Those motherfuckers

[MrRant 0]

Fur flies over flier: PETA targets ‘Nutcracker’ kids

 

Animal rights advocates will single out small children at performances of ``The Nutcracker'' in the next few weeks by handing out fliers saying ``Your Mommy Kills Animals'' to youngsters whose mothers are wearing fur.

   

``Children can't look up to a mom in a battered-raccoon hat or a crushed coyote collar,'' said Ingrid Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. ``Maybe when they're confronted by their own children's hurt looks, fur-wearers' cold hearts will melt.''

   

The fliers include a color drawing of a woman plunging a large bloody knife into the belly of a terrified rabbit. The fliers urge kids to ``ask your mommy how many dead animals she killed to make her fur clothes.

   

``And the sooner she stops wearing fur, the sooner the animals will be safe. Until then, keep your doggie or kitty friends away from mommy - she's an animal killer.''

   

Brookline child psychologist Dr. Carolyn Newberger called the tactics ``terribly dangerous to children.''

 

``It's using children in the worst possible way,'' she said. ``If (the activists) want to legitimately work to protect animals from destruction for fashion, they have every right to. But to do so by targeting children and making them feel their mothers are murderers is absolutely unconscionable.''

 

Lisa Franzetta, a national coordinator for PETA, said the group will launch its ``fur-ocious'' protest at `Nutcracker' performances in as many as 20 cities across the United States.

 

Franzetta, who is based in California, said yesterday she did not yet know when the protests will begin in Boston, where ``The Nutcracker'' is playing at the Wang Center for the Performing Arts in the Theater District.

 

Franzetta acknowledged the anti-fur campaign might spark a backlash. ``It's definitely provocative, I will give you that,'' she said.

 

Wang Center officials could not be reached for comment about the planned protests.

 

I swear if someone did that to my kid.... well... KKK knows what I'd do.

[Hogan Made Wrestling 0]

In a similar vein, check this one out:

 

http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam031212/col_friesen-sun.html

 

PETA hunting Moose

 

But misfires on fake fur

 

 

By PAUL FRIESEN -- Winnipeg Sun

 

  The letter arrived via fax around 3 p.m. yesterday. The animal rights group, PETA, was on a Moose hunt.

 

You may have heard of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. They're the ones who kick up a stink every once in a while over what they think is abuse of animals, aiming their wrath at the beef industry, poultry and egg farms, hunting, fishing, you name it.

 

Yesterday, PETA had its sights set on speedy Manitoba Moose forward Fedor Fedorov.

 

A story in a Vancouver newspaper mentioned Fedorov has taken to wearing a fur coat to get him through the Winnipeg winter.

 

Well, this immediately set off the alarm bells at PETA headquarters in Norfolk, Va.

 

"Since Fedorov spends so much time on the ice, maybe his heart is cold," Dan Shannon, the group's campaign co-ordinator said in his letter.

 

In an open letter to Fedorov, Shannon called for the Moose winger to reverse his choice of outerwear.

 

"If you want to rid yourself of your reputation for being a selfish player, wearing fur won't help," Shannon wrote. "Few gestures are more selfish than causing up to 40 animals to be tortured and killed for a coat.

 

ONLY HAVE ONE BLOODY OUTFIT

 

"Please make your game jersey the only bloody outfit you own, and lose the fur."

 

Shannon asked Fedorov to turn his coat into PETA, who'd either use it "to make blankets for refugee children ... or as a prop in protests," depending on which need was more pressing at the time, we presume.

 

Apparently, tennis great Martina Navratilova once donated furs to PETA after she had a change of heart, so Fedorov would be in good company.

 

Shannon was willing to give the reluctant Russian the benefit of the doubt.

 

"What we're really hoping is that he's just never considered these issues before," Shannon said in a phone interview. "A lot of people just don't know that animals on fur farms are anally electrocuted ... that they're strangled, that they're stomped to death, or that they live their entire lives in tiny cages."

 

The folks at PETA have obviously done their research.

 

Or have they?

 

"It's a fake fur coat," Fedorov said from his hotel room in Syracuse. "I'm all for the animals. I don't hunt or anything like that. I've got a dog, I had cats. I mean, I used to live on the farm."

