PETA - Murdering the Animals they Pledge to Protect

PETA. It stands for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

It's the largest Animal Rights organisation in the world, pledging to fight against the use of animals and animal products for food, clothing or medical experimentation and the elimination of killing animals considered 'pests.'

With about a million members, PETA raises upwards of $25 MILLION per year to organise such worthwhile projects as:

Donating $20,000 if the town of Hamburg, New York, changes it's name to Veggieburg.

Telling kids to keep their parents away from their pets, with campaigns called "Your Daddy Kills Animals" and "Your Mommy Kills Animals."

They also targeted students with the "Got Beer" campaign, which promoted the drinking of beer instead of milk - accompanied by some very spurious claims about the health effects of milk. Find out more here.

That campaign they were forced to retract after Mothers Against Drunk Driving complained that the adverts promoted underage drinking. In UK, the Advertising Standards Agency banned the campaign because of the misrepresentations (i.e. blatant lies) they made regarding the health effects of drinking milk.

They also ran many shocking campaigns using Holocaust imagery. Wikipedia records a campaign "juxtaposing images of the Holocaust with images of factory farming. Photographs of concentration camp inmates in wooden bunks were shown next to photographs of caged chickens, and piled bodies of Holocaust victims next to a pile of pig carcasses."

PETA used this repugnant caption: "like the Jews murdered in concentration camps, animals are terrorized when they are housed in huge filthy warehouses and rounded up for shipment to slaughter. The leather sofa and handbag are the moral equivalent of the lampshades made from the skins of people killed in the death camps."

Understandably, The Jewish Anti-Defamation League denounced the campaign.

Chairman Abraham Foxman found the disgusting campaign: "outrageous, offensive and takes chutzpah to new heights ... The effort by Peta to compare the deliberate systematic murder of millions of Jews to the issue of animal rights is abhorrent."

It's not just Jewish people PETA has offended.

PETA Vice President Dan Mathews recently attacked AIDS activists, who were complaining about PETA's objection to medical testing on animals to find a cure for AIDS. Mathews response, which seemed to share more in common with the opinions of the American Taliban than an animal rights organisation, was: "AIDS is easy enough to avoid."

Dan Mathews also called world renowned animal conservationist Steve Irwin "a cheap reality TV star" who "made a career out of antagonizing frightened wild animals"

Which is ironic, since the late Steve Irwin has done more to benefit REAL animals that PETA has in it's 27 years of existence.

Even former PETA employees, like Sue Perna, called PETA "an abuser of the human animal" and added "the further [animal activists] distance ourselves from PETA, the better off the animal rights movement will be."

Consumer Freedom's website tells us PETA "has donated over $150,000 to criminal activists -- including those jailed for arson, burglary, and even attempted murder." In the last 6 years, over 80 PETA activists have been arrested.

PETA openly advocates it's activists breaking the law. Click here to listen to PETA vegetarian campaign director Bruce Friedrich as he encourages activists to commit arson against restaurants, medical laboratories, and banks.

Even more shocking, especially in post 9/11 America, PETA directly donated money to an organisation called the North American Earth Liberation Front, a group classed as "domestic terrorists" by the FBI, who encourage their members to attack people and property they feel 'blights' the environment.

Here is an organisation that OPENLY SUPPORTS TERRORISM. It should not be allowed to exist in modern America.

But this week, the most shocking truth about PETA has emerged as two of PETA's activists go to trial in North Caroline for the killing of over 80 animals.

It blows their claims out of the water and basically confirms what more and more people are realising. That PETA is an organization of self publicists and anarchists who have lied and manipulated a million people, including celebrities and teenagers, into funding their criminal, terrorist and inhuman activities.

PETA doesn't care about animals.

The case in question involved two PETA employees, who were assigned the task of taking rescued animals to various animal shelters throughout the region.

Because the effort involved, the two activists instead decided to kill all the cats and dogs. They were discovered by police dumping the animal's corpses in the dumpster of a local grocery store.

Read the whole sordid story here.

The most shocking thing is that many of these cats and dogs would have found homes through the shelters. A mother and her two kittens were amongst the animals slaughtered.

I wear my heart on my sleeve. Growing up on a farm, I saw that the meat and diary industry could be entirely humane. Consuming animals has allowed the cost effective conservation of thousands of rare breeds and species of livestock.

If you really care about animal rights, choose organic and free range produce. Not only are they more humane for the animals - the produce is of better quality and better for you, too.

Don't give any money to PETA and don't support any of the show-boating campaigns they run.