Ignoring animal cruelty while fighting for environment is foolish

Georgia Straight blog
April 14, 2010
Roger Clarke

Here’s a bit of news that really should be more surprising: On March 23, the Dogwood Initiative staged a demonstration at Liberal MLA Ida Chong’s office in Victoria. The environmental group was upset over a provincial government decision to allow private land to be removed from tree-farm licences without compensation. Chong’s silence in regards to this issue inspired the protesters to toss six live chickens into her office to make the point that she was being “chicken” and squawking without actually doing anything....