Komputer for Alle 1998 #6/1998 CD 6 (Gul).iso/web/ffa/wwwenv~1.org/arrs/digest/news54~3.htm/text0000.txt

Text File | 1998-04-03 | 42.7 KB | 1,074 lines

Breast cancer may be linked to blood pressure drugs

The Associated Press
NEW YORK (October 15, 1997 5:10 p.m.)

Women 65 and older who took calcium channel blockers, a widely used drug
for high blood pressure and heart disease, were about twice as likely to
develop breast cancer, a study found.

The result is far from proof that calcium channel blockers raise the
risk of breast cancer, the study's authors and other experts warned.

Women should not stop taking the drugs, at least not without consulting
their doctors first, they said. The risk of uncontrolled high blood
pressure may outweigh any possible added risk of breast cancer, the
National Institutes of Health said.

Two drug companies also said prior work shows the medications don't
raise the risk of cancer.

Calcium channel blockers are sold under a variety of names, such as
Adalat, Cardizem, Procardia, diltiazem, nifedipine and verapamil. Prior
studies have disagreed on whether they affect cancer risk.

The new study found no sign of an effect on cancers overall. The
research was reported in Wednesday's issue of the journal Cancer by
Annette Fitzpatrick of the University of Washington in Seattle, Janet
Daling of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, and
others.

"This is not reason for panic," Fitzpatrick said.

Researchers followed about 3,200 women 65 and older for an average of
five years. During that time the women developed 75 cases of breast
cancer. Women who took calcium channel blockers during the study had
about twice the risk of breast cancer as women taking no blood pressure
drugs, or women taking other types of blood pressure drugs.

Most of the data came from women taking older, short-acting forms of
calcium channel blockers rather than newer, one-a-day forms. These newer
forms are now the more widely used. Fitzpatrick said the study could not
reliably analyze the two forms separately.

Pfizer Inc. and Bayer Corp., which sell calcium channel blockers,
pointed to prior studies that have found no increased cancer risk.
Pfizer also said that major medical organizations have concluded that
the overall evidence doesn't support any association between calcium
channel blockers and cancer.

By MALCOLM RITTER, AP Science Writer
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 07:09:29 -0400 (EDT)
From: Debbie Leahy <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Deer Kill Phone-In Poll
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII

Today's Morningline question in the Chicago Sun-Times is "Should deer be
shot at Fermilab physics research center to reduce their population?"

The NO number is 312/408-3642


Date: Thu, 16 Oct 97 22:45:20 +1000 (EST)
From: "Karen Bevis" <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: URGENT - Save The Powerful Owl (AU)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]822>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; X-MAPIextension=".TXT"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Attention all Australians on this list, and any one else that cares to lend
a hand.

A bush block in the suburban fringe area of Mt Evelyn, Victoria is up for
auction next Tuesday (21 October).  On this land resides the most
successful breeding pair of Powerful Owls on record.  There are estimated
to be less than 250 Powerful Owls left in the state of Victoria and they
are in danger of extinction.  This land is zoned for rural development so
there is little the council can do to stop a subdivision under Victorian
laws.  As well as Powerful Owls, this land is also home to possums,
echidnas, kangaroos and something like 80 species of birds, not to mention
rare orchids, 200-300 year old trees, and sites of aboriginal significance.

I you would like to help save this block of land from subdivion, please
cut, paste and print off the letter below and send it to our Minister for
Conservation & Land Management.  We (meaning Animal Liberation, the Mt
Evelyn Environment Protection & Progress Association, and local residents)
are trying to persuade the State Government to purchase the land as a
public reserve and the more letters and public pressure the better.  The
fax number is included with the letter below.

Karen Bevis
Animal Liberation (Victoria)
http://www.vicnet.net.au/~animals/alibvic/


     Address:




Date:



The Hon. Marie Tehan MP
Minister for Conservation and Land Management
Level 17
8 Nicholson Street
EAST MELBOURNE  VIC  3002

Fax:  [phone]


Dear Minister Tehan

SAVE THE POWERFUL OWLS

A 9.5 hectare property in Hereford Road, Mt Evelyn, is about to go to
auction, with subdivision the likely result.  This land is home to the most
successful breeding pair of Powerful Owls on record.  There are less that
250 Powerful Owls left in Victoria and they are regarded as endangered.  In
addition, the site also contains rare orchids, old growth trees 200-300
years of age, sites of Aboriginal significance and a wide ranges of other
flora and fauna.

