The Ugly Truth About PETA -They’re Not What You Might Think
I hesitated to write this post, because I don't do controversy, but I feel strongly that someone needs to set the record straight. PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) does very little to help animals. Instead, they promote terror campaigns and kill animals – even going so far as to steal family pets out of people's homes. I had no idea how bad the situation was until I started digging – then I was horrified. In this post, I'll share the ugly truth about PETA. It's time that the information was known, so homesteaders who raise their own meat don't have to face these ugly attacks alone.
PETA Shelters Have Some of the Highest Kill Rates
The article PETA's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad History of Killing Animals notes that “the PETA adoption rate in 2011 was 2.5 percent for dogs and 0.4 for cats”. The website Why PETA Kills (http://www.whypetaeuthanizes.org/photos/) has photos of the PETA carnage and a copy of a state inspection report indicating that the “shelter” inspected had no adoption hours, no way to promote adoptions to the public, and employees that were not even aware it was a “shelter”. It's pretty hard to get animals adopted if you have no means for people to meet the animals.
PETA Promotes Violence
“If we really believe that animals have the same right to be free from pain and suffering at our hands, then, of course, we're going to be blowing things up and smashing windows. For the record, I don't do this stuff, but I advocate it. I think it's a great way to bring about animal liberation, considering the level of suffering, the atrocities.”
“I think it would be great if all of the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these laboratories and the banks who fund them exploded tomorrow. I think it's perfectly appropriate for people to take bricks and toss them through windows. Hallelujah to the people who are willing to do it.”
The pamphlets that PETA promotes to children are also horrific. The title “Your Mommy Kills Animals” paired with a blood soaked image of a crazed woman wielding a knife would be enough to give some kids nightmares. (They have a Daddy Kills Animals version, too, lest the gentlemen think they've been left out.)
PETA Workers Have Taken Pets from People's Homes
In the article The (Death) Cult of PETA, author Nathan Winograd describes how PETA personnel went into a trailer park, entered people's homes, and removed and killed their family pets. There is video clearly showing the PETA van pulling up and a person removing a pet to corroborate the story. This is not standard PETA practice (unlike the issues raised above).
“The PETA employees backed their van up to the porch and threw biscuits to Maya, who was sitting on her porch, hoping to coax her off her property and therefore give PETA the ability to claim she was a stray dog “at large” whom they could therefore legally impound. In Virginia, PETA is licensed as an “animal shelter.” But Maya refused to stay off the property and after grabbing the biscuit, ran back to the safety of her porch. Knowing that no one was around—not only because they knew the schedules of the families, but because they paid local children money to leave the area—one of the employees went onto the property and stole Maya. But larceny wasn’t the only law the PETA employees would break. Virginia law requires dogs to be held for five days before they can be killed by shelters. It also requires private shelters like PETA to notify the municipal animal control shelter of any “stray” dogs they take in. PETA would do neither. Within hours, Maya was dead. PETA had killed her with a lethal dose of poison.
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Had a surveillance video not been available, the killing of Maya would have remained unknown, as were the fates of other animals who also went missing that same day, but which a subsequent investigation into the killing of Maya by the Virginia Department of Agriculture (VDACS) uncovered were also taken from that trailer park that same day and likewise killed. Among the dead were two four month old kittens, a six month old puppy, a one-year-old lab-mix, and another Chihuahua.“
The Ugly Truth About PETA – Online PETA Attacks
The original motivation for writing this post came when a fellow homesteader and blogger put up a photo of the steer that they had raised for meat for their family. The photo showed the beef being processed, and she noted that it had had a name and been well cared for and loved. She was vilified for posting this, and both she and her family were threatened. PETA acolytes launched a full scale attack on her Facebook page, attempting to get it removed as a hate page.
Anyone who has ever raised animals for meat knows that it is one of the hardest parts of homesteading – but if you choose to eat meat, I think it's important to know where it came from if at all possible, and that the animal was well cared for and treated with respect. If being meat free is the right choice for you, that's fine too. (I know some pretty cool vegan foodies.) Just don't attack people who are trying their best to provide for their families responsibly.
