[ SHOWGSD-L ] Colorado Governor goes after PETA
- From: GrnRam415@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2007 20:52:30 EST
I don't have the links, but an interesting development. Look into it.
January 5, 2007 Colorado Governor: on subject of PETA :
A Bunch Of Losers, & Frauds
As many as 340,000 cows and steers have been left stranded by southeastern
Colorado's most recent snowstorm, and National Guard units are helping
ranchers in a frantic bid to save the freezing animals. Faced with 15-foot
snowdrifts, rescuers are airlifting bales of hay and hoping for the best.
But as Coloradans are learning, the wealthy People for the Ethical Treatment
of Animals (PETA) isn't about to lift a finger. Not for those animals -- the
ones destined to be flame-broiled, grilled, or roasted. Appearing on Denver
radio station KRFX yest erday morning, Colorado Governor Bill Owens spoke
for all of us.
PETA, he declared, are "a bunch of losers" [click to listen] and "frauds".
The dustup started when KRFX morning hosts Rick Lewis and Michael Floorwax
(yes, that's his real name) called PETA to ask if the group would help feed
and rescue the snowbound herds. PETA spokeswoman Reannon Peterson took the
call, and bluntly replied: "You're going to save them, and then in six
months they're going to be killed and end up on someone's plate. So I don't
know that it's really the most noble cause."
Peterson added that wild animals caught in the blizzard's wake -- the same
animals PETA routinely criticizes hunters for bagging -- also weren't worth
spending PETA's money to save. "It's an act of God," she said. "There's
really nothing to be done" .
Enter Governor Owens. In addition to labeling PETA "losers" and "frauds," he
expressed amazement that "PETA doesn't want us to feed freezing cattle" and
stated that "it's symbolic of what PETA stands for" [click
to listen]. Finally, Owens declared that PETA is "a strange group of people.
Don't send money to PETA". Asked a few hours later by KRFX
sister-station KOA-AM to reiterate his position on PETA, he put it plainly:
"What a bunch of losers. Don't give your money to PETA."
We couldn't agree more. As we're telling the media today, the Colorado
snowstorm is exactly the kind of emergency that should send PETA into
action. But PETA -- whose president publicly wished for a foot-and-mouth
epidemic in 2001 -- has a stubborn anti-meat bias. To this group of
tofu-devouring loonies,
seeing the livelihood of cattle ranchers evaporate is a cheap thrill. This
may
also be the reason why the vegetarian-oriented Humane Society of the United
States isn't spending any of the $145 million it raised last year on
Colorado
helicopter rentals and hay bales.
Governor Owens' entire interview is also available, thanks to KRFX radio.
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Now isn't that interesting??
Laura Thomas
www.treasureranchgsds.com
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