AR-NEWS Digest 378

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) Politics and Health Care
     by Andrew Gach 
  2) From the Medicine Worse Than the Disease Department
     by Andrew Gach 
  3) Magic potions and "promising" animal tests
     by Andrew Gach 
  4) (US) Missouri heads list of endangered rivers
     by allen schubert 
  5) FWD: Western Ancient Forest Campaign bulletin
     by Andrew Gach 
  6) (US) Panda's 25th anniversary as an American
     by Vadivu Govind 
  7) (SG) Eating this fish after surgery may help after all
     by Vadivu Govind 
  8) (SG) Mosques find alternative animal supplies
     by Vadivu Govind 
  9) (SG) Farming training
     by Vadivu Govind 
 10) (US) Pests May Beat insecticide 
     by allen schubert 
 11) Seinfeld Cockfighting Episode Tonight
     by Friends of Animals 
 12) CDC Says CJD Is Rare, and Not Linked To British Strain (US)
     by LCartrLong@aol.com
 13) (US) CDC-Salmonella Typhimurium DT 104
     by allen schubert 
 14) GardenBurger Boycott (fwd)
     by **** 
 15) Kampgrounds of America (KOA) links with Sea World
     by LMANHEIM@aol.com
 16) (TW) Taiwan Pig Slaughter Protested
     by allen schubert 
 17) Toyota
     by Mike Markarian 
 18) AUSTRALIAN ANIMAL ACTION
     by allen schubert 
 19) [UK] Farmers suffer effects of drought
     by David J Knowles 
 20) [CA] Spring comes early to Canada
     by David J Knowles 
 21) Howard Lyman's Bay Area speaking schedule
     by "Marie, Donna M (PB-dmmarie)" 
 22) Animal Rights Law Center on the web
     by Vegetarian Resource Center 
 23) corby6: results from survey
     by corby6@juno.com (Corby B Ziesman)
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 21:03:50 -0700
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Advisory panelist blasts politics in U.S. health studies

Reuter Information Service 

BOSTON (April 16, 1997 6:37 p.m. EDT) - A prominent member of a federal
advisory panel that was attacked for concluding not all women in their
40s needed mammograms said Wednesday major health care decisions are
increasingly being made for political reasons.

In a report in Thursday's New England Journal of Medicine that was
released Wednesday, Harvard Medical School physician Suzanne Fletcher
responded to critics who said the panel's report put thousands of women
in danger.

Fletcher said it was clear that the panel "was doomed to be considered a
failure if it did not conclude that women in their 40s should undergo
screening."

"Questions about health care are increasingly being distorted by
emotional, political, financial and legal interests," she said.

In January, the advisory panel found "the data currently available do
not warrant a universal recommendation for mammography for all women in
their forties. Each woman should
decide for herself whether to undergo mammography."

Reaction was strong.

Most experts agree that women over 50 should get annual mammograms but
they differ on women between 40 and 49. One side says any tests to
detect cancer are beneficial and life-saving while others say the
procedure can be uncomfortable and, since there is no certainty of the
results, women can be unduly traumatized.

When the panel's report was issued, the molecular biologist who directed
the National Cancer Institute, which commissioned the report, said he
was "shocked" by its findings and announced an NCI advisory board, a
separate panel, would review it. In March, the board voted to support
screening for women in their 40s.

The advisory panel chairman had to defend its findings to a Senate
committee, and the Senate voted 98-0 for a nonbinding resolution
supporting mammograms for women in their 40s.

"The panel was accused of condemning American women to death and its
report was described as fraudulent," Fletcher wrote, quoting the Queen
of Hearts in "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" in saying, "Sentence
first -- verdict afterwards."

According to a commentary that accompanied Fletcher's article, other
medical groups got similar responses.

In that commentary, a group of Seattle researchers who had a hand in
disputing various bits of conventional medical wisdom reported how they
have been subjected to organized, personal attacks by powerful special
interest groups which did not like their results and worked relentlessly
to discredit them.

"Special interest groups with money and power want to define acceptable
questions and shape the range of acceptable answers," said the Seattle
group, led by Dr. Richard A. Deyo of the University of Washington.

For example, Deyo said, after he and his colleagues questioned the use
of back surgery where pieces of the spine are fused, the North American
Spine Society accused the
research team of bias and ineptitude and attempted to get funding cut.

Fletcher said a similar pattern can be seen in the debate on breast
implants and the Gulf War Syndrome.

"The Gulf War Syndrome and the debate about the effects of silicone
breast implants are two other recent cases in which careful
consideration of scientific evidence became secondary to other
interests," Fletcher said.

Sometimes, she said, the political agendas of the people trying to
influence the outcome are not obvious.

"In many cases, there are powerful financial interests involved -- for
example, large contingency fees for trial lawyers in the case of
silicone breast implants and billions of dollars in equipment and
professional incomes in the case of mammographic screening," according
to Fletcher.
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 21:05:50 -0700
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Study finds possible link between decongestants and stroke

Copyright © 1997 Reuter Information Service 

BOSTON, (April 16, 1997 6:31 p.m. EDT) - A small pilot study has found a
possible link between over-the-counter decongestants and strokes,
University of Pennsylvania
researchers Wednesday told the American Academy of Neurology's annual
meeting.

But with allergy season under way in the United States, Dr. Eric Raps,
the senior researcher, cautioned the study "is a yellow flag, not a red
one." Decongestants such as pseudoephedrine and phenylpropanolamine
constrict the blood vessels in and around the nose to eliminate
congestion.

"Decongestants can potentially affect blood vessels in both the brain
and heart and elevate blood pressure," Raps, director of the
university's stroke program, said.

The pilot study looked at eight stroke victims, 36 to 60 years old, who
were not at high risk for stroke. Each had used over-the-counter
decongestants for an extended period prior to the onset of stroke
symptoms.

After various neurological tests could find no disease or malignancy,
the researchers concluded the strokes may be related to the constricting
of blood vessels caused by
over-the-counter decongestants.

Phenylpropanolamine is also used in somewhat larger quantities in
over-the-counter weight loss products. The U.S. Food and Drug
Administration said it has helped design a much
larger, multicenter study that was currently under way.

That study was prompted by questions about an association between
strokes and weight loss medicines. The larger study was expected to be
completed in about two years, the FDA said.
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 21:11:44 -0700
>From: Andrew Gach 
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Company tests fat-burning drug

Reuter Information Service 

SAN FRANCISCO (April 16, 1997 11:13 p.m. EDT) - An American company is
testing a drug that potentially could help obese people lose weight by
raising their metabolism, a researcher said Wednesday.

Dr. Robert Dow, principal research investigator with pharmaceutical
company Pfizer Inc, said obesity could be treated either by limiting
food intake or by increasing energy use.

That is usually done through exercise. But Pfizer has developed
compounds that in animal trials boosted metabolic rates to mimic the
"exercise effect" of increased calorie burning without exercise.
The tests showed a 10 to 30 percent jump in metabolic rate.

A higher metabolic rate leads the body to slowly burn extra fat.

"If you have a 10 percent increase in energy expenditure, you're
potentially looking at about a half pound a week drop in weight," Dow
said in a statement from the American Chemical Society. Dow
presented his findings Wednesday at the society's meeting in San
Francisco.

In animal trials of the new compound, Dow said researchers had seen no
increase in food intake to match the higher metabolism.

"If I go out and ski all day and I come in, I'm ravenous and I eat
more," Dow said. "But that sort of compensation has not been seen in the
animal tests with these compounds."

The compounds are hormone mimics that act on the beta-adrenergic system,
which has three types of receptors in cells in the body.

Some previous similar compounds passed through animal trials with flying
colors but failed in human clinical trials, Dow said. Dow expects the
new compounds to perform better in human trials than their predecessors
did.

If human clinical trials are successful, the compounds could be
available within five to 10 years, Dow said.

But in an interview with San Francisco's KCBS radio station, Dow
stressed it would not be a miracle pill.

"Our ultimate clinical goal as we envision it now would be to increase
energy expenditure around 10 percent and that would turn into
approximately half a pound a week weight loss if it were
successful...So you aren't going to be losing 50 pounds over a short
period of time," he said.
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 00:17:12 -0400
>From: allen schubert 
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Subject: (US) Missouri heads list of endangered rivers
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from CNN web page:
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                     Missouri heads list of endangered rivers

                      April 16, 1997                              
                      Web posted at: 10:10 p.m. EDT

                     WASHINGTON (AP) -- Dams, mining, barge traffic,
                     development and even the changing electricity
                     industry all contributed to rivers being added to
                     an environmental group's annual list of most
                     endangered waterways.

                     The Missouri River faces the most severe threat
                     this year, the report said.

                     The main reason: The Army Corps of Engineers
                     continues to manage the river "to support a
                     handful of barge operators at the expense of a
                     growing recreation and tourism industry," the
                     conservation group, American Rivers, said.

