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IDA EVENTS
1. McCartneys Join Canadian Seal Slaughter Protest
2. Gopher Gardening at Ocean Beach
OTHER BAY AREA EVENTS TO HELP ANIMALS
1. UCSF Demo - Stop Experiments on Dogs
2. Support Bill to Ban Blood Sport that Kills Rabbits
3. Compassionate Cooks' March Cooking Class: "Journey to India: Curry in a Hurry"
IDA EVENTS
1. McCartneys Join Canadian Seal Slaughter Protest
Former Beatle Paul McCartney and his wife Heather Mills McCartney recently accompanied other animal advocates on a visit to the Canadian ice floes in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in hopes of halting the slaughter of over 300,000 baby seals for their fur. While there, they urged Canada's newly elected Prime Minister Stephen Harper to implement the will of the people by banning the annual seal massacre. "[The] majority of [Canadian] citizens - as well as those in Europe and America - are opposed to it," the couple has said. "We have complete faith that Prime Minister Harper will take swift and decisive action to end the slaughter of these defenseless seal pups for good."
If Harper doesn't intercede to save seals, Canadian fishermen will soon butcher hundreds of thousands of newborns in a frigid bloodbath. Even though the defenseless seal pups have only just been weaned from their mothers, fishermen will beat them with clubs and shoot them with rifles later this month. Last year, more than 98.5% of the seals killed were newborn pups less than two months old. Witnesses to the slaughter saw many seals skinned alive.
The McCartneys are joined by other famous animal friends such as Brigitte Bardot, Martin Sheen, Mick Jagger, Richard Dean Anderson, Kim Bassinger, Pierce Brosnan and even the Dalai Lama in publicly opposing the seal slaughter. The media attention these and other celebrities have drawn to the seals' plight creates widespread awareness of what is going on and stimulates people to speak out against it. These compassionate stars join thousands of hard-working activists and organizations around the world who are fighting to end the cruel slaughter.
What You Can Do:
Please join IDA's protest against Canada's cruel killing of seals in San Francisco.
What: Protest against Canadian seal slaughter
When: Wednesday, March 15th from 12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m.
Where: San Francisco/Silicon Valley Consulate General of Canada, 580 California Street, 14th floor, San Francisco
To RSVP and for directions, please contact IDA Campaign Coordinator Melissa Gonzalez at Melissa [at] idausa.org or (415) 388-9641, ext. 228. Also contact Melissa if you are interested in organizing an event in your own community.
Please also join Paul and Heather in urging newly-elected Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to end the seal massacre. Click http://ga0.org/campaign/SealMassacre to send an automatic message, or contact the P.M. by postal mail, fax or personal e-mail.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa
K1A 0A2
Fax: (613) 941-6900
E-mail: pm [at] pm.gc.ca
2. Gopher Gardening at Ocean Beach
Join the San Francisco Wildlife Protection Project, an effort by the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department to create a wildlife "sanctuary" along the Great Highway. By landscaping the area according to the Parks Department's specifications, volunteers create a habitat for native gophers and prevent them from being trapped and killed. This is an ongoing monthly effort, and usually takes place on the first Saturday of each month.
What: Gopher Gardening
When: Saturday, April 1st, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Where: Corner of the Great Highway and Wawona Street, San Francisco, at the small brick Recreation and Park maintenance building. Click http://tinyurl.com/4hnh2 for directions to this event.
For more information, please contact Karen Steele at karen [at] idausa.org .
OTHER BAY AREA EVENTS TO HELP ANIMALS
1. UCSF Demo - Stop Experiments on Dogs
Vigil For Animals will kick off their campaign to stop the use of dogs in experiments at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Since early 2004, animal advocates have been trying to stop three cardiology research projects involving dogs at UCSF from going forward:
- Dr. Michael Dae's project involving German shepherds has been terminated, but the university has yet to document what happened to dozens of dogs used in the project. Despite the filing of a California Public Records Act request for information on the project over a year ago and a lawsuit against UCSF for refusing to release this public information, the dogs' fate remains unknown.
- Meanwhile, Dr. Jeffrey Olgin's experiments have already resulted in the acquisition of at least 62 dogs and the suffering and death of over 40 of them. In the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Dr. Tahmassian, head of UCSF's Research Department, stated that Dr. Olgin's two projects will use fewer than 75 dogs. However, protocols for these projects indicate the planned use of 747 dogs over a three-year period.
- Olgin's other project has not begun. It is possible that it has been combined with the previously mentioned project.
What You Can Do:
Attend a protest against UCSF's use of dogs in experiments.
