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Posted : 12/29/2006 10:37:27 PM

I used to be a PETA member. Thanks to an issue with a picture of an alligator butcher selling off animal parts to fellow gators, my sister is happily a vegetarian. Me? A happy carnivore. BUT I have limits. I only eat it organic, humanely raised. Same with milk and eggs. I never eat veal or anything like that. So I do have a heart. I also cannot eat duck, but for personal reasons. We used to have a pet duck, so whenever I see duck I think it could be Flower. I would be the sameway if I had a pet pig, cow, or chicken.

loveukaykay

Posted : 12/30/2006 2:24:48 AM

ORIGINAL: gaylemarie

I would just like to give myself credit for this particular link

thats right, sorry i forgot it was you amy, you had pm'd it to me and i didn't have the pm anymore, i have the link bookmarked though, i make everyone who comes to my house watch it []

Perfect person to share it with then!!!!! And to think... I was iffy about it... pfft.... lol. I love it. I love most of their shows. The topics and info are real, ya know.[

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loveukaykay

Posted : 12/30/2006 2:27:30 AM

Just to add... I think I love it because its so rare now to see a diplomic opinion, who, even though may have their specifc opinion, shows both sides...

I love the dimplomatic logically opinionated approach mixed with pure humor.... its great.

gayle

Posted : 12/30/2006 4:38:13 AM

did i ever thank you for that link? if not thank you very much, i had heard of the show before that but never watched it, since then i have watched every one i could find on there, it really is great for getting down to the truth. reading on websites just isnt the same as watching it, that was when i really figured out just how off peta was.

WolfDog

Posted : 12/30/2006 10:19:58 AM

ORIGINAL: gaylemarie

[linkhttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1913999390200944075&q=peta]penn and teller b.s.- PETA[/link]

i was given this link shortly after joining this forum, it was very enlightening.

They're really..... passionate.

loveukaykay

Posted : 12/30/2006 4:39:37 PM

I like a lot of them as well... some I agree with more than others and some I find way funnier than others. I havnt seen them all but I did see the ones on religion, drugs, bottled water, safety, the battle to look young, psychics.... a few more... I should try harder to catch it!

loveukaykay

Posted : 12/30/2006 4:41:22 PM

I always crack up when they show clips of the people they are interviewing in between takes, like when theyre just sitting there staring into space or fooling with their hair... not thinking they are being filmed.... sooooo hilarious, lol!

gayle

Posted : 12/30/2006 6:18:14 PM

did you watch the one on recycling? a girl on that one was staring off into space during takes [sm=lol.gif]

lorib

Posted : 12/31/2006 2:53:41 AM

I am sure everybody here knows how I feel about PETA--I hate them with every fiber of my being. Why? Because they believe that bull breeds MUST be eradicated--we can, in Ingrid's words, "Adopt one of the other cute dogs out there instead" --not a direct quote, but an approximate one.

All of us at the local shelter always want to get Ms. Newkirk to spend a few days in the work she despises and try to keep from caring very deeply about ANY of the animals brought in.

I won't even dignify the Holocaust vs. factory farming issue with anything resembling a response.[:'(]

DE Lee

Posted : 12/31/2006 8:36:06 AM

my article on PETA

[linkhttp://www.houndsong.com/html/peta.htm]http://www.houndsong.com/html/peta.htm[/link]

jenhuedepohl

Posted : 12/31/2006 12:01:52 PM

PETA is like Greenpeace and many other organizations. A really great group that lost it's original purpose and turned into a fundraising and politically motivated monster.

paulaedwina

Posted : 12/31/2006 12:31:11 PM

ORIGINAL: jenhuedepohl

PETA is like Greenpeace and many other organizations. A really great group that lost it's original purpose and turned into a fundraising and politically motivated monster.

I can't speak about Greenpeace because I don't pay enough attention, but I think you hit the nail on the head with PETA. In the beginning they were a good and sane group that worked to bring the suffering of animals to people's attention, and I admired that about them. Now they've just lost their minds and their extremist philosophy makes them contradict themselves in the worst ways. For instance they are so driven to save dogs and cats from cruelty that they began 'adopting' dogs and cats from shelters under false pretenses to kill them. In fact they had a van and did it in the van. And the only reason we know about it is that their workers were BUSTED in Virginia dumping animal corpses in a grocery store dumpster. So I guess they were killing these animals to save them from a fate worse than death?

It made the news. I found an article about it on line

http://www.nokillnow.com/PETAarrest2.htm

Paula

jenhuedepohl

Posted : 12/31/2006 6:24:47 PM

What makes me really mad is that I'd bet that 90% of their funding would disappear if people REALLY knew what they stood for. PETA is getting buckets of money that could be going to the ASPCA or other local rescue groups that could really do some good with it.

paulaedwina

Posted : 12/31/2006 6:40:02 PM

ORIGINAL: jenhuedepohl

What makes me really mad is that I'd bet that 90% of their funding would disappear if people REALLY knew what they stood for. PETA is getting buckets of money that could be going to the ASPCA or other local rescue groups that could really do some good with it.

I agree. I believe something will change; people are slowly catching on, and who knows, maybe PeTa will wise up and ditch their crazy people and go back to what they were so good at.

Paula

jeano

Posted : 12/31/2006 6:50:45 PM

ORIGINAL: paulaedwina

ORIGINAL: jenhuedepohl

What makes me really mad is that I'd bet that 90% of their funding would disappear if people REALLY knew what they stood for. PETA is getting buckets of money that could be going to the ASPCA or other local rescue groups that could really do some good with it.

I agree. I believe something will change; people are slowly catching on, and who knows, maybe PeTa will wise up and ditch their crazy people and go back to what they were so good at.

Paula

Paula, unfortunately Newkirk was there from the beginning, and killing pets has been her agenda from the beginning. [:@]

A 2003 New Yorker profile included PETA top dog Ingrid Newkirk's story of how she became involved in animal rights after a shelter put down stray kittens she brought there. So she went to work for an animal shelter in the 1970s, where, she explained, "I would go to work early, before anyone got there, and I would just kill the animals myself. Because I couldn't stand to let them go through (other workers abusing the animals.) I must have killed a thousand of them, sometimes dozens every day."
--excerpted from Debra Saunders SF Chronicle article: Better Dead Than Fed

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