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  • Diseases, not vaccines, are dangerous 20 Jul 2008 06:56 GMT
    ... amounts, none has been proven harmful in animals or humans. * One of the requirements ... No. Look at Canada, Australia, Japan, most European countries and 19 U.S. states that allow ... ostensibly arising out of concern for the welfare of children, is the kind of misleading ...

  • The Nation: Too Big to Fail? 20 Jul 2008 03:17 GMT
    ... the sort of thing that happened on other shores, where sentimental commitments to social welfare trumped sharp-edged competition. Weak-kneed European and Asian leaders were too frightened to endure the animal instincts of a real market, the story went. So they intervened time and again, ...

  • Africa as you've never seen it 19 Jul 2008 23:25 GMT
    ... well as South African football supporters in animal masks and faith healers in trances. He ... up, particularly in the West, concerns the welfare of the hyenas and the baboons. 'They ... know, it always comes from white, liberal, European people, which suggests to me that there ...

  • ERBITUX® (Cetuximab) Receives Approval In Japan For Use In Advanced Colorectal Cancer 19 Jul 2008 09:31 GMT
    ... to Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare last year for the use of ERBITUX ... different international studies including trials conducted in Europe and Japan which confirm the activity of ... c-ErbB-1). In vitro assays and in vivo animal studies have shown that binding of ERBITUX ...

  • Problems abound on Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned 18 Jul 2008 17:13 GMT
    ... must bring in food for other island animals and plan to move the estimated 200 European fallow deer - regarded as an alien ... conservation rules - to mainland parks. Animal welfare groups initially protested plans to kill the ...

  • Poultry Register data to be used for wider DEFRA activities 18 Jul 2008 13:27 GMT
    ... related to legislation on veterinary medicines and animal welfare (see panel). DEFRA minister Jeff Rooker said: ... substantiate UK claims for compensation from the EU in the event of a disease outbreak ...

  • Top News from the European Commission 19 July to 17 August 2008 18 Jul 2008 12:36 GMT
    ... throughout the European Union. Seals are sentient mammals capable of experiencing pain and it is ... only where guarantees can be provided that animal-welfare-friendly hunting techniques were used and that the ...

  • Microsoft 4Q profit rises; Web ad business rocky 18 Jul 2008 09:21 GMT
    ... in the United States and parts of Europe. SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Under Hector Ruiz's ... increasingly threatening the survival of plants and animals, scientists say it may become necessary to ... Global warming will affect the health and welfare of every American, but the poor, elderly, ...

  • Problems on Robben Island 18 Jul 2008 04:42 GMT
    ... must bring in food for other island animals, and plan to move the estimated 200 European fallow deer - regarded as an alien ... conservation rules - to mainland parks. Animal welfare groups initially protested plans to kill the ...

  • Of great apes and men 17 Jul 2008 23:53 GMT
    ... no national parliament has declared that any animal could be a person with rights. Keeping ... in Austria 10 leaders of lawful animal welfare organisations were beginning their fifth week in ... animals. That this can happen in a European democracy is shocking. · Peter Singer is ...

  • Summary Box: AMD changes CEO amid struggles 17 Jul 2008 23:33 GMT
    ... increasingly threatening the survival of plants and animals, scientists say it may become necessary to ... Global warming will affect the health and welfare of every American, but the poor, elderly, ... with hidden fees or false advertising, the EU's consumer affairs commissioner said Thursday. NEW YORK ...

  • Problems at Robben Island, Mandela jail site 17 Jul 2008 16:33 GMT
    ... must bring in food for other island animals, and plan to move the estimated 200 European fallow deer—regarded as an alien species and ... Africa's strict conservation rules—to mainland parks. Animal welfare groups initially protested plans to kill the ...

  • Great Ape Trust To Provide Home For Entertainment Orangutans 17 Jul 2008 15:59 GMT
    ... Martin. Their company specializes in providing trained animals for entertainment and advertising. In discussions with ... drawn praise from ape experts and animal welfare groups across the country that have been ... of Toronto anthropologist David Begun and his European colleagues are re-writing the book on the ...

  • Hunger, The Silent Tsunami 17 Jul 2008 13:32 GMT
    ... these countries. In Germany, Hartz IV (German welfare reform combining income support and unemployment benefits ... of global warming. WORLD BANK, IMF AND EU-SUBSIDIES The hard-as-nails trade and economic policy of ... inflation in threshold countries. Grain and the animals providing meat become more expensive through the ...

  • To go or not to go? 17 Jul 2008 09:30 GMT
    ... in the 1970s by translations from eastern European poets struggling with censorship - which Borges ... timber or not, western conservation agencies, like welfare groups, have to operate there - or the animals will disappear. For that, I would go ...

  • Robben Island plagued by troubles 17 Jul 2008 01:53 GMT
    ... must bring in food for other island animals, and plan to move the estimated 200 European fallow deer _ regarded as an alien ... conservation rules _ to mainland parks. Animal welfare groups initially protested plans to kill the ...

  • China gets green light to buy ivory 16 Jul 2008 18:17 GMT
    ... UK director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare. "Allowing new ivory to be imported into ... and Bulgaria voted on behalf of the EU, and in favour of approving China. There ...

  • The Common Agricultural Policy: sorting the facts from the fiction 16 Jul 2008 17:32 GMT
    ... of the building blocks on which the EU was built. Much has been said and ... unique rural heritage, protecting the environment and animal welfare, providing plentiful supplies of food on Europe's ...

  • Report: The Cost of Commitment to Pig Welfare 16 Jul 2008 16:20 GMT
    ... Report: The Cost of Commitment to Pig Welfare SCOTLAND - Scotland’s pigs are raised to ... The new report, published by the Farm Animal Welfare Group (FWAG) says that the majority ... higher welfare standard than elsewhere in the EU and other countries. The report highlights the ...

  • ERBITUX(R) (Cetuximab) Receives Approval in Japan for Use in Advanced Colorectal Cancer 16 Jul 2008 12:51 GMT
    ... to Japan's Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare last year for the use of ERBITUX ... different international studies including trials conducted in Europe and Japan which confirm the activity of ... c-ErbB-1). In vitro assays and in vivo animal studies have shown that binding of ERBITUX ...

  • China given green light to buy African ivory stockpile 16 Jul 2008 12:17 GMT
    ... UK director of the International Fund for Animal Welfare. "Allowing new ivory to be imported into ... and Bulgaria voted on behalf of the EU, and in favour of approving China. There ...


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