AR-NEWS Digest 463

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) URGENT: feds try to loosen HCP requirements for Headwaters
  "deal"
     by Persephone Moonshadow Howling Womyn 
  2) (NZ) 'Adopt-a-sheep' gimmick under fire
     by Vadivu Govind 
  3) [UK] Anti-foxhunters to hold march
     by David J Knowles 
  4) [UK] Public asked for view on 'engineered' crops
     by David J Knowles 
  5) (MO) Bullfights returning to Macau
     by Vadivu Govind 
  6) (JP) Agency to examine dioxin, other 'environment hormones
     by Vadivu Govind 
  7) Critter Crisis in Texas (USA)
     by Snugglezzz@aol.com
  8) Re: alert on trapping
     by Clemens.M..Purtscher@blackbox.at (Clemens M. Purtscher)
  9) New York Times on cloning
     by Andrew Gach 
 10) MSNBC/ZD Pro-Hunting, ESPN Gets Bulliled (CPEA Dispatch)
     by Pat Fish 
 11) Need info re emu bashing
     by "BHGazette" 
 12) leg-hold trap companies
     by Horgan 
 13) issues update
     by Horgan 
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 1997 21:49:38 -0700
From: Persephone Moonshadow Howling Womyn 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: URGENT: feds try to loosen HCP requirements for Headwaters
  "deal"
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      H E A D W A T E R S    A C T I O N    A L E R T    [ e x t r a ! ]
      J u l y   1 1 ,   1 9 9 7
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      VERY IMPORTANT ACTION:

      TELL SENATOR FEINSTEIN, "DON'T LET CHARLES HURWITZ
      RIP OFF THE TAXPAYERS -- AGAIN."

      Tell Senator Dianne Feinstein that for $380 million, federal
taxpayers should expect to establish significant NEW protections for
Headwaters Forest.

      The Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) currently being negotiated by the
Clinton Administration and Pacific Lumber may provide even LESS protection
for Headwaters Forest than is currently in place under state and federal
law, which have in the past been assaulted for their own shortcomings.

      Why should federal taxpayers pay Charles Hurwitz for less protection
than we already have?



      Background:

      The "deal" negotiated last fall between the federal government and
Pacific Lumber, with significant arm-twisting from Senator Feinstein,
called for the purchase of 7,500 acres of Headwaters Forest for $380
million and the negotiation of a Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) to guide
protections and harvesting practices on Pacific Lumber's approximately
190,000 acres of remaining timberland.

      When the deal was announced, Senator Feinstein and other government
officials insisted that the HCP would insure adequate protections for the
rest of the forest. Now, in their rush to appropriate the money called for
in the deal, Senator Feinstein and the Clinton administration are
pressuring state and federal agencies to abandon many of the protections
called for by their own scientists and agree to a weakened HCP that would
provide less protection for Headwaters Forest than is currently in place
through the state and federal endangered species acts.

      The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee will be considering
the Headwaters appropriation next week (the week of July 13).



      Please contact Senator Feinstein today and tell her that...

* The Headwaters deal must provide significant NEW protections for the
entire 60,000-acre Headwaters Forest, not weaken protections to below the
existing situation. The HCP must not leave the remaining forest in MORE
DANGER after the deal is completed than it was before.

* Any deal that fails to provide a level of protection for Headwaters
Forest equal to or greater than that which is available through full
enforcement of the state and federal endangered species acts is a TAXPAYER
RIP-OFF.

* A deal that preserves 7,500 acres of old trees surrounded by a dead
forest is UNACCEPTABLE.



      Write, call, and email Senator Feinstein at...

U. S. Senate
Washington D.C. 20510
202-224-3841
senator@feinstein.senate.gov




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Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 15:02:31 +0800 (SST)
From: Vadivu Govind 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (NZ) 'Adopt-a-sheep' gimmick under fire
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>The Straits Times
JUL 12 1997 
                          

     NZ 'adopt-a-sheep' gimmick comes under fire 

     AUCKLAND -- A tourist scheme in which Taiwanese visitors adopt a New
Zealandsheep came under flak here yesterday over the unfortunate fate of the
animals. 

     Under the Adopt A Sheep scheme, Taiwanese tourists visit a
Cambridge-based Rural Tours farm, select a sheep, give it a name and receive
an adoption certificate. 

