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 Feds To Probe Deaths of Wild Horses

 By MARTHA MENDOZA
 AP National Writer

 WASHINGTON (AP)- Federal investigators are heading to Elm Creek, Neb.,
 this week to try to figure out why dozens of captured wild horses and
 burros awaiting adoption are dying.

 ``It's just unacceptable to me that we have the stewardship of these
 horses, and then we're letting them die,'' said Pat Shea, who was sworn
 in as director of the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management on
 Oct. 2.

 Two weeks ago, during a severe snowstorm, 17 burros and a horse
 suffocated under a snowdrift. Another 14 horses have died during the past
 month from strangles, a bacterial respiratory infection with coldlike
 symptoms.

 The BLM operates a holding facility in Elm Creek as a rest stop for about
 5,000 wild horses and burros captured in the West each year and trucked
 to Eastern and Southern states for adoption.

 The deaths come just four months after a team of veterinarians reported
 that 70 percent of the horses at the facility showed some sign of
 strangles.

 The team made a series of recommendations: Haul manure away more often;
 build sick pens and segregate horses with contagious illnesses; spread
 hay out on the ground so horses don't cluster at a feeder while they eat;
 call veterinarians when animals are sick; examine animals that die; and
 keep health records on all the animals.

 ``If those recommendations had been taken, it looks as if this would not
 have happened,'' said Shea.

 An internal BLM report shows there are 793 horses and burros at the
 facility, 193 more than it was designed to hold. Of those, more than 60
 animals are sick; 32 have died, according to the report.

 Shea said his special assistant, Henri Bisson, and a veterinarian were
 flying to Nebraska on Tuesday and will evaluate management of the
 facility.

 ``If what they find is not to our liking we will make some changes,''
 said Shea.

 Staff at the facility did not return calls Tuesday. A local veterinarian,
 Dr. Barry Littell, said: ``They're doing the best they can.''

Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 01:23:55 -0500
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(a doctor who won't wait for testing)
from CNN http://www.cnn.com/
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                     Doctors willing to risk AIDS experiment

                     'If this works, we'll have a vaccine in 10 years'

                     November 11, 1997
                     Web posted at: 10:11 p.m. EST (0311 GMT)

                     WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Several AIDS doctors say they
                     are prepared to undergo a dangerous experiment to
                     test a live AIDS vaccine in the hopes of finding a
                     cure.

                     The doctors said Tuesday that they could have
                     human trials underway in six months to a year if
                     their proposal is approved.

                     "If this vaccine works, we'll definitely have a
                     vaccine within 10 years," Dr. Charles Farthing,
                     medical director of the Los Angeles-based AIDS
                     Healthcare Foundation, told an AIDS conference in
                     Washington.

                     "If it doesn't, we might not ever have one."

                     Farthing is one of five members of the
                     International Association of Physicians in AIDS
                     Care (IAPAC) who have volunteered to test the
                     vaccine on themselves. But the National Institutes
                     of Health (NIH) says it is too dangerous.

                     "We need to wait until we have more data," says
                     Sandy Thurman, director of the Office of National
                     AIDS Policy. "The (Food and Drug Administration)
                     has not approved of these trials and I think
                     they're being very cautious, and well they should
                     be."

                     The vaccine, which has been successful in macaque
                     monkeys, is made up of a genetically weakened but
                     live strain of the AIDS virus. There is a risk --
                     which Farthing's group says is worth taking --
                     that healthy people given the vaccine would
                     themselves develop HIV infection.

                     Doctors say NIH moving too slow

                     Farthing and his colleagues say they have 300
                     volunteers, some of them doctors and nurses, who
                     have promised to take part in the live vaccine
                     trial if it is expanded.

                     Why, he is asked, would a healthy person want to
                     risk taking the vaccine?

                     "My main motivation was frustration, really, that
                     this clinical trial, which I think is important,
                     is not going ahead," he said.

