If Only Our Country Had As Much Respect For Gamefowl Issues..........

GAB chairman, commissioner arrive today for PBA

ILOILO CITY – GAMES and Amusement Board (GAB) chairman Eduardo Villanueva and Comissioner Emmanuel Palabrica will arrive here today to observe the out-of-town match of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) between Coca Cola Tigers and Purefoods at the University of San Agustin (USA) gym.

GAB is currently strictly monitoring all the PBA games in and outside Metro Manila after two PBA players were recently found using prohibited drugs and have been recommended for suspension and rehabilitation.

The GAB has also scheduled an orientation and dialogue with persons engaged in regulated games and professional sports to be held later this month.

In the orientation and dialogue, the GAB has invited aficionados of cockfighting, professional boxing, wrestling, basketball, and other regulated events to participate in the discussion, the first to be initiated by the office since Villanueva and Palabrica assumed office in July last year.

Also to be tackled in the dialogue are the projects and programs that have been initiated by GAB in the last 10 months, among which the giving of cash incentives to disabled and retired professional athletes and the strict enforcement of regulations on professional boxing.

They will be accompanied by GAB regional officer Ely Angeles who holds office in GAB-Bacolod. (Alex P. Vidal)

Source: http://www.sunstar.com.ph/static/ilo/2003/03/08/sports/gab.chairman.commissioner.arrive.today.for.pba.html

Would The Animal Rights Movement Have A Motive To Spread Animal Disease?

..........The egg industry is among the top agriculture businesses in Connecticut, with annual receipts of between $60 million and $100 million............

Connecticut Quarantines 4.7 Million Chickens to Investigate Possible Avian Flu Outbreak
By Donna Tommelleo Associated Press Writer

Do You Think The Attitude Of The AR Is One Of Destroy What You Disagree With, Imprison Those You Don't Follow Your Philosophy, And Only Kill Chickens With A Lethal Injection?

We Are Told This Is Frantically Moving From One AR List To Another...........

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-UPC@envirolink.org

[mailto:owner-UPC@envirolink.org]

On Behalf Of Karen Davis

United Poultry Concerns [UPC] Email List
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March 7, 2003

Chickens Bought By Marines To Detect Poisonous Chemicals Died in Kuwait
Use of Chickens Suspended: Urge President Bush Not to Resume Their Use

"And it didn't help that nobody here really knows anything about chickens."
--Sgt. Ken Griffin, Public Affairs Officer

The St. Louis Post Dispatch reported on March 2, 2003 that "more than a
week after 43 chickens were brought here to ride into battle with the
Marines, all but two have died."

Sgt. Ken Griffin, a public affairs office with the 7th Regiment in
Kuwait, said, "Nobody knows why they died. I just heard that they were
boxed up really tight when they arrived and they started dying from the
moment they got here. And it didn't help that nobody here really knows
anything about chickens."

Urge President Bush and your Members of Congress to permanently cancel
the use of chickens to detect deadly chemicals. Urge the use of
detection systems soldiers understand instead of living creatures they
clearly do not understand. If the government is serious about protecting
American soldiers from deadly poisons, they will use a high tech
detection system instead of subjecting innocent creatures to massive
suffering with no benefit to the soldiers in any case. (See UPC's
February 23 Action Alert for more information at
http://www.upc-online.org/.)
The Honorable George W. Bush
President of the United States
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington DC 20500
Fax: 202-456-2461
Email: president@Whitehouse.gov

Contact your US Senators and House Representative. To find your US
members of Congress, visit http://action.fund.org/directory/.

United Poultry Concerns is a nonprofit organization that promotes the
compassionate and respectful treatment of domestic fowl.
http://www.upc-online.org

What's The Difference Between The AR In This Country And The AR In Homeland Of The ALF?

The HSUS Position Is To Support The California Bill To Stop Hunting With Dogs..........

The American Kennel Club Position Is..........

AB342 makes it illegal for any dog to hunt, pursue, catch, capture, or kill, or attempt to hunt, pursue, catch, capture, or kill any mammal, or to train a dog for such purposes. If this legislation passes, earthdog, tracking, coonhound, herding, lure coursing, and field trial events could be prohibited. Additionally, any dog that instinctually takes a wild or feral mammal not as an organized hunting or performance event would likewise violate AB342. In effect, any dog chasing a rabbit in his backyard would be prohibited.

