Posted on 12/20/2004 7:14:22 AM PST by aynrandy
PETA's Sexy "Santa" Lands in Denver To Give Away ... Tofurkey! Beauty Dishes Up Free Veggie Roasts for the Holidays.
So reads the press release sent to The Denver Post by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.
PETA loves the press. President Ingrid Newkirk has actually referred to her off-their-rockers organization as "complete press sluts."
Press sluts? A sexy Santa. Radicals. Tofurkey! Close to lunchtime and not at all far from where I pick up my fresh, flesh-filled burrito each afternoon. My journalistic instincts were stirring.
Sure enough, at the corner of 16th and Market streets, Cindy the sexy Santa is wearing fishnet stockings and a mini Santa skirt, surrounded by more austere looking professional mutton haters.
"With so many delicious alternatives like tofurkey now available, it's easier than ever to celebrate the true peaceful spirit of the holidays without causing animal suffering," writes PETA's director of vegan outreach, Bruce Friedrich.
Delicious alternatives?
It's often assumed that tofu tastes just like egg whites. Which would be an accurate statement if egg whites actually had any taste and if that taste were then sucked out by a thermo-nuclear deflavoring machine.
I do acknowledge that the spongy white substance may be appealing to someone like Chris Link, a campaign coordinator from PETA, who refers to your Christmas turkey as "a dead, rotting animal." Although he must realize that it's far messier to eat a turkey while it's still alive and kicking.
Link is on a nationwide tour recruiting local volunteers to sexy up tofurkey.
Denver, thankfully, is his last stop.
First question: How does PETA get away with using a scantily clad Santa to sell its message? Where's the outcry about this sexism and misogyny?
"She's here from the goodness of her heart," Link explains. And I believe him, considering Cindy's freezing for a tofurkey and an ideal.
Despite her bravery, the intellectual forces behind PETA - Cindy, and leading spokespeople like the buxom Pam Anderson and Anna Nicole Smith - still haven't convinced me that fish are sensitive, intelligent creatures that feel pain, fear and love.
They sure haven't convinced me of PETA's call for "total animal liberation."
My cat, who seems to have a relatively trouble-free existence with her vegetarian diet food and daily brushings, has yet to issue a manifesto of independence.
And even if I were sympathetic to the horrors sashimi endure before hitting my plate, there is a diabolical philosophy inherent in PETA's message. Most dangerous, the assertion of moral equivalency between killing a chicken and murdering a human being.
Newkirk once said that "there is no rational basis for asserting that a human being has special rights: A rat is a pig, is a dog, is a boy."
PETA has protested the pigeons used by troops in Iraq to detect chemical weapons because they "never enlisted."
PETA recently began handing out a delightful comic called "Your Mommy Kills Animals" to kids at performances of "The Nutcracker." Which, in addition to being warped, is misleading, considering mommy only eats and feeds dead animals to her family. Rarely does she actually kill the animals herself.
PETA also has staged protests against a research lab that uses animal tests to help find new drugs for AIDS, cancer and other deadly diseases.
And a recent PETA graphic campaign and exhibit "Holocaust on Your Plate," juxtaposes a ghastly scene from Nazi death camps side by side with photographs from a slaughterhouse.
Now, not every vegetarian agrees with PETA's tactics and message. Hopefully, most human carnivores and herbivores find it offensive to equate the lives of bovines with people.
To all of you, please beware of scantily clad Santas handing out soy-based turkey knockoffs.
David Harsanyi's column appears Monday and Thursday. He can be reached at 303-820-1255 or dharsanyi@denverpost.com
Saw an AWESOME bumper sticker this weekend.
"I DID NOT CLAW MY WAY UP THE FOOD CHAIN....
TO EAT VEGETABLES!"
PETA is another terrorist organization.
Ok, just for that peta I am having steak for dinner.
What I want to know is, how come I keep meeting Vegetarians that are morbidly freaking obese? My God Man! How to you wind up 100 lbs or more overweight eating Rabbit Food?
