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October 26, 1997, NYT On-Line

Its Mood Dark as the Haze, Southeast Asia Aches

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Southeast Asia Chokes as Indonesian Forests Burn (Sept. 25)

By SETH MYDANS

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia -- Tigers and elephants are fleeing the burning
jungles. Birds are falling from the murky skies. School children are
fainting at their desks. Ships are colliding at sea.

As a filthy haze from vast Indonesian forest fires continues to darken the
sky across seven Southeast Asian nations, illness, ecological destruction
and economic hardship are growing.

After four months, the man-made fires, set on the heavily forested islands
of Borneo and Sumatra to clear land for crops, are spreading rather than
shrinking. And with Indonesia suffering its worst drought in 50 years -- a
result of El Nino weather disturbances -- no one knows how many weeks or
months it will be until the monsoon rains finally arrive to douse them.

Smoke from the fires, mingling with urban pollution, has spread from
Indonesia into Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei and
Papua New Guinea.

The calamity coincides with the worst economic crisis to hit the region in
many years, darkening people's spirits even as it shortens their daylight
hours.

Like the economic slump, it could have been foreseen and perhaps prevented.
In both cases, warnings were ignored because the money was just too good.
With Government officials and private businesses growing wealthy together,
short shrift was given to the environment.

As with the economic crisis, the government response to the ecological
disaster has been ineffectual and hampered by corruption.

Well-connected palm oil plantation owners and pulp-and-paper companies in
Indonesia have continued clearing land by burning off vast tracts of jungle,
seemingly immune to laws or punishment. Firefighting has been disorganized,
and villagers in some of Indonesia's worst-hit areas say they have received
little or no help.

"The way the government is handling the forest fires simply shows its
inability to face such crises," Emmy Hafield, director of Indonesia's
leading environmental group, said last week. "So far, the government's
commitment is not wholehearted; it is only a token."

The immediate effects of the smog have been dramatic. Airports have closed
and flights canceled around the region. Uncounted days of work have been
lost as factories and mines have shut down and hundreds of thousands of
people have fallen ill with respiratory ailments.

Huge amounts of overseas investment are draining away as foreign businessmen
begin to avoid the region and as tourism -- a $26 billion industry in
Southeast Asia -- declines sharply.

"The haze is not only a national disaster; it has become an international
disaster for the tourism industry," said Andi Mappi Sammeng, the director
general of Indonesia's Tourism Department.

Smog has dimmed the sun on beaches from Phuket in Thailand to the east coast
of Malaysia to the southern Philippines. Hotels, restaurants and retailers
in Singapore complain of a falling tourist trade.

The longer-term costs are harder to gauge.

The fires have burrowed deep into vast peat bogs and seams of coal, where
experts say they may continue to smolder for years. Environmentalists say
that if the drought and the forest fires continue for much longer, and
resume again when the next dry season arrives in June, the haze could be a
continuing blight.

Already it has affected agriculture, and food shortages and rising prices
are predicted. Reduced sunlight is slowing the growth of fruits and
vegetables and reducing yields of corn and rice. The smoke is tainting cocoa
crops. Birds, bees and insects have disappeared in many areas, disrupting
pollination.

Indonesia is the world's leading producer of robusta coffee beans, largely
used for instant coffee. It is the world's second leading producer of cocoa
and palm oil and is a major producer of rubber. All have been affected.

The delayed monsoon and the spreading drought have been caused by the
warming Pacific waters of the El Nino weather pattern, which has begun to
affect the region with unusual power.

"This year's El Nino was being predicted by various experts as one of the
most severe this century," said the Food and Agriculture Organization in a
report last month. "The food supply and water situation, therefore, is
likely to deteriorate significantly."

The island of New Guinea -- including the Indonesian province of Irian Jaya
and the nation of Papua New Guinea -- is already suffering. Hundreds of
people are reported to have died from starvation, dysentery and influenza.
Haze is slowing deliveries of relief supplies to remote areas that can only
be reached by air. Officials say hundreds of thousands of people are in
urgent need of food and water.

If the smog lingers, the quality of life in hard-hit areas like much of
Malaysia could be seriously affected and some foreign companies and
investors -- already hurt by the economic downturn -- could begin to avoid
the region.

Some embassies and large foreign companies have already withdrawn many of
their employees from cities like Kuala Lumpur, where white smog blurs the
skyline and sears throats and lungs and eyes.

William Jackson, a U.S. government medical official, said no region had
suffered through such a prolonged bout of pollution from cars, factories and
fires. "The bad news is we just don't have the answers we need," he said.
"The data just doesn't exist."

Some doctors say there could be a severe long-term toll on health that may
not show itself for years, particularly among the young, the old and people
with respiratory problems.

The disaster is putting a strain on the carefully nurtured good fellowship
of the region. Questions are being raised among some of Indonesia's
neighbors about its handling of the fires, following warnings in past years
about forest burning.

"If Indonesia refuses to address its deadly pollution seriously, its
neighbors must force the issue," The Bangkok Post said, with a bluntness
unusual in Southeast Asia.

But the Indonesian government -- while issuing an apology -- has continued
to duck responsibility, blaming the weather. And the big plantation owners
have hurried to distance themselves, pointing their fingers at small farmers
and wood thieves.

Indeed, the palm-oil producers, who have set most of the fires, may be one
of the few beneficiaries. They have cleared huge new areas for planting, and
as the disaster has spread, palm-oil prices have risen sharply on the world
market.



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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 02:14:16 -0300
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (AR) NOW MILITARY IN ARGENTINA TORTURE ANIMALS
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

A C T I O N   A L E R T !

