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AR-NEWS Digest 682
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) Monsanto to pay cotton farmers
by bunny
2) (US) Dog Sentenced To Die Wins Reprieve
by allen schubert
3) Alert(Aust.and NZ)-NZ company to purchase RCD/RHD to spread
by bunny
4) The Medical Racket
by Daniel Paulo Ferreira
5) The Medical Racket -- Part 1 (of 3)
by Daniel Paulo Ferreira
6) The Medical Racket -- Part 2 (of 3)
by Daniel Paulo Ferreira
7) The Medical Racket -- Part 3 (of 3)
by Daniel Paulo Ferreira
8) Vilas.
by paulbog@jefnet.com (Rick Bogle)
9) Fur Sales Drop, the Full Story
by MINKLIB
10) Navy-humpback whales update
by Patrick Nolan
11) need AR web sites
by "bhgazette"
12) Madison Monkeys Trucked Up and Followed Down Interstate by Local Activist
by LexAnima
13) [UW-WI] [Fwd: Madison Monkeys Trucked Up and Followed Down Interstate
by LocalActivist]
by Steve Barney
14) (NZ)Farming pre-orders for rabbit virus flood in
by bunny
15) [US-WI] "101 monkeys set to go" (WSJ-040498)
by Steve Barney
16) (NZ)RCD may have killed pets
by bunny
17) TV alert: ST-Voyager Humans Hunted (N. America)
by Pat Fish
18) NYC Bar Association Symposium: The Animal Connection
by Liz Grayson
19) RFI NZ company about to sell live deadly virus
by bunny
20) (US) Two `Veggie Libel' Suits Expected
by allen schubert
21) [UK] Euro vets vote to ease beef ban
by David J Knowles
22) [UK] Thousands of fish die as pollution infests river
by David J Knowles
23) [SA] Whale [shark] causes nuclear shut-down
by David J Knowles
24) Fwd: FOX 2 News Weekend Comes to the Shrine Circus March 7
by Wyandotte Animal Group
25) (US) FOX 2 News Weekend Comes to the Shrine Circus March 7
by allen schubert
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 14:12:37 +0800
From: bunny
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Monsanto to pay cotton farmers
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>More bad news for Monsanto - Patricia Dines, Community Action Publications
>
>--- FORWARD ---
>
>From: Richard Wolfson, INTERNET:rwolfson@concentric.net
>To: Patricia Dines, 73652,1202
>Date: Sun, Mar 1, 1998, 7:32 PM
>Subject: GE News
>To: info@natural-law.ca
>
>Financial Times (London)
>February 25, 1998 USA EDITION
>
>Monsanto to pay cotton farmers
>
>Monsanto, the pharmaceuticals, biotechnology and agriproducts company,
>confirmed yesterday that it was paying compensation to settle complaints
>brought against it by several dozen farmers in the Mississippi Delta, who
>claimed that the company's genetically engineered cotton seed resulted in
>inferior yields last year. The company, which has always maintained that
>the problem was an isolated incident and probably the result of extreme
>weather conditions, said it had been working in recent months to calculate
>the shortfall in yields, compared with other recent crops.
>
>The total monetary compensation was not disclosed but is understood to be a
>few million dollars.
>
>_________________________________________________________________
>
>MONSANTO WITHDRAWS 5 TYPES OF COTTON SEED
>
>Bloomberg News
>
>Saturday, February 21, 1998
>Section: BUSINESS
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>
>* Company says its genetic technology wasn't the problem. Monsanto Co.
>said Friday that it has withdrawn five genetically engineered cotton seed
>varieties from commercial sales because of substandard seed quality.
>The withdrawal is the latest blow to Roundup Ready cotton, which contains
>a synthetic gene produced by Monsanto that makes cotton plants tolerate
>Monsanto's Roundup herbicide. Last year, some farmers in the Mississippi
>Delta complained that the cotton was not growing properly. "The withdrawal
>is related to the quality standard of the varieties and has nothing to
>with the technology," said Gary Barton, a spokesman for Monsanto.
>
>The seed was produced by Paymaster, a subsidiary of Delta Pine Land Co.
>of Scott, Miss.
>All five varieties allow farmers to spray Roundup over their crops,
>killing weeds without damaging plants. One of the five contains an
>additional gene, also produced by Monsanto, that makes the plant resist
>certain major pests. The gene is derived from the soil bacterium Bacillus
>thuringiensis.
>
>The companies expect farmers to plant more than 4 million acres of Roundup
>Ready cotton this year, up from about 800,000 acres last year, Barton
>said.
>
>The companies will continue to sell other Roundup-resistant varieties.
>Monsanto does not expect the withdrawal of the seed to affect its sales
>goals, although "preferred varieties might be tight in certain geographic
>areas," Barton said.
>
>St. Louis-based Monsanto first introduced genetically enhanced insect
>resistant cotton in the United States in 1996.
>
>_________________________________________________________
>Richard Wolfson, PhD
>Consumer Right to Know Campaign,
>for Mandatory Labelling and Long-term
>Testing of all Genetically Engineered Foods,
>500 Wilbrod Street
>Ottawa, ON Canada K1N 6N2
>email: rwolfson@concentric.net
>
>Our website, http://www.natural-law.ca/genetic/geindex.html
>contains more information on genetic engineering as well as
>previous genetic engineering news items
>Subscription fee to genetic engineering news is $35 for 12 months
>See website for details.
>__________________________________________________________
>__________________________________________________________
>
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>PDines@compuserve.com
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>
Bob Phelps
Director
Australian GeneEthics Network
c/- ACF 340 Gore Street, Fitzroy. 3065 Australia
Tel: (03) 9416.2222 Fax: (03) 9416.0767 {Int Code (613)}
email: acfgenet@peg.apc.org
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Tom, Tom, (/\ \-/ /\) P.O.Box 30,
The piper's son, )6 6( Riverton,
Saved a pig >{= Y =}< Western Australia 6148
And away he run; /'-^-'\
So none could eat (_) (_) email: rabbit@wantree.com.au
The pig so sweet | . |
Together they ran | |} http://www.wantree.com.au/~rabbit/rabbit.htm
Down the street. \_/^\_/ (Rabbit Information Service website updated
frequently)
Jesus was most likely a vegetarian... why aren't you? Go to
http://www.zworx.com/kin/esseneteachings.htm
for more information.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
- Voltaire
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 07:20:13 -0500
From: allen schubert
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US) Dog Sentenced To Die Wins Reprieve
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from Associated Press http://wire.ap.org
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MARCH 04, 03:28 EST
Dog Sentenced To Die Wins Reprieve
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- Sean Roach and his horse-chasing dog Nadas were
together again, if only for a little while.
The collie-malamute mix had been sentenced to death for chasing a
neighbor's horse but won a reprieve from authorities amid public outrage.
In Oregon, pet dogs can be killed for harassing livestock.
Instead, Nadas was shipped to the Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab,
Utah, last month.
On Monday -- for the first time in 16 months -- Nadas and Roach were
together. At first, Nadas didn't recognize him. But soon, the dog offered
his paw and began frantically licking the tears from Roach's face.
``It was a heart-wrenching situation,'' sanctuary spokesman Raphael de
Payer said in a telephone interview. ``The fact that these two are not
together is just wrong.''
Roach, 22, was traveling Tuesday and could not be reached for comment.
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 22:08:45 +0800
From: bunny
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Alert(Aust.and NZ)-NZ company to purchase RCD/RHD to spread
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**Note there is a lot going on behind the scenes here. If NZ is allowing the
deadly RHD virus to be classified as a pesticide then the Australian RCD
baits approval by the Australian NRA (National Registration Authority - also
part of the Department of Primary Industry - John Andersons Department) will
not be far behind. The NRA (Australia)have been denying that they have the
RCD bait submission for appraisal but the Australian RCD program have been
saying they expect the baits approved by Autumn this year.
Any Australians on the list please ask for a full environmental impact statement
for RHD baits from Senator Robert Hill and ask the NRA that they consider
the RCD baits as a new and novel product and not a change of usage for the
RCD deadly live injectable virus (currently the only way of spreading RCD in
Australia is by direct innoculation of captured wild rabbits).
Please ask the NRA not to register the RCD baits in Australia (details of
why not can be found on my website, Rabbit Information Service - URL at
bottom of this page)
Otago Times(New Zealand) - Online Edition
27/2/98
Permit granted to sell RCD
By Neal Wallaceand Tracie Barrett
A clean strain of the rabbit calicivirus disease will be available for sale
within the next 10 days, following a
decision yesterday to grant an experimental use permit to Dunedin company
Zenith Technology.
The Pesticides Board has granted a permit for the limited sale of 500 litres
of rabbit calicivirus - estimated
to be about three years' supply - to the Dunedin medical research company.
A requirement of any sale is that Zenith and the product user inform the
Department of Conservation 10
days prior to release of the product so it can be monitored from a
conservation viewpoint.
The board has been considering an application from the company to have RCD
registered as a pesticide
so it can be sold on the open market. However, it has declined to fully
register the virus because not
enough is known about weathering and the effect of the product and the
company is to gather more
information as a condition of the permit.
The company has developed a pure concentrated strain called RCD-ZEN which it
will sell in 100ml
bottles for $150, along with instructions on how to release it as a
biological control.
Zenith director Dr Max Shepherd said yesterday the best time for another
strike of RCD was over the
March-April period and it was vital to have a clean virus available to farmers.
There would be mandatory label directions on the best known means of using
the virus, which was not to
be sprayed on herbage or in general broadcast.
"We are looking forward to continuing to work with scientists at the Otago
Regional Council, the
University of Otago, Landcare, MAF and the Pesticide Board to ensure the
clean virus is available and
gather further data."
Dr Shepherd expected the product to be available within 10 days.
There were no restrictions on who could buy or use the virus and many people
had already expressed
interest, he said.
"The farmers that have come to us have indicated quite clearly they do not
want to go down the path of
using the kitchen whizz. They would much prefer to use a product that has
gone through the vigorous
appraisal of a registration authority."
Friday, 27-February 1998
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/`\ /`\ Rabbit Information Service,
Tom, Tom, (/\ \-/ /\) P.O.Box 30,
The piper's son, )6 6( Riverton,
Saved a pig >{= Y =}< Western Australia 6148
And away he run; /'-^-'\
So none could eat (_) (_) email: rabbit@wantree.com.au
The pig so sweet | . |
Together they ran | |} http://www.wantree.com.au/~rabbit/rabbit.htm
Down the street. \_/^\_/ (Rabbit Information Service website updated
frequently)
Jesus was most likely a vegetarian... why aren't you? Go to
http://www.zworx.com/kin/esseneteachings.htm
for more information.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
- Voltaire
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 16:35:39 +0000 (WET)
From: Daniel Paulo Ferreira
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: The Medical Racket
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Dear ar-news,
I'm going to post something right away, sliced in three pieces.
I found this booklet for the first time in Brian's homepage, at Nov 95.
I'm sure it will be very useful to those that are interested in knowing about
the *real* efforts of drug companies to improve human health.
Best Regards
Daniel
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| || criminal; in the first case, |
| Rua de Angola, 5-2º || his place is in a mental |
| 3030 Coimbra || institution; in the second |
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"Economics and politics simply intertwine in shaping conventional
medicine's approach to cancer. Very simply put, treating disease is
enormously profitable, preventing disease is not."
-- The British Cancer Control Society, Outrage, Oct/Nov, 1986
"In a deliberate effort to expand the market for their products, drug
companies are literally creating new diseases."
-- Dr. Joel Lexchin, "The Real Pushers"
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 16:35:50 +0000 (WET)
From: Daniel Paulo Ferreira
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
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THE MEDICAL RACKET
or
Vivisection is Absolutely Not a Scientific Method
" The oil lobby, perhaps the most powerful lobby on earth, is
almost matched by hospital owners and doctors."
- President Carter, AMA News, June 8, 1979
...............
Contents
1.Preface
2.Some Plain Speech
3.More Plain Speech
4.Vivisection is a Crime Against Humanity
5.An Undercover Dictatorship
6.The Invisible Government
7. Daddy Oilbucks
8. America's Medico-Drug Cartel
9. A Vast Conspiracy
10."Miracle" Drugs... or Deadly Duds?
11. Vaccination Fraud
12.The Cancer Racket
13. Pollution
14.The Oily "Free" Press
15."Animal Rights" Fakery
16.AIDS: Only the Latest Plague from the Animal Labs
17. Its Criminal
18.Human Vivisection - Instant Karma
19.Some Last Words
20.References
...Gambling on the ignorance and suffering of countless people, their
constant fear of pain and disease, and with the help of the mass-media,
this pseudo-science has created the illusion that she wields mysterious
and unlimited powers on which mankind's salvation depends. So the people
of the Western world have prostrated themselves in awe and servility at
her feet, imagining her as an almighty goddess of peerless beauty, shining
with gold and brocades, to whom common mortals may not even raise their
eyes, lest they be blinded. But if they dared do so, they would discover
that the Emperor hasn't got a stitch on, and is gruesome to behold.
From Slaughter of the Innocent
Hans Ruesch
1.Preface
The great historian of the Twentieth Century, Dr. Oswald Spengler,
was one those seemingly rare scholars who saw what American Liberals
refuse to see - that the Left is controlled by its alleged enemy, the
malefactors of great wealth. He wrote in his monumental Decline of the
West (Modern Library, New York, 1945):
"There is no proletarian, not even a Communist , movement that has
not operated in the interests of money, in the direction indicated by
money, and for the time being permitted by money - and that without the
idealists among its leaders having the slightest suspicion of the fact."
This is true of today's socialized medicine, which purports to be a
share-the-wealth program, though in fact it concentrates wealth,
establishes the Establishment (via taxation), eliminates competition, is
policed by the State, to the detriment of the people. The following
quotation gives the horns of the dillemna:
" ... While monopoly control of industries was once the objective of
(such "robber barons" as) J.P. Morgan and J.D. Rockefeller, by the late
nineteenth century the inner sanctums of Wall Street understood that the
most efficient way to gain an unchallenged monopoly was to "go political"
and make society go to work for the monopolists - UNDER THE NAME OF THE
PUBLIC GOOD AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST. This strategy was detailed in 1906 by
Frederick C. Howe in his Confessions of a Monopolist. Howe, by the way, is
also a figure in the story of the Bolshevik Revolution."
- Prof. Anthony Sutton Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution, Hoover
Institute of War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford University Press,1974.
In his book Howe had stated:
"These are the rules of big business. They have superseded the
teachings of our parents and are reducible to a single maxim: Get a
monopoly; let society work for you; and remember that the best of all
BUSINESS is POLITICS, for a legislative grant, franchise, subsidy or tax
exemption is worth more than a Kimberly or Comstock lode, since it does
not require any labour, either mental or physical for its exploitation..."
2.Some Plain Speech
A french physician, Prof. Maurice Delort, did some plain talking at
the inaugural session of the Academy de Bourges (December 16, 1962):
"Todays medicine is at the end of its road. It can no longer be
transformed, modified, readjusted. Thats been tried too often. Todays
medicine must DIE in order to be reborn. We must prepare its complete
renovation."
Dr. Bruce Halstead, who suffered from the persecutions of the
Medical Establishment, spoke even more plainly:
"There will be a medical edition of the Nurnberg Trials. The
atrocities now being committed in the name of orthodox medicine, the
suppression of life-giving scientific data, the needless loss of lives,
mutilation of bodies, and excessive suffering... will not be tolerated.
...Ultimately, these criminals and their political lackeys will be
brought to justice...."
-quoted in R. Hovnavian, Medical Dark Ages.
3. More Plain Speech
Ivan Illich (medical historian), in Limits to Medicine, 1976:
"The medical establishment has become the major threat to health."
"Modern medicine is a negation of health. It isn't organized to serve
human health, but only itself, as an institution. It makes more people
sick than it heals."
Ivan Illich, on Swiss television.
Dr. med. Steintl: on International Medical Policy, 1938, Berlin:
" The prerequisite for today's medical policy is naturally the
currently predominant system of medicine. The sick are the source of
income, therefore it is necessary for sick people to be there, yes, it
proves advantageous if one makes the people artificially sick."
"A new U.S. study challenges claims made for the last 35 years that
women can prevent breast cancer by regularly taking estrogen pills.... the
report seems to indicate the drug actually may cause the disease....
Physicians have been prescribing estrogen for an estimated 5 million to 6
million middle-aged women in the United States alone."
(International Herald Tribune, August 17, 1976)
In the USA at least one and a half million people are hospitalized
every year due to the intake of prescribed drugs, and some 120,000 die.
For the first time in history, medicine causes disasters instead of curing
illness!
