I am listening to the Laura Ingraham radio show and PETA alpha wolf Ingrid Newkirk is the guest. Ingraham asked her if having a leather belt or leather shoes meant that one was engaging in cruelty. Newkirk said, and this is close to a quote, “No! That is not what we claim.” Like heck it isn’t!
Recall the “Holocaust on Your Plate Campaign” that PETA ran for about two years all over the world? Here’s a relevant quote from that advocacy effort:
Like the Jews murdered in concentration camps, animals are terrorized when they are housed in huge filthy warehouses and rounded up for shipment to slaughter. The leather sofa and handbag are the moral equivalent of the lampshades made from the skins of people killed in the death camps
If a couch is akin to the Holocaust, so too are leather belts and shoes.
After PETA received much heat, Newkirk eventually apologized for Holocaust on Your Plate, calling it an “insensitive” comparison, a classic non apology, apology, as I reported here, that also justifed everything the Holocaust on Your Plate Campaign had stated.
Newkirk and PETA’s ability to obfuscate and game play is extraordinary. They are master propagandists, perhaps the best around. The one thing we do know is that Newkirk is not a candid truth teller.
July 8th, 2009 | 12:46 pm
Thank you Wesley! I was in my car, listening as well, yelling at the radio about the same kind of PETA campaigning. Newkirk mentioned that she wishes people to be vegetarians, but that they don’t push the argument too far. Of course, nothing was mentioned of their ad campaign targeting children, with the comic book covers featuring a maniacal mother butchering an animal, and a father slaughtering a fish. Blood and guts, and evil humans. Quite subtle, Ms. Newkirk.
July 8th, 2009 | 6:37 pm
>>The leopard has not changed even one of its spots. PETA remains firm in its belief that killing an animal is morally equivalent to killing a human being.<<
Who said in so many words, Unless you eat and drink of my blood you will not make "IT" to the kingdom of God.
Hey Lord! You tell me what you want me to do and I'll do "IT" cause right now as I see "IT" I'm simply a cell of "Our First Parent" who once lived in "The Garden of Eden".
I hear ya Wesley! Hey! You will let me know what God tells you hey Victor? :)
July 9th, 2009 | 10:54 am
Thank you for a well written point of view on Laura’s interview yesterday. My husband listened on his way from our Houston area home to the ranch in Central Texas. I wish he had called so I could so have called in. I would have asked her if she had seen a sow step, lay down on or eat one of her piglets. I would have loved to have heard Ms. Newkirk’s response on this, since apparently she believed sow’s love their piglets so much. I so wish the individuals at PETA and HSUS would not transfer human feelings over to animals as they don’t think on the level we do. Confinement systems in Agriculture have research behind them to provide our citizens the safest food system in the world and a very safe environment for the animals. To do away with animal agriculture would leave our country with a problem of hunger. Recent lobbying by these groups will certainly cause food prices to rise again in the states where legislation or ballot issues have passed. My argument, is this fair to the lower economic income portion of the population and is it fair to the taxpayers who foot the bill? Of course not.
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