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AR-NEWS Digest 611
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) [UK] Ministers order tough curbs on the use of pesticides
by David J Knowles
2) [UK/US] Cancer cure is found in green tea
by David J Knowles
3) [SPA]Phaesant dies in Madrid
by 2063511 <2063511@campus.uab.es>
4) Leyton Freight/Relief Road
by Katy Andrews
5) SECOND WOLF CONFERENCE
by SDURBIN@VM.TULSA.CC.OK.US
6) (US) Ohio Finds Pet Squirrel Illegal
by Mesia Quartano
7) Anti-fur protest in Barcelona
by 2063511 <2063511@campus.uab.es>
8) Fisher Science Education Catalog
by SDURBIN@VM.TULSA.CC.OK.US
9) [Fwd: Re: ar-dc: [Fwd: (US) Oklahoma Anti-HSUS Letter to the Editor]]
by "animallib"
10) Fwd: Reward Offered for Wolf Killer in Minnesota
by CFOXAPI
11) (Au) Aussie bushfires.
by Lynette Shanley
12) (NZ)Kiwi deaths not due to negligence
by bunny
13) (US) Boston Furriers Say Sales Are Back
by Mesia Quartano
14) (US) Animal bladders become drug factories
by Mesia Quartano
15) Fwd: CT Greyhound Awareness Rally date change
by Me1ani
16) Seal Hunt Comment Sparks Debate
by Mesia Quartano
17) Australian Animals-vivisection/tail cutting
by bunny
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 00:48:37
From: David J Knowles
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: [UK] Ministers order tough curbs on the use of pesticides
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>From The Electronic Telegraph - Monday, December 22nd, 1997
Ministers order tough curbs on the use of pesticides
By Rachel Sylvester, Political Correspondent
TOUGH new regulations governing the use of pesticides on fruit and
vegetables are being drawn up because ministers fear that their potential
dangers to human health and the environment have been underestimated.
The Government has set up a powerful Whitehall committee to reassess the
effects on humans of organophosphates, which are used on about a quarter of
the crops grown in Britain. Ministers have ordered the committee, which
includes officials from the Ministries of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
and Defence, and the Departments of Health and the
Environment, to review all scientific research on the link between the
chemicals and severe flu-like symptoms.
The group will also examine whether there could be a link between so-called
Gulf War Syndrome and organophosphates, which were used by troops during
Operation Desert Storm. The internal inquiry has been prompted by growing
ministerial concern about the widespread use of the chemicals.
Some farmers have complained that they became ill after coming into contact
with organophosphate sheep dips and questions have been asked about the
danger of traces of pesticides left on vegetables entering the food chain.
Two agriculture ministers - Jeff Rooker and Lord Donoughue - have privately
voiced their fears that the dangers of the pesticides may have been played
down.
Frank Dobson, the Health Secretary, is concerned about the possible health
implications, and Michael Meacher, the environment minister, fears that
river life could be damaged by traces of organophosphates in the water.
Ministers are determined to take action as a matter of urgency in order to
avoid a repeat of the beef crisis, which cost billions of pounds and
undermined consumer confidence in British food.
Jack Cunningham, the Agriculture Minister, is expected to announce a
further package of compensation for farmers when he sets out the terms of
the BSE inquiry today.
The Government is now considering how the use of pesticides could be more
tightly controlled to protect the public. A ban on organophosphate
pesticides has not been ruled out. The Government recently suspended two
pesticides for use on carrots and parsnips after unacceptably high levels
of residues were found on vegetables which could have ended up in
supermarkets.
"Our prime concern is to protect the public," one minister said. "That
means that we may have to say that 80 per cent evidence rather than 100 per
cent proof of a link is enough to cause real concern. We are looking at the
whole area with an extremely open mind."
The review will further infuriate farmers, who are already angry about the
ban of beef on the bone. Organophosphate pesticides have become
increasingly popular because they are so effective at killing insects.
Until now, the Ministry of Agriculture has insisted that the chemicals pose
no unacceptable risk to health.
⌐ Copyright Telegraph Group Limited 1997.
