Biomedical Research
By John E. McArdle, Ph.D.
In the Spring 1998 issue of
PSYETA News, Dr. McArdle reported on the
Alternative Research & Development
Foundation/American Anti-Vivisection Society
petition to the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
aimed at ending use of the cruel ascites method
of producing monoclonal antibodies in the bodies
of mice and other small animals at NIH-funded
laboratories. "Ascites" means "bag" in Greek,
and many U.S. laboratories have continued to use
animals as if they were bags to fill with
antibody-containing fluid, despite many European
countries' having switched to non-animal
alternatives. Due to a recent historic victory
in this effort, we asked Dr. McArdle to provide
the following update. The previous article,
which provides historical background on
production methods, is available from PSYETA.
By 1996, in vitro production
of monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) was the method
of choice in Europe, with several countries
already banning the routine use of the inhumane
ascites method that involves collection of fluid
in the abdomens of small animals and traumatic
draining of that fluid. That year, a group of
experts in immunology and the in vitro sciences
met at the European Center for the Validation of
Alternative Methods. After careful consideration
of all uses for MAbs and all available in vivo
and in vitro production options, the panel
concluded, "[F]or all levels of MAb production
there are one or more in vitro methods which are
not only scientifically acceptable, but are also
reasonably and practically available; and as a
consequence, in vivo production can no longer be
justified and should cease."
Based on the results of that
meeting and earlier ones in Germany,
Switzerland, and the Netherlands, the
Alternatives Research & Development Foundation (ARDF)
and the American Anti-Vivisection Society (AAVS)
decided it was time for an ascites prohibition
to be enacted in the United States. The
National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Office
for Protection from Research Risks (OPRR), and
individual research institutions had policies
regarding ascites production, but no uniform
national policy existed, and use of in vitro MAb
alternatives was not emphasized.
In Europe, prohibitions on
ascites and emphasis on alternatives primarily
resulted from activities within the biomedical
research community and specifically MAb users.
It was clear that such changes would only be
generated in the U.S. by the actions of animal
advocacy organizations.
The ARDF viewed MAb production
as the perfect test case to determine how
serious NIH and the biomedical research industry
were about using alternatives when their use was
scientifically clearly the best and most readily
available option. We also recognized that the
switch from in vivo to in vitro MAb production
would require development of an inexpensive,
low-technology in vitro replacement for ascites
that could be used by any investigator in any
laboratory using readily available equipment and
expertise. That would eliminate any defense of
ascites based on cost or
convenience.
Whereas investigators in the
U.S. are only required to consider the
use of alternatives, researchers in European
Union countries are subject to the specific
requirement that "an experiment shall not be
performed [using an animal] if another
scientifically satisfactory method of obtaining
the result sought, not entailing the use of an
animal, is reasonably and practically
available." However, the NIH Revitalization Act
of 1993 required NIH to take actions to promote
the use of alternatives.
The development of new in
vitro methods, European ascites prohibition
precedents, and the existence of a specific
pro-alternatives legislative mandate all
combined to support the ARDF and AAVS Antibodies
Without Animals Campaign to end the use of
ascites in the U.S., which we initiated with a
petition to NIH. NIH rejected our first
petition, yet agreed that "many in vitro methods
are scientifically acceptable and practically
available for the production of MAbs." NIH
cited eleven areas of "critical" research
activities that it claimed required use of the
ascites method.
As a direct result of that
first petition, NIH and OPRR, in association
with the Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives
to Animal Testing (CAAT), convened a symposium
to examine the entire MAb production issue.
No such meeting had ever before taken place in
response to the work of an animal advocacy
organization.
Shortly after the NIH/OPRR/CAAT
symposium, the OPRR issued a "dear colleague"
letter to all U.S. NIH-funded research
facilities. This advisory letter was equivalent
to new NIH regulations; it confirmed that the
routine use of ascites was no longer acceptable
and noted that failure to adequately consider in
vitro MAb production methods would endanger an
institution's future NIH funding. The
letter failed to provide guidance for IACUCs on
how to implement the new policies.
