Where IS PETA? You would think they would go rescue some animals. Why isn't Pamela Anderson out there trying to save them? She already has Hepatitis, anyway...
Not to mention a built-in flotation device (two, actually).
YEAH... and her own personal floatation devices!
Okay, I'm going to have to re-post my PETA diatribe...:
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"On the subject of PETA. It's longhand version sounds, so, so, benign. Who isn't for the ethical treatment of animals, afterall? (Okay, I know, there's a few exceptions here in the FReeper crowd-- please don't feel the need to publically identify yourselves here :-) ...).
What many do not realize, however, is that not all animal rights groups out there are only opposed to testing, research or inhumane treatment of animals. There are some (i.e. PETA) that believe that pet ownership is a form of _animal abuse_ and that people should not interact or interfere with animals in any way.
PETA activists are ones who write threats on dog show premiums, and who feel it is more humane for a dog to be poisoned than it is for the dog to be shown in obedience or agility or... Or even to be living in a home as a family pet.
You see, they view being a pet as demeaning to the animal. PETA activists have actually gone to dog shows and let dogs out of their crates. Their view is that they are freeing the animal, saving it from some horrible fate.
They have released minks from mink farms. Minks that then went out and starved or got themselves otherwise killed. You know, freeing them. They view milking cows as cruel and inumane. (And if anybody knows anything about cows, it would be that NOT millking them would be cruel and inhumane!)
Some were really puzzled this year about why some PETA activists had been caught having killed animals that they had taken from shelters under the guise of trying to re-home them. To me, it fit right in with their mission. To them, death is preferable for the animals than their being adopted as pets. "
It may be cruel, it may be brutal, but if it's true, you can say it.