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>South China Morning Post
Tuesday  June 3  1997
     Curbs to preserve fish stocks
     AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

     China is to restrict fishing in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea
for two months for the third year to preserve threatened stocks, reports
said yesterday.
Checks would be made in ports, markets, storehouses and by Customs
officials, Yang     Jian, deputy director of the Ministry of Agriculture's
Bureau of Fisheries, said.

     The first restrictions, in 1995, allowed a 30 per cent growth in
Hairtail fish stocks,     without affecting markets, he said. Dealers had
stocked up enough to meet market demand, reports said.

     The restrictions on fishing for Hairtail and other threatened species
cover an area within     30 nautical miles of the shore. They will run from
September 1 to October 31, China   Daily said.


Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 12:04:59 +0800 (SST)
From: Vadivu Govind <[e-mail]>
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Subject: (TW) COA accused of causing rabies panic
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>CNA Daily English News Wire
COA ACCUSED OF CAUSING RABIES PANIC

Taipei, June 2 (CNA) Several private groups on Monday accused the Council of
Agriculture (COA) of scaring the public with warnings about an outbreak of
rabies.

The groups, headed by the Concern for Life Association, have asked the
Control Yuan, the ROC's highest watchdog body, to impeach COA Vice Chairman
Lin Hsiang-nung and the COA's Deputy Director of Animal Industry Department
Chiang Chung-ching for administrative negligence.

According to the Concern for Life Association, Lin's announcement on April
25th that an outbreak of rabies in Taiwan was "possible" was based on
reports that have yet to be carefully evaluated.

Lin then failed to offer a comprehensive plan to address the problem,
causing panic among the public, the group claims.

Furthermore, comments by Lin and Chiang have polarized public opinion
regarding stray dogs, the group says.

The feeling of panic is particularly acute among the island's dog owners,
after plans to round up stray dogs across the island beginning next month
were announced by the COA, according to the Concern for Life Association.

One member said that while the association is not opposed to rounding up
stray dogs, it feels that it should be in a humane way.

Animal rights groups feel that the government should build more animal
shelters and improve laws related to pet ownership. (By Lilian Wu)

Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 21:25:13 -0700
From: Andrew Gach <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Banning human cloning recommended for now
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U.S. advisory panel recommends banning human cloning for now

Agence France-Presse

WASHINGTON (June 2, 1997 01:19 a.m. EDT) - A group of White House
advisors on bioethics will recommend to President Bill Clinton that he
ban human cloning for the time being, according to a draft of a report
due out next week.

"Effects on the moral, religious, and cultural values of society may be
enough to justify prohibitions in the future, but more time is needed
for discussion of these concerns," the draft stated.

The panel of scientists, religious scholars and bioethicists said they
reached their recommendation in part because technology for safe human
cloning does not yet exist.

Clinton asked the National Bioethics Advisory Commission to study the
touchy questions surrounding the possibility of human cloning after a
Scottish scientist successfully cloned an adult ewe.

Soon after the scientific breakthrough Clinton ordered a ban on the use
of US government funds for research on human cloning, and urged
scientists to impose a voluntary moratorium on work in the field.

The White House has not commented on the draft report.

=============================================================

Note the language: "[they] reached their recommendation in part because
technology for safe human cloning does not yet exist."

After a couple of years of animal cloning (given the go-ahead almost
everywhere), they'll declare that "safe technology to do it on humans
does now exist" and that it would be a giant step forward for the health
and happiness of humankind.

The crux of the matter is that a new industry of human cloning could
bring in huge profits for the health industry.  With so much money at
stake, they are likely to receive the green light sooner or later,
unless they encounter a potent upsurge of grassroot opposition.

To learn about the dangers and hype surrounding genetic manipulation,
read "Genetic Engineering" by John Fagan, Ph.D.  He's an accomplished
gene researcher who did something that very few scientists would ever
do: returned a $614,000 grant to the NIH for reasons of conscience.
His book is addressed to the general public and not hard to read.

