Veganism - the other OTHER religion

[reverendjeremiah]

I want it to be clear that my personal opinion on this matter is that I dont mind the vegetarians. The vegetarians in my opinion do it for themselves, and even though they may show a bit of outer disgust or contempt for eating animals, they do not try to legislate it and realize that everyone is different with different tastes. It could still possibly be argued that it is a religion to these folks as well, but that is another topic.

That is NOT the people I am mentioning in this topic.

I am talking about the extremists. The PETA Vegan's who want to legislate their views on everyone. The ones who would see no problem in millions of people dying because animal testing in science should be banned and said scientists should be taken to court for torture and murder. I am for SENSIBLE animal laws. Extremism never fits well with me, being slightly left of the center that I am. These people stand in front of McDonalds handing out toys with the clown cutting a chickens severed head...I know, I grew up in the Hampton roads area where they moved their headquarters.

Let me give you an example of how they have influenced our laws with their extremism:
http://www.peta.org/b/thepetafiles/archi...fault.aspx

But every once in a while, someone visits PETA headquarters with ill intentions—like the guy who dumped this sweet, starving, nearly-naked bag of bones in our parking lot late one August night and then tried to drive away

Not realizing that people were watching, the driver shoved an ailing cat, who has since been named Nadia, out of his car, and ignored the terrified and confused animal as she tried to get back into the car, running after it as the man drove away. Fortunately, he was spotted by two PETA Foundation staffers who immediately approached him and saw right through his lame excuses for dumping Nadia on the street.

It took us more than 10 days, during which time the temperature soared to more than 100 degrees, to catch the poor, petrified cat. When we finally did, we rushed her to a veterinarian, who determined that Nadia was 3 pounds (!) underweight—she weighed just 5 pounds—and that she was missing hair on more than half her body, likely because of a severe allergic reaction to fleas. Nadia has been recuperating in foster care ever since and is waiting for her new forever home.

As for the heinous man who attempted to abandon her, he had his moment in court on Friday. He pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of abandonment and received a suspended sentence of a $1,000 fine and five days in jail. He was also sentenced to two years of probation, during which time he cannot own or keep any animals, and he had to pay restitution to PETA. Most importantly, he learned that abandoning an animal is never an option, no matter the circumstances.

REALLY?!?!? Did the man have to be charged $1,000 on top of giving more of his money to fucking PETA?!? Five days in jail and two years probation? Of course this man was an ass for what he did, and the story about the animal was sad, but do you think PETA would stop there if they had their ways? Ignoring the fact that this article was written by PETA members who have been known time and time again to be lying and hypocritical in the news, that I am sure if it were up to PETA that this mans children would have been taken from him and he would have spent many a year in prison for it. These people are INSANE extremists, and they have influenced our local laws to boot.

As much as I distrust big pharma, these PETA people pound the big pharma for the WRONG reasons. Example:

http://www.peta.org/b/thepetafiles/archi...court.aspx

to the evil scum that work in these places - what goes around comes around; what you sow, so shall you reap. anyone who thinks animal testing is necessary, do you think that THIS is? when are people going to learn, animals are not theirs to torture. it's way past time that vivsection was abolished. all power and grateful thanks to all you wonderful people who expose this for what it is.

The headquarters of the extremist assholes who hate their own incisors and canines