A n i m
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The
official ANIMAL RIGHTS ONLINE newsletter
Publisher ~ EnglandGal@aol.com
Issue #
05/02/01
Editor ~ JJswans@aol.com
Journalists ~ Park StRanger@aol.com
~
MichelleRivera1@aol.com
~ sbest1@elp.rr.com
THE FIVE ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE ARE:
1 ~ The Making of Hospice Hounds by
MichelleRivera1@aol.com
2 ~ Deadly Venison?
3 ~ Horse Slaughter
4 ~ Rusty Little Hand Saw
5 ~ Memorable Quote
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The Making of Hospice Hounds
by MichelleRivera1@aol.com
When
I became a journalist for Animal Writes, I never dreamed it would be the
beginning of the end of the rainbow for me. My single most cherished goal
in life was always, always to be become a published author. My mother
would read to me every night and through these stories I was taken to faraway
places with fairy-tale princesses and primates who spoke English and quaint
little French convents where little girls learned to be great women.
"How wonderful to have that power," I marveled, "to be the
catalyst for people's fantasy!" Later, I learned the unequivocal truth
behind the words "The pen is mightier than the sword." My attentions
turned to learning about animals and their environment, and it was through the
written words of women like Rachel Carson, Dian Fossey, Jane Goodall and Ingrid
Newkirk that my innocence in a kind and caring world turned to concern and
outrage mobilizing me to become a nonfiction writer so that I, too, could help
spread the message of our responsibility and our covenant with animals.
Writers of fiction take us outside our world and our work to a place of
delight, mystery and drama. Those of us who write nonfiction simply hold
a mirror to the world and invite those around us to take a peek.
Through a series of unusual coincidences and amazing twists, it was an article
I wrote for Animal Writes, entitled "Querencia," that led to
the publishing of Hospice Hounds. The article provoked a
spirited debate between myself and Professor Marc Bekoff, author of "Strolling
with our Kin" and "The Smile of a Dolphin", who
e-mailed me to share his feelings about the article. We became fast
cyber-pals and later met face to face in a small cafe in Coral Springs,
Florida. The rest, as they say, is history. Marc wrote the Foreword
for Hospice Hounds and for that I am greatly in his debt.
I would like to share with Animal Writes readers the Afterword that
appears at the end of Hospice Hounds. I feel that Animal
Writes readers will be especially understanding of the point I am trying to
make in the writing of the Afterword. It is my hope that the book Hospice
Hounds will be read and enjoyed by many, but I most sincerely pray that
Animal Writes readers will read it with the spirit that it was written
by one of their own, and that it was they, the readers, who accepted my
writings in Animal
Writes these past two years and shared with me their comments, both good
and bad, that gave me the courage and strength to believe I could actually
write a book. So to the readers of Animal Writes, and to the
publisher EnglandGal and the editor JJswans, and to all the wonderful staff of
Animal Rights Online, I am eternally grateful for the opportunities you have
granted me, the constructive criticism and the endless nights working together
through difficult research. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Thank you.
The following is an excerpt from the book Hospice Hounds, Animals
and Healing at the Borders of Death, by Michelle A. Rivera, published
by Lantern Books (www.lanternbooks.com)
Afterword
I did not set out to make this a book that served any specific cause.
However, there was one theme that recurred over and over again, and to ignore
it or dismiss it as coincidence when there is progress to be made would be a
disservice to wonderful dogs and cats like Katy and Woody and Kelly and Sable
and all the others mentioned in this book.
My research turned up a tragic fact. The number one reason animals are
given up at shelters is because the family is moving to a place where "no
pets are allowed." For this reason, thousands of animals are killed
in our nations shelters every year.
We won't stand by and allow bias against people of color, or religion or age or
gender or cultural differences, yet we allow bias against our best
friends. Friends who love us
unconditionally and who visit the dying, cheer up little children and so much
more. They deserve to be protected against unfairness just like anyone
does. But it is the guardians who must make it so.
Dogs need to be taken to school and taught good behavior just like children do.
