Back when my daughters were in high school they brought home some literature that PETA recruiters had given them. They had questions about it, thank G_d. I read the material and told them that had they had a piece of pure propaganda very similar to what the KKK has been known pass out. Instead of taking advantage of your prejudice, takes advantage of your sympathy. By buying into this stuff you are allowing yourselves to be manipulated by strangers. That was enough explanation for them. .
These groups are connected all over the place :
We’re not sure what possessed Jeffrey Kerr, legal counsel for PETA, to claim in The Des Moines Register this week that his organization “does not support violence.” We don’t know how he can get away with publicly stating that PETA “has never funded convicted Earth Liberation Front Terrorists or any terrorists at all.”
We do know that Kerr’s words are a pure fabrication. PETA has a long history of supporting violent criminals, and has directly given over $100,000 to those convicted of arson, attempted murder, and large-scale vandalism.
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