PETA TACTICS and PHILOSOPHY

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is now including some new disruptive tactics in their dirty tricks playbook. Not satisfied with their efforts of protesting at business establishments, PETA cult members now follow targeted business employees home and protest in their neighborhood. They are also following employees to church and protesting outside.

As an indication of how extreme the PETA crowd is, the President and co-founder, Ingrid Newkirk, was the subject of a piece in the New Yorker magazine last April which related the following:

Newkirk on having children
"I am not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity."

Newkirk on Kentucky Fried Chicken's Colonel Sanders
"Why not find out when his birthday is, call the newspapers, and go dance on his grave?"

On Newkirk's extremism [New Yorker observed - ed.]
"She told me, in the most unequivocal terms, that the world would be an infinitely better place without humans in it at all."

On PETA supporting violence
"Its leaders wholeheartedly defend and encourage guerilla groups like the Animal Liberation Front. In fact, Bruce Friedrich, one of PETA's most prominent leaders, says in a speech readily available on the Internet. 'I think it would be a great thing if, you know, all these fast food outlets and these slaughterhouses and these laboratories and the banks that fund them exploded tomorrow.'"

On Newkirk's view of Seeing Eye dogs
"She regards the use of Seeing Eye dogs as an abdication of human responsibility and, because they live as 'servants' and are denied the companionship of other dogs, she is wholly opposed to their use."

PETA claims to have 750,000 members who contribute $15,000,000 annually. It seems fairly certain that the people donating their money are unaware that PETA is a cult of coercive vegetarians. As a cult, they cannot be reasoned with.

Thanks to The Center for Consumer Freedom.