What: Vivisection protest
When: Wednesday, March 15th starting at 11:30 p.m.
Where: UCSF campus, near the Medical Sciences buildings at 513 Parnassus Ave., San Francisco (click http://tinyurl.com/jsvo2 to see a map)
Vigil For Animals will also host a sign-making party and meeting to discuss the upcoming demo. This will take place either on Sunday, March 12th (around noon) or Monday the 13th (in the early evening) at the Animal Switchboard office in San Francisco. Activists are also encouraged to make their own signs for the demonstration. Some examples include:
- We are dogs' guardians - not torturers.
- Stop cruel & unnecessary experiments on dogs.
- Stop using my tax $ for illegal experiments on dogs.
For more information and to RSVP, contact vigilforanimals [at] yahoo.com .
2. Support Bill to Ban Blood Sport that Kills Rabbits
Right after last month's Super Bowl, ABC News Channel 7 aired a special investigative report about open field coursing, a blood sport in which packs of specially-trained dogs are set loose in a field to chase and kill wild jackrabbits flushed out by spectators. The dogs (mostly greyhounds dressed in colored racing jackets) are scored by the agility and speed with which they chase down their prey, and rewarded for tearing the rabbits apart. Sometimes the rabbits escape through a hole in the fence or a drainage pipe, but most of the time the exhausted animals are caught and slowly torn apart in the dogs' jaws. The video investigation, presented by anchorman Dan Noyes, focused on a coursing event held in the Solano County city of Fairfield that was approved by the California Department of Fish and Game.
The National Open Field Coursing Association (NOFCA), founded in 1964, is an umbrella organization for 12 clubs from all over California that pursue this activity. They were supposed to host the Grand Course, dubbed the "Super Bowl" of open field coursing, on Sunday, February 19th near Lost Hills in Kern County. In response to widespread disapproval from a suddenly outraged public, it appears that NOFCA appears may have quietly decided not to hold the event this year. Their completely non-descript website ( http://nofca.org ) does not even mention the Grand Course or any other events. The entire site has been stripped down to a one-page statement in response to last month's ABC News report by Dan Noyes which broke the story.
What You Can Do:
California is one of the few states in America where the "sport" remains legal, but that may soon change. Assemblymember Loni Hancock (D - Berkeley) has introduced AB 2110, a bill to ban the cruel activity. "It's barbaric," she says. "It's a really horrifying thing and something that it's clear from the outpouring of mail we've gotten, the people of California don't think should be happening here." AB 2110 would make participating in open field coursing a misdemeanor punishable by six months in jail, a $1,000 fine or both. The bill is scheduled to be heard in committee on March 23rd. To see the current wording of the bill, visit http://www.theanimalcouncil.com/CABills.html and scroll down to AB 2110.
- Click http://ga0.org/campaign/BanOpenFieldCoursing to ask your Assemblymember to support AB 2110. You can also contact your Assemblymember personally. Click http://ga0.org/indefenseofanimals/home.html and enter your zip code to get the mailing address and phone number.
Solano County, where the coursing event in the ABC-7 investigation took place, is also considering a local ban. Supervisors discussed a report on open field coursing and the bill to ban the activity statewide at their February 28th meeting, and directed staff to craft an ordinance prohibiting open field coursing in the county.
- Solano County residents: please contact your Supervisors and urge them to support the ban. Click http://www.co.solano.ca.us/Contact/Contact.asp?NavID=468 for the Supervisors' contact information.
- See the ABC-7 News reports online. Sunday's report - http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=i_team&id=3874872 . Thursday's follow up report - http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=i_team&id=3893413 . Warning: parts of the footage are graphic.
3. Compassionate Cooks' March Cooking Class: "Journey to India: Curry in a Hurry"
Join Compassionate Cooks for their next vegan cooking class, "Journey to India: Curry in a Hurry," and learn to make five delicious, nutritious dishes, including Aloo Gobi (curried cauliflower and potatoes), Masoor Dal (spiced red lentils), Chana Masala (curried chickpeas), pumpkin curry with basmati rice, and naan (leavened North Indian bread). Using local, in-season, mostly organic ingredients, Compassionate Cooks features easy-to-prepare recipes and debunks myths about plant-based diets. Join the class in March for yummy food samples and a lot of fun!
What: Compassionate Cooks' February Cooking Class: "Journey to India: Curry in a Hurry"
When: Saturday, March 18th, 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Where: The First Unitarian Church of Oakland, 685 14th Street (at Castro), Oakland (click http://www.uuoakland.org/directions.htm for directions)
Be sure to register in advance either online at http://www.compassionatecooks.com/reg.htm or by calling (510) 531-COOK. You can also mail a check to Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, P.O. Box 18512, Oakland, CA 94619. The $45 cost of the class includes instruction, food samples, copies of recipes and much more.
