URGENT: Animals in Battle Mountain, Nevada, Need Your Voice to Oppose Greased Pig Contest
Please send Sample Letter below to protest greased pig contest as part of the “animal scramble” events.
(FYI: battlet@broadwaygroup.com bounced back, but I am keeping it posted in case it is reactivated.)
BACKGROUND | FROM PETA
This Saturday, the Chamber of Commerce in Battle Mountain, Nevada, has scheduled a greased pig contest and “animal scramble” at the Lander County Fair. Being chased and subjected to rough handling, crowds, and loud noises is a terrifying (and easily injurious) ordeal for these animals, who have no opportunity to escape or defend themselves. To make matters worse, the animals used in the scramble will be sent home with participants! Sadly, every year, countless animals are “won” as prizes. Many die within weeks from neglect or are bounced around from home to home, relegated to lonely rooms or backyards and ignored. Participants are simply unprepared for the extraordinary responsibility of caring for their “prizes.”
PETA has asked event organizers to replace these cruel events with any number of humane alternatives, but our request has been ignored. We need your help today! Please join us in urging the Battle Mountain Chamber of Commerce to cancel these cruel events. And spread this alert far and wide!
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WHOM TO CONTACT
Email Block
bmcommerce@yahoo.com,
susan.vandemark@wellsfargo.com,
gorda3@hotmail.com,
battlet@broadwaygroup.com
Individual
Sarah Burkhart, Director
Battle Mountain Chamber of Commerce
bmcommerce@yahoo.com
Sue Vandemark, President
Battle Mountain Chamber of Commerce
775-635-5446
susan.vandemark@wellsfargo.com
Angela Gonzalez, Vice President
Battle Mountain Chamber of Commerce
775-635-5556
gorda3@hotmail.com
Wanda Nelson, Director
Battle Mountain Chamber of Commerce
775-635-5424
battlet@broadwaygroup.com
Randy Clark, Director
Battle Mountain Chamber of Commerce
775-635-2129
Brian Garner, Director
Battle Mountain Chamber of Commerce
775-635-5007
SAMPLE LETTER
To Whom It Concerns,
I am disturbed to learn of your greased pig contest during “animal scramble” and am respectfully urging you cancel this unjustified and cruel event. Pigs are marvelously intelligent and sentient creatures, capable of love, pain, thought, and suffering; when you subject pigs to such indecent treatments, you not only condemn them to fear and agony, but you also demean yourself and establish that you are unsympathetic.
Furthermore, when you actively engage in this type of cheap entertainment in front of children, and, in fact, have children actually participating in such, you are demonstrating that animal abuse and disrespect are socially-approved activities, and the link between animal and human abuse is represented. I therefore urge you to cease this exploitation and demonstrate that yours is a community cognizant of the importance of animal protection rather than animal abuse.
Thank you for taking the time to read this urgent request.
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Our Compass 
Shame on, you primitive humans.
All sentient beings ARE persons.All persons have an EQUAL right to live free. No one person may abuse any other person.This is postulate of civilized humans , but you are not .
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manunkind would
not want this gig
if he were greased, instead
of the pig!!!!
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no words…
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