Posted on 10/21/2002 5:23:22 PM PDT by Reaganwuzthebest
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' new Web site tutors teenage animal-rights warriors how to resist dissection in biology class and mystery meat in the cafeteria.
Oct. 21, 2002 | It's a Web site that probably even the most autocratic of high school principals wouldn't think to censor in the school library. But they'll wish they had when newly minted 15-year-old pleather-wearing, fact-sheet-waving PETA activists start lecturing them on the horrors of amphibian dissection.
The new People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals site for teens makes fighting for animal rights into a game, awarding points to the members of its "street team" for taking direct action. Order a few hundred "Cut class, not frogs" stickers, for 200 points. Plaster them all over your notebooks and locker, and send PETA a picture of your sloganeering handiwork: 1,000 points.
Oh, and when the other kids in your class are butchering pickled green once-hopping things, all in the name of learning, the site suggests spending the day at a nature preserve "observing frogs in the wild." Try feeding this line to your biology teacher when he asks why you skipped class: "You can learn way more from living frogs than from cutting up their carcasses."
On the site's message boards, kids swap fashion tips about vegan skateboarding-shoe companies and how to get your school cafeteria to serve vegetarian lunches.
"I've been a vegetarian for almost two weeks now …" brags one poster on the bulletin boards of the PETA2 Web site for kids. But her mom is still serving pork chops for dinner. "Is there any way I can make my parents believe that I'm doing this for me?" she laments. The other denizens suggest bringing some PETA fact sheets about vegetarianism to the dinner table.
An interview with the grand-daddy of pop vegetarianism, Morrissey, Mr. "Meat Is Murder" himself, reveals this inspiring gem about why he went vegetarian more than 30 years ago: "If you love animals, obviously it doesn’t make sense to hurt them." He says that there is no good argument for eating meat, including "It's tasty," because "it’s only tasty once you garnish it and you put salt and pepper and you cook it and you have to do 300 things to it to disguise its true taste. If you put garnishes on a chair or fabric it would probably taste quite nice."
Next time Mom serves up pork chops, just tell her you'd prefer a piece of the sofa with your ketchup, thanks.
Considering this group compares mink farmers to nazis, they would probably have a heart attack if they knew about this, that is if it's still going on.
The mink farmers are still in business so I would think they still sell the carcasses. I don't know whether the school Admin. has bowed to PETA pressure. This is small town USA; population about 10,000. If the school no longer uses minks it's more likely that that is was due to monetary constraints.
BTW, did you read the article posted a day or so ago about the PETA weirdos dressing up in cow costumes and protesting outside a grade school to quit drinking milk? About a hundred kids responded by dumping milk on the cow-clowns and apparently the police had to rescue the fools.
Saw it on the news. These people need to get a job. Looks to me like they have too much time on their hands.
There is a wonderful book called Finding Your Perfect Work -- Paul Edwards. This book describes how everyone has an interest that pulls at their heart and many of us turn from our interest because we don't see how we can earn a living from it. Turns out, there are many ways people can turn an interest in animals into something beside becoming a vet, just as there are many ways to make a career out of an interest in music without becoming an opera star. Not all of us can be on stage or in the operating room, but all of us can and should find ways to work with what interests us, because that is often where our true talents emerge. A talent is not always something we do well...it is often something which brings us great satisfaction or joy, whether it is "as good" as someone else's effort or not. Often our interests and abilities do not go hand in hand.
With your talent for putting together picture collections and finding beautiful quotes every day, I'm wondering if you also had an interest in art when you were young.
Typical selfish liberal tripe. Kid, Mom cooks the meals, and she LIKES serving pork chops for dinner. If you want to be a vegetarian, try cooking and serving yourself for a change. Bet Mom doesn't care as long as you are healthy and she doesn't have to cook and serve two meals.
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