1. McCartneys Join Canadian Seal Slaughter Protest
2. Gopher Gardening at Ocean Beach
OTHER BAY AREA EVENTS TO HELP ANIMALS
1. UCSF Demo - Stop Experiments on Dogs
2. Support Bill to Ban Blood Sport that Kills Rabbits
3. Compassionate Cooks' March Cooking Class: "Journey to India: Curry in a Hurry"
IDA EVENTS
1. McCartneys Join Canadian Seal Slaughter Protest
Former Beatle Paul McCartney and his wife Heather Mills McCartney recently accompanied other animal advocates on a visit to the Canadian ice floes in the Gulf of St. Lawrence in hopes of halting the slaughter of over 300,000 baby seals for their fur. While there, they urged Canada's newly elected Prime Minister Stephen Harper to implement the will of the people by banning the annual seal massacre. "[The] majority of [Canadian] citizens - as well as those in Europe and America - are opposed to it," the couple has said. "We have complete faith that Prime Minister Harper will take swift and decisive action to end the slaughter of these defenseless seal pups for good."
If Harper doesn't intercede to save seals, Canadian fishermen will soon butcher hundreds of thousands of newborns in a frigid bloodbath. Even though the defenseless seal pups have only just been weaned from their mothers, fishermen will beat them with clubs and shoot them with rifles later this month. Last year, more than 98.5% of the seals killed were newborn pups less than two months old. Witnesses to the slaughter saw many seals skinned alive.
The McCartneys are joined by other famous animal friends such as Brigitte Bardot, Martin Sheen, Mick Jagger, Richard Dean Anderson, Kim Bassinger, Pierce Brosnan and even the Dalai Lama in publicly opposing the seal slaughter. The media attention these and other celebrities have drawn to the seals' plight creates widespread awareness of what is going on and stimulates people to speak out against it. These compassionate stars join thousands of hard-working activists and organizations around the world who are fighting to end the cruel slaughter.
What You Can Do:
Please join IDA's protest against Canada's cruel killing of seals in San Francisco.
What: Protest against Canadian seal slaughter
When: Wednesday, March 15th from 12:00 noon - 2:00 p.m.
Where: San Francisco/Silicon Valley Consulate General of Canada, 580 California Street, 14th floor, San Francisco
To RSVP and for directions, please contact IDA Campaign Coordinator Melissa Gonzalez at Melissa [at] idausa.org or (415) 388-9641, ext. 228. Also contact Melissa if you are interested in organizing an event in your own community.
Please also join Paul and Heather in urging newly-elected Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to end the seal massacre. Click http://ga0.org/campaign/SealMassacre to send an automatic message, or contact the P.M. by postal mail, fax or personal e-mail.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper
Office of the Prime Minister
80 Wellington Street
Ottawa
K1A 0A2
Fax: (613) 941-6900
E-mail: pm [at] pm.gc.ca
2. Gopher Gardening at Ocean Beach
Join the San Francisco Wildlife Protection Project, an effort by the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department to create a wildlife "sanctuary" along the Great Highway. By landscaping the area according to the Parks Department's specifications, volunteers create a habitat for native gophers and prevent them from being trapped and killed. This is an ongoing monthly effort, and usually takes place on the first Saturday of each month.
What: Gopher Gardening
When: Saturday, April 1st, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Where: Corner of the Great Highway and Wawona Street, San Francisco, at the small brick Recreation and Park maintenance building. Click http://tinyurl.com/4hnh2 for directions to this event.
For more information, please contact Karen Steele at karen [at] idausa.org .
OTHER BAY AREA EVENTS TO HELP ANIMALS
1. UCSF Demo - Stop Experiments on Dogs
Vigil For Animals will kick off their campaign to stop the use of dogs in experiments at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Since early 2004, animal advocates have been trying to stop three cardiology research projects involving dogs at UCSF from going forward:
- Dr. Michael Dae's project involving German shepherds has been terminated, but the university has yet to document what happened to dozens of dogs used in the project. Despite the filing of a California Public Records Act request for information on the project over a year ago and a lawsuit against UCSF for refusing to release this public information, the dogs' fate remains unknown.
- Meanwhile, Dr. Jeffrey Olgin's experiments have already resulted in the acquisition of at least 62 dogs and the suffering and death of over 40 of them. In the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Dr. Tahmassian, head of UCSF's Research Department, stated that Dr. Olgin's two projects will use fewer than 75 dogs. However, protocols for these projects indicate the planned use of 747 dogs over a three-year period.