Below are screen shots taken from the LivinLovinFarmin Facebook page before they were deleted due to violent and inappropriate content. WARNING – graphic and foul language. Note first comment comparing meat eaters to Jeffrey Dahmer comes directly from the PETA leadership.
The virtual shitstorm unleashed by so-called animal rights activists does NOTHING to help animals. Instead, it brutalizes the very people who are working to give animals the best possible lives.
My friend isn't the only one who's been attacked. A chef was forced to drop an item off the menu of his restaurant due to death threats. Another friend got fallout over raising meat rabbits. I know there are many more, and if you are a writer or cook who has been attacked by militant vegans, send me a screen shot and I'll add it to the post. Mold doesn't grow when exposed to sunlight.
PETA's Legacy of Hate – Time for a Change
There are thousands of wonderful advocacy groups who do real work helping to improve the quality of life for animals. PETA isn't one of them. Whether you choose to eat meat or not, it's time to end the hatred and vicious attacks. The hatred doesn't help animals – it's just a tool to fill PETA's coffers. Let's revive the art of civil discourse, and agree to disagree on some issues while still being able to find common ground on others.
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Keep up the good work. It was so refreshing to read common sense on the internet. Such a rare thing. It also helped me to feel that I’m not alone in this mad, mad world.
Sending you light and love and gratitude for your courage to say it like it is – with real intelligence.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/diagnosis-diet/201903/the-brain-needs-animal-fat
https://www.holistichelp.net/blog/12-reasons-you-should-eat-more-meat/
Completely eliminating ingestion of dairy products is also a complete lack of ignorance as to the health benefits that consumption of dairy products which have been scientifically proven.
Going completely dairy free is as unhealthy as going completely meat free.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/diagnosis-diet/201903/the-brain-needs-animal-fat
https://www.holistichelp.net/blog/12-reasons-you-should-eat-more-meat/
The “P” in PETA stands for psychotic.
70 to 80 percent of the animals PETA categorize as rescued from abusers are euthanized.
PETA always gets the usial useful idiots from Hollywood(Alec Baldwin, Pamela Anderson Etc)to do stupid ads for them because liberals are suckers for everything with a silly liberal cause such as Gun Control, Climate Change or Animal Rights their the kind of people P.T. Barnum was talking about when he said THERES A SUCKER BORN EVERY MINUTE
Any politician or celebrity who crusades for stripping us law abiding Patriots from bring able to hunt animals for food and clothing, and defense against tyrannical politicians and cold blooded killers always have armed guards protecting them, elitist hypocrisy at its finest.
I knew what PETA was all about when I was 6 years old. Back in the early 80’s they poisoned and killed my best friend so they could lie to the public about the circus, I caught them in the tent feeding her a few hours later she dropped dead. That 4-year-old elephant was seen by a vet the day before for its updated health certificate and given a clean bill of health. The circus finally let them win and shut down, leaving millions without a job. And half the animals had to be put down because they went stir crazy in a sanctuary not doing their jobs.
PETA takes videos of themselves abusing animals to lie to the public, like the poor animals they skinned alive for one of their ‘no fur’ ads. Their employees have to sign a contract that states if they speak about anything they will get sued (a few have ended up dead for speaking out). And now they have taken over Facebook and has been shutting down a lot of animal groups and pages (as if hacking rescue pages wasn’t enough). Their number one goal is to ban ALL animals as pets including cats and dogs (which is why they started BSL and support kill shelters), but people are so brainwashed by them they don’t even realize the truth and when its placed in front of them they still do not believe it
Thank you for sharing your experience, and sorry for the loss of your elephant.
Animals have worked and lived with humans for millenia. PITA is illogical.
I WANT PROOF
Screenshots are in the article and there are multiple links throughout the article to supporting information.
