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Hey,

Here is a sample letter about the coyote hunt.   This was written for NJ
state Legislators, however, the info in it can also be used for Letters to
the Editors.  (Please don't send the exact letter)

It is critically important that NJ's legislators here from us. Every letter
counts. If you do not know who is your state senator, or who your two
assembly people are, you can either call the NJARA office at
1-732-446-6808, of the NJ Office of Legislative Services at 1-800-762-8630.


Letters to the editors will be playing a big part in this campaign.  We
have to  keep getting the word out about the coyote hunt.  Most people have
no idea that there are even coyotes in our state, and once they do find
out,  they are aghast that they are being killed.

Even if you are out of state, your letters count! In this day of newspapers
having web sites, state borders are slipping away.  So, please write!

Here are the email addresses for a few of the major papers in NJ.  If
anyone has other addresses for papers, please post them.

Thanks!

The Asbury Park Press - [e-mail]
The Star-Ledger - [e-mail]
The Bergen Record - [e-mail]

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Dear -

In February of 1997, against overwhelming opposition, the New Jersey
Division of Fish, Game and Wildlife enacted the first ever coyote hunt in
our state. This action brought forth such condemnation from the public that
Fish and Game biologist Bob Lund, quoted in the Courier Post, said "This is
the worst. No question."

The wildlife in our state are held in trust for all the people, yet the
people have no say in how wildlife are treated. This was shown clearly when
Fish and Game ignored the outcry against coyote killing and set forth
another 17 days of coyote killing, to begin Jan. 31 of this year.

The truth is that Fish and Game, and the Fish and Game Council, are made up
of those who support hunting and who are hunters themselves.  It is also
true that the salaries of Fish and Game employees are paid for from the
sale of hunting licenses. With the number of hunters declining, they are
desperate for new forms of revenues. This means more hunting seasons must
be created, and animals, such as coyotes, pay the price for this with their
lives.

The true reason for the coyote hunting season is what Fish and Game wrote
in the NJ Register, Aug. 19, 1996: "The proposed hunting season will allow
for increased recreational use of the coyote resource by New Jersey
Sportsmen and women."

Faced with a growing tide against them, Fish and Game tried to stem this by
coming up with  excuses for the killing of coyotes. These were told to many
legislators in a letter sent out by Fish and Game Director Robert McDowell
last year. There were two main issues:

1. The hunt is a means of collecting biological data about coyotes.
2. Coyotes may be taking away prey from other predators, such as red and
gray foxes.

All of the  'biological data' resulting from the 17 days of killing was a
single page listing  where four coyotes were killed and how much they
weighed. Hardly worthy of a reason for a hunt.  It should be noted that a
fifth coyote was killed, but was killed illegally, and therefore not
counted in Fish and Games' 'biological data'.

Fish and Game worrying over the fate of foxes is bitterly ironic, as they
have allowed more than 30,000 red and gray foxes to be killed in the past
ten years alone. If they are so concerned that coyotes 'may' be eating prey
animals, then perhaps they should curtail their small game hunting seasons.
In total, Fish and Game allows the slaughter of 900,000 animals that are
considered prey.

As Fish and Game receives more pressure against this years coyote hunt,
they will assuredly come up with more excuses for it.  I sincerely hope
that you can see these for what they are worth and realize that coyotes
will be killed in our state simply because Fish and Game has to power to do
so.

Considering that the most sightings of coyotes in NJ was back in 1993, and
that even then only 90 people saw them, we hardly have too many coyotes.
The fact that in the past few years even less people have seen coyotes
shows that these magnificent animals are not a growing problem and deserve
a chance to co-exist with us peacefully.  In a state as crowed as ours, we
should be proud that animals such as coyotes can live here. Unfortunately,
as long as Fish and Game has absolute power over wildlife, coyotes will be
persecuted and slaughtered.

This is where you come in.  The only people who can stop Fish and Game are
the elected representatives in our state legislature.  You have the ability
to strip Fish and Game of their power, and their arrogance. You can make
them accountable and stop this terrible slaughter of coyotes.

Sincerely,




Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 22:21:24 -0800
From: Andrew Gach <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Beetles get back at their killers
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Kenya's flying menace -- doesn't bite, doesn't sting but it sure hurts!

The Associated Press
NAIROBI, Kenya, January 26, 1998 5:49 p.m

A washerwoman hides her mottled face, a band leader nurses a nasty patch
of blisters on his neck, and a small boy scratches his cheek raw.

The "Nairobi fly" got 'em.

The lurid orange-and-black beetle has captivated Kenyans. It's making
appearances on TV and in newspapers. Victims compare wounds and
remedies. Others rehearse techniques for blowing the bug off their arms.

It doesn't sting or bite, but when its ant-like body is crushed, potent
toxins spill onto the skin causing itching, a burning sensation and
swelling.

"Oh, it hurts. It's so itchy," complained Douglas Kamau, 3, whose cheek
was patched with scabs.

When the poison is smeared in the eye, the eye becomes swollen, red and
oozy. Temporary blindness can occur.

The beetles -- both Paederus crebinpunctatis and Paederus sabaeus -- are
always present in Kenya and much of the rest of the world. But this
year, the population has exploded in the East African nation because of
unusually heavy rains brought by the El Nino weather phenomenon.

Elidy Wangui, concealing the swollen right side of her face, said she
must have swatted a "Nairobi fly" while sleeping.

Band manager Kausher Hussain, visiting from India, said his musicians
are afraid to leave their hotel room.

Previous outbreaks have been reported on every continent except North
America, in countries including Uganda, India, Japan, Israel and
Paraguay.

The beetles breed in wet, rotting leaves and soil. Rainfall 500 percent
above normal that began in October has greatly lengthened the breeding
season, causing the population to soar, said Health Ministry
entomologist John Ouma.

"This is the worst I've ever seen it," he said.

The bugs have invaded houses, offices and schools in Nairobi and
elsewhere in Kenya, especially parts of the Rift Valley and Central
provinces.

Like most insects, the beetles are attracted by bright lights. When the
lights are turned off, the beetles drop down -- and occasionally hit a
person who naturally takes a swat at the tickling intruder.

In death, the bug retaliates -- releasing pederin, one of the most
powerful animal toxins, which it produces to keep from being eaten.

Then, 12 to 24 hours later, the skin flushes red and victims complain of
symptoms from tickling to severe burning, said Dr. Absai Kola, a
dermatologist.

In another day or two, pinhead-sized blisters erupt, filled with a
yellowish fluid. As the blisters burst, raw, red skin is exposed.

In a week or two, the damaged skin peels off and begins to heal.
Secondary infections can occur, especially if the victim scratches the
irritated skin.

The Health Ministry, in radio, TV and newspaper announcements, has
advised Kenyans to avoid using lights at night, especially in bedrooms.
Pesticides can be used to kill the insects.

If a beetle falls on the body, "do not crush it, but blow or flick it
off," the ministry warns.

The ministry advises people who squash a beetle on themselves by mistake
to wash the area immediately with soap and water to dilute the poison,
then apply petroleum jelly or an oily lotion to ease the pain.

But others say that will only spread the poison, causing greater
irritation.

Koen Maes, head of the Division of Invertebrate Zoology at the National
Museum of Kenya said a better treatment is to pop the blisters and swab
the area with alcohol or iodine to dry up the poison.

Mosquito nets for beds can guard against a nighttime attack.

By KARIN DAVIES, Associated Press Writer
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 22:22:42 -0800
From: Andrew Gach <[e-mail]>
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New York Times Online, January 26, 1998

Owner of Meat Company Found Slain

By ABBY GOODNOUGH

The owner of a wholesale meat company was shot and stabbed to death in
the company's offices in Keansburg, N.J., on Friday, authorities said
Sunday.

The victim, Antonio Salzarulo, 60, a resident of Brooklyn, was found
dead on Saturday in a sausage processing room at A&S Meat Corp., said
John Kaye, the Monmouth County prosecutor.

Salzarulo's wife had sent their son, Salvatore Salzarulo, to look for
his father after he did not return to their Brooklyn home on Friday
night, Kaye said.

Kaye said nobody had been charged in the killing, and he would not say
whether there were suspects. Salzarulo had been shot twice in the head
and his throat had been slit, he said. The killing probably took place
between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. on Friday, he added.

"We have multiple leads and many, many theories," Kaye said in a
telephone interview Sunday. "Keansburg is a small town where everybody
keeps track of what's going on."

All Salzarulo's employees had left for the day when the killing
occurred, Kaye said. He had been waiting alone for a customer to pick up
a large order of meat, the prosecutor said.

Kaye said the business had been a partnership based in Brooklyn until
last year, when the partnership ended and Salzarulo moved the business
to Keansburg, a blue-collar town on the Jersey Shore, about 30 miles
south of Manhattan. Kaye said the former partner was not a suspect.

The company processes sausage and sells it to pizza parlors and other
businesses.

"There was no evidence that the business was struggling," Kaye said.

Salzarulo's son, who lives in Monmouth County, worked for his father and
has been interviewed by investigators, Kaye said. A number of employees
and people who live near the company have also been interviewed.

An autopsy was scheduled to be performed Sunday or Monday at
Centra-State Medical Center in Freehold Township, Kaye said.

Monmouth County investigators are working with the 62nd Precinct in
Brooklyn and the FBI, Kaye said.

He would not say why federal authorities had been brought into the case.

"There are a lot of aspects I cannot disclose," he said.
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 02:06:30 -0500
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"Pigged out" a leader in THE ECONOMIST January 24th, 1998   p.17

The case for replacing knackered human organs with organs from the
knacker's yard is slowly getting stronger.  But the case against is strong
still.
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     An infinitesupply of organs would be a transplant surgeon's dread.  And
some surgeons think they have found a way to make that dream come true: by
husbanding pigs not for their chops but for their hearts, livers, lungs and
even their neurons.  This could instantly solve the vexing shortage of
spare human parts--commodities that, in tribute to the surgeons' success,
are in increasingly short supply.  Yet, seductive though such a solution
may be, it has a risk intrinsic to all seductions: the risk of disease.
For such "xenotransplants" would be an open invitation for hitherto unknown
animal diseases to transfer themselves to people.

