BELGIUM: WORLD WILDLIFE FUND ACTIVISTS HOLD A "VAMPIRE" DEMONSTRATION OUTSIDE EUROPEAN UNION BUILDINGS OVER THE CONTAMINATION OF HUMAN BLOOD

Record ID: 647145

  • Title: BELGIUM: WORLD WILDLIFE FUND ACTIVISTS HOLD A "VAMPIRE" DEMONSTRATION OUTSIDE EUROPEAN UNION BUILDINGS OVER THE CONTAMINATION OF HUMAN BLOOD
  • Date: 29th October 2004
  • Summary: (EU) BRUSSELS, BELGIUM (OCTOBER 29 2004) (REUTERS -ACCESS ALL) 1. VARIOUS OF BRASS BAND BAND HORN, ZOOM TO WIDE OF VAMPIRE BRASS BAND 0.08 2. WIDE OF VAMPIRE BRASS BAND CROSSING THE STREET 0.12 3. SLV PEOPLE DRESSED IN CAPES AND VAMPIRE MAKE UP, CARRYING BLOOD BAGS LABELLED 'CONTAMINATED' AND SINGING IN FRENCH 'WE ARE CONTAMINATED' 0.20 4. CLOSE OF VAMPIRE CARRYING BANNER SAYING 'VAMPIRES AGAINST CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION' 0.26 5. PAN FROM THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL BUILDING TO WORLD WILDLIFE FUND VAMPIRE DEMO 0.33 6. SLV VAMPIRE DANCING WITH SCYTHE 0.39 7. TILT BLOOD BAG WITH LABEL 'EURO BLOOD TYPE: CONTAMINATED' TO FEMALE VAMPIRE SHOWING TEETH 0.46 8. CLOSE OF CHILD IN HALLOWEEN OUTFIT MARCHING IN THE VAMPIRE DEMO 0.49 9. SLV MODEL SKELETON IN FRONT OF THE EUROPEAN COUNCIL BUILDING. 0.55 10. SCU (SOUNDBITE) (English) WORLD WILDLIFE FUND CAMPAIGNER JULIAN SCOLA SAYING: "There is no uncontaminated blood and vampires are getting fed up with their diet of pesticides, flames retardants, plastifiers and other chemicals. Vampires are sick of it and they want clean blood as fast as possible." 1.10 11. VARIOUS OF VAMPIRE CARRYING BANNER 'VAMPIRES AGAINST CHEMICAL CONTAMINATION' HOWLING LIKE A WEREWOLF 1.17 12. CLOSE UP OF VAMPIRE WITH TWO BIG TEETH 1.20 13. SLV MARCHING VAMPIRES 1.27 14. PAN OF VAMPIRES WITH BANNERS DEMONSTRATING FOR CLEANER BLOOD 1.31 16. PAN FROM CURIOUS ONLOOKERS TO DANCE ACT 1.48 17. SLV VAMPIRE WITH SCYTHE DANCING 1.52 18. CLOSE OF WOMAN SMILING AT THE SIGHT OF THE DANCING VAMPIRES 1.55 19. VARIOUS OF FEMALE VAMPIRES' DANCE ACT 2.04 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: BRUSSELS, BELGIUM
  • Country: Belgium
  • Reuters ID: LVA8C4Y68R44SM9HEYSQOVL5S9S4
  • Story Text: The World Wildlife Fund has held an unusual
    demonstration in Brussels, demanding the European Union pay
    attention to the state of human blood.



    The environmental organisation World Wildlife Fund
    staged a demonstration on Friday (October 29) outside the
    European Commission, demanding to know why there has been
    no decision yet on a proposed chemical law.

    Last month, the WWF took blood samples of various
    Members of the European Parliament and found - not
    unsurprisingly - the presence of not less than 50
    chemicals in the blood of the MEPs. There were traces of
    pesticides, flame retardants, plastifiers, grease resistors
    and other chemicals which contaminate human blood.

    The demonstrators said that human blood was so
    contaminated that no self-respecting vampire or werewolf
    would touch it.

    The European Commission, a year ago released a draft
    chemical law known as REACH in a bid to phase out most of
    the harmful chemicals that are found in human blood today.

    Since then, the REACH proposal appears to have disappeared
    into the ether. The European Parliament has not even
    started debating the proposal. The WWF thinks it's time for
    urgent action.

    WWF Communications Manager, Julian Scola, said: "The
    European Union has got a pretty good law in front of it. It
    needs to adopt that law, it needs to strengthen it slightly
    and not delay. For the sake of humanity and for wildlife,
    we need better protection against chemicals now."
    "Vampires are sick and tired of contaminated blood,"
    said Scola, adding that they were "fed up with their diet
    of pesticides, flames retardants, plastifiers and other
    chemicals".



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