PETA Becomes a Parody of Itself
So you’re sitting down to your usual morning fare of bacon and eggs, you open the paper, and you see a full page ad that seems to be about the poor guy who had his head chopped off by a maniac on a Greyhound bus.
But you read further and you see it’s not about that at all. It’s about your breakfast.
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The ad was rejected by its intended paper, the Portage la Prairie Daily Graphic, but PETA’s point was made, thanks to their publicity machine.
Then again, was the point really made? Or has PETA become a parody of itself?
The tactics of extreme activists like PETA, ALF, and ELF used to shock me . I would find myself getting worked up about PETA’s posters and pamphlets on an almost weekly basis. Even groups like MADD or thetruth.com would infuriate me with their use of fear as a weapon to fight for their causes.
But PETA’s current attempt at activism only made me shake my head in dismay.
Who are they trying to reach with this? If PETA is attempting to convert people to veganism or, at the very least, get carnivores to think twice about eating meat, they are going about it the wrong way. The problem with such activism is it preaches only to the choir. No sane person is going to be moved by an ad equating the tragic beheading of a young man with eating breakfast sausage. Not even a person teetering on the border between chicken and tofu would look at something like this and say, “Well , my mind is made up. This upstanding, honest, respectable organization has convinced me with their well thought out Mommy Murders Animals comic book!”
I have no problem with PETA’s message, and I have nothing against people who want to save the environment, save the whales, feed the children, hug the trees, or make this world a better place in their own special way. It’s not the message, nor even the messenger. It’s the way the message is delivered. Maybe if these groups didn’t use the equivalent of a letter bomb as means of delivery, more people would take them seriously.
Look at what some of these organizations stand for. Their ideals are not bad ones, and they only have your best interest at heart. They want you to eat healthy. They want the little bunnies to frolic in the woods instead of being used to research the latest mascara. They want cows to wander the fields forever, the earth to always be green, the skies to always be clean, the obliteration of nuclear weapons, world peace, and a better, cigarette-free world For The Children. Seriously, who could argue with those things? It all sounds so utopian and wonderful.
Most of us who live in reality know that some of those things are just not feasible and some of them are just not for everyone. But I’m willing to listen. I’m willing to hear their side of the story, ask questions, and find out why they think their way is best and why they work so hard to promote these ideals to the world.
Can’t really say I agree with you…
These days, most people don’t approach issues rationally and thoughtfully as you claim to do. There’s a reason a bloody car wreck will cause people to slow down and stare as you drive past it. People ignore messages delivered tenderly and gently… they respond to blood and gore and filth.
Look at all the negative campaign ads in every election that’s ever run. They might repulse people a little, but they also succeed in planting that seed of doubt in the voter’s mind.
If PETA has to be shocking in order to get people to even consider for a moment that eating animals might not be right or necessary, then they’re just appealing to the tone of the times.
Animals don’t feel anything special when they come to the end of the line in the slaughterhouse, because animals don’t understand impending death.
I hate PETA so much.
“(Sorry PETA. I forgot honey equals enslavement.)”
ZOMGZ!! They’re raping the bees!!!!11!
^ yes, but it’s a fine line between delivering the message and looking like a bunch of nut-bags.
This is a great article, Michele.. I often think about this group as well as some others and why they don’t try some new tactics.
Watching a bloody car wreck may get people to slow down and stare, but I’d bet my last cent it doesn’t get them to drive any safer.
Maybe PETA is looking for their next Ron Coronado.
PETA and their like lose my attention the moment preach that an animal’s life is of the same worth as a human life. Call me biased if you want, but humans are more important in my book.
Their arguments also suffer frequent logic breakdowns. If we were to stop raising chickens, cows, and sheep for meat, milk, and eggs, there really wouldn’t be any farm animals left. They wouldn’t be “saved,” they would be exterminated.
No hunting? So do we just control the deer population with the bumpers of our cars, or, do we accept cougars in our backyards and shrug it off when kids are eaten?
I entirely agree with you. What PETA (and their ilk) are, are extremists. And that is dangerous wherever it’s applied. Whether it’s flying planes into buildings, murdering doctors who perform abortions, setting new build homes on fire, or hide stakes in trees in order to injure or kill loggers–extremism in any form is only going to appeal to those who are so bereft of reality that they need to cling onto anything that will accept them.
