AR-NEWS Digest 382

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) (US) This car deal was a real bear!
     by allen schubert 
  2) RFI:  vegan/vegetarian/animal rights/environmental dates
     by allen schubert 
  3) (CN) Cloning a Chinese Dolly
     by Vadivu Govind 
  4) (CN) Cancer mortality rate on the rise
     by Vadivu Govind 
  5) (MY) 'Fish on wheels' to ensure quality supply
     by Vadivu Govind 
  6) (MY)  Effluents killing fish
     by Vadivu Govind 
  7) (TH) Underwater wedding for 'promotion of coral conservation'
     by Vadivu Govind 
  8) (TH)  Beef scare prompts beef-eating festival
     by Vadivu Govind 
  9) (MY)  Trapped crocodile finds home in Malacca Zoo
     by Vadivu Govind 
 10) (HK) Pig dung 'trick' on right scent
     by Vadivu Govind 
 11) Washington Post Editorial on Bion
     by hsuslab@ix.netcom.com (Tamara Hamilton HSUS Laboratory Animals)
 12) Bear killers seek import permits
     by Shirley McGreal 
 13) (US)Address to Help Animal Flood Victims in North Dakota
     by JanaWilson@aol.com
 14) (US) (Fwd) Police Brutality at UC Davis
     by allen schubert 
 15) [SA] Dolphins save drowning woman
     by David J Knowles 
 16) undigest
     by s010sam@desire.wright.edu
 17) Soy finds yet another use (Breast Implants) (US)
     by Pat Fish 
 18) [US] Moms of the '90s Take On Environmental Threats
     by David J Knowles 
 19) [US] Environmental Business Investments May Be Looking Up
     by David J Knowles 
 20) [US] In "Eco-Industrial Parks," One Company's Waste Is
  Another's Raw Material
     by David J Knowles 
 21) THS, pound seizure question
     by BKMACKAY@aol.com
 22) (US) Web Site Offers Rare Look at Birds 
     by allen schubert 
 23) (US) U.S. Won't Extend EU Meat Deadline 
     by allen schubert 
 24) (US/CA) Web Notice -- Snow Geese
     by allen schubert 
 25) Canada's Polar Bear Export Program
     by "Zoocheck Canada Inc." 
 26) (US) May 1st DEADline!...take a second please!
     by allen schubert 
 27) (US) Time may be running out
     by allen schubert 
 28) veg-nyc: NYC Lockdown for Chimps
     by "H. Morris" 
 29) Bear Exhibitor Charged 
     by Wyandotte Animal Group 
 30) Bear Exhibator Charged Update
     by Wyandotte Animal Group 
 31) Elephants in peril
     by Andrew Gach 
 32) Manslaughter - #2
     by Andrew Gach 
 33) Manslaughter - #1
     by Andrew Gach 
 34) Manslaughter (or womanslaughter?) #3
     by Andrew Gach 
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 09:36:44 -0400
>From: allen schubert 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (US) This car deal was a real bear!
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from USA Today web page:
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This car deal was a real bear!

SIOUX CITY, Iowa - Who made the Boo Boo? It might have been the former
owner of a black bear by that name.
It might have been the car dealer who traded a car for Boo Boo. At any
rate, the car is gone and Boo Boo is in a
shelter where workers are trying to find the 120-pound, one-year-old
declawed bruin a new home. Officials
aren't naming the dealer or what the buyer got in return. "Maybe a Cougar
or something," guessed Cindy
Rarrat, who is trying to arrange for a zoo in Newark, N.J., to take the bear. 

Trading animals for cars is not without precedent in Sioux City. Brian
Berkenpas, owner of Big Deal Auto Plaza.
said he took a boa constrictor for a 1979 Ford Mustang last summer. "I got
$400 bucks, I think, and a snake,"
he said.
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 09:37:03 -0400
>From: allen schubert 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: RFI:  vegan/vegetarian/animal rights/environmental dates
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Request for information -- posted for Gail Joslin -- send response to
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I'm trying to collate all the dates in the year (anniversaries also) which
pertain to notable activities, personages, protest actions, etc that have
a bearing on veganism, vegetarianism, animal rights, environmental issues
etc.

What I mean here are things like: internationally/nationally recognized
"days" (e.g World Vegan Day, Gandhi's birthday, World anti McD day,
founding of Greenpeace, birth & death dates of famous vegans, events in
the sports world won by vegans, banning of battery cages in Sweden, etc.)

I'd appreciate them being posted to me at:

Gail Joslin
Vegans In South Africa
Box 36242
Glosderry
7702 South Africa


Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 22:48:55 +0800 (SST)
>From: Vadivu Govind 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (CN) Cloning a Chinese Dolly
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>South China Morning Post
Internet Edition

21 Apr 97

     Sheep-cloning scientists aim for own Dolly
     IVAN TANG
     
     Scientists are expecting to produce China's first version of Dolly the
sheep within a year.

 And a separate project in which researchers used embryonic cells to clone a
bull a year ago has been revived.

 The programme had to be halted when the original one million-yuan
(HK$930,000) research fund dried up. The cloned bull was sold to a farmer.

 Zhang Baowen , President of the Northwestern Agricultural University, says
the project at the China Academy of Agricultural Sciences' Institute of
Animal Science in Beijing has been restarted after money became available.

 Mr Zhang said the other research programme was aimed at cloning sheep using
cells from mature animals - similar to the Dolly experiment carried out in
Scotland.

 "The researchers are experimenting in cloning sheep using cells from the
livers and leg joints of adult sheep," he said.

 Mr Zhang expected the country's first cloned sheep to be produced within a
year.

 Although the two research programmes were similar in nature, he said, they
could not be combined.

 The bull-cloning project aimed to improve farm animals' ability to
reproduce, while the sheep-cloning project aimed to understand the animal's
development.

 Different sources of funding was also a problem.

 Mr Zhang said: "The bull-cloning project receives funds from the State
Science and Technology Commission, while the one cloning sheep gets money
from both the commission and the Ministry of Agriculture."

 Chinese scientists cloned a rabbit in 1993 using embryonic cells. So far,
they have produced eight cloned animals, including rabbits, pigs, goats and
bulls.

Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 22:49:03 +0800 (SST)
>From: Vadivu Govind 
To: ar-news@envirolink.org
Subject: (CN) Cancer mortality rate on the rise
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>South China Morning Post
Internet Edition
April 21 1997

Cancer mortality rate on the rise
DANIEL KWAN

     
     A report released by the National Cancer Prevention and Control Office
showed more than 1.3 million Chinese die of cancer every year, Xinhua (the
New China News Agency) said yesterday.

 The annual figure will rise to 1.4 million by 2000, it said.

 Office director Li Liandi said China needed to promote the concepts of
early treatment and health education in order to save more people from cancer.

 The report said cancer had become the second most fatal disease in China
after respiratory illness.

 According to the report, about 80 per cent of victims die from stomach,
liver or lung cancer.

 It said the cancer mortality rate had risen 30 per cent in the past 20
years.

