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         AR-NEWS Digest 216

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) Threat to Health Freedom
     by UncleWolf@aol.com
  2) AR-News Admin Note
     by allen schubert 
  3) (US) APHIS Press Release USDA Proposes to Amend Livestock
  Movement Regulations 
     by allen schubert 
  4) APHIS Press Release USDA Proposes to Amend Rules for Imported
  Zoo Animals
     by allen schubert 
  5) More hunting in Woodstock (US)
     by SHindi@aol.com
  6) Hunters bag about 150 bears (US)
     by ddore@ccmailpc.ctron.com
  7) Angry Man Arrested For Slugging Horse (US)
     by ddore@ccmailpc.ctron.com
  8) Update on Puppy Beating in Sapulpa, OK (USA)
     by SDURBIN@VM.TULSA.CC.OK.US
  9) Rescued Rats Need Homes (US)
     by Karin Zupko 
 10) TsTr-Team: New German language mailing list
     by "Carsten Scholvien" 
 11) Gettysburg Activism-- Attention Activists
     by 
 12) Newswire: UCLA Burns Human Remains With "Lab" Animals (US)
     by Lawrence Carter-Long 
 13) (ZA) Conservationists propose horn trade to cut poaching
     by allen schubert 
 14) (US) Howard Lyman Lecture
     by allen schubert 
 15) Library / Archive Project Needs Help
     by Carmen Lee <105252.3520@compuserve.com>
 16) NYC Protest 11/13/96
     by Pamelyn Ferdin <74107.3244@CompuServe.COM>
 17) LC in Oregonian...
     by MINKWOMAN@aol.com
 18) Anti Fur Resources Available
     by MINKLIB@aol.com
 19) International Orangutan Awareness Week
     by David J Knowles 
 20) Alert as new brain disease hits beef herds in Britain[UK]
     by David J Knowles 
 21) Drug firm prefers to do tests on humans[UK]
     by David J Knowles 
 22) FoA goes to IRS re March money
     by anmlpepl@whidbey.com (Merritt Clifton,  editor,  ANIMAL PEOPLE)

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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 01:58:47 -0500
>From: UncleWolf@aol.com
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Threat to Health Freedom
Message-ID: <961104015847_1583357678@emout03.mail.aol.com>

The following article was downloaded from the 
Life Extension Foundation web site.  I edited it 
in order to decrease size, preserving (I hope) all
 the important points.  The full text is available 
at the LEF site.  (http://www.lef.org)

Codex proposals would not only reduce the availability 
and and increase the price of vitamins, minerals, and 
herbs (a threat to health conscious humans) - it would 
also cost animal lives and suffering by 1) extending 
animal testing to nutritional substances that do not 
now require FDA approval and  2) by boosting the 
power of the medical-pharmaceutical industry and 
causing more human illness to be "treated" with 
"heroic measures" - again, increasing the use of animals.

= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =

CODEX: INTERNATIONAL THREAT TO HEALTH FREEDOM
                     REPORT FROM BONN, GERMANY

By John Hammell, 

        In Germany, the trains run on time and the beer is
unsurpassed, but pharmaceutical companies like Hoechst are working
overtime to drive small vitamin companies out of business in an
effort to take over the supplement industry. Hoechst's vehicle is
the Codex Alimentarious Commission, which is developing
international standards for dietary supplements.

The motives of the pharmaceutical companies are revealed
in a letter by Matthias Rath, M.D.(Fig. 1) to German
Chancellor Helmut Kohl and members of the German Parliament
The letter is entitled "The Health Interests of Millions of People
Are More Important Than The Stock Price of the Pharmaceutical
Corporations".
 
        In his letter, Dr. Rath, who is a German living
in California, noted that a German proposal before the Codex
Commission is being heavily pushed by Hoechst, Bayer, and BASF --
the three companies formed when IG Farben was disbanded
after the Nuremberg War Trials because of their role in
manufacturing the poison gas used in the Nazi concentration camps.

Advancing The German Proposal

[The German government] continued to advance the proposal that
could one day severely restrict your access to dietary
supplements. They jumped from step 3 to step 5 during this
meeting. In two years when they meet again, they could jump
from step 5 to step 8 and finalize things!
 
 In addition, the Codex Executive committee might allocate funds in June
for the creation of an "expert panel" on herbs which might create a
"negative list" that could limit consumer access to these products
internationally. The formation of this "expert panel" was advocated by
Canada, and seconded by a majority of the delegations present.
Obviously we will need to monitor this very closely...
 
        Do you want your favorite supplements replaced by
expensive, patented, over-the-counter and prescription drug?
Unless a much bigger international coalition can be formed within
the next two years to save our health freedom, we will see it
stripped from.

     What Is The Codex Alimentarius Commission?
 
     Codex Alimentarius is latin for "food code." The Codex
Alimentarius Commission is an FAO/WHO United Nations entity whose
purpose is to "create a set of international standards to
guide the world's growing food industry and to protect the
health of consumers."

        Germany has been attempting to manipulate the Codex
Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Use to
further the interests of the German pharmaceutical industry,
by raising regulatory standards so that only the big drug
companies like Hoechst, Bayer, BASF, Degussa, Fresnius,
Rhone-Poulenc, Sandoz, and Novo Nordisk can survive.

                           The Problem

        The German "Proposed Draft Guideline for Dietary
Supplements" calls for the following:

No dietary supplement can be sold for prophylactic
 (preventive or therapeutic) use;

No dietary supplement sold as a food can exceed potency
 (dosage)levels set by the commission;

Codex standards for dietary supplements would become the
reference international standard under GATT, and a reference
international standard under NAFTA.

The current trend is for countries to adopt the international
standards either individually or in regional compacts. If that happened
in the U.S., all new dietary supplements would automatically be banned
unless they conform to Codex standards- (which would require going
through a very expensive drug like approval process.) The Delaney
clause, which used to protect us against carcinogens in our food
supply, has already been "harmonized" to a Codex standard which favors
pesticide manufacturers, and not a single member of Congress protested
against this.

                    What It's Like In Germany
 
        All anyone needs to do in order to grasp the motives
behind the German proposal is to visit any German health food
store and pharmacy (called an "apothecary").

        In a German health food store, you simply don't find the
shelves filled with vitamin products that you see in the U.S.,
Canada, the U.K. or Australia. You won't find a single product
by Twinlab, Standard Process Brands, Solgar, Solaray, or any of
the other usual brands.

What you WILL find is little besides health food. You'll find
organic vegetables, macrobiotic staples, herbal shampoo, skin
creams, Birckenstock sandals, books on massage, and only a
handful of multi-nutrient formulas in OTC drug form such as
"Alsiroyal", a royal jelly, vitamin E and ginseng.

