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AR-NEWS Digest 701
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) (London)Store refuses to market GE foods under own brand name.
by bunny
2) Tampa P & G Event
by ALFNOW73
3) CHIP SHOTS
by STFORJEWEL
4) [UK] CAP reform 'failed to bring green benefits'
by David J Knowles
5) [UK] Swansong for the sweet nightingale
by David J Knowles
6) BSE Inquiry - Day 7
by David J Knowles
7) [UK] BSE Inquiry - Day 6
by David J Knowles
8) [CA] Candian politicians contact info - part 2
by David J Knowles
9) [CA] Anderson Postpones Seal Survey Until 1999
by David J Knowles
10) (ID) Chicken shortage
by Vadivu Govind
11) Chile on national egg alert
by Vadivu Govind
12) (TH) Elephant burnt by planters or poachers
by Vadivu Govind
13) (TH) Fires force animals to flee
by Vadivu Govind
14) (US) Reward For Guinea 'Pigman'
by allen schubert
15) (US) Animal Abuse Charges Filed
by allen schubert
16) RFI: PETA's Taiwan dog protest
by Tereiman
17) PETA President Cages Herself in Taiwan
by Tereiman
18) Re: RFI: PETA's Taiwan dog protest
by "J. Bearscove"
19) Communities Protect Kenya Elephants
by Vegetarian Resource Center
20) (US-NJ) Anti-Guarino letter in March 21
by "Jeffrey A. LaPadula"
21) Hog Intestines Used To Rebuild Knees
by Vegetarian Resource Center
22) Veggie restaurants overseas ?
by "Elaine Kaufmann"
23) (CA) Food Fight in Chinatown
by Michael Markarian
24) (NJ) Animal activists see problem with humans, not black bears
by Michael Markarian
25) (US-CA) Department of Fish and Game a National Leader With Deer DNA
by Mesia Quartano
26) Action Alert:US Navy harming whales/dolphins/please help
by bunny
27) (Ca) Wants Seal Hunt Restrictions Loosened
by Ty Savoy
28) (Ca) Disease Prevention linked To Soy
by Ty Savoy
29) (US-NJ) Learned of another fur store closing in NJ!
by "Jeffrey A. LaPadula"
30) Legislation to put Pigeon Shoot Question on Pennsylvania Ballot
by Michael Markarian
31) (NZ)Early Closure For Squid Fishery/Sea lion deaths
by bunny
32) Kroger and Georgia Family Veterinarians Found 'A Few Good Pets'
by Vegetarian Resource Center
33) (AUST) akubra hats are made of rabbit skins
by bunny
34) (Dallas) ALT Upcoming Actions
by BanFurNow
35) Admin Note -- Inappropriate Posting
by ar-admin@envirolink.org
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 13:25:40 +0800
From: bunny
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (London)Store refuses to market GE foods under own brand name.
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Forward:
>
>LONDON, March 19 (UPI) One of Britain's largest supermarket chains says it
>is refusing to market under its own brand name genetically altered foods.
>
> The company, Iceland, explained its policy today, breaking ranks with
>other key chains Safeway, Tesco and Sainsbury's.
>
> The policy effective bans the sale of many U.S. food products under
>Iceland's brand name and guarantees nearly 400 grocery products will
>contain no genetically modified foods.
>
> Iceland, noting that most containing altered genes are designed to make
>products last longer or taste better, says its new policy goes into effect
>May 1.
>
> The other chains have said only that they plan to label all genetically
>modified goods by the end of the year.
>
> The decision is the result of the personal views of Iceland's founder,
>chairman and chief executive Malcolm Walker. He told British radio today,
>"Consumers are being conned."
>
> He said use of genetically modified ingredients "is probably the most
>significant and potentially dangerous development in food production this
>century."
>
> Walker said he was acting on the basis of comments last year from the head
>of the government's new Food Standards Agency, Prof. Philip James.
>
> James said last year: "The perception that everything is totally
>straightforward and safe is utterly naive. I do not think we fully
>understand the dimensions of what we are getting into."
>
> Iceland executives say its market research shows 81 percent of customers
>are concerned about buying genetically modified foods and would avoid them
>if possible.
>
> Iceland has 770 stores and a $2.32 billion annual turnover.
Bob Phelps
Director
Australian GeneEthics Network
c/- ACF 340 Gore Street, Fitzroy. 3065 Australia
Tel: (03) 9416.2222 Fax: (03) 9416.0767 {Int Code (613)}
email: acfgenet@peg.apc.org
WWW: http://www.peg.apc.org/~acfgenet (under construction)
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/`\ /`\ The Balance:
Tom, Tom, (/\ \-/ /\) NATURE's balance is so fine-
The piper's son, )6 6( Take care when altering her design!
Saved a pig >{= Y =}< A species introduced could grow
And away he run; /'-^-'\ To be a source of endless woe;
So none could eat (_) (_) While culling another could unfold
The pig so sweet | . | A horde of pests it once controlled.
Together they ran | |} from "The Judgement of the Animals"
Down the street. \_/^\_/ by Willow Macky (published by the RNZSPCA)
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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 01:04:54 EST
From: ALFNOW73
To: AnimalLib7@aol.com
Cc: mjp60980@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu, xanimal_libx@hotmail.com,
moram1@helios.acomp.usf.edu, hmcclus1@helios.acomp.usf.edu,
SMatthes@aol.com, ar-news@envirolink.org, RonnieJW@aol.com,
ZenSamuri@aol.com, ARcinn@aol.com, KATI2ERIN@aol.com,
EnglandGal@aol.com, Sptampa@aol.com, FLSHEALY@aol.com,
C2fasn8you@aol.com, Raquel.Aluisy@mci.com, Horsehusb@aol.com,
KarinMW@aol.com, Josie8888@aol.com, molgoveggie@juno.com,
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Subject: Tampa P & G Event
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In observance of the second annual GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION AGAINST PROCTER &
GAMBLE, People Protecting the Rights of Animals will demonstrate and educate
against the torture that P & G inflicts on thousands of animals through
needless product testing!
SATURDAY, MARCH 28
1:00 PM UNTIL 3:00 PM
AT WAL-MART 14941 N. DALE MABRY HWY. TAMPA, FL (corner of Bearss & Dale
Mabry)
We need volunteers to help pass out literature to Wal-Mart customers. We also
need people willing to table at the back of the parking lot and individuals
willing to demonstrate on behalf of the suffering animals. Please come out
and show your support of our educational event. Thank you for caring and have
a beautiful day!
***Please feel free to email us for more information:
ALFNOW73@aol.com
For the Animals,
Melinda
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 01:36:58 EST
From: STFORJEWEL
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: CHIP SHOTS
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FROM THE DENVER POST
THURSDAY, MARCH 19, 1998
DENVER, COLORADO
FROM THE LIVING SECTION
CHIP SHOTS
By Bill Briggs
Denver Post Staff Writer
High-Tech Hunt for Lost Pets Homes In on Tiny Implant That's Animal Friendly
Forget Lassie.
Today's cool dogs want to be like Astro.
More and more Colorado canines--along with an increasing number of cats--are
being injected with rice-sized microchips that can instantly identify the pets
should they ever become separated from their owners.
When a hand-held scanner is passed over the chip, it spits out a code number
that links the animal to its veterinarian and, evidentually, to its owner.
"It's kind of like something out of the Jetsons (space-age cartoon)," says
Lani Kian, spokesperson for the Denver Dumb Friends League.
For years, similar mini transponders have been inserted into animals to mark
them for overseas shipping or for medical purposes. But within the last
month, seven Denver-area animal shelters have acquired scanners that can read
the microchips, essentially opening the door to a whole new era in pet
finding.
"It's exciting stuff," said Dr. Joni Edwards, director of the Anderson Animal
Hospital in Lakewood. "Hopefully, there will be more pets and owners reunited
because of this."
The system is high-tech yet simple. The programmed chips are implanted with a
hypodermic needle just below the pet's skin and between the shoulder blades.
It's not disfiguring or lump-causing--owners can't even feel it--and the
process requires no sedation. It's just like a routine vaccine. And the cost
is similar, about $40.
But here's where it all starts sounding like something out of "Fantastic
Voyage"--a sci-fi classic in which an exploration vessel is shrunk and
injected into a scientist's body.
Before going inside pet bodies, the computer chips are encased within a
biocompatible glass. That allows the transponders to sit inside the flesh
without being detected or rejected by the animal's immune system.
To anchor it in place, the glass liner is coated with a special chemical that
causes scar tissue to engulf the chip.
One brand, Avid, uses an "anti-migrating formula" called paralene-C. Another,
HomeAgain, uses a plastic called propenglycol. Neither pose health risks,
veterinarians say.
The manufacturers "have done a better job creating a better microchip that
doesn't have the migration problems they had in the beginning. You used to
put the chip in and it might go down the leg," Edwards said. "You want to be
able to pick up that transponder. It's supposed to be in a certain area."
The chips themselves are inert but fitted with tiny antennas. Low-frequency
radio waves beamed from the scanner bounce off the antenna and back to the
scanner where the signal is translated into numeric code.
Shelters can call several national data bases to connect that code with the
pet's veterinarian and owners. It forms a huge safety net for lost animals
and one without the glaring gaps that now exist.
"We have the Mile High Rabies System here where people buy rabies tags so we
can identify their pets based on their tags," Edwards said. But tags and
collars are often lost. Or, owners simply don't get the pets vaccinated.
"It can be frustrating," Edwards said. "But with the HomeAgain system, you
have it right there. 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, holidays or whatever,
you have a person there that will tell you who the owner is."
