AR-NEWS Digest 638

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) [UK] Seven held in cat centre protest
     by David J Knowles 
  2) Two Dolphins dead at Nuernberg Zoo
     by "Cari Gehl" 
  3) Fwd: Activists Charged in Sugarloaf Dolphin Release
     by "Cari Gehl" 
  4) (HK) Fish scare mishandled says group 
     by Vadivu Govind 
  5) (HK) Cyanide suspected in latest fish-poisoning scare 
     by Vadivu Govind 
  6) (HK) Officials don't believe fish pose serious health threat 
     by Vadivu Govind 
  7) (US) "NYU Plans Hearing for Student Hopped Up Over Animal Research"
     by Marisul 
  8) more scrambled species 
     by "Bina Robinson" 
  9) Thank you everybody
     by gveillet@alpes-net.fr (Veillet Guillaume)
 10) Petition against economic globalisation
     by bunny 
 11) (US) Job Opportunities at the Animal Protection Institute (API)
     by Dena Jones 
 12) Sheep,cattle and disease devastate Australia
     by bunny 
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 00:35:12
From: David J Knowles 
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Subject: [UK] Seven held in cat centre protest
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>From The Electronic Telegraph - Monday, January 19th, 1998

Seven held in cat centre protest

SEVEN people were arrested during a demonstration by about 350 outside Hill
Grove Farm cat-breeding centre, at Witney, Oxon.

A small group also targeted the home of a farm employee and other
protesters staged a demonstration in Witney town centre. All those arrested
were being questioned, a police spokesman said. The breeding centre has
been a target for animal rights demonstrators in the past.

Supt Peter Davies, the officer in charge of the police operation, said that
at times the demonstration had been "neither lawful nor peaceful", which
was why "positive police action" was required.

© Copyright Telegraph Group Limited 1998. 
 


Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 01:44:10 PST
From: "Cari Gehl" 
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Subject: Two Dolphins dead at Nuernberg Zoo
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Sad news from alt.animals.dolphins:


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Two dolphins died last night in the Dolphinarium of the Nurnberg Zoo. 
Emy, a 20 year old female and her newborn (only three weeks old) calf, 
where found dead in the moring.  They where both found trapped between 
the pool wall and a fence. 

According to an articles in a local newspaper (quoting the director of 
the zoo) the young baby jumped over the fence, was trapped and drowned. 
The mother, trying to help her baby also jumped over, but died of 
ancardiac infarct because she got so excited not beeing able to help her 
little baby.  The fence in the pool was ment to protect the newborn from 
the hard concreet wall. 

They were kept in a separate pool away from the visitors of the zoo. At 
night they were checked every 3 hours.

This was the first death of a dolphin in this zoo since 12 years. 
Since the dolphinarium was built 13 dolphins died there.

Since Nuernberg is not too far away from where I live I visited this 
place a couple of times. I made many photos there and spend a lot of 
time watching them at the underwater windows. 
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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 01:53:27 PST
From: "Cari Gehl" 
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Subject: Fwd: Activists Charged in Sugarloaf Dolphin Release
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>From the NOAA website:
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. NOAA 98-R103


Contact:  Scott Smullen           FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
                                  1/14/98

 ACTIVISTS CHARGED IN SUGARLOAF DOLPHIN RELEASE 

The Commerce Department's National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
Administration has filed charges against several dolphin freedom 
activists for harassing and illegally
transporting two captive dolphins in connection with their deliberate 
release six miles off the coast of Key West, Florida, on May 23, 1996. 
Alleging multiple
violations of the Marine Mammal Protection Act, NOAA assessed a maximum 
allowable $10,000 for each of the six counts charged, resulting in a 
total of $60,000
in penalties against those involved. 

After the dolphins were dumped off the side of a boat, they were found 
injured, emaciated, and begging for food from boaters in local marinas, 
and were rescued by
federal biologists with the help of several government agencies and 
private groups.

Charges have been filed against Richard O'Barry of Coconut Grove, Fla., 
Lloyd Good, III, of Sugarloaf Key, Fla., Sugarloaf Dolphin Sanctuary, 
Inc., of Sugarloaf
Key, Fla., and the Dolphin Project, Inc., of South Miami, Fla. All four 
have been charged with an illegal "take" by harassment and illegal 
transportation of each
dolphin. Both the Sugarloaf Dolphin Sanctuary and The Dolphin Project 
also have been charged with failing to notify NOAA prior to the 
transport of the dolphins. 