If subdivision of this land goes ahead, it can only be detrimental to the
future viability of the Powerful Owl as a species.

I implore the State Government to aid in the purchase of this land and turn
it into a reserve to protect this rare species.  These birds, protected
though they are, canÆt be expected to survive and prosper without their
habitat intact.  As the auction is to be held on Tuesday 21 October, this
is an urgent issue.

Yours sincerely,





Name:




Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 08:48:04 -0400
From: "allen schubert, arrs admin" <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (US) Endangered species list
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

posted for/send replies to: Leana <[e-mail]>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------
Hello..
     I am currently working on a webpage for wildlife and wanted to do a
section on endangered species.. this webpage is for families and children
and so therefore is used for educational purposes.  What I was wondering is
if you could possibly tell me where I could get a complete list of
endangered species?  I have searched and searched and I come up with
partial lists but no complete lists.  I would appreciate any suggestions
you may have as to where to look..

Thank you,
Leana



Date: Thu, 16 Oct 97 07:48:22 UTC
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Bed Burning, Alert Cat Gets Woman, 100, Awake
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Oklahoma City, OK USA: Susie was pretty intent on getting attention
from her sleeping 100-year-old owner.

The cat jumped onto Lois Gillis Hall's knees, walked across her chest,
and squatted on her face, pawing at her cheeks.

"She was going 'Me-ow! Me-ow! Me-ow!' like she was saying, 'Let's get
out of here,'" Mrs. Hall said.

Susie had good intentions. Mrs. Hall's bed was burning from a short in
an electric blanket.

Mrs. Hall inherited Susie about six years ago from a woman who had to go
to a nursing home.


-- Sherrill
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:31:42 -0400
From: "allen schubert, arrs admin" <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (US) RFI: New Law
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

posted for -- send replies to:  Dennis Perry Lydick <[e-mail]>
--------------------------------------------------------
Hi, my name is Perry and I was wondering if you could help me.
A new law is being passed in my home town.  The law states that people
are able to set traps in their yards to capture other peoples pets.
Once the pets are captured they are taken to the pound.  There is not a
leash law in my town so the animals are free to roam.  I feel that this
is very inhumane and that a law like this should never pass.  If you can
help me or refer me to someone who can help me please contact me.
                                                Thanks for your time
                                                        Perry



Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:39:41 -0400
From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Doctors see risk in animal organs
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

from USA Today web page:
--------------------------------------------
10/16/97- Updated 12:28 AM ET
Doctors see risk in animal organs

British researchers have raised another red flag of warning about
transplantation of animal organs into humans.

Jonathan P. Stoye and colleagues at the National Institute for Medical
Research in London report in Thursday's issue of the journal Nature that
they've found two sets of "silent" viruses in a wide variety of pig cells,
and that these viruses could infect humans with unpredictable results.

The viruses are of a type that, long ago, infected pigs and inserted their
own genetic material into the pigs' cells. They are passed down from
generation to generation and cause no problem for the pigs. Earlier this
year, it was reported that these viruses could infect human cells in test
tubes. "They're normally relatively silent in the host," Stoye says.

"The concern we have is that the virus might be activated in
transplantation," he says.

The viruses were found in several breeds of pigs and in normal cells
throughout their bodies. "We don't know if these viruses, if expressed in
humans, would do anything bad," Stoye says. "But our findings suggest that
a xenotransplantation (animal-to-human organ transplant) would increase the
likelihood of the transmission of a pig virus," and "if you want to do
(transplants), you must, at the very least, be in a position to monitor the
findings."

Pigs have been considered prime candidates for organ donation to humans
because their organs are about the right size, they breed quickly and are
easy to raise in controlled circumstances. Pig valves are used to replace
defective heart valves in humans, but that material is chemically treated
to kill any pig cells. "People who have a pig valve implant should not be
in any way concerned," Stoye says.

Efforts have been under way to breed virus-free pigs for transplantation,
but this new finding, Stoye says, means that goal, "if at all feasible,
will represent a complex task."

By Anita Manning, USA TODAY
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:53:29 -0400
From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (US) Grower Fights Superiority Attitude
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

from AP Wire page:
-------------------------------------
 10/16/1997 01:30 EST

 Grower Fights Superiority Attitude

 By JOE BIGHAM
 Associated Press Writer

 MODESTO, Calif. (AP) -- Diane Joy Goodman isn't the type of organic
 farmer who looks down on conventional growers and the pesticides they use
 to keep bugs at bay.

