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FDA has not banned pig to human transplants from Campaign for Responsible Transplants - Alix Fano Deadline for comments July 6, 1999 Docket No. 99D-0557 Dockets Management Branch (HFA-305) Food and Drug Administration 5630 Fishers Lane, Room 1061 Rockville MD 20852 Vaccine assault on infants and children worsens with introduction of hepatitis B requirement Letters needed to defeat VP Gore's High Production Volume Challenge program Please write again to VP Al Gore pointing out the absurdity of testing chemicals we already know to be toxic when the only sensible thing to do is limit, or, if possible avoid, exposure to them. Tell him we already know the effect of many of these chemicals on humans from medical records and that there are better scientific methods of looking for their effect on humans than overdosing other species which have specific physiological characteristics making the responses of one species unpredictable for another. Vice President Al Gore The White House Washington DC 20500 Canada retains ban on use of bovine hormone despite tremendous pressure and sneakily incomplete report of study being furnished to members of the Senate Agriculture Committee Canada and EU continue to ban American beef because of use of growth hormone. Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman seeks to impose tariffs on European goods. more The hormone debate The Food and Drug Administration and the World Health Organization consider the six sex hormones and combinations thereof, used to make 90% of American cows grow faster, are not harmful for people who eat the cows when the hormones are planted under the thin skin of the cows' ears. Rather than fiddling with cows' ears, some beef producers have jabbed them into the neck muscles where more blood circulates. This gave the cows a big dose in a hurry instead of a gradual one. The FDA says this is no longer a problem, but epidemiologist Dr Samuel Epstein at the University of Illinois wonders why amounts equivalent to "what a young boy produces in a day" have been found in 500 grams (c. 17 oz.) of beef. Johanna Fink-Gremmels, professor of veterinary medicine at Utrecht University and coordinator of the European commission's scientific group on sex hormones, cites evidence that links one of the hormones, estradiol-17beta, to edometrial and breast cancers. There is a difference of opinion on whether this is because the hormone alters DNA or attacks receptive cells. - The Economist May 15, 1999 Canada bans blood from donors who have visited the UK in case they have been exposed to "mad cow" disease. GM corn poisons larvae of monarch butterflies ON THE DRUG SCENE "Think about women's bodies. We go on the pill practically at puberty and then we take it until we want to get pregnant. By then we need fertility drugs because we waited so long. And then we go on hormone-replacement therapy for the rest of our lives. So we spend only our first 12 to 13 years without taking drugs." - Dr Susan Love, MD High blood pressure treatment leads to additional problems Transplant drug (cyclosporin) ups risk of cancer Canadian Dental Association advises moderating fluoride intake FDA maintains Celebrex is safe despite hemorrhages and 10 deaths Rezulin recommended as drug of last resort only ".....a healthy population means a dead pharmaceutical industry..." Hans Ruesch, Naked Empress page 14 RESEARCH WITHOUT ANIMALS New cancer diagnostic tool possible - x-raying hair Iron cooking pots are effective in warding off anemia More potassium means fewer stroks Vitamin D contributes tobone strength Minnesota study finds screening cuts colon cancer deaths Clinical trial of new drugs on stroke victims A Tale of Fright by Jack Tanis discusses holocaust in relation to animal experimentation. MAILBAG Letters from: Pauline Blanc, San Francisco; Irwin Bross, PhD, Amherst, NY; Michael Burman, Birmingham, England; Hans Ruesch, Switzerland; Celeste Silva, Chile; Adam Watson, Brooklyn NY; Rhona Zaid, PhD, Simi Valley CA News from New Zealand by Bette Overell The A-V Situation in Italy by Lisa Terzariol Letter to The Scotsman from Jackie Shortland Researchers neglect to disclose funding sources Environment a factor in Parkinson's and Schizophrenia National Anti-vivisection Society loan library of superior materials that replace animals in education. 1-800-888-6287 (NAVS) and ask for Linda Petty Schedule of Primate Freedom Tour June 1 - September 4 Starting in Seattle, WA and winding up in Bethesda MD A message from Monsanto "Our genes are incorporated into approximately 19 million acres around the world, covering an area largerthan Switzerland and The Netherlands combined. Can Europe at this point really resist?" Tom McDermott, Monsanto's head of public affairs for Europe At the UN summit conference in February, Monsanto Rep Val Giddings said the company had 60 GM crops in 45 countries and spoke against regulation that would "massively disrupt" trade in GM materials. |
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Volume 10 Issue 2 Summer 1999 The Civil Abolitionist PO Box 26 Swain NY 14884 USA Tel/Fax 607-545-6213 |