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- Police in Albuquerque, New Mexico were investigating a suspicious-looking
- trailer parked in a motel parking lot yesterday when they discovered
- nearly a dozen exotic animals locked inside. One young African elephant
- was dead, apparently from heat prostration. The animals were traveling
- with the King Royal Circus, a company that has a long history of animal
- neglect. In fact, the deplorable conditions of this circus have been the
- subject of innumerable complaints, media stories and public letters to
- the US Department of Agriculture.
-
- Says PAWS' Director Pat Derby, "I have been tracking this circus since
- the appalling stabbing and beating of a baby elephant in Lebanon, Oregon
- in 1994. I have taken the plight of these elephants to the media and
- to the Secretary of Agriculture. I am dismayed that yet another elephant
- has suffered and died."
-
- Derby and PAWS have filed a formal complaint with the USDA against King
- Royal Circus, demanding that the elephants remaining in King Royal's
- custody be confiscated and placed in a safe refuge. Says Derby, "Our
- organization will be happy to assist in the placement of these elephants,
- if necessary."
-
- The King Royal Circus has a long history of disregard for the well-being
- of its animals and for the safety of the general public. Indeed, King
- Royal is responsible for a long list of animal deaths/injuries to
- visitors and spectators. (PAWS publication "License to Kill" delineates
- these incidents.) PAWS has made the King Royal Circus the subject of
- several "Crusaders" and "20/20" television programs and the target of
- please and petitions to the USDA about King Royal's egregious violations
- of the Animal Welfare Act.
-
- The incident that brought the cavalier and callous attitude of King Royal
- Circus into the public eye more than any other was the case of the baby
- elephant Mickey. On September 17, 1994, this young Asian elephant was
- beaten by his trainer when he refused to perform a trick and tried to
- crawl out of the arena. This incident was exposed on several consecutive
- episodes of the "Crusaders" television show and tens of thousands of
- calls were made to PAWS and the USDA. But it was not until the spring of
- 1996 that the Circus agreed to pay an $8,000 civil penalty in order to
- stay a 30-day license suspension. Because of the persistence of PAWS,
- the trainer's license was revoked. Nevertheless, nothing has changed for
- Mickey and the other King Royal animals.
-
- Says Derby, "According to information we have received from local humane
- societies, King Royal's latest violation of the Animal Welfare Act was
- 'appalling.' How much more will it take before the USDA will revoke their
- license to kill."
-
-
-
- To protest the death of Heather, the King Royal elephant, please contact:
-
- Mr. Mike Dunn
- Asst. Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Affairs
- AG-Box 0109
- Washington, DC 20250-0109
- (202) 720-4256 phone
- (202) 720-5775 fax
-
-
-
- Copies of PAWS' publications "Everything You Should Know About Elephants"
- and "License to Kill" are available by calling the PAWS" office at (209)
- 745-2606 or send your request via e.mail.
-
-
- Date: Thu, 7 Aug 1997 20:47:36 -0400 (EDT)
- From: Alex Press <apress@panix.com>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: Cloned bull (US)
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-
- >From the New York Times's Late-News Update, Thurs., August 7
-
- Wisconsin Company Introduces Cloned Bull That Could Lead to
- Beefier Steers
-
- A biotechnology company unveiled a 6-month-old cloned calf
- Thursday, saying its new way of cloning could lead to beefier steer
- and cows that produce more milk.
-
- ABS Global Inc. said the black bull calf named Gene was the result
- of cloning a stem cell from a 30-day old calf fetus. Stem cells are
- ``blank slate'' cells that haven't yet specialized their function,
- such as a liver or muscle cell, and thus their genes are relatively
- easy to manipulate. But company officials said they had refined the
- process so that any kind of cell could be used.
-
- ``We can make an unlimited number of cells, freeze them for any
- amount of time, then thaw them and make identical animals
- possessing a desired trait,'' said Michael D. Bishop, vice
- president of research. The company's president and CEO, Marc van't
- Noordende, said it would be several years before the first products
- resulting from the process would be introduced.
-
- Company officials said adult animal cells were not used to clone
- Gene, which makes him significantly different from Dolly, the sheep
- cloned last year by Scottish researchers. Dolly was produced from
- the udder cell of a 6-year-old ewe.
-
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