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     "We may end up with prescription foods or prescription
      diets. We may have Monsanto diet No. 3, for example."

 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/docs/news/19980116/Column/7VALP.html


 TORONTO GLOBE AND MAIL   Friday, January 16, 1998

 Meanwhile, down on the pharm

 By Michael Valpy

 SEE whether any of this scares you.

 The Guardian Weekly reports that six giant U.S.-based agrochemical
 corporations are poised to dominate global food production with
 genetically engineered food. The companies claim that more than 12
 million hectares -- that's the size of the three Maritime provinces
 -- of genetically modified crops were planted in the United States
 last year, more than three times the acreage planted in 1996 and 10
 times the acreage of 1995.

 A spokesman for Monsanto, the chemical and biotechnology firm that
 leads the pack, said the market is expected to double this year. The
 U.S.-based companies have muscled their seeds into Europe. They are
 ready to take over farms throughout Asia and Africa. Together they
 have launched an $8-billion (U.S.) investment.

 The McKinsey Quarterly, publication of U.S. business consulting giant
 McKinsey & Co., says: "The world is about to witness a [food crop]
 revolution. The science is now in the hands of large, well-funded,
 agricultural, chemical and pharmaceutical giants which are poised to
 move from a handful of products on the market today to a full menu in
 five years time. Biotechnology is revolutionizing the food chain."

 The big American companies claim that the new technologies are
 environmentally friendly and will lead to health benefits, an end to
 world hunger and reduced use of pesticides.

 Monsanto's chairman and CEO, Robert Shapiro, was recently quoted as
 saying: "We may end up with prescription foods or prescription diets.
 We may have Monsanto diet No. 3, for example."

 An investigation by Guardian reporters found evidence that the
 companies are lobbying governments heavily and often successfully and
 enlisting the aid and muscle of world organizations to rewrite world
 food-safety standards in favour of genetically modified crops.

 The investigation also found unexpected environmental problems, legal
 contracts locking farmers into corporate control of production,
 consumers denied effective choice between natural and genetically
 modified foods and widespread fears that small farmers in developing
 countries will be forced out of business by the agri-giants.

 "This will add to hunger," says environmental activist Vandana Shiva,
 director of New Delhi's Science and Technology Research Institute.
 "Millions of small farmers without access to the technologies or to
 global markets will be unable to compete."

 THE story of Monsanto's Round-up Ready Soybeans (RRS) is illuminating.
 Despite consumer resistance, it was pushed into European markets in
 1996. Demands for labelling products that contained the genetically
 modified bean were branded by the U.S. government as "interference in
 free trade."

 In short, Round-up Ready beans and natural beans are mixed together.
 (While European protesters stormed offices and chained themselves to
 gates, the Canadian government quietly approved Round-up Ready beans.)

 Soy is a major staple of the world's food supply. Soybean oil, mulch
 and derivatives (such as lecithin) are used in 60 per cent of food
 products found on supermarket shelves. Soybeans are the United States'
 second largest agricultural crop. About 2 per cent of the total crop
 was planted with RRS in 1996. It may have been as much as 25 per cent
 in 1997.

 Round-up Ready Soybeans are a genetically altered strain that combines
 genes from a virus, a bacterium and a petunia -- all of which are
 foreign to the human diet. The big value -- for Monsanto -- of
 Round-up Ready Soybeans is that they are resistant to Monsanto's
 Round-up herbicide, glyphosate. Meaning farmers can spray Round-up on
 their fields, killing everything except the beans.

 Monsanto designed a genetically modified cotton, Bollgard, that was
 supposed to protect itself against bollworm attack by producing its
 own pesticide. It failed. Bollgard constituted about 13 per cent of
 the U.S. cotton crop.

 In February, 1994, Monsanto introduced an artificial bovine growth
 hormone, rBGH, to stimulate milk production in dairy cows. It has
 failed to live up to its promise. It does increase milk production,
 but resultant health problems in cattle are reported to outweigh the
 benefits.

 A company in which Monsanto has substantial equity produced the Flavr
 Savr tomato, genetically interfered-with to taste like a home-grown
 tomato yet be sturdy enough to withstand long-distance shipping (the
 current supermarket tomato is, yes, sturdy and tastes appalling). The
 Flavr Savr didn't make it; it had troubles growing away from
 California.

 Julie Draycott of the Isle of Wight has billed Monsanto $15,000 for
 the time, trouble and money she says Monsanto costs her annually to
 find products she is sure do not contain Round-up Ready Soybeans. The
 company has not yet paid. And that's it, that's my last column. I
 want to do other things in the newspaper. Someone else can defend the
 monarchy.