(AR) NOW MILITARY IN ARGENTINA TORTURE ANIMALS

Physicians in the Military Hospital of the Argentine Republic are
carrying out experiment and vivisection involving animals: now they
provoked the ATROCIUS DEATH OF 42 DOGS.

The results of such experiments are scientifically obsolete: they
don't contribute with any new elements to the basic medical
knowledge, but they do inflict a great deal of torture, harm and
cruelty on the animals.

The tortures and deaths were provoked by doctor Major Guillermo
Daniel Vadra who carried out and published the work intitled
"TRAUMATIC SHOCK AND LIVER". He ends up saying "that routine checkups
are an appropiate method to determine liver damage in traumatized
being and that liver presents a microvasculopathy which takes part
in the microvasculopathy of any given shock." These concepts are so
elemental and have become popular such a long time ago that if it
weren't for the fact that they have provoked the ATROCIUS DEATH OF
42 DOGS this would be a worthless and insignificant work. (see below
#1)

We are aware of the fact that these experiment are still being done
and we ask for your help to stop this situation.

THIS IS WHAT WE CAN DO:

Please send a letter, fax or mail such as this (or in your own word):

Teniente General Don Martin Balza
Estado Mayor del Ejercito Argentino
Azopardo 250
(1328) Buenos Aires - Argentina

or fax: [phone]
or mail: [e-mail]

"Teniente General D. Martin Balza"

We express our contempt towards the work of vivisection on animals
carried out by doctor Major Guillermo Daniel Vadra at the
experimental surgery department of The Central Military Hospital in
the Argentine Republic and we demand the stopping of the cruel and
worthless experiments performed on animals".

(Please, enclose your Name and Address, Name of the Entity, City and
Country.)

Please, enclose COPIES of your letter to: [e-mail] or
by fax: [phone] and FORWARD this message

THANKS TO EVERYONE !!!
------------------------
(#1) About "TRAUMATIC SHOCK AND LIVER":

a. This work does not add any new element to the basic medical
knowledge.

b. It represents an evidence of extreme cruelty towards the animals
because the situations originated are non-aplicable on injured
person (such as stop feeding him at their will or not inmobilizing
him) and we consider this represents a crime.

c. There are no proofs that the animals have been medicated or
looked after to overcome the shok, therefore lack weight.

d. Animal which had been surviving were deliberatedly killed in the
space of 8 days, misleading any scientific concept of research.

e.This topic is nothing new. Every day numerous injured people are
sent to hospital in Argentina and they can make a follow-up of their
evolution. In fact, to establish any kind of clinical correlation,
with the laboratory, it would have been enough to collect all the
results of the studies found in the clinical records of hundreds of
people with polytraumatisms who enter the health care centers every
day.

-----------------------------------
More extended work is available at: [e-mail]
More information about us mailto: [e-mail]
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Sent by Club de Animales Felices (Happy Animal's Club) mail:
[e-mail]


Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 08:42:46 -0500
From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (US) Vandals Hit Animal Rights Fund-Raiser
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
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from CNN Custom News http://www.cnn.com
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Pennsylvania State News
Reuters
27-OCT-97

Vandals Hit Animal Rights Fund-Raiser

(LINDENWOLD) -- A haunted walk sponsored by an animal rights organization
has been vandalized. Vandals tore apart the haunted walk set up by the
Lindenwold Animal Adoption Center. Workers spent worked in the rain
yesterday to repair the damage. The haunted walk is expected to reopen today.
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 08:44:38 -0500
From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (US) Animal Rights Protest (Circus/PeTA/ACLU)
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
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from CNN Custom News http://www.cnn.com
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Pennsylvania State News
Reuters
27-OCT-97

Animal Rights Protest

(PITTSBURGH) -- Informational pickets from People for the Ethical Treatment
of Animals greet circus-goers in Pittsburgh. They were helped by members of
the American Civil Liberties Union. PETA members have been a fixture at the
annual visits of the Ringling Brothers Circus... but they've been barred
from sidewalks and parking lots adjacent to the Civic Arena where the
circus performs. The A-C-L-U argued on behalf of PETA's right to free
speech guaranteed by the First Amendment. City police and arena officials
to allow small groups of demonstrators, who, in turn, agreed to stay away
from the arena's ramps and gates.

There was also concern about litter. Arena management provided additional
trash receptacles in the protest area, for discarded PETA leaflets.
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 97 07:49:11 UTC
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Trappers Meeting
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

Oklahoma Fur Harvesters will hold their fall reunion and day-long
workshop Saturday (Nov. 1) at the Porum Landing Rural Fire Dept.
headquarters, located six miles west of Porum, OK on Texanna Road.
Among the day's agenda will be an Oklahoma beaver trapping certification
course, and seminars on trapping and skinning. There is no fee to attend
and all trappers are welcome. Information:  Shannon Sheffert, 405-372-6317.
(Isn't it interesting that they call themselves "harvesters"?)
-- Sherrill
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 08:56:02 -0500
From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (US) Court Appearance In Animal Dump Case
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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New York State News
Reuters
27-OCT-97

Court Appearance In Animal Dump Case

(ALBANY) -- The man suspected of dumping dead animals in a pit on a
Saratoga County farm heads to court today. Terence McGlashan will take part
in a Superior Court information conference that could end in criminal
charges. Investigators found a mass animal grave last month... many of the
animals had been family pets thought to have been cremated.
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 09:01:48 -0500
From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (US) Animal Cruelty Case, Oklahoma
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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Oklahoma State News
Reuters
27-OCT-97
Animal Cruelty Case

