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AR-NEWS Digest 491
Topics covered in this issue include:
1) Re: Talk: This could help the animals: AOL's Instant Messenger software.
by Pat Fish
2) [UK] Big jams, sun-burned pigs . . . the heat goes on
by David J Knowles
3) Fwd: Urgent RFI
by David J Knowles
4) Re: Talk: This could help the animals: AOL's Instant Messenger software.
by LMANHEIM@aol.com
5) Dog gets Employee of the Month
by SDURBIN@VM.TULSA.CC.OK.US
6) King Royal Circus
by PAWS
7) request to have this message posted on ar-news
by Hillary
8) Re: Talk: This could help the animals: AOL's Instant
Messenger software.
by civillib@cwnet.com
9) August 5th Family Circle Magazine
by SDURBIN@VM.TULSA.CC.OK.US
10) Boombox in Hawai'i repaired
by Animal Rights Hawaii
11) Needs any animal rights publications dealing with LAW issues
by SDURBIN@VM.TULSA.CC.OK.US
12) SUPPORT NEEDED !
by Nicolas Entrup <106127.1133@compuserve.com>
13) SUPPORT NEEDED !
by Nicolas Entrup <106127.1133@compuserve.com>
14) Finland OKs grey seal hunting
by LCartLng@gvn.net (Lawrence Carter-Long)
15) Mysterious BSE-Like Illness ?
by Ty Savoy
16) King Royal
by PAWS
17) State Hog Inventory Up 30% - Oklahoma (USA)
by Snugglezzz@aol.com
18) LANGUR MONKEYS NEED YOUR HELP
by "ida"
19) MTM Profile in August 1997 McCall's
by "A. Hogan"
20) Health Canada Primates on CTV
by Sean Thomas
21) (US) Lower Pocomoke River To Be Reopened
by allen schubert
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 05:36:01 +0000 (GMT)
From: Pat Fish
To: LMANHEIM@aol.com
Cc: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Re: Talk: This could help the animals: AOL's Instant Messenger software.
Message-ID:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
On Sun, 10 Aug 1997 LMANHEIM@aol.com wrote about AOL Instant Messenger:
Lynn, nothing personal here, OK? With that said I must state for all
subscribers:
Aaargh! Please no HTML. Please no commercial adverts for AOL.
>Sorry, it's not directly animal related, but it can help a-r folks contact
>each other FAST when they need to.
AR activists should not be patronizing AOL, let alone promote them on
AR-News. Most unix based ISPs support fast mail (unlike AOL) and a talk
command. AOL is way behind as usual. You are only impressed by these things
because AOL cons users into a twisted view of technology. Don't help AOL
continue to RIP PEOPLE OFF. AR folks are luddite enough as it is, without
being brainwashed by AOL and it's moron-speak.
>This is FREE software that enables you to send and receive Instant (realtime)
>messages to individuals on the Internet who have the same software.
Only available for those who bought the Gillette and P&G of the computing
world: IBM compatibles/Windows and Apple Macs.
> (Everyone on America Online has it already.) It also lets you set up a
>Buddy List. When someone on your Buddy List is online, you are made aware of
>it and can IM (instant message) him or her to chat.
Is this supposed to entice anybody? I hope not. You should be on a
respectable ISP, not glorifying AOL. Besides this stuff is decades old.
AOL, like Apple and IBM, Microsoft, etc., devise their own lingo to pull the
wool over your eyes to keep you from knowing this is crap meant to cover a
glaring deficiency. Only AOL types would be impressed. And presumably
AOLers already know about this dungware. Therefore the rest of us have no
use for it (unless I suppose we have to contact an AOLer, in whch case
we're not AOL users and probably don't know what the hell a "Buddy List"
is). Now if AOL wasn't a total waste of money, a bucket of hype, and
supported the net convention of talk, fingering, etc., then these "features"
wouldn't even be needed. But AOL is trash. They shovel this pablum at you,
as a crude patch for their flaws. If AOL wasn't shit, they would simply
support, at a minimum, TALK.
>I would never give up AOL, even though it was a royal pain for quite a long
>time,
AOL is a hemmoroid on the internet. Do yourself and the animals a favor and
try out a real ISP. AOL is unethical and a joke. They practice platform
discrimination, and have reamed AR folks on several occasions.
> because of this incredible feature (and other things too).
Again, this is a crock. It's nothing new for real ISPs. Please don't hype
AOL on AR-News.
> Now it's
>available to EVERYONE.
Everyone whos unethical enough to buy a Intel box or Mac that is.
> You're gonna love it! A letter from AOL follows my
>Letters for Animals "commercial." :-)
Please no HTML. Please no commercial adverts for AOL. AOL is about as bad
as it gets. Get on a real ISP and you'll see how AOL has distorted your
view of the net.
