And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Date: Sat, 26 Jun 1999 20:50:51 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.insightmag.com/articles/newsalert.html Insight Magazine Controversy Surrounds Turner's Buffalo Empire ------------------------------------------------------------------------ By James P. Lucier and Timothy W. Maier ------------------------------------------------------------------------ <Picture: I>t was Insight that first reported how cable-TV mogul Ted Turner had all but cornered the bison market, owning 17,000 head on ranches in Montana, Nebraska and New Mexico (see "How Buffalo Ted Hunts Bison Bucks," June 28). Following up the Insight beat, the New York Post says that an embarrassed Turner is finding a way to take a lower profile as the bison king. Turner has been a member of the North American Bison Cooperative, or NABC, and at the same time its leading supplier. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, or USDA, recently purchased $6 million worth of bison meat from NABC to be funneled into the Native American Feeding Program, a commodities provider for the poorest of American Indian families. . . . . But a rival group, the InterTribal Bison Cooperative, or ITBC, has charged that Turner's NABC is selling the government the "excess trim," the fattiest portion, while sending off the steaks at exotic prices to fancy restaurants. ITBC leader Fred DuBray also charged that Turner and the NABC were trying to turn the bison, a freedom-loving wild animal sacred to American Indians, into commercial livestock for slaughter. DuBray contends that while American Indians always killed bison for food, they only took what was needed, letting the animals graze entirely on grass as the Great Spirit clearly intended. . . . . The Post report says that Turner, instead of remaining out front as "Buffalo Ted," savior of the sacred bison, is going whole-hog in the direction of commercial distribution, but with a much lower profile. He will merge his operations into North American Provisioner, based in Omaha, to market bison meat to restaurants, fast-food chains, hotels, the military and schools. . . . . Reprinted under the fair use http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.html doctrine of international copyright law. &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