Andy
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 00:30:40 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Fwd: Security Raised at Ore. Mink Farms
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      By JULIE FINNIN DAY
      MOUNT ANGEL, Ore. (AP) - Security at scores of Oregon mink farms
remain tight Monday after thousands of mink were released from
their cages on a fur ranch, allegedly by animal rights activists.
      At least half the animals released Friday night from a ranch
near here were expected to die from exposure, fighting with each
other or trauma. Many were baby mink that had been separated from
their mothers; others had been crushed by human feet.
      Children were warned to avoid the mink because the animals are
aggressive when cornered and highly susceptible to rabies.
      At least 2,000 of the 6,000 to 8,000 baby mink released were
confirmed dead, said Marsha Kelly, spokeswoman for Fur Commission,
U.S.A., which represents mink and fox farmers. And 400 of the 1,600
adult female mink released were dead or missing.
      Mink farmers in this area about 30 miles south of Portland were
not making statements Monday or allowing outsiders on their farms.
      Sgt. Bob Stai said sheriffs were working jointly with the FBI on
the investigation and ``trying to provide extra patrol support when
they can.''
      ``We're kind of upset just because of the destruction of the
animals and the carnage. One officer couldn't handle it. He had to
be excused,'' Stai said.
      There have been no arrests and no one has claimed
responsibility, but the act was similar to animal releases in the
past that the underground Animal Liberation Front have claimed
responsibility for.
      The group's web page says ``the Animal Liberation Front carries
out direct action against animal abusing in the form of rescuing
animals and causing financial loss to animal exploiters, usually
through the damage and destruction of property.
      ``It is a nonviolent campaign, activists taking all precautions
not to harm any animal.''
      The Dallas-based Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade said in a
statement Monday that Friday's raid was the 29th in the United
States and Canada since the fall of 1995.
      In March, five Michigan residents were arrested for allegedly
releasing 1,500 minks into the wild from a fur farm in the Canadian
province of Ontario. More than 400 of the released minks died, due
to cold, fighting among themselves or being run over by cars.
      Oregon's mink industry, with about 80 farms, ranks fifth in the
nation. Though the United States produces only 10 percent of the
world's supply - about 2.5 million pelts annually - they are
considered top of the line, said Kelly, because of superior care
and genetics.
      AP-NY-06-02-97 2055EDT
Copyright 1997 The
Associated Press.  The information
contained in the AP news report may not be published,
broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without
prior written authority of The Associated Press.


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Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 21:29:55 -0700
From: Andrew Gach <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Government subsidies lead to destruction of ocean life
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U.N. and Nature Fund blame subsidies for global fisheries crisis

The Associated Press

GENEVA (June 2, 1997 8:02 p.m. EDT) -- Government subsidies have so
bloated the world's fishing industry that it is wiping out fish faster
than they can reproduce, the United Nations and a leading environmental
organization said Monday.

The World Wide Fund for Nature and the U.N. Environment Program urged
top fishing nations to slash the $50 billion-plus subsidies which they
blamed for the global fisheries crises.

Governments pour the money into overcompetitive fishing fleets that
continue to lose money and deplete fish stocks at an alarming rate, they
said.

A World Wide Fund for Nature report estimates the world's fishing
industry spends $124 billion annually to generate revenues of $70
billion. That means taxpayers have to make up the other $54 billion.

Uncontrolled fishing and the throwing away of unwanted catches have
decimated world marine stocks, driving once common species like cod and
halibut to commercial extinction and threatening the livelihood of tens
of millions of people, the U.N. and nature groups said.

Subsidies artificially inflate the profitability of fishing, stimulating
new investment and encouraging fishers to remain in over-fished waters,
WWF International Director General Claude Martin told reporters.

"They send the wrong economic signal to participants in depleted
fisheries by creating incentives for ... high levels of fishing," Martin
said.

During the past four decades, the capacity of the world's fishing fleets
has increased five-fold while the productivity of most of the world's
major fishing areas has declined, the WWF and U.N. report
said.

Species particularly vulnerable are those that congregate to spawn, such
as haddock, cod and grouper, along with those that migrate across
national fishing zones where they are heavily fished in each of the
zones, such as tuna, billfish and sharks.

The World Wide Fund for Nature also said evidence is mounting that
fishing activities destroy ocean ecosystems and reduce the diversity of
ocean life as bottom trawls, longlines and drift nets batter the
ocean floor.

Worse, each year indiscriminate fishing methods catch between 18 million
to 40 million tons of unwanted fish, sea birds, sea turtles, and marine
mammals such as dolphins, which are dumped back overboard.

By ERICA BULMAN, The Associated Press
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 1997 21:34:15 -0700
From: Andrew Gach <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Chimp AIDS research - does it apply to people?
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Chimps protected by experimental AIDS vaccine

The Associated Press

NEW YORK (June 2, 1997 01:31 a.m. EDT) -- Chimps got lasting protection
against AIDS virus infection after they were given a combination of two
experimental vaccines, researchers report.

Three chimps resisted infection when they were injected with HIV about a
year after their last booster shot.

"I think it's an important early step toward the goal of a vaccine,"
said Marjorie Robert-Guroff of the National Cancer Institute, one of the
study's authors.

But scientists unconnected with the work cautioned that the animals were
exposed to an HIV strain that's relatively easy to block in chimps. So
it's hard to tell what the protection means for the prospects of an AIDS
vaccine in people, said one scientist, John Moore of the Aaron Diamond
AIDS Research Center in New York.

Robert-Guroff said scientists used a high dose of HIV because of the
strain involved.

Previous studies in chimps also have shown protection against HIV, using
other vaccine strategies.

The new work is reported in the June issue of the journal Nature
Medicine.