According to NOAA, the dolphins were transported without prior 
notification and not for purposes of public display, scientific 
research, or enhancement or survival
of the species or stock. The day after they were dumped overboard and 
released, one of the dolphins appeared in a congested Key West marina 
with lacerations
and begging for food. The second dolphin, found over 40 miles away 
almost two weeks after the release, also sustained deep lacerations and 
was emaciated. After
determining that the dolphins were injured and in need of treatment, the 
agency, with the help of others, rescued and provided veterinary care to 
the dolphins.
Following initial treatment, one dolphin was transported to the U.S. 
Navy facility in San Diego for rehabilitation. The other dolphin was 
found to be in considerably
worse condition requiring extended rehabilitation, and remains at a 
Department of Agriculture licensed marine mammal public display facility 
in the Florida Keys. 

Federal officials later seized a third dolphin from the Sugarloaf 
Dolphin Sanctuary, after officials with the Department of Agriculture 
suspended the facility's license for
multiple violations of the Animal Welfare Act. The dolphins had been on 
public display at the Sugarloaf Lodge motel in Sugarloaf Key since 1994. 
Prior to that,
these dolphins were part of the U.S. Navy's marine mammal research 
program, and had been in captivity since the late 1980's. 

According to the agency, in order to protect the health and welfare of 
marine mammals, any release should be conducted only under a Marine 
Mammal Protection
Act scientific research permit. Applications for such permits are 
subject to scientific and public review, and would involve the 
development of a release protocol that
addresses important concerns such as whether: 1) a released animal is 
properly and humanely prepared to live in the wild; 2) long-term follow 
up monitoring of the
animal is conducted; 3) wild marine mammals are affected; and 4) 
contingency plans are in place if it is necessary to rescue a released 
animal. 

"These dolphins were injured, needed medical attention, and could have 
died. This incident underscores the need to conduct any dolphin release 
scientifically and
with follow-up to ensure the health and welfare of the animals," said 
Terry Garcia, assistant secretary of commerce for oceans and atmosphere 
and NOAA deputy
administrator. "Prior to the release, we repeatedly warned these 
individuals of the risks inherent in releasing dolphins without a 
scientific research permit. They agreed
to apply for a permit but didn't, and released the dolphins without one. 
A scientific research permit, if issued, would have facilitated the 
development of a responsible
release protocol and authorized any take' that could have occurred 
incidental to a release."

Agency officials said, wildlife experts agree that releasing captive 
marine mammals has the potential to hurt both the released animals and 
the wild marine mammals
they encounter. Experts are concerned about the ability of a released 
animal to hunt for food, defend itself from predators, and avoid 
interactions with people and
boats. Other concerns include disease transmission and unwanted genetic 
exchange between a released animal and wild marine mammal stocks, and 
any behavioral
patterns developed in captivity that could affect the social behavior of 
wild animals as well as the social integration of the released animal.

The parties charged in this case have 30 days in which to respond. If 
desired, they may request an administrative hearing in which to contest 
the charges. 


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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 23:47:18 +0800 (SST)
From: Vadivu Govind 
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Subject: (HK) Fish scare mishandled says group 
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>Hong Kong Standard
19 Jan 98

Fish scare mishandled says group
By Simon Ng 

THE government has come under fire from the fishing industry for failing to
adequately deal with the poisoned fish scare. 

Philip Lai Kwok-kui, chairman of the Joint Association of Hong Kong
Fishermen, condemned the government's health warning as ``irresponsible''. 

Mr Lai, a fisheries expert who serves in the Fishing and Agricultural
Organisation of the United Nations, blasted health authorities for being
ignorant about coral fishing. 

He also criticised the Department of Health for doing very little to find
out the origin of the problem after the first poisoning cases were reported. 

``While they warned the public to be cautious about consuming coral fish,
they never contacted us to try to understand our situation and find out the
problem,'' Mr Lai said. 

He said there were about 20 fishermen specialising in coral fishing in Hong
Kong who would be severely affected by the incident. 

The association is trying to arrange meetings with officials from the
Department of Health and the Agriculture and Fisheries Department for a
better understanding of the issue. 

Mr Lai said he disagreed with the suggestion that cyanide poisoning of coral
reef fish was the cause of the incident. 