Their tactics don’t work on the rational being, the average human.
There are ways to present the facts without making a mockery of themselves. Unfortunately, I don’t think Ingrid Newkirk ever realized this.
Far better to support The Humane Society than PETA.
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Have they left yet? 13 days and counting.
Look at what some of these organizations stand for. Their ideals are not bad ones, and they only have your best interest at heart. They want you to eat healthy.
No, they don’t have our best interest at heart and don’t care if we eat healthy. They want to gain the power to dictate their opinions onto everyone else. They are the current incarnation of fascists.
“…get people to even consider for a moment that eating animals might not be right or necessary…”
It is a right and good thing always and everywhere to eat animals.
PETA isn’t about saving the planet for the children, it’s about saving the planet for animals and killing off as many children and other humans as necessary to do it.
eat healthy? look for anemia as the biggest thing since asthma. without rare beef and icky liver we are the ones who are cooked. why is america so tired, the headlines plaintively ask. they are perplexed. duh. peta is good just like the aclu is good. they are our watchdogs. a very annoying loud considerable amount of barking is to be expected. would that it could wake up the senate banking committee (but i digress). you don’t have to believe they are always on the side of right, however. or even that they always make sense. anyone who does think so ought to hop into the nearest cult where they can also follow the leader. at least you get a free meal and there is little chance it’s steak.
It has become quite clear that those who join PETA have never, ever actually been around food animals. I have raised chickens, turkeys, sheep, pigs, cows, horses(although we don’t eat horses cuz of the Old West and whatnot), goats, and ducks. And it was quite obvious that each day was the same as the last, provided they could remember what went on yesterday. Sleep, eat, bm, eat, sleep. That’s an animals life in a nutshell. The only time it changes is when it’s time to mate and give birth. Then back to the grind. Name one thing created by animals? Ya can’t, there is no such thing. All this talk about meat, making me hungry. Suddenly I have a hankering for some ribs, slow cooked over mesquite, with a hint of a southwestern sauce. mmmmmmm….
Which reminds me, I recall that one of PETA’s VP’s is a diabetic and that her insulin is created from horse blood. Is she still kicking, or did she die from blatant hypocrisy?
I would like to know how PETA is so certain that animals have feelings and value their own life, or as was mentioned before can sense impending doom? I understand the emotional connection WE can have with animals, but I think we go too far when we assume THEY have that same connection with us.
I’d like to see how long a cow or chicken would survive in the wild; man, all this talk about cows and chickens is making me hungry…
Damn, my stomach is growling now too. I’m thinking about a juicy burger or cheese-steak for lunch.
All PETA’s ads make me do is go out to eat a cheeseburger. I’m not sure, but I think that means their tactics have backfired.
PETA and ELF are Fascist organizations and the better part of the country realizes that sticking spikes in trees to try to kill loggers, and setting houses and cars on fire, and blowing up electrical transmission towers, is not justified.
It’s all about power and control and only marginally about the suffering of animals used for food or about healthy life styles.
PETA is not pro-animal (not in the way an ordinary, reasonable person would be at least). They are an organization that wants to sever all ties between animals and people — no more vaccinations/meds if they have animal components to their production, no more usage of animal products, no more pets (or the PC term: companion animals, which linguistically gives pets almost equal status as humans) — in fact PETA’s treatment of dogs and cats that they have rescued is pretty well documented (hint: they kill em off far more than save them). No more use of research animals. By the way, not all research animals are cute little chimps and beagles wantonly killed — a biologist friend of mine had a year’s worth of study on tidal influences on mussels destroyed when ALF/PETA broke into her lab and “freed” the mussels, into Lake Michigan…they were salt water mussels, of course they all croaked; they were not part of any terminal study, so PETA/ALF murdered the mussels (and caused a lot of damage at the lab).
No, PETA’s only raison d’etre is to dictate how other humans will live their lives (and they are very firm, if closet believers in Singer and Sanger, so “living” is a ludicrous term for what they think humans should be doing). They want to save the Earth from us (or at least the lowly hoi polloi and their disgusting domesticated animals, who PETA sees as freaks deserving extinction). They are decidedly not pro-animal.