While Back In Britain.........

THE RSPCA was yesterday accused of spending its members' money on a "nakedly political campaign" to criminalise hunting with hounds.

An AR And Here Live In , A Drug Life Style And A Friends Comments After She Is Dead..........

"I'm glad she's not living in a world that abuses women and animals."

Few saw depth of couple's problems

Friends of slain UA law student Susan Barber thought her boyfriend 'was bad news,' but no one expected her to wind up dead, a fellow student says.

IRENE HSIAO
Tucson Citizen
March 7, 2003

Susan Barber thought Everett O'Quin was cute. She liked his Southern accent. And the fact they were both short. O'Quin stood 5 feet 4 inches tall. Barber measured in at 4 feet, 10 1/2 inches.

They met at the photo processing store in Tucson where he worked, after she had dropped some pictures off and noticed him. He called to say her pictures were ready. Pretty soon they were dating but then the relationship became volatile.

Wednesday, police obtained an arrest warrant for O'Quin on suspicion of first-degree murder in her death.

"We knew he was bad news after awhile, but none of us expected this," said Krista Arendsen, 25, a second-year UA law student who was one of Barber's close friends.

Arendsen said that O'Quin, who is from Louisiana, may have had a problem with Valium and cocaine. He disappeared one weekend when he and Barber had a date and he didn't show up for two days, Arendsen said. He and Barber were living together.

He moved out after that but then eventually moved back in.

"I wish I got to know him better," Arendsen she said. During the last couple of months "we knew we couldn't expect much from him and we couldn't really trust what he was saying," she said.

Yesterday Tucson police obtained a warrant to search the home of a relative of O'Quin, 25, the key suspect in the slaying of the University of Arizona law school student. Her body was found at her house on North Fremont Avenue, near North Park Avenue and East Grant Road.

O'Quin's relative lives in the 1200 block of East Paseo Alegre, near East Limberlost Road and North Campbell Avenue, said Sgt. Marco Borboa, Tucson police spokesman. Detectives say O'Quin left the state after the killing and returned to Tucson on Wednesday evening to the relative's house, he said.

During the search of the home, police discovered Barber's 1993 black Geo Metro in the garage and now believe O'Quin is driving the relative's green 1997 Ford Thunderbird with Arizona license plate 766-DNR, Borboa said.

A 1997 Ford two-door sedan is registered to Melanie C. O'Quin of the 1200 block of East Paseo Alegre, according to state records.

Police have positively identified Barber using dental records, said Sgt. Judy Altieri, a Tucson police spokeswoman.

Neighbors in the East Paseo Alegre neighborhood say a couple moved into the house where the relative lives about three weeks ago and were renters.

Don Smith, 44, a physician who lives a few houses away, said they looked like a "young professional" couple but he never met them or saw them up close.

"Nobody had met this couple yet because they recently moved in," he said.

Neither Smith nor his wife, Julie Ferdon, 52, an adjunct assistant law professor, knew Barber. She said she heard that the previous owner of the East Paseo Alegre home had sold the house and a woman bought it for her son to move into. That didn't work out so she rented it out, Ferdon said.

Neither Ferdon or her husband had ever seen Everett O'Quin, she said. They saw other cars parked at the house but didn't recall the type of cars. Other neighbors said they thought the couple might have been vacationing in Hawaii.

One neighbor, Jon Read, made fliers he placed on mailboxes in the area informing residents a search warrant had been served on the 1200 block of East Paseo Alegre.

Arendsen said Barber was a vegan with a shelf full of vegan cookbooks and had bumper stickers on her car proclaiming her beliefs. She owned two dogs, eight rats and fish, she said.

"She had so much compassion that she understood everything had feelings," Arendsen said. "Her dogs were her babies."

Vegangrrrl was her e-mail address at one point because she was a feminist "who was not going to take any (expletive) from anybody."

Barber had firsthand experience with being a woman, being small, being Asian-American, and "that made her strong," Arendsen said.

"She had a strength about her that made her want to fight these causes," she said.

