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 05/25/1997 22:25 EST

 Pacific States Allege Food Dumping

 WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- New Zealand and Australia have been
 dumping inferior and damaged foodstuffs into South Pacific island states,
 the South Pacific Commission claims in a report.

 It says fatty mutton and lamb and out-of-date and damaged products such
 as canned milk and beans, are being sold cheaply at supermarkets and
 small stores in the Pacific Islands.

 The commission, a New Caledonian-based watchdog group, is investigating
 complaints that New Zealand and, to a lesser extent, Australia are using
 the Pacific as a dumping ground for foods not wanted at home.

 It warns such poor quality foods could seriously affect consumer health
 in the markets involved.

 The commission said it had heard many complaints that the cheap products
 and mutton flaps were unsuitable for consumption and were a health
 hazard.

 Mutton and lamb flaps are a mostly fatty cut of meat from the hindquarter
 of the sheep or lamb. If not exported, they are usually thrown away.

 Eating mutton and lamb flaps contributes to heart disease, a common
 condition in the Pacific Islands that health officials are struggling to
 contain.

 Bob Hughes, a commission nutritionist and epidemiologist, said most of
 the meat sold in the islands was from New Zealand and Australia.

 The countries of greatest concern were Papua New Guinea and Tonga.

 ``These sorts of issues raise implications about how New Zealand and
 Australia treat (their) closest neighbors; like a dumping ground for
 poor-selling or surplus foods,'' he said.

 The chief executive officer of New Zealand's Meat Producers Board, Neil
 Taylor, said that companies exporting meat were required to examine it
 before sending out shipments.

 `I'd be very surprised if such inferior meat had been sent to the
 islands,'' he said. `Sure they (flaps) are cheap but in some markets they
 serve a particular purpose and are seen as good quality.''

 His office had not received any complaints.

 Some meat and food product exporters suggested that if there were
 inferior items sold in the lands the problem rested with the agents
 acting between the countries.

Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 01:06:34 -0700 (PDT)
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VANCOUVER, BC - The Surrey branch of the Vancouver Regional SPCA has the
only barn available in the whole region, and it's full.

Acting Shelter Superintendent Eileen Drieger says that the barn has never
been empty since it was opened three years ago.

With several recent cases of farm animals being taken into care, the barn is
now full, and in order to free up more space, Dreiger has hit upon the idea
of a silent auction. She is quick to point out though that the welfare of
the animals - which include goats, sheep and horses takes priority over the
bid price, so the person who bids the highest will not necessarily be the
one to take home the animal, after they have been vettted by the shelter.

The shelter took in several animals earlier this year after they rescued
them from a local farmer. These included two goats - who are pregnant,
horses and two elderly sheep.

Two donkeys in the shelter will not be among those up for auction this week.
They are awaiting the start of a pending court case in which their previous
keeper is charged with neglect.

Dreiger said in an interview with CKVU (U.TV), that many hobby farmers
believed it was easy to look after a few horses or other farm animals, and
that all they had to do was provide a bit of grazing land. She noted that
this was not the case, and that people should be aware of the true cost of
caring for such an animal prior to obtaining one.

Space made at the barn when the current animals are adopted will soon be
filled by others, Dreiger says.

David J Knowles
Animal Voices News



Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 01:06:36 -0700 (PDT)
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VANCOUVER, BC - Around 25 activists took part in  peaceful demonstration
outside the Vancouver Aquarium Sunday. The demonstration was held to protest
the proposed transfer of Nanuq - one of the aquarium's six belugas - to Sea
World in San Diego. It was also part of several demonstrations held to mark
International Marine Mammal Freedom Weekend.

The protestors diplayed banners, handed out information leaflets and
addressed members of the public entering the aquarium about the purpose of
the protest. The number of visitors noted actually going into the aquarium
was noticably less than in previous years on a long weekend (most aqaurium
vistors come from out-of-town, and Vancouver attrracts a lot of U.S. tourists.)

Local media coverage was good - the aquarium's ceteceans appear to attract
the local media more than many other animal-rights issues in the area.

CKVU (U.TV), a local TV station, ran footage of the capture of Nanuq in
1990, in an area off Churchill, Manitoba.

Dr. John Nightingale, the aquarium's executive director, was quick to attack
the protest, referring to the fact that they had to transfer Nanuq has part
of a captive breeding program "because the activists say we can't capture
any more from the wild."

