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- Bacons describes this magazine as:
-
- "Edited for management in the mass entertainment industry to keep them
- up-to-date on consumer attendance at amusement centers. Highlights include
- the weekly activities at fairs, tourist attractions, sports events, carnivals
- and CIRCUSES".
-
- It comes out each week. Good for circus itineraries. There is a fee to
- subscribe.
-
- Amusement Business
- 49 Music Square W.
- 5th Floor
- Nashville, TN 37203-3213
- Phone: 615-321-4250
-
- Deborah Famiglietti
-
-
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 02:15:42 -0700 (PDT)
- From: David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: [CA] Injunction sought against coho salmon fishery
- Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19970616021622.0aa75136@dowco.com>
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-
- VANCOUVER, B.C. - The Sierra Legal Defence Fund is seeking a court injuction
- tomorrow which, if granted, prohibit the sports fishery industry from
- landing coho salmon.
-
- Coho numbers are said to be at extremely low levels.
-
- The sports fishery industry is complaining that the injuction would be
- unfair as native fisheries would remain untouched by the court order.
-
- The federal fisheries minister, David Anderson, said that he believes the
- use of court action was "inappropiate".
-
-
- David J Knowles
- Animal Voices News
-
-
-
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 02:15:44 -0700 (PDT)
- From: David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: [CA] Canine conundrum
- Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19970616021623.0aa734ea@dowco.com>
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-
- The following story includes reference to the fact that Chihuahuas are
- non-existent in Great Britain. Having seen many dogs that appear to look
- like the breed whilst living there and whilst visiting, I now wonder if I
- was suffering an optical illusion.
-
- >From the Burnaby Now - Sunday, June 15th, 1997
-
- By Dan Hilborn
- Burnaby Now Reporter
-
- Lucille Sawyer was very [roud of Chico, the pet chihuahua she purchased at
- the Pet Habitat store in Brentwood Mall.
-
- But the native of Great Britain, where the tiny Mexican-bred dog is
- non-existent [sic], Sawyer was shocked to discover she paid $800 for an
- animal with improperly signed pedigree papers.
-
- What she wound up with - despite what the American Kennel Club pedigree
- claims - was a miniature pinscher.
-
- "It was a deliberate fraudulent act to advertise an animal that is not a
- purebred by pedigree," she told Burnaby NOW this week.
-
- "ask the American Kennel Club why they send documentation for a purebred
- pedigree when obviously this animal is not."
-
- Her story started on Feb. 16 when Sawyer and her daughter walked into the
- Brentwood Mall store and found the cute little dog advertised for $999.
- After a little bit of haggling, she talked the store manager down in price
- and paid with her Visa card.
-
- the relationship between owner and pet flourished until Sawyer was out for a
- walk and ran into a neighbour who asked what breed of dog Chico was. Her
- reponse brought on howls of laughter.
-
- "Come with me Missus. I will show you a real chihuahua," said the neighbour,
- who went into his home and pulled out a tiny ball of fluff barely bigger
- than his hand.
-
- "When I looked at this tiny creature and then at Chico, the penny dropped,"
- Sawyer said. Her four-month-old Chico was already 10 times the weight and
- four times the length of a real chihuahua.
-
- Sawyer, a former war correspondent with rather substantive investigative
- skills, was not about to let the matter lie there. She sent Chico's blood
- sample for DNA testing and she is having anti-body samples taken just to
- make sure he's even had his vaccinations.
-
- And in the intervening months, she's tracked down both the breeder and the
- pet broker who sold the dog to Pet Habitat to try to determine both their
- reputation and the conditions in which they raise and the ship the pets.
-
- Her most disturbing suspicion is that Chico was actually bred at a puppy
- mill - one of the infamous US breeding centres which have prompted numerous
- consumer alerts from the American Humane Society because of the deplorable
- conditions in which they raise their dogs.
-
- Her suspicions only increased when she contacted the breeder in Berryville,
- Akansas, and inquired what kinds of dogs are raised there.
-
- The woman who answered the phone confirmed she specializes in dachshunds,
- miniature pinschers, and Chihuahuas. (Minipins, as they are commonly called,
- are a cross between dachshunds and chihuahuas.)
-
- And in the meantime, Sawyer advises anyone interested in a real purebred dog
- to do their buying from a registered breeder, not a pet store.
-
- "What I'm hoping is there'll be a law that makes pet stores sell pet
- supplies only, and live animals have to come through the breeder.
-
- "I'm just one example, but how many people out there have these conundrums?
- I'm not going to let this rest," she vowed.
-
- Sawyer has also been in contact with a well-known local breeder of
- chihuahuas who is convinced the broker, who ultimately sold Chico too the
- Brentwood Mall pet store, was aware of the improperly signed pedigree
- papers. And she has since found out the store recently sold a second animal
- just like Chico, improperly identified as a chihuahua, to another customer.
-
- Attempts to contact the owner or manager at Pet Habitat in Brentwood Mall
- were unsucessful, however, an unidentified employee did return a call
- Thursday morning to respond to to some questions.
-
- "When we get a puppy, we trust that it's from a good place," said the young
- woman.
-
- "We've never had problems in the past, so I'm thinking something went wrong
- here. It's an odd occurrence."
-
- The employee said the pedigree papers were provided by the breeder.
-
- "We trust everything is in order. It's not really the store's fault, it goes
- back to the breeder."
-
- The employee admitted she even raised concerns about possible buying from
- puppy mills when she first started working at the store 18 months ago, but
- the previous owner showed her photographs of the breeding operation to help
- abate her suspicions.
-
- When asked how the pedigree papers ended up being improperly signed for a
- chihuahua, she said: " All our pets have pedigrees, but they're not for
- breeding - they're like pet stock."
-
- When asked how pedigree papers could be for anything else other than
- breeding purposes, the employee said: "Maybe you should talk to the owner,
- because you're turning everything around."
-
- T0he store owner did not return phone calls after the Burnaby NOW left at
- least three messages this week.