Dogs love to do homework! They love to please, they want to be an important
part of our world. We must make them good citizens and teach them
well. Only then, will they be welcome in the places we live and we won't
have to "put them away" or surrender them to shelters or abandon
them.
The faces of the people in the rooms that we visited told the story. They love
dogs. Most dog owners freely admit to buying presents for their dogs at
Christmas and their birthdays, yet we stand mute when told they cannot live
with us.
Americans love and rejoice in their companion animals. There are so many
ways to celebrate the wonderful relationships we enjoy with our dogs and
cats. We must celebrate them all and then write about them! Write
their stories. When your mother, father, or grandparents are dying, write their
favorite animal stories. They have so many stories to tell. If not animal
stories, then write their favorite recipes. Write their favorite songs. Give
them a journal and write what they tell you. Use it as therapy for both of
you. Write the stories for all time for
future generations. And know that when someone is dying, their companion
animals feel the pain and isolation too. Talk to them, take them for car
rides and long walks. Bring them to the grooming parlor, the vet, the
trainer. Then relate in speech and writings
the stories about how their dog reacted to new people and places and
things. Do this so that your loved one can die knowing that someone truly
does understand their beloved dog or cat almost as much as they do. And
loves them, and will always love them, when they no longer can.
Michelle A. Rivera
Jupiter, Florida
December 14, 2000
Hospice Hounds is available online at
Amazon.com:
buying info: Hospice Hounds : Animals and the Care of the Dying
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1930051360/qid%3D988563646/104-3429170-9835927
or through the publisher at Hospice Hounds by
Michelle Rivera
http://www.lanternbooks.com/bookpages/1930051360.htm
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Deadly Venison?
by Brian McCombie
from: newark27@yahoo.com
Suspicion that a fatal, incurable illness can
spread from infected deer to humans is increasing. Here, a special report on
chronic wasting disease and how one hunter may have lost his life from it.
Jay Dee Whitlock was a husband and father, a sportsman from Oklahoma with a
passion for deer hunting. But in January 1999, his wife, Julie, noticed he was
forgetting phone numbers and seemed confused while driving. When Julie voiced
her concerns, Jay Dee said it was nothing, and Julie told herself she was overreacting.
Everyone forgets something, right?
But a few weeks later, two of Jay Dee's coworkers called on her. "They
said he was more and more withdrawn at work," Julie Whitlock remembers,
"that he wouldn't eat lunch with people." A truck driver for six years,
Jay Dee was also having problems delivering his loads. Before, "You'd give
him an address and directions, and he'd find it 400 miles away," Whitlock
says. But now, said his coworkers, Jay Dee couldn't locate places he'd
delivered to in the past. "It just made me sick when they told me
that," Whitlock says.
Over the next 15 terrible months, in and out of various hospitals and, at the
last, a nursing home, Julie watched helplessly as Jay Dee deteriorated
physically, mentally, and emotionally from Creutzfeldt-Jakob (pronounced
CROYTS-felt YAH-kob) disease, or CJD. It is untreatable, incurable, and always
fatal. While Whitlock says doctors have no idea how her husband contracted this
dreadful disease, no one can rule out the venison Jay Dee regularly ate.
"I'll never touch another deer," says Whitlock, "or eat deer
meat ever again."
Mad Cows and Englishmen
CJD is a form of transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE). According
to research, TSE appears to alter proteins in the brain called prions (PREE-ons).
The transformation leads to a series of microscopic holes in and around brain
cells. Prior to this damage, behavioral changes become apparent, as with Jay
Dee.
A second form of TSE is mad cow disease, which affects cattle. It is so named
because the animals become agitated, shake with tremors, and kick violently
when touched.
In Great Britain, a rash of human deaths from CJD occurred in the early 1990s.