 E-mail: [e-mail]

 Copyright ⌐ 1998, The Globe and Mail Company


Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 03:00:25 +0800 (SST)
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>The Straits Times
17 Jan 98

Spur-ed on by healing brew

     AN INCREDIBLE potion normally associated with jungle witch
     doctors has worked wonders for four injured English Premiership
     club soccer players, reports Soccernet.

     The concoction of calves' blood, cattle foetuses, honey extract,
     zinc and magnesium injections have helped Tottenham Hotspur
     stars Darren Anderton, Chris Armstrong, Allan Nielsen and
     Steffen Iversen on the road to recovery -- so they claimed.

     They have confidently predicted they will be soon be back to help
rescue the club,     which is lying second from the bottom, from relegation
after receiving the treatment in Germany. Anderton said: "My body feels
better than it has for a long time."

     The players were all sent on the recommendation of team-mate Jurgen
Klinsmann to     German doctor Hans Muller-Wohlfahrt, whose bizarre methods
-- of strange drinks     and injections -- have resulted in successes in
treating chronic injury victims.

     After only a week at the Munich clinic, the four Spurs players told
Soccernet they have     all made significant progress in the battle to
recover. Dr Muller-Wohlfahrt said: "The     players have been very good and
they have not expected a miracle cure but all their     injuries are
treatable."


Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 14:04:21 -0500 (EST)
From: [e-mail] (Stuart Chaifetz)
To: [e-mail]
 Subject: Njara PR: MORRIS COUNTY FREEHOLDERS INSTRUMENTALIN
CANCELING PARK POLICE DEER
 HUNT
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NEW JERSEY ANIMAL RIGHTS ALLIANCE
PO Box 174, Englishtown, NJ  07726
Phone: [phone]  Fax: [phone]

Press Release
Contact: Marilyn Johnson 908-876-4336

MORRIS COUNTY FREEHOLDERS INSTRUMENTAL
IN CANCELING PARK POLICE DEER HUNT

Freeholders Meeting with Park Commission Results in Major Victory
 for Residents, Animal Rights Activists and the Surviving Deer!

Morris Township - In a meeting held this morning between Frank J.
Druetzler, Director, John Eckert of the Morris County Board of Freeholders
and the Park Commission resulted in the cancellation of the month-long park
police deer hunt.
Last night, the Morris County Board of Freeholders heard the concerns of
residents and animal rights activists when they presented moving testimony
about the deer that was illegally killed on private property by a Morris
County park police officer.
 "This is a MAJOR victory for the deer who survived the nine-days of
hunting at the park and a MAJOR victory for the residents who had concerns
for their safety and the wildlife that live in the park," said Marilyn
Johnson, local resident and activist. "We are thrilled that the Freeholders
have responded to our concerns, which in the past have been ignored and
ridiculed by the Park Commission. This hunt was a travesty that needed
intervention, which the Freeholders provided," Johnson added.
NJARA is a community based, non-profit, educational organization working
toward a more peaceful, nonviolent coexistence with our earthly companions,
both human and nonhuman. Through our programs of promoting responsible
science, ethical consumerism and environmentalism, NJARA advocates change
that greatly enhances the quality of life for animals and people and
protects the earth.


Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 23:26:17 +0100
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Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 07:10:25 +0800
From: bunny <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Official view "When is an animal a "Pest"!!!"
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***NB The Authorities left out HUMANS (especially white European settlers
- the biggest "pest" of all).Maybe this should be added:

"White settlers - a permanent pest who murder animals, degrade the land,
introduce disease and pests, decimimate habitat, pollute the air, cause
fires, poison our environment, remove the rainforest-globally, exploit fish
etc"***
******************************************************************************

The following is a list of native animals that may, under certain
circumstances, be considered pests. For comparison the
major introduced animal pests are also included.

                   Birds that may become pests and the damage they do.

                                      NATIVE BIRDS

Emu - causes economic damage to cereal crops and fences.

Cormorants - cause economic and community damage to fish farms, fouling of
boats, fouling of roosting, nesting sites.

Herons - causes economic and domestic damage to fish farms.

Black Swan - causes economic damage to pastures.

Cape Barren Goose - can cause economic damage to pastures and can foul water.

Mountain Duck - can cause economic damage to pastures.

Maned Duck - can cause economic and community damage to pastures.

Brown Goshawk - causes domestic damage by preying on captive birds.

Black-tailed native hen - causes economic damage to cereal crops and pastures.

Eastern swamphen - causes economic damage to pastures.

Silver gull - causes economic, domestic, community and environmental damage
through fouling, aircraft damage, feed
lots and dispersing of weeds.

Yellow tailed Black Cockatoo - can cause economic damage to fruit and flowers.