     Transplant patients, of course, are already at risk from diseases.  Organs
from corpses are not always healthy and the drugs that patients must take
to prevent rejection of their new organs make them vulnerable to infections
that those with robust immune systems do not usually get.  But these
illnesses are, at least, known human illnesses, and are unlikely to unleash
an epidemic in the general population.  Animal diseases are not so
predictable.  Many viruses are harmless in their regular hosts (and
therefore difficult or impossible to detect) but devastating if they switch
to a new one.  And, while most introductions of species--be they rabbits or
viruses--to new environments fail, it only take one success to decimate the
local population of vegetables.  Or people.

     Most of those interested in xenotransplantation are considering pigs,
rather than baboons or chimpanzees, because pigs are easier and cheaper to
rear, and because harvesting pigs for organs is thought to pose fewer
ethical difficulties.  But many of them also harbour an erroneous belief
that pigs, unlike primates, pose a small risk of passing infections to
people.  This belief rests on two (contradictory) pillars: first, that
parasites adapted to pigs would have a hard time adapting to humans, and
second, that because pigs and people have lived together for so long, any
parasites likely to switch have already done so.

     Neither argument is cause for comfort. Little is understood about how
diseases swap between species or the conditions that make it easy for them
to do so.  Besides, organ transplantation provides a new intimacy and
longevity to the association.  People and pigs already share numerous
diseases--influenza is simply the most notorious--and the most recent
evidence suggests that retroviruses (viruses that pigs carry harmlessly
within their genes) suddenly become active and lively when put directly
into human cells.  Viruses of this kind (they are related to HIV, the virus
that causes AIDS [?] ) are adept at evolving and adapting to new hosts.

     The science of xenotransplantation is still far from being effective, yet
a number of small clinical trials are already under way. In America,
guidelines are due to be finalized soon.  As the science advances, the
clamour to allow xenotransplants will grow.  Without them, some patients
will certainly die.  But with HIV and mad-cow disease both freshly arrived
in the human population, to allow any further xenotransplants without a far
clearer idea of the potential risks--and a strong international system in
place for monitoring recipients--would be folly indeed.     -30-

Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 18:17:48
From: David J Knowles <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: [CA] Local activist assaulted - further info.
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Further to the posting at the weekend, Animal Voices learnt today that
Vancouver-based environmentalist Anthony Marr suffered a broken cheekbone
and injuries to his eye socket as a result of the assault on him which
occured last Monday evening.

Marr did not get a clear look at the face of his attacker, but was able to
provide Vancouver police with a general description.

David

Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 23:40:49
From: David J Knowles <[e-mail]>
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Subject: [CA] Ottawa won't give away environmental jurisdiction:
  official
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>From The Vancouver Sun Website - Tuesday, January 27th, 1998

Ottawa won't give away environmental jurisdiction: official

DENNIS BUECKERT


OTTAWA (CP) û The federal government has no intention of handing over its
responsibility for environmental protection to the provinces, says a
spokesman for the Environment Department.

The official denied Ottawa's environmental role will be cut under a
sweeping federal-provincial agreement to be discussed Wednesday at a
meeting of  federal and provincial environment ministers in St. John's.

 While strongly defending the so-called harmonization agreement, the
official also conceded that Environment Minister Christine Stewart is not
committed to signing it.

"She's going to have full and fruitful discussion with her colleagues, and
she's not into prejudging the results of that discussion," said the
official, interviewed Monday on condition he not be named.

Alberta Environment Minister Ty Lund said he is shocked to hear that
Stewart might not approve the deal which has been in the works for more
than four years.

Lund suggested the Canadian federation could be threatened unless there is
a new approach to environmental assessment and protection.

"I think the unity that we're talking about in this country is at jeopardy
if we continually have these conflicts between federal and provincial
jurisdictions."

Environmentalists charge the deal would leave key environmental protection
powers in the hands of provincial governments, which they say have a dismal
track record for curbing polluters.

"Ottawa can't simply abandon its environmental responsibilities by passing
the buck to the provinces," said lawyer Tom Heintzman of the Sierra Legal
Defence Fund.

The federal official insisted that such fears are unfounded.

"It (the proposed agreement) does not contemplate the delegation of any
authority," he said.

"What it does it contemplate is, if one government is doing something and
doing it well . . .  then the other government won't go in and duplicate
their activities."

But Heintzman said the wording of the proposed agreement makes it clear
that many areas would effectively be transferred to the provinces.

He said Ottawa would no longer have a role in monitoring effluent from pulp
and paper mills, for example.

The deal was initially promoted as a means of eliminating duplication of
effort, but the Commons environment committee reported in December it could
find no such duplication.

The federal official said the purpose of the agreement is to improve
federal-provincial co-ordination.

"The biggest problem is not overlap, the biggest problem is gaps in the
environmental regime.

The agreement would require, for the first time, that a government report
publicly on the environmental results achieved in a given area, said the
official.


Copyright The Vancouver Sun / Southam News

Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 23:45:54
From: David J Knowles <[e-mail]>
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Subject: [CA] Environment groups claim pulp mills not charged for
  polluting
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>From The Vancouver Sun Website - Tuesday, January 27th, 1998

Environment groups claim pulp mills not charged for polluting

ALLAN SWIFT

MONTREAL (CP) û At least 20 pulp and paper mills in Quebec have been
discharging toxic water and none has ever been charged by the Quebec or
federal governments, say environmental groups.

Using federal statistics, the groups documented 198 cases of tests taken in
1996 alone. The water effluent from Quebec mills studied were toxic enough
to kill trout, the standard used to test toxicity.

None of the tests was used as a basis for charging the companies, even
though the pollution violated federal law, said Yves Corriveau, of the
Quebec Environmental Law Centre, in an interview on Monday.

Three environment groups released the details Monday to embarrass the
federal government which this week may give more powers to the provinces to
monitor water pollution.

Federal and provincial environment ministers are meeting in St. John's,
Nfld., to sign an agreement harmonizing federal-provincial laws.

Corriveau said the polluting with impunity is the result of the federal
government transferring control to the provinces in 1994 to ensure
compliance with federal anti-pollution laws.

"The federal government is just dumping its responsibility and Canadians
are the losers," said Corriveau.

An Environment Canada spokesman confirmed the test results, but he said
1996 was the first year following the deadline for companies to comply with
new anti-pollution requirements.

The spokesman, who requested anonymity, said the companies have made a lot
of progress û effluent dropped 50 per cent in 1997 over 1996 û and both
levels of government are focusing on the few polluting mills left.

 "It's not because there's no prosecutions that nothing is being done." The
worst offender in 1996 was the Tembec Inc. mill at Temiscamingue, Que.,
whose effluent was tested and found to be toxic 98 times.

Jacques Rocray, the company's vice president of environment, said the
government is taking weekly samples at the mill at the head of the Ottawa
River. If it has not charged Tembec it's because the company has been
making headway, he said.

Rocray said Tembec has spent $250 million in pollution-abatement equipment,
and has just committed another $13 million on the site which includes
effluent from three types of pulp mills, a cardboard and a chemical plant,
and the town's sewer.

Rocray added that the Quebec regulations are more stringent than federal
ones.


Copyright The Vancouver Sun / Southam News

Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 23:50:54
From: David J Knowles <[e-mail]>
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Subject: [CA] Residents try to save stranded killer whale
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>From The Vancouver Sun Website - Tuesday, January 27th, 1998

Residents try to save stranded killer whale

TERRANCEVILLE, Nfld. (CP) û One of two killer whales stranded on a beach on
the Burin Peninsula died Monday while local residents tried to figure out
how to help the other injured mammal.

The four-metre-long whale was thrashing around on a beach as rough waves
rolled over it near the community of Terranceville, said resident John
Mitchell. It was bleeding and may have injured a fin, Mitchell added.

A marine mammal expert in St. John's, Nfld., said reports he has received
from those on the scene indicate the stranded pair may have been a mother
and a juvenile.

A third whale that had been trapped managed to free itself and swim away
earlier in the day.

"I suspect there may have been a medical or nutritional problem with one of
the animals and as he got into trouble, the others stayed with him," said
John Lien, a professor at Memorial University.

While it is not uncommon for killer whales to become stranded at this time
of year, more often there is only one mammal involved and environmental
conditions such as ice play a role, added Lien.

There are a few hundred or so killer whales that swim along Newfoundland's
coast, often travelling close to shore.

If the beached animal is to survive, local residents must soon succeed in
efforts to pull the mammal out into more open water with a rope, said Lien.

There's not much else that can be done since the whale likely won't live
through the night if it remains stranded.

But there are problems associated with such heroic efforts.

"This stranding may be for the best," said Lien. "This behavior may be an
accident due to a viral infection and you'd feel terrible if the rest of
the pod got infected."

Copyright The Vancouver Sun / Southam News

Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 00:09:35
From: David J Knowles <[e-mail]>
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Subject: [UK] RSPCA demands end to greyhound cruelty
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>From The RSPCA website

RSPCA demands end to greyhound cruelty

The RSPCA and Irish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
(ISPCA) are calling for an end to exports of Irish greyhounds to Spain
after a joint investigation found evidence of widespread cruelty.

RSPCA and ISPCA undercover investigators went to Spanish greyhound kennels
and race tracks in Barcelona and Palma, Mallorca. They found widespread
ignorance of the housing,
health and nutritional needs of greyhounds.

Chief Inspector Mike Butcher, of the RSPCA's Special Operations Unit, said:
"We found appalling suffering because basic welfare steps are ignored. The
dogs are often not
checked by vets before racing, many are forced to race too many times in
one day, and some even have to run with injuries, even wearing bandages."

The investigations also found greyhounds injected with drugs - including
anabolic steroids and cocaine - and suffering injuries due to
badly-designed kennels. Animals were found
kept two to a kennel just 15 inches wide - leaving no room for the animals
to turn or lie down.

The RSPCA and ISPCA are demanding that a welfare charter is drawn up and
implemented by the World Greyhound Racing Federation to help end this
cruelty.

Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 00:13:14
From: David J Knowles <[e-mail]>
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>From The RSPCA website

EU backs down on  American furs

The RSPCA has condemned European officials for giving in to free trade
demands and allowing American furs to be imported into the European Union
(EU).

An EU ban on American furs was due to come into force on 1December 1997,
but now a weaker agreement which allows the USA to use steel-jawed leghold
traps until at least 2003
has been accepted.

David Bowles, the RSPCA's European officer, said: "This is extremely bad
news. The EU has not only reversed its previous position by accepting
weaker trapping standards with the USA, but we fear that there is no
obligation for the USA to enact these standards."

Cruel traps

The RSPCA has long campaigned for an EU ban on the import of furs from
countries such as Russia, Canada, and the USA which use the cruel leghold
trap. Canada, one of the
major fur exporters, will phase out its use of the steel-jawed traps on
land by the year 2000. Leghold traps have already been banned in the EU
since 1995.

Millions of animals - including badgers, beavers, otters and wolves - die
agonising deaths in the jaws of leghold traps each year. Pictured is a
bobcat in a leghold trap.

Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 00:16:27
From: David J Knowles <[e-mail]>
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Subject: [UK] Life ban for dog neglect
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>From The RSPCA website

Life ban for dog neglect

A Birmingham man, who failed to take his dog to the vet after it had been
hit by a car, has been banned from having custody of animals for life.

Daniel Moore, 43, pleaded guilty to causing unnecessary suffering to his
young terrier, Lucky. When RSPCA Inspector Paul Butterton visited Moore's
home he found Lucky with a badly swollen, injured and infected eye. She had
been hit by a car several days before. Inspector Butterton took Lucky for
emergency veterinary treatment which saved her eye.

A few weeks later Inspector Butterton called at Moore's house and found
another dog - a thin German shepherd-cross. A veterinary examination
revealed that the dog, Prince, was very severely emaciated and had a
badly-infected ear.

Moore pleaded guilty at Birmingham magistrates court to two charges of
causing unnecessary suffering. He was also fined ú50 and ordered to pay
ú150 in costs. Both dogs have since been rehomed by the RSPCA.

Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 07:07:58 -0500
From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
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Subject: (US) Farmers Face Fines
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 pfiesteira/factory farming/environment
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Maryland State News
Reuters
27-JAN-98

Farmers Face Fines

(ANNAPOLIS) -- Farmers on the Eastern Shore will be facing stiff fines if
they do NOT stop using chicken manure as fertilizer within the next five
years. Legislation has been introduced in the Maryland General Assembly
that requires farmers to submit a land management plan for their property.
The new law will include heavy fines for farmers who continue to use
chicken manure without safeguards to prevent runoff into the bay or its
tributaries. Environmentalists say chicken manure may be the cause of the
fish-killing microbe Pfiesteira.
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 07:13:16 -0500
From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (US) Waste-Fertilizer Sparks Controversy
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factory farming/environment
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North Carolina State News
Reuters
27-JAN-98

Waste-Fertilizer Sparks Controversy

(RALEIGH) -- North Carolina's Division of Water Quality will hold public
hearings this month to ask farmers why they feel animal manure can be
safely used as fertilizer. The sudden growth of factory-style hog feedlots
has been accompanied by an even larger growth in the amount of waste to be
dealt with. Health officials are hesitant to allow farmers to put the waste
on crops that will be eaten by humans. However... Representative Frank
Mitchell believes the state is entering a domain it doesn't ``need to be
meddling in.''

While no one has become sick in North Carolina, Water Quality spokesman
Dennis Ramsey says studies have found problems elsewhere when waste has
been used as fertilizer on crops eaten by humans.
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 14:03:42 +0100
From: Eliseo Politi <[e-mail]>
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Hi, I am called Eliseo Politi and  am the Correspondent
of the LAV (League against Vivisection) (Italy). I am
enrolled to an mailing list in only Italian language (address
[e-mail] (listserv), SUBSCRIBE animali) dedicated
to the Animal Rights, I want to send of the material of this list.
I don't very well translate the messages ( of this list in English language)
into italian language, employment much time to translate, who help me?
who reads and writes italian language?
goodbye
Eliseo Politi

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Eliseo Politi [e-mail]
Lega AntiVivisezione - Lecce [e-mail]
Correspondent of the LAV (League against Vivisection) from Lecce (Italy)
http://www.mclink.it/assoc/lav

"Of all the black crimes that the man commits against
 God and the Creation, the vivisection is blackest"
Mahatma Ghandi
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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 00:14:39 +0800
From: bunny <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (Aust)I'LL TAKE RABBIT VIRUS - WOMAN
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

I'LL TAKE RABBIT VIRUS - WOMAN
Canning Community Newspaper
(Front Page - lead article)
Western Australia
January 27 to February 2 1998

By ALlSON MARTYN

RIVERTON resident Marguerite Wegner has
volunteered to be a test subject to prove
that the rabbit calicivirus does not infect humans.
  She has written to Prime Minister John
Howard and Primary Industries Minister
John Anderson calling on them to join her.
  Ms Wegner said she would be prepared to
be injected with the live calicivirus as well as
eat, inhale and shower with the virus.
  "My offer is a genuine one," Ms Wegner
told Community.
  "I can't see why Mr Howard, Mr Anderson
and other bureaucrats and scientists
claiming RCD (rabbit calicivirus disease) is
no risk to humans wouldn't be prepared to
do the same thing."
  (The Australian and New Zealand Rabbit
Calicivirus  Disease  Program  group  has
claimed that humans and other animals are
not at risk.
  RCD is being spread throughout the
country to control the number of rabbits.
  The virus originally escaped from a
compound in South Australia while it was
undergoing CSIRO tests.
  Ms Wegner said this was proof there was
not enough information known about the
disease.
  Ms Wegner's recent concern about RCD
stems from learning that RCD-coated baits
are being investigated by the National
Registration Authority(NRA).
  "The baits are being considered as a new
product to be used to inject wild European
rabbits with the disease.Ms Wegner said.
  While farmers have welcomed the wide-
spread release of RCD, critics have claimed
there has not been adequate testing of RCD
to ensure it will not infect humans and other
animals.
  Ms Wegner referred to a TV interview
about the Australian and New Zealand Cali-
civirus Diseases Program in early I996.
  A former chairman, Dr Brian Walker,
said no guarantees could be given that the
rabbit virus would never infect any other
species.
  There are five strains of the calicivirus
and four are known to affect humans.
                     More page 2
Challenge on virus (page 2)
The fifth is the one being used to reduce
rabbit numbers in Australia.
  Ms  Wegner  said  she  regularly  corre-
sponded with international scientists.
  Professor Alvin Smith, of Oregon State
University's laboratory for calicivirus, had
claimed in a letter to her that the Australian
Government had misled the community.
  "By labelling the rabbit calicivirus species-
specific to the European rabbit, it suggests it
would not infect any other animal, which has
yet to be proven," the letter said.
  Ms Wegner said testing on humans needed
to done before Australia embarked "on a
world first of deliberately blanketing our
continent with a deadly live virus of mammals".
  "It could be disastrous because there is no
vaccine to protect any species other than
rabbits." she said.
  "The study I am suggesting may help shed
some light on this new and deadly virus of
mammals first seen in China in 1984."
(Photo) Marguerite Wegner of Riverton, with
her daughter Anita (15) ... concerned
  about the rabbit disease program.

=====================================================================
========
                   /`\   /`\    Rabbit Information Service,
Tom, Tom,         (/\ \-/ /\)   P.O.Box 30,
The piper's son,     )6 6(      Riverton,
Saved a pig        >{= Y =}<    Western Australia 6148
And away he run;    /'-^-'\
So none could eat  (_)   (_)    email: [e-mail]
The pig so sweet    |  .  |
Together they ran   |     |}    http://www.wantree.com.au/~rabbit/rabbit.htm
Down the street.    \_/^\_/    (Rabbit Information Service website updated
                                frequently)

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
       - Voltaire




Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 00:29:55 +0800
From: bunny <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (Aust)I'LL TAKE RABBIT VIRUS - WOMAN[corrected]
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Sorry about this but the article read
The baits are being considered as a new
product to be used to *infect* wild European
rabbits with the disease (not *inject* wild European
rabbits with the disease)
- scanner got it wrong.


I'LL TAKE RABBIT VIRUS - WOMAN
Canning Community Newspaper
(Front Page - lead article)
Western Australia
January 27 to February 2 1998

By ALlSON MARTYN

RIVERTON resident Marguerite Wegner has
volunteered to be a test subject to prove
that the rabbit calicivirus does not infect humans.
  She has written to Prime Minister John
Howard and Primary Industries Minister
John Anderson calling on them to join her.
  Ms Wegner said she would be prepared to
be injected with the live calicivirus as well as
eat, inhale and shower with the virus.
  "My offer is a genuine one," Ms Wegner
told Community.
  "I can't see why Mr Howard, Mr Anderson
and other bureaucrats and scientists
claiming RCD (rabbit calicivirus disease) is
no risk to humans wouldn't be prepared to
do the same thing."
  (The Australian and New Zealand Rabbit
Calicivirus  Disease  Program  group  has
claimed that humans and other animals are
not at risk.)
  RCD is being spread throughout the
country to control the number of rabbits.
  The virus originally escaped from a
compound in South Australia while it was
undergoing CSIRO tests.
  Ms Wegner said this was proof there was
not enough information known about the
disease.
  Ms Wegner's recent concern about RCD
stems from learning that RCD-coated baits
are being investigated by the National
Registration Authority(NRA).
  "The baits are being considered as a new
product to be used to infect wild European
rabbits with the disease.Ms Wegner said.
  While farmers have welcomed the wide-
spread release of RCD, critics have claimed
there has not been adequate testing of RCD
to ensure it will not infect humans and other
animals.
  Ms Wegner referred to a TV interview
about the Australian and New Zealand Cali-
civirus Diseases Program in early I996.
  A former chairman, Dr Brian Walker,
said no guarantees could be given that the
rabbit virus would never infect any other
species.
  There are five strains of the calicivirus
and four are known to affect humans.
                     More page 2
Challenge on virus (page 2)
The fifth is the one being used to reduce
rabbit numbers in Australia.
  Ms  Wegner  said  she  regularly  corre-
sponded with international scientists.
  Professor Alvin Smith, of Oregon State
University's laboratory for calicivirus, had
claimed in a letter to her that the Australian
Government had misled the community.
  "By labelling the rabbit calicivirus species-
specific to the European rabbit, it suggests it
would not infect any other animal, which has
yet to be proven," the letter said.
  Ms Wegner said testing on humans needed
to done before Australia embarked "on a
world first of deliberately blanketing our
continent with a deadly live virus of mammals".
  "It could be disastrous because there is no
vaccine to protect any species other than
rabbits." she said.
  "The study I am suggesting may help shed
some light on this new and deadly virus of
mammals first seen in China in 1984."
(Photo) Marguerite Wegner of Riverton, with
her daughter Anita (15) ... concerned
  about the rabbit disease program.
=====================================================================
========
                   /`\   /`\    Rabbit Information Service,
Tom, Tom,         (/\ \-/ /\)   P.O.Box 30,
The piper's son,     )6 6(      Riverton,
Saved a pig        >{= Y =}<    Western Australia 6148
And away he run;    /'-^-'\
So none could eat  (_)   (_)    email: [e-mail]
The pig so sweet    |  .  |
Together they ran   |     |}    http://www.wantree.com.au/~rabbit/rabbit.htm
Down the street.    \_/^\_/    (Rabbit Information Service website updated
                                frequently)