Close analysis demonstrated
that NIH's scientific arguments in defense of
ascites were not valid. NIH either
misrepresented the actual situation or
fabricated unrelated examples. Therefore, the
ARDF/AAVS filed a second petition with NIH,
citing its failure to provide valid reasons not
to prohibit use of the ascites method.
In response to the second
petition and the challenge to its scientific
arguments, NIH convened a special panel of the
National Academy of Science (NAS)--another first
for the U.S. animal advocacy movement. Based on
the NAS report and concurrent developments
related to the use of alternative MAb production
methods, NIH released a more positive response
to the second petition, indicating that NIH ...
• strongly supports the
adoption of tissue culture methods for MAb
production as the default method unless there
are clearscientific reasons why they cannot be
used;
• concurs with the need to
provide rapid exchange of information on in
vitro MAb production to investigators and IACUCs;
and
• agrees to allocate funds to
ensure that critical technologies for in vitro
production of MAbs are advanced as an agency
priority.
Those were major
concessions from NIH, and they supported the
positions taken in the ARDF/AAVS petitions. MAb
alternatives are now officially promoted
by NIH and all of its subdivisions and are
required of all institutions and
investigators producing MAbs and receiving
federal research grants and subsidies.
Because of NIH's factual
errors and failure to provide detailed guidance
to IACUCs, the ARDF sponsored an international
conference on monoclonal antibody production,
from which an in vitro monoclonal antibody
conversion manual was created. That document
provides the most comprehensive, up-to-date
information on MAb production and use, as well
as detailed instructions to grant review
committees and IACUCs for examining research
proposals that include use of MAbs.
Most importantly, for the
first time an issue mainly involving use of rats
and mice received significant attention and
resolution. Those animals are usually the most
neglected, partly due to their exclusion from
coverage under the federal Animal Welfare Act
(AWA). As a direct result of the Antibodies
Without Animals Campaign, the ARDF filed a
petition and lawsuit to require that rats, mice,
and birds be protected under the AWA.
John McArdle is director of
the Alternatives Research & Development
Foundation. He has worked to end animal abuse
since 1981.
PSYETA Program Director
"Booked" Since Publication of Animal Grace
PSYETA Program Director Mary
Lou Randour, Ph.D., has been busy with book
signings, interviews, and other engagements
since publication of her new book Animal Grace:
Entering a Spiritual Relationship with Our
Fellow Creatures. (See PSYETA News,
Winter-Spring 2000, and this issue, page 11.)
Just after the book began
appearing on shelves on March 1, 2000, the
excitement began. April 10th found Mary Lou
providing her "John Hancock" at Border's Books
in Tampa, Florida, and on the same day appearing
on The Kathy Fountain Show, a half-hour talk
show with call-ins on Tampa's Fox-TV affiliate.
It went so well that the host invited Mary Lou
back on the show. On the 16th, she was back
near her home turf at the Washington, D.C.,
bookstore Politics & Prose.
Three days later, she gave a
presentation at the Women's Alliance for Ethics,
Theology, and Ritual, WATER, in Silver Spring,
Maryland. A woman who attended gave Animal
Grace to a friend. At a later meeting she told
Mary Lou her friend had read the book and said,
"I'll never eat meat again." Also in April,
Mary Lou appeared on Shelton Harrison Walden's
Pacifica Radio show, Walden's Pond, produced at
New York City's WBAI. PSYETA gained two new
members who had heard the show.
On May 21st, Mary Lou spoke to
the Adult Forum of St. John Episcopal Church in
Chevy Chase, Maryland. As a result, a member of
the audience is using Animal Grace in his
sixth-grade Sunday school class. Additional
signings took place at Bibelot's in Baltimore on
May 23rd and Barnes & Noble in Sarasota,
Florida, on June 9th.
Michael Toms of New Dimension
Radio discussed the book with Mary Lou on his
show Spirit of the Times: Explorations in
Contemporary Culture on May 22nd. Mary Lou's
May 30th taping of an interview with Bonnie Erbe
for her show To the Contrary aired on 232
stations nationwide and was broadcast in the
Washington, D.C., area on the Howard University
PBS station on June 30th.
Mary Lou spoke at the San
Francisco SPCA-sponsored Kinship with All Life
Conference in San Francisco July 8-10.
