AR-News: LIBERATE: 60 Minutes / No PM for Patron / Tasmania Boycott / No Export UK

Sat Mar 27 06:59:50 EST 2004

From: animal-lib-nsw at yahoogroups.com

SIXTY MINUTES ON LIVE EXPORT

Sixty Minutes will be airing a third story about live export on 
Sunday 28 March. There is currently a poll on their website. If you 
believe that live export should be banned (and what thinking 
person wouldn't) then get online and vote.

http://sixtyminutes.ninemsn.com.au/sixtyminutes/stories/2004_0
3_28/story_1066.asp

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RSPCA ENDS FUTURE PM'S PATRONAGE OVER EXPORT 
SHEEP

The RSPCA will no longer invite political leaders to be patrons of 
the organisation because of Prime Minister John Howard's 
support for the live sheep trade. 

The society wants live sheep exports to be banned, but Mr 
Howard again indicated his support for the live trade today. 

RSPCA national president Dr Hugh Wirth says the difference of 
opinion has prompted the change in policy. 

"The current Prime Minister will be a patron of the RSPCA until 
he is no longer Prime Minister, once he is no longer Prime 
Minister, it is unlikely that the succeeding Prime Minister will be 
invited," he said.

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WHEN ANIMAL ACTIVISTS ATTACK

Animal rights activists have announced a boycott of the 
Australian state of Tasmania, threatening a local economy which 
is heavily dependant on tourism. 

The boycott has been announced by People for the Ethical 
Treatment of Animals (Peta), a global organisation with over 
800,000 members, including pop star Chrissie Hynde (pictured) 
and the Liberal Democrat Environment spokesperson, Norman 
Baker. It is protesting about the felling of native forests to clear 
the way for plantations, a move that has been described by a 
senior Australian politician as "an ecological disaster". 

In the last year alone, Tasmania cleared over 60 square miles of 
forest, containing some of the oldest and largest trees in the 
world. Peta, however, is more concerned that when an area is 
cleared, it is planted with seedlings and then sown with 
compound 1080, a poison which kills animals that may feed on 
the seeds. "The animals' crime is to have been born in 
biodiverse old forests, now being replaced with plantations with 
all the biodiversity of a car park," said Ms Hynde.

Peta will now encourage its members to avoid travelling to the 
region and to refrain from buying Tasmanian goods. Given that 
50% of the Tasmanian economy is based on tourism, it is 
thought the impact could be very serious.

http://www.lgib.gov.uk/news/story.html?newsId=1216

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FIRM STOPS EXPORT OF LIVE ANIMALS (UK)

A Kent shipping company has decided to stop the live export of 
animals from Dartford. 

Over the past few months, Dartline had sent trial shipments 
through the Thames Europort in the town amid anger from 
animal rights campaigners. 

But on Tuesday the company said its decision to stop had been 
based on "commercial considerations". 

Kent Action Against Live Exports said its campaign of action 
against the firm had achieved the result. 

In a statement, Dartline said: "Following recent trial shipments of 
live stock through Thames Europort, Dartline has decided not to 
take further bookings. 

"Although a legal trade, this decision has been based on 
commercial considerations as it is considered that the trade is 
incompatible with the cargoes carried on behalf of other 
customers." 

Campaigners opposing the shipments had mounted a number 
of impromptu protests to vent their anger at the company, which 
included blocking the entrance to the port at various times of the 
day and night. 

They also blocked the company's telephone lines, emails and 
faxes. 

Angie Petro, from Kent Action Against Live Exports, said the 
company's decision was all down to the pressure the group had 
put on it. 

Blackmail denied 

"Common sense has prevailed at last," she said. 

"They have seen what protests can do affecting their 
businesses. 

"We have pleaded with them and at long last everything has 
come out for the benefit of the animals." 

Ms Petro denied protesters had blackmailed Dartline into 
making its decision to discontinue with the trade. 