Despite years of work, it would appear that Dr. Nightingale has still to
learn that what the activists wnat an end to all ceteceans being kept in
captivity - not a program that would continue the abuse indefinitely.

The protest was jointly organized by Animal Allies, Voices For The Animals
and the Coalition for No Whales in Captivity.

David J Knowles
Animal Voices News

Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 02:52:35 -0700 (PDT)
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>From The Electronic Telegraph - Monday. May 26, 1997

'Disgrace' of illegal British fishing
By Charles Clover, Environment Editor

THE extent of illegal fishing by British fishermen is exposed in a Telegraph
investigation today. Half the landings of the most endangered North Sea
stocks, such as cod and saithe, are being caught illegally.

Fisheries inspectors called it a "national disgrace". Officials are aware
that quotas have been routinely breached on a massive scale for at least
five years. Yet the previous Government colluded with the fishing industry
in turning a blind eye.

Criminality in the industry, particularly in Scotland, is now as bad as it
was in Holland in the late 1980s when a minister resigned after misleading
parliament and the managers of fish markets were jailed.

Elliot Morley, the new fisheries minister, said yesterday that he had been
advised that "black" fish landings were of outrageous proportions. He was
urgently considering a series of measures to prevent illegal fishing. "It is
not a good time to face it but it must be faced," he said.

Scientists have told the Government that illegal landings by British vessels
are cancelling out any conservation benefits to be gained by the 12 per cent
cut in cod quotas agreed by EU ministers at Christmas.

Mr Morley said measures under consideration included forcing fishermen to
land in designated ports and the Norwegian system of  "checkpoints" to which
vessels must report before they leave the fishing grounds. He is also
looking into ways of paying fishermen not
to fish, the way Norway brought about the recovery of cod in the Barents
Sea. "We have to cut back quite severely in certain segments of the
industry," he said. "We have a problem with demersal trawling of cod and
haddock and with beam trawling for flatfish. The black fish undermines
everything we are doing on conservation and management, and because of it we
will have to cut back even harder. It will hurt, there's no denying it."

Mr Morley said that Labour had agreed to implement an EU legal requirement -
opposed by the Tory Government in Brussels last month - that would lead to
17.5 per cent cuts across the whole United Kingdom fleet and up to 28 per
cent in some areas over the next five years. He gave warning that these cuts
had been agreed before the extent of illegal fishing had become clear. Mike
Townsend, chairman of the National Federation of Fishermen's Organisations,
has said fishermen will "take to the streets" if the curbs are imposed.

Mr Morley said that on winning office he had received commiserations from
his three predecessors as fisheries minister. "They knew what was going on
but were unable to do anything about it. We've got to get nationalism out of
the issue. The quota-hopping issue has been wrapped up with Euro-scepticism.
What we should be looking at is sustainability and stock management.
Concentrating on quota-hoppers is not right."

Mr Morley has told fishermen in England that he will now insist on a similar
standard of enforcement north of the border.

The senior fisheries inspector who briefed Mr Morley said: "The extent of
black fish landings is a national disgrace. It goes on 24 hours a day. There
are far more landing places than there are fishery officers. It's part of
the industry now. The greed of the present generation of fishermen will
ensure that there is a very poor future for people entering the industry.
During the past five years there could have been more political will to do
something about it. If they had wanted to control it they could have done so."

The inspector said the previous Government had taken the view, 'Everybody
else in Europe is getting away with things, so why shouldn't we?' "Our whole
problem is that very little is actually illegal," he said. When fishermen
were caught with boxes of black fish, they could declare it and make it
legal. They tended to land undeclared fish at the beginning of the month so
that they had quota to spare if needed.

There was also sympathy for the Scottish fishermen who were encouraged by
the Government in the 1980s to build bigger boats and could not now service
their loans without illegal landings. Fishery inspectors, who start in
Scotland on ú11,000 a year and have to turn
out at 4am to police landings, say morale is at an all time low.

The emerging scandal of black landings, particularly of cod - as much
England's national fish as beef is its national meat - has echoes of the
turmoil over BSE.

Lord Selborne, a Conservative member of the Lords select committee on
science and technology and a trenchant critic of the former Government's
handling of fisheries, said: "The level of illegal fishing today makes the
exercise of quotas meaningless. What was so
reprehensible about the old Government was that they used quota-hopping as
an excuse for doing nothing about black fish. It was too hot to handle. It
was highly irresponsible to make talking about conservation dependent on
doing something about quota-hoppers." It was necessary now to get a forum
together to "own" the problem and  "pay a considerable amount up-front" to
buy out excess capacity in the fleet. "You're bound to have to make a lot of
people redundant."