Lung cancer had doubled in the past 20 years and become the biggest killer among all diseases in Chinese cities. The report quoted experts saying pollution, widespread use of chemicals and smoking were the main reasons behind the increase. The report warned that health professionals were facing problems tackling cancer, which was spreading more quickly in rural areas than in cities. It said health conditions in most villages were inadequate and presented obstacles to doctors. Unlike in the 1960s, when most Chinese enjoyed free medical care, people now often had to pay their own medical bills. Cancer patients were particularly hard-pressed as their medical bills were likely to be very high. The Government has yet to establish a national system to provide cancer sufferers with sufficient medical support. Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 22:49:13 +0800 (SST) >From: Vadivu Govind To: ar-news@envirolink.org, veg-news@envirolink.org Subject: (MY) 'Fish on wheels' to ensure quality supply Message-ID: <199704211449.WAA29201@eastgate.cyberway.com.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >The Star Online Monday, April 21, 1997 'Fish on wheels' to ensure quality supply JOHOR BARU: The Johor Fishermen's Association has implemented a "fish on wheels" programme to ensure that consumers have a constant supply of good quality fish at reasonable prices. Its chairman Abu Jusoh said the programme was launched with two lorries donated by the state government. "The lorries will ply housing estates," he said. Abu Jusoh said the association would expand the direct sale concept to all major towns. "We picked Johor Baru to start the programme because of the high cost of living and the demand for good quality marine products at moderate prices," he said. Abu Jusoh said the association would receive its supplies from fishermen in Endau, Mersing, Pontian, Batu Pahat and Muar and also from neighbouring countries. He said the Malaysian Fisheries Development Board would help the association set up a cold room at the wholesale complex in Pandan soon. Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 22:49:19 +0800 (SST) >From: Vadivu Govind To: ar-news@envirolink.org, veg-news@envirolink.org Subject: (MY) Effluents killing fish Message-ID: <199704211449.WAA29907@eastgate.cyberway.com.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > The Star Online Monday, April 21, 1997 Kukup breeders: Effluents killing fish By Shahar Yaacob PONTIAN: More than RM100,000 worth of fish being bred in cages in the sea off Kukup, 24km south of here, have died in the past two weeks believed to be due to effluents flowing from a nearby river. A breeder Ng Swee San alleged that the effluents had reached several cages close to the rivermouth. He hoped the authorities concerned would react quickly to contain the problem. He said the breeders found the fish behaving strangely about two weeks ago and their first thought was that the old problem of ships desludging had reappeared. But there was no sign of the oily substance and so they decided to scout around for a clue. "We discovered some dead fish floating in the water around the mouth of Sungai Durian. As we moved further inland there were more dead fish. "When we returned to Kukup we probed the water edgeand took several water samples which we sent to the relevant authorities for analysis. We also lodged a police report at Permas." Some 70 breeders are operating pen-culture fish breeding in Kukup water spanning several kilometres along the strait between the Kukup coastline and Kukup island. Most of the harvest are sold to seafood restaurants while some are exported to Singapore. Most of the fish fry are imported from Taiwan as they are more resistant to the water condition in Kukup. Among the fishes being bred are tiger kerapu and siakap which can attain a weight of 10kg in four months fetching a price of RM10 per kg. "Up to today I have lost at least RM40,000 and will lose more if the situation is not brought under control," said Ng. It is believed that the Department of Environment had collected water samples and is investigating the source of the alleged pollution. Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 22:49:25 +0800 (SST) >From: Vadivu Govind To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: (TH) Underwater wedding for 'promotion of coral conservation' Message-ID: <199704211449.WAA30562@eastgate.cyberway.com.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" April 21, 1997 [BANGKOK POST] ENVIRONMENT / SOCIAL EVENT Underwater wedding in Trang province All for 'promotion of coral conservation' by Chakrit Ridmontri Trang The country's first underwater wedding was held yesterday, with the brides and grooms expressing the hope that the ceremony would promote coral reef conservation and responsible tourism. The two couples, Pornlada Krobthong and Nophadol Surathin, and Susisda Sampao and Veera Khorvichienkul, descended 30 feet down to the ceremony venue in front of Koh Wan. Marble tables were placed on the seabed for the ceremony. The couples' phuyai was the former deputy governor of Trang, Chane Wiphatborwornwong. He took the plunge to pour holy sand over the hands of the brides and grooms. Sikao district chief Nawin Sinthusa-ard signed the wedding registrations, specially printed on slate boards. The event was late in the morning when the sea was calm and visibility was good. But the water turned murky. "Doing your signature underwater is difficult as the pen and slate boards keep floating up and down," said Mr Nawin. Mr Chane, the former deputy governor who is the eldest of the divers, was exhausted after spending almost an hour underwater. Even the brides and grooms, experienced divers, faced no fewer difficulties as they had to kneel down with their hands extended. "Sitting on the sea floor isn't easy, but posing for the cameramen underwater is even more difficult," said Ms Pornlada. But the wedding went smoothly amid cheers from people on ferries surrounding the spot. The couples said they hoped the event would generate public awareness of the need to look after the underwater environment, especially coral reefs. "I hope it'll encourage people to save the coral reefs in Trang, which are beautiful and also sensitive," said Mr Nophadol. Surin Tothabtieng, president of Trang Chamber of Commerce, said he and Trang governor Yongyudh Wichaidith decided to sponsor the wedding because the pairs met and fell in love in Trang while they were collecting garbage in the coral reefs. He said scuba diving should be promoted as it was a way of conserving coral reefs, as the divers can do useful things such as collecting garbage. Some local conservation groups stayed away from the underwater wedding activity. Pisit Chansnoh, president of Yadfon Association, said anchoring in coral reefs was rampant and it was impossible to control it because of the increasing number of ferries carrying tourists to the diving spots. He added that the fertility of coral reefs cannot be evaluated from only the corals, but also the diversity of species. More divers will chase away fish and other marine lives from their habitats, he said. Article copyright Post Publishing Public Co., Ltd 1997 Reprinted for non-commercial use only. Website: http://www.bangkokpost.net Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 22:49:30 +0800 (SST) >From: Vadivu Govind To: ar-news@envirolink.org, veg-news@envirolink.org Subject: (TH) Beef scare prompts beef-eating festival Message-ID: <199704211449.WAA30116@eastgate.cyberway.com.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" April 21, 1997 [BANGKOK POST] HEALTH Beef scare prompts festival Slaughterhouses to be given certification Aphaluck Bhatiasevi Concerned about falling beef sales due to fears of anthrax, government organisations have joined hands to stage a beef-eating festival this Friday at which various film stars will take part. The event is jointly organised by the Interior, Agriculture and Public Health ministries and the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration. It will take place at Siam Jusco department store in Nonthaburi. The government authorities are cooperating to help train beef sellers on Thursday, to inform them of the possible contraction of diseases from cattle. Certificates will be given to slaughterhouses and beef sellers approved by the Public Health Ministry to reassure the public that the beef purchased is free of anthrax, according to the ministry's Information and Public Relations Office director, Prapan Teekhavanit. Anthrax is a bacterial disease caused by "bacillus anthracis". It can be transmitted from cattle to humans, but is non-communicable between humans. In beef, the disease can be destroyed under 140 degrees celsius temperature for 1-3 hours or if exposed under 100 degrees celsius of moist heat for 5-30 minutes. Dr Prapan said that according to a group of Muslim beef sellers who recently urged the Public Health Ministry to help provide clarifications to the public about anthrax, the daily sales of beef dropped to only 10 percent of what it was following the news on the outbreak of anthrax. The Livestock Department has imposed strict measures in importing cows and buffaloes in border provinces by making sure that all cattle imported into the country are vaccinated before being sold in the country. Article copyright Post Publishing Public Co., Ltd 1997 Reprinted for non-commercial use only. Website: http://www.bangkokpost.net Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 22:49:37 +0800 (SST) >From: Vadivu Govind To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: (MY) Trapped crocodile finds home in Malacca Zoo Message-ID: <199704211449.WAA29990@eastgate.cyberway.com.