Nothing personal, I just can't see AR activists supporting AOL (or CIS, or
MSN) let alone advertising for them dungware.
Pat Fish
Computer Professionals for Earth & Animals
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 00:15:21 -0700 (PDT)
From: David J Knowles
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: [UK] Big jams, sun-burned pigs . . . the heat goes on
Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19970811001617.09af957a@dowco.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
(After all those freezing penguin stories in winter, thought you might like
the other extreme)
>From The Electronic Telegraph - Monday, August 11th, 1997
Big jams, sun-burned pigs . . . the heat goes on
By David Graves
MOST of Britain basked in the hottest weekend of the year as temperatures in
the south of the country passed 31C (88F).
Seaside resorts and beauty spots were packed and long motorway jams built up
as tens of thousands of people headed for the coast. Some areas recorded the
third successive day of temperatures nudging 32C (90F).
The London Weather Centre said last night that most of the country would be
hot and humid again today with thunderstorms forecast for later in the day.
Temperatures are expected to cool tomorrow, although it will continue to be
warm.
At Brighton yesterday, Brett Aldridge, 15, caught a 15in Triggerfish. The
species is normally found in the warmer waters of the Caribbean. Along the
south coast at Hove, Renato Marrocco, an Italian-born ice-cream seller, said
he he had his first customer at 8am.
It was so hot at Drusillas Zoo, near Eastbourne, that staff had to spray
water over their emus to keep them cool. At Butterfly World,
Stockton-on-Tees, cool air was pumped into a hothouse to save the
butterflies. Near Carlisle, staff at the Cumbria rare breeds farm daubed
factor 15 suntan cream on their Vietnamese pot-bellied pigs to stop them
getting burned. At Worthing, Sussex, two elderly women were treated for
heatstroke after they insisted on wearing their cardigans.
[Snip]
© Copyright Telegraph Group Limited 1997.
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 23:51:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: David J Knowles
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Fwd: Urgent RFI
Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19970810235157.0da79446@dowco.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
I just received the following RFI from Marguerite (bunny), who urgently
needs to know whether there is any SCIENTIFIC evidence to show that rabbits
poisoned with PINDONE
suffer prior to death or at the time of death.
Please repond with any answers directly to Marguerite at: rabbit@wantree.com.au
Marguerite apologises for not being able to post this herself but has had to
unsubscribe from ar-news and views for now. She is also busy in the rescue
of feral rabbits and has become aware of another threat.
TIA,
David
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 04:02:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: LMANHEIM@aol.com
To: pfish@fang.cs.sunyit.edu
Cc: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Re: Talk: This could help the animals: AOL's Instant Messenger software.
Message-ID: <970811035720_280621387@emout20.mail.aol.com>
Whoops...sorry everyone, especially Allen, about the HTML in my message.
Also...didn't mean to unleash the hounds of hell...was simply trying to be
helpful. :-) I am not profiting in any way by recommending the free
software. If it helps ar people to communicate more quickly and efficiently
with each other, it's a good thing. Period.
Lynn Manheim
Letters for Animals
PO Box 7-AO
La Plume, PA 18440
717-945-5312
Fax: -3471
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 97 07:21:26 UTC
From: SDURBIN@VM.TULSA.CC.OK.US
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Dog gets Employee of the Month
Message-ID: <199708111222.IAA03990@envirolink.org>
(Effingham, Illinois, USA): The top dog in the Effingham, Ill., sheriff's
office is really a dog.
Fritz the German Shepherd was named employee of the month. Now the question
is where he will get lunch.
The employee of the month wins a lunch with the sheriff and chief deputy.
But, says Sheriff Ron Meek, "We're looking for just the right restaurant."
The monthly award just started. Fritz was the second winner. The first
winner was a 25-year veteran of the dept.
But Fritz was the clear choice for July. He caught two men who had stolen
a car. They abandoned the car and ran from a state trooper. Fritz sniffed
out one thief who was hiding in a construction shed. He found the second
in a garage.
His main job is sniffing out drugs. But he showed he can do more.
"Fritz is well-respected at the sheriff's office," Meek said.
-- Sherrill
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 09:01:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: PAWS
To: jrogers@aphis.usda.gov
Cc: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: King Royal Circus
Message-ID:
MIME-Version: 1.0
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August 11, 1997
Mr. James Rogers
Public Relations
US Department of Agriculture
Dear Mr. Rogers,
PAWS is in receipt of a copy of an article from the Beloit, Wisconsin
Daily News (8/5/97) regarding the King Royal Circus. In that article,
you stated that "the only other incident on record for King
Royal"--besides the beating of a baby elephant in Oregon in 1994--was "a
ticket for a minor infraction in 1992."