     The certificate includes the breed name and a photograph of the sheep
and its proud new "parent". They also get a toy sheep which goes "baa". 

     With only 3.6 million people against 50 million sheep, the tourists
have plenty of options, although they appear blithely unaware of the source
of the annual exports of  400 million tonnes of lamb and 100 million tonnes
of mutton. 

     The new venture involved EVA Airlines, eight Taiwan tour wholesalers
and the New  Zealand Tourist Board, Radio New Zealand (RNZ) reported yesterday. 

But a Taiwanese journalist told RNZ the scheme was "scandalous" because
visitors  were not told their new junior could wind up on a one-way trip to
the freezing works. 

     "You're supposed to see the sheep again next year, but then those sheep
go to slaughter, so there's a scandalous scheme," he said. 

     But Rural Tours director Helen Hicks said the journalist had never seen
the operation  and did not understand the product. 

     Asked if junior could wind up as a meat pack and offal, she said:
"Well, it's a typical sheep farm and the practice of farming is what's
carried out on every farm. Some sheep do go to the works but some also are
kept for breeding. 

"It doesn't have any effect on this programme -- it's adopt a sheep for the
day. 

     "Well, the word day is not there but it's ... it's a conceptual
adoption ... nothing has  ever been inferred that it's theirs for life." 

     She said visitors had been delighted with the whole experience. Over
150 people have "adopted" since the programme began late last month.
Taiwanese paid for the adoption  as part of a travel package before they
came to New Zealand. -- AFP. 


Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 02:30:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: David J Knowles 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: [UK] Anti-foxhunters to hold march
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>From The Electronic Telegraph - Saturday, July 12, 1997

Antis to march in London
By Hugh Muir 

THE focus of the campaign to ban foxhunting with hounds will now be a march
by the National Anti Hunt Campaign in three weeks' time. 

It will begin at Reformers Tree in Hyde Park, scene of this week's
pro-countryside rally, and will proceed to Trafalgar Square. Though many
antis now believe that they have the weight of public opinion on their side,
they are determined to negate the propaganda effect of this week's show of
strength by the pro-hunters and to keep public pressure on the government.

Also high on the antis' agenda will be an exhibition at Westminster Central
Hall that has been designed to appeal to those "sick of a lifestyle based on
an exploitation of animals, humans and the environment".

The antis say drag hunting - which involves the chase of a scent rather than
a live prey - should provide bloodsports enthusiasts with the thrills but
would not involve the death of any animals.

They believe that the hunting lobby cannot oppose the drag-hunting argument
without admitting to a liking for killing animals. They use the drag-hunting
tactic to dismiss fears that thousands of hounds would have to be destroyed.

They say it would also allow most of those employed in the industries that
serve foxhunting to keep their jobs. Nevertheless, Niel Hansen, of the
National Anti Hunt Campaign, said: "Even if they lose their jobs, I'm not in
sympathy with anyone whose profession relies on animal abuse. Progress often
results in changes in employment. Hundreds of thousands of jobs were lost
when traditional farming methods were replaced by intensive farming."

Antis also challenge the notion that foxes have to be controlled. Mr Hansen
said the Ministry of Agriculture says the number of lambs lost to foxes is
insignificant and hen losses are small.

A recent survey showed that farmers do not consider foxes to be a pest. They
can be beneficial because they keep down the number of rabbits, Mr Hansen added.

 © Copyright Telegraph Group Limited 1997. 

Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 02:30:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: David J Knowles 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: [UK] Public asked for view on 'engineered' crops
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>From The Electronic Telegraph - Saturday, July 12, 1997

Public asked for view on 'engineered' crops
By David Brown, Agriculture Editor 

DISCUSSION papers asking for opinions on high-yielding
genetically-engineered crops have been sent out by the Ministry of
Agriculture before farmers are allowed to plant them next year.

Forty-nine organisations representing consumer groups, environmentalists,
farmers and scientists have until Sept 12 to respond.

The use of crops that have been modified to make them resistant to
herbicides - making weed control with chemicals easier while the crops are
growing - could boost harvests of oilseed rape and cereals. Despite
objections from the Consumers' Association and organic farming
organisations, a variety of oilseed rape that is resistant to Roundup, the
world's most popular herbicide, is expected to be harvested next year.

Dr Vernon Barber, food science adviser of the National Farmers' Union of
England and Wales, said: "We understand that there is public concern and we
welcome an open debate."