                     While some rivers such as the Clarks Fork in
                     Montana and Chattahoochee in Georgia, prominently
                     mentioned last year, disappeared from the list,
                     others such as the Tennessee River were added to
                     reflect new concerns about recently emerging
                     threats.

                     "The magnitude and immediacy of threats changes
                     from year to year," said Tom Cassidy, a spokesman
                     for American Rivers. "We try to highlight the
                     magnitude of the threats and also the imminence of
                     the threats."

                     He said the selection is made from scores of
                     candidates submitted by conservation groups around
                     the country.

                     The Tennessee River was added to the list this
                     year because of a desire by the Tennessee Valley
                     Authority to concentrate on electricity generation
                     and leave conservation-related activities to
                     someone else. Congress would have to give TVA
                     permission and presumably would shift those
                     responsibilities elsewhere.

                     Last year, the Chattahoochee River, which snakes
                     around Atlanta, was singled out because of concern
                     about the impact of the Olympics on sewage being
                     dumped into the river. The Olympics are gone, and
                     so is the river from the list.

                     Also no longer considered endangered are the
                     American River in California, which had been
                     threatened by the Auburn Dam until Congress
                     refused to provide new funds, and Clarks Fork near
                     Yellowstone, which had been listed because of a
                     controversial mining project. The gold mine near
                     Yellowstone is being abandoned.

                     In Maine, the Penobscot River, which had been
                     listed as endangered for the past seven years, was
                     deleted from the list because negotiations had
                     begun aimed at scuttling a power project that
                     environmentalists believe threatens the waterway.
                     But that decision might have been premature.
                     Cassidy said the talks recently fell apart.

                     Mill Creek, which flows through the heart of
                     Cincinnati, Ohio was singled out as this year's
                     most polluted urban river because
                     "industrialization, urbanization and
                     channelization have eliminated riparian habitat."

                     It replaced the Anacostia in Washington, D.C., and
                     the Los Angeles River in California, which no
                     longer are among the 30 most troubled waterways
                     because some efforts had been made to improve
                     conditions.

                     The Mississippi River, which has been the subject
                     of long concern because of pollution from chemical
                     plants and agricultural runoff as well as
                     commercial traffic, doesn't make the list either.

                     Scott Faber, the group's specialist on the
                     Mississippi, said that while "there are still many
                     threats ... good things are happening" on the
                     river, including closer cooperation among farmers,
                     shippers and conservationists. It had been among
                     the most endangered three years ago.

                     Other rivers on this year's list are:

                        * Upper Hudson River in New York, because of
                          PCB contamination.

                        * White Salmon River in Washington state,
                          because of the threat to salmon from an
                          hydroelectric dam.

                        * San Joaquin River in central California,
                          because of rapid commercial and residential
                          development.

                        * Wolf River in Wisconsin, because of a
                          proposed zinc and copper mine.

                        * Pinto Creek in Arizona, because of a proposed
                          copper mine.

                        * Potomac River, because of pollution from
                          poultry farms and cattle feedlots in its
                          headwaters and urban sprawl downstream near
                          Washington, D.C.

                        * Lower Colorado River, where demand for
                          low-cost government subsidized water is
                          threatening flows.

Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 21:24:22 -0700
>From: Andrew Gach 
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FOREST FOCUS, the Bulletin of the Western Ancient Forest
Campaign, Apr. 14, 1997  Reach us at (202)879-3188, fax (202)879-
3189, or email WAFCDC@igc.apc.org

TREES SOLD AT LOSS:  Nearly all BLM districts lost money on their timber
sale programs, with total losses as high as $30 million predicted over
the next five years, says Public Employees for Environmental
Responsibility (PEER).  In a report released today, PEER finds that in
the five major timber producing states within the BLM's "public domain"
sale program, receipts to BLM for timber "simply do not cover the costs
of administering the sales."  The report is the sixth and final
installment in a series by PEER critiquing the BLM's public domain
forestry program.  "It is mind boggling that the BLM can lose money
while selling a public commodity," said PEER's Jeff DeBonis.  "Any
business that operated this way would be in Chapter 11 or under
indictment for fraud."  

MURRELET SURVEY:  The Friends of Elk River are conducting their
own surveys for threatened marbled murrelets in the Elk River's
Panther Creek drainage because the Forest Service is surveying in the
wrong places, says Jim Rogers.  Murrelets were found in the area
several years ago, but the Forest Service is still planning a timber
sale for the watershed.  "If we can document, for a second time, that
the Forest Service is failing to find the murrelets that are actually
nesting in the stands they intend to log -- such documentation should
lead to delaying logging in all stands the Forest Service declares
unoccupied, until further murrelet surveys are conducted by non-biased
agencies," says Rogers.  The group must raise $7500 for the surveys; for
information about helping contact Rogers at (541)332-2555.

SAVE SALMON, SAVE FORESTS:  Conserving forests is necessary
to protect salmon, but shouldn't be "crippling" to forest owners,
consulting forester Roy Keene writes in an op-ed in the Eugene OR
Register Guard.  "During the last 20 years, forest owners who have
conserved forest cover through more progressive logging have enjoyed
a 15 percent annual appreciatory gain on standing timber," Keene
argues.  "Leaving trees a little longer doesn't 'lose' them; it lets
them grow to become more valuable."  Keene says that "direct action by
the people" will be necessary to save forests and salmon, endorsing an
initiative to "slow forest liquidation, reduce clear-cutting and mandate
leaving trees on steep unstable slopes."

SPHYNX ACTION: Citizens are invited to a protest rally in the Detroit
OR area this coming Sunday, April 20th, at 1:00 p.m., says a release
from WALL, the Cascadia Forest Defenders, and the Santiam Watershed
Guardians.  "It is time once again to let the Forest Service and our
government know in no uncertain terms that the destruction of our
watershed is unacceptable," writes Joe Keating.  "Despite the formal
protest of the Salem City Council, which specifically opposes the Sphinx
timber sales, the Forest Service is proceeding to rebuild logging roads
and has permitted clear-cut logging."  The sale includes over 400 acres
of logging spread over 28 units.  For information call Keating at
(503)234-2613.

WILD UTAH:  The Wild Utah Forest Campaign, a project of WAFC,
is holding a conference April 26-27 to "bring together activists on
forest and wildlife issues from all over Utah."  The event will be held
at Boulder Mountain Lodge in Boulder UT.  Networking among UT
activists and exchange of information about forest conservation issues
and activist approaches is scheduled.  Reach Susan Sweigert at
ses@burgoyne.com for information.   

Steve Holmer
Campaign Coordinator
Western Ancient Forest Campaign
1025 Vermont Ave, NW, 3rd Floor
Washington, D.C. 20005
202/879-3188
202/879-3189 fax
wafcdc@igc.apc.org
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 20:37:25 +0800 (SST)
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> Hong Kong Standard, 17 Apr 97

Panda's 25th anniversary as an American

Hsing-Hsing gets ready to wolf down his anniversary blueberry cake.
Picture: AP


WASHINGTON: Ah, Hsing-Hsing. Your mate is long gone. Decades of trying
failed to produce an heir. Now you are aging, a little arthritic, with eye
problems and facing surgery.

So what is there for a giant panda and his adopted country to celebrate?
The faces of the children gathered across the moat at the Panda House of
the National Zoo Wednesday morning gave the answer.

``There he is,'' a little girl squealed as Hsing-Hsing walked in a
dignified waddle out of his private quarters to a large blueberry muffin
anniversary cake waiting for him on the green hillside.

It was 25 years to the day that Hsing-Hsing and his partner, Ling-Ling,
arrived in Washington, a gift from the People's Republic of China following
President Nixon's ice-breaking trip to Beijing.

``He may be the most famous zoo resident in the United States or even in
the world,'' said Mac Hudson, the zoo's deputy director, as he helped
celebrate the anniversary.

Hsing-Hsing faces surgery for testicular cancer later in the month but Mr
Hudson said the prognosis is good.

``For his age he's in pretty good shape,'' he said. ``The zoo veterinarians
are optimistic about his complete recovery.''

Michael Heyman, director of the Smithsonian Institution, of which the zoo
is a part, had these thoughts:

``At first glance a giant panda would seem to be just an odd bear that eats
bamboo and does not hibernate. ... But people all over the world really
adore them. ... Maybe it's the big black eye patches ... . In people's eyes
the panda becomes the cuddly bear of human folklore. ... They are beautiful
and charming and beguiling creatures.

``We care about pandas and are very concerned they may go extinct in our
children's lifetimes,'' Mr Heyman said. ``They bring to us a message about
endangered species and the need to protect them.''

Hsing-Hsing's female mate, Ling-Ling, died of heart failure in 1992. None
of the cubs they produced survived more than a few days.

``These were heady times and sad times for the National Zoo,'' said Mr
Hudson as he recounted the story. Zoo officials appealed for public support
of a fund-raising campaign to support the 1,000 or so pandas who remain in
the wild in China.