-
-
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 02:15:47 -0700 (PDT)
- From: David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: [CA] B.C. Agriculture shifting to new ground
- Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19970616021626.0aa72c72@dowco.com>
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-
- >From The Province - Sunday, June 15th, 1997
-
- Changing market conditions are forcing B.C.'s farmers to diversify
-
- By Tony Wanless
-
- After 28 years as a chicken farmer, Judy Thompson has had it.
-
- Increasing costs, lower margins and brutal competition are making the whole
- thing uneconomical.
-
- But this is not a story about how yet another farmer is leaving the life and
- contributing to the slow dwindling of farming in Canada.
-
- That's the cliche believed by most non-farm people. Thompson, who runs a
- 25,000-bird broiler operation in Sooke, is the reality.
-
- She's just about had it with chickens. But she hasn't had it with farming.
- Sure, there was a moment when she thought of quitting completely, but she
- got through it.
-
- Instead, she's diversifying. She's brought her three grown and educated
- children back to her farm, and they're going to go into horticulture, the
- fastest-growing segment of farming in B.C.
-
- They're also going into direct farm marketing - another growth sector - and
- will sell nursery products they grow right from their farm.
-
- "I've basically put my poultry farm on hold," Thompson says.
-
- "When they [the federal government] eliminated grain freight-rate subsidies,
- they increased my costs considerably, and it's just not economic any more.
- Also, the GATT agreement meant a loss of our ability to control imports, so
- there will be more competition. It made me realize that I have to diversify.
-
- "I looked at at a way of getting out of the business, but I realized I
- wanted to stay.. So, now that my kids are in it with me, we'll go into the
- landscaping/horticultural end. It's a have-to thing you do in order to
- survive. I'll still keep some chickens, because I like doing it. Unless it's
- totally uneconomic, I'll keep doing it."
-
- Thompson's trials typify what's happening in the farm scene in B.C. - and in
- more ways than one. She's also president of the venerable B.C. Federation of
- Agriculture, which, this month, is dissolving after 60 years of representing
- B.C. farmers.
-
- Chages in recent years - such as the growth of comodity groups, the
- emergence of new types of farming and the changing nature of farming - meant
- the BCFA no longer represented all farmers as it once did, she says.
-
- A new central farm organization is in the works and should be up and runnimg
- by the end of the summer, but it's not clear yet what it will do, and what
- its mandate will be. That's all still under discussion.
-
- The decline of the BCFA and the emergence of a new organization is a fitting
- symbol for B.C's farming picture, which is in the throes of change and,
- despite the popular belief, is actually doing quite well. One could almost
- say it's booming.
-
- Indeed, a 19996 census of agriculture, released last month, showed that B.C.
- far outpaced other provinces with a 12.6 per cent increase in the number of
- farms since 1991. Much of that increase came from growth in small-sized,
- specialized operations close to urban areas.
-
- Not only did B.C. lead the country in the growth of small farming, but it
- also has the most technically advanced farmers. A quarter of farms in B.C.
- had computers in 1996, far surpassing most other provinces.
-
- The picture that emerges from the census data is of a widely diversified
- farm scene in B.C. that is extremely dynamic. The number of large commercial
- operations has dwindled, but technology and new investment has allowed the
- fewer numbers to produce far more at lower cost.
-
- The farm picture starts to look very much like a barbell. A declining number
- of large commercial operations a one end, and a growing number of small,
- part-time farms - often maintained as much out of philosophy as for
- economics - at the other.
-
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 02:15:49 -0700 (PDT)
- From: David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: [CA] State of farming in B.C.
- Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19970616021629.1bc7a6d6@dowco.com>
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-
- >From The Province - Sunday, June 15th, 1997
-
- Number of farms in B.C. - 21,653
-
- Growth (1991-1996) - 12.6 %
-
- Number of farms in Canada - 274,955
-
- Growth (1991 - 1996) - (-1.8 %)
-
- B.C. Farms with sales under $10,000 - 11,400
-
- B.C. Farms with sales over $10,000 - 3,400
-
- B.C. acreage in crops - 1,397,970
-
- B.C acreage in pasture - 3,491,172
-
- Five major B.C. crops (1996)
- Hay and fodder -
- 859,857 acres
- Barley
- - 111,483 acres
- Spring Wheat -
- 96, 564 acres
- Oats
- - 84, 220 acres
- Canola
- - 63, 805 acres
-
- B.C. Livestock
-
- Total cattle and cows -
- 814,103
- Beef cattle
- - 272,217
- Dairy cows -
- 82,008
- Sheep and lambs -
- 71,603
- Pigs
- - 174,169
- Hens and Chickens -
- 13,759,261
-
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 03:37:14 -0700 (PDT)
- From: David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: [UK] Flag-raising protesters claim UDI for Rockall
- Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19970616033754.1bc7a4d4@dowco.com>
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-
-
- >From The Electronic Telegraph - Monday, June 16th, 1997
-
- Flag-raising protesters claim UDI for Rockall
- By Sebastien Berger
-
- THE Atlantic island of Rockall yesterday made a unilateral declaration of
- independence from the United Kingdom.
-
- At dawn three Greenpeace protesters living on the 70ft rock off Scotland
- since last week read out their proclamation to establish a so-called Global
- State of Waveland, with Rockall as its capital. The flag of Waveland was
- raised: a black rock marked with a whale outline, emerging from black waves
- and surmounted by a rainbow.
-
- The inhabitants - named as Peter, Mike and Al - are demonstrating against
- plans to explore for the massive oil deposits thought to lie below the
- waters surrounding Rockall, which have been claimed by Ireland, Iceland and
- Denmark as well as the United Kingdom.
-
- Their declaration asserted that "humans should respect and protect the
- global commons and the diversity of life on earth" and "secure peace with
- the natural world". A Foreign Office spokesman said: "Rockall has been
- British since 1955. That was confirmed by an Act of Parliament. I don't
- think we would take this very seriously as a challenge to our sovereignty."
-
- ⌐ Copyright Telegraph Group Limited 1997.