 

As for the part about not using animals for food, we could quote singer Fred Eaglesmith, who said something like, "If God didn't intend for us to eat animals, he wouldn't have made them out of meat," or I could go back to Fedorov.

 

"In Russia, people have no choice," he said. "They don't have supermarkets there or anything like that. So when you have to eat, you know, you kind of have to.

 

"I can understand the whole fur thing, for sure. But food-wise, I don't know. If I became a vegetarian, I don't think I could really work."

 

At least Fedorov is working for a living.

 

We're not sure what Shannon is doing.

 

In PETA's wide world of sports, leather is out, too. Instead, it would be faux footballs, baseballs and basketballs. Shannon is proud to say the NCAA has gone synthetic for the Final Four, thanks to PETA's urging.

 

And no cow or horse would be forced to give its hide for those uppers on your skates or sneakers.

 

Heck, even watching sports would change, if Shannon had his way. You see, we shouldn't be killing bugs willy-nilly, either.

 

You know what Shannon does when he's being bitten by a mosquito?

 

"I'll try to shoo him away," he said.

 

I think I'll do the same with PETA.

 

PETA can take a dick up the ass as far as I'm concerned. I wonder what they thought of LeBron's fur coat last week on Monday Night Football?

[Jingus 0]

Oh god I wish I would run into one of the sanctimonious fucks while wearing some fake fur. Because you know, if they dump blood or red paint or whatever onto you, that's considered felonious assault. And you have a right to defend yourself. Basically, you can kick their ass seventeen ways to Sunday, and then sue them to be reimbursed for the cost of your ruined clothing. Heh, I do love America sometimes.

[KingPK 0]

Speaking of PETA, I had a hearty piece of steak tonight in their honor.

 

Are these people just fresh out of rational ideas?

[Guest JMA]

Are these people just fresh out of rational ideas?

Yes.

 

Groups like PETA believe the ends justify the means. They have no interest in listening to reason.

[Guest SideFXs]

Oh god I wish I would run into one of the sanctimonious fucks while wearing some fake fur.  Because you know, if they dump blood or red paint or whatever onto you, that's considered felonious assault.  And you have a right to defend yourself.  Basically, you can kick their ass seventeen ways to Sunday, and then sue them to be reimbursed for the cost of your ruined clothing.  Heh, I do love America sometimes.

 

Does it have to be real blood, animal or human, to win the lawsuit? But, I'd kick their ass and forget the lawsuit.

[Mr. S£im Citrus 0]

Rant, would you be so kind as to post the link to the original article? I'd like to refer to it on another site.

[LaParkaMarka 0]

PETA. God, how I loathe them. Reminds me of how they were trying to convince kids that milk was bad for them. I think they even claimed it caused osteroporosis. Think about that for a second.

[Guest BDC]

This makes me want to BUY a fake fur coat and then parade around in front of these idiots, just so I can kick the hell out of them.

To PETA:

Do you NOT have anything better to do with your time or are you really that STUPID?

[Guest Cerebus]

Do you NOT have anything better to do with your time or are you really that STUPID?

A little of column A a little of column B.

 

Actually this is nothing compared to provided tens of thousands for defense of a convicted arsonist the same year they paid a little less than $600 to animal shelters, euthanized/killed 1300 cats & dogs in 1999 alone, claimed Jews were reading Kosher laws incorrectly and that Jesus and Muhammed were vegetarians, compared animal farmers to Jeffery Dahmer and Nazis, support ALF & ELF terrorist groups which caused millions of dollars in damages to Michigan State alonge...the list goes on. There stopped being any purpose to this organization a long time ago. They're not just stupid they're downright dangerous. Why they are still tax-exempt is anyone's guess.

[NoCalMike 0]

Wearing fur is something I refuse to do, but PETA needs to just stfu about not eating meat already........

[Guest Cerebus]

Wearing fur is something I refuse to do, but PETA needs to just stfu about not eating meat already........

I'm with you on the fur but I think PETA should stfu period.

[NoCalMike 0]

Wearing fur is something I refuse to do, but PETA needs to just stfu about not eating meat already........

I'm with you on the fur but I think PETA should stfu period.