(TULSA) -- A Tulsa man will be in court today facing charges of killing a
neighbor's dog and cutting its head off. Prosecutors admit Riley Johnson
was simply defending himself when he shot a pair of pit bulls in his yard.
But they say he destroyed someone else's property by beheading one of the
animals. If convicted, Riley faces a maximum of 90 days in jail and a
five-hundred-dollar fine.
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 15:00:02 +0100
From: Jordi Ninerola <[e-mail]>
To: AR News <[e-mail]>
Subject: RV: Estabularis
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII

Jordi Ninyerola i Maymm

http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/vines/6506
http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/academy/2855
http://www.geocities.com/colosseum/loge/3128
[e-mail]

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> De: [e-mail]
> A: AR News <[e-mail]>
> Asunto: Estabularis
> Fecha: dilluns, 27 / octubre / 1997 14:06
>
> Jordi Ninyerola i Maymm
>
> http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/vines/6506
> http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/academy/2855
> http://www.geocities.com/colosseum/loge/3128
> [e-mail]
>
> ----------
> > De: [e-mail]
> > A: Nuri Querol <[e-mail]>
> > Asunto: Estabularis
> > Fecha: diumenge, 26 / octubre / 1997 11:46
> >
> >
>
>
> The italian magazine, DONNA, wirte an article that say that many animals
> are in pharmaceutic laboratory. This animals was using for testing about
> the toxic level in many products, and the laboratory know if this
> concentration is or not toxic for they employes.
>
> JORDI NIQEROLA
> BARCELONA, CATALUNYA.
>
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 09:06:10 -0500
From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (US) Three Indicted For Illegal Animal Trade
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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Kansas State News
Reuters
27-OCT-97

Three Indicted For Illegal Animal Trade

(TOPEKA) -- Three people are under federal indictment in Kansas today for
illegally buying and selling wild reptiles in Kansas. Daniel Newton of Elk
City and Terry Stevens of Thibodaux (THIB-o-dough) Louisiana are charged
with buying and selling hundreds of Ornate Box Turtles taken from the wild
in Kansas. In addition... Ted Adams of Topeka was charged with one count of
receiving a reticulated Gila (HEE- la) Monster, which had been taken in
violation of the laws of California and Arizona. All three were arrested in
August after a two-year investigation by the Kansas Department of Wildlife
and Parks and the U-S Fish and Wildlife Service into the illegal trade of
exotic animals.

Officials say there is a large overseas market for the box turtle, which is
so common in Kansas it is the official state reptile. Gila Monsters are a
large poisonous lizard native to the desert southwest region and are listed
as an endangered species.
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 97 08:03:05 UTC
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: A Stick to...Doug MacEachern, Scottsdale Tribune
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

(From Vegetarian Times): A stick to Doug MacEachern, staff columnist
for the Scottsdale Tribune (Arizona, USA) for his bitter diatribe
against vegetarianism. In his article "Veggie Propagandists Preying
on Kids Should Find Another Turf," MacEachern refers to those who
disseminate veg-friendly nutrition information to children as
a "merry band of granola-heads." And as for vegetarianism itself, he
says, "Vegetarianism is not a simple credo. It incorporates everything
from animal-rights activism and hard-core environmentalism to all sorts
of New Age mysticisms and leftie-oriented notions of social
reorganization."

-- Sherrill
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 09:27:50 -0500
From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (US)  Stripping the diet raw
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
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from USA Today http://www.usatoday.com
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  10/27/97- Updated 01:04 AM ET

    Stripping the diet raw

SAN FRANCISCO - Food fads come and go - Pan Asian,
haute Southern, Pacific Rim fusion - but the latest
dining trend is actually the oldest: eating food raw.

Raw foodists, also known as living foodists, take
their diets about two steps beyond vegetarianism. And
they're cooking up new ways to bring uncooked foods
to health-conscious diners.

"Out of every living thing on the planet, animals,
plants, insects, none are overweight or out of shape
except for the ones that eat cooked foods," says
Juliano (who goes by only his first name), owner of
the 2-year-old Raw Living Foods restaurant in the
trendy Sunset area. "By eating raw foods, you're
doing a great service to the planet but especially to
yourself."

Lean, fit and virtually bounding with energy,
27-year-old Juliano, a raw foodist for nearly five
years, is a poster boy for the cause.

And it's a cause that's getting more attention.
Celebrities including Woody Harrelson, Demi Moore and
Robin Williams have dropped by Raw restaurant.
Several Web sites are devoted to the raw food
regimen, including All Raw Times (www.rawtimes.com),
which includes recipes, food suppliers and diet
information. The American Living Foods Institute near
Glendale, Calif., disseminates information on raw
foods and acts as a living-foods health clinic.
Living Nutrition is a year-old magazine out of
Sebastopol, Calif., devoted to the raw-food
lifestyle. And Raw restaurant's Juliano is writing
one of the first raw foods recipe books, called Raw,
the Uncooked Book.

"Raw foodists hold that cooking destroys many
vitamins and minerals and essential food enzymes,"
says Barbara Haspel, co-author with her daughter
Tamar of the New York-based healthy eating newsletter
Dreaded Broccoli. That means no grilled eggplant. No
marinara sauce. Not even stir-fried tofu cubes.

But it isn't all carrot sticks. Raw foods can also
include pizzas and burritos. Sort of.

At Raw Living Foods restaurant, Juliano serves up
pizzes, distant cousins of pizzas that are served on
a sprouted buckwheat and "baked" by sitting in the
sun for several hours. Raw's "sushi" isn't fish at
all, but gussied-up carrot pulp that tastes
surprisingly like salmon. The rice isn't cooked, but
soaked in water for 30 days until it becomes soft and
palatable. And the "chips" that come with the spicy
guacamole appetizer aren't fried triangles, but meaty
slices of sweet potato, coconut and carrot.

