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AR-NEWS Digest 624
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) Re: [Fwd:Funding for L.R.Road]
by Katy Andrews
2) (US) Columbia Deer Hunt Begins
by allen schubert
3) (US) Farmers Meet To Protest Regulations
by allen schubert
4) (US) New Rules For Hog Farms
by allen schubert
5) Yellowstone: elk, bison, beavers
by "Bina Robinson"
6) If you wrote to me, write again please
by Vadivu Govind
7) ALERT-Yellowstone Wolves need your help!
by Jill Hein
8) National Conference on Civil Disobedience
by Miyun Park
9) Fw: [PT] Frozen baboons returned to life
by paulbog@jefnet.com (Rick Bogle)
10) Fw: [PT] Frozen baboons returned to life
by paulbog@jefnet.com (Rick Bogle)
11) Frozen baboons
by paulbog@jefnet.com (Rick Bogle)
12) DOG EATING
by STFORJEWEL
13) Washington Post editorial
by leah wacksman
14) [Fwd: Thailand offers home to abandoned (by NIH) monkeys]
by Steve Barney
15) NEWSWIRE: "Thais Seek Return Of Wisconsin Zoo's Monkeys"
by Steve Barney
16) EDITORIAL: [Fwd: "Save the monkey house"]
by Steve Barney
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 10:44:06 +0000
From: Katy Andrews
To: KHAN KHAN , gsn@ed.ac.uk,
Reclaim the Streets , ar-news
Cc: "Adrian. Stannard" ,
Graham Dawson ,
Clive Ramsey , Schnews@brighton.co.uk
Subject: Re: [Fwd:Funding for L.R.Road]
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Hello, there!
you asked who I am etc. - I'm actually working for a research
organisation on a three-month contract (which has just been extended for
a few more weeks), and I'm in the IT Support Department rather than
anything hands-on. So I'm not at University any more (I have two first
degrees and an MSc, so I think I've probably had enough of that for the
time being anyway!).
I know quite a few people who are on the Green Student Network and in
the AR-Newsgroup, which I got onto partly because I am interested in the
Gandalf case, being an ex-writer on Green Anarchist, and partly because
I am trying to find out if there are any green/eco-aware people in the
Newham borough of East London. The Southern Lea Valley Federation are
trying to find people there who can help fill in bits of the jigsaw
surrounding the Leyton Freight/Relief Road, the car-based casino and
"leisure complex" development planned for Hackney Wick, and the road
links around Stratford Chunnel Station, all of which are direct
spin-offs from the M11 Link Road.
The LRR is additionally part of a long mosaic of "minor little road
schemes" which taken togther add up to one large road. I had a good
look around the fenced-off site (the gate was open and there was no
security) and the hoardings are exactly the same as those around the M11
Link Road sites, even down to the colour - it's the same paint. There
is nothing to suggest why the hoardings have gone up or what works might
be done, but it reeks of WS Atkins.
Thanks to the people who recommended "road-raging." I already have a
copy! It's finding people to do something about this that is proving
difficult.
Probably we'll set up a base camp in February. (When my contract will
have ended!)
Cheers,
Katy.
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 07:14:41 -0500
From: allen schubert
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US) Columbia Deer Hunt Begins
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from CNN Custom News http://www.cnn.com
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Maryland State News
Reuters
05-JAN-98
Columbia Deer Hunt Begins
(COLUMBIA) -- Despite protests from animal rights groups... a
managed deer hunt starts today at the Middle River Patuxent
Environmental Area, near Columbia. Howard County officials say
they have chosen ten hunters a day who are licensed to hunt deer
in the park. They say the hunt will be held over the next month,
between the hours of five and eleven in the morning, when the
park will be closed to everyone else. State police report more
than 300 car accidents involving deer in Howard County in the
past year.
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 07:15:39 -0500
From: allen schubert
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US) Farmers Meet To Protest Regulations
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factory farming/environment
from CNN Custom News http://www.cnn.com
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Maryland State News
Reuters
05-JAN-98
Farmers Meet To Protest Regulations
(SALISBURY) -- Farmers who are worried about proposed
regulations on chicken manure meet today to map out strategy for
the upcoming session of the General Assembly. A large group of
poultry farmers are expected to attend the meeting at the Civic
Center in Salisbury. Organizers say they want to send a message
to the legislature to go slow on restrictions... because there's
no proof that runoff from chicken manure is what caused massive
fish kills last year in Eastern Shore rivers. A statewide panel
studying the problem recommended the manure restrictions.
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 07:29:20 -0500
From: allen schubert
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US) New Rules For Hog Farms
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factory farming/environment
from CNN Custom News http://www.cnn.com
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Illinois State News
Reuters
05-JAN-98
New Rules For Hog Farms
(SPRINGFIELD) -- A new state law will require annual inspections of
large-scale hog farms. But some say the measure won't do much to help
alleviate environmental concerns. Neighbors say the large farms produce a
bad odor, and they fear groundwater contamination from animal waste. Chirag
Mehta (Chur'-awg Met'-uh) with the Illinois Stewardship Alliance says
residents want local control over citing of the farms. The new law does
require more reporting of waste spills and stiffens penalties for repeat
violators. Environmentalists say they'll continue to push for stronger
legislation.
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 10:18:39 -0500
From: "Bina Robinson"
To: ,
Subject: Yellowstone: elk, bison, beavers
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Park Management WHEN NATURE GOES TOO FAR
"The Economist" January 3, 1997 p. 28
In 1986 Alston Chase, a writer, stood before a piece of ground in
Yellowstone National Park which had been grazed, as Mr. Chase put it, "as
smooth as a golf fairway." He turned to a scientists. "Is this range
damaged?" he asked. "What is the truth?" the scientist replied
rhetorically. "You and I look at this scene and see range damage. The
Park Service sees nature at work."