Mike Sutton, of the World Wide Fund for Nature, said: "The only kind of
police work I've ever seen that deals with this kind of problem is
undercover work. You will never get at it through monitoring and control.
You need to put a couple of people out in the field and put some people in
jail. Then the problem goes away."

⌐ Copyright Telegraph Group Limited 1997.

Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 02:52:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: David J Knowles <[e-mail]>
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[ Routine note: The Electronic Telegraph is the on-line version of the
British-based Daily Telegraph newspaper. It is owned by Holinger International.]

[Blue Peter is a BBC Children's program]

>From The Electronic Telegraph - Monday. May 26, 1997

Mystery illness kills Blue Peter elephant
By Jessica Berry

THE first female Asian elephant to be born in captivity in Britain died at
Chester Zoo yesterday after a mysterious illness.

Kahra, who achieved celebrity after Blue Peter viewers were asked to choose
her name, will be mourned by many children. Callers to the zoo yesterday
heard from the answering machine: "All those who knew or worked with Kahra
are devastated with the news of the loss
of this wonderful animal. In her short life she has been a wonderful
ambassador for her species and will be greatly missed."

The 15-month-old elephant had been refusing to eat for several days. On
Wednesday she was taken to Liverpool University's Leahurst Animal Hospital.

Kahra died weighing just 800lb, far from the 3.5 tons she would have reached
as an adult. The zoo's spokesman, Pat Kade, said: "She was only taking milk.
In fact she should have been weaned from milk some  weeks ago."

The elephant returned to the zoo on Thursday looking better but shortly
afterwards collapsed. Neither her team of vets nor personal keepers could
get her on her feet.

 "All those who knew and worked with her are very upset," said Ms Kade. "She
was hand-reared from birth and her keepers had worked with her 24 hours a
day from the day she was born. She was extremely popular with visitors and
she will be missed by us all." A
post-mortem examination is to held.

The zoo said that Kahra had been one of its main attractions. She was a
mischievous elephant and would get her trunk into anything. Earlier this
year she had to undergo surgery to remove a stone.

Her first weeks were difficult as she had to be taken away from her mother
who was too aggressive. Early on she was reared by other female elephants.
This is a natural step, according to Ms Kade, as the elephant kingdom is a
very matriarchal society.

Male elephants do not look after their young. They prefer to go hunting and
just return to mate.

Chester Zoo, where the main emphasis is on conservational breeding, is the
first zoo in Britain to have successfully raised Asian elephants. Nearly
half the animals there are listed as vulnerable or critically endangered.

There is, however, some good news for elephant-lovers. Thi-Hi-Way, Kahra's
mother, is pregnant again - and in Belfast Zoo an Asian female elephant has
just been born
.
⌐ Copyright Telegraph Group Limited 1997.

Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 02:52:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: David J Knowles <[e-mail]>
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>From The Electronic Telegraph - Monday. May 26, 1997

MP's father electrocuted in farm pond

THE father of a Conservative MP was killed when he fell into an electrified
pond at the weekend while attempting to save his dog.

William Collins, 67, was pulled from the water by his gardener, but died
before arriving at hospital. His son, Timothy is MP for  Westmorland and
Lonsdale. Police said they believe that an electric pump, installed in the
pond the previous day, had faulty wiring.

When the gardener arrived for work at the farm in Epping, Essex, on Saturday
he saw dead fish in the rubber-lined pond and reported it to Mr Collins, who
said he would take a look.

He later found Mr Collins and the dead labrador dog in the water. A police
spokesman said: "He got a shock as soon as he touched the water. It is
possible his rubber boots saved his life. He then turned off the power
before pulling Mr Collins to the side and calling for help."

Mr Collins, who remarried six months ago, owned and ran the Hobbs Cross
equestrian centre and had recently opened a public golf course nearby. The
Rev Peter Chapman, the village's priest, said:  "He loved that old dog and
wading in to save it was typical of the man."

⌐ Copyright Telegraph Group Limited 1997.

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Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 08:38:59 -0400 (EDT)
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Peter -

Some of the email I had been sending you yesterday was returned as having
"fatal errors in the email address".  Could you email me and let me know if
you received any of my messages?