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 00:53:34
From: David J Knowles
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: [UK/US] Cancer cure is found in green tea
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>From The Electronic Telegraph - Monday, December 22nd, 1997
Cancer cure is found in green tea
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor
GREEN tea has yielded an ingredient that kills cancer cells while sparing
healthy cells, a team in America reported yesterday.
Investigators at the Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in
Cleveland, Ohio, tested the ingredient, called epigallocatechin-3-gallate,
on cancerous human and mouse cells of the skin, lymph system, and prostate,
and on normal human skin cells.
In the test tube, it led to "programmed" cell death in the cancer cells,
but left the healthy cells unharmed, according to a report in the US
Journal of the National Cancer Institute.
"We found that this particular compound, which is present in the amount of
about 200 milligrams in one cup of green tea, can kill a variety of cancer
cells without affecting the normal cells," said Prof Hasan Mukhtar, senior
author.
"It is likely that this compound conveys a message to cancer cells through
a highly ordered and well-regulated signal transduction pathway.
"The message says: 'You must commit suicide or I am going to kill you.'
The cells then decide that instead of being murdered, they will commit
suicide," said Prof Mukhtar.
The investigators now feel that the cancer preventive properties of green
tea need to be evaluated in human trials. Figures show that approximately
20 per cent of tea that is drunk is green and the rest is black tea.
⌐ Copyright Telegraph Group Limited 1997.
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 20:36:22 +0100
From: 2063511 <2063511@campus.uab.es>
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Madrid, Spain: Today, one pheasant died when it jumped into Santiago Bernabeu
Stadium, during the match of Spanish soccer league into R.Madrid and RCD
Espanyol. The Pheasant was captured for many supporters and received a
knocking in their head afterweards it escape of R.Madrid's workers and the
r.Madrid's and Croatia selection's player Davor Suker, known for his to like
to bullfighting. The spanish TV Canal+ Espa±a (www.canalplus.es) showed the
images during this match.
Many times ago, in Barcelona, a rabbit died in Camp Nou Stadium, during
another match of spanish League when a it jumped into stadium.
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 12:49:31 +0000
From: Katy Andrews
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Leyton Freight/Relief Road
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Dear friends,
I am trying to get a message out to environmentally aware people and
particularly any who may be in East London (especially borough of Newham
or southern end of Waltham Forest). I have been sending updates to gsn,
roadalert and RTS and apologise that you won't have the full
background. basically it's a road up the Lea Valley, and we WON the
public Inquiry; the inpector said to build the road would release
suppressed demand for a road up the valley and the scheme should
therefore be deleted from the Borough's UDP. The Labour gourp of course
are very keen on the road, and the Tories voted to support them -
between them they voted to overrule the Inspector. We appealed to John
Gummer (then the Sec., of State for environment) and he replied that the
road was not of sufficient importance to warrant his intervention.
I have subscribed onto your list to get this message out, and will
de-subscribe shortly - probably at the end of tomorrow afternoon!
The message I am sending around is as follows:
I have heard that this weekend the hoardings went up along the Lea
Bridge Road, where construction of the road is now planned to start in
February 1998. The contracts for designing and constructing the
"underpass" (on the former railway line) were sent out from the
beginning of October.
Local residents have also had a letter through their doors from British
Gas, who we had thought had pulled out of the thing, saying that they
are about to start remediating the former gasometer site, and that there
will be noise, dirt, lorry movements and "occasionally smells."
I will try to find out whether any contract has been signed yet - there
was a full council meeting on Thursday and presumably approval would
have been given at that.
A few weeks ago I was contacted by People Against the River Crossing
(PARC), the group who saved Oxleas Woods, to say that the Oxleas route
is now under consideration again. This ties in with the East London
River Crossing scheme. On the north side of the Thames the relevant
groups are People of Poplar Linked Against Roads (POPLAR), but there is
nothing in Stratford - as far as I know - dealing with the problems that
will be caused by the M11 Link Road and Stratford Channel Tunnel
terminal.
As you all probably know Newham Council pushed as hard as it could to
get the M11 Link Road built, because without it there was no way that
they would have been considered for a Chunnel station. At the Inquiry
into the Chunnel station only Transport 2000 and FoE seem to have had
any anti-car input at all. Where were all the local people? (Clive and
Lawrie went along to speak but not representing an anti-road group.)
