PETA are a bunch of fanatical terrorists at Daniel Spisak on Technology

Taken from:

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1756&e=3&u=/050606/480/risr10106061854

Summary:

PETA wants you to think that eating ANY MEAT makes you a CANNIBAL. Gee, last time I checked I wasnt eating OTHER PEOPLE FOR DINNER. I mean, I could be wrong here. Oh yeah, PETA is also totally against you having animals as pets. Or using animals for medical research.

“PETA operates under the simple principle that animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, or use for entertainment.”

Bruce Friedrich, a PETA executive. “If we really believe animals have the same right to be free from pain and suffering at our hands, then of course we’re going to be blowing things up and smashing windows. I think it would be great if all of the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories, and the banks that fund them, exploded tomorrow.”

Of course the fact that one of PETAs own VPs has to get insulin shots from animal made insulin isnt hypocritical AT ALL.

PETA Senior Vice President MaryBeth Sweetland on her use of insulin, which was tested on animals:

“I’m an insulin-dependent diabetic. Twice a day I take synthetically manufactured insulin that still contains some animal products — and I have no qualms about it … I’m not going to take the chance of killing myself by not taking insulin. I don’t see myself as a hypocrite. I need my life to fight for the rights of animals.”
–Glamour, January 1990

From the Associated Press:
“People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, member Chris Link
of Norfolk, Va., top, adjusts the cellophane covering on the costume of
demonstrator Dezeray Rubinchik of Philadelphia, top right, during a
protest in front of the Statehouse, in Providence, R.I., Monday, June
6, 2005. The protest, in which three people placed themselves in
containers resembling supermarket meat trays, was meant to compare
eating meat with cannibalism. PETA member Karolina Colwill of Sioux
Falls, S.D., appears center. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)”

» Click here to learn what motivates PETA.
» Click here to read about PETA’s “black eyes.”
» Click here to find out where PETA’s millions come from.
» Click here for audio and video of PETA officers and other animal rights extremists.
» Click here to discover how PETA is connected to other activist groups.
» Click here to see PETA’s cash donation to the terrorist Earth Liberation Front.
» Click here to see $70,000 in PETA grants to a convicted animal-rights arsonist.
» Click here to see the money trail between PETA and its phony “physicians committee” front group.
» Click here to learn about PETA’s hypocritical practice of killing thousands of animals.

A few other things about PETA you didnt know:

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 10,000 dogs and cats at its Norfolk, Virginia headquarters. During 2003, PETA put to death over 85 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.”

Some other places to read up on PETA:

http://maddox.xmission.com/grill.html

http://www.michaelspecter.com/ny/2003/2003_04_14_peta.html

http://www.petakillsanimals.com/

Here’s a short list of vaccines, cures, and procedures developed in the 20th century through research conducted on animals (as cited in the PETA episode of Bullshit!):

VACCINES:
Anthrax
Chicken Pox
Cholera
Diphtheria
Flu
Influenza B
Hepatitis A and B
Measles
Mumps
Polio
Rabies
Rubella
Smallpox
Tetanus
Whooping Cough
Yellow Fever

MEDICATIONS
Insulin
Penicillin
Streptomycin
Anti-inflammatory Drugs
Pain Killers
Anticoagulants
Chemotherapy
Cyclosporine

DEVICES
Pacemakers
Artificial Heart
Artificial Hip
Artificial Knee

PROCEDURES
Angioplasty
Organ Transplantation
Heart Transplantation
Kidney Transplantation
Liver Transplantation
Corneal Transplantation