``As far as I know, cyanide is never used in coral fishing,'' he said. 
He said the deteriorating water quality in Hong Kong and the unhygienic
local market environment were more to blame. 

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 23:47:06 +0800 (SST)
From: Vadivu Govind 
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>Hong Kong Standard
19 Jan 98

Cyanide suspected in latest fish-poisoning scare

By Norma Connolly 

CYANIDE poisoning of coral reef fish could be a factor in the latest
food-poisoning scare in Hong Kong, a marine conservationist suspects. 

Brian Darvell, chairman of the Hong Kong Marine Conservation Society, said
cyanide poison used by fishermen in China to stun large fish is stripping
reefs of coral, leaving patches bare for algae to
colonise. 

Blooms of toxic algae are believed to be responsible for contaminating tiger
garoupa and flowery cod. In the first two weeks of this year, 50 people
suffered food poisoning after consuming these types of fish. 

Mr Darvell said garoupa, which feeds on other fish rather than on algae,
might have become contaminated from eating other sea life that had eaten the
algae. 

The Department of Health disclosed at the weekend that the fish may have
contained dangerous ciguatoxin which led to the food poisoning cases. 

Ciguatoxin is non-specific, usually relating to the accumulation of toxins
from algae. It can lead to numbness of limbs and mouth, diarrhoea, hot and
cold flushes, vomiting and muscle pains. In severe cases it can also be fatal. 

Fishermen in China, the Philippines, Indonesia and other Asian countries,
often supplying Hong Kong's demand for big fish, frequently use dynamite or
cyanide to catch fish in coral reefs in the region. 

Dr Darvell said: ``I would not be at all surprised if cyanide fishing was
linked to poisoning cases. Coral is killed in the process of cyanide fishing
and patches of the reef become exposed and the first thing that colonises
the area is algae. 

``Once the cyanide has dispersed, the fish return to the reef.'' 

If the algae that colonises the bare patches of reef is toxic, smaller fish
that return to the area would eat it. The accumulation of toxins build up as
large fish further up the food chain consume the smaller fish. 

Fish that have digested toxins usually show no sign of having consumed the
poisonous substances that cannot be eliminated by cooking. 

Lisa Hopkinson, a former campaigner with Friends of the Earth, said red
tides of algae and nutrientsled to the build-up in toxins in the fish
food-chain. 

David Melville, executive director of Hong Kong's World Wide Fund for
Nature, said most large fish on sale in Hong Kong's markets and restaurants
were caught using cyanide-fishing methods.
``As far as I know, the only link between cyanide fishing and toxic algae is
that cyanide is used to catch very large fish in coral reefs,'' he said.
``The build-up of toxins in fish is natural, and goes on year after year.'' 

Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 23:47:13 +0800 (SST)
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>Hong Kong Standard
19 Jan 98

Officials don't believe fish pose serious health threat
By Sanna So 

POISONING caused by eating big coral reef fish should not be a serious
threat to public health because such expensive fish were not commonly
served, doctors said on Sunday. 

In the past two weeks, about 50 people were reported to have been affected
in 10 known cases of food poisoning after they ate large fish found to be
toxic. 
In the first three quarters of last year, 13 cases of fish poisoning
affecting 95 people were reported. 

Health officials believe poisoning was caused by ciguatoxin that the fish,
such as tiger garoupa and flowery cod, had ingested from algae. 

Unlike other cases of food poisoning, ciguatoxin cannot be destroyed during
cooking, according to Hong Kong Medical Association president Lee Kin-hung. 

``This is different from other cases where the bacteria causing the poison
can be killed under high temperature,'' he said. 

Dr Lee explained that big fish were more dangerous because they could
accumulate more toxins in their organs. 

``Understanding the cause of poisoning, the public may have to change their
eating habits and be more cautious,'' Dr Lee said. 

But he did not believe food poisoning caused by coral fish presented a grave
threat to the public as such exotic and expensive types of fish were not
frequently served on dining tables. 

The catering industry may be affected in the wake of these poisoning cases,
Dr Lee said. 

Provisional Urban Council chairman Ronald Leung Ding-bong was not surprised
to hear of the food poisoning. 

He said similar cases were reported in the last few years. 

``I do not think the public will consume a lot of these fish, as they are
quite expensive,'' Dr Leung said. 
He said more time was needed before authorities could say they were a threat
to public health. 


Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 11:00:46 EST
From: Marisul 
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Subject: (US) "NYU Plans Hearing for Student Hopped Up Over Animal Research"
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>From The New York Observer, January 19, 1998, p. 1

NYU Plans Hearing For Student Hopped Up Over Animal Research

Dean Instructs Faculty to Keep Hush-Hush Over Animal Labs; Professors Say
Colleagues Have Gotten Death Threats; Vigils for Chimpanzees and a Takeover of
President's Office

by Greg Sargent

     On Jan. 20, 20 year old Jonathan Weintraub will be summoned before a New
York University disciplinary tribunal, where he will ask officials not to
derail his young academic career.  Mr. Weintraub may be suspended, or perhaps
expelled, for standing up one evening in November at a routine academic forum
and accusing the university's scientists of spraying oven cleaner in animals'
eyes.
     Mr. Weintraub, an earnest, heavy-set junior with ambitious sideburns and
rings in both ears, hijacked the forum, which took place in a stuffy lecture
hall in the university's Main Building off Washington Square.  Ten stories
above the scene was an object of Mr. Weintraub's ire: one of the controversial
animal-testing labs.
     He berated the university for covering up cruel treatment of the more
than 40,000 animals that cycle yearly through five labs around Manhattan --
NYU's vast animal research program, which he called a "system of oppression."
"Dogs and cats," he railed, were "having their skin cut off." Unless
university officials entered into an open dialogue on the topic, he vowed,
there just might be further disruptions.
     But Mr. Weintraub, who is the founder of the 20 member student group
Animal Liberation Brigade, did not get the dialogue he hoped for.  Instead, as
he sat in his Utopian Visions and Earthly Paradises class, he received a hand-
delivered letter from a university official informing him that he was in a lot
of trouble.  A week later, he was told that he would be brought up on charges
of disrupting university operations and interfering with the rights of others
to free speech.
     Mr. Weintraub was offered a deal: He could sign an agreement which, among
other things, would in effect give school officials the power to suspend or
expel him -- without the formal proceedings usually granted students -- if he
broke any school rule for the rest of his career at the university.  In his
view, and in that of his lawyer, the deal would give the school the power to
boot him on the slimmest of pretexts.  And he was given 21 hours, he said, to
accept or decline -- less than a day, as he put it, " to decide the outcome of
my academic career at NYU."  He declined and is now facing formal disciplinary
proceedings.
     Why is NYU, Manhattan's boho-chic, Greenwich Village based university,
turning up the heat on a 20 year old kid cutting his teeth on a cause?  An e-
mail for faculty eyes only from Philip Furmanski, NYU's dean of the faculty of
arts and sciences, leaked last spring to Washington Square News, the student
paper, provides a clue:
     "I want to alert you to the fact that there is a resurgence of activity
among animal rights groups focusing on NYU," Mr. Furmanski wrote. Indeed,
student groups have demonstrated weekly against NYU's program.  The poster
child of the movement is a blown-up photo of a terrified looking rhesus
monkey, its head in a clamp.
     "First, we keep a very low profile -- there is little to no awareness of
the presence of animals at [the] Washington square [lab], and we want to try
to keep it this way," continued Mr. Furmanski.  He then instructed readers how
to explain construction of a new animal lab, which will replace the Washington
Square facility: "The roof is intended to be just another 'biology
laboratory.'"
     To hear Mr. Weintraub's supporters tell it, officials want to railroad
the student as a warning to other opponents of the university's animal
research program, to scare others into silence and snuff out the animal rights
insurrection.  Mr. Weintraub, after all, played a leading role in the infamous
takeover Nov. 10 of university president Jay Oliva's office.  Sixteen students
camped out with water, hot pots and dehydrated soup mix for about 20 hours,
vowing to remain until the university sent 25 or so chimps remaining in its
upstate lab -- now closed -- into retirement sanctuaries.  The university
acceded, although officials said they were intending to retire the chimps,
anyway.
     University officials declined to discuss the case of Mr. Weintraub,
citing a Federal law that bars them from public discussion of a student facing
disciplinary proceedings.  But university spokesman John Beckman told The
Observer, "In the academy, we tolerate divergent views, but when you disrupt
an academic forum, you prevent others from expressing their views as well."
     That's one explanation, but university officials have another reason to
encourage Mr. Weintraub to shut his mouth.  Studen protests attract the
attention of the dreaded national groups like People for the Ethical Treatment
of Animals and Animal Liberation Front -- or worse, the fanatics on their
fringes.  Several of NYU's professors have told colleagues of receiving death
threats, and one scientist was targeted as an "abuser of animals" in fliers
handed out on campus.
     However, animal rights activists claim university employees have harassed
them, too.  Chadwick Bovee, the New York campaign coordinator of the national
group, In Defense of Animals, which works closely with the protesters, told
The Observer he received a call from someone interested in joining upcoming