                      Farthing wants to take his proposal
                                 to the FDA in December. By then, he
                     hopes to have a vaccine made from a genetically
                     altered version of the HIV virus ready to go.

                     Other vaccines currently being tested use bits of
                     the protein coat that surrounds the virus, hoping
                     it will stimulate the body's immune system to
                     better recognize and attack the virus. So far,
                     none has worked.

                     Farthing says he is frustrated that the National
                     Institutes of Health will not approve faster
                     vaccine trials. Richard Marlink, executive
                     director of the Harvard AIDS Institute, agrees and
                     suggests taking responsibility for approving and
                     funding vaccine research away from the NIH.

                     "Thirteen years after the isolation of HIV in the
                     laboratory, the NIH has been unable to bring a
                     single candidate AIDS vaccine into field trials to
                     determine if it even works," Marlink said. "Its
                     bureaucracy hinders efforts to respond quickly to
                     epidemics."

                     Expert: No reason to wait

                     Marlink said a meeting of top vaccine experts
                     agreed there was no need to wait for detailed
                     laboratory tests. "Nor should we wait for an
                     animal model to show us the clear, safe path," he
                     said.

                     "From the beginning of vaccine science -- from
                     William Jenner's smallpox vaccine and Louis
                     Pasteur's rabies vaccine -- it has become clear
                     that only one animal can reliably predict a
                     vaccine's success in people -- the human animal."

                     Marlink suggested creating a new agency to oversee
                     AIDS vaccine research.

                     IAPAC president Dr. Gordon Nary said his
                     organization would take other action to get
                     quicker funding of AIDS vaccines and treatment
                     programs. He said the Global Biography Project
                     would bombard government and health officials
                     around the world with personalized stories and
                     photographs of AIDS victims.

                     "We will make it our responsibility that those who
                     have the power to save these people's lives will
                     know who they are, why they will die and how their
                     deaths will affect those who love them and
                     society," he told the conference.

                     "I believe we will save lives."

                     Correspondent Jeff Levine and Reuters contributed
                     to this report.

Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 14:25:04 +0800
From: bunny <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (NZ)Farmer blames use of rabbit virus on 'nitwit politicians'
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Dominion 11/11/97 (New Zealand)

Farmer blames use of rabbit virus on 'nitwit politicians'

By Alison Tocker

The farmer who started spreading the rabbit calicivirus disease
in Hawk's Bay about a week ago said yesterdy that he had been
driven to it by "nitwit politicians down in Wellington".
Jack Nicholas of Puketiri sand he was fed up and frustrated with
the Governments's lack of action on the virus, and officials apparent
inability to sort out legal issues.
"I had hoped, like every other farmer, there would have been a controlled
release of the virus throughout the length of the country.
"The Government just didn't have the bottle to do it. They can turn around
and blame the regional councils, but the politicians are sidestepping
the issue.
"The Otago farmers were so frustrated they released it themselves, and
now I've done the same thing."
It was after Hawk's Bay Regional Council had spent $30,000 on conventional
rabbit contrl work on his property last summer, and the rabbits remained
a problem, that Mr Nicholas decided to take matters into his own hands.
But he said he was not angry at the regional council for holding back
on helping farmers spread the virus.
North Island regional councils have been reluctant to get actively
involved, as they could be prosecuted under the Pesticides Act or
Resource Management Act.
Mr Nicholas, whose property is 56 kilometres northwest of Napier, said
he got the virus from the Rural Futures Trust in Otago, by courier- "frozen
in a flask and well wrapped".
He gave some of the virus to about 10 other farmers in Hawke's Bay, and
would try to get more to distribute to another 20 in the Ruahine Ranges
area.
The rabbits were starting to die on his property he said. However, many
 were going off in to heavy fern country to die, so he was not collecting
many bodies.
Asked why he had not held off till February - regarded as a better time
to spread the virus to prevent young rabbits getting immunity - Mr
Nicholas said all the inforamtion he had from the South Island was that
it was killing young rabbits.
And he had seen dead baby rabbits on his farm since spreading the
virus.
He planned to keep spreading the virus on his 1000-hectare (2500 acre)
sheep and cattle farm for at least another month.
Federated Farmer's Hawke's Bay president Robert Anderson met regional
council works manager Mike Healy last night to discuss the situation.
After the meeting, Mr Anderson said he agreed with the council's position
that farmers should hold off at least till mid December before spreading
the virus.
This would avoid giving rabbits younger than eight weeks lifelong immunity
and the council would be able to give farmers information on how best to
spread the virus.
The council would also be better able to monitor the spread effects
of the virus, he said.

