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AR-NEWS Digest 556
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) Mysterious tumors kill sea turtles
by Andrew Gach
2) Smokey the Bac
by Andrew Gach
3) Scientific research institute offers 298 tons of whale meat
by Andrew Gach
4) Re: Kay Bee STores
by "veegman@qed.net"
5) [CA] Wayward salmon
by David J Knowles
6) [NE] IWC BOWS TO PRESSURE FROM JAPAN FOR SECRET VOTING
by David J Knowles
7) (HK) Pet Fair Asia '97
by jwed
8) Restaurant shark snatched from jaws of death (HK)
by jwed
9) Website: Animal Protection Visual Materials
by "allen schubert, arrs admin"
10) [CA] Donkeys' keeper faces charges
by David J Knowles
11) CA Primate Center
by paulbog@jefnet.com (Rick Bogle)
12) (AU) Australian Activists Inside Piggeries
by Coral Hull
13) Noble Boxers Now In Need of Homes
by Snugglezzz@aol.com
14) Crossposting--Admin Note--was--Re: Support dawn Ratcliffe
by allen schubert
15) Admin Note--was--Re: Support dawn Ratcliffe
by allen schubert
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 21:21:46 -0700
From: Andrew Gach
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Mysterious tumors kill sea turtles
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Mysterious tumors killing endangered sea turtles
The Associated Press
MARATHON, Fla. (October 23, 1997 7:40 p.m. EDT)
A fishing boat captain spots a giant sea turtle in shallow water near a
stand of mangroves just off the coast. He's seen turtles here before,
only this time there's something horribly wrong. The green turtle, as
big as the roof of a compact car, is covered with a gruesome growth of
gray, bulbous tissue. The mass -- half the size of the turtle itself --
is slowly starving the animal by covering the eyes it uses to find food.
The growths, noncancerous tumors called fibropapillomas, have turned up
in alarming numbers on sea turtles all over the world, and researchers
are scrambling to find a cure while there are still turtles left to
save.
"The disease is taking the turtles faster than Mother Nature can replace
them," said Richie Moretti, who runs the Turtle Hospital in the Florida
Keys. "It's definitely a race."
The tumors themselves don't kill as much as they smother. Eyes and noses
get covered. Lungs and the heart are constricted by the tumors on the
inside. The turtle found by the boat captain was not only blinded, but
the mass also covered its rectum, preventing it from eliminating waste.
Nicknamed Mini Pearl, after the fishing boat that saved it, the turtle
underwent surgery at the hospital to remove the tumor and was recovering
in a swimming pool. The giant, flaking mass was sent to a lab for study.
Researchers believe something is causing turtles' immune systems to
weaken. What that is, they don't know.
But the prevalence of tumors in turtles found near shore areas suggests
a possible link to runoff from fertilizer or farm waste. Some turtle
habitats have an infection rate as high as 90 percent.
"Runoff is definitely a possibility because you see turtles with
papillomas mostly in heavily populated areas," said Glenn Harman, a
marine biologist at the Clearwater Marine Aquarium. "But really, we just
don't know. I wish I did."
Scientists also have speculated that cyclical changes in water
temperature may be decreasing the cold-blooded animals' ability to ward
off viral intruders.
"There's some worldwide problem going on and how to tie it all together
is not easy," said University of Florida veterinarian Elliott Jacobson,
who has done research on the tumors.
Jacobson doesn't know how many green sea turtles have been affected by
the tumors, or how many of the endangered turtles remain.
Turtles with tumors have been seen from Brazil to the coast of Florida,
from Hawaii to Australia, and in Indonesia. Green sea turtles aren't the
only ones turning up with the tumors; they have also been seen on
loggerheads and olive ridley turtles.
A study last year by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection
found that 10 percent of live loggerhead turtles caught in Florida Bay,
at the southern tip of the state, are affected.
For Moretti, who has worked the last 10 years to heal injured and sick
turtles, the tumor is the worst enemy yet.
"We're losing them to something we can't see," he said.
Mini Pearl is about 6 years old and 24 pounds with the tumor. The
disease primarily afflicts young turtles, ages 5 to 10, and few turtles
with the tumors survive, unless the growths are surgically removed.