She said: "All we were doing by blocking the phone lines was to 
point out the horrors connected with the live export trade." 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/35615
75.stm

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DIET LINKED TO NON-HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMA 

Meat, Saturated Fat, Dairy May Raise Risk 
By Daniel DeNoon
Reviewed By Brunilda Nazario, MD
WebMD Medical News

What's causing America's huge surge in blood cancer? It might 
be our diet. 

It's called non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. It's a killer collection of 
different white-blood-cell cancers. And it's a mystery why it's 
been increasing so quickly in the U.S. and other parts of the 
world. 

Now there's a clue. It comes from a study of 601 Connecticut 
women with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Tongzhang Zheng, ScD, 
head of the division of environmental health sciences at the Yale 
School of Public Health in New Haven, Conn., collected detailed 
dietary information from these women and from 717 similar 
women without cancer. 

"What we found is if a person has a higher intake of animal 
protein, they will have a higher risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma," 
Zheng tells Web. "And people who have a higher intake of 
saturated fat have an increased risk. On the other hand, if you 
have higher-than-average intake of dietary fiber -- particularly if 
you frequently eat vegetables and fruits with a high fiber content 
-- you have a reduced risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma." 

The findings appear in the March 1 issue of the American 
Journal of Epidemiology. 

Earlier studies hinted at the same thing. Now, Zheng says, it 
seems clear that a major factor in the mysterious rise of 
non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is a diet high in meat, saturated fats, 
dairy products, and eggs and low in fiber, fruits, and vegetables. 

Unbalanced Diet, Unhealthy Body 

In the U.S., three kinds of cancer have skyrocketed in recent 
decades. One is lung cancer, mainly caused by smoking. 
Another is skin cancer, caused by too much sun. The third is 
non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. But nobody knows why it's on the rise, 
says Nancy Mueller [pronounced MULL-er], ScD, associate 
director of population sciences at Harvard's Dana-Farber Cancer 
Center. 

"Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is a basket of related diseases," 
Mueller tells WebMD. "It probably has a set of causal factors that 
may be related to one another, but not in a simple way. We can't 
really explain it -- this is a really hard nut to crack. But what is 
happening to the American is associated with a number of 
malignancies such as breast, kidney, and colon cancer. Higher 
body weight is a common theme." 

A high-fat diet may indeed be linked to higher body weight. But 
Zheng says that people eating low-carb diets may also be at risk 
of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma if they eat too much meat and too 
few vegetables. 

One thing that's known about non-Hodgkin's lymphoma is that 
people whose immune systems aren't working well -- such as 
AIDS patients -- are at increased risk. Zheng suggests that 
immune function depends on proper nutrition. 

"Your body is designed to repair things," Zheng says. "But if your 
body is not getting proper nutrition, how can the immune system 
continue to function? Everything relates to the nutrients in your 
dietary intake." 

Cancer-Fighting Foods 

Zheng's study showed that people who ate more of certain foods 
tended to have a lower risk of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. Those 
foods include: 

Tomatoes 
Broccoli 
Squash 
Cauliflower 
Onions 
Mixed lettuce salad 
Leeks 
Apples 
Pears 
Citrus fruits 

Improving your diet won't just lower your cancer risk, Mueller 
notes. 

"There is such a confluence between risk factors for cancer and 
risk factors for heart disease," she says. "Get plenty of exercise, 
eat a good diet, don't smoke. It is what your mother told you. It's 
true that this is the basis of a healthy lifestyle. And it's true that 
this lowers your risk for these big killers, too." 

SOURCES: Zheng, T. American Journal of Epidemiology, March 
1, 2004; vol 159: pp 454-466. Tongzhang Zheng, ScD, chief, 
division of environmental health sciences, Yale School of Public 
Health, New Haven, Conn. Nancy Mueller, ScD, associate 
director of population sciences, Dana-Farber Cancer Center, 
Harvard University, Boston. 

http://www.rense.com/general50/fod.htm

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