 She even admits to spraying fire ants ``with a vengeance'' when they got
 into her private garden, because they kept biting her.

 Goodman, who farms organically with a partner near Escalon 75 miles east
 of San Francisco, tries to ``bridge some of these gaps and make organic
 less scary for some farmers.''

 She feels one problem has been a tendency to project an image that
 organic growers are superior to conventional farmers.

 ``I want to dispel that,'' she told the National Association of
 Agricultural Journalists. ``There is tremendous value in conventional
 farming.''

 She also criticizes some advocacy groups that she feels have used ``fear
 tactics'' to stop pesticide use. Such tactics often ``are not credible,''
 Goodman said. ``Take what is posed to you as fear with a grain of salt.''

 When Goodman, then a chef, joined the diversified fruit, nut and
 wine-grape operation, five of the 200 acres were being farmed
 organically, without commercial chemicals. Now, all 200 acres are organic
 ``with a tremendous amount of success, but also with a tremendous amount
 of worry,'' she said.

 ``When I encouraged more organic ... (my partner) said, `Fine, you want
 to put the production loan in your name?''' she recalled.

 Goodman emphasized that organic farming is not only just avoiding
 chemicals to reduce the number of destructive pests, ``but what you do to
 enhance the soil.''

 She said national organic standards ``seem almost imminent. We're really
 quite close to regulations to implement the National Organic Foods Act of
 1990.''

 But Goodman said it will take until at least 2000 to get standards in
 place once they are announced.

 Becoming certified as an organic grower in California involves a lot of
 cost, work and time -- at least three years. Goodman said the effort can
 pay off in higher prices but cautioned that the advantage for organic
 growers will erode as supply and demand get more in balance.

 ``We've seen every year double-digit increases in the volume of dollars
 spent on organic food in this country,'' she said. ``The price of organic
 will come down as more people grow organically.''

Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 09:42:20 -0700
From: Elisa Bob <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Cc: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: (US) Endangered species list
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Q:> What I was wondering is if you could possibly tell me where I could
get a complete list of endangered species?

A: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service publishes these official lists:
"Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants," and "CITES: Appendix
I,II, and II to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered
Species of Wild Fauna and Flora."  I have the following phone number for
U.S.F.W.S.: 202/208-5634.
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 11:17:40 -0500
From: "D.B.Sullivan" <[e-mail]>
To: <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Prairie Chicken-links
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_01BCDA25.1D5B5060"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit



----------
From: D.B.Sullivan <[e-mail]>
Links on prairie chickens
Attachment Converted: "C:\EUDORA2\Attach\prairie-chickens1.htm"
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 14:14:44 -0400
From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (US) Feature-Battle Rages Over Future of Free Willy'' Whale
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

(ref to PeTA)
from CNN web page:
-------------------------------
Feature-Battle Rages Over Future of Free Willy'' Whale

Reuters
16-OCT-97
By Martin Wolk

SEATTLE (Reuters) - Will the whale who starred in ``Free Willy'' ever go
free?

That question is being asked by environmental groups around the country,
especially in the coastal Oregon town of Newport, where a battle rages over
the health and future of its most famous resident, the killer whale Keiko
who starred in the hit 1993 movie.

Two of Keiko's caretakers have resigned in the last few weeks, citing
ethical concerns about the whale's owner, the Free Willy Keiko Foundation,
which in turn accused the Oregon Coast Aquarium of ``gross negligence''
that led to the whale suffering a respiratory infection over the summer.

Foundation officials insist the five-ton orca is on track for a planned
eventual release in the north Atlantic, where he was captured off the coast
of Iceland as a 2-year-old in 1979. But aquarium executives complain they
have been left in the dark about Keiko's condition and have expressed
concern about what they say are recent signs of lethargy and stress,
including thrashing and banging his head into walls.

``We have had some concerns about his health,'' said aquarium President
Phyllis Bell, who added that many visitors have asked about changes in
Keiko's behavior. ``All we're asking for is an independent evaluation of
his health by an independent group,'' she said.

She denied accusations the aquarium is trying to sabotage the foundation
plan to take away its most popular attraction, saying attendance already
has fallen off by about 30 percent this year as the novelty of the Keiko
exhibit has worn off.