At the Turtle Hospital, built on the site of a former strip joint, that
is veterinarian Doug Mader's specialty. These days, much of his time is
spent removing the fibropapillomas, although the hospital also has
repaired turtle hernias, removed fishing line from turtle digestive
tracts, and plans to perform soon what is thought to be the first ever
turtle cornea transplant.
The operation on Mini, which required the reconstruction of the turtle's
rectum, was a success. If the turtle stays healthy, it should grow to
more than 500 pounds and live to be about 100.
"A few animals may be releasable, and many tumors may grow back,"
Jacobson said. "But there's a lot that's learned from doing it, and
there's some education of people about this, so this is helpful."
By DAVID ROYSE, Associated Press Writer
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 21:28:11 -0700
From: Andrew Gach
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Smokey the Bac
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USDA unveils 'Bac' to fight foodborne illness
1997 Reuters
WASHINGTON (October 24, 1997 7:22 p.m. EDT)
The U.S. government launched a campaign Friday to urge consumers to
prevent food poisoning by washing their hands, thoroughly cooking meat
and taking other basic precautions in the kitchen.
The heads of the U.S. Agriculture Department (USDA) and the Health and
Human Services Department said the advertising campaign was part of a
wide-ranging effort to improve food safety from farm to fork after a
series of recalls of tainted meat this year.
"Food safety is a complicated issue. There is no one silver bullet,"
said Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman. "There has to be responsibility
at every stage of the food production, processing
and delivery chain."
The public education campaign urges consumers to "fight bac" -- short
for bacteria -- by washing their hands before cooking, separating raw
meat from vegetables and cooking foods thoroughly. Posters, public
service announcements and an Internet Web site all feature a cartoon
depiction of a bacterium.
Glickman said the USDA, which created the Smokey Bear character for the
U.S. Forest Service division, hopes the green fuzzy bacterium will
become just as well known.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that more
than 9,000 Americans fall sick each year to food-borne illnesses. That
costs the U.S. economy nearly $35 billion in lost work and medical
costs, according to some experts.
Food safety was thrust back into the spotlight earlier this year when an
outbreak of E. coli 0157:H7 illness in Colorado forced Hudson Foods Inc
to recall a record 25 million pounds of frozen hamburger patties.
Some 450,000 pounds of contaminated hamburger was recalled last month by
BeefAmerica Inc, and South Korean officials found tainted hamburger in a
shipment of U.S. imports.
Carol Tucker Foreman, a former USDA official who now works with consumer
food coalitions, said the campaign doesn't absolve meat processors or
the food industry of their responsibility for food safety.
"No matter what we do, the system is never going to be perfect," Foreman
said. "This is something that industry and government and consumer
groups have taken on in addition to other steps."
The Clinton administration has proposed giving the USDA the authority to
order recalls of suspicious food and to impose stiff fines of $100,000 a
day against companies that don't meet safety standards.
But some animal rights groups criticized the education campaign as
wrongly trying to shift the food safety focus away from processing
plants.
"Are rubber gloves, forceps and sterilizing alcohol the kitchen
implements of the future?" said a spokesman for Farm Animal Reform
Movement.
By JULIE VORMAN, Reuters
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 21:34:29 -0700
From: Andrew Gach
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Scientific research institute offers 298 tons of whale meat
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As whale conference ends, Japan puts meat on sale
1997 Reuters
TOKYO (October 24, 1997 07:40 a.m. EDT)
A Japanese research institute put 298 tons of minke whale meat on sale
Friday just as an international conference on whaling
ended its annual meeting in Monaco.
Anti-whaling groups in Japan called the timing insensitive, but the
Institute of Cetacean Research said it was coincidental.
The government-funded operation, which engages in so-called "research
whaling" in the Antarctic and northwestern Pacific Oceans, put on sale
the meat from 100 minke whales caught between May and July.
This week in Monte Carlo, the International Whaling Commission (IWC)
came up with a compromise proposal that would allow limited coastal
whaling of abundant species but only for local consumption and would ban
whaling on the high seas.
The proposal, introduced by Ireland, would also phase out scientific
whaling, carried out by Japanese hunters who kill over 400 whales a year
for research.
The Japanese institute that sold the whale meat said it had nothing to
be ashamed of because effective utilization of whales caught for
scientific purposes has been approved by the International Convention
for the Regulation of Whaling.
"I'm amazed at the insensitivity of the Japanese government," said Sanae
Shida of the Japanese branch of international environmental group
Greenpeace.
