PETA is Evil

I used to think PETA stood for “People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals”, but the more reading I do, the more it becomes apparent that their moniker should actually read, “People Euthanizing Terrific Animals”. Feel free to read through their official policies yourself here – PETA’s Position on Pit Bull Bans

PETA’s founder Ingrid Newkirk has a well-documented dislike for all bulldog breeds, and she has alluded to this in multiple interviews and official statements given by the organization she leads. I would just like to take a moment and touch on a few of the utterly absurd statements she has made public in the past in an attempt to give some clout to her radical ideas, which include breed specific bans and an end to ownership of animals as companions, just to name a few. Here are a few of my favorite idiotic statements she has made (for a more in-depth analysis as to why these statements are such untruths please visit Save A Bull).

“People who genuinely care about dogs won’t be affected by a ban on pit-bull breeding. They can go to the shelter and save one of the countless other breeds and lovable mutts sitting on death row.”

“Many are loving and will kiss on sight, but many are unpredictable. An unpredictable Chihuahua is one thing, an unpredictable pit another.”

“Pit Bulls are perhaps the most abused dogs on the planet. These days, they are kept for protection by almost every drug dealer and pimp in every major city and beyond. You can drive into any depressed area and see them being used as cheap burglar alarms, wearing heavy logging chains around their necks (they easily break regular collars and harnesses), attached to a stake or metal drum or rundown doghouse without a floor and with holes in the roof.”

There is no doubt that Pit Bulls have indeed become a “fad breed” and have fallen into the hands of uncaring owners, but how is this the dogs’ fault? Banning Pit Bulls is certainly not going to stop their ownership by drug dealers, dog fighters and other unsavory people. In fact, for the same reasons why prohibition was eventually overturned in the early 1930s, this will have the opposite effect and make Pit Bulls more of a hot commodity. A black market trade will develop through which dogs are bred and sold, and in the end more dogs will end up getting hurt or killed.

There are plenty of other breeds of dogs that are strong and intelligent that can also be trained by evil-intentioned owners to attack on command, and they would also deal with the pis poor conditions forced upon them by their masters. Should we also get rid of all the German Shepards, Rottweilers and Akitas? Remember the dogs that were in the headlines awhile back that were used to intimidate the prisoners at Abu Ghraib? Those were not Pit Bulls, they were Belgian Shepards, perhaps we should exterminate them too.

The point is, it is impossible to use a line of logic that rests upon a dog’s treatment by its owner to then say that the breed should be eliminated. To me this is the same as saying that we should put all kids to sleep that are abused by their parents, when obviously the child had no control over the situation they were a part of. The Pit Bulls are not the problem, it is the over breeding and mistreatment of these dogs that has landed them in the precarious position in which we find them today – and the support of BSL by major organizations like PETA does not help the pits at all either. There are plenty of Pit Bulls out there that live in wonderful homes, with caring owners who would never think to use their dog for harm; these dogs are part of our family.

PETA obviously does not care about the facts, instead they prefer to maintain a radical stance and promote a worldwide ban of dogs resembling Pit Bulls. I know their crusade will not end there; their intention is to completely end dog breeding all together and make it illegal for people to own pets, or “companion animals” as they like to call them. How could an organization that claims to care about animals support legislation that would call for the mass euthanization of millions of pets? This is certainly not compassionate, and I do not even think the devil would agree that this action could be considered ethical.

So before you jump on the bandwagon and listen to PETA’s multitude of celebrity endorsements, make sure you know the truth about PETA and what they stand for. While they may be successful in coming across as a hip, new-age group dedicated to animal rights and activism, what they are really striving for is the complete decimation of sharing our lives with animals as we know it. Their esteemed leader, Ms. Newkirk, has on numerous occasions compared poultry farms to Nazi death camps, saying that there is no major difference between the two. PETA has used their donations to help fund the North American Earth Liberation Front, an FBI-certified terrorist group responsible for bomb scares and death threats. In 2006 PETA received a total of 2,145 animals at their shelter in Virginia, of those 2,145 only 146 were adopted, the other 90.7% were killed.

In a PETA-run world we would have no cats, no dogs, no birds and no fish, nor would we have the choice to incorporate animal products in our diet if we so chose. PETA is no longer just pouring cans of paint on old ladies in their fur coats, they are actively euthanizing animals that should have had the opportunity to be adopted, all while pretending to have respect for animal life. They have been known to target children as young as 8 to become members, telling them that they should not drink milk because it hurts cows and is harmful to your health. PETA, we are sick of the lies. Leave us, and our pets, alone.