OldDog/NewTricks
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So last night HBO presented a documentary about PETA and its strange leader Ingrid Newkirk. This is one crazy ditz. Example? When she dies, she has decreed that PETA barbecue her flesh like an animal's so the smell will force bystanders "to think twice about eating meat." She also wants her skin made into wallets, just like what's done to lizards. See, it's insights like this that make it hard for me to view PETA as a sane and coherent outfit. It's one thing to take to the streets and defend dogs, cats and other pets, and to demand that we act humanely toward the animals we slaughter and eat. I get all that, and I'm supportive. But it's the disgusting, sometimes violent, and often misleading PETA campaigns that turn me and millions of other Americans off. It's the assaults on the personal freedoms of others, such as throwing bags of animal blood on women wearing fur coats, that tell you PETA will violate any law, or civilized behavior, to get its point across.
Ingrid Newkirk heads a $300 million organization with 300 employees that has distinguished itself more by its looniness, and nothing is loonier than its leader, who should be barbecued. I'm all for that. Because it's hard to feel all warm and fuzzy about someone who drove herself, and her minions, into a frenzy in defense of...worms! It's campaigns like that, which targeted fishermen, that chip away at PETA's credibility. But I know Ingrid's real bottom line: to make America vegetarian. PETA's goal is to stop every single one of us from ever eating meat again! She doesn't want us to be able to make our own choices; she wants the government to outlaw meat-eating of any kind. Vegetarianism long ago graduated from a lifestyle option to something perceived as "politically and socially correct", and Ingrid Newkirk is using her animal rights group as a prop to pursue a vegetarian mandate for our country.
Ingrid and her army of lunatics can blame themselves that so many of us today think "she" and "they" are loons and wackos. Too bad, because I think many more millions of Americans could support an animal rights group that doesn't make arses of themselves in defense of their agenda, by radicalizing the manner in which they protest and politic. They shaped that image, not us.
Ingrid Newkirk heads a $300 million organization with 300 employees that has distinguished itself more by its looniness, and nothing is loonier than its leader, who should be barbecued. I'm all for that. Because it's hard to feel all warm and fuzzy about someone who drove herself, and her minions, into a frenzy in defense of...worms! It's campaigns like that, which targeted fishermen, that chip away at PETA's credibility. But I know Ingrid's real bottom line: to make America vegetarian. PETA's goal is to stop every single one of us from ever eating meat again! She doesn't want us to be able to make our own choices; she wants the government to outlaw meat-eating of any kind. Vegetarianism long ago graduated from a lifestyle option to something perceived as "politically and socially correct", and Ingrid Newkirk is using her animal rights group as a prop to pursue a vegetarian mandate for our country.
Ingrid and her army of lunatics can blame themselves that so many of us today think "she" and "they" are loons and wackos. Too bad, because I think many more millions of Americans could support an animal rights group that doesn't make arses of themselves in defense of their agenda, by radicalizing the manner in which they protest and politic. They shaped that image, not us.