In May 1961, Dr. Pierre Bosquet had written in France's Nouvelle
Critique:
"Research is subordinated (not to a long term social benefit) but to
an immediate commercial profit. Currently, disease (not health) is one of
the major sources of profit for the pharmaceutical industry, and the
doctors are willing agents of those profits"
In the weekly magazine Welt am Sonntag ( July 29, 1973), Dr. Werner
Lehmpfuhl, general practitioner in Hanover, wrote as follows:
"Every month, millions are in fact being damaged by treatment
which is supposed to be helping them."
Dr. med. Steintl, (International Medical Policy):
"In order to practice their 'gentle art' the doctors require millions
of animals for torture, on whose suffering their 'science' is based."
"There really exists no logical basis for translating the results of
animal experiments to man."
(Dr. L. Goldberg, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm. Quantitative
Method in Human Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Pergamon Press, London,
1959)
"It is the outrageous lie of the supporters of vivisection, a lie
serious in its consequences, that animal experiments take place for the
good of mankind. The opposite is the case: animal experiments only have
an alibi function for the purpose of obtaining money, power and titles.
Not one single animal experiment has ever succeeded in prolonging or
improving, let alone saving, the life of even one single person."
(from a paper published by Dr. med. Heide Evers, D-7800 Freiburg,
1982)
"Practically speaking, all animal experiments are untenable on a
statistical scientific basis, for they possess no scientific validity or
reliability. They merely perform an alibi function for pharmaceutical
companies, who hope to protect themselves thereby (from legal liability)."
(From Tierversuch and Tierexperimentator (Vivisection and Vivisector)
by Herbert Stiller, M.D. and Margot Stiller, M. D., Hanover, 1976)
Dr. med. Steintl, Berlin, on "International Medical Policy"
"But when it dawned on some people that the system was rotten, and
clear sighted individuals fought against it, the doctors also saw that
their livelihood was being threatened. Their medical policy is primarily
the line of withholding information. The amount of information to be given
will be determined by us', said Dr. med. Neustedter (a contemporary
official)."
It seems to be generally, though mistakenly, believed that doctors
unanimously approve of and defend vivisection (animal research), which is
no straight-forward barbarity, but a reversal of scientific understanding.
The attempt to obtain knowledge about physiological and pathological
processes in Man by vivisecting animals is completely unscientific! All
such experiments have led to extremely confused, contradictory and
consequently worthless results, in other words they have done far more to
obscure knowledge than to illuminate it...
That section of the public that has so far treated this matter with
selfish indifference would do well to take cognizance of the fact of
vivisection on animals...
"In my opinion there exists a conspiracy of the medical-
pharmaceutical interests on an international basis to eradicate
alternative health (not disease) care from the people of the world with a
total disregard for the health and life of the people. I feel that the
major motivation of this potentially destructive scheme is the desire to
make money and I call the condition of this utter sickness of man... "The
Greed Disease". Here in the United States I observe the conspiracy is
interwoven with the American Medical Association, the federal government,
especially the Federal Drug Administration, the Federal Trade Commission,
the Pharmaceutical Advertising Council, and the entire media including
television networks, radio networks, newspapers, magazines and book
publishers. The media domination prevents the majority of people from
being conscious of these negative forces and focuses their minds on the
propaganda that alternative health care is "quackery". However, the
Office of Technological Assessment reported to the Congress in the late
1970's that only 10-20% of the methods utilized in allopathic (official,
orthodox) medicine are proven safe and efficacious. Quackery is defined
as using unproven methods for a profit. So who are the real quacks,
anyway?
"Much of the enlightenment of the extremely cruel vivisection portion
of this cartel is revealed in the writings of Swiss medical historian Hans
Ruesch in both Slaughter of the Innocent and Naked Empress, which have
both suffered international suppression. Vivisection is a paramount
symptom of the "Greed Disease" and of the inhumane, unscientific, ignorant
individuals who perpetuate it throughout the world. Animals are not human
beings and do not react in a similar fashion to a drug. What might be
beneficial in an animal might be lethal to the human, and conversely.
Where is the logic to transfer information from animal experimentation to
human usage of toxic chemicals? It is in the pocket-books of the members
of the conspiracy - the Greed Disease!"
(Roy Kupsinel, M. D., medical magazine editor in Oviedo, FL 32765,
November 22, 1986)
4. Vivisection is a Crime Against Humanity
Dr. med. Bischof, Chairman of the Association of Antivivisectionist
Doctors, Austria:
"We demand the unconditional prohibition of all animal experiments,
with severe penalties. The public amateurishly believes in the orthodox
medical fairy tale of the usefulness of animal experimentation for the art
of healing, while the vivisectors, under the pretext of serving this art
of healing, perpetrate the most despicable trickery. The defenders of
vivisection like to speak of the exalted aims of scientific aspiration.
The gentlemen cannot roll their eyes enough, and talk hypocritically about
the welfare of suffering mankind. A poor mankind, that can only keep on
its feet by torturing defenceless animals! The House of Science should be
a temple; it has now become a den of torture, from which the wailing of
the animals cries out to Heaven. He who approaches the Temple of Science
with reverence does not do so in order to attend an orgy of bleeding and
mangled animals, who were created with infinite wisdom and are destroyed
with stupid cruelty by so-called scientists. Because many orthodox
doctors cannot conceive of any more worthy task, because they are not
endowed with any better intuition in their barren materialism, they become
enslaved in the pastime appropriate to their mental level, torturing
people and animals and bestowing their errors and foolishness on mankind.
We accuse the State, because it pays for the cowardly animal
slaughter with our money and lets these people carry on their wretched
handiwork. We accuse the Church, because it pursues a head-in-the-sand
policy and acts as if it cannot see that public morality is undermined and
destroyed through its silent condoning of animal experiments."
(Tierrecht [Animal-rights], 15 December 1932)
Dr. med. Franz Hartmann, Hallein:
"Vivisection and sex murder stand on one and the same level, they are
the product of spiritual blindness and moral depravity... The alleged
objective of working for the good of mankind is a lie. I know that most
vivisectors are seeking more to satisfy their vanity than their scientific
curiosity. Each of them hopes somehow to make some discovery which, even
if it is worthless, is nevertheless a discovery with which one can boast
before everyone and throw sand into the eyes of the stupid."
(From a letter to Dr.Ludwig Fliegel, dated April 22, 1895)
Dr. H. Boucher, physician, Issy-les-moulineaux, France:
"In all ages Man has sought to justify the cruelty of his actions by
decking them out under the mantle of a lofty ideal...
In our present age, in which cruelty has in fact only changed its
form, but in which we profess to be more enlightened than in former times,
living creatures are tortured in the name of the higher interests of
humanity, in the name of Science... It goes without saying that today's
torturers, like their predecessors, boast of the gratifying results of
their cruel methods. Thus in all the journals at their disposal, in all
their classical works, they turn the heads of the young by asserting that
it is thanks to vivisection that Harvey discovered the circulation of
blood, Galvani electricity, Claude Bernard the causes for the formation of
sugar in the human organism, and so forth. Finally, in order to prove the
triumph of their method, they remind us that it resulted in the invention
of the "healing" sera for disease. Well, we are not afraid to say that
all these statements are in fact false, that tortures, whether religious,
legal or scientific, have always produced only hideous results, and that
they have led only to error, disaster and degeneration..."
(From his lecture at the Fifth International Anti-Vivisection
Congress in Zurich, 1912)
Dr. med Gustav Riedlin, Freiburg im Breisgau (Der Versuch am Lebenden
Tier [Research on Living Animals]):
"We anti-vivisectionist doctors oppose the abuse of pure research,
the scientific animal torture, and we demand its banning under criminal
law. We demand its total abolition and would also demand this even if -
which is not the case - some great use for suffering mankind were to
emerge from it. Apart from the depraving cruelties and the impossibility
of carrying out most experiments without causing pain, experimentation on
the weak body, i.e. the torture of the defenseless animal, is unreliable
and misleading in its results on the part of ambitious pushers and
illusionists with no moral scruples.
....But we do not content ourselves with condemning animal
experiments from the standpoint of sympathy, moral laws and religion; we
wage our fight against animal torture also from the purely scientific
standpoint, and can prove that it is superfluous, useless, harmful and
disastrous for our race."
(From Der Arzt, August 1930, No. 8, special issue)
Dr. Eduard Reich, a well-known public health specialist, replied to
an invitation to attend a congress against vivisection in Amsterdam:
"There can be nothing more pressingly necessary than for the
barbarity of vivisection to be fought precisely from the scientific angle.
Vivisection is not only the most cruel and loathsome, but also the worst
way of conducting research, a shameful discredit to science, the surest
path to the brutalization of doctors and of the whole of society...
Every doctor who casts a stone at vivisection is performing a
service to science, civilisation, religion and mankind."
(Der Tier-und Menschenfreund, 1924, issue 2)
Dr. med. Hugo Knecht, Ear, Nose, Throat and Chest Specialist:
"Doctors who speak out in favour of vivisection do not deserve any
recognition in society, all the more so since their brutality is apparent
not only during such experiments, but also in their practical medical
lives. They are mostly men who stop at nothing in order to satisfy their
ruthless and unfeeling lust for honours and gain."
(Linz, October 5, 1909)
Dr. med. Arthur Laab, Graz, in his paper Fort mit der Vivisektion!
( Away with Vivisection!) (Graz, 1905):
"Any doctor is dishonorable who, contrary to his finer feelings as a
person, contrary to the inner voice of his conscience and of what is
right, and contrary to his convictions as a scientist, gives approval to,
defends or even merely silently accepts physiological experiments on
animals, otherwise known as vivisection, instead of courageously and
uncompromisingly fighting against an extremely deplorable scientific
aberration....
Under the mask of 'science', under the protective wings of a State
which is dazzled and blinded by the hypocritical lustre of a brutalized,
egotistical and self-seeking science of falsehood, thousands, whole
hecatombs of mostly highly-developed and sensitive animals are tortured to
death every year, by the day and hour and every minute of the day and
night, in a cruel and brutal manner which is hardly conceivable by the
normal human imagination, without - as we shall hear shortly - even the
very slightest actual use of any kind emerging from this barbaric
so-called 'method of enquiry'.
Vivisection is unscientific, useless, misleading.
... Vivisection has never, ever served an actual truly incontestable
scientific purpose, it is not doing so today and it will never do so,
because it is incapable of doing so. But vivisection certainly has to be
described and branded as unscientific; for it has conjured up the most
gross errors, it has produced the most calamitous fallacies! Vivisection
has never served the purpose of true science, but in fact only the
contemptible purpose of self-advancement, ambition and personal gain.
Vivisectors are known to suffer from a scientific epidemic, one
which is furthermore steadily on the increase: from a rampant, wild and
contagious obsession with knowledge. They are no longer fully of sound
mind, no longer competent to judge."
Dr. M. Beddow Baily, M.D., IRCP, Member, Royal College of Surgeons,
in his book "More Spotlights on Vivisection" (London, 1958) wrote these
words:
"Vivisection appeals to the basest instincts of fear and cowardice
and is rooted in the unjust principle that 'might makes right' and that
'the end justifies the means', thus permitting any cruelty on the tyrant's
plea of necessity.
Before the bar of human justice, vivisection stands condemned on
three main counts: cruelty to animals, uselessness to man, and obstruction
on the path of real knowledge."
5. An Undercover Dictatorship
" Unless we put Medical Freedom into the Constitution, the time will
come when medicine will organize into an undercover dictatorship. To
restrict the art of healing to one class of men and deny equal privileges
to others will constitute the 'Bastille' of medical science. All such laws
are un-American and despotic. They are fragments of monarchy and have no
place in a republic. The Constitution of this Republic should make special
provisions for Medical Freedom as well as for Religious Freedom."
-Dr. Jonathan Rush, an original signatory of the American Declaration of
Independence, 1776.
Most unfortunately, Dr. Rush's warnings went unheeded, and his words
have proved dramatically prophetic:
"The hearings have revealed police-state tactics ... possibly
perjured testimony (by the government) to gain a conviction...
intimidation and gross disregard for Constitutional Rights.... The FDA is
bent on using snooping gear to pry and invade."
-U.S. Senator Edward Long
Hearings, U.S. Senate,1964
"...There is not one, but there are many cures for cancer available.
Yet they are all being systematically and ruthlessly suppressed..."
-Robert C. Atkins, M.D.
6. THE INVISIBLE GOVERNMENT
"Competition is a Sin."
-John D. Rockefeller Sr.
Quoted by Gary Allen
in None Dare Call it Conspiracy,
Concord Press, 1976.
Woodrow Wilson, during his first presidential campaign in 1912, had
no intention of keeping his promise to right the wrongs which he could so
well describe:
"The masters of the government of the United States are the combined
capitalists and manufacturers of the United States. It is written over
every intimate page of the record of Congress, it is written all through
the history of conferences at the White House, that the suggestions of
economic policy in this country have come from one source, not from many
sources. The benevolent guardians, the kind-hearted trustees who have
taken the troubles of government off our hands have become so conspicuous
that almost anybody can write out a list of them... The big bankers, the
big manufacturers, the big masters of commerce, the heads of railroad
corporations... The government of the United States at present is a foster
child of the special interests."
(The New Freedom, 1913, Doubleday & Co., New York, pp.57/58)
Woodrow Wilson's words have remained as true today as they were when
he pronounced them from his campaign train. The American Presidents,
unless they want to end up like John Kennedy, do not rule their country
anymore than the official governments in the other so-called democracies,
for the big boys in industry and finance have long since taken over that
task.
"...Corporate power has become the dominant force in our
society...All attempts to check the mounting power of the corporate giants
have failed. Consider the two most important instruments forged by the
progressive forces of the country in their crusade to curb the march of
monopoly: the regulatory system and the antitrust program...
The regulatory system lies in shambles, and the corporations which
were intended to be regulated in the public interest now dominate these
regulatory agencies. The betrayal of the public trust is virtually
complete... The antitrust laws are virtually dead letters. It is clear
from recent disclosures that the Antitrust Division of the Justice
Department is almost immobilized because of deals made over its head and
behind its back in the White House and other corridors of power.."
(From a January 1977 article by Morris H. Rubin, Editor and
Publisher of The Progressive, the monthly founded by the late Senator
LaFollette.)
7. Daddy Oilbucks
"GOD GAVE ME MY MONEY.' - John D. Rockefeller
Garry Allen, The Rockefeller File,
'76 Press, CA., 1976
"It has long been demonstrated that the Rockefeller interests have
created, built up and developed the most far-reaching industrial empire
ever conceived in the mind of man. Standard Oil (ordered dissolved by the
courts in 1911, but today the giant Exxon Corporation.-ed) is of course
the foundation industry upon which all of the other industries have been
built. The story of Old John D., as ruthless an industrial pirate as ever
came down the pike, is well known.
The keystone of this mammoth empire is the Chase National Bank with
27 branches in New York City and 21 in foreign countries (now renamed the
Chase Manhattan Bank with more than 200 branches in the U.S. and
abroad.-ed) Not the least of its holdings are in the drug business. The
Rockefellers own the largest drug manufacturing combine in the world and
use all of their other interests to bring pressure to increase the sale of
drugs. The fact that most of the 12,000 separate drug items on the market
are harmful is of no concern to the Drug Trust... (Today -1993- there are
more than 200,000 drugs on the market. -ed.)"
-Morris Bealle, The Drug Story, Bi- World Publishing, 1949.
The trend of using animals on a massive scale in medical research was
started in America, by John D. Rockefeller, who had learned from his
pappy, a horse-thief, bigamist and travelling salesman of snake oil as a
sure-fire cancer remedy, the limitless gullibility of the general public,
and how to exploit it. JDR's evil genius gave him the idea to involve
governments ( "free" monopoly medicine) in the profits from the sale of
lucrative but deadly "miracle" drugs, which had constantly to be replaced
by new ones, after the advertised "miracles" had not only failed to
materialize but had furthermore opened big scars, mental and physical
ones, in the nation's health. Exactly how the Rockefeller principle was
organised and sold to all other industrialized countries has been
exhaustively described by Morris Bealle in The Drug Story (1949) and by
Hans Ruesch in Naked Empress (1982).
After giving instances of the fabulous profits from the sale of these
drugs, Bealle writes:
"... Is it any wonder that the Rockefellers, and their stooges in the
Food and Drug Administration, The U.S. Public Health Service, the Federal
Trade Commission, the Better Business Bureau, the Army Medical Corps, the
Navy Bureau of Medicine, and thousands of health officers all over the
country, should combine to put out of business all forms of therapy that
discourage the use of drugs.
The last annual report of the Rockefeller Foundation itemizes the
gifts it has made to colleges and public agencies in the past 44 years and
they total somewhat over half a billion dollars (when the dollar was worth
something-.ed). These colleges, of course, teach their students all the
drug lore the Rockefeller pharmaceutical houses want taught. Otherwise
there would be no more gifts, just as there are no gifts to any of the 30
odd drugless colleges in the United States.