Speaking of infiltration....
Here is another example...
But easier to ignore.
I have no problem whatsoever!
I cannot wait for my yummy Christmas ham on Friday and Saturday--bring on the meat!!!
PETA - People Eating Tasty Animals.
I don't care one way or another what kind of diet these clowns choose for themselves. In fact, they may be helping me have a better chance at getting the nice thick rib-eyes. It's when they hype this phony "morality" of it all to try to shame others that I get annoyed.
Of course, these same morons who want to see Chicken McNuggets granted some kind of constitutional rights also think it's just fine to murder an unborn child and toss it in a dumpster.
Because most vegetarians just decide to be vegitarians out of emotion and do not eat right. To fill the void left by protien they eat a lot of carb crap. They are weak and unhealthy and often overweight. IOW, they are stupid liberals who are misguided by feelings.
I shudder to think what PETA's idea of a "sexy" woman is...
The way to counter that argument is to turn it back against them by saying, "Then since a fox and I are equal and a fox eats chickens, I can eat chicken. Since a bear and I are equal and a bear eats fish, I can eat fish. Since a lion and I are equal and a lion eats deer, I can eat venison..."
I've wondered this same thing, and then I monitored their eating habits. Chocolate and Twinkies.
Most Vegans I've known, however, are morbidly thin, with a strange yellowish tint to their skin. I especially feel sorry for their malnurished children.
Let's start a campaign to offer Hardee's Monster Burgers to Vegan children at school, without parental concent of course. It would be for their own good, just like condoms.
If it's anything like that often-posted picture of their caged girl-tiger, I'm willing to check it out.
PETA is no longer alone
Humane Society under fire in 50th year
Monday, December 20, 2004
By Karen MacPherson, Post-Gazette National Bureau
WASINGTON -- Fifty years ago, four animal welfare advocates created the Humane Society of the United States to advance their dream of winning passage of federal laws protecting animals from cruelty in slaughterhouses and laboratories.
Since then the Humane Society has grown to become the "800-pound gorilla" of the animal protection movement. With its recent merger with the Fund for Animals, the Humane Society now boasts more than 8 million members, 350 staff members and an annual budget of nearly $100 million.
"If people really care about animals and want aggressive, effective action, we are the group to call," said Wayne Pacelle, the Humane Society's new chief executive officer, said in a recent interview.
Over the years, the Humane Society has had a string of notable successes in Congress, beginning with the passage of the Humane Slaughter Act in 1958. Other major legislative successes include the Laboratory Animal Welfare Act, which was passed in 1966 and which has been updated several times over the years.
Other victories have ranged a wide gamut from passage of the Marine Mammal Protection and African Elephant Conservation acts to an effort to force improvements in the treatment of beagles used for U.S. Army testing to the launch of the "Shame of Fur" campaign.
But the organization also has attracted many critics, who contend the Humane Society's agenda takes animal rights too far.
"They clearly have targeted hunting and trapping as part of their agenda. ... They are very much in the animal extremist movement," said Jeff Crane, policy director of the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation. The foundation is the lobbying arm of the Congressional Sportsmen's Caucus, which -- with 325 members -- is the largest congressional caucus.
David Martosko, research director of the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Consumer Freedom, contends that the Humane Society "is out to transform America into a strict vegetarian utopia whether we like it or not.
"They are a $50 million-$60 million lobby machine, lobbying for things that most Americans don't want. The only mainstream thing about them is that they wear a suit and tie while doing it," Martosko added.
Critics such as Martosko expect the Humane Society to become "more extremist" with the elevation of Pacelle to the organization's top spot. Pacelle, 39, is a well-spoken, highly-polished advocate whose beliefs and approach has made him a lightning rod for Humane Society opponents.
"He wants to abolish meat, outlaw hunting, and get rid of circuses, zoos and rodeos," Martosko said. "It's animal rights lunacy, and Wayne is king of it."