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
       - Voltaire




Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 11:46:20 -0500 (EST)
From: PAWS <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: King Royal Update
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

On January 6th, attorneys for King Royal Circus put several motions
before District Court Judge Susan Conway.  The Albuquerque City Attorney
appeared on behalf of the City Animal Services Division.   These motions
dealt with the original seizure of the elephants and llamas by Animal
Services on August 6, 1997.  King Royal's motion regarding invalid search
and seizure was denied. The search and seizure was upheld and within the
guidelines as proscribed by law.  King Royal's motion regarding an
invalid lien was denied. The lien is "applicable and valid and will
continue until final disposition of the case."  King Royal's motion
regarding improper service of John Davenport was delayed for 30 days.
King Royal's motion to remove Ben Davenport as a named individual was
denied.  Ben Davenport continues to be "recognized" as the caretaker of
the animals and the person responsible for incurred costs of the lien.
The only King Royal motion that was upheld concerned the bearing of the
seizure ordinance because it "didn't list a hearing to provide due process."
PAWS will keep you posted about further details regarding the upcoming
criminal trial in Albuquerque.


King Royal's permits have been permanently revoked and the circus is also
barred from ever applying for a new license.  This applies even though
Davenport has changed the circus' name to Cavalcade of Stars.
Furthermore, King Royal may not rent or lease its animals to other
circuses or exhibitors.  PAWS continues to monitor the situation of the
King Royal animals very closely.


Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 08:52:13 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Lawrence Carter-Long)
To: [e-mail]
Subject: HHS/Toxicology Program meets on  transgenic animals
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

U.S. HHS/ National Toxicology Program meets on
  transgenic animals

January 27, 1998

  M2 PRESSWIRE : The Board of Scientific Counselors of the
National Toxicology Program will discuss the use of gene-modified,
or transgenic, mice in screening chemicals for cancer-producing
potential, Feb. 5, 8:45 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences Conference Center, 111 T.W.
Alexander Drive, Research Triangle Park, N.C. NTP is
headquartered at NIEHS and both are directed by Kenneth
Olden, Ph.D.

  Introductory presentations will review results from three lines
of mice, p53def, Tg.AC and rasH2d. The scientists presenting
will be Dr. Olden; Dr. George W. Lucier; Dr.Raymond W. Tennant;
Dr. John E. French; Dr.   Judson Spalding; Dr. Ronald E. Cannon;
Dr. Robert Maronpot; Dr.William Eastin; and Dr. Christopher Portier,
all of NIEHS, and Dr. Kunitoshi Mitsumori of the National Institute
of Health Sciences, Tokyo.

  Transgenic mice allow scientists to do studies on the carcinogenicity
of environmental agents more rapidly than using ordinary strains of
rodents. The tests use fewer animals and cost less.

  Some of the issues to be addressed are: Is the NTP approach
to evaluation and validation of transgenic models sufficient and
appropriate? How can existing models be best utilized? What are
their limitations? What new models are needed? Should NTP seek
to develop organ-specific tumor models? Are the scientific needs
of regulatory agencies being adequately addressed? Dr. Joseph
Contrera, FDA, and Dr. Vicki Dellarco, EPA, will speak on the
regulatory needs.

  For advance materials on the transgenic session, contact Dr.
Larry G. Hart, NTP Executive Secretary. A February 6 session,
also open, will address several other NTP matters.

  CONTACT: Sandra Lange
  Tel: [phone]
  Tom Hawkins
  Tel: [phone]
  Dr. Larry G. Hart, NTP Executive Secretary
  Tel: [phone]

  [Copyright 1998, M2 Communications]

==============================

Lawrence Carter-Long
Science and Research Issues, Animal Protection Institute
email: [e-mail], phone: [phone] x. 215
world wide web: http://www.api4animals.org/

"There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause
comedy in the streets?" - Dick Cavett

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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 09:06:13 -0800
From: [e-mail] (Lawrence Carter-Long)
To: [e-mail]
Subject: National Xenotransplantation Advisory Committee
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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National Xenotransplantation Advisory Committee would be
established under HHS proposal; trail registry, specimen
repository also recommended.

  January 27, 1998


Health News Daily : NATIONAL XENOTRANSPLANTATION
ADVISORY COMMITTEE WOULD BE ESTABLISHED to
recommend policy under HHS proposal outlined at a Jan.
21-22 conference in Bethesda, Maryland.

  The advisory committee would address the scientific,
medical, public health, ethical, legal and social issues
involved in xenotransplantation research. "For example,
we've heard about the issues of getting valid informed
consent from seriously ill patients," the National Institutes
of Health's Mary Groesch, PhD, noted.

  "Gaining informed consent from third parties and close
contacts and communities, intergenerational implications,
welfare and use of animals, allocation of scare resources,
patients selection, use of placebos and   confidentiality...
are just a few of the relevant issues," according to Groesch,
who presented the proposal for the HHS Xenotransplantation
Committee.

  In addition to the advisory committee, the public health
service is proposing a public registry of all  xenotransplantation
trials and a repository of specimens from xenotransplantation
 recipients; recipients would be monitored for the rest of their
lives for risk of infection.

  HHS believes that "regular public review and discussion of
xenotransplantation research is imperative to ensure broad
public awareness, understanding and feedback," Groesch
said. "We now have to decide whether the potential benefits
of xenotransplantation, which we have seen to be extraordinary,
 will outweigh the potential risks. This is a critical analysis and
is complicated by the fact that the possible infectious disease risk
extended beyond the individual to close contacts, health care
workers and the public at large."

  Groesch described the precedent for a xenotransplantation
advisory committee, noting "some of the concerns surrounding
xenotransplantation research are strikingly similar to widespread
apprehension that emerged at the inception of genetic engineering research."
Such concerns led to the creation of the NIH Recombinant
DNA Advisory Committee (RAC).

  [Copyright 1998, Health News Daily]

=================================



Lawrence Carter-Long
Science and Research Issues, Animal Protection Institute
email: [e-mail], phone: [phone] x. 215
world wide web: http://www.api4animals.org/

"There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause
comedy in the streets?" - Dick Cavett

-----Long, but Important Warning Notice -----

My email address is: [e-mail]

LEGAL NOTICE: Anyone sending unsolicited commercial
email to this address will be charged a $500 proofreading
fee. This is an official notification; failure to abide by this
will result in  legal action, as per the following:

By U.S. Code Title 47, Sec.227(a)(2)(B), a computer/modem/printer
 meets the definition of a telephone fax machine.
By Sec.227(b)(1)(C), it is unlawful to send any unsolicited
 advertisement to such equipment.
By Sec.227(b)(3)(C), a violation of the aforementioned Section
 is punishable by action to recover actual monetary loss, or
 $500, whichever is greater, by each violation.



Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:04:11 -0500 (EST)
From: PAWS <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Ringling Update
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

PAWS is shocked and appalled to hear that the Florida state attorney's
office has dropped criminal charges against Graham Thomas Chipperfield.
That office's Summary of Investigation and Recommendations states that
in reaching his decision, the state's attorney "was not unmindful of the
testimony that indicated that, as Thomas was shooting the animal, he was
yelling profanity at it, in connection with its attack on his brother.
However, the witness testimony and additional investigation...convinces
me that the primary motive for destroying the animal at that time was
Thomas' concerns that the animal might escape from the transport cage and
harm other persons.  In his testimony, he informed me that escapes were
not unknown, and that he had actually had lions escape from the arena in
the past."

PAWS wonders how the state's attorney can construe that taking a shotgun
and blasting away inside a building at a defenseless animal was not an
act of cruelty and public endangerment!  The excuses in the Summary are
inadequate and leave many questions unanswered.  They also raise doubts
about the impartiality of the people conducting the investigation.

If, indeed, Mr. Chipperfield killed the animal because he feared it would
harm other people, then perhaps the state of Florida should begin looking
at the safety of these shows with animals.  Apparently, all the animal
trainers the state interviewed said it was "not unknown" for animals to
escape these cages.  If the public is subjected to this kind of trauma
and danger every time one of these circuses comes to town, perhaps it is
time the authorities looked at banning live and dangerous animals from
traveling shows.