In fact, though, the King Royal Circus has a long history of violations
of the Animal Welfare Act, for which that circus has been cited by your
Department. These records are in your files. It is of great concern to
PAWS that your agency does not seem to be able to manage its own
records. How can you monitor chronic violators of the Animal Welfare Act
when you can't even find documents concerning their past actions in your
own files?
PAWS is sending under separate cover copies of documents from USDA files
about the King Royal Circus which we have received through the Freedom of
Information Act so that you may read them and be aware of them. In 1993,
for example, USDA inspectors of King Royal found a dead elephant in a
truck; a dead giraffe in a trailer; and a group of animals abandoned in
Alaska. These incidents generated several documents and several visits
by Dr. Ridenour, Dr. McKelvey, investigator Greg Nelson, and others.
These activities must have been at great cost to the Department and,
therefore, to taxpayers.
It is unthinkable that all of these documents could have been misplaced
or ignored by your offie and that you could tell a journalist that, with
the exception of the Oregon incident, King Royal's past record reflects
only a "ticket" for a "minor infraction." I hope that the death of King
Royal's young African elephant Heather last week in Albuquerque will not
later be referred to as another "minor infraction."
Documents from King Royal's USDA file are being sent to you under
separate cover so that in the future--if you are asked to give
information about this Circus--you will be able to give an accurate
account.
Sincerely,
Pat Derby
Director
Performing Animal Welfare Society
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 10:34:02 -0700
From: Hillary
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: request to have this message posted on ar-news
Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970811103400.006e96b4@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net>
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>Date: 07 Aug 97 13:27:47 EDT
>Reply-To: 74754.654@CompuServe.COM
>Sender: owner-ar-news@envirolink.org
>From: 0 <74754.654@CompuServe.COM>
>To: Ian Lance Taylor
>Subject: request to have this message posted on ar-news
>X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.0 -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN
>
>GOOD NEWS FROM ISRAEL - ANIMAL AMBULANCE FINALLY ALLOWED
DUTY-FREE
>ENTRY
>
>Concern for Helping Animals in Israel (CHAI) has won its battle
>over the equal treatment of ambulances for people and animals.
>CHAI had sought to donate an animal ambulance to the SPCA in
>Tiberias, Israel to enable it to pick up sick, stray and injured
>animals and transport them to medical help. However, while
>ambulances for Israel's public hospitals were allowed to enter the
>country duty-free, CHAI's identically equipped animal ambulance for
>a public animal shelter was charged $40,000 customs duties (the
>ambulance cost $26,000).
>
>Instead of allowing shelters to receive donated ambulances that
>would have allowed them to fulfill their function of controlling
>the animal overpopulation in humane ways, the government continued
>to mass strychnine poison animals in the fields and streets,
>claiming they had no humane alternative.
>
>Years ago, CHAI replaced the strychnine poisonings in the municipal
>pounds with use of the humane euthanasia drug sodium pentobarbitol.
>
>To replace the poisonings in the fields and streets - which the
>Veterinary Services claimed they carry out to control rabies - CHAI
>urged the Veterinary Services to field test the oral rabies vaccine
>that has wiped out rabies in Western Europe. The vaccine was
>successfully field tested, but the Veterinary Services has not yet
>purchased and distributed it, citing financial considerations and
>concerns that rabid animals will just come across the border.
>
>While CHAI continues to work to end these poisonings, it sought to
>make it possible for the animal shelters to pick up animals before
>the municipal authorities would resort to poisoning them. The
>imposition of exhorbitant customs duties prevented this humane
>solution.
>
>Many organizations and individuals appealed to the Israeli
>government to show compassion, including 25 U.S. Senators and
>Congresspeople, Nobel Laureate and former CHAI Advisory Board
>member Isaac Bashevis Singer before his death, the heads of many
>Jewish organizations (including the one that sends human ambulances
>to Israel) and many animal protection organizations. Even Israel's
>two Chief Rabbis (Ashkenazi and Sephardic) wrote that the
>government's action violated Jewish law by denying help to
>suffering animals. All appeals were rejected.
>
>Many CHAI members who are contributors to Israel, including to the
>United Jewish Appeal and Israel Bonds, withheld their contributions
>in protest. Finally, with the help of Knesset members Avraham
>Poraz (sponsor of Israel's first Animal Protection Law), Uzi
>Landau, and Maxim Levy, a bill to change the government's policy on
>the ambulances was finally introduced into the Knesset (Israel's
>Parliament). CHAI Advisory Board member Rep. Tom Lantos wrote to
>every member of both majority parties in Israel (Labor and Likud),
>asking for their support of the Knesset bill. Many responded
>favorably, including the Vice-Chairman of the Knesset.