Coming Soon
PSYETA Board member Carole
Rayburn has provided the opportunity for Mary
Lou to hold book signings at two hospitality
suites at the annual convention of the American
Psychological Association, this August. On
Sunday at 10:00 a.m., Mary Lou will be at the
hospitality suite of Division 36, Psychology and
Religion; on Monday at 11:00 a.m., it's Division
35, Society for the Psychology of Women. She
hopes to greet many PSYETA members there.
On August 26th, Mary Lou is
scheduled to give a one-day retreat on Animal
Grace at the Zen Center of New York City (ZCNYC),
of Brooklyn, New York. ZCNYC, a branch of the
Zen Mountain Monastery of Mt. Tremper, New York,
is under the direction of ZMM Vice-Abbess Bonnie
Myotai Treace, Sensei. It offers weekly
meditation, workshops, lectures, and meditation
intensives.
Making
Strides
'Zine
Acknowledges President
The new
online edition of The Animals' Voice
magazine, www.animalsvoice.com, includes a
biographical note on the president of PSYETA's
Board of Directors, Sudhir P. Amembal, who is
also president of the nonprofit organization The
Animals' Voice. In addition to mentioning that
Sudhir is PSYETA's president, it informs
visitors to the site that Sudhir has been
actively involved in animal rights work for 25
years.
AR2000:
PSYETA Presents Information & Video
PSYETA
informed hundreds of people of its programs June
30 to July 4 at the national animal rights
conference AR2000, held in McLean, Virginia, and
sponsored by FARM. PSYETA President Sudhir P.
Amembal, Executive Director Ken Shapiro, and
Program Director Mary Lou Randour gave a total
of eight presentations on the connection between
violence against animals and against humans, the
role of violence in the animal rights movement,
animals and spirituality, animal
experimentation, and other areas of PSYETA's
work. Ken observed, "The role of violence in
the movement sparked heated discussion and was a
primary topic of discussion in at least three
meetings."
The
organization also ran an information table at
the conference, selling many books and many
copies of the Beyond Violence video (see
page 11) and handing out literature, including
the attractive new version of the PSYETA general
information brochure.
Presented
during conference video sessions, Beyond
Violence was well received and prompted much
discussion. Not the least enjoyable part of
AR2000 was the cocktail party PSYETA gave for
psychologists and other friends of the
organization.
AniCare
Gains Momentum
This
spring and summer, PSYETA Executive Director Ken
Shapiro and Program Director Mary Lou Randour
have been providing training to professional
counselors in use of PSYETA's recently developed
manual The AniCare Model of Treatment for
Animal Abuse (see PSYETA News, Fall
1999, and this issue, page 11).
On May
5th, Ken and Mary Lou trained a group of 20
counselors in Frederick, Maryland. The training
was sponsored by two Frederick organizations:
Heartly House, Inc., a domestic violence & rape
crisis center, and For the Love of Children, a
child advocacy group. Mary Lou recounts that,
during breaks in the training, four- and
five-year-old children from a class in the
adjoining room visited with the trainers and
trainees. One five-year-old boy in particular
enjoyed dispensing hugs to friendly adults--as
if to model AniCare's central message!
On May
11-12, Ken, Mary Lou, and AniCare
co-author Brian Jory provided AniCare
training sponsored by the Aurora Center for
Treatment, in Aurora, Colorado, a suburb of
Denver. Counselors, animal control officers,
educators, domestic violence workers, and
probation department officials participated.
They spent the morning session hearing about
research demonstrating the link between violence
against animals and against humans and various
policy responses to this link. The afternoon
session acquainted participants with the AniCare
method, which involved a variety of small-group
exercises and role-playing opportunities. A
special aspect of this training was the
participation of Lorin Lindner, vice president
of PSYETA's Board of Directors, who came to
consult with Ken, Mary Lou, and Brian and to
gain experience in AniCare training.
At the
Ninth Annual South Florida Summer Institute on
Addiciton, Mental Health, and Employment
Assistance Issues, in West Palm Beach, Florida,
June 15-17--called, this year, Speed of Change:
A Closer Look at How Media, Technology and
Cultural Changes Are Affecting Our Lives--Ken
gave two one-hour presentations, one on the
human-animal violence connection, the other on
AniCare. The audience of 30 therapists
was friendly and engaged--except, reports Ken,
"One guy thought I was presenting on animal
rights issues and was ready to charge me with
'terrorism.' Once he recognized the topic, he
appeared quite interested."
