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PSYETA
Helps Maryland
On May 11, 1999, Governor Parris Glendenning of Maryland signed into
law House Bill 711, Crimes: Aggravated Cruelty to Animals. PSYETA Program Director Mary Lou Randour worked successfully,
in cooperation with other animal protection organizations, to ensure that the new law would include a very important
anti-violence provision. That provision gives Maryland courts authority
to order psychological counseling, at the defendant's expense, for anyone
convicted of cruelty to animals in Maryland.
Maryland joins a growing number of states whose anti-cruelty statutes
authorize psychological counseling. California is the only state that requires counseling for those convicted of animal cruelty,
having instituted the requirement January 1, 1999. PSYETA Vice-President
Lorin Lindner took part in a press conference in March 1998 with the legislator
sponsoring the new California law, to help ensure its passage (see PSYETA
News, Spring 1998).
Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, Oregon, Vermont, Washington--and now
Maryland--leave the recommendation of counseling to the discretion of the
court. In June 1999, Virginia passed legislation that allows the courts
to require psychological counseling. Signed by the Governor in March 1999,
it became law on July 1, 1999.
Education Next
This accomplished, Randour will now launch PSYETA's education program
to inform Maryland's courts and district attorney offices of the change
and the importance of the anti-cruelty law. "We will emphasize the importance
of taking animal abuse seriously," says Randour. "Whether animal cruelty
is a misdemeanor or a felony, it is often difficult to get prosecuting
attorneys and judges to impose maximum penalties. Too often, cases are
not even prosecuted." Randour cites a case in which a Baltimore man who beat his pit bulldog
to death spent only one day in jail. "An animal cruelty law is only as
good as its enforcement, and we intend to see that animals benefit from
better enforcement."
Beyond Violence Kit
In partnership with the Doris Day Animal League (DDAL), PSYETA
will distribute a new Beyond Violence kit. The kit contains PSYETA's new
video Beyond Violence: The Human-Animal Connection and the video's discussion
guide; AniCare: A Model
Treatment for Animal Abusers; and the DDAL publication The Violence
Connection: An Examination of the Link Between Animal Abuse and Other Violent
Crimes.
AniCare, PSYETA's first-of-its-kind training manual, is designed to
assist mental health professionals in treating animal abusers. The Violence
Connection provides detailed information to judges, prosecutors, and other
law-enforcement officials about the link between violence against humans
and against animals. It lists resources and stresses the seriousness of
animal abuse as a crime
Training Program
In addition to these activities, PSYETA is developing workshops, using
Beyond Violence and AniCare, to train psychologists and other mental health
professionals in the treatment of animal abusers. They will take place
first in California, Maryland, Ohio, and Massachusetts.
Please Support These Efforts
We invite you to join us in the rewarding task of making sure these
projects get animals the protection they deserve and make the world a more
compassionate place. Please call us at 301-963-4751 or e-mail us at
MaryLouR@aol.com. We'll assist you in any of these activities:
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Holding a training workshop on AniCare for mental health professionals.
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Publicizing Beyond Violence: The Human-Animal Connection by writing an
op-ed or letter-to-the-editor or placing an announcement in a local newspaper.
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Publicizing Beyond Violence and the availability of workshops, in a professional
journal or newsletter.
We will be glad to supply you with materials and information and
to consult with you as you help to advance these groundbreaking efforts.
We look forward to working with you!
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.
Jeanie Freeman, 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.
Board of Advisors
Roger S. Fouts, Ph.D.
Jane Goodall, Ph.D.
Birute Galdikas, Ph.D.
Peter Singer, D.Phil.
F. Barbara Orlans, Ph.D.: Government Must
Include Rats, Mice, and Birds in Regulations
"Justice is a major
ethical principle for assessing what is right or
wrong. This principle is violated with the
exclusion from theAnimal Welfare] Act of several
animal species. The principle of justice is a
fundamental guide to the private life of
individual and the professional life of
scientists. It instructs us that consistency is
a hallmark of the ethical life when
circumstances are similar."
So state, in part,
comments submitted by PSYETA Board Member F.
Barbara Orlans, Ph.D., a scientist, author, and
educator who has long advocated for more
effective protection for animals used in
laboratories and classrooms, to the U.S.
Department of Agriculture on the pending
Petition for Rulemaking to the Secretary of
Agriculture Regarding the Exclusion of Rats of
the Genus Rattus, Mice of the Genus Mus, and
Birds from the Definition of "Animal" in the
Animal Welfare Act Regulations. Orlans'
comments, firmly maintaining throughout the need
for consistency and equality in the treatment of
animals, are highly compelling and informative.
