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February 10, 2006
Another PETA Babe Takes Off Her Clothes
In yet another silly publicity stunt, a member of the animal-killing organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals painted her body with tiger stripes and crouched nude in a cage in downtown Charlotte to protest the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus coming to town:
"These animals are not volunteers," asserts PETA President Ingrid Newkirk (thankfully that's not Ingrid in the cage). "They have been deprived of their precious freedom and beaten for a lifetime of cheap tricks."
PETA has some authority when it comes to cheap tricks. But although this one may temporarily convert a few horny adolescents to moonbattery, it fortunately is not likely to spoil the circus for the kids.
Speaking of assertions by PETA's Ingrid Newkirk, here are a few more:
Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses.
I don't use the word "pet." I think it's speciesist language. I prefer "companion animal."
I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out or burn them down.
If you French kiss your dog and he or she thinks it's great, is it wrong? We believe all exploitation and abuse is wrong. If it isn't exploitation and abuse, it may not be wrong.
Come to think of it, maybe Newkirk should be the one in a cage — or rather, a locked room with padded walls.
Hat tip: Wiggins
Posted by Van Helsing at February 10, 2006 6:43 AM
Comments
No wonder Newkirk is trying to protest the slaughter of "innocnet" chickens, look at her "untouched" photo here after a public speaking engagement:
I don't think I can ever eat chicken again now.
Pork, beef, buffalo, turkey, and fish though, mmmmmmm. Die faster please.
Posted by: Doug at February 10, 2006 7:12 AM
She french-kissed her dog? Ew. That's just wrong...
Posted by: Archonix at February 10, 2006 7:49 AM
Shouldn't it be a bit on the chilly side down there right now? Seems to me that a few minutes au natural would be a compelling argument on the benefits of fur.
Posted by: ex-expat at February 10, 2006 9:43 AM
I waiting for the RICO investigation of PETA.
Posted by: Vonster at February 10, 2006 12:53 PM
Having finally scrubbed the previous mental image from my brain, I'm now able to better appreciate the other much more pleasant image at the top. Rowr.
I'd better go find my wife...
Posted by: Archonix at February 10, 2006 1:15 PM
Depsite all her rage she is still just a cat in a cage.
Posted by: mikeski at February 10, 2006 2:27 PM
I wonder if Ingrid would drop everything and chase after a thrown tennis ball as our Golden Retriever does?
Posted by: ex-expat at February 10, 2006 3:40 PM
I never understood their stance against pets. My dog is about the happiest creature on earth. I think he lives a better life than I do. What does PETA want us to do, set all of our dogs and cats free into the wilderness?
You forgot to mention PETA's ties to the even more radical animal rights groups that are into arson and firebombing and that sort of thing.
Posted by: Junker at February 11, 2006 12:59 PM
Junker, the answer is yes, they do want us to set our pets free into the wilderness. Here's Ingrid Newkirk on the subject:
You don't have to own squirrels and starlings to get enjoyment from them ... 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.
Posted by: Van Helsing at February 11, 2006 3:24 PM
Turn your dogs lose & they will, by their nature, form a pack & go on a killing spree,anything that they think is weaker than they are.
Posted by: john at February 11, 2006 5:03 PM
And then after 6 months there would be thousands of starving, diseased and dying animals in the streets of every major city in the US...
They seem to forget that pets are generally domesticated animals. As in, they've been adapted to living with humans in domestic environments, often over several thousand years. They don't last long in the wild and their lives are far, far worse when they end up there.
Posted by: Archonix at February 11, 2006 5:06 PM