-
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 03:37:18 -0700 (PDT)
- From: David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: [UK] Vets call for boar hunt to halt deadly disease
- Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19970616033758.0aa773ba@dowco.com>
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-
-
- >From The Electronic Telegraph - Monday, June 16th, 1997
-
- Vets call for boar hunt to halt deadly disease
- By David Brown, Agriculture Editor
-
- VETS and farmers are urging the Government to mount the biggest wild boar
- hunt since the Middle Ages to protect pigs from a deadly disease which is
- sweeping Holland, Germany and other European countries.
-
- About 300 boar which have escaped from specialist farms, and pigs which have
- cross-bred with them, are believed to be roaming the Kent and Sussex
- countryside. Others have been reported in Humberside and Scotland and all of
- them, according to the Pig Veterinary Society, are potential carriers of
- Classical Swine Fever.
-
- Vets and farmers have accused the Ministry of Agriculture of failing to take
- wild boar seriously as a pest. John Wilkinson, senior vice-president of the
- Pig Veterinary Society, said yesterday: "We want the Ministry of Agriculture
- to investigate methods of controlling the wild boar as a matter of urgency.
- These wild boar must be controlled by whatever means available."
-
- Britain's native wild boar were hunted to extinction by the end of the 17th
- Century. From the late 1970s a few farmers have introduced wild boar from
- Europe and from zoos to provide speciality meats. Some farmers cross-breed
- them with domestic pigs in an attempt to
- produce larger amounts of tastier pork.
-
- Most of the wild boar escapees are believed to be these cross-bred animals,
- and this has worried vets and farmers, because they produce larger litters
- of piglets and can multiply faster in the wild. They recognise no fence
- boundaries and are believed to be "recruiting" other domesticated sows from
- outdoor pig herds to join them in the wild.
-
- Mr Wilkinson said yesterday that the ministry had managed successfully to
- eradicate coypu, a South American pest which escaped from British fur farms
- to cause damage to dykes in East Anglia, where it built huge burrows. He
- said: "A similar campaign should be mounted against wild boar before the
- problem gets out of hand and before a major epidemic of disease, such as
- swine fever, enters this country."
-
- ⌐ Copyright Telegraph Group Limited 1997.
-
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 07:43:31 -0400
- From: allen schubert <alathome@clark.net>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: (US) A home for troubled animals
- Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970616074328.00690f04@clark.net>
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-
- from USA Today web page:
- ------------------------------------------
- A home for troubled animals
-
- NEW YORK - A calf who escaped death by running away from a slaughterhouse
- is now rolling in clover. Elsie,
- a 300-pound Hereford calf, arrived Wednesday at her new home at Green
- Chimneys, a 150-acre farm in
- Brewster for rescued animals and troubled children. The 100 kids at Green
- Chimneys greeted the latest arrival
- to their 300-animal farm with a banner reading "Welcome Elsie." Founder Sam
- Ross said Elsie will help
- troubled city kids, who are responsible for her care. Elsie and four sheep
- were bought from an animal dealer,
- and were on their way to slaughter in the Bronx when the calf dashed from a
- truck May 21. Police had to rope it,
- but the resulting publicity helped the animals find a new home. The calf
- and sheep were being treated at an
- animal hospital. Ross said the four sheep were expected at Green Chimneys soon.
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 07:55:57 -0400
- From: allen schubert <alathome@clark.net>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: (US) Potatoes Help Find Cheap Vaccines
- Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970616075554.006df300@clark.net>
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-
- more genetically altered foods
- from AP Wire page:
- -------------------------------------
- 06/16/1997 06:44 EST
-
- Potatoes Help Find Cheap Vaccines
-
- BALTIMORE (AP) -- Scientists are planning to feed genetically-altered
- potatoes to human volunteers in hopes of tricking the immune system into
- fighting a common intestinal bug.
-
- The trial at the University of Maryland is a collaboration with the Boyce
- Thompson Institute for Plant Research in Ithaca, N.Y., which conceived
- the idea and grew the potatoes.
-
- The university will run the clinical trial and evaluate the results in
- what is the first test of an edible plant vaccine. The target is a strain
- of E. coli that produces diarrhea and in poor countries regularly
- afflicts people living with poor sanitation.
-
- In a trial that could begin this summer, volunteers would eat three
- servings of chopped, raw potatoes over the course of three weeks. The
- volunteers would be divided into three groups: Two would eat different
- doses of the altered spuds; a third would dine on unaltered potatoes.
-
- The image of children eating vaccines that come from the ground is
- irresistible to science.
-
- ``It's the ultimate oral immunization,'' said Dr. Myron Levine, the
- director who founded the university's Center for Vaccine Development and
- has become internationally known as a leader in vaccine research. ``And
- it's as cheap as can be.''
-
- Plant vaccines hold special promise for developing countries which could
- use them while bypassing manufacturing costs.
-
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 09:24:07 -0400
- From: Jun1022@cybernex.net (Student Abolitionist League)
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: Activists Imprisoned, Harassed For Lawful Demonstration
- Message-ID: <v01540b01afc96d3d07d1@[204.141.118.229]>
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-
- Civil Liberties Defense Fund
- For Immediate Release
- Contact: Adam Weissman
- 6/15/97
- (201) 930-9026
-
- News Release
- Arrest of Long Island Teen
- Activists Condemned
- by National Civil Liberties Organization
- The Civil Liberties Defense Fund (CLDF), a national civil liberties
- organization, has condemned the arrest of five teen-aged members of the
- Long Island Animal Defense League during a demonstration at John Pappas
- Furs on Sunrise Highway in Sayville yesterday as "a brazen violation of
- fundamental civil liberties."
- The five began their demonstration at 1 PM. One hour later, police
- appeared and demanded that they cross the street stating that their protest
- signs were obscuring the view of the street to cars pulling from the
- parking lot onto sunrise highway. The activists complied immediately. 10
- minutes later plainclothes police officers approached the activists,
- failing to indentify themselves as police officers and began filming them
- with video cameras in a provocative manner, holding cameras only six inches
- to one foot from their faces. As part of a planned "street
- theater"activists had previously donned masks. To obtain footage of their
- faces, officers forcibly ripped these masks off their faces, mildly
- injuring the jaw of activist Chris Cassarino in the process.
