Friday, December 19, 2008

Playing Ball With PETA!

It's a heady feeling, being editor-free after so many years at NPR. I get to have all sorts of unseemly interests I couldn't risk airing on-air. So why not start with one of the great hot button organizations of them all, PETA!

Their interactive holiday card is really rather charming. Care to throw a few snowballs at women wearing fur?

I will, however, add a RED word of caution: Should you visit its sight and stray from playing games, the instant you hear "What you're about to see..." is your cue to CLOSE your browser.

Unless, of course, you eat meat without knowing who raised it and wear fur that was taken from a creature who needed it more than you. In which case I gotta figure you're cut from a whole 'nother cloth...
at 11:33 AM

5 comments:

  1. Erich RiesenbergDec 23, 2008 06:34 AM
    I think I got banned from the PETA site for asking a few times why their animal shelter kills in excess of 95% of dogs and cats left there. Each year the rate has been going up. These are self reported numbers.

    You should check it out, would make a good story, though it is not news. Check out the Wikipedia page for details and links.
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  2. sorry, I'm not interested in going to the web site of an organization of lying scumbags who think death is preferable to life as a pet. who wouldn't disavow the "rogue" group that had an unmarked euthanasia van that would answer "free to good home" ads.
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  3. Erich RiesenbergDec 23, 2008 09:38 AM
    Thank you Oldmac.

    I just read the Wikipedia web site, it is a hotly contested entry. I noticed the wording has now changed, indicating a lot of animals were "reclaimed." My understanding is most of those animals were never "property" of the shelter (PETA's term, in explaining in court why they could kill them at will). Most of the pets supposedly reclaimed were sterilized under a shelter program, never dropped off or cared for by the shelter.

    By my calculation, over 99% of the animals actually kept as "property" by the shelter were killed by PETA.

    http://www.petakillsanimals.com/downloads/PetaKillsAnimals.pdf

    I consider myself a thoughtful liberal, and the inane PETA supporters give us a bad reputation.
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  4. Ketzel - go for it! Write what you want, this is your chance. Even though we aren't "our jobs" many time our work limits our free speech (for better or worse). I want to read about what you care about.
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  5. Give it to PETA between the eyes! Just remember that PETA really means ... "People Eating Tasty Animals".

    Perhaps you could suggest that PETA members set out in small boats to protect seals from great white sharks?

    I can't believe you are gone from NPR. Joni was right ... "Don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till its gone".

    I'll be listening, watching and reading.
    KansasJim
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