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- AR-NEWS Digest 669
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- Topics covered in this issue include:
-
- 1) Nobel prizewinner opposes EU biotechnology patent law
- by Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net>
- 2) Info request- Right to use megaphone at protest?
- by NOVENAANN@aol.com
- 3) [UK] Animal rights group in hoax bomb threats
- by David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com>
- 4)[UK] Man is cleared over rhino horn
- plot
- by David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com>
- 5) [UK] fines for stealing bluebells
- by David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com>
- 6) [UK] Rasher's dash makes it the Tamworth 3
- by David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com>
- 7) Noah's Ark
- by "Vicki Sharer" <Vicki.Sharer@wku.edu>
- 8) TX Alert: Animal Friendly License Plates
- by Michael Markarian <mmarkarian@fund.org>
- 9) Dumped email
- by LCartLng@gvn.net (Lawrence Carter-Long)
- 10) Nadas arrives safely in Utah!
- by "Bob Schlesinger" <bob@arkonline.com>
- 11) Indonesian reforestation funds allegedly diverted
- by Shirley McGreal <spm@awod.com>
- 12) USA TODAY Editorial on Bison/Snowmobiles
- by Michael Markarian <mmarkarian@fund.org>
- 13) SLAUGHTERHOUSE
- by Lionel Friedberg <lionel333@loop.com>
- 14) Fw: ACTION ALERT: JAPANESE WHALERS USING OUTLAWED
- HARPOON
- by "Bina Robinson" <civitas@linkny.com>
- 15) DOGS & LIGHTBULBS (Humor) :-)
- by "* Radio-Active *" <radioactive@bellsouth.net>
- 16) Support Animal Rights Music Group
- by allen schubert <ar-admin@envirolink.org>
- 17) David Lavigne - Feb 26th -Lecture
- by allen schubert <ar-admin@envirolink.org>
- 18) St. Jude's Annual Coon Hunt
- by Ilene Rachford <irachfrd@erinet.com>
- 19) (US) No evidence tv show caused drop in cattle prices
- by allen schubert <alathome@clark.net>
- 20) Alamosa, Colo., Animal Exhibitors Settle Alleged AWA Violations
- by Wyandotte Animal Group <wag@heritage.com>
- 21) (US) Oprah Producer Tough on the Stand
- by allen schubert <alathome@clark.net>
- 22) Wendy's Loses $4M in Fourth Quarter
- by Vegetarian Resource Center <vrc@tiac.net>
- 23) Subscription Options--Admin Note
- by allen schubert <ar-admin@envirolink.org>
- 24) [UK] Publican faces jail as beef law starts to bite
- by David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com>
- 25) (CN) Reserves protect rare animals
- by jwed <jwed@hkstar.com>
- Date: Wed, 18 Feb 1998 21:18:04 -0800
- From: Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: Nobel prizewinner opposes EU biotechnology patent law
- Message-ID: <34EBC08C.3C2D@worldnet.att.net>
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- Nobel-prizewinning dramatist criticizes EU biotechnology patent law
-
- Agence France-Presse
- STRASBOURG, February 18, 1998
-
- Nobel-prizewinning Italian dramatist and actor Dario Fo on Wednesday
- launched a campaign against a European Union-backed draft directive on
- patenting biotechnological discoveries.
-
- The bill, approved by the Council of Ministers in November prior to a
- second reading in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, would harmonize
- and replace national legislations and allow the patenting of
- biotechnical products and the procedures by which they are obtained.
-
- Speaking from the parliament, Fo said "we give people the illusion of
- eternal life by means of distorted information on technical progress,
- and we rush headlong into spheres which challenge the notion of
- humanity."
-
- Fo is backed in his campaign by Green Euro-MPs, who claim that the bill
- does not provide the necessary constraints to prevent human cloning and
- that it would encourage research using human embryos.
-
- Under a placard reading "No patents on life," the playwright charged
- that research into biotechnology was "a grotesque and tragic farce
- swapping parts of animal and human bodies against a backdrop of market
- interests and money transfers which for me provoke instant repulsion."
-
- Fo, a leading figure in modern farce and political drama, was due to
- continue his campaign at the parliament later Wednesday with a
- performance in mime.
-
- The parliament will give the draft directive its second reading in June,
- bringing over nine years of wrangling on the issue closer to an end.
-
- While a previous directive was rejected in 1995, members of the
- parliament approved the first reading of the new draft in July 1997.
-
- The aim, the parliament said in July, was is to fill the current
- judicial vacuum which restricts European investment in the expanding
- biotechnology field.