protests.  But Mr. Bovee said his caller ID revealed that the call had come
from NYU Medical Center.  Mr. Bovee said he later learned that the caller had
the same name as a NYU Medical Center security staff member.
     Animals Lib!
     Mr. Weintraub is hardly the first person to gnash his teeth over NYU's
chimp population.  Indeed the plight of the university's chimps gave birth to
today's NYU's Animal's Lib movement.  In the summer of 1995, NYU Medical
Center transferred ownership of the upstate Laboratory for Experimental
Medicine and Surgery in Primates -- home to NYU's 225 chimps -- to Dr.
Frederick Coulston, a New Mexico based biomedical researcher.  Dr. Coulston's
organization, the Coulston Foundation, had recently been charged by the US
Department of Agriculture with causing the deaths of five chimps.  National
animal rights advocates began to warn that a similar fate awaited NYU's chimps
-- but the transfer proceeded anyway.
     Two NYU chimps, named Jello and Panda, who had been transferred to Dr.
Coulston's chimpanzee colony subsequently died.  Jello and Panda have since
been eleveated to martyrdom by animal rights advocates.  Mr. Weintraub and his
friends held a vigil for Jello last winter.  But a Coulston Foundation's
response was succinct: "Chimps are mortal creatures.  They live and they die."
     NYU has since gotten out of the business of chimps, which researchers
like because their DNA is nearly identical to that of humans.  But as Mr.
Weintraub sees it, his work has only just begun.  Sitting in a cafe near the
university on a recent morning, sipping a cup of mint tea, Mr. Weintraub
described his continuing struggle.  He lives the austere life of a freedom
fighter.  He stays in good shape.  He doesn't drink coffee of alcohol.  His
main hobby, he said, is "eating soy-based meat products," although he also
spends a fair amount of time penning pamphlets with lines like: " The modern
factory farm bears striking resemblance to Dachau: animals are worked until no
longer useful and then systematically slaughtered."
     University officials vigorously defend the ethics of their program,
arguing that it saves countless lives.  "It is a very broadly based research
program that involves everything from cardiovascular disease, to kidney
disease, to cancer, to AIDS," said Mr. Furmanski.  Mr. Beckman added that NYU
doesn't do cosmetics or product research.
The Life of a Lab Mouse
     Although NYU Animal Lib's protesters stage their demonstrations on the
school's downtown campus, the heart of the research program is housed in NYU
Medical Center, a complex on First Avenue and 32d Street that treats thousands
of patients each day.  In labs scattered about the complex, thousands of
animals are infected with and treated for the diseases and ailments being
diagnosed in people in the same buildings.
     A glance at NYU's most recent Animal Welfare Assurance -- a sort of
animal head count that research facilities file with the Federal government --
reveals the scope of the medical center's program.  According to the document,
in 1996, a daily average of 10,781 mice, 676 rats, 29 hamsters, 33 guinea
pigs, 73 rabbits, 8 dogs, 2 owl monkeys, 5 squirrel monkeys and 3 rhesus
monkeys resided in the medical center's various Manhattan research facilities.
(While the document was filed a year ago, university officials confirmed that
the numbers remain roughly accurate.)  The two Washington Square labs, which
are run by NYU, but not the medical center, were home in 1996 to a couple
hundred other animals -- including 43 primates.
     University officials declined to detail the research performed on the
animals.  But Michael Hayre, the nationally known director of animal research
at Rockefeller University, sketched a likely scenario.
     According to Dr. Hayre, the life of a lab mouse at a large institution
doing cancer and AIDS research would probably run something like this.  Born
on a mouse-breeding farm, the rodent would be shipped in bulk -- air freight
or by truck -- to the lab.  If the mouse were pressed into service against
cancer, it might be genetically manipulated to develop tumors.  If not,
scientists would implant human tumors under the skin on its back or in its
abdomen.  The cancer-laden mouse would then be used to test chemotherapy or
some other treatment.  For AIDS research, the mouse likely would be
euthanized, and its lymph nodes or bone marrow removed to create cell
cultures.  Those would then be subjected to the AIDS virus for study.
     Dr. Hayre added that rabbits and guinea pigs are generally used to
produce antibodies and for infection and allergy research.  Such research, he
maintained, is only mildly uncomfortable for the animals, which are usually
permitted to live to some ripe old age before they are euthanized.  Dogs,
however, are typically used by medical schools "to develop surgery
techniques," Dr. Hayre said.
     Animal rights groups, said Mr. Beckman, "take whatever bits of the
experiments they can and portray them in the most egregious light.  What
ultimately matters to these folks is not whether the science is valid but
stopping animal research altogether."
     Mr. Weintraub would agree.  His eventual goal is nothing less than the
complete abolition of animal testing -- first at NYU and then everywhere else.
"We don't have the right to oppress women, or oppress minorities," said Mr.
Weintraub. "Similarly, it's not our right to oppress animals." On Jan.20, Mr.
Weintraub will discover whether that stance will cost him his NYU degree.
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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 14:33:40 -0500
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NEW YORK (AP ) Jan.19/98   Study:Cow Eggs Used to Alter Genes

