home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Message-ID: <199707101429.WAA23521@eastgate.cyberway.com.sg>
- Mime-Version: 1.0
- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
-
-
-
- >CNA Daily English News Wire
-
- TAIWAN IMPROVES ANTI-RABIES MONITORING SYSTEMS
-
- Taipei, July 9 (CNA) The Council of Agriculture (COA) is taking steps to
- improve pre-alarming and monitoring systems to prevent an outbreak of rabies
- in Taiwan, COA officials said on Wednesday.
-
- The officials noted that the COA has already asked veterinarians islandwide
- to notify animal quarantine authorities within 24 hours of discovering a
- case of rabies.
-
- There are currently more than 250,000 rabies vaccines in store for possible
- market demand, the COA officials said, adding that their council has also
- planned to purchase 100,000 more vaccines.
-
- Although no cases of rabies have been reported on the island to date, the
- COA is worried that Taiwan's stray dogs could spark an outbreak of rabies, a
- highly contagious disease which is spread through animal saliva and is
- usually fatal to humans.
-
- According to figures compiled by local veterinarians, Taiwan currently has
- an estimated 2.3 million dogs, more than half of which are strays. (By
- Elizabeth Hsu)
-
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 97 09:41:01 -0500
- From: Karin Zupko <ma.neavs.com!karin@ma.neavs.com>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: (US) - Info Available on Beagles Bred for Labs
- Message-ID: <9707101441.AA15050@titan.ma.neavs.com>
-
- The British Group the National Anti-Vivisection Society rescued
- several beagles from Interfauna, a breeder of animals for
- vivisection. A chronicle of the rescue of the beagles is in The
- Campaigner (Jan-Mar 1995). On p.6, they write,
-
-
- "Labs often claim they cannot re-home animals even if the experiments
- are not terminal because the animals have been bred for life in the
- lab, and they would not be happy in an ordinary family home.
-
- Sure enough, within a few days Interfauna would be saying just this.
- Yet, overall, it took these puppies less than 24 hours to revert to
- type, and even less for the first signs of individual characters to
- exhibit themselves."
-
- If anyone would find this article helpful and does not have access to
- it, I would be happy to send a copy.
-
- Karin Zupko
- karin@ma.neavs.com
- Date: Thu, 10 Jul 1997 11:08:46 -0400 (EDT)
- From: NOVENAANN@aol.com
- To: Z10103@aol.com, ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: Fwd: English March To Defend Hunting
- Message-ID: <970710110842_-1978116906@emout18.mail.aol.com>
-
-
- ---------------------
- Forwarded message:
- Subj: English March To Defend Hunting
- Date: 97-07-10 03:44:09 EDT
- From: AOL News
-
- By ROBERT SEELY
- LONDON (AP) - It's being billed as the biggest rural uprising
- since the English Civil War in the 17th century.
- Up to 90,000 people from villages and hamlets across Britain
- were expected to converge on London's Hyde Park today to defend
- their right to hunt with hounds.
- Blood sport enthusiasts fear a Labor lawmaker's bill that would
- outlaw hunting with hounds will spell the end of all forms of
- hunting, shooting and fishing, changing the face of rural Britain.
- Prime Minister Tony Blair, whose Labor party swept to power with
- a 179-seat majority in national elections May 1, said Wednesday he
- is backing the bill.
- ``I have voted before in favor of a ban on fox hunting and I
- shall continue to do so,'' Blair said in reply to a lawmaker's
- question in the House of Commons.
- The government plans to allow lawmakers to vote on the bill
- according to their consciences. Most Labor legislators are known to
- favor the bill, so it has a strong chance of passing into law.
- Conservatives oppose it.
- Opponents of blood sports say hunting is cruel and unnecessary,
- an outdated relic of a bygone era.
- But hunters say they perform vital culling of foxes and help
- preserve the countryside by maintaining hedgerows and planting
- trees to encourage birds and other wildlife.
- The Standing Conference on Countryside Sports, an alliance of
- pro-hunting groups, said its studies have shown that the jobs of
- 27,000 people, ranging from game keepers to farriers and
- saddlemakers, could go if hunting is banned.
- ``If fox hunting is banned, I will have to look for another
- job,'' said Michael Hughes, who is training to be a farrier like
- his father. Hughes said more than half his father's income comes
-