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >The Star Online Monday, April 21, 1997 Trapped crocodile finds home in Malacca Zoo MALACCA: A female freshwater crocodile found trapped in a fishing net in Kuala Sungai Tampok, Rengit, Johor, on Saturday has been placed at the Malacca Zoo. Zoo public relations officer Masri Arop said the 300kg female crocodile would be paired with a male crocodile caught in Puchong, Selangor, on March 25. He said the 4.4m reptile, known scientifically as Crocodileus Porosus and locally known as buaya tembaga, was the biggest female fresh water crocodile obtained by the zoo. Masri said fisherman Atan Sulong, 48, found the catch when he was on a regular fishing trip on Saturday. The crocodile was later transferred to its new home by officers and rangers of Kluang National Parks and Wildlife Department and Malacca Zoo the same day. He said the crocodile, believed to be between 20 and 25 years old, has been named Rengit. Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 22:49:42 +0800 (SST) >From: Vadivu Govind To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: (HK) Pig dung 'trick' on right scent Message-ID: <199704211449.WAA26582@eastgate.cyberway.com.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >South China Morning Post Internet Edition April 211997 Pig dung 'trick' on right scent ALEX LO Treated pig dung which does not stink has become a popular fertiliser with farmers. Researchers say they cannot keep up with demand for the mixture of sawdust and dung which is composted into odourless fertiliser. "We are not mass-producing because we are only doing experiments, but farmers are already demanding more than we can provide," City University biologist Professor Nora Tam Fung-yee said. Farmers can save money on chemical fertilisers, said a spokesman from the Tsui Keng Vegetable Marketing Co-operative Society in the New Territories. "Chemicals are expensive but this stuff is free." Last year, the Agriculture and Fisheries Department distributed about 50,000 kilograms to more than 50 farmers at the government farm in Ta Kwu Leng. The new method took advantage of the natural process of composting to maximise nutrient value. Professor Tam said the trick was to regulate moisture and air supply. Fresh pig dung contained a high level of bacteria which consumed nutrients and damaged plants, she said. But as the mixture decomposed, it produced excellent fertilisers containing nitrate, phosphorus and potassium. Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 10:17:54 -0500 (CDT) >From: hsuslab@ix.netcom.com (Tamara Hamilton HSUS Laboratory Animals) To: primate-talk@primate.wisc.edu Subject: Washington Post Editorial on Bion Message-ID: <199704211517.KAA20917@dfw-ix15.ix.netcom.com> Monkeys in Outer Space? By Daniel S. Greenberg Sunday, April 20 1997; Page C07 The Washington Post In the bitter strife between mainstream science and animal-rights advocates, the scientists have made a strong case for experimenting on animals to advance human welfare. In fact, anyone who disputes them is likely to be relegated to the nut fringe. But you don't have to be an animal-rights zealot to wonder about NASA's sinking 31 million scarce government dollars into an international study of how monkeys with electrodes in their brains and wires on their bodies react to a two-week space voyage. The question was of scientific interest and practical importance in the long-ago beginnings of manned space flight, when human experience in the unknowns of weightlessness was limited to a few days. But in recent years, human space travelers have remained in orbit for months at time, serving as the subjects of sophisticated and productive experiments on the bodily and psychological effects of zero gravity. Many unknowns remain about the ill effects of space on bone density, muscle mass and cardiac fitness. But the best experimental subjects for studying the effects of space on humans are humans in space. And these days, they're plentiful, aboard the Russian Mir and the American Space Shuttle. NASA's animal experimenters, however, won't give up. And their rigidity is compounded by American commitments to sustain the impoverished Russian space enterprise, which has a long tradition of shooting monkeys into space. Thus, when a Space Shuttle flight for a Franco-American monkey experiment was canceled in 1994, the project -- called Bion 11 -- was handed over to the Russians. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, French animal-rights organizations and individual scientists disputed the scientific value of the experiment. Last summer, the House voted to cut off its funds. NASA bounced back with a favorable evaluation from a panel of scientists, and the termination effort failed in the Senate. On Christmas Eve, in a capsule supplied by the Russians, Bion 11, carrying two rhesus monkeys, was launched into orbit from a Russian cosmodrome for a two-week flight. As described in the authoritative weekly Space News, "While in orbit, the monkeys were dressed in space suits, which were secured to chairs. Their heads were shaved and small holes were drilled into their skulls to permit sensors to take regular readings of body temperature. A half-dozen electrodes were put into the monkeys' muscles, with the wiring connected to recording devices. On the ground in Moscow, two other rhesus monkeys were in the same basic position to permit comparisons of the reaction to weightlessness." The experiment was deemed a success. But then one of the monkeys died, in circumstances unrelated to its space voyage, according to NASA officials and their colleagues in the Russian Institute of Biomedical Problems, who offered the following account. Shortly after their return from space, the monkeys were anesthetized at the institute for the removal of bone and muscle specimens. On the following day, as one of them was emerging from the anesthetic, it went into cardiac arrest and died, despite efforts at resuscitation. The cause of death is under study by NASA and the Russian institute. Meanwhile, preparations continue for launching Bion 12 in 1998. The scientific justification for these antiquated experiments is nil. But that doesn't deter the champions of animal experimentation from emulating the extravagant rhetoric of their opposites. In the old days, space enthu siasts invented tales of Tang and Teflon coming out of space research, which they most assuredly did not. They have since graduated to grander claims, of similarly thin substance. In a statement supporting the Bion experiment, Americans for Medical Progress declared that the project would not only help humans in space but would also "assist in understanding and finding treatments for anemia, osteop orosis, muscular atrophy and immune system dysfunction for patients on earth." As a recruiting tool for the animal-rights movement, Bion is a dream that can turn into a nightmare for legitimate experimentation on animals. Daniel S. Greenberg is editor and publisher of Science & Government Report, a Washington newsletter. Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 12:57:12 -0400 >From: Shirley McGreal To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: Bear killers seek import permits Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19970421165712.008a4bac@awod.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" The seven men listed below have filed applications to import Polar bear trophies (no women). According to the 9 April Federal Register: -------------------------------------------------------------------- The public is invited to comment on the following application(s) for permits to conduct certain activities with marine mammals. The application(s) was/were submitted to satisfy requirements of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.) and the regulations governing marine mammals (50 CFR part 18). The following applicants have each requested a permit to import a sport-hunted polar bear (Ursus maritimus) from the Northwest Territories, Canada for personal use. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Applicant/address Population PRT- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Bruno Scherrer, Los Angeles, CA...... Northern Beaufort...... 826942 David Anaman, Hemlock, MI............ ......do............... 826910 Derek A. Burdeny, Omaha, NE.......... ......do............... 827122 Harry Brickley, Indianapolis, IN..... ......do............... 827123 Bruce Levein, Mercer Is., WA......... Southern Beaufort...... 826941 William Katen, Patchogue, NY......... ......do............... 826911 Mark David Samsill, Ft. Worth, TX.... ......do............... 827037 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Written data or comments, requests for copies of the complete application, or requests for a public hearing on this application should be sent to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Office of Management Authority, 4401 N. Fairfax Drive, Room 430, Arlington, Virginia 22203, telephone 703/358-2104 or fax 703/358-2281 and must be received within 30 days of the date of publication of this notice. Anyone requesting a hearing should give specific reasons why a hearing would be appropriate. The holding of such hearing is at the discretion of the Director. Dr. Shirley McGreal, Chairwoman International Primate Protection League, POB 766 Summerville SC 29484 USA Phone: 803-871-2280 Fax: 803-871-7988 E-mail ippl@sc.net and ippl@awod.com Web page (revised January 1997): http://www.sims.net/organizations/ippl/ Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 13:01:37 -0400 (EDT) >From: JanaWilson@aol.com To: Ar-News@envirolink.org Subject: (US)Address to Help Animal Flood Victims in North Dakota Message-ID: <970421130115_51881166@emout10.mail.aol.com> >From Sherrill in Tulsa..: The bank in Grand Forks, ND is under water, so the Humane Society is requesting cashier's checks instead of regular checks, please. Here's the address: Humane Society of Grand Forks, Rural Route 2, Grand Forks, ND 58203 Please put on the cashier's checks: "For Flood Relief - Animals" I've been told this humane society is wonderful. Thanks for any help you can offer them. Another address: The Grand Forks Air Force Base Veterinary Clinic, Grand Forks AFB, ND 58204 Put this message on checks: "For Flood Victims' Pets" For the Animals, Jana, OKC Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 13:14:04 -0400 >From: allen schubert To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: (US) (Fwd) Police Brutality at UC Davis Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970422131401.006add00@clark.