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VEGAN, organic and free from capitalism vegan and organic food free from synthetic pesticides and genetically engineered products is a right for everyone, regardless of income or social status.....
Posted: Tue, Jan 27, 2004 11:25pm PST
Buffalo Field Campaign Update 1/23/04 In this issue:
* Update from the Field
* Bison Vaccination EA - Thank you for speaking out!
* The Yellowstone Buffalo Preservation Act - Has YOUR Rep signed on?
* Thank you for supporting the BFC!
* BFC Wish List
* Last Words...
Posted: Mon, Jan 26, 2004 3:11am PST
Warning: This diet is not for everyone Finding a quarter-billion acres for adequate feed grain harvests would mean at least a 7 percent increase in cropland worldwide at a time when farmers are already using most of the better land. Much of the newly plowed acreage would likely be marginal, subject to greater erosion and requiring extra generous applications of fertilizer and pesticides....
Posted: Fri, Jan 23, 2004 9:22am PST
Seattle: FBI arrests Animal-rights activist An agent with the FBI's domestic terrorism squad arrested an animal rights activist yesterday for allegedly lying to a Seattle federal grand jury investigating an arson attack on an Olympia forest-product company....
Posted: Thu, Jan 15, 2004 11:20am PST
"We have lost 30 years": Dennis Meadows "We must develop a new concept of economics, one in which people are less interested in accumulating material things. Only then can sustainable growth be achieved..If we had begun in the seventies to develop alternatives to material growth, we could look to the future more calmly.."...
Posted: Fri, Jan 9, 2004 3:27pm PST
EPA Refuses to Protect Food Supply from Sewage Sludge On New Year's Eve, December 31, 2003, the Environmental Protection Agency denied a petition requesting that the agency ban the land application of sludge. On the same day, the agency published its review of regulations governing the use and disposal of sewage sludge......
Posted: Thu, Jan 8, 2004 9:55am PST
Wa. State Oil Spills Repeat On Dec. 30, 2003, a refueling barge near Edmonds, Wa., was OVERFILLED by 4,800 gallons. The fuel spilled into the Puget Sound in Washington State, just north of Seattle. By Dec. 31, it was a 105 square mile oil slick. Where it landed is Wa.'s last pristine coastal wetland......
Posted: Thu, Jan 1, 2004 11:28am PST
'Mad cow' prions may permanently contaminate processing plants. A modest proposal All surfaces which have been in contact with BSE contaminated animal flesh must be regarded as potential permanent reservoirs of infectious prions. This fact suggests sequestration of such surfaces may be required to protect public health. This article consists of a proposal for the creation of a national repository for the permanent storage of slaughterhouses, meatpacking plants, and other food processing facilities which have been (or may contain equipment) contmainated by BSE prions. Sugge...
Posted: Fri, Dec 26, 2003 4:46pm PST
Mad Cow Disease Hits The United States 
If you eat meat, you already have to worry about salmonella, E. coli, campylobacter, heart disease, strokes, high blood pressure, and cancer, as well as your weight. Now, add mad cow disease to the list. The U.S. government has announced that a dairy cow in Washington state was infected with mad cow disease, also called bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE). Newspapers report that meat from the cow, who was killed December 9, traveled through three processing plants before the problem was di...
Posted: Wed, Dec 24, 2003 7:54pm PST
Countries Start To Ban US Beef Due To Mad Cow Disease: Aren't You Glad You Don't Eat Meat? A growing number of countries are banning imports of American beef after the US announced its first suspected case of "mad cow" disease....
Posted: Wed, Dec 24, 2003 9:24am PST
US confirms first mad cow case WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 (Xinhuanet) -- The first US case of mad cow disease is suspected in a single cow in Washington state, US Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman said Tuesday, according to a CNNreport....
Posted: Tue, Dec 23, 2003 4:59pm PST
Return to the Human Standard: Leopold Kohr "The philosopher Leopold Kohr was an early environment pioneer. Against megalomania and for reform of the modern age, he urged a return to the human standard.. A single cause stands behind all the forms of social misery: somethng has become too great.."...
Posted: Mon, Dec 22, 2003 5:43am PST
America's Food Crisis Rarely will you come across fresh fruits and vegetables, or fresh meat or milk products for sale in the poorer neighborhoods of America's cities. The right to quality food and low prices is a privilege reserved exclusively for the well-off....
Posted: Sun, Dec 21, 2003 9:55pm PST
Ecuador Indians Battle Oil Giants for Amazon-ChevronTexaco 
In the northern Ecuadorean Amazon, Indians are suing U.S. based ChevronTexaco over environmental damage they say ruined their land and made people sick. When it rains, oily pits left by Texaco continue to leak a black sludge into rivers....
Posted: Fri, Dec 19, 2003 3:25pm PST
Powerful Treesit Film (video/quicktime 24.7MB) Powerful film about treesitting including dangerous treesitter extractions. (6 min.)...
Posted: Thu, Dec 18, 2003 10:24pm PST
Biodiversity trapped in cage by reductionist science Corporate industry benefits from reductionist science when attempting to measure biodiversity. Nature does not live in a box and cannot be separated into internal and external components. When a monkey is removed from a rainforest the lack of native plant air alter the biochemistry of the primate, resulting in her slowly dying inside when s/he cannot escape the four walls that deprive her of freedom. The same pharmaceutical industry that benefits from testing chemicals on animals also tests c...
Posted: Wed, Dec 17, 2003 5:29pm PST
Join The Electronic Civil Disobedience Against Puppy Killing Scum 
On the 15th-19th of December there will be a Electronic Civil Disobedience (ECD) against Huntingdon Life Scienes Customer Yamanouchi. When Michele Rokke worked undercover at HLS in 1997 she reported that Yamanouchi were a customer. They were due to carry out a leg-breaking experiment on 37 beagles where their legs were due to be snapped with steel wire. An HLS worker joked about the dogs, saying “they should just break all their legs so they’ll be easier to work with.” He joked about how grea...
Posted: Wed, Dec 17, 2003 11:10am PST
Huntingdon Life Sciences and petrochemical carcinogens Huntingdon Life Sciences and pharmaceutical corporations benefit from invasive non-consentual testing of animal and human prisoners. The causes of many cancers they attempt to "cure" are often caused by petrochemical toxins manufactured in the production of pharmaceutical products.....
Posted: Tue, Dec 16, 2003 3:13pm PST
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