>
>The bill has been referred to the Knesset Finance Committee and
>CHAI will continue to press for its passage. To avoid further
>delaying the ambulance getting to the Tiberias shelter while
>awaiting passage of the legislation, however, Knesset member
>Avraham Poraz shortcut the legislative process and succeeded in
>convincing the Finance Ministry to take the customs duties for the
>first donated vehicle from the Treasury. The ambulance will be
>shipped to Israel August 24th and will arrive September 13th.
>
>The duty-free entry of Israel's first animal ambulance sets a
>precedent. Once it arrives and begins its life-saving work at the
>new Tiberias shelter, the other shelters in the country will demand
>that they, also, be allowed to have this means of carrying out
>their function. There can be no justification for granting the
>privilege to one shelter while denying it to another.
>
>CHAI thanks everyone for your support in this long, drawn-out
>struggle. It's a shame so much time and energy had to be expended
>on establishing the obvious - that animals suffer no less
>than humans and that their suffering matters no less than human
>suffering - but the ambulance can now begin its important work
>saving thousands of animal lives. We continue to urge anyone with
>contacts with Knesset members to urge them to pass the bill that
>will set this policy of compassion into stone forever.
>
>For further information, contact Nina Natelson, CHAI's Director, at
>POB 3341, Alex., VA 22302, tel. (703) 658-9650, fax (703) 941-6132,
>e-mail: 74754,654.compuserve.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 09:06:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: civillib@cwnet.com
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Re: Talk: This could help the animals: AOL's Instant
Messenger software.
Message-ID: <199708111606.JAA00296@borg.cwnet.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Allen, List,
This (below) is not news.
cres
At 05:36 AM 8/11/97 +0000, Pat Fish wrote:
>On Sun, 10 Aug 1997 LMANHEIM@aol.com wrote about AOL Instant Messenger:
>
>Lynn, nothing personal here, OK? With that said I must state for all
>subscribers:
>Aaargh! Please no HTML. Please no commercial adverts for AOL.
>
>>Sorry, it's not directly animal related, but it can help a-r folks contact
>>each other FAST when they need to.
>
>AR activists should not be patronizing AOL, let alone promote them on
>AR-News. Most unix based ISPs support fast mail (unlike AOL) and a talk
>command. AOL is way behind as usual. You are only impressed by these things
>because AOL cons users into a twisted view of technology. Don't help AOL
>continue to RIP PEOPLE OFF. AR folks are luddite enough as it is, without
>being brainwashed by AOL and it's moron-speak.
>
>>This is FREE software that enables you to send and receive Instant (realtime)
>>messages to individuals on the Internet who have the same software.
>
>Only available for those who bought the Gillette and P&G of the computing
>world: IBM compatibles/Windows and Apple Macs.
>
>
>> (Everyone on America Online has it already.) It also lets you set up a
>>Buddy List. When someone on your Buddy List is online, you are made aware of
>>it and can IM (instant message) him or her to chat.
>
>Is this supposed to entice anybody? I hope not. You should be on a
>respectable ISP, not glorifying AOL. Besides this stuff is decades old.
>AOL, like Apple and IBM, Microsoft, etc., devise their own lingo to pull the
>wool over your eyes to keep you from knowing this is crap meant to cover a
>glaring deficiency. Only AOL types would be impressed. And presumably
>AOLers already know about this dungware. Therefore the rest of us have no
>use for it (unless I suppose we have to contact an AOLer, in whch case
>we're not AOL users and probably don't know what the hell a "Buddy List"
>is). Now if AOL wasn't a total waste of money, a bucket of hype, and
>supported the net convention of talk, fingering, etc., then these "features"
>wouldn't even be needed. But AOL is trash. They shovel this pablum at you,
>as a crude patch for their flaws. If AOL wasn't shit, they would simply
>support, at a minimum, TALK.
>
>>I would never give up AOL, even though it was a royal pain for quite a long
>>time,
>
>AOL is a hemmoroid on the internet. Do yourself and the animals a favor and
>try out a real ISP. AOL is unethical and a joke. They practice platform
>discrimination, and have reamed AR folks on several occasions.
>
>> because of this incredible feature (and other things too).
>
>Again, this is a crock. It's nothing new for real ISPs. Please don't hype
>AOL on AR-News.
>
>> Now it's
>>available to EVERYONE.
>
>Everyone whos unethical enough to buy a Intel box or Mac that is.
>
>> You're gonna love it! A letter from AOL follows my
>>Letters for Animals "commercial." :-)
>
>Please no HTML. Please no commercial adverts for AOL. AOL is about as bad
>as it gets. Get on a real ISP and you'll see how AOL has distorted your
>view of the net.
>
>Nothing personal, I just can't see AR activists supporting AOL (or CIS, or
>MSN) let alone advertising for them dungware.
