AR-NEWS Digest 464

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) [UK] Anti-hunt MP receives death threats
     by David J Knowles 
  2) Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease[Australia]
     by bunny 
  3) Wienermobile Protest in Miami
     by "Howard D. Lebowitz" 
  4) Dietary links to Alzheimer's Disease
     by Andrew Gach 
Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 00:36:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: David J Knowles 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: [UK] Anti-hunt MP receives death threats
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>From The Electronic Telegraph - Sunday, July 13th, 1997

Mike Foster, the MP behind the contentious anti-hunting Private Members'
Bill has received death threats at his family home in Worcester. In London,
a snare was sent to him through the post.

The threats were contained in two letters opened by his wife, Shauna, who
stays in Worcester with the couple's children while Mr Foster works at the
House of Commons.

One stated that the writer "would like to throw your entrails to the dogs."
Another warned: "You will not live to see the end of your Bill." It added:
"You and your family ought to find bolt holes." Mr Foster denied local
reports that the family had been offered protection by the Special Branch.

             
© Copyright Telegraph Group Limited 1997. 

Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 17:18:04 +0800
From: bunny 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease[Australia]
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RABBIT NUMBERS IN AUSTRALIA DOWN 65 PER CENT??
July 8, 1997
Ontario Farmer

Primary Industries Minister John Anderson said that rabbit numbers have
dropped by more than 65 per cent in dry areas of Australia after the
release of the rabbit calicivirus disease, but results from wetter regions
were more variable.  The results were from the first eight months of data
collected as part of the two-year national monitoring and surveillance
program at ten intensive sites across 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)












Date: Sun, 13 Jul 97 11:39:26 -0400
From: "Howard D. Lebowitz" 
To: "AR-NEWS Submitt" 
Subject: Wienermobile Protest in Miami
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A FRANK EXCHANGE
'Wienermobile' is focal point of protest

DAVE BARRY (c) Miami Herald July 13, 1997

A man was sitting on the roof of the Oscar Mayer Wienermobile, which is a 
motor vehicle shaped like a giant hot dog. The man was wearing a plastic 
pig mask and holding a sign that said, "PLEASE DON'T EAT ME."

This was shortly after 9 Saturday morning, outside the Publix grocery 
store at 14601 S. Dixie Hwy.Metro-Dade Police Officer Guy Duncan climbed 
into the Wienermobile and stuck his head

up through the sunroof. He was giving the man a warning, as required by 
law, that he was trespassing on the Wienermobile.
The man in the pig mask appeared to pay no attention.
"MEAT IS MURDER!" he shouted.
"MEAT IS MURDER!" came the shouted response from about a dozen members of 
the Animal Rights Foundation of Florida (ARFF). They were gathered in the 
parking lot in front of the Wienermobile, holding signs that said, among 
other things, "ANIMALS ARE NOT OURS TO EAT," "DEATH ON A PLATE" and 
"DON'T PUT YOUR WIENER IN MY MOUTH."

The ARFF members were waving these signs at several dozen parents and 
children who were there to compete in a nationwide contest to select the 
child who will star in the next Oscar Mayer commercial. One by one, the 
children were getting in front of a video camera operated by Wienermobile 
personnel and singing either The Wiener Jingle ("Oh, I wish I were an 
Oscar Mayer wiener ...") or The Bologna Song ("My bologna has a first 
name, it's O-S-C-AR . . .").

The children, intent on remembering their lyrics, did not seem to be 
paying much attention to the ARFF protest. Some of the parents were 
paying attention. but it was mostly in the form of glares.

At one point, members of the two groups began arguing heatedly.
'You're teaching your children to eat dead animals." said a protester.
"You raise your children and 1'11 raise mine," responded a woman.
"You have no right to teach your children to eat dead animals!" the 
protester said.
"We eat dead animals every day," answered a man. "We've been doing that 
for millions of years."

The excitement came when the man in the pig mask climbed onto the 
Wienermobile, thus prompting Officer Duncan to stick his head through the 
sunroof and give him the trespass warning. When the man did not respond, 
Duncan yanked off the man's mask ("I wanted to make sure I was making 
contact," he said later). causing a cheer to 'erupt from the crowd of 
parents.

Then, in a quick motion that made it appear as though he had been 
removing trespassers from Wienermobiles all of his life. Duncan grabbed 
the man, spun him sideways and slid him off the roof, down onto the 
parking lot.

 MEAT IS MURDER!" the man yelled, struggling as several officers held him 
on the ground. The other ARFF members came running over with their signs 
shouting: "MEAT IS MURDER!  The patrons cheered. Some Publix patrons 
stopped to watch the scene; others walked right on past, as though this 
were a routine part of the South Florida gocery-shopping experience. 

The man who had been on the Wienermobile was identified as Nick Atwood, 
24. Police on the scene said he would be charged with trespassing and 
taken to a detention center. Police also said that the sandwich choices 
at the center on Saturday were (1) tuna, (2) peanut butter and jell and 
(3) bologna.


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Date: Sun, 13 Jul 1997 14:46:41 -0700
From: Andrew Gach 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Dietary links to Alzheimer's Disease
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There is an interesting survey of epidemiological studies by William B.
Grant (Alzheimer's Disease Review 2, 42-55, 1997), showing a strong link
between Alzheimer's and diet.  There's a high positive correlation
between rates of Alzheimer's and senile dementia on the one hand and
high-fat, high-calorie diets on the other.  In China and Japan where
most of the caloric intake is from grains, Alzheimer's rates are
significantly lower than in Europe and North America where both overall
calories and calories from fat are much higher; other countries also
show a very strong statistical correlation between diet and AD.  One
study cited in the article found that Alzheimer's is much more common
among Japanese who move to the US than those who live in Japan,
similarly to previous results regarding breast cancer and other
ailments.

When one reads the slew of articles in the mainstream media about the
role of genes in degenerative diseases, one gets an exaggerated notion
of the importance of genetic factors.  Such findings are derived from
laboratory studies, many of them relying on rodents and other animal
models.  Studies of human populations by contrast provide strong
evidence that environmental factors carry more weight in the
pathogenesis of coronary heart disease, cancer, diabetes, stroke (and as
the present article indicates, geriatric disorders) then genetic
predisposition.

The full text of the article can be reloaded free of charge from
http://www.coa.uky.edu/ADReview/Grant.htm

Andy

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