For the initial vaccine, researchers put some HIV genes into a virus
called an adenovirus. That made the adenovirus produce an HIV protein,
in order to prime the chimps' immune systems to attack HIV.

The booster shots, which didn't involve a virus, contained a different
HIV protein.

Chimps got one, two or three adenovirus inoculations over 24 weeks. Then
they got one or two booster shots in the next 24 weeks.

Four chimps were protected from a low dose of HIV given a month after
the last booster shot, while an unvaccinated chimp became infected.

Three of the vaccinated animals were also protected from a high HIV dose
given 50 weeks after the last booster.

The strategy of priming the immune system against HIV with a virus-based
vaccine and then giving boosters is already being tested in people.
Results suggest it is safe and that it provokes a promising degree of
immune response, but whether it will protect people against HIV is not
known.

--By MALCOLM RITTER, AP science writer
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 15:08:19 +0800
From: jwed <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (CN) Minister vows to get tough on pests
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CHINA DAILY 3rd June, 1997
The government has vowed to spare no effort to control pests plaguing
national forests, calling them a "smokeless forest fire."

The drive is necessary not only to preserve forestry resources, but also to
improve the environment.

Continued afforestation and conservation of forests are paying off in
China, but the work is threatened by widespread pests, officials said.

Poplar pests in Northwest China and pine pests in East China are rampant,
while mice frequent 660,000 hectares of forests each year biting a big
slice of China's precious forestry resources.

According to the Ministry of Forestry's plan, by 2005, pests are expected
to be under control within 6 per cent of the forest.

During the eighth five-year plan (1991-95), 8 million hectares of forestry
deteriorated each year due to pests, which caused a decrease in forestry
resources by 17 million cubic metres a year.

Minister of Forestry Xu Youfang said the prevention of pests is the most
important measure.

China should switch from passive defence to active combat against pests, Xu
said.

And pest prevention work is expected to be part of the overall plan in
local economic and social development.

According to Xu, pest prevention will be undertaken by local governments,
and the authorities who manage the forests will be responsible for pest
prevention.

Vice-Premier Jiang Chunyun also urged last week the proper development of
resources on one hand and preservation of resources on the other.

He also called on financial, planning, communication and other departments
to give strong support to pest prevention and control.

According to a China News Service report, since middle March pests have
plagued southern to northern Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
Date: 06/03/97
Author: Chen Chunmei



Every child has the right to a healthy diet - that means no meat.

http://www.earth.org.hk/
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 05:06:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Urgent Action Allert: stop dog-slaughter at Crete - help needed
immediately
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

URGENT ACTION ALERT: HELP STOP THE SLAUGHTER - NOW !!

To whom it concerns:

Recently we got a help-call from Mr. Nikos Galatis from Crete, Greece. He
told us that there are plans to catch and kill more than 2000 stray dogs at
the City of Heraklion.

Responsible for this is Mr. Manolis Alexakis, leader of a so-called "humane
society" called "Greek Animal Wellfare" (GAWF). There are rumours that this
pseudo-humane society illegaly killed around 30 dogs in Nov. 96 and that they
are responsible for the death of around 80 dogs on their own properties.

Basis for the killing of the dogs is a law that allowes killing of stray dogs
when there is no animal-asylum.

THE DECISION WILL BE MADE BY THE MAYOR OF HERAKLION ON JUNE, 5 TH !!!!!!

PLEASE ACT IMMEDIATELY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

+ Please fax to the mayor and ask him not to allow the killing of stray dogs
 ! Killing of a big number of dogs will not be a sollution to the problem,
 because stray doc population will grow again.
+ Demand the foundation of a committee.
+ Members of this committe should be local politicians and "real" animal
 rights activists.
+ The aim of the committee shall be to work out a plan how to reduce the
 number of stray dogs in the long run by improving live conditions and by
 non-lethal methods, and to work out a plan for building and financing an
animal asylum.

Attention: As far as we know, the mayor of Heraklion would like to support
such a program, so please be moderate in your words

+ If you like to help with funds also, declare that you will support such a
 project financial.

Adress of the mayor of Heraklion:

     Mr. Kosta Aslanis
     Mayor
     City of Heraklion
     Crete, Greece
     Fax: [phone]

If you need further information please contact Mr. Nikos Galatis, Phone/Fax:
[phone].

Please send also a copy of your protest letter to Mr. Galatis


Thank you very much for your support !

Bund gegen Missbrauch der Tiere
(Association against Mistreatment of Animals)
Stefan Austermuehle
Am Rain 18
35039 Marburg
Germany
Phone/Fax: [phone]
e-mail: [e-mail]

Date: Tue, 3 Jun 97 07:51:44 UTC
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Behind the scenes of the movie, "Speed 2"
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

(Excerpt from Woman's Day): Island-theme parties - life on the set
of the summer's hottest movie was full of adventures for Sandra Bullock
and her co-stars. Seems Sandra has a passion - and it's not for co-star
Jason Patric. But Sandra did fall head over heels - for the local strays!

