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19 janvier, BOULOGNE-SUR-MER (Pas-de-Calais) - Contre toute attente, Nicolas Sarkozy a déclaré lors d'une visite au port de Boulogne-sur-Mer son intention de remettre à plat les quotas de pêche approuvés par la France et ses partenaires européens le 19 décembre dans le but de sauver des espèces menacées de disparition. http://fr.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080119/tts-france-sarkozy-mer-peche-ca02f96_1.html

Plus de 10 000 espèces exotiques mettent en danger la biodiversité européenne Le vison d'Amérique ("Mustela vison") fait partie des espèces invasives. 17.01.08-Les envahisseurs sont parmi nous. L'histoire ressemble à un film de science-fiction, mais elle se passe en Europe, sous l'oeil inquiet des scientifiques, qui observent depuis longtemps cette vague d'invasions, sans avoir imaginé qu'elle ait atteint une telle ampleur. Près de 10 670 espèces animales et végétales viennent d'être répertoriées dans la catégorie des "espèces exotiques envahissantes", après trois ans de travail mené dans le cadre d'un programme baptisé Daisie (Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe). Le chiffre a été rendu public lors d'une conférence consacrée au sujet, mardi 15 et mercredi 16 janvier, à Madrid, sous l'égide de l'Union européenne (UE). Quelque 200 spécialistes y participaient. http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3244,36-1000442@51-1000538,0.html

19 janvier 2008 Il sera interdit de promener plus de deux chiens dans Ville-Marie Sara Champagne La Presse L'aventure des neuf chiens de Mario Paquet, ce sans-abri du centre-ville qui avait été jusqu'en Cour supérieure pour sauver l'une de ses bêtes de l'euthanasie, achève. L'arrondissement de Ville-Marie est sur le point de modifier son règlement pour interdire de promener plus de deux chiens à la fois en laisse sur le domaine public, a appris La Presse. http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080119/CPACTUALITES/801191116/1019/CPACTUALITES

Ils en avaient beaucoup à dire, mais comme le temps leur a manqué, Hercovici et Francoeur se sont débattus comme 2 diables dans l'eau bénite - Ça en était pitoyable ! Même si on leur a coupé la parole à plusieurs reprises et qu'elles ont eu encore moins de temps pour s'exprimer que H. et F., Lise Ravary et Martine Lachance étaient beaucoup plus crédibles. La Ministre de la culture Christine St-Pierre s'est, bien entendu, rangée du côté des pro-fourrure, en affirmant qu'elle aimait la fourrure, de même que le soit-disant humoriste Guy Nantel qui a ridiculisé les défenseurs des animaux et fait savoir que même l'animatrice Bazzo portait de la fourrure ! Bref, tout m'a semblé comme on dit, «arrangé avec le gars des vues »

Il ne reste donc plus pour l'instant que de continuer de sensibiliser la population aux souffrances endurées par ces lapins, car moins il y aura de consommateurs qui mangeront du lapin moins il y aura de lapins d'élevage

Tout simplement affreux ! Et la majorité des animaux utilisés dans les labos de tortures proviendraient des fourrières, donc, des animaux qui ont pour la plupart, à un moment donné, vécu dans des familles avec des humains ! C'est abominable Et pendant ce temps, on n'arrête pas de faire des collectes de fonds, des téléthons, etc., pour la recherche: Tous les mois, c'est pour une autre cause, et les gens garrochent leurs $$$$$ parce qu'ils sont convaincus qu'à force de tester sur des animaux, ils pourront guérir de n'importe laquelle des maladies qui pourraient les affecter, tout en continuant bien sûr de polluer à outrance et de s'empiffrer de cadavres d'animaux

Allo Valou, L. Ravary étant directrice d'une revue, et M. Lachance étant prof en droit, il n'y aura donc personne pour défendre les animaux

Ouffffffffffff ! Merci pour toutes tes recherches et ces infos Caro ! On en apprend des choses ! C'est épouvantable ! Donc, si jai bien compris, le Berger Blanc fournirait lui aussi des animaux à des labos ! Je me demande ce que sont devenus les chiens qu'Anima-Québec a envoyé à cet endroit il y a quelques mois après une saisie