Well the thing is I am sure that sometime long ago, PETA may have possibly been a relevent group with some valid points on how animals are abused in certain situations, but their modern day tactics and just downright stupidity has left them alone in the battle for animal superiority.

[HarleyQuinn 0]

I'm honestly surprised a lawyer hasn't stepped up and represented someone who sued the living fuck out of this group for something yet. If I manage to get a career as a lawyer I'm SO going to try and get somebody to sue these guys...

[Vyce 0]

From ActivistCash.com

 

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has been described as “by far the most successful radical organization in America.” The key word is radical. PETA seeks “total animal liberation,” according to its president and co-founder, Ingrid Newkirk. That means no meat or dairy, of course; but it also means no aquariums, no circuses, no hunting or fishing, no fur or leather, and no medical research using animals. PETA is even opposed to the use of seeing-eye dogs.

 

Amidst the dozens of animal rights organizations, PETA occupies the niche of -- in Newkirk’s own words -- “complete press sluts.” Endlessly seeking media exposure, PETA sends out dozens of press releases every week.

 

In the past, PETA has handled the press for the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), a violent, underground group of fanatics who plant firebombs in restaurants, destroy butcher shops, and torch research labs. The FBI considers ALF among America’s most active and prolific terrorist groups, but PETA compares it to the Underground Railroad and the French Resistance. More than 20 years after its inception, PETA continues to hire convicted ALF militants and funds their legal defense. In at least one case, court records show that Ingrid Newkirk herself was involved in an ALF arson.

 

PETA has even begun to adopt the tactics of an ALF offshoot known as SHAC (Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty). This group is notorious for taking protests outside the boardroom and into the living room, attacking their targets at their homes.

 

PETA began to do this in 2003 when its representatives targeted a fast-food restaurant company. Not content to write letters and picket the chain restaurant’s offices, PETA’s leaders met with the CEO’s pastor, and visited his country club and the manager of one of his favorite restaurants. PETA activists, one dressed in a chicken suit, even protested at the church of two executives, annoying worshipers by driving a truck with giant screens of slaughterhouse video back and forth along the street.

 

In an effort to win more media exposure, PETA has adopted the counter-intuitive tactic of buying stock in restaurant and food companies that serve and sell meat. After buying just enough shares to qualify, PETA’s pattern is to introduce shareholder resolutions that would require animal-rights-oriented practices in the way animals are handled and slaughtered.

 

PETA’s goal as a shareholder, of course, is not to turn a profit. Its resolutions, if passed, would increase the cost of doing business and lower the value of everyone’s investment. The group has claimed that it’s “not trying to remove meat from the menu.” But with a stated long-term goal of “total animal liberation,” pushing for animal-welfare changes is just a first step. PETA’s short-term goals are to economically cripple these companies, force them to increase the retail price of meat, and nudge consumers toward eating less of it.

 

PETA collected more than $16 million in donations in 2002 alone, but few donors understand exactly where their money is going. During the past ten years, PETA has spent four times as much on criminals and their legal defense than it has on shelters, spay-neuter programs, and other efforts that actually help animals.

 

From both a moral and a legal standpoint, there are far too many objectionable things about PETA to list here in detail. But the following “top ten list” is a good start:

 

PETA is not an animal welfare organization.

PETA spends less than one percent of its multi-million dollar budget actually helping animals. The group euthanized (killed) more than 1,300 cats and dogs in 1999 alone, preferring to spend its money on cheap publicity stunts and criminal defense, rather than finding the animals suitable homes.

 

PETA assaults common decency.

PETA’s leadership has compared animal farmers to serial killer (and cannibal) Jeffrey Dahmer. They proclaimed in a 2003 exhibit that chickens are as valuable as Jewish Holocaust victims. They announced with a 2001 billboard that a shark attack on a little boy was “revenge” against humans who had it coming anyway. They have branded parents who feed their kids meat and milk “child abusers.” In 2002 PETA organized a campaign to sabotage a popular Thanksgiving hotline, which provides free advice about cooking turkeys. The group has even contemplated (literally) dancing on the grave of Kentucky Fried Chicken’s Colonel Sanders.

 

PETA receives rock-bottom ratings from charity watchdogs.