"There were a lot of stray dogs where we were shooting on St. Maarten,"
reveals Kimmy Robertson, co-star in Speed 2. "Every time Sandra saw one,
she'd feed it or take it home with her. She ended up having to find homes
for bunches of them!" The cast and crew weren't surprised by Sandra's
kindness. "Sandra is serious about animals," says Kimmy. "She won't stand
for anything except everyone being really nice to them."

-- Sherrill
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 09:57:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Student Abolitionist League <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: AR-Wire: Crete, Greece: stop dog-slaugther - Help needed
immediately (fwd)
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Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 05:06:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
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Subject: AR-Wire: Crete, Greece: stop dog-slaugther - Help needed immediately

URGENT ACTION ALERT: HELP STOP THE SLAUGHTER - NOW !!

To whom it concerns:

Recently we got a help-call from Mr. Nikos Galatis from Crete, Greece. He
told us that there are plans to catch and kill more than 2000 stray dogs at
the City of Heraklion.

Basis for the killing of the dogs is a law that allowes killing of stray dogs
when there is no animal-asylum.

THE DECISION WILL BE MADE BY THE MAYOR OF HERAKLION ON JUNE, 5 TH !!!!!!

PLEASE ACT IMMEDIATELY !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

+ Please fax to the mayor and ask him not to allow the killing of stray dogs
 ! Killing of a big number of dogs will not be a sollution to the problem,
 because stray doc population will grow again.
+ Demand the foundation of a committee.
+ Members of this committe should be local politicians and "real" animal
 rights activists.
+ The aim of the committee shall be to work out a plan how to reduce the
 number of stray dogs in the long run by improving live conditions and by
 non-lethal methods, and to work out a plan for building and financing an
animal asylum.

Attention: As far as we know, the mayor of Heraklion would like to support
such a program, so please be moderate in your words

+ If you like to help with funds also, declare that you will support such a
 project financial.

Adress of the mayor of Heraklion:

     Mr. Kosta Aslanis
     Mayor
     City of Heraklion
     Crete, Greece
     Fax: [phone]

If you need further information please contact Mr. Nikos Galatis, Phone/Fax:
[phone].

Please send also a copy of your protest letter to Mr. Galatis


Thank you very much for your support !

Bund gegen Missbrauch der Tiere
(Association against Mistreatment of Animals)
Stefan Austermuehle
Am Rain 18
35039 Marburg
Germany
Phone/Fax: [phone]
e-mail: [e-mail]



Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 10:11:12 -0400
From: "Patrick Tohill" <[e-mail]>
To: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Canadian Elections
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> From: DIETRICH VON HAUGWITZ <[e-mail]>
> To: [e-mail]; [e-mail]
> Subject: Canadian Elections
> Date: Tuesday, June 03, 1997 12:00 AM
>
> Baryy (or anyone else up in Canada) -
>
> Many of us get little in-depth news from Canada.  You've had elections.
> How about a few sentences on your assessment of the outcome -- and then
> maybe a few more on how you think the results affect the issues we care
> about, like CITES, the Euopean fur import restrictions, the seal
> slaughter, NAFTA, GATT, etc....
>
> Dietrich

The Liberals won a slim majority last night as three of the opposition
parties The Progressive Conservative Party, The Reform Party and The New
Democratic Party all gained ground. The Liberals lost Atlantic Canada and
the West and several cabinet members lost their seats. The results are seen
as a regional protest vote. The Prime Minister last night in his victory
speech said "We're listening" but we'll see.

Neither the Conservatives nor the NDP had official party status over the
last 3 1/2 years which meant they could not get their issues onto the
national agenda. There will definitely be more representation of different
ideas. Unfortunately, none of the parties have a strong animal welfare or
environmental platform, as this article in last week's Vancouver Sun makes
it clear:

>From The Vancouver Sun - Tuesday, May 27th, 1997

By Nicholas Read

The current Liberal government broke its promise to pass a federal
endangered species act. It expanded the Atlantic seal hunt. It spent
thousands of taxpayer's dollars defending the use of leghold traps and it
failed to pass one piece of significant environmental legislation. It's
hard
to remember a government that did less to protect Canada's landscape and
natural heritage.

With that in mind, I put five questions about the environment and animal
welfare to the Reform, Progressive Conservative, New Democratic Party and
Liberal parties to find out if any of the was prepared to do any better.
Here are the results:

1) Would your party prohibit trade in bear parts internally and would it
support an international  ban? (Quebec, Nova Scotia and the Northwest
Territories allow bear parts to be sold openly, helping to supply a
predominantly Asian demand for bear galls.)

