BACON BUSINESS SIZZLING OVER ANIMAL RIGHTS WEBSITE

January 11, 2006

BACON BUSINESS SIZZLING OVER ANIMAL RIGHTS WEBSITE: (12/19/05): " An animal

rights activist is vowing to fight a major pork manufacturer over the

ownership of a website that criticises the company over factory farming.

Campaigner Mark Eden has been threatened with legal action by Premiere

Bacon Company over his use of the domain name premierbacon.co.nz.

The official Premiere Bacon Company website is premierebacon.co.nz,

although the website uses both " premier " and " premiere " in referring

to the

company. Mr Eden said Wellington Animal Rights Network bought the domain

name three weeks ago for $25 and set up the site as part of a campaign

against Premiere Bacon. Activists this month chained themselves to the

bumper of a Premiere Bacon delivery truck in downtown Wellington.

he website says photos of pigs on the site were taken on Premiere's main

Carterton farm, and says " all other pork producers keep pigs in equally

appalling conditions and are just as guilty of animal cruelty " . Mr Eden

claims the company " hassled " the domain host over copyright of company

logos and the website was taken down for a few days to be redesigned. Mr

Eden said the Pork Industry Board had since registered several domain names

relating to the industry. "

1000 miles of endless screams, where all the dead heroes lay

I've got the choice to set my knife, I've got the courage to set my life

I've got the day I'll pick to die. Gotta hate someone, I don't know why

I'll fight for a better way, be a dead hero for the U.S.A.

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