Now W.S. Atkins's traffic projections are saying that the M11 Link Road
will be at full capacity from Day 1. The DoT (as it then was) had
always insisted that there would be no interchange between the Link Road
and the Leyton Freight/Relief Road; however, Lab. Cllr. Tony Buckley
(Chair of LBWF's land Strategy Committee, very pro-road) is now saying
that there will be such a link. There will also of course be the
supposedly temporary road from Temple Mills down to Stratford (for
construction purposes during the station's rebuilding) and beyond that
of course the road to the new Thames Crossing (and thence to Oxleas
Woods).
All these roads are being put forward as independent schemes by the
relevant boroughs - all of whom seem to be using W.S. Atkins - the M11
Link Road engineers - as traffic management consultants. The left hand
says more roads are needed, the right hand takes the money for the
construction, but somehow no-one seems to think there could possibly be
any whiff of corruption! No-one in favour of the roads will admit that
they are all part of one long chain right through the valley. The top
end of the valley is aready ruined by the noise and light of the A1055,
and that is now about to be joined to the M25 via the NGAR and PERME
link roads at Enfield. By the end of next year, if we don't stop it,
there will only be the 1 1/4 mile left at Walthamstow Marshes, through
two SSSIs, a bird sanctuary and designated Nature reserve. Caught like
Twyford Down in a pincer movement.
Local groups opposing the road include Waltham Forest Environmental
Forum, New Lammas Lands Defence Committee, Walthamstow Marsh Society
(based in Hackney, which would be almost as badly affected by the road
as Leyton) and No M11 Link Road Campaign (what's left of it). The FoE
group in WF was never very effective and has recently apparently
collapsed. But none of these groups are doing anything to stop the road
because they all have other issues that they are about.
Part of the problem is that it's not just a Waltham Forest issue,
because at the southern end of the road it will be linked into the M11
Link Road, the A102(M), and the Stratford developments. Yet there
doesn't seem to be anyone in Newham with any interest in the environment
- Green Umbrella folded when it ended up being basically a group of two
or three people, and since then doodly-squat, as far as I can tell.
Why is there no-one in Newham doing anything about this?
What can we do to prevent them building a road up this lovely valley?
Any ideas please?
Many thanks,
KATY.
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 97 07:06:02 UTC
From: SDURBIN@VM.TULSA.CC.OK.US
To: ar-news@Envirolink.org
Subject: SECOND WOLF CONFERENCE
Message-ID: <199712221335.IAA28585@envirolink.org>
The North American Wolf Association (Houston, Texas) and the Wolf Recovery
Foundation (Boise, Idaho) will be holding a second WOLF ACTIVIST CONFERENCE
(electronically) on Monday evening, December 22nd, to organize a massive
global letter writing/petition campaign.
NOTE: If you have contacts in other countries who can help by translating
these letters and petitions into their native language, please invite them
to attend.
NOTE: If you run a message board, BBS, news group, or any other forum that
would be appropriate, PLEASE pass this along!
WE NEED EVERYONE'S HELP ON THIS, IF WE ARE TO SAVE THOSE WOLVES
The Conference will begin PROMPTLY at:
6:00pm PST
7:00pm MST
8:00pm CST
9:00pm EST
at the following address:
http://www.nawa.org/chatnawa.htnl
****************************
For those of you unfamiliar with the issue:
On Friday, December 12, 1997, U.S. District Judge William Downes, announced
his decision on a combination of lawsuits brought three years ago by the
American Farm Bureau, a ranching couple from Wyoming and the Earth Justice
Defense Fund representing the National Audubon Society. To our complete shock,
Judge Downes ruled that the wolf recovery program is illegal and ordered the
removal of Canadian wolves reintroduced in Yellowstone National Park and
central Idaho. He did, however, stay his order pending appeal by the
Interior Department.
The Farm Bureau is expected to push hard for an immediate rejection of the
appeal. If they area awarded this rejection, Ed Bangs, Rocky Mountain Wolf
Project Leader of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, has announced the Service
may be forced to kill the reintroduced wolves - and their pups - currently
over 150 wolves. If this tragedy is allowed to occur, only 1 - 3 known wolves
would be protected in Idaho and none in Yellowstone.