Reform: No clear answer. Instead, it alluded to a private member's bill put
forward by MP Val Meredith calling for a ban on selling wildlife and
killing
wildlife for the purposes of trade.

Progressive Conservatives: No clear answer. It said it would "continue with
aggressive policies" to halt the illegal trade of animals, but did not say
what those policies would be.

NDP:  It is opposed to the trade in bear parts, and believes the federal
government should take action to combat it, but did not say what kind of
action.

Liberal: No clear answer. It ignored the question and instead cited a law
passed by the Brian Mulroney Tories prohibiting the trade in some exotic
species within Canada.

2) Would your party support legislation ensuring the humane transport of
animals? (More than three million animals die in transport every year
because there are no enforceable standards for their care.)

Reform: No clear answer. Instead, it quoted the Criminal Code of Canada
which makes it an offence to cause by "wilful neglect" damage or injury to
animals "while they are being driven or conveyed." (The word "wilful" is
almost impossible to prove in court, so the code is useless when applied to
animals in industry.)

PC: A qualified yes. "A jean Charest government would ensure that the
necessary regulations are in place to ensure humane standards are
observed."

NDP: Yes.

Liberal: No clear answer. It referred instead to the Health of Animals Act,
which states that animals must be transported "humanely" and cited
regulations for the provision of food, water and rest at specified
intervals. (The act does not define the word "humanely" and regulations
allow for animals to be transported [up to] 52 continuously without food,
water, or rest.)

3) Given that the Canadian Council on Animal Care no longer monitors
private
institutions, would your party support legislation protecting all animals
in
research? (The CCAC is a government-funded body that sets down a voluntary
code of standards for using animals in government-sponsored research.)

Reform: No clear answer. Again it referred to the Criminal Code.

PC: Another qualified yes."A Jean Charest government would ensure that the
necessary regulations are in place to ensure that humane standards are
observed."

NDP: Yes.

Liberals: No. It said the current system is adequate.

4) Would your party pass endangered species legislation that would protect
individual species and their critical habitats? Would it also require that
the listing of species be done by scientists, not politicians?

Reform: Yes.

PC: No clear answer. A PC government would "create a federal department of
sustainable development which would ensure that proper priority is placed
on
the preservation of the environment and all species."

NDP: Yes.

Liberal: It is committed to endangered species legislation, but will not
say
what form it will take.

5) Would your party ammend Section 442 of the Criminal Code to make it
easier to charge and punish paople who are cruel to animals? (The presence
of the words "wilful" and "unnecessary" in the code render it almost
useless.)

Reform: No. However, Reform MP's would listen to their constituents should
they wish to make a case for strengthening the law.

PC: No clear answer. It "would work with those in law enforcement to ensure
that crimes against animals are fully prosecuted."

NDP: No, but existing provision should be "vigorously enforced."

Liberals: No.


++(Pat:) Not the strongest positions are they? Especially the Reform. I
imagine the guy had never heard of the cruelty to animals legislation. He
quotes it so well I suspect he just looked it up. Hopefully, we can manage
to get animal issues on the agenda.

Regards

Patrick Tohill
Communications Officer
WSPA Canada

The World Society for the Protection of Animals has been at the forefront
of animal protection and wildlife conservation for more than 40 years. The
only international animal protection organization recognized by the United
Nations, WSPA represents more than 300 member societies in over 70
countries.

Visit WSPA's website at http://www.way.net/wspa/

Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 11:59:25 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (US) Oklahoma City Family Pet Festival
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>


Pets and their families have a day of interesting activities in store
for them at Saturday's Festival of the Pet at the Oklahoma City
Animal Shelter located at 2811 SE 29th.  The event is sponsored by
the Oklahoma City Animal Welfare Division.  The festival will be
from 10 am to 3 pm. It will include a low cost vaccination clinic,
several exhibitors, demonstrations and pet contests.  All pets
must be on a leash or in a carrier.  The clinic will also provide
rabies vaccinations for $7.
During the event, festival goers can watch students from the Okla.
State Univ Vet School perform spay/neuter surgeries on the pets
to be adopted from the shelter.  The staff vet, Dr. Sally Ryan, will
show proper first aid techniques at 11 am and at 11:30 am, the
Okla. Bureau of Narcotics representatives will demonstrate how
dogs detect drugs.
At noon the Okla. City Obedience Training Club will demonstrate
simple commands dogs should know. At 1:30 pm an Okla. City
police officer and canine will show how they can work together to
stop and deter crime.
Registration for pet contests will be from 10 am to 12:15 pm with the
contests to begin at 12:30 pm. Fee to participate in each contest
will be $2.  Dog washes and dips will also be available since flea
and tick season is under way.  Girl scouts will wash dogs for $2
and dog dip is $2 for each pet.
Posters drawn by metro area elementary school students will
be displayed inside the animal shelter.

