[FEL-L] PETA

[Laura Morin]

And people give them money... why? !  Educate yourself before donating to
ANY group.....


Examples of beliefs held by Peta boss, Ingrid Newkirk.....and others... 

“Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human
manipulation.” 

— Harper's 


“If we really believe that animals have the same right to be free from pain
and suffering at our hands, then, of course we’re going to be, as a
movement, blowing things up and smashing windows … I think it’s a great way
to bring about animal liberation … I think it would be great if all of the
fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories, and the banks that
fund them exploded tomorrow. I think it's perfectly appropriate for people
to take bricks and toss them through the windows ... Hallelujah to the
people who are willing to do it. ” 
— Bruce Friedrich, PETA’s vegan campaign coordinator, at the “Animal Rights
2001” conference 

“Serving a burger to your family today, knowing what we know, constitutes
child abuse. You might as well give them weed killer. ” 
— Toni Vernelli, then-coordinator of PETA’s European operations 

“Our nonviolent tactics are not as effective. We ask nicely for years and
get nothing. Someone makes a threat, and it works.” 
— Ingrid Newkirk, in the April 8, 2002 issue of US News & World Report 

“It may have been ELF, but then, I sometimes get them confused with ALF,
the Animal Liberation Front. And then there's Earth First! and PETA (People
for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). There's a lot of cross-pollination
between them, and some people here are probably members of two of those
groups, or more.” 
— Santa Cruz Police Lt. Joe Haebe, speculating about those responsible for
a crime spree, in the San Francisco Chronicle 

“We are complete press sluts.” 
— Ingrid Newkirk, in The New Yorker 

“Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt ... we are not here to
gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to hold
the radical line.” 
— USA Today 

“Humans have grown like a cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face of
the earth.” 
— Washingtonian magazine 

“Damaging the enemy financially is fair game.” 
— Washington City Paper 

“When you see the loss of 9 billion [animal] lives each year, it's
inappropriate to hold a sign or pass out a petition. It's appropriate to go
out and burn down the factory farm.” 
— The Seattle Post-Intelligencer 

“Throughout the late ‘80s, me and a handful of friends just like you people
here, we started to break windows, we started to slash tires, we started to
rescue animals from factory farms and vivisection breeders, and we
graduated to breaking into laboratories … As long as we emptied the labs of
animals, they were still easily replaced. So that's when the ALF in this
country, and my cell, started engaging in arson.” 
— SHAC rally, Edison, New Jersey 

“Getting together three or four friends of mine, we came back a week later
to that farm, we broke into the main laboratory, we trashed every single
piece of equipment, we stole documents and lists of fur farms across the
nation. And we started a fire in an experimental fur farm, an experimental
feed building, where they manufactured the experimental diets which were
the focus of research at this farm. And that fire destroyed all the
equipment, and in the ensuing raid, the raid that happened caused enough
damage that six months later that lab was forced to shut down. That was
five people, folks -- once again maybe like twelve hundred dollars, a
couple weeks of planning, five people. But that wasn’t the end. I knew I
had to continue, and for the next -- oh gosh, a little over a year -- we
took out, one by one, every recipient of what’s called the Mink Farmers
Research Foundation. It’s a foundation whose sole purpose is to aid
research to benefit the fur farm industry.” 
— SHAC rally, Edison, New Jersey 

“I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal Liberation Front].” 
— The New York Daily News 

“[I see] a spark of hope in every broken window, every torched police car.” 
— The Seattle Post-Intelligencer 

“Crimes of compassion that every animal advocate should support.” 
— Coronado’s description of two 1991 arsons at Oregon State University and
the Northwest Farm Food Cooperative in Edmonds, Washington, as described in
his 1995 Federal Sentencing Memorandum 

“Did we euthanize some animals who could have been adopted? Maybe.” 
— PETA's Domestic Animal Issues & Abuse Department director Daphna
Nachminovitch, in The Virginian-Pilot 


“We’re looking for good lawsuits that will establish the interests of
animals as a legitimate area of concern in law.” 

— Insight on the News 


“I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out
or burn them down.” 

— "National Animal Rights Convention" 


“There’s no rational basis for saying that a human being has special
rights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They’re all animals.” 

— Washingtonian magazine 



“One day, we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.
[Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild ... they would have
full lives, not wasting at home for someone to come home in the evening and
pet them and then sit there and watch TV.” 

— The Chicago Daily Herald 


“The bottom line is that people don't have the right to manipulate or to
breed dogs and cats... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate
objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own
kind.” 

— Animals  
  



Laura