AR-NEWS Digest 662

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) (US-NJ) Skinned animal thrown at protest. Notes from the week long fur war.
     by "Jeffrey A. LaPadula" 
  2) (US-NJ) Animal Rights protest hit by muskrat body- Home news tribune article 2-12-98
     by "Jeffrey A. LaPadula" 
  3) Book recommendation
     by Andrew Gach 
  4) (US) Oprah Lawyer Grills Livestock Trader
     by allen schubert 
  5) (US) Pepper Spray May Attract Bears
     by allen schubert 
  6) (US) Labor Dept.: Poultry Plants Unsafe
     by allen schubert 
  7) New Calicivirus Article on CDC website
     by bunny 
  8) "Wild Turkey Hunters Are Special to Wildlife"  (say that again?)
     by SDURBIN@VM.TULSA.CC.OK.US
  9) re: (USA) Conibear inhumane trap information
     by Patrick Nolan 
 10) Re Conibear Trap
     by bunny 
 11) Lynx to be Listed as Endangered
     by MINKLIB@aol.com
 12) News:Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease and caliciviruses
     by bunny 
 13) (DE) Europe's biggest poultry plant planned
     by "Carsten Scholvien" 
 14) Nadas
     by "Eric Mindel @ LCA" 
 15) Second Nadas story to air on Hard Copy
     by "Eric Mindel @ LCA" 
 16) Fwd: "Scruffy" the Yorkshire Terrier
     by Snugglezzz@aol.com
 17) (Ca) Group Says Too Few Seal Hunt Vaarges Laid
     by Ty Savoy 
 18) Nadas gets Supreme Court Stay of Execution
     by "Bob Schlesinger" 
 19) KEIKO FINDS HIGH-PLACED PALS
     by Tokitae 
 20) Jackson County OR to consider animal control ordinance
     by "Bob Schlesinger" 
 21) Vilas Update
     by paulbog@jefnet.com (Rick Bogle)
 22) (US) Witness asked about raising voice for change
     by allen schubert 
 23) Yorkshire Terrier Tortured to Death
     by Snugglezzz@aol.com
 24) (US) Expert Attacks Activist Credibility
     by allen schubert 
 25) (US) Comments Needed on Organic Standards
     by Dena Jones 
 26) [UK] Hotelier to be prosecuted for beef party
     by David J Knowles 
 27) [US] "'Alpha' monkey's fate unclear" (TCT, 2/10/98)
     by Steve Barney 
 28) Nadas update
     by "Eric Mindel @ LCA" 
 29) P&G CEO Hit With Pie
     by Tereiman@aol.com
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 00:27:40 -0500 (EST)
From: "Jeffrey A. LaPadula" 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US-NJ) Skinned animal thrown at protest. Notes from the week long fur war.
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Although the tone of this is very matter of fact (which was done to give a
factual overview of the events), the experience with Trapper #3 was the most
emotional that I have ever had.  For someone to do something this horrifying
is beyond me.  I have been extremely upset but I will stay strong, as will
we all. The opposition is becoming more confrontational and that means that
we are indeed having an impact.  Please try to come out whenever you can, we
really need everyone to help out.  The more people there the less likely
something like this will happen again.  Tomorrow is a twelve hour
demonstration (9:30AM - 9:30 PM) so please try to make it out.  (Directions
can be found on the webpage.  For more information call the office at:
732.545.4110.)

We will also be holding a candle light vigil Saturday night from 5:30 PM -
6:30 PM.  This will be in memory all of the animals that have been murdered
for vanity.

In struggle,
-Corinne 

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At approximately 1:00 PM, Trapper #1 (the man was heavy set with white hair,
glasses, and was wearing jeans.)  approached activist standing on the end of
the picket line, activist was Natalia Van Doren-Shulkin.  Trapper #1 asked
for literature, activist gave it to him.  Trapper #1 asked "Aren't those
leather shoes?"  Natalia replied in the negative.  He then asked "Do you eat
meat?"  Natalia replied in the negative.  Trapper #1 asked one more
question, laughed at the activists, and left.  Trapper #1 had been in the
store prior to speaking with protesters.

At approximately 2:30 PM, Trapper #2 emerged from the store.  He was driving
a large, green utility truck with the initials I.S.E. on it's side.   He
went into his truck, proceeded to stay there for a few minutes, and
approached activists.   Activist handed him literature.  He introduced
himself as a trapper.  He asked if activists knew about "rabbis, mange, and
shit".  Natalia answered that she was aware of the fact that conditions on
fur farms were that bad to cause the animals disease.  He said that the
protesters were stupid, spouting half truths, and liars.  He then asked if
Natalia's shoes were leather.  Natalia replied in the negative.  Trapper #2
asked how long activists would be there.  Natalia replied that they would be
there all week.  He thanked them and left without incident.

At approximately 4:30 PM, Trapper #3 pulls into the parking lot and remains
in his car.  He exits his car and stands by his trunk.  Eventually, Trapper
#3 approaches activists and asks "Don't you people have anything better to
do?"  Activists ignore him.  He then says "It's OK I'm a trapper.  I'm a
friend of animals."  Activists offers him literature.  Trapper #3 accepts
literature and shoves it in his pocket.  "Most of the animals I use are road
kill" he stated.  He proceeded to say that the activists ancestor's were
furrier and fur's effect on the economy.  As he is speaking he takes out a
fur tail and waves it in Jason LaGreca's face.  LaGreca ignores him.
Activists begin chanting.  Trapper #3 keeps talking and is ignored by
activists.  He leaves and goes to his car.  (His car is a dark blue Buick,
license plate #340ZAM, with deer and duck decals on the back windows.)  As
Trapper #3 is pulling out of the driveway, he has previously been sitting in
his car looking at activists - he is doing something with a bag in his front
seat.   He turns in toward the protesters very slowly and reaches into his
bag.  Activists closest to him see that he is holding something and quickly
move when he rolls down the window.  Trapper #3 throws skinned
unidentifiable carcass at the picket line, hitting no one.  (Body suspected
to be weasel for ferret.)  
 
Activists briefly disperse and police are called.  The Home News & Tribune
is contacted and the demonstration went on.  

The officer spoken to was Officer 131 R. Kearston, car #313 of the East
Brunswick Police Department.  When LaGreca pointed out that Guarino may have
taped the incident, Kearston replied that he did not want to deal with
Guarino and that he is a vegetarian.  This incident will be taken to the
full extent of the law.  It will in no way be tolerated.

*********************************************************

The remaining time we will be spending at Guarino's is:

Thursday, February 12:  9:30 AM - 9:30 PM
Friday, February 13:  9:30 AM - 5:30 PM
Saturday, February 14:  9:30 AM - 6:30 PM

Please try to come and support.  This is very important.  

Love and liberation,
-corinne



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                                 P.O. Box 84        
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                             (732)774-6432         
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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 00:30:47 -0500 (EST)
From: "Jeffrey A. LaPadula" 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US-NJ) Animal Rights protest hit by muskrat body- Home news tribune article 2-12-98
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Animal-rights protest hit by
  muskrat body 

  Published in the Home News Tribune 2/12/98


  By BART CALENDAR
  STAFF WRITER

  A motorist threw the carcass of a bloody, skinned muskrat at
  a group of animal-rights activists in the middle of a marathon
  protest of an East Brunswick furrier.

  A man in a blue Buick threw the animal at the protesters while
  driving by Furs By Guarino on Route 18 around 4 p.m.
  yesterday, Corinne Ball of the Animal Defense League said.

  "This is the most violent thing I have ever seen," said Ball, 17,
  of North Brunswick. "We are trying to be as
  nonconfrontational as possible. Why would anyone do this? I
  just want to go home and bury it."

  Representatives of Guarino's said they were just as horrified
  as the protesters by the act. Ball spoke outside the store,
  surrounded by the animal's carcass and pieces of other
  animals thrown at the group during the day.

  The league began protesting Guarino's on Saturday and plans
  to be at the store from opening to closing through Valentine's
  Day. The group chose to protest outside Guarino's after a
  store it had previously targeted -- Oscar Loewy Designer
  Furs in Metuchen -- announced it was closing. Guarino's
  owner, John Guarino, had written a letter to the newspaper in
  support of that furrier.

  Because of yesterday's confrontation, the Animal Defense
  League now plans to hold a candlelight vigil in front of the
  store at dusk on Valentine's Day, Ball said.

  "This is exactly what we are protesting against," said Natalia
  Van Doren-Shulkin of Arlington, Va., while pointing at the
  carcass.

  Protesters wrote down the license-plate number of the car,
  and police were called to the scene. Ball said she will file
  harassment and assault charges on behalf of the group if the
  man who threw the animal is found.

