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AR-NEWS Digest 672
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) Richmond Circus Protest/megaphone use update!
by NOVENAANN@aol.com
2) [CA] No Vermin here, Alberta again claims
by David J Knowles
3) [UK] Scientist admits that Dolly may not be 'wonder clone'
by David J Knowles
4) ACLU Tells Richmond to Stop Harassing Protesters
by NOVENAANN@aol.com
5) RFI: CSPI and IFDP addresses needed
by Vadivu Govind
6) HOT WATER
by allen schubert
7) (US) Oklahoma Weekly Hunting News
by JanaWilson@aol.com
8) (US-NJ) Fur store owner John Guarino speaks out in local news.
by "Jeffrey A. LaPadula"
9) Rabbit Hunters
by Snugglezzz@aol.com
10) Lolita at night
by Tokitae
11) Meatout Celebrities
by FARM
12) (HK) Muslims oppose plan for central slaughterhouse
by Vadivu Govind
13) Calls needed cancel exhibit
by Debbie Leahy
14) Ringling's Barn Manager answers our questions...
by NOVENAANN@aol.com
15) OHIO:FORUM on Animal Use call Kim 440-774-5047 for housing, etc.
by Kimberly.Defeo@oberlin.edu
16) (TH) Activists worried over zoo project
by Vadivu Govind
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 02:53:30 EST
From: NOVENAANN@aol.com
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Subject: Richmond Circus Protest/megaphone use update!
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What a crazy week for RARN! This week we have held 11 protests against the
Ringling Bros. Circus. We could never have imagined that renting a megaphone
could cause so much trouble for us.
During our second protest Richmond police decided that we were breaking the
law city noise ordinance by using the megaphone. The ordinance basically
states that we are allowed to use a megaphone if you can still hold a normal
conversation at 200 feet. The doors to the building were protesting at were
over 200 feet away and a normal conversation could still take place. We argued
with the police and decided to contact the ACLU when we realized that we were
not breaking the law. The ACLU immediately sent a letter to the police asking
them to live us alone because we were not breaking the law.
The following night the same police officers said that we were violating the
noise ordinance again. One police officer decided that the law meant that we
could not be heard at all at 200 ft while another said that non-commercial
speech was prohibited. Another officer made a comment about "what ever we
choose to do we will be within our rights." áYea...sure. That same officer
said that we had to find out where 200 feet was and if a conversation could be
heard at that spot. There were several problems with this- 1) The police had
not figured out where 200 ft. was so they hadáno way of knowing if we had
violated the law- so they should not have been harassing us. 2) We would be
trespassing on arena property if we counted 200 ft. but the police refused to
walk with us. We trespassed, found out we were right and continued to use the
megaphone. We contacted the ACLU again and they sent out a press release and
another letter to the city threateningáto sue if the police did not let us
continue. The media swarmed all over the story and the city police did not
bother us again!
Because of this incident, the story of our struggle with the police and our
fight against the circus was broadcast 6 times on the TV and twice in the
newspaper. THANKS RICHMOND CITY POLICE! Another wonderful thing that happened
was that a local radio DJ/animal rights activist bought us a brand new
megaphone. WOoooo....Lisa we love you!
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 23:40:12
From: David J Knowles
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Subject: [CA] No Vermin here, Alberta again claims
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>From The Province - Friday, February 20th, 1998
No Vermin here, Alberta again claims
EDMONTON, AB - Alberta's rat-free status has been restored again now that
the last fugitive rodent has been turned over to provincial authorities.
The town of Cold Lake, 295 kilometres north-east of Edmonton, was put on
rat alert last week when six Norway rats were mistakenly imported and sold
at a local pet store due to a mix-up with a Montreal pet supplier.
"Everything's noe accounted for," said Martin McEwan, owner of Zac's
Critters pet shop. Two of the vermin were seized from the store and
destroyed, while a third was ground up into snake food.
The owner of a pair of rats was located on the weekend and turned in his
pets, said Walter Yarish, head of pest control for Alberta Agriculture,
Food and Rural Development.
McEwan said the final rat was seaized after the owner heard about the search.
"It's a heartbreak for the family," McEwan said. "Obviously, it was a very
good pet, but he brought it back."
Rat patrollers were anxious to catch the pests because the six-week-olds
were approaching their reproductive prime.
Norway rats can chew through wood, concrete and wires and contaminate food,
which can spread disease.
Yarish said no charges will be laid against McEwan since it was an
"oversight."
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 23:52:37
From: David J Knowles
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: [UK] Scientist admits that Dolly may not be 'wonder clone'
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>From The Electronic Telegraph - Sunday, February 22nd, 1998
Scientist admits that Dolly may not be 'wonder clone'
By Christy Campbell
THE scientist who claimed to have cloned Dolly the sheep using DNA from an
adult animal, has admitted for the first time that Dolly may not be a
scientific wonder.
Dr Ian Wilmut, leader of the Scottish research team that announced it had
produced an exact replica of an adult mammal, has confirmed rumours that
have been circulating that there might have been a mistake. Dolly might
have had a father after all.
