FEMALE SOLDIERS AND RAPE

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What does it tell us that female soldiers deployed overseas stop
drinking water after 7 p.m. to reduce the odds of being raped if they
have to use the bathroom at night? Or that a soldier who was assaulted
when she went out for a cigarette was afraid to report it for fear she
would be demoted — for having gone out without her weapon? Or that, as
Representative Jane Harman puts it, "a female soldier in Iraq is more
likely to be raped by a fellow soldier than killed by enemy fire."

The
fight over "Don't ask, don't tell" made headlines this winter as an
issue of justice and history and the social evolution of our military
institutions. We've heard much less about another set of hearings in the
House Armed Services Committee. Maybe that's because too many
commanders still don't ask, and too many victims still won't tell, about
the levels of violence endured by women in uniform. (See TIME's special report on the state of the American
woman.)

The Pentagon's latest figures show that
nearly 3,000 women were sexually assaulted in fiscal year 2008, up 9%
from the year before; among women serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, the
number rose 25%. When you look at the entire universe of female
veterans, close to a third say they were victims of rape or assault
while they were serving — twice the rate in the civilian population. (See the top 10 crime stories of 2009.)

The
problem is even worse than that. The Pentagon estimates that 80% to 90%
of sexual assaults go unreported, and it's no wonder. Anonymity is all
but impossible; a Government Accountability Office report concluded that
most victims stay silent because of "the belief that nothing would be
done; fear of ostracism, harassment, or ridicule; and concern that peers
would gossip." More than half feared they would be labeled
troublemakers. A civilian who is raped can get confidential, or
"privileged," advice from her doctors, lawyers, victim advocates; the
only privilege in the military applies to chaplains. A civilian who
knows her assailant has a much better chance of avoiding him than does a
soldier at a remote base, where filing charges can be a career killer —
not for the assailant but the victim. Women worry that they will be
removed from their units for their own "protection" and talk about not
wanting to undermine their missions or the cohesion of their units. And
then some just do the math: only 8% of cases that are investigated end
in prosecution, compared with 40% for civilians arrested for sex crimes.
Astonishingly, about 80% of those convicted are honorably
discharged nonetheless.

The sense of betrayal runs deep in
victims who joined the military to be part of a loyal team pursuing a
larger cause; experts liken the trauma to incest and the particular
damage done when assault is inflicted by a member of the military
"family." Women are often denied claims for posttraumatic stress caused
by the assault if they did not bring charges at the time. There are not
nearly enough mental-health professionals in the system to help them.
Female vets are four times more likely to be homeless than male vets
are, according to the Service Women's Action Network, and of those, 40%
report being victims of sexual assault. (See pictures of an Army town coping with PTSD.)

Experts
offer many theories for the causes: that military culture is
intrinsically violent and hypermasculine, that the military is slow to
identify potential risks among raw young recruits, that too many
commanders would rather look the other way than acknowledge a breakdown
in their units, that it has simply not been made a high enough priority.
"A lot of my male colleagues believe that the only thing a general
needs to worry about is whether he can win a war," says Congresswoman
Loretta Sanchez of the Armed Services Committee. "People are not taking
this seriously. Commanding officers in the field are not understanding
how important this is."

But there are some signs that both
Congress and the Pentagon are getting serious about this problem. It is
now possible for victims to seek medical treatment without having to
report the crime to police or their chain of command. More field
hospitals have trained nurse practitioners to treat the victims; more
bases have rape kits. "More than ever," Sanchez says, "I believe that
our leadership at the very top is beginning to realize that they need to
be proactive."

According to a report by the Defense Task Force
on Sexual Assault in the Military Services, the progress made so far
remains "evident, but uneven." The failure to provide a basic guarantee
of safety to women, who now represent 15% of the armed forces, is not
just a moral issue, or a morale issue. What does it say if the military
can't or won't protect the people we ask to protect us?

See poll results about men, women and society.

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1968110,00.html#ixzz0ix5Rlke6

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Hunte Corporation Doing what's Wrong for Puppies

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3/21/10

On 3/20/10 Chico, Wesley and I made the three hour drive from Kansas
City AND Kyle XVX, and his partner Jamaica, made the 1.5 hour drive from
Springfield, MO to Goodman, MO to engage in an unprecedented protest
against the Hunte Corporation, the largest puppy mill broker in the US.

Weather conditions were treacherous, to say the least–which prevented
most of our activist allies from joining us. Our KC contingency
encountered snow and dangerous road conditions on the way down and back,
counting at least 50 vehicles that had gone off the road, some
seriously damaged. By the time we hit Butler, MO on the trip home,
conditions were blizzard-like and it was touch and go most of the rest
of the way. Kyle and Jamaica were contending with hazardous driving
conditions as well.

Fortunately, when we arrived in Goodman, there was no snow, but we
did encounter a very cold rain and several law enforcement officers
(including a state trooper, a local Goodman constable, and a county
sheriff whom you will see in the video). We were also confronted by a
Hunte Corporation employee, also captured on our video, who spent a good
deal of time in his car videoing us as we trekked through Goodman.
Hunte had hired several security henchmen who followed us around in
white F-350 pick-ups and tried to intimidate us.


As you will see in the video, due to weather conditions and the small
turnout, we decided that in lieu of a protest we would “knock on
Hunte’s front door” with a request to tour their facility.

In this video, dressed as the “anarchist love bunny” (we wanted to be
certain that Hunte had no trouble IDing us as AR activists upon our
arrival–and sure enough, the sheriff addressed me as “Mr. Miller” with
no introduction), I explain our reason for wanting a tour of Hunte Corp:



Due to less-than-ideal conditions (weather and otherwise), the audio
is weak and the video footage is rough. So in summary, what I said was
that essentially we wanted to tour the Hunte Corporation to verify that
they were keeping their promise, as pledged on their own website:

http://www.huntecorp.com/New%20Facility.aspx

“The next time you visit Goodman, Missouri, you’ll see
that The Hunte Corporation has really grown. This new 100,000 sq. ft.
distribution and manufacturing site is the largest, most advanced puppy
care facility in the world. No effort has been spared to provide
America’s best purebred puppies with the superior nutrition, sanitation
and individual attention they deserve…..Doing what’s right for puppies.”

And I also said that we wanted to deliver the message to the world
(via the Fox news affiliate who covered our visit but who failed to
include even a sound-bite from the interview they did with me that
presented our side—as you will see, their “news” segment turned out to
be 47 seconds of free advertising for Hunte) that regardless of how
humanely Hunte MIGHT be treating the puppies in its facility, their very
existence as a facilitator of puppy mills and breeders that mass
produce dogs in a world that is highly over-populated with domesticated
canines is a moral abomination. MILLIONS of shelter dogs, like Chico, go
unadopted and die each year because the Hunte Corporation and its
suppliers profit from commodifying dogs and convincing an ill-informed
public to purchase puppies from retail pet stores like the malevolent
Petland, Hunte’s largest customer. The most important point that we
wanted to convey was for people to “ADOPT; DON’T BUY!”

