Please read their unedited statements and draw your own conclusions.

"People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals" (PETA) or (PeTA) is the borderline "lunatic fringe" element of the animal rights movement. As a rule, this movement, as with most extremists fringe movements, has a tendency to exaggerate or over emphasize their importance in our society as well as their membership. This is a shame, because through ignorance, they gain members every once and a while.

PeTA was founded by Ingrid Newkirk. Here she is interfering with free movements of a chicken. Seems this quote might be a bit hypocritical but she said it, not me. "In a perfect world, all other than human animals would be free of human interference, and dogs and cats would be part of the ecological scheme." -- PETA's Statement on Companion Animals.

Animal rights, as a universal idea sounds quite politically correct, at first. However so does a Disney cartoon when taken at face value. It is only through study of the actual words of the leaders and actions of the organization that one becomes aware as to their danger and/or inconsistencies. Ms. Newkirk, seems to contradict herself in these first 3 statements about pets and pet ownership.

• "Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought about by human manipulation"-- Ingrid Newkirk, National Director, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), "Just Like Us? Toward a Nation of Animal Rights" (symposium), Harper's , August 1988, p. 50.

• "Many of us have made commitments to dogs and cats who might not be alive today if we had turned them away at our doors." -- Ingrid Newkirk, National Director, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), "On Feeding Our Pals", PETA Website July, 1997 http://www.peta-online.org/vegdog/vegedog.htm

• "You don't own a squirrel and starlings to get enjoyment from them....One day we would like an end to pet shops and breeding animals. [Dogs] would pursue their natural lives in the wild...They would have full lives, not waiting at home for someone to come home in the evening and pet them and sit there and watch TV" -- Ingrid Newkirk, National Director, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), "Where Would We Be Without Animals? (Chicago Daily Herald , Mar. 1, 1990)

My friends, PeTA does not believe that you have the right to own a dog, cat, fish, parakeet, or even an ant farm. PeTA has taken a stand against hunting and the raising of any animal for human consumption. That's a "no brainer". But, did you realize that putting a live worm on your 4 year olds hook down at the "fishin' hole" is seen by them as a double kill? They have even taken public stances against Silk Garments and the Oscar Mayer Weiner Mobile. The Weiner Mobile incident occurred in Atlanta, GA in the fall of 1997. PeTA tried to protest the vehicle while Oscar Mayer held an open casting call for children to star in a future ad campaign. PeTA was ridiculed by both parents and the news media and received a great deal of embarrassment in the matter for "Picking on Kids."

Alex Pacheco (above) is Ms. Newkirk's right hand man. As with any good organizational rhetoric, the #1 figurehead must try to remain above the turmoil while the #2 figurehead makes attacks. Here are some of his views on aggressive criminal behavior in support of the animal rights madness.

• "Arson, property destruction, burglary and theft are `acceptable crimes' when used for the animals' cause."-- Alex Pacheco, Co-chair of PETA, Charleston - W. Va. Gazette-Mail Jan. 15 1989)

• "We feel that animals have the same rights as a retarded human child. -- Alex Pacheco, Co-chair of PETA, (New York Times Jan. 14, 1989)

• "As John Bryant has written in his book Fettered Kingdoms, they (pets) are like slaves, even if well-kept slaves." -- PeTA's Statement on Companion Animals

• "Liberating our language by eliminating the word 'pet' is the first step... In an ideal society where all exploitation and oppression has been eliminated, it will be NJARA's policy to oppose the keeping of animals as 'pets'." -- New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance, "Should Dogs Be Kept As Pets? NO!" Good Dog!, February 1991, p. 20.

• "Let us allow the dog to disappear from our brick and concrete jungles -- from our firesides, from the leather nooses and chains by which we enslave it." -- John Bryant, Fettered Kingdoms: An Examination of A Changing Ethic (Washington, D.C.: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), 1982, p. 15.

• "The cat, like the dog, must disappear... We should cut the domestic cat free from our dominance by neutering, neutering, and more neutering, until our pathetic version of the cat ceases to exist." -- John Bryant, Fettered Kingdoms: An Examination of A Changing Ethic (Washington, D.C.: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), 1982), p. 15.

I've had Animal Rights Activists say to me that I scare them because I hunt and therefor I must be crazy and dangerous. Of course they only say this through anonymous emails or non-signed posts to my guest book.

I can not understand any group that as a whole has no trouble with the abortion of a human fetus and yet is willing to take extreme and sometimes violent actions against stores, their employees and families in order to save a rabbit. Obviously one could well surmise that once you have paid your membership dues, then your life is worth less than the above mentioned animal.

hmmmmm....if animals are equals, they why doesn't PETA ask them for contributions?

Then let us lastly look at the organization's abomination of mankind in general and it's calling for the end of our species. Here are a few of PeTA's views on the value of Your Life, your child's life and the wellbeing of mankind in general. This is absolutely the most ridiculous belief that I have personally ever witnessed on the Internet or any where else for that matter. For if, and I repeat, if they were correct, then who would care? No one, especially not you, because you would be dead!

"I am not a morose person, but I would rather not be here. I don't have any reverence for life, only for the entities themselves. I would rather see a blank space where I am. This will sound like fruitcake stuff again but at least I won't be harming anything." -- Ingrid Newkirk, Founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), (Washington Post Nov. 3, 1983)

"If the death of one rat cured all diseases, it wouldn't make any difference to me." -- Chris DeRose, Founder of Last Chance for Animals (Republished from the Michigan Outdoors Fred Trost's Outdoors Club Outdoor Digest , pg. 37, August/September from the SOS Bureau Alert! )

"We understand what drives activists to such drastic tactics. We don't condone them but we don't condemn them." -- Dan Mathews, PETA director on the ALF fire bombing of Chicago stores Advertising Age Dec. 6, 1993

" In a war you have to take up arms and people will get killed, and I can support that kind of action by petrol bombing and bombs under cars, and probably at a later stage, the shooting of vivisectors. on their doorsteps. It's a war and there's no other way you can stop vivisectors." -- Tim Daley, British ALF leader, 1987 BCC interview Quoted in a Report to congress on animal enterprise terrorism Aug. 1993 Dept. of Justice and USDA

hmmmmm....if man evolved from apes and monkeys, then why are there apes and moneys?

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