AR-NEWS Digest 629

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) Fw: Delta Primate Center
     by paulbog@jefnet.com (Rick Bogle)
  2) [US] [Fwd: "Hogs' Rights Ignored"]
     by Steve Barney 
  3) Dependable organ sources
     by Andrew Gach 
  4) Southeastern Regional Animal Rights Conference
     by KELE5490 
  5) AR petition
     by KELE5490 
  6) Greetings
     by eponine@idirect.com (Twilight)
  7) Wolves at Yellow Stone
     by eponine@idirect.com (Twilight)
  8) (JP) Deadly dioxin everywhere
     by Vadivu Govind 
  9) (HK) Expert says it is impossible to stop virus striking again
     by Vadivu Govind 
 10) [Fwd: [Romnet] in support of the Rico laws]
     by Katy Andrews 
 11) Protest against donkey basketball at Cherry Hill, NJ
     by adfrisch@webtv.net (helmut frisch)
 12) Fwd: Flagstar Emerges From Chapter 11, Enters New Era as...
     by Vegetarian Resource Center 
 13) Vilas Park monkeys spending last days and nights at zoo
     by Shirley McGreal 
 14) Dog shot 4 times
     by leah wacksman 
 15) Vigil Prayer for Arnold the Tiger
     by SMatthes 
 16) Farewell to Arnold, the Tiger
     by SMatthes 
 17) MUTTS
     by ARRS Mail Administrator 
 18) MINK FARM
     by ARRS Mail Administrator 
 19) Fw: our communal culpability
     by paulbog@jefnet.com (Rick Bogle)
Date: Fri, 9 Jan 1998 23:51:48 -0600
From: paulbog@jefnet.com (Rick Bogle)
To: "AR-News Post" 
Subject: Fw: Delta Primate Center
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> From: Rick and  Lynn 
> Subject: Delta Primate Center
> Date: Friday, January 09, 1998 11:42 PM
> 
> FYI
    >LRPRC, or Delta, is the largest of the seven continental NIH regional
> primate research centers.   It houses 5500 monkeys of its own and is
> currently boarding monkeys from the Washington RPRC. ( I said continental
> because there is also an NIH primate facility called the Caribbean
Primate
> Research Center in Puerto Rico. One island is reserved for "more
invasive"
> studies.  I am having trouble finding out anything about its research.) 
   > The monkeys Delta is boarding for Washinton were moved out of the
> Washington breeding facility after Washington was fined by the USDA for
> poor conditions.  Five baboons died of exposure and at least one monkey
> (species unknown) was found dead of dehydration. The facility had
> previously been a jail for humans.  A new breeding facility is under
> construction.
   > At the Delta center, the breeding corrals and corn-crib pens are quite
> visible from the road. A hedge and a strand or two of barbed wire are the
> only barriers.  At the other six centers security is much tighter.
   > Peter Gerone, the director, ran a US Army infectious disease lab before
> taking over the direction of Delta.
   > Louisiana is also the home of the largest monkey facility in the U.S. as
> far as I know. L.S.U. has a facility in New Iberia (home of Tobasco!)
with
> approx. 7500 monkeys.
   > Altogether Louisiana has at least 14,000 monkeys on hand for use in
> biomedical procedures.
> 
> This shit makes me want to puke.
> Rick Bogle 
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 00:14:39 -0600
From: Steve Barney 
To: AR-News 
Subject: [US] [Fwd: "Hogs' Rights Ignored"]
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To reply to the following letter to the editor, see directions below, or
go to:
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The Oklahoman: 01/09/1998 To The Editor:

                                    Hogs' Rights Ignored

To The Editor:

Animal rights people, where are you? Seaboard, which operates 44 hog
farms in the Oklahoma Panhandle, admits that 35,000 of its hogs die each
month. Seaboard has been cited by the state for improper disposal of
carcasses. Apparently bloated, rotting hogs were found out in the open
on several farms. I don't know the exact count for the number of brood
sows Seaboard has -- somewhere between one-half million and a million --
but 35,000 dead hogs a month seems an extraordinary number. We know they
live in cramped conditions sometimes so bad they can't lie down. We know
these conditions cause the sows to chew off each others' ears. I wonder
about the absence of expressed concern for these poor creatures from
animal rights advocates.

                                                      Sid Bridges, Enid
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Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 22:21:03 -0800
From: Andrew Gach 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Dependable organ sources
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Researchers turn to pigs for heart parts

Scripps Howard 
(January 8, 1998 00:07 a.m. EST)

Heart transplants are a modern medical miracle. But for every life
saved, someone must die to donate the vital organ. And there are far
more potential recipients than available parts.

That grim reality is forcing researchers to consider more dependable
organ sources -- animals, and in particular, pigs.

Previous attempts to transplant animal organs into people have met with
failure because the tissue is so alien to the human body it's rejected
almost immediately.

But recent advances in genetic engineering put such transplants within
grasp. Human genes can now be inserted into animals to minimize organ
rejection.

In just a few years, experts say, transplants of "humanized" pig hearts
and other organs could become commonplace. No one would need to die
while waiting for a transplant.

There is, however, a potential dark side to this unfolding medical
revolution: Unknown pathogens may be transplanted along with the organs.
Some virologists warn that once a microbial stowaway enters the human
population, there's no predicting what harm it might do.

These worries, as well as other ethical concerns, have prompted
governments to consider ways of regulating the research. In Britain, a
moratorium has been slapped on further studies until the government
reviews the matter. In the United States, the Food and Drug
Administration is drafting transplant guidelines, which should be
completed by next summer.

And in Canada, the federal Health Department held a forum in Ottawa in
November to seek the advice of medical experts, ethicists and
animal-rights activists. Many experts who attended said there is an
urgent need for some kind of international co-operation to ensure public
safety.

"Viruses don't carry passports," explained Peter Ganz, acting chief of
Health Canada's blood and tissues division. Even if one country banned
the practice, its citizens might still travel abroad for the operation
and then return home. "We can't really deal with a technology like this
in isolation or in a vacuum and we really must co-operate
internationally."

And yet there is tremendous pressure to quickly push forward with the
transplants: from the patients in need of organs; the scientists who
want to be first with a major breakthrough; the biotech companies that
could reap big profits from the sale of animal organs.

"Managing those forces is a major challenge," said Daniel Salomon, a
transplant immunologist at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla,
Calif.

Xenotransplantation -- putting the organs of one species into another --
has a long and varied history. Scientists were dabbling in the area well
before the first successful human-to-human transplants.

In 1905, a French surgeon tried unsuccessfully to transplant a rabbit
kidney into a young girl, and medical history books are sprinkled with
even earlier failed operations.

As a general rule, baboons were considered the best animals to use for
the transplants because of their similarity to humans.

Organs from other animals would be swiftly rejected -- sometime even
before the transplant operation was completed.

As soon as human blood starts coursing through the animal organ, the
immune system begins a process known as hyper-acute rejection.
Antibodies latch onto the surface molecules of the blood vessels within
the transplanted organ. Then other immune cells, known collectively as
complement, zero in for the kill and poke holes in the blood vessels.
Blood clots form, starving the organ of oxygen. The transplanted organ
can literally turn black and die in the surgeon's hand.