Barber was active in animal rights and environmental groups, but had less time for them while in law school.

"She butted heads with people because they wouldn't understand her 'force,' " she said. "She was so honest and sometimes people don't expect that. She had this hard shell but she was so sensitive and soft in the middle."

Arendsen said Barber had a bumper sticker that said: "Your silence will not protect you."

Anne Carl, a third-year law student and her mentor at the UA's Law Women's Association, said "she was not indifferent to the suffering of others."

"She cared and cared and cared," Carl said. They met in 2001.

Barber "was really blossoming" after the stressful and intense first year of law school and was at the end of her second year.

Carl is grateful for one thing: "I'm glad she's not living in a world that abuses women and animals."

How Many People Have You Told Today About What They AR Have Planned For Them?

............There is no division in these issues, Kopperud said. "An attack on one group is an attack on all," he explained............

Ag Conference Told Farmers Should Speak Up for Themselves

KEARNEY, Neb. (DTN) -- It's time for ag producers to come out of the shadows and show their faces, according to Steve Kopperud, senior vice president of Policy Directions, Inc., a government affairs company in Washington, DC, specializing in production agriculture, agribusiness, food and research/health related issues.

Ag producers need to connect to consumers in order to maintain trust and confidence, he said. Kopperud addressed the issue of creating coalitions to craft consumer communications at the Governor's Ag Conference held in Kearney Wednesday.

Nebraska agriculture needs to capitalize on its assets of knowledge, professionalism and expertise, Kopperud said. Agriculture does a great job of promoting their products through checkoffs, but the producers themselves are invisible.

"There is not one word in advertising about who producers are, the men and women who stand behind those products. That is wrong," said Kopperud. "Consumers are told ag products are good, but not how they got that way."

The result of not communicating with consumers is, in many cases, that producers are being told, what, when and how to do their jobs by consumers. He gave the example of an amendment in Florida banning gestation stalls or sow crates because of pressure from animal rights groups. Kopperud, asked, "How many of you wrote a letter or sent an e-mail [in support of those pork producers]? Communication means taking care of our own."

There is no division in these issues, Kopperud said. "An attack on one group is an attack on all," he explained.

First Texas And Now New York........

Are Ingrid and Rodney And Wayne and John P. Getting Nervous Yet?

Legislation to Penalize Animal Rights Terrorists Introduced in New York-
New York

New York is the second state to introduce a bill that will help prosecute animal rights terrorists. The proposal is based on a model bill created by the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance.

Assembly Bill 4884, introduced by Assemblyman Richard Smith (D-Blasdell), will recognize animal and eco-terrorism as forms of domestic terrorism, increase penalties for persons participating in politically motivated acts of animal or eco-terrorism and create specific penalties for those who assist or finance these acts of terrorism.

This is part of the Alliance’s national campaign to combat animal rights terrorism on a state-by-state basis. New York follows Texas’ lead in introducing this bill with legislators in other states also preparing to introduce similar bills.

“The FBI found extremist animal rights groups to be among the largest and fastest-growing domestic terror threats,” said U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance Senior Vice President Rick Story. “Terrorist groups like the Animal Liberation Front and Earth Liberation Front caused $17.3 million in damages during 2001. This legislation can help identify and prosecute those who are involved in animal rights terrorism.”

“We need to applaud Assemblyman Smith for his leadership in introducing this bill as well as his obvious regard for the safety of New York citizens,” he added.

Take Action! New York sportsmen should ask their representatives to support Assembly Bill 4884. Tell them that animal rights terrorism endangers lives, sets back life-saving medical research, and strikes fear into the hearts of countless researchers, business people, farmers, sportsmen and more. Let them know that you want those responsible for committing and assisting with these terror acts to be identified and prosecuted.

New York sportsmen can find their legislators and contact information for them at (518) 455-4218, fill out the Take Action Now icon above or use the Legislative Action Center on the U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance website, www.ussportsmen.org.

Source: http://www.ussportsmen.org/interactive/features/Read.cfm?ID=1018

----- Original Message -----

From: Bob Kane

Subject: ALERT: California Hunters Need Your Help!

