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Fund for Animals claim violations of National Environmental Policy Act The Quota Goose Hunts scheduled on the Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge, Duck River Bottoms Unit for Resident Geese has bee canceled. The scheduled "non-quota hunt" will continue. A news release issued by the Department of the Interior and U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service said, "The Tennessee National Wildlife Refuge has just learned that the new quota hunt for resident Canada geese in the Duck River Bottoms must be canceled due to a pending lawsuit by Fund for Animals. In 2003 Fund for Animals sued the U.S. Fish & Wildlife...

PETA's Dirty Secret 7 Things You Didn't Know About PETA By ConsumerFreedom.com Sunday, January 28, 2007 1) PETA president and co-founder Ingrid Newkirk has described her group's overall goal as "total animal liberation." This means no meat, no milk, no zoos, no circuses, no wool, no leather, no hunting, no fishing, and no pets (not even seeing-eye dogs). PETA is also against all medical research that requires the use of animals. 2) Despite its constant moralizing about the "unethical" treatment of animals by restaurant owners, grocers, farmers, scientists, anglers, and countless other Americans, PETA has killed over 14,400 dogs and...

AP - Mon Jun 6, 2:54 PM ET People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, member Chris Link of Norfolk, Va., top, adjusts the cellophane covering on the costume of demonstrator Dezeray Rubinchik of Philadelphia, top right, during a protest in front of the Statehouse, in Providence, R.I., Monday, June 6, 2005. The protest, in which three people placed themselves in containers resembling supermarket meat trays, was meant to compare eating meat with cannibalism. PETA member Karolina Colwill of Sioux Falls, S.D., appears center. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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 (search) 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...

Dick, Drop That RodThe fish lovers at the People for Ethical Treatment of Animals have added Vice President Dick Cheney to the public figures on their most wanted list.Just a few weeks after they asked former President Jimmy Carter to turn in his rod and reel, they are urging Cheney to give up fishing.'We hope, says PETA's Karin Robertson, 'that you will agree tormenting these sensitive animals is a pastime that belongs in the past.'Cheney, a famed Jackson Hole, Wyoming fly fisherman, would not comment.