18 janvier 2008 Les ours et les lynx envahissent les villes du Nevada Un lynx Photo Armand Trottier, archives La Presse Associated Press Las Vegas Certaines villes du Nevada, parmi lesquelles Las Vegas, ont reçu ces derniers temps des visiteurs inhabituels: des animaux sauvages, lynx et ours, qui ont été aperçus sur des parkings de casino et aux abords de centres commerciaux http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080118/CPINSOLITE/80118010/5406/CPINSOLITE

vendredi 18 janvier 2008 La SPA s'occupera du Godzoo Yanick Poisson La Tribune SAINT-RÉMI-DE-TINGWICK La municipalité de Saint-Rémi-de-Tingwick et la Sûreté du Québec ont confié à la Société protectrice des animaux d'Arthabaska (SPAA) le soin de s'occuper des bêtes du Godzoo, laissées derrière lors de l'arrestation de Robert Godbout, accusé du meurtre de Renée Vaudreuil, survenu lundi après-midi. La présidente de l'organisme à but non lucratif, Dominique Roux, s'est rendue, jeudi, dans l'ancienne école de Saint-Rémi, là où sont hébergés les animaux, afin de jeter un premier coup d'oeil aux installations et de voir dans quel état se trouvaient les bêtes. Elle a répertorié un total de 725 animaux répartis en 17 espèces. La grande majorité avait l'air en bonne santé, si ce n'est que pour certaines infections surtout attribuables à la promiscuité. http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080118/CPTRIBUNE/801180891/5203/CPACTUALITES

Il s'agit de Karen Davis ! Tu te souviens de ce documentaire: Chickens are people too ? Elle est la présidente de la United Poultry Concerns http://www.upc-online.org/991114wpost_karen_davis.html http://www.upc-online.org/

il n'y a aucun doute que des fourrières fournissent des animaux domestiques à des labos de recherches, comme il n'y a aucun doute non plus que des animaux sauvages sont capturés dans la nature et torturés dans ces labos