>
>Pat Fish
>Computer Professionals for Earth & Animals
>
>
>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 97 11:07:37 UTC
From: SDURBIN@VM.TULSA.CC.OK.US
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: August 5th Family Circle Magazine
Message-ID: <199708111605.MAA02021@envirolink.org>
The very last page has a full-page article by Mary Tyler Moore
called, "I refuse to eat anything with a face."- Full Circle
All Creatures Great and Small.
-- Sherrill
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 07:04:59 -1000 (HST)
From: Animal Rights Hawaii
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Boombox in Hawai'i repaired
Message-ID: <199708111704.HAA10769@mail.pixi.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
The Honolulu Advertiser reported today that the transmitter, which had been
lying on its side in 2300 feet of water, 8 miles north of Kaua'i, was
repositioned on July 25, and appears to be finally working. It is expected
to begin transmitting in October.
The California transmitter had worked for about 15 months before breaking,
but the Hawai'i unit never functioned. It was damaged while being
positioned, and the US Navy finally assisted in repositioning the unit to
get it to work. The California unit is still non-functional and bids are
being sought for repairs.
Humpback whales arrive in Hawai'i in December and remain here until spring.
Environmental and Animal Rights organizations continue to have concerns
about the effects of the noise from the boombox on the animals living in
the oceans around Kaua'i .
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 97 12:13:56 UTC
From: SDURBIN@VM.TULSA.CC.OK.US
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Needs any animal rights publications dealing with LAW issues
Message-ID: <199708111716.NAA11337@envirolink.org>
This lady moved to OK and has gotten a crash course on how bad our
animal abuse problems are. She's seeing animals being sacrificed in
religious ceremonies, etc. If you have any advice/help for her on
this, please call her: Ketra Bock, 918-825-6160. Her address:
HCR 65, Box #107, Cherokee Heights, Pryor, OK USA.
-- Sherrill
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 15:46:29 -0400
From: Nicolas Entrup <106127.1133@compuserve.com>
To: AR-NEWS
Subject: SUPPORT NEEDED !
Message-ID: <199708111546_MC2-1CE8-24A1@compuserve.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Disposition: inline
(Austria) FARMER SHOOTS ACTIVIST
On Thursday the 24th of July, activists from RespekTiere were documenting
the horrible conditions in a pig farm, in Puerstendorf, Austria, when
suddenly the owner of the farm fired several times with a shotgun without
any warning. One activist was injured in the leg. The activists left the
farm as fast as possible and ran into the surrounding fields, while the
shooter and another person were searching for them. Shocked the activists
tried to protect their lifes in the fields and escaped later on. The
activist was operated in a hospital and is doing quite well now.
But not so the pigs. Kept under horrible conditions the pigs are facing
death without really living before. RespekTiere campaigns against a project
to build a new intensive pig farm in Puerstendorf and against the actual
horrible conditions. The inhabitants of the village are
already faced with health risks caused by the emissions of the existing pig
farms. Please send protest faxes against the building of the new Pig farm
in Puerstendorf to State Governor Proell:
Landeshauptmann
Dr. Erwin Proell
Landhausplatz 1
3109 St. Pölten
Fax-Nr.: +43 2742 200 3030
The farmer already has the permits and so public national and international
pressure seems to be our and the pigs only hope. Please email copies of
your protest faxes to RespekTiere
e-mail: 106127.1133@compuserve.com, Fax. + 43 1 479 14 09
Thanks for your support.
Niki Entrup
RespekTiere
e-mail: 106127.1133@compuserve.com
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 15:46:29 -0400
From: Nicolas Entrup <106127.1133@compuserve.com>
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: SUPPORT NEEDED !
Message-ID: <199708111948.PAA28818@envirolink.org>
(Austria) FARMER SHOOTS ACTIVIST
On Thursday the 24th of July, activists from RespekTiere were documenting
the horrible conditions in a pig farm, in Puerstendorf, Austria, when
suddenly the owner of the farm fired several times with a shotgun without
any warning. One activist was injured in the leg. The activists left the
farm as fast as possible and ran into the surrounding fields, while the
shooter and another person were searching for them. Shocked the activists
tried to protect their lifes in the fields and escaped later on. The
activist was operated in a hospital and is doing quite well now.
But not so the pigs. Kept under horrible conditions the pigs are facing
death without really living before. RespekTiere campaigns against a project
to build a new intensive pig farm in Puerstendorf and against the actual
horrible conditions. The inhabitants of the village are
already faced with health risks caused by the emissions of the existing pig
farms. Please send protest faxes against the building of the new Pig farm
in Puerstendorf to State Governor Proell:
Landeshauptmann
Dr. Erwin Proell
Landhausplatz 1
3109 St. P=F6lten
Fax-Nr.: +43 2742 200 3030
The farmer already has the permits and so public national and international
pressure seems to be our and the pigs only hope. Please email copies of
your protest faxes to RespekTiere
e-mail: 106127.1133@compuserve.com, Fax. + 43 1 479 14 09
Thanks for your support.
