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- AR-NEWS Digest 667
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- Topics covered in this issue include:
-
- 1) Rabbits and humans
- by Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net>
- 2) (IOWA)á 3/3/97 Periscope/Food: Next Time, Let Her Eat Cake
- by Vegetarian Resource Center <vrc@tiac.net>
- 3) Beating the drum
- by Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net>
- 4) Foraging cows produce less methane
- by Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net>
- 5) Tampa fur protest
- by ALFNOW73@aol.com
- 6) [CA] Taking a bite out of crime
- by David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com>
- 7) [US] Transplant of animal organs not accepted by society,
- patient says
- by David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com>
- 8) (UK) Police hit back over reaction to animal protest
- by Chris Wright <chrisw@wmalvern.demon.co.uk>
- 9) Anniversary of Victory for Animals
- by SDURBIN@VM.TULSA.CC.OK.US
- 10) Poachers kill three rhinos in Kenya
- by "Christine M. Wolf" <cwolf@fund.org>
- 11) Reports of elephant poaching
- by "Christine M. Wolf" <cwolf@fund.org>
- 12) Nadas update
- by "Eric Mindel @ LCA" <eric@lcanimal.org>
- 13) SHOCKING DISCLOSURES
- by Lionel Friedberg <lionel333@loop.com>
- 14) Chimpanzees in the crossfire
- by Shirley McGreal <spm@awod.com>
- 15) Mollusk Madness
- by SDURBIN@VM.TULSA.CC.OK.US
- 16) Donkey beating is fun in Spain
- by "sa338@blues.uab.es" <sa338@blues.uab.es>
- 17) The Lobster Zone
- by "Leslie Lindemann" <LDTBS@worldnet.att.net>
- 18) Associated Press: Judge Drops Part Of Oprah/Beef Case
- by LCartLng@gvn.net (Lawrence Carter-Long)
- 19) Help needed with cat organ donor question
- by LCartLng@gvn.net (Lawrence Carter-Long)
- 20) Furgive Me While I Scream
- by Snugglezzz@aol.com
- 21) Sorry!
- by Snugglezzz@aol.com
- 22) Premarin Horses
- by Snugglezzz@aol.com
- 23) Important gray whale hunt action item
- by Michael Kundu <projectseawolf@seanet.com>
- 24) (NY) Up and coming elections
- by Liz Grayson <lgrayson@earthlink.net>
- 25) (US) Partial victory for Winfrey
- by allen schubert <alathome@clark.net>
- 26) The Widow vs. American Airlines Trial Begins Monday Feb. 23
- by Vegetarian Resource Center <vrc@tiac.net>
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 21:47:40 -0800
- From: Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: Rabbits and humans
- Message-ID: <34E9247C.2BB3@worldnet.att.net>
- MIME-Version: 1.0
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- Study finds dirty teeth may lead to heart attacks
-
- Reuters News Service
- PHILADELPHIA, February 16, 1998
-
- Want to prevent a heart attack? You should exercise, eat right and keep
- your teeth clean, researchers said Monday.
-
- The bacteria found in plaque can cause blood platelets to clump up --
- the first stage toward a blood clot that could cause a heart attack or
- stroke, University of Minnesota researchers said.
-
- Gum disease offers a good route for these bacteria to get into the
- blood, and several researchers have reported recently finding bacteria
- in the atherosclerotic plaque that clogs diseased arteries.
-
- "We know a great deal about risk factors for atherosclerosis and heart
- attacks, but not the actual causes," Dr. Mark Herzberg, a professor of
- preventive sciences at the University of Minnesota, told the American
- Association for the Advancement of Science.
-
- His team took the germs found in dirty and diseased gums, including
- strains of Streptococcus and Porphyromonas bacteria, and infused them
- into rabbits. The blood platelets in the rabbits started to clump.
-
- The rabbits also had abnormal electrocardiograms and faster heart and
- breathing rates. Using a different bacterium did not have these effects.
-
- What is different about some of the bacteria found in plaque and gum
- disease is a protein they produce called platelet aggregation associated
- protein or PAAP. This could be the key to the problem, Herzberg said.