P-E-T-A Pedantic, Enticing, Tyrannical, Ass wipes
Thank you for this great article! I really, really, hate factory farming, but people should understand their ARE good farmers, that take good care of their animals, who lead happy lives. And killing animals for food is the circle of life. -Mas killing so we can eat 5 times as much meat than as is healthy in unnecessarily violent and inhuman ways to make yourself a billionaire, is a different story. I personally don’t enjoy meat, and to easily make sure I didn’t accidentally buying meat from a bad company I was vegetarian. But I’m a dedicated 2 sport athlete, and was anemic, which wreaked havoc on me and all my dreams. So now I do eat some meat, because it has high levels of iron. Although I miss being vegan, because I’m honestly not a fan of the taste of meat. I’m not saying you can’t get iron from plants, but this is way easier than me. I just research before I buy, and I buy a lot from friends farms, that I get to see the inside of.
No, I’m not evil. I do support other animal rights associations though. I hate people who think their educated because they watch doctor oz, read some activist magazine, or are #feminism because it looks good on their instagram. No, that’s not being educated. Looking at many resources, not blindly believing, and finding and figuring out on your own, is being educated. But god, how can factory farm owners be so NASTY? WTFing evil is wrong with them? They gotta be twisted.
Not even all factory farms are completely nasty, but those that are treat animals as a commodity, and are responding to consumer demand for cheap, cheap, cheap food. When you don’t consider secondary costs – water and air pollution, illness, etc – then the “obvious” choice is to crank that “meat product” out as cheaply as possible.
Yep that’s peta for you, a swimming Vat of hypocrisy and hatred. They have a problem with people raising their own meat but don’t have an issue killing other people’s happy and healthy family pets. They are nothing but a bunch of crazy zealots who don’t know how to look at the world through a practical lense. Everyone even them are part of the food chain. They may not be eating animals but they’re still taking life forms. Plants are alive though peta often forgets this. Both animal and non animal life is important to the earth and peta seems to forget this.
Terrorism undermines their supposed cause to end suffering and punishing people who want first hand involvement in raising their meat so they don’t have to wonder what kind of life their animals lived is counter productive to their cause which I would assume is the Ethical treatment of animals. Although, with all the bombs and the kidknapping of beloved pets and forcing carnivorous pets to go vegan it seems to me that there is a different agenda st work here.
We are all entitled to our opinion. However bully tactics and malicious behavior and vulgar language only demonstrate ignorance and lack of tolerance to each others beliefs. Its sad that as people the supposedly most intelligent mammal on the planet cannot accept one anothers beliefs of diet, religion, or even skin color. I applaud your stance Laurie. If only we all could have normal neighbors like you.
i am umamageswaran, from madurai, Tamilnadu, India, as much i hate peta as deep of my soul. As i know, Scientist Jagadish Chandra bose, former nobel prize winner, has found that even plants has also lives. They are also living being. Not only that, all wild animals depends on some animals for their food. Beyond their classification as herbivorous and something meat eating animals. what about human, ancient and recent food habits. left that. i am talking about animals. particularly, domestic animals. what is the truth behind that such animals have become pet and / or domestic animals. Any universal significance behind that. our gods from any religion, related some domestic animals. All religious books, portrayed many animals. which means, there is always some association with animals by humans. Food habit must be analysed scientifically with past and ancient instructions. PETA – Does it apply scientific approach to its demand humans to be vegetarian. Does it consider, what is the future to the animals to which it acts as protectors. Definitely is there any need PETA to continue in our world?
PETA prays on people’s hopes and fears for their own profit.
Hello, I appreciate what you wrote and everything is very true. Unfortunately, now peta is trying to enter in countries in South America as the Peru. They are advertising with a small sterilization campaigns and mislead the people. link http://elcomercio.pe/wuf/noticias/peta-albergues-son-ultimo-recurso-noticia-1913084.
You cannot defend the life of some animals and kill others, that makes Peta, WSPA and other evil organizations.
Sorry to not write well in English.