Post by Bobcat on Dec 23, 2003 14:45:06 GMT -5
Disney's Anti-Hunting Bias is UnBEARable
Disney’s most recent animated feature, “Brother Bear,” is following in the anti-hunting footsteps of “Bambi” as it hits theatres in time for the holidays – and hunting seasons.
The movie is about a young Native American hunter, Kenai, who is transformed into a bear. He becomes the adoptive father of a cub, only to find that another hunter is stalking him. Daniel Neman, a writer for the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia notes, “the film makes an anti-hunting statement that is out of place for American Indians.”
In sportsmen’s eyes, the Disney flick could not come at a poorer time. This year, sportsmen have been forced to defend bear hunting across the country. The U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance’s National Bear Hunting Defense Task Force and other conservation groups rallied hunters to prevent Congress from banning the use of bait to hunt black bears. It is currently working to protect a recently established bear hunt in New Jersey. The Alliance is preparing for campaigns in Maine and Alaska to protect bear hunting from anti-hunting attacks that promise to be on the 2004 ballot.
Disney Goes Overboard
PETA has modified a film poster from the Disney blockbuster Finding Nemo to promote its anti-fishing campaign. Disney’s cartoon fish, Nemo and Marlin, appear on PETA’s website and leaflets that read, “Fish are friends, not food!”
Take Action! Sportsmen should flood The Walt Disney Company with contacts telling it that allowing PETA use of its Finding Nemo characters is aiding an organization that has spent tens of thousands of dollars paying legal fees for convicted terrorists. Inform the company that PETA is also being investigated for sending $1,500 to the Animal Liberation Front, an underground group identified by the FBI as a domestic terrorist organization. Contact Mr. Michael Eisner, Chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company, 500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA, 91521-9722. Phone (818) 560-1000. Fax (818) 560-1930.
Disney’s most recent animated feature, “Brother Bear,” is following in the anti-hunting footsteps of “Bambi” as it hits theatres in time for the holidays – and hunting seasons.
The movie is about a young Native American hunter, Kenai, who is transformed into a bear. He becomes the adoptive father of a cub, only to find that another hunter is stalking him. Daniel Neman, a writer for the Richmond Times-Dispatch in Virginia notes, “the film makes an anti-hunting statement that is out of place for American Indians.”
In sportsmen’s eyes, the Disney flick could not come at a poorer time. This year, sportsmen have been forced to defend bear hunting across the country. The U.S. Sportsmen’s Alliance’s National Bear Hunting Defense Task Force and other conservation groups rallied hunters to prevent Congress from banning the use of bait to hunt black bears. It is currently working to protect a recently established bear hunt in New Jersey. The Alliance is preparing for campaigns in Maine and Alaska to protect bear hunting from anti-hunting attacks that promise to be on the 2004 ballot.
Disney Goes Overboard
PETA has modified a film poster from the Disney blockbuster Finding Nemo to promote its anti-fishing campaign. Disney’s cartoon fish, Nemo and Marlin, appear on PETA’s website and leaflets that read, “Fish are friends, not food!”
Take Action! Sportsmen should flood The Walt Disney Company with contacts telling it that allowing PETA use of its Finding Nemo characters is aiding an organization that has spent tens of thousands of dollars paying legal fees for convicted terrorists. Inform the company that PETA is also being investigated for sending $1,500 to the Animal Liberation Front, an underground group identified by the FBI as a domestic terrorist organization. Contact Mr. Michael Eisner, Chairman and CEO, The Walt Disney Company, 500 S. Buena Vista St., Burbank, CA, 91521-9722. Phone (818) 560-1000. Fax (818) 560-1930.