
Governor Palin Makes Surprise Appearance at MFF
November 22, 2008...
Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska made a surprise appearance at Midwest Fur Fest today. Sources surrounding the Governor said that she regrets all her indiscretions at hurting wildlife, so she came to the Conference today to issue an apology and ask forgiveness.
Here she is, with her only bodyguard, being shown walking harmoniously with the furries, holding a symbolic toy rifle. On Sunday her and said bodyguard were nowhere to be found on the convention premises. But there were quite a few furries sitting around, burping and looking contented.
Dineegla, MFF News Freelancer
Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska made a surprise appearance at Midwest Fur Fest today. Sources surrounding the Governor said that she regrets all her indiscretions at hurting wildlife, so she came to the Conference today to issue an apology and ask forgiveness.
Here she is, with her only bodyguard, being shown walking harmoniously with the furries, holding a symbolic toy rifle. On Sunday her and said bodyguard were nowhere to be found on the convention premises. But there were quite a few furries sitting around, burping and looking contented.
Dineegla, MFF News Freelancer
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I wonder if she did, hmmmmm?
Governor Palin, Ma'am, if you are reading this please go to this link:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1617997/
Governor Palin, Ma'am, if you are reading this please go to this link:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1617997/
I thinks i saw
Duncan and
RaccoonDrew and yet she looks happy to be here at MWFF eh Din?


I'm not sure whether to lol or not. On one hand, that almost does look like her. On the other, it's not like she wants to hurt animals, very, very few hunters do. She hunts with a .300 RUM, which is a fairly powerful accurate cartridge, and can take an animal out pretty quick, without much pain. Not even remotely as much as getting eaten by a wolf. Then, as law requires, she'll pursue her kill, then field dress, process, and make into moose stew. Likewise, if you were to go buy your meat from a store, they're raising animals in captivity for their whole life, then slaughtering them en masse in the most economical way possible, which is rarely the most humane.
May I offer one exception? The US regulations for "organic" meat of any sort prohibit any form of high density confinement. I am a certified organic beef rancher, and my cows lead a very good life (unless they get pounced by a mountain lion), wandering at will all over more than 1,000 square miles of range. The certification process is really quite grueling for the rancher and involves annual on premises inspections. The requirements for slaughterhouse certification are very detailed - and the means is a hell of a lot more humane than any death by predator.
True, some of the ranches I hiked through in Montana were pretty open, and not overly confined. But having lived in Iowa for about 16 years or so, I've seen the opposite of that more often than not. Cows packed into small areas, wallowing in mud, overfilled cattle trucks, and the like. And pigs get even worse, and as for the chickens, many of them spend a good deal of their lives in small cages or crowded together. While there are ways to humanely raise food animals, and I do have to give you a great deal of respect for taking that initiative, very little of the meat consumed by the average person has been raised humanely.
Thank you very much!
A decade ago, the consumer had no way of telling how the animals were treated unless he was a personal friend of the farmer or rancher and had seen how things went with his own eyes.
Nowadays, the label claim "organic" means vastly more than no antibiotics in the feed. The probability of an epidemic increases with the square of the population density, so high density animal confinement operations have to do it. Reducing the number of cattle per acre by 100 reduces the potential of an epidemic by 10,000. My antibiotic bill is zero. My vitamin and mineral feed supplement bills are substantial. If humans got the supplements that my cattle get, they would be a lot healthier.
A decade ago, the consumer had no way of telling how the animals were treated unless he was a personal friend of the farmer or rancher and had seen how things went with his own eyes.
Nowadays, the label claim "organic" means vastly more than no antibiotics in the feed. The probability of an epidemic increases with the square of the population density, so high density animal confinement operations have to do it. Reducing the number of cattle per acre by 100 reduces the potential of an epidemic by 10,000. My antibiotic bill is zero. My vitamin and mineral feed supplement bills are substantial. If humans got the supplements that my cattle get, they would be a lot healthier.
oh, i was around on sunday, during the night! a monkey friend of mine was out during the afternoon. ;)
i came to the furry convention to do some population control... but upon observation and interaction with many of the congoers, it appears that furries do a pretty good job of that on their own!
funny picture up there too, by the way. :D
-governor palin
i came to the furry convention to do some population control... but upon observation and interaction with many of the congoers, it appears that furries do a pretty good job of that on their own!
funny picture up there too, by the way. :D
-governor palin
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