- Officers began surrounding the group's coordinator Justin Taylor
- and threw him against a wall. While one officer continued pulling his
- sign, a second used his hand to block the lens of the video camera Justin
- was using to film the incident while a third grabbed Taylor's backpack and
- conducted an illegal search. The officer blocking Taylor's camera used
- profane and abusive language threatening to physically assault the activist
- if he did not stop filming, and to seize his camera. Officers refused to
- give him and others their names or badge numbers, instead offering threats
- of violence and numerous expletives. According to CLDF's Adam Weissman,
- "When police threaten to seize cameras, a blatant violation of due process,
- and illegally refuse to give their names and badge numbers, it is a sure
- sign that police brutality and wrongdoing are underway." Cassarino
- received the same treatment. A third activist, Peter Berzins was shoved in
- the chest by an officer in a show of unnecessary and unprovoked force.
- Cassarino, and a fourth activist, Carol Mehaffey, proceeded to the
- nearest phone booth to make a collect call to the Civil Liberties Defense
- Fund's Civil Liberties Crisis Hotline, and relayed a summarized version of
- these events to Weissman, who requested that they ask a police officer to
- speak with him. The officers refused. As soon as their call to Weissman
- ended, the two were arrested without warning or provocation.
- Meanwhile the remaining officers completed their illegal search of
- Taylor and Cassarino's bags, after which the two groups, activists and
- police, huddled in separate circles to discuss the situation. An older
- activists arrived late to the demonstration, took a protest sign and began
- pacing. Police then tired to grab her sign and then said to the three other
- activists, again with no warning or provocation, "You're under arrest." In
- what CLDF describes as "a clear case of selective prosecution", the older
- activist was not arrested.
- The activists were taken to the fifth precinct, where they
- were charged with loitering, which civil libertarians charge was, "a gross
- violation of their first amendment right to free assembly." "These young
- people were expressing their convictions through lawful, nonviolent, and
- time honored methods. The conduct of the police was un-American, an insult
- to the tradion of civil liberties this nation has worked so hard to
- preserve."
- Weissman attempted to reach the commanding officer, Sgt. Ryan at
- the 5th precinct for comment, but found her uncooperative. He commented,
- "I have dealt with many police departments, but I have never experienced
- behavior of such an unprofessional nature by any precinct, and moreso, by
- any commanding officer. It was clear they'd done something wrong and were
- now trying to cover up." The male activists were later transferred to the
- 3rd precinct which hung up on Mr. Weissman repeatedly and refused to inform
- him of the court where the activists were to be arraigned mad Mehaffey, the
- only female , was transfered to the 4th precinct
- -30-
-
- Update: The activists were released on their own
- recognizance
-
- Student Abolitionist League: A Networking Organization and Resource Center
- for Student Animal Rights Groups
-
-
-
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 11:36:48 -0400 (EDT)
- From: JanaWilson@aol.com
- To: Ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: (US) Oklahoma Wildlife Breeding Study
- Message-ID: <970616112753_-1227975320@emout13.mail.aol.com>
-
-
- At the last Oklahoma Wildlife Commission meeting, Mr. John
- Streich, the Wildlife's Dept.'s law enforcement chief, told the
- Commission that 65 commericial wildlife breeders are currently
- licensed in Oklahoma, but that others may exist who are
- operating illegally.
- The Wildlife Commission voted to form a committee to review
- the department's role in regulating commercial wildlife breeders
- and provide recommendations for addressing the issue.
-
- For the Animals,
-
- Jana, OKC
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 11:54:42 -0400 (EDT)
- From: JanaWilson@aol.com
- To: Ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: (US) Oklahoma Weekly Hunting News
- Message-ID: <970616115241_-1463215351@emout20.mail.aol.com>
-
-
- A free clinic is being offered Saturday at Oklahoma's Lake
- Thunderbird (near Norman, Okla) to teach people how to catch
- big catfish at night.
- Sponsored by the Oklahoma Wildlife Dept and the Little River
- State Park, the clinic is limited to 40 persons, ages 10 to 20,
- who have never fished for catfish at night. Some equipment
- will be provided, but participants may bring their own gear.
-
- Night fishing will also the subject of a seminar sponsored by
- the Wildlife Dept.'s Fishery Research Lab at 7pm on Tuesday
- at Jumbo Sports I-35 and I-240 in Oklahoma City
-
- The Okla. Wildlife Commission has approved a $25.4 million
- Wildlife Dept. budget, which reflects a 1.5 percent reduction
- from last year's budget. The Wildlife officals said that while
- inflation has eroded hunting and fishing license income, the
- Dept. is trimming spending to maintain a balanced budget for
- the 1998 fiscal year beginning the first of July. They also said
- the dept. is also nearing completion of a five-year-plan for
- its programs and projects. The plan includes a thorough
- review of its spending and an evaluation of all its programs.
-
- An introductory archery class for women will be held at
- Lake Thunderbird on June 27. It will be cosponsored by
- the Oklahoma Wildlife Dept and Little River State Park.
- Geared towards women between 16 to 35 , the class will be
- at the park's archery range from 6 to 9 pm. It is free and
- all equipment will be provided. Participants must pre-register.
-
- For the Animals,
-
- Jana, OKC
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 12:26:36 -0400 (EDT)
- From: JanaWilson@aol.com
- To: Ar-News@envirolink.org
- Subject: (US) Oklahoma Wildlife Department Survey
- Message-ID: <970616122511_135016430@emout15.mail.aol.com>
-
-
- The Oklahoma Wildlife Dept., the state agency which is responsible
- for managing the state's fish and wildlife resources, has recently
- completed a telephone survey of 812 randomly selected Oklahomans
- to find out what Oklahomans know about the depts. operations.
- In far too many instances , the answer was not much. The survey
- asked someone in each household about 50 questions. It was one
- of the first steps in a comprehensive effort on what the public knows
- about the agency, and what they want the Wildlife dept. to
- emphasize with its programs and projects.