Scientists have put genes from adult sheep, pigs and other species into cow
eggs and gotten the eggs to grow into early embryos.

If the technique can be imporved, it might help scientists produce
genetically altered animal organs for transplanting into people, said
researcher Neal First of the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Scientists might be able to produce organs rather than whole animals from
the transformed eggs, he said.  The work was to be reported at today's
meeting of the International Embryo Transfer Society in Boston.

Researchers replaced the cow genes in the eggs with seep, pig, rat or
monkey genes, taken from the ear cells of adult animals.

Eggs then developed according to the timetable of whatever species donated
the genes, First said.  At least some of the inserted genes were apparently
reprogrammed by the eggs to promote early development of the species they
came from.

Some embryos were put into females of the approppriate species for further
development, but the pregnancies ended in miscarriage early on, First said.

"We have lots of things to learn if we are going to make it go to
completion," first said in a telephone interview.  He said it's not clear
whether the technique could produce baby animals.   -30-



Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 21:11:22 +0100
From: gveillet@alpes-net.fr (Veillet Guillaume)
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Subject: Thank you everybody
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(This was also posted on ar-views. I have been told that requests for info 
were allowed on this list, so here it is again. Sorry for those who have 
already read it. 
Please reply privately. Thank you.)

>I am the French Politics student who, a few months ago, wrote a 
dissertation about the Animal Rights Movement in Britain. 
>Many of you sent some very nice messages to encourage me. I even met some 
of you in the UK last June. I am sorry I could not meet everybody then, but 
I did not have much time. I thank you all, anyway...
>Just to let you know that it all went very well. I got a very good grade. 
Hopefully, one day, I will have my dissertation translated into English 
(it's in French !)
>
>This year, I am doing the equivalent of a phD. I am writing a thesis. It 
will be about the opposition to bloodsports in the UK (LACS, sabs...).
>I would be very interested in meeting hunt saboteurs, or any other opposant 
to bloodsports...
>I will spend a few days in the London and Oxford areas next month.
>Please do not hesitate to contact me.
>
>Thank you in advance.
>


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Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 09:19:13 +0800
From: bunny 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Petition against economic globalisation
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I have forwarded this message on to the news list because it does seem to
have some merit. We (in Australia) are asked to accept Monsantos roundup
ready soybeans here in Australia and in return the US probably accepts are
slightly pesticide contaminated meat. Australian levels of Glyphosphate
allowable in soybeans were quietly lifted 200 fold (totally unacceptable) to
enable multinational Monsanto to peddle its roundup contaminated soybeans
here and I feel there will be more herbicide contaminated veges to come (eg
GE corn engineered to stand spraying from the air so when it is harvested ,
the residual herbicide in the corn is greater.). The petition below opposes
the increased globalisation of economic power - free trade may not be free
trade in the future when one country may sue another for not accepting its
goods (even if the goods may carry a disease that may threaten our wildlife)


