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factory farming/hog farming/environment
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Oklahoma State News
Reuters
23-FEB-98

Hog Farm Sent Packing

(HINTON) -- The rapidly growing hog industry in Oklahoma has slowed down a
notch. The Land-O-Lakes Corporation is backing out of a plan to build a
facility near Hinton. The Daily Oklahoman reports company executives backed
down after pressure from Methodists... who didn't want the operation
located near one of their church camps. Church members were worried odors
would settle into the canyon where the camp is located and a stream could
be contaminated by hog waste. Officials say Land-O-Lakes is still trying to
build hog farms elsewhere in Caddo County and in the panhandle.
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 08:35:19 -0800
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In Korea's New Austerity Mode, Even the Chimps Learn to Scrimp

By HAE WON CHOI
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

SEOUL, South Korea -- Like so many other residents of this economically
troubled country, Willy has been forced to cut back on
imported luxury goods.

For the four-month-old orangutan, that means no more expensive
imported bananas, pineapples and strawberries. Not even primates are
spared in these bad economic times.

Willy and 81 fellow chimpanzees, orangutans and monkeys residing in one
of Korea's largest zoos, Samsung Everland, are now eating more frugally.
Until further notice, they'll have to make do on locally grown apples
and carrots. "The people in Korea are all suffering, so the animals are
suffering as well," says Lee Gi Hwan, a veterinarian at the zoo.

Inside a tiny glass cubicle, Willy clings to his mother while she
scrounges in the hay on the floor for whole-wheat kernels left over from
breakfast. Dr. Lee says Willy and his parents have been swallowing the
new diet plan "fairly well." "So far we've noticed no agitation," he
says.

Zoo officials designed the austerity plan in part because the animals
aren't earning as much money as they used to: Fewer visitors come to the
zoo to see Willy in these days of economic austerity. The move will also
save precious dollars and cut overall costs, an Everland official says.

Monkeys are not bearing the economic sacrifices alone. Bears in the zoo
have seen their daily cracker intake cut down to five bags from ten. And
that's not all they are going without.

Zoo keepers say they will limit breeding of some mammals, especially
tigers and lions, to keep their numbers down by separating males and
females during their mating period.

To save energy, tigers and panda bears will have to live in
less-well-heated quarters. If anything, "it will give them the incentive
to stay outdoors and exercise more," Mr. Lee says. Elephants get covered
with thick blankets to help them adjust to the colder temperatures.

Shin Jong Taek, a general manager at Everland, says the animals are not
endangered by the change in diet because their calorie intake remains
the same. They are simply getting nourishment from less expensive local
sources.

"People have a fixed idea that monkeys have to eat bananas," says
Mr.Shin, "but animals adapt well to change."
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 08:43:08 -0800
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The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition -- February 23, 1998
Cattlemen Claim Tyson Foods Fostered Regulatory Breaks

By BRUCE INGERSOLL
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

WASHINGTON -- A group of cattlemen filed a $3 billion civil lawsuit
against Tyson Foods Inc., refusing to let the nation's biggest poultry
processor disentangle itself from the Mike Espy scandal.

The suit, which seeks class-action status, alleges that Tyson Foods gave
the former agriculture secretary and others $12,000 in illegal
gratuities in "a pattern of racketeering activity" to win preferential
treatment from Agriculture Department regulators.

The suit, filed in U.S. District Court here, seeks triple damages for
40,000 cattle ranchers and feedlot operators nationwide. They have lost
an estimated $1 billion since January 1993, the suit alleges, due to
regulatory favoritism toward Tyson and other poultry processors that
benefited from Tyson's purported influence.

Archie Schaffer, the Arkansas-based company's chief spokesman,
declined to comment until "our lawyers have a chance to examine the
suit."  Previously, Tyson officials have denied seeking regulatory
breaks from Mr. Espy or exercising undue influence over USDA policy
decisions about meat and poultry inspection.

The racketeering allegations will prolong what has been a three-year
embarrassment for Senior Chairman Don Tyson and the company that his
father founded. Last December, Mr. Tyson tried to move beyond the
Espy matter by striking a plea bargain with Independent Counsel Donald
Smaltz. The company pleaded guilty to one gratuity violation and paid $6
million in criminal fines and investigative costs. Neither Mr. Tyson nor
his son, John, the company's vice chairman, were charged with any
wrongdoing.

But now nine cattle producers from Iowa, Minnesota, Texas, Georgia and
California accuse the Tysons and other company officials of violating
the racketeering statute, which is customarily used to prosecute
organized-crime figures.

Leading the well-financed assault on Tyson Foods are Wythe Willey, a
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, trial lawyer who served as chief of staff for former
Iowa Gov. Robert Ray, and Daniel Rinzel, a former federal prosecutor in
Washington.

Mr. Smaltz stopped short of making quid pro quo allegations, charging
instead that the company, mindful of Mr. Espy's "official duties,"
picked up the tab for sports tickets, limousine rides, plane trips and
gratuities while it had important business pending before him. Messrs.
Willey and Rinzel go further, alleging in the suit that the illegal
gratuities "did influence" Mr. Espy
and resulted in "specific favorable and preferential decisions."

Mr. Espy, who was forced out as secretary at the end of 1994, will go on
trial March 30 in federal court in Washington on the gratuity charges.
Over the weekend, defense lawyer Reid Weingarten asserted that Mr. Espy
never favored Tyson or violated the gratuity statute.

Because of regulatory inequities between poultry and meat, the
cattlemen's suit contends, Tyson has saved more than $200 million in
production costs and "gained an unfair competitive advantage" that has
cost cattle producers at least $1 billion. In March 1993, the department
decreed a "zero tolerance" policy against fecal matter on beef, and then
waited until July 1994 to set "a substantially less rigorous" policy for
poultry, the suit claims.
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 08:48:30 -0800
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Dolly's creators clone a calf

Reuters News Service
LONDON (February 23, 1998

The company that helped to clone Dolly the sheep announced Monday that
it had also cloned a calf. "Mr Jefferson," a healthy
98-pound Holstein breed, was born in Virginia on Feb. 16, President's
Day in the United States, said PPL Therapeutics chief Julian Cooper.

But unlike Dolly, whose creation a year ago made international headlines
and sparked fears that human cloning would not be far off, Mr. Jefferson
was produced by nuclear transfer from a fetal
cell, not from an adult cell line.

"This is an important development. The technique used was similar to
that used to produce Dolly and the world's first cloned transgenic lamb,
Polly," Cooper said in a statement.

"While the calf is not transgenic (carrying a human gene), we have shown
we can do the difficult part, and this success now opens the way to
producing transgenic cows using nuclear transfer, Polly having proved
the principle," he added.

PPL is one of the world's leading companies in the transgenic production
of human proteins for therapeutic use.

Scotland's Roslin Institute and PPL, its commercial partner, announced
the arrival of Dolly, the first-ever successful cloning of an adult
animal, exactly a year ago.