Baboons' organs don't face hyper-acute rejection but they eventually
fall prey to other weapons of the human immune system.

In 1984, one such experiment captured world attention. Surgeons at Loma
Linda University Medical center in California put a young baboon heart
into a 14-day old-girl known as Baby Fae, who was born with a fatal
heart defect. The child lived for only 20 days after the surgery.

Other experiments in xenotransplantation also showed little prospect of
long-term success until two years ago, when researchers figured out a
way around hyper-acute rejection by using the latest techniques of
genetic engineering.

They inserted a few very specific human genes into the fertilized egg
cells of pigs. The blood vessels of the resulting piglets contained
human molecules that can turn off the initial immune attack. Indeed,
it's as though the pig organs have been disguised to look like human
ones for the immune system.

This remarkable feat was achieved at about the same time by researchers
at two biotechnology companies, Imutran P.L.C. of Cambridge, England,
and Nextran Inc. of Princeton, N.J.

Since then, several firms have gotten in the business of breeding
"transgenic" pigs. Just as important, other scientific teams are working
on new and improved methods to overcome the problems of long-term organ
rejection. It seems there will soon be many different ways to make a go
of xenotransplantation.

For instance, BioTransplant Inc. of Charlestown, Mass., hopes to
minimize organ rejection by actually giving people a pig's immune
system. Before the transplant, the patient would receive an injection of
pig bone-marrow cells to produce the animal's immune cells.

It's hoped the patient would end up with a combined immune system --
part pig, part human. So when the patient received the actual
transplant, the immune system would be less likely to consider it
foreign and immediately reject it.

Studies involving transplants between different animal species are
already showing some promise, said Elliot Lebowitz, BioTransplant's
president.

Scientists are eager to try out all their new techniques on human
subjects. But as these trials move a step closer to reality, the
potential risks of such procedures also seem more real.

"There are a lot of unknowns," said Jonathan Allan, a virologist at the
Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research in San Antonio, Texas. He
has been one of the most persistent critics of xenotransplants, warning
that disease-causing pathogens could be hidden inside the transplanted
organs.

Although the biotech firms have been breeding their transgenic pigs in
isolated, sterile environments, that still won't rid the organs of all
viruses, he noted.

Of particular concern are retroviruses, which integrate their own
genetic material in the cells of the infected animal (or human). If the
virus infects the egg or sperm cells, the pathogen can pass undetected
from one animal generation to the next.

Over successive generations, it may be reduced to little more than a
viral fragment and causes no harm to the animal. But that doesn't mean
the virus would remain so tame if it suddenly finds itself in a brand
new host -- such as someone who has just received an organ transplant.

To add to the uncertainty, transplant patients would be on powerful
immune- suppressing drugs to prevent organ rejection. That could make
the patients even more vulnerable to a new virus lurking inside them.

Allan believes it would be foolhardy to use primates as a sources of
transplant organs because "any viruses that a baboon carries are more
likely to be infectious in humans -- and potentially cause disease."

Scientists are already well aware of several primate viruses that are
deadly in humans. The AIDS virus, for one, is believed to have jumped to
humans from African monkeys, he noted.

But fear of disease is not the only reason to preclude the use of
primates. The public might not tolerate them being sacrificed for their
organs. After all, they do swing from the same family tree as humans.

There are practical considerations as well: baboons are expensive to
raise and slow to bread in captivity.

Pigs, by contrast, seem the ideal organ source -- from both a scientific
and public relations point of view. As Tim Lee, director of
transplantation research at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova
Scotia, put it: "If you can accept that we are raising pigs for pork
chops and bacon, then you should be able to accept that we are raising
pigs for organ transplants into humans."

As well, humans have been raising, butchering and eating pigs for
thousands of years and, with the exception of some flu strains, few
other serious swine viruses capable of infecting people have emerged in
all that time.

What's more, doctors are already using selected pig tissues on humans,
apparently without ill effects, noted Dr. Gary Levy, director of the
multi-organ transplant program at The Toronto Hospital. Pig skin has
been used for graph purposes on serious burns "and there has been no
evidence of transmissibility of any ... organism," Levy said.

Lorne Babiuk, director of the Veterinary Infectious Disease Organization
in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, said: "In my personal opinion, the risks of
pig transplantation are quite low."

But no one is saying it's risk-free.

Despite the long-time contact between people and pigs, "the rules of the
game change when you're putting animal tissues (directly) into a person
-- and you are immunosuppressing that person," said Amy Patterson,
deputy director of the division of cellular and gene therapy at the FDA
in Bethesda, Md.

Researchers at the Institute of Cancer Research in London, England,
recently announced they've discovered that at least two pig retroviruses
can, indeed, infect human cells in laboratory Petri dishes. What's
unknown is whether these infections would actually lead to some type of
disease in a living human being.

If there is one thing the experts can agree upon, it's that the real
risks won't be known until animal organs are actually transplanted into
people on a regular basis.

Those in favor of xenotransplants believe these risks -- however big or
small -- can be safely managed by careful monitoring.

"We will only proceed when all the appropriate safeguards are in place,"
said David Grant, a transplant researcher and professor of surgery at
the University of Western Ontario in London, Ontario.

The FDA's draft guidelines for xenotransplantion spell out the need for
transplant recipients to undergo long-term study and evaluation,
possibly for the rest of their lives. And they will likely become part
of an international registry on xenotransplants.

Patterson noted that an infectious agent could remain dormant for years.
If transplant recipients are stricken with any mystery disease, they
might have to be quarantined until the cause of the illness is
determined.

Even without any sign of ailment, they would have to live as though
their bodily tissues and fluids contain contagious agents. They would be
need to taught infection control measures and expected to follow them,
according to the FDA guidelines. That means, for example, a husband and
wife would have to use condoms for sex.

"Needless to say, all these things are significant behavioral
modifications," Patterson said.

"There is going to be a tremendous onus on the individual patient to
co-operate with ongoing treatment and ongoing assessment because there
is an element of risk," agreed Michael Gross, chairman of a group that's
drafting xenotransplant standards for Health Canada. "And the element of
risk is not just for the patient, it's also for society as a whole."

Right now, for people who are waiting for organ transplants, such
constraints might not seem so onerous.

Suzanne Cicchini, a 37-year-old single mother of two, has been on a
waiting list for a liver transplant for more than a year. Every time the
phone rings at her home in Sarnia, Ontario, she can't help but hope that
maybe this is the call she's been waiting for.

"It's a terrible feeling," she said. "It's like waiting for your life to
begin."

There's little doubt in her mind what she would do if offered a pig
organ.

"I definitely would do it. I've got to make it for my kids because
there's nobody else to look after them."

By PAUL TAYLOR, Scripps Howard News Service
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 01:40:26 EST
From: KELE5490 
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Subject: Southeastern Regional Animal Rights Conference
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Southeastern Regional Animal Rights Conference

"The Only Way to Be is Free."