"There is a remote possibility that the cell used to produce Dolly came
from a foetus rather than from the adult," he told a conference of
geneticists gathered at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, last week.
"Foetal cells can be present in the circulatory system of some animals
during pregnancy," he said. "We and everybody else had completely
overlooked that fact."
Urgent tests have been commissioned from an independent laboratory and the
results will be published this spring. They could provide a dramatic twist
to the ethical controversy over cloning. Seemingly replicating a long-dead
adult from its preserved DNA genetic material is what made Dolly such a
scientific sensation.
Clones of sheep, cows and monkeys from foetal origins have become
commonplace in laboratories for two decades. If Dolly came from a foetal
cell she is no star of science. A pullover made from Dolly's wool goes on
show at the Science Museum next month, while her droppings are set to be
exhibited at a London art gallery.
The then seven-month-old white-nosed Finn-Dorset lamb was produced in a
glare of publicity in a Scottish barn a year ago. She was the result, her
creators announced, of the transfer of genetic material taken from the
deep-frozen mammary gland of a ewe into an unfertilised egg whose own
nucleus had been removed.
Out of 277 such eggs, only one produced a healthy living animal: Dolly. But
other scientists have recently begun to question why the Edinburgh-based
Roslin Institute had not repeated the experiment and why others had failed
to produce adult clones. The Roslin team came back fighting yesterday. "We
have no doubt that Dolly was created from a mammary gland cell from a
six-year-old ewe," said Dr Harry Griffin, assistant director of the institute.
"A few foetal cells are detectable in the maternal circulation of pregnant
women. If this is the case in sheep," he stressed, "samples of the mammary
gland that we used might have contained a few contaminating foetal cells. A
foetal cell would have half its genes from the ewe and half from the ram
who was the father. The DNA analyses showed identical
patterns for Dolly and the mammary cells from which she was derived."
Dr Griffin said: "We have samples of the original mammary tissue and will
be making more exhaustive DNA comparisons that we are confident will
totally eliminate the very remote possibility that Dolly is of foetal
origin." Ethical critics of cloning are watching developments closely. The
doubts over Dolly could yet deny scientists the god-like power to replicate
adult
humans - a process that some predict is only a few years away.
Dr Wilmut recently attracted controversy by saying that although he
strongly opposed human cloning, early human embryos were "just a little
ball of cells" and could be used for experimental purposes to combat
disease "as long as they did not survive for more than a few days."
Opponents of such research are calling for a ban on human embryo cloning.
Helen Watt, of the Linacre centre for research into bioethics, told the
Catholic newspaper The Universe yesterday: "Human cloning would be horrible
and I know that companies are already freezing foetal material after an
abortion so that they can be cloned at a later date."
Dolly, meanwhile, is now pregnant herself.
⌐ Copyright Telegraph Group Limited 1998.
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 03:33:33 EST
From: NOVENAANN@aol.com
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: ACLU Tells Richmond to Stop Harassing Protesters
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ACLU Tells Richmond to Stop Harassing
Animal Rights Protesters at Circus
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Friday, February 20, 1998
RICHMOND, VA -- The American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia has
warned city police to cease interfering with the Richmond Animal Rights
Network's demonstrations before performances of the Ringling
Brothers/Barnum & Bailey Circus at the Richmond Coliseum.
In two letters, one faxed yesterday and the other this morning, ACLU
officials asked police chief Jerry Oliver to instruct Richmond police
officers to allow demonstrators to use an amplified megaphone outside
the Coliseum in accordance with the city's noise ordinance.
Representatives of the Richmond Animal Rights Network contacted the ACLU
yesterday after police told them at their Wednesday night demonstration
that use of the megaphone violated the city noise ordinance. Despite
yesterday's warning letter from the ACLU, police again interfered with
the protesters' use of the megaphone at last night's demonstration.
According to Section 18-18 of the Richmond City Code, voice
amplification equipment can be used for non-commercial purposes so long
as the sound is not "audible above the level of conversation speech at a
distance in excess of two hundred feet from the property on which the
amplified sound originates."
Kent Willis, the Executive Director of the ACLU of Virginia, said that
the demonstrators carefully complied with the ordinance but were still
harassed by police.
"From what the police said to the demonstrators, two things are clear,"
Willis said. "First, Richmond's police officers do not know their own
their own noise ordinance. They gave very misleading information to the
protestors.
"Second," Willis continued, "the general harassment protestors have
received from police over the last two days indicates that the police
also do not understand the First Amendment to the Constitution. These
protestors have a right to be where they are, and so long as they abide
by the noise ordinance set out by the City, the police must leave them
alone. I hope we don't have to litigate this one."
The ACLU plans to have lawyers present at the protests of the remaining
five performances of the circus. The circus performances are scheduled
for 3:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. today, and 11:00 a.m., 3:30 p.m. and 7:30
p.m. on Saturday. The protests will begin a little more than an hour
before each of these performances.