-
- It has not been proved that the same thing happens in humans. Herzberg
- said he wants to test the unfortunate rabbits more to see if they suffer
- heart attacks when the bacteria are infused
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 00:48:53 -0500
- From: Vegetarian Resource Center <vrc@tiac.net>
- To: AR-News@Envirolink.Org
- Subject: (IOWA)á 3/3/97 Periscope/Food: Next Time, Let Her Eat Cake
- Message-ID: <199802170551.FAA13356@mail-out-4.tiac.net>
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-
- áá For a while there, everything was going just fine at the annual banquet of
- the Buena Vista County, Iowa, pork producers earlier this month. Then the
- reigning county Pork Queen for the last year, Abigail Boettcher, rose to
- deliver her farewell speech. A cheerleader, athlete and daughter of a pig
- farmer, the college freshman had been a model P.Q. But instead of just
- thanking the 200 or so assembled hog pros for a swell year as spokesperson for
- the other white meat, Boettcher decided to announce a bit of personal
- information: namely, that she's a vegetarian. The news went over like a hog in
- a henhouse. pork shock, cried one local headline. pork queen comes clean, read
- another. "I was nervous about telling them," says Boettcher, "but everybody's
- been real nice about it."
-
- 3/3/97 Periscope/Food: Next Time, Let Her Eat Cake
-
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 21:59:58 -0800
- From: Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: Beating the drum
- Message-ID: <34E9275E.25CA@worldnet.att.net>
- MIME-Version: 1.0
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-
- Neurocrine unlocks possible treatment for strokes
-
- Reuters News Service
- LOS ANGELES, February 16, 1998
-
- Neurocrine Biosciences Inc Monday unveiled advances that may help treat
- stroke patients as well as those with Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's
- disease and multiple sclerosis.
-
- In a paper to be published in Tuesday's edition of Proceedings of the
- National Academy of Sciences Neurocrine, scientists said they had
- discovered a compound that could unlock a protein in the brain that
- could treat neural diseases, head trauma, osteoporosis, spinal injury
- and other ailments.
-
- The study focused on "insulin-like growth factors" (IGFs) which are
- essential for normal growth and development and protect brain cells from
- injury. IGFs are naturally produced in the body but are attached to
- receptors that render then inactive.
-
- Scientists in recent years have focused on increasing the level of IGFs
- in patients as a potential treatment for neural disorders, such as
- strokes, which do not have effective therapies.
-
- To date scientists have been unable to get IGFs past the blood-brain
- barrier since they are such large protein molecules.
-
- San Diego-based Neorocrine's approach is to develop a drug that could be
- taken orally to separate IGFs already present in the brain from the
- receptors, thereby unlocking the therapeutic effect of the IGFs.
-
- "People have wanted to use (IGFs) for these indications but they haven't
- been able to because you can't deliver it," Neurocrine President Gary
- Lyons said in an interview.
-
- "The significance of this work is we (will) have a pill that will
- increase these growth factors in the brain to slow or prevent, and even
- repair, nerve cell death for the first time for treatment in these kinds
- of diseases."
-
- Lyons said his company will now face the long process of clinical trials
- in order to get U.S. Food and Drug Adminstration approval for the drug.
- He said it could take up to two years, and possibly longer, before the
- drug would be available to patients.
-
- The company tested the compound on laboratory rats which had suffered
- strokes. The study slowed, or prevented, neuron cell death by up to 50
- percent in rats compared with rats that were not treated.
-
- Since human brain cells take longer to die than rat brains cells the
- company hopes the effects of the treatment will be even more pronounced
- in humans.
-
- Over the long-term Lyons said increasing IGFs had regenerative effects
- on brain cells, which may offer potential treatment for patients with
- Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, multiple sclerosis and spinal injury.
-
- By MARK EGAN, Reuter
-
- ==========================================================
-
- In view of the fact that only one of every 50 drugs approved for
- clinical testing reaches the drugstore shelf, these researchers and
- their sponsors are remarkably upbeat.
-
- Such "cures around the corner" announced almost daily amount to no more
- than cynical exploitation of sick people and their relatives.
-
- Andy
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 22:01:33 -0800
- From: Andrew Gach <UncleWolf@worldnet.att.net>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: Foraging cows produce less methane
- Message-ID: <34E927BD.61D2@worldnet.att.net>
- MIME-Version: 1.0
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- The sweet smell of success
-
- Agence France-Presse
- SYDNEY, February 15, 1998
-
- A team of Australian and Japanese scientists has discovered how to make
- cattle produce less gas but more meat and milk -- by improving their
- diet.
