PETA's most wanted

I eat meat cause its tasty, I wear leather and fur because its comfy, I hunt because I enjoy the thrill and use of the animal, and I do all this because I have opposable digits, Its all a matter of natural selection, if the animals were meant to be on top they would be, one day something will conquer humans, quite possibly a microscopic pathogen or virus such as Cancer and AIDS is doing, but until I succomb to a superior life form ill be happy im on top!

I really think people wanting to ban animal testing should put themselves up for the testing. I'm also wondering how much Ingrid gets payed a year and why does it feel to me that when peta kills a heck of a load of animals each year that it is like just sweeping a problem under the carpet. the world is over populated shall we start putting humans down?

Thank you, Lindsey Bezzina, for more or less accurately listing only some of PETA's wonderful campaigns on behalf of ALL nonhuman animals...if with a bit of sarcasm on your part though... First, I refer all those ignoramus quavelva, kathy, BadKarma, STEVE, JJen, Cameron Kuhns (and any others appearing after this) to read (and re-read again if already done) the comment by Zelda, of Sep. 28 at 10:56. It encompasses many of the reasons for which it's imperative to release the nonhuman animals from the yoke of the only predator on earth: human! As to breeding nonhuman animals, let me give you a few quotes (and...actually YOU are the terrorist of the helpless animals whose vaginas and penises are in your hands for profit. You're a RAPIST, A PIMP!: Only humans would make their money on the uteruses of other animals. Down with ALL breeders! Amy-Lou Giannelli All breeders of any kind and for any reason are NAZIS, PIMPS, RAPISTS, and IMMORAL to all animals! If you RESPECT animals - not only love them - you will fight breeders with ALL your might!!! Adela I am a German native, born and raised in Germany so I know what I am talking about. There is no difference between what Hitler did and what people are doing to animals, i.e., breed and save the purebreds and kill the rest! Renate I'm a responsible breeder - I don't breed! Jan Stern As to the rabid jerk who calls VEGANS, "Veganist jihads"... We don't throw anything down anyone's throats, we generously GIVE info in text and film and let people decide for themselves. You say if PETA is a human you hate it...that explains it, YOU must be a jihad lover, they hate humans who aren't islamic. How dare you, piece of waste, call us jihadists, the ultimate insult??? We're peace loving people who only want nonhumans to enjoy life too, rather than remain in slavery! As to animals subjected to their entire existence in a small cage with a wire floor...have YOU ever tried to exist until your end comes, in a similar cage??? Of course if you're a masochist... You have a lot of problems haven't you? What's wrong with abstaining to "breed" ourselves? We don't make others abstain but we do because human overpopulation is strangling us all and your itsy-witsy brain thinks it funny that responsible, caring people abstain from bringing more people to the already inflated and unbalanced world. As to calling PETA, PUTH... it fits YOU better: PERSON UNIQUE TO HALFWIT. Also, "puth" sounds almost like a Spanish word that fits you to a T! tehehehe! Those who criticize us for helping totally defenseless nonhuman animals, will also have to criticize these highly respected personalities of the past and present: Jeremy Bentham, Philosopher, Oxford University: The question is not, can animals reason? Nor, can they talk? But, can they suffer? Henry David Thoreau: I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual development to leave off the eating of animals as surely as the savage tribes have left off eating each other when they came in contact with civilization. George Bernard Shaw: Animals are my friends...and I don’t eat my friends! Pulitzer Prize Winner Alice Walker "The Color Purple": The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites, or women for men. Henry Beston "The Outermost House": In a world older and more complete than ours, animals move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not underlings; they are other nations. Alexander von Humboldt: Cruelty to animals is one of the most significant vices of a low and ignoble people. Schopenhauer (On the Basis of Morality): The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality. Mark Twain: If a man could be crossed with a cat, it would improve man, but it would degrade the cat!

Animals are sentient creatures. And unlike humans, they know how to live in harmony with nature, and not destroy the planet. Compassion is compassion. I became a nurse because I cannot bear to watch someone suffer without doing something to help. Twenty two years ago, after seeing the Animals Film, by Victor Schonfeld and Myriam Alaux, which depicted horrifying scenes from slaughterhouses, research labs, and fur farms, I became a vegan (for the same reason). A 400-page UN report entitled "Livestock's Long Shadow" stated that animal agriculture is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than cars, buses, planes, and all forms of transportation combined. Switching to a plant-based diet is better for human health, the environment, and (obviously) the animals. rrrina.com

cows are for eating and wearing shoes, you people are nuts

I'm sure the writer felt her snarky condescension regarding Peta's efforts were oh so witty. I just wonder what part of suffering she finds so amusing?

Some of the things you mentioned bother a lot more than peta members. The worst thing about Ringling is their ritual beating of elephants, whch they lie about, yet whistleblowers come forward over and over again with evidence of it. And as far as Columbia goes, I have the misfortune of personally knowing one of their researchers- a sadistic person who knows that their research is useless, and does not care about causing pain. They care about the grant money. But I'm sure we will see the appearance of the kooky dog breeders (code "responsible dog owners") The breeders like making untaxed money with no licensing or regulations, and they hate any group that wants them to clean up their act. So we will see the usual propaganda, including that from CCF consumerdeception.com who puts out a lot of propaganda that the dog breeders use. And from AKC, who now makes most of their money from reegistering puppy mill puppies and protects the mills, and hates Peta. What else is new.