Charity Navigator, the nation’s largest nonpartisan evaluator of non-profit organizations, gives PETA a rating of one-star (“poor”). It says PETA “fails to meet industry standards and performs well below most charities in its cause.” PETA’s “Foundation to Support Animal Protection” -- now doing business as “The PETA Foundation” -- was one of just 23 organizations nationwide to receive zero stars (“exceptionally poor”).

 

PETA peddles its “animal liberation” food agenda through a medical front group that pretends to offer objective nutritional advice.

A group misleadingly named the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) has duped the press into believing that it is an association of conscientious doctors promoting good nutrition. In fact, it is a PETA front group. PCRM and PETA share money, offices, and staff. The American Medical Association calls PCRM a “pseudo-physicians group,” has demanded that PCRM stop its “inappropriate and unethical tactics used to manipulate public opinion,” and argues that PCRM has been “blatantly misleading Americans” and “concealing its true purpose as an animal ‘rights’ organization.”

 

Taking a page out of PETA’s press book, PCRM has labeled U.S. school lunches “weapons of mass destruction” because they include meat and milk. PCRM’s president, a psychiatrist named Neal Barnard, recently duped Newsweek into covering his “study” (of seven people) supposedly demonstrating that a vegan diet helped prevent type-2 diabetes. In 2002, PCRM was cited in major newspapers more than 550 times. It was identified as an animal-rights organization in only a handful of those cases.

 

PETA exploits sick people.

PETA famously suggested that drinking milk causes cancer, in an advertisement mocking then-NYC Mayor Rudy Guliani with the words “Got Prostate Cancer?” PETA has also erected a billboard reading: “Got Sick Kids? Drinking milk contributes to colic, ear infections, allergies, diabetes, obesity, and many other illnesses.” In 2003 the group held a demonstration in front of a Toronto-area hospital that was under a SARS-related quarantine, spuriously alleging that animal husbandry has something to do with the epidemic’s spread. Upon hearing that Charlton Heston had fallen ill with Alzheimer’s Disease, Ingrid Newkirk suggested that PETA would “toy with the idea that both Alzheimer’s and CJD [Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease] are related to meat consumption.” According to a profile in The New Yorker, she considered “renting billboards that would display a large picture of a gaunt Charlton Heston foaming at the mouth.”

 

PETA propagandizes children.

PETA’s website for kids puts a skull and crossbones next to the logo of Disney’s Animal Kingdom and tells the horror story of a fast food restaurant employee who “had taken a patty into the potty with her, then returned and said she had peed on it.” It hands out trading cards to kids that allege drinking milk will make them fat, pimply, flatulent, and phlegm-ridden. PETA also has a child-themed website, and a kiddie-oriented magazine, called GRRR! Kids Bite Back. The name is significant, as it is intended to prep children to identify with the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), which has long-used the phrase “bite back” in its promotional materials. In fact, as early as 1991, convicted ALF arsonist and PETA grantee Rodney Coronado was calling his own crime spree “Operation Bite Back.” PETA also sends “humane education lecturer” Gary Yourofsky into high schools -- and even middle schools -- to promote the “animal liberation” agenda. Yourofsky is a convicted ALF criminal who has said he would support burning down medical research labs even if humans were trapped in the flames.

 

PETA distorts religious teachings.

Not only does PETA oppose the age-old Jewish tradition of Kosher slaughter, but the group’s leaders maintain that Jews have misinterpreted their own sacred texts on the subject. They also claim, ignoring mountains of scripture to the contrary, that Jesus was a vegetarian. PETA celebrated Easter in 2003 with a billboard depicting a pig, reading “he died for your sins.” PETA also insists (again, selectively ignoring contradictory evidence) that Muhammad “was not a meat-eater.” In his speeches to adolescents, Gary Yourofsky regularly compares himself to Gandhi and Jesus Christ. PETA’s in-school presentations include the application of “do unto others as you would have them do unto you” to birds and turtles -- not people.

 

PETA opposes life-saving medical research.