Government Fails To Protect Animals
A steady stream of
statements by defenders of animal
experimentation have claimed that the Animal
Welfare Act (AWA) protects animals against
abuse. It is little wonder, then, that many
people are amazed to learn that the AWA
regulations are not even applied to rats, mice,
and birds, about 90 percent of animals in
laboratories--aside from the fact that animals
included in the regulations receive only minimal
protection. The USDA's failure to include rats,
mice, and birds in AWA regulations has made it
impossible for those outside of laboratories to
know how many of those animals are used each
year and how many are subjected to painful
experiments, since only those defined as
"animals" under the AWA must be listed in
research facilities' U.S. Department of
Agriculture annual reports. Facilities that only
use rats, mice, and/or birds are not required to
file annual reports at all. It is as if they did
not experiment on animals.Yet, as Orlans points
out in her comments to the USDA,
Mice and rats are
equally capable of perceiving pain as are
other species that are covered by the AWA. ...
Since the capacity to perceive pain is a
primary reason for legally protecting any
species of animals, it is unjust to exclude
mice and rats. ... Perception of pain by mice
and rats bears significant resemblance to that
of humans. The mechanisms for pain perception
are similar. It is because of this that mice
and rats are used extensively in research to
develop new anesthetics for humans. ... Not
only are physical states replicated in humans,
mice, and rats but also so are some adverse
mental states. Mice and rats experience ...
fear and anxiety, indeed these species are
used to test anti-anxiety drugs used for
humans. ... Perception of pain in birds is
well-recognized. Nationally-accepted humane
standards for birds require that anesthetics
be used for surgical procedures. Insofar as
the degree (duration and severity) of pain
inflicted on laboratory animals is the primary
ethical concern in using them in biomedical
experimentation, to exclude certain species
that share similar capabilities of pain
perception and adverse mental states is both
irrational and unjust.
Biotech and Schools Abuse Excluded Animals
Through two main
examples--biotechnology laboratories and liberal
arts and community colleges--Orlans shows that
excluding rats, mice, and birds from AWA
regulations enables some facilities to avoid any
regulation whatsoever. These institutions escape
regulation under U.S. Public Health Service
Policy, which includes rats, mice, and birds,
because they do not receive federal funds, and
under the Association for Accreditation of
Laboratory Animal Care International because
accreditation is voluntary. She explains,
Recently, a vast
new industry has developed of genetically
engineering animals to have human diseases.
These commercial laboratories have sprung upto
mass produce animals ... designed [with the
intention of giving them] debilitating
diseases such as Huntington's disease, cancer,
cystic fibrosis, arthritis, and a host of
others. These diseases can involve substantial
pain and suffering for the rats and mice which
are the most commonly used species. Some
maintain no other species.
This work subjects animals to high risks of harm
and animal welfare concerns. A commonly used
research approach is to "knock out" a gene and
see what happens. Since this research is new
territory, predicting what pathological defects
will emerge is difficult and sometimes
impossible. Some engineered animals grow lumpy
with tumors, are blind or deaf, others are born
with nerve damage or have multiple pathologies
with genitals and organs deformed. Legless mice
have been produced. Unless action is taken by
USDA now, this growing biotechnology industry
may well become beyond control. The animals'
welfare will suffer immeasurably.
Orlans then
explains that a substantial number of the more
than 14 million students in more than 2,000
liberal arts colleges and about 1,500 community
colleges in the U.S. (1997 statistics) "are
enrolled in psychology, biology, and other
courses in which excluded species are harmed and
killed." The Three Rs--refinement of
experiments, replacement of animal experiments
with others, and reduction of numbers of animals
used--which have led to gradual improvements for
animals included in AWA regulations--have met
with resistance in educational institutions.
"For instance, a 1995 position statement by the
leading biology teachers' association states in
part: '[The National Association of Biology
Teachers acknowledges that no alternative can
substitute for the actual experience of
dissection or other use of animals and urges
teachers to be aware of the limitations of
alternatives.'"
"A 1991 survey
showed that two-thirds of college psychology
departments maintained animal facilities for
teaching purposes. ... Another survey of 110
undergraduate psychology programs showed that
rats were the most-used species, followed by
other rodents (including mice, gerbils and
others), followed by birds (pigeons, finches,
and chickens)." And, Orlans writes, "invasive
animal projects most frequently cited in
introductory psychology textbooks include
maternal deprivation in infancy,
avoidance/escape conditioning (learned
helplessness, conditioned food aversions,
escapable-inescapable electric shock), surgery
to the brain (ablation of specific areas),
pain-inducing stimulation, and induction of
stress."