Niki Entrup
RespekTiere
e-mail: 106127.1133@compuserve.com
SUPPORT NEEDED !
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 13:54:51 -0700
From: LCartLng@gvn.net (Lawrence Carter-Long)
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: Finland OKs grey seal hunting
Message-ID: <199708112049.QAA13954@envirolink.org>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>From the Environmetal News Network
(http://www.enn.com/newswire/081197/08119705.htm):
Finland OKs grey seal hunting
Bowing to pressure from fishermen who say seals threaten their salmon
catches, the Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry will allow the
killing of 30 grey seals
in the Baltic Sea this fall. Hunted down to an estimated 1,500 and protected
since
1980, the grey seal population has grown since then but has probably not
recovered enough to allow hunting, say Hanna Kokko, Jan Lindstrom and Esa
Ranta of the University of Helsinki in Finland in the August issue of
Conservation Biology. One reason Kokko and her colleagues oppose hunting
grey seals is that ringed seals may be shot by mistake, and the population
of ringed seals in the Baltic has clearly not recovered enough to sustain
hunting.
Lawrence Carter-Long
Coordinator, Science and Research Issues
Animal Protection Institute
phone: 916-731-5521
LCartLng@gvn.net
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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 18:36:28 -0300
From: Ty Savoy
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Subject: Mysterious BSE-Like Illness ?
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Following is taken from my local paper in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia,
Canada. A mysterious horse/livestock illness has taken many twists and turns
over the past two years and is still unsolved. Of note, especially
concerning many scientists' belief that Mad Cow Disease may currently be
present in North America in a form different than that of the British
Strain, perhaps manifesting itself with different symptoms and etiology.
>From The New Glasgow Evening News (Aug 11/97)
Second Horse Brain Goes Under Microscope
The deaths of horses in this community continue and the cause still remains
a mystery.
by Jeff Fulton
News Staff Writer
FOUR MILE BROOK --The deaths of the sick horses here is still under
investigation but officials are ruling out Mad Cow Disease,
A Veterinarian with the Nova Scotia Dept of Agriculture says initial
reports of Mad Cow Disease in one of the sick horses here is a mistake.
Dr Lyn Ferns, based out of the Department's Truro office, says the
autopsy of the most recent dead horse on Fran Bent's farm here in May,
revealed lesions on the brain but should not be misconceived as those
similar to Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy commonly known as Mad Cow Disease.
"It was a typo in the transcripts. There is no evidence of BSE," she
said of the recently released report.
She added however she could not release the real cause of death
without the owner's permission.
Owner Fran Bent said she is not sure what killed her horse in May,
the fourth to die this year. Her stables and those of neighbors have been
afflicted with a mysterious illness for more than two years. No common
thread or causes of death have ever been discovered.
"They say this last one of mine was death due to heart attack. But
that's like cancer. It isn't the cancer that kills you....your heart stops."
She says even the suspicion of BSE is curious regardless of the
retraction.
"We still don't know what this is. They tell us there is nothing in
common."
She said that in January everyone was quick to to say the horses had
worms and that was the cause. "They are not saying that anymore."
Sgt, Ken MacKinnon, head of the Pictou RCMP, has dismissed any
allegation the horses were undernourished. He said feed samples reveal they
were getting what they needed.
He says he is interested in finding out the cause of the mystery as
well.
"They say the brain showed lesions similar to those found in BSE,"
he said. "So they have sent the brain (of yet another horse in the area
which died in June) off to Ottawa for tests. They suspect something called TSE."
TSE, Sgt, MacKinnon explained is the generic form of the Spongiform
Encephalopathy called Transmital Spongiform Encephalopathy. They do not know
the cause and experts say it has not previously been discovered in horses.
Sgt. MacKinnon said the brain was sent 10 days ago and he is still
awaiting results.
The RCMP officer says he is still looking into the nature of the
sick horses and has in the course of his inquiries spoken to half a dozen
people accross the province whose animals are showing a variety of symptoms
that may or may not be related.
"There is nothing so far to suggest they all have the same thing or
anything at this point," he said.
At least 40 horses in the barns here have been showing signs of
everything from lameness to blindness to weight loss and lethargy to genital
malformation. Once the owners suspected mycotoxins in the feed as the cause
for the problems but the feed has reportedly come out clean.
Sgt. MacKinnon says he hopes the Ottawa lab tests will shed some
light on a connection between TSE and Mycotoxins. He says the basic research
he has done in the field, which he admits is way out of his league,
indicated modern technology and agriculture production techniques may have
some yet undiscovered byproducts of the food both anumals and humans injest.
He does not rule out mutancies as casual to some yet unidentified illnesses
possibly even the sick horse syndrome.
