Houston, Wednesday 1st May
The All American Association for Affirmative Action for Dis-Ablebodied Animals [ AAAAAD-AA ] has called for less discrimination by wildlife charities in their treatment of animals, and criticised the continual portrayal of stereotypical images of fit and healthy-looking wildlife in posters, exhibits and TV adverts.
AAAAAD-AA Chair, Dr Bret R Stockdale III, said recent nation-wide polls showed the American people wanted more effort to help disabled wildlife have a better chance "It's a jungle out there", Stockdale confirmed.
Stockdale said AAAAAD-AA urged a more balanced treatment of animals in the media and said that focus group research shows the American public is resentful of the way animal minorities are hidden away from view.
"End the lies; we need disabled animal pin badges now, wildlife charities need to wise up" said Stockdale. He went on, "Zoos across America need to fly the flag for disability. It's all around us but zoos hide it away. What are they frightened of? Let them bring the American people face to face with reality; they're ready for it, and they'll thank us."
Sharing the platform with Stockdale, Hanif Al-Yamani, Secretary of the Southern Illinois Koranic Study Group on Equity and Disablebodiment in Animals and Plants, urged people of all faiths to get behind AAAAAD-AA's efforts to shame wildlife charities into ending discrimination. "We're urging the Supreme Court to outlaw this unconstitutional action", Al-Yamani said, promising a march on Washington this coming Fall.
Reaction has been swift. Emmylou LaGrange, spokesperson for the Green River American Family Values Forum, speaking near Salt Lake City, at the Utah People against Neo-eugenics convention, said pro-life groups would oppose the use of federal tax dollars to support these "wild ideas".
"The world has enough animals without helping ones who can't survive unaided", she said. "People should put their efforts where it's needed most: on anti-abortion activism and clinician harassment”.
A spokesperson for the Oklahoma City Institute for pre-Darwinian Ethics commented: "Damn right. There are no votes in middle America for three-legged raccoons." Stockdale, interviewed at Dulles Airport on the way to a Congressional lobby session said, "This is so typical of the short-sighted, lame-brained …
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