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PETA Still Critical of College's Use of a Cow

Thursday, February 14, 2002

By ERIK ORTIZ
The Ledger

LAKELAND -- An animal-rights group is not satisfied with Florida Southern College's explanation for allowing a game of cow bingo on campus.

In a letter dated Feb. 7, FSC officials defended their treatment of the cow used during a Jan. 16 fund-raising event.

"To our knowledge, no laxatives were used on the cow. School officials were present from start to finish while the cow was on the campus," said FSC spokeswoman Shari Szabo in the letter to the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

PETA finds FSC's reasoning predictable.

"All they did was deny the cow was fed laxatives," Amy Rhodes, a PETA cruelty caseworker, said Tuesday. "And they quoted someone who wasn't even there."

Rhodes disagrees with a statement from Jennifer Vermillera, local executive of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals who was quoted by FSC.

In the letter, Vermillera said, "I don't know if a cow would be that
sensitive (about being put on public display)."

Rhodes contends that cows are affected by laughter.

"I was not talking about the cow being embarrassed. That's just silly, but I would assume that she was stressed in that situation," said Rhodes, who does not think animals should be used for entertainment.

Rhodes's other concern was that children were present during the cow bingo game.

"I am told there were a hundred people laughing at (the cow), some children," Rhodes said. "You don't teach children to ridicule animals or degrade them because they may do the same to people. It's a dangerous message to send to children."

PETA expressed its concerns in a letter to FSC President Thomas Reuschling in January, saying it can be emotionally devastating for an animal to be exposed to ridicule.

Rhodes, who was not present during the fund-raising event, said she was informed of the game by worried students who are members of PETA.

"I hope that the school will take the concerns from students seriously and not brush this aside," she said.

The cow, donated by a local farmer, was used during a carnival which raised money for the women's softball, soccer and volleyball teams.

Cow bingo was played on a grid on Barnett Field. The squares were availableto purchase and the winner was chosen by the square on which the cow deposited a cow patty.


PETA does not plan to respond to FSC's letter.

http://www.theledger.com/local/local/14cow.htm
 
Ok, what is "cow bingo"?

What do they call out the numbers the cow craps on or something?
 
hahaha ... too funny!

I wonder how they would feel about cow tipping!
 
cow bingo

you get a cow you put him out into a field that you have gridded up into 2 foot squares, you number each of the squares.

people get to place bets on what square the cow will crap on first
 
Tyrael said:
Ok, what is "cow bingo"?

What do they call out the numbers the cow craps on or something?

More like picking numbers for a sports pool. Everyone buys a square and if the cow craps on your square, you win.

I've seen it on parade routes, too, where the first horse to deposit an apple on a square drawn in the road wins the pool for the owner of that square.
 
World Ideologies (Referencing Cows)

Feudalism
You have two cows. Your lord takes some of the milk.

Pure Socialism
You have two cows. The government takes them and puts them in a barn with everyone else's cows. You have to take care of all the cows. The government gives you all the milk you need.

Bureaucratic Socialism
Your cows are cared for by ex-chicken farmers. You have to take care of the chickens the government took from the chicken farmers. The government gives you as much milk and eggs the regulations say you should need.

Fascism
You have two cows. The government takes both, hires you to take care of them, and sells you the milk.

Pure Communism
You have two cows. Your neighbors help you take care of them, and you all share the milk.

Real World Communism
You share two cows with your neighbors. You and your neighbors bicker about who has the most "ability" and who has the most "need". Meanwhile, no one works, no one gets any milk, and the cows drop dead of starvation.

Russian Communism
You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the government takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the black market.

Perestroika
You have two cows. You have to take care of them, but the Mafia takes all the milk. You steal back as much milk as you can and sell it on the "free" market.

Cambodian Communism
You have two cows. The government takes both and shoots you.

Militarianism
You have two cows. The government takes both and drafts you.

Totalitarianism
You have two cows. The government takes them and denies they ever existed. Milk is banned.

Pure Democracy
You have two cows. Your neighbors decide who gets the milk.

Representative Democracy
You have two cows. Your neighbors pick someone to tell you who gets the milk.

British Democracy
You have two cows. You feed them sheeps' brains and they go mad. The government doesn't do anything.

Bureaucracy
You have two cows. At first the government regulates what you can feed them and when you can milk them. Then it pays you not to milk them. Then it takes both, shoots one, milks the other and pours the milk down the drain. Then it requires you to fill out forms accounting for the missing cows.

Pure Anarchy
You have two cows. Either you sell the milk at a fair price or your neighbors try to take the cows and kill you.

Pure Capitalism
You have two cows. You sell one and buy a bull.

Capitalism
You don't have any cows. The bank will not lend you money to buy cows, because you don't have any cows to put up as collateral.

Enviromentalism
You have two cows. The government bans you from milking or killing them.

Political Correctness
You are associated with (the concept of "ownership" is a symbol of the phallo centric, war mongering, intolerant past) two differently - aged (but no less valuable to society) bovines of non-specified gender.

Surrealism
You have two giraffes. The government requires you to take harmonica lessons.
 
Starblade

Can you say copy paste? I just did it. Thanks.
 
riff said:
Can you say copy paste? I just did it. Thanks.

I can say it, and i did it...

one of those hilarious emails you open, read, laugh and delete in about 3 minutes....

i really should click 'delete email' more often...
 
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