None of the speakers at the short ceremony directly appealed to China for a
new panda pair to extend the zoo's panda tradition into the 21st century.

But Mr Hudson said: ``We still hold out hope for a future generation of
great pandas here at the National Zoo.''

As for Hsing-Hsing, he eventually whacked his anniversary cake in half and
wolfed it down.

But first he finished off his normal daily fare: a gruel of rice, honey,
cottage cheese and vitamin and mineral supplements. - AP

Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 20:37:31 +0800 (SST)
>From: Vadivu Govind 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org, veg-news@envirolink.org
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The Straits Times
APR 17 1997                                               
     Eating this fish after surgery may help after all
        By Lea Wee
     GRANDMA may be right after all.



     The Chinese folk belief in eating snakehead fish (sang yu) after
     surgery may have some scientific basis.

     Researchers from the National University of Singapore and
     Universiti Pertanian Malaysia found that mice injected with
     extracts of the fish felt less pain than those given injections
     of plain saline solution.

     The researchers, from NUS' department of anaesthesia and the
     Malaysian university's department of biomedical sciences also
     found that when the snakehead fish extract is combined with the
     painkiller morphine, responses to pain were suppressed even
     further.

     NUS research fellow Yoswa Dambisya presented early findings of
     the study last Saturday at a two-day annual scientific meeting of
     the Society of Anaesthesiologists. It received a "most original
     paper" commendation award.

     The researchers studied the fish fillet and the mucus which the
     skin secretes.

     They injected an irritant into the abdomen of the mice, which
     made the animals writhe. When the fish extract was injected, the
     mice writhed less, indicating less pain felt.

     The researchers also focused heat from a bulb onto the tips of
     the animals' tails to see how long they took to flick their tails
     away in response.

     They found that mice injected with the fish extract responded as
     quickly as mice injected with saline.

     Dr Dambisya believes that this may be because the fish extract
     blocks pain only within the abdomen, and not at the spinal cord.

     "It may also be because the extracts do not have very strong
     pain-reducing properties," he said, adding that only strong
     pain-killers would make the mice feel less pain in the tail test.

     But the researchers found that the pain-killing effect of the
     extract seemed enhanced when it was combined with another
     pain-killer, morphine.

     When the tail test was administered to mice given both the fish
     extract and morphine, they found that they took longer to move
     their tails compared to mice given saline or even morphine only.

     "This shows that pain was suppressed much more in the animals
     given both the fish extract and morphine," said Dr Dambisya.

     He added that the researchers plan further studies and will work
     eventually towards carrying out a trial in patients.

     But whatever the results, the practice of eating sang yu after
     surgery will probably continue.

     Fishmonger He Fu Guang, 51, who has been in the business for more
     than 40 years, said he sells about 10 to 20 big sang yu -- which
     can weigh about 2 kg each -- and about 30 smaller ones every day.
     The fish is usually eaten in soup or sliced with vegetables and
     fried.

     "It is popular with both the Chinese and Malays. They believe it
     helps a wound to heal faster after surgery.

     "Some of them even said their doctors recommended they buy it!"

Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 20:37:35 +0800 (SST)
>From: Vadivu Govind 
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The Straits Times, APR 17 1997                                               

     Mosques find alternative animal supplies
        By Indrani Nadarajah


     SEVERAL of the 35 mosques which had faced having to cancel the
     korban or ritual slaughter ceremony set for Hari Raya Haji
     tomorrow because the supplier could not deliver the sheep and
     cows they had ordered in time, have managed to get alternative
     supplies.

     The mosques have been trying to find alternative meat suppliers
     in Singapore, and some have been successful.

     Mr Mazlan Salleh of Hangjebat Mosque, in Jalan Hang Jebat, off
     Portsdown Road, told The Straits Times that it needed only 44.

     It got them from Zac Meat and Poultry Pte Ltd which, together
     with Gauson Al-Ban Pte Ltd, ran an advertisement in yesterday's
     Berita Harian.

     Mr Rahmat Sulaiman of Hasanah Mosque in Teban Gardens also
     managed to get the 50 sheep his mosque had ordered. He said it
     was offered 200 but took only the 50 it needed.

     "If the Muis-appointed supplier failed to get the animals, then
     I'm sorry, but they have to look elsewhere. It now falls on us to
     save the situation, and we have to try other avenues, because we
     have time, and the rites go on until Sunday," he said.

     He said that as leader of the mosque, he was answerable to the
     worshippers in his mosque, even though the rite was not
     obligatory.

     He said: "I have to explain the situation to them, and they will
     ask me if I am doing anything about the situation. At the end of
     the day, it falls back onto us. Just because the supplier cannot
     deliver, it doesn't mean that we have to accept it.

     "We should be given the leeway to source on our own because I
     don't feel that there is an obligation to go along with what Muis
     says, going under their umbrella was a voluntary thing anyway."

     Both mosques said they were not sure if they would take part in
     the Muis scheme next year.

     The director of Gauson Al-Ban, Mr Mohamed Sahel Bagushair, said
     he was not surprised that the supplier, Shafiq Halal Food, could
     not bring in the sheep and cattle in time.

     Gauson Al-Ban had also bid for the contract at the end of
     January, he said.

     "This is what happens when you go by the tender system, and award
     it to the lowest tenderer. You are not necessarily getting the
     best. The tender is for a very large contract not just to supply
     the animals, but to offer butchering, and cleaning-up services
     also."

     Muis approached him last Friday, he said, but he told them he
     could not supply the 3,424 sheep it wanted at such a late date.
     He could only offer 600.

     Muis confirmed this and its secretary, Mr Syed Haroon Aljunied,
     said: "There is nothing wrong with the tender system. It has
     worked since 1992, without any problems.

     "Also, when we called the meeting on Monday to inform the 35
     mosques that we could not get the animals, all but two attended.

     "The decision not to have any korban this year was a unanimous
     decision by the mosques. It was not one imposed by Muis."

Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 20:37:41 +0800 (SST)
>From: Vadivu Govind 
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The Straits Times, APR 17 1997                                               

     New PPD course trains people to work in agrotechnology farms

        By Tan Hsueh Yun

     FARMING is not a back-breaking or dirty job.

     And to show what the new-style farming is about, the Primary
     Production Department (PPD) is offering a new six-month course to
     give people a taste of farming life.

     It wants to recruit and train people to work in Singapore's
     agrotechnology farms, to ease the labour shortage in the
     industry.

     There are 309 such farms now, it said.

     Depending on their interest, trainees may raise orchids, grow
     vegetables or work with livestock.

     Most of their time will be spent on the farms, and trainers will
     go there to teach them.

     Dr Ngiam Tong Tau, PPD's director of primary production, called
     the six-month programme an introductory course.

     It will run alongside an existing 2-1/2-year apprenticeship
     training scheme in agrotechnology operations, which leads to a
     National Technical Certificate Grade 2 (NTC-2).

     After the six-month course, those with O or N levels and who want
     to be farmers may go on to the NTC-2 course.

     The others can attend other advanced courses which the PPD will
     tailor to their needs.

     He said: "Farming is not a back-breaking job. The amount of
     manual work is about 20 per cent. The rest of the time is spent
     observing the animals and making sure the machinery is working."

     The new course will turn prospective farmers -- whom he calls
     agritechnicians -- into all-rounders who know about breeding,
     nutrition, health care, harvesting and packing.

     He said: "We want a pool of people with technical backgrounds.
     They will be able to question long-standing practices which may
     not be right or economical."

     If they are good, he said, they could eventually manage a farm.

     Those who sign up for the six-month course will get briefings and
     farm tours.

     During their first three months of training, they will receive a
     monthly allowance of $600, and $700 a month after that.

     When they complete the course and decide to carry on working on
     the farms, they will receive a salary of not less than $1,000 a
     month, the PPD said.

     Those interested can call 1-800-226-2250 to register for the
     course or for more information.

     So what makes a good farmer?

     Said Dr Ngiam: "They must have a love for nurturing plants,
     animals and fishes.

     "Only when you have a feeling for these things can you be a
     farmer. If you look at it as a normal job, you won't be a good
     farmer."

Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 09:23:01 -0400
>From: allen schubert 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US) Pests May Beat insecticide 
Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970418092259.006cc6ec@clark.net>
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Has to do w/genetically engineered plants.
from AP Wire page:
----------------------------------------
 04/17/1997 08:28 EST 

 Pests May Beat insecticide 

 RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) -- Moths and other predators may develop a resistance to a
 natural pesticide produced by a genetically engineered variety of cotton. 

 The preliminary conclusion of a North Carolina State University study was
viewed
 with concern in some quarters because scientists have also produced corn and
 potato plants that make the same insecticide. 

