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International Primate Protection
League, 98
Jaws, 124
Johanns, Michael, 99
Jones, Jodi, 24–25, 37
Kagan, Robert, 76. See also Exxon
Valdez
Klinenberg, Eric, 5
Laboratory Animal Welfare Act, 96.
See also Animal Welfare Act
Lamar-Dixon Exhibition Center, 10,
27–32
Lawrence, Elizabeth, 40
Leavitt, Mike, 99
Leeson, David Jr., 25
Leslie, Jeff, 58
Lily, 24, 37, 129n 13
Little, Clarence Cook, 92, 93
livestock. See farm animals
Louisiana Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals (LA/SPCA),
20–21, 24, 27, 32–34
Louisiana State University Health Sci-
ences Center, 3, 84, 98–99; numbers
of animals drowned in, 89
mad cow disease, 13
marine species, 64, 70, 71; in Amoco
Cadiz spill, 63; in Exxon Valdez spill,
76; in Santa Barbara (Union Oil)
spill, 62; in Tor re y Ca n yon spill, 70
MARPOL Protocol, 116, 134n28,
135n58
Martin, Dan, 88
Matluck, Sally, 10
Menendez, Carlos and Dale, 24, 35, 37
mice (Mus musculus): excluded from
Animal Welfare Act, 96; included
in NIH guidelines, 97; in labora-
tory research, 93–96; moral status
of, 137nn. 16–17; production of, for
research, 91–96, 138n24; on socio-
zoologic scale, 90–91
Minton, Mike, 25
MV Treasure oil spill, 63
Nagin, C. Ray, 21
National Environmental Policy Act, 65
National Incident Management Sys-
tem (NIMS), 12, 128n24. See also
disasters
National Institutes of Health (NIH),
85, 97, 98, 105, 120; guidelines
for use of animals in labs, 97,
139n n 41–4 2
National Response Plan (NRP), 12–13,
128n25. See also disasters
New England Anti-Vivisection Soci-
ety, 97
New Orleans, 3, 9, 19–39, 121; breach-
ing of levees predicted, 121–122;
Convention Center, 3, 22, 23; esti-
mated numbers of animals in, 34;
Superdome, 3, 22
Ohio State University, 85
oil: cleaning birds contaminated by,
71–72, 73; environmental impact
of, 61; origins of oil industry, 66,
13 4 n18
Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 82, 116
oil spills: accountability in, 81–82, 116,
136n61; as catalyst for environmen-
tal movement, 64–65; cleanup and
containment strategies, 68–69, 76;
deterring birds and animals from,
80; environmental impact of, 61,
64–65; estimated annual numbers
of, 62, 63, 133n9; estimated num-
bers of birds and animals affected
by, 63, 133n7; Exxon Valdez, 75–78;
as human-caused disasters, 61–62;
impact of on birds, 69–71; legis-
lation on, 69, 80–83, 136nn58, 61;
media coverage of, 63, 64; natu-
ral seepage of, 64, 80; operational
spills, 63; “polluter pays” policy,
116; responses to, 68–69; Santa Bar-
bara 1969, 62, 64; Standard Oil spill,