HomeAgain chips, for instance, are tied into the American Kennel Club's
recovery data base that now houses the names of 200,000 pets--including dogs,
cats, monkeys, llamas, reptiles and birds.
Avid's national registry is roughly the same size.
"Out of those 200,000 animals, we've already had 8,000 retrievals nationally
in just a year and a half," said Dan Ellsworth, Denver territory manager for
Schering-Plough, which makes HomeAgain.
In fact, one lost pet carrying a chip in its hide was plunked into a Boulder,
Colorado animal shelter recently.
Within just 2 hours, the pet was back with its owner after a hand-held scanner
found the animal's number code, Ellsworth said.
"But this is not a replacement for licensing," Kian said. "It's sort of an
extra measure."
To be sure, animal doctors are now making that exact pitch.
"Get your pet chipped" will be the new veterinary watchwords for the late '
90s.
And chip makers expect pet lovers to listen. More than 120 Colorado vet
clinics have stocked up on HomeAgain microchips. Meanwhile, Avid has supplied
100,000 of their transponders to other vets around the state.
Exact numbers aren't known, but it's estimated that thousands of dogs and cats
in Colorado have already been implanted.
"It's new to the area because the shelters have just started scanning,"
Edwards said. "It's been increasing......but it's just kind of getting
started."
INTO CHIPS
Seven local animal shelters are now scanning for microchips in the animals
they pick up or receive:
1. Adams County, Colorado Animal Shelter
2. Aurora Animal Care Division
3. Denver Muicipal Animal Shelter
4. Denver Dumb Friends League
5. Humane Society of Boulder Valley
6. Maxfund
7. Table Mountain Animal Center
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 22:15:41
From: David J Knowles
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: [UK] CAP reform 'failed to bring green benefits'
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>From The Electronic Telegraph - Monday, March 23rd, 1998
CAP reform 'failed to bring green benefits'
By David Brown, Agriculture Editor
AS European Union farm ministers prepare for key talks in Brussels to help
create a "greener" Common Agricultural Policy, a report out today shows
that the last reforms in 1992 failed to deliver many of the environmental
benefits it promised.
In some cases, the changes did more harm than good by encouraging farmers
to plough up meadows to plant potatoes or heavily subsidised crops such as
flax, it says.
Despite expensive set-aside measures and other incentives, the MacSharry
Reforms - named after the EU's Irish Commissioner for Agriculture at the
time - "failed to encourage farmers to switch to more sustainable farming
practices", according to a Countryside
Commission survey.
These reforms were the first step taken by the EU to separate subsidies
from production. Target prices were cut for arable crops, beef and sheep
and direct compensation payments were introduced to cushion farmers against
losses. Incentives were also introduced to encourage farmers to switch from
intensive methods, use fewer chemical pesticides and artificial fertilisers
and keep fewer livestock. It was also hoped that set-aside would reduce
grain production and encourage farmers to use large areas of surplus land
for wildlife.
In fact, says the report, farmers still kept too many animals and grain
production rose as farmers refined their methods. The report, based on a
survey of 600 British farmers who were asked to explain how the early
reforms changed their land management decisions, concludes: "Set-aside was
used largely as an agronomic tool and rarely managed for environmental
benefits."
Britain's departure from the ERM in 1993 and high grain prices led to more
intensive production. In some cases farmers were using more fertiliser than
before the reforms. Efforts to establish a "greener" CAP, set out last
week in the EU Commission's Agenda
2000 proposals, have been attacked by environmentalists.
⌐ Copyright Telegraph Group Limited 1998.
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 22:20:21
From: David J Knowles
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: [UK] Swansong for the sweet nightingale
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>From The Electronic Telegraph - Monday, March 23rd, 1998
Swansong for the sweet nightingale
By Emma-Lou Montgomery
THE nightingale, immortalised in song, verse and prose, is rapidly
vanishing from its British habitat and could be facing extinction,
according to the British Trust for Ornithology.
The trust plans to carry out a major survey to investigate just how close
to being wiped out the birds are. Then it hopes to use the results to
reverse the decline by encouraging woodland owners to carry out special
management measures so more of the birds'
favourite nesting habitat is available.
Chris Mead, a spokesman for the British Trust for Ornithology said: "It
would be a great shame if we lost nightingales as they have such a strong
place in our folklore and literature." While most Britons have never heard
a nightingale sing, its vocal talents have been well documented. Chaucer,
Milton, Keats and Shakespeare are among a host of writers who have
immortalised the bird.
There has even been debate on the nightingale's vocal qualities.
Shakespeare changed his mind on the song bird's talents between writing The
Taming of the Shrew in 1592 and 1596 when he began The Merchant of Venice.
>From star billing with a voice that sings "sweetly", the nightingale was
consigned to the chorus, as he declared:
The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark
When neither is attended, and I think
The nightingale, if she should sing by day
When every goose is cackling, would be though
No better a musician than the wren.
And he was not alone. John Lyly, the 16th century poet, asked: What bird so
sings, yet does wail? O 'tis the ravished nightingale. Jug, jug, jug,
tereu, she cries.
Their numbers have declined since the last count in 1980, when there were
an estimated 4,770 singing males in Britain. Keats wrote: Thou was not
born for death, immortal Bird!
Was he wrong?
⌐ Copyright Telegraph Group Limited 1998.
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 23:00:54
From: David J Knowles
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: BSE Inquiry - Day 7
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The inquiry heard Friday that MAFF had blocked plans to tighten controls on
the animal feed industry five years ago.
On the second aniversary of the announcement that there was a link between
BSE in cattle and the new varient of Cruetzfeld-Jacob Disease in humans,
the inquiry was told that the plans were dropped because they clashed with
Conservative government policy to
de-regulate the industry.
The inquiry obtained a draft of a letter sent in July 1993 by Nicholas
Soames, then junior minister of agriculture responsible for food safety, to
Baroness Cumberlege, Parliamentary Under Secretary at the Department of
Health, which said: "If we set up the proposed committee it is almost bound
to recommend tightening regulations on other forms of controls. That is
what committees do.
"We have of course problems over feedingstuffs but I think that a special
committee on the subject is not justified by the number of questions it may
have to tackle. The area where we
are vulnerable is in the assessment of new and emerging methods of
production of feedingstuffs and feeding practices.
"I propose that we should cover this by period reviews focused on this
specific issue. We should ask a small group to look at the matter in a
year's time (ie two years after the Lamming Report) but there is no need to
set it up just now."
The letter followed advice from Brian Dickinson, then head of MAFF's Food
Safety Group and now head of MAFF's Animal Health Group, who wrote in an
internal memo on July 28, 1993
that the group would overlap with other committees and "add to the
pressures for regulation when we are trying to go the other way". He said
it would be necessary, if ministers agreed, to write to Baroness
Cumberlege. He added: "DH officials have been strongly in favour of the
setting up of the committeee. We need to reassure DH that we can obtain
advice on risks relating to feed if necessary."
In June 1996, after a serious increase in the number of BSE cases in cattle
born after the feed ban and three months after the BSE/CJD link was made ,
Prof Lamming wrote to Douglas Hogg, then Minister of Agriculture,
"vigorously re-stating our concerns" about implementing the feed ban and
setting up the independent committee. Two months later, Marcus Nisbet, Mr
Hogg's Private Secretary, replied, saying that Mr Hogg agreed with the
original decision by Mr Soames.
David J Knowles
Animal Voices News
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 23:09:48
From: David J Knowles
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: [UK] BSE Inquiry - Day 6
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[Sorry about the delay in posting this. I was "on assignment" on Friday,
and 30 hours without sleep slows one down a bit.]
An official report that called nine years ago for the urgent monitoring of
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease was delayed for seven months until the government
sorted out funds for research, members of the Tyrell Committee told the BSE
Inquiry Thursday.
David Tyrrell, former director of the Medical Research Council's Common
Cold Unit, who was called in by ministers to head an expert committee told
the inquiry about the frustration at the delay by the Ministry of
Agriculture and the Department of Health in publishing their recommendations.
The Tyrrell Committee met for the first time in February 1989 following a
recommendation by an earlier committee headed by Sir Richard Southwood that
a specialist group should set out urgent research priorities. Dr Tyrrell
said his committee was asked to advise on work in progress or proposed on
spongiform encephalopathies. The team was also asked to advise on
additional work needed and to establish priorities for research.
The report urged that it was "essential to set up a study of CJD and
similar diseases and to maintain it for as long as necessary". The
scientists felt that the CJD investigation should
continue for between 10 to 20 years due to the long incubation period of
the disease.
They also stressed that it was important to check the assumptions that BSE
was caused when cattle were fed food containing the remains of sheep
infected with a similar disease called scrapie. They wanted comparisons
made of the behaviour of the agents causing both animal diseases. The
report was submitted to both departments in June 1989 but had still not
been published by the end of the year. It eventually appeared in January 1990.
Dr Tyrrell said: "There had been no precise agreement on how it would be
handled after that but we expected it to be published. Members did feel
some frustration when it was still not released by the end of the year. .
We understood later that this was done so that, at the time of publication,
it could be announced that all research was being funded. Meantime we had
to put up with the inference of colleagues that nothing was being done."
Dr Tyrrell and the four other members of the committee told the inquiry
that the relationship between MAFF and the Department of Health worked well
within the committee itself.
But another member of the committee, Dr Richard Kimberlin, a consultant on
BSE-type diseases and former head of the Government's Neuropathogenisis
Unit in Edinburgh, told the inquiry that, after the report was completed in
June 1989, rivalry sprung up between the Government's funding agencies
"about who should get what".
