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Copyright C 2007 Center for Consumer Freedom. All Rights Reserved. P.O. Box 27414 | Washington, DC 20038 | Tel: 202-463-7112 | <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] January 5, 2007 <http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news_detail.cfm/headline/3212> Colorado Governor: PETA "A Bunch Of Losers," "Frauds" <http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/other_business/article/0,2777,DRMN_23 916_5252668,00.html> As many as 340,000 cows and steers have been left stranded by southeastern Colorado's most recent snowstorm, and <http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/010507dnnat storms.244b05e.html> National Guard units are helping ranchers in <http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_4945553> 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 <http://www.petakillsanimals.com/> 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 <http://www.thefox.com/> Denver radio station KRFX yesterday morning, <http://news.scotsman.com/columnists.cfm?id=1242622003> Colorado Governor Bill Owens spoke for all of us. PETA, he declared, are "a bunch of losers" [ <http://consumerfreedom.com/downloads/reference/audio/070105_KRFX_Gov_Owens_ PETA_Losers.mp3> click to listen] and "frauds" [ <http://consumerfreedom.com/downloads/reference/audio/070105_KRFX_Gov_Owens_ PETA_Frauds.mp3> click to listen]. The dustup started when KRFX morning hosts <http://www.thefox.com/pages/lewisandfloorwax-index.html> 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. <http://www.uua.org/ga/ga02/images/2063riannonpeterson.jpg> 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." [ <http://consumerfreedom.com/downloads/reference/audio/070105_KFRX_Reannon_No ble_Cause.mp3> click to listen]. Peterson added that wild animals caught in the blizzard's wake -- the same animals PETA routinely <http://www.luvtohunt.com/peta.htm> 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" [ <http://consumerfreedom.com/downloads/reference/audio/070105_KFRX_Reannon_No thing_To_Be_Done.mp3> click to listen]. Enter Governor Owens. In addition to labeling PETA " <http://consumerfreedom.com/downloads/reference/audio/070105_KRFX_Gov_Owens_ PETA_Losers.mp3> losers" and " <http://consumerfreedom.com/downloads/reference/audio/070105_KRFX_Gov_Owens_ PETA_Frauds.mp3> frauds," he expressed amazement that "PETA doesn't want us to feed freezing cattle" [ <http://consumerfreedom.com/downloads/reference/audio/070105_KRFX_Gov_Owens_ Exec_Order.mp3> click to listen] and stated that "it's symbolic of what PETA stands for" [ <http://consumerfreedom.com/downloads/reference/audio/070105_KRFX_Gov_Owens_ PETA_Symbolic.mp3> click to listen]. Finally, Owens declared that PETA is "a strange group of people. Don't send money to PETA" [ <http://consumerfreedom.com/downloads/reference/audio/070105_KRFX_Gov_Owens_ PETA_Strange.mp3> click to listen]. Asked a few hours later by <http://www.850koa.com/> 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." [ <http://consumerfreedom.com/downloads/reference/audio/070105_KOA_Gov_Owens_P ETA_Losers.mp3> click to listen]. We couldn't agree more. As <http://www.consumerfreedom.com/pressRelease_detail.cfm/release/189> 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 <http://www.soc.iastate.edu/sapp/Welfare03.html> 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 <http://www.activistcash.com/organization_overview.cfm/oid/136> Humane Society of the United States isn't spending any of the <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/06/AR200609060 1770.html> $145 million it raised last year on Colorado helicopter rentals and hay bales. To listen to the entire phone call with PETA, <http://www.startcolorado.com/iac/KRFX-FM/petacall3.mp3> click here. Governor Owens' entire interview is <http://www.startcolorado.com/iac/KRFX-FM/govowens.mp3> also available, thanks to KRFX radio. <http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news.cfm> <http://www.obesitymyths.com/> Copyright C 2007 Center for Consumer Freedom. All Rights Reserved. P.O. Box 27414 | Washington, DC 20038 | Tel: 202-463-7112 | <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? 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