Kids Substituted For Bullfrogs After Complaints By Animal Rights Activists!

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[Retired Chemist]

An Iowa festival planning a bullfrog-jumping contest was forced to cancel the event after local animal rights activists complained that it was "inhumane and barbaric," reports the Cedar Rapids Gazette.

Nancy Hedges Wendler, director of the Freedom Festival in Cedar Rapids, had planned to buy six bullfrogs from an Idaho bullfrog farm, race them in wet grass then free them in private ponds in the area.

[camle]

sounds like the tail wagging the dog. why did they listen to this lunatic anyway?

[Question_Assumptions]

Racing frogs is cruel. Let's use children, instead.

That certainly fits in with the "Save the whales/abort the babies" mindset.

[mhking]

But Wendler pulled the plug on the event after local animal rights activist Audrey Rahn protested it at a City Council meeting.

"As God is my witness I thought turkeys could fly."

[ImaGraftedBranch]

A quick GOOGLE search of this Audrey Rahn from the ALDF shows that she is quite busy in legal proceedings all over the place. From where do these people get their money?

[Freedom4US]

Plenty more bullfrogs where those came from. They can't stop me. Ha Ha Ha

[consultant]

So, after the children complete the contest, will they be released into a local pond?

[HELLRAISER II]

I don't know about the rest of you, but from the frogs point of view I think I would have rather competed in the contest & then been set free in the local pond instead of being chopped up an served in one of the local restaraunts. Sounds like the do-gooder whacko's have condemened them to be somebody's meal instead of swimming free in the pond. What a bunch of dumb @sses, maybe the frogs next of kin can sue them for negligence.

[goodieD]

They pulled the frogs because someONE complained? When are people going to stop bowing down to these freaks? Why would you disappoint a bunch of kids and stop a tradition because of a few whack jobs? People need to get some nuts and tell the left NO!

[11B3]

I love animals too! Usually medium rare.

If this busy body wannabe ankle wants to see "inhumane" for those bullfrogs, she needs to spend some time out in nature for a while. Hawks, owls and eagles are very 'inhumane' with them. An excellent analogy that might teach her about nature would be for her to visit Kodiak Alaska in early spring. Upon arrival, she could just take a short walk in the willows while eating a tin of smoked salmon. That would be good lesson for this one.

[Bikers4Bush]

Frogs legs are tasty.

[ko_kyi]

Around here the Blue Herons get fat on them

[Paul Atreides]

I have never understood why a rational majority always gives into a deranged freak minorty. I would have told the idiot to go jump in the lake.

[virgil]

Good question. Where do these people get their money and why are people so afraid of them? Make them prove it hurts the animals. Make it cost them. How do they know what a frog thinks?

[hattend]

It's inhumane and barbaric to make frogs jump? Isn't that what they are designed to do?

PETA must think they are all loaded with lead pellets ala Twain's story. Morons.