PETA Targets Your Kids to Spread Animal Rights Agenda
We’ve shown in the past how the radical People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) targets kids in an effort to spread its animal rights agenda. What’s more, today the Washington Post reports that the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is facing some blowback for using President Obama’s daughters in their ad campaign about getting vegetarian school lunch options:
Within 24 hours of the signs' appearance, the White House asked the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine to take down the ads, which feature Jasmine Messiah, a vegetarian who attends a Miami-Dade County public school that, she says, offers no vegetarian or vegan lunch options.
Of course, there’s no consensus that adding such options would make for “healthy” lunches. Yesterday, a USA Today reporter asked a pertinent question: Are vegan diets bad to the bone? The article reported that researchers in Australia and Vietnam found that vegans and vegetarians had less bone density than meat-eaters. That’s on top of studies in March in which researchers found that vegetarians had higher colorectal cancer rates than meat-eating participants and that vegan diets could increase the risk of birth defects.
Meanwhile, Fox News reports that parents are upset over protests by PETA against McDonald’s that target their children:
PETA's "McCruelty Campaign" has ruffled the feathers of moms and dads in Albany who say they don't want their kids exposed to any throat-slitting chickens or pictures of slaughtered poultry.
"I don't want my son to be around something like this. This is not fair for a child," Stephaine Gipson told FOX23 News in Albany.
"I think it's unhappy that they target children," said parent Michelle Natale.
PETA is the same group whose campaign coordinator once said "We would never use shock tactics with children; it wouldn't be right." Sure, PETA would never make a violent comic book titled “Your Mommy Kills Animals.” And certainly, PETA would never give “Bloody Buckets” to kids outside of fast food restaurants.
Riiight. PETA would never target your kids.
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...it is owned by the multimillionare PR guy, David Berman and is employed by the food and beverage industries to defend:
* tobacco industry
* fish industry (to deny there are high levels of mercury in fish)
* to undermine animal welfare organisations ( PETA must be doing a good job for animals !!!)
etc
Watch out, Berman's PR vehicle is likely to emerge under another name shortly. Be alert.
we shouldn't allow peta to get to our children while they're young and impresionable.
But we should let McDonalds and KFC infiltrate their brains and bodies with cruelty so that it normalises in them before they are in a position as an adult to make a neutral decision?
You have a right to raise your children as you wish, but at the same time so do other parents. Were I the parent of a child that a PETA "activist" was handing some of their 'stuff' to I'd be most incensed.
Some of that amounts to psychological child abuse .
Little Dikkins,
Thanks for replying.
You state that I "have a right to raise [my] children as [I] wish".
That's not precisely true. There are quite obviously limits imposed on these rights by law .
You use the word " child abuse ", and that also is defined by law. I don't believe that I was abused as a child , although by your definition it might appear that I had been, because the realities of the industrial processing of livestock was disclosed to me earlier in my life when I still had the opportunity and inclination to question the big things.
Being confronted with upsetting but factual information is not abuse , in my opinion, thought it seems to be in yours. As a child I didn't like the facts of what was revealed to me, but I was glad to be informed about it so that I could make decisions about the degree as a consumer I would participate in the chain of cruelty to animals .
Speaking of "Rights", and I'm speaking now of genuine legally ascribed rights (not just the rights that exist in my ideal moral universe versus yours), it is one of the greatest virtues of the USA that it entrenches the right to Freedom of Speech in its Bill of Rights.
John S Mill explained in his treatise "On Liberty" that:
"the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race ; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong , they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception
and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
You may argue nevertheless that children should not until some specific age be exposed to challenging views that might impair their sense of safety in the world, or might drive them to become bad citizens. I find that in the USA this would be a hypocritical position to take. Children are exposed on television and in electronic games to violence which normalises their attitudes to it from the earliest ages. Surely this is the problem. Isn't violence a problem in the USA and in the world? Must this not stem from our own upbringings and the tolerance we have to it?
I suggest that failing to question violence between people and against animals from an earlier age leaves children to grow into adults who perpetuate a problem that we all complain of but can not see how we ourselves contribute to it.
Yes, and children shouldn't have to have parents who don't know how to spell 'impressionable'.
Taking the moral high road one dastardly deed at a time.
Go Meat!
The plural of 'anecdote' is not 'data'.
...it is owned by the multimillionare PR guy, David Berman and is employed by the food and beverage industries to defend:
* tobacco industry
* fish industry (to deny there are high levels of mercury in fish)
* to undermine animal welfare organisations ( PETA must be doing a good job for animals !!!)
etc
Watch out, Berman's PR vehicle is likely to emerge under another name shortly. Be alert.