        Where You Can Get Supplements In Germany?
 
        The answer is that you really CAN'T! The closest thing to
the products available to Americans and can only be found as high
priced, prescription and over-the-counter drugs found in
pharmacies called apothecaries, such as the "Apotheke im
Stadthaus" on Berliner Platz.

        All the products available in a German apothocary are
listed in a "PDR" like volume called "Die Rote List"
 (ISBN 3-87193-167-5). There one can find a complete listing
of international pharmaceutical firms that manufacture patented
analogs of dietary supplements sold as OTC and prescription drugs.
Through this you can see who the companies are that are trying
to manipulate the Codex process.

                    German Rip-Off Prices!

        Here is an example of how OTC drug prices at "Apotheke
im Stadhaus" compare The with Life Extension Foundation's
supplement prices:

        LEF: Vitamin C, 250 caps, 1,000 mg, $22.50, cost per gram: 0.090
cents.
        GERMANY: Vitamin C not available in 1 Gram caps, only in
a quantity of 20, 1 Gram effervescent lozenges (Merck) which cost
6.45 DM or $4.19 U.S. (U.S. dollar=1.5263 DM). Cost is .209 cents
per mg). German cost is more than double LEF cost.

        The largest sized tablet of vitamin C in Germany is 250 mg.
Their price for 30 tablets is 18.89 DM or $12.27 US (cost is
$1.63/gram in Germany vs .09 cents per gram for the Life
Extension Foundation product. The German cost is 18.11 times
HIGHER than the LEF cost
 
     North American Pharmacies Move In On Supplement Market

        Americans and Canadians had better wake up because on
Oct. 14, 1996 a press release announced the publication of "The
Natural Pharmacist," a new magazine exclusively for retail
pharmacists who will vigorously pursue business that has
traditionally been the province of health food stores.

        This magazine was distributed at the annual meeting of
the National Association for Retail Pharmacists (NARD) in New
Orleans, and was sent to over 40,000 pharmacists in the
U.S. and Canada.  With the German Codex proposal pending, no
consumer can afford to be complacent about the drug
companies efforts to monopolize the sale of natural products.

              Control Of Supplements In Norway

        In Norway, drug companies currently control 70% of all
dietary supplement sales. These products are being sold at
grossly inflated prices as patent protected prescription and OTC
drug analogs -- when they are available at all.

        In Norway, you can only make a health claim for a
natural product if it is licensed with the government as an OTC
drug. Thus, in Norway, Shering Plough can make a health claim on
"Echinagard" (a patented analog of an echinacea tincture), while
supplement companies are excluded from making the claim. In
Norway, there are only a handful of herbs that can still be sold
in health food stores. The drug companies are making it illegal to
sell them in order to pave the way for the sale of their
OTC drugs.

        Hoechst, Shering-Plough and other European drug companies which
have been taking over the European market are now eyeing the rest
of the world, with efforts to pass the German Codex proposal.

                        Jamaica And Spain

        In Jamaica, the Holistic Health Association has filed
a lawsuit against the Ministry of Health, which is attempting to
require a cost prohibitive "drug approval process" for herbal
products.
 
        In Spain, a royal decree on Aug. 2 banned advertising
of natural products unless they have undergone a cost prohibitive
drug approval process. 

What Is Needed Now

        The Life Extension Foundation is the leading organization
in the world concerned with defending consumer access to natural
products. We need your help in building an international
coalition to oppose the German proposal and send it back to
step 3 in two years when the committee meets again. We will be
working with organizations in the U.K., Canada, Japan, the
Netherlands, Australia, and New Zealand to help insure that
this happens, but need monetary donations on an ongoing basis
in order to conduct this vital health freedom networking.

        We will be updating Codex information to our site on the
worldwide web (www.lef.org), including translations into other
languages) and we need your assistance.

        Checks can be made out to "Life Extension Foundation" and sent to
Pat Stern, LEF Information Office, PO Box 229120, Hollywood, FL 33022
USA. For donations of $25. or more, we will send you a copy of our
highly comprehensive, 23 page Codex Comments which were submitted to
the Codex Alimentarius Commission after careful preparation by Suzanne
Harris, JD of the Law Loft. Thank you for your badly needed assistance.


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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 06:07:40 -0500 (EST)
>From: allen schubert 
To: "Hillary, AR-NYC" ,
        anmlpepl@whidbey.com (Merritt Clifton,  editor,  ANIMAL PEOPLE)
Cc: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: AR-News Admin Note
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Hillary, Merritt,

Please take your discussion off the AR-News list and to private e-mail or
other e-mail lists immediately!  Your discussion of CACC & euthanasia rates
is becoming a personal flame war.

For Merritt:  you've been warned on previous occassions and you have bee
suspended before (you _clearly_ are acquainted with how this works).  THIS
IS YOUR FINAL WARNING!

If either of you disagree with this, do not post to the list, got to private
e-mail with me.



**********
allen

"We are either part of the problem or part of the solution. Walk your talk
and no one will be in doubt of where you stand." 
  -- Howard F. Lyman
**********


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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 06:42:41 -0500 (EST)
>From: allen schubert 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US) APHIS Press Release USDA Proposes to Amend Livestock
  Movement Regulations 
Message-ID: <199611041142.GAA22409@mail.clark.net>
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>Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 10:00:19 -0700
>From: Questa Glenn 
>To: press_releases@info.aphis.usda.gov
>Subject: APHIS Press Release USDA Proposes to Amend Livestock Movement
Regulations 
>Sender: owner-press_releases@info.aphis.usda.gov
>
>                                   Bethany Hulse  (301) 734-7255
>                                              bhulse@aphis.usda.gov
>                                   Jerry Redding  (202) 720-6959
>                                                     jredding@usda.gov    
>
>USDA PROPOSES TO AMEND LIVESTOCK MOVEMENT REGULATIONS
>
>     WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 1996--The U.S. Department of Agriculture's
>Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is proposing to amend its
>regulations regarding the interstate movement of livestock.
>
>     The proposed rule change would remove the regulations that restrict
>the movement of swine and swine products from areas quarantined for
>hog cholera and that provide for compensation payments to owners of
>swine destroyed because of hog cholera.
>
>     "We are proposing to remove the hog cholera regulations because the
>United States has been free of the disease since 1978 and import
>requirements have proven adequate to prevent the reintroduction of the
>disease into this country," said Joan M. Arnoldi, deputy administrator of
>veterinary services in APHIS, a part of USDA's marketing and regulatory
>programs mission area.
>
>     The rule also would combine the provisions for the approval of
>livestock markets for cattle and bison, horses, and swine into a single
>section.
>
>     For further information contact:  James Davis, senior staff
>veterinarian, Monitoring, Surveillance, and Animal Identification Team,
>National Animal Health Programs, VS, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 36,
>Riverdale, Md. 20737-1231, (301) 734-5970.
>
>     Notice of this proposal is scheduled for publication in the Oct. 31
>Federal Register.
>
>     Consideration will be given only to comments received on or before
>Dec. 30.  An original and three copies should be sent to Docket No.
>96-041-1, Regulatory and Analysis and Development, PPD, APHIS, Suite
>3C03, 4700 River Road, Riverdale, Md. 20737-1238.
>
>     Comments may be reviewed at USDA, Room 1141, South Building,
>14th Street and Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C., between
>8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays.  Persons
>wishing to review comments are requested to call ahead at (202)
>690-2817 to facilitate entry into the comment reading room.
>
>                                #
>
>NOTE:  USDA news releases, program announcements, and media
>advisories are available on the Internet.  Access the APHIS Home Page
>by pointing your Web browser to
> http://www.aphis.usda.gov and clicking on "APHIS Press Releases." 
>Also, anyone with an e-mail address can sign up to receive APHIS press
>releases automatically.  Send an e-mail message to
>majordomo@info.aphis.usda.gov
>and leave the subject blank.  In the message, type
>subscribe press_releases
>
>


