AR-News: (USA) NY: Circus/factory farms on WNYE

[molly]

> PLEASE CROSS POST
> 
> Television station WNYE, Ch 25, is described as a 'public television 
> station owned by the New York City Dept. of Education.  It reaches 
> NY, NJ, and Connecticut. (www.wnye.org).
> 
> They air various multi-ethnic, multi-cultural programs on music, 
> dance, theater and news broadcasts.  I have never ever seen them air 
> anything remotely related to animal protection.  They recently aired 
> the following:
> 
> - A program about how wonderful it is that the youth of America is 
> learning the growing field of 'modern farming' techniques.  It was 
> basically a commercial about factory farming.  They showed cows on 
> carousels, twenty at a time, being milked in a circle by a machine as 
> though THEY were machines - you couldn't tell the difference.  They 
> did not show the more horrific results of intensive farming - they 
> just glowingly described it, and how the 'youth' is well-advised to 
> work in this field.  
> 
> - A weird, one-woman play entitled LIZ' CIRCUS STORIES, about how 
> great it is when the circus comes to town, how the man who created a 
> local (animal-user) circus was a hero who had a dream and made it a 
> reality..."Wayne twirls the whip and yells at the horses, and they 
> all stand up on their back legs!  It's the best horse act in the 
> county - all the horses wear skirts!...two tigers are released into a 
> steel ring, stalking the trainer; I tell him 'Get Brian' who's giving 
> elephant rides to laughing children...' The music! the majesty!..."
> 
> Please contact WNYE and ask them to air the truth about the animals' 
> lives, stories that teach respect of all living beings (and the truth 
> about factory farms):
> 
> Email:   wnyemail at wnye.org