David J Knowles
Animal Voices News
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 00:03:27
From: David J Knowles
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: [CA] Candian politicians contact info - part 2
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I finally managed to get through to the Newfoundland government server
tonight, so here are the addresses, including e-mail, of the Newfoundland
Premier and Fisheries Minister.
Could anyone who receives a reply to any letters regarding the seal hunt
(either on the East Coast or West Coast), the Vancouver Aquarium, or the
wolf slaughter in the NWT, please forward a copy on to me. I know of
several Vancouver- or Victoria-based groups which would be grateful for
this information.
Many thanks,
David J Knowles
Animal Voices
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Newfoundland & Labrador
Premier Brian Tobin
Hon. Brian Tobin, Lib.
Premier
8th Floor, East Block
Confederation Building
Phone: (709) 729-3570
Fax: (709) 729-5875
E-mail: premier@gov.nf.ca
Fisheries Minister John Efford
Hon. John Efford, Lib.
Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture
Provincial Fisheries Building
Strawberry Marsh Road
Phone: (709) 729-3705
Fax: (709) 729-6082
E-mail: minister@fish.dffa.gov.nf.ca
Website: www.gov.nf.ca/
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 00:02:55
From: David J Knowles
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: [CA] Anderson Postpones Seal Survey Until 1999
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Found this on the Department of Fisheries & Oceans website. It was released
February 27th.
Although it would appear to be difficult to count seals due to poor weather
conditions, it doesn't stop the DFO allowing them to be killed. [Appologies
if this has been posted before - I don't recall seeing it on the list]
David
Anderson Postpones Seal Survey Until 1999
ST. JOHNÆS -- Fisheries and Oceans Minister David Anderson today announced
that the 1998 harp seal survey scheduled to begin the first of March has
been postponed until next year, on the advice of the departmentÆs seal
scientists in the Newfoundland, Maritimes and Laurentian (Quebec) Regions.
"The current ice conditions in the Gulf raise a major concern about our
ability to conduct an accurate survey of harp seal pup production in March
1998," the Minister stated. "The latest ice maps indicate that ice extent
is less than normal and much thinner than average. In the traditional areas
where harp seals pup, ice is very loose and thin to hold whelping seals."
The survey design for harp seals is complex and is predicated upon
examining historical areas and suitable ice habitat to locate the whelping
concentrations. The distribution of whelping females is known to be heavily
influenced by ice conditions and, if ice does not form or is too thin,
whelping locations may change, making reconnaissance more difficult. Such
changes were reported in 1965, 1969 and 1981 when whelping seals were found
in Northumberland Strait and on the beaches of PEI.
The proportion of females that pup on the ice and the mortality rates of
pups, which are assumed to be constant from year to year, may also change.
The extent to which these factors may influence the results cannot be
estimated.
Ice at the Front, off northeastern Newfoundland, is likely adequate for
whelping. However, if a Gulf survey cannot be completed successfully, a
survey at the Front would not provide meaningful information on the status
of the seal population.
Ice conditions in the Gulf of St. Lawrence have been intensively monitored
over the past several weeks because of relatively warm conditions and the
possibility that ice cover would not be adequate for the harp seal survey.
At present, the area covered by ice in the Gulf is about average but most
of the ice is thin and not suitable for harp seal whelping. Only in one
small area northwest of Magdalen Islands is ice thick enough for whelping,
while conditions are marginally suitable in areas between the Magdalens and
Prince Edward Island.
Reviews of the methodology used to estimate harp seal abundance by the
International Council for the Exploration of the Sea/North Atlantic
Fisheries Organization (ICES/NAFO) Harp and Hooded Seal Working Group at
Archangelsk in 1992, and by the International Workshop on Harp Seal Biology
at St. JohnÆs in February, 1997, stressed the importance of using
standardized procedures to estimate population parameters.
Marine mammal scientists Don Bowen in DFOÆs Maritimes Region, Mike Hammill
in the Laurentian Region and Becky Sjare and Garry Stenson in Newfoundland,
have analyzed the situation thoroughly.
They advise that conducting a survey in a year with unusual ice conditions
would be inconsistent with previous surveys. The results, therefore, would
be difficult to interpret. The department has accepted their recommendation
that the survey be postponed until March 1999.
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 16:32:05 +0800 (SST)
From: Vadivu Govind
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (ID) Chicken shortage
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>The Straits Times
23 Mar 98
CHICKEN SHORTAGE
INDONESIA'S economic crisis has devastated its poultry industry and the
nation is expected to run out of chicken this month, posing "extreme
stability concerns", the US Agriculture Department said in its
world-livestock report.
Before the crisis, Indonesia's breeding industry produced nearly 15
million day-old
chicks per week. But poultry producers have since slashed operations to 30
per cent
of capacity, due to a near-doubling of feed costs. Reuters
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 16:32:14 +0800 (SST)
From: Vadivu Govind
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Chile on national egg alert
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>The Sunday Times
22 Mar 98
EGG ALERT: Chilean health authorities have declared a national egg alert
because of
an outbreak of salmonella food poisoning, urging that all eggs be well
cooked until the
outbreak is controlled.
Earlier this week, 86 guests at two wedding parties suffered salmonella
poisoning that was traced to fresh mayonnaise prepared from eggs. --
Reuters.
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 16:33:19 +0800 (SST)
From: Vadivu Govind
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (TH) Elephant burnt by planters or poachers
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>Bangkok Post
23 mar 98
Police suspect elephant slain by pineapple farmers
Burnt carcass found in Kui Buri park
Prachuab Khiri Khan
Apolice team are investigating a burnt elephant carcass after
receiving reports the animal might have been killed by local
pineapple planters who were enraged that it had eaten their
produce.
But the police are also considering the possibility that it
might be
a cover-up by animal poachers.
Pol Gen Salang Bunnag, the deputy police chief, arrived in Kui
Buri district yesterday to inspect the spot where the animal was
reportedly burnt alive in the Kui Buri National Park.
Dulasit Sanitwongse Na Ayutthaya, a wildlife advocate, said the
park rangers recently came across the burning spot after they
followed smoke.
Only bones and the stomach remain of the pachyderm. Tyres
were used to make the fire, the police said.
The national park officials were earlier tipped off that many
pineapple planters had strewn the elephants' path with spikes
made from twisted nails to keep hungry elephants from entering
their plantations and ruining the crops.
Kui Buri police traced the burning spot to the nearest plantation
owned by Anek Kiatsarn. He discovered the plantation has been
invaded by elephants.
Also, it was found some of the animals might have come down
for a drink at the nearby creek.
Mr Anek denied any knowledge of the killing. His rifle was
seized by police for examination.
Pol Gen Salang said preliminary investigations suggested the
elephant was hunted down by poachers who covered up the
crime by burning its carcass.
A simple hunter platform was erected on a tree nearby. The
police also found a bottle of urine believed to be that of the
poachers and an amphetamine packet.
The villagers living within the vicinity of the burning spot
will be
called for a urine test to facilitate the search for the
culprit. A
metal detector was used to locate bullet shells at the spot.
Article copyright Post Publishing Public Co., Ltd 1998
Reprinted for non-commercial use only.
Website: http://www.bangkokpost.net
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 16:33:26 +0800 (SST)
From: Vadivu Govind
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (TH) Fires force animals to flee
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>Bangkok Post
23 Mar 98
Khao Yai forests devastated
Raging fire forces many animals to flee
Nakhon Ratchasima
Several thousand rai of Khao Yai National Park forest have
been reduced to ashes during a fire which has raged for six days.
The fire has forced many rare animals to flee for safer ground.
Firefighters and more than 100 reinforcements were called in to
fight the blaze. Only yesterday did they manage to halt the fire's
advance with help from Phupan task force helicopters. Gusty
winds and hot weather have hampered their efforts.
The fire is thought to have started near a look-out spot on
Thanarat Road, which cuts through the park, said Suchart
Sankarom, the Khao Yai firefighting unit chief.
Firefighters said although they could contain the fire to a
certain
extent there was a long way to go before it was extinguished.
The rugged terrain meant that much of the firefighting had to be
done on foot.
Mr Suchart said the unit has warned locals not to clear farmland
and to be careful about accidentally starting fires.
He said he thought it would take several decades for the forest
to recover.
Villagers in Pak Chong district's tambon Pong Ta Long have
allegedly been trying to shoot the fleeing animals.
Sawasdi Bootsuwan, the former Pong Ta Long kamnan, said the
authorities had done too little too late after the fire broke
out on
Tuesday.
In Huay Kha Khaeng wildlife sanctuary, in Uthai Thani province,
forest fires are also still raging at numerous spots several weeks
after they started. Tens of thousands of rai of forest have been
devastated.
A lack of water and a shortage of fire-fighting equipment have hit
fire-fighting efforts.
Article copyright Post Publishing Public Co., Ltd 1998
Reprinted for non-commercial use only.
Website: http://www.bangkokpost.net
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 06:57:00 -0500
From: allen schubert
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US) Reward For Guinea 'Pigman'
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from CNN custom news (search: animal rights) http://www.cnn.com
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New York State News
Reuters
23-MAR-98
Reward For Guinea 'Pigman'
(NEW YORK) -- Park rangers say they've rescued all but ten of dozens of
guinea pigs set free in Central Park. They're now offering a
one-thousand-dollar reward for the capture and conviction of a person
they're nicknaming ``Pigman.'' A park spokesman says the suspect may have
been a pet store owner unloading his inventory... or an animal- rights
activist who was ``rescuing'' the animals from a laboratory. Officials say
park workers have rounded up 30 of the 40 to 60 rodents released.
