Have no doubt about it. They are very "serious people" about what they
are trying to do.
Jack
On Friday, July 23, 2004, at 04:36 PM, Niclas Runarsson wrote:
I stand corrected in this PETA-issue. This was a fat headline in the
Swedish
newspaper and to me it looked well grounded. I had never heard of PETA
before, didn't know what kind of methods they used and I just thought
they
were serious people.
Now, after getting the facts explained to me, I just feel stupid and I
wish
I could turn back time and get the thread un-opened. :o(
/Nick
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I agree with Pete's rather rational position on PETA and some of their
causes. Some of the causes are truly off the wall: releasing minks
into to
English countryside to save them from becoming coats; ascribing great
intelligence to chickens on the National Mall. The president of PETA
in my
area tells proudly how her dog is vegetarian, and that she combs out
all his
fleas and releases them into the backyard each night (and rover brings
them
back in each night too).
However, anyone who has been involved in animal research for any
length of
time (I did it for over twenty years in the sixties, seventies and
into the
eighties) knows that the quality of care for the animals can vary from
good
to truly awful, with caregivers who are caring and many who are
sadistic
creeps. We had a guy who euthenized rabbits with a pipe wrench
because he
liked the way they screamed (sounds like a baby).
And have any of you been in a modern chicken production operation?
This is
truly sick making, with animals who have been picked apart and
stripped of
feathers by cage mates, living on wire with the lights on 24 hours a
day,
and the processing part would turn you into a vegetarian. Ain't
healthy for
man or beast.
I did see a good bumper sticker the other day: "Save Soybeans; eat a
Vegen"
Steve,
In Maryland
http://stevebrettell.point2homes.biz
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