* The Judge's decision was based on legal technicalities that do not affect
the real safety or protection of the wolves. Montana wolves, who have full
legal protection under the ESA, have been legally killed at a higher rate
than in the Idaho experimental area.
* Biologically, the wolf reintroduction program has been extremely successful.
There are currently 12 to 14 pairs of wolves in Idaho going into January
breeding season. Six of these pair produced six litters (30 - 32 pups) in
1997. In Yellowstone, 9 packs produced 64 pups in 1997. Of this total,
only 1 - 3 are likely naturally occurring wolves, the other 150 plus wolves
are in danger of being killed.
* As the groups that support wolf recovery were announcing that they would
appeal Judge Downes decision, Larry Bourret, Executive Vice President of
the Wyoming Farm Bureau said the Farm Bureau would be in the U.S. Court
of Appeals defending it.
In an effort to half this disaster, we are calling for the American public
to rally to this cause. If you are a wolf-supporter and wish to see the
reintroduced wolves in central Idaho and Yellowstone National Park stay
with their families, safe and unharmed, there are some facts that you
should be made aware of:
The American Farm Bureau, one of the largest insurance companies in this
hemisphere, has stated that it has approximately 5 million members. What
you might not know is that you may be one of them.
The American Farm Bureau represents the interests of farmers and ranchers.
They are an umbrella of sorts for thousands upon thousands of smaller
insurance companies who insure cars, homes, RVs, motorcycles, annuities,
life insurance, homeowners policies, etc. If it can be insured, the
American Farm Bureau probably has their fingers in it.
WHAT YOU CAN DO:
On behalf of the wolves whose lives are at stake, the Wolf Recovery
Foundation in Boise, Idaho, partnered with the North American Wolf
Association, are issuing a plea, urging you to think long and hard about
who you spend your money with.
1) If your insurance policy (any policy) bears the words: Farm Bureau,
Farm Family and Rural Mutual Insurance Company anywhere on the policy,
there is a chance that YOUR money is being used to support the effort
to see the Idaho and Yellowstone wolves killed. There are plenty of
alternative insurance companies out there who are competitive and would
be more than happy to do business with you.
If you are unsure who underwrites your policy - call your agent and ask.
It is our intent to send a powerful message to these people.
PLEASE HELP US!!!!
These wolves have been through hell and back, and by the grace of God, they
survived. To see them destroyed now would be a horror we would have to live
with for the rest of our lives.
2) PLEASE send whatever you can afford to the Wolf Recovery Foundation,
P.O. Box 44236, Boise, ID 83711-0236 USA - we NEED your support to see this
thing through.
3) We will provide a list of CONGRESS men and women to write concerning
this issue at the conference.
MAKE NO MISTAKE ABOUT THIS - CANADA WILL ABSOLUTELY NOT TAKE THESE
ANIMALS
BACK. IF WE DO NOT ACT - THESE WOLVES WILL BE SHOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DO NOT WASTE A MOMENT OF TIME WRITING TO THE 10TH DISTRICT COURT
PANEL OF
JUDGES OR THE GOVERNORS, SENATORS, OR STATE REPRESENTATIVES OF
IDAHO,
WYOMING, OR MONTANA - THE ONLY WAY TO OVERTURN THIS RULING IS
THROUGH
CONGRESS. CONGRESS IS THE ONLY GOVERNING BODY THAT HAS THE
AUTHORITY TO
OVERRIDE THIS DECISION. IT IS, HOWEVER, A GOOD IDEA TO cc THE OTHER
OFFICIALS.
Please plan on attending and bring us your very best ideas!!!
For the Wolves,
Rae Henderson Ott, Executive Director
North American Wolf Association
23214 Tree Bright Lane
Houston, TX 77373
(281) 821-4884
nawa@nawa.org
http://www.nawa.org
Suzanne Laverty, Director
The Wolf Recovery Foundation
P.O. Box 44236
Boise, ID 83711-0236
(208) 321-0755
wrfwolf@aol.com
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 10:39:38 -0500
From: Mesia Quartano
To: "ar-news@envirolink.org"
Subject: (US) Ohio Finds Pet Squirrel Illegal
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(AP Online; 12/22/97)
CIRCLEVILLE, Ohio (AP) Angele Daniel Nichole deserved to win the
unusual pet contest. Now the state says the gray squirrel is not only an
unusual pet, she's an illegal pet.