  Guarino condemned the act. "That's just nuts," he said. "The
  protesters have not been that big of a problem for us. It is
  horrible. This is not how you win against these people. It's just
  not right."

  Guarino staged a peaceful protest against the Animal Defense
  League last Saturday by cooking up hot dogs, hamburgers
  and veggie burgers on a grill in his parking lot in front of the
  vegetarians.

  Ball said a series of harassing incidents yesterday led up to the
  carcass being thrown at the protesters.

  All day, men identifying themselves as trappers drove into the
  store's parking lot and talked to store employees before
  throwing small animal parts at the group, protesters said.

  Store employees said men, who were not invited by the store,
  came into the business during the course of the day and
  identified themselves as trappers. However, the employees
  said they did not see the men throw animal parts at the group.

  Some of the parts, which littered a grassy area in front of the
  store, appeared to be part of a fox's tail and chunks of
  unidentifiable furry animals.

  Ball said her group plans to bring a video camera with them
  today to tape anyone who assaults or harasses the protesters.

  Source: Home News Tribune 

  Published: February 12, 1998
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                             Oakhurst, NJ 07755      
                             (732)774-6432         
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Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 22:44:39 -0800
From: Andrew Gach 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Book recommendation
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An excellent anthology, just published: "Intimate Nature: The Bond
Between Women and Animals."  Filled with stories, poetry, essays, etc. 
Edited by Linda Hogan, Deena Metzger, and Brenda Peterson.  The
Ballantine Publishing Group, 1998.  Includes pieces by Alice Walker,
Jane Godall, Birute Galdikas, Ursula Le Guin and many more.  455 pages.
$29.00 in the bookstores.  Don't miss it!

Andy
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 07:28:29 -0500
From: allen schubert 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US) Oprah Lawyer Grills Livestock Trader
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from Associated Press http://wire.ap.org
--------------------------------------
 02/12/1998 05:20 EST

 Oprah Lawyer Grills Livestock Trader

 By MARK BABINECK
 Associated Press Writer

 AMARILLO, Texas (AP) -- Oprah Winfrey's lawyer chided a      
 cattle trader who admitted he placed a ``sell'' order at the 
 Chicago Mercantile Exchange before he even viewed an episode 
 of Ms. Winfrey's show on mad cow disease.                    

 Tim Brennan, a futures trader and member of the exchange,   
 testified Wednesday in Ms. Winfrey's $10.3 million beef      
 defamation trial. He said a colleague tipped him to the      
 show's topic moments after it went on the air -- and he      
 hastily placed a ``sell'' order.          

 By 10:30 a.m. -- 90 minutes after the show went on the air
 in Chicago -- cattle prices had fallen by $1.50 per pound, Brennan said.

 That prompted Ms. Winfrey's lawyer to suggest it was the traders
 themselves who caused the biggest cattle market plunge in a decade -- and
 not the talk show host.

 ``You think (Ms. Winfrey) ought to pay $10 million because you thought
 what she said would stop housewives from buying hamburgers?'' defense
 lawyer Charles Babcock asked.

 ``This is true,'' Brennan replied.

 The trial, now in its fourth week, was to resume today.

 Texas cattlemen are suing Ms. Winfrey, her production company and
 vegetarian activist Howard Lyman over an April 1996 show on which Lyman,
 a former rancher, said feeding ground-up cattle parts to livestock -- a
 practice that's now banned -- could spread mad cow disease in this
 country. Ms. Winfrey swore off hamburgers.

 Babcock told jurors they must decide whether it was the show's producers
 or cattle traders like Brennan who caused the market plunge.

 Brennan was forced to clarify remarks he had made in a TV news interview
 the day after the ``Oprah'' show aired. In a clip that was played for
 jurors, Brennan seemed to blame the price drop on another factor.

 ``We're not here because of Oprah Winfrey's segment yesterday. The
 biggest ingredient is extraordinarily high grain prices,'' Brennan said
 on videotaped news clip.

 Asked by cattlemen's lawyers what he meant, Brennan testified: ``What I
 was talking about was (price) levels at the time compared to where we
 were a year ago. `The Oprah Winfrey Show' was a hammer, an explosive
 event at the time.''

 Another trader, Fred Moore, testified that the program caused a flood of
 selling that morning.

 Mad cow disease has ravaged herds in Britain for a decade but never has
 been detected in the United States.

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 07:35:56 -0500
From: allen schubert 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US) Pepper Spray May Attract Bears
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from Associated Press http://wire.ap.org
---------------------------------------
 02/12/1998 05:14 EST

 Pepper Spray May Attract Bears

 By JIM CLARKE
 Associated Press Writer

 ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- It's not what backpackers and hikers want to
 hear -- the pepper spray they count on to scare off bears may actually
 attract the big beasts, like catnip does cats.

 The evidence, so far, is just anecdotal. But the stories are worrisome --
 bears chewing up plane pontoons doused with the spray and crowding into
 recently sprayed camp sites, U.S. Geological Survey researcher Tom Smith
 said.

 Smith discovered the attraction in November when he saw a bear rolling on
 a rope sprayed just a week earlier with powerful red pepper extract. He
 was recording brown bear activity near salmon streams in the Katmai
 National Park and Preserve, 240 miles southwest of Anchorage.

 Intrigued, Smith jumped from his observation post and sprayed the beach
 with repellent. Several bears approached the beach 40 times to paw and
 roll in the spray.

 ``It's a 500-pound cat with a ball of catnip,'' Smith said.

 For those who spend a lot of time in bear country -- and that's anyone
 hiking in Alaska's backcountry -- this isn't good news. Pepper spray is
 considered by many to be a good alternative to carrying a powerful
 shotgun. Tests have shown that it will stop a charging bear if sprayed in
 the bear's eyes, nose and mouth.

 Nothing Smith found disputes those tests. But preventive uses of the
 spray -- even spray residue on the can itself -- can lure the huge,
 deceptively quick and potentially dangerous bears. On Sunday, an oil
 worker was killed by a brown bear that emerged from its winter den near
 the Kenai Peninsula.

 Counterassault of Bigfork, Mont., which first marketed the spray, isn't
 worried by Smith's findings, said general manager Pride Johnson, though
 some people mistakenly treat it like mosquito spray.

 ``We've had some parents spray it on their children because it says bear
 repellent,'' Johnson said Wednesday. The company has begun changing the
 wording on its packaging to bear deterrent instead of repellent.

 Smith's preliminary results should be noted by hikers and others, said
 Stephen Herrero, a bear expert at the University of Calgary and author of
 a book on bear attacks.

 ``They are going to have to think twice about how they store it,
 especially at night,'' Herrero said. ``The big question of course is, `Do
 you sleep with it under your pillow?'''

 Smith suggested treating a used can like food, putting it in a bear-proof
 container, and keeping an unused can in the tent while camping. Smith
 said he plans more testing next summer -- and he'll continue carrying the
 spray meanwhile.

 But the evidence so far has him confident he's on the right track. He has
 submitted what he found for publication in the Wildlife Society Bulletin.

 In the fall, he watched a float plane pilot spray his pontoons in an
 effort to keep bears away. The next morning, the floats were chewed up.

 And a camper at Katmai told Smith he had sprayed a circle around his tent
 to keep brown bears away. ``It was a fetching salt lick,'' the camper
 told Smith. ``There were bears everywhere.

 ``Little did we know this stuff was like mayonnaise on baloney,'' Smith
 said.
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 07:45:02 -0500
From: allen schubert 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US) Labor Dept.: Poultry Plants Unsafe
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factory farming issues
from Associated Press http://wire.ap.org
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 02/11/1998 04:33 EST

 Labor Dept.: Poultry Plants Unsafe

 WASHINGTON (AP) -- Labor investigators visiting the nation's poultry
 process plants found high levels of injuries and inadequate protective
 equipment, according to a report from the Labor Department's Wage and
 Hour Division.

 More than 60 percent of poultry plants surveyed by the department also
 violated overtime laws.

 Investigators, who visited 51 of the nation's 174 poultry processing
 plants in October and November 1997, noted a high number of injuries,
 mostly wrenched backs due to heavy lifting or slipping on greasy floors.
 Employers often provided inadequate protective equipment or improperly
 charged workers for gear, the report said.

 The National Broiler Council objected to the report.

 ``The Department of Labor had to adopt novel interpretations of the law
 to find significant problems in the poultry processing industry, Richard
 Lobb, the council's spokesman, said. ``A responsible law-abiding industry
 is being attacked for practices that are reasonable, customary and
 legal.''