Europe lags behind the United States and Canada, where about 10 per cent of
grain and oilseed crops are genetically modified.

 © Copyright Telegraph Group Limited 1997. 

Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 23:40:47 +0800 (SST)
From: Vadivu Govind 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (MO) Bullfights returning to Macau
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>Hong Kong Standard
12 July 96

Bulls returning to Macau
By Harald Bruning 

ANIMAL rights campaigners see red, but aficionados rejoice at the return of
Portuguese-style bullfights to Macau in the autumn. 

Five bullfighting shows (touradas), each featuring between four and five
individual bullfights on foot or on horseback, will be held on the weekend
of 27-28 September, Chinese National Day on 1 October, on 4 October and
Portuguese Republic Day on 5 October. 

The bullfights will take place at the Macau Workers' soccer pitch near
Casino Lisboa. 

The organisers from Portugal, the aptly named ``Taurus'' impresarios, take
great pride in highlighting the participation of the world's only female
bullfighter on horseback, Marta Manuela, in three of the bullfights. 

A 5,000-seat bullring entirely made of bamboo will be erected at the soccer
pitch. The arena proper will be 32 metres in diameter. 

The five million pataca (HK$5 million) budget, half of which will be
sponsored by the Macau government, includes a special charter flight from
Lisbon carrying 24 bulls and three horses. 

Each bull weighs an average of 500 kilograms. 

An exhibition of bullfighting paraphernalia will be held at the Macau City
Council Building during the event.
 
Jose Pinto and Rui Salvador, the prime movers in the enterprise, say both
the events are meant to ``promote the Portuguese culture in Asia.'' 

IT will be the fourth time in Macau's history as a Portuguese settlement
since 1557 that bullfights will be staged in the enclave. 

The previous bullfights were held in 1996, 1974 and during Lunar New Year
last year. 

Last year's bullfights attracted 25,000 spectators _ mostly local Chinese,
Eurasian and Portuguese residents and visitors from Hong Kong, as well as a
few hundred die-hard aficionados from South Korea, Japan and elsewhere in
the region. 

The bullfights' number one enemy were not animal welfarists, but the
inclemency of the weather. 

Most of the shows took place at temperatures under 10 degrees Celsius and
almost continuous rain during Lunar New Year last year. 

Observers said without the adverse weather conditions, the arena would quite
certainly have been filled to maximum capacity. 

The organisers say they expect Macau's usually fine autumn weather to
benefit the event this time. 

While for many, local Portuguese bullfights are a noble tradition worthy of
being shown in Asia, for others it is a barbaric spectacle. 

Several dozen students of Macau's Portuguese high school staged a number of
low-key protests outside the make-shift bullring last year, describing the
shows as ``sadistic''. 

However, aficionados say the bulls enjoy a ``happy'' semi-wild life on huge
pastures in Portugal for four to five years before entering the arena, while
domestic cattle normally spend their short existence in factory-like farms. 

The aficionados also point out that unlike in Spanish and Mexican
bullfights, the beasts are never killed in the bull-ring, but ``humanely''
slaughtered afterwards. 

Moreover, according to Portuguese tradition, about 10 per cent of the
``bravest'' bulls are selected for breeding after performing ``exceptionally
well'' in the arena. 

However, all the bulls airlifted to Macau will face the normal bovine fate _
ending up in the slaughterhouse. 

The beef fresh from the bull-ring will be served in selected restaurants in
Macau. Gourmets praise ``bull-ring beef'' for its game-like taste. 

The Macau government's Tourist Office promotes the bullfights as the
enclave's ``most important Portuguese tourist attraction'' this year. 

Apart from the bullfighters on foot (``espadas'') and on horseback
(``cavaleiros''), the shows will also feature an eight-member team of funny
bullcatchers, or ``forcados''. 

The ``forcados'' _ which were the spectators' favourites in Macau last year
_ have the task of catching the bull by its horns at the end of each
individual fight. 

Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 23:40:56 +0800 (SST)
From: Vadivu Govind 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (JP) Agency to examine dioxin, other 'environment hormones
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>The Japan Times
11 July 97

Agency to examine dioxin, other 'environment hormones'

     The Environment Agency will launch a comprehensive fact-finding study
on the effects  of what are called "environmental hormones," such as dioxin
and polychlorinated  biphenyl, on fish, birds and other wildlife, agency
sources said July 11.