-
- Thirty-three percent of those surveyed said they weren't even aware
- that a state agency is responsible for managing fish and and wildlife,
- and only 36 percent of those who knew about the agency knew its
- official name (Oklahoma Dept. of Wildlife Conservation) or could offer
- an acceptable variation such as the Wildlife Department.
-
- For analysis purposes, participants were separated according to
- level of familiarity with dept.'s programs. "Those who were familiar
- with us were the strongest supporters of the agency" according to
- a spokesman for the dept. "Particpants not familiar with the Wildlife
- Dept. were more likely to say they were neither satisfied nor
- dissatisfied or that they had no opinion about the dept."
-
- When those who said they were familiar with agency were asked if
- the agency 's performance had, in their opinion, improved, declined,
- or stayed the same, 64% said the dept. had either greatly improved
- or somewhat improved. Only 6% said they thought the agency's
- performance had declined. 31% indicated agency performance had
- not changed, or they said they had no opinion.
-
- More than half of those surveyed said that they had hunted ( 18%),
- fished (48%), or done both in the past 12 months. The most
- popular activity, however, was feeding wildlife. 54% of those polled
- said they had done this in the past year.
-
- Other pursuits included picniking, 52%; bird watching, 38%;
- camping, 31%; hiking, 30%; and wildlife photography, 25%.
- 13% said they had participated in none of these activities.
-
- Among those who did not hunt or fish, support for legal fishing
- and hunting was very high - 93% for fishing and 79% for hunting.
- Assuming hunters and anglers are supportive of their own
- activities, support for legal fishing rose to 96%, while support
- for legal hunting increased to 84%.
-
- For the Animals,
-
- Jana, OKC
-
-
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 97 13:13:05 UTC
- From: SDURBIN@VM.TULSA.CC.OK.US
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: Deadly Feasts: Tracking the Secrets of a Terrifying New Plague
- Message-ID: <199706161813.OAA10573@envirolink.org>
-
- This book is by Richard Rhodes, pub. by Simon & Schuster, 1997.
- After reading this book, people may finally decide to go vegetarian.
- It's an account of the continuing saga of mad cow disease and its
- antecedents, descendants, and close relatives.
-
- -- Sherrill
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 09:58:50 -0700 (PDT)
- From: Friends of Animals <foa@igc.apc.org>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: CITES Update Monday, June 16
- Message-ID: <2.2.16.19970616124540.26ef9d1e@pop.igc.org>
- Mime-Version: 1.0
- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
-
- Today at The CITES Meeting in Harare Zimbabwe:
-
-
- Japans Propsal to downlist The Eastern Pacific Stock of Gray
- Whales was defeated in a secret ballot by a vote of 61 No and
- 47 Yes with 8 countries obstaining. This proposal would have
- transferred these grey whales from Appendix 1 to Appendix 2.
- Last Thursday another Japanese proposal which sought to redefine
- the relationship between CITES and the International Whaling
- Commission (IWC) was also defeated in committee by a secret
- ballot vote of 51 No and 27 Yes.
-
-
- Tomorrow (Tuesday. 6/17) will see several important votes, including
- the attempts by Zimbabwe, Namibia and Botswana to remove
- protection for elephants. Votes on rhinos and bears are also
- expected tomorrow. FoA will post results as soon as they are available.
-
- Bill Dollinger, Friends of Animals
-
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 19:11:40 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Ione Smith <ilsmith@utkux.utcc.utk.edu>
- To: David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com>
- Cc: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: Re: [CA] Canine conundrum
- Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.94.970616190428.662B-100000@utkux4.cas.utk.edu>
- MIME-Version: 1.0
- Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
-
- Please forgive me sending this note to the list--this is NOT opinion,
- but a factual correction. (And it's not directed personally at you, David,
- but at the article's author.)
-
- On Mon, 16 Jun 1997, David J Knowles wrote:
-
- [....]
- >
- > >From the Burnaby Now - Sunday, June 15th, 1997
- >
- > By Dan Hilborn
- > Burnaby Now Reporter
- [....]
- >
- > The woman who answered the phone confirmed she specializes in dachshunds,
- > miniature pinschers, and Chihuahuas. (Minipins, as they are commonly called,
- > are a cross between dachshunds and chihuahuas.)
-
- Minipins are most assuredly NOT a "cross between dachshunds and
- chihuahuas". They are a legitimate breed in their own right. There is
- also a slightly larger version called "standard pinschers", more popular
- in Europe and very rare in the U.S.
-
- Thanks for your patience with this interruption.
-
- Ione
-
- ==================================================
- http://funnelweb.utcc.utk.edu/~ilsmith/ethics.html
- for all sides of the AR/AW/anti-AR debate
-
- http://funnelweb.utcc.utk.edu/~ilsmith/SVME.html
- The Society for Veterinary Medical Ethics
-
- http://funnelweb.utcc.utk.edu/~ilsmith/stereo.html
- the stereotypical behaviors database
- ==================================================
- I am always willing to learn, however I do not
- always like to be taught. -- Winston Churchill
-
- Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 09:23:18 +0000
- From: "Karen Bevis" <KBevis@swin.edu.au>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: Fur Protest in Melbourne (AU)
- Message-ID: <199706162321.AA32534@lucy.cc.swin.edu.au>
-
- On Saturday 14 June close to 50 Animal Liberation supporters gathered
- in City Square, Melbourne for a anti-fur demonstration.
-
- Most of the protesters were dressed in black. The girls holding the
- banner "Bring Out Your Dead" were dressed in long black skirts and
- were wearing veils. A wheelbarrow full of animal 'furs' (fake),
- covered in 'blood' (paint) and topped off by a steel-jaw trap was
- also a part of the procession.
-
- The funeral-like procession visited three fur shops in the heart of
- Melbourne - chanting 'Bring out your dead', ringing bells and holding
- candles and placards. There was a lot of public interest and
- leaflets were handed out.
-
- After an initial visit from a single policeman as we were preparing
- to move off, there was no police presence. We were accompanied by a
- number of television camermen.
-
- The demonstration was very successful and will be repeated again (a
- number of times) during the winter.
