{"id":6619,"date":"2017-11-03T06:57:54","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T14:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/?p=6619"},"modified":"2017-11-03T06:57:54","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T14:57:54","slug":"murder-of-sheep-to-take-place-tomorrow-in-asheville-north-carolina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2017\/11\/03\/murder-of-sheep-to-take-place-tomorrow-in-asheville-north-carolina\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder of Sheep To Take Place Tomorrow in Asheville, North Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Immediate Release<br \/>\nNovember 3, 2017<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wild Abundance Farm Refuses Pleas from Humane Activists to Spare Lives of Condemned Animals<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Asheville, NC:<\/em><\/strong> The public execution of two innocent sheep is scheduled to take place tomorrow at 72 Sanford Way, Weaverville, NC 28787. Wild Abundance Farm is purportedly charging $250 &#8211; $450 to anyone who wants to watch and learn the finer points and niceties of \u201chumane slaughter\u201d as the animal is executed for their profit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/natalie_killing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6614\" src=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/natalie_killing-300x245.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/natalie_killing-300x245.jpg 300w, https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/natalie_killing.jpg 629w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Meredith Leigh and Natalie Bogwalker (at left), principals at \u2018Wild Abundance\u2019 (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wildabundance.net\/\">http:\/\/www.wildabundance.net\/<\/a><\/strong>) have referred to the killing as \u2018sacred\u2019; both women are former vegans who cynically transitioned to the realm of butchery for profit, as explained on their website. Last year, efforts to stop the execution were unsuccessful, while bringing widespread publicity to the event.<\/p>\n<p>A petition to stop the killing is <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thepetitionsite.com\/126\/224\/250\/close-%E2%80%98wild-abundance%E2%80%99-farm-down-theres-not-such-thing-as-quothumane-slaughterquot\/\">here<\/a><\/strong> and has 1400 signers thus far. Despite numerous polite and more vociferous pleas to halt the murder of these gentle, innocent beings, Natalie &#8220;Bogwalker&#8221; Nicklett and her partner Frank Salzano have gleefully pledged to kill them as scheduled tomorrow. Click <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/rufrebelradio\/sheep-killers-at-wild-abundance-called-the-press-office-to-complain\/s-Cf9Qd\">here<\/a><\/strong> to listen to Frank&#8217;s deranged, incoherent ramblings in a phone call to the Press Office. You can return his call at (828) 775-7052.<\/p>\n<p>Should you like to register your disgust and outrage with the perpetrators of this senseless, needless and bloody violence at \u2018Wild Abundance\u2019, you may reach them at:<\/p>\n<p>Wild Abundance<br \/>\n72 Sanford Way<br \/>\nWeaverville, NC 28787<br \/>\nFacebook: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WildAbundance.net\">www.facebook.com\/WildAbundance.net<\/a><br \/>\nTwitter: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/WildAbundanceNC\">www.twitter.com\/WildAbundanceNC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Meredith Leigh, author of <em><strong>The Ethical Meat Handbook: Complete Butchery, Charcuterie &amp; Cooking for the Conscious Omnivore<\/strong><\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:mereleighfood@gmail.com\">mereleighfood@gmail.com<\/a><br \/>\n(828) 222-3686<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/mereleighfood\">www.twitter.com\/mereleighfood<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Natalie Bogwalker<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:wildAbundanceNC@gmail.com\">wildAbundanceNC@gmail.com<\/a><br \/>\n(828) 775-7052<br \/>\n&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Contact: (213) 640-5048<br \/>\nAnimal Liberation Press Office<br \/>\n825-C Merrimon Ave<br \/>\nAsheville, NC 28804<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.animalliberationpressoffice.org\">www.animalliberationpressoffice.org<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:nicoal@animalliberationpressoffice.org\">press@animalliberationpressoffice.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Immediate Release November 3, 2017 Wild Abundance Farm Refuses Pleas from Humane Activists to Spare Lives of Condemned Animals Asheville, NC: The public execution of two innocent sheep is scheduled to take place tomorrow at 72 Sanford Way, Weaverville, NC 28787. Wild Abundance Farm is purportedly charging $250 &#8211; $450 to anyone who wants &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/2017\/11\/03\/murder-of-sheep-to-take-place-tomorrow-in-asheville-north-carolina\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6614,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619"}],"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=6619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6620,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions\/6620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/animalliberationpressoffice.org\/NAALPO\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}