 Entomologist Fred Gould found moths and other predators could become
resistant
 to the genetically altered cotton's toxin within 10 years. But the
findings, which were
 reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Scientists, need to
be tested
 in the field before there is cause for alarm, he said. 

 ``This underscores the need for caution in deploying transgenic cotton to
control
 insects,'' Gould said. 

 John Cooper, president of the Carolinas Cotton Growers cooperative in
Raleigh,
 said genetically altered strains represent less than 5 percent of North
Carolina's
 cotton crop. 

 The researchers studied whether moths could develop resistance to Bt, a
natural
 soil toxin produced by genetically engineered cotton. 

 Some farmers and suppliers have looked to genetically engineered plants to
 produce bigger crops without employing harmful pesticides. Critics, however,
 believe regulators gave their approval too quickly and first should have
assessed the
 crops' potential for failure if pests develop resistance. 

 Becky Goldberg, a scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund in
Washington,
 said the study findings are good reason for caution about embracing
pest-resistant
 crops. 

 ``Resistance really could evolve quite rapidly,'' she said. ``I think the
implications for
 the future are quite scary.'' 

 Gould and his staff collected 2,000 male moths from cotton fields and bred
them
 with 2,000 females resistant to Bt. 

 For every 1,000 hatched moths, an average of 1.5 was resistant to toxins
triggered by
 the cotton, the researchers found. Gould said previous estimates had
projected a
 rate of one for every million. 

 David Andow, a University of Minnesota entomologist, cautioned that
lab-bred moths
 may not survive in the field. 

 ``It may not be the doomsday case we're worried about,'' he said. 

 The North Carolina Agriculture Department said the state's cotton has made a
 comeback since 1978, when farmers planted only 42,000 acres. This year,
700,000
 acres will be planted, according to Cooper. 

 He said more farmers are planting pest-resistant cotton, but believes its
use will be
 limited until more is known about it. 
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 07:34:38 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Friends of Animals 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Seinfeld Cockfighting Episode Tonight
Message-ID: <2.2.16.19970417102233.190f3828@pop.igc.org>
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The episode of Seinfeld involving cockfighting is 
going to be aired as a repeat episode tonight at
9:00 PM EST on NBC.  (check your local listings)

The number for the show is:

SEINFELD

4024 Radford Avenue

Studio City, California 91604

Ph# 818-760-6105


Thanks,
Bill Dollinger
Friends of Animals

Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 11:48:59 -0400 (EDT)
>From: LCartrLong@aol.com
To: farmusa@erols.com, ar-news@envirolink.org
Cc: SPYKE@arc.unm.edu
Subject: CDC Says CJD Is Rare, and Not Linked To British Strain (US)
Message-ID: <970417114809_-233756412@emout17.mail.aol.com>



CDC Says CJD Is Rare, and "Not Linked" To Mad Cow Disease

ATLANTA, April 16 (Reuter) - The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC) said Wednesday that deaths from Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease
(CJD) were very rare in the United States and are not known to be linked to
"mad cow" disease. 

Asked about press reports that a 62-year-old Indiana man had died of CJD,
which has been called the human version of "mad cow" disease, CDC spokesman
Tom Skinner said about 200 people die from the disease in the United States
each year but the variant of CJD linked to "mad cow" had not been found. 

"If this person died of CJD, it is a rare instance but not unknown," Skinner
said. 

"We have not seen the new variant form of CJD" linked to "mad cow" by reports
last year from Britain, he said. 

Mad cow disease, or Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE), sparked a
consumer panic when a new strain of CJD in Britain was linked to BSE in
British cattle. 

No case of BSE has ever been detected in the United States cattle herd,
Skinner said. 

((Atlanta bureau, 404 870 7340)) 

21:21 04-16-97

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

Indiana Officials Not Aware of CJD Death

Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 12:24:58 -0400
>From: allen schubert 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US) CDC-Salmonella Typhimurium DT 104
Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970418122455.0068a194@clark.net>
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(Note next to last para...transmission of salmonella from cattle and sheep
to humans.)
from CDC web page:
-------------------------------
                      CDC Fact Sheet - April 11, 1997
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Contact: CDC Media Relations, (404) 639-3286
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

                       Salmonella Typhimurium DT 104

   * Salmonella Typhimurium Definitive Type 104 (DT 104) is an emerging
     multidrug-resistant strain of Salmonella Typhimurium that was first
     reported in the United Kingdom in 1984.

   * S. Typhimurium DT 104 is commonly resistant to ampicillin,
     chloramphenicol, streptomycin, sulfonamides, and tetracycline.

   * In the United States, S. Typhimurium is the second most common
     serotype identified; accounting for 24% of all reported Salmonella
     cases. The proportion of S. Typhimurium isolates in the United States
     that are DT 104 is probably increasing. In 1996, CDC identified 90 of
     282 S. Typhimurium isolates as having the antimicrobial resistance
     pattern associated with S. Typhimurium DT 104. In a national sample of
     976 S. Typhimurium isolates tested in 1995, 28% had this resistance
     pattern, compared with 7% in 1990.

   * In 1996, S. Typhimurium DT 104 caused an outbreak of diarrheal illness
     among Nebraska school children. During the outbreak, 19 of 32 children
     at an elementary school became ill reporting symptoms of diarrhea
     (including bloody diarrhea), fever, headache, nausea, and vomiting. A
     definitive source of infection was not established.

   * S. Typhimurium DT 104 infection is associated with contact with sick
     farm animals and eating contaminated meats (chicken, beef, pork, and
     sheep). However, it also has been isolated from cats, wild birds,
     rodents, foxes, and badgers, and has been transmitted from cattle and
     sheep to people.

   * The reservoirs of S. Typhimurium DT 104 in the United States are
     unknown. Therefore, additional studies are needed to identify the
     source of S. Typhimurium DT 104 in the environment and the human food
     chain before specific preventive measures can be recommended.

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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 14:52:46 -0400 (EDT)
>From: **** 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: GardenBurger Boycott (fwd)
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---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 97 11:05:34 CDT
>From: Rich Winkel 
To: dolphins@VIPER.NAUTICOM.NET
Subject: GardenBurger Boycott

/** econ.boycotts: 325.0 **/
** Topic: GardenBurgers **
** Written 11:10 PM  Apr 14, 1997 by charlie@igc.org in cdp:econ.boycotts **
>From: Charlie Metzler 

>From: "Marie, Donna M (PB-dmmarie)" 
To: "'Vegsf'" 
Subject: FW: Alert! GardenBurger boycott
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 1997 23:15:43 +0100