"Japan started selling whale meat in the middle of the Monte Carlo
conference where they have come up with compromises this time ... they
must have done it on purpose, aiming for a reverse effect," Shida said.
Japan gave up commercial whaling in compliance with an international
moratorium that went into effect in 1986 but has been carrying out
"scientific research" whaling since 1987.
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 00:22:42
From: "veegman@qed.net"
To: JSLETTERS@aol.com, ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Re: Kay Bee STores
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Here are the addresses and phone numbers of the offices of Kay Bee Toy
Stores. If you recall, they are the store that sells "Rat Trap," the
"toy" that makes light of animal suffering.
Please call and write to voice your displeasure.
Regional Office
Kay Bee Toys
1120 Echelon Mall
Voorhees, NJ 08043
609-770-8472
Executive offices
Karen Morissey, Vice President
Kay Bee Toys
100 West St.
Pittsfield, MA 01201
413-496-3000
Thanks!
Joe
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 18:35:44
From: David J Knowles
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: [CA] Wayward salmon
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VANCOUVER, B.C. - Salmon are causing concern among federal fisheries
officials because they are turning up in places they shouldn't.
Normally, salmon travel back to the same river systems where they were
spawned, in order to spawn themselves. In British Columbia, this is usually
via major rivers such as the Fraser, which runs through the Lower Mainland,
or the Skeena, in Northern B.C.
Last month, however, Department of Fisheries and Oceans fisheries officers
began to notice salmon were turning up in minor creeks and streams which
empty directly into the sea, such as Black Creek, on the East Coast of
Vancouver Island, and Tofino Creek, on the West Coast.
Salmon are also showing the same shift in Washington state and Oregon.
Scientists have no definite answer as to why, but a current theory blames
the effect of El Nino, and the warmer sea temperatures the phenomenon is
causing.
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 01:20:58
From: David J Knowles
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: [NE] IWC BOWS TO PRESSURE FROM JAPAN FOR SECRET VOTING
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>From Greenbase (Greenpeace Press Release Server)
IWC BOWS TO PRESSURE FROM JAPAN FOR SECRET VOTING
Monaco/Amsterdam, 24 October 1997 -- As the International Whaling
Commission (IWC) meeting in Monaco drew to a close today (Friday),
Greenpeace warned that the Commission was in danger of losing its
credibility after it decided to seriously consider a Japanese plan allowing
delegates to vote in secret.
At the same time as the IWC agreed to further examine proposals by Ireland
--concerned about the loopholes allowing Japan and Norway to kill over a
thousand whales a year -- the Commission said it would also be considering
Japan's suggestion to allow the IWC to vote in secret.
Greenpeace supports certain elements of the Irish proposal -- including an
end to the killing of whales for scientific purposes, the banning of
international trade in whale products
and the establishment of a global whale sanctuary -- but remains opposed to
the reintroduction of coastal whaling.
"It is ironic that at the same meeting that delegates agreed that the IWC
needed to find solutions to the continued flouting by Japan and Norway of
the whaling moratorium they should even consider such a blatant attempt to
make the Commission's decision-making process less transparent and
democratic," said Greenpeace campaigner John Frizell. "Japan is simply
trying to find a way to conceal the voting record of the Caribbean states
it brings to vote with it."
"This is one step forward and another step back. The secret ballot proposal
should have been rejected out of hand."
However Greenpeace welcomed a resolution strongly urging Japan to stop its
commercial whaling under the guise of 'scientific' whaling in the Antarctic
whale sanctuary, following a scientific review of the program which found
that its results were 'not required for management'.
"For years we have been saying that this 'research' is not needed," said
Frizell. "And now this has been vindicated by the IWC's own scientists. We
call on Japan to cancel this program
immediately -including the factory ship being prepared for another voyage
even as the meeting is underway and expected to sail in the first week of
November."
Greenpeace also applauded an IWC call on Norway to halt immediately all
whaling activities under its jurisdiction.
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 19:26:29 +0000
From: jwed
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (HK) Pet Fair Asia '97
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Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
17th October, 1997
Pet Fair Asia October 1-4 1997 Hong Kong
SPCA (Hong Kong) is anxious that all participants in the recent Pet
Fair should be made aware of the facts regarding animal welfare and
pet-ownership in Asia.
