Sign campaign issues safety warning against bear enclosures
By Jon Ostendorff
The sign along Interstate 26 near Asheville offers this warning: “Children Bitten at Bear Pits.”
The billboard is the latest in a two-year battle that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has waged against the bear zoos on the reservation, about an hour and a half west of Asheville.
It follows an incident last summer in which a 9-year-old girl was bitten at Chief Saunooke Bear Park while feeding a baby bear a mixture of Lucky Charms cereal and cat food.
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Speaking of billboards and PETA. They had a sign(which was taken down following an outcry from the victim's families) in Northern AZ, where it scathly compared the victims with a dog left inside a locked car on a scorching hot summer day.
I forget to note that this was in referenced to the victims who died in the chemically induced sweat tent under the direction of famed snake-oil salesman and "self-help guru" James Author Ray. I won't use "Sweat Lodge" as this is false on the part of the charlatan, who was recently found guilty of all 3 counts of negilent homicide.
Yes, I mentioned that PETA campaign in Sweat Lodges = Parked Cars?
For more on this PETA campaign, see:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-07-23-bear-zoo-peta_N.htm
Tribe facing attack over bear zoos
The billboard is the latest in a two-year battle that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has waged against the zoos on the Cherokee reservation about an hour and a half west of Asheville.
It follows an incident last summer in which a 9-year-old girl was bitten at Chief Saunooke Bear Park while feeding a baby bear a mixture of Lucky Charms cereal and cat food.
The group's efforts are starting to hurt, one zoo owner said.
"It's affected my business earnings," said Barry Coggins, owner of the Cherokee Bear Zoo. "PETA is doing a lot of harm to my family."
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