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~BOYCOTT  K.F.C.~

Alright, I'm sure you've all heard about PETA's campaign against the cruel fast-food giant Kentucky Fried Chicken. Well, I'm here to tell you why this is such an important mission for everyone to get involved in.

Chickens are intelligent animals that feel pain just like you and me. That is probably the most important thing to remember when reading this article. Alright, this next part is going to get pretty gruesome, so, don't read this if you're really weak stomached. The chicken's journey starts out when they're born. After they are grown up to about a week old they are crammed into a small cage in a truck. More often than not they are thrown into the crammed cages like footballs by unqualified workers. After spending days on this truck almost chocking on the smell of their own waste they are brought to the "YUM! brands" slaughterhouse, Pilgrim's Pride. They are thrown back out of the truck and onto a conveyer belt. Once on the conveyere bel their beaks are chopped off by a hot blade. Now, this isn't like cutting off human hair, it would be like cutting off a human's lips...and that wouldn't feel to good. The chicken's beak has many nerve endings in it and cause much pain, sometimes the arteries don't carterize and they bleed to death from it. Then they are taken into an extremely small cage that barely fits their body and fed a mixture of hormones in order to make them ultra top-heavy. This causes alot of chickens to have heart attacks, and their legs to break under them where they are left stranded to starve to death. Would you like to have a heart attack or have your body be so heavy that it collapses on you and no one comes to save ? I didn't think so !!!! The cages they are kept in are not clean, so the slaughterhouse has tons of ammonia from feces and urine, thats why workers get masks...but the chickens can still smell it and get lung disease ! Would you like to live in your own waste and get massive lung diseases ? NO ! If the chicken is strong enough to live through all this their legs are snapped and they are hung up by their legs on a conveyer belt. On this conveyer belt their throats are slit, making a few of them bleed to death, but most of them don't bleed to death and are still 100% conscious during this next horrifying part. They are boiled alive in a vat of 400 degree water to "de-feather" them. Now, would you like to be boiled alive in water and your own blood ? Oh, I know you all want to. If you wouldn't want it to happen to youl why would you want it to happen to a defenseless animal who has done nothing wrong to you?

To learn more about this visit www.kentuckyfriedcruelty.com If you want to contact KFC you can:

David Nocak, Chair and CEO
Yum! Brands
13006 N. Osage Rd., Louisville, KY 40223
1-800-544-5774 or 1-800-call-kfc

As always, adopting a vegetarian diet is the best way to help animals. Visit www.goveg.com  www.peta.com   www.peta2.com for more information on going vegetarian.

You may also join us here in Paducah Kentucky for a weekend of demos:
Dates: May 28th & 29th
Times: 11:30-1:30
Place: 2725 Jackson Street, Paducah Kentucky
Bring: Yourself ! We have all the signs and fliers.

~BOYCOTT  K.F.C.~
*This message brought to you by Aaron Megibow of the animal rights group Citizens for Animal Rights Education (C.A.R.E.) www.heartlandanimalrights.blogspot.com

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(F)ATKINS

In the past few years the low-carb fad-diet trend has been sweeping the nation. Everywhere you go you can't help but see "low-carb chips" and "The Low-Carb Bible". In America's never-ending quest for weight perfection there has been nothing but failure. Out of the 60% of Americans that are obese a severely low percentage can lose weight. This is a big problem, in order to have a thriving country we need to have healthy people...sadly, only 40% of Americans are at a healthy weight.

The low-carb diets all have one thing wrong with them, THEY ONLY WORK SHORT-TERM ! All of these diets provide immediate weight loss satisfaction, as we live in this here-and-now impatient society we seek to find quick and easy weight loss solutions. I'm sorry to tell you, but there is no magic pill, no quick diet which requires no work and is effective. All of the effective weight-loss plans that work for people are ones that seek to satisfy long-term weight loss goals, not short-term "I need to fit into my bathing suit next week."