Teresa
Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 09:40:50 -0700
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25-year-old anteater sets longevity records

Reuter Information Service

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (May 25, 1997 7:25 p.m. EDT) - A five-foot-long
black-and-gray anteater named Elmer turned 25 years old on Sunday,
becoming the world's oldest anteater in captivity and perhaps the oldest
anywhere.

"The life expectancy of an anteater is only about 25 years, and records
indicate no other zoo anywhere in the world has one even close to
Elmer's age," said David Westbrook, director of the
Little Rock municipal zoo.

The Little Rock zoo, where Elmer has spent virtually his entire life,
celebrated his quarter-century on Sunday with a day in his honor. Scores
of children and adults surrounded the spacious walled
garden that Elmer and six other anteaters call home, and zoo attendants
led an impromptu chorus of a rousing rendition of "Happy Birthday."

But some of the crowd's enthusiasm waned when Elmer was presented a
special birthday "cake" -- an oatmeal-colored concoction of bananas,
peanut butter, avocados and meal worms.

"Yecch!" opined Kyle Willis, 5, of Fort Riley, Kansas.

"Gross!" exclaimed Matthew Freeman, 8, of Russellville, Arkansas.

When a zoo employee explained that the anteater's favorite food was
actually termites, Jenny Holland, 6, of Little Rock, blurted, "I'd
rather have Spam!"

But all present watched in something akin to awe as Elmer
enthusiastically slathered the goo into his tiny mouth with his 10-inch
(25.4 cm) tongue.

"It looks like a snake!" gasped Adisyn Watson, 8, of Maumelle, Arkansas.

Anteaters are not an endangered species, but their numbers are
diminishing, Westbrook said. Only 50 are in captivity in the United
States, eight of which are in the Little Rock zoo.

"He looks really young," said Lynna Smith, 25, of Little Rock.

Elmer acts young as well. Only 10 days ago his late-life virility was
demonstrated for the ninth time when his mate, Juanita, gave birth.

--By STEVE BARNES, Reuter
Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 10:45:01 -0600 (MDT)
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On Saturday 50 animal activists from Denver, Fort Collins and Boulder
met in Fort Collins and marched together to the Mayor's house where
they met with her and got her to call the city manager and ask that a
one-week moratorium be put on the gassing. There will be a meeting w/
policy makers this Tuesday that is NOT open to the public to decide
on what to do about the prairie dogs. Activists from our coalition will
attempt to meet with the City Manager on Tuesday, before this closed
meeting occurs.

We need people to call all day Tuesday and demand the following of the
city manager:

. Do not kill any prairie dogs

. They are on Open Space land, which is preservation land paid for by
city taxes, and the animals who live on this land must also be protected

.We should not relocate prairie dogs from OpenSpace land, their one last
sanctuary, in general to a superfund site- THe Rocky Mountain Arsenal, which
is the only land available right now for relocation.

. The city has not investigated hte claims of landowners who report damage
from prairiedogs. Independent investigation shows that there are complaints
from areas which show no signs of presence of dogs.

.Many land owners are against the killing, and the city is ignoring them
in favor of a few. Already many landowners have signed a petition circulated
by our coalition, demanding that no prairie dogs be killed.

.The city has not tried every non-lethal possibility.. Visual barriers can
and do work, when used properly. The city has had success when it has
used stone wall barriers, and should extend that policy to all the lands.


.Tell the manager that you are sickened by this policy of murder as an
easy way out and aren't going to come to Colorado or Fort Collins unless they
come up with a non-lethal solution

The city manager: John Fischbach - He has the power to decide on this!!
phone: [phone]
fax:[phone]

Please, keep calling him this weekend, on Tuesday and as the week
progresses. This week is nothing. The killing will begin if not enough
public voice is heard.

Jen Kolar
[e-mail]
Rocky Mountain Animal Defense
Committed Liberation Activists of the West
Prairie Ecosystem Conservation Alliance

Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 12:52:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Urgent Anti Trapping Alert: Ekco Housewares Campaign
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

The Ekco Group Inc. manufactures kitchenware, bakeware, and cooking
accessories, and a line of leghold traps!  The Coalition to Abolish the Fur
Trade is beginning a campaign to get Ekco to stop manufacturing leghold and
body grip traps at their Woodstream subsidiary.

Woodstream manufactures Victor leghold traps and Conibear body grip traps,
which are the two most common brand names for each type of trap.  Woodstream
accounts for 13.9% of Ekcos profits, with even much less of that actually
coming from the sale of fur traps.

