[Northern Alliance]

PETA is no more representative of the animal rights movement (better called the anti-cruelty to animal movement) than Pat Robertson is representative of the conservative movement.

In both cases it's the media that unduly focuses on extremists to raise the temperature of their consumers. That is what sells newspapers and attracts viewers.

[mtbopfuyn]

Was at a picnic two days ago with a PETA dimwit who informed me I shouldn't be living in the country because that's where animals live. Of course, he wanted to argue his new home was ok because it was built inside the city limits. Idiot.

[xcamel]

Funny, IIRC.. Ingrid is a rabid supporter of abortion too....two legs bad, four legs good....

[atomicpossum]

I guess veterinary medicine is 'immoral' to PETA, too?

[AmericanChef]

-"If the death of one rat cured all diseases, it wouldn't make any difference to me."-

Ah, the sounds of insanity! It's so childish, you have to wonder what made these kind of people the whack jobs they are today.

[MarkL]

The founder of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, has declared unequivocally that animal research is "immoral even if it's essential" and that "Even painless research is fascism, supremacism." When questioned what her movement's stance would be if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, Newkirk responded: "We'd be against it." Chris DeRose, founder of the group Last Chance for Animals, writes: "If the death of one rat cured all diseases, it wouldn't make any difference to me."

At the same time, there's a board member of PETA who's a diabetic, and takes insulun that comes from horses. Penn and Tell's cable TV show, "Bulls**t" confronted that board member, whos response was that she does so much good for animals, that it's a small sacrifice. You know, one must sacrifice for the many sort of spiel...

Mark

[varyouga]

Aren't people technically animals too? So why do most PETA supporters think it's OK to kill unborn babies for no reason? Abortion sounds like fascism to me too.

[Jeff Blogworthy]

Chris DeRose, founder of the group Last Chance for Animals, writes: "If the death of one rat cured all diseases, it wouldn't make any difference to me."

But we need government funded embryonic stem cell research now!