And HSUS (Humane Society of the United States) is completely infiltrated with them — they are PETA’s “legal and pretty public face”. Only the ASPCA has managed to stay somewhat untainted by PETA. So don’t kid yourselves about donating to HSUS. Do some research on PETA/ALF/ELF, do some research into the affiliations now within HSUS, and know what their real agendas are — it definitely isn’t about making the world a better place for your kids, nor for Fido or Fluffy either.
The parts about eating healthy and saving the children were tongue in cheek
Extremism only exposes the real agenda of extremists. PETA has gone overboard at times, as have ELF, ALF, & too many others to be mentioned.
Hyperbole is now used by many pushing their “agenda.” And the results of their agendas would be to force human beings to become 7th century dwellers again.
Being kind to animals does not mean putting their well being before that of a human being.
Sorry guys, but humans are the species that must & will survive. Becuase, we can figure out how to survive & the animals cannot.
I love my cats. That does not mean I would die for them. They love me, but their natural instncts take over when they feel threatened. So too do humans, but, we know how to respond & we know how far to go. At least the sane ones do!
PETA shelters have a >80% kill rate over the last ten years (check petakillsanimals.com — yes, they’re funded by business, but a FOIA is a FOIA). Ingrid Newkirk, PETA’s founder, has killed a thousand animals with her own hands (check her wikipedia article, which is an attempt to be POSITIVE).
Since the only sin the Left can recognize is hypocrisy — have a big buttload of it PETArds!
When great white sharks start feeding on kelp, my family dog and cats start turning up their noses at everything except grainola, and the smell of a rare t-bone steak turns my stomach, then and only then will concede PETA has a worthwhile point to make and change my diet to the same grainola the dog and cats are joyfully gobbling down. Am I allowed to add milk?
What’s the difference between you eating deer meat and a cougar eating deer meat? Somehow an animal eating another animal is “natural” but a human eating another animal is not?
When I was a kid, my grandfather kept cows. They lived in a nice, big field and got to wander around all day eating grass. In the spring, they had calves, and the calves would frolic around all cute and everything. My grandfather fed them, doctored them, looked for them when they were lost, and generally treated them as pets.
Once in a while, however,he would stick two or three in the back of his truck and take them to a slaughterhouse for sale. I got to visit the slaughterhouse with him once. He showed me all about where meat comes from. I got to see cows getting bolts shot into their heads. I was about five years old at the time. It was nasty, but he explained that the cows don’t really feel anything, or if they do it doesn’t last long. Either way, the point was clear: those nice cows that we fed and took care of eventually get eaten. That’s the way it is.
Around the same time, one of the cows wandered into a muddy ditch and got stuck. This happened in the evening or at night – anyway, no one was around to help her. So she sat in the mud for a day or so. By the time we found her, she was surrounded by buzzards. Animals had eaten away her entire hindquarters – nothing left but blood and bones. The raw flesh was covered with flies. And the interesting thing is, she was still very much alive. She would struggle to get out every once in a while. Also bellowed every so often. Here eyes were fogged over. We shot her, put a chain around her neck, and used the truck to drag her off to the “boneyard” – a patch of woods where cows who had died were left to decompose. Then we went home and ate dinner.
Now, replace our domesticated bovine with any large, hoofed creature living in a state of Nature. Not much difference, except the happy, natural creature gets to continue being eaten alive for another day or two before it finally dies of shock. By PETA’s logic, I’m supposed to believe that the slaughterhouse cows were “murdered” due to human selfishness and evil, while the stuck in the mud cow’s death was somehow natural and good. These are obviously people who have never experienced Nature when she really gets down to business.
So I basically ignore PETA. I do my best to treat animals kindly and help them when my life and theirs intersect. That’s more than most animals would do for me.
http://radio.weblogs.com/0107127/stories/2003/01/12/foodAndHumanEvolution.html
Foley & Lee (1991), and Gibons (1998) have argued that the change in cranial capacity during the course of hominid evolution required dietary and developmental strategies that would sustain the cost of a large brain. Milton (1993) discusses the behavioural and physiological adaptations concerned with plant-eating, fruit-eating and meat-eating diets. The latter two diets require the development of mental skills such as memory for food locations and increased social co-operation for hunting and food sharing. The Australopithecine?s (judging by the size of their dentition) were herbivores and small brained. As the early hominids moved from plant eating to fruit and meat eating their teeth became smaller and the brains increased in size.
