var sc_project=259488; var sc_invisible=1; Front Page Cover Story Canada United States ... Web Optimization Vintage Marsala PETA Piper Ends Up in a Pickle and Who Are These Animal Rights Organizations? by K.L. Marsala
Saturday, June 25, 2005
Quick, hide your kittens! As two People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) workers were arrested recently, in North Carolina, for illegally dumping animal carcasses (supposedly a mother cat and her healthy kittens as well) into a store trash bin, my vision of who and what PETA was motivated me to investigate just who this and other animal rights organizations really are. Most of us are animal lovers. We love our pets; for many, they are like our children. We indulge them, love them, and care for them sometimes better than we care for ourselves. Unfortunately, there is a minority who are abusive to their pets. Without question there are cruel and abusive individuals. It is a small sect of human beings that commit these heinous acts of disrespect and violence towards innocent animals. Apparently, some members of the radical animal rights movement fit into this category too. PETA is an animal rights organization whose mission, as an activist group, is to promote a complete end to the use and ownership of animals: indoctrinating our youth via public education has been their best tool in their warfare. Honestly, though, how many people knew that PETA actually euthanized animals? In general most of us didn't know this fact, which is why when our old faithful pets become to ill and are suffering needlessly, we take them to our trusted vets to have them humanely put to rest. The majority of animal lovers view PETA with a wary eye for their over zealous activism, and understood that they spoke for animal rights, but never knew they euthanized healthy pets and at times discarded them into store dumpsters. The question is, how often within the animal rights organizations has this actually occurred? A case of -caught in the act- usually means there are others. | |
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