- Olgin's other project has not begun. It is possible that it has been combined with the previously mentioned project.
What You Can Do:
Attend a protest against UCSF's use of dogs in experiments.
What: Vivisection protest
When: Wednesday, March 15th starting at 11:30 p.m.
Where: UCSF campus, near the Medical Sciences buildings at 513 Parnassus Ave., San Francisco (click http://tinyurl.com/jsvo2 to see a map)
Vigil For Animals will also host a sign-making party and meeting to discuss the upcoming demo. This will take place either on Sunday, March 12th (around noon) or Monday the 13th (in the early evening) at the Animal Switchboard office in San Francisco. Activists are also encouraged to make their own signs for the demonstration. Some examples include:
- We are dogs' guardians - not torturers.
- Stop cruel & unnecessary experiments on dogs.
- Stop using my tax $ for illegal experiments on dogs.
For more information and to RSVP, contact vigilforanimals [at] yahoo.com .
2. Support Bill to Ban Blood Sport that Kills Rabbits
Right after last month's Super Bowl, ABC News Channel 7 aired a special investigative report about open field coursing, a blood sport in which packs of specially-trained dogs are set loose in a field to chase and kill wild jackrabbits flushed out by spectators. The dogs (mostly greyhounds dressed in colored racing jackets) are scored by the agility and speed with which they chase down their prey, and rewarded for tearing the rabbits apart. Sometimes the rabbits escape through a hole in the fence or a drainage pipe, but most of the time the exhausted animals are caught and slowly torn apart in the dogs' jaws. The video investigation, presented by anchorman Dan Noyes, focused on a coursing event held in the Solano County city of Fairfield that was approved by the California Department of Fish and Game.
The National Open Field Coursing Association (NOFCA), founded in 1964, is an umbrella organization for 12 clubs from all over California that pursue this activity. They were supposed to host the Grand Course, dubbed the "Super Bowl" of open field coursing, on Sunday, February 19th near Lost Hills in Kern County. In response to widespread disapproval from a suddenly outraged public, it appears that NOFCA appears may have quietly decided not to hold the event this year. Their completely non-descript website ( http://nofca.org ) does not even mention the Grand Course or any other events. The entire site has been stripped down to a one-page statement in response to last month's ABC News report by Dan Noyes which broke the story.
What You Can Do:
California is one of the few states in America where the "sport" remains legal, but that may soon change. Assemblymember Loni Hancock (D - Berkeley) has introduced AB 2110, a bill to ban the cruel activity. "It's barbaric," she says. "It's a really horrifying thing and something that it's clear from the outpouring of mail we've gotten, the people of California don't think should be happening here." AB 2110 would make participating in open field coursing a misdemeanor punishable by six months in jail, a $1,000 fine or both. The bill is scheduled to be heard in committee on March 23rd. To see the current wording of the bill, visit http://www.theanimalcouncil.com/CABills.html and scroll down to AB 2110.
- Click http://ga0.org/campaign/BanOpenFieldCoursing to ask your Assemblymember to support AB 2110. You can also contact your Assemblymember personally. Click http://ga0.org/indefenseofanimals/home.html and enter your zip code to get the mailing address and phone number.
Solano County, where the coursing event in the ABC-7 investigation took place, is also considering a local ban. Supervisors discussed a report on open field coursing and the bill to ban the activity statewide at their February 28th meeting, and directed staff to craft an ordinance prohibiting open field coursing in the county.
- Solano County residents: please contact your Supervisors and urge them to support the ban. Click http://www.co.solano.ca.us/Contact/Contact.asp?NavID=468 for the Supervisors' contact information.
- See the ABC-7 News reports online. Sunday's report - http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=i_team&id=3874872 . Thursday's follow up report - http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=i_team&id=3893413 . Warning: parts of the footage are graphic.
3. Compassionate Cooks' March Cooking Class: "Journey to India: Curry in a Hurry"
Join Compassionate Cooks for their next vegan cooking class, "Journey to India: Curry in a Hurry," and learn to make five delicious, nutritious dishes, including Aloo Gobi (curried cauliflower and potatoes), Masoor Dal (spiced red lentils), Chana Masala (curried chickpeas), pumpkin curry with basmati rice, and naan (leavened North Indian bread). Using local, in-season, mostly organic ingredients, Compassionate Cooks features easy-to-prepare recipes and debunks myths about plant-based diets. Join the class in March for yummy food samples and a lot of fun!