To illustrate
further the kinds of cruel practices that can go
unchecked with no regulation of colleges' use of
animals, she invokes an example from personal
experience. A college student who refused to
obey a requirement to crush a bird to death in
her hands-an exercise recommended in a
textbook-would have had much easier recourse if
birds were included in AWA regulations so that
the USDA could have been called upon to halt the
activity. (Much to her credit, Orlans assisted
the student in eliminating the assignment,
"after a good deal of time and effort.")
One of the most
absurd features of the current regulations'
failure to include rats and mice is that
hamsters, guinea
pigs, and gerbils are similar in many ways:
all are commercially purpose-bred for research
and widely used; physiologically and
anatomically the are, to a large extent,
commensurable. Furthermore and importantly
from an ethical standpoint, the burdens they
bear as subjects of biomedical experiments are
of the same order: they have similar
sensibilities in their perception of pain, and
all are likely to be killed before the end of
their normal life-span. ... Inasmuch as there
has to be some morally relevant characteristic
to justify different human treatment,
dissimilar legal protection is not justified.
U.S. Must Lead
It is widely
acknowledged that the AWA, its regulations, and
the low intensity of their enforcement are
inadequate for preventing suffering and
deprivation. At the same time, as with many
other inadequate laws, the AWA has been a key
tool for animal advocates working to challenge
animal experiments and abuses in other areas.
Placing the AWA situation in its international
context, Orlans concludes her comments,
The United States
today is probably the largest user of
laboratory animals in the world and holds a
powerful and influential position in the
international scientific community. No other
countries exclude rats, mice, and birds-these
most-used species-from their animal welfare
laws. It is an internationally embarrassing
anomaly that the US law is so deficient. It
sets a poor example for countries that look to
the US for setting standards regarding
scientific work.
As we go to press, the USDA informs PSYETA that
the Animal Care office has logged in about 9,000
comments on the Petition and estimates that it
has received 30-40,000. Clearly, rats, mice, and
birds matter to many human beings. If the USDA
evaluates Orlans' and others' comments
objectively, it is difficult to see how the
Department can continue to exclude rats, mice,
and birds from the AWA regulations. Including
them is feasible and plainly falls within the
congressional mandate to protect animals used in
science, education, and entertainment and by
certain animal dealers.
F. Barbara
Orlans, Ph.D., is a senior research fellow at
Georgetown University's Kennedy Institute of
Ethics. She has published many articles on
protecting animals used in experiments and
classroom activities. She recently co-edited the
book The Human Use of Animals (New York: Oxford
University Press, 1998).
PSYETA Helps Establish Animal
Protection Oral History Project
PSYETA's long involvement in
animal studies--publishing the journals Humane
Innovations and Alternatives in Animal
Experimentation, Society & Animals, and the
Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science;
researching our video Beyond Violence: The
Human-Animal Connection; Executive Director Ken
Shapiro's authoring Animal Models of Human
Psychology: Critique of Science, Ethics and
Policy (1997); board members' many articles and
presentations; and other activities--now
includes the oral history project Recording
Animal Advocacy (RAA).
Founded in 1998 by archivist
Carmen Lee, Ph.D., a long-time animal advocate,
with PSYETA Executive Director Ken Shapiro on
its founding board, RAA is a non-profit
organization dedicated to conducting oral
history interviews and supporting the collection
and preservation of archival documents and other
primary sources on the history of animal
protection and advocacy and the modern animal
rights movement.
Shortly after its founding,
RAA provided training, with the preeminent
Columbia University Oral History Research
Office, for several aspiring interviewers.
Participants have received key literature
explaining oral history. They have been reading
the material and works of oral history, as well
as refining their skills through practice
interviews, in order to produce a rich
collection of taped interviews with leading
animal advocates. Interviews of advocates are
beginning this summer.
Oral history gives the
contemporary culture and posterity accounts of
events in the words of participants and close
observers. Recorded interviews are transcribed
and edited professionally and become available
to the public, sometimes with
restrictions at interviewees' discretion. The
tapes and transcripts will become the property
of Columbia University, whose Oral History
Research Office will preserve them and
administer their use. RAA will fund and direct
the project and promote use of the materials,
and Columbia Oral History staff will continue
consulting with RAA in oral history methods and
techniques.