Another problem with low-carb diets is that they only provide weight-loss benefits, no othe rhealth benefits can be reaped from this unhealthy diet you are sewing. A meat-based diet provides high blood pressure, heat problems, kidney failure, high cholestorol, a dangerously high risk of colon/digestive cancers, and extremely high stress levels, and oh yeah...IMPOTENCY (yes men, that means that your dicks won't work) !

The only weight loss plan that provides long-term succesful weight loss and weight maintenance along with maximum health benefits is a vegetarian or vegan diet. Of course, the vegan plan is going to increase your health ten fold and your chances of losing wihgt even more, but still, vegetarian (ovo-lacto) is still more effective than low-carb fatkins diets. The only thing you have to watch when going on a vegetarian/vegan diet (shorthanded as veg*n) is your relience on junk food and dairy. If you are a vegan then you need to, like all other diets, watch your junk food intake. If yo uare vegetarian you need to make sure you don't use eggs and dairy as your main source of protein AND that you watch how much junk food you eat.

So, if you are looking for the most effective way to lose weight, go vegan ! Here are some links that you will find helpful:  www.goveg.com   http://www.vegfamily.com/health/vegan-weight-loss.htm  

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The Animal Liberation Front: Effective?

The Animal Liberation Front (A.L.F) is an animal rights group that is dedicated to fast actions to further the cause of animal rights (i.e. liberating laboratory animals). In this article I will explore the pros and cons of this animal rights group.

I first off like the make my statement about the ALF, I don't believe they ar effectice. But there is more to it than this cut-and-dry statement. I think that the most effective way to deal with an on-going problem is to find a PERMANENT solution, not a small action that last temporarily. Here is how I think it works. Alright, we all know about March of Dimes' animal tests (unless you've been to lazy to read my last article). Well, lets say that they have a hundred cats in cages (they probably do, more than a hundred though) and a bunch of ALF members break into the laboratory at midnight and free all the rabbits from their lives of torture and enslavement. Now, there will be two effects of this cause:

1) The animals will run into the street, and be ran over.
2) The March of Dime has to buy 100 more cats, endangering the lives of 100 more cats, this would double the cruelty being inflicted.

A much more effective method of bettering the lives of animals is finding permanent solutions to these problems. These are not permanent problems that aren't reversible, these are problems caused by humans-gone-mad. Together we can fix this problem of vivisection by protesting and boycotting companies that tes on animals. If enough people boycott and get the word out about the boycott through protests then the company will have to cave in to consumer demands in order to gain profit. It is a simple concept that many ALF members do not grasp. Its just like if you have massive external bleeding, you aren't going to just keep pumping blood into the person to fix the problem, you sew up the wound and the problem is STOPPED ! Its like if you are having problems with your girlfriend, you would need to tlak with her about that instead of just committing suicide and ending your life. It's like this:

TEMPORARY SOLUTIONS DON'T WORK FOR TEMPORARY PROBLEMS, TEMPORARY PROBLEMS ARE SOLVED BY PERMANENT SOLUTIONS !!!!

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Fur: This word means many things to many differnet people. Some people in the fashion industry see it as a sign of high-quality clothing, other people (like myself) see the suffering that occurs to produce such clothing and wish to do something about it. In the following article I will expose the cruelty that goes on inside fur-farms, encourage you to not wear fur, and give you tips on what you can do to stop this cruel industry.

There is a billboard that PETA has made that they usually put up during New York's fall fashion week which says "Fur: It looks good...only on the animals!". I think this is true, fur is meant to be worn only by those whom God (or science, whatever religion/belif system you have) has made to waer it. God gave chinchillas fur to keep them warm during the cold desert nights, not to keep humans warm and feed our greedy, vain, and selfish attitudes. Not only is fur intended SOLELY for the animals that are born with it, it is also a cruel industry. This is one case where myself and other animal rights activists fight to completely stop a practice, instead of merely improving the methods in a practice.

