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Frank Donnelly and Sametta Thompson, Staten Island AdvanceFour months ago, federal agents at JFK International Airport reported finding something peculiar and potentially dangerous buried beneath smoked fish in a shipment from Africa for a West Brighton woman: There were 65 pieces of illegal smoked bushmeat, including monkey skulls and limbs, and even a hoof and leg belonging to a ...
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AP - WASHINGTONExotic animals captured in the wild are streaming across the U.S. border by the millions with little or no screening for disease, leaving Americans vulnerable to a virulent outbreak that could rival a terrorist act. Demand for such wildlife is booming as parents try to get their kids the latest pets fancied by Hollywood stars and zoos and research scientists seek to ...
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By MARGARET EBRAHIM - The Associated Press. ATLANTAWildlife inspector Bryan Landry can spot threats everywhere at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. A backpack carried off a flight from Nigeria contains plastic bags of meat from the bush that could harbor the lethal Ebola virus. Those salted duck eggs from South Korea, a delicacy not easily found here, could carry the ...
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By Adam Goldman - AP Business Writer. NEW YORKWhen a food safety inspector walked into a market in Queens, he noticed the store had an interesting special posted on its front window: 12 beefy armadillos. In Brooklyn, inspectors found 15 pounds of iguana meat at a West Indian market and 200 pounds of cow lungs for sale at another market. At a West African grocery in Manhattan, the ...
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By FRANK DONNELLY ADVANCE STAFF WRITER STATEN ISLAND, N.Y.A West Brighton woman is serving a two-year state prison sentence for running over her husband's girl friend in a movie-theater parking lot last February. Now, the native of Liberia is trying to keep out of a federal lockup for allegedly importing primate (monkey) and other animal parts to America last year. Mamie Manneh ...
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BY ANTHONY M. DESTEFANO. NewsdayDuring a search of a Staten Island garage last year, federal agents made a disturbing find: Among packages of smoked fish and clothing they discovered 33 pieces of African bushmeat, including the arm of a primate and pieces of a small rodent known as a cane rat. Now the garage owner, a Liberian immigrant named Mamie Jefferson, 39, finds herself a ...
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By FRANK DONNELLY, Staten Island Advance STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. In a clash of cultures playing out in Brooklyn federal court, a Staten Island woman claims she has the right to eat monkey parts in keeping with her religious beliefs. That's hooey, counter prosecutors, who contend that Mamie Manneh Jefferson, of the West Brighton section, illegally imported pieces of protected ...
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by Staten Island AdvanceThe tale of the Staten Island woman accused of smuggling 65 pieces of illegal smoked bushmeat into John F. Kennedy International Airport last year continues to take bizarre twists and turns as the case plays out in a Brooklyn courthouse.
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FRANK DONNELLYSTATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Monkeys are sacred to a Liberian native who emigrated to West Brighton more than two decades ago. Mamie Manneh and members of her church say eating primate parts -- known as bushmeat -- conforms with their religious beliefs and imbues them with the cunning and agile animal's spiritual power while also helping them "get closer to God." ...
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By ELLEN BARRY, New York TimesA lawyer for a Staten Island woman charged with importing meat without proper licenses and mislabeling a shipment argued in Federal District Court yesterday that the charges should be dismissed because they impinge on the importer’s right to freedom of religion. The woman’s lawyer said the meat of African wild game had religious significance ...
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By ELLEN BARRY, New York TimesIt takes strategic thinking to find monkey meat in New York. Best to avoid the word “monkey,” for one thing — start with something innocuous-sounding, like “dry meat,” or common, like “grass cutter,” a rodent similar to the guinea pig. Seek out the proprietors of tiny West African restaurants, or the ...
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By TOM HAYSNEW YORK (AP) — From her baptism in Liberia to Christmas years later in her adopted New York City, Mamie Manneh never lost the longing to celebrate religious rituals by eating monkey meat. Now, the tribal customs of Manneh and other West African immigrants have become the focus of an unusual criminal case charging her with meat smuggling, and touching on issues of ...
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Stanley Fish: Think AgainNew York TimesIn a case now pending in a federal court in Brooklyn, Mamie Manneh of Staten Island stands accused of having brought smoked bushmeat – known colloquially as monkey meat – into the United States without proper permits, in violation of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species.Ms. Manneh’s defense ...
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South Africa government announced Monday that it was reversing a 1995 ban on killing elephants to help control their booming population, drawing instant outrage from animal-rights activists.South Africa's elephant population has ballooned to more than 20,000 from 8,000 in 1995, when international pressure led to a ban on killing them. Under a set of final norms and standards for elephant ...
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Washington Post Researchers have successfully tested several Ebola vaccines in monkeys and are now working to create the first human vaccine for one of the world's deadliest diseases.The team of American and Canadian scientists used several different recombinant DNA techniques to trigger a cell-mediated response and produce Ebola vaccines that are effective in monkeys. One of these ...