The organisers' slogan "Little Animals mean Big Business" indicates a
heartless disregard for the living creatures exploited by the pet-trade.
Their description of Asia, as a growing pet-market completely ignores the
realities of huge populations of strays, many restrictions on ownership and
lack of public education in basic pet-care.
The SPCA was invited to have a booth on the last day of the fair and
our display appealed to the pet-trade not to add to the animal
over-population and suffering already seen in Hong Kong, China and Taiwan.
We have sent the enclosed letter in English or Chinese to every company
that took part in Pet Fair Asia 1997 with the exception of those dealing
solely in tropical fish and related products. Please add your voice to
ours and give these companies the facts about pet-ownership and animal
welfare in your particular country and the Asian region.
Yours
sincerely,
Doreen Davies
Executive Director
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
20 October, 1997
Dear Sir / Madam,
The Asian Pet Trade - the other side of the story
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) is
concerned that participants in "Pet Fair Asia 1997" should be made fully
aware of the facts regarding pet ownership in Asia and are not misled by
the rosy picture painted by Fair organisers of a market expanding daily.
In many parts of Asia we have seen, in recent years, encouragement of
pet-ownership followed soon after by government bans and restrictions which
have led to the unnecessary suffering and untimely death of countless animals.
The facts:-
A. Hong Kong
1. At least 50% of the population are not allowed to keep pets of any
kind, including small animals, birds and fish, because they live in public
estates. This restriction was strictly enforced from April 1996 when
tenants were given two weeks to get rid of their dog or lose their flat.
The SPCA's appeals to the Government to allow people to keep cats, birds,
fish and other small pets have been rejected and the "no pets" policy has
in fact been adopted by the management of many non-government residential
buildings.
2. The pet market in Hong Kong, which boomed in the early 90's has
consequently declined but at the cost of thousands of innocent pets' lives.
The number of licensed pet shops has steadily dropped from 161 in 1993
to 110 in April 1997. The SPCA, in addition to its welfare services, runs
one of the largest fee-paying veterinary practices in Hong Kong employing
nine veterinary surgeons. Our 1996/97 clinic figures are down almost
15% on the previous year while numbers of unwanted pets taken in from
owners are up 11% and numbers of stray dogs caught are up 18%.
We humanely destroyed 12,287 animals last year including 6,180 dogs.
45% of these dogs were purebreds. Many were totally unsuited by breed to
Hong Kong's climate.
3 Small Pets
In 1995/96 chinchillas were "in fashion" and the SPCA now deals with
the many that are surrendered to us because they are sick or simply because
the owners have tired of them or are unwilling to spend money on special
food and dust. It is our experience that many owners of small pets like
rabbits, hamsters etc are reluctant to pay for veterinary treatment when
they become sick and many are also unaware of the importance of proper food
and hygienic, comfortable living conditions, suitable to the animals'
behaviour patterns and not just to their small size. Owners are usually
also unaware that most small animals reproduce at an alarming rate and
over-population leads directly to suffering. Responsible sellers of these
animals must ensure that prospective owners are allowed to keep them and
are fully informed of what is involved in caring for them.
At the recent Pet Fair, the array of colourful and cute accessories
designed for the use of hamsters, chinchillas etc tended to send the wrong
message to file public that these pets were not live animals but a kind of
toy around which a fantasy world could be built, rather like `My Little
Pony" or a "Barbie" doll.
It cannot be more strongly stressed that all of these small pets are
just as forbidden to most people in Hong Kong as are dogs and cats. The
SPCA very much regrets this fact and is trying to have the Housing
Authority's ruling relaxed, but it is still a fact and traders must not
encourage potential buyers to ignore it. In the end it is the animals
which will suffer.
B. Taiwan
1. Taiwan has an estimated 1.3 million stray dogs. Many of them are
purebreds abandoned because people were encouraged to buy them but had no
idea of the responsibilities of pet-ownership. Many of these dogs are
completely unsuited by breed to the country's climate and should never have
been imported.
2. The strays that are caught are not killed humanely. They are kept in
crowded, filthy conditions before being drowned or electrocuted.
Classified as rubbish, many are simply left to starve to death.
3. The Taiwan authorities, in the face of international criticism are at
last starting to draft animal protection laws but this will take time.