Some suspected that cattle feed containing protein and bone meal processed from
diseased or injured cattle was to blame; the practice had been halted in 1988,
but by then mad cow disease was apparently distributed throughout Great
Britain. Initially, the British government insisted there was no connection
between cattle with mad cow disease and humans with CJD. But after much
research and political wrangling, officials announced it was indeed possible to
contract CJD by eating infected beef. A
spokesperson for a British government advisory committee recently confirmed a
total of 76 cases of CJD in Great Britain attributable to mad cow disease.
A third version of TSE is chronic wasting disease (CWD), which is currently
afflicting Western deer and elk. So, the obvious question for hunters is, Can
humans contract CJD from eating CWD-infected venison?
The answer: It's possible. Research has shown that CWD-infected materials can
transfer to human matter in test tubes. "CWD may not transmit that
easily," says Dr. Thomas Pringle, a molecular biologist who tracks
CWD-type diseases for the Sperling Biomedical Foundation in Eugene, Oregon,
"but the rate isn't zero." Pringle points out that it was tests like
this that helped convince the British that CJD could result from people eating
infected cattle.
When the Deer Began Dying
The Foothills Wildlife Research Facility in Fort Collins, Colorado, is believed
by many to be where CWD first appeared and then spread into the wild. It's also
a good example of how tough CWD is to eradicate.
According to Michael Miller of Colorado's Division of Wildlife, mule deer at
Foothills began dying in 1967 of a strange disease. In 1980, CWD was determined
as the cause.
Attempts to rid the facility of the disease by culling out sick deer failed, so
all animals were killed in 1985. Then, everything the animals had contacted (water
troughs, feed bins, etc.) was cleaned with a powerful disinfectant. The ground was sprayed with the same
disinfectant, plowed to a depth of about a foot, and resprayed. Paddocks
went unused for up to a year, and double fencing was installed to eliminate any
nose-to-nose contact with possibly infected wildlife. Eventually, new deer and
elk were introduced, but within the year they began contracting CWD.
No one is completely sure how it spreads. Blood transmission seems likely, as
from doe to fawn. But CWD has transferred between adult animals at game farms,
leading Miller and other wildlife professionals to believe simple contact can
pass it. This could include nose-to-nose touching, shared saliva (as at a feed
trough), or brushing against urine or feces from an infected animal.
In 1981, CWD was discovered in a wild elk in southwest Larimer County,
Colorado. Today 15 percent of mule deer in this area test positive.
"Overall, the endemic area has a 3.5 to 4 percent rate of infection,"
says Miller, though pockets exist where CWD is twice as prevalent. Wyoming's
southeastern corner sees similar rates for mule deer, and in both states elk
contract CWD at about 1 percent. Deer or elk with CWD may slobber
uncontrollably, appear listless, and will lose a great deal of weight before
eventually dying.
Miller says CWD "probably should be considered an epidemic," given
that it has spread through some 14,600 square miles of north-central and
northeastern Colorado, plus parts of Wyoming, in two decades. The fact that
mule deer and elk in both states are relatively dispersed seems to have slowed
transmission. But he also notes that CWD has been found in whitetail deer along
the Platte River. Whitetail densities are quite high there, and Miller warns,
"As it moves east, CWD could pick up momentum."
There are no tests to detect CWD in living animals. The disease can only be
confirmed by examination of a dead animal. Pringle argues that this makes the
interstate transportation of animals onto game farms a big problem.
The Game Farm Connection
CWD has been documented at deer or elk farms in Colorado, Montana, Nebraska,
Oklahoma, South Dakota, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. Between 1997 and 1998, South
Dakota officials discovered animals at three game farms with CWD and acted
quickly to halt other infected animals from entering. State veterinarian Dr.
Sam Holland says a risk assessment is now done before a game farm can import an
animal. "If the [originating] state is not actively doing CWD surveillance
for captive animals -- and that means CWD testing for all deaths of animals
over 18 months of age -- then we won't let their animals in," he says.
To test for CWD, South Dakota requires a brain necropsy for all dead animals.
Game farm herds must also be monitored and inventoried; Nebraska and Montana
have similar requirements.
