http://www.metafilter.com/tags/pheasants Posts tagged with 'pheasants' at MetaFilter. Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:59:01 -0800 Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:59:01 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/30155/Humane%2DSociety%2DRips%2DDick%2DCheney <a href="http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/2693558/detail.html">The Humane Society of the United States</a> <a href="http://www.msnbc.com/news/1003474.asp?cp1=1">rips Dick Cheney</a> on <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/09/opinion/09PACE.html">"canned hunting":</a> "This wasn't a hunting ground. It was an open-air abattoir, and the vice president should be ashamed to have patronized this operation and then slaughtered so many animals," states Wayne Pacelle, a senior vice president of The Humane Society of the United States. "If the Vice President and his friends wanted to sharpen their shooting skills, they could have shot skeet or clay, not resorted to the slaughter of more than 400 creatures <a href="http://www.hsus.org/ace/12017">planted right in front of them as animated targets."</a> According to <a href="http://kdka.com/local/local_story_344154903.html">another news source,</a> "five-hundred pheasants were released in front of Cheney and his men; and the ten-man hunting party killed 417 of the birds. Vice President Cheney alone shot over 70 pheasants. The birds were then plucked and vacuum-packed in time for Cheney's afternoon flight back to Washington, DC." tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.30155 Wed, 10 Dec 2003 17:59:01 -0800 abattoir cannedhunting cheney dickcheney humanesociety pheasants skeet slaughter fold_and_mutilate