As Yellowstone enters its 30th year of "natural regulation", it finds
itself in the middle of a deepening dilemma: should it go on letting nature
take its course, or not? Critics have questioned natural regulation ever
since its inception, and the policy now has fewer friends than enemies.
When 600,000 acres - more than a third of the park - went up in smoke in
1988, patrons, furious at seeing wild fires left to burn, bombarded
politicians, (sic) who then called for the head of the park superintendent,
Robert Barbee. Butsimilar storms erupted when nature was not left to
regulate itself: 1,084 bison were shot during the winter of 1996-97 as they
left the park looking for forage. A judge in Montana has just ruled,
despite a petition from environmentalists, that they can be shot this
winter too.
Now, Yellowstone's estimated 18,000 elk sit in the political spotlight.
Park scientists one thought there could never be too many elk; there could
be temporary overgrazing, but the range, they insisted, would spring back
as soon as the elk died from starvation, revealing a natural equilibrium.
This has not happened. The numbers at which the elk population would
theoretically stabilise have kept rising, well beyond what the scientists
predicted.
Population ecologists such as Mark Boyce, of the University of Wiisconsin
at Stevens Point, say that winter and wolves will eventually take care of
the problem. The cold and lack of feed that drove bison out of Yellowstone
last winter also killed an estimated 6,000 elk. But wolves are a different
story. They have killed about 360 elk since they were reintroduced to the
park in 1995; on December 12th; a federal judge order that, being a
"non-essential" experiment, they should be removed again.
Other scientists think the elk will not "internally regulate" their
population before they have devastated vegetation in the park. Charles
Kay, an assistant professor of political science at Utah State University,
says the elk and bison in Yellowstone have become so numerous that they are
destroying the habitat necessary to support a wide variety of animals,
especially in an area called the Northern Range. Last February;, Mr. Kay
produced (and showed to Congress) a striking series of photographs of
different parts of the park at the turn of the century and now. These
showed that, over the years, elk have stripped the park of its aspen and
willow stands. Mr. Kay claims that aspen in particular have suffered a 95%
decline since the park opened in 1972: a serious development because beaver
rely on aspen to build their dams, which in turn are vital to keep wetlands
going.
Park officials say that the elk are only partly to blame. In their view, a
hotter and drier Yellowstone caused the moisture-loving willow and aspen to
disappear. Mr. Boyce says that Mr. Kay's pictures do not tell the whole
story: although elk have been hard on these trees in some plac4es, in
others their impact is undetectable. And Mr. Kay himself admits that aspen
groves have been deteriorating throughout the west.
The feeding of elk outside the park complicates the issue. Only two of the
nine Yellowstone elk herds winter in the park. The rest migrate to feed.
Herds in the souther end of Yellowstone head for the Jackson Hole Elk
Refuge, where the state of Wyoming feeds each of them 3.5kg of hay a day.
How can numbers stabilise at a low level if they are fed? One biologists,
Aldo Leopold, once flung up his hands at the folly of it all. "It seems to
me academic," he said, "to talk about maintaining the balance of nature.
The balance of nature in any strict sense has been upset a long time ago,
and there is no such thing to maintain."
Yellowstone, pulled and tugged by changing policy manuals and overbearing
politicians, has a history of reactive management. When attacked by
critics, the faithful tend to circle the wagons, only to capitulate as soon
as some scientific school of thought convinces them that disaster is
imminent. Yet that may change. Yellowstone is part of a new experiment in
park fees. Last year the entry fee was raised to $20; the park will keep
$8. Will visitors really pay to see dying elk and meadows nibbled down to
the roots? Keeping part of the gate receipts may give the park more
autonomy, and push politics further out of the picture. It would be even
better if the park's managers used their new freedom to come up with a
consistent set of principles on which the park could be run.
from Civitas
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 23:29:32 +0800 (SST)
From: Vadivu Govind
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: If you wrote to me, write again please
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If anyone wrote to me personally regarding anything I've posted over the
last 24 hours, please could you re-post to me. I've lost some mail.
Thanks and sorry for this intrusion!
- Vadivu
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 08:02:00 -0800
From: Jill Hein
To: "'ar-news@envirolink.org'"
Subject: ALERT-Yellowstone Wolves need your help!
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> The wolves in Yellowstone National Park and central Idaho are in GRAVE
> DANGER
> and desperately NEED our help.
>
> The North American Wolf Association and the Wolf Recovery Foundation are
> mounting a massive global petition/letter writing campaign in response to
> the
> Farm Bureau's nightmare suit against the U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
> The Farm
> Bureau represents the interests of the ranchers and they intend to have
> the
> reintroduced wolves in those areas cold-bloodly shot. We need to act and
> act
> fast. The ONLY governing body that can overturn a Federal Court ruling, is
> Congress. In addition to getting Congress involved, we've written a
> petition to
> the Farm Bureau asking that they drop the suit.
>
> Presently, we need both translators for the petitions into other languages
> and
> volunteers to physically collect signatures. If you can help in any way,
> please
> contact us immediately through the addresses below.
>
> There is an electronic petition that you can sign onto from NAWA's home
> page at:
> http://www.nawa.org Please take a few minutes to sign it. It is
> literally a
> matter of life and death to those wolves - and EVERY name counts. There
> are also
> petitions that can be printed out from the site and used to collect
> signatures.
> We will be adding additional categories and other nations as we get them
> written
> and/or translated.
>
> Thank you - all of you, from the bottom of our hearts.