Harvard, with its aristocratic background and well- publicized
medical school, has received $8,764,433 of this Drug Trust money. Yale got
$7,927,800, John Hopkins $10,418,531, Stanford $947,505, Washington
University in St. Louis $2,842,132, New York's Columbia University
$5,424,371, Cornell University $1,709,072, etc., etc."
-from M. Bealle, The Drug Story, 1949, pg. 19
8. AMERICA'S MEDICO - DRUG CARTEL
The medico-drug cartel was summed up by J.W Hodge, M.D., of Niagara
Falls, N.Y., in these words:
"The medical monopoly or medical trust, euphemistically called the
American Medical Association, is not merely the meanest monopoly ever
organized, but the most arrogant, dangerous and despotic organization
which ever managed a free people in this or any other age, Any and all
methods of healing the sick by means of safe, simple and natural remedies
are sure to be assailed and denounced by the arrogant leaders of the AMA
doctors' trust as 'fakes, frauds and humbugs.' Every practitioner of the
healing art who does not ally himself with the medical trust is denounced
as a 'dangerous quack' and imposter by the predatory trust doctors. Every
sanitarian who attempts to restore the sick to a state of health by
natural means without resort to the knife or poisonous drugs,
disease-imparting serums, deadly vaccines or toxins is at once pounced
upon by these medical tyrants and fanatics, bitterly denounced, vilified
and persecuted to the fullest extent." (Quoted by Morris Bealle in The
Drug Story. )
The American Medical Association(AMA) has a long history of
corruption. Its most infamous leader was Morris Fishbein who reigned from
1924 until 1949. He had failed anatomy in medical school and had never
practised medicine a day in his life, but during his years in power he was
recognized as the virtual dictator of American medicine. Journalist and
scholar Ruth Mulvey Harmer, Ph.D. characterized Fishbein as having the
"ruthlessness of a shark" and concluded that he "managed to hold back the
twentieth century for 50 years for the benefit of organized medicine" (
American Medical Avarice, 1975)
"We were told that owners of drugstores, a vital outlet for
paperbacks, had been notified that any druggist who displayed my book on
his paperback racks, would not receive any more prescriptions from members
of the AMA."
-Dr. Glenn Kittler
(quoted by R. Hovnavian in Medical Dark Ages )
"It was in 1936 that I copyrighted Cancer, Its Cause and Control.
They forced me to serve a whole year in jail.... When I had everything
ready to put out a third edition, they told me in no uncertain terms
"Unless you stop... we will snatch you... and do a lobotomy on you."
-Dr. Emerson Hartman
Cancer News Journal, 1977
"Since the regimentation of Medicine by quacks and medical gangsters
in control of the American Medical Association, this organization has
become one of the most vicious rackets in the country"
-Dr. Charles Lyman Loffler,
as cited by Morris Bealle in The Drug Story, 1949.
9. A VAST CONSPIRACY
"The Inquisition is still with us. It is called the Food and Drug
Administration. It is called the National Cancer Institute. It is called
the American Cancer Society and the AMA. They are allied together to
destroy innovation in modern times."
- Robert G. Houston
Cancer Scandal, video
"The people think the FDA is protecting them. It isn't. What the FDA
is doing and what the public thinks it's doing are as different as night
and day...Key individuals are...granting special favours...similar to the
'protection racket' of organized crime..."
- FDA Commissioner Herbert Ley, M.D.
quoted in Medical Dark Ages
Robert G. Houston has warned us ( Cancer Scandal video):
"Probably today, more than any time in modern history there is a
strike force, a hit force, that is coordinated by some of the agencies -
the FDA, the National Cancer Institute, the Post Office, the Justice
Department - and now the Narc squads too. The Drug Enforcement Agency is
involved in it, working hand in hand with the FDA to raid doctor's
offices, to raid health food stores, to harass, intimidate and to show the
power of the gun... This is such a profound violation of rights... so
characteristic of totalitarian terror tactics. There is evidence that this
is all coordinated in a massive movement to stamp out all alternative
doctors...At least 50 and probably more like a 100 doctors in the past two
years have undergone such treatment."
Dr. Robert C. Atkins provides additional testimony against this
enemy that has brought the Gestapo to birth within America:
"There's a war going on... The War Against Quackery is a carefully
orchestrated, heavily endowed campaign sponsored by extremists holding
positions of power in the orthodox hierarchy...
The multimillion-dollar campaign against quackery was never meant to
root out incompetent doctors; it was, and is, designed specifically to
destroy alternative medicine... The millions were raised and spent because
orthodox medicine sees alternative, drugless medicine as a real threat to
its economic power.
"And right they are...The majority of the drug houses will not
survive."
- Amygdalin Therapy, 1972
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10. "Miracle" Drugs or Deadly Duds?
An editorial in The Economist, London, January 6, 1973, opened thus:
"Thalidomide is not the first nor the last drug to have brought
heartbreak where it was meant to bring help. There have been quite a
number of other tragedies where it was meant to bring help. There have
been quite a number of other tragedies since Thalidomide went wrong 13
years ago."
...After years of extensive animal testing, of course.
"A new U.S. study challenges claims made for the last 35 years that women
can prevent breast cancer by regularly taking estrogen pills...The report
seems to indicate the drug actually may cause the disease...Physicians
have been prescribing estrogen for an estimated 5 million to 6 million
middle-aged women in the United States alone."
(International Herald Tribune, August 17, 1976)
"...Facts incontrovertible in the [animal] laboratory are applied to
clinical medicine in a manner quite unwarranted. The best examples are the
indiscriminate use of hormones and the ready acceptance of the biased
blurbs of [animal] research propagated by commercial travellers."
(Dr. Ffrangcon Roberts, British Medical Journal, June 16,
1945, p. 848)
"When oestrogen first became available for clinical use, there was
an understandable over-enthusiasm for its application... If one depends
on the beautifully embossed brochures which exhort the practitioner with
every mail one falls, unhappily, into the security of the illusion that
there are neither contra-indications nor side-effects in the use of
estrogen."
(Drs. Robert A. Kimbrough and S. Lion Israel, Journal of the
American Medical Association, Vol. 138,December 25, 1949, p.1216)
"I cannot over-emphasize the fallacies inherent in the efforts to
apply directly to man the results of animal experiments in the field of
hormones!"
(From the testimony of Don Carlos Hines, M.D., before the Delaney
Committee of the House of Representatives, Jan. 31, 1952)
On December 13, 1975, under the title "The Medicine Bluff", an
interview was published in the French weekly Paris-Match with Dr. Hearl
Pradal, a specialist in pharmaceutical toxicology, concerning whom
Paris-Match stated:
"Henri Pradal spent twelve years in the camp of the industrial
laboratories, before leaving it in order to say what he could no longer
deep silent about."
Dr. Pradal:
"The medical profession is not informed, or, rather, it is
instructed almost exclusively by the journals and brochures from the
[animal] laboratories, and thus by advertising.
A certain messianic belief in progress has persuaded us that an
increased use of drugs represents man's victory over disease, a proof of
his power, a sign of progress. Whence comes this blind trust, when
intelligence should surely lead us rather towards mistrust? It stems from
an illusion which has been imposed on us by the all-powerful
pharmaceutical industry, by a giant brewing house that makes billions out
of it. The guilt for all this lies with the powers-that-be in the Public
Health Department, the Government Ministry and the health insurance
associations, whose apathy and negligence have resulted in the sanctioning
of no less than 11,000 medicaments, although only a couple out of 100 are
of provable worth, as has been confirmed by the World Health Organization.
The doctors can't see further than their own noses. They have become
convinced by the laboratory-financed medical literature that medicines
have turned them into demi-gods, and that attacks on the pharmaceutical
industry mean attacks on medicine.
When the people finally discover the cause of their illnesses, the
sale of medicaments will abruptly drop. But we must first get them to
understand it."
"Drug-induced illnesses has become a public health menace of major
and alarming proportions, producing more deaths annually than are caused
by breast cancer and ranking among the top ten causes of hospital
admissions."
(Medicine in Society, Vol. 7, 1981)
Some 10% (or 400,000) of the nearly 4 million yearly admissions to
Canadian hospitals result from the intake of prescribed drugs. But once in
hospital people are still not safe from misprescribing and adverse
reactions to drugs. More than 200,000 serious injuries result from drug
therapy in Canadian hospitals alone. Adverse drug reactions may contribute
to 36% of deaths in hospital, and 25% of deaths may be due to fatal
reactions. Most adverse reactions may double the time of the average stay
in hospital.
See: Joel Lexchin, M.D., The Real Pushers: A Critical Analysis of
the Canadian Drug Industry, New Star Books, Vancouver, V6K 1E5. p.
158-161
Already many years ago, Dr. Walter Modell of Cornell University's
Medical College, whom Time had described as "one of America's foremost
drug experts", wrote in Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics:
When will they realize that there are too many drugs? No fewer than
150,000 preparations are now in use. About 15,000 new mixtures and dosages
hit the market each year, while about 12,000 die off...We simply don't
have enough diseases to go around. At the moment the most helpful
contribution is the new drug to counteract the untoward effect of other
new drugs.
(Time, May 26, 1961)
In the German medical journal Muenchener Medizinische Wochenschrift
(No. 34, 1969), Dr. W. Chr. Mueller of the 1st University Hospital for
Women, Munich, reported after one of the most comprehensive studies in
this area of medicine that: " 61 percent of all deformities in new-born
infants and 88 percent of all stillbirths, must be attributed to the
effects of medicaments."
In Die Weissen Magier (The White Magicians), Bertelsmann
Verlag, 1974, Kurt Bluechel gives the following figures for West Germany:
"Only 25 years ago, among every 100,000 children born in the Federal
Republic there were 3 cases of malformation. Today, 5 children are
malformed for only 1,000 births. Within a quarter of a century, therefore,
the malformations have increased more than a hundredfold." (page 259)
And on page 257 Bluechel states:
"The average German citizen today consumes about five times as many
medicines as in the years immediately preceding the Second World War. Is
he also five times healthier? Of course not. On average the West German
population is far more frequently ill today than it was in those days...
Unexpectedly, an industry which was created to heal diseases has become
the starting point for new ailments."
Swiss State News on TV on May 30, 1988:
"The use of Accutane, a Hoffman-LaRoche product, has caused hundreds
of defective births. The packages containing this drug will henceforth
have to display the picture of a malformed newborn." ...Not banned, mind
you...no prosecution...
A.D. Dayan, who represented the European Federation of
Pharmaceutical Industries at the European Parliament of Strasbourg in 1982
and also works for the Wellcome Research Laboratories, revealed:
"Practocol was prescribed over 4 years before doctors realised that
it caused corneal damage including blindness - a side effect not predicted
by animal experiments."
(C.T. Dollery in Risk-Benefit Analysis in Drug Research, Ed. J.f.
Cavalla, 1981, MTP)
Mr. Dayan overlooked many tens of thousands of other drugs that had
all been withdrawn from the market by the health authorities of various
nations who had first approved them on the basis of these phony "safety"
tests on animals. Those "health authorities" included Mr. Dayan himself!
Dr. med. Karlheinz Blank, West Germany, in Der Tierschutz, Nr. 62,
1985, Journal of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Deutscher Tierschutz:
"A drug that is tested on animals will have completely different
effects in man. There are uncounted examples that could be cited."
...But a word to the wise ought to be sufficient...
A single amanita phalloides mushroom can wipe out a whole human
family, but is HEALTH-FOOD for the rabbit, one of the favorite laboratory
animals...
Prof. Bruno Fedi, M.D., Director of the City Hospital of Terni,
Italy, anatomist, pathologist, specialist in urology, gynecology and
cancerology:
"All our current knowledge of medicine and surgery derives from
observations of man following especially the anatomical- clinical method
introduced by Virchow: symptoms of the patient while alive and the
alternations found in the dead body.
These observations have led us to discover the connection between
smoking and cancer, between diet and artheriosclerosis, between alcohol
and cyrrhosis, and so on.
Even the RH factor has not been discovered on the macacus rhesus
[monkey]. The observations of Banting and Best on diabetes, attributed to
experiments on dogs, were already well known. Every discovery derives from
observations on humans, which are subsequently tested in animals, and
whenever the findings happen to concur, the discovery is attributed to
animal experimentation...
Everything we know today in medicine derives from observations made
on human beings. The ancient Romans and Greeks gained most of their
knowledge from epidemiological studies of people. The same goes for
surgery. Surgery can't be learned on animals.
Animals are anatomically completely different from man, their
reactivity is completely different, their structure and resistance are
completely different. In fact, exercises on animals are misleading. The
surgeon who works a lot on animals loses the sensibility necessary for
operating on humans."
Abstract from various TV interviews and articles by Prof. Fedi in
the course of 1986.
11. Vaccination Fraud
Dr. med. Gerhard Buchwald, West Germany, specialist of internal
diseases and participant in about 150 trials of vaccination victims:
"Vaccination is not necessary, not useful, does not protect. There are
twice as many casualties from vaccination as from AIDS."
From a speech to the third Symposium of the ILDAV (International
League of Doctors Against Vivisection, founded in 1987) held in
Woudschoten, Holland, April 15/16/17, 1988.
Dr. Charles Henry Kempe, University of Colorado. After 20- year
study, Dr. Kempe recommends abolishing smallpox vaccination. Since 1948
there have been no deaths from smallpox in the United States. In the same
period more than 300 persons have died from smallpox vaccinations,
including vaccine-induced encephalitis.
(The Evening Bulletin, Philidelphia, May 7, 1965)
"The public is surely entitled to convincing proof, beyond all
reasonable doubt, that artificial immunization is in fact a safe and
effective procedure, in no way injurious to health, and that the threat of
the corresponding natural diseases remain sufficiently clear and urgent to
warrant mass inoculation of everyone, even against their will if
necessary. Unfortunately, such proof has never been given."
-Richard Moskowitz, M.D., Journal of the American Institute of
Homeopathy, March 1983 (76:7)
Professor J. Clausen of the Institute of Preventive Medicine at the
University of Odense stated in March 1973:
"Millions of people have been vaccinated with the polio vaccine,
which contains the cancer-forming SV-40 virus originally found in monkeys.
It is possible that it will take 20 years or still longer before the
possible damaging effects of this virus come to light."
They have indeed come to light...
Article in Weekly World News (U.S.A.) May 28, 1985:
_______________________________________________
98 Million People Doomed? Brain Cancer Virus Found in Polio Vaccine.
"Experts say 98 million Americans who took polio shots in the 1950's
and 1960's may get a deadly brain cancer from the inoculations.
Researchers at the University of Chicago medical center say that a
virus contaminated the polio vaccine and they have now found genetic
material from the virus in a number of brain cancer victims."
A recent book out in Great Britain, Vaccination and Immunization:
Dangers, Delusions and Alternatives (Publ: C.W. Daniel, 1987) by Leon
Chaitow, one of the world's best informed practioners of natural
medicines, includes up-to-date evidence against vaccination from vaccine
researchers themselves, like the fact that even Dr. Jonas Salk, who
developed the "killed" polio vaccine that bears his name, cannot agree
with his rival Dr. Alfred Sabin on the merits of "live" and "killed"
vaccine, and each one accuses the other of being responsible for uncounted
death among the gullible patients.
How can there be such varying views? Mainly, vaccination programs
and antibiotics have mistakenly been given all the credit for
naturally-occurring declines in killer diseases such as smallpox, cholera,
typhoid, tuberculosis, dysentery, etc., whereas most or all the credit
belongs to better hygiene, sanitation, housing, and greater resistance to
disease thanks to improved economic conditions, better nutrition being
particularly important in the case of tuberculosis.
London's typhoid epidemics were being halted by changes in the water
supply before the "bug" was discovered, let alone a vaccine was
developed-according to a 1923 report in the British Medical Journal. But
tendentious legends has it that the vaccine saved the lives of thousands
of troops in the Boer War and the 1914-1918 war. The documented truth is
that typhus hit vaccinated soldiers and citizens with about the same
frequency as unvaccinated ones, with the only difference that an
unspecified number of vaccinated people developed the well known post-
vaccinal effects - immediate insurgence of the disease against which they
had been vaccinated, meningitis, and death.
The issue is also confused by health professionals' consistent
inability or unwillingness to identify vaccine-related deaths. A
University of California study has shown that at least 1,000 deaths a
year, described as the mysterious SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), are
in fact caused by vaccines.