Comparative brain size is closely related to diet with leaf-eaters (folivores) having smaller brains with proportionally less neocortex in relation to body size than frugivores (fruit eaters). The guts of chimpanzees and gorillas are optimised for fruit eating and leaf eating respectively, the human gut is optimised for high energy diets (principally derived from eating meat).
Hibbeln (1998) pointed out that Palaeolithic nutrition was probably low in saturated fats and high in polyunsaturated fats (the reverse is true today). Therefore, our ancestors consumed more omega-3 fatty acids (arachidonic acid, docosahexaenoic acid) and these are the major determinants of synaptic membrane fluidity. Hibbeln proposed that the move from being vegetarian and scavenging for meat to eating fish (rich in these fatty acids) promoted the sudden burst in intellectual/technological/cultural achievement about 35,000 years ago. Prior to that our ancestors (who had larger brains) had achieved relatively little.
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if eating meat allowed humans to increase intelligence…one could also state that if the opposite occurs then vegetarians are less intelligent? LOL!
yeah, I know, the veggie groupies are up in arms about that scientific finding…us meat eaters are “evil people.”
There’s nothing wrong with not eating meat. If that’s your thing, then by all means, go ahead. I won’t try to tell you that it’s wrong. By the same token, I expect the same courtesy from you.
I could argue with some of those ‘good’ things.
Basically they’re utopian / can’t happen. As such, you need people to blame for the ‘bad’ things. Jews, capitalists, you name it… Americans… conservatives… whatever… bad bad bad.
The last century was about the ‘good’ people killing the ‘bad’ people for their ‘good’ stuff. Maybe its time to push back and say the ‘good’ stuff aint all good all things considered….
PETAphiles tend to be dysfunctional, in terms of success at being human. That renders to (largely women) their membership being connected to each other largely because of a shared psychopathy that forces them to emotionally invest in creatures that are docile, mute and not likely to tell them they look fat in that skirt.
Male PETAphiles are just trying to get laid; their dysfunctionality has to do with the fact that they tend to be rejected in the reproduction marketplace and their desparation drives them to dely three million years of evolution.
Bottom line, these people are defective. Who would lend credence to anything a psychopathically defective individual or group has to say? (Outside of NYC and Bloomberg, who is not treated like the corner nutcase simply because he spends his money to have the privilege of bleating in public).
I like where I am on the food chain. If PETA people want to step down, fine – just don’r expect me to follow.
PETA people should be substituted for animals as experimental subjects where needed. THEY beleive that animals are above them, then tehy should think that a fine idea.
I’m a vegetarian.
I only eat vegetables.
Animals that eat vegetables.
And animals that eat animals that eat vegetables.
Bugs – Well said, Nature is a harsh mistress, and doesn’t care about “our” feelings…..
Lion’s & Tigers & Bears, Oh my!
What would PETA do if someone discovered that vegetables have awareness?
PETA is not good, the ACLU is not good, they both are EGOtistical.
They do it because they can.
give common sense a chance.
Rich
PETA is just a sect within the more general category of nature-worship. Their concern for animal welfare is not per se, but conditional upon species self-loathing: they don’t care what happens to animals unless man does it.
“All PETA’s ads make me do is go out to eat a cheeseburger. I’m not sure, but I think that means their tactics have backfired.”
Not really. Because they’re not actually about changing anyone’s behavior. They’re about making themselves feel good. They’re about touting themselves as /special/, because they have this Rare and Sacred Truth that the unwashed masses simply aren’t /special/ enough to realize. If everybody were to wake up vegan tomorrow, they would be out there declaring Big Macs sacred.
About the best thing I can say about PETA is that due to their anti-fur campaign ads I can look at pictures of attractive nude women and be politically correct.
I think it was Jack Handy who asked
“If God didn’t want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?”
And a damn fine question it is too.
