PETA and our children

PETA Gets to Your Kids
Sunday, May 15, 2005



By Steven Milloy







Radical animal-rights activists may be the last people you'd think would be planning school lessons for your children. Well, think again.



Through its innocuous-sounding "educational" programming arm known as TeachKind, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals has found a way to reach school children starting as young as kindergarten with its extremist agenda. The opportunity for PETA (search) to gets its message into the classroom has been paved, at least in part, by various laws on the books in at least 12 states mandating humane education in public schools — thus creating a demand for curricula centered on teaching children about the humane treatment of animals.



Naturally, PETA is only too happy to provide ready-made lesson plans, videos and handouts to already overworked teachers.



"Kids who hurt animals may be on a dangerous path that will only get worse if it is not corrected. Psychiatrists, FBI profilers and law enforcement officials have repeatedly documented that kids who abuse animals rarely stop there," TeachKind warns.



Its fact sheet, entitled "Animal Abuse and Human Abuse: Partners in Crime," points out that "violent acts toward animals have long been recognized as indicators of a dangerous psychopathy that does not confine itself to animals," and goes on to detail how many notorious school shooters, including Columbine's Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, were known to mutilate animals prior to their attacks on humans. According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (search) (DSM-IV) published by the American Psychiatric Association, participation in animal torture is one of the early warning signs of a severe emotional disturbance in a child, ranking alongside fire-setting as a strong indicator of future criminal behavior as well as the likelihood of psychopathy in adulthood.



While there's no question that the small number of children who torture animals are quite disturbed and that all children should be taught how wrong such behavior is, it's quite another matter for PETA to capitalize on this issue as an opportunity to indoctrinate children with PETA's own radical, catch-all definition of what constitutes "animal cruelty." And that's precisely what PETA is doing through TeachKind.



As its Web site prominently touts the animal cruelty-psychopathy connection with quotes from FBI criminalists and others, a closer inspection reveals that the bulk of TeachKind's educational efforts are actually crafted so as to make children believe that everyday behaviors, such as eating a diet that contains meat or animal products, are unmistakably, unequivocally acts of animal cruelty.



PETA's frightening of young children by equating, or even associating, truly disturbed behavior such as mutilation of a family pet with common everyday practices such as eating hamburgers amounts to nothing less than ideological child abuse.



PETA even accuses schools across America of being major perpetrators of animal cruelty. They oppose basic learning methods widely practiced throughout our educational system such as insect collection, field trips to zoos or aquariums, and dissection in the classroom.



"Hearing a lot about violence in schools? You can do something to help. Cut out dissection!" announces their Web-based anti-dissection campaign, which even mentions how a young Jeffrey Dahmer "became fascinated with blood and guts" as a result of participating in a biology assignment involving dissection. With this assertion, PETA is inviting impressionable young minds to believe that all it takes is one experience with a dissection assignment to walk away a psychopathic serial killer.



In addition to encouraging kids to refuse to participate in dissection assignments, the campaign even coaches kids on the exact wording to use in their formal written objections so as to "provide the basis for a possible legal case."



A significant portion of TeachKind's curriculum is devoted to persuading children to adopt a vegetarian diet as a way to avoid participating in "animal cruelty." PETA's Web-based materials provide the warped logic that if farmers treated a cat or a dog the way they treat livestock, they would "be prosecuted for animal cruelty and locked up" — once again stressing the theme of hypothetical criminality for those who eat meat.



PETA even tries to scare kids away from drinking milk, a food so controversial that it occupies its very own wedge on the latest FDA food pyramid for optimal nutrition. A series of trading cards called "Don't Be a Milk Sucker" available from its Web site, features cartoon characters suffering a host of illnesses PETA attributes to milk consumption such as ear infections, obesity, acne, and even diabetes!



Nor does milk consumption escape PETA's definition as a distinctly cruel act against animals. We meet "Milk-Stealing Ming," who is depicted with his mouth directly attached to an unhappy cow's udder, alongside a "wanted poster" describing his crimes and exclaiming, "cows make milk for their babies, not for maniacs like Ming."



If we are to take at face value PETA's irresponsible suggestion that "animal cruelty" — as defined by their radical, catch-all parameters — is a reliable indicator of psychopathic tendencies, I suppose it's just a matter of time before we all read about Milk-Stealing Ming's future adult crime sprees in the headlines.

 

jesus h. christ...thats it im gonna go get my gun and go after those weak basterds..they have gone way too far...

 

Now you all see how crazy PETA is, they are everywhere!!! Gamedog lovers everywhere, lets cull these curs for good!!!!!!!
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grrrrrrrr lets do it

 

See, PETA is right all that milk and red meat makes you violent!! LMAO!!!!

 

peta should be destroyed!!

 

PETA is after our children!!!!!!!! What next our beer??????????:eek: :eek:

 

Homeland terrorists...

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I Think Animal Cruelty Should Be Some Thing That Parents Should Teach. Parents Should Be Teaching There Children How To Care For Animals And How Not To Treat Animals. Not Stupid Peta. There Getting Into Very Bodies Mind Run.

 

oh hell not my beer i'll go crazy thats to far

 

i wanna know who in here hasn't burned ants, or poked at a dead animal, played with fire etc. etc and etc. in the mionds of these people the only sane people are people raised on concrete..........but anyways the communists are back all this time we look for other countries that begining to go towards commies and in the mean while they have creeped through the back door?.....lmao......

 

I remember a couple of years ago PETA members assembled outside of the NYC Ballet "Nutcracker Suite" in NYC and passed all these flyers out to children about how their parents kill animals. My lame description doesn't do justice to the graphics that were on the front of the flier. It was a cartoon with a mother in an apron slashing up a rabbit. Horrible. Probably totally traumatizing to a young person. They will stop at nothing to accomplish their agenda.

 

PETA people have gone so far as to burn down clinics with the animals INSIDE them & to even murder & assualt other humans whom they felt it was "ok" to take out. PETA NEEDS to be shut down by the Better Business Bureau in my opinion. Plus, the head person, Ingrid "the Bitch", even takes insulin that was TESTED ON ANIMALS! So intruth, she's just a huge hypocrite who makes an absolute FORTUNE off PETA supporters. Again, you really think PETA is for the animals? NOT! They're for the money. Only about 1/10th of the money even goes to help animals or animal causes in need. The rest goes to paychecks. So, PETA can kiss my happy chicken eating a**.