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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 06:48:49 -0500 (EST)
>From: allen schubert 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: APHIS Press Release USDA Proposes to Amend Rules for Imported
  Zoo Animals
Message-ID: <199611041148.GAA22936@mail.clark.net>
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>Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 13:07:08 -0700
>From: Questa Glenn 
>To: press_releases@info.aphis.usda.gov
>Subject: APHIS Press Release USDA Proposes to Amend Rules for Imported Zoo
Animals
>Sender: owner-press_releases@info.aphis.usda.gov
>
>                                   Bethany Hulse  (301) 734-7255
>                                              bhulse@aphis.usda.gov
>                                   Jerry Redding  (202) 720-6959
>                                                     jredding@usda.gov
>
>
>USDA PROPOSES TO AMEND RULES FOR IMPORTED ZOO ANIMALS
>     WASHINGTON, Oct. 31, 1996--The U.S. Department of Agriculture's
>Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is proposing to allow the
>movement between U.S. zoos of ruminants and swine imported from
>countries where foot-and-mouth disease and rinderpest exist.
>
>     "Establishing conditions under which such animals may be moved
>from one zoo in the United States to another would benefit endangered
>species breeding programs while continuing to protect against the
>introduction of dangerous animal diseases into the United States," said
>Joan M. Arnoldi, deputy administrator of veterinary services with APHIS,
>a part of USDA's marketing and regulatory programs mission area.
>
>     These imported animals are received at APHIS-approved zoos where
>they are held in post-entry quarantine (PEQ) facilities that prevent
>access to the animals by the public and by domestic animals.  The
>proposed rule would allow ruminants or swine to be moved from a PEQ
>zoo to a non-PEQ zoo after spending at least one year in quarantine.
>
>     The proposed rule would require that the non-PEQ zoo be accredited
>by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association to ensure that the zoo
>meets high professional standards in its facilities and operations.
>
>     For further information contact: Joyce Bowling, Senior Staff
>Veterinarian, Import-Export Animals Staff, VS, APHIS, 4700 River Road,
>Riverdale, Md. 20737-1228, (301) 734-8688.
>
>     Notice of this action is scheduled for publication in the Oct. 31
>Federal Register.
>
>     Consideration will be given to comments on the proposed rule
>received on or before Dec. 30.  An original and three copies should be
>sent to Docket No. 94-136-1, Regulatory and Analysis and Development,
>PPD, APHIS, Suite 3C03, 4700 River Road, Riverdale, Md. 20737-1238.
>
>     Comments may be reviewed at USDA, Room 1141, South Building,
>14th Street and Independence Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C., between
>8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays.  Persons
>wishing to review comments are requested to call ahead at (202)
>90-2817 to facilitate entry into the comment reading room.
>
>                                #
>
>NOTE:  USDA news releases, program announcements, and media
>advisories are available on the Internet.  Access the APHIS Home Page
>by pointing your Web browser to
>http://www.aphis.usda.gov and clicking on "APHIS Press Releases." 
>Also, anyone with an e-mail address can sign up to receive APHIS press
>releases automatically.  Send an e-mail message to
>majordomo@info.aphis.usda.gov
>and leave the subject blank.  In the message, type
>subscribe press_releases
>
>


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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 07:55:30 -0500
>From: SHindi@aol.com
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: More hunting in Woodstock (US)
Message-ID: <961104075528_1680240480@emout18.mail.aol.com>

Saturday once again brought activists to McHenry County, Illinois to disrupt
canned hunters.  Both goose hunters and pheasant hunters were visited, and
some flocks of geese were turned away from slobs at the Woodstock Killing
Club who wanted to shoot them.  What was interesting was the difficulty in
finding hunters.  Only one of the Woodstock Killing Club's goose pits had
hunters in it - the one farthest away from the road.  Even the pheasant
hunters were rare, and would quickly leave the road area, their favorite
place to hunt, when we arrived.

A television news crew was on the scene, and the owner of the killing club
refused to talk to them.  Guess he has something to hide.

A CHARC Bird of Prey took to the air briefly, but was forced back down by
turbulence.  We shall await better weather and be airborne again very soon.
 However, it appears we may have to find new hunting grounds, as the hunters
have pretty much evacuated this area.

We expect some new developments this week.

Steve Hindi
Chicago Animal Rights Coalition (CHARC)


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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 96 08:15:46 EST
>From: ddore@ccmailpc.ctron.com
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Hunters bag about 150 bears (US)
Message-ID: <9610048471.AA847124146@ccmailpc.ctron.com>


     From the Saturday November 2, 1996 Foster's Daily Democrat
     
     Hunters bag about 150 bears this year
     
     Concord, New Hampshire - Hunters bagged about 150 bears this year, 
     down from 428 last year, the state's chief bear biologist said.
     
     "There've been about 154 bear deaths this year, including car kills," 
     said Fish and Game biologist Eric Orff. "I didn't expect it to be as 
     many as last year because we shortened the season on the front and 
     tail end."
     
     Bear hunting season ends today, but officials said it could be weeks 
     before the final tally is in.
     
     Bear-hunting season usually lasts three months.  This year it was 
     shortened to two months Sept. 1 to Nov. 1 - to offset the effect of 
     last years large kill.
     
     Of particular concern were the number of female bears killed.  Last 
     year, the three month season was cut short after more than 100 females 
     were killed.
     
     "Our population models showed there should have been a maximum of 135 
     or 140 killed" in one year, Orff said. "Last year, we had a record 
     bear harvest.  About 200 or 206 of those were females."