     It is feared that the so-called hormones function like female hormones
when taken into  the body and may adversely affect propagation functions,
such as by reducing sperm  production, the sources said. More than 70
environmental hormones are now known, including dioxin, PCB, DDT and other
agricultural chemicals and plastic additives, they     said.

A special report published by the U.S. government in February found 20
species of   animals, including bears and gulls, whose propagation functions
had been adversely  affected by such chemicals. This will be the first
national-level study on the effects of  environmental hormones on wildlife,
the sources said.

     The agency launched a study group in March to conduct preparatory
research by going  through relevant publications and documents, they said.
The group reported that it is feared contamination by environmental hormones
will become increasingly serious in  the future and that the agency plans to
conduct a comprehensive study, they said.

     Because males normally do not have yolk protein, Prussian carp, goby
and other fish will be checked to see if they have this protein and whether
they are affected by  environmental hormones, the group said. Eggshells of
Japanese sparrows, crows and  predatory birds will be chemically analyzed to
see if such contaminants are present in them, because the shells are easily
affected by environmental hormones, the agency sources said. To check on
contamination in urban areas, a study on possible decreases  in spermatozoa
in rats is under consideration, they said.


Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 15:32:47 -0400 (EDT)
From: Snugglezzz@aol.com
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Critter Crisis in Texas (USA)
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(The Dallas Morning News): A few weeks ago, authorities raided a kennel near
Waco and confiscated 101 dogs - many were ill and had to be euthanized.
Valerie Emme-Fare of the Lone Star Weimaraner Club says 41 Weimaraners seized
in the raid are now in the custody of the local club. These Weimaraners need
permanent or temporary homes and the club needs help with medical bills,
food, and other dog-related items. They also could use crates for the dogs to
stay in, says Valerie. Call the club at 972-994-3572. There are only 30
members of the club, so you can imagine how the sudden arrival of 41 extra
dogs taxed their resources.


-- Sherrill
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 00:07:31 +0200
From: Clemens.M..Purtscher@blackbox.at (Clemens M. Purtscher)
To: pnolan@animalwelfare.com
Cc: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Re: alert on trapping
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pnolan@animalwelfare.com,Internet writes:

>On July 22, just two weeks from now, the European Union's (EU) Foreign
>Ministers will vote to reject or accept the cruel trapping agreement
>proposed by the EU Commission, Canada, and Russia. This agreement would
>actually entrench the use of the world's most painful and widely used
>trap: the leghold trap.

>YOU CAN HELP by appealing to the Foreign Ministers whose names appear on
>the enclosed list. PLEASE URGE THEM TO REJECT THE AGREEMENT, which makes
>a mockery of the good EU Regulation 3259/91 against the leghold trap.
>Ask them to implement the Regulation's import ban of furs from 13
>species that come from countries which haven't prohibited use of the
>leghold trap.

>FOREIGN MINISTERS' NAMES, ADDRESSES AND FAX NUMBERS

>Hon. Wolfgang Schussel
>Vice-Chancellor and Federal
>Minister for Foreign Affairs
>Ballhausplatz #2
>1014 Vienna
>AUSTRIA
>Fax: 011-93-1 535 4530

Please note the following corrections:
Hon. Wolfgang Schuessel
Fax: 011-43-1 535 4530

Best regards

Clemens
RespekTiere
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Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 14:46:12 -0700
From: Andrew Gach 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: New York Times on cloning
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Beliefs: Cloning, as Seen by Buddhists and Humanists

          By PETER STEINFELS
       New York Times, July 12, 1997

Dolly the cloned sheep has long since exhausted her 15 minutes of
fame, and the question of cloning humans now ranks, as a matter
of public urgency, somewhere below the dangers of air bags and the
struggle over enactment of the tobacco settlement. Rightly so, some
would say. 

One problem, it seems, is that discussions of cloning keep collapsing in
giggles. Even people appalled by the idea of cloning human beings cannot
help being amused by it. Cloning provides a mirror in which the public,
like children, cannot stop trying out all sorts of funny faces,
discovering, with the help of cartoonists and comedians, endless absurd
ways to combine identity with distortion. 

Yet serious reactions to human cloning continue to arrive. What, for
example, do Buddhists make of cloning? Well, the summer issue of
Tricycle: The Buddhist Review surveys a number of practitioners about
it.

