Their most recent cause celebre has to do with a video clip that also meant to teach children how to protect and humanely treat animals in Palestine.
Now, I've read some things that are out there from the folks at PETA and the ASPCA, but this one is pretty high up there. The clip shows someone throwing rocks at lions and swinging cats by their tails. Except the whole reason they're doing this is to show kids just how animals hate to take things like that. I agree, sadism and torturing helpless animals, like caged lions or snakes, is just sick. So what's wrong with showing it happening once if it's a one time thing meant to be educational?
Here's the real kicker though:
"Teaching people to respect the most defenseless of animals helps people respect each other," Mersereau said.
Uhh, what? That's a new one. I guess I just missed the logical jump made there.
If PETA focused its outrage and money on helping people, not animals, maybe we'd all be in better shape. How much money do they waste worrying about lions in a zoo in a country in which daily gun battles and suicide bombings still happen? Where is PETA's outrage there? Oh wait, a a couple house cats and a zoo-bred lion, who will never see the wild, is more important than the fact that these kids are about to get killed? And don't get me started on the cruelty to domestic animals stuff ... that's another post.
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Look, I'm not the biggest fan of PETA either. As a matter of fact, that's an understatement. Most of the time they're lunatics. But they weren't organized to help people. They're a bunch of animal-lovers trying to save the animal kingdom. That's their purpose. I mean you could make the same argument about any organization. Take CNBC and the war, for example. CNBC doesn't exist to pool all their money towards saving the children in war-ridden countries. They exist to report how American dollars are being spent throughout our war efforts.
Again, just my 2 cents.
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