Alerting
Officials to the Human-Animal Violence Link
Detective
Sergeant Jeffrey Gray of the Prince George's
County (Maryland) Police Department joined Ken
and Mary Lou in conducting a three-hour
workshop, on May 30th, on the human-animal
violence link. Montgomery County (Maryland)
Animal Control, which is under the jurisdiction
of the Montgomery County Police Department,
sponsored the event. The 55 participants
included teachers, counselors, prosecutors,
domestic violence and child protective services
workers, county government officials, and animal
control and police officers. Although Mary Lou
and Ken provide AniCare training free of
charge, on this occasion they were honored to
receive the official Montgomery County Police
Department coffee mug and lapel pin and
Montgomery County Animal Control insignia sleeve
patch.
On June
7th, Mary Lou addressed an audience assembled by
the Sarasota County (Florida) Humane Society on
the human-animal violence link. Also in
Sarasota, on June 9th she spoke on the same
topic to a group of child welfare workers at the
Child Development Center and to the Child
Development Center staff. Says Mary Lou, "One
of the participants wondered about the effect of
hunting on kids, and another mentioned
dissection in schools. In other words, they got
the bigger picture." Back in the Washington,
D. C., area, Mary Lou provided a two-hour
training to the Alexandria (Virginia) Mental
Health Center on June 22nd, introducing
AniCare and providing information on "the
link." The 20 mental health counselors who
attended were enthusiastic about the workshop
and offered to arrange a workshop for a larger,
state-wide audience in the fall.
From
PSYETA to You and the Animals
These
PSYETA books, journals, and video help explain
the animals' plight and our work to end it.
Longtime friends, newcomers, and even thoughtful
people who aren't sure what we're all about
can learn vast amounts from these well-researched
and beautifully presented materials designed
to help you help animals.
Program
Director Mary Lou Randour's new book Animal
Grace: Entering a Spiritual Relationship with
Our Fellow Creatures (see
Ask Not What Animals Can Do for You...)
reveals the spirituality of personal relationships
with animals and of daily choices that help
animals. Especially if you've been thinking
you're alone in your profound experiences
with animals, this one's for you! 167
pages, hardcover. New World Library, 2000.
Members $17.50, other friends $20.00.
PSYETA's
video Beyond
Violence: The Human-Animal Connection.
"How we treat animals influences ...
the ways in which we treat one another,"
begins this clear and compelling appeal to
teach compassion to prevent violence. Almost
300 copies already in the hands of concerned
parents and officials, and we've barely begun
to promote it! 13 minutes. $19.95 individuals,
$29.95 organizations. Includes booklet with
discussion guide and list of resources.
The AniCare Model of Treatment for Animal Abuse,
by a leading family violence expert and PSYETA
Program Director Mary Lou Randour, provides a
cognitive-behavioral model of treatment by
mental health professionals, aimed at producing
changes in attitude and behavior so animal abuse
does not repeat or lead to violence against
human beings. 30 pages. $14.95. Includes
resource list and references.
Executive
Director Ken Shapiro's groundbreaking volume
Animal Models of Human Psychology: Critique of
Science, Ethics and Policy exposes
fundamental flaws of psychology-related and
other animal experiments. They harm animals and
human-health research. They're poorly regulated
and evaluated-a scandalous use of our tax
dollars. A must-read for scientists and everyone
else concerned with the animal-experimentation
boondoggle. 328 pages, hardcover. Hogrefe &
Huber, 1998. Members $30.00, nonmembers $39.50.
Society & Animals: Social
Scientific Studies of the Human Experience of
Other Animals, a
journal edited by Ken Shapiro, provides
articles, commentaries, and book reviews.
Topics: research, education, medicine, and
agriculture using animals; entertainment,
companion animals, animal symbolism, and other
popular-culture uses of animals; wildlife and
the environment; and sociopolitical movements,
public policy, and the law. Members $30.00
for three issues, nonmembers $40.00.
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how to minimize animals' pain and stress in
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raised for food; and other research by scholars
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