Rochester Meat Co. recalls ground beef Minnesota meat company recalls 188,000 pounds of meat over E. coli concerns. January 14 2008 A recall of 188,000 lbs. of beef was issued after reports of five illnesses. MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- A Minnesota meatpacker has recalled about 188,000 pounds of ground beef patties and some other products because of E. coli bacteria concerns. Rochester Meat Co. of Rochester issued the recall after five illnesses were reported in Wisconsin and one in California, the U.S. Agriculture Department's Food Safety and Inspection Service said in a statement Saturday. The meat may be contaminated with a strain of bacteria - E. coli O157:H7 - that's potentially deadly and can cause bloody diarrhea and dehydration. The very young, senior citizens and those with weakened immune systems are most at risk. The affected beef was produced Oct. 30 and Nov. 6. It was shipped to distributors nationwide for use in restaurants and food service institutions. It was not sold by retailers, the USDA service said. http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/14/news ------------------- Beef's Wake-Up Recall A Year of Problems Has USDA Rethinking Safety Rules By Annys Shin Washington Post Staff Writer Friday, December 21, 2007; Page D01 For beef lovers, 2007 will go down as another year of eating dangerously. Since the spring, meat suppliers have recalled more than 30 million pounds of ground beef contaminated with the potentially lethal bacteria E. coli O157:H7, including the 21.7 million pounds recalled by New Jersey-based Topps Meat in September. Topps Meat's 21.7 million-pound recall led some safety advocates to question the USDA inspection system, which relies heavily on industry reporting. (By Mike Derer/AP) After three relatively quiet years, the 20 recalls this year have raised new doubts about whether the beef industry's attempts to keep the pathogen out of ground beef, and the government's oversight of those efforts, are working. Agriculture Department officials, who oversee the safety of pork, beef and poultry, say they did not recognize that anything was seriously amiss with the beef supply until the Topps recall hit. Microbiologists say the prevalence of E. coli O157:H7 in the environment is highly variable, and no one can say with certainty what caused the spike in outbreaks. In several instances this year, however, USDA officials missed red flags and were slow to correct longstanding deficiencies in the way they monitor beef processors' efforts to contain the pathogen. USDA officials did not learn that Topps had begun testing its ground beef less frequently until the recall. Recurring sanitation problems at a United Food Group plant in Vernon, Calif., that later recalled 75,000 pounds of ground beef did not trigger further enforcement actions because the agency had not told inspectors what to do about repeat violations. The recall was eventually expanded to 5.7 million pounds. Critics said the agency missed an opportunity to strengthen its early-warning system by not keeping track of every instance when a plant found the dangerous strain of E. coli in raw ground beef. The department has postponed plans to target inspections at plants that had a record of problems because officials do not know which plants pose the greatest risks. Similar lapses have surfaced during the seven years since meat processors were required to come up with scientifically based plans to contain and control pathogens. In 2002, USDA officials did not know that the E. coli strain had been detected in ground beef at ConAgra's Greeley, Colo., plant 63 times in the weeks leading up to a massive recall. The agency had been testing for the bacteria in raw ground beef since 1994, but skipped ConAgra's plants under a policy that exempted the largest processors. USDA now tests ground beef at every plant at least once month, while self-testing at plants remains voluntary. E. coli O157:H7 is a variant of the bacteria normally found in animal and human intestines, and it spreads easily among cattle. Surveys of feedlots have shown that in the summer 63 to 100 percent of cattle could be infected, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The bacteria is shed in feces and can contaminate meat during the slaughtering process. For years, USDA testing showed the bacteria's prevalence in raw ground beef was increasing. Then it dropped by more than 80 percent between 2000 and 2005. The number of people who got sick also began to fall. In 2006, the CDC reported a 29 percent decrease in illnesses caused by E. coli O157:H7, compared with a baseline established from 1996 to 1998. The beef industry and federal regulators thought such industry interventions as steam vacuums, pasteurization and acid washes were keeping the bacteria off meat. They were reluctant to question their presumed success, even as cases of human illness began rising over the past two years. When asked by lawmakers about the uptick in illness at a hearing in April, USDA officials said contaminated produce was the likely culprit. The day after the hearing, the USDA announced two beef recalls that were prompted by people becoming sick. By the time Americans fired up their grills for the Fourth of July, cases of human illness had prompted five beef recalls. "We began to believe we may have a problem, but we weren't sure," Richard Raymond, undersecretary of agriculture for food safety, said in an interview last week. At that point, however, the agency "wasn't ready to make sweeping changes." Then the Topps recall occurred. Raymond called it a "wake-up call." The recalls have Carol Tucker Foreman, a former assistant secretary of agriculture who is now with the Consumer Federation of America, questioning whether regulators and the industry ever had a handle on O157:H7. "I had assumed the steps the companies are taking were effective," she said. "Now I don't know if the falloff during the past several years was the result of the steps the industry took or whether we had a period of time where there wasn't much E. coli." Stan Painter, a USDA inspector and representative of the inspectors' union, said not much has changed since the ConAgra recall. "We're relying totally on the plant. We're doing very little testing ourselves," Painter said. "We're saying, 'You tell us you have a problem. And if we don't hear from you, we assume you don't have a problem.' " On Monday, in a report requested by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), the USDA inspector general said the agency lacked the data, management controls and technology to identify the plants at greatest risk for contamination. The USDA has not assessed the food safety plans at all processing plants. At 15 facilities, the inspector general found no record that inspectors have been reviewing plant test results at least once a week. In the case of United Food Group, the inspector general said the plant had been cited several times for sanitation problems, but inspectors did not take further action because they had no guidance on how to treat repeat violations. The USDA was supposed to issue such guidance after the ConAgra recall. Until September, the agency also chose to disregard samples of raw ground beef found to have O157:H7 if the processor agreed to cook it. The reasoning was that because the tainted meat was not being sold raw, it did not pose a public health risk. But ignoring those samples had some unintended consequences, said Felicia Nestor, a senior policy analyst with Food and Water Watch. The findings were far less likely to trigger a review of the plant's pathogen control practices and could not be used by USDA officials to identify trends. "I believe we're seeing the results of that policy now," said Nestor, who called the USDA's methods "voodoo science." Randall Huffman, vice president for scientific affairs of the beef industry's American Meat Institute Foundation, defended the USDA's sampling methods as accurate. "The finished product is a reflection of the finished food safety system. Random testing is . . . the best measure of how well food safety works. The arguments that the data was skewed are absolutely false," he said. USDA scientists, however, were persuaded that their data could use improvement. This fall, the agency said it would begin testing samples even if the meat had been diverted to cooking. The results would be compiled in a separate database. In November, the agency required all plants to verify that their safety plans were working to contain O157:H7. Next month, it will begin testing imported trim -- the meat left after quality cuts are removed. Its a significant development because processors are increasingly buying trim from suppliers overseas. Canadian trim turned out to be the source of contamination at Topps. For the first time, it will also look at corporate practices to see whether there is a pattern of violations at multiple plants, FSIS spokeswoman Amanda Eamich said. The inspector general is also reviewing the FSIS E. coli testing programs. Raymond said he welcomed the scrutiny. "Any time you have somebody from outside come in and take a look, it's always helpful," he said. "I didn't come here to supervise recalls. I came to prevent recalls." http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/20/AR2007122002409.html?wpisrc=rss_health