KEEPING A WHALE IS NOT CHEAP Last year acquarium attendance doubled to 1.3
million, with much of the additional proceeds going to the foundation to
defray Keiko's maintenance costs of about $50,000 a month.

``All we're concerned about is Keiko and what's best for him,'' Bell said.

Foundation officials contend Keiko is fine despite the bacterial infection,
a more recent fungal infection and tapeworms and other parasites said to be
a natural result of the introduction of live fish into the animal's diet.

Nobody disputes that Keiko has come a long way since he was found with
chronic health problems living in a cramped tank in a Mexican amusement
park, much to the embarrassment of Warner Bros., which pulled in more than
$75 million from its heartwarming movie about an orca freed from a
similarly sad life in captivity.

The Hollywood studio and cellular-telephone billionaire Craig McCaw each
donated $2 million to help the foundation build a $7.3 million
state-of-the-art tank for Keiko at the aquarium about three hours from
Portland, Oregon.

Hundreds of cheering townspeople lined the streets to greet Keiko in
January 1996 after he was flown in by cargo jet and taken on a flatbed
truck to his new home. Since then the formerly underweight cetacean has
gained 2,000 pounds , increased his length to 21 feet and lost unsightly
skin lesions that afflicted him in his former home.

MORE LIKE A KILLER WHALE ``He has really progressed much farther and faster
than we thought he would,'' said Diane Hammond, a spokeswoman for the
foundation. ``He has become much more like a killer whale.''

But she acknowledged that Keiko needs at least a year of additional
rehabilitiation before the foundation can consider a move to a protected
pen and ultimately the open ocean. For one thing, after 18 years in
captivity Keiko does not care much for live fish and was just learning to
hunt herring and black cod when he was laid low by the respiratory
infection, blamed on lax maintenance of a filtration system in his tank.

Keiko's handlers also face daunting obstacles in the unprecedented effort
to return the orca to his native pod, including possible opposition by
Icelandic authorities and potential rejection by other whales who may no
longer recognize his ``dialect.''

But conservationists and marine biologists believe Keiko can clear those
hurdles and potentially become a model case for future releases. ``From a
conservation perspective this offers a tremendous opportunity,'' said Toni
Frohoff, a Seattle-area wildlife biologist who has worked with captive
orcas. ''Successful reintroductions occur with land mammals all over the
world. Facilities that maintain capitive marine mammals are far behind.''

Jennifer O'Connor, a caseworker for animal-rights group People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals, was more blunt. ``I honestly think he would
be better off dying a natural death in the wild than living a life in
captivity,'' she said.

Indeed Keiko's owners may be racing the clock. Male killer whales may live
more than 50 years in the wild but rarely last beyond their 20s in
captivity. Just this month a 21-year-old male orca died after years as a
popular exhibit at the Vancouver Aquarium, prompting an outcry by a local
activist group against the ``marine mammal slave trade.''
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 16:14:41 -0400
From: "Brassett, Susan" <[e-mail]>
To: "'arnews'" <[e-mail]>
Subject: STGD
Message-ID:
<[e-mail]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain

  For Immediate Release --


     120 Ex-Racing Greyhound dogs Await Adoption
     Lakes Region Greyhond Park Situation shines Light on Live Racing
Greyhound Issue

(Rochester, NH, October 8 --) With the end of the summer racing season,
120 greyhound racing dogs who no longer can run as quickly as necessary,
are left without homes.  When learning of this dire situation, Save the
Greyhound Dogs! of Vermont (STGD), contacted the racetrack's management
to see how they could help.  Although STGD is an educational
organization, not a greylhound adoption service, they do have contact
with adoption groups throughout the U.S.and help by serving as
"matchmaker". The Lakes Region Park has generously offered to transport
these dogs, at their expense, to adoption groups.

This situation typifies the plight of ex-racers throughout the country,
at the end of the live racing season. A press conference to further
explain the situation will be held at the Rochester Community Center at
150 Wakefield Street in Rochester, on Tuesday, October 14, at 12:00
Noon. For more information, contact Scotti Devens, at 800-327-7843

Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 17:06:23 -0400
From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (US) Ultralights, whooping cranes stop over in Utah
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

from Mercury Center web page:
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Posted at 12:04 p.m. PDT Thursday, October 16, 1997

Ultralights, whooping cranes stop over in Utah

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- After a balky start, four
whooping cranes are making the flight of their
lives, following an ultralight plane in an
experiment biologists hope can help save the
majestic white birds from extinction.