"Vaccines are made from: mucus of infected children (whooping
cough), excrement from typhoid victims (typhoid), fermented chick embryos,
and until recently vaccines for polio were got from the diseased kidneys
of monkeys, and cause:
leukemia, encephalitis, Multiple Sclerosis - and: "Now I believe the
smallpox vaccine theory is the explanation to the explosion of AIDS".
World Health Organization, advisor, Times 11.5.87
Dr. med. Steintl, Berlin, on "International Medical Policy":
"...In order to practice their 'gentle art', the doctors require
millions of animals for torture, on whose suffering their 'science' is
based.
But when it dawned on some people that the system was rotten, and
clear-sighted individuals fought against it, the doctors also saw that
their livelihood was being threatened. Their medical policy is primarily
the line of withholding information. 'The amount of information to be
given is determined by us', said Dr. med. Neustedter.
The prerequisite for today's medical policy is naturally the
currently predominant system of medicine. The sick are the source of
income, therefore it is necessary for sick people to be there, yes, it
proves advantageous if one makes the people artificially sick.
Hundreds and thousands of perjuries have been committed via
scientifically false reports. I say this, because I can prove it. By means
of these the high standing of the doctors is forced on the public. Damage
thus comes about as a result of vaccination, and is constantly proven. But
it is portrayed in a very toned down form by official sources. Since 1930,
many doctors have declared themselves opposed to vaccination. But the
vaccination law continues to prevail. In many German States there is
compulsory vaccination, although even the supporters of vaccination were
originally against compulsion. In 1929 it so happened that a father
abducted his own child three times so as to save it from the persecution
of those who wanted to use force in order to vaccinate the child. But the
fourth time the officials succeeded in taking the child for vaccination.
They dragged it out of the car. After the vaccination, encephalitis
(inflammation of the brain) set in, and within eight days the child was
dead! In this way vaccination has at times become a legally sanctioned
judicial murder, committed by custodians of the law. Vaccination can, as
has been proven, cause encephalitis...
Dr. med. Guttman (extract from Biologische Heilkunst, 1932/10):
"Barn-yard medicine has not given us any vaccination procedure that
really protects against illness, but many that endanger the body, that
even bring death."
Excerpt from a 3-page article by Daniel Jack Chasnan in Science,
April 1986, titled "The Polio Paradox". and subtitled, "One of the two
polio vaccines has been largely abandoned in the U.S., the other is the
leading cause of the disease":
"...Presumably, when Kay NcNeary changed her daughters diapers, a
reactivated virus was transmitted to her. She sued the manufacturer of the
vaccine and the public agencies that administered it. In 1982, a Seattle
jury awarded her $1.1 million. Neither McNeary nor her lawyer, Daniel
Sullivan, claimed that the vaccine had been manufactured improperly. The
live vaccine is currently the 'vaccine of choice' in the United States. It
is also the nation'sLEADING CAUSE OF POLIO. In 1982 and 1983, according to
the federal Centers for Disease Control's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly
Report, it was the ONLY cause." (emphasis added.)
So to manufacture a highly lucrative pseudo-vaccine like Sabin's,
which has been recognized as being the sole cause of polio in the U.S.A.
today, an entire species of animals, the highly sensitive and intelligent
rhesus monkey, has been nearly wiped out. The same pseudo-researchers who
were responsible for that erstwhile fiasco are now trying to get hold of
the last individuals of chimps left to manufacture an AIDS vaccine which
is likely to be equally ineffective and dangerous, but even more lucrative
for the profession and the industry than the Salk and Sabin products.
Polio has practically disappeared also in those countries where no
vaccination had taken place; and countries, which of course, were spared
the huge damages that the vaccinations had caused wherever they were
employed.
An article by reporter Barbara Bouyet in Fur 'n Feathers, March 1987
cites Dr. Robert Simpson of Rutgers University as saying:
"Immunization programs against flu, measles, mumps, polio, etc.,
actually may be seeding humans with RNA to form pro- viruses... which
under proper conditions become activated and cause a variety of diseases
including rheumatoid arthritis, multiple sclerosis, lupus erythematosus,
Parkinson's disease and cancer. Spare me this 'medical miracle'."
In Australia, Dr. Archie Kalokerinos, M.D., and Dr. Glen Dettman,
Ph.D., discovered that some 500 out of every 1,000 Aboriginal children
were dying in the Northern territories. The cause was a type of toxic
shock reaction, complicated by vitamin C deficiency, brought on by
immunization. In a two-year period without vaccination and with improved
nutrition not one child died.
Dr. B. Duperrat, of the Saint-Louis Hospital in Paris, wrote in the
French medical journal Presse Medicale on March 12, 1955: "Vaccination
also causes leukemia to break out".
12. THE CANCER RACKET
"There are still people who feel that the rat will guide us to the
perfect diet, me I think it merely guides us to the garbage heap." (Dr.
Franklin Bicknell,The English Complaint, Jan, 1956).
Dr. Henry Woglom (Leading cancer researcher, 1964):
"It must first be realized that the output to work on cancer
research is enormous. It may be true that from this mountain of labour
nothing so far has emerged but a cancer-bearing mouse."
Every half-hour, 30 people die of cancer in America. Every day, 1400
people die of cancer in America. Every year, almost 500,000 people die of
cancer in America. Approximately 900,000 Americans will learn this year
that they have cancer. Of those, only 40% will be alive in 5 years.
(Critics of the national cancer program say only 20-25%.)
THE AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY DOES NOT TELL THE TRUTH
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"Cancer is one of the most curable of the
major diseases in this country"
-American Cancer Society booklet
"They (ACS) lie like scoundrels."
-Dr. Dean Burk, Ph.D., 34 years at the
National Cancer Institute
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"Everyone should know that most cancer research is largely a fraud,
and that the major cancer research organisations are derelict in their
duties to the people who support them."
-Linus Pauling, Ph.D., two time Nobel Prize winner, in Outrage,
Oct/Nov 1986
"Between 1962 and 1982, the numbers of people who contracted or died
of cancer both increased. Cancer deaths rose 8.7%... The bottom line is
that despite all the billions of dollars, and the promises and the claims
of success, more people are dying of cancer than ever before..."
-Dr. John C. Bailer III, biostatistician, Harvard University School
of Public Health. Co-author of Report on Cancer in the New England Journal
of Medicine, May 1986.
"...the simple unadulterated truth is that they are neither winning
the fight against cancer nor are they about to find a cure. They have been
claiming that a cure is just around the corner for a good 50 years or
more, but the sad fact remains that in spite of the countless millions
being collected, cancer in its most serious forms - in the lung, breast
and bowel - is no nearer to being beaten today than it was at the turn of
the century.
Indeed, in some cases-breast cancer for example - the exact opposite
is true; the scientists are actually losing the fight."
(Cancer Control Society, Great Britain) in Outrage, Oct/Nov
1986
Why?
The answer is simple. The cancer industry, including treatment and
research, is conservatively estimated to be an annual $50 billion to $75
billion industry (in the U.S. alone). It is a powerful monster out of
control that government officials and media barons fear to confront.
Hospitals blithely install multi- million dollar radiation devices,
knowing they will profit from them while ignoring their murderous effects.
Surgeons cut and cut and cut, with meagre results, but high fees.
Chemotherapists promote more expensive and more toxic cancer "cocktails"
which have little effect, as detailed research proves. The few voices of
protest are lost in the huge, obscene feeding of the cancer industry
profiteers.
According to Arizona State University professor Edward J.
Sylvester:
"The physical plant of what is called the University of Texas (UT)
System Cancer Center here covers two million square feet... Current
investment in the building is $152 million. The operating budget, separate
from physical-plant cost, was $254,389,314 ($254 million!) ... for fiscal
1984-85... All for cancer. The UT System Cancer Center treats no other
disease...
A noted cancer specialist in Boston said he believed that if some
simple and inexpensive replacement for chemotherapy for the treatment of
cancer were found tomorrow, all U.S. medical schools would teeter on the
verge of bankruptcy, so integral a part of their hospital revenues is
oncology, the medical specialty of cancer treatment."
-Dread Disease, 1972
In 1989 the average cost per cancer patient was $50,000- $75,000
(US) and rising. Yet many die of the treatment! As is admitted by a few of
the more courageous physicians and researchers.
As early as 1956, Hardin Jones, Ph.D., a professor of medical
physics and physiology at the University of California, Berkeley, argued
that orthodox cancer treatment (radiation, surgery and chemotherapy) was
suspect. In 1969, Jones declared that, according to his carefully
researched statistics, the cancer patient who received no treatment:
"For a typical type of cancer, people who refused treatment lived an
average of twelve and a half years. Those who accepted surgery and other
kinds of treatment lived an average of only three years. I attribute this
to the traumatic effect of surgery on the body's natural defence
mechanism. The body has a natural kind of defence against every type of
cancer."
Hardin Jones, A Report on Cancer, University of California, Berkeley
(library).
During the 1970's period, the ACS collected more than $1 billion
from the American public. At one point, the California branch of the ACS
had accumulated over $8 million which was collecting interest in
California banks. At another point, the national ACS had over $200 million
invested in New York banks. Its emergency fund for hot research projects
was a "big" $5 million! Yet every year the drum is rolled out and two and
a half million volunteers go forth to beg for more money for this "relief
charity". The spectacle is sickening.
Samuel S. Epstein, professor of preventive medicine and community
health at the University of Illinois Medical Society in Chicago described
how the "War on Cancer" began:
"The cancer lobby, headed by the late Sydney Farber, politically
astute director of the Children's Cancer Research Foundation, Boston, and
including the American Cancer Society and Mary Lasker, a New York
philanthropist who had close contacts with the administrations of
successive Presidents, exerted a powerful influence on Congress and the
public. Both were exhorted by hard- sell techniques (to believe) that the
cure for cancer was just around the corner, and only needed more support
and funding for the American Cancer Society and NCI. In the naive search
for the 'magic bullet,' the NCI financed a huge and ill-conceived Cancer
Chemotherapy Program for mass-screening of hundreds of chemicals, selected
on tenuous pretexts, for anticancer activity in tissue culture and 'animal
tumour systems'.
A full page ad was put in the New York Times on December 9, 1969 to
start the "War on Cancer" campaign. It read, "We are so close to a cure
for cancer. We lack only the will and the kind of money and comprehensive
planning that went into putting a man on the moon."
Four or five months later, Mary Lasker [whose advertising tycoon
husband had made his fortune through the Lucky Strike commercials]
contacted her friend Mathilde Krim (now in control of the 'fight against
AIDS'...hold on to your wallet, America), a research biologist
(vivisector) at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and also
politically-connected through her friendship with ex-President Lyndon
Johnson. Together Lasker and Krim went off to Washington and soon had a
Senator interested in the war on cancer. An outside panel, composed mainly
of people associated with the American Cancer Society, was assigned to
draft a report. Mathilde Krim became fascinated with Interferon during her
preparation of a major portion of the report.
Once the report was completed, a bill was offered in the Senate.
Then the newspaper advice columnist Ann Landers joined the crusade.
(Landers, whose husband is a doctor, has ever since published an annual
pro-vivisection column for the benefit of her millions of naive readers.)
Soon a public groundswell was created. Many scientists in cancer research
were opposed to the notion of billions of dollars going to cancer. They
rightly surmised that most of it would be wasted (on vivisection). But
Mary Lasker never paid much attention to the scientists. At the end of
1971, President Nixon signed the "war on cancer" into law. Mary Lasker's
public relations campaign had succeeded. Now the public funds were in the
water and the sharks moved in for the feast.
Lucy Eisenberg provided the following insights in a November 1971
article in Harper's:
"The so-called Conquest of Cancer Act is the product of a
high-powered PR campaign and a rather deceptive one at that...
Mrs. Lasker's opinions on research policy do not always coincide
with those of many research scientists or even top NIH (National Institute
of Health) officials, but when they don't, it is often Mrs. Lasker's that
prevail...
She arranged to have a Senate panel appointed to study cancer...
Most of the panel members, it turned out, were past or present members of
the American Cancer Society board."
Maryann Napol's 1982 book, Health Facts, reported:
"According to Washington-based observers of the medical politics
scene, the NCI has both the money and the prestige within the scientific
community, and the ACS has the political clout.
The American Cancer Society's political clout is exercised via the
extremely influential ACS board members-some of the country's leading
PHILANTHROPISTS, BANKERS AND CORPORATE EXECUTIVES - who also sit on key
committees at the NCI. The ACS is the largest private 'philanthropic'
institution in the United States." (emphasis added)
But remember Mathilda Krim?...in February 1985, France's biggest
publishing house, Hachette, brought out Les Mensonges de la Medecine (The
Lies of Medicine), by Roger Dalet, M.D., who filled 228 pages with what he
defines as "lies", propagated as truths by the medical establishment. We
shall cite here just one single item; on page 40, Dr. Dalet recalls the
Interferon bluff, which we remember made the title page of Time, Newsweek
etc., and consequently also of most European publications. Dr. Dalet
writes:
"The word gets around. Some experiments seem hopeful. Rats, to which
Interferon had been administered, healed of their cancer. The media spread
the news that the miracle was imminent, that cancer would soon be
defeated. There was a rush on this new substance... Numerous drug
manufacturers pitched into the production of Interferon to fill the orders
from the USA, Switzerland, Japan etc....
But suddenly, the crash! Interferon doesn't keep its promises... And
then... the tops, the bubble bursts. France's medical journal, Quotidien
du Medicin (No 3671, April 21, 1982, p. 11) reports: An American doctor,
Shelby Berger, of the NCI, announces that Interferon, rather than
retarding the development of cancer, favours its growth..."
"It is not possible to apply to the human species experimental
information derived from inducing cancer in animals."
-Dr. Kenneth Starr, of the New South Wales Cancer Council, reported
in the Sydney Morning Herald, April 7, 1960
"Experts often assert that it is senseless to compare a tumour which
has been artificially provoked in an animal with a tumour that has
spontaneously developed in a human being."
-Dr. Peter Schmidsberger, Medical Correspondent of the German
weekly, Bunte, No. 21, 1982.
Prof. Hasting Gilford, surgeon, in The Lancet, 1930:
"That research into the cause and nature of cancer is making no
headway is obvious to everyone who has followed its drift since the
movement began with the beginning of this century.
"And now, after thirty years of research, all that it has to show is
a prodigious heap of facts and inductions got by much industry from animal
sources, but, so far as man is concerned, no better than a tumour - an
innocent tumour - useless to man, and most decidedly of no use to mice...
Laboratory cancer research has gone on for so many years, contentedly
grinding out data and spinning inductions, without attention being drawn
to the fact that it never produces any useful results. And now, after a
quarter of a century of research, we can see to what a deplorable waste of
energy and ability and money this academic, aimless toil may lead. One
useful, if negative, conclusion, however, emerges; which is that the
problem of the causation of human cancer is not to be solved by
experiments on lower animals in laboratories."
"Over a 25-year period, the United States National Cancer Institute
screened 40,000 species of plants for anti-tumour activity and, as a
result, several proved sufficiently safe and effective on the basis of
animal tests to be included in human trials. Unfortunately all of these
were either ineffective in treating human cancer or too toxic to consider
for general use. Thus, in 25 years of this extensive programme, not a
single anti-tumour agent safe and effective enough for use by patients has
yet emerged."
(N.R. Farnsworth and J.M. Pezzuto, paper presented at the University
of Panama workshop sponsored by the International Foundation for Science,
1982. Reproduced in The Cruel Deception by Dr. Robert Sharpe, 1988.)
Dr. Irwin D.J. Bross, PhD, (fired) Director of Biostatistics,
Roswell Park Memorial Institute for Cancer Research, Buffalo,NY, in
Fundamental and Applied Toxicology. Nov. 1982:
"Animals in Cancer Research: A Multi-Billion Dollar Fraud"
"...From a scientific standpoint, what is pertinent is that what are
called "animal model systems" in cancer research have been a total
failure.
...The tens of millions of animals killed in the mass screening for
new cancer drugs died in vain. The hundreds of millions spent by the
National Cancer Institute on this futile effort were diverted from genuine
cancer research that might have provided useful drugs.
When NCI enthusiastically supported the mass screening using animals
there was plenty of good evidence that the mass screening program would
fail. There was almost no factual evidence to suggest that it was going to
succeed. The money was spent and the animals were killed for two main
reasons. First, it was a highly profitable undertaking for certain medical
schools and research institutes that were incapable of doing any genuine
cancer research. Second, it was sustained by a superstitious belief in a
grossly unscientific notion: that mice are miniature men...
Since there is no way to defend the use of animal model systems in
plain English or with scientific facts, they resort to double talk in
technical jargons...
.... From the standpoint of current scientific theory of cancer, the
whole mystique of animal model systems is hardly more than superstitious
nonsense...
