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PETA buys stock in ConAgra Foods
Iowa Farm Bureau ^

Posted on 12/18/2003 7:56:45 AM PST by 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.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: animalrights; busybodies; conagra; defundpeta; foodnazis; peta; tyrants
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I would love to be a fly on the wall for the next ConAgra stock holders meeting....
1 posted on 12/18/2003 7:56:47 AM PST by jmcclain19
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To: jmcclain19
Oh no! You mean that budding chiropractors are giving animals health-promoting adjustments? The horror!
2 posted on 12/18/2003 8:00:22 AM PST by sarasota
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To: jmcclain19
No more ConAgra for me, thank you.
3 posted on 12/18/2003 8:01:25 AM PST by WinOne4TheGipper (I beat the crap out of a DUer and stole this tagline.)
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To: jmcclain19
It must be nice to have a tax exempt business for a hobby.
4 posted on 12/18/2003 8:02:37 AM PST by m1-lightning (Weapons of deterrence do not deter terrorists; people of deterrence do.)
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To: will1776
I think PETA are just buying a few shares so they can be their obnoxious selves.


Any reason otherwise you aren't a fan?
5 posted on 12/18/2003 8:02:52 AM PST by jmcclain19
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To: sarasota
A visit to ConAgra's web site indicates they have many, many meat options. So what's the draw for PETA?
6 posted on 12/18/2003 8:02:58 AM PST by sarasota
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To: sarasota
control of the company
7 posted on 12/18/2003 8:03:27 AM PST by PetsAdvocate
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To: jmcclain19

8 posted on 12/18/2003 8:04:07 AM PST by m1-lightning (Weapons of deterrence do not deter terrorists; people of deterrence do.)
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To: jmcclain19
bump
9 posted on 12/18/2003 8:08:05 AM PST by Lady Eileen
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To: PetsAdvocate
140 shares=control? Hahahahaha
10 posted on 12/18/2003 8:09:24 AM PST by sarasota
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To: jmcclain19
It'll piss 'em off if that stock goes through the roof...maybe.
11 posted on 12/18/2003 8:09:51 AM PST by ErnBatavia (Some days you're the windshield; some days you're the bug)
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To: sarasota
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.

12 posted on 12/18/2003 8:12:00 AM PST by Bob
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To: sarasota
Cows are branded, dehorned and castrated.

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

13 posted on 12/18/2003 8:14:00 AM PST by Mr. Lucky
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To: jmcclain19
People

Encouraging

Terrorism

Again

14 posted on 12/18/2003 8:15:36 AM PST by Trampled by Lambs (...and pecked by the dove...)
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To: jmcclain19
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
15 posted on 12/18/2003 8:16:40 AM PST by mhking (Bud Light salutes Real Men of Genius: Mr. Silent Killer Gas Passer...)
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To: sarasota
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).
16 posted on 12/18/2003 8:18:00 AM PST by jae471
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To: mhking
No prroblem here.. the only thing on that list that I use is PAM and there are other brands for that.
17 posted on 12/18/2003 8:19:01 AM PST by Trampled by Lambs (...and pecked by the dove...)
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To: jmcclain19
No. I just hate PETA.
18 posted on 12/18/2003 8:19:06 AM PST by WinOne4TheGipper (I beat the crap out of a DUer and stole this tagline.)
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To: Mr. Lucky
LOL - missed that one!!! Thanks for the smile!
19 posted on 12/18/2003 8:23:48 AM PST by taxcontrol (People are entitled to their opinion - no matter how wrong it is.)
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To: will1776
cows are branded, dehorned and castrated.”

I dare you to find me one castrated COW. :)
20 posted on 12/18/2003 8:24:03 AM PST by adam_az
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