 The survey was part of the Labor Department's ongoing assessment of the
 poultry industry, and it is expected to follow up with field hearings on
 working conditions in the industry next month. The hearings are
 tentatively set for Baltimore, Atlanta and Little Rock, Ark.

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 21:59:31 +0800
From: bunny 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: New Calicivirus Article on CDC website
Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19980212215151.3b5771b0@wantree.com.au>
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You may like to see an article just published on the CDC website.

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol4no1/smith.htm

It has some discussion on the RHD in Australia (including the fact that a 
parvovirus may be involved)

Kind regards,

Marguerite
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The piper's son,     )6 6(      Riverton,
Saved a pig        >{= Y =}<    Western Australia 6148
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So none could eat  (_)   (_)    email: rabbit@wantree.com.au
The pig so sweet    |  .  |  
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Jesus was most likely a vegetarian... why aren't you? Go to
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Date: Thu, 12 Feb 98 07:51:57 UTC
From: SDURBIN@VM.TULSA.CC.OK.US
To: ar-news@Envirolink.org
Subject: "Wild Turkey Hunters Are Special to Wildlife"  (say that again?)
Message-ID: <199802121352.IAA16378@envirolink.org>

Tulsa World, OK, USA: Thursday is the final day for ticket sales to the
seventh annual membership fund-raiser of the Tulsa chapter of the  National
Wild Turkey Federation (NWTF). No group of hunters has done more for wildlife
in the past two decades than the turkey hunters.

A news release this week from the Missouri Department of Conservation
dramatically illustrates that fact. Their state affiliate of the National
Federation is donating approximately $111,000 for wild turkey research,
habitat conservation and education programs in Missouri.

"We'll spend this money on a wide variety of projects," commented Larry
Vangilder, a research biologist with the wildlife department. "Of the
total, almost $80,000 will go to the department to buy much-needed
equipment."

Thanks to the programs and projects of the National Wild Turkey
Federation, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year, there
are now wild turkeys in every state except  Alaska. Most of these state
turkey flocks have been brought back by trapping and transplanting
projects.


-- Sherrill
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 09:26:57 -0500
From: Patrick Nolan 
To: ar-news 
Cc: bunny , becounted@hotmail.com
Subject: re: (USA) Conibear inhumane trap information
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   Hello, Margeurite wrote (quoting, I think, Bonnie Reynolds):

"There is a new type of trap being used by "sportsmen" that is killing
pets
and has the potential to kill or maime our children.  It is called a
Conibear trap and if a pet is caught in it, there is no way for the
owner,
EVEN IF HE IS RIGHT THERE to open it unless he or she has had training".

   This is not discussion but a quick (and, I think, necessary)
clarification: the Conibear trap was invented in 1929--and so hardly
qualifies as "a new type of trap."  Similar spring-powered killing traps
had already been on the market for 50 years even then.
   PLEASE, let us be accurate, lest we be ridiculed.

Patrick Nolan

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 23:10:20 +0800
From: bunny 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Cc: pnolan@animalwelfare.com
Subject: Re Conibear Trap
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Dear All,

re Conibeartrap posting.

Firstly, I apologise if my posting on the Conibear trap was inaccurate.
I did not check my source because of my extreme involvement at the moment in
trying to stop the rabbit hemorrhagic disease being used in my country
as a biological control agent. This has been an extremely busy week for me
as I have finally received some information from the government after
over a years hard work trying to obtain it and I am madly trying to put all
the pieces together now (the authorities sent me bits and pieces over the
year and the experts need all of it to put the jigsaw together). Time is
working against me on this issue as my country's crazed farmers and
scientists are pressuring for RCD coated baits that may infect many animals
as well as rabbits. I am the only one in my country doing this work and I
also have rescued rabbits to get through 36 degree celcius days (rabbits
cannot perspire and can die of fits in hot weather).

Here is the full message I received from which I took the excerpt that I
placed on AR News. I believe the message was meant for my daughter who has
an anti-cruelty link on her wonderful vege/AR website at
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/4620

Sorry if I took the message at face value and did not check the source.
Normally, AR messages I receive are credible. I will be more careful in the
future. Perhaps I should start questioning everyone on AR for references
from now on so I don't fall into the same *trap* again.

Hi,

What a great page you have.  I was brought to tears reading some of your
stories and peoms.  I found your page through the No Cruelty to Animals
ring.  I am a web page designer (and an animal lover) and I just put
together a page for a woman who is starting a campaign against the use
of inhumane traps (all traps except the live have-a-hart type that
doens't hurt animals).  There is a new type of trap being used by
"sportsmen" that is killing pets and has the potential to kill or maime
our children.  It is called a Conibear trap and if a pet is caught in
it, there is no way for the owner, EVEN IF HE IS RIGHT THERE to open it
unless he or she has had training. It is so scary!

I am writing to you, firstly to tell you how much I enjoyed your page
and agree with your words, and secondly, to ask you to please vist this
new page and add it to the No Cruelty to Animals Ring.  The site is
waiting in the queue to be added by a ring member.  Her ID is 80.  The
URL for the ring is
http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=nocruelty&queue

The URL to the page is
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/4235/ and the name of the page
is Stop the Use of Inhumane Traps

Thanks so much!

-Nancy

http://pages.prodigy.com/NancyPilotte/
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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.geocities.com/RainForest/4620/essene.htm
for more information.

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

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 10:11:21 EST
From: MINKLIB@aol.com
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Lynx to be Listed as Endangered
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This should upset the fur trapping industry as they did have a trapping season
in Montana though as few as 150 lynx may still exist in that state.  This will
not stop lynx trapping in Alaska or Canada.

Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade
PO Box 822411
Dallas, TX 75382

"Gov't To Protect Lynx as Endangered

.c The Associated Press

 WASHINGTON (AP) - The Interior Department has agreed to protect the
American
lynx as an endangered species under a settlement reached with
environmentalists, the Defenders of Wildlife said Wednesday.

Rodger Schlickeisen, the group's president, said the settlement reached
with
the Justice Department and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will
propose
listing the lynx as endangered within the contiguous 48 states by June
30. A
final listing decision is not due to June 1999.

Schlickeisen said the settlement ended six years of litigation over the
lynx,
a rare wild cat that once roamed freely across much of the northern part
of
the country. Currently the lynx population is believed to be fewer than
100
animals, he said.

``We hope this is the last chapter in the refusal to protect the
declining
lynx population in this country,'' he said in a news release announcing
the
settlement.

Details of the agreement could not be confirmed late Wednesday with
either the
Justice or Interior departments."




Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 23:49:44 +0800
From: bunny 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: News:Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease and caliciviruses
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Excerpt from CDC article at http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/EID/vol4no1/smith.htm
Emerging Infectious Diseases Volume 4 Number 1 January - March 1998
 
Calicivirus Emergence from Ocean Reservoirs:  Zoonotic and 
Interspecies Movements 

In the absence of data, extrapolating from cultivatable caliciviruses to
predict future effects of poorly characterized caliciviruses
should be useful, particularly when there is an urgent need to assess
possible human risk. The calicivirus implicated in RHD is a
case in point for it might be expected to infect humans. 

Additional evidence exists. An anecdotal account mentions a Mexican worker
who developed antibodies to RHD while
eradicating the disease in Mexico (31). An Australian study designed to
assess the risk for illness after RHD escaped from
Wardang Island (32) examined a group of 269 persons (153 reporting exposure
to rabbits or samples infected with RHD virus
and 116 reporting no known RHD virus contact) from two Australian states
with the greatest amount of RHD virus activity in
rabbits. Exposure was categorized by degree of skin exposure to infected
materials. Date of first exposure was noted, but no
cumulative exposure index was developed. A "high" exposure category could
derive from one exposure, and "low" exposure
categories could include multiple exposures, each with low exposure.
Symptoms were assessed by recall of illness over the
previous 13 months. Because the RHD agent was in high security containment
facilities for the first 3 months of the recall period
and geographically confined for the following 3 months, that period was
considered a low exposure period. Because of the
rapid spread of the virus in the two states, the last 6 months of the recall
period were considered the high exposure period. 

The data (Table 2) show the rate ratios for the occurrence of different
illness in the two periods. All rate ratios were
considerably greater than 1.00, and the rate ratios for any illness,
diarrhea/gastroenteritis, flu/fever, and neurologic illness are
significant (p < 0.005). Because each group contained health histories for 3
spring months or 3 autumn months, 1 summer
month, and 2 winter months, the data are seasonally adjusted; hence, winter
illness does not explain the excess symptoms
observed in the high exposure group, and RHD virus exposure remains a
plausible explanation for increased disease incidence. 