Please help us win this campaign. First of all, boycott all Ekco products
which include Ekco and Bakers Secret bakeware, Farberware bakeware, Ekco
kitchenware, Ekco and Wright-Bernet cleaning products, Havahart live traps,
Victor "pest" control products, and VIA kitchen, bake, and pantryware.

Secondly, please flood Ekco with letters and phone calls.  I guarantee that
the fur trade will be asking their members to call and write so as to protect
their most popular line of traps, and so we must be even more vigilant.
Contact:

Malcolm L. Sherman, CEO
Ekco Group Inc.
98 Spit Brook Rd Suite 102
Nashua, NH 03062
603-888-1212
Fax [phone]

Groups please run this in your newsletters so as to inform your members.  74%
of the American public believes leghold traps should be banned.  This shows
that we have an excellant chance to really have an impact here!

Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade
PO Box 822411
Dallas, TX 75382

Membership is $15 a year
Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 13:15:49 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: (US-MD) Potomac Alamanac Article - COK Protests Miller's Furs
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This article was published in the May 21-28 issue of the Potomac Almanac.
It includes a large photo of poster-carrying COK activists in front of
Manny Miller's house.
_______________________________________________________________________
ANTI-FUR ACTIVISTS PROTEST AT POTOMAC HOME

Members of the Washington-based animal rights group Compassion Over
Killing (COK) staged a weekend of protests against Miller's Furs,
including one Sunday morning outside owner Manny Miller's Potomac home.

>From 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., a handful of activists circled outside Miller's
house, carrying graphic photographs of dead animals and chanting, "Don't
support killers, boycott Miller's." On Saturday afternoon, the group
protested at Miller's Washington store.

COK spokesperson Miyun Park explained that two weeks before, five
activists were arrested outside the D.C. store and, she claimed,
"falsely" accused of assault; they have since been released on their own
recognizance. This weekend's protests were organized in support of the
activists, Park said.

According to Park, Miller and his family were home Sunday morning and
were, she said, "none too pleased we were there, but we were exercising
our First Amendment rights and we weren't breaking any laws." Miller
could not be reached for comment.

"We will keep the pressure on Mr. Miller," Park added. "As long as he
continues to make his living off the murder of animals, we'll continue to
speak out on their behalf."

_____________________________________________________________________
[e-mail]                                   Franklin D. Wade
        United Poultry Concerns - www.envirolink.org/arrs/upc
        Compassion Over Killing - www.envirolink.org/arrs/cok


Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 13:31:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: Franklin Wade <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Updated UPC Action Alert: Protest Dropping Guinea Fowl
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Note: This previously posted Alert has been updated with Mayor James
Davidson's contact info.
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            ACTION ALERT FROM UNITED POULTRY CONCERNS
                            MAY 1997

ATTENTION: TEXAS AND ALL ANIMAL ACTIVISTS

Protest Dropping Guinea Fowl from an Airplane. Please help us
stop this cruel plan now. There is still time to stop the
dropping of live guinea fowl with $100 coupons strapped to their
legs from a flying airplane as part of the fifth annual National
Trail Days Celebration in Quitaque Texas on June 7. The birds
would be dropped and then chased down for the coupons.

     National Trail Days and the "guinea fowl drop" are sponsored
by the Quitaque Chamber of Commerce. However, United Poultry
Concerns has received a reliable assurance that not all members
of the Chamber of Commerce support the guinea fowl drop.

Action Please mail, fax, phone a short polite firm protest to:

Mr. Roye Pigg, President            Mayor James Davidson
Quitaque Chamber of Commerce        PO Box 534
PO Box 538                          Quitaque TX 79255
Quitaque TX 79255                   Ph: 806-455-1441
Ph: 806-455-1200                    Fax: [phone]
Fax: [phone]; 1228

     Ask Mr. Pigg and Mr. Davidson to cancel the plan to drop
guinea fowl from a plane. According to Mr. Pigg, "People in this
area take great measures to insure the quality of the land and
animals (wild and domestic)." Tell the Chamber of Congress to
sponsor events that show respect for nature and animals as thus
professed. Birds are not suited to being dropped from a moving
aircraft no matter how well they fly. Guinea fowl are extremely
shy birds and are not great flyers. Being dropped straight down
from a height--in this case a moving height--is totally different
for a bird biologically than taking off from a branch or roof. So
is flying voluntarily versus being forced to maneuver a
completely unnatural airborne situation. These birds could easily
sustain internal injuries, or be killed, in the course of being
dropped followed by being chased. At the very least the birds'
hearts will be beating wildly with fear. There is no excuse for
dropping a bird or any other live animal from a flying aircraft
as a form of entertainment or celebration of the environment.
Don't Wait. Demand that the guinea fowl drop be dropped.