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 19:12:00 +0800 (SST)
From: Vadivu Govind
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: RFI: CSPI and IFDP addresses needed
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Does anyone have website, email, postal addresses and fax of :
Institute for Food and Development Policy and
Center for Science in the Public Interest
Thanks.
- Vadivu
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 09:33:53 -0500
From: allen schubert
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Cc: STFORJEWEL@aol.com
Subject: HOT WATER
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>From the Rocky Mountain News
February 18, 1998
Staff & Wire Reports
Regional News Briefing
HOT WATER DEEPENS FOR GUIDE
SALT LAKE CITY-
More charges were filed this month against a Colorado hunting guide accused of
participating in the illegal killing of at least 12 cougars around Zion
National Park.
The case against Samuel R. Sickels, 32, of Naurita, Colorado (home phone:
970-865-2629) (home of the infamous Nucla/Naurita Annual Prairie Dog Slaughter
Contest: whoever can blow away the most prairie dogs wins a prize) has grown
into one of the biggest Utah poaching investigations involving a hunting
guide.
Sickels has been charged with wanton destruction, commercialization and
unlawful taking of protected wildlife, and obtaining hunting licenses through
fraud, deceit or misrepresentation.
The illegal kills involve clients from as far away as Pennsylvania (!),
Mississippi, and Ohio.
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 13:14:03 EST
From: JanaWilson@aol.com
To: AR-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US) Oklahoma Weekly Hunting News
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A/w local Oklahoma City Sunday hunting news:
The Bowhunting Council of Oklahoma's annual meeting and
banquet featuring (in)famous bowhunter Mr. Chuck Adams
will be held on Saturday at the Kirkpatrick Museum in Okla.
City. Mr. Adams will conduct three seminars and be on hand
to talk bowhunting with visitors. Archery manufacturers and
distributors will display bowhunting equipment and supplies during
the day. For more information call (405) 279-3717.
"Kids We Care", an organization originally formed to help children
affected by the Murrah Federal Bombing in Okla. City has expanded
its efforts to include all children who have suffered tragedies in their
lives, founder Mr. Rusty Minick has said.
The organization is planning to build a 160-acre fishing camp and
ranch with several ponds east of Guthrie, Okla. near the Lazy E
Arena (rodeo complex owned by the local newspaper). The camp
will offer a variety of activities, but the main theme will be fishing.
A scale model of the ranch layout will be on display during the
Backwoods Hunting and Fishing show at the OKC Fairgrounds
next weekend.
Mr. Neal Purdy of Blackwell, Okla. and Mr. Brian Ververka of
Midwest City, Okla. won the one-day competition in a fun (huh?)
hunt sponsored by the Canadian Valley Chapter of Quail Unlimited
in Norman, Okla. They hunted "over" a pointer named "Harley."
The two-dog event went to Mike Smith of Mounds, Okla. and Richard
Newberry of Tulsa, Okla. with Patches and Rex, both pointers.
The final fur auction planned for this year by the Oklahoma Trappers
and Predator Callers Ass. will be this Saturday at the Agri-Civic
Center in Chandler, Okla. The auction begins at 9 am. For more
info please call (918) 336-8154.
For the Animals,
Jana, OKC
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 15:38:21 -0500 (EST)
From: "Jeffrey A. LaPadula"
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US-NJ) Fur store owner John Guarino speaks out in local news.
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hello all,
This is the owner of the fur store who was focus to the ADL-NJ
week
long fur proteset Feb 7-14th. Letters can be sent to:
yourviews@thnt.com. I dont know if you have to live in NJ to have your
letter printed, but it is worth a try if you can think of something to
say.
with the letter you MUST include you're full name, the town that you live
in, and a phone number. your letter will NOT be printed if they cannot get
a hold of you. read on:::::
Source: Home News Tribune
Published: February 19, 1998
Don't hold animals as equal to humans
It was our pleasure to host the Animal Defense League during the week of
Feb. 7 to Feb. 14. We enjoyed their youthful exuberance and zeal for their
cause and we look forward to their biweekly visits in the future.
However, please do not misconstrue our hospitality as acquiescence. My
opinion of their case is as follows: animals do not equal people on any
level. As a Roman Catholic, I believe only man is created in the image and
likeness of God, with an immortal soul. If heaven is full of cats, dogs and
woodchucks, I'm not going. Animals are a God-given natural resource to be
treasured, protected, and used wisely for the benefit of mankind, that
includes for food, research, companionship and clothing.
Violence against people and property never is acceptable, and most
assuredly, not in the name of compassion. Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian,
which is the ultimate debunking of any association of vegetarianism with
compassion. Further, when an organization and its leaders refuse to condemn
violence, they embrace it.
There is the childish logic that implies people can exist on Earth without
killing any animals. Only an adolescent, or someone with the logic and
reasoning of an adolescent, could arrive at that conclusion.
