Our protest included CCF supporters dressed in the all-black garb of the domestic-terrorist Earth Liberation Front, a group of arsonists which PETA has bankrolled. One held an oversized fake gasoline can and a giant match; others waved signs directing New Yorkers to a website -- www.PetaPetition.com -- where we're gathering public support for an IRS action that would revoke PETA's federal tax exemption.
CCF told the Fox audience: "PETA has actually put money in the pockets of organizations like the Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front, which burn down buildings, which issue death threats, beat people with baseball bats, and have earned their spot as domestic terror groups on the FBI's lists."
As Fox's Kennedy noted, we're working on additional "surprise visits" in other cities as Newkirk's book tour progresses. If you'd like to participate when we come to your city, drop us an e-mail.
Source: http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm/headline/2736
SOUTH BEND -- Billboards showing buxom beauty Pamela Anderson denouncing KFC on behalf of animal rights activists are good enough to run in many cities across America.
But not in South Bend.
Burkhart Advertising, a prominent local firm, and national empire Viacom both rejected billboard proposals from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals that featured Anderson.
The ads show Anderson next to the words "Boycott KFC -- Live Scalding, Painful Debeaking, Crippled Chickens."
According to PETA, Burkhart initially asked for a dressed-down version of the ad when discussions began earlier this month. But later, according to PETA, the firm said it "didn't want to attack KFC" because they are a potential client.
Burkhart would not answer specific questions about the denial.
But in a prepared statement, Burkhart Executive Vice President Robert Miller said, "We are a woman-owned business and we don't support exploitation of the female form.
"We follow the (Outdoor Advertising Association of America) code of principles and observe the highest free-speech standards.
"We support the right to reject an advertisement that is misleading, offensive or otherwise incompatible with individual community standards, and in particular we do not disseminate obscene words or inappropriate pictorial content."
Jodi Senese, executive vice president for Viacom Outdoor, said she didn't know the exact reason PETA was denied in South Bend, but in general the company handles PETA's requests on a case-by-case basis.
The ad is usually rejected, she said, if it contains information that is "unsubstantiated, or pejorative, or inflammatory."
"We get a lot of requests from PETA, and we post a good many of their ads around the country," Senese said. "There are ads, however, that we reject, and I'm sure this is one of them."
Senese added that PETA routinely notifies the media when one of their ads is rejected "to get 10 times as much publicity for their cause than they ever would have received from a billboard."
PETA officials said they're disappointed with the rejections.
"We think people have a right to know what they're eating," said Dan Shannon, PETA's senior campaign coordinator. "It's frustrating to us, because we know a lot of people who care about cruelty and wouldn't want to support it.
"Now they're not going to get a chance to hear about that."
The billboards -- and PETA's "Kentucky Fried Cruelty" campaign -- were created after an undercover camera showed live chickens being scalded, kicked, stomped, thrown or spray-painted by workers last year at a West Virginia slaughterhouse. The facility was a supplier for KFC.
KFC executives immediately denounced the behavior as "appalling" and said employees at the Pilgrim's Pride facility violated animal welfare standards KFC already had in place for suppliers.
KFC noted that only 15 percent of Pilgrim's Pride chicken went to KFC restaurants, with the other 85 percent going to other fast-food competitors.
KFC President Gregg Dedrick strongly rebuked PETA.
"This ongoing PETA campaign of distortion, deceit and duplicity is outrageous," Dedrick said last July. "This is not your warm and fuzzy animal rights group."
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Source: http://www.southbendtribune.com/stories/2005/01/28/local.20050128-sbt-LOCL-A1-No_PETA___or_Pam__.sto
Friends of Animals is seeking to have the program - now authorized in five
areas of the state - suspended until May 16 when the issue is scheduled for
trial.
Superior Court Judge Sharon Gleason refused to issue a temporary injunction
Thursday, saying she needed more time to review new concerns raised by Friends
of Animals. The judge also rejected a request to suspend the program even for a
few days in the Tok area, where permits were issued last Friday but
pilot-shooter teams have yet to kill a wolf.
"It is essential to me to knock this wolf program out," said Priscilla Feral,
president of the Darien, Conn.-based Friends of Animals. "It is a tremendous
carnage." <snip> Source: http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/012805/sta_20050128003.shtml
THOMPSON -- Police and humane society officials in Geauga County have decided not to file charges against a 16-year-old student who skinned and cooked a Guinea pig and a rabbit during a living skills class.
They say it would have been hard to prove the killings were unnecessary because students did eat some of the meat, and investigators didn't find evidence the animals suffered needlessly.
Authorities said the student killed the rabbit with a bow-and-arrow and used a knife to kill the Guinea pig at home before cooking them in class at Ledgemont High School in Thompson on January 19th.
The living skills teacher lets students prepare meals once a quarter. She thought the student was going to catch and cook a wild rabbit. Actually, the boy bought the animals at a pet store.
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Parents alarmed about student skinning animals in class
Source: http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_fullstory.asp?id=29444
........Columbia Humane Society investigator Steve Stephenson says the idea sounds suspicious, "This boxing glove excuse is always something that they could use as, 'Well, I don't fight my chickens, I use these little boxing gloves.'".........
(Columbia) Jan. 28, 2005 - The fighting gamecock. The battling bird is part of our landscape, but the practice of cockfighting is illegal in South Carolina and in all but two states: Louisiana and New Mexico.
A state senator in Oklahoma is trying to revive cockfighting with what he says is a blood-free alternative. He wants to put gloves on gamecocks. State Senator Frank Shurden says allowing chickens to fight wearing electronic sensors and what amount to boxing gloves would save a $100 million industry.
Columbia Humane Society investigator Steve Stephenson says the idea sounds suspicious, "This boxing glove excuse is always something that they could use as, 'Well, I don't fight my chickens, I use these little boxing gloves.'"