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(((( for more info, go to   http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~caa/    ))))

April 3, 4, 5 1998

University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL
 
What do we want?  ANIMAL RIGHTS
When do we want them? NOW !

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******************Speakers:

Fund for Animals-  Heidi Prescott 
Animal Defense League- Freeman Wicklund  

Animal Rights Foundation of Florida- Susan McCullom  

Psychologists for the Ethical Treatment of Animals- Ken Shapiro 

Coalition to Abolish Fur Trade- Joel Cappolonga 

United Poultry Concerns- Karen Davis 

Save Harbour Animal Rescue and Clinic- Michelle Rivera 

Plus.. 
        Jeff Watkins 
        Ronnie Hawkins 
More..  
  
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Now is the time for us in the Southeast to create a network of activism, 
friendship and comradeship seeking equality for all living things.  We 
must work together to break the continuous abuse by exposing the 
atrocities committed by animal abusers.   Our theme represents the idea 
that everything should have the freedom to live naturally, human and 
non-human and living and non-living.   
This conference is being sponsored by UCF  (University of Central Florida,
Orlando, FL) Campus Action for Animals, a 
group that was started in 1982 when the faculty at UCF decided to 
euthanize all the cats on campus because they were "a nuisance".  The 
group initially wrote out an appeal to the university in hopes of 
intervening on behalf of the cats.  Through mass petitioning, students 
showed overwhelming support for the cats .  Fifteen years later, the 
group has been able to get most of the cats fixed and vaccinated. 

for more info on the conference or CAA, go to
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~caa/

or email me:  kele5490@aol.com
                    Kellie Goldberg

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Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 01:43:44 EST
From: KELE5490 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: AR petition
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> > Did you know that in every US state, territory, and district Animal
> > Cruelty is not a felony, but just a misdemeanor? That means that if a
> > person were to do thousands of unthinkable kinds of acts of cruelty,
> > torture and abuse upon any animal(s) (cats, dogs, birds, pigs, horses,
> > etc) they would only receive littlest punishment. Is that fair?
> > It's insane! Help rewrite our current laws in every state and districts
> > in the US by signing the petition at the internet address below. Once
> > you sign it, a copy of your statement will be sent to every legislative
> > in the US. Please help.
> >
> > http://www.best.com/~catscape/petition.html
> >
> > Also: Please "forward" this message to as many other people that you
> >       know, so that they may also contribute their signature
> >       to the petition. Thanks!
> >
> > ========================================================
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 03:46:15 -0800
From: eponine@idirect.com (Twilight)
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Greetings
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Hi, I'm new to the list here so I decided to tell you a bit about myself
and why I joined this list.

WHAT I AM FOR:
Vegatarianism (though I am not a FULL vegetarian myself)
Cruelty free products
Peaceful protests
Zoos (that provide proper diet, veteranary attention, space and care)
Pets (or as I prefer to call them, companions) (again as long as they are
loved and well-treated and are not "wild animals")
Animals in Entertainment (But only cats/dogs/etc. and not wild animals) (As
well they should be well cared for)
"Animals are equal to humans"
Orginizations and programs such as The Humane Society and the Zoos' "adopt
an animal program"

WHAT I AM AGAINST:
Cruelty free products
Fur (This is my biggest concearn)
Vivasection/any type of animal testing/disection
Zoos (that don't provide adiquite care)
Hunting (Another major concearn of mine)
Pet overpopulation
Circus animals being maltreated and forced to do demeaning stunts
Violent protesting (it never gets anywhere and makes us look stupid)
Poeple who generally hate and maltreat animals
Idiot ranchers who want to kill the wolves at Yellowstone
Ozzy Osborne and his cruelty to bats


My favourite animals (though I love all animals) are the wolf, the
thylacine and the bat.

Glad to be here on the list :-)


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     =,    (\_/)    ,=    "Only love and music are forever"-Robert Englund
      /`-'--(")--'-'\       (Erik), The Phantom of the Opera
     /     (___)     \    "The Earth does not belong to people; people
belong to
    /.-.-./ " " \.-.-.\    the Earth"-Cheif Seattle
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Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 03:58:33 -0800
From: eponine@idirect.com (Twilight)
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Wolves at Yellow Stone
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Please help the wolves at Yellowstone by signing a petition found at

http://www.ladywolf.com

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     =,    (\_/)    ,=     "Only love and music are forever"-Robert Englund
      /`-'--(")--'-'\       (Erik), The Phantom of the Opera
     /     (___)     \    "I'm no angel, I'm the very devil, but it's all the
    /.-.-./ " " \.-.-.\    same to me"-Eponine, Les Miserables
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Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 20:34:27 +0800 (SST)
From: Vadivu Govind 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (JP) Deadly dioxin everywhere
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>Asahi Shimbun 
10 Jan 98

Report: Deadly dioxin everywhere

Potentially deadly cancer-causing dioxins are ubiquitous in Japan, a survey
conducted by the Environment Agency has found. 

Officials with the agency said that the poisonous family of chemical
pollutants were found in every sample of fish and soil taken at all 35 of
the survey's monitoring points across the nation. 

While the survey shows a marked increase from 1995 when a similar survey
found dioxins at only 13 of 35 sites sampled, agency officials said the
results reflect improved sampling techniques rather than any marked increase
in the presence of the synthetic compounds over the last year. 

Nevertheless, health experts say they are very concerned about the survey's
results. 

According to the survey, TCDD, a polychlorinated compound believed to be
among the most toxic of the dioxins, was detected in 25 samples of fish and
16 samples of soil across the country. 

However, the report said the density of the toxins found in each sample was
smaller compared to last year's survey results. 
The heaviest contamination was found in a minnow caught in Kitakami River in
Iwate Prefecture. It was found to have 4.5 picograms (trillionth of a gram)
of dioxin per gram of meat. 

In 1995, 7.5 picograms per gram of flesh was the heaviest contamination
detected in a fish, the report said. 

Last year's survey also found that a fish known as a crucian from Lake Biwa
in Shiga Prefecture was found to have 3.6 picograms per gram, and 2.3
picograms per gram was detected in the flesh of a sea bass caught outside
the port of Tokyo. 

Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 20:34:32 +0800 (SST)
From: Vadivu Govind 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (HK) Expert says it is impossible to stop virus striking again
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>Hong Kong Standard
10 Jan 98

Expert says it is impossible to stop virus striking again
By Ceri Williams 

HUMANS could do nothing to prevent the deadly bird flu from striking again
as it was probably impossible to control the source of the virus, a top
doctor said on Friday. 

Dr Stephen Ng Kam-cheung, president of the cancer screening Compuscreen
Medical Diagnostics Centre in Sha Tin, said the source of bird flu was
likely to be millions of mainland ducks. 
``It is futile to try to stop this disease. It is the forces of nature
versus the forces of man,'' he said. 

``The past two flu epidemics _ the Asian flu epidemic in the 1950s and the
Hong Kong flu epidemic of 1968 _ were all traced back to ducks in southern
China.'' 

Dr Ng, who has been researching epidemiology _ the study of the detection of
diseases _ for more than 20 years, said it was very likely the source of the
new strain of H5N1 also came from ducks. 