                                                 For the Animals,

                                                 Jana, OKC
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 13:44:18 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail], [e-mail]
Subject: Re: "Animal Rights 101" by Kathleen Marquardt
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I object to MyPetsPal putting forth Putting People First propaganda on
ar-news.  PPF is so extreme that they even had a letter writing campaign
against Walt Disney for putting out animal friendly movies. They are the real
extremist that oppose any act to protect animals, no matter how bad the abuse
is.

Please remove MyPetsPal from ar-news, as well as her anti animal counterpart
who is sending her this propaganda/

JP Goodwin
Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 17:44:14 +0000 (GMT)
From: Daniel Paulo Martins Ferreira <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Cc: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Fwd: BRAVO!!! GOOD FOR YOU!!!
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>         A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.
>                                -Ingrid Newkirk, People for the Ethical
>                                       Treatment of Animals (PETA)
>                                 (_Washingtonian_Magazine_, August 1986)


I can't understand why so many people like you never quote it entire.
Well, maybe I understand...

Please, post it entire to ar-news. And, please, don't fill our e-mail boxes
with your lies.If you want to do that, you can use talk.politics.animals.
Ar-news is a mailing list, not a discussion group.

For all animals (including humanes)

Daniel Ferreira


Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 10:35:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mike Markarian <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail], [e-mail],
        [e-mail]
Subject: NY Alert: Bill to Legalize Snare Traps
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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URGENT NEW YORK STATE ALERT

DON'T STRANGLE OUR STATE ANIMAL!

Bills to legalize the snare trap for killing beavers and to lengthen the
intervals between trap checking times are being pushed quickly into law.
Even if you've written before on this issue, it is very important to do so
again. Please immediately write a brief letter or postcard to:

     Senate Majority Leader Joseph Bruno
     c/o Ken Riddett
     Legislative Office Building
     Albany, NY 12247

     Speaker of the Assembly Sheldon Silver
     c/o Fred Jacobs
     Legislative Office Building
     Albany, NY 12248

Also write to your own State Senator and State Assemblymember in Albany (not
federal):

     Senator __________
     Legislative Office Building
     Albany, NY 12247

     Assemblymember __________
     Legislative Office Building
     Albany, NY 12248

ASK THEM TO USE THEIR OFFICES TO KILL BILLS A1635a (INTRODUCED BY
ASSEMBLYMEMBERS BRAGMAN AND ROBACH) AND S3561a (INTRODUCED BY
SENATOR WRIGHT).

Also write to Governor Pataki and tell him to veto these bills if they pass
the Assembly and Senate:

     Governor George Pataki
     c/o Michael Finnegan
     Executive Chamber, State Capitol
     Albany, NY 12224

Please tell the above individuals that you do not want the snare trap
legalized and you do not want trap checking intervals lengthened. You may
wish to add that A1635 was amended at the last minute, thereby denying the
public time to communicate with their own legislators. New York State should
not strangle and choke beavers, our own state animal, and pose a danger to
eagles, dogs, cats, and children who may be caught in the snares. We should
not leave animals to suffer in agony for up to three days before trappers
check the snares. Thank you for your help!

Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 14:30:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: USA Today Mink Liberation Article
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

OREGON MINK RANCH TARGETED

Thousands are freed from cages.

The release of about 10,000 mink from an Oregon farm is being called the
largest case of "eco-terrorism" of its kind.

Police in Mt. Angel, OR, 30 miles south of Portland, are working with the FBI
to investigate the incident, which took place over the weekend.

Vandals, thought to be militant anti fur activists, bypassed the farms
security system in a nighttime raid and used bolt cutters to break open
cages.

The break in is a violation of federal law protecting animal farms and
research labs.

With mink pelts selling at $35-$60 each, the loss is expected to reach
hundreds of thousands of dollars for mink farmer Rick Arritola.

"This is isn't kids knocking over the outhouse," said Marsha Kelly of Fur
Commission USA, which represents mink and fox farmers.  "I don't want to
overstate the importance of this in comparison to the loss of human life, but
this is a form of eco-terrorism".

Approximately 7,200 if the escaped mink were recovered alive.  The remainder,
including 2,000 newborns, either died from exposure or are missing.
 Authorities said the mink, accustomed to captivity, would not survive in the
wild.

Animal rights organizations were skeptical that the mink could not survive in
the wild and scorned the implication that the mink were better off in farm
cages.

"They were headed for a hideous death at the end of a ghastly life," said
Ingrid Newkirk, president of PETA. "The cruelty involved in all of this is an
abomination.  I think it's the mink farmers  who should be prosecuted."

Animal rights groups have battled the fur industry for years, more typically
by using legal tactics such as advertising and lobbying campaigns.

But radical actions have been escalating.  The break in at the Mt. Angel farm
was the 29th such incident in the US and Canada since fallof 95, the
Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade says.

No one has claimed responsibility for the OR attack, and no one has been
arrested.