As you will see in the next video, Hunte Corporation was less than
accommodating when we asked for a tour of their “state-of-the-art”
facility:



Were they maintaining their promise and “doing what’s right for
puppies,” they would have been eager to allow skeptical animal defenders
(and the media–the Fox reporter did confirm after his interview with
Steve Rook of Hunte Corporation that they did NOT give him a tour
either) to have a look at their facility, which they tout as a veritable
Disneyland for dogs.

They obviously have something to hide, as we concluded here when we
got the “official no” via a cell phone call from Hunte’s president,
Steve Rook (who’s married to Jessica Hunte, founder Andrew Hunte’s
daughter—can you say nepotism?) to the sheriff:



Aside from drawing the logical conclusion that Hunte’s secrecy and
defensiveness clearly demonstrate that they have much to hide, we also
have myriad credible sources which cite specific aspects of the Hunte
Corporation, its operation and its actions that prove that Hunte is
morally bankrupt and thus has much to hide from the public:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hunte_Corporation

[According to Mr. Rook, his business operates in the
"stratosphere of integrity". However, the company received an "F" rating
from the Southwest Missouri Better Business Bureau for failing to
address customer complaints. Although he could not verify breeders who
supplied specific stores, he insisted that:

"There are only two acceptable sources for our puppies at
the Hunte Corporation. They include small-time "hobby breeders" and
"USDA-registered and licensed and inspected breeders."

He also refused to provide names or information about breeders:

"The (USDA) is required to by law. And if they find that
there is something that should be repaired to improve the quality of the
facility, they give that breeder 30 or 40 days to fix that." [11]

USDA certified puppy mills

There are only about a hundred USDA inspectors to monitor
10,000 facilities across the country, ranging from research labs to
zoos. Furthermore, “standards” are abysmal. Federal guidelines allow a
medium sized terrier to be kept in a cage the size of a clothes drier
for its entire life. The federal Animal Welfare Act is hardly the gold
standard for compassion. For example, the act does not say you cannot
have 300 dogs confined to cages for their entire lives; never to be
taken for a walk or receive any personal attention, let alone be a part
of a family. A breeder passes USDA muster as long as the dog has food,
water and enough space to turn around.

USDA standards are very minimal. Adhering to them does
not prove that a breeder is not a puppy mill. Even more so, since even
these standards are often not enforced. Many licensed breeders for large
chains like Petland, have significant violations. [12] See also puppy
mills.”]

It’s interesting to note that even the profit-motivated champions of
capitalist exploitation at the Better Business Bureau have given Hunte
an “F.” And Source Watch’s revelations about the gross inadequacy of the
USDA welfare laws and enforcement completely negate Steve Rook’s
mendacious justification for Hunte Corp’s miserable existence and claim
that Bite Club’s “accusations are false and out of line.”

Watch Hunte President Steve Rook’s pathetically transparent attempt to legitimize evil

And here’s more
Hunte malevolence from Source Watch:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hunte_Corporation

[Clean water & waste citation for trenches of dead
puppies

When the Missouri Department of Natural Resources made a
complaint driven investigation of a Hunte kennel facility in 2003, they
discovered "trenches of dead canines" on the premises. According to
department spokesperson Mark Rader, most facilities bury dogs in
landfills. It is rare for a kennel to bury so many dogs on site. He did
not know how the dogs died:

"The kennel was close to violating the state's dead
animal disposal laws, which allow no more than 1,000 pounds of dead
animals to be buried per acre."

The company was cited for clean water and waste
violations. [14] Apparently, no other investigation or inquiries were
made regarding into the “trenches of dead canines” by the state of
Missouri.

What happens to imperfect puppies?

If the company was “close to violating” a law that allows
“no more than 1,000 pounds of dead animals per acre”, how many “dead
canines” (specifically, puppies) were found? Many or perhaps most of
these puppies were likely popular small and toy breeds that weigh no
more than a few pounds each. They would have been approximately 8 weeks
(the “standard” age for puppies purchased by the company). All the more
strange as puppies spend one to five days maximum at the facility and
are screened (presumably for illness and other “defects”) before being
purchased by Hunte. Hunte’s puppies are “guaranteed”. However, at 90,000
puppies per year processed through the Hunte assembly line, even very
small percentage of “unsellable” puppies would translate into hundreds
or thousands. This does not even take into account their breeding
parents; at the mercy of miserable AKC and USDA approved puppy mills
across the mid west.

Many puppies die within days of reaching the store from
illness or lack of nourishment or soon after being purchased. A pet
store has no motivation to treat them, as they receive “credit” for dead
puppies. If they buy a puppy for 100 dollars or less, than can sell it,
along with its AKC “papers”; for $600 and up. Sometimes, the customer
often does not have the option of a refund, only credit for another
puppy. In the pet trade, it makes little sense to spend hundreds of
dollars on a 60 dollar puppy. [15] In some cases, people or
organizations step in to rescue a “defective” dog. However, in the world
of puppy mills, pet stores and brokers, unmarketable puppies are
usually dumped in over burdened shelters, killed or simply allowed to
die. [16]

Hunte truck fire kills 60 puppies

In August of 2006, a tractor trailer from the Hunte
Corporation delivering puppies to New England pet stores, caught fire in
Lowell Mass., after a thousand mile trip from Goodman, Mo. By the time
the fire department arrived, the flames had burned through the roof.
Investigators searched the charred 40 foot trailer, which suffocated 60
puppies before firefighters arrived. The fire was attributed to an
overheated ceiling fan. According to Fire Chief Patrick McCabe:

“We got the fire knocked down, but it was already too
late. There was no hope for saving the puppies.”

According to state police spokes person Robert Bousquet, no charges were
filed, but his department planned on an “involved investigation to make
sure that there was nothing that was inappropriate.” The state fire
marshal and the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals also planned to investigate. According to USDA spokesman Darby
Holladay, the department had no “prior enforcement” against Hunte, but
was looking into possible Animal Welfare Act (AWA) violations. The
company did not return repeated calls for comment. All of the
approximately 5 dozen 8 to 12 week old puppies housed in cages inside
the air-conditioned aluminum trailer died in the fire. The driver,
Joseph Price of Joplin Mo. was driving on an access road when he
received a radio call from another truck driver alerting him of flames
coming from the back of his truck. Another driver, William Iriarte, 50,
of Nesho, Mo., was also in the truck. State Police cited the driver and
Hunte with three unrelated violations for defective brakes and an
expired inspection. According to Stephanie Shain of the Humane Society
of the United States (HSUS), the dog’s deaths highlight problems in the
national puppy trade:

“There might not have been anything they could have
knowingly done to prevent this, that will be determined by the police;
but the way to prevent a similar incident like this from happening again
is to quit carting thousands of puppies around the country in
tractor-trailers every day. The journey is too long, and they’re moving
them like they’re cartons of toasters.” [17]

Class action lawsuit against Petland & Hunte

In March of 2009, HSUS members and other consumers filed a
class action lawsuit against Petland and the Hunte Corporation for
conspiring to sell unhealthy mill puppies to unsuspecting consumers in
20 states. The lawsuit was filed in the federal district court in
Phoenix. According to Jonathan Lovvorn, vice president and chief counsel
for Animal Protection Litigation at HSUS, many of Petland’s puppies
come from mills, with the Hunte Corporation acting as a middleman.
According to reports resulting from HSUS’s 9 month investigation,
Petland used deceptive sales and marketing to sell puppies with
life-threatening genetic defects and highly contagious parasitic and
viral infections. The 34-page complaint included numerous examples of
sick and dying puppies.

