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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>  <pre> AR-NEWS Digest 541 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) [CA] BC SPCA launches spay/neuter initiative by David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com> 2) [US/CA/UK] Alaska meltdown as global warming thaws permafrost by David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com> 3) Pet Fair Asia, Pet Fair Brasil, Pet Fair Argentina by jwed <jwed@hkstar.com> 4) (US) Food Safety Shakes Cattle Futures by allen schubert <alathome@clark.net> 5) (US) Accident Could Involve Cruelty Charges by allen schubert <alathome@clark.net> 6) (US) Illegal Animal Carcass Dump Discovered by allen schubert <alathome@clark.net> 7) (US) Prairie Dogs Still In Search Of Haven by allen schubert <alathome@clark.net> 8) Elephant at Oklahoma City Zoo Dies by SDURBIN@VM.TULSA.CC.OK.US 9) New Zealand Goats Feature of Seminar by SDURBIN@VM.TULSA.CC.OK.US 10) Zak: The One-of-a-Kind Dog (Book) by SDURBIN@VM.TULSA.CC.OK.US 11) IU cat burning student info. by KarmaLake@aol.com 12) (US-KR) US Secretly Recalls Meat, Poultry Products 12 Times by Vadivu Govind <kuma@cyberway.com.sg> 13) World Killer Flu by Vadivu Govind <kuma@cyberway.com.sg> 14) (IN) Sanctuaries proposed for city monkeys by Vadivu Govind <kuma@cyberway.com.sg> 15) NY Alert: Abused Horses Returned to Owner by Michael Markarian <mmarkarian@fund.org> 16) ADC Name Change by Michael Markarian <mmarkarian@fund.org> 17) HABEAS CORPUS FILED FOR AR PRISONER by civillib@cwnet.com 18) (US) FDA to Approve Irradiation of Red Meat by allen schubert <alathome@clark.net> 19) (US) Report: Swiss Nestle Close to Gene Coffee Deal by allen schubert <alathome@clark.net> 20) (US) CDC To Study Fish-Killing Organism by allen schubert <alathome@clark.net> 21) FW: ar-dc: ACTION ALERT by "D'Amico, AnnMarie" <DAMICOA@od1em1.od.nih.gov> 22) FDA Reform--Update on "National Uniformity" by DDAL@aol.com 23) Marineland New zealand news article by "Deidre" <aaa@ihug.co.nz> 24) Pottsville, PA: Jail Tries to Institutionalize and Force-Feed Activist by Michael Markarian <mmarkarian@fund.org> 25) Time magazine article by Teresahfc@aol.com 26) [CA] Bjossa "might be pregnant" by David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com> 27) [CA] Aquarium protest by David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com> 28) [CA] Death of Finna by David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com> 29) Action Alert by "Nancy Gomez" <girl@airmail.net> 30) [CA] DFO stops inhumane seal slaughter by David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com> 31) Fur Protest Saturday 10/11 by "veegman@qed.net" <veegman@qed.net> 32) FARM Openings by farmusa@erols.com 33) (FR) Bardot Fined for Racism Over Remarks on Moslems by allen schubert <alathome@clark.net> Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 00:00:43 From: David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com> To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: [CA] BC SPCA launches spay/neuter initiative Message-ID: <3.0.3.16.19971009000043.0abfc28c@dowco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" [Apologies for the delay in getting this info - I wasn't on the SPCA's media list, and had some difficulty contacting their education department. This situation has now been remedied. Additionally, please note that although the term 'euthanasia' is not what I'd use for the killing dealt with here, it was the term used by Hart, and as such I have kept direct quotes as such.] VANCOUVER, BC - The provincial SPCA, in partnership with the British Columbia Veterinary Medicine Association, launched a spay/neuter initiative late last month. Although the two bodies have joined together previously on short-lasting programs, the present program, called the Spay - Neuter Action Plan (SNAP), is envisioned as a long-term project. At the launch, on September 22nd, BC SPCA First Vice President Sam Hart said although the number of euthanasias in the province had been reduced from 24,209 in 1992, to 15,422 in 1996, this was unacceptable to the society. 82% of these animals were cats. Hart said: "If there were a disease that was killing 15,000 animals a year in our province, we would hear an outcry demanding a cure or vaccine, but for some reason, most of us give little or no thought to the shocking numbers of animals being euthanized every day. "SPCA staff and veterinarians must deal with the problem personally however, and often they pay a personal price in stress, depression and grief. There are financial burdens too, which we all have to bear through taxes to support the work of municiple pounds. And finally, as a society we pay a cost in taking any life for granted. Overpopulation is a problem all of us have created and all of us must work to eliminate ..." The plan consists of the following: - The launch of an educational video on companion animal overpopulation, together with complementary written material, which eventually will be available for use in every secondary school in the province and will also be available for community use. - A radio campaign targeted specifically at young people in the province. The campaign uses humour to get across the message of responsibility towards companion animals. Print media PSA's and opinion pieces have been forwarded to every newspaper in BC. - Creation of a Spay Neuter Assistance Fund. The BC SPCA have contributed $5,000 to this fund, but have also called on the whole pet industry to share the burden of ensuring low cost spay/neuters are available to those who need them. - At the invitation of the City of Vancouver Council, the SPCA will particpate in a review of mandatory spay/neuter bylaws and pet registration schemes in use elsewhere. The SPCA announced that they now believe the introduction of such