Please forward to other animal protection lists...

The following post is from Gamefowl News, a cockfighters listserv.
For the second day in a row they are trying to get their people to
complain to Yahoo about animal rights lists hosted by Yahoo.

They are angry because Yahoo canceled two of their lists for
violations of the Yahoo Terms of Service. What they don't seem to
realize is that one, possibly both, of the pro cockfighting email
lists were canceled because of complaints sent by their fellow
cockfighters during a period of infighting.

Perhaps people angry that the cockfighters are fabricating reasons to
cancel pro animal lists will want to visit groups.yahoo.com. Put
in "Gamecock", "Gamefowl" and "cockfighting" so you can see their
groups. (Note: When you put in Gamecock a lot of University of South
Carolina groups pop up). When they start talking about illegal
animal fighting, you can report it to abuse@... and ask they
cancel the animal fighters Yahoo Groups.

Two can play at this game!
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From: "Gamefowl News Report" <Gamefowl_News@...> | This
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To: "Gamefowl News" <Gamefowl_News@...>
Subject: Wed 26 Mar 2003
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 20:05:51 -0800




Forwarded To Us From A Concerned American With This Comment..... HERE
WE GO AGAIN WITH YAHOO.........
Delivered-To: mailing list VeganWay@yahoogroups.com


........cockfighters ("game fowl breeders") ........

Now Isn't That Strange? Yahoo's Terms Of Service Says.......... You
agree to not use the Service to: a. upload, post, email, transmit or
otherwise make available any Content that is unlawful, harmful,
threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, defamatory, vulgar,
obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, or
racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable;

http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/

But Isn't This Is A Direct Harmful, Threatening, Abusive, Harassing,
Defamatory Libelous, Invasive Attack On Law Abiding....... ........
("game fowl breeders")........

Yahoo Says..........
Please report any violations of the TOS to our Customer Care group.
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/



----- Original Message -----
From: "Diana Artemis" <Artemisd123@...>
To: FriendsOfAnimals@...
Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2003 4:31 PM
Subject: [VeganWay] USDA to Stop Reimbursing Cockfighters - 3 Sample
Letters Tell USDA to Stop Reimbursing Cockfighters - 3 Sample Letters

Please forward widely and write today!

Source: United Poultry Concerns at: http://www.upc-online.org

Tell the USDA to Stop Reimbursing Cockfighters with U.S. Tax
Dollars "The compensation amounts are a 'very private and personal
thing' between bird owners and the government, said Adrian Woodfork,
a spokesman for the combined state and federal Exotic Newcastle
Disease Task Force." - The Californian, 3/15/03

SAMPLE LETTER #1: Remember to add your name, address and country
(International members are encouraged to write; please mention how
supporting this cruel and barbaric affects your impressions of the
USA and your intent to visit and spend money here.)

For additional information to personalize your letter, review the
factsheet at: http://www.peta-online.org/mc/facts/fsent12.html
=================================================================

The Honorable Ann Veneman
Secretary of Agriculture
U.S. Department of Agriculture
1400 Independence Avenue, SW
Washington, DC 20250
Phone: 202-720-3631
Fax: 202-720-2166
Email: agsec@... (usda.gov)

RE: USDA Must Stop Reimbursing Cockfighters with Public Monies

Dear Secretary Veneman:

I ask you to to stop reimbursing cockfighters ("game fowl breeders")
with public money. This amounts to federal support of heinous
criminal activity.

Although cockfighting is a crime in California and 47 other states,
the U.S. Department of Agriculture and California Department of Food
and Agriculture are using tax dollars to indemnify cockfighters who
kill "game" birds suspected of exotic Newcastle disease (END), an
infectious avian virus being fought with gross inhumaneness at
taxpayers' expense to protect the poultry and egg industry.
Responding to a Freedom of Information Act request, government
officials told The Californian (Bakersfield, CA, 3/15) that bird
owners get between $5 and $1,850 per bird but "refuse to explain how
they calculate the compensation and who has received how much for
their birds."

