AR-News: (CA-bc-ab/US-co-al-ga-nc-wa-wy-ks-ia-wi) PETA claims poultry has 'mad cow' risk

[Animalconcerns]

[from Billings Gazette]

DENVER, Colo. - A machine-gun-toting chicken aims to deter Americans from
eating meat in the latest national campaign launched Monday by People for
the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

"If the cow doesn't get you, I might," crows an ornery-looking fowl
featured on a billboard hovering above Interstate 76 between Federal and
Sheridan boulevards.

The animal-rights organization is urging Americans to stop eating chicken.
The group claims that poultry given feed containing cattle byproducts,
such as cow's blood, could carry a variant of bovine spongiform
encephalopathy, also known as mad cow disease. 

"The best thing anyone who doesn't want to support horrific cruelty to
animals or put their family in harm's way can do with any meat in their
refrigerator is to throw it in the trash can," PETA spokesman Bruce
Friedrich said.
...
PETA's campaign will roll out in coming weeks in Victoria, British
Columbia; Edmonton, Alberta; Birmingham and Huntsville, Ala.; Atlanta;
Raleigh; Toppenish and Yakima, Wash; Cheyenne; Topeka, Kan.; Cedar Rapids,
Iowa; and Milwaukee.

full story:
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/02/11/build/business/52-peta.inc

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