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The Hawaii state West Nile embargo has been extended through January 1, 2004.

See the PDF file attached for full information...........

Courtesy: Ace Farms

Check this out, they are trying to make it illegal for you and I to talk about anything that would help one another raise our animals better. This is the cutting edge, the first line of thought police laws coming of age.

The animal rights movement is not about animals, it's about forwarding a global Utilitarian agenda and Utilitarian management of the world. So far they've not been slowed down a bit and keep gaining speed.

If it is ok to make a law about talking about animal health issues among ourselves, as we are not qualified, it is no stretch at all to make it against the law to speak of government, medicine, law, or anything else you don't have a degree and license to speak about.

John

Subject: [A_C_T_I_O_N] from rabbit list but... very relavent

The AVMA has drafted a model Veterinary Practice Act which would prohibit us from sharing our knowledge about nutrition and health with one another by telephone or via the internet. The draft labels anyone who consults with anyone about even alternative therapies as practicing veterinary medicine without a license. Their intent is to get each state to legislate this Act into law. The draft can be downloaded at <http://www.avma.org/education/mvpa/>
Please take the time to read it. Comments must be snail-mailed before
March 1, 2003,
to:
Dr. Beth Sabin
AVMA
1931 N Meacham Rd., Suite 100
Schaumburg, IL 60173-4360

and be sure to CC your comments to:

> Ancient Healing Arts Association
> (healers@A...)
> P .O. Box 75
> Cold Spring, NY 10516
>
>
> They will present them en masse to the AVMA to ensure none are
> lost in the cracks. (More information available on their site,
> <http://www.ancienthealingarts.org/vets-1-03.htm.)>
>
> This act reads, in part
>
> 18. "Practice of veterinary medicine" means:
>
> a) To diagnose, treat, correct, change, alleviate, or prevent animal
> disease, illness, pain, deformity, defect, injury, or other physical,
> dental, or mental conditions by any method or mode; including:
>
> i. the prescription, dispensing, administration, or application
> of any drug, medicine, biologic, apparatus, anesthetic, or other
> therapeutic or diagnostic substance or medical or surgical technique, or
>
> ii. the use of complementary, alternative, and integrative therapies, or
>
> iii. the use of any manual or mechanical procedure for reproductive
> management, or
>
> iv. the rendering of advice or recommendation by any means including
> telephonic and other electronic communications with regard to any of the
> above.
>
> b) To represent, directly or indirectly, publicly or privately, an
> ability and willingness to do an act described in subsection 18(a).
>
> If the AVMA is successful in getting the states to agree to this
> abridgment of free speech, to recommend (18a(iv)) a change in food
> (18a(ii)) to alleviate (18a(i)) excessive gas would constitute
> practicing veterinary medicine and, if you were not a licensed vet,
> could result in criminal prosecution.

Subject: Animal Rights Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Friends I am back with this again........ I do not see any info so far from the net on any complaints from the Museum about protest on the showing of Round and Round. This movie is the Animal Rights Uncle Tom's Cabin. If we do not protest a fiction being shown as a prelude to reality then we deserve what we get. You need to fight this in Oklahoma. E-Mail the Museum and Call The Senators and Reps. in the Pro cocking counties and ask for their support. Remember THE MUSEUM IS STATE FUNDED!!!!!! GO GET UM... I sent my protest. snomnh@ou.edu is the E-Mail address. The Museum is located at the University of Oklahoma.

JIMDEM

From: "LA Hot News Report"

Subject:The Oklahoma Daily - Film looks at issue of cockfighting

Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2003 06:53:22 -0800

Film looks at issue of cockfighting

"The Round and Round" will screen this Saturday at the Sam Noble Museum

by Scott Hughes-Daily Staff Writer

February 07, 2003

Corruption, suspicion and murder abound in the political thriller "The Round and Round," the premiere piece in this years Independent Film Makers Series. The movie will screen at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Kerr Auditorium in Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History.

Inspired by true events, "The Round and Round" tells the story of a young Oklahoma state senator, Michael Turner (Robert Knott), and his struggle to pass a law banning cockfighting, said Jill Noonan, the film's producer.

