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Some of the most incriminating evidence against PETA are their own words-
"The cat, like the dog, must disappear..... We should cut the domesticcat free from our dominance by neutering, neutering, and moreneutering, until our pathetic version of the cat ceases to exist."-John Bryant, Fettered Kingdoms: An Examination of a Changing Ethic,PETA 1982, p.15.
"Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broilerchickens will die this year in slaughter houses." -Ingrid Newkirk,President, PETA, The Washington Post, November 13, 1983.
"It's not about loving animals. It's about fighting injustice. My wholegoal is for humans to have as little contact as possible with animals."---Gary Yourofsky, founder of Animals Deserve Adequate Protection Todayand Tomorrow (ADAPTT), now employed as PeTA's national lecturer
"As John Bryant has written in his book Fettered Kingdoms, they [pets]are like slaves, even if well-kept slaves." -PETA's Statement on
Companion Animals
"Even painless research is fascism, supremacism." ---Ingrid Newkirk,PeTA's founder and president, Washington Magazine, August 1986
"I don't think you'd have to kill -- assassinate -- too many . . . Ithink for five lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save amillion, two million, 10 million non-human lives." -JerryVlasak,longtime spokesman for the Washington-based Physicians Committeefor Responsible Medicine (PCRM), which the better-known People for theEthical Treatment of Animals (PETA) describes as a "related"organization.
“I don’t approve of the use of animals for any purpose that involvestouching them - caging them.”--- Dr. Neal Barnard, president,Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine(PCRM), The DailyCalifornian (February 9, 1989) quoting Bernard's address to an audienceat International House (Berkeley).
"What we must do is start viewing every cow, pig, chicken, monkey,rabbit, mouse, and pigeon as our family members." ---Gary Yourofsky,Humane Education Director, PETA, The Toledo Blade, June 24, 2001
"Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we’d be against it."-PETA President Ingrid Newkirk, September 1989, Vogue Magazine
"To those people who say, `My father is alive because of animalexperimentation,' I say `Yeah, well, good for you. This dog died soyour father could live.' Sorry, but I am just not behind that kind oftrade off." -- Bill Maher, PETA celebrity spokesman.
On the consequences of stopping animal research: "Don't get thediseases in the first place, schmo." -- PETA's David Mathews (USAToday, July 27, 1994).
"I will be the last person to condemn ALF [the Animal LiberationFront]."- Ingrid Newkirk, in the New York Daily News, December 7, 1997
*ALF is listed as a domestic terrorist organization by the FBI*
"Our campaigns are always geared towards children and they always willbe."- PETA vice president Dan Matthews, on the Fox News Network(December 19, 2003)
"There is no rational basis for saying that a human being has specialrights. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy. They're all mammals." --Ingrid Newkirk, PETA's President (in The Washington Times August 29,1999).
"We feel that animals have the same rights as a retarded human child."-- Alex Pacheco, Director, PETA, (New York Times, January 14, 1989).
"Arson, property destruction, burglary and theft are 'acceptablecrimes' when used for the animal cause." -- Alex Pacheco, Director,PETA.
Quotes from other animal rights organizations:
"We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds oflivestock produced through selective breeding. ... One generation andout. We have no problem with the extinction of domestic animals. Theyare creations of human selective breeding." - Wayne Pacelle, SeniorVice-President of HSUS, formerly of Friends for Animals; Quoted inAnimal People, May, 1993
"It is time we demand an end to the misguided and abusive concept ofanimal ownership. The first step on this long, but just, road would beending the concept of pet ownership." -- Elliot Katz, President, InDefense of Animals, "In Defense of Animals," Spring 1997.
"An animal experiment cannot be justifiable unless the experiment is soimportant that the use of a brain-damaged human would be justifiable."-- Peter Singer, godfather of the animal rights movement, AnimalLiberation: A New Ethic for Our Treatment of Animals, 2nd. edition,1990.
"The life of an ant and the life of my child should be accorded equalrespect." -- Michael W. Fox, Vice President, The Humane Society (TheAssociated Press, Jan. 15, 1989).
"Your dog can show you when he or she wants to go for a walk andequally for nonviolent sexual contact, your dog or whatever else it iscan show you whether he or she wants to engage in a certain kind ofcontact" -- Peter Singer, godfather of the animal rights movement.
"The theory of animal rights is simply not consistent with the theoryof animal welfare or other approaches that reject the rights view and,more importantly, embrace animal exploitation. Animal rights meansdramatic social changes for humans and nonhumans alike; if ourbourgeois values prevent us from accepting those changes. then we haveno right to call ourselves advocates of animal rights." ----(THE GARYFRANCIONE, DIRECTOR OF THE RUTGERS ANIMAL RIGHTS LAW CLINIC: ANIMALS'VOICE, VOL. 4, NO. 2, pp. 54-55)
"Animal liberation, of which the anti-vivisection movement is apart, animal liberation is not a campaign. It is not a struggle. It isa war! It is an all-out bloody war, in which the countless hundreds ofmillions of casualties have, so far, all been on one side. How can weallow that to continue?"--- Robin Webb, British spokesperson for animalrights terrorism, speaking at SHAC rally, Edison, New Jersey, November30, 2002
"If an animal researcher said, "Its a dog or a child,' a liberator willdefend the dog every time." ---"Screaming Wolf" (pseudonym), ADeclaration of War: Killing People to Save Animals and the Environment(Grass Valley, California: Patrick Henry Press, 1991), p. 14.
"Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs." -- John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal i hate animals.