It is far more damaging to the Earth to consume nonrenewable petroleum and
mineral products than to consume animal resources. This brings to mind the
deception that animal rights is in any way an ecological movement. Nothing
could be further from the truth. Animal rights quite simply is a pagan
religion, one which feeds upon the cheapening of the value of human life. It
is not possible to raise animals to the level of humans, but it is possible
to lower the value of human life to that of animals, if we allow it to happen.
We thank our friends and loyal customers for their support, and assure them
that after 51 years of operating an honorable, legal and morally correct
business, we fully intend to continue operating for generations to come.
John Guarino
FURS BY GUARINO
EAST BRUNSWICK
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ANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE - NEW JERSEY
P.O. Box 84
Oakhurst, NJ 07755
(732)774-6432
http://envirolink.org/orgs/adl
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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 17:14:12 EST
From: Snugglezzz@aol.com
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Subject: Rabbit Hunters
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Tulsa World, Tulsa, OK, USA: One of the longest seasons in Oklahoma is winding
down, but sportsmen, women and children still have several weeks remaining to
enjoy one of our most traditional forms of hunting. Rabbits remain legal game
in Oklahoma through March 15 and there's still plenty of these wonderfully
prolific little game animals out there.
"We don't ever kill very many rabbits, but we sure have a lot of fun," Bill
Scherman, a hunter from Muskogee, said. He and his buddies hunt behind a pack
of dogs, most of them beagles.
These particular hunters disdain from using the firearm normally preferred by
most rabbit hunters. Scherman uses nothing but a .22 caliber pistol on his
rabbit hunts. He carries a Ruger semi-automatic with one of those aim-point
sights which puts a red dot on the target.
"Oh, I guess my brother and I started hunting with the beagles about the time
we were in junior high school," Scherman said.
They even brought Old Bill along that morning. That 15-year-old male beagle is
totally deaf and almost blind. But as Allen explained, "When I went out to get
the dogs, Old Bill started jumping up and down, and trying to bark....just
couldn't leave him home again."
-- Sherrill
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 18:19:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Tokitae
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Lolita at night
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Dear friends,
The other night I went to hear Lolita. No, she wasn't giving a talk at the
local auditorium, she was just breathing, and from about 100 feet away at
the corner of a chain link fence in a neighboring parking lot, I could hear
her blows every few minutes. It was dark and there was no one in there with
her, just like every night since 1970, and especially since 1980 when Hugo,
a little 13 year old adolescent male from Lolita's family, died in that same
tank. I believe Lolita is waiting, and I truly believe she is hoping, for
the day when she again feels her native Puget Sound waters, and can once
again be with her family, the 94 orcas of the Southern Resident community.
As a student of whale biology and an observer for 18 years of Lolita's
extended family, I have no doubt that she can, in a phased program much
like Keiko's, regain her full strength, her social skills and hunting abilities,
and rejoin her family. There is plenty of time for her to have a calf or two
when she does. If, for any reason, she is not able to rejoin her family, she
can be cared for in a monitored sea pen in a cove in Puget Sound, where
she was born.
At this phase of the campaign the most important voice is that of Miami-Dade
County Mayor Alex Penelas. The Seaquarium sits on county land, so the mayor
is in a sense the landlord. Please write, and encourage your friends,
family, students, members or perfect strangers to write, to Mayor Penelas to
ask him to use his influence to help Lolita get home again.
His address is:
Mayor Alex Penelas
111 NW 1st St.
Miami FL 33128
or call (305) 375-5071
or fax (305) 375-3618
Thanks,
Howie
PS: To view, or download, a photo of Lolita, go to:
http://www.paws.org/activists/taiji/arcphoto.htm
and scroll down one screen.
Howard Garrett
PAWS
Lolita Campaign Coordinator
(305) 672-4039
tokitae@bellsouth.net
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 17:55:13 -0800
From: FARM
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Subject: Meatout Celebrities
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RELEASE ON 23 FEBRUARY 1998CONTACT: Caitlin Hills, 301-530-1737
CELEBRITIES ASK AMERICANS TO æKICK THE MEAT HABITÆ
Radio and screen stars Casey Kasem, Rue McClanahan, and James
Cromwell are headlining this yearÆs 14th annual observance of the Great
American Meatout, the worldÆs largest grassroots dietary education
campaign. Its purpose is to help consumers evolve from a destructive,
disease-laden meat-based diet to a wholesome, nonviolent diet of whole
grains, vegetables, and fresh fruits. The date, on the first day of
spring (March 20) symbolizes rebirth and renewal.
Kasem is the popular host of "CaseyÆs Top 40". McClanahan is best
known for her role in the TV series The Golden Girls. Cromwell is one
of HollywoodÆs hottest properties after starring in Babe, Star Trek, and
L.A. Confidential. They will be available for selected media interviews.