Uganda to export 300 monkeys to Russia Sunday, 13th January Vervet monkeys rest in the gardens of the Imperial Botanical Beach Hotel at Entebbe By Gerald Tenywa THE Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has licensed a wildlife dealer to export 300 Vervet monkeys to Russia. Yekoyada Nuwagaba, the proprietor of Navina Export, secured the licence recently. The company has been exporting chameleons and snakes to Europe. “We have approved the export, which is expected to take place within three months. UWA considered his proposal to save communities where vervet monkeys have become a menace and at the same time sell them and benefit in economic terms,” said Sam Mwandha, the UWA acting executive director. UWA declared vervet monkeys and olive baboons as vermin because of their large populations and tendency to destroy crops. “We have been getting persistent complaints about vermin,” said Mwandha. “If there is someone who can get the vermin and make economic use of it, they are welcome.” Nuwagaba said UWA inspected and approved his monkey traps. He, however, declined to provide details on the export deal. A vervet monkey can fetch up to $6,000 in Europe, according to a wildlife expert. The areas where the company is authorised to trap monkeys include Kampala City, where residents of Muyenga, Bugolobi, Mulago and Ntinda have complained to UWA. In the last two weeks, Navina has trapped 30 monkeys in Muyenga, one of the posh suburbs of Kampala. The monkey is lured into an open cage with food like bananas. On entering to get the bait, it steps on a mechanism that closes the entrance. In his proposal, Nuwagaba said he would set up a holding ground with a veterinary doctor to ensure that the primates are in good health. The primates are on high demand for bio-medical research, such drug and vaccine trials. But Mwandha said the Ugandan monkeys were being taken to animal sanctuaries as exhibits. The licence to export the monkeys has attracted hostile reactions from environmentalists, who insist that wildlife trade has many irregularities. “We know that wildlife traffickers often export endangered species such as chimps,” said Achilles Byaruhanga, the executive director of Nature Uganda. “The exportation of monkeys could provide a cover-up for the clandestine export of chimps.” He said it was difficult for some people to tell the difference between a chimpanzee and a monkey, making it difficult to ensure that only monkeys are exported. Sources say many of the promoters of such deals are wildlife traffickers who work with people that have political clout to secure permits for export. The preferred species for trade are apes like chimpanzees that are closely related to humans and can sell for as much as $80,000 (about sh130m) each. http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/606507

Uganda to export 300 monkeys to Russia Sunday, 13th January Vervet monkeys rest in the gardens of the Imperial Botanical Beach Hotel at Entebbe By Gerald Tenywa THE Uganda Wildlife Authority (UWA) has licensed a wildlife dealer to export 300 Vervet monkeys to Russia. Yekoyada Nuwagaba, the proprietor of Navina Export, secured the licence recently. The company has been exporting chameleons and snakes to Europe. “We have approved the export, which is expected to take place within three months. UWA considered his proposal to save communities where vervet monkeys have become a menace and at the same time sell them and benefit in economic terms,” said Sam Mwandha, the UWA acting executive director. UWA declared vervet monkeys and olive baboons as vermin because of their large populations and tendency to destroy crops. “We have been getting persistent complaints about vermin,” said Mwandha. “If there is someone who can get the vermin and make economic use of it, they are welcome.” Nuwagaba said UWA inspected and approved his monkey traps. He, however, declined to provide details on the export deal. A vervet monkey can fetch up to $6,000 in Europe, according to a wildlife expert. The areas where the company is authorised to trap monkeys include Kampala City, where residents of Muyenga, Bugolobi, Mulago and Ntinda have complained to UWA. In the last two weeks, Navina has trapped 30 monkeys in Muyenga, one of the posh suburbs of Kampala. The monkey is lured into an open cage with food like bananas. On entering to get the bait, it steps on a mechanism that closes the entrance. In his proposal, Nuwagaba said he would set up a holding ground with a veterinary doctor to ensure that the primates are in good health. The primates are on high demand for bio-medical research, such drug and vaccine trials. But Mwandha said the Ugandan monkeys were being taken to animal sanctuaries as exhibits. The licence to export the monkeys has attracted hostile reactions from environmentalists, who insist that wildlife trade has many irregularities. “We know that wildlife traffickers often export endangered species such as chimps,” said Achilles Byaruhanga, the executive director of Nature Uganda. “The exportation of monkeys could provide a cover-up for the clandestine export of chimps.” He said it was difficult for some people to tell the difference between a chimpanzee and a monkey, making it difficult to ensure that only monkeys are exported. Sources say many of the promoters of such deals are wildlife traffickers who work with people that have political clout to secure permits for export. The preferred species for trade are apes like chimpanzees that are closely related to humans and can sell for as much as $80,000 (about sh130m) each. http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/606507