PAWS has filed complaints with both the USDA and the Department of Fish
and Wildlife in this matter.
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:19:23 -0500 (EST)
From: PAWS <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Ringling Correction
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII

There was an error in the quotation from the Florida state attorney's
Summary of Investigation into the Graham Thomas Chipperfield incident
which we just posted to ar-news.  The quotation should read "In his
testimony, he informed me that...he had actually had lions escape from
the arena CAGE in the past."  In the first posting, we erroneously
omitted the word cage.  We apologize for the error.
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:18:02 -0600
From: Steve Barney <[e-mail]>
To: AR-News <[e-mail]>
Subject: [US] [Fwd: Resolution to help Vilas Monkeys..]
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit

I'm reposting this as a cleaned up copy.  For more info, check out
outline #3.1 at http://www.uwosh.edu/organizations/alag/

-- Forwarded Message --

Subject:         [AL] Resolution to help Vilas Monkeys..
   Date:         Mon, 26 Jan 1998 16:23:48 -0600
   From:         Alliance for Animals <[e-mail]>
     To:         [e-mail]


URGENT!
Please Contact the following committee members who are assigned to work
on Resolution 241: Directing the Zoo Commission and Zoo Director to
Develop options to retain the monkey colonies at the Henry Vilas Zoo and
ask respectfully that they work to keep the Rhesus Monkeys here in
Madison at the Zoo..or here until a SAFE, HUMANE alternative can be
found.  Once they leave for Tulane Primate Center, they and their
offspring will be used in research.  They do NOT deserve such a fate.
We CAN still work to keep them safe!

(Copy of Resolution 241 follows list of names...)

[NOTE: The Madison area code is 608.]

 Vilas Zoo Director:

     Dr. David HallWk:  266-4732
Call him and ask that he take an active role in protecting the Zoo
Commission monkey colonies.


Name, District:

  Karen West, Chair,Hm:  273-0061
   Gail Goode,Hm:  836-8618
   Jonathan Becker,11Hm:  238-7076Wk:  267-0647
   Linda ScheidHm:  838-8245
    Paul FrancoisHm:  424-3979Wk:  257-3674
    Napoleon SmithHm:  255-6468Wk:  266-4071
   Philip O'LearyHm:  274-0646


Ways & Means Committee
Name, District:

 Jonathan Becker, Chair,11Hm:  238-7076   Wk:  267-0647
   John Hendrick,6Hm:  257-1409
  Kevin Kesterson,34Hm:  838-9518
   Ruth Ann Schoer,9Hm:  836-1312Wk:  277-8887
   Tom Stoebig, 15Hm:  222-6429
   Helen Hellenbrand,27Hm:  849-8451
   Larry Olson,12Hm:  244-1480
  Judith Pederson,1Hm:  274-4016
   Mike Blaska,38Hm:  837-2652
   Dave Gawenda,16Hm:  221-4021
   Andrew Janssen,5Hm:  238-9396Wk:  266-1182


Public Works & Facilities Management Committee
Name,District:

  David Ripp, Chair,29Hm:  849-7643
 James Mohrbacher, Vice-Chair,18Hm:  246-9153
  Eugene Craft, Sec.,30Hm:  437-5652
   David Blaska,7Hm:  271-4882
   Jonathan Becker,11Hm:  238-7076Wk:  266-4360
  Judith Pederson,1Hm:  274-4016



 RESOLUTION 241

Directing the Zoo Commission and Zoo Director to develop options to
retain the monkey colonies at Henry Vilas Zoo

 Since 1963, the University of Wisconsin and the Henry Vilas Zoo have
 had a partnership and lease agreement for maintaining a "primate
 holding center" and the colonies of rhesus and stump-tailed macaque
 monkeys at the zoo. The Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center of
 the university has funded the care and upkeep of the monkeys,
 primarily with federal research funds.

 Recently, the university announced that it no longer wishes to
 maintain the monkey colonies, and will abandon the breeding and
 research facility at the zoo on February 1.  Last August, however,
 the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center stated there was no
 hurry to come to any decision on the fate of the monkey colonies,
 noting that the current lease between the university and the zoo runs
 until 2004.  UW officials also indicated concerns about the
 transmission of the herpes B virus, although health experts have
 since stated that the disease threat posed by the monkeys for zoo
 attendants and the general public is minuscule.  While the university
 has indicated it is closing the facility in response to federal
 funding cuts, the Primate Research Center has substantial federal
 grant funding from the National Institute of Health as well as other
 funding sources to maintain the monkey colonies at the zoo, at least
 on a short-term basis.

 The stump-tailed macaque monkey colony at the Henry Vilas Zoo has
 been described as the last large healthy breeding group in captivity
 in the world.  These and the two rhesus macaque colonies have served
 as an important community resource, and have brought enjoyment to zoo
 victors for more than thirty years.  Because of this importance, the
 citizens of Dane County have an interest in the discussion and
 decision making regarding the fate of the monkey colonies at the zoo.
  Both Dane County and the City of Madison, through the Henry Vilas
 Zoo Commission, provide oversight to the zoo as well as funding, and
 have an interest in the ongoing viability of the zoo.

 NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the Dane County Board of
 Supervisors hereby directs the Zoo Commission and Zoo Director David
 Hall to develop and review both short and long-term options for
 maintaining the monkey colonies at the zoo, including assumption of
 ownership by the zoo, a buy-out of the lease by the university to
 produce revenue to maintain the colonies, and financial contributions
 from the university and private donors to assist with maintaining the
 monkey colonies both on a short-term and permanent basis; and that
 theZoo Commission develop and review options in consultation with
 interested community groups, individuals and university officials;
 and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Zoo Commission report back to the
 County Board with its recommendations no later than March 1, 1998;
 and

 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the County Board hereby requests the
 University of Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research
 Center to delay any final disposition of the monkey colonies and
 holding facility at the Henry Vilas Zoo until options have been
 reviewed and a decision is reached by the county and

 BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that copies of this resolution be sent to UW
 President Katharine Lyall, UW-Madison Chancellor David Ward, UW
 Graduate School Dean Virginia Hinshaw, and Wisconsin Regional Primate
 Research Center Acting Director Joseph Kemnitz.

SUBMITTED BY: Tom Stoebig (primary sponsor)

Also:

 Regina Rhyne
 Andrew Janssen
 John Hendrick
 Scott McCormick
_____________________________________________________________________


 Please make your calls today, as time is running out for these
 innocent creatures. We can't help them without your calls.  The
 University is dead-set on sending the Rhesus to Tulane.  Tell the
 committee members that you want the animals protected.


  Chancellor David WardPh:  608-262-9946Fax:  [phone]
University of WI Madison
Bascom Hall, Room 161
Madison, WI 53706

  Dean Virginia HinshawPh:  608-262-1044Fax:  [phone]
Graduate School
Bascom Hall
500 Lincoln Drive
Madison, WI 53706
(She oversees the base grant from the NIH to the Primate Center)

  Dr. Joseph KemnitzPh:  608-263-3588Fax:  [phone]
UW Primate Research Center
1210 Capitol Court
Madison, WI 53715


For more information, please contact the Alliance for Animals in
Madison at: [phone]. Thank you.
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 12:19:20 -0700
From: buffalo folks <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Relocated bison again in danger
Message-ID: <v04003a01b0f3e39337fa@[206.230.42.190]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"

Included in this update:
Buffalo Nations (the only group living and working in the field) news
Please take a sec (quick request)...Voices are rising in a crescendo...
Technical note
**************************************
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 26, 1998
Media Contact: Sue Nackoney, Michael Mease, [phone]

Four bison held in a capture facility were marked with orange
paint and relocated in West Yellowstone on Thursday, January 22.  These
buffalo are again at risk of being captured and/or killed by Montana's
Department of Livestock (DOL). The marking paint had worn off within two
days of their release.

These bison were released on Horse Butte, an area where  hundreds
of buffalo were killed last year.  The DOL is in the final stages of approval
for building another capture and testing facility on Horse Butte.

All nine buffalo captured on January 22 were males.  Five
were shipped to slaughter.  Male bison are considered a low risk for
transmission of brucellosis by the Animal Plant Health Inspection Service
(APHIS).  APHIS has stated that they will not revoke Montana's
brucellosis-free status if Montana tolerates the presence of bull bison in
the state up to 60 days prior to the return of cattle.

Yet Montana's DOL still insists upon killing the Yellowstone buffalo.
"The only way brucellosis can be transmitted to cattle is through contact
with an aborted bison fetus. The needless slaughter of five bull buffalo
hearkens back to last winter and only strengthens Buffalo Nations'
commitment to prevent this tragedy from happening again.  Buffalo Nations
will defend these buffalo until an acceptable management plan is
implemented and the DOL is no longer involved with the buffalo," stated
Michael Mease co-founder of Buffalo Nations.

Last year, the DOL marked and released bison from the capture
facilities who tested negative for brucellosis. Yet many marked bison were
subsequently shot in the field.  Joanne Stovall, a resident of Horse Butte,
reports, "I saw that those animals who had been marked and were supposedly
protected were killed last winter.  When it came time to shoot the bison,
they killed any that were around so it seems like it was futile to even
test them in the first place. Afterwards I saw carcasses with the DOL
markings that were supposed to protect them."

The DOL refused to release any information about the tests, even to
the National Park Service.  A DOL agent was quoted saying, " We are not
giving any information to you bleeding heart liberals" addressing a park
service ranger.  According to the Bison Interim plan the park service and
the DOL are mandated by law to work together.  The Department of Livestock,
alone, has no right to determine the fate of our last wild buffalo.


Buffalo Nations
PO Box 957
West Yellowstone, MT 59758
406-646-0070 phone
406-646-0071 fax
[e-mail]

*******************************
Please Take a second.....Letters are needed!
We would love to hear voices around the country rise up and let "public
servants" know that the people will not stand for their horrible treatment
of the last wild buffalo.

I have put up a page off the Buffalo Nations web sites with the addresses
of regional and national papers that need letters to the editor printed.
Perhaps more people will start paying attention and say "stop the
slaughter!"
http://www.wildrockies.org/buffalo/speak/speak.html
don't start at the top...just pick one at random (or five...one for each
buffalo killed)
We need to generate heartfelt letters that point the finger at the
Montana's Department of Livestock.

Folks need to know that there is plenty of PUBLIC land in the area that
buffalo could be grazing on (instead of leasing it to a few priveleged
cows).  It is our land and the buffalo should be given rights to it.

Brucellosis free status could be determined on a county to county basis,
then the Montana StockGrowers assoc might back off?
Bull Buffalo CAN NOT transmit brucellosis (not that any wild buffalo ever
has transmitted it in the wild) so why kill them?
Elk have brucellosis...when will they begin the extermination of the
Yellowstone elk herds?