Other members of this yearÆs Meatout National Council include
consumer advocate Michael Jacob-son, author of Diet for a Small Planet
Frances Moore Lappe, Buffalo Bills coach Marv Levy, Oprah Libel Trial
co-defendant and former rancher Howard Lyman, TV hostess Cassandra
æElviraÆ Peterson, and authors Jeremy Rifkin and John Robbins. Past
campaigns were headlined by Bob Barker, Doris Day, Chrissie Hynde,
Hayley Mills, River Phoenix, Sara Gilbert, and Ally Sheedy.
From humble beginnings in 1985, the Great American Meatout has grown
explosively to in-volve thousands of consumer, environment, and animal
protection advocates in over 2,000 com-munities and all 50 states. They
arrange educational events, ranging from simple exhibits and information
tables, called æsteakouts,Æ to cooking demonstrations, public dinners,
and colorful ælifestivals.Æ They ask their friends and neighbors to
ôkick the meat habit on March 20, at least for a day, and to explore a
more wholesome, less violent diet.ö
The growth of Meatout has reflected in important US dietary trends:
⌐ More than 30 million Americans have explored a meatless diet
⌐ Vegetarianism is æinÆ with teens, who are ækicking the meat habitÆ at
a record rate
⌐ National beef and veal consumption have dropped 25 and 70 percent,
respectively
⌐ Major manufacturers, markets, and restaurants are marketing meatless
meals
⌐ Mainstream health advocacy organizations are touting plant-based
eating
⌐ US Dietary Guidelines for Americans have endorsed vegetarian diets.
The Great American Meatout is coordinated nationally by FARM, a
nonprofit, public-interest organization formed in 1981 to promote
planetary health through plant-based eating. All events are planned and
conducted by local activists. For more information, see
http://www.meatout.org (after March 3).
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 10:43:30 +0800 (SST)
From: Vadivu Govind
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (HK) Muslims oppose plan for central slaughterhouse
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>Hong Kong Standard
23 Feb 98
Muslims oppose plan for central slaughterhouse
By Patsy Moy
THE Muslim community has expressed strong opposition to a plan to centralise
the slaughtering of poultry unless the government can meet their religious
needs.
Abdool Ramjahn, a spokesman for the Islamic Union of Hong Kong (IUHK), said
many Muslims are worried that poultry would not be killed in accordance with
Islamic requirements if the government adopted a centralised slaughter system.
In the wake of the bird flu scare, the government has proposed centralised
slaughter arrangements for web-footed poultry such as geese and ducks to
avoid cross-contamination.
A spokesman for the Department of Health said the government still planned
to allow chickens _ which are not web-footed _ to be slaughtered by
individual stall holders.
Mr Ramjahn said even if Muslim religious ``halal'' rites were maintained,
the poultry could easily be grouped with other birds if they were
slaughtered in the same place.
``Unlike cattle, which are large and can easily be marked, it is difficult
to recognise which birds are halal,'' he said.
Mr Ramjahn estimated there were about 60,000 Muslims in Hong Kong, of which
about half are ethnic Chinese.
With poultry dishes a Chinese favourite, centralised slaughtering could
affect the eating habits of this group, too, he said.
He appealed to Department of Health officials to make special arrangements
in order for halal poultry to be kept separate.
``We hope the government can arrange a special slaughtering area for us to
ensure that the birds we consume have been slaughtered in accordance with
our religious rites,'' Mr Ramjahn said.
Halal cattle and sheep are killed in public slaughterhouses.
A spokesman for the Department of Health said the plan for centralised
slaughtering was in a preliminary stage and subject to further studies.
He said details such as special arrangements for religious groups were yet
to be decided.
``But we are happy to listen to different opinions, especially from those
whose interests would be affected by the plan,'' the spokesman said.
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 21:41:40 -0500 (EST)
From: Debbie Leahy
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Calls needed cancel exhibit
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URGE PIANO FACTORY MALL TO CANCEL EXOTIC ANIMAL EXHIBIT
The Piano Factory, a mall in far west suburban Chicago, has invited Wildlife
Inc. (breeder/exhibitor) to bring a menagerie of its exotic animals for public
display and photo shots with the public, including a baby lion. Wal-Mart
recently banned Wildlife Inc. from its stores for violating corporate policy
after we notified Wal-Mart headquarters.
There was at least one incident last year where one of their primates bit a
child, and they have been warned by the USDA for endangering public safety.
They are currently under investigation by the USDA regarding the death of a
cougar, and former employees have come forward to report numerous instances of
poor animal care.
Please contact Piano Factory ASAP and ask them to cancel the exhibitits
scheduled for early March. These curiosity displays are stressful for the
animals, dangerous for the public, and perpetuates a disrespect for animals.
Contact:
Eileen Broderick, Mall Manager
The Piano Factory
410 S. 1st Street
St. Charles, IL 60174
Tel: 630/584-2099 Fax: 630/584-2146
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Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 22:47:01 EST
From: NOVENAANN@aol.com
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Ringling's Barn Manager answers our questions...
