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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN//2.0"> <html> <head> <title>AR-NEWS Digest</title> </head> <BODY bgcolor=fbfaea text=#211818 link="#190748" alink="#FFFFEF" vlink="#401C92"> <center> <IMG SRC="IMAGES/HEAD.GIF" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/digest/images/head.gif" USEMAP="#toplinks" BORDER="0"><BR> <img src="IMAGES/YCBAR.GIF" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/digest/images/ycbar.gif"><a href="../INDEX~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/index.html"><img src="IMAGES/HOMEBAR.GIF" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/digest/images/homebar.gif" border=0></a><br></center> <map name="toplinks"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="345,27,393,54" href="../../../tppmsgs/msgs0.htm#14" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/envirohome.html"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="458,7,512,27" href="../SUPPOR~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/Support.html"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="401,7,446,26" href="../SEARCH~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/search.html"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="352,7,386,26" href="../ORGS~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/Orgs.html"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="298,7,337,25" href="../NEWSPA~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/newspage.html"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="211,7,286,27" href="../SUB~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/sub.html"> </map> <center><TABLE cellspacing=15 border=0> <TR> <TD width=50 align=center> </TD> <TD width=400 align=left> <!-- PAGE CONTENT GOES BELOW --> <hr> <pre> AR-NEWS Digest 478 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) ALF CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR HORSE SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIRE by civillib@cwnet.com 2) (CN) Pregnancy test kit for pandas by Vadivu Govind <kuma@cyberway.com.sg> 3) [CA] Vigil held for departing beluga by David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com> 4) Hot RCD/RHDV Quote from CSIRO scientist(New Zealand) by bunny <rabbit@wantree.com.au> 5) Re: ARs psychotics? (was violence, don't waste our time) by SamNordic@aol.com 6) (US) EPA May Regulate Gene-Modified Plants by allen schubert <alathome@clark.net> 7) (US) Oklahoma Anti-PETA Article (Long) by JanaWilson@aol.com 8) (US) Oklahoma Animal Cruetly Case by JanaWilson@aol.com 9) (US) Oklahoma HSUS Letter to the Editor by JanaWilson@aol.com 10) (US) OKlahoma Weekly Hunting News by JanaWilson@aol.com 11) FWD: Diet and Alzheimer's by Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net> 12) FWD: Earth First! Joins Protest Against Corporations by Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net> 13) Fwd: Bardot Doesn't Like Italy Horse Race by LMANHEIM@aol.com 14) Re: ARs psychotics? (was violence, don't waste our time) by "Alison G." <alisong@nicom.com> 15) please signoff me by Ming-Lee Yeh <myeh@osf1.gmu.edu> 16) UK Activist Alert: Anti Hunt March by MINKLIB@aol.com 17) Fw: Press Release Re Valter Conviction by "BHGazette" <BHG@intex.net> 18) Oh that Chris! by GlobalLib@aol.com 19) ALF COMMONIQUE FOR $1 MILLION SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIRE by civillib@cwnet.com 20) Admin Note [was: ARs psychotics?] by allen schubert <alathome@clark.net> 21) Admin Note [was: Oh that Chris!] by allen schubert <alathome@clark.net> 22) (IT) Bardot Doesn't Like Italy Horse Race by allen schubert <alathome@clark.net> 23) (AU) Australia's Koalas in Jeopardy by allen schubert <alathome@clark.net> 24) (US) Manure Leak Causes Fish Kill by allen schubert <alathome@clark.net> 25) Unscribe by Loveferets@aol.com Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 21:02:38 -0700 (PDT) From: civillib@cwnet.com To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: ALF CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR HORSE SLAUGHTERHOUSE FIRE Message-ID: <199707270402.VAA10828@borg.cwnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" URGENT NEWS ADVISORY July 26, 1997 Contact: Craig/Liberation Collective (503)280-8916 or (503)230-9990 UNDERGROUND ALF CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR SLAUGHTERHOUSE ARSON; $1 MILLION IN DAMAGES! Portland, OR - In a communique made public early Saturday, an international underground animal rights organization officially claimed responsibility for an arson attack on a Redmond, OR slaughterhouse on July 21, which resulted in over $1 million in damages and the closure of the meat processing plant. The Cavel West horse rendering plant had been a target of animal rights activists for years. This action was designed to "bring to a screeching halt what countless protests and letter writing campaigns could never stop," said the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) in