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Lawmakers strip cockfighting provision from forestry bill
Associated Press ^
| 11-20-03
| MATTHEW DALY
Posted on 11/20/2003 4:25:49 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:44:57 AM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Cockfighting and wildfires do not mix, at least not in Congress.
House and Senate negotiators working Thursday on legislation aimed at reducing fires in national forests stripped a provision to increase penalties on illegal cockfighting.
Lawmakers said the cockfighting measure, and a separate plan to limit use of the term "ginseng" in labeling herbs and other supplements, were cluttering up the forestry bill, itself the focus of intense debate for months.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: animalrights; chicken; cockfighting; environment; healthyforests; pork
To: farmfriend
ping
To: Oldeconomybuyer; AAABEST; Ace2U; Alamo-Girl; Alas; amom; AndreaZingg; Anonymous2; ...
Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.
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posted on
11/20/2003 6:28:49 PM PST
by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
"...stripped a provision to increase penalties on illegal cockfighting."
Another cave in to the gay community.
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posted on
11/20/2003 6:31:31 PM PST
by
BikerNYC
To: farmfriend
Deliver us from the ignorance called vegitarianism. Starve your brain to death on rabbit food, let the forest burn, ban private property; what a bunch of morons!
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posted on
11/20/2003 6:40:19 PM PST
by
editor-surveyor
( . Best policy RE: Environmentalists, - ZERO TOLERANCE !!)
To: BikerNYC
lol
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posted on
11/20/2003 8:15:48 PM PST
by
tiki
To: farmfriend
BTTT!!!!!!
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posted on
11/21/2003 3:09:19 AM PST
by
E.G.C.
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