What: Compassionate Cooks' February Cooking Class: "Journey to India: Curry in a Hurry"
When: Saturday, March 18th, 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Where: The First Unitarian Church of Oakland, 685 14th Street (at Castro), Oakland (click http://www.uuoakland.org/directions.htm for directions)
Be sure to register in advance either online at http://www.compassionatecooks.com/reg.htm or by calling (510) 531-COOK. You can also mail a check to Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, P.O. Box 18512, Oakland, CA 94619. The $45 cost of the class includes instruction, food samples, copies of recipes and much more.
For more information:
http://www.idausa.org
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Not much going on out here in the Sacto Valley, location of UC Davis Primate Research Center and School of Comparative Medicine (located @ intersection County Road 98 & Hutchinson). Apparently the enlightened scientists at UCD Primate Research still believe that they are able to discover medical treatments by subjecting rhesus macaques and other primates and/or monkeys to bizarre and cruel animal experimentation claimed to benefit humans. Though humans are also primates, we are not identical in physiology and therefore primate testing will not always produce accurate results. This discrepency often comes out after the novel pharma product is released to the consumer market. Meanwhile the primates obtained for research are often hijacked from their native rainforest homes by economically disadvantaged gangs of poachers..
"Primates, on the other hand, are rarely bred in captivity.
The vast majority of the animals pictured in cages in
labs were once roaming free in the tundra of Tanzania,
the sugar plantations of Mauritius or the jungles of
Indonesia and China. Traders in the countries see
primates as ‘profitable pests’, to be seized and sold
to willing labs abroad. This despite the fact that most
primate species are listed as endangered or
recognised as heading that way."
Who profits from transport of primates??
http://www.gatewaytohell.net/primate_trade.html
Unfortunately for the people engaged in this illegal poaching and transport, they are actually doing their native rainforest home an ecological disservice by removing primates from the forests. Trees produce fruit that provide primates with nutrition, and primates return the favor by increasing the tree's genetic mobility. Primates are responsible for distributing tree/plant fruit seeds as they jump across the tree canopy, thus improving the biodiversity range of trees in the rainforest. Ironically many of the trees and fruit plants that will decrease due to lack of primate's seed distribution may also provide indigenous shamans with needed medicinal biomass components to cure human illnesses..
The ignorance of the pharma cartel is obvious by their rush to biopatent plant biochemical compounds for attempted duplication. For one, the genomes of plants are fluid in nature and attempts by pharma cartel at patenting genetic sequences will be shown as poor science. Already several authors have shown that genomes are not fixed entities and cannot be pigeonholed by biopatenting. Essentially biopatenting depends on a similar process used by biotech corporations..
"Living with the Fluid Genome"
by Mae-Wan Ho
"The biotech empire is fast collapsing because it has got the science wrong.
Read this riveting inside-story of the fluid genome from a scientist who has been warning that genetic engineering is both dangerous and futile for over a decade."
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/fluidGenome.php
(BTW, the UC Davis library still doesn't have this book on their shelf. Could this be an indication of extreme pro-biotech bias resulting from biotech corporarte funding?)
That covers the first two members of the "business of disease" unholy trinity (animal research and biotech), now we need to take a closer look at the third member, the pharma cartel and how their misinfo propaganda effects the overall health of human society..
Another factor is that when pharma corporations attempt to duplicate and isolate an active plant metabolite ingredients, there are many other complimentary interactive plant metabolites removed and left out of the final pharma product. While this may provide consumers with a uniform product, the benefits of the many complimentary secondary metabolites are lost without the knowledge of their role. Herbal supplements or phytomedicines are holistic in nature and provide all secondary plant metabolite ingredients, ensuring a greater balance in the product..
"In contrast to synthetic pharmaceuticals based upon single chemicals, many phytomedicines exert their beneficial effects through the additive or synergistic action of several chemical compounds acting at single or multiple target sites associated with a physiological process. As pointed out by Tyler (1999), this synergistic or additive pharmacological effect can be beneficial by eliminating the problematic side effects associated with the predominance of a single xenobiotic compound in the body. In this respect, Kaufman et al. (1999) extensively documented how synergistic interactions underlie the effectiveness of a number of phytomedicines. This theme of multiple chemicals acting in an additive or synergistic manner likely has its origin in the functional role of secondary products in promoting plant survival."
http://www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/content/full/124/2/507
One example of the above is in the pharma cartel's attempt to duplicate medicinal cannabis in the form of Marinol by isolating only one THC metabolite (delta-9 THC) and removing the approx. 50 other cannabinoid secondary metabolites found naturally in the cannabis plant. This is most liklely because the pharma cartel is threatened by the possiblity of cannabis growers taking away a potential market as the increased success of medicinal cannabis is becoming obvious..