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 07:08:14 -0500
From: allen schubert
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US) Animal Abuse Charges Filed
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from CNN custom news (search: animal rights) http://www.cnn.com
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Kansas State News
Reuters
23-MAR-98
Animal Abuse Charges Filed
(GARDEN CITY, Missouri) -- Two Missouri men from suburban Kansas City could
each face more than 200 counts of animal abuse this week. Officials in Cass
County, Missouri, rescued 187 dogs, seven cats and 41 birds from a house
outside the town of Garden City on Friday. About 50 dead dogs were also
found at the residence... some of them in plastic bags. The owners...
Christopher Summers and Reed Evans... are each charged with one count of
animal abuse. Prosecutors say they intend to file additional counts today,
possibly one count for each animal that was harmed. Officials say phone
calls from across the country have been pouring in to the sheriff's office
from people who want to adopt the surviving animals.
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 07:43:34 EST
From: Tereiman
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: RFI: PETA's Taiwan dog protest
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Yesterday in Taipai, PETA president Ingrid Newkirk sat in a cage in the middle
of town to protest the cruel killing of dogs in Taiwan.
If anyone in Asia finds any news articles about PETA's demonstration, please
forward them to me via email: tereiman@aol.com or fax: 1-757-628-0784. I will
post the press release as soon as it is available for more specific details.
Thank you,
Tracy Reiman, Manager
International Grassroots Campaigns
PETA
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 09:26:54 EST
From: Tereiman
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
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PETA PRESS RELEASE
For Immediate Release:
March 20, 1998
Contact:
Ingrid Newkirk 886 2 2763 8866 (Taipei)
Michael McGraw 718-499-0179 (New York)
PRESIDENT OF LARGEST U.S. ANIMAL RIGHTS GROUP TO CAGE HERSELF IN
PROTEST AT
WORLD FAMOUS TAIWAN DOG MARKET
Animals Discarded then Drowned and Starved in Taiwan's Pounds
Taipei -- On Sunday, March 22, at 5 p.m. local time, the president of People
for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), Ingrid Newkirk, will enter a cage
at the infamous Hsei-Lin night market to make a visual appeal that dogs are
not cheap disposable commodities to later be thrown away like a plastic bottle
or box.
Newkirk has been arrested in several countries for her protests, including
stripping naked in Washington, Paris, London, Amsterdam, Munich, and Geneva to
protest the cruel methods used to slaughter animals for fur. Responding to
graphic complaints from visitors to the island, she decided to come and
witness for herself what is happening to stray dogs in municipal pounds here.
"Taiwan is known for its strong economy and its captivating beauty," says
Newkirk. "Sadly, it also has the reputation for being the cruellest nation on
earth to dogs because people consider dogs as having no more feeling than a
piece of furniture, mistreat them, and eventually throw them out onto the
street, where most of them are picked up by garbage collectors and drowned or
starved to death in public pounds. There is not a single law to protect
them."
Newkirk, who flew to Geneva earlier in the week, is calling on the United
Nations to include animal protection in its charter. Her protests have
captured headlines all over the world resulting in the end to such cruelties
as the use of animals in car crash tests and the end of cosmetics tests on
animals by international giants, Revlon and Gillette.
#
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 07:36:49 -0800 (PST)
From: "J. Bearscove"
To: ar-news@envirolink.org, HEARUS@singaporestrays.com
Subject: Re: RFI: PETA's Taiwan dog protest
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On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Tereiman wrote:
> Yesterday in Taipai, PETA president Ingrid Newkirk sat in a cage in the middle
> of town to protest the cruel killing of dogs in Taiwan.
>
> If anyone in Asia finds any news articles about PETA's demonstration, please
> forward them to me via email: tereiman@aol.com or fax: 1-757-628-0784. I will
> post the press release as soon as it is available for more specific details.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Tracy Reiman, Manager
> International Grassroots Campaigns
> PETA
>
I would like to know why PETA has failed for the last two years to answer
correspondeence regarding the inhumane slaughter of cats and dogs in South
Korea?
In 1996 and 1997 I tried contacting PETA through fax, email, and snail
mail, and each time have never received any response. Yet here we have a
PETA demonstration in Taipai? Is there any relation between PETA and the
IFAW regarding their failure to respond? I have heard that the two are
somehow affiliated, and would like to know if anyone can verify this.
Perhaps this may explain why no one at PETA is concerned at all regarding
millions of dogs slaughtered for an aphrodisiac in Korea.
Jon
http://weber.u.washington.edu/~jbear//
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 11:29:32 -0500
From: Vegetarian Resource Center
To: AR-News@Envirolink.Org
Subject: Communities Protect Kenya Elephants
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Communities Protect Kenya Elephants
.c The Associated Press
By JEAN-MARC BOUJU
LEWA DOWNS, Kenya (AP) - The carcasses of six elephants lay like discarded
leather bags in scrub brush where poachers shot them down and hacked away
their tusks.
The great beasts had strayed beyond the protective boundaries of the Samburu
National Reserve and into the sights of human predators armed with automatic
weapons.
Already this year, poachers have killed six Kenyan elephants for their ivory,
treasured from the time of pharaohs. Last year, 44 elephants were killed in
the East African country.
A loosening of an international ban on ivory sales last year to allow
Botswana, Namibia and Zimbabwe to study how to sell stockpiled tusks to Japan
is likely to lead to more poaching throughout Africa, conservationists fear.
To protect the country's elephants, the Kenya Wildlife Service has recruited
local scouts to work with its overstretched anti-poaching squads.
More importantly, the agency now offers communities financial incentives to
protect elephants, which villagers have long viewed as threats to livestock,
crops and people.
Here, for example, the agency built the Il Ngwesi lodge for tourists who want
to see wildlife. The lodge, 110 miles northeast of Nairobi, paid nearly
$17,000 to the community last year.
``What we've begun to do is mobilize the local communities so they benefit
directly from wildlife, particularly through tourism,'' said David Western,
director of the Kenya Wildlife Service.
``That local security network is really the way ahead,'' he said. ``It gives
us eyes and ears where back in the early 1990s you had silence and antagonism
from the communities, making it very hard to know where the elephants were,
let alone whether they had been poached.''
In 1970, there were 167,000 elephants in Kenya. The population plunged to a
low of 19,000 by 1989, but under strict protection has grown to 27,000.
A rising population means the elephants are spreading out. As they do, they
are coming into contact - and conflict - with people.
A single beast requires at least 450 pounds of vegetable matter a day, and
will push over trees that have taken many hundreds of years to grow to get
that food.
If confined within an animal reserve, elephants would easily turn the park
into a dust bowl. That's already happened at Amboseli Park, which is a
haunting vista of red dust swirling around dead trees stripped of bark and
leaves, naked branches poking the sky.
About 75 percent of Kenya's wild animals roam on private land.
``Of course, culling is an option, and that does happen in South Africa and in
Zimbabwe, but partly that's because they don't have the space outside'' game
reserves, Western said. ``What we're trying to do is win that space outside so
that culling is unnecessary.''
Edward Kiperus, one of the local scouts recruited by the Kenya Wildlife
Service, said the attitude toward elephants is changing among people who herd
cows and goats in the foothills of Mount Kenya.
``It is very painful to see poachers coming to interfere with our economic
affairs. The elephants are more important than keeping our livestock,'' he
said.
Community protection also will benefit other species - Cape buffalo, zebras,
Thompson's gazelles, elands, wart hogs and especially rhinos, which also are
poached for their horns.
The scouts are unarmed. When they sense trouble, they use radios to summon
rangers, who are on constant anti-poaching patrol. In November, the rangers
shot three poachers to death.
The 130 rangers responsible for Samburu and the rest of a huge area north of
Mount Kenya are hard-pressed to keep up their work and can't expect
reinforcement. Tourist visits to game sanctuaries are down 60 percent because
of political violence and flooding, so the Kenya Wildlife Service has had to
cut spending.
``We can't cover the entire country,'' Western said. With the help of 90
trained scouts, ``we can be very effective with a very small force.''
AP-NY-03-23-98 0123EST
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 11:32:33 -0500 (EST)
From: "Jeffrey A. LaPadula"
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this was from the home news tribune - saturday
Animal advocates are hardly pagans
I am a firm believer in the rights of
animals, homo sapiens included.
Therefore, I couldn't help but laugh
out loud when I read John
Guarino's Feb. 19 letter. Guarino, of
Furs by Guarino, defines animal
rights as a pagan religion, which
cheapens and devalues human life.
Animal-rights activists are not
pagans and we are not looking to
devalue human life. Rather, we wish
to extend the circle of compassion to
include all living beings.
Apparently, Guarino never heard
about St. Francis of Assisi, which is
surprising, considering his Roman
Catholic background.
I also take offense at his attempt to
imply that vegetarians are
philosophically aligned with Adolf
Hitler. First of all, Hitler was not a
vegetarian. His doctor sometimes
prescribed a vegetarian diet to
improve his health (Hitler did not
comply with his doctor's wishes on a
consistent basis). Joseph Goebbels,
the propaganda minister, twisted
this to get people to think of Hitler
as another saintly man, like his
vegetarian contemporary Mohandas
Gandhi.
As a vegetarian, I can say proudly
that I am in excellent company.