>
> For the Wolves,
>
> Rae Henderson Ott
> Executive Director
> North American Wolf Association
> nawa@nawa.org
>
> Suzanne Laverty
> Director
> Wolf Recovery Foundation
> wrfwolf@aol.com
>
>
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 12:05:01 -0500
From: Miyun Park
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: National Conference on Civil Disobedience
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From: lemurx@juno.com (Nisha l Anand)
UPDATED INFORMATION
National Conference on Civil Disobedience: January 24th and 25th
List of Workshops and Speakers
WELCOMING AND OPENING ADDRESS
Dr. Abdul Aziz Said, Director of the Peace and Conflict Resolution
Department at The American University and The AU Center for Global Peace
HOW TO RADICALIZE YOUR LIFE
Colman McCarthy, founder and director of the Center for Teaching Peace and
wrote for The Washington Post for over 25 years. McCarthy is a nationally
renowned speaker and lectures at over 20 colleges and universities a year.
He is a pacifist, a vegetarian and has been commuting to work on his
bicycle for over 20 years.
**Local Issues**
FIGHTING NUCLEAR GROWTH AND WEAPONRY
Sponsored by Peace Action
ENDING HOMELESSNESS AND HUNGER THROUGH NONVIOLENT ACTION
Keith MkHenry--one of the original eight founders of Food Not Bombs. He
founded the San Francisco chapter of Food Not Bombs which has been arrested
over 1000 times for serving free food. Keith has been arrested 104 times
for civil disobedience and has been threatened with life imprisonment for
one such prolonged civil disobedience.
BIKES: A MEANS OF MASS PROTEST
Sponsored by Critical Mass
TRANSFORMATION THROUGH EDUCATION: THE NEW REVOLUTION
SQUATTING, SQUATERS RIGHTS, AND THE END OF HOMELESSNESS
Nate, from Baltimore Food Not Bombs and The Anarchist Black Cross, is
currently facing both felony and misdemeanor charges for trying to squat an
abandoned building and giving the homeless a home.
**International Issues**
CONSUMER AND ECONOMIC MEANS OF PROTEST: A CASE FOR BURMESE
LIBERATION
Sponsored by The Free Burma Coalition at American University
ESCAPING THE CAPITALIST MARKET SYSTEM: THE SILENT REVOLUTION IN
AFRICA
Dr. Fantu Cheru, Professor of Development Studies in the School of
International Service at American University. Specialty in Urban
Development, Economics, Development, and African Studies.
EAST TIMOR AND THE U.S. GOVERNMENT: HOW TO FIGHT
TECHNIQUES, METHODS, AND SKILLS FOR CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Colman McCarthy (bio above)
DEFENDING OUR ENVIRONMENT
Forest Defenders
**Animal Rights Issues**
MAXIMIZING THE POWER OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
Freeman Wicklund is the founder and former editor of "No Compromise: The
Militant, Direct Action Magazine for Animal Liberationists and Their
Supporters." He also founded and coordinated the Student Organization for
Animal Rights at the Univ. of MN where he organized and participated in
dozens of civil disobedience actions. Currently, he is the Executive
Director of the Animal Liberation League.
HOW TO ORGANIZE AND EXECUTE AN EFFECTIVE ACT OF CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
Paul Shapiro and Miyun Park, co-directors of D.C.'s only grassroots direct
action organization, Compassion Over Killing
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU GET ARRESTED?
Sean Day, lawyer and vegan activist
INCORPORATING EASTERN TRADITIONS INTO SOCIAL ACTION: NONVIOLENCE
AND ANIMAL
RIGHTS
POLITICS AND REASONING BEHIND FASTING AND HUNGER STRIKES AS A MEANS
OF
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
Dawn Ratcliffe
DETAILS
Where:
The American University, Washington DC
400 Massachusetts Ave NW, Tenleytown Metro
Served by BWI, Dulles, and Washington National Airports, Amtrak (Union
Station) and Greyhound
When:
Saturday January 24 and Sunday January 25, 1998
Registration:
Friday Night registration: 7:30 pm - 12:00 midnight at Mary Graydon
Center, AU
Saturday Registration: 8:00 am - 9:00 am at Kay Spiritual Life Center, AU
Price:
$7.00 registration for all workshops
$15.00 to include two vegan lunches
Free sleeping space scholarships for students (first come)
Special low cost housing for individuals and groups available but limited
For more info on housing, contact Kate Lowe at 301-649-5838 or
k8low@hotmail.com
If you require housing, you must register in advance. People who would
like lunches are strongly advised to preregister so they are guaranteed food.
Mail to: AUARE, 4519 Alton Place, NW. Wahsington, DC 20016
For more information contact Nisha Anand, conference coordinator, at
lemurx@juno.com or 202-686-7966
OTHER ACTIVIITES
Saturday, January 24th: 5:30 - 7:00pm
ANTI-FUR PROTEST AT NEIMAN MARCUS, Mazza Gallerie (Friendship Heights
Metro); sponsored by Compassion Over Killing.
Sunday, January 25th: 4:00pm
Serve with DC Food Not Bombs. 19th and Pennsylvania
OTHER INFORMATION
If your group would like to have an information table out during the 1&1/2
hour lunches, during registration, you must pay an extra $10 for both
lunches or $5 for one lunch. To ensure space, you can contact Nisha Anand
in advance (contact info above).
Last minute cancellations have made it possible to add up to three new
workshops, if you have any ideas, please contact Nisha as soon as possible.
This event is sponsored and made possible by American Univeristy Animal
Rights Effort; Compassion Over Killing; DC, Richmond, and Baltimore Food
Not Bombs; The Peace and Conflict Resolution Department; Free Burma
Coalition; Kay Spiritual Life Center; Peace Action; AU Center for Global
Peace; Community Service Office at American University; Center for Teaching
Peace; Critical Mass; General Strike; and Wellwisher.
nisha! I do look like a lemur
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 13:59:52 -0600
From: paulbog@jefnet.com (Rick Bogle)
To: "AR-News Post"
Subject: Fw: [PT] Frozen baboons returned to life
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Now the rich will never have to die. So much for religion. Who cares what
happens to you when you die if you don't?