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Western Australia 6148

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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 14:32:07 +0800
From: bunny <[e-mail]>
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 Subject: [RCD] PRESS RELEASE - Christchurch Press 18/10/97
 Date: Tuesday, 11 November 1997 09:12


 Suggestion of RCD Immunity
 by Sarona Iosefa

 Large-scale RCD baiting of rabbits may make them immune to the virus.

 The chief executive officer of the Otago Regional Council, Graeme
 Martin, said yesterday that council research indicated that putting out
 RCD-baited carrots on a large scale resulted in some bait being laid out
 at half-strength, or being left untouched long enough for untra-viotlet
 light to affect the virus.

 "Where the carrots do not have sufficient virus to kill them (rabbits),
 there is the possibility of leaving them immune for the rest of their
 lives".

 "It is hypothetical, but we want to be conscious of an urgent need for
  research to see how great a risk this is", Mr Martin said.

 Speaking at a meeting in Christchurch of the Rural Futures Trust and
 rural regional councils, he said there was an urgent need for more
 research in this area.

 A member of the trust, Alastair Ensor, said there was no evidence to
 prove Mr Martin's theory of rabbit immunity, but farmers had taken his
 advice seriously.

 Farmers told the meeting that RCD had achieve a 90 per cent kill rate,
 and showed every likelihood of improving.

 A spokeswoman for the Rural Futures Trust, Claire Mulcock, said: "Kills
 of over 90 per cent, and still rising as the virus continues to work,
 are common".

 The trust had been contracted by the Ministry of Agriculture to gather
 farmer information on RCD, and to give them packages on the best
 management practices for RCD.

 Mr Martin said the meeting had been positive with the main concern of
 all parties being the continued monitoring of RCD, research into its
 effects, and a fast flow of information back to farmers.  He said he was
 amazed at farmers' reports that RCD was spreading naturally at a rate of
 more than 2km a week in some areas.
 The legal status of regional councils in spreading RCD was still to be
 addressed, but this was a matter best left to the Government, Mr Martin
 said.

 The meeting was more concerned about keeping the flow of information
 going between farmers, regions and councils.


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Western Australia 6148

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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 02:03:03 -0500
From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
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Subject: (US) Activist's hunger strike ends
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from The Charlotte Observer
http://www.charlotte.com/observer/local/pub/021588.htm
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  Published Tuesday, November 11, 1997

  Activist's hunger strike ends

                             By PAIGE WILLIAMS
                               Staff Writer

  With less than a week left to serve on her Pennsylvania prison
  sentence, a young animal-rights activist from Charlotte has abandoned
  a hunger strike for a diet of soup, fruit and baked potatoes.

  For a month, Dawn Ratcliffe lived on apple juice and water, a regimen
  that stretched the skin of her already runner-thin body, and weakened
  her to the point that she could barely get up in the morning. She lost
  20 pounds, and agreed to eat only when a judge threatened to
  force-feed her, her family and fellow activists said Monday.

  ``We got a call from the doctor saying the next call he would make
  would be to say she was either dead or dying,'' said Ratcliffe's
  mother, Jackie Ratcliffe. ``We were very upset, to say the least. We
  don't know if this was a ploy, but as a parent, I don't care what it
  was that got her to eat.''

  Ratcliffe, 24, had vowed to stick to the strike until her Nov. 17
  release date, a radical measure she hoped would lead to a Pennsylvania
  law against live pigeon shoots.

