PETA buys stock in ConAgra Foods

Iowa Farm Bureau ^

[jmcclain19]

The animal activist group PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has purchased 140 shares of stock in ConAgra Foods Inc.

This gives the group a right to speak at annual meetings and to submit shareholder resolutions. ConAgra reported sales of more than $19 billion in 2003.

“Animals on factory farms are mutilated, drugged and abused,” says PETA. “Turkeys are jam-packed into crowded warehouses. Pigs are confined to concrete-floored stalls and are castrated and have their tails cut off, and cows are branded, dehorned and castrated.”

PETA was also to be active in Iowa Dec. 14 with plans to use bullhorns and to distribute graphic leaflets in a Palmer College of Chiropractic scientist’s Iowa City neighborhood to protest his use of animals in research.

PETA says Palmer College in Davenport is torturing animals to validate the chiropractic profession.

[jmcclain19]

I would love to be a fly on the wall for the next ConAgra stock holders meeting....

[sarasota]

Oh no! You mean that budding chiropractors are giving animals health-promoting adjustments? The horror!

[WinOne4TheGipper]

No more ConAgra for me, thank you.

[m1-lightning]

It must be nice to have a tax exempt business for a hobby.

[jmcclain19]

I think PETA are just buying a few shares so they can be their obnoxious selves.


Any reason otherwise you aren't a fan?

[sarasota]

A visit to ConAgra's web site indicates they have many, many meat options. So what's the draw for PETA?

[PetsAdvocate]

control of the company

[m1-lightning]

[Lady Eileen]

bump

[sarasota]

140 shares=control? Hahahahaha

[ErnBatavia]

It'll piss 'em off if that stock goes through the roof...maybe.

[Bob]

So what's the draw for PETA?

From the article:

This gives the group a right to speak at annual meetings and to submit shareholder resolutions.

[Mr. Lucky]

Cows are branded, dehorned and castrated.

Cows may be branded or dehorned, but they can never be castrated.

[Trampled by Lambs]

People

Encouraging

Terrorism

Again

[mhking]

Those of you who would write off Con-Agra, think again. They've got so many brands that touch so many of our lives; I'd say that there's gotta be a better way to handle this.

140 shares does not equal a majority. They've only bought themselves enough to be able to go to the shareholders' meetings and act their usual idiotic selves.

Con-Agra's brands:

ACT II
Andy Capp's
Angela Mia
Armour®
Award
Banquet®
Big Mama Sausage
Blue Bonnet
Brown 'N Serve
Butterball
Chef Boyardee
Chun King
Cook's
Country Pride
Country Skillet
County Line
Crunch 'n Munch
Culturelle
DAVID
Decker
Dennison's
Eckrich
Egg Beaters
Fernando's
Firecracker
Fleischmann's
Gebhardt
Gilardi Foods
Gilroy Brand
Gulden's
Healthy Choice
Hebrew National
Homestyle Bakes
Hunt's
Hunt's Snack Pack
Inland Valley
JHS - J. Hungerford Smith
Jiffy Pop
Kid Cuisine
Knott's Berry Farm
La Choy
Lamb Weston
Libby's
Lightlife
Longmont
Louis Kemp
Luck's
Lunch Makers
MaMa Rosa's
Manwich
Margherita
Marie Callender's
Meridian
Move Over Butter
Oldham's Farm
Orville Redenbacher's
PAM
Parkay
Patio
Pemmican
Penrose
Peter Pan
Pierce
Ranch Style
Ready Crisp
Reddi-wip
Ro*Tel
Rosarita
Singleton
Slim Jim
Swiss Miss
Squeez 'N Go
Texas Signature Foods Co.
The Max
Van Camp's
Webber Farms
Wesson
Wolf
Wolfgang Puck's

[jae471]

No, but it allows them to wreck havoc at the shareholders meeting -- random proposals to stop selling meat, endless blathering on the floor, etc., wasting the company's and shareholders' time (and time=money).

[Trampled by Lambs]

No prroblem here.. the only thing on that list that I use is PAM and there are other brands for that.

[WinOne4TheGipper]

No. I just hate PETA.

[taxcontrol]

LOL - missed that one!!! Thanks for the smile!

[adam_az]

cows are branded, dehorned and castrated.”

I dare you to find me one castrated COW. :)