It is difficult to produce pure cultures of noncultivatable caliciviruses to
carry out Koch's postulates and establish cause and
effect for a single pathogen strain or species. For RHD, both a calicivirus
and a parvovirus have been identified in ill rabbits, and
a parvovirus has been isolated in vitro and reported to fulfill Koch's
postulates (33-35). Yet, caliciviruses have been purified
from infected organs to the limits of purity by physical means, and those
preparations also cause RHD (35). The caliciviruses
purified by physical means cannot be proven to be free of contaminating
agents, such as parvovirus (35). If RHD is
parvovirus-driven, extrapolation from what is known of other small DNA
viruses suggests a rather stable genome and a reduced
host range with less likelihood of new host relationships (12). On the other
hand, if calicivirus is the primary pathogen, the
genomic infidelity that occurs during small RNA virus replication and the
documented cross-species transmission of the
cultivatable caliciviruses suggest that RHD might also move across species
barriers (1,12). 

Table 2. Population incidence of rabbit hemorrhagic disease (RHD) virus for
seasonally equalized periods (July–December and
February–July), derived from Mead et al. (32) 

(see CDC Website for this table - it wouldn't copy to email without becoming
jumbled)


Adequate diagnostic reagents for epidemiologic studies need to be made
available; they include antigens, monoclonal
antibodies, polymerase chain reaction primer sets, and cDNA probes based on
group epitopes. In addition, biotype- or
pathotype-specific reagents are needed to differentiate pathogenic from
nonpathogenic infections. 

The future also holds the confounding problem of vaccines. Although vaccines
can be produced, because of calicivirus antigenic
diversity, their efficacy would be predictably short-lived and marginal.
Other approaches will need to be sought. Conserved
traits that render the Caliciviridae viable as a virus with certain
predictable genomic expressions must be sought, and if they
exist, targeted for immune attack. 

Conclusions 

Only one of the five known calicivirus groups can be grown in vitro and
subjected to the full range of host-parasite tests and
conditions necessary to more fully define a virus in nature. Therefore,
extrapolations developed from this group, the cultivatable
marine caliciviruses, should provide insights as a predictive model to help
answer questions for the noncultivatable caliciviruses
such as small round structured virus, Sapporo virus, hepatitis E virus, and
rabbit caliciviruses. From the replicative strategy of
the Caliciviridae (as RNA viruses), one would predict considerable
diversity. In vitro cultivation has shown that caliciviruses
exhibit survivability and plasticity in nature. Many of the factors
regarding host spectrum, zoonotic potential, disease conditions,
transport, intermediate hosts, and abrupt appearance or disappearance, which
may be unknown in newly emerging calicivirus
diseases (e.g., RHD), may be more reliably predicted with an established
model such as the cultivatable marine caliciviruses.
New and better biologic tools for diagnostic and epidemiologic assessments
must be developed. This should be augmented by
recognizing the zoonotic potential of the cultivatable caliciviruses of
ocean origin and then examining them as possible models to
help solve many unanswered questions for pathogenic Caliciviridae. 
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Jesus was most likely a vegetarian... why aren't you? Go to
http://www.geocities.com/RainForest/4620/essene.htm
for more information.

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

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 18:58:16 +0000
From: "Carsten Scholvien" 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (DE) Europe's biggest poultry plant planned
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Europe's biggest poultry plant planned

(swf3) Europe's biggest poultry plant is supposed to be built near
Hinterweidenthal (small village in the palatinate, Germany).
The governement  of rhineland-palatinate claims to do much for animal 
protection, but the coaltion treaty of SPD (social democrats) and FDP 
(liberals) tells you of verbal compromise like the
"species justly [non-alien] cage keeping" of animals. 
[ger. "artgerechte Kaefighaltung"]
Only a lip service.
The factory would double the egg production in rhineland-palatinate.
The bigger the cage mountains, the cheaper the eggs.
There would be enough space for alternative solutions, but
they are not profitable. On the contrary: the building ground, a 
former NATO site, isn't prepared for free-running hens. Since a 
pipeline accident the soil is contaminated with gas oil.
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 98 12:13:43 -0000
From: "Eric Mindel @ LCA" 
To: "Chickadee" ,
        "ar-news" 
Subject: Nadas
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Hi all,

TV's Hard Copy is airing a follow-up story about Nadas tonight.

eric





Eric Mindel
Last Chance for Animals (LCA)
eric@LCAnimal.org
http://www.lcanimal.org
8033 Sunset Blvd, Suite 35
Los Angeles, CA  90046
310/271-6096 office 
310/271-1890 fax


Date: Thu, 12 Feb 98 12:23:38 -0000
From: "Eric Mindel @ LCA" 
To: "Chickadee" ,
        "ar-news" 
Subject: Second Nadas story to air on Hard Copy
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Hi all,

TV's Hard Copy to air another Nadas story tonight.

eric





Eric Mindel
Last Chance for Animals (LCA)
eric@LCAnimal.org
http://www.lcanimal.org
8033 Sunset Blvd, Suite 35
Los Angeles, CA  90046
310/271-6096 office 
310/271-1890 fax


Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 16:47:59 EST
From: Snugglezzz@aol.com
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Subject: Fwd: "Scruffy" the Yorkshire Terrier
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Please write and call on this!!! 
From: EnglandGal@aol.com
Return-path: 
Subject: "Scruffy" the Yorkshire Terrier
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 1998 22:12:57 EST
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Here is information on the tortured Yorkie. Included is where to write (local
Govt. and Media) to stir things up a bit. Please be courteous and as
unemotional as possible, but let them all know that these men should be
severly penalized for their actions. More updates will follow. Please forward
to everone and anyone who choose

FOR MEN CHARGED WITH SETTING DOG ON FIRE, BEATING IT TO DEATH IN
KANSAS CITY,
KANSAS

Last Friday, someone gave a Kansas City, Kan., police officer a 
videotape that shows four young men setting a dog on fire and beating it 
to death in a residential neighborhood. 

On Monday, four persons were charged with felony arson -- the most 
serious charge possible -- and an assistant Wyandotte County district 
attorney said she would seek prison time for each of them. 

"The first time I watched this tape, it was literally all I could do not 
to throw up," said Terra Morehead, the assistant district attorney. "I 
can think of a lot of hardened criminals who would be repulsed by this 
tape." 

The dog's owner, who didn't want to be identified because three of the 
defendants remained at large Tuesday, said he was "sick about it." He 
said that anyone who would do what was done to his dog probably would do 
the same to a human being. 

The man said he had owned Scruffy, a 6-pound Yorkshire terrier, for 12 
years before the dog disappeared last summer. 

The videotape horrified even the veteran police detectives who cracked 
the case. "In 23 years, I never thought anything could surprise me," 
said Detective Max Seifert. "The pleasure that these guys derived -- I 
just couldn't believe it." 

Charged as adults on Monday were Marcus Rodriguez, 18, and Richard 
Golubski, 20, both of Kansas City, Kan., and Lance Arsenault, 21, of 
Edwardsville. Charged as a juvenile was Jose Gutierrez, 17, of Kansas 
City, Kan. 

Golubski was in the Wyandotte County Jail Tuesday after bond was set at 
$50,000. Police were searching for the others. 

The six-minute tape was taken during a period spanning about 20 minutes 
on June 27. It was shot in the back yards of houses in the 5200 block of 
Sloan Avenue, which is just north of Leavenworth Road. 

Police Lt. John Cosgrove said the tape showed four men choking Scruffy 
and then putting him in a trash bag. They laughed and discussed killing 
someone and then ripped open the bag and doused Scruffy with a flammable 
liquid. 

On fire, Scruffy ran into another back yard, where the men beat him to 
death with a shovel. 

A confidential source turned the tape over to police, along with the 
owner's name. Because of the high quality of the tape, police were able 
to make photographs of the suspects. 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

>From news reports in KC from Valkury.....