Every small action can make a difference!  (apathy means death for buffalo)

Even thought it's like talking to a wall...the Governor of Montana could
put an end to all of this.
Marc Racicot needs to hear that his state's blatant disregard for the last
wild buffalo will cause Montana to lose valuable tourist support!
Governor of Montana, Marc Racicot,
State Capitol, Helena, MT 59620
[phone];
406-444-5543 (hm) Call anytime.
Fax  [phone].
mailto:[e-mail]
mailto:[e-mail].

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Pass this on!
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********************************************************
This is an all volunteer effort.  Your actions make the difference.

TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT the Stop-the-Slaughter SITE (1/98)
http://www.wildrockies.org/bison

********************************************************
Check out Buffalo Nations site!  constantly updated with new info from the
field!
http://www.wildrockies.org/Buffalo
write a letter to the editor of one of the papers listed there!
***********************************

For the Buffalo!
Mitakuye Oyasin (All My Relations)
********************************************************


Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:36:15 -0600
From: Steve Barney <[e-mail]>
To: AR-News <[e-mail]>
Subject: E-mail addresses of WRPRC scandal contacts
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
MIME-version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit

Here are the E-mail addresses which I forgot to include the preceeding
message:

     Subject:  [US] [Fwd: Resolution to help Vilas Monkeys..]
        Date:  Tue, 27 Jan 1998 13:18:02 -0600
        From:  Steve Barney <[e-mail]>
Organization:  Animal Liberation Action Group, University of
Wisconsin Oshkosh
       To:  AR-News <[e-mail]>

--
Contact:

University of Wisconsin Chancellor's Office, 161 Bascom Hall, 500
Lincoln Dr., Madison 53706 or telephone [phone].
[E-mail: [e-mail]]

Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center, 1223 Capitol Court, Madison
53715 or telephone [phone].
[E-mail: [e-mail]]

County Executive's Office, Room 421, City-County Building, 210 Martin
Luther King Jr. Blvd., Madison 53709 or telephone [phone]
[E-mail: [e-mail]]

To get more involved in the effort to save the monkeys, contact the
Alliance for Animals, 122 State St., Suite 605, Madison 53703 or
telephone [phone].
[E-mail: [e-mail]]

Send letters to the editors to the Capital Times (a major Madison
newspaper)
E-mail: [e-mail]),

and the Milwuakee Journal Sentinel (major Wisconsin newspaper)
(E-mail: [e-mail]).


--
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
Connection, Reeve Union)
E-mail: [e-mail]
Web: http://www.uwosh.edu/organizations/alag/
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 15:05:29 -0500
From: "Bina Robinson" <[e-mail]>
To: <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>, <[e-mail]>
Subject: U.S. flouts Int. Whaling Convention
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
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Letter dated January 21, 1998 just received from Congressman Jack Metcalf
(WA)

Thank you for contacting me and indicating your opposition to the Makah
Tribe's intention to kill gray whales.  It has been my intention to
vigorously oppose this hunt, and to try to protect these creatures.  A Gray
whale hunt could devastate the tourism industry in our state (Washington),
compromise our quality of life, and potentially endanger those who recreate
and travel in the Olympic Marine Sanctuary.

Because of confusion in media coverage I'd like to give you a brief update
on what transpired at the Convention meeting.  Contrary to press reports,
the U.S. delegation (representing the views of the Clinton Administration)
to the International Whaling Convention (IWC) absolutely failed in getting
any IWC authorization for the Makah whale hunt.  Three elders from the
Tribe attended and vigorously opposed resuming whaling. Their efforts, plus
a letter that I sent opposing the hunt which was signed by 43 other members
of Congress, successfully helped sway support against the U.S. delegation's
Makah proposal.  In the face of the strong IWC opposition to the original
Makah proposal, the U.S. delegation, in a desperate effort to grant the
Makah the right to hunt whales, cut a deal with the Russian government.
The agreement is to allow the Makah Tribe to hunt 4 of the whales from the
Russian quota under the definition of "cultural subsistence".  The previous
U.S. position has been to opppose whaling by anyone, except in cases of
true subsistence need.

This was immediately recognized as a ploy to get around the IWC, and the
Australian delegation offered an amendment that would require that any
group hunting whales prove that the whale meat is essential for their
nutritional subsistence.  This amendment was designed and passed to
prohibit the Makah hunt under the laws of the IWC.  Having settled the
issue, the IWC then adjourned.

In an amazing demonstration of bureaucratic arrogance, the U.S. delegation,
ignoring the IWC and the Australian Amendment, announced they were going
ahead with the Russian allocation and the Makah subsistence whale hunt!  As
you can plainly see, this is not the end of this story.

Unfortunately, expanding the IWC definition to include cultural subsistence
will expand whale hunting to any nation with a coastline on the ocean and
any history of whale hunting.  In light of their actions, how can the U.S.
now oppose any nation that demands "cultural subsistence" rights?

Thank you for your much needed support on this important issue.  I will
continue to vigorously oppose the slaughter of whales in our waters, and
work in opposition to any resumption of commercial whale hunting.  -30-

N.B. There is also the matter of 3 bowhead whales being transferred from
Alaskan to Siberian "subsistence whaling" tribes( who supply them to feed
animals confined on fur farms) in order to compensate them for giving up 4
gray whales (which they don't keep good track of anyway). There has not
been much information on this such as the effect on the Alaskan tribe(s). -
Bina

Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:39:50 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Rick Bogle)
To: "AR-News Post" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Vilas News
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

     Many of you will remember that UW, Madison's, Dean Virginia Henshaw is one
of the central actors in the Madison Monkey Scandal.  She is resolute in
defending the primate center's actions.  The decision to send the rhesus
macaques to Tulane is her's.
     Sunday's Wisconsin State Journal, the major state daily, carried a profile
of Henshaw which painted her as thoughtful and fun loving.
     The article was well over half a page in length and was highlighted by a
very large photo of Henshaw.

     Today the Wisconsin State Journal carried an announcement of a major grant
being awarded to a primate center employee, David Watkins, for $680,940
from the Elizabeth  Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation.  The article explains
that Watkins will be using rhesus macaques because they are so genetically
similar to humans.
     [Apparently, this similarity does not include a similar capacity for
suffering. Or maybe the suffering just doesn't matter.]
     The two large articles coming out one after the other seem to be a public
relations ploy to soften the public for the forthcoming move of the zoo's
100 rhesus to Tulane.  The paper and the university have been in bed
together for some time according to long-term watchers.
     After reading about Watkins' grant I wondered what the rest of his
research entailed.  I have posted three of his current studies for the good
of the cause.  Its always good to have original data.  These studies are
from the NIH CRISP data base.

R

Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:40:59 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Rick Bogle)
To: "AR-News Post" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Watkin's Research
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
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Beware! Alternates between ugly and boring.

R01AI41913       WATKINS, DAVID I          INFLUENCE OF CTLS AND MHC IN
RESISTAN
-PROJECT NUMBER......1 R01 AI41913-01

INSTITUTEAI                          FY  97    WATKINS, DAVID I

INITIAL REVIEW GROUP IRGARRA                   WISCONSIN REGIONAL RESEARCH
CT
AWARD AMOUNT.........                          1220 CAPITOL COURT

                                               MADISON, WI  53715-1299

PERFORMING ORGANIZATION: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON

TITLE   INFLUENCE OF CTLS AND MHC IN RESISTANCE TO SIV IN VIVO.

FUTURE YEARS 2

ABSTRACT:



DESCRIPTION:  Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection of macaques is

an excellent model for studying AIDS.  Sequence similarities to HIV and the

ability to induce AIDS in macaques make SIVs and their infection of these

monkeys particularly important models for understanding the immune response

to the AIDS virus.  They will utilize the SIV/macaque model to determine

whether the generation of AIDS virus-specific CTLs can be protective
against
or can alter the course of AIDS virus infection in vivo.  Furthermore, they

will determine whether the MHC of the rhesus macaque can play a role in

resistance to SIV infection.



CTLs are critical for containment of viral disease progression in

HIV-infected individuals.  CTLs are important during the later courses of

individuals infected with HIV and the rapid decline in CTL activity often

presages the terminal disease stage.  CTLs may also provide protection

against infection.  It has recently been shown that vaccination with a

vaccinia construct expressing the SIV nef gene was sufficient to protect a

cynomolgus monkey from SIV infection.  High levels of CTL activity were

correlated with ability to delay viremia in an additional two animals in

this study.  These observations provide the rationale to determine whether

pre-existing CTLs can either prevent infection or modulate the course of

disease post-infection.  Although strong evidence exists for the important

role of CTLs in HIV infection, it has been difficult to carry out
definitive
in vivo experiments.  At the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center,

they have recently defined 10 MHC-identical sibling pairs of rhesus monkeys

for these kinds of experiments and have also initiated a breeding program
to
generate MHC-identical rhesus monkeys.  They will, therefore, test the

hypothesis that CTLs can protect individuals from AIDS-virus infection, and

that CTLs can modulate the course of virus infection.  They will use

MHC-identical sibling pairs to test this hypothesis.



Since the products of MHC genes bind pathogen-derived peptides and present

them to T cells it has been suggested that these highly polymorphic

molecules might influence he fashion in which an individual makes a
response
to the AIDS virus.  Recent studies have indicated that certain HLA
molecules
may play an important role in long-term non-progressors.  The investigators

will also test the hypothesis that certain MHC haplotypes or MHC molecules

can influence the course of SIV in vivo using sequence-based typing of

rhesus macaque MHC class I and II alleles.