The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and the World Society for
the Protection of Animals (WSPA) are currently working in Taiwan to ease
the suffering of the thousands of dogs held in the municipal pounds. Any
encouragement of the pet-trade in Taiwan at this time could have a
disastrous effect on their efforts and on those of the local Life
Conservationist Association (LCA).
C. China
1 In China the picture is even bleaker. There are no animal welfare
laws and no local organisations like the SPCA or LCA to help educate the
public.
2 In most Chinese cities, the keeping of dogs is only allowed on payment
of huge registration fees often equivalent to a year's salary for an
ordinary citizen. Dogs kept illegally are seized and beaten to death.
3. Strays are treated as harshly and the inhumane handling and slaughter
of cats and dogs in Chinese markets has made headlines worldwide. This
is a country seemingly seeking to eradicate companion animals rather than
one ready to welcome an expanded pet trade.
Conclusion
While we want existing Asian pet-owners to have access to food, drugs
and accessories that will improve their pets' health and quality of life,
the SPCA totally condemns any encouragement the Asia Pet Fair may have
given to businesses to exploit the ignorance of a public largely new to
pet-ownership, tempting them to buy a pet on impulse and discard it with
just as little thought, adding to the huge population of strays that
already exists.
We sincerely hope that any reputable company will research very
carefully the prospects for "Big Business" to be made out of "Small
Animals" in Asia. What is certain is the potential for great suffering to
be caused. Please don't be a party to it.
Yours
faithfully,
Doreen
Davies
Executive Director
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 18:00:49 +0000
From: jwed
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Restaurant shark snatched from jaws of death (HK)
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SaturdayááOctober 25áá1997 - South China Morning Post
by NIALL FRASER
A Mongkok restaurant owner faces animal cruelty charges after a 2.6-metre
shark was rescued from a fish tank a day before it was due to be served to
customers.
Agriculture and Fisheries Department inspectors swooped to save the
eight-year-old nurse shark, which cost the Lei Garden Restaurant between
$15,000 and $20,000, after a public relations ploy went wrong. The
publicity campaign, including invitations to the media, backfired when
reporters sought comment from the department.
Four inspectors arrived at the Sai Yee Street restaurant with a mobile fish
tank at 10.15 am yesterday.
Veterinary Inspector Howard Wong Kai-hay said the female fish, caught by a
local fisherman last week, was in a "pretty unhealthy" state.
Describing the tank as "a coffin", Mr Wong said: "The shark only had three
inches [eight centimetres] in which to move." It is now being kept at Ocean
Park.
A restaurant spokesman claimed they had asked for official guidelines on
keeping sharks but received none.
Mr Wong said: "There are no written guidelines for this type of thing. But
the law provides for cruelty proceedings if the animal goes through
unnecessary suffering."
Officials were checking another restaurant in the same chain at Sha Tin.
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 12:18:10 -0400
From: "allen schubert, arrs admin"
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Website: Animal Protection Visual Materials
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Animal Rights Resource Site (ARRS) now hosts the Animal Protection Visual
Materials site:
http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/Faqs+Ref/vadivu/
This database began by trying to answer the question, "Do you have any
pictures I can use in my work to protect animals". Activists often have
problems finding resources available to use in the course of their
outreach/educational endeavors. The Animal Protection Visual Materials
seeks to make that task easier by indexing materials from different
organizations into one location (though materials must still be ordered
from those organizations).
It was compiled by Vadivu Govind and put into final text form by David
Briars. Many of you already recognize these names. Vadivu Govind often
posts news from the Far East. David Briars is heavily involved with the
McLibel effort in the US.
Files included:
Photos and Posters
Slides
Videos
Contact Information (Addresses for ordering)
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 13:25:04
From: David J Knowles
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: [CA] Donkeys' keeper faces charges
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VANCOUVER, B.C. - SPCA officials were called in last night to rescue 10
donkeys after receiving an anonymous tip that an animal was suffering in
the suburb of Pitt Meadows.
What they found was described as "unbelievable" - three donkeys at one
location, and a further 7 at another location owned by the same person. The
donkeys were all suffering from severely overgrown hooves.
One animal - a 20-year-old female was killed on the spot after a vet
determined her condition was too severe to be saved. SPCA director of field
operations, Brian Nelson, said that she was unable to stand up because of
the length of her hooves, which measured over 25-centimetres. She was only
able to eat things she could reach in the area in which she lying down.