``There are millions of ducks _ both domesticated and wild _ on the mainland
and there is no way anyone can control them because they fly where they want
to.'' 

Dr Ng, who was the guest speaker at the Kowloon Lions Club yesterday, said
people should not panic but instead realise that every year around 2,000
Hong Kong people died of pneumonia-related diseases. 
``No one is panicking about that _ we just accept it as part of nature and
so with this disease, we should do the same thing because we cannot control
it from happening.'' 

Meanwhile, Professor John Tam Siu-lun, Chinese University virologist, said
slaughtering the 1.5 million chickens in Hong Kong was an attempt at
``buying time'' before the virus strikes again. 

He said: ``The slaughter will reduce the risk of it developing into a new
mutant but I am sure that in the next five years new cases will come up
again.'' 

Prof Tam said it was important to get the bird flu in perspective as just
another disease which humans must cope with. 

``There are probably more people dying of TB right now than influenza and
there is at least one million people in Asia with diabetes who can also die
of it.'' 
But he repeated earlier comments that it was important to try to eradicate
bird flu before the peak flu season in March as there was a chance it could
mutate and spread more easily among humans. 


Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 20:05:21 +0000
From: Katy Andrews 
To: ar-news 
Subject: [Fwd: [Romnet] in support of the Rico laws]
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Dear friends,
This is being forwarded from another newsgroup I am in, which deals with
issues concerning Romani culture and human rights issues etc.
I don't know exactly what the RICO laws are, although there has been a
huge debate going on amongst our North American romnetters, and I gather
they are being used against Gypsy communities in the USA.  However, read
on and you'll see why I'm forwarding it to AR-news.
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Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 16:52:50 -0700
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From: "Lawrence S. Mayer" 
Subject: [Romnet] in support of the Rico laws
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Romnetters,

As a Wildlife Officer (in my spare time) have seen the Rico laws used
succesfully in two areas:

For people who traffic in prohibited wildlife including Eagles and Bears
(for their gallbladders), and even Zebras and Lions, the Rico is a powerful
tool for breaking a criminal enterprise. A man who sold us a live Zebra was
convicted for possession, transportation and sale of an endangered species.
There was considerable evidence that he and his associates engaged in this
activity chronically and around the world. Wildlife is the second largest
illegal trafficing, second only to drugs. Using Rico the Federal Prosecutors
siezed their cars, guns, houses, and airplanes. All Rico did was lower the
standard of proof to a preponderance of evidence.

In a second case, we caught neo-Nazi's in the desert with fully-automatic
weapons, anti-tank guns, explosives, land minds, etc. The state convicted
them on weapons charges and then went after them under the state Rico law.
They forfeited a huge stash of weapons.

i was unaware that the Rico statutes were being used to persecute any
minorities or demonstrators.  It would seem to me a very inefficient use of
the law since it targets forfeiting property. In a recent seminar I went to
here at Hopkins School of Public Health on international drug trafficing the
speaker said that the trafficers were more afraid of Rico than the criminal
laws.  I would be eager to change my support if I knew it was being used to
persecute anyone. Does anyone have chapter and verse?

One curious note. If you commit a crime while driving someone else's car
they can forfeit the car even if they did not know you were commiting a
crime. This twist seems a bit daffy.  But in Arizona, at least, rental
companies like Hertz and Avis are exempt from the forfeiture. So now we have
wildlife trafficers, neo-Nazi's and drug trafficers in the desert driving
brand new rental cars.  It's a dead give-away. They might as well carry a
sign announcing what they are doing.

Larry

Lawrence S. Mayer
larrym@samaritan.edu


Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 16:22:15 -0500
From: adfrisch@webtv.net (helmut frisch)
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There will be a protest against a donkey basketball game at Cherry Hill
West High School at Jones Gymnasium on Chapel Avenue in Cherry Hill, NJ,
on Friday, January 16th. The protest is scheduled from 6:45 p.m. to 8:30
p.m. The sponsor of the protest is the New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance
(NJARA). For more information, call David Sauder at 609-772-2521.

Adele Frisch
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:38:39 -0500
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Subject: Flagstar Emerges From Chapter 11, Enters New Era as...
Date: Wed, 7 Jan 1998 15:37:31 EST
Organization: AOL (http://www.aol.com)