Petland denied supporting substandard facilities and
claimed to follow “Humane Care Guidelines” developed in conjunction with
the USDA. However, the USDA informed HSUS in writing that it had no
record of any such guidelines. The law suit requested a jury trial and
reimbursement of the puppies’ purchase price with compensation for all
related monetary damages for the class members. [18]

On August 7, 2009, Judge David G. Campbell of the Arizona
federal district court dismissed the plaintiffs’ complaint against
Petland and Hunte Corporation. The plaintiffs were given the option of
refiling the Petland complaint, but must add allegations. According to
the judge’s decision, the plaintiffs did not establish that Petland and
Hunte had a duty to inform customers that their puppies were from mills;
thus could not sue the companies for non-disclosure. The judge did not
allow oral argument. [19]

Hunte owned Petlands & other companies

Hunte’s president Steve Rook is married to Andrew Hunte’s
daughter, Jessica. The Hunte family own a diversified network of
companies incorporated in Missouri under names like JessAnd
(Jessica/Andrew) and JesStevAnd and JesSteve and own Petlands in
Missouri and Kansas. [20] Jessica (Hunte) Rook operates Petland
franchises in Springfield, Independence and Joplin Missouri and Olathe,
Kansas.]

Perhaps the most surprising aspect of our action against Hunte was
our discovery of the overwhelming disdain, and in some cases, outright
hatred, that the Hunte Corporation’s neighbors have for the company and
for Andrew Hunte. After Hunte denied our request to see their “doggy
Shangri-La,” we went door to door to educate nearby residents about
Hunte. Being in a town of 2,000 people, which is essentially Andrew
Hunt’s personal fiefdom, we fully anticipated a very hostile reception
from locals. However, each person with whom we spoke expressed a strong
distaste for Hunte and one man even quipped that “Andrew
Hunte belongs in jail.”

Don’t let Steve Rook’s Fox news infomercial fool you. Hunte
Corporation is evil and we need to shut it down. Remember, he’s a
multi-millionaire fighting to perpetuate the flow of bloody lucre into
his bank account, regardless of how many sentient beings suffer and die
in the process.

And remember, Adopt; don’t buy!

Additional
references citing Hunte’s cruelty and moral turpitude:

http://www.petstorecruelty.org/Hunte%20Corp.htm

http://www.caps-web.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=169&Itemid=207&report_id=145

http://www.caps-web.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=169&Itemid=207&report_id=147

http://www.prisonersofgreed.org/Bunnie.html

http://www.puppymillssuck.com/huntepresentation/

http://www.animallawcoalition.com/companion-animal-breeding/article/620

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HUNTERS KILL EVERYTHING INCLUDING BABIES

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Date: 3/13/2010 3:23:44 PM

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September brings hell to the deer of our state, for it is the opening day of bowhunting season.

Bowhunting is one of the most vicious and inaccurate ways to kill an animal. Shooting an arrow into a living target is so difficult, that for every deer a bowhunter kills, another is shot, wounded, and escapes. Few deer die quickly.

"The rule of thumb has long been that we should wait 30 to 45 minutes on heart and lung hits, an hour or more on a suspected liver hit, eight to 12 hours on paunch hits, and that we should follow up immediately on hindquarter and other muscle hits, "to keep the wound open and bleeding"." Glenn Helgeland - Fins and Feathers Winter 1987.

"For a bow hunter to easily recover a wounded deer, the blood loss must be extensive." Rob Wegner - Deer and Deer Hunting August, 1991.

What Happens to the Animals?

Bowhunters contend that although crippling is undesirable, most wounded animals do not die agonizing deaths, but can quickly recover. They feel that the broadhead arrow inflicts clean wounds that heal quickly.
Bowhunters also like to suggest that a broadhead arrow is an efficient killing tool, with brand names such as the Ripper, Penetrator, and Terminator Doublecut.

The pretense seems to be that somehow animals develop hemophilia the instant they are struck; thus, they bleed to death: Stop all body functions with incredible speed within 30 seconds in most cases, according to The Complete Book of Bowhunting. Contrary to these claims, most crippled animals do not recover from their wounds; rather, they routinely contract peritonitis or a septic infection. Broadheads do not inflict clean wounds; they generally inflict dirty wounds. The main cause of infection, according to Benke, is today multi-bladed broadhead. As these arrows penetrate an animal body, numerous hairs are clipped, often caught in the slots of the arrow blades, and distributed throughout the wound channel. The external wound opening then becomes sealed due to clotting and dried blood-matted hair. The bacteria from the clipped hairs begin multiplying in the wound. The amount of bacterial infection emanating from the wound depends on the wound location. The animals general health is also an important factor affecting the time period it takes for the animal to finally die. Death eventually results one to two agonizing weeks later.



*The exciting Warhead starts with its bone shattering Tri-Cut Tip that explodes flesh and bone away so the three surgically sharp stainless blades can open a larger, more lethal entrance/exit hole. (From
manufacturer catalog)

In order for an animal to bleed to death, its blood-clotting system must be overwhelmed. To overwhelm this system, the broadhead must penetrate the heart or sever one or more major blood vessels. If these are not lacerated, an animal cannot bleed to death the body's natural blood-clotting system sees to that. Benke estimates that 20% to 30% of deer struck by arrows die from hemorrhaging and that 10% sustain wounds that probably heal, leaving 60% to 65% of the deer to die from infections.

Benke asserts: the average time in which broadheads cause death must be measured in weeks or days rather than in seconds, minutes, or even hours. Sadly, it is not only the crippled animals who suffer, but those hit and retrieved successfully as well. According to experts clean kills are a rarity. While the deer who are hit and retrieved successfully are not fortunate, they fare better than those who have been wounded and left to suffer. A comment from an experienced bowhunter who writes in Fins & Feathers magazine (March 1987) assumes that the elapsed time between the initial wounding of an animal and the animal's final death is exceedingly long even if the hit occurs in vital (heart or lung) areas.
The rule of thumb for bowhunters has long been that they should wait 30 to 45 minutes on heart and lung hits, an hour or more on a suspected liver hit, 8 to12 hours on paunch hits, and follow immediately on hindquarter and other muscle-only hits to keep the wound open and bleeding.

Bowhunting literature serves as its own indictment. The book Bowhunting for Whitetails says: It's important to give them (the deer) time to stiffen and die - 20 minutes at a minimum, 30 minutes even better. just hang back and have a smoke. There is absolutely no sure way to kill a deer instantly with a bow!

The broadhead arrow is notorious for its inherent inefficiency and singular capacity to cripple, wound, inflict pain, and prolong the suffering of animals. All 50 states have banned the .22 caliber rifle for big-game hunting because of its inadequate killing power. Given that .22 rifles are far superior to compound bows in terms of killing capability, one can infer that states have failed to institute and implement responsible and consistent hunting regulations.