----------
> From: Loren Coleman
> To: PRIMATE-TALK@primate.wisc.edu
> Subject: [PT] Frozen baboons returned to life
> Date: Monday, January 05, 1998 9:10 AM
>
>
> (from lcolema1@maine.rr.com [ Loren Coleman ])
>
> The Sunday Times (London, England, UK)
>
> 4 January 1998
>
> Frozen baboons returned to life
>
> by Lois Rogers
> Medical Correspondent
>
> SCIENTISTS have unlocked the secret of suspended animation by
> successfully reviving baboons hours after their bodies were packed
> into crates of ice.
>
> The breakthrough, which holds huge implications for the battle against
> disease and ageing, will allow humans to preserve their ice-cold
> bodies in suspended animation and wake up years later in the same
> physical condition.
>
> It has aroused the interest of space scientists investigating the
> possibility of interstellar travel, allowing human exploration of
> galaxies many light years away.
>
> Military clinicians are also attracted by the prospect of allowing
> critically injured troops to be near-frozen on the battlefield and
> preserved for later treatment.
>
> The key to the technology is Hextend, a revolutionary plasma
> replacement fluid which is poured into the body through a vein in the
> upper thigh as blood is drained and the anaesthetised body is cooled
> to 1C. As the clear fluid permeates the tissues, it prevents the
> deterioration caused by extreme lowering of body temperature.
>
> The results from the baboon studies, carried out at Biotime, a
> California research company, were announced at the annual meeting of
> the American Association of Anti-Ageing Medicine.
>
> Hal Sternberg, Biotime's head of research, said work on the mechanisms
> of animal hibernation had provided much of the basic information on
> suspended animation.
>
> One type of North American frog can partially freeze its body while it
> shuts down during the winter months. Hamsters have been kept alive at
> 1-2C with no heartbeat in Biotime laboratories for up to seven hours
> before being successfully rewarmed.
>
> The long-term objective is to add freeze-protectant chemicals to the
> Hextend solution so human bodies can be stored at -196C, the
> temperature of liquid nitrogen. The principal barrier, however, is
> popular opinion.
>
> "It is like the public attitude to early organ transplants," said
> Sternberg. "Although everyone will love us when we announce we have
> reversibly frozen a human being, at the moment this area is not
> considered socially acceptable.
>
> "There is a limit to how far people think you should go to save a
> life: but we already have children being born from frozen embryos. If
> you are extending the beginning of life, why shouldn't you also extend
> it later on?"
>
> Sternberg and his colleagues expect to use their new techniques to put
> themselves into long-term hibernation while they await the development
> of life-extending techniques to cure and prevent cancer, heart failure
> and Alzheimer's disease.
>
> Doctors believe the technique can immediately be used in complex
> surgery, where best results can be obtained by cooling the body to a
> level which would otherwise cause brain damage.
>
> Clinical trials of Hextend led by Michael Mythen, a consultant
> anaesthetist who worked on the project in America, are to begin at
> University College hospital, London, this year.
>
> It will be used in complex orthopaedic, gynaecological and stomach
> operations where there is a danger of catastrophic blood loss and
> where better results can be obtained at low temperatures.
>
> Kelvin Brockbank, a British-born scientist in South Carolina who has
> received funding from the American government for his research work in
> the allied field of preserving transplant organs, said deep-freezing
> of human tissue would be possible within a year. "There will be a
> whole range of applications for the technology," he said. "It will be
> up to people to decide how to use them."
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 14:14:04 -0600
From: paulbog@jefnet.com (Rick Bogle)
To: "AR-News Post"
Subject: Fw: [PT] Frozen baboons returned to life
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> From: Rick Bogle
> To: AR-News Post
> Subject: Fw: [PT] Frozen baboons returned to life
> Date: Monday, January 05, 1998 1:59 PM
>
> Now the rich will never have to die. So much for religion. Who cares
what
> happens to you when you die if you don't?
>
> ----------
> > From: Loren Coleman
> > To: PRIMATE-TALK@primate.wisc.edu
> > Subject: [PT] Frozen baboons returned to life
> > Date: Monday, January 05, 1998 9:10 AM
> >
> >
> > (from lcolema1@maine.rr.com [ Loren Coleman ])
> >
> > The Sunday Times (London, England, UK)
> >
> > 4 January 1998
> >
> > Frozen baboons returned to life
> >
> > by Lois Rogers
> > Medical Correspondent
> >
> > SCIENTISTS have unlocked the secret of suspended animation by
> > successfully reviving baboons hours after their bodies were packed
> > into crates of ice.
> >
> > The breakthrough, which holds huge implications for the battle against
> > disease and ageing, will allow humans to preserve their ice-cold
> > bodies in suspended animation and wake up years later in the same
> > physical condition.
> >
> > It has aroused the interest of space scientists investigating the
> > possibility of interstellar travel, allowing human exploration of
> > galaxies many light years away.
> >
> > Military clinicians are also attracted by the prospect of allowing
> > critically injured troops to be near-frozen on the battlefield and
> > preserved for later treatment.
> >
> > The key to the technology is Hextend, a revolutionary plasma
> > replacement fluid which is poured into the body through a vein in the
> > upper thigh as blood is drained and the anaesthetised body is cooled
> > to 1C. As the clear fluid permeates the tissues, it prevents the
> > deterioration caused by extreme lowering of body temperature.
> >
> > The results from the baboon studies, carried out at Biotime, a
> > California research company, were announced at the annual meeting of
> > the American Association of Anti-Ageing Medicine.
> >
> > Hal Sternberg, Biotime's head of research, said work on the mechanisms
> > of animal hibernation had provided much of the basic information on
> > suspended animation.