The virtue of animal model systems to those in hot pursuit of the
federal dollars is that they can be used to prove anything - no matter how
foolish, or false, or dangerous this might be. There is such a wide
variation in the results of animal model systems that there is always some
system that will "prove" a point. Fraudulent methods of argument never die
and rarely fade away. They are too useful to promoters...
The moral is that animal model systems kill not only animals, they
also kill humans. There is no good factual evidence to show that the use
of animals in cancer research has led to the prevention or cure of a
single human cancer."
"Various species of animals react differently to the same drug. Not
only do the variations in the metabolism of a drug make it difficult to
extrapolate results of animal experiments to man but they CREATE A SERIOUS
OBSTACLE to the development of new therapeutic drugs." (emphasis added)
-Dr. Barnard B. Brodie in Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics,
1976)
Dr. Herbert Ley, former FDA Commissioner, in the San Francisco
Chronicle, Jan. 2, 1970
"People think the FDA is protecting them. It isn't. What the FDA is
doing and what he public thinks it's doing are as different as night and
day.
First, it is providing a means whereby key individuals on its
payroll are able to obtain both power and wealth through granting special
favours to certain politically influential groups that are subject to its
regulation. This activity is similar to the 'protection racket' of
organized crime: for a price, one can induce FDA administrators to provide
'protection' from the FDA itself.
Secondly, as a result of this political favouritism, the FDA has
become a primary factor in that formula whereby cartel- oriented companies
in the food and drug industry are able to use the police powers of
government to harass or destroy their free- market competitors.
And thirdly, the FDA occasionally does some genuine public good with
whatever energies it has left over after serving the vested political and
commercial interest of its first two activities."
"There have already been many cancer cures, and all have been
ruthlessly and systematically suppressed with a Gestapo-like thoroughness
by the cancer establishment. The cancer establishment is the
not-so-shadowy association of the American Cancer Society, the leading
cancer hospitals, the National Cancer Institute, and the FDA. The shadow
part is the fact that these respected institutions are very much dominated
by members and friends of members of the pharmaceutical industry, which
profits so incredibly much from our profession-wide obsession with
chemotherapy...
The health field is the only field where inequity, conflict of
interest, and gross public deception can remain unchecked. After all, the
people in the FDA and in all the branches of government that deal with
health come from the same orthodox school of thought as the heads of the
AMA...
The damage done to the body by an unsuccessful course of
chemotherapy is often so great that the patient's immune system never
recovers sufficiently for him to stand a fighting chance...
Chemotherapy, when it has no chance, or only a remote chance, to
work is at best stupid and at worst criminal."
Dr. Robert C. Atkins, Amygdalin Therapy, 1972
Ernst T. Krebs, Jr., a prominent biochemist from San Francisco,
co-discoverer of vitamin B-17 (commonly called 'Laetril'), and discoverer
of vitamin B-15 (pangamic acid), speaking before a seminar in Newark, New
Jersey, in 1988, said:
"Chemotherapy and radiotherapy will make the ancient method of
drilling holes in a patient's head to permit the escape of demons, look
relatively advanced....
Toxic chemotherapy is a hoax. The doctors who use it are guilty of
pre-meditated murder, and the use of cobalt and other methods of cancer
treatment popular today effectively closes the door on cure."
In November 1985, Dr. John Cairns of the Harvard School of Public
Health, wrote in Scientific American that chemotherapy was useful for only
a few RARE cancers. Dr. Cairns found no significant gains against the
primary cancers since the 1950's. He estimated that of the almost 1/2
million Americans who die of cancer each year, only 2% to 3% were being
saved by chemotherapy treatment! Dr. Cairns wrote:
" It remains a depressing truth that fewer than 50% of cancer
patients can be cured by surgery... It is not possible to detect any
sudden change in death rates for any of the major cancers that could be
credited to chemotherapy... Those who organize cancer centers and
supervise the many clinical trials of chemotherapy look for ways to
circumvent these relentless statistics.... A six or twelve month course of
chemotherapy not only is a very unpleasant experience but also has its own
intrinsic mortality... treatments now avert... perhaps 2 or 3 per cent...
of the 400,000 deaths from cancer that occur each year in the U.S."
Not only have health officials ignored such findings, but, they
encourage treatments which are questionable. In 1987, Dr. Vincent DeVita,
Jr., the head of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) from 1980 to 1988,
"issued a controversial recommendation to 13,000 cancer specialists in
North America to give chemotherapy and surgery to all women with breast
cancer, regardless of whether it has spread."
DeVita was a chemotherapy specialist. As such, he conveniently
ignored the evidence against his speciality.
There were lots of facts which ought to have got in the way of
13,000 cancer specialists recommending to millions of women, "on the
highest medical authority," that chemotherapy was needed and in their best
interest. Dr. Alan Levin of the University of California San Francisco put
the argument against DeVita bluntly:
"Most cancer patients in this country die of chemotherapy...
Chemotherapy does not eliminate breast, colon or lung cancers. The fact
has been documented for over a decade. Yet doctors still use chemotherapy
for these tumours... Women with breast cancer are likely to die faster
with chemotherapy than without it."
(Quoted in Gary Null, Medical Genocide, Part 16, Penthouse, 1987)
British doctor Dick Richards agreed with California doctor Levin.
The following statements of Dr. Richards demonstrate the criminal
culpability of the director of the National Cancer Institute:
"The real truth is that the orthodox treatment of cancer of the
breast in the year 1980 offers no significantly better chance of survival
than it did int he year 1900...
I challenge anyone to show sound evidence that, for example, a
random group of advanced breast tumour patients do better when considered
as a whole, or even live longer, on surgery, deep x- ray, and
chemotherapy, than they do when left totally untreated. In my experience
they don't."
(Dr. D. Richards, The Topic of Cancer: When the Killing Has to Stop,
Pergamon Press, Oxford, 1982)
Then in 1988 a Swedish study found that mammograms (X-rays of the
breasts) and early detection of breast cancer did not reduce death. Dr.
Lars Janzon of Sweden's Malmo General Hospital studied 42,000 women before
concluding in an October 1988 British Medical Journal that mammograms
should be restricted. An official of the American Cancer Society
immediately dismissed the report when questioned by the Wall Street
Journal.
And now a 10 year Canadian National Breast Screening study has shown
a 52 percent increase in breast cancer. The X-rays are creating an
epidemic: (See I.D. Bross, M.D., Scientific Fraud vs Scientific Truth,
Metatechnology Press, New York, 14226, 1991).
But rather than a halt being called to such dangerous practices, the
mammography screening program in British Columbia, for example, is being
energetically expanded: (See Annual Report, B.C. Cancer Agency, 1991-1992)
"Economics and politics simply intertwine in shaping conventional
medicine's approach to cancer. Very simply put, treating disease is
enormously profitable, preventing disease is not."
(The British Cancer Control Society), Outrage, Oct/Nov, 1986)
Eustace Mullins is an ardent foe of what he calls the Medical
Monopoly and its international banking masters. He considers it a death
threat to the American Nation's freedom and democratic institutions, and
identifies Memorial Sloan-Kettering as the linchpin of the New York-based
cancer conspiracy, Mullins writes, in Murder by Injection: The Story of
The Medical Conspiracy Against America, Staunton PA, 1988.
"The Temple of the modern method of cancer treatment in the United
States is the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute in New York. Its
high priests are the surgeons and researchers at this center....
The governing board of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute,
called the Board of Managers, reads like a financial statement of the
various Rockefeller holdings....
The Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center continues to be the most
'fashionable' charity among the New York socialites...
This institution receives $70 million a year from various tax exempt
foundations... which means the American taxpayer is subsidizing all of
this research. One hundred and thirty full-time scientists are doing
research at the Center, all 345 physicians at the Center are also heavily
involved in research. And what are the results of all this activity? A
continued reliance on the now antiquated 'poison, slash and burn'
techniques...
While wedded to the ritual observation of these expensive, painful
and futile procedures, the 'Scientists' at Sloan-Kettering maintain a
resolute phalanx of opinion denouncing various holistic procedures...."
"Bruce Halstead, M.D..... was given a five year jail sentence... The
crime? Dr. Halstead prescribed and sold to several of his cancer patients
some herbal remedies... a rather onerous California law forbids a doctor
to treat a cancer patient with anything other than chemotherapy,
radiation, or surgery."
-Patrick McGrady Jr., (25 years senior editor at the ACS.) Cancer
Scandal video.
New York is the same.
"The definition of malpractice in New York state, as it is in many
other states in this country, is to operate outside the mainstream of
medical oncology. You can be convicted. You can be fined. You can lose
your license. You can go to jail. People can bring malpractice suits
against you even if releases have been signed.
It is now illegal to find a cure for cancer."
Cancer Scandal.
Why?
David Rorvik suggested the unspoken motive in an article which
appeared in the June 1976 issue of Harpers :
"The American Cancer Society, designated by charter as an
'emergency' organization which must disband the day a cure is found, has
enjoyed its emergency status since 1913 and, by every indication, is
determined to be its beneficiary still in the year 2013."
Pat McGrady, Jr.:
"The American Cancer Society collects around $400 million a year...
I have yet to see a single breakthrough that has resulted from this
colossal collection of money. Surely the answer is that they have misspent
it... Of the money ACS spends to 'fight cancer', 61 percent goes for staff
salaries, executive travel, office supplies and other expenses; less than
5 percent is allocated to assisting patients."
"Maybe the raising of millions of dollars of funds for charitable
projects has become a 'racket'... Maybe we should investigate the American
Cancer Society's operations."
U.S. Representative Roland Libonati, as quoted in Medical Dark Ages.
On March 26, 1975, an article by the NEA-London Economist News
Service, titled "Is Cancer Research Worth Cost?" appeared on the editorial
page of The Galveston Daily News. It said in part:
"The sums that are being spent (on cancer research) are enormous:
$600 million in the present financial year - and the fear of getting the
disease universal.... One million Americans have it. Recently Dr. James
Watson, who is listened to because he helped to discover the molecular
structure of life's genetic material, derided the national cancer program
as a fraud. Dr. Watson said that the government's newly created cancer
research centers around the country are the institutions that are
'starting out lousy and will stay lousy'."
" The facts continue multiplying that refute the barbaric practice
of animal experimentation in the name of human health and longevity. Yet
the efforts by the medical establishment to justify this practice
continues unabated.... The medical establishment threatens us with dire
consequences if animal experimentation is stopped. This is a shame, a
weapon being used to ensure continued funding to the tune of $6 billion a
year by the National Institutes of Health and Mental Health to the
nation's universities."
(From an article by Murray J. Cohen, M.D., in the Chicago Tribune,
April 8, 1986.)
"At the time when millions are starving in the world, and our
economy is in great trouble, Congress is allocating billions of dollars
annually in grants for "basic" no-goal research on living animals. Careers
in torture are as financially rewarding as they are morally bankrupt.
Reports in the medical journals recorded by the experimenters themselves
are indisputable indictments of their gross inhumanity."
Barbara Schultz, a member of the Attorney General Louis Lefkowitz's
advisory committee on the treatment of animals in New York State, writing
in Newsday, July 12, 1974)
Med. Dr. Ottokar Hanel, general practitioner, Neu-Bydzow (Bohemia):
"The learned lawyers of earlier centuries also considered torture
to be absolutely necessary for obtaining evidence!"
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13. Pollution
Herbert Gundersheimer, M.D., member, PCRM (Physicians Committee for
Responsible Medicine), Baltimore, Maryland, 1988:
"Results from animal tests are not transferable between species, and
therefore cannot guarantee product safety for humans...In reality these
tests do not provide protection for consumers from unsafe products, but
rather are used to protect corporations from legal liability."
-Declaration, 1988
"...Moreover, the tests deceive the very consumers whom they are
supposed to protect, by certifying as safe household products and
cosmetics that cause nearly 200,000 (U.S.) hospital-recorded poisonous
exposures annually."
Paula Kislak, D.V.M., Sherman Oaks, California, PCRM, Declaration,
1988.
"It is incomprehensible how parties with vested interests repeatedly
assert the necessity and purposefulness of animal experiments, paying no
regard to the views of many who think otherwise, and at the same time
conceal the fact that the defence used against claims for damages
resulting from side effects caused by extensively used animal-tested
medicaments and chemical substances is precisely that the animal test
results could not be applied to the human organism."
Dr. med. Werner Hartinger, Specialist in General and Accident
Surgery, in a lecture entitled "Vivisection - False Path of Medicine?", on
October 4, 1985, at the Kunsthaus in Zurich.
Prof. Gianni Tamino, biologist, Padua University, a Congressman in
the Italian Parliament, in Gazzettino, Venice, Oct 8, 1987:
"The growing opposition to vivisection is understandable both on
ethical and biological counts. However, a certain 'scientistic' culture
says they serve to save human lives. But reality is quite the opposite.
Let's take the case of the pesticides. These dangerous products, used in
agriculture, are classified according to their acute toxicity, graduated
with the LD (Lethal Dose) tests. This represents not only a useless
sacrifice of animals, but it's an alibi that enables the chemical industry
to sell products which are classified as harmless or almost, but are in
reality very harmful in the long run, even if taken in very small doses.
Many pesticides classified as belonging to the fourth category, (meaning
they can be sold and used freely) have turned out to be carcinogenic or
mutagenic or capable of harming the fetus. Also in this case, animal tests
are not only ambiguous, but they serve to put on the market some products
of which any carcinogenic effect will be ascertained only when used by
human beings - the real guinea-pigs of the multinationals. And yet there
are laboratory tests that are cheaper and quicker than animal tests, 'in
vitro' tests on cell cultures or bacteria, which have been proving their
worth for years already. But the interests of the chemical industries
which foist on us new products in all fields may not be questioned."
14. The Oily "Free" Press
"...Very few realize to what extent their own minds are constantly
being manipulated by the gigantic, venal interests that mold public
opinion and influence the decisions of science at top levels.
As related in Naked Empress, some 90 percent of commercial
advertising, the wherewithal of the mass media, derive from the
petrochemical combine and its business partners. And the media manipulate
public opinion according to the interests of their main clients. Not so
much through the seductive display ads, which only serve to sell products,
but much more determinantly through editorials, articles, reports, even
letters-to-the-editor, which serve to sell ideas and to justify government
policies.
Most of the big petrochemical combines use animals as testing
material. Are those animal tests necessary? Indeed they are, but not for
the reasons generally stated. They don't serve to reveal the dangerousness
of the tested products but, on the contrary, to conceal it.
What if there were no animals? Then the industry would have to test
its products in some other way, with some scientific method, using human
cell cultures, for example, or any of the more than 400 other scientific
methods available, which would quickly reveal the products' noxiousness.
If such methods had been used, all-encroaching world pollution would not
be what it is today."
From The Preface, by Hans Ruesch: 1,000 Doctors (and many more)
Against Vivisection. Hans Ruesch, editor. CIVIS Publications, 1989.
15. "Animal Rights" Fakery
"Of course, it would be the animal welfare organizations' task to
draw the public's attention not only to the cruelty of animal testing, but
principally to the damages deriving from a fallacious system of research.
But this, most of the organizations fail to do, being no less infiltrated
by commercial interests than the media and the governments.
There is indeed nothing easier than to infiltrate an animal
protection society. The wolf always arrives in sheep's clothing, the devil
always knocks at the door flashing smiles and a golden halo of sainthood:
so that the overworked, sometimes underpaid and more often unpaid animal
workers in the big societies will sooner or later be glad to relinquish
their post to the genial newcomer, who seems to have even more enthusiasm
and energy and no pecuniary problems.
This explains such a phenomenon as that of the largest, richest
animal welfare society in the world, the RSPCA, whose patron is Her
Gracious Majesty the Queen; RSPCA propagandizes the necessity of
vivisection, never advertises the damage deriving to the people from this
false method of research, and has invested most of its huge assets in
bonds and stocks of industries that practice vivisection." ( So much for
animal 'rights'.)
From the Preface, by Hans Ruesch: 1,000 Doctors (and many more)
Against Vivisection.
16. AIDS: Only The Latest Plague From The Animal Labs
"In order to expand the market for its products, the pharmaceutical
industry is literally creating new diseases."
-Joel Lexchin, M.D., The Real Pushers, New Star Books.
"Truth is usually simple. Yet the AIDS virus theory has entered a
realm of scientific obfuscation. OUR ADDICTION TO ANIMAL RESEARCH provides
us with faulty information about AIDS and drugs intended for humans, who
differ physiologically from other species." (Emphasis supplied)
Laurence E. Badgley, M.D., July 1988, in his Foreword to AIDS, Inc.,
by John Rappoport, Human Energy Press, San Bruno, CA.