.
R21AI42641       WATKINS, DAVID I          MHC DEFINED AND MHC IDENTICAL
PRIMATE
-PROJECT NUMBER......1 R21 AI42641-01

INSTITUTEAI                          FY  97    WATKINS, DAVID I

INITIAL REVIEW GROUP IRGZAI1                   WISCONSIN REG PRIMATE RES
CTR
AWARD AMOUNT.........                          1220 CAPITOL COURT

                                               MADISON, WI  53715-1299

PERFORMING ORGANIZATION: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON

TITLE   MHC DEFINED AND MHC IDENTICAL PRIMATES FOR AIDS RESEARCH

FUTURE YEARS 1

ABSTRACT:



DESCRIPTION (adapted from the application):  Progress toward the
development
of a vaccine for HIV has been hindered by the limited number of animal

models with which to study HIV infection of humans.  Simian
immunodeficiency
virus (SIV) infection of the rhesus macaque is an accepted animal model for

HIV infection of humans.  Although several vaccines tested in rhesus

macaques have provided protection against SIV challenge, it has not been

possible to determine the correlates of protection in these vaccine trials.

There is a strong cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) response to the AIDS virus
in
both human and rhesus macaques, and CTLs have been implicated in providing

protection from infection.  Understanding the role of CTLs in AIDS

virus-induced disease will be important for the design of effective

vaccines.  Few CTL epitopes have been defined in SIV and there are no
inbred
strains of rhesus macaques for CTL adoptive transfer studies.  The

investigators propose to triple the number of defined SIV CTL epitopes and

to develop a rapid MHC class I-typing of rhesus macaques.  They propose to

find two new epitopes for env and four for nef.  These will be
characterized
for anchor residues, minimal recognizable peptide and MHC class I molecules

that bind these epitopes.  A PCR-SSP-based technique will be developed for

detecting nine restricting rhesus macaque MHC class I alleles.  They will

produce pairs of MHC-identical rhesus macaques to explore the role of CTLs

in AIDS virus infection.  This will be done by survey of macaque pedigrees.

Female relatives of SIV-infected monkeys will provide ova for in vitro

fertilization and nuclear transfer for production of pairs of identical

twins.  They will produce additional pairs of MHC-defined, identical rhesus

macaques for CTL adoptive transfer studies to study correlates of immune

protection.



----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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R01DK44886       WATKINS, DAVID I          IBD AND THE MHC--MODEL STUDIES

-PROJECT NUMBER......5 R01 DK44886-04

INSTITUTEDK                          FY  97    WATKINS, DAVID I

INITIAL REVIEW GROUP IRGIMB                    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN

AWARD AMOUNT.........                          500 LINCOLN AVE

                                               MADISON, WI  53706-1380

PERFORMING ORGANIZATION: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON

TITLE   IBD AND THE MHC--MODEL STUDIES

FUTURE YEARS 0

ABSTRACT:



DESCRIPTION:  (Adapted from the Applicant's abstract):  The New World

primate  Saguinus oedipus (the cotton-top tamarin) suffers from an

extremely high  incidence of ulcerative colitis and adenocarcinoma of the

colon and is  unusually susceptible to lethal infection with a variety

of viruses.  Tamarins  are unusual in that their cells express HLA-G-

related MHC class I molecules  with limited polymorphism and variability.

An elucidation of the ramifications of the expression of these HLA-G-

related MHC class I molecules  should lead to important advances in our

understanding of the functional  characteristics of the tamarins' immune

system and may, thus, provide an  explanation for the extraordinary

incidence of colitis and adenocarcinoma of  the colon in the tamarin. A

possible relationship between MHC haplotype and  susceptibility to

disease is becoming increasingly evident.  Peptide transporter,

proteosome, tumor necrosis factor and the complement genes are  also

located in the MHC.Tamarins have deleted the homologues of the HLA-A,  -

B and -C loci.  If some of these other MHC genes were deleted along with

these HLA-1, -B and -C homologues, this might render the tamarin

sensitive to  a variety of pathological processes. It has been shown that

certain disease  susceptibilities, including susceptibility to several

gastrointestinal  diseases, can be linked to certain MHC haplotypes.

Therefore, this application proposes to determine whether there is a

relationship between MHC haplotype and the extraordinary incidence of

ulcerative colitis and adenocarcinoma of the colon in the tamarin.

Specific Aim 1 proposes to assess  the role played of tamarins' non-

polymorphic, non-variable, HLA-G-related MHC  class I molecules in the

tamarins' immune response to pathogens.Specific Aim  2 proposes to define

the extent of the deletion that led to the loss of the  homologues of

HLA-1, -B and -C in the tamarin.  Specific Aim 3 proposes to  determine

whether susceptibility to adenocarcinoma of the colon is linked to  MHC

haplotype in the tamarin.


.---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 16:53:15 -0600
From: [e-mail] (Rick Bogle)
To: "AR-News Post" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Fw: Watkin's Research
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
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----------
> From: Rick and  Lynn <[e-mail]>
> To: AR-News Post <[e-mail]>
> Subject: Watkin's Research
> Date: Tuesday, January 27, 1998 4:40 PM
>
> Beware! Alternates between ugly and boring.
>
> R01AI41913       WATKINS, DAVID I          INFLUENCE OF CTLS AND MHC IN
> RESISTAN
> -PROJECT NUMBER......1 R01 AI41913-01

>
> INSTITUTEAI                          FY  97    WATKINS, DAVID I

>
> INITIAL REVIEW GROUP IRGARRA                   WISCONSIN REGIONAL
RESEARCH
> CT
> AWARD AMOUNT.........                          1220 CAPITOL COURT

>
>                                                MADISON, WI  53715-1299

>
> PERFORMING ORGANIZATION: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON

>
> TITLE   INFLUENCE OF CTLS AND MHC IN RESISTANCE TO SIV IN VIVO.

>
> FUTURE YEARS 2

>
> ABSTRACT:

>
>

>
> DESCRIPTION:  Simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV) infection of macaques
is
>
> an excellent model for studying AIDS.  Sequence similarities to HIV and
the
>
> ability to induce AIDS in macaques make SIVs and their infection of these

>
> monkeys particularly important models for understanding the immune
response
>
> to the AIDS virus.  They will utilize the SIV/macaque model to determine

>
> whether the generation of AIDS virus-specific CTLs can be protective
> against
> or can alter the course of AIDS virus infection in vivo.  Furthermore,
they
>
> will determine whether the MHC of the rhesus macaque can play a role in

>
> resistance to SIV infection.

>
>

>
> CTLs are critical for containment of viral disease progression in

>
> HIV-infected individuals.  CTLs are important during the later courses of

>
> individuals infected with HIV and the rapid decline in CTL activity often

>
> presages the terminal disease stage.  CTLs may also provide protection

>
> against infection.  It has recently been shown that vaccination with a

>
> vaccinia construct expressing the SIV nef gene was sufficient to protect
a
>
> cynomolgus monkey from SIV infection.  High levels of CTL activity were

>
> correlated with ability to delay viremia in an additional two animals in

>
> this study.  These observations provide the rationale to determine
whether
>
> pre-existing CTLs can either prevent infection or modulate the course of

>
> disease post-infection.  Although strong evidence exists for the
important
>
> role of CTLs in HIV infection, it has been difficult to carry out
> definitive
> in vivo experiments.  At the Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center,

>
> they have recently defined 10 MHC-identical sibling pairs of rhesus
monkeys
>
> for these kinds of experiments and have also initiated a breeding program
> to
> generate MHC-identical rhesus monkeys.  They will, therefore, test the

>
> hypothesis that CTLs can protect individuals from AIDS-virus infection,
and
>
> that CTLs can modulate the course of virus infection.  They will use

>
> MHC-identical sibling pairs to test this hypothesis.

>
>

>
> Since the products of MHC genes bind pathogen-derived peptides and
present
>
> them to T cells it has been suggested that these highly polymorphic

>
> molecules might influence he fashion in which an individual makes a
> response
> to the AIDS virus.  Recent studies have indicated that certain HLA
> molecules
> may play an important role in long-term non-progressors.  The
investigators
>
> will also test the hypothesis that certain MHC haplotypes or MHC
molecules
>
> can influence the course of SIV in vivo using sequence-based typing of

>
> rhesus macaque MHC class I and II alleles.

>
>
> ..
> R21AI42641       WATKINS, DAVID I          MHC DEFINED AND MHC IDENTICAL
> PRIMATE
> -PROJECT NUMBER......1 R21 AI42641-01

>
> INSTITUTEAI                          FY  97    WATKINS, DAVID I

>
> INITIAL REVIEW GROUP IRGZAI1                   WISCONSIN REG PRIMATE RES
> CTR
> AWARD AMOUNT.........                          1220 CAPITOL COURT

>
>                                                MADISON, WI  53715-1299

>
> PERFORMING ORGANIZATION: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON

>
> TITLE   MHC DEFINED AND MHC IDENTICAL PRIMATES FOR AIDS RESEARCH


>
> FUTURE YEARS 1

>
> ABSTRACT:

>
>

>
> DESCRIPTION (adapted from the application):  Progress toward the
> development
> of a vaccine for HIV has been hindered by the limited number of animal

>
> models with which to study HIV infection of humans.  Simian
> immunodeficiency
> virus (SIV) infection of the rhesus macaque is an accepted animal model
for
>
> HIV infection of humans.  Although several vaccines tested in rhesus

>
> macaques have provided protection against SIV challenge, it has not been

>
> possible to determine the correlates of protection in these vaccine
trials.
>
> There is a strong cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) response to the AIDS virus
> in
> both human and rhesus macaques, and CTLs have been implicated in
providing
>
> protection from infection.  Understanding the role of CTLs in AIDS

>
> virus-induced disease will be important for the design of effective

>
> vaccines.  Few CTL epitopes have been defined in SIV and there are no
> inbred
> strains of rhesus macaques for CTL adoptive transfer studies.  The

>
> investigators propose to triple the number of defined SIV CTL epitopes
and
>
> to develop a rapid MHC class I-typing of rhesus macaques.  They propose
to
>
> find two new epitopes for env and four for nef.  These will be
> characterized
> for anchor residues, minimal recognizable peptide and MHC class I
molecules
>
> that bind these epitopes.  A PCR-SSP-based technique will be developed
for
>
> detecting nine restricting rhesus macaque MHC class I alleles.  They will

>
> produce pairs of MHC-identical rhesus macaques to explore the role of
CTLs
>
> in AIDS virus infection.  This will be done by survey of macaque
pedigrees.
>
> Female relatives of SIV-infected monkeys will provide ova for in vitro

>
> fertilization and nuclear transfer for production of pairs of identical

>
> twins.  They will produce additional pairs of MHC-defined, identical
rhesus
>
> macaques for CTL adoptive transfer studies to study correlates of immune

>
> protection.