-
- The world's super-flatulent cattle herd is now blamed for generating 15
- to 20 percent of all the methane resulting from human activity. Methane
- is 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide in causing global warming.
-
- The global herd is estimated at 1.33 billion with an additional 1.1
- billion sheep and goats.
-
- Australian government scientist Graeme McCrabb and colleague Mitsunori
- Kurihara of Japan's National Institute of Animal Industry have found
- that an improved diet produces not only a better-mannered cow but a much
- more productive one as well.
-
- "We found cattle on a forage diet produced four-and-a-half times as much
- methane for every kilo gain in live weight as cattle on a high quality
- grain-based diet," said McCrabb, of the Commonwealth Scientific and
- Industrial Research Organization's tropical agriculture division.
-
- "This research indicates it is possible not only to reduce methane
- emissions from ruminant animals such as cattle and goats in the tropics,
- but at the same time to increase total food protein output and so
- improve the diets of millions of people."
-
- McCrabb says it is all perfectly logical. "The energy that is being
- wasted as gas emissions from animals on a poor diet is instead converted
- to production in a balanced, high-quality diet," he said.
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 02:07:48 EST
- From: ALFNOW73@aol.com
- To: AnimalLib7@aol.com
- Cc: moram1@helios.acomp.usf.edu, hmcclus1@helios.acomp.usf.edu,
- ááááááá ar-news@envirolink.org, ARcinn@aol.com, ZenSamuri@aol.com,
- ááááááá KATI2ERIN@aol.com, EnglandGal@aol.com, 391732@mem.com,
- ááááááá RonnieJW@aol.com, SMatthes@aol.com, Sptampa@aol.com,
- ááááááá mjp60980@pegasus.cc.ucf.edu, xanimal_libx@hotmail.com,
- MINKLIB@aol.com,
- ááááááá FLSHEALY@aol.com, Lieber2000@aol.com, TuberB@aol.com, MLFLUFF@aol.com,
- ááááááá Raven21017@aol.com, RAGMANDON@aol.com, MAJESTCI@aol.com,
- ááááááá GinNGonzo@aol.com, Jhgmagick@aol.com, MrsDFDJR@aol.com,
- ááááááá PowrOfTwo@aol.com, XkinipelaX@aol.com, DrJoyous@aol.com,
- PJulo@aol.com,
- ááááááá C2fasn8you@aol.com, NicoleBBW@aol.com, ETATSEHT@aol.com,
- ááááááá Rienjamais@aol.com, StarlitFL@aol.com, Mychael69@aol.com,
- ááááááá TampaThor@aol.com, DrewSB@aol.com, KarinMW@aol.com, LisaQK469@aol.com
- Subject: Tampa fur protest
- Message-ID: <ea7c8edc.34e93747@aol.com>
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-
- Hello fellow animal friends!!!áá
-
- People Protecting the Rights of Animals (PPRA) is a Tampa Florida based
- grassroots animal rights group.á We are dedicated to ending all exploitation
- of all animals.á PPRA is a fairly new group, 1 year and 4 months, and we are
- looking for activists in the area ready to help us protest--we do it well--and
- other individuals interested in educating themselves on animal issues as well
- as learning how to help animals in everyday life.á Please join us for the
- following upcoming events:
-
- Saturday, FEBRUARY 21áááááá 10:30 am until 12:30 pm
- FUR PROTEST at Ophelia's Fur Shoppe
- 5315 W. Cypress St.á Tampa
- ***Help us let Ophelia's customers know that FUR IS DEAD!!!***
-
-
- Sunday, FEBRUARY 22ááááááááááá 1:30 pm until 3:30 pm
- PPRA's Bi-monthly MEETING (open to the public)
- Northwest Regional Library - Northdale
- 15610 Premiere Dr. off Northdale Blvd.
- call (813) 264-3831 for directions
-
- We will be happy to answer any questions.
- Please email us for more information at ALFNOW73@aol.com
- Visit our web site at
- <http://members.aol.com/ALFNOW73/index.html>http://members.aol.com/ALFNOW73/
- index.html
-
- Thank you for your time.
-
- ANIMAL LIBERATION NOW !!!!!!!!!!!