And secular humanists? The cover of the latest issue of Free Inquiry, a
quarterly identifying itself as "the international secular humanist
magazine," promises explanation, in several articles, of "Human Cloning:
Why It Scares Religions and Intrigues Humanists." 

Actually, human cloning appears to intrigue humanists precisely because
it scares religions -- or at least that is the impression left by the
featured articles. 

The authors occasionally refer to "immense benefits" that could redound
from research on cloning humans, including "asexual reproduction for
those incapable of having children through sex." 

The bulk of their essays, however, are devoted not to examining the pros
and cons of human cloning but to deriding the "dogmatic
pronouncements," "supernatural or spiritual agendas," "obscurantist
views" and "irrational taboos" of religious leaders who presume "to
inform us of God's views on cloning." 

If Free Inquiry is to be believed, no secular arguments have been
advanced against cloning that are worth addressing, and no religious
thinker has said anything on the topic beyond fundamentalist appeals to
sacred texts, catch phrases like "playing God" or hackneyed warnings
against tampering with nature. 

Free Inquiry reprints an account by Richard Dawkins, the author of
books expounding evolutionary naturalism, concerning his post-Dolly
travails discussing human cloning on British radio and television. 

Dawkins, Charles Simionyi professor of the public understanding of
science at Oxford University, confesses his desire to be cloned, not out
of vanity, he insists, but "pure curiosity." 

"I find it a personally riveting thought that I could watch a small copy
of myself," he writes, "nurtured through the early decades of the
twenty-first century." 

But "such self-indulgent fantasies aside," his real complaint is that
religious leaders keep getting invited to be on panels with him to
discuss human cloning. Without exception, it seems, these people turn
out to be total dolts, who cannot understand basic biology or even
simple logic. 

The same theme runs through the other articles: A secular morality that
rigorously excludes considerations of the sacred is quite capable of
fathoming and resolving all questions about human cloning, and religious
spokesmen are unqualified to join the debate unless they comment in
those terms. 

Perhaps these secular humanists should meet the Buddhists whose brief
observations on human cloning were solicited by Tricycle. They are
neither scared nor intrigued. Indeed, they are the very model of
Buddhist detachment. 

"It's a different mindstream," Geshe Michael Roach, the abbot at
Diamond Abbey in New York City, granted of cloning. "But other than
that, what's the problem?" 

Several respondents seemed to treat human cloning as a koan, a
perplexity posed to Zen students as a way of eliciting personal insight. 

"Psychologically and socially, we humans clone ourselves," said Ravi
Ravindra, a professor of comparative religion and of physics at
Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. "That to me is a more
serious issue -- how our propaganda, our social-psychological
manipulation through the media, actually makes people behave as if they
were clones. 

"Work in this field can't really be stopped. Like the Buddha himself
said,we are all driven by fear and desire." 

Other respondents seemed similarly unenthused but resigned. The
Buddhist virtue of compassion, they said, counsels against research that
might increase cruelty or misery. But no one tried to spell out what
that might mean in practice. 

"It all depends upon one's motivation," said another of the respondents,
Judith Simmer-Brown, chairwoman of the religious studies program at the
Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colo. 

If anything about human cloning intrigued the respondents, it was the
question of whose karma a clone would inherit. But they agreed with
Ms.Simmer-Brown's view that ultimately cloning posed "no real
philosophical problem for Buddhism." 

Certainly these short responses do not reflect the full range of
Buddhist views, just as Free Inquiry's articles cannot represent all of
secular humanism. Yet the convergences and divergences were fascinating. 

Neither group urged any social controls or legal restrictions on cloning
research, and both seemed confident that their own traditions -- secular
in the one case, spiritual in the other -- could deal with whatever
quandaries human cloning might create. 

But where Free Inquiry's contributors saw cloning as another chapter in
the long history of scientific progress and "greater control over our
destinies," to be governed by a scientific mode of rationality,
Tricycle's respondents saw human cloning as another manifestation of
impermanence and illusion, to be vanquished through compassion and
mindfulness. 

Or, as one of the Buddhist respondents said, "Better to work with
ourselves first, and our duplicates later."

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

Another heavily skewed pro-cloning piece.  According to this
presentation, no one opposes cloning, except "obscurantist" and
"irrational" religious fanatics.  Even Budhists are "resigned" to it,
while an Oxford prof is ready to clone himself out of "pure curiosity."  

