Animal rights group burned by using wrong thermometer

Animal rights groups like to remind the world that they exist by putting out an alarmist press release on slow news days. This is what Maryland-based Animals' Angels has done. But their press release was misleading.

From the Des Moines Register:

Two animal rights groups wanted to draw Thanksgiving-season attention to the way turkeys are shipped. So they issued a news release Tuesday accusing Sara Lee Corp. of allowing turkeys to be hauled to its Storm Lake slaughterhouse unprotected from the elements in "subzero temperatures."

Turns out that on the day in question, last Jan. 25, it was cold but not quite as cold as that. The low in Storm Lake was 16 degrees, according to an Iowa State University database.

"I am German," said Sonja Meadows of Animals' Angels, a Maryland-based group. "We measure everything different."

She said she meant that the temperature was below zero degrees Celsius - 32 degrees Fahrenheit. Her group made the same error in a letter Meadows said was sent to Sara Lee after the incident.

Yes, Fraulein Meadows, but you're here now. My guess is that you got caught fibbing.

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