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- Karen Bevis
- Animal Liberation (Victoria) Net Site Co-ordinator
- Email: kbevis@swin.edu.au
- http://www.vicnet.net.au/~animals/alibvic/
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- "Vegetarianism won't cost the earth"
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 19:34:22 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Katj2@aol.com
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: Request for information.
- Message-ID: <970616193150_1787977462@emout04.mail.aol.com>
-
- I am looking for an address of Huntington Life Sciences in New Jersery. They
- were featured in a story on Entertainment Tonight. The story was about
- experiments that were scheduled to be performed on 36 beagle puppies. The
- experiments would include breaking and sawing the pups legs in order to test
- a new drug. The experiment has only been postponed due to the fact that it
- has been brought to the publics attention by Kim Basinger and PETA. I would
- like the address of this facility and phone and fax number if possible. I
- hope someone out there can help!!!
-
- Sincerely
- Katj2@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 16:12:02 -0700
- From: igor@earthlink.net (Elephant Advocates)
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: LA Zoo berated on front page of LA Times
- Message-ID: <v01530504afcb72df83d1@[207.217.3.44]>
- Mime-Version: 1.0
- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
-
- Please email letters to the editor: letters@latimes.com
-
- FRONT PAGE
- LOS ANGELES TIMES
- By DEBORAH BELGUM, Special to The Times
- Monday, June 16, 1997
-
- Animal Escapes Add to L.A. Zoo Woes
-
- Wildlife: Officials say all were caught. Problem comes as elephants test
- positive for tuberculosis.
-
- File this one under Call of the Wild.
- In the past year, a dozen animals at the Los Angeles Zoo have escaped
- from their cages, according to federal inspection and zoo reports.
- Those on the lam were a gorilla, a snow leopard, a howler monkey,
- four spider monkeys and, most recently, five colobus monkeys that fled
- their confines
- in mid-May.
- While all of the missing mammals were caught and none of the
- incidents proved
- to be a threat to visitors, the escapes--several of which have been
- attributed to zookeeper error--seem to be happening more frequently than at
- many other zoos, according to zoo officials elsewhere.
- "I guess I would have to say that it is highly suspicious to have
- that many
- errors," said William Amand, executive director of the American Assn. of Zoo
- Veterinarians.
- L.A. Zoo Director Manuel Mollinedo said he is concerned about the
- incidents.
- "I take an escape very, very seriously," he said. "It not only endangers
- the animals but our keepers."
- In addition, an L.A. Zoo elephant tested positive recently for
- tuberculosis, as has a second elephant that was transferred out of the L.A.
- Zoo in October.
- Another L.A. Zoo elephant, which died of salmonella infection in
- March, also had tested positive for tuberculosis, and active tuberculosis
- was found in a lymph node during the necropsy.
- Zoo officials said they are not worried that people visiting the
- zoo could become infected because the facility's four remaining pachyderms
- are separated from spectators by a moat. Also, a positive tuberculosis test
- does not necessarily mean the animals actually have tuberculosis, because
- the tests, medical officials said, can show false results.
- Moreover, they point out, it is impossible to X-ray elephants to
- determine
- whether they indeed have the disease.
- The zoo's longtime elephant trainer, George French, who retired in
- May, has tested negative for tuberculosis. And so have two other elephants,
- Ruby and Gita. Billy, a 12-year-old Asian elephant, has not been tested
- because handlers can't get close enough to draw blood from him for a test.
-
- David Blasko, executive director of the Elephant Managers' Assn., an
- international group of 400 elephant handlers, said he hasn't heard of other
- zoo elephants testing positive for tuberculosis.
- The unusual series of incidents at the L.A. Zoo--which will become
- a separate city department as a result of a 12-0 City Council vote
- Friday--have been documented in U.S. Department of Agriculture inspection
- reports and in zoo staff meeting notes.
- None of the escaped animals got beyond the zoo's boundaries,
- Mollinedo said.
- In July, a teenage male gorilla named Jim escaped from his holding
- area by bending a faulty steel door and slipping into an enclosed yard
- behind the building.
- Instead of climbing out of the yard, the gorilla lingered for a couple of
- hours and returned to his holding area. The steel door has been reinforced,
- Mollinedo said.
- In August, a snow leopard escaped when a zookeeper did not secure
- the door to its holding area. The leopard went into a food preparation area
- within the building for at least two hours. Employees had to tranquilize
- the leopard with a dart gun to return it to its cage, the zoo director
- said.
- A howler monkey fled its confines last fall when a zookeeper opened
- a cage door and the primate immediately scrambled out and made a beeline
- for a nearby acacia tree, remaining in the tree until a blow dart was used
- to tranquilize it. The cage, which Mollinedo said was poorly designed, has
- been repaired to prevent future escapes.
- In October, four spider monkeys fled their cage when two zookeepers
- did not latch a door. The simians eventually were coaxed to return to their
- abode.
- Most recently, five colobus monkeys slipped out of their holding
- area when a zookeeper didn't latch a door. The monkeys ambled over to some
- nearby trees. Four returned to their holding area. A fifth eluded
- zookeepers until it was tranquilized, general curator Judy Ball said.
- Ball, who recently came to the L.A. Zoo from the Woodland Park Zoo in
- Seattle, said escapes are known to happen in the zoo world. She remembers
- when 23 squirrel monkeys escaped from the Seattle zoo years ago when she
- was the general curator. It took days to trap the monkeys. One was run over
- by a car. Another was never found.
- At the Denver Zoo in December, an 8-foot 2-inch king cobra
- slithered out of its box through a crack near a sliding door. After morsels
- of rat meat failed to lure it back to its habitat, the snake was shot and
- killed.
- But at the Los Angeles Zoo, the escapes seem to be happening more
- frequently.
- "It happens," said David Robinette, general curator at the San
- Francisco Zoo, which has 730 animals, about half the number at the L.A.
- Zoo. "But I wouldn't say it is common here." He noted that in December five
- patas monkeys scrambled from their exhibit when a tree branch fell into
- their area. They were quickly shooed back in.
