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December 3, 2001

someone give this jackass a good talking to....

Chris X

>The Toronto Sun

>November 25, 2001 Sunday, Final Edition > > >SECTION: Editorial/Opinion; Pg. 11 >LENGTH: 667 words >HEADLINE: IT'S TIME FOR MY STALKER TO FACE SOME FACTS >BYLINE: CONNIE WOODCOCK, TORONTO SUN >BODY: > >I'm being stalked - by e-mail. But it still feels as >though I can't >escape the person who wants me to FACE THE FACTS >about the dairy >industry. > >People who write letters demanding that journalists >FACE FACTS are nothing >but trouble. When they use e-mail, they rant on and >on and on and often >end by daring you to reply. > >My stalker is an environmentalist - not that there's >anything wrong with >that. But you can go too far. Way, way too far, as in >the case of PETA - >People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals - which, >when New Yorkers >were still hoping to find human survivors in the >World Trade Center >wreckage, kept busy by criticizing emergency forces >because people's pets >were trapped in apartments in the closed section of >south Manhattan near >Ground Zero. My stalker denies ever being a member of >such a group, but >his/her views come from somewhere. > >He/she launched his/her first rant at me back in July >because I thought it >was silly to ban home use of herbicides, but really >got ticked in >September when I mentioned dairy cows and the fact >you can't get milk >from a cow that isn't treated properly. My >correspondent has sent me a >stream of e-mails ever since on THE FACTS about the >dairy industry. Did I >know what goes on in the barn, or what happens to >Bossy when her >milk-producing days are over? > >Obviously, he/she has said, I haven't hung out around >a barn or a >slaughterhouse. > >Well, excuse me, but with farmers and a meat inspector >in the immediate >family, I've always known a lot about what goes on in >barns and >slaughterhouses. Yes, Bossy does go to her reward at >an early age. But I >have never known a farmer who mistreated his animals. > >You would think there are a lot more critical issues >in the world today >than whether Holsteins are being tortured in the >nation's pastures and >barns. But no. > >There also seem to be quite a few people who are >beginning to believe that >dairy products really are bad for you despite the >fact the Canada Food >Guide recommends four servings a day. > >This fall, PETA has been running one of its most >obnoxious campaigns yet. >It's going around to schools hoping to teach children >to quit eating and >drinking dairy products. It has a Web site aimed at >kids "who care about >animals and don't want to eat them," which tells them >all sorts of scary >and inaccurate things. Its anti-dairy page is called >Milk Sucks and >features a picture of a kid throwing up what appears >to be milk over the >following: "If you knew how cows suffered, you'd >spew." > >It wants "ethical" treatment of animals - but doesn't >seem to mind >employing sneaky methods on children. > >What bothers me most about PETA isn't its tactics or >even its >inflexibility, it's the way its propaganda tends to >become, after a few >years, accepted truth to so many people, like my >e-mail stalker. > >There are lots of things wrong with the food industry >but PETA does >nothing to encourage rational debate. It would be >better if it would back >off a bit and do something positive - like >encouraging more research into >making domestic animals happier and more comfortable >- which ultimately, >of course, leads to higher production. PETA, of >course, wouldn't want >that. > >But agricultural researchers are beginning to do such >work and they're >finding out interesting things . > >Like University of Saskatchewan professor Dr. Jon >Watts who's won a >post-doctoral fellowship from the Natural Sciences and >Engineering >Research Council to study the social life and >cognition of cattle to >learn how they function in their world. > >Or that of UBC's Dan Weary, who's found a way to cheer >up newborn calves >taken away from their mothers. He installed rubber >teats in their stalls >so they could drink milk whenever they wanted - and >they gained weight at >twice the rate of those allowed to drink milk only >twice a day from a >bucket. > >Those are useful projects. PETA's brainless campaigns >are not. They're >just dumb, but if my correspondent is any example, >you really can fool >some of the people all of the time. > >Please send letters to: > >The Toronto Sun >333 King St. East >Toronto, Ontario >Canada, M5A 3X5 >Fax: 416-947-2209 >E-Mail: editor (sunpub.com) Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

December 3, 2001

Hi Chris

>It wants "ethical" treatment of animals - but doesn't

>seem to mind

>employing sneaky methods on children.

I didn't read the whole thing, but this part stood out - I wish someone had used "sneaky" methods on me when I was a child to tell me about the dairy industry - unfortunately I didn't know enough about it until I was 23.

BB

Peter

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December 5, 2001

Chris

Oh dear - what can I say?

Jo

>The Toronto Sun

>November 25, 2001 Sunday, Final Edition > > >SECTION: Editorial/Opinion; Pg. 11 >LENGTH: 667 words >HEADLINE: IT'S TIME FOR MY STALKER TO FACE SOME FACTS >BYLINE: CONNIE WOODCOCK, TORONTO SUN >BODY:

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