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) According to government documents, PETA employees have killed more than 19,200 dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens since 1998. This behavior continues despite PETA’s moralizing about the “unethical” treatment of animals by farmers, scientists, restaurant owners, circuses, hunters, fishermen, zookeepers, and countless other Americans. PETA puts to death over 90 percent of the animals it accepts from members of the public who expect the group to make a reasonable attempt to find them adoptive homes. PETA holds absolutely no open-adoption shelter hours at its Norfolk, VA headquarters, choosing instead to spend part of its million annual income on a contract with a crematory service to periodically empty hundreds of animal bodies from its large walk-in freezer.
2) PETA president and co-founder Ingrid Newkirk has described her group’s overall goal as “total animal liberation.” This means the complete abolition of meat, milk, cheese, eggs, honey, zoos, aquariums, circuses, wool, leather, fur, silk, hunting, fishing, and pet ownership. In a 2003 profile of Newkirk in The New Yorker, author Michael Specter wrote that Newkirk has had at least one seeing-eye dog taken away from its blind owner. PETA is also against all medical research that requires the use of animals, including research aimed at curing AIDS and cancer.
3) PETA has given tens of thousands of dollars to convicted arsonists and other violent criminals. This includes a 2001 donation of ,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 ,200 to Rodney Coronado, an Animal Liberation Front (ALF) serial arsonist convicted of burning down a Michigan State University research laboratory. In his sentencing memorandum, a federal prosecutor implicated PETA president Ingrid Newkirk in that crime. PETA vegetarian campaign coordinator Bruce Friedrich has also told an animal rights convention that “blowing stuff up and smashing windows” is “a great way to bring about animal liberation,” adding, “Hallelujah to the people who are willing to do it.”
4) PETA activists regularly target children as young as six years old with anti-meat and anti-milk propaganda, even waiting outside their schools to intercept them without notifying their parents. One piece of kid-targeted PETA literature tells small children: “Your Mommy Kills Animals!” PETA brags that its messages reach over 1.2 million minor children, including 30,000 kids between the ages of 6 and 12, all contacted by e-mail without parental supervision. 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’s president has said that “even if animal research resulted in a cure for AIDS, we would be against it.” And PETA has repeatedly attacked research foundations like the March of Dimes, the Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and the American Cancer Society, solely because they support animal-based research aimed at curing life-threatening diseases and birth defects. And PETA helped to start and manage a quasi-medical front group, the misnamed Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, to attack medical research head-on.
6) PETA has compared Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust to farm animals and Jesus Christ to pigs. PETA’s religious campaigns include a website that claims—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 compared the Jewish victims of Nazi genocide to farm animals.
7) PETA frequently looks the other way when its celebrity spokespersons don’t practice what it preaches. As gossip bloggers and Hollywood journalists have noted, Pamela Anderson’s Dodge Viper (auctioned to benefit PETA) had a “luxurious leather interior”; Jenna Jameson was photographed fishing, slurping oysters, and wearing a leather jacket just weeks after launching an anti-leather campaign for PETA; Morrissey got an official “okay” from PETA after eating at a steakhouse; Dita von Teese has written about her love of furs and foie gras; Steve-O built a career out of abusing small animals on film; the officially “anti-fur” Eva Mendes often wears fur anyway; and Charlize Theron’s celebrated October 2007 Vogue cover shoot featured several suede garments. In 2008, “Baby Phat” designer Kimora Lee Simmons became a PETA spokesmodel despite working with fur and leather, after making a ,000 donation to the animal rights group.
Although I do support animal rights and I always find eating meat a little bit cruel, I just think Peta is just bogus. I mean there are better ways to help animals, rather than donating to Peta and have your money go to advertising. Or is this all false and Peta is actually a good organisation? Like your opinion.
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While I do not support animal cruelty in any way, shape or form, I find PETA people to generally be extremist loonies.
I dont support Peta, i support animal rights and i donate to genuine animal charities. Peta are money makers and resort to extremes to get the attention and publicity, but they kill as many animals as they save, i will not support such a corrupt organisation as Peta.
I’m in agreement with Mark JPA.
I remember when #6 came out in vivid images. It was mind boggling that they could descrate the memory of so many victims so callously. Plus the comparision is bogus. We don’t willfully humliate and shame animals while trying to wipe their entire culture off the planet.
So I’d guess a good bit of the rest is accurate as well.
i hate them so much
I’m vegan, and against any animal treatment below what we’d give a human. But peta are a bit insane..
What Jared said. I used to be a PETA member but upon hearing some things I don’t consider myself one. Im not sure what to believe anymore. When I heard that them killing animals in their care I was flabbergasted. PETA means well but they go about it all in the wrong ways. I’m NOT against using animals for food or seeing eye dogs and things like that, I’m only against how they are treated. Give the cows a happy clean and spacious land to live until its time to go and then kill them humanely and I wont make a peep. I dont get why we as human beings with a conscience can’t grasp that concept already.
killing pets is sick imo but eating meat is fine! i hunt and that is the most ethical way to get meat,
let me explain why i think so, hunting is not easy you have to work for your meat, the animal is healthy and does not live sick on antibiotics, they get a quick death if shot placed correctly! as with food industry the animals are raised in factories (thats sick too). lots is wasted, (hunters like me would use it all)
PETA (people eating tasty animals) thats what i think about PETA
if eating meat is cruel then maybe you should go and arrest all carnivores and obnivores
First of all, I didn’t read any of that. Too long. But I already know some of the stupid and contradicting things they have done.
As a scientist I think that protesting against animal research is one of the most stupidest things anyone can be against. Without animal testing medical advancements would stop. It wouldn’t just slow down. It would just stop dead on its tracks. People are completely unaware of how dependent medicine is on animal testing. Almost every single medicine every created was possible by some form of animal testing. I’m sure people in PETA have used some form of medicine and will probably save their lives one day. Yet I doubt any of them stop using medicine because of the animal testing that made it possible. A true PETA supporter would abstain from any type of medicine. I doubt any actually do.
People are simple unaware of what this organization is doing. This is the only reason they have such a large membership(about 2 million). If they were to make one mistake(such as a human death) and should it land on national television, it could seriously hurt them.
I absolutely HATE PETA! I am a huge animal lover, I am for the ethical treatment of animals. But PETA is nuts. They call having a pet slavery, they are against animal shelters and rescues, I believe people would actually care more about animals if PETA never existed, they use bully tactics and make all animal lovers look down right insane.