A Veterinarian's Perspective on Bowhunting

According to Steve Nusbaum MA, DVM, if the damage to the vital area is less thansevere, and if an arrow nicks an auricle rather than cuts through both ventricles, the blessing of shock-induced analgesia (a deadening or absence of the sense of pain without loss of consciousness) to set in can take a long time. Consider the physiology of the deer who dies by suffocation, choking on its own blood, or the deer who dies after an arrow penetrates the diaphragm. The presence of a highly sophisticated nervous system in deer certainly suggests that their nervous systems
perform the same functions as human nervous systems. The presence of the same neurochemicals in deer as in humans similarly shows that they feel pain as we do.

In recent years there has been a major shift in the way the scientific community understands the mental life of animals, particularly mammals. Presently, researchers in a variety of animal-related disciplines generally agree that in addition to being sentient, mammals are consciously aware and have feelings and emotions; even though they are more rudimentary than those of humans. Mammals, including deer, are presently understood by scientists to have the capacity to think. Numerous studies indicate that the mental harm that is done to an animal placed in a stressful situation may be more injurious than that done to a person in a similar situation because the animal's mind, in varying degrees, focuses more on the immediate than the distant. Thus, an animal, unlike a person, is less aware that the present anxiety it is experiencing may be temporary.
Not only does bowhunting cause real physical pain and suffering, the deer's mental suffering is just as real, and in its own way, may be just as painful.






(Bowhunters are the lowest of the low, these people know what the arrow does to the animals body and the immesurable suffering they can put on the animals. Please watch this horrific video shot by the bowhunter on a tree stand. Very common in the bowhunting community is their sadism towards the innocents.



Bowhunters hands too cold to track the wounded deer so he leaves her overnight on Christmas Eve.











Help us to abolish this horrific and brutal act put upon our innocent wildlife by very sick people. Thank you and God Bless.

This is a letter of plea

Why must such horrific act of brutality continue today when we know for a fact that bowhunting causes these animals to die such horrific death??. The kind of death no one person ever want to die from. Its also a danger to the public for the fact that many bowhunting are done very close to neighboring areas where small kids and pets live.

Now is time to start living in a more civilized society especially when we have so many non-lethal options including deer birth control that works. click here

No more running into dead bodies of the animals that never deserve this kind of terror and death. Our children should be able to walk into park or forest and find peace and happiness not crippled and wounded deer and bodies floating in streams. Most gut shot deer head that direction and are not retrieved.

Watch the video









and also read from what bowhunters themselves have written on how these animals die. We the people who so love our forest animals beg of you to end this evil! No living sentient being deserve such horrible end to their short lives so someone can be "sportsman"

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Bowhunting is one of the most vicious and inaccurate ways to kill an animal. Shooting an arrow into a living target is so difficult, that for every deer a bowhunter kills, another is shot, wounded, and escapes. Few deer die quickly.

"The rule of thumb has long been that we should wait 30 to 45 minutes on heart and lung hits, an hour or more on a suspected liver hit, eight to 12 hours on paunch hits, and that we should follow up immediately on hindquarter and other muscle hits, "to keep the wound open and bleeding"." Glenn Helgeland - Fins and Feathers Winter 1987.

"For a bow hunter to easily recover a wounded deer, the blood loss must be extensive." Rob Wegner - Deer and Deer Hunting August, 1991.

Such violence, such crippling pain. And for what? Recreation. Sport. Fun.


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Information that hunters do not want you to know is how many millions of deer they wound and cripple a year and the way they use the blood and guts of the deer to track them down. Some hunters wait till the next day because it may take too long for the animals to die and hunters are too tired to look for them. Several sites about "tracking wounded deer" and there are many

How to Track a Wounded Deer

Guide To Trail the Deer with Its Blood Stains

How to Handle a Gut Shot
at bowsite.com

Trailing Wounded Deer - God's great outdoors

Deer Search Inc.

Tracking A Bow Shot Deer
(and gun shot also)

Never give up. A story of wounded deer recovery.

Imagine yourself dying the way the bowhunted deer dies by the millions each year. These quotes comes directly from the site posted above showing other bowhunters how to track the deer after the hit. Please read and again imagine this is your death.


"When the arrow is found, pay very close attention to what is on the arrow. Bright red blood is a lung hit. Dark-red blood a liver hit, black blood and green semi-digested vegetation means a gut hit. If during the track you find "thin" red blood, that is


A Gut Shot Deer Track:

"This is a hard track. Gut shot deer rarely bleed externally! Yes there is an entrance and exit wound, but the intestines and stomach often close them up. Besides, the gut area offers very few arteries and blood vessels to bleed."

"Once the paunch (stomach) is ruptured, semi digested food and stomach bacteria enter the body cavity. This makes the deer sick and it will eventually lay down where it will expire after a long time. Blood loss is minimal and slow and will almost always be internal. These reasons are why one should wait a minimum of 8 hours before attempting to track a gut shot deer."

"where it will expire after a long time"

Lung shot
(Deer drowning in their own blood)

"Animals, especially deer, do not start bleeding at the point of impact. The blood trail generally starts about 15 to 30 yards from where the point of impact is. I have seen deer that were "high" lung shot that never bled a drop outside the body! And a heavy blood trail takes a while due to the chest cavity having to fill up before the blood can exit the wound. "

Some deer can live with one lung for days in pain and suffering only to die

An article written by a now ex-bowhunter

I was afield with three hunters when we jumped a Doe that ran in front of us. One of the men drew his bow and shot. The arrow went through the Doe%u2019s neck. We all saw the arrow sticking out of both sides of the Doe%u2019s neck as she bounded away.

The blood trail was easy to find, but we waited the usual hour for her to lie down, stiffen up and eventually die. We followed the scarlet trail for more than an hour expecting to find her dead. We came to several pools of blood with prints of her knees beside them, where she had gone down to hang her head, and bleed in the bright sun. We saw spots where she had stumbled, but still her life blood ran, and still she went on.

At last we found her. She was dying. She was on her knees and hocks. Her ears, no longer the wonderful, alert warning system to detect any danger, were sagging. Her head was down. Her nose was in her blood. We could hear her breath bubbling in the warm blood.

Somehow the Doe lurched up. Stumbling, bounding, blindly into the brush, she managed to reach the rim of a plateau and disappear. She was nowhere in sight. We fanned out and combed the hillside where we lost her tracks among a maze of other deer tracks. We failed to retrieve her.

We lost four wounded deer on that one hunting trip, but the Doe I saw dying stayed with me. Her heartbroken, dulling eyes haunted me. At odd moments I'd see her, wild and free, then dying in the sun, her breath choking in a pool of blood.

I resolved never again to shoot any living creature with a bow. I rest my case.

Although I abhor all killing of innocent life for "sports" its the bowhunting that is the most barbaric for the way the animals die is to bleed to death , drowned to death (lung shot) or to be poisoned to death from their fecal matter (gut shot). That is why "tracking or bloodtrails" is so common with bowhunting

Thank you so much listening on behalf of all who love our innocent wildlife and on behalf of our deer
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Article by Giovanni Di Nardi




October 7th, 2008

Bow hunting is without a doubt, the cruelest form of hunting in America. Hunting with a bow and arrow is not only a retrogression to the use of weapons given up hundreds of years ago because of their inefficiency, but a retrogression to utter barbarism.