This has been the top news story here today. They have one suspect in custody,
and are looking for the others. They are being charged with arson, because
it's a felony and will carry a stiffer penalty than a cruelty charge. This is
even more upsetting to me, because this is my hometown. The dog in question is
a 12 yr old yorkie named Scruffy. When his owner found him missing, his
murderers helped her look for him, had her convinced that they were friends.
She said they used to play with the dog. The news station I watch said that
"after much consideration on our part, we have deemed this video too graphic
for our early news edition." What makes me angry about that is that they may
show it on the late news. They said the video begins with the suspects
stating, "You are about to witness a murder." Goes to dog. "Here's our first
victim." Makes you think that they had more victims in mind. This is getting
out of hand. I'll be watching the news closely and will try to keep you all
informed. Valkury@aol.com

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Be a voice for the voiceless and write/phone/fax:

FOX 4 Kansas City E-mail
http://www.wdaftv4.com/email.html
The Star/Talkback
http://www.kcstar.com/talkback/talkback.htm
CBS http://www.kctv5.com  (go to feedback)
http://www.kctv5.com/news/cfa/cfa.htm (call for action )
Http://www.kctv.com/yom.htm (your opinion)
News Page
http://www.kmbc.com/news/news.htm (talkback page with e-mail to each anchor as
well as departments... send everyone a copy!)
KSHB-TV, NBC 41 Feedback
http://www.kshb.com/feed/index.html
VIRTUAL ROCK COMMENTS BOX
http://www.kqrc.com/mail/index.html 

(send to Johhny Dare or Murphy they raised $1000 to use as a reward for
finding the other 3 guys involved)
County Attorney
Nick A. Tomasic
710 N. 7th Street
Kansas City 66101
(913) 573-2800
fax: (913) 321-0237

County Commissioners
(913) 573-2827
District 1: Nancy Burns, Chair (D)
400 N. 16th Street 
Kansas City 66102

District 2: Verdis Robinson (D)
713 Lafayette Avenue 
Kansas City 66101

District 3: Richard Kaminski (D)
2209 N. 78th Terrace 
Kansas City 66109

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 18:28:24 -0400
From: Ty Savoy 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (Ca) Group Says Too Few Seal Hunt Vaarges Laid
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OTTAWA (CP) --  The lobby group that videotaped gruesome seal hunts in 1996
says the government has laid far too few charges than the evidence called for.

        The International Fund for Animal Welfare sid Wednesday the
Department of Fisheries and Oceans has failed to recognise the inherent
cruelty of the commercial seal hunt due to a conflict of interest.

        Last February the activist group sent the department 10 hours of
videotape showing seals being butchered in Newfoundland. The lobbists
claimed the tape showed over 140 violations of federal seal hunt regulations
but Ottawa laid only 17 charges against seven sealers.

        Clayton Ruby, the group's legal council, says the footage showed
sealers failed to perform checks to see if the animals were dead, or shot
seals at long range, which often prevented them from killing the mammals
fast, as hunt regulations prescribed.

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 14:52:10 -0800
From: "Bob Schlesinger" 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Nadas gets Supreme Court Stay of Execution
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contacts:   Bob Schlesinger
                 Ark Online
                (503) 628-0232


OREGON SUPREME COURT GRANTS ADDITIONAL STAY OF EXECUTION

SALEM, OR (February 12, 1998)

Nadas, the Oregon collie-malamute originally scheduled to die on Feb. 17th has 
been granted a temporary stay of execution by the Oregon Supreme Court.  
In an order signed today by presiding justice, W. Michael Gillette, 
the court granted a motion filed by Robert Babcock, attorney for dog owner Sean Roach.
The motion was to  prevent Jackson County from executing Nadas until the Court formally
announces
a decision on reconsideration of its original denial to hear the case.

Without the stay, Jackson County would be permitted to euthanize Nadas next Tuesday.

The stay will be a moot issue if the Jackson County Commissioners finally agree to permit
Nadas to be adopted by Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Utah.  The commissioners will 
discuss this option at a meeting at 4PM Pacific time today.  However it is expected that
dog owner Sean Roach will be required to drop his lawsuit against county officials and agree to
other conditions in exchange for sparing Nadas' life.

Background information on the Nadas saga is at http://www.arkonline.com

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 18:10:38 -0500 (EST)
From: Tokitae 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: KEIKO FINDS HIGH-PLACED PALS
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KEIKO FINDS HIGH-PLACED PALS
Two of the killer whale's best-known supporters put their names behind his
transfer to a sea pen soon
By KATY MULDOON
of The Oregonian staff

February 10, 1998

NEWPORT - Keiko took a meeting Monday with the rich and the famous. And
about this release deal . . . he'll get back to them.

Jean-Michel Cousteau, son of famed French ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau,
and Craig McCaw, a Seattle tele-communications billionaire, donned rubber
boots and smiles as they took turns communing poolside with the whale and
news reporters.
The Free Willy-Keiko Foundation's biggest guns visited the Oregon Coast
Aquarium for a media event designed to crank up the volume on the next phase
of the project: to move Keiko to a netted enclosure in a North Atlantic bay
or fjord, possibly as soon as August.

On Monday,  Cousteau and McCaw stressed that a sea pen might be as close to
freedom as Keiko ever gets, depending on the whale's progress in learning to
hunt and gaining independence ."Keiko is the one calling the shots," said
Cousteau, who met the whale for the first time Monday. The foundation
invited Cousteau, who lives in Santa Barbara, Calif., to join its board of
directors last month. McCaw is chairman of the foundation board of directors
and the project's chief financier. Both are nature lovers and  environmental
activists.

In return for Cousteau's presence on the foundation board, McCaw agreed to
serve as a director of the nonprofit Jean-Michel Cousteau Institute, which
focuses on problems of ocean pollution, fisheries and management of the
coastal environment.
Together, the two powerful but low-key men plan to push hard in coming
months to boost the Keiko project's profile internationally, to restore some
of the public's emotional fervor that has ebbed in the two years since the
whale moved to Oregon from Mexico, and to fulfill the philosophical'
obligations on which the Keiko project is based.

"It is a very emotional privilege for me to be here," said Cousteau, looking
tanned and rugged from a life spent largely at sea. A spokesman for the
United Nations' International Year of the Oceans this year, Cousteau said he
intends to act as far more than a figurehead for the foundation: "I've never
joined a board in which I'm not active."

He might producing a documentary about Keiko. And he plans to stick with the
project for the long haul -as in, beyond Keiko.
"After spending so much on Keiko," he said, "it would be a pity not to look
at the biggest possible picture."

In fact, the foundation does have dreams far grander than improving the life
of one retired movie-star killer whale. Cousteau said it has the potential
to be an international leader in marine mammal rehabilitation. 

McCaw agreed. "I will be sorely disappointed," he said, " -.. if we don't
create more of a legacy.

Foundation and Keiko have much work to do.

The foundation intends in the next couple of weeks to award a contract to
build the sea pen - an enclosure more than twice the size of his current
tank and made of heavy-duty netting. It is preparing documents detailing
Keiko's rehabilitation plan and an informational video to help sell the idea
of a sea pen to a foreign government. This spring, foundation employees will
travel for the second time to the North Atlantic to present the project to
countries including Iceland, Ireland and Scotland. Last year, the staff
scouted 5,000 miles of coastline in search of suitable sites for a sea pen.
The bay or fjord needs to be one to two miles long and at least 25 feet
deep, have a narrow mouth and have little, if any, boat traffic.

In such a spot, Keiko might be able to fill his belly 'with passing fish and
communicate with passing killer whales - perhaps even members of his own
family. Keiko, who is 18 to 20 years old, was captured off Iceland when he
was about 2. He performed in marine parks and In "Free Willy," a movie about
a captive whale set free.

The film inspired donors, including thousands of children around the world,
to raise money for his rehabilitation and release. McCaw said he didn't want
to disappoint them.


Howard Garrett
PAWS
Lolita Campaign Coordinator
(305) 672-4039
tokitae@bellsouth.net

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 17:02:58 -0800
From: "Bob Schlesinger" 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Jackson County OR to consider animal control ordinance
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The following is a copy of a release from Jackson County Oregon yesterday.
Some short comments follow.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Feb 11, 1998
For more information contact:

Burke Raymond, Jackson County Administrator
(541) 776-7269

MEDFORD, OR - The Jackson County Commissioners will meet Thursday February 12
at 4:00 PM to consider adoption of an animal control ordinance.

Currently, Jackson County does not have its own ordinance, but enforces state law
regarding the control of pets.  State statutes offer county governments discretion to
write their own animal control ordinances.

Oregon law requires that dogs found chasing, injuring, wounding, or killing livestock 
be impounded and euthanized.

The County's proposed ordinance would adhere to the state statute requiring 
euthanization of dogs that attack livestock, followed by the following process:

*  After impoundment, the dog's owner would have two working days to request
   a hearing.  If the owner doesn't request a hearing, the dog would be euthanized by
   Jackson COunty Animal Control.

*  If the owner asks for a hearing, and the haring officer concludes that the dog did
   chase livestock, the owner will have two choices:  1) He or she may agree to euthanization
   of the dog; or 2) The dog may be sent to an animal sanctuary under conditions specified
   by Jackson County

The owner of a dog sent to a sanctuary must agree to the following terms:  1) He or she will
bear the cost of a veterinary inspection of the livestock that was chased.  2) The dog's owner
will pay Jackson County a $100 penalty to cover the cost of the hearing. Indigent owners
may pay through community service.