> >
> > One type of North American frog can partially freeze its body while it
> > shuts down during the winter months. Hamsters have been kept alive at
> > 1-2C with no heartbeat in Biotime laboratories for up to seven hours
> > before being successfully rewarmed.
> >
> > The long-term objective is to add freeze-protectant chemicals to the
> > Hextend solution so human bodies can be stored at -196C, the
> > temperature of liquid nitrogen. The principal barrier, however, is
> > popular opinion.
> >
> > "It is like the public attitude to early organ transplants," said
> > Sternberg. "Although everyone will love us when we announce we have
> > reversibly frozen a human being, at the moment this area is not
> > considered socially acceptable.
> >
> > "There is a limit to how far people think you should go to save a
> > life: but we already have children being born from frozen embryos. If
> > you are extending the beginning of life, why shouldn't you also extend
> > it later on?"
> >
> > Sternberg and his colleagues expect to use their new techniques to put
> > themselves into long-term hibernation while they await the development
> > of life-extending techniques to cure and prevent cancer, heart failure
> > and Alzheimer's disease.
> >
> > Doctors believe the technique can immediately be used in complex
> > surgery, where best results can be obtained by cooling the body to a
> > level which would otherwise cause brain damage.
> >
> > Clinical trials of Hextend led by Michael Mythen, a consultant
> > anaesthetist who worked on the project in America, are to begin at
> > University College hospital, London, this year.
> >
> > It will be used in complex orthopaedic, gynaecological and stomach
> > operations where there is a danger of catastrophic blood loss and
> > where better results can be obtained at low temperatures.
> >
> > Kelvin Brockbank, a British-born scientist in South Carolina who has
> > received funding from the American government for his research work in
> > the allied field of preserving transplant organs, said deep-freezing
> > of human tissue would be possible within a year. "There will be a
> > whole range of applications for the technology," he said. "It will be
> > up to people to decide how to use them."
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 15:23:58 -0600
From: paulbog@jefnet.com (Rick Bogle)
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Subject: Frozen baboons
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This just off Primate Talk:
(from lcolema1@maine.rr.com [ Loren Coleman ])
The Sunday Times (London, England, UK)
4 January 1998
Frozen baboons returned to life
by Lois Rogers
Medical Correspondent
SCIENTISTS have unlocked the secret of suspended animation by
successfully reviving baboons hours after their bodies were packed
into crates of ice.
The breakthrough, which holds huge implications for the battle against
disease and ageing, will allow humans to preserve their ice-cold
bodies in suspended animation and wake up years later in the same
physical condition.
It has aroused the interest of space scientists investigating the
possibility of interstellar travel, allowing human exploration of
galaxies many light years away.
Military clinicians are also attracted by the prospect of allowing
critically injured troops to be near-frozen on the battlefield and
preserved for later treatment.
The key to the technology is Hextend, a revolutionary plasma
replacement fluid which is poured into the body through a vein in the
upper thigh as blood is drained and the anaesthetised body is cooled
to 1C. As the clear fluid permeates the tissues, it prevents the
deterioration caused by extreme lowering of body temperature.
The results from the baboon studies, carried out at Biotime, a
California research company, were announced at the annual meeting of
the American Association of Anti-Ageing Medicine.
Hal Sternberg, Biotime's head of research, said work on the mechanisms
of animal hibernation had provided much of the basic information on
suspended animation.
One type of North American frog can partially freeze its body while it
shuts down during the winter months. Hamsters have been kept alive at
1-2C with no heartbeat in Biotime laboratories for up to seven hours
before being successfully rewarmed.
The long-term objective is to add freeze-protectant chemicals to the
Hextend solution so human bodies can be stored at -196C, the
temperature of liquid nitrogen. The principal barrier, however, is
popular opinion.
"It is like the public attitude to early organ transplants," said
Sternberg. "Although everyone will love us when we announce we have
reversibly frozen a human being, at the moment this area is not
considered socially acceptable.
"There is a limit to how far people think you should go to save a
life: but we already have children being born from frozen embryos. If
you are extending the beginning of life, why shouldn't you also extend
it later on?"
Sternberg and his colleagues expect to use their new techniques to put
themselves into long-term hibernation while they await the development
of life-extending techniques to cure and prevent cancer, heart failure
and Alzheimer's disease.
Doctors believe the technique can immediately be used in complex
surgery, where best results can be obtained by cooling the body to a
level which would otherwise cause brain damage.
Clinical trials of Hextend led by Michael Mythen, a consultant
anaesthetist who worked on the project in America, are to begin at
University College hospital, London, this year.
It will be used in complex orthopaedic, gynaecological and stomach
operations where there is a danger of catastrophic blood loss and
where better results can be obtained at low temperatures.
Kelvin Brockbank, a British-born scientist in South Carolina who has
received funding from the American government for his research work in
the allied field of preserving transplant organs, said deep-freezing
of human tissue would be possible within a year. "There will be a
whole range of applications for the technology," he said. "It will be
up to people to decide how to use them."
Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 17:16:52 EST
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>From the Denver Post
Denver Colorado
Sunday, January 4, 1997
MAN BITES DOG
By Dan Meyers
Denver Post Business Writer
The steaming stew revolved toward me as we sat around a lazy susan in a hotel
restaurant an hour outside of Chengdu, China.
The dumplings had been tasty. The peanuts had been crunchy. The chicken soup
had been fabulous.
So, I asked the bus driver near me, what is this stew thing?
"Gou," he said, his tone dipping, then rising a bit, on the "o."
Hmm. I'd heard that word before. Couldn't quite place it.
Oh well, it looked good. I ladled some gou onto my plate.
Then the translator sitting next to me spoke softly, in a voice that tried to
mask any emotion.
"Dog," she said.
"Dog?" I said, betraying quite a bit of emotion.