The cranes, which left Idaho on Tuesday in the
company of several sandhill cranes and two
ultralights, had stopovers Wednesday near Heber
City, Utah, and Price, Utah, on the third day of an
800-mile odyssey to the Bosque del Apache National
Wildlife Refuge 80 miles south of Albuquerque.

If the experiment succeeds, ultralights would help
establish a new migratory flock of whooping cranes
in Louisiana or Florida, according to Tom Stehn,
national whooping crane coordinator for the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service.

Rancher Kent Clegg of Grace, Idaho, is piloting one
of two ultralight planes leading the flock. The
cranes are trained to follow Clegg as a parent
surrogate, but the training didn't quite hold on
the first day -- Monday -- as one whooper balked
upon takeoff from the Clegg ranch.

``Suddenly, one of the whooping cranes broke
formation and headed back, taking the others with
him,'' Clegg said in an account posted on his
Internet web site. ``Repeated circling to pick them
up failed -- they were headed back to the barn.''

So researchers put all eight sandhills and four
whoopers in a trailer and drove them 15 miles away
from ranch landmarks to spend the night, Fish and
Wildlife Service spokesman Hans Stuart said
Wednesday.

``The second day, October 14th (Tuesday), they took
off and flew two hours and everything was fine,''
Stuart said. ``They landed and rested, then took
off and flew another hour.''

Their Tuesday night stopover was in Morgan, Utah,
about 20 miles north of Salt Lake City. On
Wednesday they flew from Morgan to an area about 10
miles south of Heber City, 25 miles east of Salt
Lake, and then continued on to Price in the
afternoon.

``They've had two excellent days. They're very
happy with the progress,'' he said of scientists
following the planes with the ground crew.

The 800-mile flight is expected to take one to two
weeks, averaging about 80 miles a day at peak
speeds of 35 mph.

The sandhills, which have already proved their
willingness and ability to follow Clegg, are flying
only four at a time to make room for the four
whoopers, Stuart said. The sandhills take turns
riding in a trailer.

Flying more than eight cranes cuts down needed lift
the birds get from the air stream off the plane's
wingtips, he explained.

A second ultralight acts as a scout plane to head
off predatory attacks on the cranes by golden
eagles, he said.

``The scout plane has already chased off several
eagles,'' Stuart said.

The ground crew, including Stehn, sets up overnight
pens to protect the birds.

The experiment resembles one involving geese
depicted in the 1996 movie ``Fly Away Home.''

Just 371 whooping cranes are known to exist. The
only migratory flock, 180 whoopers, flies between
Canada and Aransas National Wildlife Refuge, Texas.
Whoopers also live in a nonmigratory flock in
Florida and in captivity at zoos and other
facilities.

A new migratory flock of whoopers probably would be
based either at The Marsh Island state wildlife
area in Louisiana or at Chassahowitzka National
Wildlife Refuge in Florida, Stehn says, but no
final decision has been made.

Clegg's whoopers were hatched at the Patuxent
Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, Md., and at the
International Crane Foundation in Baraboo, Wis.
They will stay in the New Mexico-Idaho flyway, and
new hatchlings would form the new flock, Stuart
said.

The second migratory population could help prevent
whooping crane extinction, Stehn says.

Currently, the Aransas flock could be vulnerable to
hurricanes, red tides, chemical spills, diseases or
other problems, he says. But a second population
likely wouldn't be decimated by any disaster
affecting the first.

Nearly 150,000 birds winter at Bosque del Apache.
Refuge officials have said those include nearly
20,000 sandhills, 75,000 ducks and 50,000 geese
plus a few thousand others.

(Clegg web site is http://www.clegg.org/97day1,
day2, etc.)

Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 14:36:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Heidi Prescott <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: pigeon shoot bill
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Help needed:

Representative John Perzel, the House Majority Leader, was just quoted in
the news as saying that he will not put the pigeon shoot bill on the floor
for a vote.  We need calls from PENNSYLVANIANS questioning why he will not
put a bill on the floor that many Pennsylvania citizens want to see passed.
[phone] or District office [phone].

Please help flood his office with calls and ask for a response in writing
questioning how he can justify not even allowing the bill on the floor for a
vote.  Please send us copies of any response you receive.  Thank you again
for your help.