-
- For the Animals,
- Melinda
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:34:39
- From: David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: [CA] Taking a bite out of crime
- Message-ID: <3.0.3.16.19980216233439.0e9f1694@dowco.com>
- Mime-Version: 1.0
- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
-
- By David J Knowles
- Animal Voices News
-
- VANCOUVER, BC - A caiman gave an intruder more than they bargained for last
- week.
-
- Boots, was apparently laying in his tank when the intruder broke in to his
- keeper's home and tried to walk off with him.
-
- All he got for his trouble was some nasty bites. Home owner Sid Scetinas
- said he returned to find Boots safe and well, but blood all over the floor,
- walls and the tank.
-
- Scetinas says he doesn't put his hand in the tank when he's feeding Boots,
- and puts him into the bathtub whilst the tank is cleaned.
-
- "He seems to get a little ornery," Scetinas told The Province newspaper.
-
- Scetinas, who lives in the Fraser Valley town of Sardis, said when he went
- to the police station in nearby Chilliwack, officers were still laughing a
- day later.
-
- Sgt. Roy Cooper, of the Chilliwack RCMP detachment, said it certainly
- wasn't a run-of-the-mill crime.
-
- Cooper says he's hoping the wounds get an infection and the would-be
- caiman-napper ends up in hospital.
-
-
-
-
-
- Date: Mon, 16 Feb 1998 23:48:42
- From: David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com>
- To: ar-news@envirolink.org
- Subject: [US] Transplant of animal organs not accepted by society,
- á patient says
- Message-ID: <3.0.3.16.19980216234842.0e9f1b62@dowco.com>
- Mime-Version: 1.0
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- Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
-
- >From The Vancouver Sun Website - Tuesday, February 17th, 1998
-
- Transplant of animal organs not accepted by society, patient says
-
- PAUL RECER
-
- PHILADELPHIA (AP) ¡ Science may be ready to transplant animal organs into
- humans before society is ready to accept the procedure, according to a San
- Francisco man who was grafted with the bone marrow of a baboon.
-
- Jeffrey Getty, an AIDS patient, said his health improved markedly after he
- received an experimental transplant of baboon bone marrow, but he found
- that people were horrified at the idea.
-
- "We're not ready to have part human, part animal people walking around,"
- Getty said Saturday. "There is some deep-seeded psychological barrier
- against it."
-
- Getty, speaking at the national meeting of the American Association for the
- Advancement of Science, said his experimental transplant of baboon bone
- marrow was an attempt to place within his body a partial animal immune
- system that is resistant to the virus. For a time, it seemed to work.
-
- "I did get better, but we don't know if that was because of the baboon bone
- marrow," he said. "We couldn't find baboon DNA (genes) in me after three
- weeks. It apparently was rejected."
-
- What he did find was a visceral reaction against the transplant by many
- people. He said he endured jokes, angry comments and signs of revulsion.
-
- "We react on a subconscious level to the thought of people who are part
- animal," said Getty. "I don't know where it is coming from."
-
- He calls the December, 1995, baboon transplant a success because it proved
- that the procedure could be performed safely.
-
- "That was a good sign because that means that one day technology will allow
- people to have animal organs," he said.
-
- Getty said the baboon transplant was a last ditch effort to combat his HIV,
- a disease he has had for 18 years. After the transplant, Getty said his
- viral load, the amount of HIV virus in his blood, dropped to zero and his
- immune system got stronger.
-
- In the last few months, however, Getty said his condition has gotten worse
- and he now is taking experimental anti-viral drugs.
-
- Dr. Suzanne T. Ildstad, a transplant surgeon at the Allegheny University of
- the Health Sciences, said that Getty is pioneer in xenotransplantation, the
- transfer of animal organs into humans, that eventually may be the only
- solution for people who need new hearts, kidneys and livers.
-
- Ildstad said that the number of human donor organs has remained about the
- same since 1988, while the need for such transplants continued to grow.
-
- "Three hundred thousand Americans, candidates for transplants, die every
- year without even getting on the waiting list," she said. About half of all
- heart transplant candidates die before they get can find a donor.
-
- The only solution, she said, is to learn how to transplant organs from pigs
- or other animals.
-
-
-
- Date: Tue, 17 Feb 1998 09:36:51 GMT
-