If adopted, the ordinance would apply retroactively to Sean Raoch's dog Nadas, which was
ordered euthanized for chasing a horse in 1996.

Best Friends Animal Sanctuary in Kanab, Utah has offered to accept Nadas under terms that
would be set by Jackson County officials.  Those terms include the following:  The dog would
be neutered.  The dog would not be adopted from the sanctuary.  The dog's owner would have
no contact with the former pet.  The cost of shipping the dog would be born by the owner.

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

Is this the height of being mean-spirited and vindictive or what?  

The details of the ordinance will be forthcoming in a future post if it is adopted.

The proposed ordinance has sinister implications for animals that get into trouble in the future.

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 19:21:24 -0600
From: paulbog@jefnet.com (Rick Bogle)
To: "AR-News Post" 
Subject: Vilas Update
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Sorry for the delay - I've been away for the day.

Last night Resolution 241, introduced by Tom Stobig met the greatest amount
of debate so far during discussion at the Dane County Ways and Means
Committee. And even so, it passed unanimously once again.

This means that the resolution now moves to the entire Board of Supervisors
for consideration next week. To date, the resolution (which does nothing
more than require that the county develop a series of options for the
monkeys), has unanimously passed the Zoo Commission, the Public Works
Commission, and now the Ways and Means Commission.  This shows very strong
support to try and find alternatives for these NIH controlled monkeys.

At the meeting last night, some Supervisors were bemoaning the fact that
they had received few contacts from their constituents while others were
obviously impressed at having had calls and emails from around the country
and from overseas.  In general, I believe these contacts were very powerful
and persuasive. Those who took the time to make these contacts are
individually and jointly responsible for the progress being made.  You are
amazing.

150 monkeys have a chance at living out their life without a catheter in
their brain or an early death from SIV or leprosy.

I'll repost the addresses and such of the entire board tomorrow.  Don't
forget to mention the university's offer to the county to pay and care for
the monkeys for the rest of the year.

PS, one of the supervisors mentioned a very powerfull conversation he had
had with a psychiatrist. Thanks Doc.

R  
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 20:39:45 -0500
From: allen schubert 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US) Witness asked about raising voice for change
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from Amarillo Globe-News http://www.amarillonet.com/
---------------------------------------
Web posted Thursday, February 12, 1998 2:20 p.m. CT

Witness asked about raising voice for change

By KAY LEDBETTER
Farm and Ranch Editor

If the cattlemen vs. Oprah Winfrey trial were a television show, today's
episode would have been a rerun.

Using a loud voice to demand that the government take action is a
cornerstone of this society, according to a
witness whose testimony was interrupted Friday by a family emergency.

Resuming his testimony on the stand today, Dr. Lester Crawford was
cross-examined by defense attorney
Charles Babcock, who asked whether it was necessary sometimes for people to
"raise their voices to get the
government moving."

Crawford agreed, but said, "I would want them to do it in a responsible way."

Also returning to the stand today was Bill O'Brien, a plaintiff in the case
and the second witness called.

Crawford said under questioning by plaintiff lawyer Joseph Coyne that he
did not mean to say that people with
loud voices could stand on the corner and tell lies.

Coyne also brought up a concern from Friday about the British custom of
eating brains.

Crawford said the English generally mix brains with eggs or they make a
spread to go on toast. He also said
this is not a common practice in the United States.

The mad cow disease is found primarily in brains, spinal cord tissue and
eyeballs, said Crawford, who was
qualified as an expert in veterinary medicine, food safety and pharmacology.

Throughout the morning, attorneys continued to rehash their arguments about
the likelihood of mad cow
disease.

Late this morning, O'Brien took the stand for the second time this week. He
had begun to testify about losses
he says Texas Beef producers and other plaintiffs incurred. He had been
called to the stand Wednesday
afternoon but was excused after defense objection and a sidebar conference
with the judge.

In testimony Wednesday, two commodity traders in the pits of the Chicago
Merchantile Exchange the day of
The Oprah Winfrey Show segment on mad cow disease called the show a "gross
injustice."

Fred Moore, an independent trader and broker, and Tim Brennan, executive
vice president of Chicago trading
firm RB&H, said traders knew about the show before trading opened and
within one hour, the market was
down the limit for the day.
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 20:44:24 EST
From: Snugglezzz@aol.com
To: ar-news@Envirolink.org
Subject: Yorkshire Terrier Tortured to Death
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Here is information on the tortured Yorkie. Included is where to write to stir
things up a bit. Please be courteous and as unemotional as possible, but let
them know that these men should be severely penalized for their actions. More
updates will follow. Please forward to everyone and anyone who will help.

FOUR MEN CHARGED WITH SETTING DOG ON FIRE, BEATING HIM TO DEATH IN
KANSAS
CITY, KANSAS

Last Friday, someone gave a  Kansas City, Kansas police officer a videotape
that shows four young men setting a dog on fire and beating it to death in a
residential neighborhood.

On Monday, four persons were charged with felony arson - the most serious
charge possible - and an assistant Wyandotte County district attorney said she
would seek prison time for each of them.

"The first time I  watched this tape, it was literally all I could do not to
throw up," said Terra Morehead, the assistant district attorney. "I can think
of a lot of hardened criminals who would be repulsed by this tape."

The dog's owner said he was "sick about it." He said that anyone who would do
what was done to his dog probably would do the same to a human being.

The man said he had owned Scruffy, a 6-pound Yorkshire Terrier, for 12 years
before the dog disappeared last summer.

The videotape horrified even the veteran police detectives who cracked the
case. "In 23 years, I never thought anything could surprise me," said
Detective Max Seifert. "The pleasure that these guys derived - I just couldn't
believe it."

Charged as adults on Monday were Marcus Rodriguez, 18, and Richard Golubski,
20, both of Kansas City, Kansas, and Lance Arsenault, 21, of Edwardsville.
Charged as a juvenile was Jose Gutierrez, 17, of Kansas City, Kansas.

Golubski was in the Wyandotte County Jail Tuesday after  bond was set at
$50,000.  Police were searching for the others.

The six-minute tape was  taken during a period spanning about 20 minutes on
June 27. It was shot in the back yards of houses in a residential area.

Police Lt. John Cosgrove said the tape showed four men choking Scruffy and
then putting him in a trash bag. They laughed and discussed killing someone
and then ripped open the bag and doused Scruffy with a flammable liquid.

On fire, Scruffy ran into another back yard, where the men beat him to death
with a  shovel.

A confidential source turned the tape over to the police, along with the
owner's name. Because of the high quality of the tape, police were able to
make photographs of the suspects.
                               _____________________

>From news reports in KC from Valkury@AOL.com

This has been the top news story here today. They have one suspect in custody,
and are looking for the others. They are being charged with arson, because
it's a felony and will carry a stiffer penalty than a cruelty charge. The dog
in question is a 12-year-old Yorkie named Scruffy. When his owner found him
missing, his murderers helped her look for him, had her convinced that they
were friends. She said they used to play with the dog. The news station said
that "after much consideration on our part, we have deemed this video too
graphic for our early news edition."  They said the video begins with the
suspects stating, "You are about to witness a murder." Goes to dog. "Here's
our first victim."

Be a voice for the voiceless and write/phone/fax:

FOX 4 Kansas City E-mail  http://www.wdaftv4.com/email/html
The Star/Talkback  http://www.kcstar.com/talkback/talkback.htm
CBS http://www.kctv5.com (go to feedback)
http://www.kctv5.com/news/cfa/cfa.htm  (call for action)
http://www.kctv.com/yom.htm   (your opinion)
News Page  http://www.kmbc.com/news/news.htm (talkback page with email to each
anchor as well as departments...send everyone a copy)
KSHB-TV, NBC 41 Feedback  http://www.kshb.com/feed/index.html
Virtual Rock Comments Box  http://www.kqrc.com/mail/index.html

County Attorney
Nick A. Tomasic
710 N. 7th Street
Kansas City, Kansas  66101
(913) 573-2800
Fax: (913) 321-0237

County Commissioners
(913) 573-2827
District 1: Nancy Burns, Chair (D)
400 N. 16th Street
Kansas City, Kansas   66102

District 2: Verdis Robinson (D)
713 Lafayette Avenue
Kansas City, Kansas   66101

District 3: Richard Kaminski (D)
2209 N. 78th Terrace
Kansas City, Kansas   66109

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 20:46:31 -0500
From: allen schubert 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US) Expert Attacks Activist Credibility
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from Associated Press http://wire.ap.org
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 02/12/1998 20:41 EST

 Expert Attacks Activist Credibility

 By MARK BABINECK
 Associated Press Writer

 AMARILLO, Texas (AP) -- A vegetarian activist who told Oprah Winfrey's
 audience that mad-cow disease could make ``AIDS look like the common
 cold'' doesn't have the training or research to back up such a statement,
 a veterinarian testified Thursday.