It's been reported that $2 - $5 tax-dollars per bird is the "fair
market value" being given to owners of hen flocks being destroyed
under California's END eradication program, whereas $1,000 to $2,000
is the "fair market value" being given to owners of birds bred and
used for cockfighting, "an illegal sport suspected of contributing
to the rapid spread in Southern California, Arizona and Nevada of the
highly contagious virus" (Californian, 3/15).

It's time the U.S. moved away from barbarism and stops all support
for this cruel and bloodthirsty "sport."

Sincerely,


SAMPLE LETTER #2: Please make the same request to members of
Congress. To learn who your TWO U.S. Senators are, visit:
www.congress.org (International members are encouraged to write
Senator Tom Daschle, Senator Bill Frist and President Bush -- for
contact info visit: www.congress.org) Remember to add your name and
address. For additional information to personalize your letter,
review the factsheet at:
http://www.peta-online.org/mc/facts/fsent12.html
=================================================================

RE: Endorse the endorse the Ensign-Allard-Cantwell Legislation to
Stop Reimbursing Cockfighters with Public Funds

Dear Senators:

I ask you to to stop reimbursing cockfighters ("game fowl breeders")
with taxpayers' money, and to endorse the Ensign-Allard-Cantwell
legislation in the Senate that increases interstate commerce in birds
intended for cockfighting to a felony offence.

Although cockfighting is a crime in California and 47 other states,
the U.S. Department of Agriculture and California Department of Food
and Agriculture are using tax dollars to indemnify cockfighters who
kill "game" birds suspected of exotic Newcastle disease (END), an
infectious avian virus being fought with gross inhumaneness at
taxpayers' expense to protect the poultry and egg industry.
Responding to a Freedom of Information Act request, government
officials told The Californian (Bakersfield, CA, 3/15) that bird
owners get between $5 and $1,850 per bird but "refuse to explain how
they calculate the compensation and who has received how much for
their birds."

It's been reported that $2 - $5 tax-dollars per bird is the "fair
market value" being given to owners of hen flocks being destroyed
under California's END eradication program, whereas $1,000 to $2,000
is the "fair market value" being given to owners of birds bred and
used for cockfighting, "an illegal sport suspected of contributing to
the rapid spread in Southern California, Arizona and Nevada of the
highly contagious virus" (Californian, 3/15).

It's time the U.S. moved away from barbarism and stops all support
for this cruel and bloodthirsty "sport."

Sincerely,


SAMPLE LETTER #3: Please make the same request to members of
Congress. To learn who your ONE U.S. Representative is, visit:
www.congress.org (International members are encouraged to write
Representative Nancy Pelosi, Rep Dennis Hastert and President Bush --
for contact info visit: www.congress.org) Remember to add your name
and address. For additional information to personalize your letter,
review the factsheet at: http://www.peta-
online.org/mc/facts/fsent12.html
=================================================================

RE: Endorse the endorse the Bartlett-Andrews Legislation to Stop
Reimbursing Cockfighters with Public Funds

Dear Representative:

I ask you to to stop reimbursing cockfighters ("game fowl breeders")
with taxpayers' money, and to endorse the Bartlett-Andrews
legislation in the House that increases interstate commerce in birds
intended for cockfighting to a felony offence.

Although cockfighting is a crime in California and 47 other states,
the U.S. Department of Agriculture and California Department of Food
and Agriculture are using tax dollars to indemnify cockfighters who
kill "game" birds suspected of exotic Newcastle disease (END), an
infectious avian virus being fought with gross inhumaneness at
taxpayers' expense to protect the poultry and egg industry.
Responding to a Freedom of Information Act request, government
officials told The Californian (Bakersfield, CA, 3/15) that bird
owners get between $5 and $1,850 per bird but "refuse to explain how
they calculate the compensation and who has received how much for
their birds."

It's been reported that $2 - $5 tax-dollars per bird is the "fair
market value" being given to owners of hen flocks being destroyed
under California's END eradication program, whereas $1,000 to $2,000
is the "fair market value" being given to owners of birds bred and
used for cockfighting, "an illegal sport suspected of contributing to
the rapid spread in Southern California, Arizona and Nevada of the
highly contagious virus" (Californian, 3/15).

It's time the U.S. moved away from barbarism and stops all support
for this cruel and bloodthirsty "sport."

Sincerely,


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