Flagstar Emerges From Chapter 11,Enters New
Era as Advantica Restaurant Group, Inc   
SPARTANBURG, S.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan.7,
1998--       -Advantica Common Stock To Begin
Trading on NASDAQ Under theTrading Symbol "DINE"-
    -Company Completes Loan Agreement; Names New Board of
Directors-Flagstar Companies, Inc. announced today that following a 
successfulfinancial restructuring, it has emerged from Chapter 11  and
commencedoperations as Advantica Restaurant Group, Inc. with  $1
billion less debt, anew financial structure and board of directors, 
and newly issued common stockwhich will trade on the NASDAQ National Market
under the symbol "DINE."  Thecompany's new warrants will
also trade on the NASDAQ National Market under thesymbol
"DINEW."    "We emerge from Chapter 11 with
the financial flexibility, focus  andcommitment necessary to
accelerate enhancements in our businesses and ourprogress toward a future
of consistent profitability and  growth," said JamesB. Adamson,
chairman and chief executive  officer of Advantica.  "We
arefortunate to have a team of people at  Advantica that is second to
none in ourindustry.  Their energy and  enthusiasm were essential
to our successfulcompletion of the  restructuring process and will
assure our success goingforward.    "We are also
grateful to our suppliers and financial stakeholders fortheir support
through this period.  We look forward to rewarding  theirpatience
with enhanced performance within the soonest possible  time
frame,"said Adamson.    The company also announced
today that it has entered into a  five-year,$200 million revolving
credit facility with a syndicate of financialinstitutions led by The Chase
Manhattan Bank as  Administrative Agent.  Thecredit facility will
replace the company's debtor-in-possession financingfacility and will be
used thereafter  for working capital and generalcorporate
purposes.  The entire  credit facility amount will be available
forworking capital  borrowings and letters of
credit.    "As we emerge from Chapter 11, we are also
pleased to welcome a  new boardof directors, which reflects the
company's new ownership  structure," saidAdamson.  "We
expect to benefit greatly from their  advice and counsel as weproceed
with our plans for our business."    Adamson will
continue as chairman of the board and chief  executiveofficer of the
company and will be joined on the board by:  Robert H. Allen,marketing
consultant and retired ITT Corporation  executive; Ronald E.Blaylock,
president and chief executive officer of the investment banking firmof
Blaylock and Partners; Irwin N.   Gold, senior managing director
and memberof the board of the  investment banking firm of Houlihan
Lokey Howard Robert E.   Marks, president of Marks Ventures, a
New York investment firm;Charles F. Moran, a retired Sears Roebuck
executive; and Donald R.   Shepherd,former chairman of the
investment banking firm Loomis  Sayles.  Vera KingFarris,
president of the Richard Stockton College  of New Jersey, andElizabeth
A. Sanders, a management consultant and author who was elected tothe board
in 1995, will also continue as a  director of the
company.    Advantica is one of the nation's largest
restaurant companies,  withnearly 3,300 moderately-priced restaurants
and annual revenues  ofapproximately $2.6 billion.  Advantica
owns and operates the  Carrows, Coco's,Denny's, El Pollo Loco and
Quincy's Family  Steakhouse restaurant brands andis the largest
franchisee of  Hardee's.    -Board member biographical
information follows-  -0-    ADVANTICA RESTAURANT
GROUP, INC.    BOARD OF DIRECTORS    James B.
Adamson, chairman    Adamson is chief executive officer and
president of Advantica  RestaurantGroup, Inc.  He joined the
company in February 1995.   Before that, he waschief executive
officer of Burger King  Corporation from 1993 to January 1995.He
served as chief operating  officer of Burger King from 1991 to 1993
andpresident of Burger  King's U.S.A. Retail Division in 1991. 
He was executivevice  president of marketing for Revco, Inc. from 1988
to 1991.  He has  heldleadership positions at The GAP, B. Dalton
Bookseller and  Target Stores.Adamson is a director of Kmart
Corporation and Oxford Health Plan, Inc.  Heholds a bachelor's degree
from Gonzaga  University in Spokane, Wash.    Robert H.
Allen    Allen is a marketing consultant with Westport,
Conn.-based R.H. AllenAssociates.  He is a retired executive from ITT
Corporation.   During his22-year career at ITT, Allen held a
number of leadership  roles, most recentlyas corporate vice president
and group general  manager of consumer productsand services. 
Before that, he was a  sales manager for the Norelco ElectricShaver
Division of North  American Phillips for eight years, and a
regionalsales manager for  the Sunglass Division of American Optical
for three years.He is a  director of the Westport Historical Society
and Westport YMCA.  Heholds a bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College
in Brunswick, Maine.    Ronald E. Blaylock   
Blaylock is founder, president and chief executive officer of 
Blaylock Partners, L.P., a New York-based investment banking firm. Prior to
Blaylock Partners, he held several positions on Wall  Street with
Paine Webber andCiticorp Investment Bank.  He holds an  master's
in business administrationfrom New York University and a  bachelor's
degree from Georgetown University.Blaylock is a director of Georgetown
University and trustee of New YorkUniversities Stern  School of
Business.  He is also on the board of Fine HostCorporation and serves
on a national advisory board for the Federal NationalMortgage
Association.    Vera King Farris, Ph.D.   
Dr. Farris is currently serving in her 14th year as president of TheRichard
Stockton College of New Jersey.  During her more than 20  years
ineducation, she has held leadership positions as academic  vice
president atKean College of New Jersey; vice provost for  academic
affairs, StateUniversity of New York - Brockport; and dean, State
University of New York -Stony Brook.  She obtained a  bachelor's
degree in biology from TuskegeeUniversity, a master's and doctor of
philosophy degrees in zoology andparasitology from the  University of
Massachusetts.  She is 1997 chair of theAmerican  Association of
State Colleges and Universities, past president ofthe Middle States
Association of Colleges and School, and a member of thenational board of
trustees of the Council for Higher Education 
Accreditation.    Irwin N. Gold    Gold is a
senior managing director and member of the board of  directorsof
Houlihan Lokey Howard Zukin, where he has been a  co-founder and
nationalco-director of the firm's Financial  Restructuring Group since
1988.  From1986 to 1988, he was principal  of The Seneca Group,
an investment banking andfinancial advisory  firm.  Prior to
that, he was vice president and directorof corporate finance of Wood Bros.
Homes, Inc., a Denver-based real estate andmortgage banking company. 
Gold has a law degree from the University  ofVirginia School of Law
and a bachelor's degree in economics from  DukeUniversity.  He is
a director of Cole National Corporation and  The
BibbCompany.    Robert E. Marks    Marks is
president of Marks Ventures, Inc., a New York-based 
investmentfirm.  Before that, he was managing director and vice 
president at Carl MarksCo., Inc. from 1982 to 1994.  From 1978 to
1982, he was an associate incorporate finance with Dillion, Read Co.,
Inc.  He also performed researchand analysis on international 
trade with the Export-Import Bank of the UnitedStates in Washington,
D.C.  Marks holds a master's of business administrationfrom
Harvard  Graduate School of Business Administration and master's
andbachelor's degrees from Stanford University.  He is a director of
the RobertFleming Capital Mutual Fund Group, Inc. and The International
RescueCommittee.    Charles F. Moran    Moran
is a retired executive from Sears, Roebuck and Co.  He was 
seniorvice president of administration for Sears from 1989 until his
retirement inDecember 1993.  Before that, he held numerous 
leadership positions during hisnearly 40-year career with Sears, 
including senior vice president and chiefinformation officer, 
president of Sears World Trade, Inc., vice president ofcorporate 
planning, and vice president of operations.  He is a director
ofSPS  Transaction Services, Inc., Thermadyne Holdings Corporation,
West  SideAffordable Housing, Inc., Homan Arthington Foundation,
Rush  Presbyterian St.Luke Hospital and Hurley State Bank in
South  Dakota.  Moran holds a master'sof business administration
from  Fairleigh Dickinson University and abachelor's degree from
Drew  University.    Elizabeth A.
Sanders    Sanders is a management consultant with The
Sanders Partnership  in SutterCreek, Calif.  She is author of the
books, Fabled Service  and InspiringFabled Service, and serves as a
resource on service  leadership principles tonational and
international organizations.   Before founding The
SandersPartnership in 1990, Sanders was  associated with Nordstrom,
Inc. from 1971 to1990, the last 12 years of which she served as corporate
vice president andgeneral manager,  establishing and leading its
largest and most profitabledivision in  Southern California.  She
has served on the Flagstar board since1995.  She is a director of The
H.F. Ahmanson Company, Wal-Mart  Stores, Inc.,Wolverine Worldwide,
Inc., and Wellpoint Health  Networks, Inc.  Sanders holdsa
master's of education degree from  Boston University and a bachelor's
degreefrom Wayne State University in Detroit.    Donald R.
Shepherd    Shepherd is former chairman of Loomis, Sayles
Company, L.P., aninvestment banking firm.  Prior to his retirement in
August 1995,  Shepherdwas chief executive officer for Loomis, Sayles
Company  from 1990 to 1995,managing partner from 1981 to 1990 and
vice  president of portfolio managementfrom 1972 to 1981.  Before
that, he was vice president with Title Insurance Trust Company from 1961
to  1972 and a research analyst with Detroit Bank Trust from 1958
to  1961.  He is director of the Rancho Coastal Humane Societyand
The  Scripps Research Institute.  He holds a bachelor's degree
from theUniversity of Michigan.CONTACT: Karen Randall, 864/597-8440 (media
contact)Larry Gosnell, 864/597-8658 (investor contact)Flagstar Emerges From
Chapter 11,Enters New Era as Advantica Restaurant Group,
Inc    SPARTANBURG, S.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan.7,
1998--       -Advantica Common Stock To Begin
Trading on NASDAQ Under theTrading Symbol "DINE"-
    -Company Completes Loan Agreement; Names New Board of
Directors-Flagstar Companies, Inc. announced today that following a 
successfulfinancial restructuring, it has
©1997   Maynard S Clark    Vegetarian Resource Center    info@vegetarian.org 
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 18:55:57 -0500
From: Shirley McGreal 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Vilas Park monkeys spending last days and nights at zoo
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        The end of the famous monkey colony at Vilas Park Zoo, Madison, USA,
is in sight. Although displayed at the zoo, the monkeys are owned by the
Wisconsin Regional Primate Center. Many who attended the International
Primatological Society congress in 1996 enjoyed seeing these lively monkeys. 
        Herpes B hysteria, NIH's extremely sudden cut-off of funds for the
monkeys leaving nobody time to THINK, and humiliating and embarrassing
revelations (or at least those involved should have been humiliated and
embarrassed) about the Primate Center's flagrant and repeated violation of
promises made by former Directors Robert Goy and John Hearn that no monkeys
housed at the zoo would be used in invasive experiments - dozens were) have
combined to bring about the demise of this unique colony which was described
in Frans de Waal's 1989 book "Peacemaking among Primates." It is not clear
whether the monkeys will be moved during daytime hours, in the presence of
the public, or at dead of night. Right now it is pretty cold in Wisconsin.  
        With the rhesus leaving or about to leave for Tulane (where they
will not be on public display and will probably not be protected by the same
agreement which was supposed to, but failed to, protect the Vilas Park Zoo
monkeys), only the stumptail macaques will remain and they are to be
"evicted" by 1 February. 