By eliciting details of
thoughts, ideas, motives, plans, acts, and
omissions that will interest people inside and
outside of the humane community for generations
to come, RAA seeks to ensure that a useful
record exists of a wide range of organizations',
supporters', participants', leaders', authors',
and observers' historic contributions to
animals' well-being and to human behavior,
sensibility, culture, law, government, and other
aspects of humanity.
In addition to recording the
histories and memories of animal advocacy
leaders and observers, RAA also seeks to provide
animal protection organizations and advocates
with sound and objective information on
maintaining, making use of, and placing old
materials in permanent and easily accessible
archival repositories.
"Oral testimonies,
correspondence, diaries, and other unpublished
documents are invaluable primary sources that
offer important insights and fill gaps in our
knowledge," says co-founder and archivist Carmen
Lee. "Encouraging professional historians and
other researchers and educators to use archival
materials related to animal protection will
enhance the status of animal studies and help
build a culture of compassion for animals in our
society."
RAA has begun to raise funds
in earnest and seeks support from foundations
and the animal protection community. Donations
will enable the organization to conduct oral
history interviews and to pay transcribing and
editing costs. RAA can be contacted at P.O. Box
27022, Philadelphia, PA 19118.
Rome Rally for Animals
Planning to hold the largest
march for animal rights to date, the Lega Anti
Vivisezione/Europe for Animal Rights urges
animal advocates throughout the world to take
part in this historic event in Rome, on October
4, 1999. In 1997, about 20,000 joined in the
organization's national rally for animal rights
in Rome. Planners say of this international
event involving representatives from many
countries, "We're sure we can bring many more
people into the streets of Rome this year,
especially considering Rome's historic
importance and the coming of the new
Millennium."
U.S. organizations already
sponsoring the October 4th rally as we go to
press are People for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals and Orange County People for Animals.
Many Italian groups are sponsoring the event, as
are organizations from France, Germany, and
Greece. Details are available by e-mail from
Adolfo Sansolini of Lega Anti Vivisezione at
lav.sansolini@mclink.it.
Remembering Melissa Berman
We are sad to report that
Melissa Berman died on June 7, 1999, at the age
of 26. We came to know Melissa when she worked
at PSYETA from April 1996 to May 1997. After her
part-time employment with us, she worked for The
Fund for Animals for about a year. She next
found employment in a law office so she could
gain experience and pursue a law degree, her
educational goal. Melissa felt she could best
serve animals by working on their behalf as an
attorney.
Melissa possessed a special
affinity for animals. Whether in her car, on
foot, or on her bicycle, she could spot an
animal in need from great distances, and when
she did, she rescued them--opossums, pigs,
horses, dogs, cats, ferrets, and squirrels. From
a very early age, Melissa found the courage to
act on what she believed. At 10, she became a
vegetarian, the only member of her family to do
so, and in high school she co-founded Student
Organization for Animal Rights (SOAR)--still
operating in Montgomery County public high
schools.
In addition to her love of
animals, Melissa loved life itself. She played
the saxophone, enjoyed reading mysteries,
admitted to being addicted to the television
shows Seinfeld, I Love Lucy, and The Oprah
Winfrey Show, and was an avid bicyclist.
It is difficult to accept any
friend's death, especially that of someone like
Melissa, whose life was so short. Even in her
brief time, Melissa accomplished a lot for
animals, lived an enriching life, and left many
people behind who cared for her. As a way to
remember and honor Melissa, and to continue the
work she would have done if she had lived, we
are establishing the Melissa Berman Memorial
Fund for Animals. If you would like to
contribute to the fund, please send a check made
payable to PSYETA with a notation that it is for
the Melissa Berman Memorial Fund.
Making
Strides
PSYETA
Head in New York Times
The New
York Times' May 9, 1999, feature article
"Slapstick Abuse of Animals in Movies: Why Is It
on the Rise?" included this statement from
PSYETA Executive Director Ken Shapiro, in the
reporter's discussion of the Federal Bureau of
Investigation's study linking many serial
killers to animal abuse: "'Virtually every one
of these kids who ends up shooting up the school
yard has a history of animal abuse.'"
Also, "As
to the question whether watching a violent act
has a cathartic effect on viewers--or is more
likely to spur them to imitate it--research has
pointed toward imitation, Shapiro said."