**Please help us to distribute this message**

Dear friends,

The 1.000 most important multinacionals of the world will meet in Davos,
Switzerland, from the 29th of this month to the 3rd of February, to take
major political decisions that will influence everyone's lives. If you do
not like this way of setting the "Priorities for the 21st century" (as they
call their meeting) please do one or more of these proposed actions:

1. Sign the declaration attached to this letter and propose other
organisations (trade unions, farmers' organisations, environmental, women's
and solidarity organisations, church-related groups, etc.) and individuals
to sign it and collect more endorsements. Every person is welcomed to sign -
the more signatures, the better. However, in order to have more impact in
mass media, we especially encourage you to contact well known persons, like
intellectuals, writers, professors, singers, football players, actors... The
declaration will be used all over the world as press release.

2. If you collect some signatures, please type the reply forms and email
them to playfair(asta.rwth-aachen.de by the 28th of January. We will compile
all the signatures and email the complete list to thousands of people and
organisations all over the world. Please take into account that we cannot
type ourselves thousands of names in one day; this is the reason why we ask
you to send the names by email. If you do not have access to email, please
fax your list before the 27th of January.

3. Once you receive from us the whole list of signatories, please send it
along with the declaration to the local and national media (press,
television, radio). 

4. Please organise a local action between the 29th of January and the 3rd of
February and send your own press release along with the declaration,
announcing your action and inviting the press. If you do this, you will
multiply the chances of the media publishing something, since journalists
tend to report about photogenic stories much more than about declarations.
Any kind of action that is visual and can be photographed is good, the range
is very broad and you do not need many people to catch media attention. Just
to give some examples in increasing order of difficulty, you can stand in
front of a symbolic building with some banners (the office of any
multinational of your choice, the parliament, the chamber of commerce, the
city hall, etc.), or perform street theater (like a symbolic bury of the
parliament by the multinationals, or two dinner tables, one full of luxuries
and with nicely dressed people around it, and the other with some rubbish
and very poor people), or organise an event (a public lecture, a panel
discussion, etc) or do a direct action (block the entrance of the stock
exchange or squat it, occupy the office of a multinational, etc). Please
inform us if you are going to do something (unless you do not want to make
it publicly known beforehand), since we want to send the list of planned
actions along with the list of signatures on the 29th, so that you can use
it too for the media work.

Thank you for your attention. The Play Fair Europe! Team

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(Place), (Date)

Press Release

Declaration against the Globalisers of Misery
Worldwide opposition to the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos 

Throughout this week (29th January-3rd February) the World Economic Forum,
the club of the foremost 1000 Transnational Corporations, is holding its
Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland. During this period, hundreds of
actions are taking place in many different parts of the world to denounce
this event (1).

This meeting is, in the World Economic Forum´s own words, "the world's
global business summit" (2), where "each year, major initiatives are
launched...which go far beyond the pure business realm". At the Annual
Meeting, "1000 top business leaders , 250 political leaders, 250 foremost
academic experts in every domain, and some 250 media leaders come together
to shape the global agenda." As they boast, "the World Economic Forum has
played a leading role in the economic globalisation process... at the
beginning of the eighties it played a major role in launching the Uruguay
trade negotiations. The foundation has made a contribution to the process
and negotiation of financial services liberalisation." 

We oppose the accelerating centralisation of political and economic power
caused by globalisation, and its gradual shift to unaccountable and
undemocratic institutions, such as the World Trade Organisation (WTO). We
denounce the role of "informal" business groups (such as the World Economic
Forum) in this process, which only benefits multinational business elites,
while increasing numbers of people are going hungry, unable to afford basic
health care and education, and forced to cope with environmental destruction.

This denunciation of the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum is the
first coordinated activity of the PEOPLES' GLOBAL ACTION AGAINST "FREE"
TRADE AND THE WTO. (3)

This declaration has been signed by 

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(1) For information about the actions, please get in touch with ......
(local contact) or with Play Fair Europe!, e-mail
playfair@asta.rwth-aachen.de; fax +34-8-524.11.21

(2) All direct quotations and factual information regarding the World
Economic Forum have been taken from the Forum's web page http://www.weforum.org

(3) For more information about Peoples' Global Action Against "Free" Trade
and the World Trade Organisation (PGA) and its first worldwide conference
please contact: 
local contact: .........
Secretariat: kmp@info.com.ph; 
web page: http://www.agp.org

(ENDS)