Galahs - can cause economic, community and environmental damage to nut,
cereal and oil seed crops along with the
defoliation of trees.

Long Billed corella - can cause economic damage to cereal and oil seed crops.

Little corella - can cause economic, community and environmental damage to
nut and cereal crops along with the
defoliation of trees, disease and noise.

Sulphur-crested cockatoo - can cause economic and domestic damage to nut,
cereal and oil seed crops as well as
building damage.

Rainbow lorikeet - can cause economic and domestic damage to fruit and nut
crops.

Musk lorikeet - can cause economic and domestic damage to fruit and nut crops.

Regent parrot - can cause economic and domestic damage to fruit, nut and
cereal crops.

Adelaide rosella - can cause economic and domestic damage to fruit and nut
crops as well as flowers.

Yellow rosella - can cause economic damage to fruit crops.

Welcome swallow can cause economic, community and domestic damage by fouling
nesting areas.

Red wattlebird - can cause economic and domestic damage to fruit crops.

Yellow faced honeyeater - can cause economic damage to fruit crops.

New Holland honeyeater - can cause economic damage to flowers.

Silvereye - can cause economic and domestic damage to fruit crops.

Zebra finch - can cause economic damage to fruit crops and fences.

Crows and ravens - can cause economic and domestic damage to fruit and nut
crops as well as preying on livestock.

Currawong - can cause economic damage to fruit crops.

                                   INTRODUCED BIRDS

Mallard duck - can cause environmental damage through hybridisation.

Feral pigeons - can cause economic, community, domestic and environmental
damage to vegetable and cereal crops as
well as dispersing weeds and fouling buildings.

Blackbird - can cause economic, domestic and environmental damage to
vegetable and fruit crops.

Sparrow - can cause economic, community, domestic and environmental damage
to vegetable and fruit crops.

Starlets - can cause economic, community, domestic and environmental damage
to fruit crops and by dispersing
weeds, fouling buildings and contaminating feedlots.

                 Mammals that may become pests and the damage they do.

                                    NATIVE MAMMALS

Dingo - can cause economic damage through its hunting of sheep and cattle.

Australian water-rat - can cause economic damage to fish farms.

Australian fur-seal - can cause economic damage to fish farms.

NZ fur-seal - can cause economic damage to fish farms.

Australian sea lion - can cause economic damage to fish farms.

Kangaroos - can cause economic, community and environmental damage to
pasture/crops, fences, water, erosion and
modification of native vegetation and can cause road accidents.

Tammar wallaby - can cause economic, community and environmental damage to
pasture/crops, fences, erosion and
modification of native vegetation and can cause road accidents.

Hairy nosed wombat - can cause economic, community and environmental damage
to pasture/crops, fences, erosion
and modification of native vegetation and can cause road accidents.

Brush-tailed possum - can cause economic, domestic and environmental damage
to pasture/crops, water, fruit and
flowers and the fouling of buildings.

                                 INTRODUCED MAMMALS

Camel - can cause economic and environmental damage to fences, water and the
erosion and modification of native
vegetation.

Deer - can cause economic and environmental damage to pasture/crops and the
erosion and modification of native
vegetation.

Donkey - can cause economic and environmental damage to fences, water and
the erosion and modification of native
vegetation.

Goats - can cause economic and environmental damage to pasture/crops,
fences, water and the erosion and
modification of native vegetation.

Horse - can cause economic and environmental damage to fences, water and the
erosion and modification of native
vegetation.

Rabbit - can cause economic and environmental damage to pasture/crops and
the erosion and modification of native
vegetation.

Hare - can cause economic, domestic and environmental damage to
pasture/crops and the erosion and modification of
native vegetation.

Rodents - can cause economic, community and domestic damage through disease
and damage to pasture/crops.

Cat - can cause economic, domestic and environmental damage by preying on
native wildlife and spreading disease.

Dog - can cause economic, community, domestic and environmental damage by
preying on sheep and other livestock
and by spreading disease.

Fox - can cause economic and environmental damage by preying on livestock
and native wildlife.

                             For further information please contact:

                                 Biological Survey and Research
                                      284 Portrush Road
                                   KENSINGTON SA 5068

                                    Phone: [phone]
                                     Fax: [phone]
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Rabbit Information Service,
P.O.Box 30,
Riverton,
Western Australia 6148

email>  [e-mail]

http://www.wantree.com.au/~rabbit/rabbit.htm
(Rabbit Information Service website updated frequently)

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Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 07:38:14 +0800
From: bunny <[e-mail]>
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DNR Pest Facts

Pet rabbits  - the most common illegal pet.
DECLARED
Why control the keeping of rabbits?
The rabbit is Australia's most destructive introduced pest.  Wild rabbits
cause more than $100 million damage every year and have caused and continue
to cause severe land degradation and soil erosion.  Wild rabbits threaten
the survival of many rare and endangered species of native wildlife.  The
keeping of pets is strongly opposed by many rural landholders whose
livelihood is threatened by wild rabbit plagues.  Many people fear the
widespread keeping of rabbits as pets would cause similar problems to those
being experienced with the feral cat.


