More crazy

[bladespark]

The world is full of crazy.
http://consumerfreedom.com/article_detail.cfm/article/134

This particular crazy just makes me want to go bite somebody though. Thousands of dollars that could actually help homeless animals get poured down the drain every year by people who think they're donating to a charitable cause when they're actually just supporting the crazies.

An except from an article on the same site about PETA and turkeys. "Animal-rights fanaticism seems to know no bounds. Two months after the 9-11 attacks, as America mourned thousands of lost souls, a group called United Poultry Concerns (no joke) held a "mourning vigil" for dead Thanksgiving turkeys outside a Maryland supermarket. The group’s leader later wrote that Osama Bin Laden’s attack actually "reduced the amount of pain and suffering in the world," since the people killed in the World Trade Center would otherwise have continued to eat poultry."

See? Crazy.

Comments

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

*sigh* and these nutjobs will give the rest of us a bad name.

I remember having a massive hissy fit about a TV programme about a Humane Society that was going to horse auctions and buying horses so they wouldn't be sold in Europe for meat - he wasn't objecting to treatment, farming practices, cruel confinement - no, he objected to them being used for meat. He had no such qualms about chicken, cows etc.

[privatepony.livejournal.com]

I wholeheartedly support the practice of NOT using horses for meat. This is effing crazy, about the turkeys...I mean, I know I'm crazy 'cause I think I'm a pony, but...uhhh...I think that praising Osama because he contributed to a slight decline in the consumption of turkey is completely batsh*t f***ing insane.

What you can do, though, is go to the ASPCA -- I know they normally can give you a list of charities. I

[pet-tiger.livejournal.com]

This is why I only donate money to the local stray cat rescue program.

[silveradept]

Well, every cause needs their fanatics. Haven't most people stopped listening to PETA for a while now?

[eisenhart.livejournal.com]

It's been awhile since they got any serious attention, but for most people they are the first thing that springs to mind when they think animal rights, and their nuttery isn't as public as it should be.

[silveradept]

So what we need is the ASPCA to do something really good and very headline-grabbing, repeatedly, until PETA fades away totally?

[eisenhart.livejournal.com]

that would be a good start.

[aoanla.livejournal.com]

Depends on the country, of course. Here in the UK, you might well get other charities mentioned, or even the RSPCA.

[bladespark.livejournal.com]

PETA gets several million in donations every year.

I would suspect, by that fact alone, that no, most people haven't stopped listening. Most people have no idea whatsoever how crazy PETA is.

sad

[aazhie.livejournal.com]

PETA is so full of hate, and they have been killing animals that were supposed to be safely rehomed by the hundreds, possibly moreso. They don't even care about the animals now! It's just sad. While I see that human overpopulation may be a problem now/and or in the future, condoning useless slaughter of humans or animals in any way or form like that is just not the right way to change people's minds about it. *not that there are many "useful" ways to slaughter, but i do eat meat and I know some people consider that murder. Guess what, so is wheat and other harvested vegetables...* :P

[aurora77]

Okay, it's been known that they're crazy for a long time, but now, it's official: They're bat**** ****** nuts. It's beyond all reason.

I only donate to my local shelter. I know they're doing good things because I've seen it firsthand.