Take a gander at this text lifted from PETA's TeachKind website (score another win for Ctrl-c/Ctrl-V)
"Preventing Violence "The best predictor of future behavior is past behavior, and a past history of violence is the single most important predictor of future violence... Some offenders kill animals as a rehearsal for targeting human victims and many kill or toture animals, because, to them, the animals symbolically represent people."
-Special Agent Alan C. Brantley,
FBI's National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime"
Thank you Mr. Brantley, for that informative piece of information. I agree that torturing animals is more or less wrong, and it is generally a good barometer for future crimes. However, I don't think that drinking Milk is somehow linked to these sorts of violent behaviours. so, I'm going to have to both be Lazy and a schmuck and cite .... Fox News. let's see what they have to say. (complete wth my snide comments in bold)
"As its Web site prominently touts the animal cruelty-psychopathy connection with quotes from FBI criminalists and others, a closer inspection reveals that the bulk of TeachKind's educational efforts are actually crafted so as to make children believe that everyday behaviors, such as eating a diet that contains meat or animal products, are unmistakably, unequivocally acts of animal cruelty. (Klaus adds: Horror of all horrors: an organisation promoting its' ideas into the easily molded minds of impressionable young children. because you know, other organisations don't do this kind of stuff)
PETA's frightening Boo of young children by equating, e=mc^2or even associating, truly disturbed behavior such as mutilation of a family pet with common everyday practices such as eating hamburgers amounts to nothing less than ideological child abuse. yes, let's respect our ideological children, our hypothetical spouses and our metahysical pets
PETA even accuses schools across America of being major perpetrators of animal cruelty. and I thought school lunch was bad They oppose basic learning methods widely practiced throughout our educational system such as insect collection, field trips to zoos or aquariums, and dissection in the classroom. okay, fieldtrips I can see, but yeah, I actually agree with them on the dissection part. I mean, why do we need to do this in school? we're not going to discover anything new here.
"Hearing a lot about violence in schools? You can do something to help. Cut out dissection!" announces their Web-based anti-dissection campaign, which even mentions how a young Jeffrey Dahmer "became fascinated with blood and guts" as a result of participating in a biology assignment involving dissection. one has to wonder if doctors got their start the same way.With this assertion, tee hee. you said 'ass' PETA is inviting impressionable young minds to believe that all it takes is one experience with a dissection assignment to walk away a psychopathic serial killer.and that is wholly false. it takes at least three or four.
In addition to encouraging kids to refuse to participate in dissection assignments,thats right! fight the power! the campaign even coaches kids on the exact wording to use in their formal written objections so as to "provide the basis for a possible legal case."uh oh. that ain't good. Plagarism is wrong, kids.
A significant portion of TeachKind's curriculum is devoted to persuading children to adopt a vegetarian diet as a way to avoid participating in "animal cruelty." oh, and avoid stepping on bugs. actually, I may have to follow up on this onePETA's Web-based materials provide the warped logic that if farmers treated a cat or a dog the way they treat livestock, they would "be prosecuted for animal cruelty and locked up"but you can't eat dogs. oh wait, yes you can. never mind � once again stressing the theme of hypothetical criminality for those who eat meat.and then they get sent to the hypothetical prison
PETA even tries to scare kids booaway from drinking milk, a food so controversial that it occupies its very own wedge on the latest FDA food pyramid for optimal nutrition. hey, you gotta teach the controversyA series of trading cards called "Don't Be a Milk Sucker" available from its Web site, features cartoon characters suffering a host of illnesses PETA attributes to milk consumption such as ear infections, obesity, acne, and even diabetes!to say nothing of the dysentary, Cholera, the itch, the twitch, St. Vitus' dance and homosexuality
Nor does milk consumption escape PETA's definition as a distinctly cruel act against animals.foolish milk consumption. you thought you could escape. NOTHING can escape the wrath of PETA! (Maniacal laughter) We meet "Milk-Stealing Ming," score another win for diversity who is depicted with his mouth directly attached to an unhappy cow's udder,eww alongside a "wanted poster" describing his crimes and exclaiming, "cows make milk for their babies, not for maniacs like Ming." "
Look at him... the demonic look in his eyes, the well-toned body for easier havoc wreaking abilities, the bowl cut hairstyle. This Ladies and Gentlemen, is the face of EEEEEEEEVIL.
aww, who am I kidding? I mean look at him. he's so gosh darned cute. I just want to hug him, or make him some alphabet soup, or something. How can you say no to a face like that?
Sources "cited"
Milloy, Steven. "Peta Gets to Your Kids" FOX News Network, LLC. http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,156398,00.html
Graphic taken (But hosted here. I ain't a bandwidth stealer) from http://www.petakids.com/milksucker.html
Quote from FBI guy taken from http://www.teachkind.org/preventingViolence.asp
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