-
- The European pharmaceutical industry had claimed that another rejection
- would halt research into the treatment of various diseases
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 01:12:22 EST
- From: NOVENAANN@aol.com
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: Info request- Right to use megaphone at protest?
- Message-ID: <5929b9e2.34ebcd48@aol.com>
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- Today we were told to stop using the megaphone at our circus protest because
- the police just discovered an ordinance regarding sound amplification. There
- are several very disturbing thing about this-
-
- 1) For the past two years we have been able to use the megaphone at the
- circus.
- 2) The circus usually has a program vendor outside using a megaphone, security
- guards using a megaphone and messages being announced on a loud speaker.
- 3) The cops are out to get us this year as they have already threatened us
- with arrest for something we did last year, protesters are being followed to
- there cars, and they keep counting how many feet we are from the coliseum.
- 4) Several people threatened us but the cops didn't do anything because they
- say it is "free speech" even though there is an ordinance regarding swearing
- in public.
-
- We plan to violate this ordinance during the week because we would like it to
- be declared unconstitutional in court. The ordinance does not mention an
- acceptable distance that the sound can be heard from nor does it mention an
- acceptable noise level which would lead us to believe that all megaphones,
- radios, loudspeakers, etc, are not allowed to be used in the city. If anyone
- has suggestions on ways around the ordinance or information on our rights to
- use the megaphone please send them to me.
-
- Thank you,
- Alanna
- Richmond Animal Rights Network
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 01:03:43
- From: David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: [UK] Animal rights group in hoax bomb threats
- Message-ID: <3.0.3.16.19980219010343.204f06a0@dowco.com>
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- >From The Electronic Telegraph - Thursday, February 19th, 1998]
-
- Animal rights group in hoax bomb threats
-
- A NEW splinter group of violent animal rights extremists sent out hoax
- bombs as a warning to 20 targets in Britain yesterday.
-
- The Provisional Animal Liberation Front said it would be launching a
- genuine campaign of terror within two months. Anyone working in, or
- associated with, industries involving animals is liable to be chosen as a
- target.
-
- The group sent the hoax devices to organisations and individuals plus a
- list of targets and a statement outlining its aims. "Unlike some areas of
- the animal liberation movement, we do not accept that it is wrong to
- endanger secretaries and others who may be perceived by some as
- 'innocent'," said the statement.
-
- "We argue that anyone who profits in any way from animal abuse is as guilty
- as those who actually perpetrate the obscenities. The abusers at the 'sharp
- end' could not continue in isolation. They shall all pay. None who receives
- rewards from evil deeds shall be exempt from vengeance until they renounce
- animal torture."
-
- Companies and individuals were sent video cassette boxes containing cat
- litter and a diagram showing how a real bomb could just as easily have been
- sent. Recipients came from areas such as vivisection, meat and fishing
- industry, pet trade, field sports and live export industry. A zoo and a fur
- trade company were also targeted.
-
- Packages were also sent to two individuals who appear to have angered the
- group. Edinburgh's Roslin Institute, which produced Dolly the cloned sheep,
- was also on the hit list. Dr Maggie Jennings, who works for the RSPCA's
- research animal department, received a package. The RSPCA is opposed to
- experiments on animals but Dr Jennings is described by the group as a
- "pro-vivisector's lackey".
-
- The statement said real bombs would be sent next time. "We intend these
- hoaxes to act as a warning so animal abusers and traitors may have the
- opportunity to change their ways before our unashamedly violent campaign
- begins in earnest," it said.
-
- One box was sent to the Dover Harbour Board because the activists claim
- that it has refused to stop live animal exports. Robin Webb, Animal
- Liberation Front press officer, said: "The Front would not condone any
- action that endangers human life. But at the same time we do understand the
- frustration that people feel when they see that peaceful protest is not
- changing things."
-
- ⌐ Copyright Telegraph Group Limited 1998.
-
- [Note: The RSPCA does condemn the use of animals in cosmetics testing, but
- does not have a position on testing for medical/pharmacutical research.
- David]
-
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 01:07:11
- From: David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: [UK] Man is cleared over ú3m rhino horná
- plot
- Message-ID: <3.0.3.16.19980219010711.204fc9d2@dowco.com>
- Mime-Version: 1.0
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-
- >From The Electronic Telegraph - Thursday, February 19th, 1998]
-
- Man is cleared over ú3m rhino horn plot
-
- A LEGAL executive accused of conspiring to sell almost ú3 million worth of
- rhino horn was cleared yesterday.