PETA has repeatedly attacked groups like the March of Dimes, the Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and the American Cancer Society, for conducting animal testing to find cures for birth defects and life-threatening diseases. When asked if she would oppose an experiment on five thousand rats if it would result in a cure for AIDS, Newkirk responded: “Would you be opposed to experiments on your daughter if you knew it would save fifty million people?” In addition to opposing any and all medical research that uses animals, PETA also insults medical professionals by arguing, with a straight face, that animal testing is a counterproductive means of finding cures for human diseases.

 

PETA devalues human life.

PETA’s efforts to treasure every mosquito and cockroach invariably lead them to hate human beings for using bug spray and RAID. Ingrid Newkirk argues that as human beings, “we’re the biggest blight on the face of the earth.” For more on how PETA devalues human life, click on “Motivation.”

 

PETA openly supports violence and terrorist activity.

PETA has long-standing ties to militant groups like the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). The FBI calls these criminal groups a “serious terrorist threat.” For specifics on how PETA supports violence, click on “Black Eye.”

[Guest MikeSC]

Fur flies over flier: PETA targets ‘Nutcracker’ kids

 

Animal rights advocates will single out small children at performances of ``The Nutcracker'' in the next few weeks by handing out fliers saying ``Your Mommy Kills Animals'' to youngsters whose mothers are wearing fur.

   

``Children can't look up to a mom in a battered-raccoon hat or a crushed coyote collar,'' said Ingrid Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. ``Maybe when they're confronted by their own children's hurt looks, fur-wearers' cold hearts will melt.''

    

The fliers include a color drawing of a woman plunging a large bloody knife into the belly of a terrified rabbit. The fliers urge kids to ``ask your mommy how many dead animals she killed to make her fur clothes.

    

``And the sooner she stops wearing fur, the sooner the animals will be safe. Until then, keep your doggie or kitty friends away from mommy - she's an animal killer.''

   

Brookline child psychologist Dr. Carolyn Newberger called the tactics ``terribly dangerous to children.''

 

``It's using children in the worst possible way,'' she said. ``If (the activists) want to legitimately work to protect animals from destruction for fashion, they have every right to. But to do so by targeting children and making them feel their mothers are murderers is absolutely unconscionable.''

 

Lisa Franzetta, a national coordinator for PETA, said the group will launch its ``fur-ocious'' protest at `Nutcracker' performances in as many as 20 cities across the United States.

 

Franzetta, who is based in California, said yesterday she did not yet know when the protests will begin in Boston, where ``The Nutcracker'' is playing at the Wang Center for the Performing Arts in the Theater District.

 

Franzetta acknowledged the anti-fur campaign might spark a backlash. ``It's definitely provocative, I will give you that,'' she said.

 

Wang Center officials could not be reached for comment about the planned protests.

 

I swear if someone did that to my kid.... well... KKK knows what I'd do.

So nice of PETA to target little kids with their crap. They have managed to enter the top 5 "LEAST MORAL" groups out there. I can only hope that rabid dogs bite them.

-=Mike

[Guest MikeSC]

From ActivistCash.com

 

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has been described as “by far the most successful radical organization in America.” The key word is radical. PETA seeks “total animal liberation,” according to its president and co-founder, Ingrid Newkirk. That means no meat or dairy, of course; but it also means no aquariums, no circuses, no hunting or fishing, no fur or leather, and no medical research using animals. PETA is even opposed to the use of seeing-eye dogs.

 

Amidst the dozens of animal rights organizations, PETA occupies the niche of -- in Newkirk’s own words -- “complete press sluts.” Endlessly seeking media exposure, PETA sends out dozens of press releases every week.

 

In the past, PETA has handled the press for the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), a violent, underground group of fanatics who plant firebombs in restaurants, destroy butcher shops, and torch research labs. The FBI considers ALF among America’s most active and prolific terrorist groups, but PETA compares it to the Underground Railroad and the French Resistance. More than 20 years after its inception, PETA continues to hire convicted ALF militants and funds their legal defense. In at least one case, court records show that Ingrid Newkirk herself was involved in an ALF arson.

 

PETA has even begun to adopt the tactics of an ALF offshoot known as SHAC (Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty). This group is notorious for taking protests outside the boardroom and into the living room, attacking their targets at their homes.