As a student of wildlife ecology, I oppose any type of hunting because it violates every sound principle of ecology and is unimaginably cruel. In the case of bow hunting where deer and other animals die a slow death by hemorrhaging, the wounding rate exceeds 50 percent. It is therefore hardly “sport” and there is no rational reason to impose or support such cruelty to any living being.

Bow hunting is beyond immoral. It is the ultimate act of despicable cruelty by hunters fueled with a thirst for killing by the most hideous of means. It is pure evil to commit any living being to such a horrible mix of agony, pain, and death.



The person I choose to use as the chief witness in the case against bow hunting is a man named Clare Conley, a champion archer and big game hunter. Mr. Conley describes the hunt that changed his attitude toward bow hunting forever.

“I was afield with three hunters when we jumped a Doe that ran in front of us. One of the men drew his bow and shot. The arrow went through the Doe’s neck. We all saw the arrow sticking out of both sides of the Doe’s neck as she bounded away.”

“The blood trail was easy to find, but we waited the usual hour for her to lie down, stiffen up and eventually die. We followed the scarlet trail for more than an hour expecting to find her dead. We came to several pools of blood with prints of her knees beside them, where she had gone down to hang her head, and bleed in the bright sun. We saw spots where she had stumbled, but still her life blood ran, and still she went on.”

“At last we found her. She was dying. She was on her knees and hocks. Her ears, no longer the wonderful, alert warning system to detect any danger, were sagging. Her head was down. Her nose was in her blood. We could hear her breath bubbling in the warm blood.”

“Somehow the Doe lurched up. Stumbling, bounding, blindly into the brush, she managed to reach the rim of a plateau and disappear. She was nowhere in sight. We fanned out and combed the hillside where we lost her tracks among a maze of other deer tracks. We failed to retrieve her.”

“We lost four wounded deer on that one hunting trip, but the Doe I saw dying stayed with me. Her heartbroken, dulling eyes haunted me. At odd moments I’d see her, wild and free, then dying in the sun, her breath choking in a pool of blood.”

“I resolved never again to shoot any living creature with a bow.” I rest my case.

About the author: I enjoy writing to educate people and exchange ideas with other aspiring writers. Some of my interests are, Wildlife Ecology, Animal Rights, Photography, Military History and Nature. I have been an ethical vegetarian since 1988, and a member of The Humane Society of the United States and Defenders of Wildlife. I own 4 beautiful cats, and love animals and the Great Outdoors. I am a Vietnam Veteran, and former US Army Drill Instructor. Showing support for our troops is important to me and whenever possible, I donate my free time to helping Veterans.















A Veterinarian's Perspective on Bowhunting













The suffocating death of a bowhunted doe





















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Deliberate Cruelty























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Angry nationalist protesters greeted anti-whaling activist Pete Bethune when he arrived in Japan.

Japanese to quiz anti-whaling activist
AAP March 13, 2010, 9:05 am

Angry nationalist protesters greeted anti-whaling activist Pete Bethune when he arrived in Japan.

Anti-whaling protester Peter Bethune, who is under arrest in Japan for trespass, is well and in good spirits, New Zealand diplomats have reported.

Foreign Minister Murray McCully said New Zealand embassy staff in Tokyo saw Bethune on Friday night and consular officials were providing updates to his wife, Sharyn.

"He has legal representation and was due to meet his lawyer last night," Mr McCully said in a statement on Saturday.

"Consular staff will continue to monitor Mr Bethune's welfare while he is in custody."

He said Bethune's wife had told the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that she didn't want to comment to the media about her husband's situation.

Bethune was arrested on Friday after a harpoon ship he boarded in Antarctic waters last month docked in Tokyo and was greeted by police and nationalist protesters, Agence France-Presse reported.

A member of the militant Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Bethune was engaged in months of high-seas clashes with the Japanese whaling fleet but has been in custody since mid-February when he boarded the Shonan Maru 2.

About 20 angry nationalist protesters with Rising Sun flags lined the pier and shouted through megaphones: "Step forward Pete Bethune! Apologise to the Japanese people! We will tear you apart!"

The harpoon ship docked alongside a vessel of the Japan Coast Guard, whose officers served him with an arrest warrant for trespass on a ship, a charge that can carry up to three years' jail.

Bethune was in good shape, did not resist arrest and was due to face questioning, Tokyo Coast Guard office chief Takeo Murui told a news conference.

It was the latest chapter in a long-running battle between environmentalis..ts and Japanese whalers, who hunt the ocean giants in the name of scientific research, using a loophole in the 1986 international moratorium on whaling.

Japan maintains that whaling has been part of the island-..nation's culture for centuries, and it does not hide the fact that whale meat from its annual expeditions ends up in shops and restaurants.

As TV helicopters buzzed overhead, the protesters, who were watched over by riot police and plain-clothed officers with video cameras, also expressed their fury at Australia, which has threatened legal action over Japan's whale hunts.

Fisheries Minister Hirotaka Akamatsu said Japan would maintain a "resolute stance" but said he did not see a diplomatic row brewing.

Foreign Minister Katsuya Okada said: "We have repeatedly showed our concern that Sea Shepherd's obstruction of our research whaling is very vicious. We have also been discussing the issue with the Australian government.

On Bethune's case, Okada told a press conference: "I think the case will go forward in an orderly way in line with judicial procedures. We had better not comment on whether he will be prosecuted."

Bethune, 44, was the captain of Sea Shepherd's high-tech powerboat Ady Gil, which was sliced in two in a collision with the Shonan Maru II in January.

He climbed aboard the Japanese ship before dawn from a jet ski with the stated intention of making a citizen's arrest of captain Hiroyuki Komiya for what he said was the attempted murder of his six crew.

Bethune also presented the Japanese whalers with a $US3 million ($A3.3 million) bill for the futuristic carbon-..and-kevlar trimaran, which sank in the icy waters a day after the collision on January 6.

Sea Shepherd, which has called Bethune the first New Zealander taken as a "prisoner of war" to Japan since World War 2, said on its website it was preparing legal representation for the skipper.

The group declared an end to this season's three-month pursuit of Japanese harpoon ships in Antarctic waters on February 27, saying it had been the most successful campaign yet because it had stopped all whaling in 33 days.

If Bethune faces trial, it would be the second court case in Japan centred on whaling.

Proceedings are ongoing against two Japanese Greenpeace activists now in the dock in the northern city of Aomori and who face up to 10 years in prison for theft and trespassing.
The so-called "Tokyo Two" took a box of salted whale meat from a delivery depot, which they said was proof of embezzlement in Japan's state-funded annual whaling expeditions. They then handed the box of meat to prosecutors.

