for animals while wishing death on humans.
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Subject: Deer farm in PETA's crosshairs
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Deer farm in PETA's crosshairs
By Raja Abdulrahim
Times Herald-Record
September 15, 2007
Goshen - The video first shows a truck with a Musicon Deer Farm sign and then
cuts to a black screen with two words: Slaughter 1.
Men in blue aprons, some in yarmulkes, grab deer by the ears or antlers and make
quick slits in the throats. The animals live for a minute or two after they're
cut; some have doors closed on their heads.
Despite the emotive title - "Bambi Butchers Horror" - applied to the video by
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, it appears that nothing illegal or
what would be considered animal cruelty by law enforcement agencies is depicted.
Either way, though, deer farm owner Norman Schlaff has been experiencing the
wrath of PETA and its thousands of members since the video was released online
last week.
On the first day of the video's release alone, Schlaff got more than 700
e-mails. PETA offers a form e-mail on its Web site: "Deer are skittish, nervous
animals, and handling and slaughtering them as you do causes them to suffer
extreme fear and distress ..."
Some who wrote to Schlaff put in their own threatening additions.
"All I know is that I got a fax, then a bunch of letters," Schlaff said.
"Telling me that they're going to do the same thing to me that was done to the
deer."
After receiving a complaint of animal cruelty at the facility, PETA sent two
investigators on Aug. 26 to secretly videotape the slaughter. A spokesman would
not say how the two got inside.
The state Department of Agriculture and Markets and local law enforcement have
never cited the deer farm for any sort of animal cruelty.
Orange County Sheriff's Office animal cruelty officer David Ayers has visited
the farm on three occasions: once for a dog that attacked a deer and twice for
neighbor complaints about screaming deer. Ayers concluded the screams heard were
only the calls between the doe and her fawn. "Everything's well cared for,"
Ayers said.
Goshen town police have never received complaints regarding the farm, Sgt. Allen
Faust said.
Schlaff said he was disappointed PETA did not contact him before releasing the
video. "I don't think I'm in a position to fight them. They are a powerful
dictator and so wrong in not contacting me first," he said.
Schlaff tried contacting PETA this week. Group officials were having trouble
getting back to him, said spokesman Matt Prescott. He added that PETA encourages
members to continue contacting companies until demands are met.
Kosher rules
Hunted animals are not fit for consumption under Jewish ritual law, but because
the deer at Musicon are raised on a farm, the venison produced is accepted as
kosher.
An animal qualifies as kosher if it is healthy, has completely split hooves and
swallows its food after regurgitation.
During the koshering process, the trachea and the esophagus of the deer are cut
by a rabbi with a knife as fine as a razor. The cut must be quick and
continuous.
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