I’m at the World Equestrian Games in Lexington KY this week, and who has a booth but our dear friends at H$U$ emphasizing how they help horses.  I’m not in a position to make any cute fans or fliers, but is anyone else able to put something together on their misleading tactics??  The horse community in particular is suckered in by these folks because they offer rewards for information leading to arrest on various horse abuse & abandonment cases (which reminds me, did anyone find proof of them actually following through on those pledges?).

On page 2 of the bird strike story there’s a POLL that asks if you think the guy is a lifesaver or a contract killer. 325 people have voted and the totals are approx. 43% lifesaver vs 41% “killer” and the balance say “both”.  We all need to go in and vote for lifesaving before these fruitloops who lack enough protien nutrition to operate a human brain much less fly a plane anywhere vote this any further into stupid land.

Great article on birds.  Unfortunately in this day and era of un-natural humane creation (tarmac, skyscrapers, etc) we are forced to deal with the natural world in ways that seem a little extreme.  But because of the mismanagement or no management for so many years we are put in the situation that we must deal with those issues NOW or lose them in other ways.  I appreciate people who want to confront the issues of our nation’s natural world with common sense instead of political agendas.  Thank you

Isn’t it funny how “Contract killer,” can slide off the tongue of an official with the Humane Society of the United States? The individual hunter who make take 1 deer or a few rabbits would be lumped in the same pot. 

Yet those same words would never be uttered over the issues of killing dogs—in shelters, over breed specific laws. Would never be issued if a police officer or animal control agent shot a dog (as happened a few weeks ago at a outdoor festival when two leashed dogs got in a disagreement, but their owners had separated and controlled them ) Funny how if they are the ones doing the killing, it is for the protection of man, but if anyone else is doing it, it is evil .

I think Jessie, you are in agreement that calling the man a contract killer is absurd, but I have to disagree on three points with you.

Human beings are a part of nature and our creations are just as natural as bee hives and beaver dams.

Second, bird life is not equitable with human life so what the “contract killer” is doing is not extreme at all, not even a “little.”

Third, man has been putting up buildings for untold centuries. Skyscrapers have been around since the late 1800’s and tarmac have been around since the early 1900s. Ascribing all that merely as a product of “this day and era” is off the mark.

@linn - I’m working on a tri-fold right now.  I’ll send it to David to post when I’m done.  I’ll be at WEG next weekend for closing, and plan on making up at least 500 of these to distribute.

@ Susan

Good news is Animal Agriculture Alliance has a booth inside the Big Ass Fans (yes, you non-farm people read that name right) building in the WEG trade show, but they are buried on the back row.  Took me two days to find them.  It was very disturbing how all of the school kids that were there this week (thanks to free tickets from the title sponsor) were flocking to the “we help horses” booth, as well as the well-intentioned horse-loving adult public, and most of them probably never reached the other booth. 

For those not familiar with Animal Agriculture Alliance, here is their website: http://www.animalagalliance.org/current/index.cfm. Also, a big thank you to the University of Kentucky ag students staffing the booth, helping to educate the public about animal agriculture and the food supply.

“Study: HSUS’s livestock “exposés” cause fewer people to eat meat.”

Really? I find it hard to believe that people who have been eating meat all their lives suddenly switched to vegetarianism based on a few (often dubious and sensationalized) news stories. Anybody with any common sense knows that nothing involving human endeavor (such as the food supply) can ever be 100% safe 100% of the time, no matter how hard the effort.

And I mean, that’s not a small change like changing your twitter account username, that is a big and far reaching lifestyle switch. Did people swear off veggies because of the spinach and avocado recalls? Highly unlikely.

If anyone actually changed into being meatless, they probably had been leaning toward it for some time. I don’t buy that HSUS’s goofy little exposes are enough by themselves to turn life long meat eaters into devout vegans and vegetarians.