Although Dolly was born in July 1996, the news of her arrival and the
cloning technique was not published until February 1997.

Polly, the world's first transgenic lamb, followed several months later
and now scientists have shown they can use the technique to produce
cattle.

"From a commercial point of view, the most important feature is the
ability to produce small clones of transgenic animals from modified
cells. We have demonstrated we can do this with the
birth of Polly, and Mr. Jefferson shows we have the capability to extend
the technique to cattle," explained Dr. Ron James, PPL's managing
director.

Scientists at the Roslin Institute produced Dolly by taking the nucleus
out of a cell from the mammary gland of an adult animal and fusing it,
using an electrical current, into another sheep egg
cell from which the nucleus had been removed.

Polly had been genetically engineered to carry the human gene for the
production of the blood clotting agent Factor IX, which could help
hemophiliacs. The company hopes the sheep milk will
be a cheaper source of Factor IX and one free from any infection.

PPL has also used genetically engineered sheep to produce
alpha-1-antitrypsin (AAT), a human protein used to treat cystic fibrosis
patients, in their milk. They are currently testing it in human
volunteers.

The scientific euphoria over Dolly was dampened recently when some
scientists questioned whether Dolly was really a true clone.

Ian Wilmut, the scientist at Roslin which led the team that produced
Dolly, denied the claims and said he would prove it by comparing cells
frozen from the ewe that provided Dolly's genes and cells taken from
her.

By PATRICIA REANEY, Reuters
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 12:50:51 -0800
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Contraceptive developed for stray cats
>From Environmental Newswire
Monday, February 23, 1998

Experts estimate that anywhere from 30 to 60 million stray cats roam the
United States. These feral cats are wreaking havoc on the nation's
songbird population
and raising public health concerns as they spread infectious diseases
and alter delicate ecological balances. To deal with this problem, a
Virginia-Maryland
Regional College of Veterinary Medicine student has come up with a new
way to control the birth rate of feral cats. Utilizing the prestigious
Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation grant, Michelle Meister-Weisbarth has
developed a genetically engineered bacterium to serve as an oral
contraceptive to control the unwanted
cat population.

Working with faculty mentor and molecular biologist, Dr. Stephen Boyle,
Meister-Weisbarth used genetic engineering technology to modify a strain
of the bacterium, Salmonella, which could then be delivered to feral
cats in the wild via a vaccine-laden bait.

According to Boyle, work in other laboratories around the world has
demonstrated the viability of using genetically altered strains of
Salmonella as vehicles for delivering vaccines, including oral
contraceptives. Controlling the birth rates of feral cats has been
difficult in the past, since conventional spay and neuter techniques
require surgery in a controlled environment. In addition, animal
control experts also note that eliminating or removing the cats does not
work well since others seem to migrate into the recently vacated niches.

The new technique starts with the utilization of genetic engineering
techniques to remove specific genes on the Salmonella genome making it
unable to cause disease. Meister-Weisbarth then introduced a gene
encoding a protein derived from the zona pellucida surrounding the
vertebrate egg into the Salmonella. The
bacterial vaccine is capable of inducing the production of antibodies
which recognize the zona pellucida and block the ability of a sperm to
fertilize the egg.

Boyle says the attenuated strain cannot cause disease, making it
especially useful as a vehicle for delivering an immuno-contraceptive
agent since once ingested it survives in the stomach and crosses the
intestinal tract to cells in the immune
system. Once in  the cells of the immune system, the Salmonella are
killed and the zona pellucida antigen is released and stimulates
production of antibodies. Because these antibodies bind to the zona
pellucida surrounding the egg, they inhibit the binding of sperm and
thus block fertilization.

Scientists have been working on various ways of delivering vaccines for
rabies into wild populations in the form of bait. Doyle and
Meister-Weisbath both believe these methods can be modified to deliver
the genetically-engineered Salmonella as an oral immuno-contraceptive.

The next phase of research, for which the team is soliciting funding,
will involve testing the attenuated Salmonella on lab animals.

For more information, contact Jeffrey S. Douglas, [phone],
email: [e-mail].

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 10:55:18 PST
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                      SAVE THE HILLGROVE CATS
                 Box CB, 111 Magdalen Road, Oxford.
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  *   http://envirolink.org/arrs/arc/campaigns/hillgrove.html    *

Just to balance out the fictionalised accounts given by the Telegraph
here is a short report on the Hillgrove Farm demonstration that occured
yesterday (Sunday 22 February):

Over a thousand people from around the country descended on Hillgrove
Farm in Oxfordshire yesterday to protest at the cat breeding facility
that is being run there by Farmer Brown who sells the cats for
vivisection.
The impressive amount of people attending the demo meant that the police
were very spread out around the facility resulting, at one point, in a
small part of fence being pulled down.  Nobody attempted to 'storm' the
farm and, in contradiction to the fine journalists at the Telegraph,
many of the police were well protected with body armour prior to this
incident.  Those same police then proceeded to rush the crowd in groups
to make 'snatch' arrests on those they thought responsible for the fence
being broken.
The police acted extremely provocatively running towards peaceful
protestors, which consisted of many elderly people and children, with
batons and shields.  Also the mounted police rode at high speed into
sections of the crowd.  At this point some mud was thrown at the police
but there were no rocks to be seen being thrown by anybody, although in
his defense perhaps the journalist was not a Geology student.
At 3pm about 500 of the demonstrators split into two groups and
proceeded to march into Witney town centre.  Leaflets on the disgusting
trade of Farmer Brown were given to local people who were extremely
supportive and showed genuine embarressment and animosity at living in
the vicinity of such a place as Hillgrove Farm.
At the end of the march the frustrated police started making further
snatch arrests and some protestors were assaulted whilst being detained.
In total 13 were arrested on public order offences.

This demo follows on from the hugely successful actions that have
occured at the farm over the last 18 months which has brought incredible
pressure to bear on Farmer Brown and the local Thames Valley Police.
The police were recently the subject of a BBC documentary in which the
Superintendant was quite diplomatic in his view that they are nothing
more than Brown's personal, free security firm.
There is usually a handful of protestors at the farm every day which
means that there is a constant prescence of policemen there as well as
Brown's own security men.  It has cost the Thames Valley Police in
excess of ú500,000 to protect this one man in a policing area of over 2
million people.
This cannot and will not carry on much longer.
Like other animal rights actions over the last few years (e.g. Coventry
Airport calf exports, Consort Bioservices dog breeders etc) the moral
and physical weight of those who care will outweigh the petty business
transactions of an uncompassionate and sadistic individual.

Write to Mr. R J Lysons, Home Office, Spring Gardens House, Princes St.,
Swindon. SN1 2JA,
demanding that he revokes Hillgrove's License and closes them
immediately.

Write to your local MP asking him/her to investigate Hillgrove's evil
trade further.
Your MP,
House of
Commons, Westminster, London SW1A 0AA.