Jenna wrote, No, PETA’s only raison d’etre is to dictate how other humans will live their lives …
Bingo. We can all respect the person who decides to be a strict vegetarian. We might respect the person who decides not to use anything that was developed with animal research, though we might think him/her a little daft.
But they are doing this to themselves, not to us, and while they might proselytize, they won’t force us to their will.
PETA wants us to take a bended knee to them. We have to do things THEIR way. Philosophically, there is no difference between them and any other megalomanical cult that has wondered the earth in recorded history.
PETA isn’t about the proper relation of animals to humans. It’s about power and control, and always has been.
Memo to PETA: there’s room for all of God’s creatures, right next to the mashed potatos.
PETA/ALF represent one of the lowliest kinds of traitors imaginable. They are traitors to their species. Words fail to express the loathing I have for those who put animals above human beings. Biblically, materialistically, naturally, biologically it makes no sense. If you are a human being, human beings should come first. If your ideology doesn’t agree, you are sick in the head. PETA/ALF members should be treated as terrorists and be shunned by all humans.
How about a new organization? Humans Against ALF or HAA.
A Boy is a Dog is a Pig is a Rat, is one of PETA’sold slogans. Turning that around, perhaps we should treat them like the vermin they are.
PETA is not the problem. The problem is the mainstream media that gives them a soap box that they do not deserve. The MSM relies on PETA to provide it with “balance” on issues related to animals and food, as if they represented somebody or knew something.
When Michele states “The message is lost on all but those who are already convinced” that’s exactly the point. PETA is setup to provide comfortable six-figure salaries to their executives and the “choir” are the ones who write the checks.
“Who are they trying to reach with this?”
No one.
Lee Harris Al Qaeda’s Fantasy Ideology
“My friend did not disagree with me as to the likely counterproductive effects of such a demonstration. Instead, he argued that this simply did not matter. His answer was that even if it was counterproductive, even if it turned people against war protesters, indeed even if it made them more likely to support the continuation of the war, he would still participate in the demonstration and he would do so for one simple reason — because it was, in his words, good for his soul.
“What I saw as a political act was not, for my friend, any such thing. It was not aimed at altering the minds of other people or persuading them to act differently. Its whole point was what it did for him.”
Like Lee Harris’s friend, they are acting out a fantasy that allows them to say “Because I do this, I am a good person!” The rest of us are just props in their personal theater. And, yeah, because of where they are coming from, there is a a fascist aspect to it too.
If it makes you feel any better, here’s a story: I used to live in Logan, UT, a small college town that happens to have a KFC franchise. One day PETA had a protest out at the local KFC. The next day the local newspaper reported that the KFC manager was pleased because sales during the protest had skyrocketed. People had come in to eat at KFC who wouldn’t have otherwise, but that PETA was protesting there.
Keep it up, PETA. American businesses need your help!
“Unfortunately, many groups like PETA fight their battles with violence and apathy toward other human beings.”
That’s not surprising, because groups like PeTA absolutely HATE human beings.
“It has become quite clear that those who join PETA have never, ever actually been around food animals.”
Well, to be fair, neither have most people in the First World. You take your typical BBQ-lovin’ soccer mom, give her a tour of a meat-packing plant, and you’ve got a vegetarian for life.
“A Boy is a Dog is a Pig is a Rat, is one of PETA’sold slogans. Turning that around, perhaps we should treat them like the vermin they are.”
Hey! Some of my best friends are rats. My family has three pet rats, and they are gentle, affectionate creatures without a mean bone in their bodies. I would never dream of comparing them to PETA members. Why would I insult my rats that way?
I have no problem with PETA reminding us all where meat comes from. Free speech is their right. Even if they’re not being factual, or are extremely selective, or poetic, whatever.
But when environmental activists blow up research facilities … or researchers (!) … or engage in any other act of ecoterrorism, I think Guantanamo is too good for them.
I just finished a burger. It was awesome.
As I’ve read somewhere or other, “If God meant for us to be vegetarians, he wouldn’t have made animals of MEAT.”
