Squirrel Massacre
Fri, 01 Feb 2008 21:54:52 +0000
Squirrel Massacre
Posted 29 January 2008
http://www.animalaid.org.uk/h/n/NEWS/news_wildlife/ALL/1729//
Almost 12,000 grey squirrels have been poisoned to death or shot in
the past year in a ?cull? funded by the government. The killings took
place in Northumberland and were undertaken - it was said - to protect
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Endangered frogs - the vivisection connection
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 08:04:35 +0000
Endangered frogs - the vivisection connection
Posted 28 January 2008
http://tinyurl.com/27ngzh
A devastating new dossier has been published by Animal Aid which
details how the capture and transportation of frogs for the
vivisection industry has led to a worldwide epidemic that could wipe
out thousands of amphi ...
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MRSA : Methicillin (Oxacillin)-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains Isolated from Major Food Animals and Their Potential Transmission to Humans
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:55:44 +0000
http://tinyurl.com/ytksfm
John Hwa Lee*
Veterinary Public Health, College of Veterinary Medicine, Chonbuk
National University, Chonju, Republic of Korea
*Corresponding author. Mailing address: College of Veterinary
Medicine, Chonbuk National University, Chonju 561-756, Republic of
Korea. Phone: 82 63 270 2553. ...
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MRSA Pigs-To-Humans
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:49:56 +0000
MRSA Pigs-To-Humans
Alert Over New Strain
From Patricia Doyle, PhD
http://www.rense.com/general77/alert.htm
Hello Jeff - This NEW STAIN of MRSA is extremely serious. As the
article points out. HALF of ALL Dutch farmers NOW carry the superbug
which was contracted from pigs fed antibiotics.
Pigs To Human ...
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Meet your meat: Pig farming is a risk factor for increased nasal Staphylococcus aureus colonization
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:47:32 +0000
Dispatch
http://origin.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol11no05/04-0866.htm
Clonal Comparison of Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from Healthy Pig
Farmers, Human Controls, and Pigs
Laurence Armand-Lefevre,* Raymond Ruimy,* and Antoine Andremont*
*Groupe Hospitalier Bichat-Claude Bernard, Paris, France
Pig farming is a risk ...
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Meet your meat: MRSA test call for farm animals to combat human strain.
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:44:27 +0000
MRSA test call for farm animals
All farm animals should be tested for a form of the superbug MRSA, an
organic group has urged the government.
The Soil Association says the bug is widespread in the Netherlands,
Belgium and Germany, from where some of the meat eaten in the UK is
imported.
In the Netherlands ...
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Meet your meat: Pigs to humans: alert over new MRSA strain
Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:42:36 +0000
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2110506,00.html
¡¤ Half of all Dutch farmers now carry superbug
¡¤ Urgent call to screen UK lifestock and test imports
Ian Sample Science correspondent
The Guardian
Campaigners today call for urgent tests on the UK's farm animals after
the emergence of a ne ...
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What the patron of the RSPB did .. on the RSPB's Birdwatch day
Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:49:40 +0000
Dail Mirror
http://tinyurl.com/2mvgln
What the patron of the RSPB did .. on the RSPB's Birdwatch day
By Aidan Mcgurran 28/01/2008
The Queen picks up dead pheasants as the RSPB, which has her as its
patron, holds a nationwide birdwatching event.
She even prised a bird from the jaws of a gundog as thousan ...
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RSPB now using Dynamite in CONservation. Oh what fun it must be in their crazy, crazy world.
Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:00:47 +0000
Dynamite is New Weapon in Battle to Save Forest
By Craig Brown
WHEN it comes to protecting the environment, dynamite is not one of
the materials that comes to mind.
But yesterday RSPB Scotland began a unique approach to conservation by
using explosives to blow up a number of trees in the ancient Abernethy
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The R.S.P.B permits hunting!
Sun, 27 Jan 2008 09:56:08 +0000
The R.S.P.B permits hunting!
13/01/2008 21:56:52 by Jim
http://www.birddiary.co.uk/discusshome.asp?tid=1052
In the papers today,a report stating that at Langstone harbour in
Dorset,the rspb is actually issuing hunting licences!WHAT!I hear you
say.Well,i believe it.Apparently this has been going on for 30
years ...
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