Anti-Meat Crusaders Exposed for Spreading Myths, Distortions
As the vast global warming hoax begins its inexorable death, an equally enormous campaign against the raising of livestock and the consumption of meat continues. It is led by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and supported by the propaganda machinery of the United Nations through its Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Absurd Anti-Meat Claims
The assertion that the raising of livestock worldwide is contributing to global warming is so obviously absurd one might easily and quickly dismiss it, but it continues to be the cornerstone of a campaign to end the consumption of beef by more than six billion people around the world.
Dating back to the prehistory of man, meat has been part of the human diet. In February 2005, I wrote about “The War on Meat,” noting humans have 20 teeth devoted to eating meat but only 12 for fruits and vegetables. Moreover, the human stomach is designed primarily to digest lean meat, while the small intestine, pancreas, and liver are mainly herbivorous, designed to digest vegetables, fruits, fats, and farinaceous (starch) foods.
On the PETA Web site you will find a page titled “Meat and the Environment,” which cites a 2006 FAO report accusing the meat industry of being “one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global.”
Growers of livestock are accused of land degradation, climate change, air pollution, water shortage and water pollution, and the loss of biodiversity. A number of environmental organizations, including the National Audubon Society, Sierra Club, and Environmental Defense, have joined in this Big Lie.
Hypocrisy of U.N., PETA
Little-known to the public, however, is that PETA—which campaigns against the raising and processing of livestock for food, targeting restaurants, grocers, ranchers, and others—routinely kills animals, primarily pets, entrusted to its care. The same holds true for other allegedly “humane” organizations. In 2007 PETA killed more than 19,200 dogs, cats, and other “companion animals.” Over the past five years it killed more than 90 percent of the animals it took in. PETA receives nearly $30 million a year from people who erroneously think the organization is working to protect animals.
The truth is very different from the lies of the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization, an agency that receives very little scrutiny from the world’s press. Founded in 1945, the FAO was intended to help expand the world economy by promoting sustainable rural development with an emphasis on the poorest farmers, promoting food production and self-reliance, and raising the level of nutrition of the world’s population.
Fortunately for mankind, it has no mandatory powers and relies instead on the promulgation of bogus reports such as “Livestock’s Long Shadow.”
Benefits of Cattle-Raising
Charges of beef production being responsible for a score of threats to the environment are easily refuted when one considers more than half the agricultural land in the United States is unsuitable for crop production, and grazing animals on this land more than doubles the land area that can be used to produce food in the United States.
In addition, instead of creating erosion, foraging animals such as cattle help stabilize the soil and promote expanded growth of grasses.
Despite these obvious benefits, U.N. agencies continue to urge policies that do nothing to alleviate hunger but instead further an agenda for the socialist redistribution of wealth common to communist regimes. U.N. agencies have consistently sought to ban pesticides and herbicides that protect crops, animals, and humans and have worked to thwart the development of gene-splicing technology that enhances crop production.
Benefits of Meat
A three-ounce serving of lean beef is an excellent source of protein, zinc, vitamin B-12, selenium, and phosphorus and is a good source of niacin, vitamin B-6, iron, and riboflavin.
In essence, the campaign against beef production and consumption is a campaign against the health of all who enjoy its benefits. Along with efforts to curb all forms of energy use, the anti-meat campaign constitutes an insidious war on the welfare of the world’s population and economy.
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Check out Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon to get the rest of the story. My husband and I eat this was and we now feel great and have no digestion problems.
PETA kills 85% of all animals they "save". They claim they are forced to kill viable animals because it is impossible to do much due to their limited budget (30mil annually). Yet PETA calls the slaughter of livestock MURDER and compares it to the Holocaust. In comparison their neighbors the Norfolk SPCA saves 73% of all animals they take in with a annual budget a fraction of a fraction of PETA.
PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk claims: "A rat is a dog is a boy". If a boy = a dog and animal "MURDER" is a acceptable practice by PETA standards, then is the killing of unwanted children acceptable? Apparently so according to PETA's logic.