Restriction on keeping rabbits
The rabbit (all varieties, including domestic breeds) is a declared pest
animal throughout Queensland under the Rural Lands Protection Act 1985.
It is an offence to keep a rabbit of any variety as a pet.  The maximum
penalty is $3,000.

Legal standing on pet rabbits
A proposal to legalise desexed domestic rabbits was considered in 1994 but
was rejected by the Departments of Primary Industries, Environment and
Heritage and Lands.  The proposal was also opposed by several local
governments and grazier groups.
The present ban on pet rabbits has not been lifted and the keeping of all
rabbits  (domestic or otherwise) as pets  remains illegal in Queensland.

Permits
A permit cannot be issued for keeping of pet rabbits of any variety for any
private purpose.
A permit to keep a rabbit in Queensland can only be approved if the animal
is being kept for an approved public purpose:
- public education - schools and universities which aim to raise awareness
of the impact of wild rabbits
- public exhibition - registered zoos only
- public entertainment - registered entertainment businesses only
- scientific and research purposes - universities and medical laboratories

Permits to breed rabbits are only issued to recognised scientific
institutions.  Breeding of rabbits for any other purpose is an offence.

General Information
The domestic varieties and the wild (grey) variety of rabbits are the same
species, although the domestic varieties have been heavily modified via
years of cross-breeding and selection by rabbit enthusiasts.
Although most escaped domestic rabbits are probably killed by feral cats,
dogs and foxes, there is evidence that a small proportion of escaped female
domestic rabbits will survive and breed successfully with wild male rabbits.

Wild rabbits were originally imported into Australia in 1859 and released
for hunting purposes in Victoria.
The wild rabbit has since spread over most of Australia.  There may be over
400 million wild rabbits in Australia today.
Small colonies of domestic rabbit varieties have established on islands,
where predators are absent.

Further Information
Is available from Land Protection Officers, Department of Natural Resources
008 803 788 (local call) can provide the telephone number for your nearest
office.

Brochure party (sic) funded by Rural Protection Fund.
PA 15 November 1996 The state of Queensland Produced by Land Protection Sub
Program  Agdex ISSN 1327-5402


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Rabbit Information Service,
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Western Australia 6148

email>  [e-mail]

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Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 17:43:41 -0600
From: Steve Barney <[e-mail]>
To: AR-News <[e-mail]>
Subject: EDITORIAL: "UW takes the low road in monkey affair"
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The Capital Times
Madison, Wisconsin
Wednesday, January 14, 1998
page 10A
Plain Talk
Dave Zweifer

-- Beginning --

UW takes the low road in monkey affair

The way the UWÆs primate center has been handling the controversy over
the monkeys that it has kept at the Henry Vilas Zoo would be laughable
if it weren't so sad.

The people who run the research center are hell-bent on getting rid of
the monkeys, the quicker the better, so they can get the whole issue out
of their hair, so to speak.

It has become obvious that they want to send away the animals that have
delighted young visitors to the zoo for decades before any meaningful
support to keep them can be mobilized locally.

Over the weekend, the center announced that the rhesus monkeys at the
zoo would be shipped to Tulane University for research purposes.  The
remaining animals - stumptail macaques, a threatened species - would be
sent to Thailand if an agreement can be reached with authorities there.
Everything, the UW hopes, will be completed before the end of the month.

All of that means an empty monkey house at the zoo. Neither the zoo,
Dane County nor the city would allow the same thing to happen to the
lions, the tigers, the elephant, the polar bears or any other species at
Henry Vilas. But because these monkeys technically belong to the UW, it
will likely happen - and don't be surprised if it happens in the middle
of the night.

To demonstrate just how disingenuous the UW has been about this whole
sorry affair, it announced last summer that the monkeys would have to go
because funding would be drying up.

When we went to take a look at what that all meant, our reporter Jason
Shepard discovered that the primate center had been violating the
agreement it had with the zoo not to use the monkeys housed there for
invasive research.

So when the feds did decide to stop the cash flow (about $100,000 a year
has been needed), the UW blamed our stories for the cutoff in funding.

Then in its zeal to get out from under the controversy, primate
officials resorted to what I can only describe as a new low.  They
claimed the monkeys had been exposed to a herpes virus, which could be
spread to zoo visitors.

