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How PETA Indoctrinates Your Kids
By Steven Milloy
Fox News | May 18, 2005
Radical animal-rights activists may be the last people you'd think would be planning school lessons for your children. Well, think again.
Through its innocuous-sounding "educational" programming arm known as TeachKind, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has found a way to reach school children starting as young as kindergarten with its extremist agenda. The opportunity for PETA to gets its message into the classroom has been paved, at least in part, by various laws on the books in at least 12 states mandating humane education in public schools — thus creating a demand for curricula centered on teaching children about the humane treatment of animals.
Naturally, PETA is only too happy to provide ready-made lesson plans, videos and handouts to already overworked teachers.
"Kids who hurt animals may be on a dangerous path that will only get worse if it is not corrected. Psychiatrists, FBI profilers and law enforcement officials have repeatedly documented that kids who abuse animals rarely stop there," TeachKind warns.
Its fact sheet, entitled "Animal Abuse and Human Abuse: Partners in Crime," points out that "violent acts toward animals have long been recognized as indicators of a dangerous psychopathy that does not confine itself to animals," and goes on to detail how many notorious school shooters, including Columbine's Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, were known to mutilate animals prior to their attacks on humans.
Indeed, according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) published by the American Psychiatric Association, participation in animal torture is one of the early warning signs of a severe emotional disturbance in a child, ranking alongside fire-setting as a strong indicator of future criminal behavior as well as the likelihood of psychopathy in adulthood.
While there's no question that the small number of children who torture animals are quite disturbed and that all children should be taught how wrong such behavior is, it's quite another matter for PETA to capitalize on this issue as an opportunity to indoctrinate children with PETA's own radical, catch-all definition of what constitutes "animal cruelty." And that's precisely what PETA is doing through TeachKind.
As its Web site prominently touts the animal cruelty-psychopathy connection with quotes from FBI criminalists and others, a closer inspection reveals that the bulk of TeachKind's educational efforts are actually crafted so as to make children believe that everyday behaviors, such as eating a diet that contains meat or animal products, are unmistakably, unequivocally acts of animal cruelty.
PETA's frightening of young children by equating, or even associating, truly disturbed behavior such as mutilation of a family pet with common everyday practices such as eating hamburgers amounts to nothing less than ideological child abuse.
PETA even accuses schools across America of being major perpetrators of animal cruelty. They oppose basic learning methods widely practiced throughout our educational system such as insect collection, field trips to zoos or aquariums, and dissection in the classroom.
"Hearing a lot about violence in schools? You can do something to help. Cut out dissection!" announces their Web-based anti-dissection campaign, which even mentions how a young Jeffrey Dahmer "became fascinated with blood and guts" as a result of participating in a biology assignment involving dissection. With this assertion, PETA is inviting impressionable young minds to believe that all it takes is one experience with a dissection assignment to walk away a psychopathic serial killer.
In addition to encouraging kids to refuse to participate in dissection assignments, the campaign even coaches kids on the exact wording to use in their formal written objections so as to "provide the basis for a possible legal case."
A significant portion of TeachKind's curriculum is devoted to persuading children to adopt a vegetarian diet as a way to avoid participating in "animal cruelty." PETA's Web-based materials provide the warped logic that if farmers treated a cat or a dog the way they treat livestock, they would "be prosecuted for animal cruelty and locked up" — once again stressing the theme of hypothetical criminality for those who eat meat.
PETA even tries to scare kids away from drinking milk, a food so controversial that it occupies its very own wedge on the latest FDA food pyramid for optimal nutrition. A series of trading cards called "Don't Be a Milk Sucker" available from its website, features cartoon characters suffering a host of illnesses PETA attributes to milk consumption such as ear infections, obesity, acne, and even diabetes!
Nor does milk consumption escape PETA's definition as a distinctly cruel act against animals. We meet "Milk-Stealing Ming," who is depicted with his mouth directly attached to an unhappy cow's udder, alongside a "wanted poster" describing his crimes and exclaiming, "cows make milk for their babies, not for maniacs like Ming."
If we are to take at face value PETA's irresponsible suggestion that "animal cruelty" — as defined by their radical, catch-all parameters — is a reliable indicator of psychopathic tendencies, I suppose it's just a matter of time before we all read about Milk-Stealing Ming's future adult crime sprees in the headlines.
http://frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=18112
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peta is full of smelly snatch lesbian wannabe vegan losers.
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or .......
They could just be kind hearted and concerned about animal welfare ..
wipass
Animal rights activist and veggie for 25 years
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Animal welfare!?
What?!
Damn, millions of people don't have enough food or water, and you speak about "animal welfare"...
I don't know if it's a hypocrisy or stupidity, but you definetly have to check with the reality.
I have a strong feeling that this "animal rights activism" has deeep commercial roots. Some bastard just invented another business to leech money from intellectual majority.
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Originally posted by Boroda
intellectual majority.
No such thing. Intellctuals are a minority group, and we eat planties, fishies and mammalskies!
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Originally posted by Bodhi
peta is full of smelly snatch lesbian wannabe vegan losers.
eewww. Guess I can throw my tuna fish sandwich out.