What are some possible risks from pharma product Marinol (delta-THC isolate lacking other cannabinoids)??
"In marijuana THC is accompanied by other cannabinoids, including cannabidiol (CBD), which, while not psychoactive, mediate effects of THC such as tachycardia. Marinol lacks CBD and may produce slightly more severe adverse effects than marijuana (Personal Communication, Ethan Russo, 11/13/98)."
http://www.marijuananews.com/marijuananews/cowan/gettman_petition_for_hearings_on.htm
Marinol is advertised by pharma cartel as another "wonder drug" that can provide medicinal cannabis patients with the same product as the more holistic plant itself. The pharmaceutical corporations then profit substantially every time a new "wonder" drug is released to the consumer market following an uneventful testing on the helpless primates..
Pharma corporations attempt to provide a pill for every possible human condition, from irritability to insomnia, lack of sex drive to hyperactivity. While many serious human illness like cancer, diabetes and heart disease are often preventable (remove dangerous petrochemical/processed food toxins from ecosystem/diet/etc..), pharma cartel prefers to profit from treating the overt symptoms instead of the underlying cause of illness. Even in this realm they fail to provide lower income people with the treatment of symptoms, yet the nonessential pleasure/band-aid drugs like Viagra and Ritalin recieve generous donations for research, advertising and marketing..
Dr. Matthais Rath has extensive research on the myth of the pharma cartel, and a recent update from an AIDS conference in Africa where the unanimous conclusion was that pharma AIDS products may actually increase the death rate of people suffering from immune disorders. Also, it was agreed upon that improving people's nutrition may enable their immune system to recover, and a great many people in Africa suffer from malnutrition and are misdiagnosed as AIDS victims, the symptoms are nearly identical..
"On June 15 2005, before a capacity audience, attended by the representatives of local and international media, dozens of patients gathered to document with their own lives, that the cause of AIDS can be drastically reversed naturally!
The historic event which took place in Cape Town, South Africa, was a watershed as it showed that health improvements of the patients were achieved following nutritional health program without concurrent ARV drugs. Known symptoms of AIDS, including ulcers, skin rashes, joint pains, fatigue and other related symptoms significantly decreased or disappeared. Evidentially, with micronutrients alone, those living with AIDS can lead almost normal lives again."
Though this author is unaware on Dr. Rath's ethical positions on animal testing, based on his writings about the pahrma cartel it seems the Rath foundation may become an important ally of the animal rights movement in the near future as people join forces to collapse the financial empire of the PHARMA cartel..
http://www.dr-rath-foundation.org.za/
Here is the homepage for UC Davis Primate Research;
http://www.cnprc.ucdavis.edu/pages/about/overview.html
Some protests @ UC Davis Primate Research from 2004;
http://www.all-creatures.org/saen/media-20040803.html
UC Davis makes PETA's #4 position in the 2005 top ten worst animal research facilities;
http://www.stopanimaltests.com/f-worstlabs_04.asp
"4. The University of California-Davis
All is not well in sunny California. In 2005, the USDA leveled a nearly $5,000 fine against UC-Davis for animal care violations that resulted in the deaths of seven cynomalgus monkeys. According to the USDA, UC-Davis did not properly maintain the thermostat or temperature cutoff switch in the monkeys’ room, thus allowing the room to reach a scorching 115°F for many hours at a time.
UC-Davis is home to the California National Primate Research Center (CNPRC), which houses approximately 5,000 primates. While many institutions are phasing out animal experiments, UC-Davis is expanding its primate facilities and is constructing a level-3 biocontainment lab for deadly viral infection studies on primates. UC-Davis also subjects more primates to painful and distressing experiments than any other U.S. university: More than 2,000 primates were used there in 2004. In addition to this unparalleled exploitation of primates, more than 500 dogs, 400 cats, 450 rabbits, and 250 horses were used in painful or distressing experiments at UC-Davis in 2004.
Foul experiments are conducted at the CNPRC Inhalation Facility at UC-Davis, in which primates are exposed to pesticides, ozone, smoke, drugs, asbestos, and other toxic inhalants. Unbelievably, the inhalation facility has specially designed chambers for the sole purpose of forcing pregnant and infant monkeys to inhale tobacco smoke. Meanwhile, human clinical observation has clearly shown that smoke exposure causes birth defects and developmental lung problems in human babies. UC-Davis experimenters wouldn’t be conducting these hideous experiments unless they brought in significant funding. Shame on them.