According to the 9 January 1997 Madison newspaper _Capital Times_
"Long-popular monkeys are likely to be leaving the Vilas Zoo"

        Attempts to keep the Henry Vilas Zoo monkeys in Madison received
another big setback Thursday as a Dade County judge refused to grant a
temporary restraining order to prevent the University of Wisconsin from
moving the monkeys.
        The ruling by Judge Patrick Fiedler was the second major blow in a
week to plans to keep at least some of the UW monkeys at the zoo. The
university plans to move the 150 rhesus and stump-tailed macaques out of
Madison by Feb. 1, the day it loses federal funding to support the facility.
        Fiedler's ruling came at the end of a three and a half hour hearing
at which he said there were not grounds for such an injunction against the
university. Fiedler said he considered the decisions to remove the monkeys
by the Wisconsin Regional Primate Center to be management decisions that
likely do not warrant court intervention.
        "It is impossible to be a manager of any type of entity...and make
decisions that make everybody happy," Fiedler said.
        The lawsuit filed by primate center scientist Kim Bauers was the
latest attempt to stop the university. Richard Bolton, Bauers' attorney,
argued that removing the monkeys requires a study of the environmental
impact such a move would have.
        While denying the temporary restraining order. Fiedler ordered both
sides to submit briefs about whether the removal of the UW monkeys from the
zoo qualifies under the state law requiring environmental impact studies.
Fiedler's order was in response to a UW motion to dismiss the case.
        Now, with three weeks to go before the federal funding stops,
officials with both the university and the county say that the chances of
any UW monkeys remaining are slim.
        Final plans for the future of the monkeys are unknown, but Kemnitz
said in testimony Thursday that the 100 rhesus macaques will likely go to
another primate center to serve as a breeding colony [this turned out to be
Tulane]. Final plans for the stumptails have not been made, but Kemnitz said
he is negotiating with officials in Thailand about the possibility of
transporting them there, he said.
        County officials who oversee the zoo have said for months that it is
the university's responsibility - not the county's - to start negotiations
over keeping any of the monkeys in Madison. 
        "I have to say that, as we get more input from people, we never say
never," said Helen Nelson, Executive Assistant to Dane County Executive
Kathleen Falk. "But the tendency in our office so far has been to anticipate
that the university will be removing them."
        Nelson said the county executive's office has received calls from
concerned citizens who don't want the monkeys removed, but it is ultimately
up to the university to decide what will happen to them.
        "These are animals that are the responsibility of the university,
and we have seen the university as being in the lead role in making
decisions about the animals they own," Nelson said.
        David Hall, director of the zoo, said it is a combination of factors
that will likely result in the UW monkeys leaving. 
        "The university has said that if the zoo wanted them, they would
consider donating them to the zoo," Hall said this morning. "But financially
the county executive has gone on record saying there's no money in the
budget. And with the development of the herpes B virus and the unknowns
about that, I think that as long as the UW finds a good home for them, it
will be the best for everyone." [My comment, "everyone" obviously does not
include the monkeys!]
        The monkeys that live in the round monkey house have been owned and
cared for by the university since the 1960s. They historically have been
used as a breeding colony for the primate center, and have been the subject
of numerous behavioral studies.
        But as of Feb. 1, the UW will no longer be able to use federal money
to pay the $100,000 it takes to keep the Vilas Park facility running. The
National Institutes of Health restricted the funding for the facility two
months after the "Capital Times" reported the UW violated an agreement with
the zoo not to use the monkeys for invasive studies. [My comment, seems NIH
is punishing the monkeys not the PEOPLE who violated the agreement, maybe
THE PEOPLE should be shipped to Tulane instead of the monkeys!!!]
        Hall said the $100,000 annual price tag for the monkeys was not the
only financial factor. The facility, built in 1963, is in need of repairs
and would have to be updated to fit better zoo standards. Hall also said the
30-day timeline posed problems for the zoo in considering taking over the
responsibility of at least some of the monkeys. 

Out of Luck

        With both the Zoo Commission and the court leaving the situation up
to the primate center, hopes are quickly fading about any monkeys remaining.
        Monkey supporters had hoped for a more active zoo commission, which
oversees the funding of the Vilas Park Zoo. Commission members seemed
optimistic about the possibility of keeping some monkeys at the zoo until
they received a memo from Kemnitz [Jo Kemnitz, Director of the Wisconsin
Primate Center] warning the commission about the health risks posed by the
monkeys.
        Kemnitz said the monkeys have been exposed to the herpes B virus and
a newly discovered mode of transmission may be too much of a risk to keep
the monkeys at the zoo [my comment, many US zoos care for monkeys with
herpes B and no zoo employee or visitor has ever become infected].
        Commission members, who initially were keen to the possibility of
keeping some of the monkeys in Madison, expressed deep concern after
learning of the potential health risks. Zoo and primate experts around the
country have said the risk of transmission is virtually nil, and other
animals, including reptiles and elephants, pose a much greater risk to
humans at zoos than macaques.
        The Alliance for Animals, a Madison animal rights group that has
been protesting the primate center's handling of the Vilas monkeys since
August, it still trying to raise money to convince the university that the
Madison public wants at least some of the monkeys to remain in Madison.
        "If anything good is going to be done for these monkeys, everybody
has to stop blaming the other for not taking the initiative," [Tina] Kaske
said. While time is quickly running out to keep any of the monkeys here,
Kaske's group sent out a mass mailing Thursday urging people to pledge
financial support to keep the monkeys in Madison.