Mary Jane Clifton rescued Angele from the street when she was a baby.
She has hand-crocheted winter outfits for the 19-month-old squirrel and
created a special area for her to sleep in a linen closet, though Angele
has even slept with Ms. Clifton and her husband.
After a picture of Ms. Clifton and Angele appeared in a newspaper for
winning the contest, officials with the Ohio Division of Wildlife
ordered her to turn over the animal. When she refused, she was charged
with possession of wild game for not having a permit to keep the animal.
During a municipal court hearing Thursday, wildlife supervisor James
Lehman said state law provides no method for taking a squirrel from the
wild alive. Lehman said the only legal way to have a live squirrel in
Ohio is to obtain it from a licensed breeder.
The state wants to put Angele with someone who specializes in returning
animals to the wild. But Ms. Clifton said experts she has talked to say
there is no chance the squirrel could be returned to the wild and that
chances are that she would be shot.
"If it comes down to that, I will ask them to let me shoot her myself so
I could bury her on our own land," Ms. Clifton said.
{APWire:Domestic-1222.73} 12/22/97
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 20:37:18 +0100
From: 2063511 <2063511@campus.uab.es>
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Anti-fur protest in Barcelona
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Barcelona, Catalonia:Yesterday, many ADDA voluntary protest in the famous
Barcelona's street "La Rambla de Canaletes" and other street in Barcelona city
for the bought in christmas of fur coats. The voluntaries distribute many
pamphet with information about the animals that died and how died for made a
fur coat.
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 97 13:58:13 UTC
From: SDURBIN@VM.TULSA.CC.OK.US
To: ar-news@Envirolink.org
Subject: Fisher Science Education Catalog
Message-ID: <199712221954.OAA07946@envirolink.org>
The newest Fisher Science catalog has an interesting statement under
the heading of "Preserved Pig & Cat Specimens":
"ALL cat specimens are obtained using humane and socially accepted
procedures."
(Wonder what their definition of humane is?)
-- Sherrill
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 10:53:15 +0000
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Jana, if you could provide the address, I would like to write a letter
to the Oklahoma newspaper, informing readers of the source
of the letter. We all know that Americans for Medical Progress is
a front group for the vivisection community and readers should
be informed of their duplicitous attempt to defame
the HSUS.
Thanks.
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Reward Offered For Wolf Killed in St. Louis County
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is offering a reward of up to
$2,500 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those
responsible for injuring a gray wolf on December 13 on Birch Lake near
Babbitt, Minnesota in eastern St. Louis County. Because of the extent of
its injuries, the wolf was later destroyed.
After receiving a call from a local resident, a Minnesota Department of
Natural Resources Conservation Officer found the critically injured wolf
on Birch Lake. Snowmobile tracks on the lake surface indicated the animal
had been struck twice by snowmobiles. Although still able to run after
the initial strike, upon being struck a second time the animal suffered
two broken legs and apparent internal injuries. After discovering the
condition of the animal, the Conservation Officer was forced to destroy
it. No arrests have been made in the case.
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Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 07:50:27 +1100
From: Lynette Shanley
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Subject: (Au) Aussie bushfires.
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Only two days to Christmas and fires still burning out of control in NSW
and WA. Reports are now coming in of loss of animal life. One farm in NSW
yesterday lost over 2,000 sheep. This is just one farm. There are animals
in the thousands burning, both introduced and native.
Native wildlife in NSW now making its way onto busy roads and populated
areas. They often escape the fires only to be hit by a car or attacked by a
pet animal.
Fire fighters will be working all Christmas day. No rest for them and its
only December.
If we are not experiencing bush fires then its either drought or floods.
Some part of the country is continuously in drought. What Australia needs
is an animal welfare group whose sole purpose is to highlight the problems
animal life experiences in times like these and to help these animals.
It has been said that this summer will be the worse summer Australians have
ever faced. Bush fires are already as bad as the 94 fires. It will be the
worse summer on record for our animal friends. Spare a thought for them.
Any ideas on helping these animals.