Kent Frates, the film's screenwriter, said he played on the old metaphor 'politics is like cockfighting' and in movie the two institutions are deeply intertwined.

Director Rod Slane calls the film a classic tale of a man going up against something much bigger than himself. A hopeless tone pervades the movie, Slane said, as Turner is confronted with politicians who will do anything -- even murder -- to see that cockfighting is left untouched.

The film was shot entirely in Oklahoma and features a distinctly Oklahoman issue, said Frates. Slane said that all but two of the actors involved in the film are from Oklahoma.

Frates said he hopes the public will focus more on the issue of good verses evil in the story, an issue he says is more about the difficulty of getting a bill to pass than cockfighting. However, Slane understands that in making such a movie a political statement on cockfighting will be made regardless.

"I don't think any one is going to think cockfighting is a good thing if they see the real thing. We tried to be objective and did as accurate a simulation as possible of a real cockfight for a shot in the film," Slane said. "I find the sport to be a little prehistoric myself."

Noonan and Slane actually went to a number of cockfights for background research.

"Not being from Oklahoma I had never experienced anything like it. The whole focus of the fight is gambling," Noonan said. "I saw a 10-year- old boy initiate a round of gambling at one fight."

Slane said they witnessed gambling at the events he went to and even got a call from someone associated with the sport who told Slane not to make cockfighting look bad "or else."

Frates said the film was not meant to be a social commentary and should not cast a negative light on Oklahoma as a whole.

Frates himself does not believe that cockfighting should be illegal.

"It is not something that should rise to crime status," Frates said. "A chicken will die whether you fry him or put him in a cockfight."

For information on the screening and The Independent Film Project call 325-4670.

Source: http://www.oudaily.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/02/07/3e4327b841ebe

END AND GAMEFOWL ENTHUSIASTS BEING RESPONSIBLE

In the states where END is being a problem perhaps it is time for Cockers to consider not moving their birds until the disease is controlled.

We can see by the present press that panic has replaced professionalism. The helplessness of the state employees are having a chicken little effect and now the press is quoting non-scientist in saying that gamecocks must be the problem.

The cockers in the states having problems with END perhaps need to self-quarantine their flocks and not move any birds around the state. Some say, not allowing your warrior to show is a form of animal abuse, as we know that he would rather fight than switch. But in the interest of being responsible perhaps we need to say no to our little ring general and keep him home until they find, what I think will be like last END outbreak, illegal tropical birds from south of California.

Keeping our birds home shows the world that cockers are responsible citizens and not the kind of people that the Animal Rights Cults would make us out to be.

But, what if you are like so many parents that can't say no to their children and you do travel your birds that are from unknown or questionable areas? Perhaps a quarantine area away from your flock and cages that do not allow wild birds to come in contact with the fecal matter from your birds. Just a thought here not suggesting that you live by someone else's rule. (How do you protect your flock from the AR, the State and wild birds; Pray!)

Close cruel loophole: Oregon bans cockfighting, but not raising birds

A Register-Guard Editorial

IT'S ILLEGAL IN Oregon to strap razors to roosters' legs, place them in a pit and force them to fight, often to the death, for the amusement of spectators. Raising game birds for cockfighting, however, is still allowed in Oregon. This loophole ensures a ready supply of fighting birds for an inhumane "sport" that is illicit but widespread. The state Legislature should close the loophole by approving House Bill 2086.

HB 2086 would elevate the crime of cockfighting, currently a misdemeanor, to a Class C felony, the same as dogfighting. More important, it would prohibit the breeding, raising and possession of gamecocks. Currently, gamecock breeders are able to claim that their birds will be sold in Mexico, the Philippines and other countries where cockfighting is legal. In fact, many of them are destined for bloody contests in places like Junction City and Coos Bay.

The Oregon House approved legislation similar to HB 2086 two years ago, but the bill died in the Senate. Opponents. led by Sen. Roger Beyer, R-Molalla, worried that anti-cockfighting legislation might somehow interfere with legitimate poultry businesses, such as raising birds for plumage used in fly-tying. Yet HB 2086 defines fighting birds narrowly. Before the state could obtain a conviction under the law, it would have to prove that a defendant intended that gamecocks be used for fighting purposes.