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Tonight we went to videotape Ringling Bros. load the
animals back onto the train. A reporter with the local paper
was with us and he asked the afternoon barn manager a few
questions after everyone else had left. What we found out was-
The reporter asked the man which group of protesters was the worst and he said
that DC protesters are the worst for Ringling because "they chain themselves
in front of the elephants." Way to go Compassion Over Killing!!!!!!
He also said that the animals are exercised when they go on the animals walk
(which is twice during their run) and before shows. This is the only exercise
they get in the winter. He seemed to think it was enough. I have heard that
elephants can walk 25 miles a day in the wild.
He said that he used to be with clyde beatty circus but he left because they
abuse the animals.
The animals were loaded onto the train cars at 9pm which was less than hour
after the last show. The train was not leaving until 4 or 5 in the morning,
and it would take them 10 hours to travel to Norfolk, Virginia which is an
hour away by car. That is 17 or 18 hours that these animals are on the train-
or more if they don't unload them right away.
The man said that they are saving these animals because "these elephants would
have to pull trees in India." But when we asked how many of the elephants were
from the wild he said "none, they are all captive bred." He said that Ringling
hasn't had an animal from the wild since "probably when P.T. Barnum was
around." The night manager wouldn't give us his name because his boss would be
angry. He shut up as soon as his boss arrived.
When the ringling spokesperson was asked if the cars were heated and a few
other questions he said he didn't know. He has been with the circus for 17
years but he doesn't know? Instead he gave the reporter a phone # of the
Ringling headquarters because they could answer that question.
Alanna
Richmond Animal Rights Network
PO Box 4288, Richmond, Va 23220
http://members.aol.com/novenaann/organiz2.htm
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Date: Mon, 09 Feb 1998 13:09:18 -0500
From: Barbara Fuchsman
To: Jonathan Edmonds ,
Joel Krier ,
Aaron Simmons ,
Chuck Thomas ,
Taylor Allen ,
Barbara Blodgett ,
Albert Borroni ,
Mark Braford ,
Norman Care ,
Gigi Knight ,
Al MacKay
Subject: Forum Press Release
2/5/98 10:03 AM
Enclosed and copied below is Betty Gabrielli's press release about the Forum
that was sent out last week to very many organizations and area newpapers. If
there are any professional journals or additional organizations that you would
like to notify of this event, please let Betty or me know right away. Notice
also the short biographies Betty has included. They may be useful to you in
advertising other activities of the participants that involve your
organization or department.
Feb. 6, 1998
RELEASE ON RECEIPTOBERLIN COLLEGE TO HOST NATIONAL FORUM
ON ANIMAL USE IN SCIENCE AND MEDICINE
EDITORS NOTE: Forum schedule & bios are attached; photos available upon
request.
OBERLIN-Is it ethical to use animals in science and medicine?
Does a living entity have to possess awareness, intelligence and capacity for
choice for this ethical question to be raised?
If animal use is sometimes justified, what criteria or support are required
in teaching and in research?
To help provide responsible answers to these and related questions, Oberlin
College will initiate a national discussion on its campus Monday, Feb. 23, and
Tuesday, Feb. 24, under the auspices of the Mead-Swing Lectureship.
Six internationally-recognized ethicists, philosophers and scientists will
debate the pros and cons of "Animal Use in Science and Medicine: Ethics and
Policy" in a free public forum.
"Oberlin believes that unless there is a free and open debate by those who
both understand and respect the position of all seriously engaged persons,
there will not be any resolution of what has become a very heated and complex
issue," says Clayton Koppes, Dean of Oberlin's College of Arts and Sciences.
The distinguished presenters include Stuart Zola, research career scientist
at the Veterans Medical Center and a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience
at the University of California at San Diego; Andrew N. Rowan, senior vice
president for research, education and international issues for the Humane
Society of the United States; Thomas H. Regan, philosophy and religion
department chair at North Carolina State University; Raymond G. Frey,
professor of philosophy at Ohio's Bowling Green State University; eco-feminist
Carol Adams, author of The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian
Critical Theory; Jerrold Tannenbaum, an expert in veterinary ethics and
animal care and clinical professor in environmental and population health at
Tufts University.
They will offer differing concepts of what is an animal; the basis for
believing a given species does or does not feel pain; and the appropriate
roles for animals in scientific/medical research. They will also address the
implications of those concepts for policy and politics.
The forum will include three plenary sessions followed by question-and-answer
periods, a concluding panel discussion and meetings with students and faculty.
For more information, contact Barbara Fuchsman at the Office of Sponsored
Programs 440/775-8461.
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FORUM SCHEDULE
MONDAY, FEB. 23
4:30 p.m. Session I: "Scientific Considerations of Animal Use"
Room 306, King Building (10 N. Professor St.)
Stuart Zola, research scientist at the Veterans Medical
Center;
professor of psychiatry and neuroscience, University of
California at San
Diego
Andrew N. Rowan, senior vice president, Humane
Society of America
Moderator:
Lynda S. Payne, visiting instructor in history, Oberlin College
8-9:30 Session II: "Moral Considerations of Animal Use"
Room 106, King Building (10 N. Professor St.)