>
>

>
>
----------------------------------------------------------------------------

> ----
> R01DK44886       WATKINS, DAVID I          IBD AND THE MHC--MODEL STUDIES

>
> -PROJECT NUMBER......5 R01 DK44886-04

>
> INSTITUTEDK                          FY  97    WATKINS, DAVID I

>
> INITIAL REVIEW GROUP IRGIMB                    UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN

>
> AWARD AMOUNT.........                          500 LINCOLN AVE

>
>                                                MADISON, WI  53706-1380

>
> PERFORMING ORGANIZATION: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON

>
> TITLE   IBD AND THE MHC--MODEL STUDIES

>
> FUTURE YEARS 0

>
> ABSTRACT:

>
>

>
> DESCRIPTION:  (Adapted from the Applicant's abstract):  The New World

>
> primate  Saguinus oedipus (the cotton-top tamarin) suffers from an

>
> extremely high  incidence of ulcerative colitis and adenocarcinoma of the

>
> colon and is  unusually susceptible to lethal infection with a variety

>
> of viruses.  Tamarins  are unusual in that their cells express HLA-G-

>
> related MHC class I molecules  with limited polymorphism and variability.

>
> An elucidation of the ramifications of the expression of these HLA-G-

>
> related MHC class I molecules  should lead to important advances in our

>
> understanding of the functional  characteristics of the tamarins' immune

>
> system and may, thus, provide an  explanation for the extraordinary

>
> incidence of colitis and adenocarcinoma of  the colon in the tamarin. A

>
> possible relationship between MHC haplotype and  susceptibility to

>
> disease is becoming increasingly evident.  Peptide transporter,

>
> proteosome, tumor necrosis factor and the complement genes are  also

>
> located in the MHC.Tamarins have deleted the homologues of the HLA-A,  -

>
> B and -C loci.  If some of these other MHC genes were deleted along with

>
> these HLA-1, -B and -C homologues, this might render the tamarin

>
> sensitive to  a variety of pathological processes. It has been shown that

>
> certain disease  susceptibilities, including susceptibility to several

>
> gastrointestinal  diseases, can be linked to certain MHC haplotypes.

>
> Therefore, this application proposes to determine whether there is a

>
> relationship between MHC haplotype and the extraordinary incidence of

>
> ulcerative colitis and adenocarcinoma of the colon in the tamarin.

>
> Specific Aim 1 proposes to assess  the role played of tamarins' non-

>
> polymorphic, non-variable, HLA-G-related MHC  class I molecules in the

>
> tamarins' immune response to pathogens.Specific Aim  2 proposes to define

>
> the extent of the deletion that led to the loss of the  homologues of

>
> HLA-1, -B and -C in the tamarin.  Specific Aim 3 proposes to  determine

>
> whether susceptibility to adenocarcinoma of the colon is linked to  MHC

>
> haplotype in the tamarin.

>
>
>
..--------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
> ----
>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 17:51:48 -0800
From: Mesia Quartano <[e-mail]>
To: "[e-mail]" <[e-mail]>, [e-mail]
Subject: (US) Barnum & Bailey Tiger Killer Will NOT be Prosecuted
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TV news here in Florida just reported that Graham Chipperfield, the
Barnum and Bailey tiger "trainer" who shot a tiger to death, will NOT be
prosecuted! As I'm sure everyone is aware, Chipperfield shot Arnie the
tiger five times with a 12-gauge shotgun -- *after* the tiger had been
returned to his cage (the tiger had attacked Chipperfield's brother). He
could (and should) have been charged with cruelty to animals and
publicly discharging a weapon.

I just called the State Attoney's Office for Pinellas, FL. I was told
that the prosecutor responsible for this case is Bob Lewis and his phone
# is 813-464-6710. I will try and get a fax or email tomorrow, although
that info is usually not given. Even if you've called before to urge
prosecution on this case, please call again and let them know that the
decision not to prosecute is unacceptable!






Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 18:13:22 -0800
From: Mesia Quartano <[e-mail]>
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Subject: (US) No charges in tiger killing
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No charges in tiger killing
(UPI; 01/27/98)

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Jan. 27 (UPI)   A former circus trainer will not
face criminal charges for shooting to death a Bengal tiger that had
mauled his brother.

Prosecutors say Graham Chipperfield, whose brother Richard remains in
critical condition at a St. Petersburg hospital with severe head wounds,
was justified in killing the 350-pound animal because he feared the
animal might escape from its cage and harm others.

Richard Chipperfield was attacked Jan. 7 during a publicity photo shoot
for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. The 24-year-old animal
trainer lost a portion of his head slightly smaller than a baseball when
the tiger bit his head.

After the animal had been lured back into its cage, Graham Chipperfield
grabbed his shotgun and fired five shot into the tiger.

He told prosecutors he killed the tiger because it was "going crazy" in
the cage and he was concerned it might escape and injure other people.

The decision to not file animal cruelty charges against Graham angered
animal activists.

Pat Derby, founder of the California-based Performing Animals Welfare
Society, says, "The message that it sends to circus people is you can do
things like that and get away with it. I guess you can call it getting
away with murder."

Following the attack, Graham Chipperfield resigned from Ringling, which
has yet to return a tiger act to its show.

*************
end of story
*************
The killing was justified because "he feared the animal might escape
from its cage and harm others." ????
Bullsh*t!





Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 15:34:28 -0800
From: "Bob Schlesinger" <[e-mail]>
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Subject: Nadas appeal Denied - Nadas to Die
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Salem OR
January 27, 1998
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

-------------------------------------
The Supreme Court of Oregon today sent notice that they will not review the appeal
of the Nadas case.  Nadas is the Oregon collie-malamute mix sentenced to die for allegedly
chasing livestock.

Nadas will be killed in 21 days, or on February 17th.  The 21 day period is allowed for
submitting a request for the court to reconsider.  We are told by legal experts that such
requests are mere formality however, and are actually never granted.  A request for
reconsideration permits a reaffirmation of the court's decision.

Additional information will be posted about the situation as it is received.

Visit Ark Online at http://www.arkonline.com for background information on this case and for
a contact list of officials and businesses to complain to.



Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 19:01:11 EST
From: SMatthes <[e-mail]>
To: <[e-mail]>, [e-mail], [e-mail],
        [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
        [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
        [e-mail], [e-mail], [e-mail],
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Subject: Animal Acts Protest: Florida State Fair
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What:  Protest of Animal Acts

Where:  Florida State Fair, Tampa, Florida

When:  Saturday, February 7, 1998   -  12 noon-2 p.m.

Meet at U. S. 301 entrance to fairgrounds.  Bring signs.  A few signs will be
furnished.

The Florida State Fair has booked several large animal acts, incuding the
Ramos's who travel with Hanneford Circus.  Ramos's are under USDA
investigation and charges are pending.    Circuses are wintering in this
region of Florida and are doing their shows at the fair.
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 18:06:59
From: David J Knowles <[e-mail]>
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>From The Electronic Telegraph - Wednesday, January 28th, 1998

BSE inquiry to summon ex-ministers and aides

By David Brown, Agriculture Editor

FORMER ministers and their civil servants will be called to account on mad
cow disease and the beef crisis by a wide-ranging public inquiry set in
motion by the Government yesterday.

Lord Justice Phillips, who heads the inquiry team, said civil servants had
been given guarantees that they would not be disciplined for speaking
frankly about the causes and background of "a disaster with tragic
consequences". It is linked to 23 deaths and has cost ú3.5 billion in
emergency aid alone.

He said that scientists and others in private industry and commerce who
also felt like "blowing the whistle" could use civil law to protect
themselves against "victimisation". He said: "The primary object of this
inquiry is not to attribute blame for what occurred, but to identify what
went wrong and why, and to see what lessons can be learned."

The inquiry will review the emergence of BSE, which has killed more than
170,000 cattle in Britain since 1986, and responses to it until it was
officially linked with the new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in
young people on March 20, 1986.

The announcement of this newly-recognised strain of CJD, which has killed
23 people, sparked off the beef crisis and the EU ban on worldwide sales.
The inquiry will dwell on Government advice that BSE was caused after
cattle were fed on animal protein derived from sheep and cattle and that
changes to the rendering system may have resulted in this offal
passing on infection.

Lord Justice Phillips said: "Let me make it plain, however, that this
inquiry cannot definitively pronounce on the cause of BSE. Scientists are
still working on that question." He said he did not expect prosecutions to
follow from the inquiry but, while stressing that the primary object "was
not to find fault", he accepted that individuals may be criticised.

He said: "Any individual who has reason to anticipate significant personal
criticism is likely to have a strong case for legal representation . . .
Where we agree that someone should be legally represented, and it seems to
us unreasonable for that person to have to pay for a lawyer, then we shall
recommend that reasonable costs are met out of public funds."

The inquiry has no statutory powers to force witnesses to attend, though he
did not expect any to refuse. There will be no requirement to give evidence
under oath. Hearings will begin in March, with a report to the Government
by December.

⌐ Copyright Telegraph Group Limited 1998.

Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 20:41:56 -0800
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Wild monkeys wound 26 people in attacks on Japanese town

Reuters
TOKYO, January 26, 1998

A pack of wild monkeys swooped down and attacked passersby in a seaside
town in Japan, injuring 26 people, a town official said on Tuesday.

The monkeys appeared in gardens and streets, biting people in the back
and legs.

Local authorities using loudspeakers warned residents to beware of the
monkeys as the town organized a hunt for them.

"We have to move fast to do something about these monkeys because the
people here are scared to death," the official said.

The injuries were slight and all of the victims received injections for
rabies.

The wave of attacks by a group of six monkeys occurred between Sunday
morning and Monday evening in the central Japanese town of Ito.

"This is the first time this has ever happened and we're not sure why it
happened," the official said. "We've had a lot of snow in the mountains
the past couple of weeks so maybe the monkeys were looking for food
below."


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