POCATELLO - A billboard protest Saturday that turned into a fund-raiser earned $1,232 for Pocatello-area high school drill teams.
Area high school students hosted a barbecue across the street from a billboard sponsored by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The billboard, located on Yellowstone Avenue near the Stinker gas station, features a photo of an overweight child eating a hamburger and the words ' ' feeding kids meat is child abuse.' '
By the end of the day, more than 1,000 burgers and almost 500 hot dogs had been eaten, said John Coray, who organized the event for the drill teams.
On Sunday, drill team coaches and KWIK radio talk show personality Neil Larsen, who helped advertise the event on his radio show, came to Coray' s house for a cash-counting party, Coray said.
At the event, hundreds of people were given yellow, orange or white stickers with the face of a cow on it than read " I Love Meat."
He' s supposed to be scared, like don' t eat me," said Marianne McCarty, 17, a member of the Pocatello High School drill team called the Indianettes.
McCarty and dozens of drill team members, including MaryLou Cedeno, 14, and Tyler Francis, 15, hoisted signs that read " People Eating Tasty Animals" and " Honk if you eat meat, cry if you don' t."
" The child is a reflection of the way people are starting to look in this country," Ravi Chand, a campaign coordinator for PETA, told The Journal Sept. 10. " If this isn' t abuse, then nothing is.' '
Radio station K-96 hosted a similar event Sept. 18 in Idaho Falls under the exact same billboard picture. Larsen, who has operated one of the region' s highest rated talk shows for the past four years, said he threw the idea of having a barbecue on his radio show before K-96 had started planning its barbecue. Coray said he heard the idea and immediately started planning the event.
Coray said the Cattle Association, Butcher Block and Del Monte Meats donated the meat. Wonderbread provided the buns and the Coca-Cola Corp. helped provide drinks. Of the 30 businesses Coray said he contacted for assistance, 26 agreed to help.
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Area high school students hosted a barbecue across the street from a billboard sponsored by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The billboard, located on Yellowstone Avenue near the Stinker gas station, features a photo of an overweight child eating a hamburger and the words ' ' feeding kids meat is child abuse.' '
man i when are people that eat meat ever going to get a break? besides meat tastes better that tofu and vegie burgers!
anyone ever go on an Atkins diet....it really works.....
Yep! I do my own version of it every year before elk season to drop an extra 5-10 pounds. It' s fast and easy.
It' s not the burger that' s causing the kid' s weight, it' s the bun!
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Id like to add; its not a burger that makes a kid fat, its the 3 and 4 burgers that make them fat. Along with the inability to get their lazy butts off of the couch and do something.[]
Im supprised the ACLU hasnt sued Peta. That is not P.C. to call someone fat. I think the LAAHE (Lard A$$ Association of Hamburger Eaters) should sue.
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