- "We haven't had a problem with that," said Charles Doyle, curator
- of mammals at the Burnet Park Zoo in Syracuse, N.Y., which has about 900
- animals.
- Zoo Atlanta, which has nearly 1,000 animals, hasn't had any escapes
- in the past year. Neither has the Metro Washington Park Zoo in Portland,
- Ore., which has 1,200 animals.
- In the past two years, the L.A. Zoo's staff has been working hard
- to improve the facility's image, which was tarnished in 1995 when
- inspectors from the American Zoo and Aquarium Assn. postponed accrediting
- the facility for one year.
- At that time, association inspectors cited a number of problems,
- including some conditions so bad that the health of certain animals was in
- jeopardy. Also cited were overcrowded conditions, enclosures with
- inadequate drainage systems and areas infected by vermin and termites.
- After changing directors and pumping $1.7 million into an emergency
- maintenance program, the zoo's accreditation was renewed in 1996.
- But problems continue to occur at the 220-acre Griffith Park facility.
- Last summer, two small monkeys called cotton-topped marmosets died
- after a keeper mistakenly left a heat lamp on over their nesting box on a
- hot July day, according to USDA inspection documents. Mollinedo confirmed
- the incident and blamed it on zookeeper error.
-
- And in March, a 29-year-old elephant, Annie, died from salmonella
- infection. A necropsy showed her lungs contained tuberculosis encapsulated
- in old calcified fibrous tissue. It was not believed to be contagious, said
- Charles Sedgwick, the zoo's director of animal health services.
- Tara, a 31-year-old African elephant that tested positive in May
- for TB, has lost more than 1,000 pounds in seven months, zoo officials
- confirmed. They attribute the weight loss, however, to a massive boil on
- Tara's rectum that employees have been treating for several months. Tara
- has lived at the L.A. Zoo since shortly after her birth in Africa in 1965.
- Calle, a 30-year-old female Asian elephant that tested positive for
- TB, is on loan to the San Francisco Zoo.
- Gary Johnson, who owns the Perris elephant compound, is waiting for
- test results on four of his elephants to see if they might have been
- exposed to tuberculosis. His elephants are sometimes used for elephant
- rides at fairs and events, posing a potential health risk to riders.
- The news of elephants testing positive for tuberculosis is a
- reminder of an incident last summer in which two Circus Vargas elephants in
- the Los Angeles area died of the infectious disease, which can be
- transmitted to humans.
- Until 1990, one of those circus elephants, Hattie, was owned by the Los
- Angeles Zoo before being sold to an elephant trainer in Illinois, who then
- leased her to Circus Vargas.
- Animal rights activists, upon hearing of the elephants possibly
- having TB, have begun to question how the hulking mammals are handled at
- the L.A. Zoo. "I don't
- think this zoo is set up for elephants," said Gretchen Wyler, president of
- the Ark Trust Inc., an animal rights group. Wyler also sits on the Los
- Angeles Zoo Directors Advisory Committee.
- Three years ago, the L.A. Zoo's elephant barn went through a
- $1.4-million renovation to improve care for the animals and make it safer
- for elephant keepers. Added were individual stalls for the animals and
- remote-controlled doors and video cameras. The zoo plans to build a
- $24-million Pachyderm Forest.
- Copyright Los Angeles Times
- ###
-
- note: Zoo records and research for this article provided by Elephant Advocates.
-
- send letters about the Zoo to:
-
- Mayor Richard Riordan
- 200 North Spring St., #305
- Los Angeles, CA 90012
- Wk: (213) 847-3634
- Fx: (213) 485-1286
-
- Ask that your letter become part of permanent record, filed under "LA Zoo"
- and copied to the Ad Hoc Committee for Zoo Improvement.
-
- ASK FOR CLOSURE OF THE ELEPHANT EXHIBIT. In the last 21 years, at least 21
- elephants have come into the LA Zoo and 11 have died there. None of old
- age or natural causes. The Zoo cannot claim to be making a contribution
- toward elephant conservation, education or welfare.
-
- Ask the AZA ( American Zoo & Aquarium Association) to rescind its
- accreditation to the LA Zoo.
-
- AZA Board of Directors
- 7970-D Old Georgetown Road
- Bethesda, MD 20814-2493
- Ph: (301) 907-7777
- Fx: (301) 907-2980
-
- ###
- Thank you. The Zoo has received 200 letters from all over the world from
- caring individuals, questioning their elephant care. Elephant Advocates
- has requested the letters through the California Public Records Act and
- will present them to City Council requesting closure of the elephant
- exhibit.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
- Deborah Famiglietti
-
-
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 22:03:07 -0400
- From: allen schubert <alathome@clark.net>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: (US) Procter & Gamble wants to take fake fat nationwide
- Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970616220303.006e7d5c@clark.net>
- Mime-Version: 1.0
- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
-
- from CNN web page:
- ------------------------------------
- Procter & Gamble wants to take fake fat nationwide
-
- Olestra now sold only in few states
-
- In this story:
-
- * FDA not worried by hundreds of complaints
- * Chefs demonstrate olestra-made meals
- * Related stories and sites
-
- June 16, 1997
- Web posted at: 4:20 p.m. EDT (2020 GMT)
-
- From Correspondent Eugenia Halsey
-
- (CNN) -- Right now, if you want the Olestra
- experience you have to live in Indiana, Ohio, or
- Colorado. The controversial fat substitute,
- approved last year by the Food and Drug
- Administration and marketed by Procter & Gamble
- under the brand name Olean, is being tested in
- those states. And, if critics have their way,
- national distribution won't proceed.
-
- Indianapolis is the newest and biggest test
- market, so far, for fake fat versions of Lay's and
- Ruffles brand potato chips and Doritos brand corn
- chips.
-
- You can also get olestra now in other companies'
- products, including Ritz and Wheat Thins crackers
- and Pringles potato chips.
-
- At first, Frito-Lay called its olestra-made potato
- chips "Max." The name didn't catch on, however,
- and was changed to "Wow!"
-
- FDA not worried by hundreds of complaints
-
- Olestra essentially is fat and sugar, chemically
- processed so that it passes through the human body
- unabsorbed.