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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 96 08:14:16 EST
>From: ddore@ccmailpc.ctron.com
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Angry Man Arrested For Slugging Horse (US)
Message-ID: <9610048471.AA847124056@ccmailpc.ctron.com>


     From the Saturday November 2, 1996 Foster's Daily Democrat
     
     Angry man arrested for slugging horse
     
     Charlottesville, VA - Avery Fernando Gray Jr. was so angry over the 
     arrest of a teenage drug suspect that he allegedly slugged the nearest 
     law-enforcement figure - Otis the police horse.
     
     Gray, 21, was charged with assaulting a police animal and obstucting 
     justice.  The teenager was charged with possession of cocaine with 
     intent to distribute.  His name was not released because of his age.
     
     Police said a mounted patrol officer spotted the 16 year old and 
     another person approaching cars and suspected they were selling drugs. 
     The officer and Otis went after the pair, who fled.  The boy was 
     captured after a brief chase.
     
     While the teenager was being arrested Tuesday night, Gray arrived and 
     began yelling and swearing at officers, police Sgt. Gary Pleasants 
     said.  Then he "balled his fist up and hit Otis in the side of the 
     head."
     
     Police said Thursday they didn't know if Gray knew the teenager.

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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 96 09:57:27 UTC
>From: SDURBIN@VM.TULSA.CC.OK.US
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Update on Puppy Beating in Sapulpa, OK (USA)
Message-ID: <199611041548.KAA22284@envirolink.org>

The puppy is doing better. The police officer who rescued it is going to
adopt it. Here is the Creek County District Attorney's name and address
for those of you who can write and ask that James and Charles Adams
get the maximum allowable penalty for this: Lantz McClain, P.O. Box 1006,
Sapulpa, OK   74067. Phone: 918-224-3921.

-- Sherrill

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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 96 10:42:45 -0500
>From: Karin Zupko 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Rescued Rats Need Homes (US)
Message-ID: <9611041542.AA13568@titan.ma.neavs.com>

An activist in the Boston area has rescued 30 rats from Spookyworld  
in MA.  She needs to find homes for them all.  I have given her the  
information on Rat Allies, but any additional contacts would be  
welcome.  Thank you.

Please contact Dawn
e-mail: MINOUADAMS@aol.com
phone:  617-573-4431


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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 19:01:06 +0100
>From: "Carsten Scholvien" 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: TsTr-Team: New German language mailing list
Message-ID: <8AABCF0A98@bti0n1.bitoek.uni-bayreuth.de>

TsTr-Team
          German language mailing list of the Tierschutz-Tierrechte-Team.
          For informations and to subscribe, send an e-mail to 
          listserv@listserv.gmd.de with the following in your message body: 

            info  tstr-team

            subscribe  tstr-team firstname lastname

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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 96 12:13:50 -0000
>From: 
To: "ar-news" 
Subject: Gettysburg Activism-- Attention Activists
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The National Park Service continues its shoot of deer.  The law suit, 
filed by 23 local residents, is moving through court, but the deer can't 
wait.

The Park itself, hiding behind the name of historical preservation, has 
desecrated the Park through its hunting of deer.

Some activists are threatening even further desecration.

Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'connor will be the featured speaker at 
the 133rd anniversary of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address and the dedication 
of the Soldiers Natoinal Cemetary in Gettysburg.

Events will begin at 10:15 a.m. on November 19. 1996.  Media will be 
there-- so should we.

If you are available to attend, call LCA and speak with David. (310) 
271-6096, or e-mail me at lcanimal@ix.netcom.com.

The National Park Service (NPS) has taken a beating in local and regional 
media, but clearly they don't care.  They have thusfar, since the kill 
began last year, killed approximately 600 deer, and there are about 250 
to go.  This is a federal action conducted on Federal land which makes 
active interference a more serious penalty.  We must be creative.

Be not mistaken-- The NPS is using this as a testing ground for future 
"management" efforts on all national Parks.  If they can do this at 
Gettysburg, with all the historical issues mounted against them, they can 
do it anywhere.

It's time to pull out the stops.


from Last Chance for Animals
lcanimal@ix.netcom.com
http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/ahimsa/lca


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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 14:11:38 +0000
>From: Lawrence Carter-Long 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Newswire: UCLA Burns Human Remains With "Lab" Animals (US)
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UCLA Accused Of Dumping Bodies 

  Source: Associated Press 

 LOS ANGELES 

When Robert Bennett Jr.'s mother Lorraine died of cancer in 1992, her body was 
donated to the 
UCLA medical school. The school promised to give the 61-year-old a decent 
burial, but instead 
Bennett says his mother's remains ended up in the trash.

  - She wasn't the only one, according to lawsuits.

  - As many as 18,000 bodies donated for research were wrongfully cremated 
with dead lab animals 
and   fetuses, the ashes dumped in trash bins, lawsuits against the University 
of California at Los 
Angeles charge.

  - ``How would people at UCLA feel if their parents were treated as if they 
were garbage or 
something?''  Bennett said.

  - James G. Terwilliger, vice provost for administration at the UCLA School 
of Medicine, apologized 
for mistreatment of the bodies. He said UCLA has taken ``aggressive steps'' to 
correct the 
problems,  including closing its crematorium.

  - The bodies were donated to the medical school to train students from the 
1950s to at least 
November 1993, according to the lawsuits filed Thursday by the families of two 
victims.

  - Lawyers Raymond P. Boucher and Mickel M. Arias filed a class-action 
lawsuit in Santa Monica on 
behalf of  Robert Bennett.

  - In a separate lawsuit filed Thursday, the family of Annie Fisher, who also 
died of cancer, accused 
the school's department of anatomy of treating her body and thousands of 
others with disrespect.

  - Terwilliger declined to comment on the specific allegations in the 
lawsuits, saying university 
lawyers had not yet reviewed them. He acknowledged a history of problems with 
the disposal of 
some donors to the  Willed Body Program, but said they have been rectified.

  - ``Today we are running a strong and well-run program,'' Terwilliger said. 
``People should feel very
  comfortable that if they're inclined to consider this as an option ... that 
people will be treated with
  compassion.''

  - The problems surfaced three years ago when a contractor hired to dispose 
of 630 pounds of 
human ashes was loading boxes onto a boat.

  - One of the boxes burst open, revealing broken syringe parts, glass vials, 
used gauze and a 
rubber glove along with the ashes. He reported his findings to state health 
officials.

  - Bennett's lawsuit claims breach of contract, negligence, fraud and other 
charges against the 
Regents of the University of California, the School of Medicine, the director 
of the department of 
anatomy and two other employees.

  - It wasn't clear what damages the plaintiffs sought.