Lynette Shanley
International Primate Protection League - Australia
PO Box 60
PORTLAND NSW 2847
AUSTRALIA
Phone/Fax 02 63554026/61 2 63 554026
EMAIL ippl@lisp.com.au
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 06:59:43 +0800
From: bunny
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (NZ)Kiwi deaths not due to negligence
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Dominion (NZ) 23/12/97
Kiwi deaths not due to negligence
-scientist
The deaths of two more kiwis at the Whangarei
Museum kiwi house have not alarmed the Conservation
Department.
Department advisory scientist Ray Pierce confirmed the recent
deaths but said he was satisfied they had not been the result of
negligence.
Several chicks died at the Kiwi house and the Northpower Native
Bird Recovery Centre last year, and others were left deformed,
prompting a review of the museum's involvement in the Kiwi programme.
But the latest deaths do not have the department overly worried.
A male kiwi died recently as the result of a parasite infection.
Mr Pierce said he suspected a female, which had undergone testing for
rabbit calicvirus disease a year ago, had died because of
"aggressive attentions" from a male.
Results of an autopsy to find out if rcd had contributed to the death had
not
come back.
Mr Pierce said deaths were common among kiwis in captivity.
"Infection is something that we're trying to improve nationally, but
infortunately there are still some cases of infection and there are even
more cases of birds fighting".
Mr Pierce said kiwi house staff were following correct procedures in
caring for kiwis and he was satisfied they were doing an adequate job.
The woman responsible for captive kiwi in the North Island, Tracey Johnson
of Rotorua, was regularly consulted by the museum and department
about care of the kiwis.
Museum curator Stefan Tengblad would not comment on the deaths.
NZPA
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Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 19:13:34 -0500
From: Mesia Quartano
To: "ar-news@envirolink.org"
Subject: (US) Boston Furriers Say Sales Are Back
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(AP Online; 12/22/97)
BOSTON (AP) Fur is flying again. Boston furriers say holiday sales are
up 25 percent over last year.
Fur sales bottomed out in 1991, but rose to $1.25 billion last year and
are still climbing, according to the Washington D.C.-based Fur
Information Council of America.
Although sales have not reached the 1987 peak of $1.8 billion, it's not
for a lack of trying by the fashion industry.
This spring, more than 160 U.S. and European designers included fur in
their fall collections, up from 42 in 1985, according to the Fur
Information Council.
As for the strong-armed tactics of anti-fur activists, people like
Deborah Burger of Duxbury, who just purchased a beaver fur coat, isn't
bothered.
"I'm not nervous. The coat is insured," she told The Boston Globe. "If
someone throws red paint on it, I'll get another one."
{APWire:Domestic-1222.166} 12/22/97
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 19:19:52 -0500
From: Mesia Quartano
To: "ar-news@envirolink.org"
Subject: (US) Animal bladders become drug factories
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(UPI; 12/22/97)
UPI Science News
WASHINGTON, Dec. 22 (UPI) The miracle of genetic engineering may have
brought forth animals that make milk rich with human pharmaceuticals.
But U.S. government scientists now say there may be a better way animals
that produce the same kinds of proteins in urine.
In the January issue of the British journal Nature Biotechnology,
scientists from the Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of
Agriculture in Beltsville, Md., say they have genetically engineered
mice whose bladders work like little bioreactors, making human growth
hormone which is secreted in their urine.
The investigators say is the "first indication that the bladder of
transgenic animals can be transformed into a bioreactor."
USDA staff scientist Bob Wall tells United Press International there are
many advantages to urine. To start with, milk is a far more complicated
substance, containing large amounts of protein and fat that makes it
difficult to isolate the pharmaceutical compound."
In contrast, Wall says, "Urine is for the most part salt water."
Waiting for females to lactate is also time consuming, and it can take
years before researchers know for sure if a gene altered cow, sheep or
goat will actually make the protein.
But, says Wall, "with this bladder approach they can find out in a day."
Also, focusing on milk production cuts out half of the potential
productive population."
Says Wall, "Males don't lactate very well."
The researchers estimate that developing a herd of gene altered cows
that make pharmaceuticals in their milk would take about seven years,
while a comparable herd that makes drugs in their urine would take about
three."