Experts from throughout the country vigorously refuted that assertion as
simply not true.

Meanwhile, a group of local people is trying to put together a funding
drive to at least keep the monkeys at Vilas until a more permanent
solution can he worked out.

* * *

Both the county and the city ought to use their clout to get the
university to slow its transparent effort to thwart the efforts to save
the animals.

The university's role in all this has been less than honorable.  One
would hope the school wouldnÆt add even more to the mess that it has
created.


Dave Zweifel is the editor of The Capital Times.  His e-mail address is
[e-mail].

-- End --
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 07:56:13 +0800
From: bunny <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (Kenya/Somalia) Hemmorhagic Disease spreads
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Here is the latest Promed posting on the continued spread of hemorrhagic
disease in Africa.

Kind regards, Marguerite

HEMORRHAGIC DISEASE - KENYA (18)
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A ProMED-mail post

Date: Fri, 16 Jan 98 16:47:48 GMT
Source: WHO WER and Epidemiological Bulletin, January 16, 1998
<http://www.who.ch/programmes/emc/news.htm>


Rift Valley Fever in Kenya and Somalia

An outbreak similar to that reported in north-eastern Kenya has been
reported in Somalia in the flooded area delimited by the towns of Belet
Weyne and Johar on the Shabelle River. Four of 13 blood samples from
suspected cases have been positive for RVF. [This area is in central
Somalia and a significant distance from the Kenya border. It raises the
distinct possibility that RVF may also be in the central Ogaden region of
Ethiopia. MHJ]

The WHO team assembled in Kenya has established a small coordinating group
for the Rift Valley Fever Task Force. It will comprise representatives from
the Kenyan Government and from participating agencies and international
organizations in Somalia and Kenya. This group will facilitate the rapid
planning, coordination and implementation of surveillance and control
activities. The surveillance system in both countries will be extended and
strengthened in order to detect and confirm suspected cases. Standardized
clinical case definitions and reporting methods will be used allowing for a
better understanding of the epidemiology of the outbreak.  The WHO
Collaborating Centre at the National Institute for Virology in Johannesburg
has confirmed RVF virus infection in a second batch of 41 blood specimens.
The virus was isolated in three specimens from human cases and six other
specimens had IgM antibody indicating recent RVF virus infection. RVF virus
was detected by PCR in one of seven blood specimens collected from goats.

Further details are given in the press release below.


Press Release WHO/9 - 16 January 1998
RIFT VALLEY FEVER OUTBREAK WIDESPREAD IN KENYA

The outbreak of Rift Valley fever, which had previously been reported in
the north-eastern Province of Kenya, appears to be present in other parts
of the country, according to WHO experts now in the country. Moreover, the
outbreak is also equally serious in neighbouring Somalia.

Approximately 300 deaths from this outbreak have been reported to the
Government in Nairobi. The World Health Organization (WHO) has received
estimates of an approximately equal number of deaths due to the outbreak in
Somalia.

The first reports came from the north-eastern Province in December 1997. In
recent days, reports of humans and animals suffering from a disease with
the symptoms of Rift Valley fever (RVF) have now been reported in Kenya's
north-eastern, eastern, Rift Valley, central and coast provinces. These
areas include some national parks and reported cases have also come from
near Nairobi and Mombasa.   "At this point, we would not recommend that
travellers cancel their journeys to Kenya but they should be aware that
Rift Valley fever is transmitted by mosquitoes. If they travel to areas
near where outbreaks have been reported, they should take proper
anti-insect measures. These include wearing long-sleeved shirts and long
trousers and using mosquito repellant and bed nets," said Dr. David
Heymann, Director of WHO's Division of Emerging and other Communicable
Diseases Surveillance and Control (EMC).

A second team of WHO experts arrived in Kenya on 15 January and, in
collaboration with the Kenyan Ministry of Health, has elaborated a
provisional plan to combat the outbreak. Elements of the plan include
case-based, clinical surveillance in hospitals throughout Kenya to detect
new cases and investigate the increased spread of the disease, and a
systematic sampling and testing of specimens taken from humans and animals
which have contracted the disease. WHO is working with national and
international partners to improve access to the northeast of Kenya, which
has been largely cut off because of floods, and to develop a plan for
control of the disease adapted to local conditions.

For the moment, information on the outbreak from northeastern Kenya is
still sparse and WHO and its partners will be working in coming weeks to
increase surveillance of and testing for Rift Valley fever and other
diseases potentially associated with this outbreak. Rift Valley fever may
not be the sole cause of the outbreak, but recent evidence suggests that
malaria and cholera are not playing as great a role as has been previously
reported. Famine, on the other hand, has been a significant cause of death.