_____________________________________________________________________
[e-mail]                                   Franklin D. Wade
        United Poultry Concerns - www.envirolink.org/arrs/upc
        Compassion Over Killing - www.envirolink.org/arrs/cok




Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 14:31:44 -0400 (EDT)
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Copyright 1997 Sentinel Communications Co.
THE ORLANDO SENTINEL; May 23, 1997 Friday, CENTRAL FLORIDA ; SECTION:
OSCEOLA
SENTINEL; Pg. 1

SCHOOL'S RABBIT TALE HAS SOME IN A STEW

BYLINE: By Mark Pino of The Sentinel Staff

   This Canterbury tale is not for the weak at heart.
   Those of you who tend to tear up during The Yearling or even Bambi might
want to skip the more graphic passages that will follow.
   For those more familiar with animal husbandry, nothing here is going to
seem too out of the ordinary. It's not as graphic as some of the wildlife
shows on the Discovery Channel.
   And as far as Osceola High teacher Craig Canterbury is concerned, what
happened this week was not unusual. But apparently some people (students and
teachers) feel the slaughter and preparation of rabbits at the school was
just too gross.
   It appears to be a clash of values. A case of country versus city,
perhaps.
   For Canterbury, it was a culmination of what students in his classes have
been doing all year. The first-year agriculture teacher has had students
tending to chickens and hogs since school began.
   The class raised a steer and sold it at the fair and raised rabbits to
sell for their meat. Canterbury said he has people lined up to buy all the
rabbit meat he can sell them next year. The school can produce about 160
rabbits a year. Each rabbit sold brings about $5.
   Normally the rabbits are raised and shipped off for slaughter. But as the
end of the year approached, some students were curious about the taste of the
meat they spent so much time raising.
   So Canterbury kept four rabbits. This week they were slaughtered, cooked
and served to students who wanted to try the meat.
   But the deaths upset some at the school, and People for the Ethical
Treatment of Animals may investigate.
   Apparently, the way the rabbits were killed was too much for some students
and staff. The rabbits had their necks broken.
   PETA caseworker Peter Wood said the only way to kill an animal is to
humanely euthanize it.
   "We clearly oppose something like this," Wood said, who added that PETA
works with educators to teach respect and compassion for animals.
   Canterbury said he used the quickest and most humane way to kill the
animals. He said snapping the necks paralyzes and kills the animals almost
instantly. Another method, using a hammer to the head to first stun them, is
less precise and is painful.
   No students were forced to take part in cookout activities, which were
seen as a way for them to relax before exams Thursday and today. In addition
to rabbit, chicken also was served.
   "It wasn't mandatory to try the meat or slaughter them," Canterbury said.
"They had a choice."
   Some people will wonder how anyone could "kill a cute, fuzzy bunny," he
said. "That's what they were raised for. That's their purpose.
   "Sometimes, the kids do get attached to the animals. Sometimes it happens
to me," Canterbury said. "We try to teach them that the breeding animals are
the ones to get attached to (and) that the offspring are the ones we're
raising for meat."
   Canterbury said slaughtering animals for meat is real life, that something
has to die for us to have meat - be it rabbit, chicken or steak.
   PETA's Wood said killing and preparing the rabbits sounded "like entirely
inappropriate behavior to do at school. It's very bizarre."

Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 14:31:48 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Chicago Sun-Times: Pro-Dissection Editorial (US)
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Copyright 1997 Chicago Sun-Times, Inc.
Chicago Sun-Times;  May 22, 1997, THURSDAY, Late Sports Final Edition ;
SECTION: EDITORIAL; Pg. 35