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Originally posted by Nilsen
No such thing. Intellctuals are a minority group, and we eat planties, fishies and mammalskies!
I meant a majority by the intellectual criterion.
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I know of several vegetarians/vegans, including one of my lecturers. I've heard just about every argument you can hear and i still disagree with them.
It's absurd that an animal has the same moral status as a human. I've been accused of being speciest, well they're bloody kingdomist. They don't mind killing and eating plants, it's still a life. They even grow them for the sole purpose of eating them! the bastards!! I've been called everything under the sun from fellow students hehe.:D
I can't see why i should give a damn about mother nature unless it has an effect on me. ie i wouldn't kill all the fish and cut down trees as it would have a negative impact on the world including me. But i wouldn't have a problem killing and eating a cow. Does mother nature give a damn if there's a famine, killing several billion including me? No. So why should i give a damn unless it's in my interest to.
It's utterly rediculous to give an animal the same status as a human. Can someone honestly say they wouldn't kill one hundred ants if it would save the life of their child.
Sorry for the rant but i have arguments with supporters of PETA fairly often.
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I love animals, they're delicious!
You can't grill it 'til ya kill it!
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wipass... since animals have no rights save those we give them... What rights would you give them? And... how do you justify the raising of plants for the sole purpose of ripping them screaming from their soil and boiling them alive?
lazs
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Ever notice that most veggie munchers and animal rights folks wear leather shoes?
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You want to eat meat, then go ahead I have no problems with anyone else eating meat.
Being a veggie is a personal choice and it's the way I live my life. My kids and wife are meat eaters which is their choice. Veggies choose their lifestyle for no other reason than they care about the rights of animals, period.
Now I can't see what is so wrong about that.
Boroda said ........
"Animal welfare!?
What?!
Damn, millions of people don't have enough food or water, and you speak about "animal welfare".
Great point Boroda, so what are you doing about it ? What is the western world doing about it ? There is more than enough food for everyone in this world, that's got shreck all to do with Animal rights.
Those that are meat eaters, would you eat this or even condone it's killing for meat ?
(http://photos.imageevent.com/wipass/medals/websize/a_Asien_dog-meat_21.jpg)
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What rights would I give animals ? good question ..
How about a cruelty free life and and a humane death, not too much to ask is it ?
wipass
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Grrr
That makes me so mad I want to go out and kick a cat.
No even madder. I want to go out and kill a bunch of innocent people.
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Would I eat that? I suppose so if I were hungry and had no other options for the near future.
I do not think that animals should be intentionaly tortured for no reason... that is sick. I think the people that do that are either very ignorant or very disturbed. I think that the people who do that are very few.
Are you talking about cruelty for profit? say killing in a less than humane way but effieciently for profit? perhaps raising animals in a less than humane way in order to increase profit?
lazs
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Sacred cows make the best burgers.
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Meat from 2 medium-size lizards(or 2 pounds of stew meat
if lizard is out of season)
2 tbsp flour 2 times (1 and 1 and 1 and 1 or 4 tbsp or 1/4 cup)
2 potatoes and 1 pot, mangled(1 and 1 and 1 or 3 potatoes, diced)
2 carrots 2 times, stabbed(1 and 1 and 1 and 1, or 4 carrots sliced)
1 stalk celery, stabbed(sliced)
2 onions, murdered(chopped)
2 bouillon cubes, crushed(Chicken bouillon good with lizard meat,
beef bouillon for beef meat)
2 cups water, burbled(boiling)
1 tsp $#@*!sauce(Worcestershire sauce)
2 tbsp parsley, murdered(chopped)
2 cloves garlic, mashed(minced)
1 bongleberry leaf(a bay leaf may be substituted)
1 tsp red gunk (paprika)
1 tsp salt
1 sneeze black pepper(1/2 tsp)
Womp lizard over head couple times. Throw lizard in pot. Add rest of gunk. Light big fire under pot. Take nap. Or,
Mix flour, salt, and pepper in cooking pot. Trim fat from meat and cut into 1-inch cubes. Coat meat with flour in pot. Add crushed bouillon and water: stir. Add remaining ingredients: stir.
Cover and simmer at lowest heat for 4 to 6 hours, stirring occasionally, until meat and vegetables are tender.
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It's pretty obvious that veggies will always be a very small minority. I don't aim to convert anyone to becoming a veggie (hence my kids (10 and 16) eat meat). What I do try and do is to raise awareness of animal cruelty, this could be kids kicking a dog for their entertainment to pigs that are being boiled alive to remove bristles and eventually kill it.
I don't treat corporations any differently to individuals, we all have a duty to ensure a cruelty free life, be it to humans or animals.
wipass
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As long as i have teeth, teeth that meant to cut and crush bones i will eat meat.
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Animal cruelty sucks
but
peta is full of smelly snatch lesbian wannabe vegan losers.
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Originally posted by wipass
It's pretty obvious that veggies will always be a very small minority. I don't aim to convert anyone to becoming a veggie (hence my kids (10 and 16) eat meat). What I do try and do is to raise awareness of animal cruelty, this could be kids kicking a dog for their entertainment to pigs that are being boiled alive to remove bristles and eventually kill it.