)                            ALERT!!!
)
)                    Oregon Farmworkers Union
)                 Calls for GardenBurger Boycott
)
)     *******************************************************
)     The boycott of GardenBurger and other products of
)     Wholesome and Hearty Foods demonstrates some of the
)     difficulties of carrying out national campaigns in
)     support of regional farmworker issues.  Wholesome and
)     Hearty Foods is one focus of a larger campaign -- not
)     because of the company's own labor practices -- but
)     because they have failed to cut product distribution
)     ties with NORPAC canneries, a giant agricultural coop,
)     many of whose member farms engage in serious violations
)     of the rights of their immigrant labor force.  While
)     the connections from GardenBurger to the migrant
)     laborers may seem indirect, the necessity for the
)     boycott is very real to the workers who have much at
)     stake in this struggle.  Campaign for Labor Rights
)     urges you to read this alert and to take the suggested
)     actions for supporting the boycott.  This alert has two
)     parts:  an introduction by Campaign for Labor Rights
)     and an article which originally appeared in a newspaper
)     in Eugene, Oregon.
)     *******************************************************
)
)     *****************************************************
)     This alert was posted by Campaign for Labor Rights in
)     support of a boycott called by Northwest Treeplanters
)     and Farmworkers United (Spanish acronym:  PCUN).  See
)     contact information for both organizations below.
)     Reposting/reprinting of this alert is welcomed.
)     *****************************************************
)
)THE STORY BEHIND THE BOYCOTT
)[Based on materials provided by PCUN]
)
)Northwest Treeplanters and Farmworkers United (Spanish acronym:
)PCUN) is Oregon's union of farmworkers, nursery and reforestation
)workers -- Oregon's largest Latino organization.  98% of PCUN
)members are Mexican or Central American immigrants; about half
)reside permanently in Oregon.
)
)Agriculture in Oregon is a $3 billion business.  In the past 25
)years, growers increasingly have pooled profits and bought up the
)major processing facilities.  In Oregon, the growers ARE the
)canneries.  One of these grower-owned "cooperatives," NORPAC
)Foods, boasts annual sales of $287 million.
)
)For decades, the agriculture industry has used its economic and
)political power to keep farmworkers isolated, unorganized and
)unassertive, by:  encouraging frequent and massive labor turnover
)and over-supply; convincing lawmakers to exclude farmworkers from
)federal and state labor legislation; and lobbying for weak or
)nonexistent enforcement of the limited legal rights afforded
)farmworkers.  Workers apply carcinogenic pesticides using little
)or no protective gear and suffer exposure from aerial spraying
)and improper storage.  Workers generally live in overcrowded,
)substandard and exorbitantly-priced housing, located either in
)area towns or on company land.  The severe shortage of affordable
)housing has become even more acute in recent years as workers
)increasingly have brought their families to Oregon and reside
)there throughout the year.
)
)In 1991, PCUN led the first-ever organized agricultural strike in
)Oregon.  Grower retaliation against the union led PCUN to launch
)a nationwide boycott in 1992 against NORPAC canneries.
)
)NORPAC and GardenBurger
)
)NORPAC Foods markets its products under the Flav R Pac (frozen
)fruits and vegetables) and Santiam (canned vegetables) brand
)names.  Member growers repeatedly violate farmworker rights.
)Workers who dare to struggle to change these conditions face
)eviction from grower-owned housing, firing and even physical
)violence.  Both individual NORPAC growers and the cooperative's
)leadership have refused to negotiate any of the issues which
)farmworkers have raised.  The NORPAC boycott is intended to force
)NORPAC growers to sit down and negotiate with workers.  In 1996,
)the NORPAC boycott was expanded to include GardenBurger and other
)Wholesome and Hearty Foods products distributed by NORPAC Sales.
)
)Wholesome and Hearty Foods (products include GardenBurger,
)GardenVeggie, GardenVegan, GardenSausage, GardenMexi, AlmondMylk,
)GardenDog, GardenSteak and AlmondCheeze) continues to use NORPAC
)as one of its distributors.  The PCUN demand to Wholesome and
)Hearty Foods is simple:  Commit to severing ties to NORPAC.
)
)What You Can Do:
)
)* Respect the NORPAC boycott:  Do not purchase its products under
)the Flav R Pac (frozen fruits and vegetables) and Santiam (canned
)vegetables) brand names.
)
)* Do not purchase Wholesome and Hearty products:  GardenBurger,
)GardenVeggie, GardenVegan, GardenSausage, GardenMexi, AlmondMylk,
)GardenDog, GardenSteak and AlmondCheeze.
)
)* Call or write to:  Charles Monahan, Vice President for Sales
)and Retail, Wholesome and Hearty Foods, 975 SE Sandy Blvd.,
)Portland, OR 97214  (503) 238-0109  fax: (503) 232-6485.  Tell
)him that you support justice for farmworkers and that you want
)Wholesome and Hearty to cut its distribution ties to NORPAC until
)the growers negotiate with the farmworkers.
)
)* Ask your favorite restaurants, food co-ops and grocery stores
)to stop carrying Wholesome and Hearty products.
)
)Contact Information:
)
)PCUN:  For a background/action packet including a sample leaflet,
)contact Erik Nicholson, PCUN, 300 Young St., Woodburn, OR 97071
)(503) 982-0243  fax: (503) 982-1031.
)
)Campaign for Labor Rights:  To receive our newsletter and
)information on action packets or for other information, contact:
)1247 "E" Street SE, Washington, DC 20003  (541) 344-5410
)clr@igc.apc.org  web site: http://www.compugraph.com/clr
)
)WHOLESOME AND TARGETED
)[This article originally appeared in the October 17, 1996 edition
)of Eugene Weekly, a local publication covering arts,
)entertainment and politics in Eugene, Oregon.  Campaign for Labor
)Rights thanks Alice Tallmadge and Eugene Weekly for their
)generosity in permitting us to reprint their material.]
)
)The boycott of Gardenburgers by PCUN, Oregon's farm labor group,
)pulls the natural food industry into the midst of farmworkers'
)struggles for basic workers' rights.
)
)By Alice Tallmadge
)
)When President Clinton was the honored guest at a $1,000 a plate
)Portland fundraiser last month, his well-heeled Democratic
)supporters were served Gardenburgers, the meatless "burger" made
)by Portland-based Wholesome and Hearty Foods, Inc. That company,
)which grew from a cottage industry to a corporate entity in less
)than a decade, has been repeatedly hailed as a "progressive
)Oregon company makes good" success story. Visitors to Portland's
)International Airport are greeted with a picture of the
)delectable burger and the words, "Welcome to Portland, home of
)the Gardenburger!"
)
)But lately Wholesome and Hearty has found itself in a spotlight
)of a very different hue.
)
)Since March, Oregon's 4,000 member farmworkers' labor group,
)PCUN, Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (Farmworkers and
)Treeplanters Union of the Northwest), has been calling for a
)boycott of all Wholesome and Hearty Food products.
)
)Wholesome's sin, according to PCUN boycott organizer Eric
)Nicholson, isn't buying their ingredients direct from exploitive
)growers, nor that they themselves treat their workers unfairly.
)The company is being targeted because it uses NORPAC Food Sales
)to distribute its products to club food stores.
)
)PCUN has been boycotting NORPAC, Inc., the state's largest fruit
)and vegetable growers and processing co-operative, since 1991 to
)try to force grower members to negotiate with farm workers over
)such issues as paid breaks (currently workers are allowed one
)half-hour lunch break per day, regardless of hours worked),
)overtime pay and adequate restroom facilities.
)
)According to Nicholson, agricultural workers are not covered by
)state and federal labor laws that give other workers the right to
)organize and join unions to demand better working conditions.
)With no laws to assure agricultural workers even the most basic
)rights, says Nicholson, PCUN's only recourse is through
)boycotting.
)
)"By not cutting its ties to NORPAC Food Sales, Wholesome and
)Hearty is being regressive and actively hurting farmworkers,"
)says Nicholson.
)
)In a recent statement, Wholesome and Hearty maintains that NORPAC
)Food Sales and NORPAC, Inc. are totally different entities.
)"There is no reason to believe that discontinuing our
)relationship with this sales agent would improve the
)conditions of Oregon farm workers," reads the statement.
)"However, it is clear that refusing to do business with NORPAC
)Food Sales could immediately risk our company's ability to
)deliver through club stores healthy, meatless food products..."
)
)The decision to target Wholesome and Hearty came about because of
)NORPAC's continuing refusal to negotiate with farm workers, says
)PCUN board member Leone Bicchieri. "We approached [Wholesome]
)because of their progressive image." If Wholesome had agreed to a
)gradual phase out from NORPAC Food Sales, it would have been a
)major victory, he says. "But their response was, 'We're big,
)we're corporate, and if you think you're hitting on a down-home
)progressive business, you're wrong.'"
)
)This past May, the Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon (EMO), an
)umbrella organization for 2,000 Oregon congregations, passed a
)resolution proclaiming that "it is imperative that farmworkers be
)given the right to organize and bargain collectively without fear
)of reprisal." The resolution said that, in refusing to negotiate
)with workers, NORPAC had showed "a lack of good faith and a
)breach of their fundamental obligation to uphold the human
)dignity of all citizens."
)
)Wayne Bryant, EMO executive director, says that in its September
)meeting, the board reiterated its support of farmworkers' rights
)to "the same privileges to organize as to all other workers in
)the U.S." and assured support of any grower who enters into
)negotiations with farmworkers. The board also encouraged
)individuals to "stand with" farmworkers if any reprisals from
)organizing efforts occur and to personally visit farms and
)workers' camps to ascertain the working and living conditions.
)EMO, he says, has not voted to support or reject the boycott.
)
)Natural food store personnel are not responding to the boycott
)with a common voice. In Portland, People's Food Co-op and Food
)Front are keeping Wholesome and Hearty products off the shelf,
)but the Nature's chain is not. Some stores are responding by
)stocking the product, but posting information on the boycott.
)Ashland Community Store has removed "Gardenburgers" from its deli
)menu, but still sells it, unadvertised, off the shelves.
)
)Locally, natural food store personnel say they feel targeting
)Wholesome is misdirected. "Of course farmworkers should have
)rights. But I'm disappointed in this boycott," says Libby Smith,
)grocery buyer at Sundance Natural Foods.  "Canned vegetables are
)boring, so they're going after a company that is more sexy, to
)get attention. It's not fair to Wholesome and Hearty."
)
)Angus James, general manager at New Frontier Markets, also
)disagrees with the boycott. As far as charges about the
)relationship between NORPAC and Wholesome and Hearty, he says, "I
)don't see where there's a connection at all."
)
)PCUN board member Bicchieri says he understands it is easier for
)natural health food stores to boycott actual NORPAC products,
)such as Flav-R-Pac juices or Santiam canned vegetables, than a
)locally-produced natural food product. Still, he says, it's
)necessary. "We have to ask progressive people to respect our
)boycott. We have no other choice. Otherwise, we would be
)irresponsible to our workers."
)
)Meanwhile, says Nicholson, working conditions for farmworkers are
)getting worse.  This past summer, NORPAC refused to agree to a
)general policy of no retaliation against workers who were asking
)for negotiations for better working conditions.  Nicholson says
)PCUN has received increased numbers of complaints from workers
)who say they were physically threatened for indicating they
)wanted improved working conditions.
)
)Also this summer, a group of PCUN organizers who were trying to
)encourage broccoli cutters working near the Oregon city of St.
)Paul to take a break were shot at by a grower. The volunteer
)organizers called police, says Nicholson, "but when the police
)arrived, the grower explained that 'he was shooting at crows.'
)And there was no one there who could prove otherwise."
)
)In another recent incident, a supervisor for a grower in Five
)Oaks was found to be charging each farmworker $3 per day "for the
)right to work at the farm," says Nicholson. Because PCUN helped
)the workers get support from the nearby religious community, he
)says, the grower suspended the $3 charge and the workers who
)complained were not fired. However, the collected "fees" have yet
)to be returned, he says.
)

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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 15:52:27 -0400 (EDT)
>From: LMANHEIM@aol.com
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Kampgrounds of America (KOA) links with Sea World
Message-ID: <970417155119_-1936636050@emout13.mail.aol.com>

This is ~not~ an endorsement of KOA or Sea World.  We might want to consider
a boycott of KOA.