In an accompanying commentary, Harry Meade and Carol Ziomek, from
Genzyme Transgenics, a Framingham, Mass.-based company developing farm
animals with
pharmaceuticals in their milk, call the idea "interesting, " and say it
deserves further investigation.
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 19:33:31 EST
From: Me1ani
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Subject: Fwd: CT Greyhound Awareness Rally date change
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Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 17:01:19 EST
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~RACE CARS NOT DOGS~
PLEASE JOIN OUR AWARENESS RALLY
SUNDAY, MARCH 22ND
IN FRONT OF THE SHORELINE STAR GREYHOUND PARK
IN BRIDGEPORT, CONNECTICUT
Greyhound Protection League/CT Chapter is planning a peaceful demonstration on
Sunday, March 22nd , 12pm-3pm in response to the announced Spring 1998
reopening of the Shoreline Star Bridgeport dog track.
AS A TAXPAYER, VOTER AND ANIMAL LOVER
YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO SAY, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!
~In spite of nationwide adoption efforts, thousands of greyhounds will be
destroyed again this year.
~Greyhound racing is not a fun, harmless "sport," it is a form of gambling
entertainment responsible for the deaths of an estimated 1,000,000 greyhounds
in its 72 year history.
~According to a state report, dog racing in Connecticut is projected to cost
the state $1.5 million more to regulate in 1997 than it will receive in pari-
mutuel taxes
(The Hartford Courant, March 10th, 1997/ Lyn Bixby, Courant Staff writer)
For further information/directions/educational literature contact:
GPL/CT
P.O. Box 341
Greenwich, CT 06836
203-968-2308
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 19:34:00 -0500
From: Mesia Quartano
To: "ar-news@envirolink.org"
Subject: Seal Hunt Comment Sparks Debate
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(AP Online; 12/22/97)
ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland (AP) Newfoundland's fisheries minister has
called on Canadian author Farley Mowat to apologize to Jews for
comparing the province's seal hunt to the Holocaust.
"This is an appalling comparison to make," the minister, John Efford,
said Monday. "His statements show total insensitivity to the profound
suffering of those who were victims of the Holocaust."
For many years, animal-rights activists have called the Newfoundland
seal hunt a grisly display of cruelty. But Mowat took the criticism a
step further this month, likening the hunt to the Nazi slaughter of
Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals and others during World War II.
"I don't think the word Holocaust is too strong," the Canadian author
said. "I do not make a distinction between the massive destruction of
any kind of animal, whether it is human or non-human."
Efford said to liken a crime against humanity to "a legitimate
commercial industry is appalling and clearly demonstrates his lack of
understanding of both."
Over the weekend, Rabbi Abraham Cooper of the Simon Wiesenthal Center,
the world's leading Nazi-hunting group, also demanded Mowat's apology.
Mowat is famed for his crusading, adventure-filled books about Canada's
far north.
Three of his early books based trips to the Arctic in 1947 and 1948
created a sensation across North America with their evocative accounts
of wolves and starving, disease-ridden Inuits, then known as Eskimos. In
all, he has published 26 books, including an award-winning children's
novel and several works about Arctic explorers.
{APWire:International-1222.353} 12/22/97
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 1997 08:43:55 +0800
From: bunny
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Australian Animals-vivisection/tail cutting
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I just received a copy newsletter put out by
the Australian Association for Humane Research Inc.
The Web site for this organisation is
www.aahr.asn.au
and email is humane@aahr.asn.edu
According to this newsletter there are two areas of horrific
research of Australian Animals.
1. Apparently there was/is funded research in which the tails were/are cut
off Fat Tailed Dunnarts here in Australia (this research may be funded to be
continued into the next three years?)
2. From the item "convenience at any cost"
Vivisectors are turning to Australain marsupials instead of the traditional
rodents because they offer distinct advantages for developmental research.
The article in the "Sydney Morning Herald (27.10.1997) states that the main
advantage is that "the young foetuses can be got at before they have
developed because they move out of the uterus and into the mother's abdomen
in a partial stage of development" and as one scientist put it, they can be
plucked from
the teat "like an apple from a tree".
This means scientists do not have to operate on mothers, as they do with
rats and mice. Australian marsupials breed rapidly and can be kept like
other laboratory animals.
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