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Posted on 12/23/2007 1:50:44 PM PST by stickandrudder
The monks at Mepkin Abbey have supported their contemplative lives for 40 years largely by supplying eggs to local grocery stores. No more. The abbey has succumbed to a campaign undertaken last year by the animal-rights activist group, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Too bad.
In announcing its decision to phase out its operation over the next year and a half, a Mepkin spokesman said PETA's campaign had become a distraction to the Trappist community: "While the monks are sad to give up work that has sustained them for many years, a hard and honorable work of which they are proud, the pressure from PETA has made it difficult for them to live their quiet life of prayer, work and sacred reading."
Clearly, that's what PETA had in mind when it started its high-profile campaign last year. Ironically, Mepkin Abbey has been a major benefactor for environmental preservation in Berkeley County.
Among PETA's stated ideals is the contention that animals are "not ours to use for food, clothing, experimentation or entertainment.
(Excerpt) Read more at charleston.net ...
PETA’s Dirty Secret
Why don’t they tell PETA to shove it up their a$$es?? These people(?) are begging to be ignored...SSZ
May peta members have a happy and merry christmas NOT. There is a special place in Hell for these people.
They don’t have Christmas. They are pagans who worship animals. That’s the underlying problem. The Greens and Petas are returning to ancient paganism as Christendom falls apart. Speaking “figuratively,” they demand human sacrifice to their animal deities. The day may come when they have enough power to turn the figurative into the literal, but we’ll see.
“Chickens”
The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) is compassionate, effective, and accomplished. PETA is a bunch of communists or Marxists attempting to force their version of the world on the rest of us with vandalism and hypocrisy. I have nothing but contempt for PETA and their ilk. IMO, they certainly have stolen the limelight from a legitimate, responsible organization.
They're obviously psychotic.
South Carolina PingI understand why the monks would rather pray than be in court.
So I do not condemn them.
But the big stores that have been buying from them have lots of money and lawyers and they are crumbs for not defending the monks.
The monks should have to raise their hand, the stores should have come to their rescue.
CSSJR
If we do not wish to lose our freedom, we must learn to tolerate our
neighbor’s right to freedom even though he might express that freedom
in a manner we consider to be eccentric.
Actually they were kind of tired of the whole chicken thing anyway.
I’m hoping for a nice Trappist ale down at the Pig.
What’s more sincere than a animal tested, polio vaccinated punk Teenager in Leather boots and animal tested, beef bi-product make-up telling Monks to not sell eggs because it’s using animals?
Then they go home to their formerly a squirrel nest, woods framed home and eat their McNugget happy meal and watch “Nemo” while begging mommy to renew their PeTA membership so they can get some more stickers to paste onto stop signs.
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