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 18:48:08 -0400 (EDT)
From: PAWS
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Please continue to write and call the USDA about the King Royal Circus'
continuing violations of the Animal Welfare Act. The USDA has the
authority to confiscate King Royal's animals. Please urge them to
confiscate them and place them in a safe refuge. Write or call:
Mr. Mike Dunn
Asst Sec for Marketing and Regulatory Affairs
AG Box 0109
Washington, DC 20250-0109
(202) 720-4256 phone
(202) 720-5775 fax
Dr. Ron DeHaven
Acting Deputy Administrator-Animal Care
4700 River Road Unit 97
Riverdale, Md. 20737
(301) 734-4980 phone
(301) 734-4993 fax
The following article appeared in the Albuquerque Journal (8/9/97):
Elephants, Llamas In City's Care: Judge Grants Albuquerque temporary
custody of circus animals that were found in a trailer
The city of Albuquerque is the guardian of eight llamas and a pair of
circus elephants--at least for now.
A state District Court judge on Friday granted temporary custody of the
animals after a city attorney argued they were being neglected and were
in "shocking condition." The llamas and elephants, Donna and Irene,
were found Wednesday evening, along with the corpse of a thrid elephant
named Heather, in what officials called a hot, poorly ventilated trailer.
Police made the bizarre discovery while on bicycle patrol outside a hotel
near Albuquerque International Sunport.
A court document says Judge Robert Thompson will have another hearing
Wednesday on the animals' fate. they belong to King Royal Circus based
near San Antonio, Texas, and Assistant City Attorney Greg Wheeler said
the circus can argue its case during that hearing.
Wheeler said officials are awaiting health reports on the animals before
they decide how to proceed, but he said the city will likely ask the
judge to either impound the animals and place them up for adoption or
give them to the city.
"We don't want King Royal to have them--based on what we've seen so far,"
he said Friday afternoon. "The judge has the jurisdiction and the power
to take them for good on a showing of cruelty."
When asked if this was the first time the city has sought temporary
custody of elephants, Wheeler said, "I can pretty much safely say, yes,
it is."
Ben Davenport, the animals' handler, has said the animals inside the
trailer were not neglected.
"You can accuse all you want, but that doesn't mean it's truth,"
Davenport said. "These animals have been around (us) for years. We are
not just going to abandon them. One thing I will assure you--these
animals are going with me."
Local attorney Ron Koch is representing the circus and said Friday
evening there is "no question" the circus can humanely care for its
animals.
Albuquerque Biological Park officals said Friday they were awaiting
complete results of the exam of Heather's body to determine what killed
her. But Kent Newton, assistant director of the Park, said it appears
she might have died of a salmonella bacterial infection, which could have
been complicated by stress.
However, Koch said results of the exam also show Heather was in "good
nutritional condition."
He said the circus will "address the perceived problem that these animals
have not been cared for properly."
Biological Park officials were concerned about Donna's health but
director Ray Darnell said Friday she seemed to be improving.
"She's better than she was last night," he said.
The US Department of Agriculture is investigating the circus animal
incident, and Friday's custody announcement came a few hours after a
protest outside the USDA office in Albuquerque.
Animal Protection of New Mexico organized the protest, said Lisa
Jennings, executive director. Her group is asking the USDA to revoke
the circus's exhibitor's license.
A USDA spokesman said Friday the case is still being investigated.
Jennings said the circus is no place for elephants.
"They spend almost their entire lives chained by two legs in tractor
trailers, rail cars, and warehouses," Jennings alleged.
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 18:52:24 -0400 (EDT)
From: Snugglezzz@aol.com
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: State Hog Inventory Up 30% - Oklahoma (USA)
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(Farm Report): In Oklahoma, the inventory of hogs and pigs on June 1 this
year was estimated at 1.5 million head. That was up 30 percent from June 1,
1996, and 9 percent above March 1 of this year, the Oklahoma Agricultural
Statistics Service said.
The breeding inventory of 210,000 head was up 17 percent from last quarter.
Market hog inventory was up 8 percent from the previous quarter and totaled
1.29 million head. The weight group breakdown consisted of 470,000 pigs in
the under 60-pound group; 210,000 in the 120-179-pound group; and 410,000
pigs in the 180-pound and larger group.
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(And, to think, they're actually bragging about this.)
-- Sherrill
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 16:29:46 -0700
From: "ida"
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Subject: LANGUR MONKEYS NEED YOUR HELP
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Seventeen langur monkeys formerly used in anthropoligical research at UC
Berkeley are facing a potentially fatal future. The university has kept
the langurs in cramped cages with cold cement bottoms, only to be gawked at
by students, for more than twenty years. Over a year ago the grants for
this research ran out and just now is UCB making a decision regarding the
future of these beautiful primates. Supposedly the decision is to be made
by next wednesday - a decision which may entail sending the langurs to a
sanctuary, giving them to a zoo, using them in furher research, or
euthanizing them.