I don't treat corporations any differently to individuals, we all have a duty to ensure a cruelty free life, be it to humans or animals.
wipass
Pretty noble, but here in the US we can barely define cruelty. We're still 50/50 (?) on whether or not the death penalty is cruel & unusual. If we establish a precedent that it is cruel, then it will be argued by groups like PETA that all slaughterhouses are cruelty to animals... except it'd be done in court instead of in front of KFC.
Boroda, you're not far off the mark. I've been a spectator watching at some protests before. Not participating, just people watching with friends during our McLunches. You can generally break down the people showing up into 3 groups. The people that actually care (a minority), the generally well-to-do people there to assuage their guilt over having a high standard of living (the majority), and the extremists that think fighting HPD is a good way to save the planet (the potentially dangerous minority). The bulk of it is smokescreens for political group fundraising, usually anti-globalization agendas, lots of evil nazi boosh yelling. One of my co-workers even went around and filled up a petition to ban dihyrdogen monoxide (before Penn & Teller did it). Afterall, it's all over the planet, it's in your bodies, they use it in nuclear plants, they use it in pesticides, it causes you to urinate & sweat excessively, it can have adverse effects on car brakes leading to accidents, it's used extensively by the US Military and the Insurgents fighting Iraq...
I'm still trying to figure out why you'd throw a glass bottle at a horse mounted cop, miss the officer, hit the horse, and then think you're going to outrun not one, but a half dozen house mounted patrolmen. Maybe he thought the cop clubbed seals in his off time? I dunno... but... Intellectual majority? Never saw it.
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No need to be cruel when you slaugher, but that is not what Peta is about. Peta is about stoping people from eating meat at all.
They suck.
They hide behind free speach but rob it from others. They use use your kids to further their goals. They are the poster child for whats wrong with extremist groups.
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Veggies choose their lifestyle for no other reason than they care about the rights of animals, period.
Actually thats incorrect. There are plenty of vegetarians that don't eat meat simply because it's a healthier way of life. Much less chance of getting human form of mad-cow, e-coli, salmonella etc...
Hence the reason you find veggies with leather shoes or fir coats. Nothing wrong with killing an animal as long as they don't suffer, they just don't want to eat them.
That being said, I'm a meat eater myself.
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Fair point,
should have said
99.9 % of veggies choose their lifestyle for no other reason than they care about the rights of animals, period.
wipass
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The percentage is far greater than that. Most of them don't run with the peta crowd so they don't stand out. They just choose not to make a big deal about it.
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peta is good for one thing, lay it out flat, add an assortment of bbq meats some sauce and a few veggies. roll it up, damn fine sandwich.
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wipass.. if 99.9% of veggies do it because they don't want to see animals slaughtered then they are hypocrites if they wear leather or use products and medicines that have been animal tested.
lazs
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What else they sups to test the meds on,people?
Oh wait a minute,PETA doesnt care about people.
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a cannibal i know says vegans taste better than meat eating people.
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"How about a cruelty free life and and a humane death, not too much to ask is it ? "
thats exactly what almost everyone here has said, the difference is the definition of cruelty.
btw, under that definition wouldnt you be able to eat any wild game you hunted yourself, provided your a good enough shot to ensure a clean kill?
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Originally posted by wipass
or .......
They could just be kind hearted and concerned about animal welfare ..
wipass
Animal rights activist and veggie for 25 years
Listen To this (http://users.adelphia.net/~bgaudette/peta.wav) Excerpt of PETA Terrorist Bruce Friedrich(Vice President of PETA)
Terrorists care about noones welfare but their own.
http://users.adelphia.net/~bgaudette/peta.html
http://brianoconnor.typepad.com/animal_crackers/2005/03/peta_the_aussie.html
http://www.undueinfluence.com/peta.htm
http://apog.nolablogs.org/archives/000366.html
To each their own as far as diet and clothing choices..but don't try to force your ideas on me..which is all this group does. There is no single organization I hate more than PETA. I'd invite Osama Bin LAden over for dinner before I'd invite any of those PETA fux over.
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Humans are in all respects animals. The most intelligent group on earth. And we still torture and kill eachother. Should fix this before moving on to animal rights.
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Originally posted by ASTAC
Listen To this (http://users.adelphia.net/~bgaudette/peta.wav) Excerpt of PETA Terrorist Bruce Friedrich(Vice President of PETA)
Terrorists care about noones welfare but their own.
http://users.adelphia.net/~bgaudette/peta.html
http://brianoconnor.typepad.com/animal_crackers/2005/03/peta_the_aussie.html
http://www.undueinfluence.com/peta.htm
http://apog.nolablogs.org/archives/000366.html
To each their own as far as diet and clothing choices..but don't try to force your ideas on me..which is all this group does. There is no single organization I hate more than PETA. I'd invite Osama Bin LAden over for dinner before I'd invite any of those PETA fux over.
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Stop quoting yourself. lol