Posted on 02/19/2005 7:40:51 AM PST by Darnright
Paul Johnston of Middletown, Delaware is one ticked-off parent. And with good reason. As the Middletown Transcript reports, Johnston's daughter -- a student at Louis L. Redding Middle School -- came home from school last week with a propaganda booklet and magazine from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). The PETA materials, it turns out, were part of the official classroom teaching. "I thought it was totally inappropriate for something like this to even be thought of being in the curriculum," Johnston told a reporter. We couldn't agree more. The Center for Consumer Freedom has written to Dr. Sue Dutton (the principal of the young Johnston girl's school), along with the members of the local school board, asking them to reconsider putting their stamp of approval on PETA propaganda. A sampling from our letter:
The debate shouldn't be about whether animal welfare is a valuable thing to teach. No one, after all, wants to endorse cruelty to animals. But it's equally irresponsible to lend a school's imprimatur to the teachings of a group that values lab rats over human children, believes giving milk to kids constitutes "child abuse," actively recruits an "army of animal rights rebels" in and around schools, encourages children to regard their non-vegetarian parents as "murderers," and has even funded the operations of arsonists and other violent felons. Administrators in Mr. Johnston's school district will also receive copies of "Your Kids, PETA's Pawns," the Center for Consumer Freedom's report detailing PETA's plan to indoctrinate millions of American children behind their parents' backs. Skeptical? PETA activists appeared outside a Wisconsin middle school at 7:30 this morning, handing anti-chicken trading cards to young kids as they walked to school.
Parents: If your child brings home animal-rights propaganda materials (often masquerading as "humane education" booklets), drop us a note and tell us your story. We'll be happy to educate your school administrators.
Teachers and other education professionals: Printed copies of "Your Kids, PETA's Pawns" are available to you free of charge. Just let us know where to send them.
What's the significance of the freezer
These PETA whackjobs showed up at local middle school to protest the school having "Got Milk?" posters.
Remember this is in Vermont where there are nearly as many cows as people.
Well the kids on their own decided to buy up all of the milk in the cafeteria and go outside to drink it as a counter-protest. Little freepers in the making.
Unfortunately, the superintendent of schools did not have as much backbone and told the school to take the signs down.
Story here http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/Columnists/Sam/0124044554.htm
Their latest campaign is to end......fishing.
From the Virginia B.A.S.S. federation site”
Tommy and Rumble also use their show to promote an annual "PETA Fishing Tournament" on the Elizabeth River, directly in front of the animal rights group's headquarters. Usually they get about one hundred boats to come out for the event, some of them sporting mounted deer on their decks and sausages hanging from the sides of the boats.
I take that as a rhetorical question. Of course the answer is not. Not if it takes time away from what they should be studying and not for the schools to be bothering themselves with. Schools are a place of learning. Not a place of indoctrination.
Doesn't anyone out there teach the difference between "you're" and "your?????!!!!!!"
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While we're (were, where?) on the subject. One of my 'pet' peeves is the incorrect use of their and there.
I agree with you, but you would be amazed at the number of people, who will agree on emotion, that teaching kiddies to "be kind to the animals" in school is a good thing.
Unfortunately, those people who realize that educators need every minute to teach kids the basics have to be on guard constantly against the Gramcians. PETA and other leftists drool over the prospect of shaping our little "skulls full of mush", and to heck with giving them an actual education.
I think you are WFB in disguise.
Once in a great while a woman who is not naturally frigid joins PETA. The freezer is part of the Peta-ization process.
PETA is about people control. Nothing else.
"I agree with you, but you would be amazed at the number of people, who will agree on emotion, that teaching kiddies to "be kind to the animals" in school is a good thing."
It is a good thing to teach kids to be kind to animals. The bible also teaches this. It's bad when they step overboard, that we can all agree on. Teaching kids to have no sensitivity or responsibility toward animals is as bad as PETA telling us pet ownership is slavery.
"Just because your name says "follower of Christ" doesn't convince me that you are one- especially since you don't capitalize His name!"
Did I slip up, ONCE and not capitalize His name? Check through my posts.
Hello fellow girl angler!!! Where do you live? I am between two excellent Bass lakes in California. The bite is magnum right now with live minnows, due to shad spawning.
So PETA helped pay attorney fees for an ALF arsonist? Was he convicted? I've always viewed PETA as a comic show, despite my general support for kindness to animals and alternatives to animal testing, where possible. I donate yearly to spay/neuter programs. I agree with them on certain issues, such as shooting exotic animals in small enclosed areas (hunting farms) and cock fighting. But I've got a freezer full of deer, and a cow who will be slaughtered this spring. Those animals had/have better lives than a factory farm animal. So in my own way, I minimize animal suffering and do what I can, reasonably, to reduce animal suffering. I plead guilty to murdering fish and live bait. But there is that part of me that mistakenly thinks air escaping from a catfish after being caught is his plea for life. Once I actually thought a catfish called out my name! I let him go and I admit to moments of sentimentality when a fish I intended to eat looked at me a certain way. If I were on some weird drug, I could see myself in PETA.
>Teaching kids to have no sensitivity or responsibility toward animals is as bad as PETA telling us pet ownership is slavery.<
Of course. However, once you legislate a course of study, you either cut out something to include the new, or you lengthen the school day.
I don't think anyone is saying they want teachers condoning cruelty, certainly, but I do think parents have a right to get a bit exercized if said teacher imparts the idea that a person is bad, or wrong if they choose to eat a cheeseburger.
one of my favorite pranks is to order a meatlovers pizza to be delivered to the president of peta... it's a great gag for one of those punked shows...
teeman
If god hadn't wanted us to eat animals, we wouldn't have made them out of meat.
I am in east Tennessee, with a choice of wild trout streams, big reservoirs, tailwater trout fishing and lots more within a few miles. I never met a fish I didn't enjoy catching, including carp.
Rodney Cornado was convicted. PETA is more than a comic show, as is other "respected" (hm) animal rights groups, even if they claim to be "animal protection groups." The last time I checked HSUS raised more than $40 million annually and doesn't spend anything on spaying/neutering/housing/feeding animals. They mostly spend their bucks on huge salaries for employees and board members, and efforts to end hunting, fishing, animal research, wearing fur, eating meat, circuses, rodeos, etc.
If you are donating money to the national groups to protect animals you are putting a noose around your own neck if you like to hunt humanely, believe it is okay for mice to die to develop cures and treatments for major human dieases (also for cures and treatments for your pets) and like to eat or wear animal products.
Most people believe when they donate to these groups they are helping hoomeless animals at local shelters. Not true. Local shelters receive no funding from these mega-organizations.
I have researched these groups for years as part of my job and can tell you you DON'T want to give them money. Here are some links to check out, and this is just a drop in the bucket to the info available on them (don't have the url and am in a hurry but try Americans For Medical Progress, Consumer Freedom.com and the Better Business Bureau for info). If you want to protect animals, particularly wildlife, then buying a hunting/fishing license is the best thing you can do. I am not in the medical field, so I am not advocating anything.
I fish and hunt, and I am opposed to canned hunts. However, I advise strongly not to support these groups.
Happy hooking (angling)
It's in your screen name.
I don't hunt, and my donations to spay/neuter groups are all local. I know the people and know their work!
It looks like it was corrected in one place.
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