There's a lot of good reasons goveg.com is PETA's biggest marketing effort - one of which is that the meat farming industry causes more global warming than the entire transport industry, worldwide. May PETA annoy New Yorkers with the truth for years to come.

No.2 & No.5 are the two most barbaric. I have already taken written action against these vile scum that degrade the Human Race..if it can be degraded further !!

I urge anyone who is skeptical about what they have just read, to watch the movie "Earthlings" narrated by Joaquin Phoenix, and to read "Sacred Cows and Golden Geese", and "The Pig Who Sang to the Moon".

Very interesting article! As I cat-lover (not literally), I feel deeply about these issues.

To use the word "fanatical", to describe the many millions of men, women, children, all around the world, who are evolved individuals with a higher level of consciousness, whose thinking and feeling have emerged from the caves, is not only insulting and denigrating, but also reveals how limited is the writer's vision, sensitivity and level of compassion. We are not extremists, terrorists or fanatics because we have an enlightened view of the world's ecology and the non-human animals who inhabit the planet with us. We are not "fanatics" because we refuse to eat other sentient beings or wear their tortured skins. We see a companion animal, a life saved from a horrid puppy mill or gassing, where you see another fad or possession! We see a living, feeling being, capable of experiencing pain and suffering, where you see bacon, hamburgers and chicken nuggets! We see loyalty, intelligence, the desire to live and care for her young where you see a fur coat, another "lifesaving" drug or a luxury car with leather seats. We see an indentured slave, deprived of everything natural in his/her life where you see an evening's entertainment: an elephant ride or a horse pulling a carriage around the city. But get this....evolution and social change are inexorable and a given...just look back and you will see what I mean! Gladiators, slavery, children in coal mines were once the accepted norm. The light bulb has yet to come on in your house or in the huts or in the mega-mansions of many ignorant and insensitive people. But one way or another, that day will come!

peta is right on all counts.....animals are not ours to exploit. If everyone practiced Peta's guidelines, it would be a far more compassionate and humane world.

Neither Columbia nor NYU own more than a very small percentage of the land from Morningside Heights to Greenwich Village, and they're only using a very, very small proportion of the little land they do occupy for animal research. I have lived in the middle of the West Side of Manhattan longer than PETA has been in existence, and there is no animal research going on anywhere between Morningside Heights and Greenwich Village, and precious little of that in both areas. There are, at the most conservative estimate, 3.5 million pet dogs and cats in New York City. The vast majority are not kept in cages. Dog walkers and dog and cat sitters do a brisk business in NYC taking care of dogs and cats during their working owners' business hours. Even if some animals are kept in cages during the day, why would anyone at all be calling PETA? The owners aren't going to complain about themselves, and the neighbors aren't going to complain about animals quietly sitting in cages. There is nothing wrong with no-kill shelters. They are able to maintain a no-kill status by reaching out in many ways to get their animals adopted to good homes. Buying from a breeder does not sentence a shelter animal to death. If shelters did good outreach, they could get all their adoptable animals adopted, without one less sale of a puppy by a breeder. In any case, if a prospective owner has his heart set on a certain breed or size or age or color of dog, and the shelter does not have that dog, no substitute will do. Should the shelter talk a prospective owner into adopting an animal he didn't want in the first place, the adoption won't work out, and that animal will be back in the shelter or another shelter. As to eating or not eating meat, I find it much, much easier to tell PETA to go to hell than to give up meat and most especially my favorite, lobster. Roberta Pliner, New York, NY

I think the folks at PETA need to mind their own back yards - I am a breeder of purbred dogs and I am incensed at their accusations. They really haven't a clue. They have a lot of nerve imposing their ideals on other people - they are almost as bad as the terrorists!!!

PETA, like the rest of the Veganist Jihad movement, has as its ultimate goal turning the U.S. into a 14th-Century serfdom with PETA Jihadists and their buddies as the annointed, oh-so-correct ruling class, and all the rest of us as their borderline-slave peons. They've been trying for over 20 years to bully and terrorize Americans into the Veganist cult, and since that hasn't worked, they are now throwing billions of dollars a year at bribing lawmakers into legislating it down our throats instead... "For the children" of course... If truth-in-advertising laws applied to Politically Correct Communist Wingnut cults, PETA's motto would have to be, "PETA - If you're human, we hate you".

WHY THE HELL SHOULD ANYONE WITH COMMON SENSE AND A FREEDOM OF CHOICE CARE WHAT SOME EXTREMIST GROUP HAS TO SAY? PETA WITH THEIR CHEAP PUBLICITY STUNTS AND THEIR STABLE OF HYPOCRITICAL CELEBRITIES HAS AS MUCH CREEDENCE AS OJ SIMPSON EXCEPT THAT OJ MIGHT HAVE MORE.....

So kill all of your shelter animals (PETA kills 92% Plus of animals it gains custody of at it's own and only shelter each year) and those kept alive in No-Kill shelters till adopted are better off dead, and of course don't ever buy anything... robot dogs anyone? or maybe furbies? Certainly no children as PETA does not think it ethical to "breed" those either

I'm beginning to think that PETA should be called PUTH (People for the Unethical Treatment of Humans).