Jokes aside, I whole-heartedly agree with the author. PETA uses arguments that sound great in the echo chamber (“Boy, that would really turn me into a vegan” says the vegan to his vegan friends), but PETA has no conception of how to approach regular people. One might draw a parallel between PETA and our friends in Hollywood, who produce anti-American war movies that bomb in the box office, and they can’t understand why.
The point of these ads is not to get meat eaters to become vegans, it is the get the faithful to contribute more. PETA is a business, it advertises to increase sales.
I think it was Jack Handy who asked
“If God didn’t want us to eat animals, why did he make them out of meat?”
And a damn fine question it is too.
I’ve also heard the question as, “If God didn’t want us to eat cows, He would’ve have made them taste like steak.”
Just remember, it’s not about right, wrong, or morality. PeTA protests because your eating meat offends *THEM* and *THEIR* feelings are what matter. *THEY* know, *THEIR* mommies told them so!
Thank you, Baby Boomers…..
Michele, one problem with your article. You referred to people that eat meat as carnivores. Very few humans are carnivores. humans are omnivores. Meat is just one of many things humans consume
One only needs to look at the teeth we have to understand we were meant to be omnivores.
What happens in a slaughterhouse makes me squeamish. I don’t want to think about what happens there, and I don’t want to see it. I could probably do it if I had to, but I prefer that others kill my food for me. Does this make me a hypocrite?
Consider that what happens in an operating room makes me squeamish as well. I don’t want to think about what happens there either, and I don’t want to see it. I could probably do it if I had to, but I prefer to pay others to perform surgery for me.
I think that all of the dogs that I have had as pets were better people than the activists at PETA.
Hell, my dogs are better people than most of the people I know.
Pat….rats make the best of pets. Gentle, loving and fun. On another note, I really dont like the taste of meat. I was raised on a small farm with goats, sheep, pigs and chickens. We would laugh after my dad would chop off chickens heads because they would still be running around. I can’t stand PETA….complete losers. I rarely buy meat or eat it. Same with my family. Only because I don’t know how to cook it and it is expensive. But I don’t care if others love it. I just get sick of people telling other people how to live. Vegans do not bother me. It is all good for them, just stop telling me I cant eat or wear meat. Sheesh…..dumb people. I think they need to go off and start their own country on some island and leave us alone. Sadly, they hate humans so much that they would never procreate. Then maybe we could be rid of them forever. Just a thought.
Howe, point taken. You’re right.
I am enjoying these comments. As much as I am going to enjoy my hamburger for dinner tonight.
PETA is another wing of the Nature Nazi’s….that’s all. The article is right on point. I can hold a conversation with the biggest left wing, socialist wingnut as long as we TALK and LISTEN respectfully. The minute you start to preach and I pick up on the pretentious, smug, ‘holier then thou’ tone, with the veiled insults sprinkled in you lost me. Not only that, I’m going to the other way just to pi$$ you off. Same as when I hear the “Global Warming” argument and hippies shrieking about ‘gas guzzlers’. Makes me want to turn my Jeep and Motorcycle on and let them idle through the night. It’s just a knee jerk reaction to be talked at
First, PETA cares nothing about nature, controlling the behavior of others, or even animals–PETA is Ingrid Newkirk’s livelihood. Period.
Second: ***eat healthy? look for anemia as the biggest thing since asthma. without rare beef and icky liver we are the ones who are cooked.***
Bullsh!t. I’ve been vegetarian for over twenty years, and, no, I don’t eat salads every day, but I don’t eat meat, and my health is just fine. Just the same, I don’t try to tell other people what to eat, it’s just my choice.
If we stopped eating cows, the cows would not roam free — the cows would die off and there would be no cows. They were bred for milk and meat and that is all.
Ditto for chickens if we stopped eating chickens and eggs.
These same people also object to people keeping animals as pets. Say goodbye to dogs and cats also. They have an agenda, but they certainly aren’t “animal people” in any sense that I understand it.
The point here is extremely well made – and it has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not PETA any valid points re: the meat industry (I personally think they don’t). The issue is that PETA and several other ultra left organizations seem to only preach to the choir. No reasonable person of any political stripe could honestly believe that any prime rib loving Joe six-pack would read PETA’s ad and come to the belief that virtually mindless food animals should be given 1st amendment rights and universal health care. To the contrary – ads like this reinforce middle America’s view of PETA as loonies totally devoid of logic. PETA doesn’t seem to even make a cursory attempt to play to their supposed target market. Why do you think that is?