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

Comments may be made to the Director of the NIH National Center for Research
Resources (address, e-mail and phone/fax numbers below). Request that the
monkeys at Vilas Park Zoo not be punished for primate center officials'
violating an agreement that no zoo monkeys were to be used for invasive
research. Request that any primate center official(s) knowingly involved in
violating the agreement be dismissed. Request that NIH provide funds to
establish the stumptail macaques, members of a threatened species, in Thailand. 

Dr. Judith L Vaitukaitis jv14u@nih.gov

         email to: jv14u@nih.gov (judyv@od12a.ncrr.nih.gov)
             name: Judith L Vaitukaitis
            alias: jv14u
         nickname: Vaitukaitis Judyv
            phone: (301) 496-5793
          address: Office of the Director
                 : Building 31, Room 3B11
                 : Center Drive
                 : Bethesda, Maryland  20892-2128
              ICD: NCRR
              fax: (301) 402-0006
            title: Director, National Center for Research Resources
         lastname: Vaitukaitis
 verified_by_user:  1 May 1997 13:09:35
           miscel: Wylbur Initials: VJ2

Information taken from staff directory in NIH web pages.


|---------------------------------|----------------------------------------|
| Dr. Shirley McGreal             |   PHONE: 803-871-2280                  | 
| Int. Primate Protection League  |   FAX: 803-871-7988                    |
| POB 766                         |   E-MAIL: ippl@awod.com                |
| Summerville SC 29484            |   Web: http://www.ippl.org             | 
|---------------------------------|----------------------------------------|


Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 20:22:27 -0500
From: leah wacksman 
To: "ar-news@envirolink.org" 
Subject: Dog shot 4 times
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01/10/1998 18:56 EST 

 Dog Survives Being Shot 4 Times 


 BYRON, N.Y. (AP) -- Who said only cats have nine lives? 

 Audra and Bob Abel believe their tough, little pooch Sonny has a strong
will to survive after being shot four times in two separate incidents by
an irate neighbor. 

 Last summer, the Abels said they found the 10-pound poodle lying on
their front porch, covered in blood. 

 ``He was shot three times,'' Bob Abel said. ``Once across the spine and
it came out through the other side. He got shot through the ribs and
broke two. And he got hit in the leg. That one came out the other
side.'' 

 Though his ribs never fully healed, Sonny survived the attack that was
never solved by police. 

 Then last Tuesday, the Abels heard gunshots near their home in this
small town about 45 miles east of Buffalo. They thought it must have
been a neighbor target shooting until they heard scratching at the door. 

 ``His back was all blood,'' Bob Abel said. 

 Sonny had been shot again, in the top part of his back just below the
spine. After another harrowing trip to the Batavia Animal Hospital, the
12-year-old poodle appeared to be fine. 

 This time, though, police nabbed a neighbor who later said he shot the
dog because it was in his yard. Curt Randall, 20, was charged with
cruelty to animals. 

 As for Sonny, his brushes with death may have come to an end. 

 ``We'll keep him leashed up now,'' Bob Abel said. ``He won't be running
around.''
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 20:48:33 EST
From: SMatthes 
To: , alf@dc.seflin.org, MJGarrison@aol.com,
        wao@wildanimalorphanage.org, manatee@america.com, OneCheetah@aol.com,
        BHGazette@aol.com, CPatter221@aol.com, lcanimal@ix.netcom.com,
        NBGator@IBM.net, MChasman@aol.com, dawnmarie@rocketmail.com,
        chrisw@fund.org, jdanh@juno.com, EnglandGal@aol.com,
        Pandini1@prodigy.net, Chibob44@aol.com, RonnieJW@aol.com,
        ALFNOW73@aol.com, PetaLaw@cfanet.com, KATI2ERIN@aol.com,
        Ron599@aol.com, editor@usatoday.com
Subject: Vigil Prayer for Arnold the Tiger
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A Farewell Prayer for Arnold the Tiger
        by Elise Matthes, Sarasota In Defense of Animals

Oh Great Spirit of the Universe
     We commend your creature, Arnold, back to you.
May he be granted the peace in death
     That was denied him in life.
May his spirit in eternity be liberated --
     With freedom to choose according to his own nature.
In death may he never recall the sting of a whip,
     The scorching flames of a fire hoop,
Or the indignities of being a circus spectacle.

Grant also that we find it in our hearts
     To forgive those who enslaved Arnold in life
Who themselves became victims of their own choices.

May we who mourn for Arnold today
     Find solace in our mission to empty the cages --
To end the exploitation of captive wild animals.

May our saness of saying good-bye to Arnold serve as
inspirtation to liberay
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 21:03:59 EST
From: SMatthes 
To: , alf@dc.seflin.org,
        francion@andromeda.rutgers.edu, MJGarrison@aol.com,
        wao@wildanimalorphanage.org, manatee@america.com, OneCheetah@aol.com,
        igor@earthlink.net, BHGazette@aol.com, CPatter221@aol.com,
        lcanimal@ix.netcom.com, foa@igc.apc.org, DDAL@aol.com, NBGator@IBM.net,
        MChasman@aol.com, dawnmarie@rocketmail.com, chrisw@fund.org,
        , jdanh@juno.com, EnglandGal@aol.com,
        Pandini1@prodigy.net, Chibob44@aol.com, RonnieJW@aol.com,
        ALFNOW73@aol.com, PetaLaw@cfanet.com, KATI2ERIN@aol.com,
        Ron599@aol.com, editor@usatoday.com
Subject: Farewell to Arnold, the Tiger
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A Farewell Prayer for Arnold the Tiger
     by Elise Matthes, Sarasota In Defense of Animals

Oh Great Spirit of the Universe
     We commend your creature, Arnold, back to you.
May he be granted the peace in death
     That was denied him in life.
May his spirit in eternity be libertated --
     With freedom to choose according to his own nature.

In death may he never recall the sting of a whip,
     The scorching flames of a fire hoop,
Or the indignities of being a circus spectacle.

Grant also that we find it in our hearts
     To forgive those who enslaved Arnold in life
Who themselves became victims of their own choices.

May we who mourn for Arnold today
     Find solace in our mission to empty the cages --
To end the exploitation of captive wild animals.

May our sadness of saying good-bye to Arnold serve
     As inspiration to liberate all of Arnold's tortured kin
Who are victims of human ignorance, arrogance and greed.

In Arnold's memory, we will not rest until ALL animal acts are abolished.

We ask for nothing more.  We accept nothing less.

A vigil will be held from 12 noon to 1 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 11, Bayfront Center,
St. Petersburg, Florida.  Wear black clothing, bring candle, and flowers.  

DISREGARD PREVIOUS INCOMPLETE PREMATURE TRANSMISSION OF THIS
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Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 22:37:11 -0500 (EST)
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>From the Rocky Mountain News
Denver Colorado
Saturday, January 3, 1998

MUTT'S LOVE PROVES TO BE AS REAL AS A PUREBRED'S
By Michael Capuzzo

Bill Clinton, you should have listened to your mother.  Virginia Kelly, 
before
she died, said, 'I bet that rascal never even thought of going to an animal
shelter.  I'll get on him."
Instead, the president, in getting a puppy, made the popular choice 
instead of
the moral one.  He acquired the most beloved purebred dog in the country-a
Labrador retriever.