Imagine a human whose main reason for being is to satisfy someone's
curiosity.  A better example of ethical blindness would be hard to
find.  At least, no one can accuse scientists of inconsistency.  If it's
acceptable to produce patented animal freaks for monetary gains or to
torture animals in order to shed light on some abtruse molecular
problem, why not bring children into the world out of curiosity?

Andy
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 18:24:57 -0400 (EDT)
From: Pat Fish 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: MSNBC/ZD Pro-Hunting, ESPN Gets Bulliled (CPEA Dispatch)
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In this issue:
 
* ESPN & the CALF?  (Cyber Animal Liberation Front)
* MSNBC At it Again-- LaPorte thinks hunting is fun

* ESPN2, the sports channel televising the "Running of the Bull" from
Pamplona, Spain (July 12 at 1:30 AM and 10:30 AM Saturday morning), seems to
have been cyber-gored.  A group of hackers broke into their internet site,
and rummaged through their database, making all of ESPN's customers' credit
card numbers insecure.  Customers won't soon be willing to trust ESPN again
any time soon. 


* "The Site" TV show, a joint effort of MicroSoft, NBC and Ziff-Davis,
featured an informative piece on the latest in hi-tech animal health care. 
But it also offered comments on shooting animals for fun. (Originally aired
Tues. July 1 1997-- will be re-aired on July 12 & 13th) 

  The vet segment featured an array of procedures and techniques just
starting to become available for companion animals. 

 Host Soledad O'Brien stated that Animal Rights activists were concerned
about the high cost of veterinary care-- and that some vets might not
disclose all the options available if the clients can't afford modern
modalities.  Elliot Katz, DVM, and animal rights activist, was interviewed
for the segment, a refreshing improvement over The Site's promotion of
mail-order exotic pet shops that send animals via US mail, Shockwave games
where players club penguins, and online stores that sell goats skins and 
other questionable products. 

  The Site hasn't enirely turned over a new leaf however.

  Approximately 17 minutes into the show, computer-generated virtual
sidekick "Dev Null" interviews vegetarian cartoonist Scott Adams, the man
behind the popular Dilbert comic strip. 
 
  Leo LaPorte, the man who plays Dev Null, asks Adams if his childhood in
the rural Catskills of New York had anything to do with his brand of humor. 
Adams countered that where he grew up, "shooting a woodchuck was considered
high humor". 

  Leo LaPorte responded that he thought shooting woodchucks was indeed
funny. 

The vet segment will be run on Saturday & Sunday (July 12 and 13) at 7PM,
1AM and 4AM, EST-US.  It's not known if the "woodchuck" remark will be
re-aired. 


 Finally, The Site reviewed a web site (www.thesmokinggun.com), where
incriminating documents, usually obtained under the Freedom of Information
Act, have been posted for all the world to see.  Activists may want to
approach the webmaster with interesting information. 

CPEA in no way endorses MSNBC, Ziff-Davis TV, or "The Site".  This
information is offered solely to alert computer-savvy activists. 

Please consider contacting the show about Leo Laporte's ignorant comments on
shooting woodhucks.  The public can also call 1-888-MSNBC-US and leave a
message for The Site's staff (press 2, then 14). 
Or Email:  kathy_moore@zd.com, stephanie_abrams@zd.com,
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Date: Sat, 12 Jul 97 17:32:56 PDT
From: "BHGazette" 
To: "AR News" 
Subject: Need info re emu bashing
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Does anyone know the names of the two men who used baseball
 bats to beat 28 emus to death  in Colleyville, Texas on June 28?
Thanks,
JD Jackson
Bunny Huggers' Gazette

Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 22:52:36 -0500
From: Horgan 
To: ar-news@envirolink.com
Subject: leg-hold trap companies
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FYI -

Havahart - maker of no-kill animal traps is owned by Woodstream Corp. -
the largest manufacturer of steel-jaw leghold traps!

Tru-Catch makes nothing but humane traps!
Date: Sat, 12 Jul 1997 22:55:25 -0500
From: Horgan 
To: ar-news@envirolink.com
Subject: issues update
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NY Jets coach Bill Parcells bragged in a press conference about erasing
cats.  He said that if a cat crosses his car's path he drives over them,
backs up and does it again.  He seemed to think this was quite humorous.

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