its communique, sent to sympathetic animal rights groups. The ALF - which has a code of nonviolence, and in 20 years of operation in the U.S. has never harmed a human or nonhuman animal - has taken issue with industries of animal torture and exploitation. The communique went on to state; "At least $1,000,000 of damage has been done and the entire plant is currently closed and out of operation. The media blackout of this action is intense and thorough, but you know what?...The horses don't mind." The ALF has in 20 years been responsible for thousands of actions, which have led to the release of tens of thousands of animals from research labs, fur farms and factory farms, as well as the destruction of animal abuse industries, including research labs and fur ranches. In June 1997, the ALF claimed responsibility for releasing 10,000 mink from a Mt. Angel, OR fur farm. In 1986, the ALF raided the University of Oregon (Eugene) research labs, and freed more than 300 animals, including kittens and rabbits, causing $50,000 in damages to the labs. Lab photos "liberated" showed abuses of animals, leading to the firing of the U of O lab director. -30- Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 12:33:47 +0800 (SST) From: Vadivu Govind <kuma@cyberway.com.sg> To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: (CN) Pregnancy test kit for pandas Message-ID: <199707270433.MAA30490@eastgate.cyberway.com.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >The Straits Times 26 July 97 China invents pregnancy test kit for pandas BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have made a breakthrough in their battle to save the endangered panda with the development of a pregnancy test, the Xinhua news agency said yesterday. The Giant Panda Breeding Research Centre in Chengdu in south-western Sichuan had successfully used an enzyme-linked test to establish whether the famously frigid females are pregnant, it said. Using this method, scientists can determine pregnancy in a panda with a margin-of-error rate of less than 5 per cent and can also forecast the delivery date. Results of tests will be available within hours -- a change from the system that left panda keepers in the dark about whether a mating had been successful until a female gave birth. The new system can help to boost birth rates among pandas by 20 per cent, Xinhua said. The pandas' low reproductive ability is the main factor in their march toward extinction, experts say. -- Reuter. Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 04:56:29 -0700 (PDT) From: David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com> To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: [CA] Vigil held for departing beluga Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19970727045707.242f3fae@dowco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" VANCOUVER, BC - Around 30 protestors particpated in a peaceful candlelight vigil outside the Vancouver Aquarium early Sunday morning to mark the departure of Nanuq, one of the aquqrium's male belugas, to Sea World in San Diego. Nanuq was scheduled to leave the aquarium at around 2:00 AM, but due to a problem at the airport, a one-hour delay was announced. (Although aquarium staff did not speak to the protestors directly, except to question them when they went to take a look at the belugas' holding tank, they did speak to a CBC cameraman who arrived at just after 2:00.) He informed vigil organizer Annalise Sorg that the aquqarium had been contacting the media informing them of the delay. After speaking to staff, he then reported to Annalise that there would be a further delay, and the aquarium had informed him that Nanuq would not be moved until around 5:00 AM. Annalise, director of the Coalition For No Whales in Captivity, told Animal Voices News the reason for the move to San Diego was motivated by profit, rather than the prevention of inbreeding as claimed by the aquarium, as there were not sufficient male belugas available to carry out a proper breeding program. "150 males would be needed for a proper conservation breeding program," she said. Annalise also pointed out that the timing of the move was particulary bad, as the whales would have been frightened by the firework display which took place a few hours earlier in Vancouver, and by the heavy traffic which occured as a result of the display. (The first night of the Vancouver International Firework diplay had taken place at 10:00 PM Saturday night, in nearby English Bay.) For Nanuq, and his companion in the holding tank, the delay meant another three hours in the tank which had been drained of half its water to make catching him easier. David J Knowles Animal Voices News Date: Sun, 27 Jul 1997 20:42:34 +0800 From: bunny <rabbit@wantree.com.au> To: AR-news@envirolink.org Subject: Hot RCD/RHDV Quote from CSIRO scientist(New Zealand) Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19970727203251.267f48d2@wantree.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"