i think PETA is stupid...
Maybe some day I will actually get to the rest of the quiz questions, but I think I want to focus on one in particular because I was surprised by some of the answers. Obviously some of you are new to my blog. But I asked whether you thought People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was a good or bad organization. Some of you answered correctly (bad), some of you... well... You can't expect everyone to have spent the last decade learning the truth about so-called animals rights groups. Luckily for you though, I have. I've been involved in dog clubs and dog rescues since I was 18 and I've learned a lot in that time about animals. The good, the bad and the ugly.
So I thought, and I wondered, and I thought some more. Why do people think that a radical terrorist organization like PETA is good? Or even not all that bad? And then I seen this quote, and it all made sense:
"When I first heard of PETA, the idea that it would be called People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals appealed to me because it was elegant and gentle about the idea that we simply just need to treat them ethically. I think the idea has grown from that platform, and now it’s a huge voice for animal awareness." Sir Paul McCartney
Whether we like to admit it or not, we do judge books by their cover. When PETA was formed, they realized that they needed a name that covers for their true intentions. After all, no one would support a group if it were called People for Setting your Pets Free, or People for Euthanizing All Shelter Animals, or something crazy like that.
Now, I could share with you some things like - PETA has euthanized 80% of the 17,000+ shelter animals they've taken in over the past 10 years, or, they routinely dump dead animals in mall dumpsters, or, they equate farming to the holocaust, or, they praised Timothy McVeigh for being vegetarian, or, they financially support the Animal Liberation Front which is considered "the most serious domestic terrorism threat" by the FBI. It goes on and on and on. But instead of going thru all of that, I think instead it would be better to hear it directly from them. And then you can decide for yourself what you think about PETA. Remember, don't judge a book by it's cover (this also applies to the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)).
"Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation." Ingrid Newkirk, Co-founder of PETA, (Just Like Us? Harper's, August 1988, p. 50.)
"The cat, like the dog, must disappear... We should cut the domestic cat free from our dominance by neutering, neutering, and more neutering, until our pathetic version of the cat ceases to exist." John Bryant, (Fettered Kingdoms: An Examination of A Changing Ethic, Washington, DC: PETA, 1982, p. 15.)
"Six million people died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses." Ingrid Newkirk, ("She's A Portrait of Zealotry in Plastic Shoes," Washington Post, November 13, 1983, p. B10)
"We feel that animals have the same rights as a retarded human child because they are equal mentally in terms of dependence on others." Alex Pacheco, Co-founder of PETA, (New York Times, January 14, 1989)
"A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy." Ingrid Newkirk, (Washingtonian Magazine, August 1986)
"To those people who say, `My father is alive because of animal experimentation,' I say `Yeah, well, good for you. This dog died so your father could live.' Sorry, but I am just not behind that kind of trade off." Bill Maher, PETA celebrity spokesperson
"Even if animal tests produced a cure [for AIDS], 'we'd be against it.'" Ingrid Newkirk, ("Politics" Vogue, September 1989, p. 542)
"Until your daddy learns that it's not 'fun' to kill, keep your doggies and kitties away from him. He's so hooked on killing defenseless animals that they could be next!" PETA flyer targeting children, (Asbury Park Press, September 23, 2005)
"Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use. It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable." Neal Barnard, President of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) and PETA's Medical Advisor, (PCRM press release, "Physicians Advise Feds to Go After 'Big Meat' Next", September 23, 1999)
"There is so much blood on this chicken-killer's hands, a little more on his business suit won't hurt." Bruce Friedrich, PETA Director of Vegan Outreach, (PETA news release, June 23, 2003)
"Serving a burger to your family today, knowing what we know, constitutes child abuse. You might as well give them weed killer." Toni Vernelli PETA European Campaign Director, (PETA Europe news release, Meat Expo Declared A 'Danger Zone' By Vegetarians: PETA Targets Smithfield 2000, November 27, 2000)
"We are complete press sluts." Ingrid Newkirk, (The New Yorker, April 14, 2003)
"Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line." Ingrid Newkirk, (USA Today, September 3, 1991)
"Here's a little model I'm going to show you here. I didn't have any incense, but, this is a crude incendiary device. It is a simple plastic jug, which you fill with gasoline and oil. You put in a sponge, which is soaked also in flammable liquid. I couldn't find an incense stick, but this represents that. You put the incense stick in here, light it, place it underneath the 'weapon of mass destruction,' light the incense stick, sandalwood works nice, and you destroy the profits that are brought about through animal and earth abuse. That's about two dollars. " Rodney Coronado, animal rights felon for the 1992 Michigan State University firebombing, and recipient of PETA funds, speaking at the National conference on Organized Resistance, American University, Washington DC, January 26, 2003.
