please do not donate to kpfa, kpfk

[Guest guest]

The dumbing down of Pacifica continues. It wasn't bad enough for KPFA in the Bay

Area to embrace public - health - endangering,

environmentally -destructive, animal - murdering anti - vegan propaganda, as is

the waste of trees that is the book " Vegetarian Myth " by liar Lierre Keith, who

urges consumption of animal flesh and cows' milk . Now KPFK in Los Angeles

wastes its airwaves praising the moronic author as a deep ecologist, providing

her book as an incentive to donate. She is praised as a feminist, while cows'

milk production starts with rape. PLEASE DO NOT DONATE TO KPFK. It has lost its

way as has KPFA. After interviewing the carniverous Ms. Keith, KPFK claims to be

concerned about hunger, as we feed the poor people's bread to Ms. Keith's cow.

 

We are disappointed and frustrated with KPFK and its censorship of vegan, animal

rights, and true environmental programming, and the speciesism rampant at the

station. We have appealed and lobbied for years for subject matter that can save

audience members lives from the ravages of heart disease, cancer, stroke, and

diabetes, that can save the planet itself, and billions of tortured, murdered

animals. All we get is betrayal - anti-vegan propaganda offered as a station

premium for donation. Donate enough money, and KPFK will send you a book -

" Vegetarian Myth " by Lierre Keith - that will teach you and your family how to

get sick and die, destroy the environment, perpetuate war and violence, squander

resources, and kill animals by the billions. Shame on KPFK! Worldwatch Institute

just published a report blaming meat and dairy for 51% of greenhouse gas

emissions. Professor T. Colin Campbell of Cornell University blames meat and

dairy for 90% of disease in this country. Shame on KPFK for depriving its

audience of such critical information.

 

Shame on KPFK for violating the Pacifica mission statement dedicated to peace

and to providing a voice for alternative viewpoints. Tolstoy said " As long as

there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields. " Why? Why is Dennis

Kucinich vegan? Why is Cindy Sheehan vegan? Why was Cesar Chavez vegan? The KPFK

audience will never know.

 

We held a protest at KPFA, only to be greeted by some speciesist programmer,

eating a bowl of tuna fish, arguing with us that KPFA does present credible

environmental programming, all said with ocean depletion and murder on her

breath. Shame on KPFA and KPFK, their ignorance, irrelevance, and indifference.

One bite of a hamburger can be fatal in this age of mad cow disease. A vegan

saves over 300,000 gallons of water in food growing in a year compared to

cadaver eaters. The KPFA and KPFK audience doesn't hear this, it doesn't hear

the moral issues concerning today's holocaust, the slavery, mutilation, female

exploitation, and murder of innocent sentient beings. Yet here I am for 9 years

on commercial AM radio, often on right wing radio stations in the past - with a

vegan, animal rights, human liberation program. There are non-violent animal

rights activists wasting away in jail for nothing more than putting words on a

website, or on the sidewalk with chalk. Animal rights activists top the

government's terrorist lists, deprived of first amendment rights - while KPFA

snacks on tuna fish with neurotoxic mercury - giving us a brain-dead station.

How do the oppressed murder victims taste, KPFA?

 

We demand a weekly animal rights vegan program now - not next week, not next

month - but now. I am willing to produce and host it. KPFT-Pacifica in Houston

started a vegan show about 8 years ago - inspired by my program GO VEGAN WITH

BOB LINDEN (www.GoVeganRadio. com, now airing in the Bay Area on progressive

talk GREEN 960 AM, and in LA on KTLK-AM-1150 when it can be afforded.) I was the

first guest on the KPFT Houston show, and I co-host regularly. (It's astonishing

that there's a vegan show on a Houston Texas Pacifica radio station, and none in

the Bay Area!) That Texas program always exceeds its pledge drive goal, as

begging for money has lately become the main subject matter of KPFA. and KPFK.

Perhaps people would donate if KPFA and KPFK were to provide a forum for today's

most important and relevant issues; but right now it doesn't deserve a penny in

listener support.

 

Peace advocates, vegan and animal rights activists, and true environmentalists

should not donate to a station with such a harmful public and societal

perspective, whose policies embrace censorship, speciesism, gender bias, and

racism. People of color suffer the worst death and disease rates in this

country, unnecessarily - deprived of information that can save their lives, as

KPFA and KPFK offer a book suggesting cows' milk to the lactose intolerant and

diabetic. The mighty KPFA and KPFK are now diminished to trash talk. KPFA and

KPFK are sell-outs. I am urging everyone to boycott the very disappointing KPFA

and KPFK and withhold donations - as they have abdicated their role as voice of

the community.

 

Do you really want your donations to go to an anti-vegan, anti-animal,

anti-environmental, anti-peace cause?

 

Donations are welcome, and more useful, at GO VEGAN RADIO, or your local animal

rescue sanctuaries.

 

Bob Linden

www.GoVeganRadio. com

Bob (AT) GoVeganRadio (DOT) com

818-623-6477

GO VEGAN RADIO

PO Box 475414

San Francisco, CA 94147