PETA's silence, hypocrisy

North County Times/The Californian ^ | Wednesday, May 11, 2005 | Rick Reiss

[Junior]

Actually, you are. You are a mammal (an animal), and a primate (an animal). You are, by definition, an animal. You can deny it till the day you die, but it will never change the facts. In fact, here is your pedigree:

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Chordata
Class: Mammalia
Order: Primates
Superfamily: Hominoidea
Family: Hominidae
Subfamily: Homininae
Genus: Homo
Species: H. sapiens

Please note the "Kingdom."

[Junior]

They were minerals (i.e., "rocks").

[Niteranger68]

"Not true. Quite a few exceptions. After all 48% voted for Kerry."

Well, if you took out all the duplicate votes and subtracted the dead voters, the percentage would be significantly less.

[madball]

Don't forget all the felons.

[madball]

True.

[Niteranger68]

From an earlier post:

It can be quite easy to smoke out the guilt laden PETA nuts. Ask them if a bear snatching and eating a fish from a stream is considered nature. They should answer yes because they don't want to get in a bear's face. Then ask them if a human catching and eating a fish from the same stream is nature. They will either a) realize how foolish they are, or b) argue that we (humans) are not part of nature. Either way, you will win the argument or smoke them out by exposing their belief that humans are an inferior enemy to nature.

Since most PETA militants are also tree huggers, another interesting approach is to tell them how much pain fruits and vegetables feel when they are harvested and eaten. You will then find out that trees have feelings, but fruits and vegetables do not.

[Luna]

No, no, no. That can't be right.

I thought we evil humans were foreign to planet Earth and are the cause of destroying it with our evil capitalism and evil CO2 emmissions.

[Niteranger68]

"Don't forget all the felons."

I was trying not to pile-on.

[DogByte6RER]

Re: No we are not "animals"...

Human beings are classified within the animal kingdom through the Linnaean system of classification.

It is this system of classification that utilizes the categories of genus and species (among others) in which the name "Homo sapiens" is derived.

Unlike animals, Homo sapiens excercise free will and conscious thought through the souls and spirits that we are endowed with by our Divine Creator.

We may have physical bodies (i.e., "shells") that are in essence the bodies of animals...yet we also possess those innate added dimensions of spirituality, reason, culture, insight, creativity and other uniquely human characteristics that separate us from the beasts.

The reference comparing humans to animals only relates to the physical. The Linnaean system of classification is based upon the theories of Charles Darwin.

While I am not a knee-jerk evolutionist, I do believe that Creationism and the Theory of Evolution are NOT mutually exclusive. I beleive that the two ideas can dovetail together.

For more info about the Linnaean system of classification, go to:

http://anthro.palomar.edu/animal/animal_1.htm

[PaRebel]

We're certainly part of the ecosystem!!

[theDentist]

Maybe the zealots at PETA have too much time on their hands, or more likely, they just have misplaced priorities.

From the PETAphiles I've met, I can assure you: it's both!

[antiantiamericans]

When I was at USAICS (the United States Army Intelligence Center and School) in the 80's, we were taught openly that PETA was a group formed by Soviet agents on college campuses in the US to interfere with chemical weapons research on monkeys and orangutans, with an alternate purpose of just generally making life unpleasant for citizens and being a hassle.

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

Regardless of what you post, I will not agree. Yes I will deny it until the day I die and them I will be satisfied.

[ThisLittleLightofMine]

I do believe that Creationism and the Theory of Evolution are NOT mutually exclusive. I believe that the two ideas can dovetail together.

This would absolutely be in contradiction to God and His order of things.

Why do you assume that I have never taken biology? Why do you believe that people that don't buy into evolution have not studied both sides and have chose to believe God rather than man? I don't care how a "man" has classified humans, I know what I am and it is not an "animal". Thank you.