If you would like more information and a free Hillgrove information pack
please write to us at the address below.

Write to the following newspapers highlighting Hillgrove's trade. This
is important because it keeps Hillgrove in the public eye locally.

The Oxford Mail/Star
Osney Mead
OXFORD
OX2 0EJ

Witney Gazette
47 Market Square
Witney
OX8 6AJ

The Standard
74 Dyer Street
Cirencester
GL7 2PW

http://envirolink.org/arrs/arc/campaigns/hillgrove.html

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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 11:03:02 -0800
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Vadivu Govind asked:

>Does anyone have website, email, postal addresses and fax of :
>Institute for Food and Development Policy and
>Center for Science in the Public Interest
>
>Thanks.

 Vadivu -

Try these:

CSPI
1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 300,
Washington, DC 20009 USA
Tel:  [phone],
Fax: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
URL: http://www.cspinet.org/

The Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First)
398 60th Street, Oakland, CA 94618 USA
Tel: [phone]
Fax: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]
URL: http:// www.foodfirst.org

Hope this helps!

Yours, for the liberation of all beings,

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

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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 19:09:20 +0000
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> The Guardian 23/02/98

12 ARRESTED IN CAT FARM PROTEST
280 police with riot shields clash with animal rights campaigners

Anti-vivisection cam-paigners yesterday tore down metal fencing around a cat breading farm in
Oxfordshire and clashed with mounted police as a dozen people were arrested.
In the largest demonstra-tion so far at Hillgrove Farm, near Witney, around 600 pro-testers, many
disguised in ba-laclava helmets, tried to break into free kittens. At least 280 officers riot shields.
backed up by tracker dogs and a helicopter, prevented animal rights activists from reaching the
buildings. There were no injuries.
Hillgrove, which has bred cats for medical research for nearly 30 years, has become a national
focus for protests. Protecting the farm has cost Thames  Valley  Police ú500,000, An even larger
dem-onstration is planned for April to mark World Week for Laboratory Animals.
The demonstration began peacefully, with families sing-ing and holding placards showing cats
being dissected. The site around the farm's perimeter was cordoned off, and those entering were
searched for weapons. As mounted police rode in to stop protesters from pulling down fence,
rocks were thrown.
Sergeant Helen Roberts said "We have a duty to protect the property and the farmer's family from
these activities." The farms owner, Christopher Brown, called the protesters an "anarchic mob"
 who enjoyed causingtrouble. Last week he was one of several targets for hoax bombs sent -by a
splinter sec-tion of the Animal Liberation Front.
Some animals he bred were used to test vaccines that would eventually protect cats from illness,
he said. But Susan Walker, of Dover, Kent. an ALF member, said: "We will protest here until this
has closed down, It is a bar-baric trade out of the dark ages. He should pay for the policing, not
the taxpayer."
An ALF spokesman said: "We are trying to stop them from breeding animals for vivisection.
Anyone who saw these cats during the experi-ments  would be horrified."
The 12 arrests were for alleged criminal damage and public order offences.
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 14:07:52 -0600
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"County Board votes to study keeping monkeys"
By Jason Shepard
Correspondent for The Capital Time
The Capital Times
Madison, WI
US
Friday, Feb. 20, 1998
Page 2A

-- Beginning --

County Board votes to study keeping monkeys

By Jason Shepard
Correspondent for The Capital Time

Despite an effort by University of Wisconsin officials to persuade
county officials otherwise, the Dane County Board has voted to conduct
an in-depth study into keeping at least some UW monkeys at the Henry
Vilas Zoo.

Just how significant the vote is can be debated, since both Zoo Director
David Hall and County Executive Kathleen Falk have been studying options
to keep the monkeys for the past month.  But the 27-5 vote now requires
the Zoo Commission to formally conduct a study and present findings to
the County Board for a vote, possibly on March 5.

As part of the plan approved Thursday, the county will again ask the
University of Wisconsin-Madison to extend the March 2 deadline by which
the county is required to give the UW a "firm commitment" about its
plans to keep the monkeys.  The County Board is asking the UW to extend
the deadline until March 31.

At least 10 UW administrators and veterinarians registered in opposition
to the study, and each spent their five minutes of comment time at the
meeting outlining various problems associated with a county takeover of
the monkeys.

The County Board vote is the latest in a string of attempts by county
residents to keep the 150 macaques at the zoo.  The UW has owned and
operated the round monkey house at the zoo for 35 years, but because of
a federal funding cut the UW is looking for new homes for the animals.
Mounting community opposition has caused the UW to delay its plans, and
monkey supporters are attempting to find the necessary funding to keep
the monkeys at the zoo.

Officials now estimate that it would cost the county more than $200,000
a year to keep all of the monkeys.  Some suggestions include keeping one
or two of the three troops in Madison, while finding homes for the
others, thus reducing costs.  But UW officials have been trying to
persuade the county that the monkeys are too difficult to manage.

The split between those who want the monkeys to remain in Madison and
those who do not was visible throughout the evening.

UW primate center administrators and veterinarians sat on one side of
the room, continuously talking to one another during the meeting and
organizing what each was going to say.  Their arguments ranged from the
health risks posed by the monkeys, to the high costs of funding the
facility, to the complex management of the monkey colonies.  Some UW
veterinarians - including Rick Lane and Joe Thulin - went further,
saying it was not appropriate for the county to spend taxpayer money on
the monkeys.

On the other side of the room sat animal rights activists, community
members and UW employees who want to keep the monkeys in town.  They too
whispered back and forth while UW officials spoke.

"Unfortunately, the monkeys are caught in the middle of a battle between
the UW and the animal rights folks," said Sup. Thomas Stoebig, District
15, author of the resolution calling for the study.

Following the meeting, Joe Kemnitz, interim director of the Wisconsin
Regional Primate Research Center, said UW officials want county
officials to understand the complexity of managing the monkey troops.

And despite registration cards showing that most of the primate center
officials registered in opposition to the study, Kemnitz said there are
no hidden agendas that involve shipping the monkeys to another research
facility.  "We feel we have a responsibility to provide accurate and
complete information to the county," Kemnitz said.

Hall responds: A middleman throughout the monkey controversy over the
past several months has been David Hall, director of the zoo.  Hall has
not advocated keeping the monkeys and has said that moving them
elsewhere probably would be best for the UW and the zoo.  He has based
his concerns on management complexity, potential health risks and the
large costs of caring for the monkeys.

But after the 2 1/2 hours of public comment Thursday, county supervisors
had a lot of questions without answers.

"I don't mean to put you on the spot, but I'm going to have to.  Who are
we to believe?" asked Sup. Regina Rhyne, District 13, which includes the
zoo.  These monkeys have been here for 35 years," she said.  She added,
relating to possible health risks associated with the Herpes B-exposed
monkeys: "Yes, there is a risk.  But there's a risk just walking into
this meeting."