 

PETA began to do this in 2003 when its representatives targeted a fast-food restaurant company. Not content to write letters and picket the chain restaurant’s offices, PETA’s leaders met with the CEO’s pastor, and visited his country club and the manager of one of his favorite restaurants. PETA activists, one dressed in a chicken suit, even protested at the church of two executives, annoying worshipers by driving a truck with giant screens of slaughterhouse video back and forth along the street.

 

In an effort to win more media exposure, PETA has adopted the counter-intuitive tactic of buying stock in restaurant and food companies that serve and sell meat. After buying just enough shares to qualify, PETA’s pattern is to introduce shareholder resolutions that would require animal-rights-oriented practices in the way animals are handled and slaughtered.

 

PETA’s goal as a shareholder, of course, is not to turn a profit. Its resolutions, if passed, would increase the cost of doing business and lower the value of everyone’s investment. The group has claimed that it’s “not trying to remove meat from the menu.” But with a stated long-term goal of “total animal liberation,” pushing for animal-welfare changes is just a first step. PETA’s short-term goals are to economically cripple these companies, force them to increase the retail price of meat, and nudge consumers toward eating less of it.

 

PETA collected more than $16 million in donations in 2002 alone, but few donors understand exactly where their money is going. During the past ten years, PETA has spent four times as much on criminals and their legal defense than it has on shelters, spay-neuter programs, and other efforts that actually help animals.

 

From both a moral and a legal standpoint, there are far too many objectionable things about PETA to list here in detail. But the following “top ten list” is a good start:

 

PETA is not an animal welfare organization.

PETA spends less than one percent of its multi-million dollar budget actually helping animals. The group euthanized (killed) more than 1,300 cats and dogs in 1999 alone, preferring to spend its money on cheap publicity stunts and criminal defense, rather than finding the animals suitable homes.

 

PETA assaults common decency.

PETA’s leadership has compared animal farmers to serial killer (and cannibal) Jeffrey Dahmer. They proclaimed in a 2003 exhibit that chickens are as valuable as Jewish Holocaust victims. They announced with a 2001 billboard that a shark attack on a little boy was “revenge” against humans who had it coming anyway. They have branded parents who feed their kids meat and milk “child abusers.” In 2002 PETA organized a campaign to sabotage a popular Thanksgiving hotline, which provides free advice about cooking turkeys. The group has even contemplated (literally) dancing on the grave of Kentucky Fried Chicken’s Colonel Sanders.

 

PETA receives rock-bottom ratings from charity watchdogs.

Charity Navigator, the nation’s largest nonpartisan evaluator of non-profit organizations, gives PETA a rating of one-star (“poor”). It says PETA “fails to meet industry standards and performs well below most charities in its cause.” PETA’s “Foundation to Support Animal Protection” -- now doing business as “The PETA Foundation” -- was one of just 23 organizations nationwide to receive zero stars (“exceptionally poor”).

 

PETA peddles its “animal liberation” food agenda through a medical front group that pretends to offer objective nutritional advice.

A group misleadingly named the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) has duped the press into believing that it is an association of conscientious doctors promoting good nutrition. In fact, it is a PETA front group. PCRM and PETA share money, offices, and staff. The American Medical Association calls PCRM a “pseudo-physicians group,” has demanded that PCRM stop its “inappropriate and unethical tactics used to manipulate public opinion,” and argues that PCRM has been “blatantly misleading Americans” and “concealing its true purpose as an animal ‘rights’ organization.”

 

Taking a page out of PETA’s press book, PCRM has labeled U.S. school lunches “weapons of mass destruction” because they include meat and milk. PCRM’s president, a psychiatrist named Neal Barnard, recently duped Newsweek into covering his “study” (of seven people) supposedly demonstrating that a vegan diet helped prevent type-2 diabetes. In 2002, PCRM was cited in major newspapers more than 550 times. It was identified as an animal-rights organization in only a handful of those cases.

 

PETA exploits sick people.