--
ProMED-mail

[For some time the official reports have limited the Kenyan deaths to some
300 deaths. The number has not increased as one might expect. This may
reflect either an inability to reach new areas or news censorship. With the
Kenyan parliamentarians claiming over 5000, the latter explanation may be
what is happening. - Mod.MHJ]
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Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 01:42:35 +0000
From: Diana Starr <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail], AR-News <[e-mail]>
Subject: Re: [US] [Fwd: Catholics Fight Factory Farms! (fwd)]
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At 08:00 PM 1/7/98 +0000, Steve Barney wrote:
>--
>Steve Barney, Representative
>Animal Liberation Action Group
>Campus Connection, Reeve Memorial Union
>University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
>748 Algoma Blvd.
>Oshkosh, WI 54901-3512
>UNITED STATES
 >Phone:[phone] (office)
    >920-235-4887 (home)
 >Fax: [phone] (address to: Animal Liberation Action Group, Campus
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>Subject: Factory Farm Moratorium Call from NCRLC <[e-mail]>
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>Please distribute!
>******************
>
>A Statement from the Board of Directors of the National Catholic Rural
>Life Conference
>
>December 18, 1997
>
>An Immediate Moratorium on Large-scale Livestock and Poultry Animal
>Confinement Facilities
>
>Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) have become a national
>issue. A new hog plant in Utah will produce more animal waste than the
>animal and human waste created by the city of Los Angeles; 1,600
>dairies in the Central Valley of California produce more waste than a
>city of 21 million people. The annual production of 600 million
>chickens on the Delmarva Peninsula near Washington, D.C. generates as
>much nitrogen as a city of almost 500,000 people.
>
>In North Carolina, 35 million gallons of animal waste were spilled in
>1995, killing 10 million fish. In 1996, more than 40 manure spills
>were recorded in Iowa, Minnesota and Missouri, double the number
>reported in 1992. Earlier this year, microbe pfiesteria associated
>with the poultry industry killed 30,000 fish in the Chesapeake Bay and
>another 450,000 fish in North Carolina attributed to hog waste.
>Pfiesteria grow in waters with excessive nutrients. In the Gulf of
>Mexico, animal waste has helped to create a "dead zone" of up to 7,000
>square miles. The Center for Disease Control has just released a
>report attributing foodborne diseases to food industry consolidation
>and the decrease in effective microbe resistance in humans from the
>antibiotics used to industrialize animals for confinement facilities.
>
>The National Catholic Rural Life Conference (NCRLC) has for 75 years
>been a voice for participative democracy, widespread ownership of
>land, the defense of nature, animal welfare, support for small and
>moderate-sized independent family farms, economic justice, rural and
>urban interdependence. Such values are drawn from the message of the
>Gospel and the social teachings of our Church. Furthermore, we see
>such values best represented in the agricultural arena by what is
>called sustainable agriculture.
>
>In the light of present concerns about the industrialization of
>agriculture and environmental pollution as represented especially by
>the hog industry, the NCRLC supports efforts for a national dialogue
>on Confined Animal Feeding Operations and their impacts on water
>quality, the environment, and local communities. Too much time has
>elapsed and too much damage has been done without an adequate national
>dialogue on these issues.
>
>As a first step, the NCRLC supports a moratorium on the expansion and
>building of new farm factories and calls for a serious consideration
>of their replacement by sustainable agricultural systems which are
>environmentally safe, economically viable, and socially just. While
>the federal government, the states, and local communities reassess the
>structure of agriculture, such a moratorium seems especially urgent.
>Without a moratorium, the number of CAFOs will continue to
>proliferate, causing a significant increase in the devastating
>pollution, health, and social impacts by these confinement facilities
>across the country.
>
>Included among the states currently dealing with CAFO issues are:
>Alabama, Georgia, Kansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky,
>Minnesota, Nebraska, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota,
>Texas, Utah and Washington. Legislators, judges, and local citizens
>groups are reviewing the legal safeguards at every level to ensure
>clean water, a safe environment, food safety, and social justice. Such
>efforts are beginning to pay dividends:
>
> In Indiana, for example, an administrative law judge has shut down a
>proposed confined feeding operation.
> In Kentucky, the attorney general has ruled that large operations
>are not exempt from local ordinances saying they are "not reasonable
>or prudent, accepted and customary."
> After two years of difficulties, North Carolina has imposed strong
>restrictions on confinement operations.
> South Dakota citizens recently secured sufficient signatures
>(31,000) to hold a statewide referendum proposing an anti-corporate
>farming law similar to Nebraska's.
> All but two of the 20 counties in Kansas had voted against new
>corporate hog farms.
> At the federal level, a new bill has been introduced to regulate
>CAFOs and a federal summit is being proposed to discuss animal-waste
>management.
>
>As the livestock industry has been restructured, a growing dependence
>has developed on enormous open-air lagoon waste storage and liquid
>manure application systems. These systems have been prone to breaks,
>spills, and runoff into surface water and seepage into ground water.
>The Clean Water Act is again to be renewed after 25 years. While
>reforms of that Act are being developed, a moratorium on CAFOs is
>needed to forestall potentially devastating effects.
>
>We challenge the notion that CAFOs, particularly hog factories, are a
>boon to local economies. Studies have shown that for every job created
>by a hog factory, three are lost. Every year, hog factories put almost
>31,000 farmers out of business, out of their homes, and out of their
>communities. In 1990, there were 670,350 family hog farms; in 1995,
>there were only 208,780. Between 1994 and 1996, approximately 4,439
>family farmers were displaced by the expansion of the top 30 pork
>producing companies, according to a recent study done by Successful
>Farming. While concentration in pork production grows, independent
>family farmers are being forced out. The same can be said about dairy,
>beef, and poultry farming.
>
>NCRLC invites others to join the call for a moratorium and the
>replacement of factory farms by a sustainable agricultural system.
>The National Catholic Rural Life Conference is a membership
>organization grounded in a spiritual tradition which brings together
>the Church, care for creation and care for community. The NCRLC
>fosters programs of direct service and systemic change. As an educator
>in the faith, the NCRLC seeks to relate religion to the rural world;
>develops support services for rural pastoral ministers; serves as a
>prophetic voice and as a catalyst and convener for social justice.
>
>John E. Peck c/o UW Greens, 731 State St., MN 53703   #608-262-9036
>
>"This cause is not altogether and exclusively a women's cause.  It is the
>cause of human brotherhood, as well as human sisterhood, and both must rise
>and fall together."  - Frederick Douglas on women's rights, 1848
>
>
>