Chances for a similar proposal in South Carolina are not particularly good, especially since the House Speaker and the Attorney General recently threw their support behind a measure that would make cockfighting a felony.
In South Carolina, cockfighting has been a misdemeanor since the early 20th century, but it still exists. Last year's arrest of former Agriculture Secretary Charlie Sharpe followed a raid on a major cockfighting operation in Aiken County.
Sharpe later pleaded guilty to extortion and lying to a federal officer.
SLED Chief Robert Stewart says putting gloves on the chickens won't eliminate the illegal activities that often surround cockfighting, "Some types of animal fighting events have a drug culture involvement. Some types - all of them have gambling involved in them."
There could be another problem if a movement to glove the gamecock ever does take hold in South Carolina. USC mascot would need a makeover.
By Jack Kuenzie
Posted 6:01pm
by BrettWitt
Source: http://www.wistv.com/Global/story.asp?S=2872835&nav=0RaPVjuT
From the younger son of Emperor Akihito. Prince Akishino, an Oxford-educated amateur scientist, is known for his study into the origin of chickens through DNA analysis and serves as president of the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology in Japan.
(Kyodo) _ Noting the close connection between the raising of poultry and human livelihood, Prince Akishino, an ornithologist, is pushing for protection of the culture of breeding chickens to help preserve the variety of the species.
"Chickens, ducks, geese and other fowls are living things and at the same time creatures created through activities by human beings -- creatures created as a result of cultural traditions," said Prince Akishino, 39, the younger son of Emperor Akihito.
The prince was replying in writing to questions presented by Kyodo News at the beginning of 2005, the Year of the Rooster in the Chinese zodiac.
Prince Akishino, an Oxford-educated amateur scientist, is known for his study into the origin of chickens through DNA analysis and serves as president of the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology in Japan.
He notes that jungle fowls became chickens after being domesticated by humans for food and other uses.
In order to help preserve the variety of chicken species, "we need to protect the culture of the chicken that has been maintained as a custom" in people's lives, the prince said.
He cited types of chicken people have long bred for particular purposes, including birds raised for cockfighting and those bred for the sound of their clucking.
"I think it is highly likely that if people lose the purpose of keeping a chicken, then the species preserved for the purpose will disappear along with related cultures," the prince said.
He also proposed preserving species of chickens that were once raised for serving practical purposes but are now bred only as decorative fowls.
Prince Akishino said many people in Japan and other countries like to keep chickens for show and that such people have been playing a role in preserving such species.
"We need to let them sustain their interests in those decorative fowls," he said.
As the raising of poultry is deeply connected with culture, one needs to integrate social and cultural sciences with natural science in order to deepen the study of poultry, he said.
The prince said social and natural scientists have so far worked independently on the field.
On colors of chicken feathers, for example, cultural and social scientists probably conduct research in order to find relations between particular colors used in rituals and what they symbolize, he said.
On the other hand, natural scientists are interested in distinguishing the genetic elements that account for the difference in color in feathers in different communities.
A certain species of chicken can be biologically studied by looking into its shape, color and genes, he said.
But if one studies why humans have created and preserved certain species, it is necessary to research their cultural backgrounds, including religion and symbolism, the prince said.
"In other words, we need to study chickens from both inside and outside," the prince said. "Going through those processes, we could finally grab a whole picture of the creature, a product of human involvement."
Source: http://asia.news.yahoo.com/050128/kyodo/d87sv6b00.html
Eleven o’clock on a Saturday morning in a field in Gloucestershire. The field is muddy. The hounds and the hunters are getting muddy. The sun hides, pale behind a drizzling November rain. The drink in everybody’s flask is sloe gin. The food of choice seems to be sausage rolls. And, while the horses are splendid, the livery handsome, and the house at the end of the drive palatial, the opening meet of the Beaufort Hunt, England’s fanciest foxhunt, in what is likely to be its final season, is nothing as grand as the hunts you see on the lacquered placemats at a New York dinner party. For one thing, the eleventh Duke of Beaufort and honorary Master of the Hunt is missing, either home with the flu or shooting pheasant, or, perhaps, hiding from hunt protesters and saboteurs. And it is Beaufort who owns the enormous house—Badminton House—and the stables with eighty stalls and the rooting terriers and the hundred and forty-eight foxhounds of the Beaufort pack and the fifty thousand bucolic acres through which a couple of hundred riders are about to gallop in pursuit of a fox that would no doubt otherwise be shot by the next farmer whose chicken coop it invaded. For another thing, the Prince of Wales and Camilla Parker Bowles, stalwarts of the Beaufort Hunt, are also missing. Their own house, Highgrove, is a ten-minute drive, but today the Prince is riding with a Derbyshire hunt, somewhere isolated and obscure, perhaps on orders from Buckingham Palace. The Palace believes that, in view of the foxhunting ban that is almost certain to pass the House of Commons in the next two weeks and, barring an injunction, go into effect in mid-February, it would be unseemly for the heir to the British throne to be seen hunting, let alone squandering the money it is said to cost Gloucestershire’s taxpayers to protect him every time he hunts at Badminton.
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Source: http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?050124fa_fact3
Courtesy: David S
Maryland Bill Will Preempt State Wildlife Agency Authority
A team of lawmakers in Maryland has introduced legislation that eliminates the state’s wildlife management authority by allowing local control over trapping.
Proposal Goes Overboard on Safe Hunting Distances
A New Mexico representative has introduced legislation that will force sportsmen to hunt over a quarter-mile away from any house or building.
Group Calls on Government to Ban Trapping
A national animal rights group is calling for an end to the use of traps in national parks.
Source: www.ussportsmen.org