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" from private e-mail: ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 21, 1997 Beaten Activists Charge Police Brutality at UCD News Conference Monday DAVIS, Ca. -- A major news conference has been called for 11 a.m. Monday morning at the California Primate Research Center by a civil liberties group that monitored what it will claim was the beating and brutalizing of activists by University of California riot police during a demonstration Sunday. Among those present at the news conference will be a 19-year-old activist who was rushed the hospital with a possible broken arm -- incurred after a UCD officer hit him with the full force of a billy club even though the youth was already laying face down on the ground. Thirty-two activists were arrested, and at least half of them have reported varying levels of brutal treatment by the UCD police. All were released by 1 a.m. Monday morning. A "pattern of conduct" indicating abusive, illegal, unethical behavior will be outlined at the news conference, which will also reveal preliminary evidence of police brutalities, mostly involving the use of clubs to hit nonviolent protestors. "This was a peaceful demonstration, and when activists attempted to march up to the Primate Center, police pushed, hit, bashed and injured them. Television footage and our footage consistently and clearly show that," said Crescenzo Vellucci, director of the California based Activist Civil Liberties Committee and one of those arrested, and injured. "We will provide the news media with a list of cruel tactics used by the police. Their activities have not been seen in many years in California -- they are, unlike the peaceful activists, inherently brutal," said Vellucci. Activists from throughout the Western U.S. participated in two-days of workshops at the California Regional Primate Center at the University of California, Davis Sunday concerning campaigns to stop animal experiments and factory farming abuses. -30- Contact: ACLC (916)452-7179 Activist Civil Liberties Committee PO Box 19515, Sacramento, CA 95819 (916) 452-7179 *************************** * FREE TONY WONG! * * FREE STACY SCHIERHOLZ! * * FREE JEFF WATKINS! * *************************** Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 10:25:15 -0700 (PDT) >From: David J Knowles To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: [SA] Dolphins save drowning woman Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19970421102547.3cdfb244@dowco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >From The Electronic Telegraph - Monday, April 21st, 1997 Dolphins save drowning woman A GROUP of dolphins saved a woman from drowning in the Indian Ocean near Durban, a South African newspaper said yesterday. Doris Svorinic, 28, said she was snorkelling when she panicked and swallowed water. The dolphins nudged her all the way to safety, she said. A neighbour, Mark Frederic, 27, who was diving nearby, failed to surface and was still missing at the weekend. Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 15:14:48 -0400 (EDT) >From: s010sam@desire.wright.edu To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: undigest Message-ID: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT i'm unsure about how to undigest ar-news. could you please send me info or preform the service? s010sam@desire.wright.edu thanks! Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 15:23:26 -0400 (EDT) >From: Pat Fish To: AR-News@envirolink.org, veg-news@envirolink.org Subject: Soy finds yet another use (Breast Implants) (US) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hard Copy reports that there is currently a study being conducted, in which 500 women desiring breast implants will get Soy instead of saline or silicone. HC also states there is still space for women to join the study. Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 13:46:40 -0700 (PDT) >From: David J Knowles To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: [US] Moms of the '90s Take On Environmental Threats Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19970421134712.3caf72c8@dowco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >From The American News Service (Forwarded with permission) Moms of the '90s Take On Environmental Threats By Nancy Weil (ANS) -- Dierdre Tinker, mother of three, has her own version of a power suit. On days she's meeting with Texas legislators, she reaches for her foam-rubber cement kiln outfit. One side is dirty, sooty, gray -- meant to show what happens when a cement kiln smokestack burns hazardous waste without pollution control equipment. The other side is spotless. Toilet brushes hang from it to suggest "scrubbers" that companies use to reduce pollutants emitted into the air. Her outfit speaks for her when she debates environmental cleanup with the lawmakers. While national organizations such as the Sierra Club lobby Washington on the Clean Air Act, thousands of "enviro-moms" such as Tinker are waging their battles closer to home. In her case that means De Soto, southwest of Dallas. They may at times dress funny, but these moms are on a mission. Armed with facts and figures, and driven by love and concern for their children, they're the "heart and soul" of the environmental movement, said longtime environmental educator Petey Giroux of Atlanta. Without such women, "it would be a much less effective movement," said Ann Notthoff, who works with grassroots groups as a senior planner in the San Francisco office of the Natural Resources Defense Council. "I think that women bring a very important perspective and approach to dealing with environmental problems," she said. Mothers across the country speak with passion about what motivates their efforts. "When I realized this cement plant had been burning hazardous waste for over eight years and I did not know it, that made me a victim and I wasn't born to be a victim," said Tinker -- like many other enviro-moms, a newcomer to the arena of public activism. "I wanted to look into it because in the meantime my children don't breathe so well." Her three sons have asthma, one of them a severe case. Tinker believes emissions from the cement kiln, nine miles by air from her home, are contributing to the asthma. So she has helped rally her local and then statewide PTA behind tougher laws regarding permits. With the biannual state legislative session under way in Austin, Tinker and her friend Becky Bornhorst have been driving three and a half hours to meet lawmakers every few weeks. Bornhorst lives near the same cement plant, and her 10-year-old daughter has had a cough -- since last September -- that she can't shake. Environmentally aware mothers like Tinker and Bornhorst go head-to-head with lawmakers and corporate giants, waiting out the dog-years pace of government and then sticking around to be sure that laws are enforced. One of the original environmental moms is Lois Gibbs, whose neighborhood in Niagara Falls, N.Y., was a chemical-waste dump in the 1940s and '50s. In 1978, she sounded the call to arms at Love Canal, where dioxins and other chemicals had seeped into basements in homes in her neighborhood, causing cancer and birth defects. The nation's single worst environmental disaster led to the creation of the federal Superfund to clean up hazardous waste sites. In 1994, Occidental Chemical Corporation was ordered to pay New York $98 million over three years and assume wrongdoing in the catastrophe. Gibbs became widely known for her work in the grassroots environmental movement and in 1981 founded the Center for Health, Environment, and Justice, based in Falls Church, Va. The center said it has helped 8,000 community groups fight hazardous wastes. Other moms were famous before they became environmental leaders. Actress Meryl Streep started worrying about the use of pesticides on fruits and vegetables that her children ate. It was apples -- sprayed with the chemical Alar -- that helped trigger her concern eight years ago. So Streep and her friend Wendy Gordon banded together some of their Connecticut neighbors and soon persuaded the local supermarket to provide organic food. >From their kitchen-table meetings arose Mothers & Others for a Livable Planet, a national organization dedicated to helping consumers make environmentally informed choices about the food they eat and the products they use. Streep has said the New York-based group "can claim a good part of credit" for the Food Quality Protection Act signed by President Clinton last August. The Texas moms do their environmental work through the state and local PTA, as well as with a neighborhood group called Downwinders at Risk. Like other women engaged in similar fights across the nation, they didn't intend to become leaders of a cause. "We don't want to find out in the future that our kids have something terribly wrong with them because of what's going on," said Bornhorst of the hazardous waste burning. © COPYRIGHT The American News Service Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 13:46:43 -0700 (PDT) >From: David J Knowles To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: [US] Environmental Business Investments May Be Looking Up Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19970421134715.3cafa744@dowco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >From The American News Service Environmental Business Investments May Be Looking Up (ANS) -- Over the past five or 10 years, investments in environmental businesses have not profited as well as more traditional investments, admits Gerard Hallaren, who manages Invesco's $20 million Environmental Services Fund in Denver. The average annual return