by Gilbert Blickenstaff

Created on: August 04, 2009   Last Updated: August 05, 2009

After seeing many films on PETA I had decided to write an article on some of the things that raise "Red Flags". First and foremost I'm a free speech advocate, and yes that means ALL free speech. There is nothing I dislike more than so called "Free Speech" advocates that do more harm than good. With that being said I'll begin.

When looking at them, we must see through all the great PR that they pay people for. On average PETA brings in over $32 Million annually. What some of it is spent on are acts of terrorism, namely the ALF (or animal liberation front) which are supposedly "A Terrorist Threat To America" to quote the FBI. In 2001 PETA gave a man named Rodney Coronado (a man charged and convicted of burning a research lab at Michigan State) was given $70,200! Wow can you believe that? And also this man teaches your children how to make crude incendiary devices.

I think it's also pretty funny that PETA president Ingrid Newkirk was also implicated in the same crime by a Federal prosecutor. They also preach "Total Animal Liberation" which means that even if animals where used for AIDS research and a cure was found she would rather let people die than let an animal that is bred for research. To her one animal saved is worth millions of human lives.

Another point I would like to make is that for all the animals they "Save" 19,200 dogs, cats, and other animals were killed in their facilities! Pretty shocking I'd say, but, I don't make these things up, this info comes from our US government. As well they compare slaughter houses to Nazi concentration camps saying that the deaths caused by the Nazis are the same as killing chickens or turkeys. Their campaign "Holocaust on your plate" trivializes the deaths of over six million people. My other point I'd like to make is how hypocritical they are to celebrities. Pamela Anderson once auctioned off a Dodge Viper for PETA, had all the options, like leather interior, that seems a little odd to me but that's what happens when you donate well over $200,000 a year! Or even Jenna Jameson photographed eating oysters and fishing, she was wearing a leather coat just weeks after she had done an "Anti-Leather" ad.

Well I'll leave you with a few thoughts, maybe we should find safer and more humane ways to get our next meal, because I do agree with PETA in a few respects, treat animals with kindness, never abuse them. But I'll never have humanity die out so animals can live in peace.

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