But regulations vary by state. Wisconsin game farms, for instance, can import
any animal as long as it possesses an interstate health certificate, according
to state veterinarian Clarence Siroky. It's a good preventive to keep out a
detectable disease like bovine tuberculosis but does little for an untestable
one like CWD. Since 1992, at least 370 elk have been imported there from farms
having direct or indirect contact with the disease, and two animals came from
herds later found to have CWD. These imported elk caused Wisconsin's Department
of Natural Resources to test the brains of 250 wild deer last year, and all
came back negative.
Other states apparently think there's a risk, too. As of 1999, 14 had either
tested or were actively testing free-ranging deer, antelope, and/or elk for
CWD. Alberta and Saskatchewan are also looking for it. Game farms are
prime test sites.
Though they're fenced, game farms provide many opportunities for contact
between captive and wild animals. Nose-to-nose touching occurs at fence lines,
and fences are breached by storms and accidents. Gates are left open. Even when
captive animals don't escape, such openings allow wild deer to come in, mix,
and leave. After CWD was detected at a South Dakota game farm in 1998,
for example, one of the 30 free-ranging whitetails harvested outside the fence
tested positive.
Steve Wolcott, past president of the North American Elk Breeders Association,
thinks this focus on game farms ignores a key avenue for spreading CWD around
the country. "People who hunt in the Colorado and Wyoming endemic areas
are free to take those carcasses anywhere in the country,"
he points out. Once home, hunters with an elk or muley carrying a nice rack are
going to saw it off themselves or have it professionally mounted. Either way, the brain and spinal cord -- the
most infected parts of a CWD animal -- will end up in a landfill or pitched
into the woods, he says, perhaps introducing CWD-infected materials.
What's Next?
Two officials from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) visited Julie Whitlock
while Jay Dee was struggling to stay alive. They asked her hundreds of
questions about Jay Dee: his diet, his work, his habits. But one of their
questions sticks in her mind. "They wanted to know where he hunted."
She told them: the area around Miami, Welch, and Wyandotte in the very
northeastern corner of Oklahoma. She also offered them the two deer in her
freezer, animals Jay Dee harvested in 1998, thinking the CDC
might be able to test the meat. "They said maybe they'd be
interested," Whitlock remembers. "But they never got back to
me."
That lack of interest bothered her, especially when she discovered that two
other deer hunters had recently died from CJD: Jim Koepke, 39, of Nevada in
February 1999; and Doug McEwen, 30, of Utah in March of the same year. In a
January 1999 article in USA Today, Whitlock read that Lawrence
Schonberger of the CDC said only five cases of CJD per billion people are
reported annually worldwide for people aged 30 and under. Given this rarity,
she couldn't help but wonder how three young deer hunters would contract CJD so
closely together in time.
Currently, the Colorado Division of Wildlife recommends that hunters wear rubber
gloves while cleaning and butchering deer and elk, and that brains, spinal
cords, and lymph nodes be handled as little as possible. If a hunter's harvest
tests CWD positive, the Colorado Department of Public Health advises hunters to
not consume the meat, as does the World Health Organization.
In May 2000, Dr. Byron Caughey of the National Institutes of Health announced
that he had converted human prion materials using CWD prion matter at rates
roughly equal to the transfer between cattle and humans. Commenting on Caughey's research, Dr.
Elizabeth Williams, of the University of Wyoming's veterinary science
department and a member of the state's CWD task force, says, "We were very
pleased with his work. It showed a substantial barrier" to CWD transmission
between animals and
people.
Pringle has reviewed the test data and agrees transmission rates are very low.
Yet low is not absolute. Caughey's work provides "concrete evidence that
there is a definite risk here," Pringle contends. However, Pringle
also admits there are significant chemical differences between materials
transferring in a test tube and a person eating meat.
Jay Dee Whitlock died on April 7, 2000, six months shy of his 31st
birthday. "I guess I thank God Jay
Dee never knew he was dying," says Julie.
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Horse Slaughter:
What
You're Not Supposed To Know About
America's "Dirty Little Secret"
1.
