"Animal rights terrorists have engaged in bombings of research facilities, harassment of the children of biotech executives in their schools, and vandalism of personal property," wrote Feldbaum. "Their campaign against biotechnology companies is strategic, specific, unrelenting and directed toward delivering economic, and sometimes physical, damage to companies engaged in innovation for life-threatening diseases such as cancer and cystic fibrosis."
<snip>We wouldn't treat a dog the way some people are mistreated. It is a dog-eat-dog world in this rough-and-tumble society.
But what about chickens, or more specifically, roosters? There is nary a peep about their pitiful existence.
A couple in Kellyville, Okla., received 10-year deferred sentences and $7,500 in fines Feb. 3 for pleading guilty on dogfighting charges. The couple had an arena on their property with its walls and floor covered with blood.
Dogfighting is illegal in all 50 states and a felony in 47 states and the District of Columbia.
The very next day, so-called gamefowl breeders from across Oklahoma, or more specifically those who raise roosters for cockfighting, descended upon the state Capitol demanding legislation that would usurp the will of the people.
Fifty-six percent of Oklahoma voters approved legislation in 2002 making cockfighting a felony, as 30 other states have done, including Texas.
However, the cockfighting lobby has so little respect for the ballot box that there is an orchestrated attempt to nullify an election by pushing legislation to allow individual counties the authority to either ban or permit cockfighting.
Cockfighting proponents should have thought of this legal loophole beforehand and avoided attempts to render a public vote null and void.
There seems to be little if any organized opposition to the fate of dogfighters.
Before cockfighting proponents trot out their misguided rationale, such as the constitutionality of a public vote, perhaps their needs to be an explanation of why it is such a doggone shame that chickens do not enjoy the same legal protection as canines.
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(Columbus) - Despite a flood of contacts from sportsmen across the nation, a major pet food producer is still refusing to end its relationship with the nation’s largest anti-hunting group. Sportsmen are now being urged to voice their complaints with the parent company and local suppliers. In an effort to make Iams understand the error of backing anti-hunting groups, sportsmen are urged to contact Iams’ parent company, Procter & Gamble, to voice displeasure over the relationship. Sportsmen are also urged to contact Iams retail dealers. Sportsmen are also urged to contact retailers that sell Iams products. Inform them that you oppose Iams’ promotion of the nation’s largest animal rights organization. Following is a list of some national chains that carry the Iams and Eukanuba brand of pet foods: Phone: 513-762-4000 Fax: 513-762-1160 Companies Include: Kroger, Fry’s, Smith’s, Ralph’s, Dillions, City Market, Hilander, Baker’s, JayC Food Stores, Kessel, Owen’s Safeway Inc., Steven A Burd, President, 5918 Stoneridge Mall Rd., Pleasanton, CA 94588-3492 Phone: 925-467-3000 Fax: 925-467-3321 Companies Include: Safeway, Vons, Pavilions Kmart, Julian
C. Day, President, 3100 W. Big Beaver Rd., Phone: 248-463-1000 Fax: 248-463-5636 Wal-Mart
Stores Inc., Lee Scott Jr., President, Phone: 479-273-4000 Fax: 479-273-4053 Target Corp., Robert J. Ulrich, CEO, 1000 Nicollet Mall, Minneapolis, MN 55403 Phone: 612-304-6073 Fax: 612-696-3731 PetsMart Inc.,
Robert F. Moran, President, Phone: 800-738-1385 Fax: 623-580-6502 Petco Animal Supplies Inc., Brian K Devine, President, 9125 Rehco Rd., San Diego, CA 92121 Phone: 858-453-7845 Fax: 858-677-3095 Peapod.com,
Marc C. van Gelder, President, 9933 Woods Dr., Phone: 800-573-2763 Fax: 847-583-9494 Petfood
Express, Michael Levy, President, Phone: 877-472-7777 Fax: 510-346-7788 PetFoodDirect.com, Geoffrey C. Walker, CEO,
Phone: 800-865-1333 Fax: 215-699-4774 The U.S. Sportsmen’s
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