PETA famously suggested that drinking milk causes cancer, in an advertisement mocking then-NYC Mayor Rudy Guliani with the words “Got Prostate Cancer?” PETA has also erected a billboard reading: “Got Sick Kids? Drinking milk contributes to colic, ear infections, allergies, diabetes, obesity, and many other illnesses.” In 2003 the group held a demonstration in front of a Toronto-area hospital that was under a SARS-related quarantine, spuriously alleging that animal husbandry has something to do with the epidemic’s spread. Upon hearing that Charlton Heston had fallen ill with Alzheimer’s Disease, Ingrid Newkirk suggested that PETA would “toy with the idea that both Alzheimer’s and CJD [Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease] are related to meat consumption.” According to a profile in The New Yorker, she considered “renting billboards that would display a large picture of a gaunt Charlton Heston foaming at the mouth.”

 

PETA propagandizes children.

PETA’s website for kids puts a skull and crossbones next to the logo of Disney’s Animal Kingdom and tells the horror story of a fast food restaurant employee who “had taken a patty into the potty with her, then returned and said she had peed on it.” It hands out trading cards to kids that allege drinking milk will make them fat, pimply, flatulent, and phlegm-ridden. PETA also has a child-themed website, and a kiddie-oriented magazine, called GRRR! Kids Bite Back. The name is significant, as it is intended to prep children to identify with the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), which has long-used the phrase “bite back” in its promotional materials. In fact, as early as 1991, convicted ALF arsonist and PETA grantee Rodney Coronado was calling his own crime spree “Operation Bite Back.” PETA also sends “humane education lecturer” Gary Yourofsky into high schools -- and even middle schools -- to promote the “animal liberation” agenda. Yourofsky is a convicted ALF criminal who has said he would support burning down medical research labs even if humans were trapped in the flames.

 

PETA distorts religious teachings.

Not only does PETA oppose the age-old Jewish tradition of Kosher slaughter, but the group’s leaders maintain that Jews have misinterpreted their own sacred texts on the subject. They also claim, ignoring mountains of scripture to the contrary, that Jesus was a vegetarian. PETA celebrated Easter in 2003 with a billboard depicting a pig, reading “he died for your sins.” PETA also insists (again, selectively ignoring contradictory evidence) that Muhammad “was not a meat-eater.” In his speeches to adolescents, Gary Yourofsky regularly compares himself to Gandhi and Jesus Christ. PETA’s in-school presentations include the application of “do unto others as you would have them do unto you” to birds and turtles -- not people.

 

PETA opposes life-saving medical research.

PETA has repeatedly attacked groups like the March of Dimes, the Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and the American Cancer Society, for conducting animal testing to find cures for birth defects and life-threatening diseases. When asked if she would oppose an experiment on five thousand rats if it would result in a cure for AIDS, Newkirk responded: “Would you be opposed to experiments on your daughter if you knew it would save fifty million people?” In addition to opposing any and all medical research that uses animals, PETA also insults medical professionals by arguing, with a straight face, that animal testing is a counterproductive means of finding cures for human diseases.

 

PETA devalues human life.

PETA’s efforts to treasure every mosquito and cockroach invariably lead them to hate human beings for using bug spray and RAID. Ingrid Newkirk argues that as human beings, “we’re the biggest blight on the face of the earth.” For more on how PETA devalues human life, click on “Motivation.”

 

PETA openly supports violence and terrorist activity.

PETA has long-standing ties to militant groups like the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). The FBI calls these criminal groups a “serious terrorist threat.” For specifics on how PETA supports violence, click on “Black Eye.”

OMG!

 

I JUST remembered what their tactics reminded me of.

 

MCCARTHYISM.

 

This is EXACTLY what was done to suspected Communists in the 1950's.

 

Well the thing is I am sure that sometime long ago, PETA may have possibly been a relevent group with some valid points on how animals are abused in certain situations, but their modern day tactics and just downright stupidity has left them alone in the battle for animal superiority.

Thing is, judging by the article in this thread, they don't even DO ANYTHING FOR ANIMALS. I used to think the NAACP was useless --- but this is MUCH worse.

I'm honestly surprised a lawyer hasn't stepped up and represented someone who sued the living fuck out of this group for something yet. If I manage to get a career as a lawyer I'm SO going to try and get somebody to sue these guys...

Actually, if the figures are correct, you MIGHT have a case for fraud against them.

-=Mike

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

Hmmm...I just might have to go to a Boston showing of "The Nutcracker" wearing my leather jacket, leather boots, and leather gloves. Oh, and carrying a bucket of KFC, too.