John Seale, M.D., world renowned specialist in venereal diseases and
AIDS in Great Britain, explained in a long conference (parts of which he
had previously published in London's Sunday Express in 1986), how AIDS was
inadvertently created in the vivisection laboratories. He thus confirmed
what French Dr. Gustave Mathieu had already announced in the summer of
1985, and what West Germany's Dr. med. Holger Strohm had reconfirmed in
books, articles and conferences up to 1988... AIDS is a product of the
animal laboratories.
The renowned British AIDS specialist, Professor Peter Kernoff, also
supports the theory that the virus was artificially created.
Dr. Seale, published an article in the British Medical Journal
stating that the AIDS factor is derived from a combination of the la visna
(sheep) virus and the virus of la leuceumie des bovins (cow leukemia).
(Excerpts from an article in the Mid-Devon Advertiser incorporating
Mid-Devon Times, Dec. 2, 1988):
"A preventative vaccine for AIDS is unlikely to be found, a leading
world expert on the disease told this newspaper in an exclusive interview
this week... In the paper, Crossing the Species Barrier, which he was
presenting yesterday in London, Dr. Seale stressed that most viruses that
affected one species did not affect another species. Dogs did not have cat
diseases, and vice versa. The fact that the AIDS virus has such a
structure is indicative to Dr. Seale that it is not a natural virus, but
one induced artificially in the laboratory, perhaps accidentally, by
biologists using new techniques in virology, in which monkeys are used...
'It could not have happened naturally', Dr. Seale said. 'It has been
artificially altered'."
Dr. Theodore Strecker investigated the development of the AIDS
epidemics and established that the National Cancer Institute, in
cooperation with the WHO (World Health Organization), discovered the AIDS
virus in the laboratories of Fort Detrick (U.S. Army biological
laboratories). They combined the viruses of a sheep disease and bovine
leukemia and injected them in human tissue culture. The result was the
AIDS virus, the first retrovirus known that appears to be 100% deadly to
man.
The AIDS virus causes a fatal disease which damages the brain and
destroys the body's immune system, rendering futile all the body's
attempts to combat sickness. The tragedy is that the virus appears in
numerous forms. Some cause decomposition of the brain (like the sheep
disease), others cause leukemia (like the cow's virus), and there are
numerous other results. Apparently the virus will continue to change and
cause different symptoms, because it is artificial.
A very well argued document by Dr. William Campbell Douglas,
entitled 'WHO Murdered Africa', states that the (WHO) World Health
Organization killed the African continent with the AIDS virus, by means of
the small pox vaccination program there. This is a brave and provocative
accusation against the organization, and it is supported by the WHO's own
statement made in its 1972 bulletin: "An attempt should be made to see if
viruses can in fact exert selective effects on immune functions. The
possibility should be looked into selective effects on immune functions.
The possibility should be looked into that the immune response to the
virus itself may be impaired if the infecting virus damages, more or less
selectively, the cell responding to the virus." This clearly shows that
WHO wanted to test viruses that might be able to destroy the human T-cell,
thus, causing immune deficiency. Who needs such tests? The discovery of
such a virus, as the World Health Organization has proposed, would
ultimately create terrible and fatal infectious viruses beyond the
strength of the human immune system, which could destroy the human race.
The Sunday Express of November 2, 1986, examined Soviet- American
cooperation in the area of AIDS.
One of the important people of the Fort Detrick laboratory, Carlton
Gajdusek, said: "The scientists and research associates working in one of
our buildings are mostly from China and the Soviet Union. They have free
access to all the laboratories where Americans work. Even the army's
infectious disease unit is loaded with foreign workers of not always
friendly nationalities. I can assure you that the creation of the AIDS
virus was not just a diabolical exercise that got out of hand. It was a
cold-blooded successful attempt to create a killer virus, which was then
used in a successful experiment in Africa. So successful, in fact, that
most of Central Africa may be wiped out. It was not an accident. It was
deliberate."
A famous virologist insists that the AIDS virus originated in the
Central African green monkey and was transferred by a bite. But the
disease began to occur simultaneously in the United States, , Haiti,
Brazil and Central Africa, and it is quite improbable that four green
monkeys could have bitten people in four different countries on three
different continents at approximately the same time. Secondly, genetic
testing has proved that the natural transfer of the AIDS virus from
monkeys to humans is impossible; thirdly, even if we accept the
possibility of such a transference, this cannot explain the enormous
numbers of people infected, which doubles every fourteen months. In
comparing the first case of the disease with the present number of cases,
it is obvious that great numbers of people were infected at the same time.
If the first case was indeed caused by a green monkey in 1972, the
doubling described above would have produced somewhere around fourteen
thousand victims and not the actual several millions.
How was this deadly virus transferred to the United States to
literally decimate the homosexual population? It is true that in some
cases the virus was transferred by homosexuals from Haiti to the United
States, but this does not reveal the entirety of the problem and cannot
explain the number of infected people in the country today. Until 1978 the
virus was still not present in the States. This year a Hepatitis B vaccine
was introduced, and thanks to this vaccine the epidemiology of the disease
can be examined. In 1981 the Center for Disease Control announced that
four percent of all those who received the hepatitis vaccine were infected
with AIDS. In 1986 they admitted that the number of infected vaccine
recipients was actually as high as sixty percent. Nowadays they abstain
from all estimates, because they refuse to admit that all one hundred
percent of those who received the vaccine are infected with AIDS.
From the above discussion, it becomes clear that the deadly virus
did not come here from Africa, but has been spread by an anti-hepatitis
vaccine, while the African epidemic was caused by a vaccine against small
pox. Both vaccines were infected with the AIDS virus.
AIDS is one of the greatest threats we face today. It might
eventually force many countries into bankruptcy. In 1985, this deadly
disease cost the United States about 5 billion dollars. In 1987 the cost
rose to more than 10 billion. At the end of 1991 it cost about 65 billion.
Because of the staggering cost, many African nations are on the brink of
financial catastrophe. Homosexuality, unsterile needles and blood
transfusions have already infected from ten to twenty percent of the
population in some countries. It is assumed that the rapidly spreading
epidemic will depopulate some areas of Africa. South America and some
other countries also live with the same fear.
17. ITS CRIMINAL
There is no money to be made from healthy people. This is why the
medical and research establishments are not in the least interested in
true prevention (practically all diseases are preventable). The criminal
refusal to remove the known causes of so many human ailments guarantees a
situation where practically everyone is sick or will eventually get sick
(the flat refusal to educate people about the vital need to adopt a
vegetarian diet is a prime example). Once millions upon millions of people
are sick and dying and pronounced "in need" of drugs, tests, radiation,
surgeries, transplants, and all kinds of medical attention and
intervention, the expenditures connected with "health care" skyrocket
accordingly. In 1991 alone, the United States spent 750 billion dollars on
what should more appropriately be called "sickness care". It is
conservatively estimated that by the year 2000, annual "health care" costs
in the United States will have increased to at least 1.5 trillion dollars
($1,500,000,000,000). Needles to say, such astronomical expenditures
(which have made countless doctors, surgeons, pharmaceutical companies,
and all kinds of institutions rich) have already broken the financial back
of the country. It is clear that prevention, and not "health care reform",
is the real cure.
18. Human Experimentation
"Human experimentation has become a major industry in America."
Millions of baffled Americans heard this statement on the hour long NBC
Reports T.V. program that Robert Rogers wrote, produced and narrated on
prime time of the evening of May 29,1973.
In Mental Hygiene, Peter Roger Breggin, M.D. wrote:
"Lobotomy and psychosurgery are upon us again! In Philadelphia a
black man dies of an overdose of heroin, and a reporter notices peculiar
scars on his head. A portion of his brain has been burned out in an
experimental attempt to cure his addiction. The neurosurgeon is located by
the reporter and admits that his monkey experiments were inconclusive
before trying his operation on human addicts."
On June 22, 1977 a news item from Cape Town reported that a 25 year
old Italian woman had died at Cape Town's Groote Schuur Hospital two and a
half hours after heart-juggler Dr. Christian Barnard had implanted a
baboon's heart (excised without a shade of anaesthtetic) into her chest,
hitching it to her own heart:
"Barnard's latest operation is rather disconcerting, especially in
view of the fact that the Italian patient was entrusted to his care for
the implantation of a heart valve, which is a routine operation even in
this poor Italy of ours..."
"Clinical nonsense", were the words with which France's
authoritative Le Monde dismissed Barnard's wild experiment.
On December 4, 1977 two German psychiatrists, Dr. Herbert Stiller
and Dr. Margot Stiller, wrote a letter to the Hamburger Abendblatt saying:
"Too much consideration has been paid up to now to Dr. Barnard's
sensitive, applause-hungry soul. It is well-known that he is seized by
asthma attacks whenever he gets criticized...We would suggest that one
should be somewhat less concerned about Prof. Barnard's tender
sensibility, and a bit more about all his potential, unsuspecting
patients."
Dr. med. Albert Eckhard (Chairman of the animal welfare society
"Tierfreund", Hanover, and the Association of Antivivisectionist Doctors,
Germany):
"...The objection that one must carry out animal experiments in
order not to have to make any experiments on humans also does not accord
with the truth, for the cruel experiments on animals have merely provided
the foundation for the belief that one can also make reprehensible
experiments on human beings. The bad thing is that they have performed the
experiments on people, especially on children, of poor folk, to whom they
transmitted tuberculosis, diphtheria, syphilis and other horrible
diseases, and did not even shrink back from conducting experiments on
dying children. Several thousands were involved in these experiments,
often with the most serious consequences for the "guinea pigs" concerned.
The fact that many doctors are hardly any longer aware of their unsocial
or really criminal way of thinking is apparent from the report of a doctor
who wrote as follows about his attempts to inject smallpox: "Perhaps I
should have first conducted experiments on animals, but the suitable
animals, i.e. calves, were difficult to obtain and to keep due to the
cost, and so, with the kind permission of the Senior Physician, I began my
experiments on children at the General Foundling Hospital."
(Tierrecht und Tierschutz, No. 9, 20 September 1932)
Prof. Pietro Croce, M.D., pathologist, Italy, Vice-President of The
International League of Doctors Against Vivisection (ILDAV), 3rd
Symposium, 1988:
"Atrocious medical experiments are being made on children, mostly
physically and mentally handicapped ones, and on aborted fetuses, given or
sold to the laboratories for experimental purposes. This is a logical
development of the practice of vivisection. It is our urgent task to
accelerate its inevitable downfall."
Dr. J.D. Whittall, M.D., in his book People and Animals, London,
1981:
"If there had been no vivisection and reliance had been placed on
clinical research and observation for finding out about the human body;
and if there had been a real study of the human being as a person rather
than as a machine, we would doubtless not now be threatened by science
with such monstrous scientific goals as head transplants, deep freezing of
human beings and indefinite prolongation of life, radical alteration of
the human mind by drugs and other means, remote control of humans by means
of electrodes implanted in the brain, the creation of man-animal chimeras,
etc... The world would not be saddened and threatened by the increasing
number of scientists and technologists who are being conditioned by their
laboratory employment to callous disregard of animal suffering, leading
inevitably to callous disregard of human suffering. There would not now be
a growing number of people greatly distressed by the appalling cruelties
which they know go on in laboratories.
There would not now be a world-wide epidemic of torture where
techniques are used similar to those that have been used on animals for
many years.
There would not now be a predominantly experimental medicine in the
western world instead of a clinical medicine. There would be less disease
and greater happiness.
And perhaps this planet would not now be in greater danger of
destruction due to cruel and greedy exploitation of its treasures by its
human inhabitants than at any time since the world began."
19. Some Last Words
Dr. med Ignaz Seidl, Vice-Chairman of the Austrian Society of
Antivivisectionist Doctors: "People were, out of reverence and admiration
for the results of medical science, accustomed - and a certain portion of
the Press does this deliberately - to consider its representatives as
demi-gods, whose actions were sacrosanct from the ethical viewpoint,
because their efforts were after all serving suffering Mankind. We young
medical students, who chose the profession of doctor out of enthusiasm for
its lofty ideals, thought exactly the same. We had no idea that our
revered teachers, through their experiments on animals, were punching
ethics in the face and, through their cruelty and heartlessness towards
the innocent creatures, doing exactly the same as the Druids did to the
old Celts when they acted according to the law which stated:'Prisoners of
war shall be slain at the alters or be cast into the flames...'
One shakes one's head in disbelief at the backwardness of a culture
that still makes use of such atrocities. We attend highly aesthetic,
philosophical and artistic lectures, we let ourselves be pleased or
shocked at the theatre or opera, listen to the sublime soaring tones of
the church organ, the solemn singing of the choirs, go through the finest
sensations of spiritual life when we read an aesthetic book, admire a
painting, wander happily in the open air, are exhilarated by the enjoyment
of Nature, experience all the qualities of inner movement - but all this
time, in the basements of the University institutes and many hospitals,
the groaning dogs are biting in pain at the iron bars of their cages after
coming to from the anaesthetic, they are writhing in unspeakable agony on
their straw bedding, they are dragging themselves whimpering to the water
bowl so as to cool their thirsting tongues, or are showing in their so
very devoted canine eyes the madness of despair when the cleverly placed
gadgets prevent them from easing the unbearable itching of their wounds
with parrying movements; other animals brood apathetically, shuddering
again and again with painful convulsions, maimed, torn apart and poisoned,
or must run day and night, to the point of exhaustion, in the revolving
drum, endure frightful burn wounds, hunger and thirst, freezing and
asphyxiation experiments until they are often only finally released from
their suffering by a merciful death. Anyone who has once seen this must,
doubting in God, clench his fist at the most vicious of all creatures,
homo sapiens, and vow to help expose the brutality of such a pitiless and
hypocritical science with all his might, and to help eradicate such a
crime against civilization. How empty and hollow must any honours and
titles appear that are striven for and achieved on the basis of such
shamefulness! Where can there be any excuse for such an abomination? Only
the soul blindness - not in the medical sense - of the doctors, only their
blindness of soul towards such a shaming of science and all humanity, of
true humanity, can excuse this or make it at least explicable.
However, as the defenders of this horrific means of research are
immunized against feelings of compassion and are deaf, I have preferred to
show, in their language and plain way of thinking, what dangerous sources
of error animal experiments are, how many people have been killed because
of them and how unnecessary they now appear to be in the judgement of many
doctors with modern training." (1933)
Prof. Andre Passebecq, M.D., N.D., D. Psy., of the Faculty of
Medicine of Paris, 13th District, at the ILDAV conference of June 19, 1989
in Paris, after he had been elected as the new President of ILDAV [ Intnl.
League of Doctors Against Vivisection]:
"Man has developed awesome weapons of destruction, capable of
annihilating our entire planet at the push of a button. But there are also
other kinds of destruction. Vivisection is one of them. It causes not only
severe damages in the biological area, but also untold spiritual damages.
Experiments on animals lead inevitably to experiments on people.
They are senseless, one and all. As if an animal test could ever predict
the same result on a person. And as if an experiment on one human being
could enable us to foresee the reactions of another human being, whose
biology and metabolism are different, whose blood pressure is different,
whose lifestyle and age and nourishment and sensitivity and genes and
everything else are different.
If we adopt a correct medical concept, based on an understanding of
the vital requirements of the cells; if we understand the sense and
purpose of the the organism's natural reactions, then we renounce all
animal experimentation. Then we recognize that each single organism,
whether human or animal, has its very own reactions; that it responds in
its own particular, individual way to the stimuli and attacks from the
environment, that it disposes of peculiar faculties of defense and
regeneration and self-healing powers.
Today's orthodox medicine and suppressive surgery don't understand
the purpose of disease and therefore don't know how to treat it. A real
doctor's experience derives from his natural intuition coupled with his
observation at the sickbed, but never from invasive, violent experiments
on people, and much less on animals. But instead of vital hygiene, which
aims at preservation or reconstruction of health by natural means and
shuns all use of degrading, destructive chemicals, today's medical
students are taught to manipulate poisons and mutilate bodies. We demand
that this be changed.
***
Dr. med Max Bachem, Frankfurt am Main:
"The fight against vivisection is a matter of what is right and of
moral evolution, an ethical requirement, and as such a question for the
whole people."
-(November 1907)
"I hope that our nation will cleanse itself of this meanest of all
crimes.(vivisection)."
-Dr. John H. Clarke, London (from a discourse delivered at the
Church Congress in Folkstone on Oct. 6, 1892)
Nowadays and worldwide, some 4 billion (!) animals of every
description are tortured to death every year.
20. References & Books
Learn about the legalized fraud perpetrated by a profit- oriented
Medical Power in collusion with the Drug Trust, to the detriment of public
health. Discover the full truth about the deadly cancer racket and those
who keep it thriving. Read the books by Swiss medical historian, Hans
Reusch, banned in bookstores in the USA and Great Britain:
Slaughter of the Innocent - dissolves forever the misconception that
animal experimentation enhances human health. 480-page paperback
originally published by Bantam Books, reissued by Civitas.