  - Medical students rely on a supply of cadavers for their training, 
Terwilliger said. He wasn't sure 
how many bodies are donated each year, but said a drop-off would hurt the 
program.

  - ``It would certainly make it difficult for us to continue with our 
educational mission,'' he said. 
``Human remains are very critical piece'' of students' training, he said.

  [11-02-96 at 20:28 EST, Copyright 1996, The Associated Press]

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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 16:59:43 -0500 (EST)
>From: allen schubert 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (ZA) Conservationists propose horn trade to cut poaching
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from CNN web page:
-----------------------

                     Saving the rhinos from greed

                     Conservationists propose horn trade to    
                     cut poaching

                       November 4, 1996
                       Web posted at: 2:00 p.m. EST (1900 GMT)

                       In this story:

                     From Correspondent Mike Hanna

                     KWAZULU, South Africa (CNN) -- In South Africa's


                     Pongola Valley -- where even a casual glance
                     leaves the impression that time has stood still --
                     the past has been restored for those in the
                     present and the future.

                     Karel Landman once farmed wheat and cattle in the
                     valley, but now he has allowed the land to fall
                     fallow, paving the way for nature to reclaim its
                     own. And he has reintroduced animals that vanished
                     from the area a century ago.

                     "In the end of the day when you look    
                     back at what you've achieved, it's a
                     great feeling to see that you've contributed
                     something to conservation by bringing back what
                     people destroyed," Landman said.

                     One of those returning species is an animal that
                     was on the brink of extinction -- the rhinoceros.
                     Landman says that after 30 million years, the
                     rhinoceros was finally doomed -- or nearly so --
                     by the greed and corruption of man.

                     Apart from an aggressive bull of its own kind, the
                     rhino's only natural enemy is man. And the
                     creature's horn, evolved for defense, has become
                     the reason for its mass destruction.

                     In the past two decades more than 60,000 rhinos
                     have been slaughtered for a horn that has become
                     more valuable than gold. Poachers will be paid
                     less than $100 per kilogram, but to some in Africa
                     that sum is more than a year's income.

                     The wholesale price in cities like Hong Kong rises
                     to more than $5,000 per kilogram. But on the
                     streets of South Asia -- after the horn has been
                     ground into powder and mixed with other
                     ingredients to form a traditional medicine -- its
                     value rockets tenfold to nearly $50,000 per
                     kilogram.

                      Conservationist Clive Walker, whose
                               private game farm is a popular spot for
                     tourists eager to see rhinos in their natural
                     habitat, makes a preservation argument that would
                     have been unthinkable just a few years ago -- that
                     the only way to save the rhinoceros is to
                     establish a legal trade in the beasts' horns.

                     "The cost to governments to protect an animal like
                     this is becoming so prohibitive," he said. But a
                     legal horn trade "would release literally millions
                     of dollars ... that could be put into the
                     protection of these animals."

                     Wary of trade

                     An international ban on such a trade has been in
                     place for 19 years, but George Hughes, the
                     chairman of South Africa's Kwazulu Natal Park's
                     board, said the strategy has "been a disaster."

                      "The demand went up," he said.
                                    "The prices doubled ... and the
                     net result has been at tremendous outflow of rhino
                     and the crash of rhino populations everywhere."

                     Everywhere except South Africa, where the bulk of
                     the world's population of both black and white
                     rhinos is found. In particular a breeding program
                     at Kwazulu's Umfolosi Reserve has been critical in
                     ensuring the animal's survival. Each year,
                     conservationists tranquilize a select number of
                     the animals to be sold to zoos and ranches for
                     breeding.

                     But to sell the rhino for breeding purposes is one
                     thing, and to legalize trade in its horn is
                     another. And those proposing the trade admit
                     they've encountered strong international
                     resistance.

                     Walker says one of the main problems is the
                     tendency of the rest of the world to want to
                     dictate to Africans how to handle the wildlife
                     that lives on their continent. Admitting that the
                     idea of a legal trade is a sensitive issue, Walker
                     notes that rhinos do not have to die for their
                     horns.

                     Protection means jobs

                     Living rhinos also create jobs in        
                     remote areas, where local men are hired
                     to track the creatures and try to keep them safe.
                     To them, a dead rhinoceros is worthless. Reserve
                     owner Landman says that he employees five times as
                     many people as he did when he farmed and adds that
                     the threat of poaching is greatly reduced when all
                     who live in the area have a stake in the welfare
                     of the wildlife.

                     "They see the animals as the source of income and
                     won't let anything slip their eye," he said.

                     The incidence of poaching has dropped markedly in
                     South Africa and other countries -- not only
                     because the rangers have been successful, but also
                     because there are so few rhinos left to poach. The
                     few that are left, Walker says, "are in tightly
                     patrolled sanctuaries" and watched closely.

                     Walker, who has raised motherless rhinos in his
                     home, said the species' demise would cost humanity
                     "something very special."

                     In the end, the campaign to allow legal trade in
                     rhino horns -- an attempt to reverse a
                     conservation policy built up over decades -- has
                     at its roots a simple philosophy: that the world
                     is a place of infinite variety, a range of species
                     woven together in a complex web. And if one part
                     should disappear, all that are left behind will be
                     diminished.


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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 17:17:07 -0500 (EST)
>From: allen schubert 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US) Howard Lyman Lecture
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Posted for EarthSave Central PA (Located near Harrisburg PA):
---------------------------------------------------
Howard Lyman will speak on Friday, November 22, 1996, at 6:00 p.m., at
Embers Inn & Convention Center, Carlisle PA.  EarthSave Central PA will hold
a Turkey-Free Thanksgiving and host special guest speaker, Howard Lyman. 

Howard Lyman is a fourth-generation ex-cattle rancher from Montana.  His
experience has taken him from the Montana Farmers Union to the National
Farmers Union to Capitol Hill as a lobbyist.  He is the founder and
executive director of "Voice for a Viable Future," is on the Board of
Advisors of EarthSave International, is the Director of the United States,
Humane Society's "Eathing with a Conscience" Campaign, and is serving as
President of the International Vegetarian Union.  Howard Lyman has appeared
on the Oprah Winfrey Show and Hard Copy following the outbreak of Mad Cow
Disease.  His knowledge and experience has made him one of the most
sought-after speakers in the environmental, vegetarian, and animal rights
movements, taking him all across the country and abroad.

