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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN//2.0"> <html> <head> <title>AR-NEWS Digest</title> </head> <BODY bgcolor=fbfaea text=#211818 link="#190748" alink="#FFFFEF" vlink="#401C92"> <center> <IMG SRC="IMAGES/HEAD.GIF" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/digest/images/head.gif" USEMAP="#toplinks" BORDER="0"><BR> <img src="IMAGES/YCBAR.GIF" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/digest/images/ycbar.gif"><a href="../INDEX~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/index.html"><img src="IMAGES/HOMEBAR.GIF" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/digest/images/homebar.gif" border=0></a><br></center> <map name="toplinks"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="345,27,393,54" href="../../../tppmsgs/msgs0.htm#14" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/envirohome.html"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="458,7,512,27" href="../SUPPOR~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/Support.html"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="401,7,446,26" href="../SEARCH~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/search.html"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="352,7,386,26" href="../ORGS~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/Orgs.html"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="298,7,337,25" href="../NEWSPA~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/newspage.html"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="211,7,286,27" href="../SUB~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/sub.html"> </map> <center><TABLE cellspacing=15 border=0> <TR> <TD width=50 align=center> </TD> <TD width=400 align=left> <!-- PAGE CONTENT GOES BELOW --> <pre> AR-NEWS Digest 587 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) EU Warns US on Use of Animal Traps by allen schubert <alathome@clark.net> 2) by "Paul Wiener" <paulish@cyberjunkie.com> 3) (SO) Hyenas attacking Somali flood victims by Vadivu Govind <kuma@cyberway.com.sg> 4) (EG) Islam and bullfights by Vadivu Govind <kuma@cyberway.com.sg> 5) (CL) 60-cm-long "mutant" rats by Vadivu Govind <kuma@cyberway.com.sg> 6) EU fur ban seen worsening row with U.S. over Cuba by NOVENAANN@aol.com 7) (UK) Bloody revenge for stag hunt ban by Chris Wright <chrisw@wmalvern.demon.co.uk> 8) FFF97 Updated by Animal Rights Resource Site <arrs@envirolink.org> 9) Info Request: Re: EU fur import ban by "Bob Schlesinger" <bob@arkonline.com> 10) Fw: Primate Freedom by paulbog@jefnet.com (Rick Bogle) 11) "Wanderings" Column on Pigeon Shoots by Michael Markarian <mmarkarian@fund.org> 12) EU Letter Writing Info by MINKLIB@aol.com 13) FFF- San Francisco press release by In Defense of Animals <ida@idausa.org> 14) Conrail Spills Oil, Shoots Beavers by Michael Markarian <mmarkarian@fund.org> 15) We need footage and leads by Turtleresq@aol.com 16) (US) First university-associated Veg nutrition newsletter by Vadivu Govind <kuma@cyberway.com.sg> 17) FUR FREE FRIDAY - Jacksonville, FL by allen schubert <ar-admin@envirolink.org> 18) [UK] Bill aims to outlaw pig tail-docking by David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com> 19) [UK] Shooting of stags 'could wipe out Quantock herd' by David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com> 20) [UK] Ten Cabinet members will miss hunt vote by David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com> 21) [CA] Clinton orders veggie meal by David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com> 22) (US) FDA clears improved pig heart valve for humans by allen schubert <alathome@clark.net> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 01:27:53 -0500 From: allen schubert <alathome@clark.net> To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: EU Warns US on Use of Animal Traps Message-ID: <3.0.32.19971125012751.00723a74@pop3.clark.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" from Associated Press http://wire.ap.org/ -------------------------------------- 11/24/1997 17:24 EST EU Warns US on Use of Animal Traps BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP) -- The European Union warned of a ban on U.S. fur imports unless Washington comes up with new proposals this week to phase out the use of leghold traps on animals. Luxembourg Foreign Minister Jacques Poos said that if the United States doesn't end the use of what EU countries see as inhuman traps, ``we will have to ban certain fur imports from the United States beginning Dec. 1.'' The 15-nation EU reached agreement earler this year with Canada and Russia on limiting use of leghold traps or phasing them out. The United States refused a similar deal, saying it could threaten the livelihood of trappers who use the steel-jawed traps. Washington has already said it will take the EU to court if the fur ban is imposed. Date: Mon, 24 Nov 97 23:02:20 -0800 From: "Paul Wiener" <paulish@cyberjunkie.com> To: "AR-News (to post)" <ar-news@envirolink.org> Cc: "Jullia K. Alvares and Joe Abella" <jkalvarez@aol.com>, "Kathie Maffitt" <meggie@primenet.com>, "Valerie Card" <vecard@webtv.net>, "Sanya and Andy Dunn" <sanya@lips.com>, "Marcia Turney" <marcia_turney@hmc.edu>, "Chris and Bill Harmon" <Lassiegal@aol.com> Message-ID: <199711250706.AAA06779@smtp02.primenet.