PETA is against all animal medical research. Good luck living past 40 without modern medicine. If you support this then please refuse all medical treatment for you and your child since modern medicine was founded on the sacrifices of animal testing. PETAs leadership uses insulin which was tested on animals. PETA does not consider this hypocritical by any means. How convenient of them.
PETA's tax records show donations and loans made to convicted homegrown terrorist Rodney Coronado. PETA also contributed to his legal defense fund. Rodney has confessed in public lectures of firebombing private property in the name of ALF (Animal Liberation Front). PETA leadership calls this terrorist a "fine upstanding young man". Rodney has gone to college campuses to teach students to build home made firebombs.
You forgot to explain (with scientific evidence to back up your claims, of course) exactly how the claims of environmental organizations are incorrect. You also, in your little touting of the "health benefits" of eating meat, neglected to refute scientific evidence that meat consumption has been linked to a variety of cancers.
You mostly focused on what you portray as PETA's "hypocrisy" in the euthanizing of companion animals, which you claim belies their claim of working on behalf of animal welfare.
You could not be further from the truth. I worked for a number of years for the ASPCA. Some of that time I worked in the "receiving department" of their largest animal shelter. I saw firsthand the evidences of animal cruelty in this country. I saw animals who had been beaten, abused and neglected. I saw things I won't print here because they would give readers nightmares, as they have given nightmares for many years.
But possibly the worst and most pervasive form of cruelty I saw was the fact that people in this country simply WILL NOT spay and neuter their pets. People get a kitten or puppy and think it would be "sweet" to "let" the cat or dog have "just one litter" before spaying. Or many times "macho" men will say they "just can't bear" to neuter their male pet, and figure it should be up to owners of female pets to spay, not male pet owners to neuter. Last I heard, it takes one of each to make a litter.
One unspayed female cat and her kittens can produce around 370,000 cats over the space of 7 years. An unspayed dog and her puppies can produce around 67,000 puppies in six years. Around 70,000 puppies and kittens are born EVERY DAY. There simply are not enough homes to house all of those cats and dogs. Most are unwanted. Those that are wanted sometimes supplant an older pet who is now no longer valued.
What happens to all those unwanted animals? Many are dumped on the street or allowed to roam until killed by cars or other animals, or by starvation or disease. The lucky ones are taken to shelters. But even shelters can only place a small fraction of the animals surrendered to them. Only the most perfect, young and healthy are generally placed for adoption. So-called "No-kill" shelters will not even accept an animal they feel they cannot place. They turn them away to be taken to a shelter which will euthanize the animal.
Somewhere around 9.6 million animals are euthanized in this country every year (including by PETA) because there simply are not homes for all of them and yet people continue to irresponsibly allow their animals to breed and produce more and more each day. Rather than allow these unwanted animals to die in misery and starvation, or become feral and continue adding to the unwanted pet population, as well as decimating native bird species, shelter organizations such as the ASPCA, The Humane Society, and PETA accept these animals for placement where possible, and for euthanasia where no suitable placement can be found. They cannot be housed forever in shelters -- there would be no room, and eventually epidemics of disease would overcome them. So a loving, gentle shelter employee (such as myself) restrains the animal and gives it a lethal injection to put it quietly to sleep.
It doesn't get any easier after you've euthanized your hundredth animal or your thousandth. It is painful, every single time. And the anger against those ignorant or uncaring people who produce all of these unwanted animals grows with every euthanasia.
So before you try to paint PETA as a callous, hypocritical organization which publicly espouses humane treatment of animals while privately engaging in some kind of evil animal sacrifice, stop for just a moment and consider WHO are the real villains in this scenario.
And if PETA's euthanasia of irresponsible pet owners' unwanted pets is the best you can do as "proof" that their claims about the meat industry are spurious, you'd better go back to the drawing board. Or better yet, take a class in logical thinking, because yours is severely flawed.
http://www.adoptapet.com/public/spay_and_neuter /
http://www.americanhumane.org/about-us/newsroom/fact-sheets/animal-shelter-euthanasia.html