"In most restaurants, tortillas are deep-fried. But I
take a purple cabbage leaf, pull it off, and it's
automatically a tortilla. It's a neat color, there's
no package to become trash. It's better than a flour
tortilla," Juliano says.

Instead of vegetable-flavored pasta, Juliano offers
"zucchini linguine," julienned zucchini that "tastes
just like al dente pasta with sauce."

A glass of vino with that raw pasta? No problem.
Since wine goes through no heating process, it gets
the thumbs up from Juliano. Beer is a no-no since the
hops are boiled, and the distillation process knocks
liquor out of the living-food diet.

A glass of wine and a plate of pasta. Sounds like
standard California cuisine. But not all diners will
be spurning Spago. After a meal at Raw, Dreaded
Broccoli's Tamar Haspel concluded, "human beings have
been cooking for thousands of years. This restaurant
does not give me compelling reason to stop."

Still, raw foodism seems to be growing. Next month,
Juliano will move Raw to larger quarters to meet
customer demand. And two more living-food restaurants
have opened recently: Lovin' Life in Fairfax, Calif.,
and Raw Experience in Paia, Hawaii. And living-food
advocates cite the proliferation of juice bars as
proof that their regimen is entering the mainstream.

Although raw foodism seems to be on the rise, it's
unlikely to become as big a culinary trend as, say,
nouvelle cuisine. "Vegetarians are a minority of the
population, and rawists are a very small minority of
that," Barbara Haspel says. "Few people are
completely committed to it."

For those who are, health is a motivating factor.
"The source of most health problems is what we eat,"
says Ed Douglas, director of the American Living
Foods Institute, a raw foodist for more than 20
years. "Whoever started cooking food 40,000 years ago
didn't realize that we are not designed to eat cooked
food. We're designed like other species to eat food
in the raw form."

Why? Stephen Arlin, co-author of Nature's First Law:
The Raw-Food Diet (Maul Brothers Publishing, $14.95),
puts it succinctly: "Cooked food is poison." Strict
believers think that cooking destroys foods' vitamins
and minerals and that cooked foods clog the
intestines and colon, leading to ills from cancer to
diabetes.

But food safety experts raise cautions about the raw
food diet. "I can understand the principle, but it's
fraught with danger," says Nicols Fox, author of
Spoiled: The Dangerous Truth About a Food Chain Gone
Haywire (HarperCollins, $25). "In terms of pathogens,
we're looking at a whole host of bugs we haven't seen
on vegetables before, including salmonella and
cyclospora." Heat is one important way of removing
those threats, she says.

Understanding the dynamics of the raw food diet is
essential, Arlin agrees. Living foodists eat about
70% fruit. But, he says, that's using the botanical
definition of fruit, "so that means anything that
contains within itself the seeds for regeneration of
the plant, like bell peppers, cucumbers and squash."
He fills out his diet with raw nuts and leafy greens.
After years of eating cooked foods, the raw food diet
can take some getting used to, he admits. "But after
a while," he says, "it will feel perfectly natural."

For Juliano, the raw food diet is perfectly natural.
"After all," he says, "before there was fire, there
was raw."

By Cathy Hainer, USA TODAY
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 97 08:26:52 UTC
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Book Review on Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

(In Nov. '97 Vegetarian Times magazine):  "Is there anything left to eat?"
This question might be top of mind for those looking in on a vegan lifestyle
or contemplating one. But life is worth living without cheese pizza
writes Erik Marcus in his new book, "Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating"
(McBooks Press, 1997). Granted, Marcus had misgivings when he first
considered changing his diet. "I didn't want to become a vegetarian -
whatever that was," he writes. "All I wanted to do was stop eating
animals. And what exactly was I going to eat, I wondered? Iceberg
lettuce and tofu?"

Now a long way from this apprehensive place, Marcus presents a
thorough and engaging guide to the benefits and the difficulties
of going vegan. He covers the many problems underlying the standard
American diet, including chilling slaughterhouse practices and
provides economic analysis of natural resource depletion in this
country.

Marcus also does an excellent job of presenting the overwhelming
medical evidence that supports the virtues of a plant-based diet,
including the conclusions of Dean Ornish, M.D., best-selling
author of "Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease"
(Ballantine, 1992), and those of T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., whose
own research for the livestock industry compelled him to redirect
his career and become a leading voice for vegetarianism.

This is a must-read for everyone from the part-time vegetarian
in need of inspiration to the vegan interested in affirmation.

-- Sherrill
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 97 09:00:43 UTC
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: NYC Dog Ban
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

In July, the NYC Housing Authority announced its "zero tolerance" order
to dog owners residing in public housing who own vicious or menacing dogs.
The NYC Housing Authority banned all "vicious or menacing dogs." This
includes pit bulls, even the affectionate ones.

Hilly Gross, Housing Authority spokesperson contends, "pit bulls are
menacing dogs that have no place in our apartments." Gross continues,
"we would like to phase out all dogs to make things safer." According
to Gross, on June 24, the agency decided to ban American pit bull terriers
because drug dealers often use them.

However, in the hands of a criminal, any dog can be made dangerous.
These criminals need to be the target of strict punishment and be
held accountable for their inhumane behavior.

Please write to urge NYC Mayor Rudolph Giuliani to overturn the NYC
Housing Authority's "zero tolerance" policy and replace it with a policy
that truly protects the public from the few dogs that are actually vicious.
Please write the mayor at: Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani, City Hall,
New York, NY 10007  Phone: [phone]
(From ISAR's Autumn 1997 Newsletter)

-- Sherrill
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 97 09:30:37 CST
From: "Vicki Sharer" <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Noah's Ark
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

     The following information is from the Noah's Ark Web site
     (http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Prairie/6507/governor.html)..  I
     have been in contact with Laura Faltin at the shelter.  The case is
     coming to trial November 4, 1997 and she is requesting people  to send
     as many letters as possible.  If additional information is needed,
     please contact me at [e-mail] or Laura at
     [e-mail].