AR groups, including IDA, have attempted to work with UCB in placing the
langurs in a sanctuary, yet the university has not been extremely receptive
to the idea. However, certain members of the anthropology department have
expressed dismay at the proposed euthanization, and have been advocating
sending them to a sanctuary. Unfortunately the decision is ultimately in
the hands of the Vice Chancellor of Research, and sadly there is nothing in
writing which states that the langur monkeys will not be euthanized. So,
we are asking everyone to call the Vice Chancellor of Research, Joseph
Cerny, urging him to let the students have a say in the decision making
process, urging him to meet with todd selby, a representative of the
student & ar community - who was recently denied a meeting with the Vice
Chancellor, and urging UCB to state, in writing, that the langur monkeys
will not be euthanized. Please call!
Joseph Cerny
119 California Hall
UCB
Berkeley, CA 94720-1500
Phone: (510) 642-7540
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 21:47:53 -0400 (EDT)
From: "A. Hogan"
To: SDURBIN@VM.TULSA.CC.OK.US
Cc: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: MTM Profile in August 1997 McCall's
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McCall's August 1997 cover story/"Celebrity Close-Up" (pgs. 20-23) "Our
Favorite Mary" by Gail Collins mentions diabetic actor Mary Tyler Moore's
"healthy vegetarian diet," her non-designer dogs Dash and Dudley in her NYC apartment, the
oasis she and
her physician-husband's upstate NY country place provides amid NY's
fox-hunting/fox-chasing territory, the "pond full of fish [there] that
the actress, a fanatic wildlife lover, will not let any fisherman [SIC] get
near," her "long since discarded" fur coats, her speaking out against
"estrogen-replacement therapy that uses pregnant mares' urine" (though
the article does not mention Premarin or its maker by name) and on other AR
topics, etc. The caption on a Dana Fineman photo with the piece, showing Moore with one of her
five
horses (she also has two goats), reads: "An ardent animal-rights activist,
Moore spends lots of time at her home in rural New York, practicing what she
preaches."
--ar hogan
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 22:39:06 -0700
From: Sean Thomas
To: ar-news@envirolink.com
Subject: Health Canada Primates on CTV
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Well not really, Animal Action Co-Director Sean Thomas and Conrad Brunk,
head of the Royal Society Expert Panel deliberating on the fate of
Health Canada's monkeys were on Canada AM (a national morning news
show)discussing the issue.
The focus of the interview was the sanctuary option.
Sean Thomas
Co-Director, Animal Action
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 23:34:12 -0400
From: allen schubert
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US) Lower Pocomoke River To Be Reopened
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(the residents believe this was caused by runoff from farms)
from AP Wire page:
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08/11/1997 23:28 EST
Lower Pocomoke River To Be Reopened
By TODD SPANGLER
Associated Press Writer
POCOMOKE CITY, Md. (AP) -- Health officials said Monday they plan to
reopen a five-mile stretch of the lower Pocomoke River that was closed
last week after some 11,000 fish mysteriously died.
``We don't believe ... a toxin is remaining in the water,'' state Health
Secretary Martin Wasserman said.
Scientists suspect that the large kill detected last Wednesday near
Shelltown is linked to pfiesteria piscicida, a microorganism deadly to
fish and linked to minor human health problems.
Last Thursday, the five-mile stretch was closed to swimming, fishing and
boating after people ignored a warning to stay out of the water.
Officials said Monday they plan to reopen the river Wednesday in the
belief that pfiesteria becomes nontoxic a day or so after a fish kill
ends. The kill officially ended Saturday.
A public health advisory will be issued warning people to wash off after
coming in contact with river water and to throw back any fish caught with
lesions, Wasserman said.
Studies are under way to determine if pfiesteria, which can cause sores
and lesions in fish, was involved in the kill. A number of disfigured
fish have been caught in the Pocomoke near Shelltown, where the river
connects to the Chesapeake Bay.
Wasserman reiterated that there is no firm medical proof pfiesteria
causes health problems. But some watermen and other people who have come
into contact with the river have complained of weight loss, flu-like
symptoms and lesions.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta and the
National Institutes of Health will help the state study if the
microorganism poses a threat to humans, U.S. Sens. Paul Sarbanes and
Barbara Mikulski said Monday.
But at a public meeting Monday night, several Eastern Shore residents
said the river should remain closed until researchers solve the mystery
plaguing the lower Pocomoke and determine if pfiesteria poses any health
consequences.
Many of the 100 people at the meeting voiced strong opinions about what
they think caused the fish kill.
Robert Brumley, 67, of Shelltown, believes runoff from farms has ruined
the river quality.
``It's very obvious what's done it,'' he said.
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