Heidi Prescott
The Fund for Animals
8121 Georgia Ave. Suite 301
Silver Spring, MD 20910

Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 18:25:30 -0400
From: Shirley McGreal <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Dogs die in airplane cargo hold
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

   ROME, Oct 14 (AFP) - Twenty seven hunting dogs died asphyxiated
at the weekend after an Alitalia airlines employee mistakenly placed
them in a pressurized cargo bay where they lacked oxygen, the
company said Tuesday.
   The animals, most of them Irish setters, were on a flight Sunday
from Rome to Simferopol, in Ukraine, where their owners were to take
part in a woodcock hunt.
   The 30 dogs placed in the cargo bay did not have enough oxygen
to survive the flight and only three of them survived.
   Forty two other dogs were travelling with their owners inside
the plane.
   The Alitalia employee held responsible for the mishap has been
suspended, the company said.

|---------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
| Dr. Shirley McGreal             |   PHONE: [phone]                  |
| Int. Primate Protection League  |   FAX: [phone]                    |
| POB 766                         |   E-MAIL: [e-mail]                |
| Summerville SC 29484            |   Web: http://www.ippl.org             |
|---------------------------------|----------------------------------------|


Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 15:27:40 -0700 (PDT)
From: Michael Markarian <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail], [e-mail]
Subject: Pottsville, PA: Hunger Strike Hits 2 Weeks
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Friday, October 17, 1997

CONTACT: Heidi Prescott, 301-585-2591


HUNGER STRIKE HITS 2 WEEKS
Majority Leader Tries to Stall Pigeon Shoot Bill


POTTSVILLE, Pa. -- Dawn Ratcliffe, the 24-year-old pigeon shoot protestor
serving a 45-day sentence in prison in Schuylkill County Prison, has now
been on a hunger strike for two weeks, and her condition is good. Ms.
Ratcliffe remains strong in her resolve, and she vows to continue her hunger
strike in prison until the Republican leaders of the Pennsylvania House of
Representatives put legislation to ban live pigeon shoots on the House floor
for a fair vote.

State Rep. Sara Steelman (D-Indiana County) introduced a bill to ban live
pigeon shoots last week, and the bill already has 43 co-sponsors. The bill
is now in the Judiciary Committee, and House Majority Leader John Perzel
(R-Philadelphia) has announced his intentions to stall the bill. The Fund
for Animals and Rep. Steelman will hold a press conference in the Capitol
next week.

Pigeon shoots are held all across Pennsylvania in at least six different
counties, wounding and killing hundreds of thousands of birds each year.
Children collect the wounded birds, rip off their heads, stomp on them, or
throw them into barrels to suffocate.

Says Heidi Prescott, National Director of The Fund for Animals, "The select
people who control the voting schedule in the House of Representatives
should not ignore a brave young woman who is starving in prison, should not
ignore the wishes of 43 Representatives who co-sponsored a bill, and should
not ignore the Pennsylvania constituents who want a vote on this issue."


# # #


http://www.fund.org

Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 18:48:01 -0400
From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (US) Poultry Farmers Deny Blame
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

(of particular interest for those following Pfiesterisa and factory farming
issues)
from CNN web page:
---------------------------------
Maryland State News
Reuters
16-OCT-97

Poultry Farmers Deny Blame

(ANNAPOLIS) -- Maryland's poultry farmers are urging Governor Parris
Glendening to stand up for them. They want him to make sure chicken
fertilizer runoff is not unfairly blamed for the toxin that's killing fish
in Maryland waters. The presidents of Eastern Shore poultry giants Perdue
and Tyson say lawn chemicals, sewage plants and other nutrient sources
should also be considered as sources of pollution. Most manure the industry
produces is sold as fertilizer for crops. The state commission studying the
Pfiesterisa problem is looking at fertilizer runoff as the cause of
thousands of fish deaths.
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 18:54:16 -0400
From: "allen schubert, arrs admin" <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (CA) RFI: A plea for new information
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

please reply to Allen Wade Oram <[e-mail]>
------------------------------------------
I am a college student in Canada, looking for any new information
regarding the Florida panther: integration results, inbreeding problems,
F.P.I.C. problem(slow to react?), and or parks and private land issues.
I would like to write a comprehnsive paper which includes data from as
many sources, even if the information is opinion is personal or bias to
your agency or association.  Please drop me a line, I would greatly
appreciate the info. thanks.


Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 21:08:25 -0400
From: Peter Muller <[e-mail]>
To: ar-news <[e-mail]>
Subject: Ron Scott Memorial Observance
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Ron Scott Memorial Observance

There will be a memorial observance for  Ron Scott, in Garrison,
New York on October 18, 1997 starting at 1:00 p.m.  Bring a vegetarian
pot-luck dish and memories to share with his many friends.

Least confusing way for those who don't know the area:

Take the Taconic Parkway to Route 300; Take 300 West to Route 9; Take
Route 9 South for about 2 or or 3 miles till you a restaurant called
"Bird & Bottle" on the left. Turn into dirt road going to the retaurant;
near the parking lot you'll see another dirt road going off to the right
up a hill. Take that road up the hill till you get to mail box 111.
Turn into the entrace way by the mailbox and go down the hill.

If all else fails call:
Ron's sister Janet Scott or Ron's friend David Finkbeiner at
[phone]

Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 21:42:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail], [e-mail]
Subject: Pet Protection Bill
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

I received a call from a Michigan AR friend who heard from Michigan's
lobbyist for animal issues that the federal, so-called Pet Protection Bill,
H. R. 594 is languishing because representatives are not getting any feedback
from their constituents.  One of the provisions of this bill is that it would
eliminate Class B animal dealers.  She suggested that animal rights and other
animal advocated contact their representatives and ask them to move on this
bill.
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 20:40:31 -0500
From: "D.B.Sullivan" <[e-mail]>
To: <[e-mail]>
Cc: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: Prairie Chickens
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

I believe the prairie chicken is is extirpated here........Wi and ILL
Is there any breeding programs to restore these birds???

One hundred years ago ,on the prairie it was said that a farmer could
open his backdoor and point a shotgun and hit a bird any where he pointed.
Hopefully these birds won't go the way of the passenger pigeon...


----------
From: [e-mail]
Subject: Prairie Chickens

All they seem to be doing in Oklahoma is hunting them. I'm so upset
that, knowing how few there are, they STILL hunt them.  I'm very tired
of hunters lying about why they hunt and trying to justify their actions.
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 22:04:22 -0400
From: jeanlee <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Cc: [e-mail]
Subject: Re: Pet Protection Bill
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

[e-mail] wrote:
>
> I received a call from a Michigan AR friend who heard from Michigan's
> lobbyist for animal issues that the federal, so-called Pet Protection Bill,
> H. R. 594 is languishing because representatives are not getting any feedback
> from their constituents.  One of the provisions of this bill is that it would
> eliminate Class B animal dealers.  She suggested that animal rights and other
> animal advocated contact their representatives and ask them to move on this
> bill.

Hi All-

The following are letters to your representatives and senators.  I
printed out the letter for each with the proper bill numbers.  I invite
you to copy the letters and send them to your legislators in Washington.


Dear Congressman/Woman  -  - :

The Pet Safety and Protection Act of 1997, H.R. 594, has been introduced
by Representatives Canady and Brown, and it has more than a dozen
bipartisan cosponsors.  If passed, this bill will prohibit the practice
of ôrandom source collectionö used by Class B animal dealers.  The
problem is that these random source animals are purchased and often
stolen from the general public and end up being sold to labs for medical
research or as breeders for puppy mills (to cite two of the main
destinations among many cruel fates, including being sold for food!)
Last yearÆs version of this bill had a loophole which would allow people
buying and selling random source animals to become ôcontract poundsö
whereby they could still deal in stolen animals, thus making the bill
useless.  H.R 594 addresses that problem.

As many as 2 million families have pets stolen each year.  Several
decades ago, Life Magazine reported that medical laboratories needed
almost 2 millions dogs per year.  Obviously, this has not changed.  It
is time to see to it that the rights of AmericanÆs pet owners, which
have thus far been denied, be permanently protected.

H.R. 594 will help to end the organized interstate trafficking in stolen
animals, lessen burdensome regulatory activities for the USDA, save tax
dollars used in futile enforcement attempts, and reduce animal suffering
at the hands of Class B dealers.  I hope this is the year of the
solution for this heartbreaking situation.

I urge you to support this legislation.