Some prominent vegetarians have
included: Albert Einstein, Louisa
May Alcott, Leonardo da Vinci,
Thomas Edison, Susan B. Anthony,
Sir Isaac Newton, Plato, Socrates,
Mark Twain, Charlotte Bronte,
Fred Rogers (Mr. Rogers), Leo
Tolstoy, Henry Heimlich, Upton
Sinclair, Hank Aaron, James
Cromwell, Dr. Benjamin Spock and
George Bernard Shaw. Every one of
these vegetarians outshines the dark
stain Guarino attempted to put on
the vegetarian lifestyle.
Contrary to Guarino's belief,
adopting a meatless diet reduces the
amount of ecological damage we
inflict on our planet. More
resources are needed to produce one
pound of beef than one pound of
soybeans. And Belgium, the
Netherlands and France now
produce more animal manure than
their land can absorb.
Guarino wrote, "If heaven is full of
cats, dogs and woodchucks, I'm not
going." That only leaves one option
for him.
Lorraine Laskiewicz
SOUTH AMBOY
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ANIMAL DEFENSE LEAGUE - NEW JERSEY
P.O. Box 84
Oakhurst, NJ 07755
(732)545.4110
http://envirolink.org/orgs/adl
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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 11:31:07 -0500
From: Vegetarian Resource Center
To: AR-News@Envirolink.Org
Subject: Hog Intestines Used To Rebuild Knees
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Hog Intestines Used To Rebuild Knees
.c The Associated Press
By RICK CALLAHAN
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) - When surgeons repaired James McDonald's wobbly
right knee recently, the 38-year-old ranch caretaker got a dose of high-tech
chitlins.
Doctors replaced his weakened knee's anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, the
web of fibrous tissue that binds the knee together, with refined hog
intestines.
The Carbondale, Colo., man is the first person to receive an implant of small-
intestinal submucosa, or SIS, a paper-thin material derived from hogs' small
intestines that has shown promise in regenerating damaged tissues.
Developed by Purdue University researchers, SIS has attracted widespread
attention in the medical community, where it could have applications from
repairing tendons and ligaments to replacing human arteries, the esophagus and
even intestines.
In animal tests, SIS has shown an ability to spark a wound-healing response
that stimulates the growth of new blood vessels. It serves as a ``scaffold''
around which the body heals, eventually replacing the material with new
tissue.
``It's exciting because it seems to have the capacity to stimulate the body's
healing response and to modify itself to whatever environment it's being used
in,'' said Dr. Robert Hunter, who performed the Jan. 22 surgery on McDonald's
knee at Aspen Valley Hospital in Aspen, Colo.
Hunter, an associate professor in the department of orthopedics at the
University of Colorado, removed the shriveled ACL from McDonald's knee and
attached the hog-based replacement using titanium screws.
McDonald has fared well since, undergoing a common postoperative procedure to
drain fluid from his knee, which had been wobbly since a childhood injury.
McDonald, who oversees a 600-acre ranch in the shadow of the Rockies near
Carbondale, Colo., was able to turn in his crutches three weeks after the
surgery. He works out daily for 10-minute periods on a stair climber and
treadmill as part of a six-month rehabilitation regimen.
It will be at least that long before doctors know how well SIS works in
McDonald and the 11 other patients scheduled to receive knee implants in
clinical trials approved by the Food and Drug Administration. If the surgeries
being performed at the Aspen hospital and Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van
Nuys, Calif., show SIS to be safe, more extensive trials will follow.
Dr. Stephen F. Badylak and his colleagues at Purdue first stumbled across
SIS's healing potential in 1987, when they were testing it as a vascular graft
in dogs.
Badylak, director of research for Purdue's Hillenbrand Biomedical Engineering
Center, attributes SIS's healing qualities to the fact that mammals'
intestines have evolved to heal quickly.
``Our intestines get injured every day, every time we go to a fast food place
and get a virus or whatever. The body has to heal now and quickly,'' said
Badylak, also the chief physician for Purdue's athletes.
``I think it tells us we're an awful lot more like pigs than we'd like to
admit,'' he said.
Although SIS is taken from hog intestines, it contains no individual hog
cells, all but eliminating the threat that human patients could be infected
with hog-borne diseases, he said.
After it is taken from the middle layer of hog intestines, SIS undergoes
extensive sterilization and processing. The final product is a complex matrix
of collagen that's easily malleable.
``You can dry it, you can powder it, inject it, you can take a sheet and make
it into strips and then braid it and add tensile strength to it. You can make
it into a tube. There just seems to be almost no end to what we might use it
for,'' Badylak said.
Mindful of that, Purdue's Office of Technology Transfer has licensed the
rights to SIS to three companies.
DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. has the rights to use SIS for a variety of orthopedic
uses. The Warsaw, Ind., company made the SIS sewn into McDonald's knee.
Cook Biotech Inc., a division of Cook Group of Bloomington, Ind., has optioned
all of SIS' other possible applications in humans - except for hernia repair,
a facet being developed by Sentron Medical Ventures Inc. of Cincinnati.
Dr. Richard Tarr, DePuy's senior vice president for research and development,
said the company has spent nearly six years and millions of dollars developing
SIS for orthopedic applications.
If SIS works in clinical trials, it would be a welcome new option for doctors
who perform surgery on an estimated 50,000 patients each year to repair
anterior cruciate ligaments.
During the 1980s, doctors tested a number of synthetic materials to replace
the ligament - carbon fibers and Gortex, among them - only to discover that
while they worked, they tended to break or fray, creating the need for
additional surgery.
Since then, orthopedic surgeons have returned almost exclusively to the
practice of ``harvesting'' material from the patient to reconstruct the
damaged ligament. But that material isn't always ideally suited for its new
purpose. It also creates a second wound that must heal.
Dr. Michael Ehrlich, chairman of the American Academy of Orthopaedics'
research committee, has tested SIS in the joints of rabbits at his lab at
Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, R.I.
While the results have been promising, Ehrlich said he is concerned that the
public's demand to get the fruits of research more quickly into clinical
settings may have prompted the FDA to act hastily in approving the clinical
trials.
``I wouldn't want it put in my knee,'' said Ehrlich, chairman of the
department of orthopedics and rehabilitation at Brown University's School of
Medicine.
McDonald, who aggravated his childhood injury when he stepped into a badger
hole while working on the Colorado ranch, is hopeful the hog-based remedy will
work.
``If you can imagine walking down the street and having a wobbly knee all the
time. That's what it (was) like,'' he said.
``But if this graft takes, it'll be a new me,'' he said.
AP-NY-03-08-98 1202EST
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 13:42:25 EST5EDT
From: "Elaine Kaufmann"
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Veggie restaurants overseas ?
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Hello,
Can anyone recommend decent, non-pricey vegeterian restaurants in
Vienna, Austria and Prague, Czech Republic? I am sure there are
Indian restaurants and all that, but if anyone knows of any that
they found to be particularly good I would appreciate hearing of it.
Thanks much.
Elaine
EKaufman@lawlib.law.pace.edu
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 11:11:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Markarian
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (CA) Food Fight in Chinatown
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> Thursday, March 19, 1998
>
> FOOD FIGHT IN CHINATOWN
>
> EMILY GURNON San Francisco Examiner
>
> When different cultures share the same city, foods and the
>traditions surrounding them can lead to clashes.
>
> The latest fight in San Francisco has centered around Chinese
>markets that sell live turtles and frogs for food. Animal rights
>activists fought to stop the sales, but the city's Board of
>Supervisors showed no interest in the issue. So the activists moved
>to the state level; the state Fish and Game Commission is scheduled
>next month to consider a ban on the importation of some types of
>reptiles and amphibians.
>
> Every culture has its beliefs about the foods that are
>acceptable and those that are not.
>
> "What we eat is a function of our culture and religious
>history," says Louis Grivetti, a cultural geographer at the
>University of California at Davis. "We learn very early on what is
>sacred or profane, what is right, what is wrong. By the age of
>about 3 or so, a kid knows."
>
> Animal advocates say that in Chinatown, the creatures are
>kept in cramped, unsanitary conditions and are treated cruelly. The
>advocacy groups are calling for a ban on the sale of the turtles
>and frogs.
>
> For Chinese merchants, the issue is straightforward: Their
>customers want fresh food. When they can see the animals living and
>breathing, they know they're not buying spoiled meat. It's been a
>Chinese tradition for thousands of years.
>
> To challenge these traditions is racist and culturally
>arrogant, merchants and their supporters say.
>
> "Are animals raised in factory farms and killed in
>slaughterhouses really treated more morally? The answer is no,"
>says Paul Wartelle, a San Francisco attorney representing 12
>Chinese market owners named in a lawsuit by animal rights groups.
>Yet, "Who gets sued? The Chinese."
>
> Culture and race have nothing to do with it, says Eric Mills,
>an Oakland activist who works with the New York-based Fund for
>Animals and his own group, Action for Animals.
>
> He was motivated to fight the live-animal sales by the
>conditions the animals are subjected to, including, he said, the
>stacking of frogs and turtles on top of one another, the lack of
>food and water for them. Some, he says, are skinned alive.
>
> "It's one of the most horrible things I've ever seen in my
>life," Mills says. "I don't care if it's Mother Teresa doing it or
>God herself _ I'm going to be out there picketing against it."
>Mills concedes that his crusade targets the Chinatown markets.
>
> "I try to do what works," he says. "I can't take on the whole
>damn world."
>
> The world is full of what animal advocates consider cruel and
>inhumane customs.
>
> Consider foie gras. For many Americans and Europeans, "fattened
>liver" is a prized delicacy.
>
> But the method of production turns the stomachs of animal
>advocates. Foie gras is made from the livers of ducks and geese
>who are force fed up to 7 pounds of grain a day, sometimes through
>metal tubes wedged down their throats, according to People for the
>Ethical Treatment of Animals.