Thomas Regan, philosophy and religion dept. chair,North Carolina
State
University
Raymond G. Frey, professor of philosophy, Bowling Green
State
University
Moderator:
Norman Care, professor of philosophy, Oberlin College
TUESDAY, FEB. 24
4:30 p.m. Session III: "The Politics of the Human-Animal Relationship"
Room 306, King Building (10 N. Professor St.)
Carol Adams, eco-feminist; author of The Sexual Politics
of Meat: A
Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
Jerrold Tannenbaum, expert in veterinary ethics/ animal care and use
policy; clinical professor of environmental and population health,
Tufts University
Moderator:
Barbara Blodgett, visiting instructor in religion, Oberlin College
8-10 p.m. Session IV: Panel discussion
Room 11, Kettering Hall of Science (130 W. Lorain St.)
Panelists:
Stuart Zola, Andrew N. Rowen. Thomas H. Regan
R. G. Frey, Carol Adams and Jerrold Tannenbaum
Moderator:
David Love, director of sponsored programs, Oberlin College
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STUART ZOLA is a research scientist at the Veterans Medical Center and a
professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the University of California at
San Diego. He has conducted work with humans and nonhuman primates that has
led to the successful establishment of a model of human amnesia in the monkey,
and has identified a neural system of memory in the temporal lobe of the
brain. Identification of the specific sites in the brain important for memory
has opened the way for more detailed neurobiological investigations and is
relevant to issues of how memory is organized in the brain and to issues of
memory impairment associated with a wide range of human conditions, such as
aging, Alzheimer's disease and stroke. He served as chair of the Committee on
Animals in Research of the 26,000-member Society for Neuroscience, chair and
director of the University's graduate program in neuroscience and chair of the
Animal Subjects Committee.
ANDREW N. ROWAN was named senior vice president for research, education and
international issues for the Humane Society of the United States in 1997. He
is on the advisory board for the Johns Hopkins Center for Alternatives to
Animal Testing and the board for Public Responsibility in Medicine and
Research. From 1983 to 1997, he served on the faculty of Tufts University,
where he taught bio-chemistry and was responsible for the development of the
school's programs on animals in society. He was director of the Tufts Center
for Animals and Public Policy and professor and chair of the University's
environmental studies department. He also has worked with FRAME (Fund for the
Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments) and was associate director of
the Humane Society's Institute for the Study of Animal Problems. Rowan is the
author of Of Mice, Models and Men, The Animal Research Controversy; founding
editor of Anthozoos, a journal on human-animal environment interactions; and
editor of People and Animals Sharing the World; Wildlife Conservation, Zoos
and Animal Protection; and Living with Wildlife. He received a bachelor of
science degree from Cape Town University and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from
Oxford University, England.
R. G. FREY is professor of philosophy at Bowling Green State University, where
he teaches courses in moral, political, and legal philosophy and 18th-century
British philosophy. He is the author of numerous articles and books in
ethical theory, applied ethics and social/political theory. A number of his
essays focusing on the use of animals in medical experimentation will be
published in the forthcoming Ethics, Animals, and Medical Experimentation. He
also is the author of Interests and Rights: The Case Against Animals; and
Rights, Killing, and Suffering: Moral Vegetarianism and Applied Ethics. He is
the editor of Utility and Rights and has co-edited Social Policy and Conflict
Resolution; Violence, Terrorism and Justice; and Value, Welfare and Morality.
Forthcoming are books on Joseph Butler and an edition of Butler's ethical
writings; a volume of essays on topics in applied ethics; and the first of two
volumes on utilitarianism. A book on euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide
is in process. He is senior research fellow at the Social Philosophy Center
in Bowling Green, a fellow of the Joseph and Rose Kennedy Institute of Ethics
at Georgetown University and a fellow of the Westminster Institute of Ethics
and Public Policy at the University of Western Ontario. He received the Ph.D.
degree from Oxford University, England.
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BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
THOMAS REGAN, who has taught philosophy since 1967 at North Carolina State
University, has established himself as one of the most respected philosophers
in the world. He is general editor of The Heritage Project, a 14-volume series
on the foundations of philosophy and ethics, and Ethics in Action, a series
devoted to the major moral issues of the day. His textbooks on philosophy are
widely used and, as an authority on the issue of animal rights, he has
appeared on the Today Show and has given lectures and presentations to the
United Nations and the U.S. Congress. He is the author of what is considered
one of the most important works on moral philosophy in recent years: The Case
for Animal Rights. Among his other books are Understanding Philosophy,
Earthbound, Matters of Life and Death, and Animal Rights and Human
Obligations (co-editor). He has served on the faculties of the University of
Virginia and Sweet Briar College. He received M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the
University of Virginia.
CAROL ADAMS is the author of The Sexual Politics of Meat: A
Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory, which won the Continuum Women's Studies
Awards in 1989. Adams, who has served on national commissions on domestic
violence, developed one of the country's first hotlines for battered women, in
the 1970s. She was executive director of New York's Chautauqua County Rural
Ministry, an advocacy and service agency addressing issues of poverty, racism
and sexism, and also a visiting lecturer at Southern Methodist University.
