Friday, January 29, 2010

Monica Pearson Atlanta's Most Hypocritical Anchor

In this interview she talks about comics and how they can be used to address current issues of morality...

What an utter hypocrite! She is so full of herself.

Monica Pearson Interview from Richard Wright on Vimeo.


I wrote and an email to an Atlanta News Anchor Named Monica Pearson after seeing her on TV in an ad from London promoting a "Diana" special! In the ad she wore a fancy gold tone leather coat with a large fur collar.

I really did not necessarily expect Monica Pearson to agree with my message and denounce fur on the spot, I was simply hoping to somehow reach her heart.

Well here is the e-mail I send to Monica Pearson and about two hours later I get her response, which I am posting here right underneath.

This is what I wrote in it's totality:


Dear Ms. Pearson,

Allow me to express a concern.
I have been a fan of you ever since I moved to Atlanta 20+ years ago.

A few minutes ago today Monday January 25th around 7:10 PM I saw an ad where you speak of a Diana Special from London.

In this ad you are wearing what seems a leather coat with a fox or raccoon dog collar.

I was very, very surprised to see that.

Up until about two years ago I may have worn a fur coat myself, however I am certain you are much more worldly and knowledgeable about many things including the horrific fur industry then I was.
You must know about the cruel barbaric fur industry. If not please research and see with your own eyes. PLEASE!

Two years ago I saw shocking footage that turned my life around when it comes to the fur, leather and meat & dairy industry. After that I could never again wear fur again and I also have become a vegan. It was a matter of conscience. I suddenly understood the meaning of "Once I was Blind. But Now I see!"

The fur industry routinely skins animals alive. I have seen footage in which a raccoon dog is skinned alive and after the poor creature is skinless, his bloody bare body, the animal still alive was thrown on to a hep and you could see his eye blinking. It took about five minutes for the animal to perish. This is common practice and many of these fur farms are in china. Most furs used in these fashions come from china. Some like baby seal comes from Canada where they still bludgeon baby seal to death by the thousands. In China the routinely skin German Sheppard's, and any dog that has pretty fur, like Golden Retrievers who are made in to rugs. It is so barbaric that it leaves you stunned just watching.

Please I urge you to reconsider wearing fur.

You are such a role model for many and you could really affect young women and how they look at wearing fur. I don't know you personally but I cannot imagine that if you saw the footage, of how these animals are treated not only skinned while alive, but also the conditions they endure while waiting for death, I can not imagine that you you would still wear fur.

You are too beautiful to participate in such a bloody inhuman business. It's not wort it. There are so many warm fashionable coats and faux fur collars, these days. Fur is so old fashioned and cruel.

Please join others, like our First Lady who does not wear fur, or Oprah, Carrie Underwood and so many more and denounce fur for it is cruel and inhuman.

Thank you for your time.
Kind Regards
Ginette Callaway

Trying to speak for those without a voice!

PS: Forgive me if this seems like I am in to your business. But I am so disturbed by all these cruel facts that I can not be silent about it. I just don't think you could be either, for you are an outspoken direct person from all the years I have been watching you, I think you are kind as well.

and here is Mrs. Monica Pearson's Response:

"Ms. Callaway, we agree to disagree. I wear fur and I also am a pet owner.
I also eat meat and fish and fowl and wear leather etc. We won't be able to agree on this nor convince the other of our stance. That's the wonderful thing about America, as long as it is not illegal, we can do as we want and we can express our opinions. Thank you for expressing yours. Monica Pearson"

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I wrote her back.

Your arguments is "as long as it is not illegal, we can do as we want!" shocks me to the bone. Especially coming from an African American person.

There was a time slavery was also legal, but that did not make it right.
Thank God there were people who know in their hearts it was wrong and acted against that law. Harriet Tubman was one of them. Those men and women who ran the underground railroad broke the law every day to do what was right.

One day we WILL look back and shutter at the length we as humans went through to indulge our vices. Killing animal for vanity will be just as unthinkable some day as it is unthinkable today to put humans in chains.
Just as unthinkable as smoking in a hospital room today (which was common when I was a teenager!) The laws have changed, because we learned better ways!


ohhh update... I got a response from Monica Pearson and it was telling!

Ms. Callaway, Conversation over. How dare you compare slavery to wearing fur. Slaves were and are human beings and I'm insulted that you would write that comparison. Animals are animals, but they are not human beings and if you don't know the difference, we truly have a problem.

Let's just leave it with, we disagree and that's enough. By the way, there are some things that are legal that I disagree with on religious reasons but I uphold people's right to do them until the law is changed. And I could go down the Biblical path to dispute your argument, but that wouldn't change your mind and you can't change mine.



Monica Pearson

____________You can email Monica at monica.pearson@wsbtv.com______________________

As to the Bible pathways... that you talk about... disobedient Christians have long used Bible pathways to justify their wrong doings, it is too inconvenient to change. Monica Pearce according to your biography you go to a Catholic Church, so I guess you are catholic. The Pope has declared that animal have souls. Are you familiar with Saint Francis of Assisi? The church has said they condemn cruelty to animals. FUR is derived through cruelty. Check it out Monica if you dare.