Approximately 90,000 American horses of all ages and condition are slaughtered
annually for foreign consumption. In 1996 38 million pounds of horse meat were
exported with 76% going to Belgium. An estimated 4-5 million horses have died
since 1980. This is the work of a small number of lowlifes making profit from the
almost indescribable suffering and abuse of horses, the vast majority of which
were trusting pets and companions.
2. Horse slaughter is inhumane and cannot be made otherwise despite USDA
claims. Videotapes taken in 1994 and 1996 at the Texas plants confirm that
repeated blows were necessary and the horses were seen writhing in agony. One
bleeding animal required repeated blows to the head to render it
unconscious. The "captive bolt" method of stunning may work
well on feeder livestock but not on agile horses where an absolute minimum of
10% are tortured and require repeated bludgeoning. The only humane method for
horses is lethal injection which renders the meat illegal for human
consumption. Such meat is suitable for pet food and fertilizer.
3. By law horses destined for human consumption abroad cannot be slaughtered in
the same facilities as feeder livestock. There are currently 3 US equine
slaughterhouses; one of which in DeKalb, IL has announced plans to relocate to
Canada after a year long citizen protest. All equine slaughterhouses are
foreign owned and operated by Belgian companies such as "multimeat"
and "Chevideco." These foreign owned slaughter houses are
parasitizing America.
4. About 1/3 of the horses slaughtered are purebreds with about 10%-15% being
former racehorses. Foals as young as 6 months have been sold to
"killers" at auction. The majority are neither old or decrepit. Tens
of thousands of foals of "Premarin" mares are sold to slaughter at
2-4 months of age. There is absolute proof from rescue groups that about 95% of
these horses if given proper nutrition and veterinary care are rehabilitated
and make excellent pets and recreational animals.
5. Horse meat brings $15-$20 on the foreign markets. This combined with fears
from "mad cow" disease has fueled the US horse "slaughter
pipeline." This has also produced
an almost exponential increase in stolen horses which is fast becoming a major
national problem. Many horses sent to slaughter are obtained by fraudulent
means.
6. Regulation of horse auctions is a travesty rife with corruption and
bribery. Dead, dying, sick and gravely
injured animals are accepted into auction daily in violation of state laws.
Veterinarians have been documented as certifying animals fit to travel that
were so infirm that even the "killers" declined. Despite claims of
the USDA hundreds of rescue groups are weekly documenting and photographing
widespread abuse and animal cruelty at these livestock auctions and in
transport.
7. The US horse community is divided on the issue. Some groups either actively
or passively support slaughter. These "rotten eggs" include the
following: The horse racing industry; many western "cowboys;" some
veterinarians; the American Horse Council, blabber for the slaughter industry;
a number of so called "humane" (lame) societies especially but not
limited to those in the South and Midwest. Those opposed to equine slaughter
include all people of conscience and ethics and about 90% of informed
Americans.
8. Equine transport cannot be effectively or efficiently regulated by the
states or the Federal Government. Condemned horses are forced to travel
tremendous distances (sometimes 2-5 days) without food, water or relief) to the
3 (soon to be 2) US equine slaughterhouses or to Canada. Transport
is done often in illegal double-decker cattle trucks where the upper level
urinates and defecates on those below. These are unsafe and totally unsuitable
for horses to be transported any distance. The infamous Temple Grandin report
endorsed these cruelties and was so outrageous and irrational that it resembled
a report by Shirley Temple. Horses unlike feeder livestock tolerate
long-distance transport very poorly. State regulation of equine transport to
slaughter is pathetic.
9. The "Commercial Transport of Equines to Slaughter Act 1996" is a
Federal abomination written by the horse killers which legalizes the inhumane
transport and slaughter of horses. Besides, whatever the Government regulates
it screws up royally. NO MORE GOVERNMENT REGULATION OF EQUINE TRANSPORT TO
SLAUGHTER...THERE MUST BE ERADICATION OF THE INTERSTATE AND INTERNATIONAL
TRANSPORT FOR SLAUGHTER OF EQUINES.