The other nine are expected to live, Nelson said.
This is not something that occured overnight, Nelson said, adding that it
would take two to three years for the hooves to grow that long. "... For
two to three years, they watched these animals suffer."
About 70 per cent of a donkey's weight normally is born on their front
legs. Where the hooves aren't regularly trimmed, the weight shifts and the
feet end up being bent almost backwards.
The SPCA said they would be persuing charges under the Criminal Code of
Canada's animal cruelty provisions against the unnamed farmer, and that a
criminal investigation had been launched.
If convicted, he faces a fine of up to $2,000 and/or a jail sentence of six
months, as well as a ban from keeping an animal for two years. It is,
however, extremely rare for a custodial sentence to be given for animal
cruelty, and normally only a fine is imposed.
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 16:08:48 -0500
From: paulbog@jefnet.com (Rick Bogle)
To:
Subject: CA Primate Center
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POSTING
You are invited to join me.
>From 5am until 10pm from Nov. 1 to Nov. 9 I will sit in front of the
California Regional Primate Research Center to protest the continuing
holocaust of primate vivisection.
This is part of a nationwide series of similar protests at each of the
seven regional primate research centers. For more information please see:
www.orednet.org/~mnorthcu
We can stop this nonsense.
For the Ape Army,
Rick Bogle
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 09:02:20 -0800
From: Coral Hull
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Subject: (AU) Australian Activists Inside Piggeries
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Release....26th October,1997
ANIMAL WATCH AUSTRALIA is pleased to announce a photo tribute to the
activists who protested and rescued piglets from inside Bunge piggery,
Corowa, and Parkville piggery in Scone, New South Wales Australia. Bunge
piggery is the largest intensive pig farm in the Australia and the
southern hemisphere, torturing over 230,000 pigs at any given time. It
has its own onsite slaughterhouse murdering 7,600 pigs a week. Activists
including the Hon Richard Jones MP (Member of the NSW Legislative
Council) and actress Lynda Stoner, have protested inside the piggery
alerting police of the horrendous cruelty. Activists from different
organisations, including Animal Liberation NSW and AWA have regularly
inspected the farms, in order to rescue sick and dying animals, and to
obtain valueable film footage that has been used by the media, in
schools and at other conferences to educate the public.
You can view the photos by visiting the AWA site 6. PHOTO GALLERY at:
http://www.envirolink.org/orgs/animal_watch/au.html
Images may take a little time to download, but the wait is worth it.
Click on to any image to bring up a larger version.
(Raw video footage of battery hen farms, intensive piggeries and puppy
factory farm rescues and inspections is available from AWA. These videos
show of the conditions inside Australian farms, the work of activists,
rehabilitated animals and media coverage of the events. Costs are $25
per video for overseas orders and $20 for Australian orders. Price
includes postage and packaging. Please send cheques to: Raw Footage
ANIMAL WATCH AUSTRALIA PO Box 15 Elwood 3184 Victoria Australia.
Tel:61-(0)3-9531-4367 Fax:61-(0)3-9531-4257).Please state whether you
would prefer pig, hen or puppy farm footage).
Coral Hull (Site Director)
Animal Watch Australia
http://www.envirolink.org/orgs/animal_watch/au.html
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 20:05:41 -0400 (EDT)
From: Snugglezzz@aol.com
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Noble Boxers Now In Need of Homes
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Tulsa World, Tulsa, OK, USA: In her 18 years of saving boxers off the
streets, Tracy Hendrickson has always had a waiting list for those wishing to
adopt the full-breed dogs. Now, she's shocked to suddenly have her hands full
with the German-born animals that no one seems to want.
"It's the doggie dump-off society," the president of Tulsa Boxer Rescue said
of people who abandon the fawn, brindle or white-colored dogs. "And we have
to pick up the mess."
Hendrickson currently has 10 boxers that need homes, and it looks as if it
may soon have 11 or 12, she said.
Despite advertising efforts, she's had several of the dogs for months now.
Ranging in age from puppies to older dogs, they all have their shots, have
been spayed or neutered, had heart worm tests and treatment if necessary. The
dogs are also bathed and dipped before adoption.
Tulsa Boxer Rescue is a nonprofit organization. For more information, call
(918) 250-9004.
-- Sherrill
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 23:07:21 -0400
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Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 23:07:34 -0400
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