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To: JeffA who wrote (101599)	4/22/2005 11:02:02 AM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

There's a big difference between the NRA and PETA, quite apart from their respective objectives: PETA actively interferes with the lawful activities and rights of others. The NRA expends the majority of its effort PROTECTING the rights of others, and interferes with nobody.

To: JeffA who wrote (101599)	4/22/2005 6:48:01 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Well, do you buy free range critters? Your collected comments about meat led me to believe you probably did not, but I think it would be great if you did. You yourself could have made your feelings about Pamela Anderson more clear. Instead of saying she was no role model you would want, you could have indicated that you don't agree with her opinions on animal rights. If you are specific when you communicate, others will be less likely to leap to conclusions. Kosher beef is not necessarily killed humanely. There was a large recent scandal about beef cows who suffered in agony for several minutes while being slaughtered in Iowa: PETA: Kosher Slaughterhouse Abusing Animals Wednesday, December 01, 2004 DES MOINES, Iowa — An animal rights group has captured videotape that it says shows cattle at a kosher slaughterhouse enduring an "absolutely outrageous" level of cruelty. PETA (search) claims the video, posted on its Web site Tuesday afternoon, shows repeated acts of animal cruelty at AgriProcessors Inc. (search) in northeastern Iowa. The organization filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (search) on Monday that alleged improper slaughtering practices. "They're ripping the tracheas and esophagi out of fully conscious animals, dumping them out of pens into pools of their own blood. The animals stand and bellow and attempt to escape for up to three and even four minutes in some cases," Bruce Friedrich, a spokesman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said late Tuesday. But Rabbi Chaim Kohn, the plant's supervising rabbi, told The New York Times in Wednesday's editions that the tapes were "testimony that this is being done right." In kosher slaughter, the animals' throats are sliced with a razor-sharp blade, intended to cause instant and painless death. Jewish law forbids stunning them first. Federal law considers properly conducted religious slaughter as humane, and allows Jewish and Muslim slaughterhouses to forgo stunning. But the rules outlaw leaving animals killed that way conscious for an extended period of time. foxnews.com