10. Horses are not regarded or bred as a food source in America where
consumption of horse meat is overwhelmingly condemned and outlawed by statute
in TX & IL. Horses are taxed as nonfood animals. Horses are domesticated
companion animals used for recreation, sport, work, entertainment, and
pleasure. Polls indicate that anywhere from 80%-93% of Americans oppose horse
slaughter for any reason. California outlawed horse slaughter for human
consumption in 1998.
11. THE US IS EXPORTING HORSE MEAT WHICH HAS NEVER BEEN PROVEN SAFE FOR HUMAN
CONSUMPTION. On this point alone the USDA should be sued and the exportation of
US horse meat stopped. Trichinellosis
outbreaks in Europe from consumption of horse meat are not uncommon. An
indeterminate amount of exported horse meat and horses sent to slaughter in
Canada are diseased. All of these horses have been exposed to veterinary
pharmaceuticals unique to equines whose safety for
human consumption has never been proven or evaluated. Despite meat inspection
the potential health risks to the international community are a very compelling
reason to prohibit the export of any horse meat from the United States.
12. Citizen protest and petitioning and not legislative initiative are
responsible for the closing of 11 equine slaughterhouses in America which
numbered 14 less than 10 years ago. Citizen initiative also enacted
California's Proposition 6 outlawing as a felony horse slaughter or the
transport of horses for that purpose. The PA State Legislature almost passed a
"Three Legged Horse" bill (HB 590) last year, once again proving that
horses are smarter than politicians. The bill may be reintroduced this year by
these brain-dead politicians.
13. The temptations of money and the presence of foreign-owned slaughterhouses
pillaging the American economy are responsible for triggering a cascade of
abuse from "stable to table" refractory to legislative regulation or
intervention. Continuation of foreign exploitation of our resources is
economically stupid and immoral. All Belgian imports, especially chocolates,
candies, household appliances should be boycotted.
14. The abuses and cruelties will only increase as more and more US equine
slaughterhouses are forced to shut down or relocate. No one except the equine
slaughterhouse owners, "killer" buyers, the criminal auction owners,
and the USDA dispute the facts. All else having failed miserably, Federal action
is mandatory and the sooner the better. The interstate and international
transport of horses for slaughter should be expressly forbidden, as well as the
export of horse meat from these foreign-owned companies since the disease
potential to humans is ever-present and cannot be dispelled.
15. There are no reasonable or compelling justifications for equine
slaughter. It is both unchristian and un-American. Almost all the
official studies on the topic have been funded and supported by the proslaughter
degenerates.
HERE'S WHAT YOU CAN DO: Write your US congressmen and Senators
in your senators' or congressman's office. Write letters to the editor of
your state's online newspapers,
http://members.tripod.com/~SueE/index.htm#MASTER
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
Equine Placement Network
P. 0. Box 232
Friedensburg, PA 17933
Ph & Fax- 570-345-6440
epn@epix.net
Equine Advocates, Inc:
Susan Wagner, President and Founder
P.O. Box 700
Bedford, NY 10506, U.S.
Phone: (845) 278-3095
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Rusty Little Hand-saw
by Melanie
how
savagely
the man cuts
into the flesh using
his rusty little hand-saw
with the sharp jagged edges.
Slicing into the head of this poor
ill-fated deer, who appears to have been
hit by a car, lying on the stony shoulder of the
road. The car pulled over, the man kneeling on the
ground, his back hunched like the proper sophisticated
being that he is. And he crouches lower and lower to the earth,
the sweat pouring down his face, with his forehead furrowed,
as he ravenously saws with all his might to remove the
antlers from the buck that is humped like a sack of
grain, like a bag of bones, and then finally
the man gets what he wants and the
once beautiful creature stares
lifeless into the sky and the
man is crouched
down so
low
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Memorable Quote
"I would call milk perhaps the most unhealthful vehicle for calcium that
one could possibly imagine, which is the only thing people really drink it for,
but whenever you challenge existing dogma... people are resistant."
~ Neal Barnard, M.D.
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