for his fund over the past five years has been only 2.8 percent, versus 22.9 percent for the Standard and Poor's 500, a widely quoted index that gives a snapshot of a broad swath of American businesses. However, he said, "I see a much brighter picture going forward." Up until about 1990 or so, people were pouring money into what he called "pie in the sky investments" that were priced too high. Now, he thinks, environmental investments are more realistic. "We invest in what you might call pretty mundane things," said Hallaren, who began managing Invesco's fund late last year. "People are going to have to do something about garbage. They need clean water and air. I see this fund not as a speculative thing, but as a solid, growth-oriented investment over the long term." Hallaren's fund has already begun to bear out his prediction: Last year, it earned 17.8 percent for investors. © COPYRIGHT The American News Service Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 13:46:45 -0700 (PDT) >From: David J Knowles To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: [US] In "Eco-Industrial Parks," One Company's Waste Is Another's Raw Material Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19970421134717.3caf9948@dowco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >From The American News Service In "Eco-Industrial Parks," One Company's Waste Is Another's Raw Material By Darren Waggoner {(ANS) -- Imagine an industrial park in which all the products are designed and manufactured in environmentally friendly ways. Not only that, but the businesses are organized so that the waste produced by one company can be used as raw material by another. That's the dream being pushed toward reality by The Green Institute, a public-private venture in Minneapolis that is setting up what it calls an "ecological industrial park." The Minneapolis project is one of about 20 similar projects operating independently nationwide. The President's Council on Sustainable Development, a project of Vice President Al Gore, acts as a clearinghouse for information, sources of funding and ideas. The idea goes far beyond the kind of recycling that most cities already practice. In its ideal form, Green Institute executive director Michael Krause and others like him envision an industrial system that would emulate nature, where nothing is wasted. Next to the site, The Green Institute has already created one related business: the Re-Use Center, a 26,000-square-foot retail operation that sells building materials salvaged from demolished properties. It employs 13 people and generates $350,000 in annual sales. But the institute hopes to start construction within the year on a $4.5 million, 70,000-square-foot building that would house 15 to 20 more businesses. Eventually, it hopes to expand to 200,000 square feet of industrial space. Krause has been talking to a variety of possible tenants for the new building. One would open a paint remanufacturing plant that would recycle old paint, some of it becoming high-quality caulk. Other possibilities include a firm that helps companies find ways to cut their energy expenses, one that makes canvas bags, and one that makes solar energy devices for home and business use. Krause especially likes the idea of businesses that can use each other's waste. "That's almost always cheaper than using a virgin raw material," he said. But the concept does not always succeed. One of the nation's biggest monuments to dashed environmental hopes stands in Rochester, N.Y. More than a decade ago, the state and county governments spent $80 million on what was supposed to be a high-tech, state-of-the-art recycling center to turn trash into useful products such as paving materials and fuel to sell to the local electric utility. As it turned out, few markets were found and the electric utility could not burn the fuel efficiently. Today the plant is used primarily as a garbage transfer station, sending waste to traditional landfills. Overall, however, the concept of ecologically friendly industry seems to be catching on. A handful of the nation's largest investment companies, including Fidelity and Invesco, have set up mutual funds that invest primarily in recycling and other environmentally oriented businesses. Londonderry, N.H., is another town hoping to attract some of this investment by setting up an ecological park. Peter Lowitt, the town's director of planning and economic development, said town leaders became interested in the eco-park idea in 1995 after taxpayers had spent almost 10 years and more than $13 million to clean up three toxic sites. "We've learned a hard lesson. It helped us want to work harder with our industries to create a model showing you can be good to your bottom line while being good to the environment," Lowitt said. "We want to show the industries that their waste stream can be a revenue stream, as well as saving mightily on the cost of disposal." Town leaders are negotiating with three prospective firms interested in moving into a 100-acre site the town obtained by foreclosing for unpaid taxes. Meanwhile, Yale University forestry students are analyzing the town's industrial waste stream, a study that could help Londonderry officials identify prospective businesses. Unique to the Londonderry project is a legally binding covenant the companies will be asked to sign, agreeing to account for all their waste and try to make sure it is recycled. "We hope the covenant will protect a company's investment. They'll know that another company won't come in next door and put in a junkyard," Lowitt said. Yet another eco-park is taking root in Brownsville, Texas. The local economic development council studied more than 100 businesses, then gathered information about the waste produced by 35 companies on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border. With help from the Bechtel Corp., a high-tech research firm, a computer has spit out a list of companies that might be good matches to use each other's waste. "The final scenario has uncovered hundreds of potential matches," said Rick Luna, project manager. There were some early glitches in the computer program. For example, it could not distinguish between waste motor oils and waste food oils -- products that would have very different uses. However, when the report is finished he expects to see opportunities for reuse of a variety of cardboards, oils, plastics and solvents. Eventually, Luna said, the Brownsville project will have about a dozen businesses working together in the eco-park. But it is also hoping to expand the idea of businesses feeding each other's waste to others without necessarily having to pick up and relocate into the park. In early March, Brownsville hosted a conference for eco-park developers across the country. The keynote speaker, a vice president at Chaparral Steel near Dallas, explained how his company takes junked cars and separates the steel from the plastics and glass. Then, the company runs the metal through a minimill to produce a top-quality steel. Chaparral is also looking for ways to recycle the plastics and foams from those cars. "The company's goal is to get to zero waste where everything that comes from the cars finds a market," said Luna. © COPYRIGHT The American News Service Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 17:20:41 -0400 (EDT) >From: BKMACKAY@aol.com To: Ar-news@envirolink.org Cc: OnlineAPI@aol.com Subject: THS, pound seizure question Message-ID: <970421171851_1616926646@emout14.mail.aol.com> Memorandum To: City Solicitor Medical Officer of Health City Auditor >From: Christine Archibald, Administrator, Neighbourhoods Committee, City Clerk's, Corporate Services (2-7039) Date: April 7, 1997 Subject: Toronto Humane Society At its meeting on April 3, 1997, the Neighbourhoods Commitee gave consideration to a report (March 17, 1997) from the respecting (sic) the Toronto Humane Society. The Committee also had before it a report (April 1, 1997) from Liz White, Director, Animal Alliance of Canada and Barry Kent [MacKay], Programme Manager, The Animal Protection Insitute (April 1, 1997 The Committee took the following action: 1: Received the report (March 17, 1997) from the City Solicitor. 2: Requested that the previously requested report to be prepared by the Medical Officer of Health respecting a Complaints Procedure and Reporting Requirements, be forwarded to the Committee for consideration at its next meeting on April 30, 1997, for consideration as a deputation item, together with the following material: + Audited Financial Statements for the year ended December 31, 1995 and December 31, 1996 + The By-laws of the Toronto Humane Society + The contract with the Toronto Humane Society and the City of Toronto with the exception of any information respecting the security of the animals 3: Requested the City Solicitor to report on the following recommendation contained in the submission (April 1, 1997) from Liz White, Director, Animal Alliance of Canada for consideration with the foregoing report/submissions at the Committee's April 30, 1997 meeting: "That the Committee and Council re-affirm the City's position that animals sheltered by the Society will not sold or gifted for research purposes." [Signed C. Archibald, Administrator] ____________________________________ All activists in the GTA should consider attending this meeting. BKM. Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 19:14:04 -0400 >From: allen schubert To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: (US) Web Site Offers Rare Look at Birds Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970422191400.006b5f18@clark.