  She is serving a 45-day sentence in Pottsville, Pa., for protesting
  one of the oldest and most controversial shoots remaining in the
  country. Every Labor Day in the village of Hegins, Pa., contestants
  meet in the town park, release pigeons from cages, shoot them, then
  throw them away. Whoever kills the most takes home prize money and
  trophies.

  Activists demonstrate, and often get arrested.

  Ratcliffe, a UNC Charlotte graduate who now works in the college's
  recycling center, was arrested at the 1996 shoot after she and a dozen
  other activists put U-shaped bicycle locks around their necks, linked
  themselves together and lay on the shooting range. Ratcliffe chose
  prison over a plea bargain, and immediately began a hunger strike to
  draw rapid attention to a state bill that would effectively end live
  shoots.

  Animal-rights activists from the Carolinas and beyond supported
  Ratcliffe's cause, and hardly fault her for eating again.

  ``I told her, `You're only 24 and you have a lifetime of activism in
  front of you. We'd rather see you alive than dead,' '' said Heidi
  Prescott, executive director of the national Fund for Animals.

  ``It was a learning experience, to be in an outside support system for
  someone on a hunger strike. You have to be committed to letting them
  die, and I found out I wasn't that committed. I hope nobody is
  disappointed in her. She has done more to bring attention to the fact
  that the Pennsylvania legislature is refusing to address this, and she
  certainly has motivated scores of people.''

  Ratcliffe's parents and boyfriend will drive to Pottsville this
  weekend to pick her up from the Schuylkill County Prison.

  Prescott says Ratcliffe now plans to help fight a similar pigeon shoot
  in the N.C. town of Oxford.

Date: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 23:10:03
From: David J Knowles <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: [UK] Deer hunt awaits decision on ban
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>From The Electronic Telegraph - Wednesday, November 12th, 1997

Deer hunt awaits decision on ban

THE future of deer hunting comes under further threat today when the
Forestry Commission meets to finalise its new policy on the sport.

The nine-member Board of Commissioners gathers in Edinburgh and is expected
to conclude that deer hunting should be banned on land that it  manages in
Devon and Somerset. The board will communicate its conclusions to Jack
Cunningham, the Agriculture Secretary, who will make the final decision.

A complete ban would mean the end of the Quantock Stag Hounds, which hunt
on 2,300 acres of commission-managed land in Somerset and has already been
hit by the National Trust's hunting ban.

Nigel Muers-Raby, chairman of the hunt, said: "Farmers will not tolerate
the damage the deer do if the hunt is not allowed to play its part in
managing the herd."

⌐ Copyright Telegraph Group Limited 1997.
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 19:09:44 +0800
From: bunny <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (West Aust)Researcher to lecture on GE food-Perth
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Media Release from
Rabbit Information Service-Perth,Western Australia

Genetic Engineered Food

On Tuesday the 18th November at 7.30pm,
Perth Town Hall,Perth WA,
Mr Bob Phelps, Director of GeneEthics, (Melbourne,Australia)
will be speaking on Genetic Engineering and
the hidden hazards of genetic engineered foods.

Entry fee is a gold coin ($1 or $2 coin) to cover costs
and tea and coffee are available.
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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 97 06:42:24 UTC
From: [e-mail]
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Subject: Cows Adopt Deer
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On the news this morning, a video was shown of a group of cows who
"adopted" a deer.  Evidently, the owner of the farm had hit the mother
deer with his car a few months ago and killed her. He didn't know at the
time that she had a baby.  The next thing he knew, the baby was standing in
the middle of his farm with the cows. The cows are very protective of the
deer, he said. Two people swear they've seen the cows letting the deer
suckle.

- Sherrill
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 10:09:16 -0500
From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (US) Demonstration backs protester (Dawn Ratcliffe)
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from http://www.mcall.com/ via Newsworks http://www.newsworks.com/
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Demonstration backs protester

Gathering at prison supports woman arrested at Hegins shoot.