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Did anyone see UPN Network News tonight (11/24/1997)? They did a terrific "Throw Away Pets" type piece that included a dog-euthanasia in a city shelter, and ended with a very strong and well argued plea for spaying and neutering. I think they said the city council was voting on a $500.00 spay/neuter differential licensing fee, but maybe I heard wrong. Tomorrow they're scheduled to continue their study of what happens to pets that end up in the shelter. ___________ Paul Wiener got_the_T-shirt@been-there.com paulish@cyberjunkie.com paulish@thepentagon.com paulish@usa.net tinea-pedis@bigfoot.com KJ6AV@callsign.net - -------------------------------------------------------- http://www.netforward.com/cyberjunkie/?paulish -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNHp39wAQDcH6qrIRAQHk9AP/aOGOH1Mk283whLJxYoHQwFvK+AYSehm/ AB1urw1iIjceotvaH2GUxYpKsNVIrcxop8AUi+l2C6r7L7BCHLdHSpZNR9HPiv5Y sgikGES4x4RzGbsjWGlnRH6tUx14aT6VWf6mBOjeyCKyWT32TAnODXO4Zut/aYzz by3KWKqbXd0= =Lns3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 16:09:18 +0800 (SST) From: Vadivu Govind <kuma@cyberway.com.sg> To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: (SO) Hyenas attacking Somali flood victims Message-ID: <199711250809.QAA24683@eastgate.cyberway.com.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >The Straits Times 24 Nov 97 Hyenas attacking flood victims in fight for dry ground in Somalia NAIROBI -- Hyenas competing for dry ground are attacking Somalis marooned by the worst floods ever, a relief agency has reported. The American Refugee Committee said on Saturday that the hyenas were competing with 6,000 to 10,000 people for dry land around the southern town of Hagar, on the Juba River. "A group of swimmers has been sent out to assess the situation in surrounding villages," it said. Another area, it added, was "hippo-infested". Other agencies said crocodiles were a menace. Around Bardera, also on the Juba, camels and cattle were reportedly stuck in the mud, with "swarms of parasites everywhere". Over 1,300 Somalis have been confirmed dead since the Juba broke its banks on Oct 18, and close to 230,000 people have fled. Deaths from illnesses such as malaria are also on the rise. At least 30 people were killed on Friday in the region around Wamlawein, north-west of Mogadishu, local dailies reported on Saturday. The rains are also pounding Ethiopia and Kenya, with no let-up in sight. Distribution of relief supplies is hampered because airstrips are flooded and roads blocked. Most relief in Somalia is being distributed in dinghies, buttwo helicopters hired from South Africa were due to arrive here yesterday, and another two today. In Dadab, north-eastern Kenya, the rains have cut off roads to camps holding over 120,000 refugees from Somalia, Sudan and Uganda, said Mr Peter Kessler, spokesman for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The roads will take six to eight weeks to repair once the rains stop, he said. The UNHCR would try to fly in plastic sheets and biscuits for both the refugees and the local population, he said. -- AFP. Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 16:09:26 +0800 (SST) From: Vadivu Govind <kuma@cyberway.com.sg> To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: (EG) Islam and bullfights Message-ID: <199711250809.QAA26714@eastgate.cyberway.com.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >The Straits Times 25 Nov 97 Egypt's religious leaders lock horns over bullfights CAIRO -- The first bullfights due to be held in Egypt in almost 50 years have provoked a new round of bitter debate between Egypt's top Muslim religious leaders, according to the pro-government press. The debate is over whether the bullfights, due to start on Thursday, should take place. It pits the most senior authority of Sunni Islam, Sheikh Mohammad Sayyed Tantawi of Al-Azhar, against Egypt's most senior religious official, Mufti Sheikh Nasr Farid Wassel. Sheikh Wassel has issued a fatwa (decree) that bullfights are haram (forbidden) and that "Islam prohibits anyone from attending such events". "Encouraging them is even haram ," he added. Sheikh Tantawi is the head of Al-Azhar, a religious institution where almost all of the world's muftis are trained. He is not opposed to corridas and his word carries more weight that any fatwa issued by the mufti . A bullfight is known in Spanish as corrida de toros . "There are no objections" to organising bullfights, Sheikh Tantawi told the Cairo weeklies Rose al-Yussef and Al Arabi. He also suggested that the meat of the dead bulls be distributed to patients in government hospitals and those run by Al Azhar "as long as the animal is killed in line with Syariah" (Islamic law). The evening daily Al Messa quoted him as saying on Sunday: "If the bull survives the death blow and is then slaughtered according to Islamic ritual, its meat can be eaten." The mufti has charged that "eating the meat from bulls killed during corridas is contrary to Islam" because the blood of the animals coagulates during the fight and cannot be drained properly in line with Islam. Eight Spanish and Portuguese matadors, horsemen and banderilleros are scheduled to participate in 12 corridas at the Shams country club in the residential Heliopolis suburb of northern Cairo. But during the week-long event -- the first since 1954 -- bulls are not to be killed, the organisers have said. -- AFP. Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 16:09:32 +0800 (SST) From: Vadivu Govind <kuma@cyberway.com.sg> To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: (CL) 60-cm-long "mutant" rats Message-ID: <199711250809.QAA25533@eastgate.cyberway.com.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >The Straits Times 25 Nov 97 MUTANT RATS: A Chilean ecological group has sounded an alarm about 60-cm-long "mutant" rats which have attacked barnyard animals in a suburb of Santiago. Mr Mauricio Barraza, president of the Ecological Council of Maipu, said he believed the rodents had grown so large because they fed on the droppings of hormone-fattened poultry. -- Reuters. Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 03:55:04 -0500 (EST) From: NOVENAANN@aol.com To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: EU fur ban seen worsening row with U.S. over Cuba Message-ID: <971125035501_477123904@mrin83.mail.aol.com> EU fur ban seen worsening row with U.S. over Cuba 06:25 p.m Nov 24, 1997 Eastern By Gillian Handyside BRUSSELS, Nov 24 (Reuters) - An impending European Union ban on American fur imports could spark off a trade war and deepen a row over U.S. laws hitting foreign companies investing in Cuba, Iran or Libya, an EU official said on Monday. European trade commissioner Sir Leon Brittan told EU foreign ministers on Monday that EU-U.S. talks had failed to produce agreement on acceptable ways of trapping fur-bearing animals. In the absence of a deal, the ban will automatically come into force on December 1. Foreign Minister Jacques Poos of current EU president Luxembourg said the ministers had agreed that the latest U.S. offer was not sufficient, but he added that Brittan would seek to convince Washington to improve it. ``If he were unable to do so...the ban would enter into force as of December 1,'' Poos told reporters after the meeting. Brittan's spokesman Nigel Gardner earlier said there was ``no evidence of the faintest chance of a new offer from the United States.'' Gardner said Washington was not prepared to accept the EU's demand for an end to the use of steel-jawed leghold traps to ensnare species like mink, otters and wolves. The Americans wanted first to conduct tests to see whether the traps were as cruel as the EU said they were, he said. Critics of the traps say they do not kill the animals outright but often break their legs and imprison them until they drown, starve or bleed to death. In a separate trans-Atlantic trade dispute, talks between Brittan and U.S. State Department officials last Friday produced progress but no breakthrough over the U.S. anti-Castro Helms-Burton law and its D'Amato law on Iran and Libya. The 15-member EU bloc is expected to use a transatlantic summit in Washington on December 5 to renew its threat to challenge the United States at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) if it tries to punish EU firms investing in the three countries, who Washington accuses of sponsoring terrorism. But U.S. ire at the impending fur import ban could make it even harder to resolve the complex Helms-Burton/D'Amato wrangle, the EU official said. The EU is fiercely opposed to the sanctions laws, saying Washington has no right to penalise firms outside its borders. But America might use the example of the fur ban to accuse the Europeans of also resorting to extra-territorial legislation when it suited them, the EU official explained. Gardner denied the fur ban was extra-territorial though he conceded it could complicate the Cuba row. ``We're not using an automatic ban on these leghold traps as a weapon for (implementing) foreign policy. We're using it because we feel these things are cruel and their use should be phased out,'' he said. Poos took a similar line, saying: ``I don't think you can make any comparisons here with Helms-Burton or D'Amato legislation whereby foreign companies are threatened with sanctions if they violate an embargo which was declared unilaterally by the United States.'' The potential setback comes at a time when Washington and Brussels are seeing signs of progress, albeit small, in their efforts to avert a WTO battle over Cuba, Iran and Libya. Date: Tue, 25 Nov 1997 13:00:18 GMT From: Chris Wright <chrisw@wmalvern.demon.co.uk> 
