for all of you who donate/support to PETA

1) PETA president and co-founder Ingrid Newkirk has described her groupâ??s overall goal as â??total animal liberation.â?� 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 â??unethicalâ?� 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 â??domestic terroristâ?� -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 â??blowing stuff up and smashing windowsâ?� is â??a great way to bring about animal liberation.â?�

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: â??Your Mommy Kills Animals!â?� 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 Channelâ??s audience: â??Our campaigns are always geared towards children, and they always will be.â?�

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 â??died for their sins.â?� PETA insists, contrary to centuries of rabbinical teaching, that the Jewish ritual of kosher slaughter shouldn't be allowed. And its infamous â??Holocaust on Your Plateâ?� 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 â??even if animal research resulted in a cure for AIDS, we would be against it.â?�

<I hope all of you pet owners payed special attention to number one.>


edit: "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." '

-PETA Senior Vice President MaryBeth Sweetland

I am a proud PETA member and your facts are crap :thumbsup:

They ARE??? What makes you so sure?

Next time use ALL the info instead of bits and peices of it

Just go on peta2.com or peta.com itself and ask around. PETA gets such a shitty name from so many people. But ask the people who are doing the protesting and such.

PETA is a terrorist organization, sorry to say.

no pets

really?

so are you telling me that MaryBeth Sweetland did not say that? Are you telling me that PETA supports people keeping pets? Are you telling me that PETA supports testing medicine on animals? Are you telling me that those PETA members never protested outside of that church?

Well he just asked you, lol.

In Peta video clips, they show extremely severe cases to make it look like all meat-related people are horrible and inhumane.

Fact is, we're animals and we have to eat. To me it doesnt' make a difference of they shoot a pig in the head, or if they bash its skull open with a wooden spoon. Maybe I'm just cold-hearted? I don't care how the animal dies...sure if it was me, blah blah...no one knows what they think exactly. I'm hungry and if that's waht it takes, then so be it.

PETA allows pets, wtf. They call them companion animals. And those quotes are bogus! The people who wrote that took bits and peices and construde together their bullshit article. Maybe do some research there.

^ oh and pigs have the intelligence of a third grader, thats nice lets kill them violently.

I agree your facts are kinda crappy.

I'm not a PETA member, I can't think of a good reason why humans shouldn't use wool, or have pets provided the animals are well taken care for.

But do I think we need animals to test cosmetics on? Or skin for fashion?

No.

Do I think the modern practices of factory farming are disgusting and lead to both unnecessary cruelty and inferior product to the consumer?

Yes.

I'm glad PETA is around to push the envelope on these ethical issues though...

If it is natural for other animals to eat each other (I.E. lion killing gazelle), what is so inhumane about killing other animals to eat (I.E. Cows for beef). I don't think animals should be tortured, but PETA goes way too far, just like every political organization and party in the U.S.

P.S. I am a proud hunter.

See peta has realized that people are going to eat meat. They pick their battles. But they at least want you to be informed. If you could choose how your meat dies wouldnt you want it to be as least painful as possible? The people who say the really extreme things peta kinda pushes to the sides. I know that on the boards when those people show up we ignore them there. Just like every organization ever, there is always a few a-holes who have to ruin it for everyone. Sure in a perfect world no one would eat meat, the testing would stop and the use of animals for their skins would end. But we know we cant stop all of that overnight. I assure you that they are much rational than you know.

Yeah most of that is bullshit or half-truth. I live in Norfolk and I know a lot of people that work there. I'm not involved with peta, it's not my thing, but I do know the way they do things. Peta donates food to my organization Food Not Bombs and verteranary offices and homeless shelters around here, and when they "kill animals" it's only because they are sick with no fighting chance. They don't just randomly kill animals and throw them in dumpsters(except for that one time, yeah I saw that). And most of the employees there DO have pets and bring them to work with them.

well here's PETA publicly speaking out about march of dimes:
We Oppose March of Dimes Animal Tests

looks who's on trial for animal cruelty:
Press Release | PETA Employees Face 31 Felony Animal-Cruelty Charges for Killing, Dumping Dogs

"If it were a retarded baby and a bright dog, I'd save the dog."
-Tom Regan, Q&A session following a speech, University of Wisconsin-Madison, October 27, 1989.

from peta.com FAQ:

How can you justify the millions of dollars of property damage caused by the Animal Liberation Front (ALF)?

"Throughout history, some people have felt the need to break the law to fight injustice"

ya those videos that show how they treat the chickens and pigs and cows etc. make me want to stop eating meat :(

I probably will some day

THE ALF IS NOT INVOLVED WITH PETA! WTF ont he site we do NOT condone violence! We want peaceful protests! I have done countless protest for peta! And the march of dimes thing is true to a degree. Alot of testing is done that ends up producing nothing! We know more about the anatomy of monkeys than we do about humans! And again, EVERY ORGANIZATION HAS A FEW ASSHOLES! Those are the people who did that felony bullshit.

