A petition denouncing this practice gathered more than 100,000 signatures, leading Ecuador to close the clinics, announce a national advertising campaign against homophobia, and appoint a gay-rights activist as health minister.
Peter Singer and George Orwell combined could not match the scorn with which Barry denounces this practice, and especially the cruelty of fooling the incarcerated bees into thinking that they are being ruled over by a proper Queen Bee, who is clearly some sort of quisling male bee in disguise: "That's a drag Queen!" squeaks Barry.
"John McCain was right to denounce that practice," he added.
But local dentists and doctors denounce the practice, saying it can cause other mouth diseases.
So a crucial step has been to get a growing number of Muslim leaders to denounce the practice as contrary to Islam, for their voices carry particular weight.
In 2005 conservationists, alarmed at the threat to endangered wildlife posed by a Tibetan fad for wearing tiger and other skins, asked the Dalai Lama to denounce the practice.
Critics denounce the practice as "lazy" and un-Mongolian, expressing concerns about the effect it may have on the environment and livestock health.
Mr. Crovesio said that if Mr. Abdessemed wanted to denounce the practice of butchering animals, he should replace "Don't Trust Me" with one of the anti-vivisection group's far more gruesome slaughterhouse videos.
And while civic groups regularly denounce the practice, some of them sounded almost wistful yesterday, complaining that there was so little going on in Albany that officials were not even trying to railroad bills through.
Opponents of drug testing in the workplace have pleaded their case not only on editorial pages but in the courtroom, where, typically, they denounce the practice as an invasion of privacy.
Journalists and reporters on the other hand, most of them anyway, are held to strict editorial guidelines and policies that denounce the practice of receiving products, gifts or compensation in exchange for editorial coverage.