Hall, who was asked repeated questions by board members, briefly
outlined his contacts with Kemnitz, and said it wasn't until November
that the monkeys' fate became a critical issue.  Prior to then, Hall
said he knew the UW was planning to abandon the facility, but thought it
would be sometime within the next five years.  It wasn't until the
funding cut in November that the issue got fast-tracked.

Extension wanted: One of the sticking points in the County Board debate
was the deadline for the Zoo Commission study.  The UW has given the
county a March 2 deadline for a firm commitment to keep the monkeys.  A
memo to Falk from UW Graduate School Dean Virginia Hinshaw said that if
the county doesn't commit by then, the UW will proceed with plans to
ship the monkeys, likely to a research facility in Louisiana and to
Thailand.

However, an amendment approved Thursday pushes the report date back to
March 31, implicitly asking the UW to agree to the delay.  But that may
not happen , Kemnitz said after the meeting.

"It's not my call," Kemnitz said.  "But I have no information that the
university plans to change its current position."  He noted that the UW
has already extended the deadline once before, at the request of the Zoo
Commission.

-- End --

More related information is available at:

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

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 16:03:32 -0500
From: Patrick Nolan <[e-mail]>
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Vadivu Govind asked:

> Does anyone have website, email, postal addresses and fax of :
> Institute for Food and Development Policy and
> Center for Science in the Public Interest

The Institute for Food and Development Policy (Food First): 398 60th
Street, Oakland, CA 94618 USA, Tel: [phone], Fax: [phone]
E-mail: [e-mail]; website: http://www.foodfirst.org

Center for Science in the Public Interest: 1875 Connecticut Avenue, NW,
Suite 300, Washington, DC 20009, phone (202)  332-9110, fax (202)
265-4954, or by e-mail [e-mail]; website: http://www.cspinet.org



Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 15:19:27 +0100
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This is N·ria from Barcelona.

In the Ronda chain of mountains, in southern Spain, the corpses of 15 wild
poisoned vultures have been found.
The responsible for the Center of Recovery for Vultures has declared that
every year vultures are poisoned  by hunters and cattle raisers, despite
vultures don't attack alive animals. The case is now hitting the public
opinion and police is investigating. But nothing can be done for the mighty
little vultures that may have become orphans.

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"Arribarα un dia en quΦ els homes veuran l'assassinat d'un animal de la mateixa manera que avui
veuen el d'un home."
"A day will come in which men will look upon an animal's murder the same way they look today
upon a man's murder."

Leonardo da Vinci

Nuri's Homepage of Animal Rights and Scientific Anti-Vivisectionism
http://www.geocities.com/heartland/hills/3787

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 98 16:09:09 UTC
From: [e-mail]
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Feathered and Furry Madonnas
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>

(From Vegetarian Times by Susan Chernak McElroy)
"Nurturing  Lessons from Nature's Mothers"

It is spring in the Rockies. The aspens are budding, and the buffalo herd
that grazes down the road includes tottering red calves with noses like old,
bent  boots. Magpie fledglings caterwaul from their nests of broken twigs
and horse hair. And by the river, the cow moose is shadowed by a gangly,
miniature version of herself. We usually think of springtime as the seasonal
celebration of birth and babies, but spring is truly the season of the mother.

Following the long dark winter, I witness vignettes of the maternal soul in
action on my farm. These tender dramas always seem to begin with birds. Our
Black Silkie Banty hen starts tending her clutch of eggs in late February.
Always, her dedication amazes me: Three weeks of devoted sitting with a very
few moments away each day to snatch a mouthful of corn and a sip of water.
So patiently she waits, trusting an inner call that promises life. A day or
two before the eggs are ready to hatch, the Silkie begins a tender "cluck-
cluck" to her brood. "Soon, soon," she seems to say to her yet-unborn
chicks, like any proud, expectant mother would.

The actual hatching process takes up to two days. Emerging, finally,
cotton soft and colored like river stones, each new chick is a bundle of
life and promise, a blessing to the hen for her maternal gifts of
patience and dedication.

So patient and dedicated is she to shepherding new life that whatever
appears beneath her small, feathered bosom is tended lovingly and
completely with no concern for breed or bloodlines.  I have even
placed duck eggs beneath that hen, and never has she protested. In
the confines of that tattered henhouse, I am reminded again and again
of the rare quality of unconditional acceptance - the epitome of Motherhood.

Around the henhouse, other mother dioramas unfold.  Nesting robins,
magpies and jays bombard my dog and cats for daring to venture too near.
As I watch a magpie chase off a hungry gray fox, I remember that mothering
isn't only about soft murmurs and caresses. Mothering is about courage:
mighty, determined, death-defying.

Native storyteller Joseph Bruchac speculates that animals are perhaps
wiser than we are and that "a bear never forgets that it is a bear, yet
human beings often forget what a human must do. Humans forget to take
care of their families...."  Perhaps we would benefit from a refresher
course about the maternal soul and the deeper meanings of nurturing.
There is no better season than spring to celebrate the mother. And no
better teachers than our feathered and furry Madonnas.

(By Susan Chernak McElroy)

-- Sherrill
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 22:37:56 -0000
From: "Dave Shepherdson" <[e-mail]>
To: "Andrew Gray Green" <[e-mail]>,
        "AR-News" <[e-mail]>,
        "Barrie Wood green" <[e-mail]>,
        "Caroline Corner Green" <[e-mail]>,
        "David Wood Green" <[e-mail]>,
        "Hugh Agnew Green" <[e-mail]>,
        "John Hartshorne Green" <[e-mail]>,
        "John Norris Green" <[e-mail]>,
        "Johnathan Skidmore" <[e-mail]>,
        "Ken Sproat" <[e-mail]>,
        "Nick Best Green" <[e-mail]>,
        "Peter Goodwin Green" <[e-mail]>,
        "Phil Capon  E-Mail" <[e-mail]>,
        "Richard Hopkins" <[e-mail]>,
        "Richard Swales Green" <[e-mail]>,
        "Sarah Banks Green" <[e-mail]>,
        "Simeon Hope Green" <[e-mail]>
Subject: Animal Rights Trial
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Liz Crocker a member of Newcastle Green Party together with two members of
the Corneyhaugh Fur Farm Campaign where arrested for taking part in
demonstrations against Corneyhaugh Mink Farm.

Their trial is the first to use the Protection from Harrasment Act which was
suposed to be a law to stop people being stalked.

The trial is due to take place from Wednesday to Friday this week at
Bedlington Magistrates Court.

There will be a demonstration at the fur farm Saturday starting at 1pm and
transport will be available from the Central Station in Newcaste at 12.00
noon.


Newcastle Green Party


Contact Liz Crocker 0191 2616151     or Phil Capon 01207 562150


Newcastle Green Party Press Release
The first trial to be brought against protesters under the Protection from
Harassment Act 1997 will begin at Bedlington Magistrates Court on 25
February 1998.