Pacelle acknowledges that he has strong beliefs about animals. He is a vegan who wears non-leather shoes and belts. But he also insists he has grown more tolerant of others who have different views. He also makes a strong distinction between the Humane Society and other animal protection groups that use violence to promote their message.
"My own commitment is very strong -- I am a vegan," Pacelle said. "But I'm also conscious of the cultural complexities of this issue. People are raised to think of animals in a certain way, and to use animals in some ways.
"I try to see where people are and give them encouragement to get to a place where they view animals not as tools for research or game to be harvested, but as individual beings that have the same spark of life that all of us have."
Pacelle has been interested in animal protection issues since his New Haven, Conn., childhood, when he refused to swat flies and always stopped for animals in the road. Pacelle became a vegetarian, then a vegan, during his years at Yale University, where he majored in history and environmental studies.
At Yale, he started the Student Animal Rights Coalition, which led protests against the use of animals in the university's medical laboratories. Pacelle also led the charge to persuade Yale to create a vegan menu in its dining halls.
As the new head of the Humane Society, Pacelle has pledged to set an "aggressive agenda" designed to expand public, political and legal support for the animal protection movement.
Under Pacelle's direction, the Humane Society recently created a litigation section and a political action committee, and plans a big boost in its investigations of animal abuse in puppy "mills" and other places as part of a "zero tolerance" policy for animal cruelty.
The group also plans to sharpen its focus on some major issues. These include taking a strong stand against "factory farming" practices, such as confining animals raised as meat in tiny cages.
Pacelle also plans to revive the anti-fur movement and challenge "hunting abuses and unsporting hunting practices," such as "canned" hunts, where bears and other animals are drawn by food and then shot.
Like other critics, Crane, the policy director of the Congressional Sportsmen's Foundation, acknowledges that the Humane Society "is certainly sizable and well-financed."
"But we've got the moral high ground," Crane contended. The Humane Society's efforts against trapping and some hunting practices "challenge the entire conservation model of the United States," he added.
To counter what Crane sees as the Humane Society's shift of focus from Congress to the states, his group recently helped establish the National Assembly of Sportsmen's Caucuses.
"We're organizing at the state level because we know that they will come after our rights," Crane said.
Martosko, meanwhile, accuses the Humane Society of trading on a false image of "puppies and kittens."
"Do you know how many shelters they have? None!" Martosko said. "Yet their fund-raising letters are full of puppies and kittens."
Pacelle, however, notes that his group runs several wildlife refuges. In addition, the Humane Society provides training and professional development for shelters.
Overall, "our goal is to get results," Pacelle said. "We want to show our members ... that they are receiving dividends in the form of animal suffering relieved and cruelty prevented."
"Most Vegans I've known, however, are morbidly thin, with a strange yellowish tint to their skin. I especially feel sorry for their malnurished children."
I used to work with a vegan who fit that description to a tee. She was frequently going to the doctor. Just before I relocated, she was admitted to the hospital because some vessels in her legs collapsed.
If that doesnt work they will resort to a scantilly clad Bea Arthur in a skimpy santa suit to force peoples appetites for anything to eat to abandon thier bodies in an involuntary response to save their lives.
They graze...and graze...and graze....
I rather like my dead rotting animal meat. And just so PETA pals everywhere know, those veggies they like to eat so much decay and rot much faster than my tasty, dead rotting animal flesh does. I like to rot my animal flesh for around 23 days, it's much more tender and juicy. Try rot your vegetation for 23 days...yummy.
TOFU is NOT a good alternative for Protein. It lacks minerals and enzymes that only meat has. In fact TOFU can cause cancer of the uterus, breasts and cause fertility problems, as well as abnormal hair growth in women, and cause impotence, baldness in men, as well as male breast development and high, squeaky voice development, often with a lisp.
TOFU contains artificial chemicals for flavor and color, some of which can be carcinogenic.
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