Posted on 06/06/2006 9:44:22 AM PDT by presidio9
I expect that they are going to go have harsh words with the local wolves and/or big cats about eating other animals. I also suspect that they are going to have a sitdown with the local bird-of-prey population about eating meat.
These people are idiots. They ought to be laughed at to their faces.
PETA Employees Face Felony Animal Cruelty Charges
http://www.petakillsanimals.com/petaTrial.cfm
In the early hours of June 15, 2005, two employees of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) were arrested in Ahoskie, North Carolina, and charged with 31 felony counts of cruelty to animals. A Grand Jury later indicted each defendant on 22 counts of Animal Cruelty and 3 counts of Obtaining Property By False Pretenses. PETA employees Andrew Cook and Adria Hinkle are expected to face a trial in Hertford County (NC) Superior Court in May 2006. A few days after the arrests, local authorities told Greenville, North Carolina's WNCT-TV News that they had found more than 70 additional dead animals that may be connected to PETA.
When Ahoskie police arrested Cook and Hinkle, they discovered 18 dead animals in a shopping-center dumpster (including a bag containing dead puppies), and 13 more dead animals (including two kittens) in the PETA-owned van the two were driving. Police observed them throwing several dark-colored bags into the dumpster before the arrests were made. The animal-cruelty investigator for the Northampton County (North Carolina) sheriff's department shared her outrage with the Virginian-Pilot a few days after the arrests: "Some animals have to be euthanized," she told the paper, "but the way this crowd did it is sick."
Witnesses from the Bertie County (NC) Animal Shelter and the Ahoskie Animal Hospital later confirmed that the defendants had collected animals earlier that day on the promise that PETA would find them adoptive homes. And a Bertie County deputy sheriff told reporters that Cook and Hinkle assured the shelter "they were picking up the dogs to take them back to Norfolk where they would find them good homes," later adding that persons identifying themselves as PETA representatives have picked up live dogs from that shelter during the last two months.
Ahoskie veterinarian Dr. Patrick Proctor told reporters that his staff gave a perfectly healthy cat and her two newborn kittens to Hinkle and Cook. "This cat and two kittens I gave them last week," he said, "were in good health and were very adoptable, especially the kittens." Dr. Proctor later added in the Virginian-Pilot: "These were just kittens we were trying to find homes for. PETA said they would do that, but these cats never made it out of the county."
One Norfolk television station aired a heartbreaking interview with the manager of the supermarket whose dumpster became an impromptu pet cemetery. "They just slung the doors [open] and started throwing dogs ... beautiful cats. I saw a [dead] beagle last week that was pregnant ... last week it was 23 or 24 dogs ... it's happened to us nine times ... they drove straight from there, straight here, and disposed of the dogs in 30 seconds."
Another TV news report in PETA's home town revealed in June 2005 that Hinkle and Cook were not licensed to euthanize animals. "We have no records of training PETA employees," a Virginia Department of Agriculture spokesperson told Norfolk, Virginia's WAVY-TV10 News, "because we were informed that euthanasia was being done by a local veterinarian." Neither defendant has a veterinary degree.
How many do you think are pro abortion?
I always wonder if the people who are pro abortion because (they say) it's just a fetus, not a person, would be good to go with late term "abortions" on cows about to give birth and using the flesh of the "non animal" fetus for BBQ?
PETA suspends exhibit linking blacks, animals
By Dionne Walker ASSOCIATED PRESS August 15, 2005
RICHMOND -- People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals -- known as much for staging shocking protests as for championing animal rights -- is reconsidering a campaign comparing slavery to animal abuse after complaints from civil rights groups and others.
"Animal Liberation," which includes 12 panels juxtaposing pictures of black people in chains with shackled elephants and other provocative images, had visited 17 cities before the Norfolk-based group put the tour on hold. The decision came within the past week.
PETA wrapped up the first leg of the tour in the District on Thursday.
"We're not continuing right now while we evaluate," said Dawn Carr, a PETA spokeswoman. "We're reviewing feedback we've received -- most of it overwhelmingly positive and some of it quite negative."
Stops had included Columbia, S.C.; Birmingham, Ala.; and Baton Rouge, La. -- cities in the heart of Dixie where, ironically, Miss Carr said the images were most well-received.
Suspended from a metal trellis, one cloth panel shows a black civil rights protester being beaten at a lunch counter beside a photo of a seal being bludgeoned. Another panel, titled "Hanging," shows a photo of a white mob surrounding two lynched blacks, their bodies hanging from tree limbs; a nearby picture shows a cow hanging in a slaughterhouse.
But controversy erupted last Monday, when the display stopped in New Haven, Conn.
"There was one man who began shouting that the exhibit was racist," Miss Carr said. "Then, there was a lot of shouting."
Miss Carr said officials are using the shocking images to prove a point: Whether it's humans harming animals or one another, all point to an oppressive mind-set.
But officials with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People aren't buying it.
"PETA operates by getting publicity any way they can," said John White, an NAACP spokesman. "They're comparing chickens to black people?"
It marks the second time in recent months that PETA has come under fire for comparing the suffering of a group of people to the plight of animals.
Officials with the group apologized earlier this year after a campaign comparing the suffering of Jews during the Holocaust with that of factory animals.
That campaign ran from February 2003 to October 2004.
"These people seem to be in the very-slow-learners category," said Mark Potok, director of the Intelligence Project with the Southern Poverty Law Center, in Montgomery, Ala., where the exhibit stopped in July.
"Black people in America have had quite enough of being compared to animals without PETA joining in," Mr. Potok said. "This is disgusting."
Someone should stand out there, barbeque chicken and ribs and give them away to passers-by.
I can't get over the students here who claim they're vegetarians and prove it by picking the pepperonis off their pizzas. As if at the end of the school year they'll glue the pepperonis together and set the pig free?
Absolutely! But the liberals probably won't have enough money to pay from their welfare checks.
Buncha losers.
God didn't put anything on earth for the sake of beauty and wonder alone. That's what he made the heavens above for.
Such an amazing universe. It's truly inconceivable in our minds.
Get a life pete,you sick s.o.b's.Gotta go I'm eating a hamburger.
These people are retarded.
This is what happens when you let your feelings rule, and ignore logic. (Oh, and you have to have some pretty strange feelings).
Is that a fact?
I haven't smelled any broke-back cowboy being cooked but I have smelled, beef, port, lamb, fowl, and fish and they all smell different...
Where did this guy smell people being cooked?
They obviously have too much free time on their hands.
Yep--that's PETA: People Embarrassing the Tidewater Area.
I thought it was People Executing Tame Animals.
"Gawd, what idiots. You don't grill long pig, you smoke it."
They are too busy smoking other things.
When is Peta going to swarm the jungles of Central America or the plains of Africa and berate the animals there when they attack and eat each other?
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