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" from AP Wire page: ---------------------------- 04/21/1997 17:46 EST Web Site Offers Rare Look at Birds COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The state Division of Wildlife has created a site on the Internet for viewing one of Ohio's four nesting pairs of peregrine falcons. The falcons are nesting on the 41st floor of the Rhodes State Office Tower in Columbus. Four eggs in the nest are expected to hatch about May 9. The division each year installs a video camera at the nest that feeds a signal to a television monitor in the lobby of the downtown office building. The agency has expanded the viewing to the World Wide Web where pictures of the falcons' activities are updated every 10 seconds. Wildlife biologist Donna Daniel said the site provides a unique opportunity for Internet users to watch falcon chicks hatching and feeding. ``Peregrines are elusive birds of prey. They typically nest in places where they can't be seen easily such as tall buildings or rock cliffs,'' Daniel said Monday. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the state of Ohio have placed the birds on the endangered species list. The Web address for viewing the peregrine falcons is: www.dnr.state.oh.us/odnr/wildlife/falcon/peregrine.html Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 19:15:13 -0400 >From: allen schubert To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: (US) U.S. Won't Extend EU Meat Deadline Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970422191510.006b5f18@clark.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" from AP Wire page: --------------------------- 04/21/1997 16:38 EST U.S. Won't Extend EU Meat Deadline WASHINGTON (AP) -- Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman said Monday the United States will not extend an April 30 deadline for reaching agreement with the European Union on mutually acceptable meat inspection standards. The United States has warned the EU it will halt imports of as much as $300 million in European meat products if agreement cannot be reached by the end of the month. The threat was in response to the EU's introduction on April 1 of new standards that are blocking about $50 million in U.S. poultry exports to the 15-nation community. After European negotiators submitted new proposals, the United States extended its April 15 deadline last week and scheduled new talks beginning Tuesday. Glickman told the annual meeting of the National Association of Agricultural Journalists the United States ``has given it two more weeks,'' but added that after that, ``I would say there will be no more extensions.'' Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 19:32:59 -0400 >From: allen schubert To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: (US/CA) Web Notice -- Snow Geese Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970422193256.006b79b8@clark.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Just FYI... At this URL: http://north.audubon.org/ you can "track" Snow Geese on their migrations. This may be of interest to those who are especially concerned about the Snow Geese. Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 21:45:16 -0400 >From: "Zoocheck Canada Inc." To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: Canada's Polar Bear Export Program Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970421214514.00698bf0@idirect.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Zoocheck Canada Press Release dated April 17, 1997 +++ For Immediate Release April 17, 1997 Canada's Forgotten Polar Bears: Study and Video Reveals Tragedy of Manitoba Polar Bear Export Program Approximately 40 wild-caught polar bears from the Churchill, Manitoba region have been captured by Manitoba Natural Resources and shipped to zoos around the world. An investigation by national animal protection organization Zoocheck Canada has revealed the tragic consequences of Manitoba's polar bear export program. Despite assurances by government officials that the program has been humane, Zoocheck Canada has uncovered numerous serious problems, including the shipment of bears to grossly substandard zoos around the world; the movement of polar bears from recipient zoos to other destinations; polar bears exhibiting abnormal stereotypic behaviours; bears that have died or are seriously ill; and the transfer of Canadian polar bears to a circus. You are invited to a media conference to find out more about the Manitoba Polar Bear Export Program, the kinds of conditions Canadian bears are now subjected to in zoos around the world, and the recommendations proposed by Zoocheck Canada to deal with the problems. Copies of the Zoocheck Canada report , and videotape of Canadian polar bears, will be available. Date, Time & Location: Lombard Hotel, Cambridge Room, 2 Lombard Place, Winnipeg Friday April 18, 1997, 10:30 am For more information, contact: Zoocheck Canada (416) 696-0241 +++ The above-referenced press conference generated provincial and national media coverage on the issue. In response, the Manitoba Minister of Natural Resources promised to look into the problem, and other politicians expressed an interest in taking on the issue. Zoocheck Canada's report is available for $10.00 Canadian. Zoocheck Canada Inc. 3266 Yonge Street, Suite 1729 Toronto, ON M4N 3P6 (416) 696-0241 Ph (416) 696-0370 Fax E-Mail: zoocheck@idirect.com Web Site: http://web.idirect.com/~zoocheck Registered Charity No. 0828459-54 Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 21:53:24 -0400 >From: allen schubert To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: (US) May 1st DEADline!...take a second please! Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970422215321.0068e0f0@clark.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" from private e-mail: -------------------------------- "It is imperative to stop the slaughter" said Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt. But the killing of buffalo goes on. On May 1, all bison still outside of Yellowstone National Park, including those tested, marked and tagged as being brucellosis-free, must either return to the park or be shot. Why? Because soon the cattle will be trucked in to stock Forest Service grazing allotments. Bison killing has slowed in recent weeks as the winter's snowpack melted to expose forage, and bison have not needed to move so far. But when the May 1st deadline arrives, we expect a full-on massacre of the remaining animals. Join us letting public officials know that the public is outraged! Sign on to this simple statement.... I am outraged about the slaughter of the Yellowstone bison. On May 1st, I will be wearing a black arm band to show solidarity with the last wild buffalo herd in the United States! The world will be watching Montana on May 1st to see if the massacre stops! Signed, to sign on send your name and state to stop-the slaughter@wildrockies.org by April 28th We will compile the letter and names and forward it appropriate officials. We will inform the press just how many folks are outraged across the nation! We need at least two names for each bison that was murdered! Montana Department of Livestock refuses Park Service offers to haze buffalo back into park boundaries. Bulls that couldn't possibly transmit brucellosis (through the placenta or milk) are being killed. So the Tokala Society of the Oglala Lakota Nation is helping to patrol the border and keep the state of Montana from killing any more bison.. They will be working on the 1st...keep them in your thoughts. Please pass this on! It only takes a sec!!! Thank you, For the Earth, su Quotable QUOTES: Audubon article: "By late March more than 2,000 bison - nearly two-thirds of the park herd - had died, caught in a political crossfire of a dispute about a disease called brucellosis and about who should decide the fate of America's last wild bison herd." Rosalie Little Thunder, Lakota elder says, "The killing ... and the laughing of the killers...its the Phil Sheridan nightmare all over again". (Note: Phil Sheridan ordered and participated in the 1800's slaughter of millions of buffalo to bring the Indian people to their knees.) "This slaughter is the result of that same mentality, combined with political paralysis. Common sense and direct action is desperately needed to save what's left of the herd." For more information about the plight of the Yellowstone Bison check out this web site http://www.wildrockies.org/bison Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 21:55:25 -0400 >From: allen schubert To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: (US) Time may be running out Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970422215523.0068a160@clark.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Posted for (and replies to) "Bob Kirk" : ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Looking for a good home for the following animals: > >Kodiak Grizzly - 2 year old female. Raised from a cub, manageable. > >African Lion - 2 year old male. Raised from a cub, manageable, declawed and >frisky. Can > use lead and collar. > >Siberian Tiger - 2 year old male. Very passive, manageable, use a lead. > >All have been bottle feed. > >All come with their own cages. > >Must come to Lewisburg, West Virginia to pick up the animals. > >All are in good health and good hands at this time. > >I am acting as a go between for the owner. We realize (and have made >queries) about the value >of each animal. He has kept and feed them for more than a year. He would >like to sell them by >May 1, 1997. > >If you or anyone you know would be interested in them you can contact me by: >Calling (304) 645-4232 (Work) Mon. - Fri. 0830-1700 EST and ask for Bob Kirk >or (304) 645-4232 (Home) after 1700. >E-mail, oma00284@mail.wvnet.edu >Write to, PO Box 801, Fairlea, WV 24902. > >Please contact me for any more information. > > Thank You, Bob Kirk > > Any help with other contacts will help Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 23:06:10 -0400 >From: "H. Morris" To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: veg-nyc: NYC Lockdown for Chimps Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970421230604.006db288@pop01.ny.us.ibm.