Examining PETA’s Prez

the film takes a back seat to this 'column' in its admiration of newkirk...alston, your bias is showing...

All the anti-PETA propaganda going on here is making me sick. The footage made it to HBO, people. It's right there. These hate mongerers can SAY whatever they want, they can't erase that footage from my mind. The arctic foxes being skinned ALIVE on film, that one being STOMPED ON until blood oozed from its nostrils....the turkeys being hurld into brick walls and sat on and PUNCHED on their way to having their necks slit... that cow, its neck slit, slipping and falling in its own blood, all because the person responsible for knocking it out was careless and it remained conscious as it was cut.....I wonder why all of you are avoiding talking about THIS in your freakishly ignorant anti-PETA diatribes. Have any of you gone to the HSUS' website lately? You should go, they have film of a man beating a baby harbor seal to death with a baseball bat with a metal HOOK in the end of it. Go to YouTube and watch that footage of the dog being ripped apart in front of a crowd of people...... Why are we not talking about THAT? The footage does not lie. You might. But it does not. Remember, all of you who have yet to wake up, your computer will lead you to the truth, so you do NOT have to listen to the lies being spread here. Or, you can just go back to sleep. Your choice.

Newkirk's philosophy of humanity is flawed, whether confirmed or not.. And her disrespect for humanity is a testament to her hypocrisy. Also, your article is flawed IMO. In the end, you state that no person should have the right to impose his or her opinion etc.. etc.. Newsflash!! This is America, and the same facets of law that apply to PETA also apply to the public. Therefore, if Newkirk and her animal rights zealots have the right to ruin people's clothes and conduct public ridicule, then I sure as heck have the right to impose my opinion on anyone, and anywhere, I choose! I think you could have worded it differently and supported your point more thoroughly. I'll give you an example: A democracy exists when people impose their own opinions, regardless of the consequences, in open debate.. A dictatorship exists when people enforce their opinions through conventional, or unconventional, means to produce the desired outcome and oppress anyone who stands against that. I see this article as really nothing more than biased in her defense. Granted, there should be federal regulations against animal cruelty that should be imposed on the Animal Foods Industry.. But.. The fact still remains that the average person really does not care one way or the other about how a turkey meets it's demise.. It's the end product that they care about.. As long as we have our Butterball and Thanksgiving feasts, the majority of us are happy. Remember the Neanderthal? Do you think he considered Animal Rights? What about Inuits or Equestrians? The whole PETA argument is lost to the fact that we still live on Earth, which is a dangerous and sometimes inhospitable place where existence is rooted in suffering and death. And no matter how many fur coats they ruin with red paint, they will never be able to stop people from indulging.

Newkirk's philosophy of humanity is flawed, whether confirmed or not.. And her disrespect for humanity is a testament to her hypocrisy. Also, your article is flawed IMO. In the end, you state that no person should have the right to impose his or her opinion etc.. etc.. Newsflash!! This is America, and the same facets of law that apply to PETA also apply to the public. Therefore, if Newkirk and her animal rights zealots have the right to ruin people's clothes and conduct public ridicule, then I sure as heck have the right to impose my opinion on anyone, and anywhere, I choose! I think you could have worded it differently and supported your point more thoroughly. I'll give you an example: A democracy exists when people impose their own opinions, regardless of the consequences, in open debate.. A dictatorship exists when people enforce their opinions through conventional, or unconventional, means to produce the desired outcome and oppress anyone who stands against that. I see this article as really nothing more than biased in her defense. Granted, there should be federal regulations against animal cruelty that should be imposed on the Animal Foods Industry.. But.. The fact still remains that the average person really does not care one way or the other about how a turkey meets it's demise.. It's the end product that they care about.. As long as we have our Butterball and Thanksgiving feasts, the majority of us are happy. Remember the Neanderthal? Do you think he considered Animal Rights? What about Inuits or Equestrians? The whole PETA argument is lost to the fact that we still live on Earth, which is a dangerous and sometimes inhospitable place where existence is rooted in suffering and death. And no matter how many fur coats they ruin with red paint, they will never be able to stop people from indulging.

That Diannari person is your typical PeTA brainwashed robot. It just spits our PeTA retoric, changing the subject when it can't come up with an answer and name calling and throwing insults when backed into a corner Yeah, PeTA has done so much for the animals, like insulting blacks and Jews and killing adoptable pets in the back of vans and throwing them in a dumpster. What amazes me is that these PeTA robots play dumb when you metion it. They never heard of the van incident. Give me a break. They claim to know every bad thing that's ever happened to any animal on the planet, but they never heard about that. And of course, PeTA must have a good reason for doing it, but they know nothing. That's brainwashing if ever there was brainwashing. boy, I'd hate to think what would happen to me if I killed pets in the back of a van and threw them in a dumpster. They would bury me under the jail. But if it's PeTA, they just bring in the high-priced lawyers. Of course there's the thing about PeTA renouncing those 2, but they still made sure they got off and are still PeTA employees. They are no doubt still doing the same thing somewhere else.

first the article about the inutility of vitamin C, now this hate for PETA, I am unsubscribing right now!

Do any of you remember the comic theese people put out for children. you know, your dads a murderer if he fishes theese people are insane and oh yes militant much like your avarage eco terrorist.

Joshua Alston's article is shamelessly one sided. Being that he's a reporter and "writer", it's ironic that he uses his position to push his boased position on Ingrid Newkirk rather than write an objective review of the documentary though he talks about not forcing one's opinion on others. I don't quite understand what's "unusually human free" about Ingrid Newkirk's life. If you look around, Mr. Alston's, most American's and British children have emotionally distant parents, not to mention physically distant when you look at the numbers of children in single family homes where the parent is works long hours. In that same group you will find single children without children who often grow up with animals (pets) as their companions. And your last bit about no children and no husband nakedly exposes your latent anti-feminist views. I mean come on! If you were writing about a man, would you phrase it that way? A woman does not need a husband and children to be "normal". Thankfully you weren't interviewing Ms. Newkirk! It would have been great if the fifty percent of your article was an objective review of the film, which, to be fair, you've done in half your article, though the other half seems to reveal personal biases that have nothing to do with the matter you reviewed.

And btw, Ellen De Generes has a right to cry when a dog is taken away from children that came to love him. However, it would have been more appropriate to do that with her therapist instead of national TV; I suffer when my dog or my human family suffers, other people suffer those they love suffer; however, I don't jump into the subway and make a scene about it. Maybe, just maybe, the world could do with a little less justification of focusing on celebrities obsessing with their problems in public.

I had joined PETA a long time ago and I think it is a great organization. Why should any living thing be treated as a piece of fashion or a piece of meat--- get it? ITS A PUN! But really. I believe that it is not fair to raise a creature to be eaten or slaughtered. What 'life' is that? A crappy one...