Pardon My Language, But PETA Pisses Me Off

One of my goals for Kitty Mowmow’s Animal Expo is for the site to remain mostly an impartial purveyor of animal-related information.

This article, however, is not impartial. It is an opinionated editorial piece, one that does not pretend to be professional news journalism. I’m just telling you what I know and how I feel. The opinions presented in this article do not represent the opinions of any other Kitty Mowmow’s Animal Expo affiliate.

I decided to write this article because I realized that Kitty Mowmow’s Animal Expo has posted many articles about PETA’s (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) activities. (After all, staying in the limelight seems to be PETA’s greatest strength.) We post articles about PETA, regardless of the fact that I loathe and despise most of what they stand for and do, because we try to keep this site’s information as unbiased as possible. We just try to comb the news for the most relevant, interesting animal-related information possible and pass it on to you, whether we agree with it or not.

But PETA, I just can’t stay quiet about you anymore. It’s time for me to confess my biases: I think you are evil.

PETA reminds me of a cult, sucking normal, healthy animal-lovers into its hive mind and purse by first encouraging them to support a few of PETA’s more reasonable animal-related campaigns, such as “spay and neuter your pets.” For most potential donors and supporters, PETA either conceals or distracts attention from many of their less savory practices they have downed several gallons of PETA’s Kool-Aid. Most of the Kool-Aid’s ingredients seems to be a general hatred for humanity crudely masquerading as devotion to the welfare of animals.

I have a multitude of justificating reasons why I think PETA’s actions overwhelmingly result in evil instead of good, but I’ll just list the 2 most important reasons here:

1. PETA kills more than 90% of the animals entrusted into its care because they believe animals are better off dead than living with humans as companion animals (Link).

PETA includes domesticated animals, like your dog or cat, in this belief (Link), regardless of the fact that domesticated dogs and cats are an entirely different species from wild dogs and cats, and have evolved to live alongside humans, interwoven with their societies. Humans created them through thousands of years of selective breeding, and we have the responsibility of keeping them alive and happy and healthy as much as we can.

Look at your pet dog or cat: it’s probably well fed and caressed, and you probably take care of its physical health. If your pet is anything like my cat, it is incredibly happy. On the other hand, animals in the wild suffer almost daily in the struggle for survival, facing hunger, predators, disease, and the elements. This is the raw, cruel way nature operates. But your pet, shielded from the natural selection that runs rampant beyond your door or fence, does not have to suffer like this - unless PETA gets what it wants.

2. PETA has supported the Earth Liberation Front (ELF), which is associated with the Animal Liberation Front (ALF). Both organizations are composed of eco-terrorists who destroy property and animals in the name of their causes.

Tax filings for 2000 show PETA gave money to the Earth Liberation Front—considered a terrorist threat by the FBI—which in the preceding years had waged an arson and bombing campaign against SUVs, luxury homes, fast food chains and universities that were studying genetically modified crops. (Link.)

Need more proof of ELF’s and ALF’s reprehensibility? Look here, here, here, and here. Also, we recently posted an article about an incident in which Animal Liberation Front members released minks from a mink farm. Read about the sad outcome here.

Tagged as: Animal Liberation Front, Animal Rights, Animal Welfare, Animals, Cats, Companion Animals, Dogs, Earth Liberation Front, Eco-Terrorism, People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals, PETA, Pets