SILENCE IS PRESCRIPTION FOR
PETA'S FOOT-IN-MOUTH DISEASE

April 4, 2001 

Ontario Farm Animal Council Press Release
MISSISSAUGA, CANADA:

PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) leader Ingrid Newkirk is obviously suffering from a severe case of foot-in-mouth disease, saying yesterday she's hoping for an outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease among livestock in North America, said an Ontario farm animal association. "She's can't be serious," said Leslie Ballentine executive director of the Ontario Farm Animal Council (OFAC), an agricultural education and information group which represents the province's 35,000 livestock farmers and associated businesses. "If she said it, our prescription is that PETA take a vow of silence. Leave farm animal care and well-being to the experts - farmers, ranchers and the army of government and private experts in veterinary and animal science trying to keep this disease out of Canada."

"Such grandstanding reveals incredible callousness, a lack of compassion for both animals and people," Ballentine added. The animal suffering would be monumental, she said, and it begs the question how anyone with even the most basic compassion for animals could wish such a devastating disease and possible death on North America's millions of livestock?

The economic devastation suffered by farm families would be even more horrendous, she said, citing suicides and bankruptcies across the United Kingdom in the wake of its current food-and-mouth crisis. At the same time, food prices would skyrocket, while availability would drop significantly. "How can Newkirk and PETA say in one breath they care about 'ethical' treatment of animals - or people for that matter -- while apparently salivating over the possibility that such a catastrophe might happen here?" 

Ballentine asked. "This is typical PETA. It says anything to get headlines." Ballentine says that farmers agree with PETA on one point only -- it is time for "consumers to wake up." The public needs to understand that such statements reveal PETA's total lack of credibility on animal care and welfare. "The best cure for their foot-in-mouth disease is to stop talking. Canadian consumers are tired of PETA's preaching, telling everyone what to eat, what to wear, what movies to see, who's good and who's bad," she said. 

"From what we've seen, PETA spends most of its money on vegetable costumes and flying people around the country who are willing to take their clothes off to raise more money." Ballentine and the farmers she represents believe "It's time for this group to be very quiet" -- which, as PETA often says, "would be good for the animals, good for consumers, and good for the environment."

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