Subject: [Jacob-list] Just when I thought PETA was bad...

[Mary Hansson]

Karen,

Thanks for the heads up!  No apologies needed from me.
 I work around a PETA supporter and the saddest part
about this person is her lack of intellect and
knowledge about the topics she talks about.

MEH
--- BIDEWEE at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 4/28/2005 9:00:29 AM Pacific
> Daylight Time, 
> jacob-list-request at jacobsheep.com writes:
> Subject: [Jacob-list] Just when I thought PETA was
> bad...
> Speaking of PETA, I just received the May/June issue
> of Sheep! Magazine which 
> contains a very thought provoking article by the
> Editor, Nathan Griffith, 
> regarding PETA and their current, active campaign to
> end the trade in sheep 
> products and convince the world that any use of
> sheep is abuse.  If you can get a 
> copy of the article I'd highly suggest reading it
> since it's an issue which may 
> eventually affect all of us.  
> 
> PETA is very powerful and is financially well
> endowed by donations from well 
> meaning animal lovers.  Unfortunately the
> International sheep industry does 
> not have the finances to fund a public rebuttal of
> PETA's campaign.  Mr. 
> Griffith suggests that the best way to curtail their
> activities, in the US at least, 
> would be to remove their nonprofit status and that
> the place to start would be 
> with individual sheep owners sending respectful
> letters, postcards or e-mails 
> to their Congressmen and Senators to request "that
> the tax code be corrected 
> to end the tax-free privilege for groups who attack
> lawful, taxpaying trades 
> using the pretext of 'charity'.  For evidence of
> PETA's agenda he suggests 
> citing PETA's website www.woolisbaad.com [when I
> typed that in a site titled 
> www.savethesheep.com came up]. In his article he
> provides a short sample letter 
> which can be sent to your Representatives.  I just
> visited sheep!'s website 
> [www.sheepmagazine.com] to see if the article is
> there but the site hasn't been 
> updated from the previous issue yet.  
> 
> Anyway, don't mean to turn this into a soap box, but
> just yesterday as I 
> walked through our barn yard and watched the lambs
> playing, I was reminded again 
> of how much joy my sheep bring me.  The idea that a
> misinformed organization 
> who knows nothing about us, our sheep, or our
> husbandry practices might 
> eventually garner enough public support to be able
> to affect our ability to keep sheep 
> both saddens and scares me.  
> 
> Hope I didn't offend anyone - just spent the last
> day ruminating (no pun 
> intended) on this matter and felt it important
> enough to mention.  I promise to 
> drop the subject now :)
> Regards,
> Karen Lobb
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Mary Ellen Hansson, MEd, RD, LDN
ISeeSpots Farm
Jacob Sheep:  Lambs, adults, wool
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