Those attending will provide plant-based dishes for all to share.
Participation costs $5.00 for EarthSave Central PA members bringing a dish,
$7.00 for nonmembers bringing a dish, and $10.00 for general admission.
This is a fund-raising event for EarthSave Central PA.  Reservations and
additional information are available through EarthSave Central PA at:

EarthSave Central PA
PO Box 459
Carlisle, PA  17013
717-245-2329
717-944-0617


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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 11:52:49 -0500
>From: Carmen Lee <105252.3520@compuserve.com>
To: AR-News 
Subject: Library / Archive Project Needs Help
Message-ID: <199611041733_MC1-BA5-92F8@compuserve.com>

The Animals' Agenda [magazine] is currently establishing an animal rights
library and archive at its Baltimore [Maryland, USA] headquarters.  All
librarians, archivists, oral historians, and individuals interested in
assisting this project are invited to contact The Animals' Agenda (e-mail 
75543.3331@compuserve.com) or the volunteer project coordinator (e-mail
105252.3520@compuserve.com).

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Date: 04 Nov 96 18:17:21 EST
>From: Pamelyn Ferdin <74107.3244@CompuServe.COM>
To: AR-News 
Subject: NYC Protest 11/13/96
Message-ID: <961104231721_74107.3244_GHQ75-3@CompuServe.COM>

LEON HIRSCH, PRESIDENT OF   U.S. SURGICAL TO RECEIVE AWARD!

YES, IT IS HARD TO BELIEVE BUT........ SOUND SHORE MEDICAL CENTER WILL BE
PRESENTING HIM WITH AN AWARD ON NOVEMBER 13TH AT A CEREMONY TO BE
HELD AT THE
WALDORF ASTORIA HOTEL at 301 Park Ave. At 50th Street. 

LET'S BE THERE WITH SIGNS AND HANDOUTS  (A LETTER FROM A SURGEON)
TELLING THE
GUESTS THE TRUTH ABOUT U.S. SURGICAL'S ABUSE OF ANIMALS.
                  TRY TO  WEAR BLACK
MEET IN FRONT OF THE WALDORF ASTORIA  AT 6:30 pm, WEDNESDAY,
NOVEMBER 13TH.  
BRING SIGNS THAT HAVE PICTURES OF LAB DOGS AND/OR SIGNS THAT SAY
......................
     U.S. SURGICAL STAPLES DOGS TO DEATH!
     U.S. SURGICAL SLAUGHTERS DOGS!
     LEON HIRSCH KILLS INNOCENT DOGS TO MAKE MONEY!
     HIRSCH KILLS NEEDLESSLY FOR GREED!
          FOR FURTHER INFO. PLEASE CALL                 
    JERRY AT (203) 263-0505 or  
    BARBARA AT (914) 693-6559 


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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 20:17:01 -0500
>From: MINKWOMAN@aol.com
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: LC in Oregonian...
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Below is an article that appeared in the paper today in Portland...GO LC

Special Report  
Passion and protest override comfort and complacency for these animal-rights
activists

Trying to stop animal suffering:  For Liberation Collective members, speaking
out against global oppression outweighs personal inconvenience

By Erin Hoover of the Oregonian staff

It's a weekday in Portland  Many people are working in warm buildings, their
coffee cups at arm's length.  But Craig Rosebraugh is sitting on cold
concrete, a bike lock linking his neck to the entrance of Legacy Health
System offices at Northwest 19th and Lovejoy.

Police officers, observing the nonviolent protest, move in after two hours
and arrest Rosebraugh and 10 other animal-rights demonstrators for
trespassing and criminal mischief.

The protesters spend eight hours communing with drug users and parole
violators in Justice Center Jail holding cells.

They don't sample the jail's macaroni and cheese.  On principle, they refuse
to eat dairy products or meat--but they think better than telling the guards.

For Rosebraugh, 24, and his compatriots in a group called the Liberation
Collective, the need to speak out outweighs the day's discomforts.  They live
the lives of activists, motivated more by principles than paychecks.

"If you did not know anything else about the issue, (the demonstration) would
look like a fanatical action to take," Rosebraugh says.  "But when you think
of all the suffering that goes on worldwide, not just with animals but with
humans, it makes you feel somewhat good that you're one of the few willing to
take a stand."

Rosebraugh works at a record store and teaches a social justice class as a
volunteer at a community school.  He helped found the Liberation Collective
eight months ago.

The group says it focuses on animal testing and the connections among all
forms of oppression, including issues of environmentalism and gay rights.

The Liberation Collective meets monthly at a Southeast Portland bookstore.
 But its 35 to 40 active members, ranging in age from 18 to 45, spend part of
every week planning demonstrations, staffing information tables and producing
a newsletter.

Members include college students, a bicycle messenger, a property management
employee and a dishwasher -- jobs that support and allow time for their
activism.

Each month, the group marches and pickets to draw attention to neurological
research conducted on cats at Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital.  Its Oct. 29
demonstration was the most confrontational, resulting in the 11 arrests.

For members such as Jeff Morehead, it was their first time in jail.

Morehead, 37, says he discovered activism and animal rights a year ago at a
conference he attended with his wife.

He was struck by the injustice of a few people with power inflicting pain on
the vulnerable, he says.  Ending such injustice could mean more compassion in
the world.  And he sees in the activists some of the heroism that seems lost
today.

Now, looking for work after being laid off from his bookstore manager's job,
he volunteers 30 hours a week with the Liberation Collective.

Sitting on a hard bench in a cell Tuesday, staring at walls caked in places
with blood, Morehead thought about his commitment.

"It's hard to say 100 percent that is isn't sometimes discouraging," Morehead
says.  "I can't see any other way to get people to listen at the moment."

The Liberation Collective has drawn a smattering of local media attention.
 Legacy Health Systems has refused to meet with the group.
     
Dr. Lutz Kiesow, Legacy Health Systems' chief of research, says the cat
research -- in which electrodes are implanted in cats' brains to study
balance -- helps shed light on such disorders as Parkinson's disease and
brain injuries in humans.

He credits protesters with ending unnecessary animal testing and improving
treatment of laboratory animals by making intense scrutiny by the federal
government and other groups routine.  But he says the protests now seem
counterproductive.

"The image some people have of the medieval scientist cruelly torturing
animals is absolutely ridiculous in the biomedical research environment of
today," Kiesow says.  Halting animal testing would mean losing the ability to
gather valuable information, he says.

But the Liberation Collective wants all animal testing to be replaced with
computer modeling, epidemiological studies, in vitro research or clinical
tests with humans.

Several of the arrested protesters have been activists for years, including a
41-year-old musician who joined the animal rights cause 20 years ago and
19-year-old Vanessa Villarreal.

Villarreal, who moved from California to Portland this year, says she became
an activist as a young adolescent when she marched in anti-Gulf War protests.
 She organized other students in high school to work at soup kitchens and get
involved in Earth Day.

Now she works in a gift shop on Southeast Hawthorne and attends Liberation
Collective protests.

