Everyone sees the company People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, also known as PETA, the company that is the savior for any and all animals who are ‘mistreated’ in their eyes, and who believes that beluga whales should have human rights due to them being technical mammals. One of PETA’s latest advertisements from October 2016 features a calf and its mother, and says “Not your mom? Not your milk.” This one could easily be related to their “breast is best” campaign, one specifically from 2011, featuring the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus. I guess animal rights weren’t going very well in counties where there’s a large following of Christianity.
PETA’s motto, advertised across the top of their webpage, states that “Animals are not ours to eat, wear, experiment on, use for entertainment, or abuse in any other way.” Eat, for PETA, also includes dairy. PETA had a dairy farm in Paris, Texas shut down after a former employee revealed that many of the other employees had been mistreating the cows. Many had pneumonia and weren’t being treated for the sickness, employees would twist the tails of cows, causing them distress. Now, don’t get me wrong. I wouldn’t want to see animals being treated this way, either. Yet, there was no news of where these cows went after they were released from this farm. Were they bought out by other dairy farms because they didn’t know anything else with their lives? Or were they bought out by a slaughterhouse because all they were good for was getting dairy? Where are these answers PETA? Another dairy farmer had a response to PETA after the video being so against dairy farms was released. In the video, PETA had said that the cows were abused in order to get them to stand up. Yet, Carrie Mess explains that “A down cow is a cow that is sick or injured and is laying down and can’t or won’t get up. A down cow is the kind of thing that will make your day go from great to very bad in short order.” In a video shown by Mess from the same article, they create a similar style of video to prove that bad lighting, sad music, and voiceovers will make anywhere look infinitely sadder.
In a 2010 advertisement put out by PETA, they state that “nearly 4 million dogs and cats must be put to death every year in U.S. animal shelters.” The advertisement is promoting that you should always adopt from pet stores, never from breeders, and to spay and neuter your pets. This is a message I could very easily get behind, if PETA wasn’t included in the U.S. animal shelters that kill those 4 million some animals each year. In 2005, two PETA employees were charged with a total of 31 felonies after dumping 18 dead animal bodies in a dumpster behind PETA’s facilities in Virginia. This reasoning simply being due to ‘overcrowding’ from having rescued animals from research or food industries. Nearly 2,000 animals pass through PETA every year, and with information taken from a 2011 study, 96% of these animals were killed. In another study done in 2013, it was found that 29,426 animals had been killed in 11 years at PETA. And thinking about it now, their $9,370 freezer suddenly makes so much more sense. What else would they have been freezing, vegetables? Some of these animals don’t even make it to the facilities though, often times the animals are killed in the backs of vans, immediately after being ‘rescued’ from a hoarder or abuse situation, or strays taken in. 90% of these animals don’t even make it 24 hours. Ingrid Newkirk, founder of PETA, claims that she truly doesn’t believe animals have any “right” to live. To her, a no-kill shelter admitting they have to turn to euthanasia is Christmas morning for a toddler. After a no-kill shelter in Shelby County, Kentucky released a statement saying that they were too crowded, couldn’t take in any more animals, and needed fosters, so they would be removing ‘no-kill’ from their description. Merely a few days later they received a gift basket from PETA with a letter, signed by Newkirk, that said “Thank you for doing the right thing.” Thank you for doing the right thing.
In an interview where Newkirk tells about how she began working with shelters, she explains that she had brought in feral kittens to a shelter, only to come back the next day and find that they had all been euthanized. So, the only logical thing that she could think to do was begin working for the shelter so she could come in early before any other volunteers or employees, so she personally could kill the animals. She says she “must have killed a thousand of them.” And this is the damn woman we’re allowing to run a company that is the face for ending animal cruelty?
You’re going to get a kick out of the next product being put out by PETA. They decided that due to the overwhelming breeding going on with feral cats and stray dogs, they’re releasing humane kill kits so that when Booger has another litter of kittens at Dale’s farm, he doesn’t have to feel bad for pulling out the shotgun. This kit includes 10 sterile injections of Sodium Pentobarbital, 4 heavy duty garbage bags, in black so that way you won’t look suspicious tossing them into a city dumpster, a FREE three month subscription to PETA’s gift bags, complete with spa coupons and snacks, a bright blue participation ribbon to match PETA’s branding color, and a PERSONAL letter from Ingrid Newkirk so she can thank you for doing the right thing! A $500 value, for only $60. Much cheaper than making the vet pay that pesky fee for spaying or neutering those strays that you wouldn’t have been charged for in the first place—besides the gas it would’ve taken to drive out from the farm. Get on over to PETA’s official website to order yours now, all funds will go towards the euthanasia that PETA completes in their Virginia facilities! But don’t let kitty get his hands on it!