>
> Some of the birds die when their stomachs burst from
>overfeeding, the organization said.
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 11:11:21 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Markarian
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (NJ) Animal activists see problem with humans, not black bears
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> The Star-Ledger Newark, NJ
> Copyright Newark Morning Ledger Co., 1998
>
> Friday, March 20, 1998
>
> Animal activists see problem with humans, not black bears
> Tom Johnson
> Star-Ledger Staff
>
> The way animal rights activists see it, New Jersey doesn't have a
>bear problem. It's a people problem.
>
> With 8 million plus people and only 500 or so black bears, it's
>human folks who are causing most of the conflicts between the bruins
>and man.
>
> "Humans are encroaching on black bear habitat in New Jersey," says
>state Sen. C. Louis Bassano, a Republican from Union County. "It's
>not bears encroaching on people."
>
> That's why Bassano is pushing a bill that would prohibit the state
>from allowing the hunting of black bears, an option that has been
>floated by the state Division of Fish, Game and Wildife as a way of
>thinning out the burgeoning bear population.
>
> Joined by a coalition of animal rights activists, Bassano
>yesterday pledged to push his bill to head off any possibility that
>the Fish and Game Council will endorse a hunting season for bears
>this year.
>
> Even without a hunting season, the life of the black bear in New
>Jersey is not an easy one, argued Bassano. They are hit by cars,
>taken by poachers and can even be shot if they're unlucky enough to
>wander over state lines into Pennsylvania at the wrong time of year.
>
> "We don't need to add another peril to the relatively small number
>of bears in this state," said Wayne celle, a vice president for the
>Humane Society of the United States.
>
> If New Jersey did a better job educating the public about
>interacting with bears, there would be a lot less conflict between
>humans and the animals, he said.
>
> Others argued the types of conflicts with humans generally
>involving bears,getting into beehives, knocking over garbage cans or
>destroying birdfeeders,are not exactly what should qualify as a
>capital offense.
>
> "This legislation will force the Division of Fish, Game and
>Wildlife to look at other options beyond just reaching for a gun,"
>said Michael Markarian, director of media for the Fund for Animals.
>
> At this point, neither Bassano nor state wildlife officials expect
>the Fish and Game Council to call for a bear hunt this year. The
>council is expected to propose its annual game code later this month,
>at which time it would authorize such a season.
>
> "So far as I know, they're not anticipating proposing a bear-
>hunting season," said Robert Itchmoney, assistant director for the
>division.
>
> That doesn't mean the state isn't expecting a whole bunch of
>trouble from black bears this spring when they emerge from
>hibernation. Last year, despite spending more than $25,000 on public
>education efforts, the division registered the most complaints ever
>involving bears, 647, he said.
>
> "We anticipate a very busy spring season as far as bear complaints
>go," Itchmoney said. "If you take an expanding population of bears
>and a growing number of people, the odds are good, there will be
>increased conflicts. At some point, there's going to have to be a
>limitation in the population of bears," he said.
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 15:42:07 -0800
From: Mesia Quartano
To: "ar-news@envirolink.org"
Subject: (US-CA) Department of Fish and Game a National Leader With Deer DNA
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California Department of Fish and Game a National Leader With Deer DNA
Capabilities
PR Newswire; 03/23/98)
SACRAMENTO, March 23 /PRNewswire/ The California Department of Fish
and Game (DFG) now has the ability to analyze physical evidence taken
from a deer using sophisticated DNA technology, a development that is
already changing the way criminal wildlife activity is enforced in
California.
DFG's Wildlife Forensics Laboratory (WFL), under the leadership of the
Wildlife Protection Division, has been ground zero for research into
wildlife DNA technology since the mid 1970s. Led by forensics
specialists Jim Banks and Ken Levine, DFG has become the first agency in
the country with the capability of prosecuting criminal deer wildlife
cases using a specific procedure which identifies the animals through
their component parts, such as meat, fur, or a few drops of blood.
"The ability to identify individual animals through the use of DNA
technology provides DFG with a very powerful law enforcement tool to
enhance our ability to protect California's wildlife," said Acting Chief
Mike Grima, of DFG's Wildlife Protection Division.
"We are very excited about the strides we have made in deer DNA
technology," said Terry Mansfield, Chief of the Wildlife Management
Division. "Commercial poaching is a $100 million a year business in
California, and these new techniques can be used to support our officers
and assist the Department in the important law enforcement component of
our Deer Management Program."
At the present time, the WFL can provide DFG with a forensic grade,
court ready, DNA analysis system for deer, but using it with other
animals that are aggressively poached or are involved in attacks on
humans such as bears, mountain lions, elk, or abalone is currently
in the development stage. Still, the potential use of forensic DNA
technology to investigate and prosecute crimes against wildlife is
mainly due to two unique characteristics of poaching cases the myriad of
different kinds of fish and wildlife poached, and the fundamental
objective of the poacher to handle and possess all or parts of the
victim during and after an illegal take, thereby becoming contaminated
with DNA physical evidence.
To use DNA technology for wildlife forensic needs, special biochemical
"probes" must be produced and tested for each species a very technical,
laborious, and expensive process. Once developed, however, the DNA
probes coupled with proper procedures can be used in a wide variety of
ways, such as determining the sex of the animal through a blood sample,
determining if the carcass in the field matches with the meat in a
freezer, or determining the geographical origin or sub-population of an
animal.
"The Wildlife Forensics Lab developed its own DNA system, which uses a
unique numbered sequence that gives excellent results and can be used in
a simple separation procedure that is capable by most genetic labs and
does not require expensive equipment," Banks said. In May, Banks and
Levine will be presenting the system to the Northwest Association of
Forensic Scientists' spring meeting.
The WFL recently conducted a validation demonstration so that DFG
wardens could see for themselves the accuracy of the Department's DNA
capabilities. The WFL received samples of 10 different deer from
different locations throughout the state, which were then split and the
split halves were taken to another site. DNA was then extracted from
both halves of each deer.
The demonstration was 100 percent accurate. By analyzing the two halves
of the DNA samples, the WFL was able to determine the gender of the deer
each sample came from, and to also match the sample with the other half.
The possibilities of this DNA technology are numerous. For example, by
determining that two pieces of meat came from different individual
animals, the number of deer killed can be represented by the number of
roasts found wrapped in a freezer. Or it could also be determined if the
meat in that freezer came from the deer carcass found on a wildlife
reserve.
The first case to be prosecuted by DFG involving the WFL's new DNA
technology system is pending. Late last year, a DFG warden received a
report that a suspect possessed a doe and the meat was cut up in a
freezer. When a warden investigated, the suspect would not consent to a
search of that freezer, but the warden found a large amount of what
appeared to be deer hair in the yard near a skinning gambrel. The
warden also confiscated a maggot-infested fresh deer leg, and assorted
blood samples from the skinning area. Those samples were sent to the
WFL for processing and just days later, results confirmed that the blood
stains taken from the gambrel area were from a doe. That information
eventually led to a search warrant and additional evidence was
confiscated. DNA results are now pending.
SOURCE California Department of Fish and Game
NOTE TO EDITORS: A presentation and tour at DFG's Wildlife Forensics
Laboratory is scheduled for 2 p.m. Monday, March 23 at the Region II
headquarters in Rancho Cordova. Call Steve Martarano at 916-653-6420 if
you plan on attending.
CONTACT: Steve Martarano of the Conservation Education Office,
916-653-6420
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 06:03:29 +0800
From: bunny
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Action Alert:US Navy harming whales/dolphins/please help
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Urgent:Forwarded on to AR by Marguerite
To: Al Gore , Bunny ,
"dan@f1.net.au" , Eric Starr ,
Michael Walton , Pando ,
Pat Vetter , Peter Heyes ,
Pierre , roger fernando ,
Sarkis and Maryanne ,
Sharon Dunk
CC: Bill Clinton ,
David Tarnas ,
Ben Cayetano , Joseph Johnson
Subject: Navy
As most of you know, the United States Navy, with a permit from the
United States National Marine Fisheries Service, is currently off
the west coast of the island of Hawai'i attempting to broadcast
loud, low frequency sounds directed at hump back whales during
their birthing season. Thousand of people from all over the world
are trying to stop this experiment. Please do all you can to stop the
Navy proceeding with these tests.
The US Navy has implimented a series of "experiments" that blasts the
whales with unbelievably high levels of sound... levels of such
intensity
as to put the whales at serious risk. They are targeting singing
humpback
whales by projecting the test Sonar into the water at a sound pressure
level of 155db, 1000 times as loud as the noise produced by a 747 jet
engine. If there is "no reaction" by the whales, the sounds will be
increased to 215db. When they are deployed (for submarine detection) the
sound pressure level could reach as high as 250db, over 100,000 times as
loud as a 747! Huh, what was that. . . I can't hear you!
On Monday, March 9, observers from the Ocean Mammal Institute
watched a baby hump back yesterday breaching 230 times over a five
hour period. Such behavior is highly abnormal. There was no
mother visible. We have a boat out this morning searching for the
baby. Given the absence of the mother, the age of the baby, and
the abnormal behavior, we are concerned that the baby is dying.
The Navy says they have no evidence that the observation is true
(note the shifting of the burden to those who would protect the
whales and the implication that OMI is lying.)
A professional diver had seen six hammerhead sharks in Kailua Bay
and Keave Bay. Apparently no one had seen sharks in those locations
before, and the theory was that the testing had driven them in. The
first sonic tests were on Sunday, and dolphins were not seen in
Kealakakua Bay, where they come almost every day to rest, from then
until Thursday.
