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TRUE GREEN REPORT

Opening Pandora's Poison

by Judi McLeodMay 9 - May 30 2000

Once again, enviromental activists are attempting to cloak their political agenda in the guise of rational rhetoric. But open the lid to Pandora's Poison, a new book from former Greenpeace campaigner Joe Thornton, and you will find that Thornton's new enviromental strategy for banning chlorine ignores reality and merely repackages ideas and positions that have been proselytized by Greenpeace for more than 20 years.

Pandora's Poison embraces an extremist definition of the 'precautionary principle', which rejects the role of science and risk assessment and could have potentioally serious or even tragic consequences. The chemical industry supports a more reasoned definition of the precautionary principle, in which science and risk assessment will continue to inform policy-makers and help identify measures that are truly protective of health and the environment.

The 'Save the World from Greenpeace' Bumper sticker Campaign

Toronto Free Press has launched a bumper sticker campaign as a direct response to Greenpeace activist's presence at violent Seattle World Trade Organization meetings.

Free 'Save the World from Greenpeace' bumper stickers are now available for anyone who wants them.

Besides using them for stocking stuffers, you can stand up for truth and non-violent ways of protesting with a Toronto Free Press 'Save the World from Greenpeace' bumper sticker.

'Don't Batter Me', 'Fish' Pleads

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) have temporarily moved away from protesting the use of leather to standing up for 'oppressed fish.'

Carrying a sign reading, 'Don't Batter Me', 'Gill the Fish'--PETA's six-foot-tall anti-fishing mascot-recently greeted surprised visitors to Toronto's St. Lawrence Market, beneath a banner proclaiming 'Seafood is Murder on Fish.'

Why is PETA kicking up a ruckus over fishing?

'Fish-caught and killed by the billions for their flesh--experience fear, fell pain and begin to die slowly of suffocation the moment they are pulled out of the water,' according to a recent PETA newsletter. 'Additionaly, countless non target animals such as sea turtles, dolphins, birds and seals die horrible deaths in commercial fishing nets every year.'

PETA activists are also wooried about people who eat fish; 'According to the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, 325,000 people get sick and many die each year from eating contaminated seafood. Fish flesh often contains toxic levels of mercury and PCB's--carcinogen's that have been linked to many kinds of cancer.'

'The commercial fishing industry is wreaking havoc on the animals in our oceans,' saus PETA's President Ingrid Newkirk. 'The easiest way for people to help fish and other animals is tho get hooked on compassion and go vegetarian.'

PETA is pushing 'delicious' vegetarian alternatives to current seafood options, which it lists on its latest website.

Murdering lobsters

The politically correct Toronto Star recently defended itself against the criticism of a reader who wrote a letter accusing the daily of promoting violence against lobsters. It seems the Star had recently printed a recipe for the crustaceans.

One reader protested to the ombudsman, claiming that it is 'inhumane' to kill lobsters. He insisted that the paper had 'insulted' millions of people who belong to two global regions.

As the ombudsman pointed out, 'Sure, one person's fish is another's poison. That's no reason to deny lobster eaters the recipe, even when lobsters cost $14.98 a pound.'

Under attack: Tony the Tiger

Greenpeace Canada Executive Director Paul Tabuns does not eat his Wheaties.

The former Toronto city councillor has called on consumers to stop buying Killogg products as Greenpeace lunched a consumer-based campaign targeting the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) by the cereal giant.

Tabuns told a rally at a downtown supermarket, 'Kellogg marketing targets children with its use of friendly icons like Tony the Tiger. The truth is the company is selling products which may risk the health of its consumers, including children. It's irresponsible, and it should stop.'

Greenpeace intends to focus efforts on mobilizing grassroots activism, includin a boycott.

'We're calling on all Canadians to say 'no' to Tony the Tiger.'

Tabuns addressed several hundred supporters in Toronto, before joining activists who fanned out across the city to leaflet a number of grocery stores. Also on hand was 'Franken Toy'--a GMO Tony the Tiger--reminding consumers that Kellogg's GMO ingredients are untested and unwante.

Milk Sucks

Mothers were having enough trouble keeping their college age offspring out of the beer parlours before People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) began a campaign that claimed that beer is better than milk.

The largest animal rights group in the world recently released results of research showing that beer is actually better for you than milk. College students who visited PETA�s www.MilkSucks.com were given free bottle openers that said, 'Drinking Responsibly Means Not Drinking Milk--Save a Cow's Life.'

PETA activists are livid that the dairy industry spends more than $300-million every year to convince people 'to drink gallons of the white stuff,' even though milk and cheese are loaded with fat and cholesterol and are frequently contaminated with pesticides and drugs to boot.

PETA's main 'beef,' is, of course, about the treatment of the mother cows and their calves on factory farms. 'Today's dairy cow is treated like nothing more than a milk machine--chained by her neck in a concrete stall for months, her udders genetically modified to produce so much extra milk that they sometimes drag on the feces and urine-covered cement. She is kept pregnant by artificial insemination to keep milk production high; her male calves are traumatically taken away from her at one to two day's old and chained inside cramped dark crates to be killed for veal. The milk that is meant for them ends up on our supermarket shelves. There are no retirement homes for dairy cows. When their usefulness to dairy farmers is over, they get shoved into a truck and sent off to slaughter, ' PETA claims.

PETA's College Action Campaign coordinator Morgan Leyh was counselling: 'Colleges have been busy banning kegs from campus. But we say, 'Ditch the dairy, not the beer!'

Although she claimed 'enormously positive response from college students,' Leyh may have met her match in activists from Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), who taught the animal rights activists that sons and daughters come before cows before sending them back to the drawing board.<

Canada Free Press founding editor Most recent by Judi McLeod is an award-winning journalist with 30 years experience in the print media. Her work has appeared on Newsmax.com, Drudge Report, Foxnews.com, Glenn Beck. Judi can be reached at: judi@canadafreepress.com


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