Naked Empress or The Great Medical Fraud - exposes the giant financial
interests that perpetuate vivisection and other harms. 260-page
illustrated, large soft cover.
1000 Doctors (and many more) Against Vivisection - doctors express their
opinions. 281-page large soft cover with end flaps, introduced by Hans
Ruesch
Buchverlag CIVIS Publications,
Hans Ruesch Foundation
Via Motta 51
CH-6900 Massagno - Switzerland
or CIVIS/Civitas, Box 26, Swain NY 14884
Additional reading: The Healing of Cancer; The Cures, the Cover-ups, and
the Solution Now!; B. Lynes (Marcus books, 1989)
For further information the editor may be contacted at:
jpranger@DIRECT.CA.
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Contributed by John Pranger.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT: MOST OF THE MATERIAL IN THIS
BOOKLET HAS BEEN COMPILED BY THE EDITOR FROM THE
WORKS LISTED ON THE LAST PAGE.
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 11:55:21 -0600
From: paulbog@jefnet.com (Rick Bogle)
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They're gone.
After last minute posturing by Dane County Executive Kathleen Falk and UW
Graduate School Dean Virginia Hinshaw, each trying to prove herself the
tougher negotiator, the truck came and the vets and animal care workers
loaded them into the truck while twenty plus police officers guarded the
gate.
To those who helped so much, thanks.
R
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 14:25:00 EST
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Fur Industry PR Scam Exposed, Fur Sales Drop Despite Hype
In the fall and winter months of 1997 fur industry PR hacks managed to
generate over 700 media stories pronouncing that fur was back. "Fur sales are
booming!" they declared.
This was all a part of carefully designed plan to convince the public that it
was once again acceptable to wear fur. Though the actual fur sales figures
did not indicate that there was more consumer interest in furs, reporters
acted as if the word of the fur industry was the word of God.
So what really happened? Despite all the hype, which surely should have
increased fur sales since it was nothing more than free publicity, fur sales
actually declined! In the March 2, 1998 issue of industry trade journal Sandy
Parker Reports, it was guessed that 1997 fur sales dropped by at least 10%.
Actual sales estimates will probably be released in early April.
So why the hype? The Fur Information Council of America (FICA) claims that
fur sales increased by 5% in 1996. What they didn't mention to the media, is
that the average fur coat was selling for about 14% more that same year. A
worldwide decline in mink production had pushed supply so low that the actual
retail prices had increased. Yet with coats selling for 14% more than the
year previous, they could only generate a 5% increase in dollar volume.
Obviously the number of actual coats sold had declined. But the industry
still touted their "sales increase" and "return to the fashion limelight."
The media fell for this hook, line and sinker. The New York Times started a
media frenzy, which took the scam and ran with it. Reporters just didn't want
to listen to the facts, even when anti fur groups were faxing them actual
industry documents that contradicted the industry press releases.
Even with all the pro fur media coverage, sales didn't go up. In fact, Sandy
Parker Reports called the winter of 1997-98 "one of the most disappointing
retail fur seasons in memory."
For the first 11 months of 1997, fur imports were down by nearly 10%. Imports
account for roughly 60% of US retail fur sales, so this is a good way to gauge
the fur market. The figures for December fur imports were not available at
press time.
Furriers are not at all happy about this. Many seem to be angry with the fur
trade associations for making such boastful claims, and getting their hopes
up. Fur World referred to the "heavy does of rhetoric served up by trade
associations about the positive results due to come" in an angry article in
their February 23rd edition.
One thing the fur industry refuses to do is credit animal rights activists
with their declining sales. Yet, why else wouldn't people buy fur? As Fur
World magazine pointed out in that same Feb. 23rd edition, there was record
high employment, a 24 year low in unemployment, and a skyrocketing stock
market. So why didn't people buy furs?
Perhaps the answer lies in the fact that anti fur groups have successfully
convinced a majority of women that it is wrong to kill animals for frivolous,
luxury products. In fact, North America and Western Europe are not the major
fur markets anymore. Fur farmers are being forced to dump their skins in
developing nations, which are just now seeing the birth of anti fur activism.
The drop in the Asian economies caused the prices of female mink skins to drop
by as much as 35%. If American women were buying furs, wouldn't it be their
demand that propped up mink prices, not Korean demand?
Perhaps the most telling sign of instability in the fur industry was the
recent bankruptcy of Andriana Furs. Andriana had reportedly sold $22 million
worth of furs in 1996, but that figure dropped to $10 million in 1997.
Andriana is a major fur retailer who had three stores in Chicago, and did
caravan sales in hotels and stadiums across the country. Now they are
struggling to survive and have already closed 2 of their 3 stores. It is
doubtful they will be able to get the consignment merchandise to continue
their caravan sales. With Andriana's sales having reportedly dropped by more
than 50%, one must ask how anyone can claim anything other than the fact that
the fur industry is dying.
Austria has banned fur farming. This happened because it was found that fur
animals could not be kept in intensive confinement and still be happy. The
British Fur Trade Association, aware that the government there is close to
banning fur farming, tried to deflect criticism by claiming none of their
members gas mink. CAFT got video footage of their president driving a tractor
between his mink sheds with a large gas canister attached.
This sort of exposure has destroyed European fur sales, and is destroying
American fur sales. Don't believe the hype. The media was burned by fur
industry lies. Now we must set the record straight.
Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade
PO Box 822411
Dallas, TX 75382
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 4, 1998
Contact: Ben White
(808) 885-7295
Protesters Halt Navy Tests--For Now
Opponents of the U.S. Navy’s plan to blast humpback whales with
deafening levels of low-frequency sound succeeded yesterday in stopping
the Navy from going forward. As planned, activists were in the water
near a Navy research vessel so the incredibly high-decibel sound source
was not employed (the test cannot proceed while human swimmers are
nearby).
Fifteen miles off the northern Kona Coast of the Big Island of
Hawaii, the Animal Welfare Institute’s Ben White and local activist
Miguel Hughes immersed themselves in the ocean near the Navy ship Cory
Chouest, from which the intense, lung-shearing beams of sound were to be
projected. White held aloft a boathook with two flags attached: one, an
earth flag, and the other, the state flag of Hawaii.
The planned test is to take place in the middle of the whales'
calving and breeding area, at the height of their calving and breeding
season. Aside from the severe injury and distress the targeted whales
could suffer from the blasts of sound, the test could seriously impair
the whales' reproductive behavior, increasing the jeopardy this highly
endangered species is in.
Today, the coalition of environmentalists, scientists, and animal
advocates who condemn the testing are bringing the fight back to the
courtroom—at 10 a.m., U.S. District Court Judge Helen Gilmor will again
consider whether to grant an injunction against the Navy. Should the
court attempt fail, White said, "we'll have a boat out at all times, and
cycle volunteers so that there’s always someone in the water." Another
possibility is to bring musicians out, to play music into the
water—frustrating the Navy’s effort to detect the singing humpbacks.
-30-
NOTE: Film footage and still pictures--including uplinkable digital
images--are available on request.
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 98 14:12:36 PST
From: "bhgazette"
To: "AR News"
Subject: need AR web sites
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Does anyone know where I can find a current list of AR web sites?
Thanks,
JD
Bunny Huggers' Gazette
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 15:54:18 EST
From: LexAnima
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Subject: Madison Monkeys Trucked Up and Followed Down Interstate by Local Activist
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Madison Monkeys (rhesus only, not stumptails) were packed into trucks today
and were sent onto Tulane Labs. In order to make sure that the transfer went
without a hitch, security forces consisted of dozens of officers from as far
away as the Village of Waunakee as well as county sheriff officers, University
police and Madison police. As the truck was leaving the facility, officers
formed a "gauntlet" around the entrance and arrested two individuals,
presumably for disorderly conduct.
A local Madison activist followed the Madison Monkeys' truck and several
police cars away from the Henry Vilas Zoo to the Madison Beltline. Several
police cars drove down the highway to escort the truck. Two cop cars drove
down the interstate side by side at 45 m.p.h. delaying all traffic on the
interstate to allow the trucks to gain ground ahead of the activists as the
truck headed out of the county.
Local activists vow to continue their fight against the zoo and the
experimenters. A fundraising event for the zoo is conducted annually. We
plan to fight any campaigns they have to bring so much as one more animal into
the Henry Vilas Zoo. Additional vows were heard today to remind the public of
the lack of leadership on the County Board around election time. Finally,
activists expressed grave disappointment in Kathleen Falk's lack of compassion
and commitment for the rhesus monkeys who served her, the people in the county
and the university and who are now going to their deaths as petty bureaucrats
point fingers at each other.
Local activists pray for monkeys and the human species as we continue to learn
respect and compassion for those who are different from us. I would
personally like to thank the excellent activists at the Alliance for Animals,
whose hearts are breaking over this campaign, each and every one of you who
called or wrote Cruel Kathleen and the other board members, and all of you who
were involved with keeping local activists going through this battle.
D'Arcy Kemnitz
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 15:28:06 -0600
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Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 15:54:18 -0500 (EST)
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Madison Monkeys (rhesus only, not stumptails) were packed into trucks today
and were sent onto Tulane Labs. In order to make sure that the transfer went
without a hitch, security forces consisted of dozens of officers from as far
away as the Village of Waunakee as well as county sheriff officers, University
police and Madison police. As the truck was leaving the facility, officers
formed a "gauntlet" around the entrance and arrested two individuals,
presumably for disorderly conduct.
A local Madison activist followed the Madison Monkeys' truck and several
police cars away from the Henry Vilas Zoo to the Madison Beltline. Several
police cars drove down the highway to escort the truck. Two cop cars drove
down the interstate side by side at 45 m.p.h. delaying all traffic on the
interstate to allow the trucks to gain ground ahead of the activists as the
truck headed out of the county.
Local activists vow to continue their fight against the zoo and the
experimenters. A fundraising event for the zoo is conducted annually. We
plan to fight any campaigns they have to bring so much as one more animal into
the Henry Vilas Zoo. Additional vows were heard today to remind the public of
the lack of leadership on the County Board around election time. Finally,
activists expressed grave disappointment in Kathleen Falk's lack of compassion
and commitment for the rhesus monkeys who served her, the people in the county
and the university and who are now going to their deaths as petty bureaucrats
point fingers at each other.
Local activists pray for monkeys and the human species as we continue to learn
respect and compassion for those who are different from us. I would
personally like to thank the excellent activists at the Alliance for Animals,
whose hearts are breaking over this campaign, each and every one of you who
called or wrote Cruel Kathleen and the other board members, and all of you who
were involved with keeping local activists going through this battle.
D'Arcy Kemnitz
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 06:48:44 +0800
From: bunny
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (NZ)Farming pre-orders for rabbit virus flood in
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>From The Southland Times (New Zealand)- March 02, 1998
FARMING RCD pre-orders flood in
by Natasha Holland
CENTRAL Otago farmers are rapidly pre- ordering the new concentrate rabbit
calicivirus disease (RCD) to attack rabbits again.
The Pesticides Board on Thursday granted an experimental use permit to
Zenith Technology for the limited sale of 500 litres of the rabbit-killing
virus.
Since the grant was approved, Dunedin- based Zenith Technology has been
deluged with calls about the virus.
The company had 40 calls from farmers throughout New Zealand on Friday,
including Te Anau, Wanaka, Ranfurly, Balclutha, Gore, Balfour and Lumsden.
Zenith Technology director Dr Max Shepherd said the virus would be
available in 10 days.
The concentrate virus comes with strict instructions for farmers to follow.
One requirement is that the Department of Conservation is notified 10 days
before the RCD release so it can be monitored.
RCD was illegally introduced into New Zealand last year and the first
reported outbreak was found in the Cromwell area on August 26.
Sally and Donald Young, of Lowburn, received international attention after
RCD tested positive on their farm.
Since that first outbreak of RCD, the couple noted a dramatic kill rate
among adult rabbits.
"I have noticed new growth in some areas of the farm since the outbreak,
but we will be ordering the RCD product," Mrs Young said.
Federated Farmers South Island high country committee Otago lakes
representative Jack Davis said farmers were thrilled they would be able to
buy the virus.
"I think farmers need to be careful of how we use it. We need the disease
to really take off, and not for rabbits to become immune," Mr Davis said.
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Tom, Tom, (/\ \-/ /\) P.O.Box 30,
The piper's son, )6 6( Riverton,
Saved a pig >{= Y =}< Western Australia 6148
And away he run; /'-^-'\
So none could eat (_) (_) email: rabbit@wantree.com.au
The pig so sweet | . |
Together they ran | |} http://www.wantree.com.au/~rabbit/rabbit.htm
Down the street. \_/^\_/ (Rabbit Information Service website updated
frequently)
Jesus was most likely a vegetarian... why aren't you? Go to
http://www.zworx.com/kin/esseneteachings.htm
for more information.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
- Voltaire
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 16:50:59 -0600
From: Steve Barney
To: AR-News
Subject: [US-WI] "101 monkeys set to go" (WSJ-040498)
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[Wisconsin State Journal -- Past Stories]
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101 monkeys set to go
UW says county failed to make commitment to their care
Richard W. Jaeger
Wisconsin State Journal
UW-Madison officials said late Tuesday they will ship 101 rhesus
monkeys to Tulane University in New Orleans today after
negotiations with Dane County broke down and a court attempt to
halt the shipment fell short.
Graduate School Dean Virginia Hinshaw said no final decision has
been made regarding another 50 endangered stump-tailed macaques
that have also been part of the Wisconsin Regional Primate Center
exhibit housed at Vilas Zoo for the past 30 years.
Hinshaw said the university is moving the rhesus monkeys because
the county failed to assume any responsibility for the animals or
make any firm commitments for their care.
The university and county have been negotiating for weeks about
the fate of the monkeys after the university lost funding from
the National Institutes of Health to support the colonies. That
followed revelations that the university had violated an
agreement not to do invasive research on the zoo monkeys.
Topf Wells, executive assistant to County Executive Kathleen
Falk, said he heard about the university's rejection of the
county's counter-offer just minutes before the 5 p.m. Tuesday
deadline. He said he immediately responded to the university,
offering more negotiations and expressing the county's concern
''for the safety of the monkeys.''
''The county executive has made herself available at any time
tonight and tomorrow to resolve this matter,'' Wells said
Tuesday.
Hinshaw, however, said the county had backed down from setting
any firm dates for taking ownership of either monkey colony and
wanted to place the funding burden on the university.
She said the university would be open to further discussions with
the county about the stump-tailed macaques and would continue
discussions with the government of Thailand over the possible
transfer of the macaques to a sanctuary there. The cost of caring
for the 50 macaques at the zoo has been estimated at $132,000
annually.
The rhesus monkeys, however, will go.
''We can't keep postponing this. We have been available to the
county. There is not much point in putting this off,'' Hinshaw
said.
Hinshaw said the university had received a response from the
county earlier Tuesday, the deadline given to resolve the
placement of the 151 primates. That response, she said, backed
away from previous discussions to have the county take full
control of the macaques and to find sanctuary for the rhesus
monkeys in a place where they would not be subjected to invasive
research as they may at Tulane's primate center.
Falk, at a press conference Tuesday, said she felt that
negotiations were progressing and that while the county couldn't
set any deadlines pertaining to the macaques, it was working
toward raising funds that might allow the county to eventually
take ownership of them.
She said a fund drive had already raised more than $25,000 to
send the rhesus monkeys to a sanctuary in San Antonio, where they
would not be part of any research project. That drive was being
conducted by various groups including the governor's wife, Sue
Ann Thompson, and the Alliance for Animals.
The Alliance took its efforts to court Tuesday afternoon in an
effort to get an order halting shipment of the rhesus and the
transfer of the stump-tailed monkeys to Thailand.
Dane County Circuit Judge Robert DeChambeau, however, gave the
animal rights organization little help. DeChambeau said he had
serious doubts the Alliance could intervene in the transfer or
sale because it is not part of the contract with the university
over the housing and care of the monkeys.
DeChambeau gave the Alliance and the university until April 15 to
make written arguments in the case and would not grant an order
halting any shipments.
Tina Kaske, executive director of the Alliance, gave her support
to the county's efforts at Falk's press conference. Kaske said
she felt it was ''an outstanding effort on behalf of the monkeys
and the people of this city and county.''
''I hope the university will sign it,'' she said, referring to a
memorandum of understanding the county submitted to the
university Tuesday.
Falk said a main concern of the county was that attempts to raise
money to save the monkeys not compete with other fund-raising
projects at the zoo. She also said deadlines could not be set for
taking ownership of the macaques until money had been raised to
transfer the rhesus monkeys to a safe sanctuary.