Cut Out Virtual Frogs

   Dissecting frogs, fetal pigs and other animals has become a rite of
passage for biology students in junior high and high school. The practice has
long been the bane of squeamish students and now is under attack from
animal-rights groups.
   There are alternatives that eliminate the blood and guts. On a computer,
students can conduct a virtual dissection on a three-dimensional image of a
frog, using a mouse instead of a scalpel. Or, they can work with detailed
models or watch a movie of a dissection. But such alternatives cannot match
the real thing. There is no better way to appreciate anatomy than to see and
touch organs, tissues and muscles. Teachers tell of students so inspired that
they pursued careers in science.
   The dissection controversy has inspired lawmakers to propose yet another
unnecessary mandate. A bill that has passed the House would require schools
to offer alternatives to dissections. Although we agree with the intent of
the legislation -- to ensure alternatives for students who faint at the sight
of blood or who are morally opposed to dissection -- this is not the job of
the Legislature. In this case, we trust teachers more than we trust
politicians to do what is best for students.
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Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 14:41:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Christine M. Wolf" <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Petition to stop canned lion hunting
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Forwarded message:

>There is an urgent call for support of a petition to stop "canned "lion
hunting in South Africa.  Most of the hunters are foreign and pay large sums
to shoot a lion lured from one of our National Parks into a small enclosed area.
>South Africans are trying to outlaw this practice and some support from the
States would be great!
>http://www.aceweb.co.za/lion/
>Already some of the farmers practicing canned lion hunting are getting it
in the neck locally.  It would help if the International community came out
against them too.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Regards
>
>Tim Attwell
>[e-mail]


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Christine Wolf, Director of Government Affairs
  The Fund for Animalsphone: 301-585-2591
  850 Sligo Ave., #300fax:   [phone]
  Silver Spring, MD 20910e-mail: [e-mail]

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change
the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has."  (Margaret Mead)

Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 22:16:11 -0400
From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (US) A Vegan CEO's Top Restaurants
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>From Fortune Magazine web page:
-----------------------------------------------
      June 9, 1997

A Vegan CEO's Top Restaurants
Ronald B. Lieber

When you don't eat animals or anything derived from
them, finding a place to graze in an unfamiliar town
can be tough. Michael Koss, the vegan CEO of stereo
speaker and headphone maker Koss Corp., admits he
often defaults to Taco Bell drive-throughs (bean
Buttburrito; hold the cheese). For fancier fare,
however, he turns to the places listed below.

                   Veni Vidi Vici
                   41 14th St.
                   404-875-8424

                   Food 24
                   Decor 24
                   Service 22
                   Cost $32
                   __________

                   CHICAGO

                   Avanzare
                   161 E. Huron St.
                   312-337-8056

                   Food 21
                   Decor 22
                   Service 21
                   Cost $33
                   __________

                   DALLAS

                   East Wind
                   2711 Elm St.
                   214-745-5554

                   Food 22
                   Decor 19
                   Service 19
                   Cost $19
                   __________

                   NEW YORK CITY

                   Trattoria Dell'Arte
                   900 Seventh Ave.
                   212-245-9800

                   Food 22
                   Decor 21
                   Service 19
                   Cost $41
                   __________

                   PHOENIX

                   Marquesa
                   7575 E. Princess Dr.
                   602-585-4848

                   Food 27
                   Decor 27
                   Service 26
                   Cost $31
                   __________

                   WASHINGTON, D.C.

                   The Bombay Club
                   815 Conn. Ave., N.W.
                   202-659-3727

                   Food 24
                   Decor 26
                   Service 25
                   Cost $34

                   -------------------------

                   0-9 poor to fair
                   10-19 good to very good
                   20-25 very good to excellent
                   26-30 extraordinary to perfection

                   Cost reflects the estimated price of a dinner with
                   one drink and tip.

                   Zagat survey

Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 18:24:22 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Elephant Advocates)
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Tai the elephant
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email a letter to the Editor of this [e-mail]

Front page photo depicts Tai with a human in her mouth.

No story - just a caption which reads:

"LIFE UNDER THE BIG TOP...Tai the elephant holds another circus performer
in his (sic) mouth during a performance by the L.A. Circus, which stopped
off at Farmers Market over the weekend.  Tai is best known for his (sic)
star turns with Bill Murray in 'Larger Than Life' and Danny Glover, Ray
Liotta and Denis Leary in 'Operation Dumbo Drop.'"


To:     Brain Lewis, Editor
        Wilshire Independent
        Los Angeles Independent Newspaper Group
        4201 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 600
        Los Angeles, CA  90010-3611
        Ph: [phone] or [phone]
        Fx: [phone]
        [e-mail]

For five months, Tai, the L.A Circus elephant, lived with Calle, an LA Zoo
elephant currently being treated for tuberculosis (TB).

Annie, another LA Zoo elephant, died on 3/22/97 with TB and Salmonella.