Sincerely yours,


Dear Senator  -  -  :

The Pet Safety and Protection Act of 1997, S.B. 2114 has been introduced
in the Senate.  If passed, this bill will prohibit the practice of
ôrandom source collectionö used by Class B animal dealers.  The problem
is that these random source animals are purchased and often stolen from
the general public and end up being sold as breeders for puppy mills or
to labs for medical research (to cite two of the main destinations among
many cruel fates, even being sold for food!)  Last yearÆs version of
this bill had a loophole which would allow people buying and selling
random source animals to become ôcontract poundsö whereby they could
still deal in stolen animals, thus making the bill useless.  S.B. 2114
addresses that problem.

As many as 2 million families have pets stolen each year.  Several
decades ago, Life Magazine reported that medical laboratories needed
almost 2 millions dogs per year.  Obviously, this has not changed.  It
is time to see to it that the rights of AmericanÆs pet owners, which
have thus far been denied, be permanently protected.

S.B. 2114 will help to end the organized interstate trafficking in
stolen animals, lessen burdensome regulatory activities for the USDA,
save tax dollars used in futile enforcement attempts, and reduce
animal suffering at the hands of Class B dealers.  I hope this is the
year of the solution for this heartbreaking situation.

I urge you to support this legislation.

Sincerely yours,
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 22:32:49 -0400
From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Crossposting--Admin Note
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

***Please do not "crosspost" when posting to AR-News!

While crossposting is often frowned upon on many lists, on AR-News it can
lead to a "degradation" of the "news" concept.  Crossposting to other lists
and/or individuals when posting to AR-News may be convenient for the
poster, but may later cause problems for AR-News.  Many people quickly go
for the reply option and, depending on software, may "default" through
options asking "reply to all?" or "reply to all recipients?"--this is one
cause of comments/discussion/chat interfering with the "news" of AR-News.
Not everyone has unlimited access or time to the internet, therefore many
people subscribe to a "news" list for news, not discussion.  Please
remember this when posting to AR-News.
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 22:33:41 -0400
From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Attachments--Admin Note
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

***Please avoid attaching files to posts to AR-News.

While many subscribers may have no problem handling attachments, some do.
For some people, an attached file is downloaded as gibberish, gibberish
that takes time to download.  For others, it may be a useless thing that is
"forgotten" after the message was deleted--however, the "attachment" may
still be on the hard drive.

And...depending on the attachment, it *might* contain a virus if it uses a
"template" (this type of virus is known as a "macrovirus").  (For virus
information, there are a number of sources on the web.)

So...please offer to send the attachment via private e-mail (for those
subscribers who reply privately).

Allen Schubert
AR-News Listowner
[e-mail]



</pre>

     <!-- END OF PAGE CONTENT -->



                            <!-- END OF PAGE CONTENT -->

    </TD>


    <TD width=50 align=center>

    </TD>
</TR>

                            <!-- THE BOTTOM TOOLBAR -->

<TR>

    <TD colspan=3 align=center fontsize=2>
    <a href="../SUB~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/sub.html">ARRS Tools</a>  |
<a href="../NEWSPA~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/newspage.html">News</a>  |
<a href="../ORGS~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/Orgs.html">Orgs</a>  |
<a href="../SEARCH~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/search.html">Search</a>  |
<a href="../SUPPOR~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/Support.html">Support</a>  |
<a href="../ABOUT/INDEX.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/about">About the ARRS</a>  |
<a href="mailto:[e-mail]">Contact ARRS</a>
    </TD>
</TR>


                                <!-- END OF MAIN -->

</TABLE></center>




        <!-- THE UNDERWRITERS -->

<table border=0 width=100%>
    <tr><td>

<center>    <hr width=285>
<Font Size=1>THIS SITE UNDERWRITTEN IN PART BY:</FONT>
<BR>


<a href="../../../tppmsgs/msgs22.htm#2209" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/cgi-bin/show_support.pl?id=t891020770&sec=sbn_bottom&url=http%3a//www.outpost.com" target=_top><img src="Pending_relink" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/support/banners/others/cyberian/Playmore.gif" border=1 alt="Cyberian Outpost"></a>


<hr width=285>

    <br><font size=2>
    <b>The views and opinions expressed within this page are not
necessarily those of the <br>EnviroLink Network nor the Underwriters.  The views
are those of the authors of the work.</b></font>
    </center>
    </td></tr>

</table>

</BODY>

</HTML>




</BODY>



</HTML>