     On the evening/s March 7-8, 1997, intruders broke into Noah's Ark, a
     no-kill, not-for-profit, cat
     rescue shelter. At that time, seventy to seventy-five cats were in
     residence at the Fairfield, Iowa
     sanctuary, where they lived happily in a pleasant two-story house. The
     intruders brought baseball
     bats with them that night. They viciously beat more than thirty of the
     resident cats of this loving
     sanctuary, where David and Laura Sykes, the founders and managers of
     this extraordinary shelter,
     had provided every comfort and luxury they could afford.

     Seventeen cats died of these brutally inflicted injuries and seven
     cats were seriously injured. Three
     cats were so critically injured that they spent weeks hospitalized in
     intensive care at the Iowa State
     University Veterinary Clinic.

     The trial date for the three alleged perpetrators in the Noah's Ark
     Shelter break-in,
     torture and killing of these gentle creatures had previously been set
     for July 29, 1997.
     On July 15th Justin Toben entered a guilty plea and agreed to testify
     against the other
     two defendants. The trial for the two remaining defendants has now
     been postponed until
     November 12, 1997. They are each charged with one count of third
     degree burglary and
     one count of offenses against an animal facility. Each charge is a
     Class D felony that
     carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison and a $7500.00 fine.

     There are those who think that the break-in, bludgeoning and stabbing
     to death of the
     cats were little more than 'childish pranks'! They do not feel that
     this was a serious crime
     deserving of punishment in prison! Psychologists and criminologists
     alike know that any
     child or youth that tortures other children or animals has great
     potential for other violent
     crime, and that many animal abusers do go on to commit other serious,
     violent crimes
     against defenseless humans!

     If you are still unsure if there is a strong link between animal
     abusers and violent
     criminals please see the articles below:

                     Animal Abuse and Human Abuse: Partners in Crime

                        Why We Shouldn't Tolerate Animal Cruelty

                          Hurting Animals Often a Sign of Abuse

     The ASPCA makes this statement on their Legal department webpage:

     "It is critically important for prosecutors and judges to be urged to
     convict and punish
     animal abusers."

     October 22, 1997

     In response to a request by the attorneys of the two remaining
     defendants in the Noah's Ark case,
     the judge has granted the defense a change of venue, and moved the
     trial up to November 4,
     1997. The defense had also requested a split trial, where the
     defendants would stand trial
     seperately. That motion was denied by the judge.

     The trial will now take place in the city of Bloomfield, in Davis
     County, about a 25 minute drive
     from Fairfield.

     The Associated Press has just released a very good article about the
     incident which is being
     published by many newspapers across the country. Look for it in your
     local paper!

     CBS will have some coverage on 'The Geraldo Rivera Show', and 'Oprah'
     producers have
     called the Shelter to discuss the possibility of a show on that very
     popular program.

     '48 Hours' will start filming at the Shelter October 29th, and will
     include trial footage in their hour
     long show.

     I'm sorry there was no update on the re-scheduling of the 'NBC Today'
     show coverage. The
     coverage of the Shelter break-in story was pre-empted by John Denver's
     death, and all of the
     follow-up to that story. I only learned of the decision to broadcast
     the coverage late in the evening
     (11 P.M.) of the evening of October 16th, when Laura Sykes was
     informed that they planned to
     show their coverage the following morning. There was no time to inform
     anyone :(


     Please write to the following immediately and let them know these
     people must be punished.  This case should not be taken lightly.
     Jefferson County Attorney
     Attn: Mr. John Morrissey
     109 No. Court Street
     Fairfield, Iowa 52556

     CC:
     Mr. Mike Brown, Jefferson County Attorney
     Mr. Scott Schroeder, Jefferson County Attorney

     Please send letters as soon as possible!!  Thanks everyone!