Lynn Manheim


In a message dated 97-04-17 05:38:53 EDT, AOLNewsProfiles@aol.net writes:

 << Subj:Save 10% at Florida theme parks; Sea World of Florida, Busch Gardens
Tampa Bay a
  Date:97-04-17 05:38:53 EDT
  From:AOLNewsProfiles@aol.net
 
       BILLINGS, Mont.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 1997--KOA Value Kard 
 holders will once again enjoy a 10% discount on admissions fees to 
 Sea World of Florida, Busch Gardens Tampa Bay and Adventure Island.
           This great opportunity for savings is the result of an agreement 
 between Busch Entertainment, owner of the three attractions, and 
 family camping industry leader Kampgrounds of America Inc.
           KOA Value Kard holders need only present their valid Value Kard 
 when purchasing admission tickets to Sea World of Florida, Busch 
 Gardens or Adventure Island to receive the discount.  Then, enjoy:
 
       -- The newest attractions at Sea World of Florida, the world's 
 most popular marine adventure park.  These include the festive 
 island of music and fun, Key West at Sea World(SM); the polar 
 experience, Wild Arctic(R), with polar bears Klondike and Snow; and 
 the action-packed water show, Baywatch at Sea World(SM).
           Other experiences include the Shamu: World Focus(SM) killer 
 whale show and Shamu: Close Up!(SM) killer whale research, 
 observation and breeding facility.  Not to be missed is the 
 laser/fireworks show; Mermaids, Myths & Monsters(R); plus Manatees: 
 The Last Generation?(R); Pacific Point Preserve(R); and the Hotel 
 Clyde & Seamore(SM) sea lion show.
           -- Premiering in summer 1997, Busch Gardens Tampa Bay's "Edge 
 of Africa" offers the most intense safari experience outside Africa. 
 Within a remote Serengeti encampment atmosphere, this 15-acre 
 attraction brings guests closer than ever before to amazing species 
 including lions, hippos, hyenas, giraffes, baboons, meerkats and 
 many more.  While exploring the various habitats on foot, guests 
 encounter themed areas such as a Masai village, an abandoned fishing 
 village and safari encampment including sights and aromas common to 
 the Serengeti region.
           In addition to a 10% discount off admission to Sea World of 
 Florida, Busch Gardens Tampa Bay, Adventure Island and a 10% 
 registration discount at every KOA Kampground, the KOA Value Kard 
 also offers a long-distance phone card option.  Using this option, 
 you can call anywhere in the U.S. for just 25 cents per minute (plus 
 tax).  The Phone Kard may also be used to call between the U.S. and 
 Canada, intra-Canada or overseas (at a slightly higher rate).  KOA 
 Value Kards cost only $10, are good for two full years, and may be 
 purchased at any KOA Kampground.
           Vacation planning is easy with the KOA Directory, Road Atlas and 
 Camping Guide.  The directory includes state and provincial road 
 maps, plus location, rate, services and facilities information for 
 every KOA location.  Also included is a handy list of toll-free, 
 direct-to-the-campground "KOA Connection" reservation numbers.
           Pick up a free copy at any KOA or, for a post-paid copy, send
 $3 to KOA Directory, P.O. Box 30558, Billings, MT 59114-0558.  Or, 
 surf the KOA system on the Web at http://www.koakampgrounds.com/
           Established in Billings, Mont., in 1962, KOA Inc. is the 
 franchised family campground industry leader.  Together, KOA Inc. 
 and its affiliates-KOA Canada Ltd., KOA Japan and KOA-Mexico 
 Inc. -- offer more than 75,000 RV, tent and Kamping Kabin sites at 
 hundreds of campground locations in North America and abroad.
       CONTACT: 
       Kampsgrounds of America Inc., Billings
       Annette Murray, 406/248-7444

  >>


---------------------
Forwarded message:
 >From:AOLNewsProfiles@aol.net
Date: 97-04-17 05:38:53 EDT

      BILLINGS, Mont.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 16, 1997--KOA Value Kard 
holders will once again enjoy a 10% discount on admissions fees to 
Sea World of Florida, Busch Gardens Tampa Bay and Adventure Island.
          This great opportunity for savings is the result of an agreement 
between Busch Entertainment, owner of the three attractions, and 
family camping industry leader Kampgrounds of America Inc.
          KOA Value Kard holders need only present their valid Value Kard 
when purchasing admission tickets to Sea World of Florida, Busch 
Gardens or Adventure Island to receive the discount.  Then, enjoy:

      -- The newest attractions at Sea World of Florida, the world's 
most popular marine adventure park.  These include the festive 
island of music and fun, Key West at Sea World(SM); the polar 
experience, Wild Arctic(R), with polar bears Klondike and Snow; and 
the action-packed water show, Baywatch at Sea World(SM).
          Other experiences include the Shamu: World Focus(SM) killer 
whale show and Shamu: Close Up!(SM) killer whale research, 
observation and breeding facility.  Not to be missed is the 
laser/fireworks show; Mermaids, Myths & Monsters(R); plus Manatees: 
The Last Generation?(R); Pacific Point Preserve(R); and the Hotel 
Clyde & Seamore(SM) sea lion show.
          -- Premiering in summer 1997, Busch Gardens Tampa Bay's "Edge 
of Africa" offers the most intense safari experience outside Africa. 
Within a remote Serengeti encampment atmosphere, this 15-acre 
attraction brings guests closer than ever before to amazing species 
including lions, hippos, hyenas, giraffes, baboons, meerkats and 
many more.  While exploring the various habitats on foot, guests 
encounter themed areas such as a Masai village, an abandoned fishing 
village and safari encampment including sights and aromas common to 
the Serengeti region.
          -- Adventure Island guests can brace themselves in 1997 for the 
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Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 16:37:50 -0400
>From: allen schubert 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (TW) Taiwan Pig Slaughter Protested
Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970418163746.006aeb04@clark.net>
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from New York Times--AP page:
---------------------------------------------
          April 17, 1997

          Taiwan Pig Slaughter Protested

          Filed at 12:50 p.m. EDT

          By The Associated Press

          TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) -- Taiwan has bludgeoned,
          electrocuted or buried alive hundreds of thousands of
          pigs in a ``violent killing spree'' to curb an epidemic
          of foot-and-mouth disease, an animal rights group
          charges.

          The Virginia-based People for the Ethical Treatment of
          Animals urged Taiwanese President Lee Teng-hui in a
          statement Wednesday to end the ``torture and violent
          slaughter'' of pigs and give them a ``humane death.''

          ``The pigs are dying screaming helplessly and in
          excruciating pain,'' the group said.

          The government's Agriculture Council said Thursday that
          the slaughter was being conducted as humanely as
          possible. In the early rush to control the disease,
          workers lacked proper equipment, but now all are using
          electrocution, said Chen Chung-chang, vice director of
          the Animal Industry Department.

          Foot-and-mouth disease is caused by a highly contagious
          virus, but it does not harm humans. Pigs bleed and
          develop sores on the mouth and trotter. The animals do
          not eat and ultimately must be killed.

          The government ordered mass inoculations and selective,
          preemptive slaughter, mobilizing army conscripts to
          kill pigs and take the carcasses to incinerators and
          burial pits.

          Television has shown graphic images of older pigs being
          pushed into pits to be buried alive and younger pigs
          being electrocuted.

          About 1 million pigs have been slaughtered, government
          figures show. Chen said 100,000 to 200,000 pigs are
          being slaughtered a day, and about 2 million will be
          killed before the job is done in two weeks.