"I just don't like sitting back and complaining about things," Villarreal
says.  "You have to do it.  Where would we be without protesters?"

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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 20:23:45 -0500
>From: MINKLIB@aol.com
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Anti Fur Resources Available
Message-ID: <961104202342_1747452082@emout09.mail.aol.com>

We are selling the following books, reports, etc. to any interested parties.
 These items can be excellant resources for your anti fur campaigns this
season.

All orders must be done through snail mail, and can be sent to:
CAFT
PO Box 822411
Dallas, TX 75382


*Fur Farming in Finland $2
Seventy percent of the worlds fox farms are in Finland, and this report
describes, in detail, the conditions of the animals in these farms, as well
as the environmental ramifications of intensive fox farming.

*The Holland Reports $10
Holland became the first nation in the world to ban fox farming.  A mink
farming ban fell short by just a few votes.  This is a collection of reports,
used by the Dutch parliament, when deciding the fate of the anti fur farm
legislation.  One piece is too sympathetic to the fur industry, and is
followed by 12 articles refuting its claims.  This goes very in-depth into
the environmental and social deprivation that mink must endure on fur farms.
 Very good!

*Jaws of Steel by Thomas Eveland $8
This is the most comprehensive anti trapping book available.  This book
argues nearly every anti trapping argument, while devoting 4 chapters to
refuting pro trapping arguments with well reasoned, biological arguments.

*Living With Beaver by Thomas Eveland $3
Trappers try and defend their activity by claiming that they must control
beaver populations.  This booklet outlines non-lethal beaver control methods.
 It also discusses the environmental benefits of having a strong beaver
population.

*The Final Nail $2
This booklet is an ALF guide book to destroying the fur industry.  Above
ground groups might still find it useful as it lists known fur farms and
their locations.  If there is a farm nearby, you can get photos, etc. for
that local news angle at your protests

*The Final Nail supplement $1
Has some new farms listed, as well as articles about mink liberation and mink
adaptability to the wild.  Discusses new security measures being adopted by
fur farmers.

*No Blood For Vanity bumper sticker $2
If any groups want bulk amounts of these (10 or more) then we can sell them
for 70 cents a piece.  It is a glossy sticker with No Blood For Vanity in
blood red an Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade in black along with two
little mink.

*No Compromise #4, #3, and #2 $2 an issue
This is the news magazine of the direct action animal lib movement.  It
contains updates on civil disobedience campaigns, ALF updates, and news in
the grassroots animal rights movement.

*Underground #5 $3
News magazine of the North American ALF Supporters Group.  Contains articles
on the ALF mink liberation campaign, ALF news from around the world, etc.

All orders come with a free Point/Counterpoint flyer that refutes the 15 most
commonly used pro fur arguments.  You can still get this by sending a SASE or
donation to the CAFT address.

***********


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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 20:19:02 -0800 (PST)
>From: David J Knowles 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: International Orangutan Awareness Week
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November 4th - 10th, 1996 has been declared International Orangutan
Awareness Week by the Orangutan Foundation International.

This is the first of what is hoped to become an annual event. It is being
held to highlight the problems that the orangutan faces in its native Borneo
and Sumatra, and to recognize the anniversary of Dr. Birute Galdikas first
trip into the rainforest.

I recently spoke with Cat Simrel Ishikawa, who is secretary of the Orangutan
Foundation (Canada) and is also the Canadian coordinator for the Great Ape
Project. The full interview aired today.

Ishikawa notes the greatest threats to the once-widespread orangutan are
logging activities by international logging companies and animal traders. An
estimated six to eight young orangutans die for every one taken into
captivity, and the population has diminished by an estimated 50 per cent in
recent years as a result of these twin threats.

He also points out that although originally one of the three "Leaky's
Angels", chosen by Louis Leakey, to date Birute Galdikas has not had the
same public recognition as her two compatriates - Dianne Fossey and Jane
Goodall.

 Despite Dr. Galdikas still teaching at Simon Fraser University, near
Vancouver, she has received little acknowledgement locally for her work.
Ishikawa hopes this will change in the near future - Galdikas' autobiography
was published last year, and a biographical film is due to be made next year.

November 6, 1996 marks the 25th anniversary of Birute Galdikas' first trip
to Indonesia.

-David




   



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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 20:19:05 -0800 (PST)
>From: David J Knowles 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Alert as new brain disease hits beef herds in Britain[UK]
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>From The Electronic Telegraph - Tuesday, November 5th, 1996

 
Alert as new brain disease hits beef herds in Britain
By David Brown, Agriculture Editor 

                                                 GOVERNMENT vets are baffled
by another fatal brain disease of cattle which has been discovered by
scientists fighting the BSE epidemic.

                                                More than 100 British cattle
are known to have died so far from the mystery illness, which has no known
cure. The only other single case was reported in Switzerland. The disease,
known as
idiopathic brainstem neuronal chromatolysis, was found in 1989 - three years
after BSE was first identified - when scientists examined the brains of
cattle culled mistakenly as victims of BSE. Many showed clinical symptoms
almost identical to those of mad cow disease. Most of the victims were in
Scottish herds but at least five cattle in England have also succumbed - and
there may be more.

                                                The most worrying aspect for
farmers is that, unlike BSE, the second disease has mainly targeted beef
herds rather than dairy cows. BSE has claimed most of its victims between
two and 12 years   old; IBNC has mainly hit beef animals between six and 12
years old. 

                                                The Ministry of Agriculture
has appealed to vets to report any new cases, but the ministry said
yesterday: "This is purely a veterinary problem. There are no implications
for human health."

                                                A spokesman said that while
BSE had so far claimed more than 164,000 cattle in Britain, the second
illness had hit very few. Only between eight and 27 cases a year are
reported. Since all cattle more than 30 months old are destroyed routinely
under the Government's emergency measures to restore confidence in beef, the
ministry says that consumers do not have even a remote chance of eating beef
from the older cattle.

-David


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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 20:19:08 -0800 (PST)
>From: David J Knowles 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Drug firm prefers to do tests on humans[UK]
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>From the Electronic Telegraph - Tuesday, November 5th, 1996

Drug firm prefers to do tests on humans
By Roger Highfield, Science Editor 


                                                 A DRUG evaluation company
is to reduce animal testing by using humans in trials of drugs to treat
anxiety, depression, addiction and a range of other psychiatric disorders.

                                                Neuraxis claims to be the
only company in the world that has the ability to test the effectiveness of
neurological drugs using healthy human volunteers before subjecting the
substances to clinical trials, which can cost millions.

                                                The company bases its
expertise on a decade of work on volunteers by Prof Bill Deakin of
Manchester University, who is now a non-executive director of Neuraxis.