Way to go Captain Watson !

Eat beef if you care about conservation Robert D. Sopuck For the Calgary Herald Saturday, January 12, 2008 Lloyd Thompson turned to me from the driver's side of the pickup truck, flashed a genial grin and said, "Well, Bob, how do you like my little ranch?" Three generations of Thompsons -- Lloyd and his wife, Jean, their children and grandchildren -- ranch near Carnduff, in southeastern Saskatchewan, and epitomize the generosity, kindliness and rugged independence of ranchers everywhere. His "little ranch" description belies the 6,070 hectares and 1,000 cows that comprise the Thompsons' T 4 Ranches Ltd. A friend and I were hunting the native sharp-tailed grouse on T 4 Ranches, and Lloyd was taking us on a pickup truck tour of the "little ranch" prior to the hunt. It was astonishing. Wave after wave of sharp-tails were flushed from the tall grass fields we were slowly traversing. To many ecologists, the sharp-tailed grouse is an indicator of an ecosystem's health. You might ask what the connection is between T 4 Ranches and sharp-tailed grouse. The answer to that question, funny enough, starts on the dinner plates of the nation. In spite of urbanization, our society is completely dependent on the products of the countryside. Or, as one wag put it, "If you eat, you are part of agriculture." What you eat determines what farmers and ranchers produce. In addition, what they produce has profound implications for landscape conservation since each food production system has differing effects on soil, water and wildlife. Some systems are much better than others in terms of landscape conservation, with beef cattle ranching, T 4 Ranches-style, being the very best of all. Cows efficiently convert grass and hay, non-human food, to people food. Big deal you say. However, grass and hay are perennial plants that cover the land with a permanent layer of vegetation that prevents soil erosion during rains and windstorms, and they provide habitat for wildlife such as nesting ducks, songbirds and my beloved sharp-tailed grouse. Extensive beef production in ranch country is an agricultural system that promotes animal welfare by raising beef on pastures rather than in feedlots, landscape conservation and wildlife preservation. Critics of the cattle industry cite the plight of the rainforest, methane production and overgrazing as reasons to shut down the cattle industry, all the while ignoring the landscape conservation benefits of well-managed, extensive cattle ranching. To be blunt, cattle create an economic incentive to conserve, manage and create diverse and productive grasslands. Those great, and seemingly boring, vistas of native prairie in Saskatchewan and Alberta (often contemptuously dismissed as "drive-through country") represent a treasure trove of wildlife and biodiversity, one of the great natural wonders of North America. And it is still in existence because of ranchers. Meanwhile, back at T 4 Ranches, this landscape conservation process was magically rolling out before our very eyes. That is because Thompson's hobby is to purchase cultivated grain land and "sow it down" to hay and pasture for cattle feed. All that perennial cover creates lots of room for nesting birds and other wildlife that easily co-exist with the extensive ranching and grazing that predominates on T 4 Ranches. This leads us to another favourite argument of the cattle critics, namely that humans should bypass meat and consume the plant products of the land, thus ensuring more efficient use of the Earth's resources. The problem with that argument is that not all hectares are created equal. We have millions of hectares of sandy, sloping and fragile land that will produce grain crops for a few years, but as the soil is played out, higher and higher levels of chemical and fossil fuel inputs are required to grow crops during this downward spiral of soil degradation. Much better to have such fragile land covered with a conservation blanket of perennial vegetation that is cropped by a well-managed cattle herd. By the way, for the holier-than-thou tofu eaters out there, your dietary preference encourages the expansion of row-crop soybean production, often at the expense of native grasslands. No tofu will ever find its way into our home; we care too much about the land. (As an aside, some argue that eating red meat is bad for you, but I take the view that if you give up fat -- and sugar and alcohol, too, for that matter -- you may not live longer, it just seems that way. As Clifton Fadiman wrote, "I have yet to meet a man who, with one good tournedos Rossini inside him, was not the finer for it, the more open to virtuous influences.") So, when you are about to tuck into a big juicy steak, ponder what it represents. That meal of Canadian-ranched beef has contributed to landscape and wildlife conservation and kept generations of land stewards like the Thompsons in the ranching business for the benefit of all of us. As for our final tally of sharp-tailed grouse, let us just say beef was on the menu that day. Besides being the director of the Smart Green Project for the Frontier Centre for Public Policy (www.fcpp.org), Robert D. Sopuck is also a member of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy.