"Dog," she said, as I looked down at my plate and she firmly propelled the
stew along toward the eagerly awaiting bus driver.
If you've traveled abroad, especially in Asia, as many from Colorado have on
business or pleasure, you've come to the gustatory fork in the road in a place
where that's the only fork to be found.
Before I left for a recent 2-week trip to China, several more experienced
travelers advised me to adopt, when at the dinner table, the policy of Bill
Clinton's armed services: Don't ask, don't tell.
It is interesting, trying to be polite, trying to get your job done, when
every fiber of your being tells you to run from the restaurant and find a
familiar Big Mac, which the Chinese consume lots of.
Food A Big Part
But food is a big part of the business process in China, as is the ritualized,
two-handed exchange of business cards. Wining and dining, with multiple
courses and endless toasts to mutal understanding and the intertwining of the
paths of life, is part of the deal.
Many Chinese, by the way, think Chinese food in this country is bland and find
some of our other eating habits-big slabs o' rare steak, for example, or a
chunk of cheese-to be barbaric.(So do some of us Americans-ed)
One local businessman who travels to Asia a lot is Morgan Nields, head of
Fischer Imaging, which makes medical technology in Thornton, Colorado and
sells it, among other places, in China.
Nields recalls a banquet in the city of Guangzhou at which his host toyed a
bit with the squeamishness of Americans over Chinese cuisine.
A stew-like bowl rotated Nields' way. He dug in and then, breaking the
Clinton rule, he asked.
"G#$@nR#*@r," the other fellow said, indistinctly.
"What?" Nields said but again he couldn't make out much beyond the "g" of the
first word and "r" of the second.
Finally the host, eyes twinkling, slowed down and enunciated:
"Golden Retriever."
But enough about dogs. For now.
Let's talk about acquatic life.
At a seafood restuarant in Guangzhou, the staff went all out to impress the
American visitors. We ordered fish; they brought a sizeable fish to the
table, swimming in water in a huge, clear plastic bag. Sure, that one looks
mighty fresh, cook him up.
Then, the manager and an assistant returned to offer a specialty of the house,
again presented in full aquarium-like glory.
There before me was a writhing eel the size of a small rattlesnake.
No way, I was ready to say anything, that I couldn't eat it because it wasn't
Kosher eel, but the translator managed the right words and the meal proceeded
without lies, incident, or additional wiggling.
And what about the gou served up outside Chengdu?
I thought about it, I really did.
But you know what? I'm a journalist.
I've been waiting all my life to write the headline that's atop this column
and have it be true.
Bone appetit.
(Dan Meyers courageously and graciously printed his email address and his
phone number at the bottom of his column so you may give him your comments and
opinions. Have at it!)
Reach Dan at the Denver Post at (303) 820-1306 or email:
business@denverpost.com.
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 19:22:06 -0500
From: leah wacksman
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Today's Washington Post editorializes against food-defamation laws. It
can be found at www.washingtonpost.com Just go to today's print edition
and the editorials. After today it will be archived for two weeks at
the site.
Marty Wacksman
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 18:30:01 -0600
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Steve Barney, Representative
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UNITED STATES
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From: IPPL
Subject: Thailand offers home to abandoned (by NIH) monkeys
(from spm@awod.com [ IPPL ])
In the past IPPL has posted news of the monkeys owned by the
Wisconsin Primate Center and housed at the Vilas Park Zoo in Madison,
Wisconsin, USA. IPPL reported that the colony of around 150 monkeys (around
100 rhesus and 40+ stumptail macaques) was in danger of being disbanded. In
response to my first post on this subject Dr. Joseph Kemnitz publicly
alleged that IPPL had the facts wrong, but later revelations by the Madison
press showed that things were even worse than IPPL knew at the time.
Seven Primate Center officials including then-director Robert Goy
had signed an agreement in 1989 that no monkey housed at the zoo would ever
be used in invasive research (the agreement was reiterated by John Hearn in
1990 - Hearn was forced to resign in 1996).
However, tenacious Madison reporters dug up proof that many
zoo-origin monkeys had been killed or sold. The university later admitted
the violations of the agreement, specifically that at least 60 monkeys had
been assigned to invasive projects, 26 had been killed for their tissues,
and 110 had been sold to other facilities.
With the zoo monkeys now unavailable for invasive experimentation,
NIH has cut off funding on extremely short notice. It is not clear why NIH
apparently wished to "punish" the 150 or so monkeys for the violations of
the agreement made by center officials (none of whom will not be punished,
according to Graduate School Dean Virginia Hinshaw).
It is also not clear to what extent NIH and the Primate Center had
cooperated in NIH's sudden decision to de-fund the monkeys.
Now a group of Thai animal protection organizations has requested
the return of the stumptails, a threatened species, to Thailand.
If returned to Thailand, it would clearly best for the stumptails to
be kept together in a spacious corral, as they have lived together for
years. The climate would be far more appropriate for the animals. The
wrongful sale of monkeys netted the center over $200,000. It would be
appropriate for NIH and/or the Center to provide at least this sum to the
consortium of Thai animal protection groups offering them a home, and the
center should consider sending an experienced caregiver to Thailand to help
out for the first year. Otherwise NIH should allocate two years funding
($200,000) for the transition, as the monkeys should not become victims of
human wrong-doing.
The fate of the rhesus also deserves attention.
Part of an Associated Press story about the monkeys follow:
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Thais Seek Return of Zoo's Monkeys
AP online january 2, 1998 17:24:00 PM
By GRANT PECK
Associated Press Writer
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) -- Animal lovers in Thailand are hoping to
return 50 monkeys facing eviction from a Wisconsin zoo to the land
of their ancestors.
The monkeys may soon lose their home at a zoo in Madison, Wis.,
because the U.S. National Institutes of Health is to terminate
funding for the colony. The lease runs out Feb. 1.