Wells said moving the rhesus monkeys to Tulane would be ''a
horrible mistake.''
''I think the university will be unpleasantly surprised at the
response the people in this community will give such a decision.
It will be seen as the university discharging its responsibility
entered into years ago to protect those animals,'' Wells said.
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Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 06:49:45 +0800
From: bunny
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (NZ)RCD may have killed pets
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Dominion (New Zealand) 4/3/97
RCD may have killed pets
Rabbit calicivirus disease is believed to have claimed
it first pet victims in the Hawke's Bay.
A pet rabbit owned by a Havelock North family died
last week, and another died on Sunday.
The Hawke's Bay Regional Council believes the rabbits
died from the virus, but is awaiting confirmation from the
Agriculture Ministry.
Council animal pest manager Owen Harris said the disease
was widespread among feral rabbits in Hawke's Bay.
The deaths were a timely reminder to pet owners to have
their rabbits vaccinated, he said.
NZPA
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/`\ /`\ Rabbit Information Service,
Tom, Tom, (/\ \-/ /\) P.O.Box 30,
The piper's son, )6 6( Riverton,
Saved a pig >{= Y =}< Western Australia 6148
And away he run; /'-^-'\
So none could eat (_) (_) email: rabbit@wantree.com.au
The pig so sweet | . |
Together they ran | |} http://www.wantree.com.au/~rabbit/rabbit.htm
Down the street. \_/^\_/ (Rabbit Information Service website updated
frequently)
Jesus was most likely a vegetarian... why aren't you? Go to
http://www.zworx.com/kin/esseneteachings.htm
for more information.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
- Voltaire
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 20:41:05 +0000 (GMT)
From: Pat Fish
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Cc: vweir@envirolink.org
Subject: TV alert: ST-Voyager Humans Hunted (N. America)
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On the United Paramount Network (UPN) tonight (Mar. 4), they're having a
two-hour special in which the nomadic Herogen species again decide that
humans have to be thinned out and attempt to make trophies of the crew of
the USS Voyager. I can't say for sure what the plot involves, but in the
last month both episodes introducing the Herogens were good allegories for
animal rights. One of the episodes was titled "Prey".
Check your listings for "Star Trek Voyager" from 8-10 PM US EST.
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 20:11:48 -0500
From: Liz Grayson
To: ar-news
Subject: NYC Bar Association Symposium: The Animal Connection
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The NYC Bar Association's Committee
on
Legal Issues Pertaining to Animals
is sponsoring a symposium open to the public
The Violence Connection:
The Link Between Animal Cruelty and Crimes Against People
Tuesday, March 24, 1998, 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.
The NYC Bar Association, 42 West 44th Street, NYC
for more info. (212) 382-6600
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 1998 09:59:01 +0800
From: bunny
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: RFI NZ company about to sell live deadly virus
Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19980305095049.10cfbd64@wantree.com.au>
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RFI Zenith Technology Corporation Ltd
If anyone nows anything about this company or the two directors mentioned here
please email me privately. This comany may soon be selling deadly hemorrhagic
RHD at $150 a bottle to anyone who wants it.
Company: DN/679487 ZENITH TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION LIMITED
Registered Office Address
156 Frederick Street
Dunedin
Directors (first two)
SHEPHERD , Maxwell Gilbert
HUNG , Cheung-Tak
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========
/`\ /`\ Rabbit Information Service,
Tom, Tom, (/\ \-/ /\) P.O.Box 30,
The piper's son, )6 6( Riverton,
Saved a pig >{= Y =}< Western Australia 6148
And away he run; /'-^-'\
So none could eat (_) (_) email: rabbit@wantree.com.au
The pig so sweet | . |
Together they ran | |} http://www.wantree.com.au/~rabbit/rabbit.htm
Down the street. \_/^\_/ (Rabbit Information Service website updated
frequently)
Jesus was most likely a vegetarian... why aren't you? Go to
http://www.zworx.com/kin/esseneteachings.htm
for more information.
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
- Voltaire
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 21:08:11 -0500
From: allen schubert
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US) Two `Veggie Libel' Suits Expected
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[Could the "veggie libel" laws be decided by non-veg cases?]
from Associated Press http://wire.ap.org
--------------------------------------------
MARCH 04, 13:57 EST
Two `Veggie Libel' Suits Expected
By MARK BABINECK
Associated Press Writer
AMARILLO, Texas (AP) -- If ``veggie libel'' laws really are for the birds,
the next two cases could prove it.
The Texas cattlemen's case against Oprah Winfrey was supposed to be the
first major test of food defamation laws, but the judge turned it into a
routine business dispute.
That means that either East Texas emus or Ohio chicken eggs could be the
big test for the food-disparagement laws on the books in 13 states.
What ruffled the emu ranchers' feathers was a 1997 TV commercial featuring
a man named Joe driving his Honda Civic from one wacky job interview to
another. One of the stops is an emu ranch called Fowl Technology, where
the owner says: ``Emus, Joe. It's the pork of the future.''
``Basically, Honda made people stop and look at emu meat, emu products and
the emu business as a joke,'' said Huntsville-area emu raiser John Hamby,
who with nine others is suing the U.S. arm of the Japanese automaker.
Hamby also noted that emu meat, unlike pork, is low-fat red meat.
Each emu rancher is claiming more than $75,000 in losses they blame on the
commercial.
Art Garner, spokesman for California-based American Honda, said the
commercial was ``very much a tongue-in-cheek, lighthearted
advertisement.''
The other veggie libel case was brought by Buckeye Egg Farm, which is
suing a consumer organization, the Ohio Public Interest Research Group,
for saying last spring that Buckeye illegally repackaged old eggs and sold
them as new. The egg producer is seeking unspecified damages.
Buckeye president Andy Hansen said his company followed federal guidelines
that allow repackaging under certain circumstances. He noted that OPIRG
leveld its allegations just before Easter, a peak sales season.
``If there was no intent to disparage this product, why was it done at
that time?'' Hansen asked.
The Texas and Ohio laws require those suing to show that the defendants
knowingly made false and defamatory statements about a product.
The cattlemen had sued Ms. Winfrey over a 1996 show about mad cow disease.
They claimed the show implied American beef was risky to eat. A jury last
week ruled against them.
No trial dates have been set for the egg and emu lawsuits, which are
believed to be the nation's only two pending veggie libel cases.
Experts say the emu ranchers don't have much of a chance in light of the
Oprah case.
In Ms. Winfrey's case, U.S. District Judge Mary Lou Robinson ruled that
live cattle didn't meet the ``perishable food'' requirement of the veggie
libel law. The same judge will preside over the emu case.
Emus ``are not going to be held perishable, either,'' said Frank Newton,
president of the State Bar of Texas and dean of Texas Tech Law School.
The emu raisers argue that they, unlike the cattlemen, market the meat
themselves, and the meat is perishable.
The egg producers' claim is seen by some as a stronger case, even though
OPIRG called it a ``complete waste of time.''
``If we lose on this set of facts, people had better batten down the
hatches,'' said Mark Finnegan, a lawyer with the Equal Justice Foundation,
a civil rights legal aid group. ``If a food production plant can backdate
its product and you're not allowed to say anything about that, we're all
in trouble.''
Although the judge in the Oprah case didn't find the law unconstitutional,
observers said the verdict might make agriculture producers think twice
before suing.
``After this outcome, I think Las Vegas odds on this kind of lawsuit are
going down,'' said Thomas Baker, a professor of constitutional law at
Texas Tech. ``They don't look so attractive.''
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 18:46:32
From: David J Knowles
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: [UK] Euro vets vote to ease beef ban
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>From The Electronic Telegraph - Thursday, March 5th, 1998
Euro vets vote to ease beef ban
By Toby Helm in Brussels and David Brown
THE global ban on British beef exports looks certain to end later this
month for "BSE-free" herds in Northern Ireland after vets from 10 EU
countries backed the move yesterday.
A 10-4 vote by members of the EU Commission's Standing Veterinary Committee
in Brussels was the breakthrough that the Government had longed for since
the worldwide embargo was imposed by the European Commission almost two
years ago.
Ulster was singled out for special treatment because it has a computerised
cattle tracking system which is able to prove that beef comes from a
certified herd, free from BSE for at least five years. A similar system
will not be operational in England, Wales and Scotland until the summer.
Before the ban, Ulster exported 50 per cent of its beef - 450,000 tons
worth £200 million a year - to France, Holland, Italy, Spain and South
Africa, among others. Tony Blair, who is under fire in the shires from
voters disaffected by Labour policies for rural areas, seized on the vote
as a Government triumph.
To a chorus of Labour cheers, he told the Commons: "The Commission
proposal, if held at the Agriculture Council next week, and I very much
believe that it will, will mean that the export certified herd scheme is
through and at long last, after long years of Conservative failure, there
is at least some light at the end of the tunnel." The Prime Minister
appeared so excited by the news that he got his dates mixed up.
The next meeting of EU farm ministers is on March 16 - the week after next.
Despite caution among British farming leaders that some new political
obstacle might be put in Ulster's way, the signs in Brussels last night
were that ministers would overwhelmingly endorse the vets' recommendation.
Jack Cunningham, the Minister of Agriculture, said: "This is a very
encouraging result. The discussion has gone well. The decision should now
be taken at the
Agriculture Council on March 16-17, where a simple majority is all that
will be required."
British officials in Brussels said the vote meant that the vets had
endorsed scientific arguments for lifting the ban. Although the proposal to
ease the ban will have to be agreed by the 15 farm ministers, and could yet
fall victim to political in-fighting, a repeat of yesterday's tally of 10
countries in favour, four against and one abstention would be easily enough
to win the day.
This would then allow some exports of beef to resume from Northern Ireland.
British officials said they now hoped progress could be made on a separate
British proposal to lift the ban for meat from all animals born after
August 1996. A total of 1,766 cases of BSE have been recorded in Northern
Ireland since 1988. The number has been steadily declining from a maximum
of 1,187 in 1993 to 28 last year.
David Rutledge, chief executive of the Livestock and Meat Commission of
Northern Ireland, said: "This is very good news and comes as a great relief
to our beef farmers. If all goes well at the next meeting of EU
agricultural ministers we will have to set about re-building links with our
overseas customers."
Ben Gill, president of the National Farmers' Union of England and Wales,
described it as "an enormous step forward".
© Copyright Telegraph Group Limited 1998. T
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 18:51:53
From: David J Knowles
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: [UK] Thousands of fish die as pollution infests river
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>From The Electronic Telegraph - Thursday, March 5th, 1998
Thousands of fish die as pollution infests river
By Charles Clover, Environment Editor
A MAJOR pollution incident in which at least 150 tons of fish were said to
have died on the River Dun, a tributary of the Kennet, near Hungerford,
Berkshire, was being investigated by the Environment Agency last night.
Unknown pollution killed almost all the fish in a trout farm and is
reported to have affected the rivers Kennet and Dun and the Kennet and Avon
Canal.
The agency said that it was one of the largest fish kills from pollution in
the Thames Valley for many years. The alarm was given by William
Stephenson, the owner of the Berkshire Trout Farm, Lower Denford, at
midnight on Tuesday after he had discovered at least 1,000 dead trout. Mr
Stephenson said: "Lifting hundreds of dead fish from the water is just
dreadful. It breaks my heart. I wish we could find the culprit but the
Environment Agency still don't know who is responsible or what the cause is.
"The pollution seems to have made its way through the pens housing the
fish. The ones that are still alive will have to be culled because they
are full of pollutant and couldn't be eaten. .
. . It will take me at least two years to recover from this."
Geoffrey Carhill, of the agency's Thames region, said: "This is one of the
worst cases of pollution in over a decade. Most of the pollution came down
the River Dun."
A rat is reported to have died after eating one of the polluted fish.
© Copyright Telegraph Group Limited 1998.
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 19:00:42
From: David J Knowles
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: [SA] Whale [shark] causes nuclear shut-down
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>From The Electronic Telegraph - Thursday, March 5th, 1998
Whale [shark] causes nuclear shut-down
A PARTIAL shut-down of South Africa's nuclear power station at Koeberg,
near Cape Town, was ordered to enable the rescue of a 24-foot whale shark
which became stuck near one of the huge seawater inlet pipes. Christopher
Munnion, Johannesburg
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Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 22:53:53 -0500
From: Wyandotte Animal Group
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Fwd: FOX 2 News Weekend Comes to the Shrine Circus March 7
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>FOX 2 News Weekend Comes to the Shrine Circus March 7
>
>Weekend Anchor Lee Thomas Treats Seventy Boys and Girls Clubs of
>South
>
>Eastern Michigan Members to a Day of Fun at the Circus
>
> SOUTHFIELD, Mich., March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- FOX 2 News Weekend
>anchor and feature reporter Lee Thomas joins in the fun at the
>Shrine Circus as guest ringmaster on Saturday, March 7, during the
>2:30 p.m. show. Thomas will do opening day reports from the Shrine
>Circus on FOX 2 News Morning on March 6, plus he'll anchor FOX 2
>News Weekend live from the circus on the morning of March 7 as he
>prepares for his stint in the ring later that afternoon.
>
>Joining Thomas for this special day of fun will be seventy children
>from the Boys and Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan, one of
>eight FOX 2 Community Partners for 1998. Thomas' involvement and
>the children's visit to the Shrine Circus are examples of FOX 2's
>ongoing commitment to "work for" its community at the grass roots
>level, using its unique resources, air time and talent. The
>pursuit of positive solutions to community problems is at the core
>of every station endeavor of this type.
>
>The Shrine Circus celebrates its ninetieth anniversary with its
>March 6 through 22 engagement at the State Fair Coliseum. The
>world famous Flying Wallendas are just one of the many breathtaking
>performances that await Metro Detroiters planning to visit the
>Shrine Circus this year.
>
>Tickets are on sale at Ticketmaster and at the Shrine Circus Ticket
>Office at 313-366-6200, ranging from six to fourteen dollars.
>Tickets also are available on the Internet at shriners.com/circus.
>Discount tickets also are available by calling 248-644-9494.
>
>The State Fair Coliseum is located at the Michigan State
>Fairgrounds, on Woodward Avenue at West Eight Mile Road.
>
>FOX 2 is owned and operated by FOX Television Stations, Inc., a
>subsidiary of New York-based News Corporation, Limited (NYSE: NWS).
>
>SOURCE WJBK FOX 2
>
>CO: WJBK FOX 2; Boys and Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan;
>Shrine Circus
>
>ST: Michigan
>03/04/98 08:54 EST http://www.prnewswire.com
Jason Alley
Wyandotte Animal Group
wag@heritage.com
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 22:59:29 -0500
From: allen schubert
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Subject: (US) FOX 2 News Weekend Comes to the Shrine Circus March 7
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FOX 2 News Weekend Comes to the Shrine Circus March 7
Weekend Anchor Lee Thomas Treats Seventy Boys and Girls Clubs of
South
Eastern Michigan Members to a Day of Fun at the Circus
SOUTHFIELD, Mich., March 4 /PRNewswire/ -- FOX 2 News Weekend
anchor and feature reporter Lee Thomas joins in the fun at the
Shrine Circus as guest ringmaster on Saturday, March 7, during the
2:30 p.m. show. Thomas will do opening day reports from the Shrine
Circus on FOX 2 News Morning on March 6, plus he'll anchor FOX 2
News Weekend live from the circus on the morning of March 7 as he
prepares for his stint in the ring later that afternoon.
Joining Thomas for this special day of fun will be seventy children
from the Boys and Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan, one of
eight FOX 2 Community Partners for 1998. Thomas' involvement and
the children's visit to the Shrine Circus are examples of FOX 2's
ongoing commitment to "work for" its community at the grass roots
level, using its unique resources, air time and talent. The
pursuit of positive solutions to community problems is at the core
of every station endeavor of this type.
The Shrine Circus celebrates its ninetieth anniversary with its
March 6 through 22 engagement at the State Fair Coliseum. The
world famous Flying Wallendas are just one of the many breathtaking
performances that await Metro Detroiters planning to visit the
Shrine Circus this year.
Tickets are on sale at Ticketmaster and at the Shrine Circus Ticket
Office at 313-366-6200, ranging from six to fourteen dollars.
Tickets also are available on the Internet at shriners.com/circus.
Discount tickets also are available by calling 248-644-9494.
The State Fair Coliseum is located at the Michigan State
Fairgrounds, on Woodward Avenue at West Eight Mile Road.
FOX 2 is owned and operated by FOX Television Stations, Inc., a
subsidiary of New York-based News Corporation, Limited (NYSE: NWS).
SOURCE WJBK FOX 2
CO: WJBK FOX 2; Boys and Girls Clubs of Southeastern Michigan;
Shrine Circus
ST: Michigan
03/04/98 08:54 EST http://www.prnewswire.com
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