November 10, 1997
By CHRISTINA M. PARKER
Special to The Morning Call

Animal rights activists demonstrated Sunday at the Schuylkill County
Prison, Pottsville, in support of an inmate who began a hunger strike there
Oct. 2.

The demonstration, which began at 1 p.m., was peaceful and protesters left
by 3 p.m., said supervisor Scott Rizzardi.

The inmate, Dawn Ratcliffe, 24, of North Carolina, is serving a 45-day
sentence for her part in a protest at the 1996 Labor day pigeon shoot in
Hegins.

Ratcliffe and 11 other protesters ran onto the shooting field and linked
chains around their necks at the start of the shoot.

Rizzardi on Sunday confirmed that Ratcliffe was still in jail, but referred
questions about her hunger strike and health to Warden David J. Kurtz.

Kurtz was not available for comment.
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 07:59:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Heidi Prescott <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Dawn Ratcliffe
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I saw Dawn last night and she is in very good spirits.  She didn't look
nearly as drawn as last time I saw her.  She is looking forward to getting
out of prison.

Unless there are any further problems (it is Schuylkill County after all),
it is our understanding that she will be released early Sunday morning.  We
will alert the press and encourage activists to be there to welcome her out.
When I confirm the details of the exact time of her release, I will post them.

Thank you

Heidi

Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 12:22:22 -0500
From: "allen schubert, arrs admin" <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: FFF97 Events Calendar
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Just a reminder...

The Fur Free Friday 97 Events Calendar is at:
http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/calendar/fff97.html

So far, events listed are:
Beverly Hills, CA
Chevy Chase, MD
Columbus, OH
Dallas
Detroit
El Paso, TX
New Jersey (NJARA)
New York
San Francisco

This is an opportunity to let others know about your FFF protest/demo!
There are probably people in your area who do not know how to get involved,
yet care enough to do something, if only they knew how.

Just send details of your upcoming protest to:
[e-mail]
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 22:17:29 +0100
From: "Matthias M. Boller" <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Request: Contacts in Brazil
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Hi,

one of our member organisations is looking for contacts in Brazil who
might be able to supply information about safari parks there.

Any hints, e-mail addresses, urls etc. would be appreciated by
[e-mail]

Thank you very much,

Matthias

[e-mail]

Member of the board
Federal Association Against Vivisection - People for Animal Rights
[e-mail]    -   http://www.tierrechte.de/indexe.html
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 06:41:11 +0800
From: bunny <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: [Switz]Rabies diagnosed in puppy imported from Mexico
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Date: Fri, 31 Oct 1997 15:46:34 +0000
From:News Source

Rabies [has been] diagnosed in a puppy in Switzerland imported from Morocco.

A female puppy (two months) has been imported to Switzerland from Morocco
(area of Agadir) by a Swiss tourist from the canton of Zurich on October
19.  Two days later, the dog showed changes in behavior and bit its owner.
The puppy was given to a local veterinarian for treatment and observation.
It was finally killed by euthanasia on October 27 and sent to the Swiss
Rabies Center for analysis.  Rabies infection was confirmed by IF on
October 29.  Persons who were in contact with the dog (family members of
the dog owner, veterinarian and personnel) received full antirabies post
exposure treatment.  An active search of one person who probably had
contact with the dog s saliva in the aircraft has been initiated by the
cantonal authorities.

The free-roaming puppy was found by an unidentified Austrian couple in the
area of Agadir (Morocco) and brought to the Taghazout camp site (12 km from
Agadir) on October 15.  According to information given by the Swiss
tourist, the two Austrians (aged about 35 years, probably residents of
Vienna) are on a three-month caravan trip in Morocco.  At present, they may
still be in or near Taghazout.  The rabid puppy had contact with a large
number of visitors and domestic animals (especially other dogs) in the
campsite of Taghazout before it was brought to Switzerland.  As the first
rabies symptoms were observed on October 21 it is possible that the dog
shed virus before its importation into Switzerland.