                                                "We aim to help select or
reject drugs for very expensive clinical trials," he said. "That is
critically important now because there are so many compounds under
development, not just for anxiety but schizophrenia, depression and drug 
abuse."

                                                Prof Deakin said that it was
difficult to do away with all animal studies in efforts to unravel basic
drug biochemistry, but using humans provided more immediately applicable data.

                                                To test drugs that can allay
anxiety, for example, Prof Deakin first used research which showed that when
a healthy individual is anxious, the same parts of the brain are involved as
in morbid states of anxiety.

                                                He then developed a
reproducible laboratory method to make volunteers anxious. Volunteers are
given a dummy or real drug and are then told they have two minutes to
prepare a speech to teams of psychologists. "It is guaranteed to induce
anxiety," he said.

                                                Panic attacks can be created
by triggering the brain's "suffocation alarm" by giving the volunteers air
containing high levels of carbon dioxide. Again, the panic reaction is
measured after taking a dummy or the drug of interest.

                                                In the case of
schizophrenia, the search is on for drugs to deal with lack of motivation
and self-neglect by activating part of the brain called the frontal cortex.
Prof Deakin found that probing the frontal cortex in the normal volunteers
provided the best information possible to predict a drug's effectiveness.

                                                Volunteers can earn
"hundreds of pounds" depending on whether they have to stay overnight for
observation, he said.

-David


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Date: Mon, 4 Nov 1996 20:40:19 -0800 (PST)
>From: anmlpepl@whidbey.com (Merritt Clifton,  editor,  ANIMAL PEOPLE)
To: AR-news@envirolink.org
Cc: Crystall@capecod.net
Subject: FoA goes to IRS re March money
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>"Not to change the subject but could you please tell me what happened
>finally with the Peter Gerard/Washington D.C. thing?
Thanks
Truddi Lawler<"

     It will probably be a few years before we know what happened finally,
as the IRS moves glacially slowly and is presently in the process of
drafting new regulations governing nonprofit accountability,  as authorized
by the 104th Congress,  which would apply to just this sort of situation.
    Meanwhile,   below is the latest information we're aware of.
--Merritt Clifton,  editor,  ANIMAL PEOPLE.

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

FoA goes to the IRS seeking World Week missing money
(From ANIMAL PEOPLE,  10/96.)

        WASHINGTON D.C.--Dissatisfied with World Animal Awareness Week
organizer Peter Gerard's September 3 statement of income and receipts,
Friends of Animals is pursuing legal action to force more complete
disclosure.
        At deadline several other World Week sponsors indicated that they
might join the FoA initative if Gerard failed to promptly provide a
specific list of donors and the amounts they gave,  along with an itemized
list of expenditures.
        Wrote FoA counsel Herman Kaufman to Gerard on September 4,
"Friends of Animals Inc.,  cognizant of your failure and refusal to respond
to the organizations' requests for a true accounting of the revenues and
expenses generated in connection with World Animal Awareness Week and the
March for Animals,  has directed me to request an audit and examination of
your books by the Internal Revenue Service."
        The World Week program thanked donors for cash gifts of at least
$754,925,  under seven different headings,  each representing a specific
level of giving.  The amounts purportedly given at each level were stated
in the literature that Gerard's organization,  the National Alliance for
Animals,  used to solicit donations.
        However,  Gerard's September 3 statement,  issued after Gerard
reportedly received repeated requests for a complete accounting from at
least four institutional sponsors,  listed cash contributions under only
four headings,  totalling just $376,157.   Only one heading,  the Honor
Roll,  appeared on both lists.
        The $33,557 for which Gerard thanked Honor Roll donors was
plausibly close to the amount indicated by the World Week program.  But
from other donor categories,  Gerard on September 3 claimed to have
received just $342,600,  $382,400 less than the $725,000 received according
to the program acknowledgements.
        Gerard in a July 15 letter to Kaufman attributed the difference to
receipt of donated goods and services from some sponsors in lieu of cash.
However,  Gerard's September 3 statement made no reference to either the
receipt or the value of in-kind contributions.
        Gerard's September 3 statement claimed ticket sales revenue of
$205,419,  only slightly less than the $213,600 that attendence estimates
indicated.  Together with the donations,  this should have given World Week
resources,  whether received as cash or in kind,  of upward of $950,000.
        Although World Week drew only 3,000 participants,  according to the
National Park Service crowd count at the biggest event,  the June 23 March,
well below the 100,000 participants that promotional literature promised,
ticket sales alone should have almost covered the costs,  which Gerard at
the Summit for the Animals in April estimated at $218,000,  plus
unspecified amounts for advertising that the September 3 statement
indicated as $13,320.
        The September 3 statement,  however,  alleged World Week cash
expenses came to $674,339,  more than triple the April estimate.  Gerard
reported $79,240 as WAAW "Gala Expense,"  $55,097 as "March Expense,"  and
$136,377 as "World Congress Expense,"  offering no further breakdown.  The
Gala,  the March,  and the World Congress were the major events of World
Animal Awareness Week,  but Gerard said the sum of their declared cost,
$271,714,  was less than half of the total World Week outlay.
        A comparision of the further expenses Gerard claimed on September 3
with the estimates he gave the Summit in April revealed more unexplained
discrepancies:
                            April                 Sept. 3

Payroll                 $  69,000               $ 160,641
Contracted services     $  83,000               $  21,595
Printed materials       $  18,400               $  43,729
Office expense          $  17,400               $  38,995
Telephone               $   3,600               $  12,864
Postage,  shipping      $   7,200               $  61,102

        Offsetting the $62,000 overestimate of expenditures for contracted
services were  unexplained expenditures in excess of estimates amounting to
approximately $207,000
        Gerard informed the Summit for the Animals that "computers,  fax,
copier,  typewriters,  printers,  laptops,  phones,  and general office
equipment" would be donated by the National Alliance for Animals,  which he
heads.  However,  his September 3 statement charged $1,354.27 to World Week
budget for use of unspecified office equipment.
        Alan Berger,  executive director of the Animal Protection
Institute,  wrote to Gerard on July 15,  three weeks after FoA's initial
demand,  also seeking "a complete accounting of the revenues and expenses,"
along with explanations "for the small turnout,  lack of celebrities, "
and other disappointing aspects of World Week.  "Besides our sponsorship
amount,"  Berger said,  "we spent another $12,000 on travel,  products,
printed materials,  and advertising,  in addition to our hours of staff
time.  I'm sure,"  he concluded,  "that many other sponsors have similar
questions and concerns."
        Claimed Gerard in a nine-page July 23 response,  "I have in fact
received no other letters or phone calls from sponsors which might be
viewed as critical of the event."
        As to the API expenditures,  Gerard said,  "That was your decision
and not mine."



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