Say what you will about PETA but you have to admit that they have the best liberal protesters around. :-)
Posted on 10/28/2004 10:25:44 PM PDT by Still Thinking
"This may be the most important letter I've ever written," declares People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) president Ingrid Newkirk in a September 27 fundraising letter. "I can honestly say that, in the almost 25 years that PETA has been in existence, I've never -- never, ever! - witnessed a more organized, well-funded, multi-industry attack on animal rights and PETA than the one we're under right now. It is getting stronger every day ? We are number one on their hit list, and they are out for PETA's blood." For once, we agree with Newkirk. And we're thrilled to accept her compliment.
Newkirk's letter, sent to untold thousands of potential PETA donors, describes the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) as inspiring "shock and awe" around PETA's vegan water-cooler, and grumbles that we have asked the IRS and Congress to reconsider PETA's tax-exempt (nonprofit) status. She also complains that our efforts are "bankrolled by millions of dollars" (actually about $2 million at last count, compared to PETA's annual $24 million haul), which have produced:
"? an unprecedented glut of ads against PETA, which, to cite one example, have appeared on every subway car and in every subway station in Washington, D.C., over the past few months ? CCF is hoping that people will read the ad and be outraged or at least wonder about us."
We plead guilty. And we've never (never, ever!) seen a clearer sign that our approach is working. Newkirk's whining, bellyaching, and petty griping speaks volumes about a movement that loves to dish out pointed criticism but just can't take it. Our only regret is that we can't -- yet -- match PETA's propaganda machine dollar-for-dollar. (But then again, PETA needs a treasure chest large enough to fund the legal bills of domestic terrorists).
The other principal sign of our success is that PETA's leaders -- the self-described "press sluts" who fly to a TV camera like a mosquito to blood -- have begun refusing to debate us on the air. In one recent example, Louisville's NBC television affiliate interviewed our Director of Research for a story about PETA. But as reporter Eric Flack explained on the air:
PETA, which runs to the media every time it has shocking video, ran from this story, refusing to be interviewed because it included criticism from the Center for Consumer Freedom.
The CCF subway ad that prompted Ingrid Newkirk's tearful September fundraising letter puts her own words front-and-center: "Even if animal research resulted in a cure for AIDS, we'd be against it." Rather than distancing herself from this perverse philosophy or explaining why PETA would place a child's life beneath that of a rat, Newkirk complains that we used a photo of "scary-looking sewer rats (not tame, white lab rats)."
Not that it would have mattered. PETA always sides with the rodents -- despite consistently failing to practice what it preaches. PETA Vice President Mary Beth Sweetland is a diabetic whose daily insulin therapy was developed through tests that required the use of lab animals. Sweetland's hypocrisy is matched only by that of Hollywood "boobs" like Pamela Anderson -- who postures for PETA one day while emceeing a liver disease research fundraiser the next. (Pam has Hepatitis C, a virus that is being aggressively combated through -- yes -- animal testing.) The same goes for Charlize Theron, PETA's newest spokes-drone, who doubles as an "ambassador" for the very breast cancer research that PETA opposes.
We'll spare you the rest of Newkirk's fundraising rant, as there's no point in repeating PETA's specific lies (especially those about our individual and business contributors. You know who you are, and we thank you). Your support is clearly having an impact.
They should have a Fish Fry to raise money, or a BBQ.
Animals cannot have rights. They cannot respect them nor understand them.
They are not human. However, we are to be good stewards of them.
Why is it that most of the people who really help animals are Republicans? They serve on boards of animals shelters, donate to causes...but this stupid group gets nothing done but publicity.
This group is nutty, but you want to know something nuttier? I had a girlfriend once who was a big "animal rights" activist and a peta member -- but she hated Bill Clinton and voted for Bush's father. These PETA people are so out there that even the RATS don't want anything to do with them. Skerry lost their votes when he went "hunting" or whatever he was doing. They're Nader voters, they might even be Bush voters, but they're crazy and dumb, don't worry about'em.
PETA is not just some hopped up ASPCA. They think it's okay to destroy animals in order to save them.
Of 4 cats, I have 2 bush votes, one kerry, and one nader.
From someone else's files:
People
Eat
Tasty
Animals
Sounds like one of your cats may be a weasle.
Say what you will about PETA but you have to admit that they have the best liberal protesters around. :-)
I've always suspected the cats around here of being communists.
Anyone watch the demise of PETA on South Park last night?
Actually their position is contradictory. They publicly state that we're just another one of the animals ("A pig is a rat is a dog is a boy"), yet if we act like just another one of the animals and eat the ones we need for food, they think that's bad. So, strangely, their position seems to be based on the idea that we are different, exactly the opposite of their stated belief.
You got that right. I grew up in rural Maryland and saw deer infrequently. I went back and visited last year and the area had been much more developed, and the things were standing around in every field like cattle.
Veggies are not food, veggies are what food eats.
Pam has Hep C?
Wow, that's pretty big news.
Exactly how did she get that?
The virus is spred by sharing needles with an infected user, or by contaminated blood tranfusions.
The test for blood bourne HepC has been used to screen all donor blood since 1991, so that's probably out.
There is anecdotal evidence of a remote possiblity of spread through sexual contact, but there is zero confirmation of that.
Hep C is currently treated by weekly interferon injections, along with a high daliy dose of Ribaviron.
The length of course of treatment dependes on the Genome type:
Hep C genome type II = six months, genome type I = 1 year
This treatment has nasty side effects.
So, how did PETAbitch get this?
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