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The infamous "7 Things You Didn't Know About Peta"
1. PETA president and co-founder Ingrid Newkirk has described her group’s overall goal as “total
animal liberation.” This means no meat, no milk, no zoos, no circuses, no wool, no leather, no hunting, no
fishing, and no pets (not even seeing-eye dogs). PETA is also against all medical research that requires the use of
animals.
2. Despite its constant moralizing about the “unethical” treatment of animals by restaurant
owners, grocers, farmers, scientists, anglers, and countless other Americans, PETA has killed over 14,400 dogs and
cats at its Norfolk, Virginia headquarters. During 2005, PETA put to death over 90 percent of the animals
it collected from members of the public.
3. PETA has given tens of thousands of dollars to convicted arsonists and other violent criminals.
This includes a 2001 donation of $1,500 to the North American Earth Liberation Front (ELF), an FBI-certified “domestic
terrorist” group responsible for dozens of firebombs and death threats. During the 1990s, PETA paid $70,200 to an Animal
Liberation Front (ALF) activist convicted of burning down a Michigan State University research laboratory.
In his sentencing recommendation, a federal prosecutor implicated PETA president Ingrid Newkirk in that crime. And PETA vegetarian
campaign coordinator Bruce Friedrich told an animal rights convention in 2001 that “blowing stuff up and smashing
windows” is “a great way to bring about animal liberation.”
4. PETA activists regularly target children as young as six years old with anti-meat
and anti-milk propaganda, often waiting outside their schools to intercept them as they walk to and from class-without notifying
parents. One piece of kid-targeted PETA literature tells small children: “Your Mommy Kills Animals!” PETA
brags that its messages reach over 2 million children every year, including thousands reached by e-mail without the permission
of their parents. One PETA vice president told the Fox News Channel’s audience: “Our campaigns are always
geared towards children, and they always will be.”
5. PETA has used a related organization, the PETA Foundation, to fund the misnamed Physicians Committee
for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a deceptive animal rights group that promotes itself as an unbiased source of medical and
nutritional information. PCRM's president also serves as president of the PETA Foundation.
6. PETA runs campaigns seemingly calculated to offend religious believers. One entire
PETA website is devoted to the claim-despite ample evidence to the contrary-that Jesus Christ was a vegetarian. PETA holds
protests at houses of worship, even suing one church that tried to protect its members from Sunday-morning harassment. Its
billboards taunt Christians with the message that hogs “died for their sins.” PETA insists,
contrary to centuries of rabbinical teaching, that the Jewish ritual of kosher slaughter shouldn't be allowed. And its infamous
“Holocaust on Your Plate” campaign crassly compares the Jewish victims of Nazi genocide with farm animals.
7. PETA has repeatedly attacked research foundations like the March of Dimes, the Pediatric
AIDS Foundation, and the American Cancer Society, because they support animal-based research that might uncover cures
for birth defects and life-threatening diseases. PETA president Ingrid Newkirk has said that “even if animal
research resulted in a cure for AIDS, we would be against it.”
Peta has compared the Holocaust of World War II with the slaughtering of chickens for food.
P.E.T.A. - Poorly Educated Teen Activists
So, most of the Peta supporters and vegs I meet are all between the ages of 10 and 16. They protest animal cruelty by
putting Peta2 stickers on KFC tables and on deer hunting arcade games, buying t-shirts from Peta2.com that say clever things
like "Chicks Dig Vegans" and "Powered By Tofu", and by complaining on Peta2.com's forums that their parents want them to eat
meat, that their doctor says they are protien-deficiant, and that their boyfriends or girlfriends (usually boyfriends) eat
meat. Sure, some of the teen ARAs are actually serious, and some of them are really quite sane, believe it or not. But most
of them are just trying to find a cause.
They killed pets.
We've all heard of this one, so I'll just sum it up. Some Peta guys picked up some adoptable pets, euthanized them
in the van, and threw them in a dumpster somewhere. They got caught and Peta's tax return showed that they had bought a big
walk-in freezer. You know, the kind that you store meat in...
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