-end-

Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 14:34:36 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: New Briefing: Oregon Mink Raid
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Note: At this time the fur trade has not shown any of the bodies to any
reporters to confirm their claims that released mink didn't survive.
 Apparently they can't supply evidence to back up their propaganda.

NEWS CONFERENCE ADVISORY
June 2, 1997




Activists Schedule News Briefing,
Protest In Support Of Oregon
'Eco-Terrorist' Fur Farm Raid

     PORTLAND, OR -- Animal rights groups have scheduled a news conference --
and noisy protest -- at the oldest fur store in the U.S. Tuesday morning to
show support for what is being described as the biggest "eco-terrorist" act
in U.S. history.

           The news briefing will be held at 10 a.m. Tuesday at  Schumacher
Fur Co. (739
SW 10th Ave.) in Portland. Members of the Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade
and Liberation Collective will also make available exclusive undercover
video of fur farms.

     The briefing is in response to a raid at a Mt. Angel fur ranch last Friday
where up to 10,000 mink were freed by an underground, as yet unidentified,
animal rights group. Estimates of damages are $500,000 and up.

     Activists are taking issue with public claims by the fur industry that
"many" of the liberated mink died after their liberation, and will discuss
deceit by the fur industry at the news conference.

     The  action at Mt. Angel (33 miles south of Portland) is the 29th raid in
N. America -- including 5 in Canada -- resulting in about 45,400 animals
being freed since the fall of 1995. An estimated 36,000 animals have been
freed from the fur farms, in a dozen states, including Utah, Washington,
Oregon, Ohio, Massachusetts, Texas, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan,
Tennessee, New York and Maryland. Thousands of fur-bearing animals have also
been freed in Germany, Sweden, Finland, Austria and Norway this past year.
-30-
Contact: Craig/Lib Collective [phone] or [phone] / CAFT (214)
503-1419

*NOTE: Undercover video of fur farms -- footage which would normally not be
permitted to be taken on fur farms -- will be available to all interested
 news media at the news briefing.


Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 14:51:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: **** <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Cc: [e-mail], [e-mail]
Subject: Re: "Animal Rights 101" by Kathleen Marquardt
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

A second this...

On Tue, 3 Jun 1997 [e-mail] wrote:

> I object to MyPetsPal putting forth Putting People First propaganda on
> ar-news.  PPF is so extreme that they even had a letter writing campaign
> against Walt Disney for putting out animal friendly movies. They are the
real
> extremist that oppose any act to protect animals, no matter how bad the
abuse
> is.
>
> Please remove MyPetsPal from ar-news, as well as her anti animal counterpart
> who is sending her this propaganda/
>
> JP Goodwin
> Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade
>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 11:56:56 -0700
From: [e-mail] (Elephant Advocates)
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Mother dolphin tries to revive dead calf
Message-ID: <v01530508afba18e00c1d@[207.217.3.74]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Florida
6/1/97 -- 3:01 AM

                                  Mother dolphin tries to revive dead calf
                                            By LADALE LLOYD of The Tampa
Tribune


       TAMPA - Employees, boaters and anglers at Alafia Bait & Tackle are
used to seeing bottlenose dolphins and manatees swim up the river
       past the shop en route to Buckhorn Springs.

       It's usually a pleasant journey. The adult mammals followed by their
young, going to play in the cool waters of the spring, not unlike a
       human family going to a park.

       But Friday's scene was a more somber reminder of just how close the
sea creatures are to their human counterparts. It was a scene that
       brought tears to some observers' eyes:

       A mother dolphin trying to revive her dead calf.

       ``She was bouncing it on her nose up and down. She would swim with
it, come up with it. She was trying to get it to swim on its own,''
       said Rhonda Drummond, a bait shop employee who watched the display
for an hour and a half.

       She said she called authorities, fearing the 8-foot cow would stress
herself out.

       Dolphins are known to grieve death like humans, said John W. Brown,
a Florida Marine Patrol officer. He was sent to recover the 3-foot
       carcass.

       But the mother, unconvinced of its death, would not leave the calf's
side, Brown said.

       ``She'd see us, and as soon as we'd get close she'd take him under
water and come up about 20 or 30 feet'' away, Brown said.

       Brown said a dolphin cow will typically stay with its dead calf two
or three days, grieving, not ready to face reality.

       The Department of Environmental Protection will perform a necropsy
to determine the cause of death when the calf is found, Brown said.
       He said he collects about two to three dolphin carcasses a year, but
most of them are adults.

       Drummond wonders if the death has an environmental cause.

       ``We've had fish die off and on for about a couple of weeks,''
Drummond said. ``We thought it was an algae bloom.''