     Vicki

Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 01:46:30 +0800
From: bunny <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: URGENT APPEAL TO ALL GOVERNMENTS TO REVOKE THE MARKET
APPROVAL
  OF MONSANTO'S RR-SOYBEAN
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>Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 20:30:07 -0400
>To: [e-mail]
>From: Richard Wolfson <[e-mail]>
>Subject: GE - Clarifying the Press Release re: Elevated hormone levels.
>X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by peg.apc.org id EAA14217
>
>Several people asked for further references on the recent claim that the
>herbicide roundup can increase the level of plant estrogens.  This press
>release provides some references.
>
>Richard
>
>
>URGENT APPEAL TO ALL GOVERNMENTS TO REVOKE THE MARKET APPROVAL
OF
>MONSANTO'S RR-SOYBEAN
>
>  We the undersigned scientists ask all governments to use whatever
>  methods are available to them to bar from their markets on grounds
>  of injury to public health Monsanto's genetically engineered Roundup
>  Ready (RR) soybeans.  In the case of the European Union, of course,
>  we urge the individual governments to invoke Article 16 (Directive
>  90/220). We make this appeal on the following bases:
>
>1) There is clear scientific evidence that application of glyphosate
>can increase the level of plant estrogens.  This has been shown for
>the bean Vicia faba by German researchers (Sandermann and Wellmann,
>1988, in Biosafety, p. 285-292, ed: German Ministry of Research and
>Technology).  Soya belongs to the same plant family (legumes) as
>these beans.
>
>2) Plant estrogens are known to affect mammals including humans.
>
>3) Feeding experiments were done on cows with transgenic and
>ordinary soybeans by Monsanto.  A statistically significant
>difference in the daily milk fat production between the test groups
>was found. Those fed transgenic RR-soybeans produced more fat per
>day than those fed ordinary soya.  All test groups had the same
>intake of soya per day (Hammond et al., Journal of Nutrition, 1996).
>We conclude that this is an indication of a substantial difference
>between the transgenic and the non-transgenic soybean.
>
>4). Monsanto's application for market approval provided no data on
>estrogen levels of RR-soybeans sprayed with glyphosate.  All data
>provided on the concentration level of different compounds in
>RR-soybeans was derived from unsprayed beans.  Despite the lack of
>information on sprayed beans, RR-soybeans were approved.  And sprayed
>beans have since entered the food chain.
>
>We are concerned that the increased milk fat production by cows fed
>RR-soybeans may be a direct consequence of higher estrogen levels in
>those soybeans.  Growing numbers of children are dependent on
>soy-milk due to allergic reactions to cow's milk.  Young children are
>especially susceptible to elevated levels of estrogen.  Thus there is
>a clear and serious health issue at hand.
>
>There is urgent need for further and independent scientific
>investigation.  In adherence to the precautionary principle, until
>these investigations are completed, RR-soybeans should no longer be
>allowed to enter the food chain.
>
>Dr. Brian Goodwin, UK
>Dr. Mae Wan Ho, UK
>Dr. Hartmut Meyer, Germany
>Dr. Peter Saunders, UK
>Dr. Vandana Shiva, India
>Dr. Ricarda Steinbrecher, UK
>Dr. Beatrix Tappeser, Germany
>Christine von Weizsacker, Germany
>
>MontrΘal, 13 October 1997
> Third Meeting of the Open-ended Ad hoc Working Group on Biosafety of
> the UN-Convention on Biological Diversity
>
>References:
> 1) H. Sandermann, E. Wellmann, 1988, Bundesministerium fuer
>           Forschung und Technologie (Hrsg.), Biologische Sicherheit
>           1,  Pages 285-292)
> 2) H. Sandermann (1994, in: W. van den Daele, A. Puehler,
>           H. Sukopp (Hrsg.), Verfahren zur Technikfolgenabschaetzung
>           des Anbaus von Kulturpflanzen mit gentechnisch erzeugter
>           Herbizidresistenz, Issue 6, Part A
>
>......................................
>
>This press release was distributed by the RTS genetics information email
>list. <[e-mail]>
>
>_________________________________________________________
>Richard Wolfson,  PhD
>Campaign for Mandatory Labelling and Long-term
>Testing of all Genetically Engineered Foods
>Natural Law Party, 500 Wilbrod Street
>Ottawa, ON  Canada  K1N 6N2
>Tel. [phone]  Fax. [phone]
>email:  [e-mail]
>
>Our website, http://www.natural-law.ca/genetic/geindex.html
>contains more information on genetic engineering.
>
>To receive regular news on genetic engineering and this
>campaign, please send an email message with 'subscribe GE'
>in the subject line to [e-mail]   To
>unsubscribe, please send the message 'unsubscribe GE'
>__________________________________________________________
>__________________________________________________________
>
>
>


Bob Phelps
Director
Australian GeneEthics Network
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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 11:18:15 -0800 (PST)
From: Twilight <[e-mail]>
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    WHALING COMMISSION APPROVES COMBINED
      RUSSIAN - MAKAH GRAY WHALE QUOTA

RUSSIAN - ALASKAN NATIVE BOWHEAD QUOTA ALSO APPROVED

 MONACO -- The International Whaling Commission today adopted a quota
that allows a five-year aboriginal subsistence hunt of an average of
four non-endangered gray whales a year for the Makah Indian Tribe,
combined with an average annual harvest of 120 gray whales by Russian
natives of the Chukotka region.

A combined quota accommodates the needs of the two aboriginal groups
hunting whales from a single stock.  The commission adopted the combined
quota by consensus, thereby indicating its acceptance of the United
States' position that the Makah Tribe's cultural and subsistence needs
are consistent with those historically recognized by the IWC.  The
Makah Tribe, located on the remote northwest tip of Washington state,
expects to start its subsistence hunt in the fall of 1998 under
government supervision.  The Makah quota will not involve commercial
whaling.

"The United States has fulfilled its moral and legal obligation to honor
the Makah's treaty rights.  The right to conduct whaling was
specifically reserved in the 1855 U.S.-Makah Treaty of Neah Bay," said
Will Martin, alternate U.S. commissioner to the International  Whaling
Commission, and deputy assistant secretary for international affairs
for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The two countries agreed to submit a joint request for an average of 124
gray whales a year, of which 120 are for Russia's Chukotka people, and
four are for the Makah Tribe.  The United States and Russia tabled the
joint resolution after many countries suggested that the two nations
work together to address the needs of both native groups while
reducing the overall quota.  In preliminary proceedings, the Russian
government had outlined its need for 140 gray whales a year and the
Makah Tribe had
outlined its need for up to five gray whales a year.

Over a five-year period, the joint quota will reduce the number of
whales taken by 80 from the existing Russian 140-whale annual quota.
The Commission's Scientific Committee will conduct an annual review of
the gray whale stock and can recommend changes to the quota.  "The
approval of this joint gray whale quota reduces the overall number of
whales taken while addressing the needs of native groups," said Martin.