Laura Nicol, Liz Crocker and Steven Tindale are accused of harassing the
proprietors of Cornyhaugh Mink Farm (Ponteland, Northumberland) between the
4th and 25th September 1997 when they were arrested. The defendants (also
believed to be the first demonstrators to have been arrested and indicted
under the Act) are accused of trespassing on the land of the owner (Mr
Harrison) during what is alleged to have been a sustained campaign to close
down the farm.

The campaign followed an undercover investigation in July 1997 which
revealed the apalling conditions in which mink are kept at the farm.

The trial of the three protesters is expected to last 3 days and will be
heard before a stipendiary magistrate. The prosecutor in this case is Neil
Addison, author of the book BlackstoneÆs Guide to the Protection from
Harassment Act 1997, and one of the countryÆs leading barristers in the
field of harassment.

The Protection from Harassment Act, which was passed last year, was designed
to protect women from stalkers. The trial of the protesters has vindicated
fears expressed by civil liberties groups when the Act was proceeding
through Parliament that the definition of æharassmentÆ in the Act was so
wide ranging that it could be used by the police to stifle the legitimate
activities of protesters. Protesters claim that the use of this Act against
demonstrators breaches the European Convention of Human Rights which
recognises the right to free speech and assembly.





Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 15:49:00 -0800
From: Michael Kundu <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Makah Gray Whale Hunt Town Meeting Report
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<x-rich><center><bold>Whale Guardians Town Meeting Report

Saturday, Feb. 21, 1998, Friday Harbor

</bold></center>

More than 100 people attended a 2-hour long meeting in Friday Harbor to
discuss deterring the start of a west coast gray whale hunt by the Makah
tribe of Neah Bay.  Attendees included a number of whale watching
industry owners and regional business members.  Initiated as a joint
effort between US Congressman Jack Metcalf, Friday Harbor Port
Commissioner Brian Calvert, and the Sea Shepherd Conservation SocietyÆs
Northwest Coordinator Michael Kundu, the town meeting was the first panel
forum of SSCSÆ Whale Guardians Network, a consortium of activists,
business owners and citizens concerned about the negative impacts of the
Makah Gray whale hunt.


With the meeting hall filled to capacity, the event was moderated by Port
Commissioner Brian Calvert; speakers included Michael Kundu (who showed
graphic videotape of a Gray whale hunt Sea Shepherd infiltrated in Russia
this past August and discussed the potential regional economic and
ecosystem impacts of such a hunt), PAWSÆ Will Anderson (who discussed
efforts to implement an alternative non-intrusive whale watching industry
instead of the hunt), AWIÆs Ben White (who discussed international
implications of the Makah hunt), Dr. Toni Frohoff (a marine biologist
representing HSUS and EII who discussed the threats facing the Gray whale
along itÆs migratory route), ôBinki,ö (a respected Makah elder who has
waged a tireless campaign both in Neah Bay and internationally to
represent the many Makah people who themselves oppose this hunt) and US
Congressman Jack Metcalf (who discussed a lawsuit which is presently
being pursued against the Makah tribe through their representatives in
the federal government.)


The audience included regional whale watching, sea kayaking and hotel
owners, both from British Columbia and Washington state, as well as
dozens of tourists, local scientists and concerned citizens.
Identifiable media present included KOMO TV, the Seattle Times and
Journal of the San JuanÆs.  Some of the more notable points discussed
included the increased business and liability expenses that eco-tourism
based industry operators will encounter; the possibility of aggression to
small craft owners and operators by injured and/or harassed Gray whales;
the broader ramification of the ôculturally-basedö Makah hunt on foreign
whaling plans; the circumventing of public policy by the United States
government in support of the Makah hunt; the possibility of injury that
regional boaters may encounter through the Makah tribeÆs use of
.50-calibre bullets during the hunt.


There appeared to be no supporters of the hunt present, and it is hereby
assumed that the majority of the people present were opposed to the Makah
whale hunt.


Calls-to-action included a recommendation that eco-tourism based business
owners combine and explore a legal challenge directly against the Makah
tribe (who would be conducting an activity which would directly impact
the industryÆs livelihood); that people in the room support the lawsuit
initiated by Breach/AFA; that people in the room join and support the
Whale Guardian Network; that people in the room contact Senator Gary
Strannigan to support a State Resolution which he will be introduced
within the next few weeks; that residents of WA encourage their regional
towns and cities to draft resolutions to condemn the Makah hunt.


Some members of the whale watching industry expressed a willingness to
help the Makah tribe explore the possibility of establishing an
alternative whale watching industry at Neah Bay, as opposed to the
killing of Gray whales. Another consensus by groups present was to
support a non-lethal æritual whale huntÆ which would involve the Makah
conducting their traditional preparations, but without actually touching
the whale during their last approach.  Discussion centered on how much
publicity and revitalization of heritage this sort of activity cold
potentially benefit the tribe.  All groups present said they would
support the tribe if they were to take this approach.


Another suggestion following the meeting came to hold similar panel
discussions in other regions of the northwest, including perhaps
Bellingham, Port Angeles, Westport and Seattle, WA or Victoria and
Vancouver BC.  This idea is presently being explored.


I want to thank everyone who attended and participated at this forum.
Further information is available from Michael Kundu, Sea ShepherdÆs
pacific Northwest Coordinator @ [e-mail].








Michael Kundu

Project SeaWolf/Arcturus Adventure Communications

Marysville, WA

**NOTE: Email address change -- [e-mail]
</x-rich>
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 15:35:10 -0500
From: "Bina Robinson" <[e-mail]>
To: <[e-mail]>
Subject: killing wildlife in Frnce
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>From <[e-mail]> February 23, 1998