The stump-tailed macaques, who share quarters with about 100
rhesus macaques at the Henry Vilas Park Zoo, belong to the
Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center at the University of
Wisconsin.
The center, which has about 1,300 monkeys, has been using those
at the zoo for behavioral research. In October, however, the
National Institutes of Health said not enough research was being
done to justify continued funding for the zoo colony.
It costs an estimated $100,000 a year to maintain the monkeys at
the zoo. Money to replace the subsidy has not been found.
"We are evaluating responsible options for the animals'
future," Joe Kemnitz, the primate center's interim director, told
The Associated Press by e-mail.
"My hope has been that the zoo itself would take over the
responsibility for the display that we have provided and maintained
for approximately 35 years," Kemnitz said.
Meanwhile, animal rights activists in Thailand have asked that
the monkeys be sent to Thailand if no safe, suitable shelter can be
found for them in the United States.
"This colony, the largest of its kind in the world, is in
effect a Thailand national environmental treasure," the heads of
three wildlife groups said in a December letter to U.S. Ambassador
William Itoh.
They expressed fear the animals would be killed or sold to a
commercial venture for painful and lethal product research...
Leonie Vejjajiva of the Wild Animal Rescue Foundation said the
zoo's stump-tailed macaques can trace their roots to a group sent
from Thailand in the mid-1970s. Soon afterward, Thailand passed a
law prohibiting the export of monkeys for medical research.
Vejjajiva said several sanctuaries exist in Thailand to house
the monkeys, which are classified as a threatened species, one step
from being endangered.
Kemnitz said he would prefer to have the monkeys sent to another
breeding or display facility, or introduced into a natural habitat
in Thailand or elsewhere in Southeast Asia.
END STORY
Stumptail macaques are not in demand by zoos as they are not a
"trendy" species. They are seldom used in research. Yerkes has been
advertising the availability of a large group in the Clearinghouse for
months.
In fact, a group of research stumptails was killed in August 1996
because nobody wanted them. This would not have been allowed if the
stumptails had been listed as "Endangered" not "Threatened" on the US
Endangered Species List. IPPL received a tip-off regarding the alleged
killings which we later confirmed took place. Our contact stated:
"I became aware of a group of monkeys. I believe they were called
stump macaque monkeys, which the University was holding for a primate
dealer. Apparently at some point the dealer decided he did not want the
monkeys any longer, and gave them to the university. The University
promptly
put them all to sleep. I found this revolting, and cannot understand why
they were not given to another institution, who may have wanted them, or
returned to the dealer. Further questions as to who actually instructed
that
the moneys be put to sleep brought conflicting answers. One stated the
dealer ordered it, and since he was paying the boarding fees, they had to
follow his instructions. Another stated it was the decision of the
Director,
I don't know the truth. My inquiry as to why the university accepted the
monkeys from the dealer in the first place was not answered."
This incident emphasises why it would be so desirable for the
Madison stumptails to go back to Thailand, the land of their ancestors.
They
are not safe in the United States.
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Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 19:53:44 -0600
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BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) _ Animal lovers are mounting a campaign to have
almost 50 monkeys who face eviction from a zoo in the United States sent to
Thailand, the land of their ancestors.
The monkeys _ stump-tailed macaques _ may soon lose their home at a zoo in
Madison, Wis, because the U.S. National Institutes of Health is cutting the
funding. The lease runs out Feb. 1.
Complicating efforts to resettle them is the recent death of a young
scientist in Atlanta, Ga., who caught a deadly virus from a monkey at a
research center.
The stump-tailed macaques, who share quarters with about 100 rhesus
macaques at the Henry Vilas Park Zoo, belong to the Wisconsin Regional
Primate Research Center at the University of Wisconsin.
The center, which has about 1,300 monkeys, has been using those at the zoo
for behavioral research. The arrangement entertains and educates the public
while maintaining a breeding colony and venue for scientific observation.
They are believed to constitute one of the oldest living colonies of
stump-tailed macaques in captivity. According to the center, scientists
studying them ``have tested genetic and endocrine monitoring systems, as
well as social organization and the behavior of large primate groups.''
In October, the NIH informed the center that funding for the colony at the
zoo was no longer justified because of a paucity of research now being done
there.
The decision, said Virginia Hinshaw, dean of the university's graduate
school, ``puts us in a very difficult position. The change in funding means
that we have to work rapidly to find options for the colony.''
It costs an estimated $100,000 a year to maintain the monkeys at the zoo,
which is otherwise funded by the county. There are no funds presently
available to replace the NIH subsidy.
``We are evaluating responsible options for the animals' future,'' Joe
Kemnitz, the primate center's interim director, told The Associated Press
by e-mail.
``My hope has been that the zoo itself would take over the responsibility
for the display that we have provided and maintained for approximately 35
years,'' Kemnitz said.
Despite Kemnitz's assurance that the monkeys ``will not be abandoned,''
animal rights activists in Thailand were concerned enough to write a letter
in December asking U.S. Ambassador William Itoh for help.
The zoo's stump-tailed macaques can trace their roots to a group sent from
Thailand in the mid-1970s, says Leonie Vejjajiva of the Wild Animal Rescue
Foundation. Soon afterward, Thailand passed a law prohibiting the export of
monkeys for medical research.
The monkeys are now classified as a threatened species, one step from being
endangered. Environmentalists report that nine-tenths of the primates in
South and East Asia are facing extinction.
``This colony, the largest of its kind in the world, is in effect a
Thailand national environmental treasure,'' said the letter, signed by the
heads of three wildlife groups.
They expressed fear the animals would be killed or sold to a commercial
venture for painful and lethal product research.
Vejjajiva said several sanctuaries exist in Thailand to house the monkeys.