Note: PETA donated $45,200 to the Coronado Support Committee in 1995. During the previous year, while Coronado was still on the loose and living underground, PETA granted a loan (not yet repaid) to Coronado's father for $25,000.
"When you're a 20-something grassroots activist, and you're deciding how to spend your time and money to make a difference, it makes a lot of sense to cause a million in damage with just $100 of investment. That's a better return than any other form of activism I've been involved in." Rodney Coronado, (LA Weekly, August 29, 2003)
"Every time a police agency pepper sprays or uses pain-compliance holds against our people, their cars should burn." Rodney Coronado, American University, January 26, 2003
"I think [food producers] should appreciate that we're only targeting their property. Because frankly I think it's time to start targeting them." Rodney Coronado, American University, January 26, 2003.
"It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/Homeland Security/a local detective." Ingrid Newkirk, (letter to activists posted on Yahoo, March 17, 2003)
"Hit them in their personal lives, visit their homes. Actively target U.S. military establishments within the United States. Strike hard and fast and retreat in anonymity. Select another location, strike again hard and fast and quickly retreat in anonymity. Do not get caught. DO NOT GET CAUGHT. Do not get sent to jail. Stay alert, keep active, and keep fighting." Craig Rosenbraugh, radical animal rights spokesperson for terrorism and a recipient of PETA funds, (open letter to activists, published on the Independent Media Center website, March 17, 2003)
Note: In 2001, PETA contributed $1,500 to the North American Earth Liberation
Front (ELF) "to support their program activities," according to an IRS form filed with the state Attorney General's Office. The money paid for ELF spokesman Craig Rosenbraugh to travel to Washington, D.C., to testify at a congressional hearing, said PETA spokeswoman Lisa Lange.
"Getting arrested is fun." Dan Mathews, PETA's director of international campaigns (Orange County Weekly (CA), July 25 - 31, 2003)
"I will be the last person to condemn ALF (the Animal Liberation Front)." Ingrid Newkirk, (The New York Daily News, December 7, 1997)
"If an 'animal abuser' were killed in a research lab firebombing, I would unequivocally support that, too." Gary Yourofsky, founder of Animals Deserve Adequate Protection Today and Tomorrow (ADAPTT), now employed as PETA's national lecturer
"A burning building doesn't help melt people's hearts, but times change and tactics, I'm sure, have to change with them. If you choose to carry out ALF-style actions, I ask you to please not say more than you need to, to think carefully who you trust, to learn all you can about how to behave if arrested, and so to try to live to fight another day." Ingrid Newkirk, (ALF quarterly Bite Back, February, 2003)
"If we really believe that animals have the same right to be free from pain and suffering at our hands, then, of course we're going to be, as a movement, blowing things up and smashing windows. I think it's a great way to bring about animal liberation. I think it would be great if all of the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories, and the banks that fund them exploded tomorrow. I think it's perfectly appropriate for people to take bricks and toss them through the windows. Hallelujah to the people who are willing to do it." Bruce Friedrich, PETA's director of Vegan Outreach, (Animal Rights Conference, 2001)
"Arson, property destruction, burglary and theft are 'acceptable crimes' when used for the animal cause." Alex Pacheco, Co-founder of PETA
"I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out or burn them down." Ingrid Newkirk, (National Animal Rights Convention June 27, 1997)
"[I see] a spark of hope in every broken window, every torched police car." Joshua Harper, ALF and ELF activist, recipient of PETA funds, (The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 18, 2001)
Note: In 2000, PETA gave $5,000 to the Josh Harper Support Committee.
"Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works." Ingrid Newkirk, (US News and World Report, April 8, 2002)
"I openly hope that it (hoof-and-mouth disease) comes here. It will bring economic harm only for those who profit from giving people heart attacks and giving animals a concentration camp-like existence. It would be good for animals, good for human health and good for the environment." Ingrid Newkirk, (ABC News interview April 2, 2001)
Nick
So I thought, and I wondered, and I thought some more. Why do people think that a radical terrorist organization like PETA is good? Or even not all that bad? And then I seen this quote, and it all made sense:
"When I first heard of PETA, the idea that it would be called People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals appealed to me because it was elegant and gentle about the idea that we simply just need to treat them ethically. I think the idea has grown from that platform, and now it’s a huge voice for animal awareness." Sir Paul McCartney
Whether we like to admit it or not, we do judge books by their cover. When PETA was formed, they realized that they needed a name that covers for their true intentions. After all, no one would support a group if it were called People for Setting your Pets Free, or People for Euthanizing All Shelter Animals, or something crazy like that.
Now, I could share with you some things like - PETA has euthanized 80% of the 17,000+ shelter animals they've taken in over the past 10 years, or, they routinely dump dead animals in mall dumpsters, or, they equate farming to the holocaust, or, they praised Timothy McVeigh for being vegetarian, or, they financially support the Animal Liberation Front which is considered "the most serious domestic terrorism threat" by the FBI. It goes on and on and on. But instead of going thru all of that, I think instead it would be better to hear it directly from them. And then you can decide for yourself what you think about PETA. Remember, don't judge a book by it's cover (this also applies to the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)).
"Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation." Ingrid Newkirk, Co-founder of PETA, (Just Like Us? Harper's, August 1988, p. 50.)
"The cat, like the dog, must disappear... We should cut the domestic cat free from our dominance by neutering, neutering, and more neutering, until our pathetic version of the cat ceases to exist." John Bryant, (Fettered Kingdoms: An Examination of A Changing Ethic, Washington, DC: PETA, 1982, p. 15.)
"Six million people died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses." Ingrid Newkirk, ("She's A Portrait of Zealotry in Plastic Shoes," Washington Post, November 13, 1983, p. B10)
"We feel that animals have the same rights as a retarded human child because they are equal mentally in terms of dependence on others." Alex Pacheco, Co-founder of PETA, (New York Times, January 14, 1989)
"A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy." Ingrid Newkirk, (Washingtonian Magazine, August 1986)
"To those people who say, `My father is alive because of animal experimentation,' I say `Yeah, well, good for you. This dog died so your father could live.' Sorry, but I am just not behind that kind of trade off." Bill Maher, PETA celebrity spokesperson
"Even if animal tests produced a cure [for AIDS], 'we'd be against it.'" Ingrid Newkirk, ("Politics" Vogue, September 1989, p. 542)
"Until your daddy learns that it's not 'fun' to kill, keep your doggies and kitties away from him. He's so hooked on killing defenseless animals that they could be next!" PETA flyer targeting children, (Asbury Park Press, September 23, 2005)
"Meat consumption is just as dangerous to public health as tobacco use. It's time we looked into holding the meat producers and fast-food outlets legally accountable." Neal Barnard, President of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) and PETA's Medical Advisor, (PCRM press release, "Physicians Advise Feds to Go After 'Big Meat' Next", September 23, 1999)
"There is so much blood on this chicken-killer's hands, a little more on his business suit won't hurt." Bruce Friedrich, PETA Director of Vegan Outreach, (PETA news release, June 23, 2003)
"Serving a burger to your family today, knowing what we know, constitutes child abuse. You might as well give them weed killer." Toni Vernelli PETA European Campaign Director, (PETA Europe news release, Meat Expo Declared A 'Danger Zone' By Vegetarians: PETA Targets Smithfield 2000, November 27, 2000)
"We are complete press sluts." Ingrid Newkirk, (The New Yorker, April 14, 2003)
"Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold the radical line." Ingrid Newkirk, (USA Today, September 3, 1991)
"Here's a little model I'm going to show you here. I didn't have any incense, but, this is a crude incendiary device. It is a simple plastic jug, which you fill with gasoline and oil. You put in a sponge, which is soaked also in flammable liquid. I couldn't find an incense stick, but this represents that. You put the incense stick in here, light it, place it underneath the 'weapon of mass destruction,' light the incense stick, sandalwood works nice, and you destroy the profits that are brought about through animal and earth abuse. That's about two dollars. " Rodney Coronado, animal rights felon for the 1992 Michigan State University firebombing, and recipient of PETA funds, speaking at the National conference on Organized Resistance, American University, Washington DC, January 26, 2003.