The Makah request is unique among native peoples, in that the tribe's
1855 Treaty of Neah Bay is the only Indian treaty in the United States
that expressly reserves a tribal right to go whaling.  "We are pleased
that the commission has recognized the cultural and subsistence need
of the Makah Tribe," said Marcy Parker, Makah Tribal Council member,
and member of the U.S. delegation.  "We will now develop a management
plan and are committed to being a responsible co-manager of the gray
whale resource in our usual and accustomed whaling grounds."

The Makah have a 1,500-year whaling tradition.  Tribal whaling ceased in
the early 1900's after commercial whalers had decimated whale stocks and
government assimilation programs forced tribal members to abandon their
intricate whaling rituals and pursue an agrarian lifestyle.  Today,
almost half of the Makah people live below the poverty line,
unemployment is nearly 50 percent, and their subsistence fish and
shellfish resources are dwindling to all-time lows.

"We appreciate the support and dedication the United States government
has shown the Makah Tribe in our request to resume our centuries-old
whaling heritage.  The Makah tribal members will now be able to again
perform important whaling rituals and receive sustenance from this
important and traditional marine resource.  Today will mark one of the
most significant events in our history with western civilization that
will now be passed on through our oral traditions as a positive move
toward cultural revival of vital missing links once thought lost to
our people," said Parker.

The Makah Tribe will not use commercial whaling equipment, but will
combine humane hunting methods with continued traditional hunting
rituals, including using hand-crafted canoes.  The U.S. government's
environmental assessment of the hunt found it will not adversely
affect the gray whale stock's healthy status, which is currently at
more than 22,000.  The gray whale was taken off the U.S. Endangered
Species Act list in 1994.

In a related action, the commission approved on Wednesday a combined
quota of bowhead whales to meet the needs of the Eskimos in Alaska and
Russia. The combined quota allows an average of 56 bowhead whales to
be landed each year.  The Alaska Eskimos have been conducting
aboriginal subsistence hunts with approval of the International
Whaling Commission since the commission began regulating such hunts in
the 1970's.

"We are pleased that the commission continues to recognize the
importance of the bowhead whale hunt to Alaskan Eskimos," said Martin.
 "The central focus of the bowhead hunt in the culture of the Eskimos
is well known."

The 39-member International Whaling Commission is the sole international
body with authority to regulate all forms of whaling.  Under the
commission' whaling regulations, native communities are allowed quotas
for subsistence and cultural purposes.  Such quotas prohibit the sale
of any edible whale products from aboriginal subsistence hunts.






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Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 14:28:08 -0500
From: "The Animals' Agenda" <[e-mail]>
To: AR-News <[e-mail]>
Subject: D.C. show seeks studio audience
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For those in the Washington, D.C., area, WETA (the local PBS station) is
inviting interested folks to be a part of the studio audience for
"Straight Talk with Derek McGinty," a one-hour program that will focus on
animals in captivity.   The taping takes place on Monday, Nov. 10, and the
show will air the next day following "Frontline's A Whale of a Business,"
which will explore the captive marine mammal industry.  The panelists
scheduled for "Straight Talk" include Naomi Rose of HSUS, Terry Maple of
Zoo Atlanta, and the producer of  "A Whale of a Business."  The "lively
discussion" is to be followed by questions from the studio audience about
"the issues raised in the 'Frontline' documentary and the ethics of our
relationships with animals."

The taping takes place at the WETA studios, 3620 S. 27th St., Arlington,
VA.  Audience participants are encouraged to check in at 6:30 pm.  A "light
meal" will be provided.  Participants can screen the "Frontline" program
prior to the taping, which begins at 8:30 and lasts for one-hour.  You must
RSVP at [phone].  Someone from the show will call you back.
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 21:07:18 +0000
From: "Carsten Scholvien" <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Cc: [e-mail]
Subject: (AR) ACTION ALERT: NOW MILITARY IN ARGENTINA TORTURE ANI
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------- Forwarded Message Follows -------
From:          [e-mail]
Organization:  Club de Animales Felices
Date:          Mon, 27 Oct 1997 01:57:01 -0300
Subject:       (AR) ACTION ALERT: NOW MILITARY IN ARGENTINA TORTURE
ANIMALS
Reply-to:      [e-mail]

(AR) NOW MILITARY IN ARGENTINA TORTURE ANIMALS

Physicians in the Military Hospital of the Argentine Republic are
carrying out experiment and vivisection involving animals: now they
provoked the ATROCIUS DEATH OF 42 DOGS.

The results of such experiments are scientifically obsolete: they
don't contribute with any new elements to the basic medical
knowledge, but they do inflict a great deal of torture, harm and
cruelty on the animals.

The tortures and deaths were provoked by doctor Major Guillermo
Daniel Vadra who carried out and published the work intitled
"TRAUMATIC SHOCK AND LIVER". He ends up saying "that routine
checkups are an appropiate method to determine liver damage in
traumatized being and that liver presents a microvasculopathy which
takes part in the microvasculopathy of any given shock." These
concepts are so elemental and have become popular such a long time
ago that if it weren't for the fact that they have provoked the
ATROCIUS DEATH OF 42 DOGS this would be a worthless and insignificant
work. (see below #1)

We are aware of the fact that these experiment are still being done
and we ask for your help to stop this situation.

THIS IS WHAT WE CAN DO:

Please send a letter, fax or mail such as this (or in your own word):

Teniente General Don Martin Balza
Estado Mayor del Ejercito Argentino
Azopardo 250
(1328) Buenos Aires - Argentina

or fax: [phone]
or mail: [e-mail]

"Teniente General D. Martin Balza"

We express our contempt towards the work of vivisection on animals
carried out by doctor Major Guillermo Daniel Vadra at the
experimental surgery department of The Central Military Hospital in
the Argentine Republic and we demand the stopping of the cruel and
worthless experiments performed on animals".