Date: Sun, 18 Jan 1998 10:23:32 +0800
From: bunny <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (AUST)DON'T BUY CHOCOLATE EASTER BILBIES THIS EASTER
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Reminder for Easter (Australia Only)

THIS EASTER, PLEASE DON'T BUY ANY EASTER BILBIES.
SOME OF THE MONEY FROM THE SALE OF EASTER BILBIES GOES DIRECTLY
TOWARDS
HURTING RABBITS.
(A percentage of sales goes to the Anti-rabbit Research Foundation who promotes
the torture and murder of rabbits in Australia)
This CSIRO media release is still applicable (see below).
Also, please note that the decline of most species in Australia has been
largely influenced by
humans clearing away habitat for grazing farm animals and the introduction
of new predators.
Blaming all problems onto the rabbit is only self-justification for
destroying rabbits
by those with vested interests.


****************************************************************************
CSIRO CORPORATE MEDIA RELEASE 95/39

13 April 1995

BILBIES NOT BUNNIES: CSIRO SUPPORTS CAMPAIGN


------------------------------------------------------------------------


The Easter Bilby should take over from the Easter Bunny to highlight
Australia's commitment to conserving our native wildlife, according to Mr
William Morgan, Executive Officer of the Anti-Rabbit Research Foundation of
Australia (ARRFA).

CSIRO supports the ARRFA's campaign to conserve our native wildlife as it
appears more and more Australians are doing.

Last Easter demand exceeded supply for chocolate Easter Bilbies, with this
year manufacturers making more chocolate bilbies and sales increasing.

Chocolate bilbies are sold with a children's book called "Easter Bilby". It
a that the retiring Easter Bunny asked Flash Rabbit and Bilby to distribute
chocolates at Easter. Flash and his friends ate all of his goodies, whereas
Bilby diligently distributed his to everyone, so he was rewarded with the
job of Easter Bilby.

Proceeds from the sale of the book are used to support research projects to
reduce the impact of rabbits on the Australian natural environment and
assist the recovery of endangered species like the bilby.

The bilby (or rabbit-eared bandicoot) was once common throughout southern
Australia. They are now endangered and only found in a few isolated pockets
of central Australia - where rabbits have not reached yet.

Rabbit problems are greatest in the range lands where they are implicated in
the decline of many native plants and animal species.

If rabbits are not brought under control, they will continue to eat away at
our unique natural heritage and agricultural profits.

CSIRO is doing important environmental research, such as testing rabbit
calicivirus (pronounced cal-e-cee-virus), which is a naturally occurring
virus that has effectively reduced rabbit numbers in China and Europe.
Rabbit control currently depends on conventional methods that are expensive
and labour intensive.

One way to show support for the fight against rabbits is to buy chocolate
bilbies not bunnies at Easter.

