Rural Living - News From Highway 6 - Your Road to the Country

Every once in a while something comes up that we just have to let you know about.  Here are a couple of stories we're following that we'll flesh out on the rural lifestyle radio show - Highway 6- Your Road to the Country this Sunday:

PETA is back in the news this time with the iinsurance giant Blue Cross.  In a letter sent today to Blue Cross / Blue Shield of Vermontthe executive director of PETA, Tracy Reiman, is asking the insurance company to raise premiums for meat eaters saying that heart disease, diabetes and other chronic health care issues have been linked to consumption of meat.

We're not making this up, here is the news story.

Let's see two weeks ago it was Mother's Milk for ice cream...today it's higher rates for folks that eat a steak..or we suppose...fish?

Meanwhile the group has also called for a hunting ban for anybody under the age of 18!  Exploiting a recent hunting related tragedy in Arizona, PETA sent a letter to the state's governor Janet Napolitano urging the state to take action to ban hunting if you are not over the age of 18.  PETA knows if they kill off the desire to learn the sport...less and less critters get killed.  Here is that story.

So, you notice something here?  We've run a PETA story every week for the past five weeks.  These folks are working overtime throwing just about anything against the wall and hoping it will stick.

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