GOT MILITANCE?
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PETA is petulant, MADD is mad, and I for one am very glad. We've known all along that college students aren't drinking nearly enough beer. Now, if they'll just get drunk enough, we'll save the cows!
Oh, sorry, let me catch you up here. "PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is urging college students to wipe off those milk mustaches and replace them with foam." Why the quotation marks? That statement comes verbatim from a PETA-linked web site:
www.milksucks.com. I surfed over there after reading in the mainstream media that the animal rights group has launched a campaign on America's college campuses called "Got Beer?" Most will recognize this as a direct ripoff of the American Dairy Association's "Got Milk?" campaign.Mothers Against Drunk Driving was quick to point out (quite rightly) that the majority of college students are not old enough to drink alcohol, and that PETA is obliquely encouraging those young people to break the law -- if not put their lives in danger -- to support the ridiculous notion that Bossie is being relentlessly tortured into lactation.
I'm glad this happened. Maybe now, some people who didn't quite see it before will finally start to realize just how "whacked out" the PETA people are. A lot of folks don't see any difference between them and the Humane Society or the SPCA, and frankly, the media have done little to clear up their vision.
PETA people are the ones who dress up in cow suits outside McDonald's restaurants, crying plaintively "don't eat me!" Bad for business, but relatively harmless. Not so harmless, though, is vandalism and arson of businesses that serve beef, and breaking and entering of laboratory research facilities to release test animals from projects that have the propensity to save human lives. The main organization tries to distance itself from these violent radicals, but it doesn't try very hard. PETA, you see, is on a "crusade" to eliminate the consumption of meat, fish and dairy products, even (and especially) if it means destroying those industries in the process.
Vegetarianism used to be a choice. Now it's a movement. PETA is the militant arm of that movement, and they really don't care who they hurt, because philosophically, people are no more important, and in many cases less important, than animals. Others are alarmed at the prospect of pharmacological use of tissue from aborted fetuses. Does PETA decry this? No. Humans don't count; they're the problem!
Are you wearing a leather belt? PETA thinks you're a criminal. Do you enjoy fishing? PETA thinks you're a criminal. They are the "anointed ones," the rest of us humans are mere pagans to be converted to PETA Truth.
But truth is hardly PETA's stock in trade. Their very name is deceptive. "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals." If you don't support their twisted vision 100 percent, obviously, you must not be "ethical."
A visit to a PETA web site will blow your mind. For brevity, I'll just stay with milk. They'll have you believe that it contributes "to almost every disease except carpal tunnel syndrome, including stoke, cancer, heart disease...even the common cold."
More quotation marks here, because these words are taken from their web site verbatim. There's another web site:
www.junkscience.com that might help to set you straight on some of these laughable claims, but even their debunking efforts pale in comparison to PETA's well-funded machine. Some of their contributions come from well-meaning people who believe they're doing nothing more than helping homeless doggies and kitties.At least now, with a campaign that actually encourages college students to drink more beer, we can see PETA's true agenda. We don't know which young people will die in drunken accidents because of the "Got Beer?" campaign, but we know some will. We also know that PETA doesn't care.
A couple of columns ago, I wrote about the importance of the First Amendment as it applies (or should apply) to Dr. Laura. Lest you think me inconsistent, the same is true for PETA. They have a right to speak, and I will support that right. But as important as their right to speak, is your right to know exactly what you're listening to.
All I ask -- all I will ever ask -- is that you think about it. While you think, I'm going for a tall, cold glass of skim milk.