TB can be transmitted from elephants to humans.  A good way to catch it is
via coughing, sneezing or saliva, so I was shocked to see your front page
photo of a female circus performer inside Tai's mouth. (5/22)

The best thing people can do for elephants and themselves is to boycott
circuses with elephant acts.

Debbie Famiglietti
ELEPHANT ADVOCATES
Los Angeles

AR notes:  Calle lived at Tai's compound, "Have Trunk Will Travel," located
in Perris, CA, from October 26, 1996 to March 19, 1997.

While rented to the circus, Tai and Dixie were chained in the same place
from Friday morning to Sunday evening. (5/16-5/18)  Each was chained by one
leg, they stood and lived on black asphalt in the parking lot in the
Farmers Market for the entire weekend.  Perris is @ a 2 hr. drive from Los
Angeles.

Deborah Famiglietti


Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 10:48:40 +0800 (SST)
From: Vadivu Govind <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (HK) Offal cutback after E-coli find
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>South China Morning Post
Tuesday  May 27  1997
     Offal cutback after E-coli find
     RHONDA LAM WAN


     Beef dealers have cut their supplies of beef offal after the Government
failed to trace the source of the deadly E-coli 0157:H7 bacteria.

A spokesman for meat supplier and abattoir operator Ng Fung Hong said cow
carcasses were now being separated from internal organs after slaughter.
Hearts and
livers would be destroyed while intestines would be sold to agents only.

     The measures, which began on Sunday, came after two traces of E-coli
were found this month at the Sun Luen On and Hop Lee meat shops in Western
and Aberdeen.

     The shops have the same owner.

     Other measures, including more frequent cleaning of abattoirs, were
being taken, the company said.


Date: Mon, 26 May 1997 22:48:55 -0400
From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (RU) Pulp plant blamed in death of seals
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from CNN web page:
---------------------------------
                     Pulp plant blamed in death of seals

                     May 26, 1997
                     Web posted at: 9:56 p.m. EDT (0156 GMT)

                     (CNN) -- Environmentalists are blaming the deaths
                     of seals on pollution from a plant ordered to
                     close a decade ago.

                     The corpses are washing up on the shores of
                     Russia's Baikal Lake. Environmentalists blame the
                     seals' deaths on toxins from the nearby Baikal
                     pulp and paper factory. Built in the early 1970s
                     on the southern shore of the lake -- not far from
                     Mongolia -- the factory is one of the biggest
                     national producers of printed paper for Russian
                     newspapers.

                     Activists from the Siberian branch of the Russian
                     Academy of Science and Greenpeace have found toxic
                     dioxins in the bodies of seals. Dioxins are used
                     in the bleaching of paper.

                      "For now it is evident that this is the
                               largest environmental catastrophe in
                     Baikal Lake for decades," said Alexander Knorre,
                     executive director of Greenpace Russia.

                     "This way or another it is directly connected with
                     the damaging human activity on the shores, with
                     the pollution of the lake by the pulp and paper
                     mill."

                     Large numbers of seal deaths along the huge lake
                     were first reported back in 1987. Soviet and then
                     Russian officials ordered the factory closed, but
                     it continues to operate.

Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 10:51:11 +0800 (SST)
From: Vadivu Govind <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (HK) `Tiger bone' seller has fine cut
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>Hong Kong Standard
27 May 97
`Tiger bone' seller has fine cut

A SHOPKEEPER who sold banned medicines that were purported to contain parts
of protected animals had his fine almost halved on appeal on Monday.

Pang Hong-yam, proprietor of Luen Hop Ginseng Dried Seafood Company, must
still pay a hefty $80,000 for flouting restrictions on trade in endangered
species. Government inspectors, acting on a tip-off, raided the Yau Ma Tei
shop last May and took a haul including pills boasting to contain tiger
bone.

They also confiscated 200 ``anti-blemish'' pills labelled as containing
rhinoceros and antelope horn, as well as 480 tablets in four bottles called
``sea horse genital tonic'' pills. Pang was originally fined $150,000 by a
magistrate but claimed the sentence was too severe.

The amount was cut on Monday by Mr Justice Thomas Gall in the High Court,
after the judge read a report on Pang's limited ability to pay.

Under the law, it is an offence to sell medicines claiming to consist of
parts of protected species, regardless of whether the products actually
contain any.

Pang was selling the products commercially, an offence carrying a maximum
fine of $5 million.



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