 Lester Crawford, following the lead of other plaintiff's witnesses, said
 Howard Lyman had no basis to predict a possible U.S. outbreak of the
 human form of mad-cow disease -- which has never been detected in this
 country.

 Crawford was called by Texas cattlemen who are suing Ms. Winfrey, her
 production company and Lyman for more than $10 million because they say
 the April 1996 show caused cattle prices to drop.

 Crawford had been testifying last week, but he didn't resume until
 Thursday because of an unspecified family emergency.

 A former head of the U.S. Food Safety Inspection Service, Crawford said
 Lyman had no evidence to back up his theory and, ``I don't believe he
 said it was an opinion. He stated it as fact.''

 On the show, Lyman said U.S. beef producers were engaging in the same
 feeding practices suspected of spreading mad-cow disease in Britain.

 Winfrey attorney Charles Babcock cited a study that estimated mad-cow
 disease could kill from 70,000 to 80,000 people in Britain. The current
 figure stands at 23.

 Crawford replied that those scientists, unlike Lyman, based their
 predictions on regimented research.

 ``I would want them to do it based on facts. I would want them to do it
 based on a mathematical model,'' Crawford said.

 The cattlemen are suing under a Texas law against falsely disparaging
 food products.

 Also Thursday, animal rights protester Marin Goldstein was arrested after
 suspending himself in front of an anti-meat banner hung from a nearby
 building.

 Firefighters pulled down Goldstein, of San Francisco, and he was charged
 with trespassing and reckless endangerment.

Date: Mon, 02 Feb 1998 21:53:35 -0800
From: Dena Jones 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US) Comments Needed on Organic Standards
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**** FACTORY FARMING MAY BE ALLOWED UNDER ORGANIC LABEL ****

Loopholes included in the proposed standards for organic food production 
in the U.S. would allow intensive confinement of farm animals.  While the 
United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has received more than 
4,000 comments on the proposal thus far, only about 10% address specific 
animal welfare concerns.  Many consumers are protesting the proposed 
allowances for genetic engineering and irradiation of food and the use of 
sewer sludge.  Animal advocates must speak up in opposition to exemptions 
that would permit animals to be raised in factory-type farm settings. 

BACKGROUND 

In December, after years of public input and deliberations, the USDA 
announced its proposal for organic food production in the U.S.  The 
proposed regulations would set the standards for national certification 
of organic foods under the authority of the Organic Foods Production Act, 
enacted in 1990.  Unfortunately, the proposal reflects the interests of 
agribusiness and ignores many of the recommendations of the National 
Organic Standards Board, a panel of experts appointed by the USDA.    

This program will have a major effect on farm animals being used in the 
production of foods marketed and sold under the "organic" label.  At 
present "organic" is generally defined by consumers as food that is 
produced "naturally," without the use of drugs or chemicals and without 
the use of factory farming practices such as confinement to veal crates 
or battery hen cages.  Organically farmed animals usually have space to 
move about and have access to the outdoors and therefore may live a 
better quality of life.

The USDA certification program has the potential to change the standards 
for what is currently considered organic farming in the areas of 
livestock feed, health care and medications, and living conditions.  As 
proposed, the sections that address animal welfare will allow organic 
farms to be turned into factory farms.  We can't let this happen!

ACTION NEEDED

Please write to the USDA today and protest the proposed standards.  
Include these specific points in your letter:

* Section General:  The current proposal should be withdrawn and a 
proposal based on the recommendations of the National Organic Standards 
Board should be drafted.

* Section 205.13 Livestock Feed:  Animals must receive 100%, not 80%, 
organic feed.

* Section 205.14 Livestock Health Care:  Animals to be slaughtered must 
not receive antibiotics.  For laying hens and dairy cows, antibiotics 
should be restricted to "healthcare emergencies" and products from these 
animals not sold until 90 days following the end of treatment.

* Section 205.15 Livestock Living Conditions:  Without exception, animals 
must have access to the outdoors and direct sunlight.

You may submit your comments by mail, fax, or on the USDA Web site.  It 
is important that you include the section numbers above and the docket 
number (TMD-94-00-2) in your letter.  The comment period ends May 1st.

Send your comment to: Eileen Stommes, Deputy Administrator, 
USDA-AMS-TM-NOP, Room 4007-So, AgStop 0275, P.O. Box 96456, Washington, 
DC  20090-6456; (202) 690-4632 (Fax); http://ams.usda.gov/nop (Web site).

The proposed standards, as well as the comments received to date, may be 
viewed on the USDA Web site at http://ams.usda.gov/nop. 

Posted By:
Dena Jones
Animal Protection Institute
P.O. Box 22505
Sacramento, CA  95822
1-800-348-7387
http://www.api4animals.org
Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 17:56:53
From: David J Knowles 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: [UK] Hotelier to be prosecuted for beef party
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>From The Electronic Telegraph - Friday, February 13th, 1998

Hotelier to be prosecuted for beef party
By Richard Savill 

A HOTELIER who served beef on the bone at a dinner for farmers is to be the
first person in Britain to be prosecuted under the Government's beef safety
regulations.

Jim Sutherland, 44, was reported by environmental health officers in
December after he held a "free" dinner for 170 people. The procurator
fiscal has now issued a summons against Mr Sutherland, owner of The Lodge,
Carfraemill, Berwickshire.

The hotelier organised the well-publicised "prohibition dinner" for Dec 22
- five days after the regulations came into effect. Each guest was to have
paid £12 a head for a three-course meal including beef on the bone.

But following a visit from two environmental health inspectors from
Scottish Borders council, Mr Sutherland changed his plans. It was decided
to offer the meal free of charge in the belief, Mr Sutherland said, that
this would avoid legal problems. Instead, participants donated £1,700 to
charity.

The inspectors, however, submitted a report to Fiscal Duncan McNeill in
Selkirk and he has now decided to act under the Beef Bones Regulations
l997. The case is due to be heard at Selkirk sheriff court on March 10.

Mr Sutherland said last night: "The ban is absurd. We decided to hold the
'prohibition dinner' to bring attention to the whole sorry mess."

Bill Lillic, Scottish Borders council director of environmental health,
said: "Our inspectors were there in an investigatory capacity and reacted
to what they found. They sent a report to the fiscal and after that the
matter was in his hands."

© Copyright Telegraph Group Limited 1998.

[The procurator fiscal is an official in the Scottish legal system, simialr
to a Criwn Prosecuter in England & Wales or Canada, or a District Attorney
in the US, but combined with the powers of a coroner too.]



Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 20:25:43 -0600
From: Steve Barney 
To: AR-News 
Subject: [US] "'Alpha' monkey's fate unclear" (TCT, 2/10/98)
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"'Alpha' monkey's fate unclear"
By Jason Shepard
Correspondent for The Capital Times
The Capital Times
Madison, WI 
United States
February 10, 1998
Page 1

-- Beginning --

'Alpha' monkey's fate unclear

By Jason Shepard
Correspondent for The Capital Times

If the 50 stump-tailed macaques at the Henry Vilas Zoo are shipped off
to Thailand, a 36-year-old grandmother named Wolf may not be able to
make the trip.

Wolf was born in the wild, and it's not quite clear how she ended up in
Madison.  But she has spent at least the past 15 years living in the
round monkey house at the zoo.  She is now completely gray - almost
white - and is blind.

She used to be the "alpha female," a powerful role in the hierarchy of
monkeys and a kind of keeper of traditions.  Today, Wolf is cared for by
her friends in the monkey colony.  She stays inside a closed room a lot,
away from public view.

But her roots in the colony are deep.  She is a founding female of the
troop, and her daughter and granddaughter live among the colony.  She is
soon to be a great-grandmother.

If a veterinarian judged Wolf unable to travel, her fate is unclear. 
But she is just one of the reasons why the stump-tailed colony at the
zoo is extremely significant, both for conservation and scientific
reasons.

"As far as I know, this is the largest troop of older stump-tails
anywhere in the world, certainly in any developed country," said Ardith
Eudey, a scientist who is among the few primatologists to study
stump-tailed macaques in Thailand.

Eudey, who lives in California, is a high-official with the World
Conservation Union, an international, non-governmental organization
based in Switzerland that works closely with the United Nations to
develop conservation strategies for plants and animals.