Strategy Magazine, Jan 08 http://www.strategymag.com/articles/magazine/20080102/creativefur.html FUR FIGHTS BACK The fur industry is tired of its bad rap and is ready to fight back. A new public information campaign from the Montreal-based Fur Council of Canada (FCC) features surprising print executions, including one with a photo of a fur-clad woman with the headline "Environmental Activist!" The efforts aim to drive traffic to the microsite furisgreen.com, which features a list of the fur industry's eco-friendly traits like being non-toxic, non-polluting and durable. "We don't have big budgets, so we put out something unexpected [to generate buzz]," explains Alan Herscovici, EVP at the FCC. "The fur trade has been environmentally sound for quite some time...it seemed important to clarify things." "There's been quite a strong response," Herscovici continues, adding that it wasn't uncommon for the microsite to get 5,000 unique hits per day in December. "It's at least making people think." Within one week of launching, the campaign was spoofed on This Hour Has 22 Minutes, much to Herscovici's delight. "They did a spoof, but our messages are there," he says. Herscovici says the campaign has also sparked many discussions in the blogosphere, with some fur foes conceding the campaign raises some valid points. "A large number of the trappers are aboriginals. They live on the land, and they don't need lectures about caring for nature from urban animal rights activists," says Herscovici. "A lot of these anti-fur campaigns are extremely insulting." The campaign was done in-house, in consultation with biologists. advertiser: Alan Herscovici, EVP; Teresa Eloy, marketing communications, Fur Council of Canada

Conseil canadien de protection des animaux ... Acquisition et examen initial On doit toujours se procurer des chats auprès de fournisseurs fiables et, lorsqu'un règlement ou une loi l'exige, auprès de fournisseurs ou de vendeurs licenciés. La majorité des chats utilisés en recherche sont des bâtards, la plupart du temps des chats errants obtenus des fourrières. http://www.ccac.ca/fr/CCAC_Programs/Guidelines_Policies/GUIDES/ENGLISH/V2_84/CHVIII.HTM

Exactement ! Et même si les animaux (élevés bio) ont un peu plus d'espace que les autres ... que certains peuvent sortir un peu à l'extérieur, il n'en demeure pas moins qu'ils subissent des tortures et que comme les autres, ils sont embarqués dans des camions et conduits à l'abattoir

J'espère que cette entrevue sera en ligne éventuellement et que si oui, Denis Lévesque pourra peut-être nous informer d'où il a eu cette information

Complètement fous !

Le jeudi 17 janvier 2008 LES MOTONEIGISTES SUR LES MONTS VALIN Un front commun contre les écologistes FRANÇOIS ST-GELAIS Le Quotidien La Presse Canadienne Chicoutimi Le président du club de motoneigistes Caribou-Conscrits, Yves Simard, souhaite que les intervenants régionaux de cette industrie fassent front commun afin que les amateurs de ce loisir puissent continuer à fréquenter les sentiers qui traversent le territoire du Parc national des Monts-Valin. http://www.cyberpresse.ca/article/20080117/CPACTUALITES/801170422/5276/CPACTUALITES

je veux dire que même s'il semble le nier, il a peut-être ressenti un certain plaisir à assister à ce spectacle sanglant et à le filmer ... Mais s'il a envie d'écrire des articles sur la torture animale (ou de la dénoncer (?), il peut en trouver en masse au Québec