Currently listening: Hero By Chad (Ft Josey S) Kroeger Release date: 2007-01-08

Help! County Shelter is FULL FULL FULL

Hello everyone,

Just got word today that our small County Shelter is FULL FULL FULL, one open kennel, this is not a good thing, please see most urgent dogs below, cats are in need of rescue too, with kitten season around the corner, it would be good to help the adult and young cats get adopted before this happens. Below is the link to the Shelter's website for all the contact information. Any questions, PLEASE email Ruth the kennel attendant: RuthRasmussen@msn.com

Thanks so much for spreading the word, adopting, rescuing, forwarding, or just saying lots of prayers, all of those thing will be a huge help saving lives.
Dawn Allmandinger
NEWDAWN DOG RESCUE
CLICK THIS LINK
http://www.petfinder.com/shelters/CA1571.html

NEVADA COUNTY ANIMAL CONTROL IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA HELP. CALLING ALL ANIMAL LOVERS. THE COUNTY SHELTER IS DANGEROUSLY FULL WITH CATS AND DOGS. Please spread the word or even better, go adopt a furry friend Our Lost, Found & Adoptable Pet List Click here to see our Happy Tails! Our URGENT Featured Pets Bee Bop-boxer, DC-labrador, Peyton-labrador, Zena-shepherd mix click on the pictures for information about each dog. HELP THEM PLEASE.

Wolf Sanctuary In Desperate Need Of Sponsors And Donations

Wolf Sanctuary In Desperate Need Of Sponsors And Donations
Wolf Mountain Sanctuary is in desperate need of Sponsors and donations. The non profit wolf sanctuary located in Lucerne Valley California, has lost sponsers and has not had many guests come out to see the wolves due to the ailing economy. Wolf Mountain Sanctuary runs solely on donations and can not keep going if it does not recieve enough donations to cover the cost of feeding, caring for, and housing of the wolves living there. Wolf Mountain Sanctuary desperately needs new sponsors to send monthly donations to help cover the feeding and care of the wolves. Any donations will be greatly appreciated. If anyone can help by sending donations or becoming a sponsor, you can do so by contacting Wolf Mountain Sanctuary in these ways:
By Mail
Wolf Mountain Sanctuary
P.O Box 385
Lucerne Valley, CA 92356
By Phone
(760) 248 - 7818
Or By Visiting Wolf Mountain Sanctuary’s Website
www.wolfmountain.com
Any donations will be greatly appreciated.
Thank You.

P.S. Wolf Mountain Sanctuary also needs help with getting the road it is located on paved so it is easier on visitor's vehicles to drive on when they come out to see the wolves.
If anyone can help with donations and/or services to help pave the road, it will be greatly appreciated.
Thank You.

Please be the Pacifist you claim to be.

Posted by thomaspainescor..ner on March 7, 2010

March 7, 2010




Dear Francione and Followers,

I would like to share with you my idea for advancing your dedicated cause of spreading awareness and converting animal protein eaters into compassionate vegans. Although I am not the most formally-..educated person in the room, I can offer a viewpoint in layman’s terms. I propose you focus your efforts into “Real” time. Many folks I speak with outside of the vegan groups, who show interest and want to change their diets from an animal protein base to vegetarian or vegan diet, have a few issues, always the same, that are presented to me.

#1. Expense: because vegans and vegetarians are not the majority as of yet, retailers and food-producing companies use this as an excuse as it is more expensive to produce..
#2. Inconvenience: in a fast-paced “on the go” lifestyle, it is not convenient to make the correct choices.

The generations before us have made these choices on our behalf based on corporate greed, implementing the grossest fast-food chains we could possibly think of; it all ties together with keeping the “meat-..murdering” mentalities of such industries growing and going.

My proposal is this: your efforts should be mainstreamed to make change where your best abilities and interests lie in this movement. I would like you to consider starting a “Vegan/..Vegetarian Fast Food” chain (any and all profits could be used to further educate). In my opinion, that would be the most effective and fastest way to reach people. Please consider this seriously, as I feel this would make a real difference, instead of wasting precious time and energy making statements that hurt others in this movement. Although I agree that everyone becoming vegan in the long run would solve most of the inhumane issues that are rampant in society, it is not going to happen overnight, and in the mean time billions upon billions of animals are being tortured and slaughtered in the most horrific ways anyone could imagine. MDA has its place in this movement forefront at this time to save what you cannot. Why on earth would you condemn this if you really cared for the animals? Or, is it you are only concerned for your health? Please put egos aside and respect all activists and their compassionate efforts to stop the insanity that I have witnessed all my life. I personally am not willing to see one more animal die if I can help it by any means necessary, the same as I would do for a child. It is understandable that a Law Professor has a position to protect in society and to show cooperation to the FBI, but leave it at that, don’t continue to hurt others that deserve your respect and compassion. Please be the pacifist you claim to be.

Sincerely,

Dominique Landis

Dominique Landis, an Editor for The Right to Have and Arm Bears, Canine Crusaders, and Bite Club, is an animal activist who has been passionate toward protecting the voiceless innocents since she can remember. Born in San Francisco, her early exposure to activism began when she and her mother lived with a friend who cared for many rescues, including a Capuchin monkey. Since that time, Dominique has been a guardian for many animals and involved with all types of rescues. She has raised a family as a single parent, working in casinos as a blackjack dealer while attending classes at a local community college and eventually earning a Paralegal Certificate. With the ideal that she could make a difference, Dominique worked for a few years in a D.A.’s office until she came face to face with the massive corruption of the judicial system. She is now a licensed Massage Therapist and Esthetician who advocates for all sentient beings. Her sincere belief is that because of the communication and networking tools that we now have at our disposal there will be no stopping this movement.

Thomas Paine’s Corner wants to periodically email you links to the most recent material and timeless classics available on our diverse and comprehensive site. If you would like to receive them, type “TPC subscription” in the subject line and send your email to willpowerful@..hotmail.com

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"Dogs Welcome"! Cute Story

Neat story

"Dogs Welcome"

A man wrote a letter to a small hotel in a Midwest town he planned to visit on his vacation. He wrote: I would very much like to bring my dog with me.
He is well-groomed and very well behaved. Would you be willing to permit me to keep him in my room with me at night?"
An immediate reply came from the hotel owner, who wrote:
SIR: "I've been operating this hotel for many years. In all that time, I've never had a dog steal towels, bedclothes, silverware or pictures off the walls. I've never had to evict a dog in the middle of the night for being drunk and disorderly. And I've never had a dog run out on a hotel bill. Yes, indeed, your dog is welcome at my hotel.

And, if your dog will vouch for you, you're welcome to stay here, too."

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Dear Francione and Followers,

I would like to share with you my idea for advancing your dedicated cause of spreading awareness and converting animal protein eaters into compassionate vegans. Although I am not the most formally-..educated person in the room, I can offer a viewpoint in layman’s terms. I propose you focus your efforts into “Real” time. Many folks I speak with outside of the vegan groups, who show interest and want to change their diets from an animal protein base to vegetarian or vegan diet, have a few issues, always the same, that are presented to me.

#1. Expense: because vegans and vegetarians are not the majority as of yet, retailers and food-producing companies use this as an excuse as it is more expensive to produce..
#2. Inconvenience: in a fast-paced “on the go” lifestyle, it is not convenient to make the correct choices.