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >Hey you crazy animal rights freaks!!! > >Today at a protest at NYU to demand that 100 chimps which NYU has tortured >and maimed, some for nearly 30 years, be transferred to a sanctuary rather >than to notorious toxicologist Fred Coulston, killer of the chimp Jello >(DEATH 1/97). > >At first, we were around the corner to the main entrance to the building >atop which a "secret:" animal research lab is being built. But the police >wouldn't arrest us, presumably becauseNYU did not want the negative >publicity. I mean, four people were locked down with pipes, and they did >nothing. In fact, there was only 3 or 4 cops total! After some discussion >and two hours later, the lockdowners removed themselves and we walked to >the main entrance, where two people sat down and the lockdowners blocked >the entrance and relinked!! Cops were doing NOTHING! Of course, once we >bblocked the entrance, things started getting going! Cops, students, >crowds, MEDIA (Ch 2, 5, 9, NY Times, and NY Post along with a number of >local papers). Goo dchants, great energy, lots of support from >passerbys--handed out about 2000 flyers. The cops, who recognized alot of >us from FFF, didnt want to cut through the pipes, and there was a long time >when they begged those locked down to release themselves. Of course, they >didnt for a while, and those of us who were sitting around them >agreed....then the University agreed to let us speak to the VP of the >school.Those locked down agreed tounlock themselves, with the condition >that if the VP was not open to listening, and if the meeting turned out to >be a sham, we would be back in greater force, and soon. > >I wont go into the details of the meeting, which was to my mind a joke, but >suffice to say that WE'LL BE BACK. Perhaps someone else who was there >wants to give some sense of the meeting? > >THe move to the front of the building, as well as the decision by some of >those who joined the sitdown, was unplanned. So good things do come about >even when they're spur of the moment! We got a meeting with the 2nd in >command, and let him know that we are serious and will not go away. >Congrats to Wetlands for organizing a great demo--James, Chris, Olga, and >others! > >Hillary > > Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 23:14:09 -0400 >From: Wyandotte Animal Group To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: Bear Exhibitor Charged Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19970422031409.2497fc34@mail.heritage.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" A man had two bears at the Gibraltar Trade Center, in Mt. Clemens, MI, this weekend offering pictures with the bears. The bears had all their teeth and claws and weres restrained only by a leash. No muzzles were used. Someone called the police and a background check was done on the exhibitor. His license for having the bears had expired. He is currently facing charges related to "possessing unmuzzled bears." The bears are currently housed at the Detroit Zoo. No permanent arrangments have yet been made on where the bears will stay. Jason Alley Wyandotte Animal Group wag@heritage.com Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 23:18:38 -0400 >From: Wyandotte Animal Group To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: Bear Exhibator Charged Update Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19970422031838.27af3f14@mail.heritage.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Just found out: The exhibator was none other than Sam Mazollo, the famous wrestling bears goon. His charges are "possessing unmuzzled bears" and public endangerment. Jason Alley Wyandotte Animal Group wag@heritage.com Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 20:19:50 -0700 >From: Andrew Gach To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: Elephants in peril Message-ID: <335C2E56.69CD@worldnet.att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Elephants doomed if ivory trade restarts Reuter Information Service LONDON (April 21, 1997 8:02 p.m. EDT) - Elephants in southern Africa and Asia could be wiped out by poachers if a small group of countries succeed in overturning a ban on the international ivory trade, an environmental group said Tuesday. Trading in ivory is banned under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES) but Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe, backed by South Africa and Mozambique, plan to petition the 134-member CITES to lift the 1989 ban. The Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) said the proposal could spell doom for the elephant population. "The ban on international trade in ivory has been a huge success. Elephant herds across Africa and Asia which were on the verge of disappearing have started to recover," EIA Director Dave Currey said in a statement. "Even a partial relaxation of the ban would send a message to poachers that ivory trade is back. This would mean disaster for elephant populations across the two continents." South Africa, Namibia and Zimbabwe all have large elephant populations which they say often devastate their environment. Herds are often culled in an attempt to keep numbers down. The countries hope to convince governments and conservationists that the ban merely drives trade underground. They plan to propose that ivory collected from periodic culls be auctioned under tight controls instead. Botswana says its ivory stockpile is the result of natural deaths and ivory seized from poachers and illegal traders. Officials say they have a Japanese buyer for the ivory. A similar move by Botswana in 1992, involving another buyer, was voted down. The EIA and other environmental groups point out that the African elephant population fell by more than 50 percent in the 10 years before the ban -- mostly due to ivory poachers. The EIA said it had evidence that poachers were waiting for the ban to be lifted. "In February of this year two EIA investigators carried hidden microphones and cameras during discussions with Namibian traders which indicated that large amounts of black market ivory from neighboring Angola are available for sale," it said. The EIA added that sources in India had reported smugglers stockpiling ivory in anticipation of a rise in profits. Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 20:31:47 -0700 >From: Andrew Gach To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: Manslaughter - #2 Message-ID: <335C3123.8AC@worldnet.att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Parents of girl who suffered brain damage from vaccine get settlement Kansas City Star KANSAS CITY, Mo. (April 21, 1997 00:43 a.m. EDT) -- The vaccine was supposed to keep Taylor Simmons healthy. Instead it damaged her brain and destroyed her chance for a normal life. The girl, now 4, is so hyperactive and oblivious to danger that she cannot be left alone for a second. She will require round-the-clock care for the rest of her life. "She's certainly one of the most extreme behavior cases I've seen," said Colorado rehabilitation specialist Mark Litvin, who designs programs to care for children like Taylor. Acknowledging the severity of Taylor's brain damage, attorneys with the U.S. Justice Department agreed this week to a settlement that could pay almost $50 million to Taylor and her family over her lifetime. A department spokesman said he could not discuss details of the settlement. Taylor's parents have received the first check, for $500,000. They asked that their city of residence not be named because of concerns about publicity about the money. The money comes from a fund set up by Congress in 1988 to compensate people injured after receiving childhood vaccinations. Most claims, like Taylor's, involve adverse reactions to vaccinations for pertussis. The disease, commonly called whooping cough, can lead to convulsions, pneumonia, brain damage or death. About 5,000 claims have been filed, and the fund has paid out more than $750 million, according to the National Vaccine Information Center in Virginia. "As a result of these vaccinations, Taylor's quality of life was totally destroyed," said Olathe lawyer Greg Kincaid, who represents the Simmons family. "Her parents have not had a reasonable night's sleep since this happened." Taylor is an inquisitive whirlwind of motion. She gets into and out of everything and sleeps only three or four hours at a time. A plate of food set in front of her will be splattered on the floor. She can remove window screens and will careen wildly around a parking lot, oblivious to moving cars. "Our house has to look like Fort Knox," said Taylor's father, Steve Simmons. She can only be taught one on one. Steve and Tracy Simmons say they are angry about what happened to their daughter. They are angry that the batch of vaccine that damaged their daughter was not recalled by the government after several other children had fatal reactions. Since then, the Food and Drug Administration approved a different vaccine that it says causes far fewer side effects. But that vaccine, which has been used in Japan since 1981, came too late for the Simmonses. "The day she got that shot, our lives died," said Steve Simmons. Taylor was 4 months old when she was vaccinated. She immediately passed out and remained semiconscious for the rest of the day, Steve Simmons said. At 3 a.m. the next day her parents found her having seizures and called for an ambulance. Doctors assured them that the seizures were prompted by a high fever, a not uncommon problem for children. Things were fine until Taylor was 7 months old, when she had another seizure and quit breathing. Doctors prescribed drugs to control the seizures. The seizures started coming once a month, but Taylor, the Simmonses' first child, appeared to be developing normally. She was sitting up and crawling at appropriate ages and was starting to talk. The seizures increased in frequency until she was having up to 15 a day. Some lasted for more than an hour. Her development slowed and then regressed. She could no longer speak words she had known a few months before. Doctors tried medication after medication to control the seizures. The Simmonses lost track of how