Deborah Famiglietti


Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 18:24:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (US) FDA Bans Animal Parts in Feed
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>


---------------------
Forwarded message:
Subj:    FDA Bans Animal Parts in Feed
Date:    97-06-03 15:00:17 EDT
From:    AOL News



      WASHINGTON (AP) - The government banned the use of virtually all
slaughtered-animal parts in U.S. livestock feed Tuesday because of
links to ``mad cow disease.''
      That disease, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, caused public
panic when the British government announced last year that a new
version of a fatal human brain illness might have been caused by
eating infected beef. At least 10 Britons died of this new type of
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
      The U.S. government insists it has found no signs of mad cow
disease in American cattle.
      But animals can get the brain disease by eating the tissue of
other infected animals - so the Food and Drug Administration issued
the long-expected ban to ensure that U.S. livestock remain
disease-free.
      If a BSE case ever were discovered here, the ban would prevent
the disease from spreading through feed, the FDA declared.
      The FDA first proposed in January that no cows, sheep or goats
eat feed made from ground cows, sheep, goats, deer, elk or mink -
species known to be vulnerable to the diseases that eat holes in
the brain.
      Putting these ``ruminant'' products in animal feed not only
recycled otherwise unusable parts of slaughtered animals, it added
protein.
      But the FDA's final rule extended the ban to using any mammalian
protein except pure pork or horse, which are not known to get the
brain illnesses.
      The U.S. livestock industry announced last year that it was
voluntarily banning ruminant proteins in cattle feed. Still, the
National Renderers Association supported the FDA ban Tuesday as
helping calm public fears and putting ``a protective blanket around
the cattle industry.''
      The ban goes into effect in 60 days.
      It does not affect pet food or chicken or hog feed. Animal
blood, gelatin and milk also can continue to be used in feed,
because there is no evidence these products can transmit the brain
diseases.
      AP-NY-06-03-97 1451EDT
       Copyright 1997 The
Associated Press.  The information
contained in the AP news report may not be published,
broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed without
prior written authority of The Associated Press.


To edit your profile, go to keyword NewsProfiles.
For all of today's news, go to keyword News.
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 1997 19:18:33 -0500 (CDT)
From: Suzanne Roy <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Activist Vigils at Primate Centers
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

POSTED FOR:
IN DEFENSE OF ANIMALS NORTHWEST OFFICE
600 S.W. 10th Ave., Suite 434
Portland, OR  97205
503/241-9930



Oregon Activist Begins Seven-City Vigil at Regional Primate Research Centers

On Saturday, May 31, Oregon teacher Rick Bogle began a nine-day vigil at the
Oregon Regional Primate Research center in Beaverton, to protest the cruel
and unnecessary research conducted at the facility.  Over the next seven
months, Rick will hold similar vigils at each of the six other U.S. regional
primate research centers in what he describes as "a journey to give voice to
the victims."

An ethical vegetarian since 1972, Rick has taught middle school since 1989
in Prairie City, a small rural town in Eastern Oregon.  He has always shared
with his students his belief in reverence for all life.  His adherence to
this principle nearly cost him his job last year, when parents of some
students objected to his classroom ban on the killing of insects and spiders.

"I have always taught my students to stand up for what they believe is
right," Rick says.  "They tell me that they would have spoken out against
slavery and the Holocaust.  I always tell then that  I hope I would have,
too.  But if I don't speak out against the madness of primate vivisection,
maybe I would have kept quiet about the rest."  He concludes, "I want my
students to see that no matter how difficult, we must all stand up against
cruelty and injustice."

In Defense of Animals, Liberation Collective, and Portland's People for
Animal Rights, have organized support for Rick during his vigil at the
Oregon center.  The vigil has been well-received by the media, with positive
coverage on four TV stations, several radio stations and the state
newspaper.  Rick's peaceful countenance has garnered cooperation from local
police.  The Fund for Animals, Progressive Animal Welfare Society and
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine have also voiced support for
Rick's action.

Animal activists living near any of the following locations are urged to
support Rick's courage and dedication by joining him as he bears witness for
the animals.

        DatesLocation
   July 4 - 13Washington RPRC
     University of Washington, Seattle, WA

   August 2 - 10New England RPRC
     One Pine Hill Drive, Southborough, MA

  September 6 - 14Wisconsin RPRC
     1223 Capitol Court, Madison, WI

   October 4 - 12Tulane RPRC
     18703 Three Rivers Road, Covington, LA

   November 1 - 9California RPRC
     University of California, Davis, CA

  December 6 - 14Yerkes RPRC
     Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 22:47:35 -0400
From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail], [e-mail]
Subject: Admin Note: Militant P.E.T.A
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allen
********
"We are either part of the problem or part of the solution. Walk your talk
and no one will be in doubt of where you stand."
  -- Howard F. Lyman
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 1997 23:35:24 -0400
From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Admin Note--Embedded HTML posts
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
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I'll begin "cc"ing those who do this next time......

Do not post Embedded HTML files to AR-News!  Either copy/paste as text in
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