In the 2001 legislative session, gamecock breeders could claim that they were raising birds for sale in Louisiana, New Mexico and a few other states where cockfighting is legal. But federal legislation sponsored by Oregon Sens. Gordon Smith and Ron Wyden has outlawed interstate commerce in fighting fowl. Oregon should not aspire to be the supplier of gamecocks to the rest of the world, and it certainly should not make it easier for illegal cockfights to continue to flourish at home.

Some opponents also see HB 2086 and its predecessors as part of a larger agenda of animal rights groups that will eventually turn their attention to deer hunting or trout fishing. It's true that animal rights organizations are working to build support for the legislation.

But HB 2086 is also supported by the Oregon Association of Chiefs of Police, the Oregon State Sheriff's Association and other law-enforcement groups. Police officers know from experience that their efforts to crack down on illegal cockfighting are hindered by the absence of a law against the possession of fighting birds. They also have found that cockfighting is often associated with other criminal activity.

There's nothing sporting about cockfighting - it's cruel and barbaric. To prohibit cockfighting without banning the possession of fighting birds is like outlawing burglary, but not the possession of stolen merchandise. The Legislature can take a stand against cockfighting in Oregon and elsewhere by approving HB 2086.

Source: http://www.registerguard.com/news/2003/02/11/ed.edit.cockfighting.0211.html

The Animal Rights 'Industry' Gets Teeth
Posted On February 11, 2003

The animal rights dogma seems to be gaining ground everywhere you look -- even in state legislatures and governors' mansions. In Colorado, lawmakers are set to debate a bill that would elevate the legal status of cats and dogs, allowing their owners (among other things) to sue veterinarians for "loss of companionship." San Francisco has already begun to toy with this sort of dangerous precedent.

What few observers have recognized is that such a new law could easily be reinterpreted to suggest new "rights" for all sorts of animals, including lab rats and dairy cows. One need only look at the animal rights organization Farm Sanctuary, which is pushing "sentient beings" city council declarations for cows, pigs, and chickens. The group already argues, as does PETA, that livestock have the "right" to not be eaten.

Elsewhere, New Jersey Governor James McGreevey has just unveiled a new "animal welfare task force" that's causing a stir in the Garden State. The panel, says today's New Jersey Star-Ledger, is "dominated by animal-rights activists," including representatives from the Humane Society of the United States (not your local Humane Society -- think PETA with a 9-figure bank account) and a host of other animal agriculture opponents.

But New Jersey's capitulation to animal rights extremists was already underway before the governor weighed in. Farm Sanctuary has been pushing since 2001 for a vote in the state legislature that would ban veal production in New Jersey (the bill could be passed as early as next month). And just like their ill-advised effort to add pigs to Florida's constitution, the New Jersey veal measure will undoubtedly be used for leverage in other states.

Farm Sanctuary, you may recall, paid a $50,000 fine in November for illegally funneling $465,000 into Florida during the 2002 election cycle. And one of its program managers is currently facing burglary charges in connection with a theft from a New York farm (a category of crime that is definitely on the upswing). On Friday, Farm Sanctuary's Gene Bauston told the Ithaca (NY) Journal that over 1,500 animal rights activists have already written prosecutors to demand that the charges be dropped. "It's all over the industry," Bauston brags, acknowledging at last that animal rights is no longer just a weekend pastime.

Source: http://www.consumerfreedom.com/headline_detail.cfm?HEADLINE_ID=1780

Wyoming.........

Senate passes utility, animal cruelty measures

By SARAH COOKE

Associated Press Writer

.........On a 23-7 vote, the Senate also passed a bill that would make it a felony to kill an animal or abuse one to the point it must be euthanized. A similar animal cruelty measure was killed in the House last week.

Offenders could be sentenced to no more than two years in prison and $5,000 in fines under Senate File 125. The offense currently is a misdemeanor..............

Source: http://www.trib.com/AP/wire_detail.php?wire_num=101486