The generations before us have made these choices on our behalf based on corporate greed, implementing the grossest fast-food chains we could possibly think of; it all ties together with keeping the “meat-..murdering” mentalities of such industries growing and going.

My proposal is this: your efforts should be mainstreamed to make change where your best abilities and interests lie in this movement. I would like you to consider starting a “Vegan/..Vegetarian Fast Food” chain (any and all profits could be used to further educate). In my opinion, that would be the most effective and fastest way to reach people. Please consider this seriously, as I feel this would make a real difference, instead of wasting precious time and energy making statements that hurt others in this movement. Although I agree that everyone becoming vegan in the long run would solve most of the inhumane issues that are rampant in society, it is not going to happen overnight, and in the mean time billions upon billions of animals are being tortured and slaughtered in the most horrific ways anyone could imagine. MDA has its place in this movement forefront at this time to save what you cannot. Why on earth would you condemn this if you really cared for the animals? Or, is it you are only concerned for your health? Please put egos aside and respect all activists and their compassionate efforts to stop the insanity that I have witnessed all my life. I personally am not willing to see one more animal die if I can help it by any means necessary, the same as I would do for a child. It is understandable that a Law Professor has a position to protect in society and to show cooperation to the FBI, but leave it at that, don’t continue to hurt others that deserve your respect and compassion. Please be the pacifist you claim to be.

Sincerely,

Dominique Landis

Dominique Landis, an Editor for The Right to Have and Arm Bears, Canine Crusaders, and Bite Club, is an animal activist who has been passionate toward protecting the voiceless innocents since she can remember. Born in San Francisco, her early exposure to activism began when she and her mother lived with a friend who cared for many rescues, including a Capuchin monkey. Since that time, Dominique has been a guardian for many animals and involved with all types of rescues. She has raised a family as a single parent, working in casinos as a blackjack dealer while attending classes at a local community college and eventually earning a Paralegal Certificate. With the ideal that she could make a difference, Dominique worked for a few years in a D.A.’s office until she came face to face with the massive corruption of the judicial system. She is now a licensed Massage Therapist and Esthetician who advocates for all sentient beings. Her sincere belief is that because of the communication and networking tools that we now have at our disposal there will be no stopping this movement.

Thomas Paine’s Corner wants to periodically email you links to the most recent material and timeless classics available on our diverse and comprehensive site. If you would like to receive them, type “TPC subscription” in the subject line and send your email to willpowerful@..hotmail.com

For the latest updates on the animal liberation movement, visit NAALPO at http:../../..www...animalliberatio..npressoffice...org/

If you have a Facebook account, don’t forget to look up Thomas Paine’s Corner’s Facebook group, the Canine Causes FB group, The Right to Keep and Arm Bears FB group, and Bite Club of KC’s FB Group via the “search” feature and become a fan.

And if you have a MySpace account, don’t forget to friend Thomas Paine’s Corner at www...myspace...com/..anarchovegan

Watch the video at http:../../..www...youtube...com/..watch?..v=VIjanhKqVC4 and go vegan. Do it for your health, for nonhuman animals and for the Earth!

To support or undertake animal rights and liberation activism in the Kansas City area, visit Bite Club of KC at http:../../..biteclubkc...wordpress.com.

To learn more about wildlife defense and preservation, visit The Right to Keep and Arm Bears at http:../../..gahc...wordpress.com/

More Hunter's lies...and Another Must See Video

By TC

The video below tore at my heart.

Whats worse is how hunters are lying and making false allegation about Anti-Hunting and support of Soldiers. I have always said I am totally ANTI-WAR but I do support those GOOD men and women who fight over there but for what? We do not want the war , Obama made promises to end it and seems its getting worse. Get this you pro-kill hunterextreme07​ I WON'T support men (and women) who go there to kill for fun, rape women and children and even kill them (but I am sure sports hunters like you will). I will NOT support war based on lies, we are only making these people angrier and the best thing to do is to get our ass out of there.

hunterextreme07​ aka dumb and dumber who made this video
Anti-Hunters Exposed (Anti hunters want American soldiers DEAD 2-28-10)




http:​/​/​www.​youtube.​com/​watch?​v=​jOxgGJOafJE



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To: (515151400)

Date: 3/7/2010 5:54:47 AM

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Self inflicted suicide wounds! OMG they have got to be kidding! Thank you for sharing this powerful vide this morning...
Beth



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"Don't Tell The Kids" ~`Pizza Joint Slaughters Bunnies

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Please write strong letters to to protest the barbaric slaughtering of these Bunnies: press@robertaspizza.com

Don’t Tell
the Kids

Jennifer May for The New York Times

A rabbit at
John Fazio’s farm in Modena, N.Y. More Photos >

Published: March 2, 2010

RABBITS are supposed to
be easy to kill. The French dispatch them with a sharp knife to the
throat. A farmer in upstate New York swears that a swift smack with the
side of the hand works. Others prefer a quick twist of the neck.

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Rabbit leg stuffed with egg, bacon
and offal. More Photos »

It didn’t seem so easy at
the rabbit-killing seminar held in a parking lot behind Roberta’s
restaurant in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn in November.

The idea was to place the
rabbit on its belly on straw-covered asphalt, press a broomstick across
the back of its neck and swiftly yank up the rear legs. Done right,
it’s a quiet and quick end. But it takes a little skill and a lot of
fortitude, which some of the novices lacked.

Nine people had paid $100
each to learn how to raise, kill and butcher the animals. One was a
woman hoping to start a farm in the Bronx. Another was considering a
move to family land in Montana. A couple dressed in black had traveled
from the Upper East Side with their knives and cutting boards in an
Abercrombie & Fitch bag.

Sharleen Johnson, who
rode a bus in from Boston, wanted to raise livestock in her backyard.

“This is my gateway
animal,” she said.

In an age when diners
scoop marrow from roasted beef shins and dissect the feet of pigs raised
by people they’ve met, rabbit certainly seems like the right meat at
the right time.

American rabbit is
typically raised on smaller farms, not in some giant industrial rabbit
complex. The meat is lean and healthy, and makes an interesting break
from chicken. For people learning to butcher at home, a rabbit is less
daunting to cut up than a pig or a goat. And those who are truly
obsessed with knowing where their food comes from can raise it
themselves.

Still, it’s a rabbit, the
animal entire generations know as the star of children’s books and
Saturday-morning cartoons, and as a classroom mascot.

Buttermilk Channel in
Brooklyn had rabbit on some menus shortly after it opened in late 2008.
But after a table of guests walked out, it came off. Now the only rabbit
served at the restaurant is disguised in a country terrine.

“It seems to me that the
more you can make rabbit not look like rabbit, the easier it is to sell
people on it,” said the restaurant’s owner, Doug Crowell.

But not everybody is
squeamish. Some restaurant chefs are lining up for well-raised rabbits
from small farms, using the meat in coconut chili braises, liver pâtés
and even upscale sliders inspired by White Castle.

“Every time I put it on
the menu it flies out the door,” said Chris Kronner of Bar Tartine in
San Francisco.