Australian-made toy bilbies are available from CSIRO's Information Network,
which has an office in each mainland State and the Northern Territory: price
$13.95 plus postage and handling.

The Anti-Rabbit Research Foundation of Australia is supported by the Western
Mining Corporation, the Australian Nature Conservation Agency and Elders
Australia with Governor General, Bill Hayden, as patron.

For further information, please contact:

William Morgan, ARRFA
Tel: [phone] or mobile on 04 1980 6207
or
Niall Byrne, CSIRO AAHL
Tel: [phone] (ah)
========================================================
Rabbit Information Service,
P.O.Box 30,
Riverton,
Western Australia 6148

email>  [e-mail]

http://www.wantree.com.au/~rabbit/rabbit.htm
(Rabbit Information Service website updated frequently)

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Date: Sat, 17 Jan 1998 22:23:50 -0600
From: Steve Barney <[e-mail]>
To: Wisc-Eco <[e-mail]>,
        AnimalLib-List <[e-mail]>,
        AR-News <[e-mail]>
Cc: "D'Arcy Kemnitz" <[e-mail]>
Subject: NEWS: "Group seeks money to save UW monkeys"
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The Capital Times
Madison, Wisconsin
Wednesday, January 14, 1998
page 2A


-- BEGINNING --

"Group seeks money to save UW monkeys"

By Jason Shepard
Correspondent for The Capital Times



The Alliance for Animals, a Madison-based animal rights group, has began
a fund-raising drive to raise money for the continued care of the
threatened species that live at the zoo.

The group is also urging UW-Madison, Dane County, and zoo officials to
sit down and discuss the possibility of retaining the monkeys at the
zoo.

"Let's have some meetings with everyone at the table and talk honestly
about these monkeys," said Tina Kaske, executive director of the
alliance.  "The university has done a good job bamboozling and
manipulating the public on this issue."

According to Kaske, organizations on the national level are pitching in
to help spread the word about the monkeys and the likelihood that they
will be leaving Madison after three decades.

Monkeys owned and cared for by the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research
Center at UW-Madison have lived in the round monkey house at the zoo for
more than 30 years.  Their future is up in the air as university
officials negotiate for a new home for the monkeys.

The university announced on Friday that the 100 rhesus macaques who live
in the same facility would be transferred to a research center in
Tulane, La.  Local activists fear that the monkeys would eventually die
as the result of invasive or disease-infection research projects at that
center.

The stump-tailed macaques have been looked at by Proctor & Gamble as
potential subjects for hair growth studies.  The monkeys may also be
sent to Thailand, the native home of stump-tailed macaques.

"We are not giving up in any sense," Kaske said Tuesday.  The group sent
out more than a thousand fliers on Friday urging people to donate money
that would be used to keep the monkeys here.  If they do not remain
here, the money would be donated to another primate sanctuary or
returned to the donors if they so specify. A mass meeting Monday night
netted about $500 for the cause, and donations through the mail are
starting to come in.


[PHOTO BY] DAVID SANDELL/THE CAPITAL TIMES
[CAPTION:]
 Last-ditch efforts are being made to prevent the departure of the UW
monkeys from the Vilas Zoo.


[BOX]
To get involved

Those who want to help save the monkeys may contact or donate money to:
Alliance for Animals
Monkey Protection Fund
122 State St., #605
Madison, WI 53703
[608]257-6333


A woman from Florence, Italy, is donating $100 after she heard about the
monkeys on the Internet, Kaske said.

"We're trying to appeal to people and their hearts, and we want them to
know that we don't want the university to get away with this," Kaske
said.  She said it's obvious that fund raising alone will not keep the
monkeys in town, but it could at least spark UW and county officials to
consider keeping the monkeys at the zoo.

UW officials, on the other hand, say they have no plans to keep the
monkeys in Madison.

"We consider all reasonable suggestions for the future of the
stump-tails," said Joe Kemnitz, interim director of the primate center.
"I haven't heard one from the alliance."

He added: "Transferring the stump-tails to Thailand remains my No. 1
option for them."

Kaske said a coalition of animal rights groups are planning to protest
at the National Institutes of Health in Washington, D.C. this weekend
over the Madison monkey situation.

According to Rick Bogle, an Oregon state teacher who is spending a year
protesting the seven primate centers in the country, a 24-hour "Zoo
Watch" is now in effect at, the Henry Vilas Zoo.

"We want to make sure people know when the university decides to get rid
of the monkeys," Bogle said.

-- END --

For more articles, alerts, etc., about the WRPRC/Vilas Zoo monkey
scandal go to:

    http://www.uwosh.edu/organizations/alag/

scroll down to item 3.1 in the page outline, and follow the links.




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