With no public notice and after the close of the public comment
period, the Navy amended their permit to allow "taking" breeding
and calving hump backs (as opposed to only singing males), foraging
sperm whales, dolphin, seals (Hawaiian monk seal is on the verge of
extinction), and turtles.
Dr. Manners is a British Osteopath who has been healing with sound for
many years. He is deeply knowledgable about the effects of sound on
human,
and other tissue. Every part of the body has its optimum frequencies.
When these frequencies are wrong, disease is the result. By "injecting"
correct frequencies into the body, Dr. Manners, and many others heal
with
sound. The navy is doing just the opposite.)
Sir Peter wrote:
"...the likely effects (of LFAS) on marine animals in our opinion could
be
disastrous, causing cell and tissue damage as well as effecting the
brain
and nervous system"
Subject: Whales
A baby whale lies abandoned and dying
because the US Navy has got permission to kill our whales and apparently
200 dolphins in the Mediterranean. What does it take to put a stop to
this?
The events in the last week have brought news that the LFAS is a much
larger problem than locally in Hawai'i. As reported in the Guardian
newspaper March 3rd out of England and also in the Sydney daily
newspaper,13 Cuvier's beaked whales were found stranded off Greece the
next day
after LFAS broadcast by the US Navy. And in the last few weeks (I am
not sure
of the time period) 200 dolphins have been found blown up in the
Mediterranean sea.
Dr. Manners is a British Osteopath who has been healing with sound for
many years. He is deeply knowledgable about the effects of sound on
human,
and other tissue. Every part of the body has its optimum frequencies.
When these frequencies are wrong, disease is the result. By "injecting"
correct frequencies into the body, Dr. Manners, and many others heal
with
sound. The navy is doing just the opposite.)
--
My Homepage is: Human-animal ethics and the vegetarian
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/`\ /`\ The Balance:
Tom, Tom, (/\ \-/ /\) NATURE's balance is so fine-
The piper's son, )6 6( Take care when altering her design!
Saved a pig >{= Y =}< A species introduced could grow
And away he run; /'-^-'\ To be a source of endless woe;
So none could eat (_) (_) While culling another could unfold
The pig so sweet | . | A horde of pests it once controlled.
Together they ran | |} from "The Judgement of the Animals"
Down the street. \_/^\_/ by Willow Macky (published by the RNZSPCA)
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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 17:45:50 -0400
From: Ty Savoy
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (Ca) Wants Seal Hunt Restrictions Loosened
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HALIFAX (CP) -- An all-party committeeof Parliament recommends the federal
government loosed restrictions on seal hunting off Canada's East Coast,
defying animal rights activists.
The Commons Fisheries Committee, comprising 17 members from all five
federal parties, says expanding seal herds threaten the recovery of
troubled cod and capelin stocks, whose 1992-93 collapse cost 40,000 jobs.
"It is vitally important to resolve this issue as soon as possible," the
MPs say in a 58-page report to be released today.
"Seals represent an important primary resource and economic opportunity for
many communities on Canada's Atlantic Coast."
The panel, which heard from more than 500 witnesses in communities across
the region, said Ottawa should allow fishermen off Quebec and Labrador to
catch seals in their nets and to sell the blueback, or hooded seal, pelts
they've legally harvested.
But in what one MP described as a concession to NDP members of the
committee, it also urges that "all seals harvested be fully utilized and
that the harvesting of seals for single body parts be prohibited."
Killing of seals for their penises, considered a medicinal aid in some
countries of the Far East, has been a major plank in a campaign by the
International Fund for Animal Welfare aimed at ending the hunt.
Sealers have said they use all seal parts.
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 18:16:20 -0400
From: Ty Savoy
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (Ca) Disease Prevention linked To Soy
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DISEASE PREVENTION LINKED TO SOY PROTEIN CONSUMPTION
There has been an explosion of interest lately in the health benefits of
foods containing soy protein. It appears that soy protein may protect us
from many diseases associated with aging - heart disease, osteoporosis and
certain cancers.
"Increasing scientific evidence suggests soy protein may play an important
role in our health," says Leslie Beck, leading dietitian, nutrition
consultant and host of the Discovery Channel's Foodstuff.
According to Ms. Beck, studies show that people in Asian countries, who
have been enjoying the nutritional benefits of soy protein for centuries,
report a lower incidence of heart disease, breast and prostrate cancer,
bone fractures from osteoporosis, and menopausal hot flashes than people in
the west.
Much of the interest in soy has been fueled by scientific studies on two
components of the soybean - protein and isoflavones (a specific class of
plant estrogen found in soy protein). Soy protein and isoflavones are
thought to be the major components for the potential health benefits of soy
foods.
A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine confirms that the
natural soy protein (isolated from soybean) helps lower elevated levels of
"bad" or LDL cholesterol in the blood.
When it comes to bone health, studies have suggested that eating large
amounts of animal protein may cause calcium loss through the urine. Soy
protein does not have this effect.
Soy protein helps lower elevated cholesterol and may build strong healthy
bones.
High concentrations of isoflavones - found primarily in soy protein and
foods like So Good, a soy-protein-based beverage - have been shown to
reduce the severity of some menopausal symptoms, in particular; hot flashes.
"Only foods that contain the words 'soy protein' or 'soy protein isolate'
on the ingredient list contain all the health benefits of soy protein and
isoflavones," says Ms. Beck.
A glass of So Good, the only soy beverage made from isolated soy protein
(versus the whole soybean), is high in isoflavones, naturally low in
saturated fats and contains the same amount of calcium as a glass of cow's
milk. So good is also fortified with essential vitamins A, D, Riboflavin,
and B12, and is cholesterol and lactose free.
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 18:05:59 -0500 (EST)
From: "Jeffrey A. LaPadula"
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US-NJ) Learned of another fur store closing in NJ!
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Subject: another one bites the dust
In the process of research for the Fur Action Task Force, (ADL-NJ)
we just learned that yet another fur shop has closed. Seymore Furs of
Hoboken, which has been in business since 1929 is no more. That leaves 58
left in the state.
-Dari
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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 14:42:47 -0800 (PST)
From: Michael Markarian
To: ar-news@envirolink.org, en.alerts@conf.igc.apc.org
Subject: Legislation to put Pigeon Shoot Question on Pennsylvania Ballot
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Tuesday, March 24, 1998
CONTACT: Heidi Prescott, 301-585-2591
Rep. Sara Steelman, 717-772-2046
FOR PIGEONS, THE BALLOT OR THE BULLET
New Legislation Introduced to put Pigeon Shoot
Question on Statewide Ballot in November
HARRISBURG, Pa. -- On Tuesday morning, Rep. Sara Steelman (D-Indiana County)
and 48 co-sponsors will introduce a new bill to address the issue of live
pigeon shooting contests in Pennsylvania. If approved by the legislature,
the legislation will place a referendum on the statewide ballot in November,
allowing Pennsylvania voters to decide whether live pigeon shoots should be
banned.
Live pigeon shooting contests are held across the state in Berks, Bucks,
Dauphin, Erie, Montgomery, and Schuylkill counties. At the events, captive
pigeons are placed in small traps, released one at a time, and shot by
contestants who compete for money and prizes. A majority of the birds do not
die instantly, but instead are wounded and retrieved by adolescents who kill
some, often inhumanely, and throw others into garbage cans to bleed to death.
Says Heidi Prescott, National Director of The Fund for Animals, "We are
confident that if voters have the opportunity to put democracy into action,
they will relegate pigeon shoots to Pennsylvania's history books. This is a
chance to give final closure to this longstanding controversy." Ms. Prescott
is in Harrisburg today and is available for interviews (leave a message at
301-585-2591).
Adds Rep. Sara Steelman, "Most other states, many foreign countries, and the
International Olympic Committee have banned this cruel and archaic activity.
As elected officials, we owe it to our con-stituents to give them the
opportunity to adopt the humane standards of most of the civilized world."
# # #
http://www.fund.org
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 07:39:13 +0800
From: bunny
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (NZ)Early Closure For Squid Fishery/Sea lion deaths
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Tue, 24th March 1998
New Zealand News sources
Early Closure For Squid Fishery
The squid fishing industry says millions of dollars in squid exports and many
jobs could be lost with the early closure of part of the squid fishery.
The chief executive of the Squid Fishery Management Company, Andrew
Branson, says they closed the Auckland and Campbell Island fishery
because the quota of 63 allowable sea lion deaths had been reached.
The Squid Fishery Management Company is a fisheries industry
organisation, which manages the fishery on behald of individual quota
owners.
The closure follows Greenpeace claims that the rising death toll of Hookers
Sealions in the fishery was pushing the world's rarest Sealion nearer to
extinction.
By regulation, the Minister of Fisheries sets the maximum number of
allowable sealion deaths from fishermen's nets. This number was reduced
after a mass Sealion die-off in February killed 60 percent of the pup
population and at least 20 percent of the adults.
Mr Branson says many boats are a long way from catching their full quota
since the season started only in February, because of the mass deaths in the
sealion breeding areas. The season usually runs from December to April or
May.
The Auckland and Campbell Islands area provides up to half of the country's
squid exports, which are worth between $120 to $160 million a year. More
than two thousand crew work on boats in the area, and 175 fulltime staff
process the squid year-round. Mr Branson says it is likely that some of the
jobs will now be lost.
(24.3.98)
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Tom, Tom, (/\ \-/ /\) NATURE's balance is so fine-
The piper's son, )6 6( Take care when altering her design!