(Please, enclose your Name and Address, Name of the Entity, City and
Country.)

Please, enclose COPIES of your letter to: [e-mail] or
by fax: [phone] and FORWARD this message

THANKS TO EVERYONE !!!
------------------------
(#1) About "TRAUMATIC SHOCK AND LIVER":

a. This work does not add any new element to the basic medical
knowledge.
b. It represents an evidence of extreme cruelty towards the animals
because the situations originated are non-aplicable on injured
person (such as stop feeding him at their will or not inmobilizing
him) and we consider this represents a crime.
c. There are no proofs that the animals have been medicated or
looked after to overcome the shok, therefore lack weight.
d. Animal which had been surviving were deliberatedly killed in the
space of 8 days, misleading any scientific concept of research.
e. This topic is nothing new. Every day numerous injured people are
sent to hospital in Argentina and they can make a follow-up of their
evolution. In fact, to establish any kind of clinical correlation,
with the laboratory, it would have been enough to collect all the
results of the studies found in the clinical records of hundreds of
people with polytraumatisms who enter the health care centers every
day.

-----------------------------------
More extended work is available at: [e-mail]
More information about us mailto: [e-mail]
-----------------------------------
Sent by Club de Animales Felices (Happy Animal's Club) mail:
[e-mail]



Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 07:42:16 +1100
From: Lynette Shanley <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (AU) Dissecting Skippy
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
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The Sydney Morning Herald
Stay In Touch Section.
Monday 27th October. Edited by Bruce Elder and David Dale.

Dissecting Skippy

Animal lovers and liberationists will be happy to know that wombats,
kangaroos and wallabies (or skippy and his cousins) have replaced Roland
Rat and Mickey Mouse as the animals of choice in your local scientific
laboratory. In a report publish in Britain's "Independant on Sunday"
yesterday it was revealed that "scientists have found that the marsupial, a
so called lower order of mammal, offers distinct advantages for
developmental research".

(We interupt this story for an announcement: some readers may find certain
scenes disturbing. So if you think of our marsupials as sweet and cuddly
little things, read no further. You have been warned.)

"The main advantage of the marsupial," the story explains, is that the
young foetuses can be got at before they have developed because the young
move out of the uterus and into the pouch on the mother's abdomen in a
partial stage of development. They continue to develop in the pouch and
can, as one scientist put it, be plucked from the teat "like an apple from
a tree".....This means that scientists do not have to operate on the
mothers, as they need to with rats and mice.

"You can get to it very readily and manipulate it and interfere with it,
whereas you can't do that with something that is inside a uterus where you
have to do some kind of surgical intervention," says Dr Peter Janssens of
The Australian National University.

"You can take the young out of the pouch, do your experiment and put them
back in. It is particularly useful for research into the early development
stages and the use is increasing in Europe because they breed rapidly and
can be kept like other laboratory animals".


Lynette Shanley
International Primate Protection League - Australia
PO Box 60
PORTLAND  NSW  2847
AUSTRALIA
Phone/Fax [phone] 554026
EMAIL [e-mail]
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 14:06:35 +0100
From: Jordi Ninerola <[e-mail]>
To: AR News <[e-mail]>
Subject: Estabularis
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
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Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; CHARSET=US-ASCII

Jordi Ninyerola i Maymm

http://www.geocities.com/rainforest/vines/6506
http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/academy/2855
http://www.geocities.com/colosseum/loge/3128
[e-mail]

----------
> De: [e-mail]
> A: Nuri Querol <[e-mail]>
> Asunto: Estabularis
> Fecha: diumenge, 26 / octubre / 1997 11:46
>
>


The italian magazine, DONNA, wirte an article that say that many animals
are in pharmaceutic laboratory. This animals was using for testing about
the toxic level in many products, and the laboratory know if this
concentration is or not toxic for they employes.

JORDI NIQEROLA
BARCELONA, CATALUNYA.

Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 21:13:36 -0500
From: "allen schubert, arrs admin" <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Cc: Julie Jajowka <[e-mail]>
Subject: (US) RFI--Hybrids
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
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Please send replies to Julie Jajowka <[e-mail]>
-----------------------------------
>To Arrs
>I am in need of some help. Maybe you can connect me with the right person.
>My story is this. I bought a Large shepherd in 93 these dogs were suspose to
>be the best thing to hit this earth and they were show dogs. Well to make
>this long story short I found out that I was sold  hybrid and was sent proof
>of this wonderful breeding
>by some other very unhappy buyers.  These dogs are called shiloh shepherds.
>Before they were shown as shiloh shepherds they were shown as hybrids. These
>animals can be dangerous.  The breeder laughed at me when I confronted her
>with the proof and said all dogs have wolf in them.
>Who can I talk to about this case???? I have contacted so many dog
>organizations
>and no one seems to care.  Who can I talk to who might care.
>Thank you for your time
>Julie Jajowka

Date: Mon, 27 Oct 1997 21:11:06 -0800
From: FARM <[e-mail]>
To: AR-News <[e-mail]>
Subject: "Teen Angel" - Letters Needed
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According to the Animal Industry Foundation (which is keeping track of
our movement and is probably reading this posting), ABC is offering a new
serial called "Teen Angel" to be aired Fridays at 9:30 pm (ET). The show
is about a teen who dies from eating a tainted hamburger and returns as
his pal's guardian angel. The hamburger eating scene will open each show.
AIF recommends that its members share their views with producers Al Jean
and Mike Reiss c/o KTLA, 5800 Sunset Blvd, Production Building #11, Los
Angeles, CA 90028.  Those of us who like the idea of reminding American
consumers of the hazards of meat eating should do no less.  Alex H.


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