FRANCE'S ANGRY COUNTRYMEN  "The Economist" Feb. 21/98 p.51
     It was by far the biggest demonstration in France's capital since the left
came to power in June.  Some 140,000 militants turned out on February 15th.
 The unemployed?  Farmers? Truckers? Hospital Workers?  Not this time.  The
protesters were denouncing a perceived threat to one of the Frenchman's
most jealously guarded rights, won in the first flush of the French
Revolution: to hunt and shoot wild animals and birds with abandon,  With a
bare month to go before regional elections the massive turnout in Paris
gave a timely boost to a party that calls itself "Hunting, Nature, Fishing,
Traditions".
     With 1.6m (million) regular paid-up "chasseurs" (not counting another 3.5m
occasional field-sportsmen), France has more people licensed to go after
game than any other country in Europe.  It outguns the British by two to
one, the Germans by five to one (though proportionately more Scandinavians
shoot and hunt).  Most French aficionados are blue-collar workers or small
farmers. In the most recent election to Europe's parliament, the
field-sports party got 4% of the vote.  In next month's regional elections
it hopes to win around 50 seats, double its score six years ago, thus
securing the balance of power on quite a few councils.
     The "chasseurs" form a lobby no political party can ignore.  All the main
parties except the Greens, who are against blood sports, were represented
in the march.  A British delegation was there too, limbering up for a rally
in London on March 1st in protest against a proposed ban on foxhunting that
is backed by most of Britain's Labour MPs.
     France's chasseurs have three main moans.  They fear that a 1979 European
Union directive, passed to protect migrant birds but largely ignored in
France, may at last  be enforced.  They are worried that France's
government, under pressure from the European Court of Justice, may repeal a
French law obliging owners of small pieces of land to let field-sprotsmen
on to their property.  And they fret that another EU directive, issued in
1992 and called "Natura 2000", which is supposed to protect habitats of
rare flora or fauna, will further restrict shooting rights.  More than
1,000 potential sites have been suggested, covering some 13% of French
land.
     Last week the Socialist prime minister, Lionel Jospin, tried to soothe the
sportsmen.  He told a newspaper in the south-west, the hunting and shooting
heartland where people still bring down migrant turtle-doves and pigeons
despite EU laws, that he would renegotiate the Brussels birds directive.
And he would not repeal a law letting shooters tramp over private property
of less than 20 hectares (100 hectares in the mountains), whatever
landowners' wishes.
     But Mr Jospin may be hard pressed to keep such promises.  Last November,
the European Commission formally told the French government to bring its
laws into line with the birds directive, or risk a hefty fine.  So 11 of
France's 96 administrative "departements" decided for the first time this
year toclose the shooting season for migrant birds on January 31st, a month
earlier than usual.
     Then, in December, the European Court of Justice agreed to review a
complaint from three French animal-rights campaigners, backed by the the
European Commission on Human Rights, who say that the French law letting
shooters on to smallholders' land violates property rights and freedom of
association-because it forces people to become de facto members of the
local field-sports association.  The campaigners say French law also
favours the rich, since landowners with more than 20 hectares are exempted.
 If the court rules against France, the law will probably have to change,
whatever Mr Jospin says.  - END

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 19:46:57 -0500
From: "Bina Robinson" <[e-mail]>
To: <[e-mail]>
Subject: Irondequoit deer/ ALF
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6 pm News on channel ten, Rochester NY, reported that a man walking his dog
in Durand Eastman Park noticed a bomb warning painted on the pavement near
the start of a hiking trail.  He notified police who closed off all park
entrances and summoned the bomb squad.   The bombs were realist looking
with copper wires sticking into ground but turned out to be fakes.

County Parks Supervisor Alan Cassidy received a suspicious envelope in his
mailbox.  That too turned out to be harmless but contained a note warning
what might happen if deer bait and shoot program was not halted.  It was
signed by ALF.  Police are investigating.

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 21:05:27 -0500
From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (US) Defense witness contends cattlemen made money when prices
  fell
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from Amarillo Globe-News  http://www.amarillonet.com/oprah/
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Web posted Monday, February 23, 1998 7:18 p.m. CT

Defense witness contends cattlemen made money when prices fell

By CHIP CHANDLER
Globe-News Staff Writer

Cattlemen who are suing Oprah Winfrey for causing a cattle market crash
actually made money when prices fell, a defense witness theorized in an
abbreviated court session Monday.

Bettina Whyte, an expert witness on damage calculations, said that any
damages Paul Engler, Cactus Growers or Texas Beef Group suffered when
markets dropped April 16, 1996, were offset by savings they saw in
purchasing cattle at the same time.

If cattle were sold for prices lower than the plaintiffs expected, she
said, cattle could also be bought for lower prices.

She described charts to the jury with an "alleged damage period" of 2 1/2
to three weeks in which prices were lower than the $59 per hundredweight
they were on April 15, 1996. She emphasized that her charts only assumed
Winfrey's show was the cause of the market drop and not other factors.

Under that theory, Cactus Growers suffered $228,202 in damages, she said.
That was offset by $134,640 they made through earlier contracts to sell
some of their cattle and by $514,817 they saved in buying cattle for lower
prices, she said.

"After the offsets, there would be no loss. There would be no damage," she
said.

The same holds true for Engler and Texas Beef Group, she said.

That theory does not use a $61.90 weekly average price the plaintiffs are
using for their damage theories, she said under cross-examination.

Plaintiffs' attorney Michael St. Denis also pointed out that Cactus Growers
and meat packers are paid on the weekly weighted average price, not one
day's price.

U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson recessed court about 3:40 p.m.
Monday, telling jurors only that an unspecified matter required "the
court's immediate attention."

Amarillo Police Department Sgt. Gerald Bailey said that Texas Beef Group
attorney David Mullin's home had been vandalized.
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 22:09:28 -0500
From: Vegetarian Resource Center <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: FEATURE/Don't Let Your Doctor Give You Horse Urine! -There are
  better treatments
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FEATURE/Don't Let Your Doctor Give You Horse Urine!
There are better treatments for menopause

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Date: Tue, 24 Feb 1998 11:33:50 +0800
From: jwed <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (CN) Pangolins and Bear Paws
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China Daily - 24th February 1998

NINETEEN caged live pangolins were confiscated on Saturday afternoon in the
Baiyun Airport of Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, the Guangzhou-based
Yangcheng Evening News reported on Sunday. The confiscations also included
nine killed pangolins and 87 black bear paws. Both pangolins and black
bears are under second-class State protection. They were discovered by the
airport staff while unloading the boxes marked as "food." Two persons from
Sichuan were taken into custody by airport police when they came to pick up
the goods.


Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 19:55:21 -0800
From: Michael Kundu <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Makah whale hunt
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Seriously, now!

A quick wake up call folks -- so far I've only received 2 letters of
support for Gary Strannigan's state resolution condemning the hunt -- maybe
I was wrong about it, but I told him people were actually concerned about
the Makah hunt.

The letters need to be there when the resolution is introduced (any day
now); come now, 3 or 4 sentences shouldn't take too long to author, my
whale protecting brethren.  Again, write to Senator Gray Strannigan, c/o
Senate Office, John A Cherberg Bldg., Olympia, WA 98504-0482.  fax a cc to
me at [phone].

(Thanks Mark & Ruth!  I know there's others who care about Gray whales out
there!)
Michael Kundu
Project SeaWolf/Arcturus Adventure Communications
Marysville, WA
**NOTE: Email address change -- [e-mail]
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 20:46:10 -0500
From: [e-mail] (Molly G Hamilton)
To: [e-mail]
Subject: Dentist fax number!
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>


Whoever posted the information concerning the Dentist, a Dr. Fleeger in
Seatle who keeps a monkey in a pexiglass box to entertain his patients,
would you please give me the fax number again?  The fax I sent was not
the right fax number, neither was the fax number right for the chamber of
commerce.

