<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><oembed><version><![CDATA[1.0]]></version><provider_name><![CDATA[SwittersB &amp; Exploring]]></provider_name><provider_url><![CDATA[http://swittersb.com]]></provider_url><author_name><![CDATA[SwittersB &#38; Exploring]]></author_name><author_url><![CDATA[https://swittersb.com/author/swittersb/]]></author_url><title><![CDATA[PETA v. Santeria Rituals (Fire Up the BBQ&#8230;ur, a&nbsp;pit..whatever)]]></title><type><![CDATA[link]]></type><html><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Neighbors of Betty Marquez in Tracy, California, are <a href="http://www.tracypress.com/view/full_story/7047827/article-Ritual-animal-sacrifice-stirs-neighborhood-complaints?instance=home_news_lead_story">upset  that the practitioner of Santeria is holding religious gatherings and  performing animal sacrifice at her home</a>. Marquez, who is quick to  point out that the animals are slaughtered humanely, and eaten  afterwards, says she feels as if she is being harassed,&#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;PETA, perhaps feeling that their <a href="http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2009/02/10/peta-racism-goes-into-overload/">racist</a>,  <a href="http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/03/04/peta-misogyny-strikes-again/">sexist</a>,  <a href="http://www.now.org/news/blogs/index.php/sayit/2009/08/26/peta-removes-misogynist-sizeist-billboard">sizeist</a>,  <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/02/28/peta.holocaust/">anti-Semitic</a>,  <a href="http://bastardlogic.wordpress.com/2008/09/23/peta-misogyny/">misogynistic</a>,  and <a href="http://veganideal.org/content/peta-celebrates-trans-misogyny">transphobic</a> campaigns haven’t been going far enough, they now feel the need to  attack minority religions as well by getting involved in a local spat.  Never mind the sheer hypocrisy of calling animal sacrifice “abuse”,  while they “humanely” <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/134549">euthanize  thousands of healthy unwanted animals&#8230;&#8221;</a> <span style="color:#ffff00;"><strong> <a href="http://wildhunt.org/blog/2010/04/peta-vs-santeria-and-other-pagan-news-of-note.html" target="_blank">The Wild Hunt</a> </strong></span>No, I am not sure how I ended up at a Pagan-Wicca-Alternative Faiths site.</p>
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<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://noblepagan.com/user_submitted_articles_essays-63/yoruba_legend_obi_coconut-1801/" target="_blank">A Yoruba Legend</a> (just expanding your already diverse and varied data base)</p>
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