The
article observed that several recent popular
movies have included acts of cruelty to animals
and that those scenes were intended to add
humor. A small dog flies out of a window; a dog
is shoved down an apartment building's trash
chute; a cat is swung around by the tail: These
are a few of the many images the reporter
described.
While the
article did not condemn cruel scenes in so many
words, most of the experts whose comments
appeared along with Ken's stated that including
such scenes in movies is likely to have
destructive results for human beings and
other-than-humans alike. No one quoted or
paraphrased claimed that giving cruelty to
animals humorous treatment in movies has
positive value, but it was noted that models and
special effects are used, animals are not
actually abused in the depicted scenes, and that
the American Humane Association monitors scripts
and filming that involve live animals.
PSYETA
Vice-President at Law Conference
Lorin
Lindner, Ph.D., vice-president of PSYETA, was an
invited panelist at the University of Oregon's
17th Annual Public Interest Environmental Law
Conference, on March 7, 1999. The panel, "Links
between Animal Abuse and Human Violence," began
with a showing of Beyond Violence: The
Human-Animal Connection, PSYETA's new video.
Says Lindner, "The video was an excellent means
of introducing the topic of this panel and
evidently had an emotional and meaningful
impact."
Lindner
described the associations between domestic
violence and animal abuse and spoke of the need
for more states to adopt legislation mandating
psychological counseling for individuals who
abuse animals. She outlined strategies for
reducing the co-occurrence of animal abuse with
child, spousal, and elder abuse. One such
strategy involves cross-reporting laws requiring
child protective service workers to report
suspected cases of animal abuse and requiring
humane officers to report suspicions of child
abuse.
At
Lindner's request, Deputy City Attorney for Los
Angeles Robert Ferber also spoke on the panel.
He addressed the need for strong state laws to
prosecute animal cruelty cases and to ensure
that the criminal justice system take animal
abuse seriously. Ferber has prosecuted more
animal cruelty cases than any other city
attorney in California and developed Los
Angeles' first animal cruelty prosecution
program.
After the
panel discussion, the producer of a statewide
cable television station requested a copy of the
Beyond Violence video and promised to air it
several times during prime time.
Longtime
PSYETA Associate Teaches Human-Animal Connection
Longtime
PSYETA member and former Board member Paul F.
Cunningham, Ph.D., whose article "Alternatives
to the Use of Animals in Education," co-authored
with PSYETA Program Director Mary Lou Randour,
was mentioned in the Fall 1998 issue of PSYETA
News, continues educating on behalf of animal
and human well-being.
On October
24, 1998, he and Stephanie LaFarge, Ph.D.,
director of counseling services at the American
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals, co-chaired a symposium examining the
connection between human violence and animal
abuse. The symposium, "The Connection between
Human Violence and Animal Abuse: Empirical
Findings and Intervention Possibilities," was
held at the 38th Annual meeting of the New
England Psychological Association. Participants
discussed policy implications of the human
violence and animal abuse connection.
Invited by
Students for the Ethical Treatment of Animals,
at Tufts University, Cambridge, Massachusetts,
on March 4, 1999, Cunningham delivered an
address titled "Human Violence, Cultural
Attitudes toward Other Animals, and a Reverence
for Life." Using Culture of Violence: The Animal
Connection, the slide-show precursor to PSYETA's
new video Beyond Violence: The Human-Animal
Connection (see pp. 5, 6, and 11), Paul examined
the human-animal violence connection in the
context of the larger American culture.
On April
17, 1999, he delivered a paper at the 70th
Eastern Psychological Association Annual
Meeting, in Providence, Rhode Island, titled "A
New and Different Issue To Raise in Academic
Advising: The Student Choice Option Not To Use
Animals." Attendees received a 40-page Advisor
and Student Handbook as a guide to understanding
student choice in the context of academic
advising. The handbook explains uses of animals
in psychology classes, reasons for opposing
mandatory use of animals, some teachers' refusal
to accommodate students who object to animal
laboratories, and why it is a good idea to
include student choice in official academic
advising policy. To obtain the handbook, e-mail
pcunning@niagara.rivier.edu.
PSYETA
Thanks Doris Day Animal League--Again!
After
being so kind as to provide the $5,000.00 grant
reported in the Winter-Spring 1999 issue of
PSYETA News--to assist PSYETA in developing an
animal abuser treatment program--the Doris Day
Animal League (DDAL) has now provided an
additional $5,000.00 grant as partial funding
for PSYETA's program to maximize distribution of
its video, Beyond Violence: The Human-Animal
Connection.