Thanks,
Molly

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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 23:13:46 -0500
From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (US) Groups demand Navy stop tests on whales
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from Mercury Center http://spyglass1.sjmercury.com/breaking/
-------------------------------------
Posted at 7:09 p.m. PST Monday, February 23, 1998

Groups demand Navy stop tests on whales

   HONOLULU (Reuters) -- A coalition of environmental groups Monday asked a
federal court to stop the U.S. Navy from launching tests designed to see
how humpback whales react to piercing sounds blasted through the water.

   The proposed Low Frequency Active (LFA) sonar system would use huge
transmitters towed behind ships to pump deafening sound into waters just a
few miles from the new Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine
Sanctuary.

   The groups, including Greenpeace and the Animal Welfare Institute, asked
for a temporary restraining order to stop the tests off the Kona coast of
Hawaii's Big Island on Feb. 25.

   ``The Navy has tried to minimize public awareness and input,'' said
attorney Paul Achitoff of the Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund.

   ``The public has a right to judge for itself if we need to put our
endangered marine life at risk in this way.''

   The groups said the test of LFA, designed as a long-range sonar system
to detect ``quiet'' submarines by flooding the oceans with soundwaves,
could torture and possibly injure the targeted whales in their favorite
breeding habitat.

   ``The test is specifically designed to see how the endangered whales --
including those breeding and nursing -- react to bursts of underwater noise
a thousand times louder than a 747 jet engine,'' the groups' news release
said.

   The Navy plan reportedly intends to use sounds of up to 215 decibels to
see how loud a sound must be before it causes a ''behavioral change'' in
the whales.

   Scientists familiar with the project said it was designed to help the
Navy avoid disturbing marine life in future by obtaining data on what
exactly the whales can and cannot tolerate.

   Similar tests have already been completed in recent months on blue
whales and migrating gray whales near the California coast, they added.

   ``This will allow them more accurately to see how animals perceive
sound,'' said Adam Frankel of the Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate
(ATOC) project run by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, an
unaffiliated research venture that also uses sound waves in Hawaiian waters.

   ``There is no reason to think that physical injury would occur,'' he said.

   Mark Berman of the Earth Island Institute, one of the groups demanding a
halt to the tests, said much more research should be done before filling
the whales' habitat with what could be intolerable noise.

   ``We don't think they've done enough studies in advance to protect the
whales,'' Berman said.

   ``We find the whole thing outrageous because of the fact that these
tests are being done for the military when it is not really necessary,''
Berman said. ``The Cold War is over, nobody else even has the kind of
submarines these systems are designed to look for.''

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 23:17:43 -0500
From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail]
Subject: (US) Groups demand Navy stop tests on whales
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Mime-Version: 1.0
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from Mercury Center http://spyglass1.sjmercury.com/breaking/
-------------------------------------
Posted at 7:09 p.m. PST Monday, February 23, 1998

Groups demand Navy stop tests on whales

   HONOLULU (Reuters) -- A coalition of environmental groups Monday asked a
federal court to stop the U.S. Navy from launching tests designed to see
how humpback whales react to piercing sounds blasted through the water.

   The proposed Low Frequency Active (LFA) sonar system would use huge
transmitters towed behind ships to pump deafening sound into waters just a
few miles from the new Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine
Sanctuary.

   The groups, including Greenpeace and the Animal Welfare Institute, asked
for a temporary restraining order to stop the tests off the Kona coast of
Hawaii's Big Island on Feb. 25.

   ``The Navy has tried to minimize public awareness and input,'' said
attorney Paul Achitoff of the Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund.

   ``The public has a right to judge for itself if we need to put our
endangered marine life at risk in this way.''

   The groups said the test of LFA, designed as a long-range sonar system
to detect ``quiet'' submarines by flooding the oceans with soundwaves,
could torture and possibly injure the targeted whales in their favorite
breeding habitat.

   ``The test is specifically designed to see how the endangered whales --
including those breeding and nursing -- react to bursts of underwater noise
a thousand times louder than a 747 jet engine,'' the groups' news release
said.

   The Navy plan reportedly intends to use sounds of up to 215 decibels to
see how loud a sound must be before it causes a ''behavioral change'' in
the whales.

   Scientists familiar with the project said it was designed to help the
Navy avoid disturbing marine life in future by obtaining data on what
exactly the whales can and cannot tolerate.

   Similar tests have already been completed in recent months on blue
whales and migrating gray whales near the California coast, they added.

   ``This will allow them more accurately to see how animals perceive
sound,'' said Adam Frankel of the Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate
(ATOC) project run by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, an
unaffiliated research venture that also uses sound waves in Hawaiian waters.

   ``There is no reason to think that physical injury would occur,'' he said.

   Mark Berman of the Earth Island Institute, one of the groups demanding a
halt to the tests, said much more research should be done before filling
the whales' habitat with what could be intolerable noise.

   ``We don't think they've done enough studies in advance to protect the
whales,'' Berman said.

   ``We find the whole thing outrageous because of the fact that these
tests are being done for the military when it is not really necessary,''
Berman said. ``The Cold War is over, nobody else even has the kind of
submarines these systems are designed to look for.''

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 23:18:14 -0500
From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
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Subject: (US) Expert: Oprah show good news, bad news for ranchers
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from Mercury Center http://spyglass1.sjmercury.com/breaking/
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Posted at 7:07 p.m. PST Monday, February 23, 1998

Expert: Oprah show good news, bad news for ranchers

   AMARILLO, Texas (Reuters) -- A damages expert said Monday that Texas
cattle ranchers might have made money, not lost it, when livestock prices
fell after a 1996 Oprah Winfrey show on mad cow disease.

   A group of cattlemen have sued Winfrey on grounds that her show drove
down prices and cost them $10 million.

   Bettina Whyte, a damage specialist for a national accounting firm, said
cattlemen sold their livestock for lower prices, but were also able to buy
feeder calves cheaper, which would have offset their losses when they sold
them at maturity.

   ``Since plaintiffs are claiming damages due to feeder cattle prices
falling, it stands to reason they would benefit from purchasing feeder
cattle at lower prices,'' Whyte testified as the trial began its sixth week.

   ``There would be no loss; there would be no damages,'' said Whyte, who
was a defense witness.

   Lead plaintiff Paul Engler has charged that he and his company lost more
than $6 million, but White said he may have actually ended with a net gain
of $421,000.

   The plaintiffs, who include several cattle companies, charge that
Winfrey's show misled viewers into thinking that U.S. beef could be
infected with mad cow disease. Prices fell 10 percent a day after the show
aired, but Winfrey's attorneys blamed the drop on other factors.

   Whyte's testimony came as the Winfrey trial appeared to be winding down.
The television star's attorneys filed a motion Monday asking U.S. District
Judge Mary Lou Robinson to throw out what remains of the lawsuit.

   On Wednesday, Robinson tossed out key parts of the suit and said the
case could no longer be tried under ``veggie libel'' laws that forbid the
false disparagement of agricultural products.