You just may learn something


In this video below she says: "As A reporter my job is to ask questions!"

well she sure didn't ask any question after receiving my e-mail.
She doesn't strike me as someone who lives by all these pretty words she speaks.

She says: "I love to ask questions... I Love to get in to people's business!" and then she laughs clownishly enjoying the getting in to people's business part.

She doesn't like if anyone gets in to her business that is for sure. Typical elitist reporter!!!


I still recommend she'll watch Earthlings so she can begin to understand what specicism is.

Here is more of the same phony Bologna. She says about reading blogs... "I like them all??? Liar!

I bet she doesn't like mine or any animal rights or vegan blog... and she says:
"I like to get a different kind of view!"
Yeah right... I can just see that in the e-mail response you send me... you did not even try to engage in a conversation. As a matter of fact Your words Monica where: "This conversation is over! You are so full of it!

The ultiate sacrifice to fight animal cruelty

Father: Son who burned himself alive was a troubled genius

Warren Shaull, the father of Daniel Shaull, 26, talked to KATU News shortly after hearing about his son’s death.

“Because of the way that he thinks, maybe he thought that was the only way out,” Warren Shaull said. He added that Daniel may have become convinced “that nothing was ever going to change and there was nothing he could do about it."

According to witnesses, Daniel Shaull doused himself with gasoline and then lit the fuel while he stood outside the Portland furrier Nicholas Ungar Furs, located in downtown Portland.

The business has been the target of protests by animal rights groups for the past several years.

Man Sets Himself on Fire at Portland Fur Store

Man sets himself ablaze outside Ungar's Furs

Serious news.

A man set himself on fire Wednesday outside Ungar Furs in Portland, Oregon. After dousing himself with gasoline, he attempted to enter the store, shouting “There are animals dying! Animals dying!” After police extinguished the flames, he was taken to Legacy Emanuel Hospital where he later died.

The man was identified as 26-year-old Daniel Shaull from Kansas. Among the local activists I have spoken to, none are familiar with Shaull by name, nor recognized him as being a part of the active, long-running campaign against Ungar Furs. Yet the location and witness reports strongly indicate this man sacrificed himself to bring attention to the horrific treatment of animals on fur farms.

A news report, which aired prior to Shaull being announced dead, can be viewed here.

Ungar Furs is a retail fur store in Portland which has been the target of a prolific campaign by local activists. Ungar became a target after frequent protests successfully closed another Portland fur store, Schumacher Furs. The owners of Schumacher Furs gave animal rights activists full credit for shutting them down in 2007.

Amidst a range of speculation as to the man’s true motives, I think it is important to assume this is a genuine action by a person driven to make the ultimate sacrifice by the severity of animal suffering. When every legal channel to affect change is closed, people will increasingly be driven to actions which bring both attention to the plight of animals, and a disruptive effect to those who kill them.

Shaull is not the first to give his life in the U.S. animal liberation struggle. This is a time to remember William Rodgers, who took his life in an Arizona jail in 2005 while being held for numerous Animal Liberation Front actions. It is also a time to remember Alex Slack, who took his life while awaiting trial for the A.L.F. bombing of the Utah Fur Breeder’s Agricultural Cooperative in 1999.

If anyone knows Daniel Shaull, please contact Voice of the Voiceless, so that we can make the full story of this action known.

To those who claim the animal rights movement is “violent”, this action should be yet another reminder that every casualty to date has fallen on our side. Daniel Shaull is just the latest victim.

“If this is what the world has made of us, then let it live with the consequences”.

-Peter Young

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Portland fur shop to pay fine of $40,000
Nicholas Ungar Furs is accused of selling coats and other items made from pelts of endangered or banned species

Thursday, September 15, 2005
NOELLE CROMBIE

Nicholas Ungar Furs to Pay Fine of $40,000

Resulting in a tip to the Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife by In Defense of Animals, Nicholas Unger Furs is fined for at least $40,000 for selling coats and other items made from pelts of endangered or banned species. What a Victory! You can read part of the article below and get the link to the entire article.

It just goes to prove that working, In Defense of Animals, does have its payoffs!

Thanks for all you do for the animals! It's working!

www.furkills.com
www.furisdead.org

In March, James Stinebaugh walked into Nicholas Ungar Furs and asked the boutique owner for help selecting a fur for his wife.

Stinebaugh told Horst Grimm that he was in town on business, according to documents filed in federal court. He said he was shopping for an anniversary present and wanted something "exotic." Grimm, the shop owner, showed him a leopard coat. When Stinebaugh asked to see something made from seal fur, Grimm reached for a $4,500 coat hanging on a rack.

Stinebaugh, it turns out, was a special agent with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on an undercover assignment to see if Nicholas Ungar Furs was peddling fur coats made from illicit animal pelts.


To read the entire article visit
link to www.oregonlive.com homepage: homepage: http://www.furisdead.com