Posted on 05/16/2019 4:29:35 AM PDT by Kaslin
Let me just say from the start that I love animals, and I’m not just talking about the delicious ones. I drive my wife a little nuts by feeding the birds, squirrels, deer, rabbits, and pretty much anything else I know that wanders through our yard. But our kids love watching them and so do I. Plus, we have a bunch on the inside of the house, too. That being said, I have a lot of issues with so-called animal rights groups.
I’m as disgusted as anyone with animal abuse. People who’d torture any sentient creature should have the same Hell imposed on them. But far too often groups that present themselves as fighting to make sure animals are not abused end up being abusers themselves.
No group is more hypocritical on this front than PETA – People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. They’re very good at fundraising and getting themselves publicity, but when it comes to actually being honest people doing good work…not so much.
In 2013, the New York Times reported the group was killing “an average of about 2,000 dogs and cats each year at its animal shelter” in Virginia. And that’s just one shelter. As far as pet adoptions at those shelters goes, the Times reports they only adopted out “19 cats and dogs in 2012 and 24 in 2011.” They’re quick to kill, seemingly not so big on the care and feeding part of taking care of pets.
Two years later, the Washington Post found PETA in Virginia was still euthanizing 80 percent of the animals they “rescued.” Makes you wonder what they were rescued from.
Occasionally PETA does expose animal abuse, and good on them for that. But it seems like a large percentage of their energy, time, and money is focused on stunts to aid in their fundraising and keep their name out there to give the impression that they’re fighting abuse. When I worked on Capitol Hill, the one day every year people talked about PETA was when they had hot models wearing lettuce bikinis giving away vegetarian hot dogs to Hill staff at lunch. Hill staffers will eat anything that’s free, especially when given to them by scantily clad models.
While the tradition of free hot dogs served by models has, sadly, ended, PETA’s tradition of recklessness has apparently not.
I saw the other day that PETA is being sued by PetSmart for spying. Yes, you read that right – spying.
According to lawsuits filed against the organization and their former employee, PetSmart alleges Jenna Jordan, the former employee, secretly recorded audio and video for PETA while posing as a PetSmart employee. They were apparently hoping to find animal abuse, since PetSmart is one of the few remaining pet stores where people can adopt pets.
The suit alleges PETA “deceptively edited the unlawfully recorded conversations and published the deceptively edited video as part of a promotional video intended to damage and discredit PetSmart.”
If PETA really wants to stamp out animal abuse they should start with the nearest reflective surface. In 2017, the group euthanized 1809 cats and dogs while only adopting out 44.
Meanwhile, PETA rails against the consumption of meat and has joined in with the PC word police to end “phrases that trivialize cruelty to animals.” Last December they tweeted, “Just as it became unacceptable to use racist, homophobic, or ableist language, phrases that trivialize cruelty to animals will vanish as more people begin to appreciate animals for who they are and start ‘bringing home the bagels’ instead of the bacon.”
At first, I thought it was a parody account, but they’ve become impossible to parody.
On the birthday of the late “Crocodile Hunter” Steve Irwin in January, PETA took the opportunity to condemn the man by tweeting he “was killed while harassing a ray.” Irwin died when his heart was pierced by a stingray while filming a dive for his TV show. The group also said Irwin “wrestled wild animals who were minding their own business.” Like they’d just stepped away from their desk for a smoke when this crazy guy jumped on their back.
Irwin did more to raise awareness and respect for animals than a rabid left-wing activist group spending its time secretly recording pet store managers, “putting down” cats and dogs, and lecturing people about their diets ever could.
There’s a lot of horrible people out there who abuse animals, and they should all be condemned. That includes people who exploit their abuse to make money and get attention.
Hey! I’m a member of…
…People Eating Tasty Animals
Sounds like PETA is the animals PLANNED PARENTHOOD!
Remember the “ save a whale,kill a baby” bumper stickers?
Typical leftist group. Leftists want to micromanage your life. They don’t want people making decisions for themselves.
So if a business like a pet store decides to destroy an animal because no ones buying, it results in hysterical response from the left and that’s used as a justification for them taking control.
Once in control they do the same but are now content because they are the ones deciding. You see comparable behavior in the “organic” food market with the use of pesticides.
As always with the left, it’s about power.
I love animals. Like to watch them in the wild. Get excited when robins build a nest in the little birch in front of my house. There is a growing herd of whitetails in the university near my house. Beautiful.
On the other hand I hunt deer. Or rather did till It got harder to walk in my old age. I take my kids hunting. They’re grown. They get a deer or two every year. I have gotten upward of 30 deer over the years. They are eaten by us.
I don’t see a conflict of loving animals and killing and eating them. I am a Conservationist. I don’t protect animals I utilize a resource that if protected would overpopulate and spread disease and die.
PETA makes shy timid white libs useful to the Left and makes itself money.
My wife was a dues paying member of PeTA until PeTA called for a boycott of silk products, because the way silk was harvested from silkworms was inhumane.
Parody implies humorous. Is there something funny about slaughtering innocent dogs and cats?
It’s not just at their “shelters”. They do despicable crap like putting antifreeze in the dogs’ water at dog shows.
PETA wants to stomp out all service dogs, including guide dogs, police K9s, and Search and Rescue dogs. They consider service work to be “enslavement”.
There is a special place in hell for PETA members and the sooner they get there, the better.
Last night’s PBS series “NOVA” spotlighted the Yamnaya peoples as the first peoples to domesticate the horse. They started out by killing them and eating them. Then they corraled them as a food source. THEN they domesticated them for service.
Yes, PBS celebrated the Yamnaya.
I get my science from Science Channel and Smithsonian Channel( yeah you gotta be careful with these too).
I gave up on PBS around a decade ago. 100% politicizing.
Yes. Bugs are people too.
I kinda feel sad for you.
Get excited when robins build a nest in the little birch in front of my house. There is a growing herd of whitetails in the university near my house. Beautiful.
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We have two nests of baby bluebirds about to fledge any day. A little wren made a nest in a garden tool bag hanging from a nail in the mower shed - still feeding chicks so I’m not sure when they’ll fledge. A mama fox has 3 kits in a den she made from an old groundhog hole under the barn - just saw the family yesterday & the kits are adorable. Papa Fox (gorgeous red coat) is also in the neighborhood. My next door neighbor (brother, who hunts - we eat a lot of venison) put in a small wildlife food plot & we have been treated to seeing turkeys & deer. On the game camera, we’ve spotted bobcats & coyotes. Not so cuddly - snakes, mostly Eastern Rat & Hognose (one Copperhead last year). We have multiple pairs of beautiful cardinals, a murder of crows that visits often (checking to see if I’ve left the gate to the garden fencing open) and a nesting pair of red-shouldered hawks. A very large owl has made an appearance recently - I’ve caught a glimpse, but my SIL has seen it up close - very impressive bird. Hummingbirds - got them, too. I made a bird bath out of a shallow feed pan & it attracts many birds - the crows like bathing in it & they can really splash some water. It would be a VERY dull existence around here without all the wildlife - we’re blessed to be in a situation where we can see so much.
Little pigs are oh, so cute and funny! Large pigs make great bacon and sausage. I grew up on the farm.
PETA seems to believe that killing a domesticated animal that is bred to want live with people and in a home is more humane than subjecting it to a life of “slavery” as a pet. They’re nuts.
Never saw that one, but did see “Save the whales. Redeem them for valuable prizes!”
Save a whale, Harpoon a fat ....
Not going to fill that out, wouldn’t be prudent...
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