Therefore, each person who was exposed to saliva of this animal (bite,
scratch, saliva on mucous membranes) in Taghazout, in the airports of
Agadir and Casablanca, or in the aircraft from Agadir via Casablanca to
Zurich (AT 934 Casablanca-Zurich on October 19,1997) should receive
antirabies post exposure prophylaxis.

Although usually coincident with the onset of symptoms, rabies virus has
been found in the saliva of dogs up to 14 days prior to the onset of
clinical signs.  This could be a potentially nasty situation, so anyone in
a position to help disseminate this information to people who were at the
campsite at Taghazout, PLEASE DO SO.  This is especially true for the
Austrian couple who apparently had fairly close contact with the puppy.  We
can assume the puppy licked or put it's mouth around their hands and
probably faces regularly.  So, they may very well be exposed.
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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 06:50:48 +0800
From: bunny <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (USA)LEPTOSPIROSIS, DOGS - USA (NEW YORK)
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LEPTOSPIROSIS, DOGS - USA (NEW YORK)
************************************

from:News Source

Date: Wed. Nov. 12, 1997

Reports from veterinarians in  New York investigating an unusually high
number of canine renal/hepatic syndrome cases indicate an increased
frequency of _L. grippotyphosa_, a not uncommonly found serovar in domestic
animal species.  Reports from Long Island Veterinary Medical Society,
indicate approximately 200 cases over the past 15 months.  During this
period there were approximately 200,000 sick visits to veterinarians
practicing on Long Island.  This strain is rarely found in humans, but
zoonotic potential does exist.  The Cornell University Veterinary
Diagnostic Laboratory has confirmed the diagnosis.

The current wisdom is that this is from perhaps an epidemic cycling in
wildlife that is spilling over into the dog populations in contact with the
typical leptospirosis fomites, i.e., urine-contaminated water, soils, mud,
etc.

The Long Island Veterinary  Medical Society has summarized this "outbreak"
which is continuing and perhaps spreading down the eastern USA coast; no
human cases documented so far.  The pertinent Departments of Health,
including the NYS DOH,  have all been informed and kept up to date.
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Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 06:54:08 +0800
From: bunny <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: BSE-BELGIUM
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BSE - BELGIUM: FIRST CASE
**************************

Date: Nov. 7, 1997
Source: CDPC E-mail Service


The cow identified last week as Belgium's first case of  "mad cow" disease
was used in a 1,200-ton batch of animal feed, some of which has been
exported to Poland and the Netherlands, the agriculture ministry
acknowledged Thursday.  The embarrassing and potentially dangerous error
occurred because the animal had initially been thought to be suffering from
rabies, a ministry spokesman said.  By the time laboratory tests had
revealed the animal was not rabid but had been suffering from bovine
spongiform encephalopathy (BSE), the carcass had already been used for
feed.  Agriculture Minister Karel Pinxten last week assured the public that
the animal had been slaughtered and burned in accordance with European
Union rules designed to keep BSE-contaminated meat out of the food chain.

A ministry spokesman insisted, however, that there was no danger to human
health because the animal concerned had been boiled at a sufficiently high
temperature to eliminate the BSE agent.  The use of the boiled-down
carcasses of BSE-infected cattle for the manufacture of cheap feed is
thought to have been the main factor in spreading the disease among British
cattle in the 1980s.  The use of meat and bonemeal for feed for ruminants
(cattle, goats and sheep) has since been banned by the EU.  The European
Commission on Thursday expressed concerned about the Belgian incident and
said it had written to Pinxten demanding a detailed explanation of what
went wrong.
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Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 21:31:31 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: FFF...Do it at home!
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

The Fur-Free Friday events calendar is a *wonderful* idea.


Probably what I'm about to say doesn't need saying, but here goes anyway.