Please write, call, fax, or e-mail the head of the university and politely ask him to stop these atrocities:
Larry Vanderhoef, Chancellor
Mrak Hall, 5th Fl.
University of California, Davis
One Shields Ave.
Davis, CA 95616
530-752-4964
530-752-2400 (fax)
lnvanderhoef [at] ucdavis.edu"
"Primates, on the other hand, are rarely bred in captivity.
The vast majority of the animals pictured in cages in
labs were once roaming free in the tundra of Tanzania,
the sugar plantations of Mauritius or the jungles of
Indonesia and China. Traders in the countries see
primates as ‘profitable pests’, to be seized and sold
to willing labs abroad. This despite the fact that most
primate species are listed as endangered or
recognised as heading that way."
Who profits from transport of primates??
http://www.gatewaytohell.net/primate_trade.html
Unfortunately for the people engaged in this illegal poaching and transport, they are actually doing their native rainforest home an ecological disservice by removing primates from the forests. Trees produce fruit that provide primates with nutrition, and primates return the favor by increasing the tree's genetic mobility. Primates are responsible for distributing tree/plant fruit seeds as they jump across the tree canopy, thus improving the biodiversity range of trees in the rainforest. Ironically many of the trees and fruit plants that will decrease due to lack of primate's seed distribution may also provide indigenous shamans with needed medicinal biomass components to cure human illnesses..
The ignorance of the pharma cartel is obvious by their rush to biopatent plant biochemical compounds for attempted duplication. For one, the genomes of plants are fluid in nature and attempts by pharma cartel at patenting genetic sequences will be shown as poor science. Already several authors have shown that genomes are not fixed entities and cannot be pigeonholed by biopatenting. Essentially biopatenting depends on a similar process used by biotech corporations..
"Living with the Fluid Genome"
by Mae-Wan Ho
"The biotech empire is fast collapsing because it has got the science wrong.
Read this riveting inside-story of the fluid genome from a scientist who has been warning that genetic engineering is both dangerous and futile for over a decade."
http://www.i-sis.org.uk/fluidGenome.php
(BTW, the UC Davis library still doesn't have this book on their shelf. Could this be an indication of extreme pro-biotech bias resulting from biotech corporarte funding?)
That covers the first two members of the "business of disease" unholy trinity (animal research and biotech), now we need to take a closer look at the third member, the pharma cartel and how their misinfo propaganda effects the overall health of human society..
Another factor is that when pharma corporations attempt to duplicate and isolate an active plant metabolite ingredients, there are many other complimentary interactive plant metabolites removed and left out of the final pharma product. While this may provide consumers with a uniform product, the benefits of the many complimentary secondary metabolites are lost without the knowledge of their role. Herbal supplements or phytomedicines are holistic in nature and provide all secondary plant metabolite ingredients, ensuring a greater balance in the product..
"In contrast to synthetic pharmaceuticals based upon single chemicals, many phytomedicines exert their beneficial effects through the additive or synergistic action of several chemical compounds acting at single or multiple target sites associated with a physiological process. As pointed out by Tyler (1999), this synergistic or additive pharmacological effect can be beneficial by eliminating the problematic side effects associated with the predominance of a single xenobiotic compound in the body. In this respect, Kaufman et al. (1999) extensively documented how synergistic interactions underlie the effectiveness of a number of phytomedicines. This theme of multiple chemicals acting in an additive or synergistic manner likely has its origin in the functional role of secondary products in promoting plant survival."
http://www.plantphysiol.org/cgi/content/full/124/2/507
One example of the above is in the pharma cartel's attempt to duplicate medicinal cannabis in the form of Marinol by isolating only one THC metabolite (delta-9 THC) and removing the approx. 50 other cannabinoid secondary metabolites found naturally in the cannabis plant. This is most liklely because the pharma cartel is threatened by the possiblity of cannabis growers taking away a potential market as the increased success of medicinal cannabis is becoming obvious..
What are some possible risks from pharma product Marinol (delta-THC isolate lacking other cannabinoids)??
"In marijuana THC is accompanied by other cannabinoids, including cannabidiol (CBD), which, while not psychoactive, mediate effects of THC such as tachycardia. Marinol lacks CBD and may produce slightly more severe adverse effects than marijuana (Personal Communication, Ethan Russo, 11/13/98)."
http://www.marijuananews.com/marijuananews/cowan/gettman_petition_for_hearings_on.htm
Marinol is advertised by pharma cartel as another "wonder drug" that can provide medicinal cannabis patients with the same product as the more holistic plant itself. The pharmaceutical corporations then profit substantially every time a new "wonder" drug is released to the consumer market following an uneventful testing on the helpless primates..