The groups are seeking help to have them brought home if no safe, suitable
shelter is found in the United States.
Kemnitz said the option of killing the animals has never been discussed and
is one he does not want to consider. He would prefer they be sent to
another breeding or display facility or introduced into a natural habitat
in Thailand or elsewhere in Southeast Asia.
Douglas La Follette, Wisconsin's secretary of state, replied to the Thai
groups that the animals are not in danger of being killed but that
Wisconsin authorities were concerned how they would be cared for in
Thailand.
The general consensus is that they cannot be released into the wild as they
cannot feed themselves and may carry dangerous viruses, La Follette said in
a letter.
Kemnitz said the matter has been made more difficult by the death of a
researcher at the Yerkes Primate Center in Atlanta.
Elizabeth R. Griffin died Dec. 10 of complications from the herpes B virus,
contracted from a caged rhesus monkey she helped move six weeks earlier.
Griffin was splashed in the eye during the move with an unknown substance.
Four weeks later, she died.
Herpes B virus, said Kemnitz, ``is endemic in virtually all macaque
colonies.''
Human infection is rare, but often fatal. Transmission from monkey to human
has been thought to involve transfer of fluid like saliva, blood or genital
secretions by a bite or scratch.
The recent case, however, involved only a bit of unidentified material from
the monkey getting into the woman's eye.
Kemnitz said the incident strongly suggested that the risks to humans from
macaques are greater than believed. The danger may be too high to keep them
at a zoo if material could splash out to the public viewing area.
The issue is under discussion with the Madison zoo administrators concerned
about the safety of the caretakers.
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Contact:
University of Wisconsin Chancellor's Office, 161 Bascom Hall, 500 Lincoln
Dr., Madison 53706 or telephone 608-262-9946.
[E-mail: WARD@MAIL.BASCOM.WISC.EDU]
Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center, 1223 Capitol Court, Madison
53715 or telephone 608-263-3500.
[E-mail: KEMNITZ@PRIMATE.WISC.EDU]
County Executive's Office, Room 421, City-County Building, 210 Martin
Luther King Jr. Blvd., Madison 53709 or telephone 608-266-4114
[E-mail: falk@co.dane.wi.us]
To get more involved in the effort to save the monkeys, contact the
Alliance for Animals, 122 State St., Suite 605, Madison 53703 or telephone
608-257-6333.
[E-mail: Alliance@allanimals.org]
Send letters to the editors to the Capital Times (a major Madison newspaper,
E-mail: tctvoice@madison.com), and the Milwuakee Journal Sentinel (E-mail:
jsedit@onwis.com).
Steve Barney, Representative
Animal Liberation Action Group
Campus Connection, Reeve Memorial Union
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
748 Algoma Blvd.
Oshkosh, WI 54901-3512
UNITED STATES
Phone:920-424-0265 (office)
920-235-4887 (home)
Fax: 920-424-7317 (address to: Animal Liberation Action Group, Campus
Connection, Reeve Union)
E-mail: AnimalLib@uwosh.edu
Web: http://www.uwosh.edu/organizations/alag/
Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 20:01:51 -0600
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Subject: EDITORIAL: [Fwd: "Save the monkey house"]
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Save the monkey house
January 3, 1997
Anyone who has visited the Henry Vilas Zoo knows that one of the primary
attractions there is the monkey house, where rhesus and stump-tailed
macaques have lived for more than three decades.
In less than a month, however, the monkey house could be no more. And its
150 residents could end up as the subjects of experiments by drugs
companies such as Proctor and Gamble.
This is a tragedy that can be avoided -- if officials of the University of
Wisconsin-Madison and Dane County act now.
As usual, however, that will only happen if citizens of Dane County start
to apply pressure.
The UW bears primary responsibility for the threat to the monkey house, and
should take a lead in averting it.
The zoo facility, which is owned and operated by the UW's Wisconsin
Regional Primate Research Center, lost its funding from the National
Institutes of Health two months after The Capital Times reported that the
UW used monkeys born at the zoo for invasive research. That violated an
agreement with the zoo that the monkeys would be used only for behavioral
studies.
The loss of the federal funding, as of Feb. 1, will eliminate the jobs of
caretakers for the monkeys, and UW officials are trying to suggest that
this is the end of the story.
But it doesn't have to be.
Officials of Dane County, which runs the zoo, are willing to talk with the
UW about maintaining the $100,000-a-year monkey house.
UW officials have a responsibility to initiate those talks.
Even if there is no more behavioral research involving the monkeys, the UW
should not be absolved of responsibility for protecting them. And that
probably will involve some financial commitment on the part of the
university.
To be fair, the popularity of the monkey house makes it essential to the
county-run zoo's future. So it is reasonable to propose a financial
commitment on the part of the county as well.
In addition, citizens of Dane County have an opportunity to contribute to
the cause, since the zoo has always benefited from public support.
The prime duty now, however, is to forge a plan that will save the monkey
house.
To make that happen, contact:
University of Wisconsin Chancellor's Office, 161 Bascom Hall, 500 Lincoln
Dr., Madison 53706 or telephone 262-9946.
[E-mail: WARD@MAIL.BASCOM.WISC.EDU]
Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center, 1223 Capitol Court, Madison
53715 or telephone 263-3500.
[E-mail: KEMNITZ@PRIMATE.WISC.EDU]
County Executive's Office, Room 421, City-County Building, 210 Martin
Luther King Jr. Blvd., Madison 53709 or telephone 266-4114
[E-mail: falk@co.dane.wi.us]
To get more involved in the effort to save the monkeys, contact the
Alliance for Animals, 122 State St., Suite 605, Madison 53703 or telephone
257-6333.
[E-mail: Alliance@allanimals.org]
Let us know what you think
[E-mail: tctvoice@madison.com]
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