- Per the Kansas City Star, "The Johnson County Park
and Recreation District announced today that it will donate the meat from
deer killed at Shawnee Mission Park to Harvesters, which will offer the
venison to its 550-plus agencies that feed the hungry."
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- Contrary to misguided media portrayal and distorted public
perception, we nonhuman animal defenders DO care about exploited, suffering,
and impoverished human beings. However, we also recognize that humanity's
war on nonhuman animals is the root of all the exploitation, oppression,
racism, classism, and patriarchy that plagues our species. Hence, many
of us have elected to devote much of our time and energy to fighting for
nonhuman animals because they are the most defenseless sentient beings
and have the fewest champions. There are myriad individuals, private entities,
and public programs serving poor and victimized human beings. Many other
people champion humans in need; my allies and I fight primarily for nonhuman
animals.
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- As a personal aside, I have spent hundreds of hours volunteering
with local homeless shelters and have helped support those organizations
through both monetary and food donations. Two years ago, I spear-headed
and organized the Harvester's donations drive at my place of employment.
As a vegan, I have taken the single biggest step one human being can take
to reduce the obscene over-consumption of potable water and grains necessary
to produce "meat," a food of affluence. Worldwatch predicts that
our insane demand for "meat" will double by 2050 due in large
part to the rise of capitalist consumerism in India and China.
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- In short, we don't need to slaughter wildlife in a family
suburban park to feed the needy. We've many other ways and means to help
the poor. Sorry, Randy, Michael, Lloyd and company, but your attempt to
mask the putrid stench of a fetid cesspool with a few squirts of air freshener
is an abysmal failure. How stupid do you think the public is?
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- In response to the deer slaughterers' cynical, deceitful
attempt to lend moral legitimacy to their stubborn insistence on massacring
hundreds of innocent, defenseless beings, I paid a visit to Death Park
(formerly known as Shawnee Mission Park) tonight to give the public a visual
representation of the gallons of blood that will flow from the veins of
the majestic, semi-tame deer who are to receive bullets to the head as
they come to eat the grain the their killers have so "generously"
provided.
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- Behold, Death Park:
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- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vyPR4A-mv0
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- And yes, that's real blood. I procured it from a local
meat processor. However, no animals died for the purpose of my action.
I merely paid a small fee for a slaughtered animal's bloodblood that
would've been destroyed anyway.
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- Stay relentless for the deer!
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- Call and/or email the people below to demand that they
stop the slaughter and implement Anthony Marr's comprehensive, viable,
and cost effective nonlethal deer management plan!
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- Kansas Governor Mark Parkinson http://www.governor.ks.gov/comments/comment.htm
- 785-296-6240
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- Kansas Dept of Wildlife Big Game Coordinator Lloyd Fox
- 620-672-5911 or 785-296-2281
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- Johnson County Parks Director Michael Meadors and PR
Director Randy Knight
- Michael.Meadors@jocogov.org and Randy.Knight@jocogov.org
- 913-438-7275
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- Johnson County Board of County Commissioners:
- BOCC-Commissioners@jocogov.org
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- Annabeth Surbaugh 913-715-5000
- Jim Allen 913-715-0432
- C. Edward Peterson 913-715-0431
- David Lindstrom 913-715-0433
- Ed Eilert 913-715-0434
- Doug Wood 913-715-0435
- Calvin Hayden 913-715-0436
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- Watch the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIjanhKqVC4
and go vegan.
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- Do it for your health, for nonhuman animals and for the
Earth.
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- Local media coverage of In Cold Blood Redux:
- http://www.fox4kc.com/wdaf-story-deer-joco-bucket-of-blood-101409,0,7194114.story
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- http://www.nbcactionnews.com/news/local/story/Group-
Makes-Voice-Heard-At-Protest/pWnp7pmfi0mcHNyhp1ogSQ.cspx
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