Note: PETA donated $45,200 to the Coronado Support Committee in 1995. During the previous year, while Coronado was still on the loose and living underground, PETA granted a loan (not yet repaid) to Coronado's father for $25,000.
"When you're a 20-something grassroots activist, and you're deciding how to spend your time and money to make a difference, it makes a lot of sense to cause a million in damage with just $100 of investment. That's a better return than any other form of activism I've been involved in." Rodney Coronado, (LA Weekly, August 29, 2003)
"Every time a police agency pepper sprays or uses pain-compliance holds against our people, their cars should burn." Rodney Coronado, American University, January 26, 2003
"I think [food producers] should appreciate that we're only targeting their property. Because frankly I think it's time to start targeting them." Rodney Coronado, American University, January 26, 2003.
"It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/Homeland Security/a local detective." Ingrid Newkirk, (letter to activists posted on Yahoo, March 17, 2003)
"Hit them in their personal lives, visit their homes. Actively target U.S. military establishments within the United States. Strike hard and fast and retreat in anonymity. Select another location, strike again hard and fast and quickly retreat in anonymity. Do not get caught. DO NOT GET CAUGHT. Do not get sent to jail. Stay alert, keep active, and keep fighting." Craig Rosenbraugh, radical animal rights spokesperson for terrorism and a recipient of PETA funds, (open letter to activists, published on the Independent Media Center website, March 17, 2003)
Note: In 2001, PETA contributed $1,500 to the North American Earth Liberation
Front (ELF) "to support their program activities," according to an IRS form filed with the state Attorney General's Office. The money paid for ELF spokesman Craig Rosenbraugh to travel to Washington, D.C., to testify at a congressional hearing, said PETA spokeswoman Lisa Lange.
"Getting arrested is fun." Dan Mathews, PETA's director of international campaigns (Orange County Weekly (CA), July 25 - 31, 2003)
"I will be the last person to condemn ALF (the Animal Liberation Front)." Ingrid Newkirk, (The New York Daily News, December 7, 1997)
"If an 'animal abuser' were killed in a research lab firebombing, I would unequivocally support that, too." Gary Yourofsky, founder of Animals Deserve Adequate Protection Today and Tomorrow (ADAPTT), now employed as PETA's national lecturer
"A burning building doesn't help melt people's hearts, but times change and tactics, I'm sure, have to change with them. If you choose to carry out ALF-style actions, I ask you to please not say more than you need to, to think carefully who you trust, to learn all you can about how to behave if arrested, and so to try to live to fight another day." Ingrid Newkirk, (ALF quarterly Bite Back, February, 2003)
"If we really believe that animals have the same right to be free from pain and suffering at our hands, then, of course we're going to be, as a movement, blowing things up and smashing windows. I think it's a great way to bring about animal liberation. I think it would be great if all of the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories, and the banks that fund them exploded tomorrow. I think it's perfectly appropriate for people to take bricks and toss them through the windows. Hallelujah to the people who are willing to do it." Bruce Friedrich, PETA's director of Vegan Outreach, (Animal Rights Conference, 2001)
"Arson, property destruction, burglary and theft are 'acceptable crimes' when used for the animal cause." Alex Pacheco, Co-founder of PETA
"I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out or burn them down." Ingrid Newkirk, (National Animal Rights Convention June 27, 1997)
"[I see] a spark of hope in every broken window, every torched police car." Joshua Harper, ALF and ELF activist, recipient of PETA funds, (The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 18, 2001)
Note: In 2000, PETA gave $5,000 to the Josh Harper Support Committee.
"Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works." Ingrid Newkirk, (US News and World Report, April 8, 2002)
"I openly hope that it (hoof-and-mouth disease) comes here. It will bring economic harm only for those who profit from giving people heart attacks and giving animals a concentration camp-like existence. It would be good for animals, good for human health and good for the environment." Ingrid Newkirk, (ABC News interview April 2, 2001)
Nick
Labels: '08 election, dog rescue, nothing
posted by Nick at
12:37 PM
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home