\n
Cantens, who wrote the petition,<\/strong> said of the vandalism, and the calls and emails, \u00a0<\/strong>\u201cI hope that I speak on behalf of everybody in my club when I say this isn\u2019t something that we wanted. In our discussions, we never talked about anger or retribution or getting back at them somehow.<\/p>\n“We put a lot of work into that campaign, and we were just concerned about the pigs. This came out of the blue. This is not what we stand for. This is contrary to our message, and I had no idea this was happening,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n
Cantens, who said he stands for pacifism, said he doesn\u2019t know of anyone who would be capable of vandalism like that.<\/p>\n
\u201cOf course, I don\u2019t know what people do in their spare time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n
Cantens said he helped get the issue on the radar of PETA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
<\/div>\n
\n
\u201cWe felt like we weren\u2019t really being heard as a group, and of course if you bring PETA in you get more attention,\u201d he said. \u201cSo we asked for help. And they wrote the call to action and everything. It was just a way of bringing more attention to this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cantens called the inaccuracies that Zosel pointed out to him \u201cnitpicky\u201d things.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n
\u201cWe used the term \u2018babies\u2019 for a six-month-old pig, and they disagreed and said it was an adult,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n
Jessop Marsh and Zosel said the pigs at the farm are actually sexually mature adults before they are butchered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n
\u201cWe\u2019re not doing something that\u2019s unusual, except that they have a good home and they\u2019re not factory farmed,\u201d Zosel said.<\/p>\n
In any case, Cantens wanted to make clear that he agrees with GCH\u2019s overall mission.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n
\u201cThere\u2019s nothing against their character,\u201d he said. \u201cThey do great things for the community and our only disagreement was the killing of the pigs. We offered to find a sanctuary for the pigs and offered money to overwinter them.\u201d<\/p>\n
When asked why his organization chose to single out a nonprofit over three pigs as opposed to large feedlots that slaughter thousands of animals every day, Cantens said his group is not exclusively focusing on the PEAS Farm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\n
\u201cThe pigs there matter, and just because it\u2019s three as opposed to thousands doesn\u2019t mean they don\u2019t matter,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s something that\u2019s involving faculty and students and supposed to be serving the interests of the community at large. We care about larger issues as well. We\u2019re focused on supporting the trapping ban. This is just one of our campaigns.\u201d<\/p>\n
The PEAS Farm has been raising<\/strong> and harvesting pigs for more than a decade. Back in 2008, a neighbor complained that workers used a gun to slaughter the animals, so now they are sent to a facility to be processed. Zosel said the organization has no intentions of stopping the program because it provides so many benefits to kids who tour the farm.<\/p>\n\u201cThe animals are always their favorite part,\u201d she said. \u201cKids learn that no, meat doesn\u2019t directly come from Albertsons. They learn that a cow has four stomachs and they learn all these things. Then they go to the farm and see pigs and chickens and understand that those are food sources for some people. Not everyone is a vegetarian or a vegan. So there\u2019s an opportunity here to help people understand some differences in the food industry. We feel that that\u2019s an important message to convey, because it meshes with our mission.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DAVID ERICKSON david.erickson@missoulian.com Sometime over the weekend, someone spray-painted the word \u201cMURDERER\u201d in bright-red letters on the front of Garden City Harvest\u2019s headquarters on Hickory Street in Missoula, and employees have been inundated with vulgar, threatening and expletive-laden emails and calls. The vandalism was signed with the word \u201cALF\u201d, with the A in the form … <\/p>\n
Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4008,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007\/revisions\/4008"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"usa_montana_oct16\"](\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/USA_Montana_Oct16-285x300.jpg\")
DAVID ERICKSON