From v at vaalea.com Tue Oct 3 23:00:19 2006 From: v at vaalea.com (vaalea) Date: Tue, 3 Oct 2006 19:00:19 -0400 Subject: [4animals] Bush seeks halt to bottom trawling. Message-ID: <002001c6e73f$b4b53c10$958ac5d1@v> Bush seeks halt to bottom trawling Last Updated: Tuesday, October 3, 2006 | 2:59 PM ET CBC News U.S. President George W. Bush joined a chorus of conservationist voices Tuesday by calling for a halt to all types of destructive fishing practices, such as bottom trawling, in international waters. Bush sent a memo to the secretaries of state and commerce, directing them to promote "sustainable" fisheries and to oppose any fishing practices "that destroy the long-term natural productivity of fish stocks or habitats, such as seamounts, corals and sponge fields, for short-term gain." Bush also said the U.S. will work with other nations and international groups to change fishing practices and create new international fishery regulatory groups, if needed. The directive comes one day before the start of United Nations negotiations in New York over high-seas fishing. Conservation groups have been unsuccessfully pressuring Canada and other countries for years to halt bottom trawling, in which huge weighted-down nets are dragged across the ocean floor. While efficient for catching fish, the method disrupts habitats and destroys other forms of marine life. In July 2005, Greenpeace called for a moratorium on bottom trawling in the Northwest Atlantic, but Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans refused. Early this year at a conference in New Zealand, conservation groups berated delegates from 29 countries, including Canada, for failing to take action to protect deep-sea creatures and coral. Greenpeace and the Halifax-based Ecology Action Centre said they surveyed more than 800 Canadians last December about bottom trawling and found overwhelming support for a ban, even if it resulted in some job loss. Sigourney Weaver urges UN to 'do the right thing' Actress Sigourney Weaver appeared with several ambassadors and environmental activists at the UN on Tuesday to plead for a moratorium on bottom trawling. "Do the right thing for the seas and for future generations, both human and aquatic, who will thrive on the bounty of the oceans if given half a chance," Weaver said. "The high seas belong to no single country and they most certainly do not belong to the owners of these large industrial fishing corporations," she said. "They belong to all of us and it is time for us to take them back." Weaver, an animal-rights and endangered species activist, appealed to ambassadors to "stop this uncontrolled clear-cutting of ancient corals," adding that people shouldn't assume the UN is doing something to protect deep-sea ecosystems. In 2004, the General Assembly passed a non-binding resolution urging nations to consider temporary bans on bottom trawling. Japan, Iceland, Spain and other nations whose fishing fleets do much of the world's bottom trawling opposed a larger moratorium. With files from the Associated Press -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ottawaveg.com/pipermail/4animals/attachments/20061003/bdc08ffd/attachment.html From v at vaalea.com Sat Oct 7 01:12:01 2006 From: v at vaalea.com (vaalea) Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 21:12:01 -0400 Subject: [4animals] Walk for Animals - need a cell phone number! Message-ID: <001001c6e9ad$afa862e0$0b9fc5d1@v> ARGH! so I was disorganized enough to manage to book our cable hookup on Saturday, and if I'm lucky the guy will come at the beginning of the three hour window so I won't miss ANYTHING, but there is a good chance I'll be late. Unfortunately I am the only one who can let the guy in the door, and if I rebooked it would be another week before they would come - no good. SO I WOULD LIKE SOMEONE"S CELL PHONE NUMBER who is going to be there tomorrow so I can meet up with you guys once our cable is in. I'd rather not go wandering around the market trying to find you guys.... THANKS! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ottawaveg.com/pipermail/4animals/attachments/20061006/1ee5946b/attachment.html From pekieca at yahoo.com Fri Oct 13 19:32:36 2006 From: pekieca at yahoo.com (K) Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 15:32:36 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [4animals] Tristan & America In-Reply-To: <000601c6df7d$cc0789f0$045f8b48@Victoria> Message-ID: <20061013193236.80756.qmail@web52701.mail.yahoo.com> Was in the Tristan store in Rideau today. Noticed a jacket with what looked like a fur collar. Thought "oh no, not again..." Went to examine it and realized it was fake, a very good fake. I asked the sales guy about it, and he said that all of Tristan's "fur" items this year will be fake, no real fur being used anymore. He pointed out a hang tag on the jacket, which proclaimed that it was fake fur. I told him that made me really happy, that it was a great decision, and that I can once again shop there. Katherine --------------------------------- All new Yahoo! Mail --------------------------------- Get news delivered. Enjoy RSS feeds right on your Mail page. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ottawaveg.com/pipermail/4animals/attachments/20061013/2d9203d7/attachment.html From mbarrett at connect.carleton.ca Thu Oct 12 19:24:54 2006 From: mbarrett at connect.carleton.ca (Meredith Barrett) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2006 15:24:54 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [4animals] movie ideas Message-ID: <4295061.1160681094973.JavaMail.mbarrett@connect.carleton.ca> Hey Guys I thought I'd send this out to email lala-land in the hopes that someone would have suggestions/ideas. I run the AR group at Carleton and we are collaborating with our Sustainability Network on campus to run several animal rights/environmental themed movie nights. I am trying to find movies/documentaries that discuss the impact that factory farming has on the environment as well as any other connections between AR issues and the environment. One idea I had was Peaceable Kingdom. We may also show Meet your Meat just for shock value's sake but I am not sure how I feel about that, if it is too far from our 'theme'. Anyways, any suggestions would be greatly appreciated! Take care everyone, let's keep fighting the good fight! Meredith From v at vaalea.com Tue Oct 31 14:53:40 2006 From: v at vaalea.com (vaalea) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:53:40 -0500 Subject: [4animals] Elephants pass mirror test of self-awareness Message-ID: <00e901c6fcfc$5b27f020$6501a8c0@v> Elephants pass mirror test of self-awareness http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1935538,00.html Alok Jha, science correspondent Tuesday October 31, 2006 The Guardian Elephants have been found to recognise themselves in a mirror, putting them in an exclusive club of self-awareness whose other members are great apes (including humans) and bottlenose dolphins. "The social complexity of the elephant, its well-known altruistic behaviour and, of course, its huge brain, made the elephant a logical candidate species for testing in front of a mirror," said Joshua Plotnik, a psychologist at Emory University in Atlanta, who led a team whose study was published yesterday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. An 8ft mirror was put in the elephant enclosure at the Bronx zoo in New York and a watch kept on its three inhabitants. The first question was if they greeted their reflection as if meeting another individual - they did not make this mistake, and used the mirror to inspect themselves, for example, moving their trunks to look at the inside of their mouths. "Elephants have been tested in front of mirrors before, but previous studies used relatively small mirrors kept out of the elephants' reach," Dr Plotnik said. "This study is the first to test the animals in front of a huge mirror they could touch, rub against, and try to look behind." Inspecting the mirror and trying to look behind it - as did the Bronx elephants - is another indicator of self-awareness. One of the three also passed the "mark" test when painted in a place it would normally be unable to see. It touched the paint mark on its head after looking in the mirror. Diana Reiss of Columbia University in New York said that the research helped explain the society in which elephants lived: "Humans, great apes, dolphins and elephants, well known for their superior intelligence and complex social systems, are thought to possess the highest forms of empathy and altruism in the animal kingdom." -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.ottawaveg.com/pipermail/4animals/attachments/20061031/6fa378cc/attachment.html