Originally from New York City, I've lived near Scranton, PA, for the past 21
years.  Not much happening here.  The local news is pretty dag-nabbed dull,
so when something "different" comes along, like say, one or two people
protesting fur *in solidarity with* those animal rights people in NYC, or
California, or whatever, the local assignment editors sit up and take notice.

Believe me folks...the three consecutive years that I did a Fur Free Friday
protest, I turned up on two out of the three local news programs.  Two of
those years I was ALL ALONE.  One of those years I had just ONE friend with
me!

Why do I mention this?  Because your local stations need a tie-in to the
bigger event before they will consider giving more than a split-second of air
time to FFF.  Those years that I didn't get out there, do the press releases,
yada, yada, yada, you could have blinked and the reporting of Fur Free Friday
on the local station would've been over.  NO kidding!

As I was just saying today to a local animal rights/veggie friend (who
unfortunately wants to move to L.A because "nothing animal rights is
happening around here")...we have to COLONIZE these outposts.  All well and
good to join the big demos in the cities--yes, of course that's vital.  But
if you can't get to one of those, please, please, please consider doing one
right where you are at home.  The teensier the city, the better!  If it's
anywhere near as backwards and rednecky as Scranton, these little towns are
places where most folks haven't a clue about most animal rights issues.  And
if your local news consists mostly of fender-benders, you'll probably get
some pretty nifty coverage.

But y'all probably knew all this stuff already and didn't need my little
harangue.  :-)

Best,
Lynn Manheim
Letters for Animals
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 1997 20:13:36 -0800
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Date: Wednesday, November 12, 1997 1:50 AM
Subject: AR-NEWS digest 573


>
>     AR-NEWS Digest 573
>
>Topics covered in this issue include:
>
>  1) Admin Note--New Policy for Inappropriate Posts
> by allen schubert <[e-mail]>
>  2) Health priorities
> by Andrew Gach <[e-mail]>
>  3) Making invertebrate history
> by Andrew Gach <[e-mail]>
>  4) Noah's Ark Trial
> by [e-mail]
>  5) Noah's Ark
> by [e-mail]
>  6) (US) Farm Scene: another Engineered Corn Plant Heading to Farms
> by allen schubert <[e-mail]>
>  7) (US) Residents Concerned About Egg Factory
> by allen schubert <[e-mail]>
>  8) (NL) Greenpeace Blocks Soybean Import
> by allen schubert <[e-mail]>
>  9) (ID) Thousands of dogs to be destroyed
> by Vadivu Govind <[e-mail]>
> 10) New S.African animal groups website
> by Vadivu Govind <[e-mail]>
> 11) Pig-organ transplants for Muslims 'okay'
> by Vadivu Govind <[e-mail]>
> 12) British pigs sent to Vietnam to breed
> by Vadivu Govind <[e-mail]>
> 13) (HK/SG) Crabs and the stock market
> by Vadivu Govind <[e-mail]>
> 14) (SG) Guide for would-be pet owners to be out in February
> by Vadivu Govind <[e-mail]>
> 15) Korean animal group newsletter
> by Vadivu Govind <[e-mail]>
> 16) Re: Request from subscriber: Feed the Children Fund?
> by allen schubert <[e-mail]>
> 17) Noah's Ark Judge needs letters and info on Olivia in Indiana
> by "Vicki Sharer" <[e-mail]>
> 18) Sears Anti Fur Action, The 11th Hour
> by [e-mail]
> 19) FW: RED ALERT! Wolf control decision pending!!!
> by Jill Hein <[e-mail]>
> 20) Dawn Ratcliffe Interview
> by Jackie Dove <[e-mail]>
> 21) FW: IMPORTANT CORRECTION/wolves/alaska
> by Jill Hein <[e-mail]>
> 22) (UK) Save the Hillgrove Cats Campaign
> by "Arc News" <[e-mail]>
> 23) Babies poisoned by whale meat
> by Andrew Gach <[e-mail]>
>

Date: Thu, 13 Nov 1997 00:01:26 -0500
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