          Since the outbreak, pork prices have plummeted and the
          government has promised huge loans to farmers. The
          disease has hit 1,299 farms, where about 2.6 million
          pigs are raised.
Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 15:12:19 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Mike Markarian 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Cc: Taurus1846@aol.com
Subject: Toyota
Message-ID: <2.2.16.19970417225531.443f1580@pop.igc.org>
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The Fund for Animals was recently informed that Toyota had planned to
sponsor a deer hunt on its property in Kentucky. We have received assurance
from Toyota that this was only a rumor and that they never planned such a
hunt. They are, in fact, exploring non-lethal means such as fencing to deal
with the deer on their property, and we have provided them with information
on fencing and wildlife reflectors. We received the following statement by
fax today:

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

TOYOTA MOTOR MANUFACTURING, KENTUCKY, INC.
1001 Cherry Blossom Way
P.O. Box 2700
Georgetown, KY 40324
(502) 868-2000

TO: Fund for Animals

FR: Tom Harris, Assistant Manager, Public Affairs

RE: Deer Control Issue

Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Kentucky (TMMK) owns 1300 acres in rural Scott
County, Kentucky. The site has a large (400 acres) undeveloped area that,
unfortunately, provides a natural habitat for a growing deer population. The
deer population is doubling every two years.

The main concern for TMMK is the safety of its team members and their
families while driving on and around the property. A number of deer-vehicle
collisions have occurred over the past two years and the number of incidents
is also increasing. In addition to the safety issue, other areas of concern
are habitat destruction, disease potential, and damage to landscaping due to
foraging.

TMMK has evaluated a number of potential solutions and preventative measures
to alleviate the safety hazards of the deer population. At this time, the
only counter measure to our problem that is planned is additional fencing of
roadways. TMMK will continue to closely monitor the situation with our
primary interest being the safety of our team members and their families.

Date: Fri, 18 Apr 1997 18:34:54 -0400
>From: allen schubert 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: AUSTRALIAN ANIMAL ACTION
Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970418183450.006c5400@clark.net>
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from private e-mail:
------------------------------
TUESDAY, MARCH 22ND 

>AUSTRALIAN ACTIVISTS STAMP THOUSANDS OF BATTERY EGGS!!
>In the early hours of the morning the Animal Liberation Action Rescue Team
inspected Victoria’s largest battery hen factory HAPPY HENS EGG WORLD for
the 16th time!
>Thousands of battery eggs were individually stamped with the words “made
with cruelty”. The egg industry consistently misleads consumers with false
advertising. The time has come to tell the truth. The health of Victorian
people is seriously at risk. The appalling, filthy and cruel conditions in
egg factories is a disease outbreak just waiting to happen.
>A minimum of 30 dead rotting green decomposing bodies were pulled out of
the cages in a short time by the rescue team. Living hens were forced to
live and lay their eggs on these corpses. Mice were seen running through
the cages. Many violations to the State’s Prevention Of Cruelty To Animals
Act and Code of Practice were videotaped and photographed.
>Four very ill hens were rescued and taken to a veterinary surgeon, one had
to be euthanased (she was severely emaciated, only had one eye and suffered
a long-standing wound). Two of the hens rescued were half their normal body
weight.
>Patty Mark, Campaign Director said this morning: ‘Enough is enough.The
enforcement of Victoria’s Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act is a farce.
Dr Hugh Wirth, National President of the R.S.P.C.A. has witnessed the
hideous suffering and atrocities inside Happy Hens Egg World, but he choses
to ignore it. I call on Jeff Kennett, Premier of Victoria and Patron of the
R.S.P.C.A. to launch an immediate inquiry regarding the failure of the
Department of Agriculture and the R.S.P.C.A. to do their job.”
>Further information: Patty Mark Tel: 61 (0)3 9531 4367 Fax: 61 (0)3 9531
4257 
PS.This night we were involved in a one and a half hour car chase with
the chook farmers, who must not have had a mobile phone so once we left
the the main roads the police didn't know where we were, he even chased
us on a huge freeway back to the big smoke, but sixty mile out of
Melbourne, the dopey farmer, Stephen Colla ran out of petrol.so we got
the chooks back safely to be taken to the vet and were not arrested. 
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MONDAY, APRIL 14TH 

MAGGOT INFESTED PORK!!!
AUSTRALIAN ACTIVISTS FACE COURT OVER EXPOSE
>Diana Simpson and Fiona Rees, members of the Animal Liberation Action
Rescue Team face trespass charges tomorrow morning in relation to shocking
conditions they exposed at the Bunge Piggery in Corowa on 30th November
1996.(BUNGE PIGGERY is the largest piggery in the Southern Hemisphere, some
230,000 pigs are confined in 80 sheds).
>The two women filmed several pregnant sows suffering bleeding prolapses
seething with maggots just weeks after 36 activists (including Richard
Jones MP) had chained themselves inside the piggery. The women took their
footage to the Corowa police to register a cruelty complaint. Sergeant
Lionel Smith was appalled after viewing the footage and attended at the
piggery that same day (Saturday, 30th November).Sergeant Smith located the
sows who were left neglected in their horrendous condition.
>A BUNGE vet refused to humanely euthanase the sows telling Sergeant Smith
they were listed to be sent to the abattoir on the following
Monday.(Meaning the remains of these sick animals ended up in the human
food chain).
>BUNGE tried to cover up the scandal by sending a solicitors letter
demanding that the undercover footage be immediately delivered to their
head office in Melbourne, Victoria. After obtaining legal advice Animal
Liberation Action ignored their threat.
>The video shows bleeding prolapses seething with maggots, other pigs
standing on these sick animals who are screaming in pain. Over 600 pregnant
sows locked in individual stalls so small the animals can only stand up and
lay down. The tormented, bored and obviously neurotic animals are madly
sucking at the bars of their stalls and yelling in fevered distress.
>Further Information: Patty Mark Tel: 61 (0)3 9351 4367 Fax: 61 (0)3 9531
4257   
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TUESDAY, APRIL 15TH

NO CONVICTION FOR AUSTRALIAN ACTIVISTS FIGHTING PIGGERY
>Diana Simpson and Fiona Rees of the Animal Liberation Action Rescue Team,
were both charged with trespass at the BUNGE piggery in Corowa on November
30th, 1996, during which time they took shocking video footage of cruelty
and neglect (including maggot infested prolapses on 3 pregnant sows).
>The following decision by Magistrate Clive Werry (who found the charge
proved but recorded no conviction and imposed no penalty) follows
(transcribed from notes taken by Patty Mark in the courtroom..so may not be
word for word).
>Magistrate Werry in summing up...You had no right to be there in a
restricted and quarantined area. I don’t think I’ll have a look at your
video. I’m not going to enter the arena in what can and what should be done
with what concerns animals. I’m simply concerned you went on land
illegally...though in view of your beliefs and desrires that animals do not
suffer in any way, shape or form, which is a noteworthy attitude or hobby
if you will, but it still doesn’t give you the right to breach the law.
>It would appear in the photographs that the animals were in need of some
help, in the future I’d advise you to do the correct procedure, not in your
own hands, as simple as that. Both ladies are of good character, in fact
have excellent references...I find no conviction and no penalty just pay
$51 court costs...
>The DPP asked permission to take the defendants fingerprints, but the
Magistrate refused this request.
>Further Information: Patty Mark Tel: 61 (0)3 9531 4367 Fax: 61 (0)3 9531 4257
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Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 16:12:06 -0700 (PDT)
>From: David J Knowles 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: [UK] Farmers suffer effects of drought
Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19970417161302.08ef26ea@dowco.com>
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BBC World Service Television reports that a dry spell in the United Kingdom
has now broken Meterological Office records dating back to 1749.

A similar dry spell in France has prompted the French government to call on
the European Union for crisis measures to help farmers.

In Cornwall, south-western England, the effects of a drought are
particularily noticable, with dust-bowl like conditions. Some farmers, who
would normally be planting seeds at this time of year, are not bothering as
the soil does not have any moisture in it.

A vegetable farmer, interviewed in the report, stated his cabbages had gone
to seed because of the lack of rain - no rain had fallen for three weeks -
and also higher than average sunshine and winds. His crop was wiped out at a
cost of 5,000 pounds.

A sheep farmer, also interviewed in the report, stated that he was having to
use hay to feed his sheep, because the grass was not growing - even though
it appeared to be a healthy green colour. He said that this was costing him
a fortune, but he had to feed the sheep somehow.

The report also noted that many dairy and beef farmers were having to move
their cattle onto areas normally used for growing silage, in order to give
grazing areas a rest.

Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 16:12:08 -0700 (PDT)
>From: David J Knowles 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: [CA] Spring comes early to Canada
Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19970417161304.4ea75a1c@dowco.com>
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>From The Vancouver Sun - Thursday, April 17th, 1997

Spring comes 8 days ahead of schedule.

In the northern hemisphere, the growing season is a total of 12 days ahead
of the 60's

By Tom Spears and Petti Fong
Southam Newspapers and Vancouver Sun

Spring arrives a week earlier than it used to over much of the northern
hemisphere, showing how dramatically life would change with global warming,
say scientists who study satellite data on plant growth.