regulations will provide incentives for what it refers to as "casual or uninformed owners" to assume greater responsibility. - Mandatory Spaying/Neutering of all Shelter Animals. The society admits that despite an agressive spay/neuter policy, they lack the resources to follow up on this post-adoption. They plan to work in partnership with the BCVMA at shelter/community level to increase this follow-up and ensure 100% compliance. Hart closed by noting that the target of zero euthanasia would not be reached overnight. "At the BC SPCA we are collaborating with individuals and organizations who are interested in the welfare of animals to make it socially unacceptable to indiscriminately breed dogs and cats, and to share the task of providing better lives for those who cannot speak for themselves." Just words, or a major effort on the part of the SPCA? - only time will tell. David J Knowles Animal Voices News Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 00:16:57 From: David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com> To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: [US/CA/UK] Alaska meltdown as global warming thaws permafrost Message-ID: <3.0.3.16.19971009001657.2bd786ce@dowco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >From The Electronic Telegraph - Thursday, October 9th, 1997 Alaska meltdown as global warming thaws permafrost By Aisling Irwin, Science Correspondent, and Hugh Davies in Washington FROZEN soil that underpins much of Alaska is melting, causing roads to collapse and landslides, and revealing that the United States may be suffering one of the first tangible consequences of global warming. Scientists have discovered that temperatures in Alaska are rising three times faster than in the rest of the Arctic. Three feet below the surface, the permafrost soil that is supposed never to thaw is one degree warmer than it was a decade ago. Prof John Walsh, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Illinois, said: "If the permafrost melts, it becomes a soggy surface. It becomes impossible to drive on it. There are important implications if buildings are on top of it." Half a mile of road near the town of Fairbanks has collapsed. Road surfaces encourage melting because they absorb sunlight, which warms the soil below. Eskimos at Kipnuk, a coastal village in the south on the Bering Sea, have been wondering if the area is sinking because of the warming of the permafrost. It is a treeless spot where 500 people live among hundreds of lakes only five feet above sea level. Ian Parks, head of Chief Paul Memorial School, said some buildings in the village were becoming unstable, with cracks appearing in walls, doors sticking and floors rising and falling. Elsewhere in the state, bumps are appearing in roads and parts of forests are beginning to collapse. Prof Tom Ostercamp, of the University of Alaska, who has studied the permafrost for 25 years, found that all the permafrost south of the Yukon River was warming. He has drilled a network of one-inch holes across the state and found a steady melting of permafrost. At a site near the Stampede Trail in Healy, the temperature just below the surface in 1989 was -1.27C, the next year it had risen to -1.07C, and last year it was -0.7C. Computer models predicted a warming of 3C to 5C in the next 50 years. Glenn Juday, a professor of forest sciences at the University of Alaska, said that if the damage to trees continued as severely there was "a serious question of whether any kind of a forest resembling what we've got now will continue". He said there was extensive damage to roads, building foundations and airport runways. Across the border in Canada, there have been 2,000 landslides at the Mackenzie River because of melting permafrost. Prof Walsh said that glacier retreat in Alaska was seen earlier this year. He said: "The impacts in other areas are more subtle, for example an increase in the frequency of severe weather events." The new evidence of global warming, disclosed in New Scientist magazine, emerged from one of a series of regional workshops by the US global change research programme, which investigates how each region can best cope with the anticipated warming. ⌐ Copyright Telegraph Group Limited 1997. Terms & Conditions of reading. Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 19:03:19 +0000 From: jwed <jwed@hkstar.com> To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: Pet Fair Asia, Pet Fair Brasil, Pet Fair Argentina Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19971009190319.006c5ffc@pop.hkstar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" PET FAIR ASIA '97 (the first Pet Fair ever to be held in this region) was a major attempt by the Pet Industry to increase sales in Asia and it is likely to result in immensely increased abandoned animal problems. It was held in Hong Kong but it was aimed at the whole region. The two things that we succeeded in doing were the distribution of an Action Alert signed by concerned individuals and organisations around the region; and a handing out of leaflets at the Fair itself. For the former I have to thank the signatories for this splendid exercise in regional co-operation; for the latter a sterling effort was made by EarthCare û the Hong Kong charity that had distinguished itself the week before by mounting a demonstration against the bullfighting in Macau. The SPCA (HK) put up a good stall on the last day, as also did the Agriculture and Fisheries Department. Our experiences this time will enable us to be better prepared for future Fairs. These are planned for Argentina in November 1997, Brazil in December 1997 and Hong Kong again in September 1998. If we are not pro-active on this issue, the workloads of animal shelters and dog pounds are going to increase exponentially. Governments must be persuaded to take action to limit animal production until all existing animals are being properly cared for. WHAT YOU CAN DO: I HOPE THAT THE BIG INTERNATIONAL ANIMAL ORGANISATIONS WILL TAKE A LEADING ROLE. If you are a member, please do your best to plead this case with them. For more details - copy of the Action Alert, photographs and various documents pertaining to the Fair - please go to: http://www.earth.org.hk/petfair97.html REPORT ON PET FAIR ASIA '97 by Dr John Wedderburn ( e-mail jwed@hkstar.com ) Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 08:02:52 -0400 From: allen schubert <alathome@clark.net> To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: (US) Food Safety Shakes Cattle Futures Message-ID: <3.0.32.19971009080249.006bdfb0@clark.