Saturday, November 26, 2005
PETA: Still Whining, Crying, Threatening
PETA, a shareholder in Hormel Foods, plans to lobby the company for a more humane method of killing its turkeys at its January, 31, 2006 shareholders meeting. PETA wants Hormel to "put the birds to sleep" ("Goodnight Little Hen. Goodnight Tom Turkey. Sleep well, for come Thanksgiving, you'll be on my dinner table.") rather than the current method of using electrically charged water to stun them before cutting their throats.
Bruce Friedrich, PETA's director of vegan campaigns, said his group would drop the resolution if Hormel would allow Temple Grandin, a livestock handling expert, to inspect the plants to certify they were using one of the [more humane] gassing techniques.
Grandin, an ass ociate professor of animal science (Does that means that he "F*cks the dog all day long"?) at Colorado State University, said the gas technique should become the standard for slaughter.
Hormel Spokesman Julie Craven said the company has used Grandin's guidelines in its plants "But a group like PETA WON'T DICTATE WHO WE BRING IN."
The Humane society of the United States filed a lawsuit against the Agriculture Department this past Monday, asking for chickens and turkeys be covered by the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act. USDA policy for the past 47 years does not apply to poultry.
Well, Kudos to Hormel for the moment. I suspect PETA, just like a nonstop whining, crying, snivelling, tantrum throwing, distempered, disobedient, ADD/OCD, spoiled child, will eventually have their way, even though it may take many years to get it there. But PETA, like the Handgun Control, Inc's of the world, is willing to bide their time until they get what they want.
In the meantime, on Thanksgiving a large majority of people across the nation, enjoyed food that had parents. And we intend to keep it that way.
©2005
Bruce Friedrich, PETA's director of vegan campaigns, said his group would drop the resolution if Hormel would allow Temple Grandin, a livestock handling expert, to inspect the plants to certify they were using one of the [more humane] gassing techniques.
Grandin, an ass ociate professor of animal science (Does that means that he "F*cks the dog all day long"?) at Colorado State University, said the gas technique should become the standard for slaughter.
Hormel Spokesman Julie Craven said the company has used Grandin's guidelines in its plants "But a group like PETA WON'T DICTATE WHO WE BRING IN."
The Humane society of the United States filed a lawsuit against the Agriculture Department this past Monday, asking for chickens and turkeys be covered by the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act. USDA policy for the past 47 years does not apply to poultry.
Well, Kudos to Hormel for the moment. I suspect PETA, just like a nonstop whining, crying, snivelling, tantrum throwing, distempered, disobedient, ADD/OCD, spoiled child, will eventually have their way, even though it may take many years to get it there. But PETA, like the Handgun Control, Inc's of the world, is willing to bide their time until they get what they want.
In the meantime, on Thanksgiving a large majority of people across the nation, enjoyed food that had parents. And we intend to keep it that way.
©2005
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