The growing season in the northern hemisphere in a band running from Lake
Ontario north to the tundra and from B.C. to Siberia is 12 days longer than
it was in the 1960's, says the group led by Professor Ranga Myneni of Boston
University.

Most of that chage comes in spring, which now arrives about eight days early.

Professor Inez Fung, of the Earth and Ocean Sciences department at the
University if Victoria, said satellite data shows all of B.C. has been affected.

"We are seeing that photosynthesis has increased over such a large area for
such a long period. Our boreal forests are growing."

That is, grass grows faster, shrubs need trimming sooner and trees are
getting bigger.


"Spring starts sooner, summer lasts longer. There is a better growing
season," Fung said.

The results of the Myneni-led study, published today in today's edition of
the journal "Nature', dosn;t show the world's climate is warming.

But they do show that any warming trend, such as the world has had in the
past three decades, causes a major upheaval in the patterns of life itself.

And the satellite data confirm what Canadian scientists have observed in the
timing of spring since the 1970's, said Walter Skinner of Environment
Canada. It's most noticable from Lake of the Woods through the Yukon.

"That [the satellite study finding] matches exactly with my data," said
Elisabeth Beaubien of the University of Alberta, who studies the time when
Alberta plants start to bud. She said the trend to earlier growing seasons
for the aspen, service berry, chokeberry and many other Alberta plants began
some forty years ago.

Instead of measuring temperatures,  as most climate studies do, the three
NASA satellites in "Nature's" study looked at growing plants. Green, growing
leaves absorb the sun's energy in a different pattern from dormant, winter
plants, and satellites can see the difference.

That means Myneni can see photosythesis - the process by which plants
convert snlight to plant matter - from space.

And this photosythesis begins on average eight days earlier than it did in
1981. The published results go to 1991, but Myneni says analysis of figures
through 1996 also fit the trend.

"Plants are responding to the recent warmth of the past 30 years," when
global temperatures started edging upward, Myneni said. "Globally, it's an
extremely consistent data set."

"We do know that temperatures in this [northern] area have gone up. These
are also areas where snow cover has declined. Definitely, snow cover and
plant growth seem to have responded to that warmth."

The Sierra Club says the earlier spring threatens to upset migrationpatterns
for birds. But a greater threat is that the warming will melt the
permafrost, releasing vast amounts of trapped carbon dioxide to the air and
causing more global warming, said the club's Louise Comeau.

"What happens in the north will affect the world. This is very scary stuff,"
she said.

Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 17:38:18 -0700
>From: "Marie, Donna M (PB-dmmarie)" 
To: "'ar-news'" 
Subject: Howard Lyman's Bay Area speaking schedule
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Hi everyone,

I hope by now you all know that Howard Lyman will be in the bay area for
a series of talks in two weeks.  Here is the latest update on times and
locations that I have.  Please distribute widely.

Monday 4/28 8pm  Unitarian Center Franklin/Geary San Francisco

Tuesday 4/29 7:30pm Montclair Presbyterian Church  5701 Thornhill Drive
(Thornhill exit off Highway 13) Oakland  Info (510)653-7966 or
(510)256-8420 ext 5.

Wed 4/30 7:30pm Westminster Church, Tiburon Info (415)383-9143

Thurs 5/1 8pm Kresge Hall, Stanford University Campus.

$5 recommended donation 

Sponsored by Action for Animals, Animal Rights Connection, Bay Area
Action, Earthsave, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, SF
Vegetarian Society, Stanford Vegan Society, Vegan Action, Vegetarian
Foundation, Vegetarian Restaurant Trek, Voice for a Viable Future.

For more info (510)256-8420 ext 5.

>From the Oakland flyer on Howard's talk:

Come hear Director of Humane Society of the U.S. "Eating with
Conscience" campaign, ex-rancher and renowned international health and
environmental speaker, Howard Lyman:  Problems of Modern Food
Production, Health and the Environment.

Hear what American rancher turned environmentalist Howard Lyman has to
say about the meat and dairy industries, sustainable agriculture and the
future of farming.  Mr. Lyman made a major lifestyle change as a result
of a life-threatening illness and has become known for his riveting,
rousing talks for organic farming and plant-based diet.  Lyman filled
lecture halls in England and Scotland on his speaking tour about BSE
(Mad Cow Disease) during last year's crisis.  Come and be inspired by
this man's incredible knowledge, compassion and commitment.

Mr. Lyman appeared on Oprah last year and was responsible for Oprah's
decision to stop eating beef and the resultant bottoming-out of beef
futures the very next day.  As a result, the Cattlemen's Association
have sued Mr. Lyman and Oprah for false information and the trial is
schedule for 1998 in Texas!


------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------------

Check out Howard Lyman's web site.  I have copied an article below from
the site giving the status of the lawsuit filed by the Texas cattlemen
against Howard and Oprah.

-------------------------------------------------------------

http://www.vegsource.com  (then click on Howard)

--------------------------------------------------------------


Texas Cattlemen v. Howard Lyman and Oprah

In April of 1996, Mr. Lyman was invited to appear on Oprah to discuss
Mad Cow disease, food production & the rendering
process. Shocked and repulsed by the frightening facts Oprah learned
about mad cow disease and the production of meat, she
vowed during the show she would never eat another hamburger again.

The show aired on a Monday, and on Tuesday beef futures fell
dramatically. (Beef traders referred to this the "Oprah crash.")
The cattle industry was outraged, and immediately pulled $600,000 worth
of TV advertising in
retaliation. Pressured by television executives to mollify the cattle
industry, Oprah offered to do an
hour-long segment in which experts from the cattle business could debate
Mr. Lyman on her show.
However, the cattlemen refused to appear on the show if Lyman were going
to be present. They
refused to take part in such a debate.

So, Oprah subsequently permitted a cattle business "expert" to appear
and speak for ten minutes on
her show, presenting the meat industry "side." Oprah then aired again
the show she had done with Mr. Lyman -- which was
viewed by another 20 million people.

A short time later, the Texas cattlemen filed suit against Lyman and
Harpo Productions (which produces Oprah) in both Texas
state and US Federal court. The lawsuit alleged Lyman and Oprah had
violated a Texas law which forbids someone from
"knowingly making false statements" about agricultural business.

A trial is expected to take place in Texas (smack in the middle of
cattle ranching country, from which the jury will be selected)
sometime during 1998.

Please check back here at Mr. Lyman's site for updates on the
litigation.


Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 21:23:51 -0400
>From: Vegetarian Resource Center 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org, veg-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Animal Rights Law Center on the web
Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970417212348.006d5a50@pop.tiac.net>
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Gary Francione, Esq., is a major speaker 
at next month's upcoming 
5th Annual New England Vegetarian Conference.

Professor Francione (aka Gary) is Director of the
Animal Rights Law Center at
Rutgers University in NJ.

Gary Francione's  Animal Rights Law Center (Rutgers) 
is up and running at:

http://www.animal-law.org/

This site contains information of interest on legal matters 
for AR and Vegetarian activists.





Date: Thu, 17 Apr 1997 18:26:32 -0700
>From: corby6@juno.com (Corby B Ziesman)
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: corby6: results from survey
Message-ID: <19970417.183450.4358.0.corby6@juno.com>

--------- Begin forwarded message ----------
>From: corby6
To: ar-views@envirolink.org
Cc: nevar21@aol.com, corby2@hotmail.com
Subject: results from survey
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 21:45:43 -0700
Message-ID: <19970416.214543.13038.2.corby6@juno.com>

Not sure if this might go to ar-news, better safe than sorry....

NOTE: The majority of the people surveyed are involved with animal
rights, other groups of people are not properly represented.

30+ people surveyed in all, percentages shown are for the people that
answered that question.

Age:
(10-18)                                   21%
(19-29)                                   60%
(30-39)                                   9%
(40-49)                                   4%
(50-59)                                   6%

Veg*anism:
(Vegan)                                  63%
(Omnivore)                            10%
(Vegetarian)                          27%

Religion:
(Christian)                             19%
(Taoist)                                  3%
(Atheist/Agnostic/None)     54%
(Jewish)                                9%
(Hindu)                                  9%
(Spiritual/Other)                   6%

Reason for going veg*an (if applicable):
(Moral)                                   90%
(Health)                                 10%

Sexual Orientation:
(Heterosexual)                     84%
(Homosexual)                      6%
(Bisexual)                              10%

Education:
(In or grad. of HS)                16%
(In or grad. of College)       84%

How long have you had Internet access:
(<6 Months)                          10%
(6-12 Months)                      33%
(13-35 Months)                    24%
(36+ Months)                        33%

Are you open-minded:
(Yes)                                      97%
(No)                                        3%

Are you:
(Liberal)                                90%
(Conservative)                     10%

Are you religious:
(Yes)                                     28%
(No)                                       72%

-Corby
--------- End forwarded message ----------



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