A few weeks ago I was browsing through www.peta.org when I watched a horrifying expose video from a Chinese fur farm. In this video, a bunch of workers hit a raccoon in the head with his foot, then made a slit in the racoons back, and stripped him of his fur...WHILE THE RACOON WAS STILL BREATHING. It made me want to crie to see that poor animal being skinned alive, its eyes were blinking, its lungs were moving, and its heart was clerely beating. You might be saying to yourself "well, thats Chinese fur farms, we don't have to worry about that here in the good 'ol U.S. of A." Well, I'm sorry to report to you that almost 55% of fur comes from Chinese fur farms. And you can't tell where your fur is coming from because it never says on the label "fur from china' or "fur from sweden' it just says "100% genuine fur".

Needless to say, fur from ALL countries is cruel and unecessary. As humans, wehave evolved and created synthetics that enable us to keep warm and compassionate clothing in our wardrobes, no matter how cold or warm it is outside. Cotton is a wonder-plant and helps to not only foster compassion, but also helps the American economy, due to the fact that we make alot of cotton here in the states. So, it doens't make sense to kill animals for warmth, when we have even warmer, more durable alternatives. The biggest hipocracy is when I see someone at my church wearing fur. These people go around telling others to not be vain and to only care about whats on the inside, but when I asked them why they didn't waer a cotton jacket or faux fur they will reply "fur just looks better" !!!! APPAULING ! OH THE HIPOCRACY ! These people go around saying to not be vain, yet they are soem of the vainest and cruelest people out their. If you wear fur, you have blood on your hands (oh yeah, and dead animal around your neck...yuck!).

Millions of stray dogs and cats die every year from fur traps. Fur-trappers set out these large claw traps (kinda like a bear trap) and leave them unattended for days, unmonitored. Sometimes a stray dog or cat will stumble into the trap and lie there with broken legs starving to death, sometimes chewing off its legs then walk away and slowly bleed to death for days. Would you like to be caught in a trap, chop your leg off with your own bare teeth, starve, and then slowly bleed to death? I didn't think so !

Mostly though, alot of fur isn't caught this way...though some still is. About 65% of fur is "manufactured" in factory-farm style operations. In these places they extensively breed "fashionable" animals, trap them in cages which barely fit their body, starve them and freeze them (to induce a process called "molting" which causes the animal's fur to turn a "prettier" white hue). These animals, after living in small cages which become dirty with their own feces and scented with ammonia, starved, and made extremely cold, are knocked unconscious. The most popular methods include anal electricution (shoving a large metal prod in an animals rear-end and releasing volts of electricity), and hitting over the head with blunt objects. These methods only successfully kill the animal 15% of the time. The other 75% of the time, the animals wake up while being skinned ! This is alarming, would you enjoy being fully conscious while someone made a slit in your back and ripped the skin right off of your body, leaving you as just a skeleton with tendons and muscles visible, bleeding to death for days? I don't think ANYONE would like that...this includes animals !

Here is the paragraph where I tell you how you can stop such cruelty. First of all, you should take a look at www.furisdead.com for more in depth information on this industry which thrive son cruelty. I invite you to first of all sotp wearing fur. This is simple, to most people fur not only looks bad, but cruel. Make sure you boycott stores that you see fur being sold in. (PETA is running a campaign against the teen clothing store, Wet Seal for refusing to adopt a permanent fur-free policy. Gadzooks recently adopted a permanent fur-free policy.) I invite you to also write letters and make phone calls loding complaints with companies who support this cruel industry. GET ACTIVE ! go outside a store, gold a sign, and hand out some leaflets explaining to people the cruelties involved in producing fur.

Thank you for reading this article, and I more importantly thank all of you who took the time out to read this article in its entirety instead of skimming through it like some of my readers who claim to be faithful to the AR cause, but are obviously a disgrace to it. ***If you skimmed through this article I will hunt you down, skin you, and make you incorporate your flesh into my new clothing line "TTYCB" which stands for "Take That You Corporate Bastards" (or bitches, in case you are a girl in the corporate workforce.)