She is on the advisory board of Feminists for Animal Rights. Among her books
are Beyond Animal Rights: A Feminist Caring Ethic; Violence Against Women and
Children: A Christian Theological Sourcebook; Animals and Women: Feminist
Theoretical Explorations (co-editor); Woman-Battering; Neither Man Nor Beast:
Feminism and The Defense of Animals; and Ecofeminism and The Sacred. Her
writing has been included in the collection Transforming a Rape Culture and
her articles have appeared in The Lesbian Reader, Animals, Ms., and The
Newsletter of the International Association Against Painful Experiments on
Animals.
JERROLD TANNENBAUM, a former assistant district attorney in New York City, is
currently clinical professor in the department of environmental and population
health at Tufts University School of Veterinary Medicine, where he teaches
veterinary and animal law and ethics and lectures on various issues in ethics,
law, and bioethics. He is the author of Veterinary Ethics -the first and only
compre-hensive book on veterinary ethics published in any language. It is a
required text in veterinary ethics courses at a number of veterinary schools
in the U.S. and Canada. He also has written numerous papers on veterinary and
animal law and ethics. He speaks frequently to veterinarians, veterinary
students, scientists, and humane societies on ethical and legal issues
relating to animals, and was a founder and is a former president of the
Society for Veterinary Medical Ethics. He was an assistant professor of
philosophy at the University of California at Santa Barbara. A graduate of
Harvard Law School, he did his graduate work in philosophy at the Rockefeller
University and Cornell University.
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From: Vadivu Govind
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Subject: (TH) Activists worried over zoo project
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>Bangkok Post
23 Feb 98
Activists worried over zoo project
Call to give NGOs role in monitoring
construction work
Kanittha Inchukul
A520-million-baht project to develop Dusit Zoo, the oldest zoo
in the country, has raised concerns among animal rights activists
about its impact to animals in captivity there.
The Zoological Park Organisation Board has approved in
principle a proposal by the King Power Development Company
to develop the zoo including construction of a five-storey car
park for 1,000 vehicles, a fresh water aquarium, a restaurant as
well as other facilities.
The car park is planned on the workers' housing area. The
aquarium is planned around Koh Nok - or the bird island -
which houses a large number of birds of various varieties. A food
centre will also be built there.
The contract is not yet signed, pending project approval from the
board and the cabinet, said a senior zoological official.
A Thai language daily newspaper has been running a series of
articles strongly critical of the project, alleging zoo
officials of
intending to turn the zoo into an amusement park.
Roger Lohanan, manager of Thai Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals, cautioned that the zoo board consider the
project carefully and pay special attention to the impacts to
animals during construction.
While no amusement park is planned as alleged by the Thai
newspaper, Mr Roger said impact to the animals is inevitable
once construction begins.
The construction of the aquarium which will take place
underneath the water surface around the bird island, for instance,
will likely result in the discharge of pollutants into the
existing fish
ponds if no preventive measures are specified in the contract, he
said.
Mr Roger complained that zoo officials have provided little detail
of the project to the public and animal rights organisations. He
called for the zoo authorities to allow non-governmental
organisations a role in monitoring construction activities.
Wildlife Fund Thailand secretary general Pisit na Patalung
expressed concern about the planned car park which would be
built in the zoo near Chitrlada Palace. It would be incompatible
with the surrounding environment, he said.
Both animal rights activists warned the zoo administrators to
ensure that the project be developed for the benefit of the
captive animals there.
Explaining the reason behind the project initiative, Zoological
Park Organisation director general Usum Nimmanhaeminda said
the zoo has received many complaints from visitors about traffic
and parking problems.
More than 1,000 vehicles enter the 118-rai zoo every weekend.
The situation becomes chaotic when special events take place in
the area such as a graduation ceremony in nearby Suan Amporn.
The influx of vehicles creates traffic chaos and the vehicles park
in a disorderly manner along the roads. Their exhaust fumes
polluted the air and expose the animals to health risk.
Mr Usum said the Dusit zoo has not been allocated enough
budget to provide facilities for vehicles and visitors so it is
necessary to seek a private company to invest for these
facilities.
The plan has been approved by the board and it has been
ensured that it will not be harmful to animals and will
benefit zoo
visitors.
Zoo workers generally agree with the project even though the
area which is currently their living quarters will be taken over.
They hope the zoo management would take care of their housing
needs.
However, some workers are worried that the project will have
an adverse effect on the zoo's greenery and large trees may have
to be felled to pave way for certain facilities such as
restaurants.
An employee of the King Power Development Company said
the future of the project depends on the decision of the board
which has considered this project many times until the project is
adjusted to the satisfaction of the board members.
Article copyright Post Publishing Public Co., Ltd 1998
Reprinted for non-commercial use only.
Website: http://www.bangkokpost.net
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