Bugs is right… how do they think animals die in the wild? Do they think they get to live long, healthy, fulfilling lives and then die in their sleep in a hospice surrounded by friends and family? Far from it; wild animals either starve to death or get eaten alive.
There are definitely ways that the treatment of animals could be improved, but the basic premise of vegetarian just doesn’t make sense. If an animal is kept humanely and then slaughtered, it has a longer, better life and a shorter, less painful death than an animal in the wild.
I agree with your article as far as the methods of these socialist terrorist groups. I disagree with you assertion that they have our best intersts at heart. They have only their best interest and agenda at heart and are trying to ram it down our throats. It’s just another example of left wing fanatics trying to tell us that we are wrong and they are right and we’d darn well better agree with them or else they’ll take action…even if that action is unethical, immoral, disrespectful and downright illegal. They don’t deserve an open mind approach to listening to them. You can’t listen to them, it’s sickening. Good riddance to bad rubbish and may they fail miserably.
I want to open a restaurant and call it “Beef, Tobacco and Booze”, and invite PETA, truth.com, and MADD to the grand opening.
I’d have more respect for PETA if they weren’t such a bunch of god damned hypocrites. PETA killed more than 90% of the animals in it’s care in 2007.
http://www.petakillsanimals.com/
What a bunch of pricks!
PETA does not care about animals, including the human animal. Human beings are carnivores; we can live on an exclusively meat diet, but not on an exclusively plant diet. Most vegetarians get animal protein from eggs and dairy products. Plant food must be predigested (by cooking), raw lettuce, etc. providing little nourishment and damaging to teeth, which are for meat.
Animals which are raised for meat, and pets, live much better than their relatives in the wild. They die by the butcher’s knife eventually. Is that worse than dying by disease or predation in the wild? All animals die, so it is silly to argue that killing animals is wrong.
A veterinarian has told me that she has been seeing many sick cats and dogs, suffering malnutrition because their owners will not feed them meat!
Strange but in the Sixties, old fur coats were de rigeur here in Britain alongside leather jackets and the malodorous Afghan sheepskins, all worn by the liberal hipsters who would now ban any such thing. Like most of the fads PETA has been taken over by idiot radicals viz the pathetic ad which morphs humans into animals and is meant to shake and upset us. Maybe rather than relating cold blooded killing of animals by humans they should examine cold blooded killing of humans by other humans as is happening right now in a surge of knife crime here in the UK? Or the way in which Africans amputate victims. Short sleeve or long was the grim, macabre choice in Rwanda when the hapless victim’s arm was laid on a stretch of rail track to be hacked off with a machete. Some track’s still have the places full of multiple gouges and chipped steel as silent evidence. The insidious cultural relativity business of course semi excuses that, suggesting that we in the west provoked them into a frenzy of killing and dismemberment by our use of slavery 200 years ago. You see, any barbaric action by Africans, Arabs or Pakistanis is automatically turned into a self loathing tirade of auto abuse and it’s always our fault. PETA is a similar case study. Plenty of ‘look at me’ screeching but not much in the way of analytical thought of aftermaths, consequences or oppositional thought.
A while ago in Tanzania a Mayor of a biggish town won re-election and he decided to have a Mayoral Feast, with a multiple giraffe-neck rotisserie braai (barbeque) for the constituents. This was welcomed by all.
A week or so later while the orginisation was going on a PETA group came to his town to visit a nearby Nature Reserve.
All hell broke loose. Tree and bunny huggers descended by mail, advertisements and meetings on his head.
Some newspapers and people say today that he did not understand because he was not a first language english speaker.
I have had many talks and meetings with him, I believe (know) he understood very well.
He sent all the complainers COMPLIMENTARY tickets, each with a note saying “Sorry I did not know that your Esteemed Pressence was in town.
They all shut up after being buttered up. Morals?
A great time was had by all
He was re-elected two more times before he retired.
We forget basic biology – I am a carnivor – I have been for around 10 million years and if I only eat vegis, I will be sick.