-
- Judge Peter Langan ruled at King's Lynn Crown Court that there was no case
- to answer against Paul Rexstrew, 45, of Wimbledon, south-west London. The
- jury was directed to return a verdict of not guilty. Four people - Carol
- Scotchford-Hughes, 50, of Willingham, Cambs; Elaine Arscott, 40, and David
- Eley, 54, both of Great Shelford, Cambs; and Wilfred Bull, 64, a serving
- prisoner - have admitted conspiring to sell rhino horn between Jan 1 and
- Sept 4, 1996 and are due to be sentenced next month.
-
- The court was told that the conspiracy was hatched by Bull, who was serving
- life for murdering his wife in 1985. He had collected the 127 black and
- white rhino pieces before their trade was outlawed in 1985 and wanted to
- sell them in preparation for his expected release in 1997.
-
- The court was told that Bull brought in his mistress, Scotchford-Hughes,
- who recruited Eley and Arscott. They hoped to sell the horns in the Far
- East, where they are sought after as a medicine and an aphrodisiac. But the
- RSPCA was tipped off after Arscott, using a false name, phoned the London
- Stock Exchange to inquire about a sale. Police and RSPCA
- officers posed as buyers and arranged to purchase the 517lb of rhino horn
- for ú545 per pound.
-
- Rexstrew, who worked for a firm of London solicitors, had been brought in
- by Bull to make the financial arrangements. But Judge Langan accepted a
- defence submission that there was no case to answer because he had not
- known the subject of the deal was the outlawed rhino horn.
-
- ⌐ Copyright Telegraph Group Limited 1998.
-
-
-
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 01:11:49
- From: David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: [UK] ú1,000 fines for stealing bluebells
- Message-ID: <3.0.3.16.19980219011149.094f080e@dowco.com>
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-
- >From The Electronic Telegraph - Thursday, February 19th, 1998]
-
- ú1,000 fines for stealing bluebells
- By A J McIlroy
-
- BLUEBELLS are to be protected with fines of up to ú1,000 per plant under
- legislation to stop the wholesale plundering of the countryside for wild
- bulbs.
-
- The wildflowers are being stripped from woodlands and hedgerows and sold at
- garden centres, nurseries and car boot sales. Under amendments to the
- Wildlife and Countryside Act to be announced by the Environment Department
- next month, sale of bulbs picked illegally will be banned and offenders
- will face fines of up to ú1,000 per plant.
-
- Environment groups, including the Wildlife Trusts and English Nature, have
- campaigned for bluebells to be protected in the wild. "We are delighted
- that the Government is taking this action," said Isobel Bretherton, for the
- Wildlife Trusts. "There is a lucrative trade in wild
- bulbs thought to be worth well over ú1 million annually and wholesale
- bluebell woods have been plundered of tens of thousands of bulbs, adding to
- the threat to the survival of this much loved wildflower.
-
- "Until now, it has been legal to dig up bluebell bulbs with a landowner's
- permission but the damage to bluebells in the wild is mainly down to
- unauthorised picking and it is to deter those that the legislation is
- aimed. Many of the damaged carpets of bluebells are hundreds of years old
- and it can take more than 100 years to regenerate a bluebell wood."
-
- Amendments to the Act prevent the sale of bluebells from the wild but
- allows the sale of cultivated bulbs. Traders prosecuted for selling
- bluebell bulbs would have to prove that they were not from the wild.
- Disappearance of ancient woodlands and loss of thousands of miles of
- hedgerows threaten the bluebell, with grazing deer another hazard.
-
- The Wildlife Trusts said: "Our bluebells are internationally important
- since Britain accounts for 20 per cent of the world's population of the
- flower. It is usually found in woodland, hedgerows and under bracken but in
- the west of Britain it also grows in more open habitats, such as coastal
- grassland."
-
- A spokesman for the Environment Department said: "Fines of up to ú1,000
- must discourage people from thinking of picking a whole carpet of bluebells."
-
- ⌐ Copyright Telegraph Group Limited 1998.
-
-
-
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 01:15:33
- From: David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: [UK] Rasher's dash makes it the Tamworth 3
- Message-ID: <3.0.3.16.19980219011533.094f1ed8@dowco.com>
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-
- >From The Electronic Telegraph - Thursday, February 19th, 1998]
-
- Rasher's dash makes it the Tamworth 3
-
- ANOTHER Tamworth pig has made a break for freedom. Rasher, a brother of
- Butch and Sundance, who made headlines when they escaped last month, ran
- off as he was being loaded on to a van taking him for slaughter.
-
- But his brief spell on the run ended last night when he was cornered near a
- piggery, three miles from the farm in Allington, Wiltshire, where he
- escaped on Tuesday. Animal sanctuary owner Kevin Stinchcombe, who is
- looking after Butch and Sundance, caught the latest escaper with the help
- of nine farm workers and he will soon be reunited with his brothers.