In the
"information age," even local hospitals
distribute promotional videos and even private
individuals design their own Web pages, so
PSYETA will make every effort to ensure that
Beyond Violence receives the attention it
deserves. Additional grant applications are
pending. Says PSYETA Executive Director Ken
Shapiro, "DDAL's generosity is sure to have
important consequences for reducing violence
against our fellow living beings,
other-than-human and human alike. We are deeply
grateful."
PSYETA
Head in Harvard Magazine
Harvard
Magazine published, in its March-April 1999
issue, just a few letters objecting to the
magazine's lengthy January-February article on
animal experimentation, and PSYETA Executive
Director Ken Shapiro's letter was one of them.
The article had downplayed objections to the use
of animals in biomedical laboratories. Ken
wrote, in part,
Although
[the author] writes that pain relief has been
required since 1970, the Animal Welfare Act does
not ensure such relief will be provided for
animals in laboratories. Experimenters may and
do withhold anesthetics and analgesics by
providing a simple statement in the facility's
annual report stating that the suffering was
necessary to the procedure. According to a study
by Martin L. Stephens et al. in the Journal of
Applied Animal Welfare Science, the percentage
of animals enduring unrelieved pain and distress
doubled from 1992 to 1994.
Ken's
letter also explained that the rigorous
scientific method offered in his book Animal
Models of Human Psychology (see page 11) for
evaluating alleged benefits of animal models
"would eliminate pointless experiments and make
research more effective and economical, sparing
countless apes, monkeys, dogs, mice, rats, and
other animals, and reducing the social strife
that will continue to divide our society until
animal experiments are a thing of the past." Ken
is a 1965 graduate of Harvard College.
PSYETA
News Editor Informs City of Brotherly Love
In
response to a January 22, 1999, Philadelphia
Inquirer article about the connection between
violence against animals and violence against
human beings, PSYETA News editor David Cantor
published a letter in the Inquirer on January
30th. Headed "Violence and Animals," the letter
informed Inquirer readers that
Psychologists for the Ethical Treatment of
Animals, a national nonprofit organization of
more than 600 psychologists, has been making
important strides in this area.
PSYETA's
work includes showing mental-health workers how
to counsel people convicted of animal abuse and
helping to gain passage of California's new law
mandating psychological counseling for those
convicted of cruelty to animals.
It also
provided PSYETA's phone number and e-mail
address. The Inquirer has a circulation of about
423,000.
Many
newspaper readers seek out op-eds and letters.
These are excellent venues for informing the
public of PSYETA's video and the need to take
animal abuse seriously.
Wanted:
Your "Footprints"
As a
PSYETA News reader, you probably communicate to
friends, co-workers, students, and others in
your community about the connection between
violence against animals and against humans, the
plight of animals used in education and in
laboratories, and the need to recognize animals'
needs in all areas of life. PSYETA would like to
acknowledge, and inspire others with, your
efforts. Please send news of your presentations,
meetings, articles, letters-to-the-editor, and
other accomplishments to Making Strides, PSYETA,
P.O. Box 1297, Washington Grove, MD 20880-1297.
Please let us know if you need materials to
assist you in your activities.
Special
Resources & Gifts
We at
PSYETA hope you are having a relaxing,
empowering, enjoyable, educational,
animal-friendly summer. These publications are
great for the summer reading list, the video for
showing when you travel!
To order
these or other PSYETA publications, visit the
order page.
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.
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.
The
Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science (JAAWS),
coedited by Ken Shapiro, makes available
articles, commentary and book reviews on effects
of captivity on naturally free-roaming animals;
how to minimize animals' pain and stress in
laboratories; how to improve lives of animals
raised for food; and other research by scholars
in many disciplines. Members $17.50 for four
issues, nonmembers $35.00.
To order
these or other PSYETA publications, visit the
order page.
It's a
PSYETA Summer!
Summer
reading-including Ken Shapiro's Animal Model's
of Human Psychology: Critique of Science, Ethics
and Policy, of course!-is going more slowly than
you'd planned. That's what summer is for: to
plant your feet in the sand (or maybe on a
forest floor), look around, and assess where
you've been and where you're going.
Supporting
PSYETA is one decision of which you can be
proud, and we appreciate your support. Use of
our well-received video Beyond Violence: The
Human Animal Connection is accelerating, thanks
to you. And our staff are hard at work this
summer promoting the anti-violence
message-because that's the direction in which we
as a society need to be going.
So please
help us start the new millennium with your most
generous possible gift!
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