Also, if all the cows, pigs, chickens, etc could they would kill and eat me.
Visit http://www.petakillsanimals.com. Yes, Peta does kill animals. Yet Hollywood actresses, singers, rock band members, etc, etc all run around taking their clothes off for PETA and the animals. As Ron White says “You can’t fix stupid”
What do PETA folks feed their cats? It seems the noble thing for them to do is to allow the cats to consume themselves, thereby saving the lives of mice and birds and tunas and other creatures.
i’m a meataterian WHERES THE BEEF!
Jesse Davis, the very first to respond to this article, sums up the fundamental mindset of the far left. PETA, EarthFirst, CodePink, and most of these hard core leftists believe deep down that everyone but themselves unworthy of making their own decisions, and that freedom should be reserved only unto themselves because they are the only one’s responsible enough to handle it. Effete, superior leftists are the embodiment of hypocrisy in society today. PETA has made a strategic decision with regard to the delivery of it’s “message” that is grounded in a complete disdain for freedom of choice or for humankind in general. What Jesse is saying is that people NEED to be “shocked” by PETA because they are stupid. And stupid people need to be led, controlled and manipulated by superior leftists. Right Jesse?
i will eat everything that doesn’t eat me and, then some of those, if i can get the first bite.
It’s been awhile since I ever dug up PETA’s website, but as I recall, they advocate the non-ownership of pets, i.e. pets are verbotten. As well as not using animals for medical research. Which is rather sticky for them, considering one of their VP’s (assuming she still works for them) uses insulin derived from horses to control her diabetes. Funny, the rest of us should die from their beliefs, but they should be able to engage in blatant hypocrisy since they are only doing what is best.
> As Ron White says “You can’t fix stupid”
Then there’s the phrase, “Stuck on stupid”, also applicable to these nits.
> By the same token, I expect the same courtesy from you.
Don’t be silly. They only respect “soft power” when it’s being used against actual evil. When it comes to their “fake evil” they happily trot out the hard power goods, like spikes in trees, arson, etc.
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Along the “hypocrite” point, I cite Charlotte Ross, the blonde from NYPD Blue, who did one of those “I’d rather be naked than wear fur” commercials for PETA. Some time later, she also did a commercial for the Humane Society, suggesting people “spay or neuter their pets”.
Now, pardon me, but, if animals have rights — don’t those rights extend to keeping their sex organs intact?
I’m not arguing in favor of not spaying or neutering, but it seems as though PETA should certainly object to this activity, if consistency mattered to them, which, of course, we all know it doesn’t.
Chalk up one more entry under “PETA hypocrisy”.
I was at an event called the Lemon Festival is Riverside California one fine morning, strolling back to the beer garden for a refill when I walked by a young lass handing out small blue flyers. Fully expecting the flyer to be for a local band, and loving the live music scene, I grabbed one from her as I walked by. I quickly saw that it was not a flyer for a local band, but was instead a flyer for an upcoming PETA meeting. Having worked in the horse racing field most of my life (and having just been on horses on Santa Anita that very morning) I knew of PETA’s tactics against horse racing, and had verbally sparred with their members before, so I turned around and asked the girl how many trees died to make her flyers?
She retorted that they had a lot of recycled paper in them (yeah sure) and then, glancing at my leather boots asked me in a snooty tone “Do you really have to wear leather boots?
“Why yes”, I calmly replied “in my line of work it’s pretty much required.”
“What do you do? she asked, eyes narrowing suspiciously.
“I exercise race horses.” I said with a smile, knowing the rant she was about to launch into. Sure enough she took a deep breath and I could see the talking points flashing through her eyes as she prepared to toss out every cliched piece of bs that PETA uses in their anti horse racing rants, and I quickly held up my hand before she could actually utter a sound and said;
“Sweetheart, if God didn’t want us to ride horses he wouldn’t have given us cows to make saddles out of.”
Her instantaneous deflation was replaced by a simmering anger that made my smile even bigger as she actually HHRRMMPPHH’d at me, stomped her foot and stormed away.
Me: 1
PETA: 0
“Extreme activism ultimately backfires.”
Well, not always. The French Revolution is a good example there. There’s plenty of others. Hey, thanks for showing up though.