Pharma corporations attempt to provide a pill for every possible human condition, from irritability to insomnia, lack of sex drive to hyperactivity. While many serious human illness like cancer, diabetes and heart disease are often preventable (remove dangerous petrochemical/processed food toxins from ecosystem/diet/etc..), pharma cartel prefers to profit from treating the overt symptoms instead of the underlying cause of illness. Even in this realm they fail to provide lower income people with the treatment of symptoms, yet the nonessential pleasure/band-aid drugs like Viagra and Ritalin recieve generous donations for research, advertising and marketing..
Dr. Matthais Rath has extensive research on the myth of the pharma cartel, and a recent update from an AIDS conference in Africa where the unanimous conclusion was that pharma AIDS products may actually increase the death rate of people suffering from immune disorders. Also, it was agreed upon that improving people's nutrition may enable their immune system to recover, and a great many people in Africa suffer from malnutrition and are misdiagnosed as AIDS victims, the symptoms are nearly identical..
"On June 15 2005, before a capacity audience, attended by the representatives of local and international media, dozens of patients gathered to document with their own lives, that the cause of AIDS can be drastically reversed naturally!
The historic event which took place in Cape Town, South Africa, was a watershed as it showed that health improvements of the patients were achieved following nutritional health program without concurrent ARV drugs. Known symptoms of AIDS, including ulcers, skin rashes, joint pains, fatigue and other related symptoms significantly decreased or disappeared. Evidentially, with micronutrients alone, those living with AIDS can lead almost normal lives again."
Though this author is unaware on Dr. Rath's ethical positions on animal testing, based on his writings about the pahrma cartel it seems the Rath foundation may become an important ally of the animal rights movement in the near future as people join forces to collapse the financial empire of the PHARMA cartel..
http://www.dr-rath-foundation.org.za/
Here is the homepage for UC Davis Primate Research;
http://www.cnprc.ucdavis.edu/pages/about/overview.html
Some protests @ UC Davis Primate Research from 2004;
http://www.all-creatures.org/saen/media-20040803.html
UC Davis makes PETA's #4 position in the 2005 top ten worst animal research facilities;
http://www.stopanimaltests.com/f-worstlabs_04.asp
"4. The University of California-Davis
All is not well in sunny California. In 2005, the USDA leveled a nearly $5,000 fine against UC-Davis for animal care violations that resulted in the deaths of seven cynomalgus monkeys. According to the USDA, UC-Davis did not properly maintain the thermostat or temperature cutoff switch in the monkeys’ room, thus allowing the room to reach a scorching 115°F for many hours at a time.
UC-Davis is home to the California National Primate Research Center (CNPRC), which houses approximately 5,000 primates. While many institutions are phasing out animal experiments, UC-Davis is expanding its primate facilities and is constructing a level-3 biocontainment lab for deadly viral infection studies on primates. UC-Davis also subjects more primates to painful and distressing experiments than any other U.S. university: More than 2,000 primates were used there in 2004. In addition to this unparalleled exploitation of primates, more than 500 dogs, 400 cats, 450 rabbits, and 250 horses were used in painful or distressing experiments at UC-Davis in 2004.
Foul experiments are conducted at the CNPRC Inhalation Facility at UC-Davis, in which primates are exposed to pesticides, ozone, smoke, drugs, asbestos, and other toxic inhalants. Unbelievably, the inhalation facility has specially designed chambers for the sole purpose of forcing pregnant and infant monkeys to inhale tobacco smoke. Meanwhile, human clinical observation has clearly shown that smoke exposure causes birth defects and developmental lung problems in human babies. UC-Davis experimenters wouldn’t be conducting these hideous experiments unless they brought in significant funding. Shame on them.
Please write, call, fax, or e-mail the head of the university and politely ask him to stop these atrocities:
Larry Vanderhoef, Chancellor
Mrak Hall, 5th Fl.
University of California, Davis
One Shields Ave.
Davis, CA 95616
530-752-4964
530-752-2400 (fax)
lnvanderhoef [at] ucdavis.edu"
Obviously the employees at UC Davis Primate Research Center may respond better to direct converstation. Here's a few of the people observed leaving work after a long hard day of torturing primates. If u see them anywhere, please tell them i said "hello"..
XL TROUT (possible ego trip, VIP?)
4RW133
4ZNV02
K86 SFW (Texas plate)
5CHF070
FREK745
1143704 (CA Exempt, security guard)
XL TROUT (possible ego trip, VIP?)
4RW133
4ZNV02
K86 SFW (Texas plate)
5CHF070
FREK745
1143704 (CA Exempt, security guard)
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