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Endorsement to the Declaration against the Globalisers of Misery
Please email to playfair(asta.rwth-aachen.de or fax to +34-8-524.11.21
Name of person or organisation:
Country:
Contact email or fax: 
Field of action of the organisation / Profession:
For organisations: number of members: 
Do you want more information about the World Economic Forum and similar topics?
Are you going to organise an action? If yes, please describe it in a few words:

************************************************************
 Play Fair Europe! OviedoTel/fax +34-8-524.11.21
  Pedro Masaveu 1 10 Eplayfair@asta.rwth-aachen.de
  33007 Oviedo, Spaincheck http://www.agp.org

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Western Australia 6148

email>  rabbit@wantree.com.au

http://www.wantree.com.au/~rabbit/rabbit.htm
(Rabbit Information Service website updated frequently)

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Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 06:52:07 -0800
From: Dena Jones 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US) Job Opportunities at the Animal Protection Institute (API)
Message-ID: <34BF7417.7793@gvn.net>
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Employment Opportunities at API

The Animal Protection Institute (API) is a national non-profit animal 
advocacy organization headquartered in Sacramento, California. API was 
founded in 1968 to advocate for the protection of animals from abuse and 
exploitation. Its animal protection programs include lobbying and 
administrative agency comment, litigation, investigation and research, 
advocacy campaigns, and public awareness and education. API has a staff 
of 18 people and an annual budget of $1.4 million.

API announces the following part-time (20 hours per week) positions:  
Media/PR Coordinator and Regional Representative (Mid-Atlantic).

MEDIA/PR COORINATOR

Responsibilities:
* Work directly with Executive Director and Program Director to develop a 
Media Relations Program for API.
* Develop and distribute news releases and schedule news conferences.
* Maintain media contacts.
* Coordinate all PR and media relations activities.

Requirements:
* BS degree; English, journalism, or communications major preferred.
* 2+ years media relations or PR experience.
* Excellent presentation, oral and written communication skills.
* Self motivated but with ability to work as part of a team.
* Non-profit and animal advocacy background preferred.


REGIONAL REPRESENTATIVE (Mid-Atlantic)

Responsibilities:
* Primary responsibility will be to monitor federal legislation and lobby 
on a small number of individual bills.
* Monitor state legislation in mid-Atlantic states and lobby on 
individual bills.
* Develop and maintain contact with local organizations in area.
* Participate in media interviews and develop and maintain media 
contacts.
* Represent API at meetings and conferences. 

Requirements:
* BS degree; political science or public policy preferred.
* 2+ years animal advocacy experience.
* Lobbying experience and knowledge of legislative process.
* Knowledge of region and contacts with local individuals and 
organizations active in animal advocacy.
* Self motivated and ability to work with limited supervision.
 
To apply for either position, please send a cover letter and resume to:
Dena Jones, Program Director
Animal Protection Institute
2831 Fruitridge Road
Sacramento, CA 95820
(916) 731-4467 (Fax)
djones@gvn.net
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 10:28:05 +0800
From: bunny 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Sheep,cattle and disease devastate Australia
Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19980120102047.2dcf5270@wantree.com.au>
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News Update - the impact of introduced cattle, sheep and rabbit hemorrhagic
disease in Australia.
from Rabbit Information Service (Western Australia)
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Introduced cattle and sheep are causing an estimated 1000 million dollars
worth of damage a year to the Australian ecosystem through land degradation
and removal of habitat of native species.
Also, farmers, in their attempts to save lambs from natural predators in
Australia have been guilty of shooting hundreds of Wedge-tailed
eagles and stringing them up on fences for all to see. 
Currently, RCD/RHD, by its impact on decreasing rabbit numbers in Australia
is having a detrimental effect on birds of prey in Australia. 
Some Australian farmers have helped spread the RCD/RHD disease. 
Only 13 active raptor nesting sites have been noted in the September 1997
survey in the Strzelecki Ranges and rabbit numbers there are very low (down
to .5 rabbits per spotlight kilometre).
This is a major cause for concern since the Strzelecki Ranges is one of the
most important raptor breeding areas in Australia.

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Rabbit Information Service,
P.O.Box 30,
Riverton,
Western Australia 6148

email>  rabbit@wantree.com.au

http://www.wantree.com.au/~rabbit/rabbit.htm
(Rabbit Information Service website updated frequently)

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It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
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