Dear Sportsmen and Animal Owners,

California hunters need your help. While the animal rightist's attacks on sportsmen and animal owners literally cover the country this legislative session, they're most serious and aggressive in California. Should these radical zealots prevail there, they'll be further encouraged elsewhere. I'm requesting very targeted and discrete assistance from you. Three bills are involved, AB 342 - dog hunting ban, AB 1190 - dove hunting ban and AB 602 - ammunition supplemental tax. The first of three anti-hunting bills, AB 342, is scheduled to be heard before the California Assembly Water, Parks And Wildlife Committee on March 25, 2003 and is the focus of this message.

CA AB 342, authored by Paul Koretz (D-42) of West Hollywood, would amend the
Fish and Game Code to make it unlawful to use a dog to "take" any mammal as well as to train any dog to do this with very limited exceptions. Contrary to the bill supporters' suggestions that only dog bear hunting would be banned, all currently legal dog mammal hunting would be prohibited, including squirrels, rabbits, hare, fox, raccoons, bobcats and wild pigs.

Further, since AB 342 bans dog training, no informal or licensed hunting dog tests or field trials involving mammals could be held in the state.

Normally comments from outside a political jurisdiction are ignored. I've been informed that, in this limited instance, that isn't the case here. California sportsmen and their supporters have two weeks to kill AB 342 before its March 25th hearing date. Sportsmen who are organization officers, e.g. hunt, conservation, dog clubs, etc. need to send hard copy letterhead messages to Chairman Joe Canciamilla via U.S. mail or FAX, using the information below.

You may compose your own message which might be as simple as "I am very much OPPOSED to AB 342. Preserve our hunting heritage and life-long family tradition of hunting and training dogs. I respectfully request you to VOTE NO on this Assembly
Bill, and look forward to hearing of its immediate rejection," or use the longer provided sample.

The Honorable Joe Canciamilla
Chair, Assembly Water, Parks And Wildlife Committee
Attention: Jeff Volberg, Consultant - FAX (916) 319-2196
1020 N Street, Room 160.
Sacramento, CA 95814

Re: Oppose AB 342

Dear Assemblyman Canciamillia:

As a sportsman and President of ________, I'm outraged at Mr. Koretz's AB 342. This bill before your Water, Parks And Wildlife Committee would ban dog hunting of virtually all mammals. I urge you and the members of your committee to permanently reject this measure.

Despite the claim by co-sponsor Humane Society of the United States that the purpose is "to stop trophy hunters from using packs of radio-collared hounds to chase and kill black bears and other mammals," AB 342 is about any and all kinds of dogs that hunt any and all kinds of mammals in any way - NOT just bears!

Bear hunting and all hunting that is currently legal is already controlled by well founded statute and regulation. Hunting serves a necessary public purpose by managing designated populations of wildlife in addition to other lethal methods. The sponsors claim a "moral" objection because hunters not only enjoy the hunting experience but use other animals - dogs - to do this. Throughout history a wide variety of dogs have been bred to hunt specific game in local conditions - not only for food but for safety from predatory game and balancing wild populations. These are still valued, necessary skills that should be preserved for public benefit by recreational participants who also play an vital economic role in the conservation of both land and wildlife.

AB 342 would undermine the public interest and support for conservation and wildlife resource management with unconsidered, unintended consequences to serve only the narrow motives and claims of self-centered activist groups. Please vote NO on AB 342.

Sincerely,

Name

Title, Affiliation

This is strictly a numbers, influence fight. The side demonstrating the most support will win. If you can't send a letterhead message, use please consider adding your name to the petition at http://www.petitiononline.com/AB342/petition.html The side with the largest stack of supporting messages at 9:00 AM on March 25th is likely to prevail.

It's easiest to kill a bill at the outset, in its first committee deliberation, than it is later in the legislative process. Once AB 342 is rejected, Californians will be more likely to also defeat the other pending animal rightist anti-hunting measures which follow it and their opponents will understand that sportsmen across the country are alert and united.

Remember: Numbers count. Please share this message with friends and associates, asking them to join with you in defeating CA AB 342. Thank you.

Bob Kane
Sportsmen's and Animal Owners' Voting Alliance
http://saova.org

Forwarding and cross posting encouraged.