Saved a pig >{= Y =}< A species introduced could grow
And away he run; /'-^-'\ To be a source of endless woe;
So none could eat (_) (_) While culling another could unfold
The pig so sweet | . | A horde of pests it once controlled.
Together they ran | |} from "The Judgement of the Animals"
Down the street. \_/^\_/ by Willow Macky (published by the RNZSPCA)
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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 18:46:05 -0500
From: Vegetarian Resource Center
To: AR-News@Envirolink.Org
Subject: Kroger and Georgia Family Veterinarians Found 'A Few Good Pets'
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Kroger and Georgia Family Veterinarians Found 'A Few Good Pets'
ATLANTA, March 23 /PRNewswire/ -- When Kroger (NYSE: KR) and Georgia
veterinarians asked for reasons why "My pet is important to my family" the
answers tugged on more then a few heart strings.
"Savannah, our dog, means so much to my family and I," wrote Andrew Erwin, 12,
"because last Christmas my grandpa died and Savannah was always there to
comfort us."á Andrew drew a colorful picture of himself and his dog licking
tears away.á Andrew and his family from Dacula, won the grand prize of a
family trip for four to Busch Gardens, Florida.
Many pets were nominated for their help in guarding the family, like Susanna
Lewis', Louisville, entry about her dog Oscar.á "Oscar, our Great Dane, and I
were walking.á A stranger followed us.á We hid in the bushes and Oscar
protectively laid on me.á He's my hero."á Other people, like Amanda
Buffington, Rome, nominated their pet for their special talents.á "My cat
Babe, is special to us because she is pretty, lovable and doesn't bite.á She
even meets me at the bus stop!á We love her."
Other semifinalist winners Andrew Hundley, Alpharetta; Claire Jeannean Levy
and Hanna Hildebrand, Kathleen; Laura Chapman, Marietta; Pearce Carson,
Woodstock; Nathan Cannon, Warner Robins, Dominique Amber Dixon and Leah
Dinatale, Savannah; Amanda Buffington, Rome; Sarah Jean and Becky Depew,
Buford; Michelle Peck, Lawrenceville; Carl Wheeler, Macon; Gaetana Pipa,
Acworth; Stephanie Howell, Kennesaw and Lauren Hammond, North Augusta, South
Carolina.á Semifinalists won a three month supply of either PEDIGREE Brand
Food for Dogs or WHISKAS Brand Food for Cats, depending on their important
pet.
The essay contest is part of a program, initiated in April, called the
Veterinary Strategic Alliance, which partners Kroger and participating
veterinarians to promote proper pet health care.á The goal is not only to
continuously educate consumers about caring for their pets, but also to
provide them with the best pet products.
"We know what special emotional attachments children have with their pets,"
said Brent Scott, Kroger's Vice President, Merchandising.á "So two major pet
owner destinations -- your family veterinary clinic and the Kroger pet aisle
-- joined forces for a fun contest in an effort to promote pet health care."
Together, Kroger and the Veterinary Strategic Alliance are dedicated to
educating people about pet health, responsible pet ownership and the
importance of routine veterinary checkups.
The Veterinary Strategic Alliance is dedicated to improving the lives of pets
everywhere.á Of particular interest are proper pet adoptions through rescue
leagues, Salute to Service Animals, supporting the Humane Society in their
endeavors and educating pet owners about proper emergency preparedness for
pets.
Throughout the summer and into fall, a variety of events will be scheduled
around these ideals.
SOURCEá Veterinary Strategic Allianceá
CO:á Kroger Co.; Veterinary Strategic Alliance
ST:á Georgia
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Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 07:47:12 +0800
From: bunny
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (AUST) akubra hats are made of rabbit skins
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Australian akubra hats are made from rabbit skins.
It takes about 12 to 15 rabbit skins/pelts to make popular Australian felt
hats such as the Akubra hat. Anyone who is thinking of purchasing such a hat
who has compassion towards animals may like to keep this in mind.
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/`\ /`\ The Balance:
Tom, Tom, (/\ \-/ /\) NATURE's balance is so fine-
The piper's son, )6 6( Take care when altering her design!
Saved a pig >{= Y =}< A species introduced could grow
And away he run; /'-^-'\ To be a source of endless woe;
So none could eat (_) (_) While culling another could unfold
The pig so sweet | . | A horde of pests it once controlled.
Together they ran | |} from "The Judgement of the Animals"
Down the street. \_/^\_/ by Willow Macky (published by the RNZSPCA)
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P.O. Box 30, email rabbit@wantree.com.au
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Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 21:16:56 EST
From: BanFurNow
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (Dallas) ALT Upcoming Actions
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ANIMAL LIBERATION OF TEXAS
UPCOMING ACTIONS
(972) 664-6760
http://www.envirolink.org/orgs/alt/animalrights.html
Thursday, March 26, 1998 - March of Dimes
March of Dimes protest for their participation animal experiments. This is a
national campaign organized by the Physician's Committee for Responsible
Medicine (PCRM). Activists are to meet at the March of Dimes offices located
at 8131 LBJ Freeway at 1:45 p.m.
Saturday, March 28, 1998 - Procter & Gamble 12:00 p.m.
TEAR & ACT of Dallas are organizing an event against Proctor & Gamble in
support of Global Day of Action nationally organized by In Defense of Animals.
Activists are to meet 12:00 p.m. SE corner of Preston & Forest next to
Eckerd's.
Saturday, March 28, 1998 - Neiman Marcus 2:00 p.m.
Neiman Marcus anti-fur protest at the downtown store. Activists are to meet at
the corner of Ervay and Main at 2:00 p.m.
Saturday, April, 11, 1998 - Neiman Marcus
Neiman Marcus anti-fur protest at the Northpark store. Activists are to meet
in front of TGI Friday's at the corner of Park and Central at 1:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 18, 1998 - A.D.C.
A.D.C. protest at the United States Courthouse located at 501 W. 10th Street
in Ft. Worth. Activists are to meet at 1:45 p.m. Activists interested in
carpooling should call ALT for arrangements.
Sunday, April 26, 1998 - Baylor University
Baylor University Medical Center protest in support of National Lab Animal
Week. Activists are to meet at the corner of Gaston and Hall street at 1:45
p.m.
Saturday, May 9, 1998 - Neiman Marcus
Neiman Marcus anti-fur protest at the downtown store beginning at 1:45 p.m.
Activists are to meet at the corner of Main and Ervay.
Saturday, May 23, 1998 - A.D.C.
A.D.C. protest at the United States Courthouse located at 501 W. 10th Street
in Ft. Worth. Activists are to meet at 1:45 p.m. Activists interested in
carpooling should call ALT for arrangements.
Tuesday, May 26, 1998 - FFF98 Trial #1
Fur Free Friday 1997 Trial # 1 - Four activists arrested and charged with
"interfering with a public servant" will begin trial at the Frank Crowley
Criminal Courts. The trial is scheduled to begin at 9:00 a.m. in Criminal
Court #5 with Judge Tom Fuller. Activists are invited to attend the trial and
provide support.
Please call ALT for Action updates at (972) 664-6760
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 1998 23:58:05 -0500
From: ar-admin@envirolink.org
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Cc: "J. Bearscove"
Subject: Admin Note -- Inappropriate Posting
Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19980323235805.006c0704@envirolink.org>
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So......again......
This is in support of the new "posting policy" to AR-News (11/11/97). Now,
"J. Bearscove" will be banned from direct posting for
a minimum of 2 weeks for the post: Re: RFI: PETA's Taiwan dog protest
AR-News is not a discussion list. Many of us have opinions/comments, but
there are other e-mail lists for such a purpose.
Allen Schubert
AR-News Listowner
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Due to the sudden surge of inappropriate postings to AR-News, the Listowner
(me) will implement a new policy in dealing with such postings. At the
_earliest_possible_convenient_time_, I will ban the offending individual
from posting to AR-News for a minimum of two (2) weeks. An individual who
repeatedly posts inappropriate material _may_ be banned from posting
permanently.
***NOTE: If you are banned from posting, be sure to remind me when the two
weeks are up. The process to REMOVE the person from a "banned" status does
not always work well. A potential side effect of the process is that it
may "lock" the AR-News list, meaning that no one may post or
subscribe/unsubscribe.
If you have questions as to the appropriateness of a post, DO NOT HESITATE
to contact the Listowner ( ar-admin@envirolink.org ) concerning the
appropriateness of a news item. I have supported this in the past, though
these discussions did not make it to the list.
I am avoiding making this a "moderated" list (one in which the Listowner
approves/releases posts to the list) as such action will reduce the speed
of posting -- plus, it puts the decision of what is considered "animal
rights" in the hands of one person. My goal here is to eliminate non-news,
discussion/opinion posts to AR-News and not to decide what is/isn't *animal
rights* and to allow news items to be posted as rapidly as possible.
Further, a "moderated" list would punish the many for the infractions of
the few. (Something that I found highly offensive since childhood.)
***If you have problems with this policy, please feel free to e-mail me
_privately_ to discuss this. (Posting to the list would be inappropriate.)
allen
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Please do not post commentary or personal opinions to AR-News. Such posts
are not appropriate to AR-News. Appropriate postings to AR-News include:
posting a news item, requesting information on some event, or responding to
a request for information. Discussions on AR-News will NOT be allowed and
we ask that any
commentary either be taken to AR-Views or to private E-mail.
Continued postings of inappropriate material may result in suspension of
the poster's subscription to AR-News.
Here is subscription info for AR-Views:
Send e-mail to: listproc@envirolink.org
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Also...here are some websites with info on internet resources for Veg and
AR interests:
The Global Directory (IVU)
http://www.ivu.org/global
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