Stephen Colbert: Great Friend to the Animals, or Greatest Friend to the Animals?

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From: DawnWatch - news [at] dawnwatch.com
Date: Apr 19, 2007 11:57 PM
Subject: DawnWatch: Colbert on Bovine Growth Hormone 4/19/07

On Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report,” Wednesday, April 18 (repeating on Thursday April 19), Stephen Colbert satirized the “benefits” of using Recombinant Growth Hormone in US cows milk production. You can watch the segment on line at: tinyurl.com/32hrgb.

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You may wish to add a comment about the treatment of cows on modern dairy farms.

A good place to learn a little more about milk production is www.peta.org/factsheet/files/FactsheetDisplay.asp?ID=98.

Yours and the animals’,
Karen Dawn

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