PETA has really gone off the deep end
PETA Tells Kids to Run From Daddy
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, has begun a campaign to scare children into becoming vegetarians.
The
group, which formed to stop animal testing of consumer products but
made its name by attacking women in fur coats with fake blood, is
producing comic books that portray fathers as homicidal maniacs.
The
handout, titled "Your Daddy Kills Animals," features a grinning lunatic
gutting a fish, and warns kids to keep their puppies and kittens away
from Dad because he's "hooked on killing."
"PETA
is trying as hard as it can to portray the ordinary angler as a
demonic, sadistic, cruel killer. This is what PETA does — it paints
caricatures of ordinary people to try to convince the rest of us that
we shouldn't want to emulate them," said David Martosko, of the industry lobbying group Center for Consumer Freedom.
But PETA insists that its comic is not outlandish.
"The
scientific facts are that fish feel pain in the same way as dogs and
cats. It's no more acceptable to hook a fish through the mouth and drag
them into your boat and slice them in half than it would be to do the
exact same thing to a dog or a cat," said Bruce Friedrich, vegan campaign coordinator for PETA.
Publicity
stunts are nothing new for PETA, which has run ads featuring naked
women in cages and people dressed in animal suits warning about the
dangers of eating meat. But some critics feel the kid-targeted campaign
goes too far.
"This is
traumatizing kids by the thousands. There's going to be long-term
psychological damage from these kids being exposed to the material that
PETA puts in front of them on a regular basis," Martosko said.
But,
Friedrich countered, "They can certainly find stuff that is more in
your face on the Internet, more in your face on Saturday morning
cartoons. We don't need to shelter our kids quite that much."
The
pamphlet follows a previous one that painted Mom as a "chicken killer."
PETA claims its only goal is to reduce meat consumption by changing
children's eating habits. Critics insist alienating children from their
parents isn't in anyone's best interests — human or animal.
The
pamphlet follows a previous one that painted Mom as a "chicken killer."
PETA claims its only goal is to reduce meat consumption by changing
children's eating habits. Critics insist alienating children from their
parents isn't in anyone's best interests — human or animal.
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I don't care how supportive of PETA you are this is unacceptable. Scare
tactics like this are entirely inappropriate and psychologically
harmful to children. I disagree with at least 3/4ths of the things that
PETA does but none of the things have ever enraged me quite like this
one. They are
NOT your children, PETA. You have no right to be scaring the hell out of little children whose eating habits are controlled by
THEIR PARENTS.
Ok so let's say you s scare the little five year old into believing
that eating meat is unnatural and cruel PLUS you make them have
complete contempt and fear for their parents. That's not going to help
ANYONE.
Hell send the scary pamphlets when the kids are in college, at least
then they control what is put on the dinner table. If PETA spent the
money that these detrimental comics cost on something helpful like
MORE donations to animal shelters, more pamphlets on
PROPER animal care, more pamphlets maybe stressing their belief that somehow being a vegetarian is the only healthy way to eat (
WITHOUT SCARE TACTICS, could you
PLEASE for
ONCE convert someone without using scare tactics, violent footage and propaganda?) How about just 'converting' people by giving them
FACTS
that support your side of the debate? Jeopardizing children's mental
health and respect for their parents is irresponsible, unacceptable and
wrong in every sense of the word.
Alright. So almost all of you know I was a vegetarian for 3+ years of
my life...I did it for weight loss reasons not because I'm against
humans eating meat. Anytime you show me a video of how horrible you
believe our slaughtering process, milking process (etc) to be I will
play for you footage of a lion taking down an antelope on the plains.
If someone chooses to be a vegan or a veg based on their personal
beliefs about how animals should be treated (or for any other reason) I
do not question their right, I have friends who are vegans and I do not
have a problem with them, I wish my friends the best of luck in their
nutritional choices and I'm proud to have friends who have strong
opinions. I
DO have a specific
problem with PETA. I am very supportive of animals being treated well.
I want people who abused animals to go to jail longer and I think it is
bullshit that they mostly only have to pay a fine for their
crimes...because the abused animals needs a thousand bucks. I'm very
sensitive to how animals were treated, the fact that people left their
animals behind during Katrina (not the people who had
NO option
but to leave them, unless they were the ones that chained their animals
on the porch because that's great when there is rising flood water)
destroyed me, I think those people are horrific and should never be
allowed to have another pet. All those things being true, plus all the
volunteering I have done for animals and the education I have gotten
about them (interning at the UF Vet School's Small Animal Clinic,
etc) I still have
NO support for PETA. Do I like the general ideology of animals being treated well?
OF COURSE,
but there are far too many things that PETA does that are inexcusable
for me to support their organization at all. This is the organization
that wasted precious money that could have
HELPED
an animal by issuing a stop on my EIGTH GRADE science fair project
about Canine Lympho-sarcoma and the effects that Chemotherapy
medications (such as Vincristine etc) have on the white blood cell
count of the dogs. These were dogs that were
ALREADY receiving chemotherapy. These were dogs that were under consensual vet care at UF's small animal clinic. These were
RETROSPECTIVE studies where I looked over paperwork of dogs that had just finished their chemo. I looked over
PIECES OF PAPER under the supervision of
A VET, I OBSERVED animals being treated for chemo
UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF A VET. It was
ENTIRELY clear that my study was retrospective, it was
ENTIRELY clear that those animals were rightfully receiving chemo at the request of their owners to hopefully
SAVE THE LIFE of their dog...yet somehow PETA decided it was
THEIR place to butt into
MY science fair project,
WASTE MONEY questioning
it and blatantly accuse me of abusing animals while conducting my
project. It's interesting, isn't it? The fact that I somehow was
abusing animals even though I never administered any of the treatments
(and rightfully so, I'm no vet), never even PET the animals...somehow
looking over their
PAPERWORK
(which the names were taken off of that pinpoint which dogs it would
have been and were okayed by the owner to be looked over by me) being
read by a 13 year old girl somehow was abusing animals. Give me a break
PETA, go do something useful, stop wasting money and stop harassing
little children.
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