many emergency room trips they made. "The paramedics knew us on a first-name basis," Tracy Simmons said. Taylor has required physical, occupational and speech therapy since she was 15 months old. All along, her parents suspected that the vaccination had something to do with Taylor's problems, but doctors told them that wasn't the case. Then Steve Simmons saw a report on a television news magazine about problems associated with diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus vaccinations. "We always knew that something happened, but we never had the information to validate what we believed," Steve Simmons said. Finally their pediatrician told them that yes, Taylor's problems could have been caused by the vaccination. The television program they saw was due in part to the efforts of the National Vaccine Information Center, which was founded in 1982 by parents of vaccine-damaged children. Its executive director, Kathi Williams, said an earlier television documentary led her and other parents to form the group. The group strives to educate the public about possible problems with vaccines. It has helped establish the compensation fund, set up a central system to report vaccine problems and lobbied for the safer vaccine. Williams said that despite thousands of anecdotal stories and the willingness of the government to recognize the problem by paying compensation, many doctors do not believe it has been proved that the vaccinations are responsible for problems. Still, others in the medical community believe that a small percentage of people receiving vaccinations suffer some type of harmful reaction. People who have studied the topic say there are no definitive studies on how widespread the problem is. According to an FDA report several years ago, one out of every 309,000 pertussis vaccinations resulted in some type of nerve damage. The only large government-financed study, in 1979, found that one out of every 875 shots resulted in a seizure or collapse caused by shock, Williams said. Litvin says he deals with children around the country with serious physical and emotional problems related to vaccinations. He has designed a plan to care for Taylor for the rest of her life. Such intensive care is expensive and demanding. Litvin said he has seen many families torn apart by the emotional strain of caring for a child like Taylor. "These parents need help," Litvin said. "They are basically worn out all the time. Everything they do with her is stressful and demanding." --By Tony Rizzo, Kansas City Star Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 20:29:59 -0700 >From: Andrew Gach To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: Manslaughter - #1 Message-ID: <335C30B7.2BD1@worldnet.att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Article Pennsylvania couple in court for not giving daughter medical treatment The Associated Press HOLLIDAYSBURG, Pa. (April 21, 1997 1:07 p.m. EDT) -- A couple who believed that prayer can heal should not be prosecuted in the death of their teen-age daughter because they did not intend for her to die, their attorney said Monday. Lorie and Dennis Nixon of Altoona went on trial on involuntary manslaughter charges in the death of 16-year-old Shannon Nixon last year. She died of a heart attack brought on by untreated diabetes. The couple, who belong to the Faith Tabernacle Church, also lost a son to illness several years earlier. "This case is not about the prosecution of criminals. This case is about the persecution of well-intended, well-meaning parents," defense attorney Steven Passarello told jurors in Blair County Court. District Attorney William Haberstroh said doctors will testify this week that "there is absolutely no reason why this child should have died." State law requires parents to protect children who are younger than 18, he said. He pointed out that Shannon had been to a doctor as a requirement for her drivers' license and had seen a dentist. Shannon had complained to her parents for several days that she wasn't feeling well, she vomited repeatedly and she was constantly thirsty, the parents told police at the time. She asked for a healing ceremony from the church rather than a doctor. She was unconscious for several hours before she died, with a minister and her parents praying over her. Five years earlier, the couple's 8-year-old son, Clayton, died of an inner-ear infection. That time, they pleaded no contest and were sentenced to probation. They also were ordered to perform community service in a hospital at the request of Haberstroh, who wanted them to see the positive effects of medicine. But no hospital would accept them as volunteers, so they performed their community service elsewhere, he said. The couple has eight surviving children and Mrs. Nixon, 44, is pregnant again. Haberstroh has said he would not seek more than a year in prison if they are convicted. The Nixons are the latest members of the Faith Tabernacle to go up against the state in the treatable deaths of their own children. The Nixons are fighting powerful foes -- doctors, courts and other religions -- by clinging to the belief that prayer rather than medical treatment can heal. Two other members of the Philadelphia-based sect have been convicted, in 1983 and 1992, of involuntary manslaughter in central Pennsylvania for allowing their toddlers to die. In 1991 in suburban Philadelphia, five more children died during a measles outbreak, and in the 1970s, a Faith Tabernacle couple in suburban Philadelphia lost five children before age 2 to untreated cystic fibrosis. Other churches also have had members prosecuted on similar grounds, including an Albany, Ore., member of the Church of the First Born was convicted of criminally negligent homicide a year ago in the death of his 7-year-old son from a treatable form of leukemia. In church Sunday, pastor Charles Nixon told the biblical tale of David and Goliath in his sermon as his daughter-in-law listened. Mrs. Nixon sat calmly in a navy blue hat and maternity jumper flanked by female relatives as her father-in-law spoke. The biblical David "left the battle in the hands of the Lord, so he didn't need to worry about winning it," the pastor told the 80 or so worshipers. Called "baby killers" by some, the Faith Tabernacle refuses to elaborate beyond pamphlets in the church foyer about its beliefs. "It's just beyond me how somebody can watch a child die and not do anything about it," said Rosemary Smith, 61, as she watched her two grandchildren play Sunday afternoon from her porch around the corner from the church. Smith, a Roman Catholic, grew teary-eyed as she described watching Faith Tabernacle children play every day behind the church, where they also attend school, and wondering, "Who's going to be the next one?" The number of faiths that advocate prayer over medicine is shrinking, said J. Gordon Melton, director of the Institute for the Study of American Religions in Santa Barbara, Calif. Many popped up around the turn of the century as a backlash against modern medicine. Pamphlets say the Faith Tabernacle Congregation is 100 years old this year and has "stations" from New Jersey to Africa. During the Sunday service, Nixon read a wish list of anonymous prayers from churchgoers. "Sister asks to be remembered for healing a condition in her leg," Nixon recited. "Brother has a request that God will take care of Dennis and Lorie and their family. Brother asks for grace in dealing with a headache and sickness." --By Casey Jones, The Associated Press Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 20:33:46 -0700 >From: Andrew Gach To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: Manslaughter (or womanslaughter?) #3 Message-ID: <335C319A.5095@worldnet.att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hysterectomy should be last resort Reuter Information Service LONDON (April 20, 1997 9:02 p.m. EDT) - Most British doctors think hysterectomiesshould only be done as a last resort but the operation is still one of the most frequent, a survey published on Monday found. The survey, by Meditex, also found broad disagreement among doctors as to which drugs should be used as alternatives to hysterectomy for treating menorrhagia -- excessive menstrual bleeding. "There has been concern for some time, both within the medical profession and outside, about rising rates of hysterectomy, which appear to be continuing despite the availability of alternative surgical treatments," said Angela Coulter of the Kings Fund medical charity. A statement released by a group of doctors concerned about treatment of menorrhagia said hysterectomy was one of the most frequently performed operations in the Western world. "On current rates at least one-fifth of women living in England and Wales will have a hysterectomy before the age of 65," it said. "In the United States of America and Scotland, this surgical procedure is second only to another controversial operation experienced wholly by women -- Caesarean section." Two-thirds of the 73,000 hysterectomies (removal of the uterus and sometimes the ovaries) carried out in England in 1992-93 were to treat menorrhagia. The survey found most doctors did not know about the most effective drugs available for treating menorrhagia, which include mefenamic acid and tranexamic acid. One of the doctors in the group, Dr. Sally Hope, said less-educated women were much more likely to have hysterectomies. "Better eduction for women about period problems tends to lead to fewer hysterectomies, as if the other options are explained and tried most women prefer not to have surgery," she said. Last month a team at London's Royal Free Hospital reported in the Lancet medical journal that women treated with electrosurgery or laser to remove some of the surface of the uterus, a procedure known as TCRE, were just as happy with the outcome as women who had hysterectomies. Time spent being operated on, blood loss and time to recovery were all lower with TCRE.

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