-
- For now, it's approved only for salty snacks but
- for some consumers, one bag was enough.
-
- "They made me sick," one shopper told
- CNN, adding that snack foods made with
- olestra upset her stomach.
-
- "I had some cramping," one man said. "And if you
- read the bag, it says 'loose stools.' That
- happened (to me)."
-
- In all, about 800 consumers have reported mild to
- moderate side effects, including diarrhea,
- according to the FDA, which says the complaints
- are nothing worrisome.
-
- Still, the Center for Science in the Public
- Interest -- a consumer watchdog group -- wants
- olestra products pulled from shelves. "An additive
- that can cause vomiting or diarrhea does not
- belong in a snack food eaten by millions of
- Americans," argues Michael Jacobson, the center's
- executive director.
-
- Chefs demonstrate olestra-made meals
-
- Procter & Gamble has been firing back with
- testimonials, including one from former Health and
- Human Services Secretary Louis Sullivan, who is
- now a paid consultant to P&G.
-
- He says the fact that the FDA has approved the fat
- substitute is good enough for him. Sullivan calls
- olestra "a very good, innovative product with
- another approach to controlling our weight."
-
- Dr. Sullivan was among dozens of invited guests
- who recently attended an Atlanta dinner where
- appetizers and desserts were made with olestra
- oil, which has not yet been approved for the
- general public.
-
- "I think it's really the oil of the '90s,"
- said Chef Paul Albrecht of Pano's & Paul's
- restaurant. Procter & Gamble is demonstrating
- olestra-made meals in cities nationwide.
-
- The company claims Olestra snack foods have been
- flying off the shelves in test market cities.
- "We've sold or sampled more than 15 million
- servings," says P&G's Greg Allgood. "People are
- telling us that this is a product that works for
- them."
-
- For now, Frito-Lay plans to make "Wow!" potato
- chips available nationally sometime next year.
-
- Date: Mon, 16 Jun 1997 22:28:25 -0400
- From: allen schubert <alathome@clark.net>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: (US) Cattlemen Have Beef With Oprah
- Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970616222822.0070e618@clark.net>
- Mime-Version: 1.0
- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
-
- from AP Wire page:
- -------------------------------------
- 06/16/1997 17:42 EST
-
- Cattlemen Have Beef With Oprah
-
- By MARK BABINECK
- Associated Press Writer
-
- AMARILLO, Texas (AP) -- Texas cattlemen have a serious beef with Oprah
- Winfrey.
-
- During an ``Oprah Winfrey Show'' broadcast last year, a guest said that
- feeding ground-up animal parts to cattle could spread mad cow disease to
- humans in the United States. To applause from the studio audience, Ms.
- Winfrey exclaimed: ``It has just stopped me from eating another burger!''
-
- Cattle prices began to fall the day of the show and fell for two weeks
- before rising again.
-
- Amarillo cattle feeder Paul Engler and a dozen cattlemen are now suing
- under a 1995 Texas law that protects agricultural products from slander.
-
- ``I couldn't help but be infuriated,'' said Engler, who flipped on the
- program while visiting Chicago, Ms. Winfrey's home base. ``I sat there
- and couldn't hardly believe what I was seeing.''
-
- Engler's year-old federal lawsuit appears to be the biggest test yet of
- so-called ``veggie libel'' laws, which sprouted after a ``60 Minutes''
- report in 1989 on the growth regulator Alar sent apple prices plummeting.
- Since then, 13 states have passed laws against falsely disparaging
- products.
-
- Ms. Winfrey's show came at a time when drought, high feed prices and
- oversupply were crippling cattlemen. While her recommendations have made
- best sellers out of books, Engler said that same power cuts both ways.
-
- Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, has not been
- reported in the United States. It is a brain-destroying disease that has
- ravaged cattle in Britain since the late 1980s, where it is believed to
- have been spread by cattle feed containing ground-up sheep parts.
-
- Panic erupted last year because of fears that infected beef may have
- caused a version of a fatal human brain illness. But no definitive links
- have been found.
-
- During the ``Oprah'' show, U.S. Humane Society official Howard Lyman told
- the audience that 100,000 cows in this country drop dead annually for no
- known reason, and are ground up and fed to other cows, Engler's lawsuit
- said.
-
- ``If only one of them has `mad cow disease,' that has the potential to
- infect thousands,'' said Lyman, an anti-meat activist, according to the
- lawsuit. He followed other guests who played down the worries.
-
- Cattle prices had dropped 10 percent by the end of the month following
- the show, from 62 cents per pound to 55 cents.
-
- Engler said he lost $6.7 million. The cattlemen sued Lyman, Ms. Winfrey,
- her Harpo Productions Inc. and distributor King World Productions.
-
- Ms. Winfrey defended the show shortly after its airing but has since
- refused to discuss it.
-
- ``I asked questions that I think that the American people deserve to have
- answered in light of what is happening in Britain. We gave them
- (cattlemen) a chance to respond,'' she said in a statement at the time.
-
- Lyman's attorney, Barry Peterson, said: ``We don't believe Mr. Lyman nor
- Ms. Winfrey ever said U.S. beef was infected. ... He only said that
- practices within the industry were potentially threatening.''
-
- Earlier this month, the Food and Drug Administration ordered an end to
- feeding cattle meat and bone meal from other cattle.
-
- Seattle attorney Bruce Johnson, who successfully defended CBS in an
- Alar-related lawsuit, calls ``veggie libel'' laws a ``Pandora's box for
- every interest group that wants protection.''
-
- ``Political correctness takes many guises,'' said Johnson, who wrote a
- 1995 article blasting such laws. ``This happens to be agribusiness' take
- on political correctness.''
-
- Appeals courts traditionally have upheld states' rights to limit
- business-related speech, usually through truth-in-advertising laws, First
- Amendment specialist Tom Baker said.
-
- ``I guess it would be important to note from the Oprah side that this
- isn't commercial speech, it's speech about a public health issue,'' said
- Baker, a Texas Tech University law professor. ``How one characterizes the
- speech involved in the statute is really the First Amendment game.''
-
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