Clinton now has a weapon that no political adversary can match-a non-stop
photo op-but he didn't do it for political gain.  He did it because every
human needs a dog.  But the president made a typical mistake: He figured he'd
get his dog when he'd gotten over that "tough period," the kid was off to
college and he could relax a bit.  Like too many Americans who figure the job
and the kids are "a little too much" for a dog "right now," Clinton 
failed to
grasp that Canis familiaris was sent here especially for those tough periods.

The Labrador Retriever is a wonderful dog, deservedly the most popular
American Kennel Club breed.  But the sad truth is that your typical lab 
likely
has more health problems, has a worse temperament, is not as good with
children and costs hundreds more to buy (thousands more to maintain) than the
average lab mix.
I must ackowledge a bias.  I'm co-author of Mutt: America's Dogs.  I was the,
uh, wag whose columns a few years ago had American Humane Association
activists storming the White House gates with thousands of petitions from
Americans pleading with the president to adopt a mutt instead of buying the
Golden Retriever that Chelsea wanted.  (The chief did neither, saying he
wasn't getting a dog at this time.)

Nonetheless, the time finally came.  He got a dog.  Heck, he could have 
gotten
another cat.  Like Tom Hayden, I'm less radical than I was back then.  I
believe adopting any dog is a sacred contribution to family and society.

It's just a pity the president didn't think about the soaring demand for more
overbred and sickly Labrador Retrievers his choice is bound to create; the
millions of dog lives and dollars spent on euthanasia (killing) that would
have been saved had he adopted from the pound; the message of compassion and
redemption for living things he would have sent around the world with a 
single
minute on CNN at the Washington Humane Society.  They were waiting for him
there, with open arms.

It's not too late, Mr. President.  They're still waiting over at the Humane
lockup, right near Congress.  Your new pup needs a wiser older friend who has
spent some time on the Hill.  Meanwhile, enjoy your puppy.  The majority
prefers mutts, but that's the thing about dogs.  They care nothing for other
options.  They love you every minute, even when you're not listening to your
mother.

Mike Capuzzo can be reached at PO Box 157; Wenonah, New Jersey  08057.

Note: Surely, he is going to have this dog neutered..don't bet on it.  He
could use the offspring as political favors or political reimbursements.  
Tell
him how you feel; after all, you are his boss, your tax dollars pay his
salary.
President Clinton can be reached at:  The White House; Washington DC; 20500;
(202) 456-1414; Fax: (202) 456-2461; Email:  President@whitehouse.gov

Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 22:38:28 -0500 (EST)
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(I realized this item has been posted to the "News" board previously however,
this article contains some additional information that I haven't seen before"

>From the Rocky Mountain News
Denver Colorado
Friday, December 26, 1997

by Stephen Hunt and Sella R. McCann
Salt Lake Tribune

MINK FARM "TERRORIST" SENTENCED

Animal-Rights Activist in Utah Gets Two Years for Freeing Thousands of 
Animals
>From Cages
Salt Lake City-

A 21-year-old man who released thousands of animals from a South Jordan mink
farm last year has begun serving one of the stiffest sentences in Utah 
for an
animal-rights crime.

Clinton Colby Ellerman received a 2-year jail term and was fined $14,594 last
week by 3rd District Judge Robert Hilder, who said Ellerman had committed "an
act of terrorism."

Meanwhile, a judge heard arguments Wednesday that federal explosives charges
should be dismissed against Ellerman, for allegedly bombing a Sandy mink-feed
plant.

Notably, Clinton Ellerman's sentence for releasing minks is twice that of 3
men who burned down a West Jordan McDonald's last year to protect the
slaughter of animals.
Prosecutor Ernie Jones said the harsher sentence may have resulted from
letters written to the judge by mink ranchers, "telling how this had affected
their lives."

On July 17, 1996, Clinton Ellerman, 21-year old Kevin Dexter Clark and 
several
others jumped a fence and opened doors to the mink buildings and cages.  The
vandals also spray-painted "ALF" which stands for the militant Animal
Liberation Front, and "blood money" on buildings.

Some 3,000 animals were set free.

Although many of the creatures died from stress or were run over by cars, 
most
were recaptured.  The harm came from loss of the animal's pedigrees.

Each mink's cage carried a card with that animal's pedigree and life history.
The animal's themselves were not tagged.  There was no way to match the
captured animals with their cages, resulting in the loss of years of 
selective
breeding information.

"It's had quite an impact," said Ryan Holt, co-owner of Holt Mink Ranch.

The business, which was started 32 years ago by Holt's father and 
grandfather,
was not insured.  Holt estimated his losses at $263,000.  That is what it
would cost to replace the lost genetic information by buying minks with
pedigrees.

A board member of Fur Commission USA, Holt said animal-rights crimes are
escalating nationwide.  The target are fur breeders, egg and livestock
producers and restaurants.  "It's not just a fur issue," Holt said.  
"It's an
animal-use issue."

Note:  If anyone knows how to get ahold of Mr. Ryan, please let us know via
email so that we may give him the benefit of our opinion.  Thanks.

Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 22:43:42 -0600
From: paulbog@jefnet.com (Rick Bogle)
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> From: Rick and  Lynn 
> To: Primate-Talk 
> Cc: AnimalLib ; AR-News Post

> Subject: our communal culpability
> Date: Saturday, January 10, 1998 10:39 PM
> 
   > I am so embarrassed.  In the not so distant future people will look back
> and ask, "Why didn't you do something?"
   > What will I tell them?
   > Today, or maybe tomorrow, 150 monkeys will be taken from their home of
30
> years and shipped to a death camp.  They will be terribly frightened and
> confused.  And people who know what is going to happen to them will sit
> back and allow it to happen.  I am so embarrassed to be one of those
> people.
   > Monkeys are fundamentally the same as us. When they give birth, friends
> gather around to see the new baby.  When a couple want to make love
> sometimes they slip away from the group to be alone and not be disturbed.
 
> They warn their friends of danger and grieve when a loved one is lost.
   > When babies are taken away from their mothers they become ill and don't
> develop like normal children.
   > People who understand and care about theses things are considered to be
> nuts.  People who know about these things and don't care are allowed to
> have control over the monkeys' lives.
   > Everyone who knows about the fate of the Wisconsin macaques is culpable;
> all the WRPRC staff, all the Henry Vilas Zoo staff, the Tulane primate
> center staff, the media folks, and me.  We will all sit back and let
these
> intelligent and sensitive creatures, who have done nothing wrong, be used
> as hosts for tick colonies, be infected with leprosy and SIV, and be used
> to produce babies for scientists to cut into.  I am so embarrassed.
   >  After they are gone many people will say, "We didn't know." That's what
> people have always said when they wanted to avoid responsibility.  But
what
> will I be able to say?
> 
> Rick Bogle



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