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" from AP Wire page: ------------------------------------- 10/09/1997 02:08 EST Food Safety Shakes Cattle Futures By SCOTT BAUER Associated Press Writer LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) -- A fluctuating cattle futures market that dipped to an 11-week low this week and then rebounded with gains is not unexpected, market analysts say. Washington hearings on food safety and three E. coli contamination scares linked to ground beef in recent weeks have led to some uncertainty in the market, said Chuck Lambert, chief economist with the National Cattlemen's Beef Association. ``The futures tends to be the market that has the most immediate reaction to both negative and positive news so that's probably contributed some,'' he said. More than the E. coli incidents, the weakened market is due to a plentiful cattle supply, said Jeff Stolle, vice president of marketing for the Nebraska Cattlemen's Association. ``It would be, in my estimation, dead wrong to blame it all on E. coli,'' Stolle said. ``Most of the reaction in the futures market is that we anticipate a rather large supply of fed cattle between now and the end of the year.'' Cattle producers are becoming frustrated with the market because they had hoped to make more money than they are on cattle they purchased earlier this year, Stolle said. On Tuesday, December cattle fell 0.45 cent to 66.225 cents a pound. November feeder cattle fell as much as 1.125 cents to 76.6 cents a pound on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The market rebounded Wednesday, with December cattle gaining 0.17 cent to 66.4 cents a pound. November feeder cattle were up 0.15 cent to 76.75 cents a pound early in the day and later leveled off at 76.6. The cash market has remained relatively constant in recent weeks. In Nebraska, slaughtered cattle were selling for $105 per 100 pounds two weeks ago and last week. This week the market softened to $104 per 100 pounds, Stolle said. ``A dollar change in three weeks is very little change whatsoever,'' he said. In Kansas and Texas, the price paid for live cattle also has remained constant the past three weeks, dropping only $1, Stolle said. Considering all the variables this time of year, it is difficult to sort out what is causing the highs and lows, Lambert said. ``At this stage it's probably difficult to pin it on any one issue,'' he said. The news for the beef industry has been nothing but bad since late August when the Hudson Foods Inc. plant in Columbus, Neb., shut down after recalling 25 million pounds of ground beef suspected of being tainted with the E. coli bacteria. A U.S. Agriculture Department investigation is under way and a federal grand jury in Omaha is investigating whether there was an attempt to cover up the extent of the possible contamination. Last week, South Korean officials said they would not accept 18 tons of beef imported from IBP Inc. of Dakota City, Neb., after samples showed the presence of E. coli. And on Friday, BeefAmerica recalled 443,656 pounds of ground beef from its Norfolk plant after meat tainted with E. coli found in a Virginia grocery store was traced to the company. Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 08:41:40 -0400 From: allen schubert <alathome@clark.net> To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: (US) Accident Could Involve Cruelty Charges Message-ID: <3.0.32.19971009084137.006d8d14@clark.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" from CNN web page: ----------------------------------- Connecticut State News Reuters 09-OCT-97 Accident Could Involve Cruelty Charges (BRIDGEPORT) -- Bridgeport police say a truck driver may face charges of animal cruelty after an accident in that town. Police found 100 puppies, one of them dead, in unsanitary conditions in the truck. Investigators are considering filing animal cruelty charges against the driver since several other dogs are sick. The truck was found after it slammed into a railroad viaduct. Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 08:44:11 -0400 From: allen schubert <alathome@clark.net> To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: (US) Illegal Animal Carcass Dump Discovered Message-ID: <3.0.32.19971009084408.006d8d14@clark.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" from CNN web page: ---------------------------------- Vermont State News Reuters 09-OCT-97 Illegal Animal Carcass Dump Discovered (RUTLAND) -- The discovery of an illegal dump full of dozens of animal carcasses is under investigation in Rutland. Town Administrator Joe Zingale says his dog started digging up the discarded remains of cows and sheep while he looked for potential sites to drill drinking water wells. The owner of a nearby slaughterhouse has denied any connection. Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 08:49:12 -0400 From: allen schubert <alathome@clark.net> To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: (US) Prairie Dogs Still In Search Of Haven Message-ID: <3.0.32.19971009084910.006d8d14@clark.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"