Barring any intervention from the Dane County Board within the next
three weeks, the UW's Wisconsin Regional Primate Research Center plans
to send its 100 zoo-housed rhesus macaques to a primate research center
in Louisiana and hopes to make a deal for the stump-tails in Thailand.

County officials and local animal rights activists are scrambling to
find money to keep some of the monkeys in town.  If the Thailand option
works out, the county may be more likely to keep the rhesus macaques,
because their fate - at a biomedical research center - is more ambiguous
than that of the stump-tails, who face a potentially brighter future at
a wildlife sanctuary in Thailand.

"he county indicated that they thought moving the stump-tails to
Thailand was a good solution so they did not plan to consider keeping
them," said UW Graduate School Dean Virginia Hinshaw, who oversees the
primate center.

But that would mean Madison would lose a significant piece of science
and conservation.

Madison's loss: "I would strongly urge the Madison community to realize
just how important scientifically these animals are," said Eudey, who
has studied the land distribution and habitat areas of stump-tails.

It was behavioral studies here in Madison that sparked the very first
extensive field study on stump-tail behavior in the wild, a project that
UW researcher Kim Bauers began in 1991, Eudey said.

"It would be a terrible loss to our community, as well as the larger
scientific community, for Madison to lose these stump-tails," Bauers
said.  "I can't tell you how significant these animals are to
understanding the behavior of stump-tails all over the world."

Bauers has been a key player in the monkey controversy.  After The
Capital Times first reported that the UW improperly killed dozens of
zoo-raised monkeys in invasive research projects, the newspaper learned
that Bauers had informed Hinshaw about the situation more than a year
earlier.

Hinshaw conceded receiving the letter from Bauers but said she did not
pay attention to the information that the UW was breaking its commitment
to the zoo not to use monkeys for invasive research projects.

Bauers also filed a lawsuit in Dane County Circuit Court asking a judge
to ship the planned transfer of the 150 monkeys from the zoo.  But Judge
Patrick Fiedler ruled Monday that state environmental laws did not apply
to the transfer.  Bauers has said she might appeal.

She also said that the primate center had maintained an extensive
database on the macaques, increasing their value to behavioral
scientists.  "With the stump-tails here, the Henry Vilas Zoo has
something unique that no other zoo in the world has," Bauers said. 
"That is really something to be proud of."

Why Thailand?  According to UW officials, negotiations with officials in
Thailand are continuing, but the bang-up there - as in Madison - seems
to be money.

"The only problem is that the people in Thailand need to get funding to
set up an enclosure," said Shirley McGreal, head of the South
Carolina-based International Primate Protection League.

McGreal has been in touch with U.S. and Thai officials since the Thai
government first got involved in December.

Jordana Lenon, spokeswoman for the UW primate center, said the Thai
sanctuary still needed about $30,000 to build an enclosure. The
stump-tails will not be transferred there until the UW is sure the place
will be a good home for them, Lenon said.

Thailand became an option for the stump-tails two months ago, after a
group of animal rights activists there urged the Thai government to
begin negotiations with U.S. officials for the monkeys.  In a letter to
U.S. Ambassador William Itoh, the activists said they had learned that
the 50 stump-tails in Madison would likely be killed and wanted to
explore options to save their lives.

The Bangkok Post two weeks ago ran a lengthy story about the attempt by
the animal rights activists to save the lives of the threatened
species.  "An unusual colony of rare and endangered monkeys from
Thailand are about to be killed because of economic reasons - but Thai
and U.S. animal rights groups are staging an eleventh-hour battle to
save the creatures," the story began.

Joe Kemnitz, interim director of the primate center at the UW, has
denied any plans to kill the monkeys.  Nevertheless, negotiations with
Thai officials are continuing and Kemnitz said he was hopeful a deal
could be struck.

The controversy over the monkeys has caused Dane County officials to
step in, analyzing whether the county can find money to care for the 50
stump-tails and 100 rhesus monkeys.  The university, which has owned and
cared for the monkeys for the past three decades, lost federal funding
for the facility as of Feb. 1.  The UW has agreed to keep the monkeys in
Madison until March 2, giving the county three weeks to make a
commitment.  But the university would maintain the monkeys through
year-end if the county agrees to take them after that time.

-- End --


More related info:

     http://www.uwosh.edu/organizations/alag/#Issues

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 98 20:47:19 -0000
From: "Eric Mindel @ LCA" 
To: "ar-news" ,
        "Chickadee" 
Subject: Nadas update
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Note:  Sean Roach and LCA's Chris DeRose to appear tomorrow morning on 
NBC's Today show.

_____________________________


JACKSON COUNTY AMENDS ORDINANCE
TO GIVE SANCTUARY TO LIVESTOCK-CHASING DOGS

DEATH-ROW DOG'S OWNER CONSIDERING
COUNTY'S CONDITIONS TO SPARE DOG'S LIFE

LONG INVOLVED IN THE CASE,
LAST CHANCE FOR ANIMALS REMAINS IN
OREGON AND IN COMMUNICATION WITH
DOG OWNER AND ATTORNEY

MEDFORD, OR-- Less than a week after Last Chance For Animals (LCA) 
assisted in the production of the February 5 'Hard Copy' story that first 
nationally aired the plight of Nadas, a dog sentenced to death in 
September 1996 for chasing a horse, Jackson County Commissioners were 
overwhelmed with calls and faxes from across the country of outraged 
animal lovers.  Tonight, County officials amended a local ordinance, 
which no longer absolutely mandates the dog's death and County counsel 
has given dog owner Sean Roach an opportunity to spare the dog's life by 
sending it to a Utah sanctuary.

At time of this release, 21 year old Sean Roach is in a Medford hotel 
room with LCA President Chris DeRose, talking about his options with his 
attorney via phone and discussing what is best for his dog.  Sean states, 
"They [the County] have put a lot of extremely harsh conditions on what I 
need to do so they don't kill Nadas, and it seems like they want to make 
sure they have the last word.  I just need to make sure that none of it 
is going to hurt my dog."  Two conditions of the County's offer 
reportedly of concern to Sean are his pledge to never again see his dog 
and that the Utah sanctuary can never place Nadas into a private home.  
Additionally, to save his dog's life, Sean must waive all rights to sue 
the County for constitutional violations and defamation of character.

LCA has been in regular communication with Sean's attorney Robert 
Babcock, has discussed the case with Jackson County officials, and has 
discussed the case and applicable state statute with the Governor's 
office.  LCA offered a proposal to Jackson County on February 8 to 
resolve the situation, including suggestion to amend the ordinance and 
relocate Nadas out of state.  On February 12, despite the similarities of 
the County's solution, Jackson County rejected LCA's proposal. Working 
with LCA's Chris DeRose, Hard Copy has been closely following 
developments in the case and aired a second piece on February 12.

Chris DeRose and Sean Roach are to appear on NBC's Today Show on February 
13.

Please contact Last Chance For Animals at 310-271-6096 for most recent 
developments surrounding Nadas and Sean Roach.  Go to 
www.arkonline.com/nadas.htm for background information.


O     O     O     O     O

Date: Thu, 12 Feb 1998 23:52:53 EST
From: Tereiman@aol.com
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Subject: P&G CEO Hit With Pie
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Procter & Gamble CEO Hit With Pie

.c The Associated Press

 By KEITH ROBINSON

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - An animal-rights activist walked onto a stage and pushed
a tofu cream pie into the face of the chairman of Procter & Gamble Co. as he
was receiving an award from the governor Thursday night.

The woman, a member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, followed
John E. Pepper to the podium during the awards banquet. She hit him with the
pie and said: ``Procter & Gamble poisons animals! Shame on you, John Pepper!
Shame on you!''

An audience of about 200 people witnessed the episode. Police detained the
woman for questioning.

Michael McGraw, a spokesman for PETA in Norfolk, Va., identified the woman as
Melynda Duval of Virginia Beach, Va. McGraw said he did not know her age.

McGraw said the reason for the attack was the Cincinnati-based company's
continued use of live animals in laboratory product testing.

``Sometimes a polite word doesn't do it,'' he said. That's why we sometimes do
unusual things, such as slinging tofu cream pies.''

Pepper was one of seven recipients of a Governor's Award, given each year
during the annual meeting of the Ohio Newspaper Association. The awards were
presented by Gov. George Voinovich, who was on the stage at the time of the
attack.

Pepper wiped the pie from his face, accepted a plaque from Voinovich and
started an acceptance speech by saying: ``This will be a memorable event for
more reasons than one.''

On Feb. 4, pranksters in Brussels, Belgium, hit Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill
Gates with three pies.

AP-NY-02-12-98 2210EST


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