-
- Rasher escaped by slipping through the arms of his owner Mike Hawker after
- barging him aside and jumping over a paddock fence. Mr Hawker, 38, said: "I
- sold the litter at market last November. But Rasher was far too wild so we
- left him on the farm. We decided to fatten him
- and keep him for meat. He was ready for the slaughterhouse. But he had
- other ideas.
-
- "The last I saw of him was his trotters as he disappeared into a field of
- wheat."
-
- ⌐ Copyright Telegraph Group Limited 1998.
-
-
-
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 98 07:51:53 CST
- From: "Vicki Sharer" <Vicki.Sharer@wku.edu>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: Noah's Ark
- Message-ID: <9801198879.AA887903822@INETGW.WKU.EDU>
-
- áááá Dear Animal Lover and Friend:
- áááá
- áááá This is an alert to all Iowans that animal cruelty legislation is =
- áááá currently being reviewed by committees in the House and Senate.á There
- áááá = are several bills floating around that have been introduced but they
- áááá all = lack important provisions that we feel are very important to
- áááá adequately = protect animals from abuse.á We have introduced our own
- áááá language and = suggestions in this regard but we have very little time
- áááá to get this = whole thing approved and out of committee for a vote.á
- áááá As you know this = year is critical that this issue is passed in Iowa
- áááá as a result of the = publicity and coverage of the Noah's Ark cat
- áááá killing incident.á Already = many lawmakers in Des Moines seem to have
- áááá forgotten all about this and = have become apathetic towards the
- áááá animal protection issue and we need to = influence them immediately!
- áááá =20
- áááá
- áááá We desperately need help from Iowans to write to these legislators, =
- áááá paticularly those on the Judiciary committees to get this bill out of
- áááá = committee with the provisions we want.á Anyone who reads this from
- áááá Iowa = is asked to contact Laura Sykes at the Noah's Ark Animnal
- áááá Foundation = immediately via phone, fax or e-mail, to get more
- áááá information about = writing or calling their representatives and
- áááá senators.á We must not lose = this battle, for all those that died so
- áááá tragically ast March--we can't = forget them.
- áááá
- áááá Lauraá Sykes
- áááá Director, Noah's Ark Animal Foundation P.O. Box 748, Fairfield, IA
- áááá 52556
- áááá (515) 472-0557á Fax (515) 472-0701=20 E-mail:á noahsark@lisco.com
-
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 08:04:33 -0800 (PST)
- From: Michael Markarian <mmarkarian@fund.org>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org, en.alerts@conf.igc.apc.org
- Subject: TX Alert: Animal Friendly License Plates
- Message-ID: <2.2.16.19980219110851.42ffbe24@pop.igc.org>
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-
- ANIMAL FRIENDLY LICENSE PLATES IN TEXAS
-
- The highways of the Lone Star State just became a bit friendlier with the
- new Texas "Animal Friendly" license plates.
-
- The lobbying efforts of The Fund for Animals and the Texas Humane
- Legislative Network were successful last year, when the Texas Legislature
- enacted a bill which created the "Animal Friendly" license plates.
- Motorists can purchase the special plates for $25 over the regular vehicle
- registration fee.á From each purchase, $20 is deposited into a special Texas
- "Animal Friendly" account which will provide funding for free and reduced
- costs spay and neuter programs across Texas.
-
- Over 1,000,000 homeless dogs and cats end up in animal shelters across Texas
- each year.á Most of these animals are destroyed.á Only major metropolitan
- areas in Texas have access to free or reduced cost spay and neuter programs
- to help stem the tide of dog and cat overpopulation.á The "Animal Friendly"
- license plates will provide revenue to help establish affordable spay and
- neuter programs across Texas.
-
- The Texas Department of Health is overseeing the "Animal Friendly" account,
- with an appointed advisory board.á Non-profit animal protection
- organizations, municipalities and veterinary organizations can apply for
- funding for spay and neuter programs after the initial sales goal of
- $500,000 is met.
-
- The Fund for Animals is providing posters, advertisements and brochures to
- Texas humane societies, animal control organizations, and interested
- veterinarians in an effort to help market the plates.
-
- To receive an application for an "Animal Friendly" license plate, contact
- the Special Plates Branch of the Texas Department of Transportation at (512)
- 374-5010.á You can also contact the Texas office of The Fund for Animals at
- (713) 862-3863 and we will be happy to send you an application in the mail.
-
- Date: Thu, 19 Feb 1998 09:05:06 -0800
- From: LCartLng@gvn.net (Lawrence Carter-Long)
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Cc: primate-talk@primate.wisc.edu
- Subject: Dumped email
-