 

One day, people will form an anti-PETA, and the world will be a warzone of hippies and rednecks. My, oh my, will that be fun to watch...

[Hogan Made Wrestling 0]

Hmmm...I just might have to go to a Boston showing of "The Nutcracker" wearing my leather jacket, leather boots, and leather gloves. Oh, and carrying a bucket of KFC, too.

 

One day, people will form an anti-PETA, and the world will be a warzone of hippies and rednecks. My, oh my, will that be fun to watch...

If you go to a sale at the right Wal-Mart you can get that warzone now.

[Guest JMA]

One day, people will form an anti-PETA, and the world will be a warzone of hippies and rednecks. My, oh my, will that be fun to watch...

Hippies AND rednecks? Oh shit. That would LITERALLY be Hell.

[Guest BDC]

I'd blend in with the rednecks just to crack some hippy skulls.

 

The going after kids is nothing new. They did it trying to get all milk out of a school in Scotland, handing out little 'trading cards' that depicted children with skinspots, brittle bones and gas from drinking milk and told them that they were evil if they did drink the stuff.

 

Leaving a cat hanging from a noose on their doorstep is about the equivalent of their tactics...

[Guest MikeSC]

One day, people will form an anti-PETA, and the world will be a warzone of hippies and rednecks. My, oh my, will that be fun to watch...

Hippies AND rednecks? Oh shit. That would LITERALLY be Hell.

JMA, you have no idea.

 

I was ENGAGED to one.

 

Hell doesn't begin to describe it.

-=Mike

[Guest JMA]

JMA, you have no idea.

 

I was ENGAGED to one.

 

Hell doesn't begin to describe it.

-=Mike

There are hippie-rednecks?

 

HOLY FUCKING SHIT!

 

[Guest Cerebus]

Wearing fur is something I refuse to do, but PETA needs to just stfu about not eating meat already........

I'm with you on the fur but I think PETA should stfu period.

Well the thing is I am sure that sometime long ago, PETA may have possibly been a relevent group with some valid points on how animals are abused in certain situations, but their modern day tactics and just downright stupidity has left them alone in the battle for animal superiority.

That's sad NoCal, I don't refrain from eating fish or chicken (health reasons) but I always found the cause of animal rights to be a decent one...shows you what extremism can do to perfectly good causes.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

I swear if someone did that to my kid.... well... KKK knows what I'd do.

Ask them in a polite manner to stop?

 

Or perhaps bust out the hippie-removal brigade...

 

[MrRant 0]

Rant, would you be so kind as to post the link to the original article? I'd like to refer to it on another site.

http://news.bostonherald.com//localRegiona...g?articleid=593

[NoCalMike 0]

Wearing fur is something I refuse to do, but PETA needs to just stfu about not eating meat already........

I'm with you on the fur but I think PETA should stfu period.

Well the thing is I am sure that sometime long ago, PETA may have possibly been a relevent group with some valid points on how animals are abused in certain situations, but their modern day tactics and just downright stupidity has left them alone in the battle for animal superiority.

That's sad NoCal, I don't refrain from eating fish or chicken (health reasons) but I always found the cause of animal rights to be a decent one...shows you what extremism can do to perfectly good causes.

I don't see it as sad. I never said I don't agree with some people's takes on animal abuse/cruelty. Like I said, I would never purposely/knowingly wear fur or skin etc...However to say I support PETA would be lying. You can be against animal abuse & cruelty without being aligned with PETA.

[Mr. S£im Citrus 0]

Thank you.

[MrRant 0]

This is what they are handing out to kids..... KIDS:

 

http://www.furisdead.com/mommykills300.pdf

 

 

My rage grows.

[LaParkaMarka 0]

That...I mean...dear god. That's so insane. How could that front page pic be at all appropriate for children? That's going to traumatize kids.

 

It's just so crazy and over-the-top. Like when they use RED TEXT OF DEATH to hammer home the point that mommy is an evil murderer. I didn't have any respect for PETA before this. A healthy disdain, really. But this is too far. This has to break a law, right? How could you possibly rationalize handing these out to children??!?!

 

They must be stopped.