   She said the plaintiffs would have to prove that the Winfrey show acted
with malicious intent toward the cattlemen, not just disregard for the truth.

   Mad cow disease, or bovine spongiform encephalopathy, has been blamed in
the death of at least 20 people in Britain. The U.S. government says it
does not exist in the United States.

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 23:25:54 -0500
From: allen schubert <[e-mail]>
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factory farming/free-range/human health
from Associated Press http://wire.ap.org
----------------------------------------
 02/23/1998 22:01 EST

 Study Finds Deadly Germ on Chickens

 By JIM FITZGERALD
 Associated Press Writer

 YONKERS, N.Y. (AP) -- A germ that kills hundreds of people a year and
 sickens millions was found on two-thirds of the chickens bought at stores
 around the country for a study by Consumer Reports.

 The bacterium -- campylobacter -- was found four times as often as
 salmonella, yet the government does not require that chickens be tested
 for it, said Edward Groth, director of technical policy for Consumers
 Union, which publishes the magazine.

 Campylobacter ``is the most widespread cause of food poisoning in the
 United States,'' he said Monday. ``We're talking up to 1,000 deaths and
 many millions of cases of indigestion and diarrhea, and it really is not
 something that should be overlooked.''

 Industry spokesmen called the article alarmist, saying that not all cases
 of campylobacteriosis come from chickens and that it would be impossible
 or too expensive to eliminate all contaminated chickens.

 Producers and the magazine agreed that thorough cooking will kill the
 bacteria, and that consumers should follow the directions on every
 package about how to handle poultry.

 ``If we knew how we could get rid of these organisms in fresh raw foods,
 we would,'' said Kenneth May, technical adviser to the National Broiler
 Council. ``But we don't know how to do that, and certainly not in any
 kind of cost-effective manner at all.''

 Unpasteurized milk and unchlorinated water are other sources of the
 bacterium, but the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said
 poultry causes more than half of all cases. It estimates 500 deaths and 2
 million cases each year from the germ. Most of these cases go unreported.

 Generally, it causes fever and diarrhea that last no more than a week.
 But the infection can also leave a person with arthritis and is a major
 cause of Guillain-Barre syndrome, which can lead to paralysis.

 Consumer Reports bought 1,000 chickens in 36 cities last fall, then sent
 them in coolers to a lab. Campylobacter was found in 63 percent of the
 birds, salmonella in 16 percent. Eight percent of the chickens had both
 and 29 percent had neither.

 No one brand was consistently cleaner than others, Consumer Reports said.
 However, expensive premium chickens, including ``free-range'' birds, were
 the most contaminated.
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 23:31:17 -0500
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human health/food contamination
from Associated Press http:wire.ap.org
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 02/23/1998 21:55 EST

 5 Spokane Kids Sickened by E. Coli

 By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS
 Associated Press Writer

 SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- Five children, including three who attend the same
 day care, have been sickened by E. coli bacteria. One was critically ill.

 The critically ill 18-month-old was hospitalized, Dr. Kim Thorburn of
 Spokane Regional Health District said Monday. The others were not as sick
 and were not hospitalized.

 The children range in age from 18 months to 6 years old, she said.

 Of the five cases in Spokane, three are among the 154 children who attend
 the downtown YMCA day care center, Thorburn said. Another is the sibling
 of a day care attendee.

 Officials do not know whether the fifth case, the 6-year-old, is linked
 to the others.

 While E. coli is most often spread through undercooked meat, officials
 are not sure how the cases were spread at the day care, Thorburn said.

 Rich Wallis, executive director of the YMCA, said health officials
 checked out the kitchen, the swimming pool, diaper changing areas and
 other facilities Monday.

 ``We have no clue whatsover'' what caused the outbreak, he said.

 The day care center will remain open, although officials are taking
 greater steps to prevent additional infections.

 An October 1996 outbreak of E. coli bacteria-related illness, traced to
 unpasteurized apple juice, killed a 16-month-old Colorado girl.

 The bacteria can cause hemolytic uremic syndrome, which can result in
 kidney failure and death.

 A 1993 outbreak of illness from E. coli bacteria was linked to
 undercooked fast-food hamburgers. It sickened an estimated 600 people in
 Washington state, most of them children. Three died.

 That case prompted new federal safeguards intended to protect consumers
 from tainted meat.

Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 22:43:40 -0600
From: "Nancy Gomez" <[e-mail]>
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Cc: "Kyle Cook" <[e-mail]>,
        "Greg Thomisee" <[e-mail]>,
        "Annette Lambert" <[e-mail]>
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UPCOMING
EVENTS

TEAR UPCOMING EVENTS
February 11 thur
March 1
Cirque du Soleil presents
QUIDAM. This group's dynamic and breathtaking performance is what you expect and
want to see at a circus, and most importantly it's animal-free.  Show your
support by attending and telling your friends.  There is an alternative to
Ringling Bros.  Tickets are $20 to $48.25 for adults; $10 to $33.75 for
kids.  Call 1-800-678-5440.
Tuesday, February
24,1998Please plan to attend to a special presentation
with guest speaker Erik Marcus.  Erik is touring to promote his new book,
"Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating."  "The typical American
diet puts us at war with animals, the environment, even our own bodies,"
writes author Erik Marcus.  "Vegan: The New Ethics of Eating"
offers the most current arguments for veganism, with the latest references, and
is poised to become one of the most significant books about vegetarianism to be
released this decade.  Please check out the Vegan Foundation web site for
more information; http://www.vegan.com.  The presentation begins at 6:30
PM, at the Center for Community Cooperation, 2900 Live Oak in Dallas.
There is limited seating, so please RSVP by February 20 to
972-623-6170.
Saturday, February
28, 1998
Vivisection leafletting 10:00
am-12:00 pm. Please call the information line for more info.
Saturday, March 14,
1998
The Animal Connection of
Texas (ACT) and TEAR will be having a joint general monthly meeting
beginning at 11:00 am at the Center for Community Cooperation, 2900 Live Oak,
Dallas. Doors open at 10:30 am.
Friday, March 20,
1998
20th Great American
Meatout
Saturday, March 21,
1998
ACT
will be taking a field trip to Black Beauty Ranch. Activists are to meet at REI
off I635 between Webb Chapel & Midway at 10:00 a.m. For more information
please call Gary at 972-306-2263.
Saturday, March 28,
1998
Global Day of Action Against
Proctor & Gamble 12:00 pm SE corner of Preston & Forest next to
Eckerd's
All activist are encouraged to
wear their TEAR t-shirts to all events. To contact TEAR directly please call our
voice mail at 972-623-6170 or for the most up to date information call
972-418-5398.

Texas Establishment for Animal
Rights
email: [e-mail] phone:
972-623-6170 infoline: 972-418-5398
snail mail: 660 Preston Forest Center, Suite 354 Dallas, TX
75230-2718


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