Yo 420 you should bust out the hard evidence: The South Park episode with P Diddy.

Like theres other alternatives to animal testing that would produce much more humane and more fufilling results, PETA Media Center > Factsheets > Alternatives: Testing Without Torture

CAUTION! Disturbing flick on PETA.........

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itswGWddk2A[/YOUTUBE]

Have a good one!:jointsmile:

They killed them b.c they were sick and suffering! AND AGAIN, FOR THE FIFTH FREAKING TIME. JUST B/C A FEW PEOPLE ARE EXTREME YOU CANNOT CONDEMN A WHOLE ORGANIZATION THAT HAS DONE SO FREAKING MUCH FOR ANIMALS!

if you want more organized facts on these claims against PETA you can skim through this video that Penn & Tellers made.

YouTube - Bullshit-Peta

The world will forever hold a grudge against PETA because of Alek Baldwin...

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They killed them b.c they were sick and suffering! AND AGAIN, FOR THE FIFTH FREAKING TIME. JUST B/C A FEW PEOPLE ARE EXTREME YOU CANNOT CONDEMN A WHOLE ORGANIZATION THAT HAS DONE SO FREAKING MUCH FOR ANIMALS!

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Ok, I'm sure you love animals and I'm sure you don't slaughter them on your back patio but these facts come from the people who run the organization. It's not like these come from some PETA member in a studio apartment barely involved in the organization.

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They killed them b.c they were sick and suffering! AND AGAIN, FOR THE FIFTH FREAKING TIME. JUST B/C A FEW PEOPLE ARE EXTREME YOU CANNOT CONDEMN A WHOLE ORGANIZATION THAT HAS DONE SO FREAKING MUCH FOR ANIMALS!

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True that. PETA is like one of the biggest organizations in the world, so there's bound to be a few more extremists than other groups. The crazy people that make the headlines do not represent what PETA actually stands for. trust me.

Like I said, I want to see some legit evidence.

Screw pen and teller, and screw alek bladwin! Thats not the point. The point is that these are a few a-holes that make PETA look bad. Most of the people who support peta, like myself just want better humane treatments for animals. We want to help animals any way we can. We want to stop abuse. Whats wrong with that at all? Most of the people on that site are not these extreme, "NO ONE EATS MEAT AND IF YOU WEAR FUR WE THROW BLOOD ON YOU!". That happens but that isn't peta. And if they say its peta there full of crap, we disown those people. Instead we leaflet, have peaceful protests and lay downs, stuff the aclu and other civil rights people have been doing for years. You cant bash the whole civil rights organizations b/c of a few rouge people.

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Yo 420 you should bust out the hard evidence: The South Park episode with P Diddy.

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ya I know i'm trying to dig it up right now. It might just put this whole thing to a stop. lol

^ Oh yeah making fun of the issue, thats lovely.

yo why r we hatin on peta? we should be goin after the ACLU hypocrites.

once again: YouTube - Bullshit-Peta

This is the best evidence I can give you because it shows you video evidence that can't be claimed to be made up.

MADE BY A BUNCH OF PUNK KIDS ON YOU TUBE!

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True that. PETA is like one of the biggest organizations in the world, so there's bound to be a few more extremists than other groups. The crazy people that make the headlines do not represent what PETA actually stands for. trust me.

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When an organization has these extremists that go around making comments like what was in the film or others that throw blood at people wearing furs or leather, isn't it that organizations responsibility to denounce these actions and kick the members out of the fold? WHEN they start doing that they might gain a bit more respect from the masses. :thumbsup:

Have a good one!:jointsmile:

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^ Oh yeah making fun of the issue, thats lovely.

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Oh cmon that show is hilarious.

1. P4B, you cant kick people out of a FREE organization! And when they say that crazy shit on the boards and such we disown them. We cut them off like the cancerous limbs they are!

2. footpaul, oh I love south park, just watched it tonight. Just saying though, this is something I am verrrrry serious about. In another situation id laugh but now im pissed, not at the show at all but by all this other stuff.

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MADE BY A BUNCH OF PUNK KIDS ON YOU TUBE!

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its was not made by them, just most likely distributed by them. If that's true Rebgirl, then those "few a holes" are also the few people who run peta. Like I said, these people might not represent the groups action, they probably don't represent yours, but they do represent the organization of PETA

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ya I know i'm trying to dig it up right now. It might just put this whole thing to a stop. lol

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Episode

there you go. but still, get ya facts straight.

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Episode

there you go. but still, get ya facts straight.

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my facts ARE straight. And thank you, now we can put this to rest.

I actually had a mock election between Giant Douche and Turd Sandwich. Giant Douche won by a landslide.