Rabbit is also becoming
popular among those with an interest in raising farm animals but without
much space or experience. Sure, rabbits can be fragile. They get scared
and have heart attacks. Heat or the cold can knock them off. They can
be bad parents, abandoning their babies or worse.

But they breed like,
well, you know. That means they produce a lot of meat for not much
money. And they’re clean and quiet — especially welcome traits in the
suburbs.

“I always say rabbits are
the new chickens,” said Novella Carpenter, who built a farm on an
abandoned lot in a poor section of Oakland, Calif., and turned her
experience into a book called “Farm City.”

“You can pay more, which
is the Slow Food method,” she said. “Or you can do it yourself. Which is
my method.”

Ms. Carpenter believes
anyone who is thinking of raising rabbits should kill one first. That is
one reason she, along with Samin Nosrat, a Bay Area cooking teacher,
conducted the Brooklyn class.

The seminars were part of
a larger East-West rabbit cultural exchange organized by the magazine
Meatpaper. It was built around a series of rabbit dinners at Bar Tartine
last month and at Diner in Brooklyn last November.

As the pre-slaughter
lecture in Brooklyn began, Ms. Carpenter prepared students for the
moment.

“Today is a somber day
because we are going to be killing rabbits,” she said. “But I am always
psyched after slaughter because I’m like, now I’m going to eat.”

The rabbit events
appealed to the kind of adventurous cook who signs up for weekend
sausage-making classes, in part because rabbits are an especially good
way to learn basic home butchery.

“They have the same
muscle structure as a pig,” Mr. Kronner said. “For someone who hasn’t
broken down a large animal, a rabbit is a great place to start.”

The classes and dinners
also attracted those seeking a slower way of living.

“American palates are
expanding and looking backwards, and rabbit is a big part of that, ”
said Sasha Wizansky, the editor in chief of Meatpaper, who first
suggested the bicoastal food exchange.

Still, arguing that the
country is in the middle of a rabbit renaissance might be overstating
it. Rabbit never really had a strong first act to begin with.

It has always been
something of a crisis meat in America. Poor rural dwellers who moved to
the city and European immigrants looking to assimilate found other
animals to eat as soon as they could (the French notwithstanding).

And although rabbit
consumption spiked during World War II, when the United States
government encouraged people to raise them for meat, it never translated
to the supermarket. When the French food revolution changed American
dining in the 1960s, rabbit in mustard sauce would turn up at the
occasional dinner party or restaurant. But the country never quite got
past the pets-or-meat problem.

Ever since the Victorians
began keeping them as pets, the relationship between the rabbit and the
table has been uneasy.

“It’s this weird
association with Easter,” said Sean Rembold, the chef at Diner and at
its sibling restaurant next door, Marlow & Sons.

Chefs have to tap-dance
between customers who are excited to eat rabbit and those who find the
mere idea intolerable. And despite its reputation as a staple in frugal
times, rabbit isn’t cheap these days. A seven-pound live rabbit might
weigh four pounds cleaned and cost a restaurant $25 to $30. D’Artagnan
sells a whole fryer rabbit for $36.99 on its Web site.

Chefs searching for
local, fresh rabbit can’t always find enough. In the Bay Area, cooks
wait for a call from Mark Pasternak of Devil’s Gulch Ranch in Marin
County. Along with his wife, a rabbit veterinarian named Myriam
Kaplan-Pasternak, he raises the most coveted rabbits in Northern
California.

They are such believers
in the economic and health benefits of eating rabbit that they travel
regularly to Haiti to teach families to raise rabbits on foraged food.
The Pasternaks and their two daughters were in Haiti during the recent
earthquake, when they turned their attention from rabbits to rescue.

Mr. Pasternak began
growing rabbits about 12 years ago for his mother-in-law, who is from
France. She brought a French chef to dinner and word leaked out to Bay
Area cooks. Soon, Mr. Pasternak was selling rabbit to Chez Panisse and
the French Laundry.

“I went from two to 2,000
in no time,” he said. Not that he butchers 2,000 rabbits every week.
Usually, it’s about 100. But he is preparing to quadruple the number of
breeding rabbits he keeps, making chefs in the Bay Area happy.

“I turn down two, three,
four restaurants every single week,” Mr. Pasternak said. “I get calls
from all over the country, but I discourage shipping the rabbits. You
don’t need me shipping rabbit back to New York.”

Some chefs in Manhattan
turn to John Fazio, who sells his rabbits with most organs intact to
restaurants like Savoy and Marlow & Sons and to a few Italian
markets on Arthur Avenue in the Bronx.

Mr. Fazio started raising
rabbits near his home in Modena, N.Y., 80 miles north of Manhattan,
after an accident left him unable to make a living as a truck driver. A
couple of years ago, a chef at Cookshop in Chelsea started ordering
them. Others followed. Now he sells 300 to 400 a week.

He slaughters to order.
And he has a signature.

“If they don’t have a
rabbit with a head on it, they don’t have a rabbit from me,” he said.

Both he and Mr. Pasternak
raise a mix of New Zealands and Californians, the two most popular meat
breeds. New Zealands are longer and thinner but produce more babies.
Californians are a little meatier. Mr. Pasternak adds in some
tri-colored Rex rabbits, which are used in the fur trade and have a good
temperament.

In the kitchen, rabbit
can be a challenge. The bones are tinier and more fragile than those of
chickens, making splintering a constant concern. The meat sticks and
clings in an endless number of small nooks and crannies.

Like chickens, rabbits
have parts that cook differently. But it’s hard to roast the whole
animal at the same temperature without making some meat too dry or
tough.

The hind legs especially
almost always need a moist, slow braise. For frying, plenty of cooks
like to give them a good soak in buttermilk or a light brine.

The saddle, or center
portion of the rabbit, is a different story. The meat can be fried, but
it can be dry. So it helps to apply a bit more finesse.

“Treat the loins like
pork tenderloins and wrap them in pancetta,” Mr. Rembold said. “It’s a
great home cook trick. It’s like a chicken breast.”

For a salad
of bitter greens and rabbit he served at the Brooklyn rabbit dinners,
Mr. Rembold removed the legs, sautéed the rest of the rabbit whole, then
removed and sliced the meat to toss with frisée and a mustard dressing.

To make the most of all
bits of the rabbit, Mr. Rembold suggests a sausage made with a medium
grind mixed with some fatback or chicken skin to enrich the lean meat.
Ms. Nosrat likes to use up all the scraps and legs in a long-simmered
ragù.

Angelina Lippert, the
woman who took an Abercrombie & Fitch bag and her boyfriend to the
class in Brooklyn, brought home the legs of the rabbit they killed and
braised them with almonds, apples, Calvados and cream. The saddle,
kidneys and heart went into a rolled roast with garlic, sage and
rosemary.

The killing itself was a
little more intense than she had expected, she said.

“When I was the first
person to volunteer to break the neck, it all seemed so easy and
emotionless that I didn’t realize until after I’d done it that I was
shaking,” she said.

But she recovered
quickly. After all, there was a rabbit to dress.

Ms. Lippert still has the
pelt, the head and the feet. They’re in her freezer, awaiting the
taxidermist. But she doesn’t have the boyfriend.

“He ended up leaving me
for a vegetarian,” she said.

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