You would have a protective relationship with them just as you would with an orphaned child. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.
Why were the 6 million singled out? Is Ms. Newkirk comparing broiler chickens to Jewish people? I would rather see a blank space where I am. This shocking firsthand account is something rarely seen coming out of the animal rights industry. This could be due to strong conviction in what they are doing, a blind acceptance in the sake of making a living, or any combination of reasons.
We never see or hear of dissention from their ranks, and while you have to encounter any major claim against them with at least a smidgen of skepticism, such a bold and rare allegation is deserving of our attention. Harper-Troje is the wife of a U. She claims that her intentions for working with them were good, and she tried to find homes for as many dogs and cats as she could.
The only other holding facility we had was in the warehouse, where the animals were euthanized. Needless to say, Ingrid refused our request for a shelter: waste of resources, not the aim of the program, animals beyond hope, same old, same old. If they just go poof there is no trail. I was told regularly to not enter animals into the log, or to euthanize off-site in order to prevent animals from even entering the building. I was told regularly to say whatever I had to say in order to get people to surrender animals to me: lying was not only acceptable, it was encouraged.
A celebrity is at her most vulnerable when naked. This is when she is least likely to make sensible decisions. Often she is chilly and nervous. Hence, it is while naked that a famous person — who genuinely loves animals — finds herself shilling for people who are genuinely committed to slaughtering them. In , PETA killed 97 per cent of the animals delivered into its care. Forget the right-wing blogosphere — this sorry business has now been covered at length by The San Francisco Chronicle and The Atlantic , among dozens of other respectable publications.
It is not libel. For good reason: PETA would have a very bad day in court. It would do tremendous damage to their cause — which is, above all, to appear both hip and compassionate. You would rather go naked than wear fur? Can I interest you in posing for another slogan? Nice people should not be taking off their clothes in the cause of euthanasia. Fame and prettiness are potent gifts, and should be flashed wisely. Nice people should not be convincing equally nice people to give their money to an outfit that kills pets, indiscriminately, at a rate that would shock seal hunters.
PETA no longer disputes the figures, by the way. Yes, almost every animal they take in is slaughtered, efficiently and quickly, by PETA employees. When an aggressive, unsocialized dog has been left starving at the end of a chain, with a collar grown into his neck, his body racked with mange, PETA will accept him and put him down so that he does not die slowly out there. Adoptable animals are referred elsewhere to be re-homed. And those evil no-kill shelters reject the most wretched cases; they deliver them willingly unto the angels at PETA.
This really is quite touching. They were just kittens we were trying to find homes for. PETA said they would do that…. So imagine my surprise when I learned they allegedly dumped dead animals in a trash bin later that same day. Death is accommodating that way: It famously accepts all.
Some organizations are selective, yes, but the No Kill movement is overwhelmingly headed in the direction of open-admission shelters. Must be a horrible place, right? Winograd, their most prominent spokesman.
He is a Stanford-educated lawyer, and a strict vegan. Winograd used to do volunteer work for PETA, in fact. That was a long time ago. I assure you, no organization currently allied with this man would ever consider delivering the wretched unto Ingrid.
It is important to stress that most of the people who hate PETA are pretty unsavory themselves. They are trophy hunters, or perhaps just indifferent to animal suffering, or Ayn Randian libertarians opposed to welfare activism of any flavor. Lots of these parties have good reason to go after PETA, and I assure you it has nothing to do with improving the lives of innocent creatures. Hence, many of the critics — perhaps the great majority — are no better than PETA, and many of them are even worse.
No question: Some of the ugliest facts about PETA have been dug up by Berman and his sponsors, as part of their own publicity war against Newkirk. The facts themselves, however, are meticulously supported by evidence, and irrefutable.
Francis of Assisi or Vlad the Impaler. Luckily, the Center for Consumer Freedom is only one source among many, and finally unnecessary. Nevertheless, I am deeply involved in ending the slaughter of the Galgos the Spanish Greyhounds , and my sympathies are very much with Winograd. Winograd himself supports euthanasia in certain circumstances his reasoning here is careful, sane, and compassionate.
This is a pretty obvious dichotomy. On the one side you have people who shelter rescued animals; on the other you have people who butcher them. The same kind of donors — sincere animal lovers — are attracted to both groups, but they find PETA much more seductive.
But should you expect this? Dave Shishkoff of the Friends of Animals pressure group claimed that he saw perfectly-healthy looking puppies and kittens killed at PETA when he worked there as an intern in Yes, euthanasia is sometimes necessary. But it is a necessary evil.
It is heartbreaking. It is the last resort, and should severely distress animal lovers forced to that extreme. I must have killed a thousand of them, sometimes dozens every day. The figure of 27, documented by the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services represents a low minimum: I doubt we have an accurate accounting of those midnight body disposals, for instance. Okay, when you put this many animals to death, you do in fact want a meat locker.
No argument there. The freezer is certainly preferable to their earlier habit of surreptitiously depositing their animal corpses in commercial dumpsters. But why do you have a freezer in Norfolk, with all of that money, and not a single shelter? Not a single veterinary clinic? Surely any decent organization that takes in millions of dollars in the name of making this world less vile for animals would want to concentrate personally on rescue, sanctuary, and medical care.
Especially in a state where that kind of money is truly needed, and could do wondrous things for the local animal populace. PETA is involved — to their credit — in spay and neuter programs, and their international publicity stunts, although often ditzy and wrongheaded, can do some good. But when it comes to personally dealing with animals as opposed to celebrities and the public , the PETA folk have decided to focus their efforts on one thing. PETA has decided that their hands-on area of specialization, compassion-wise, is righteous slaughter.
It is not their fault. People for the Ethical Exploitation of Naked Celebrities needs her. Clooney, you there? You seem like a smart guy: convince your girlfriend to cover up. If they have to bare their souls for a cause, have them contact the No Kill Advocacy Center , or Best Friends , or in Europe Scooby Medina , or any number of organizations bent on rescuing and sheltering animals.
Otherwise, sorry Natalie, but they — and you — support this: A former PETA employee spoke of one particular incident that burned into her mind forever: A teary-eyed man showed up at PETA headquarters one day with his beloved pet rabbit. The man had grown old and sick and was no longer able to care properly for his friend. He supplied a cage, bed, toys, and even vet records for this pet.
PETA will pretend to be floored by this article. They will demand equal time in this publication. This is one of their most successful publicity stunts: They extort free editorial space. We invite everyone to visit www. Every single number. Quite right. Enough to keep a Vice President of Cruelty telling stories for a long, long time. So I went back to the documents. Ingrid Newkirk personally signs off on a vast number of euthanasias in those papers kept by the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
Real hands-on type, that Ingrid. The next year, in a report dated February 15, , this same Daphna Nachminovitch personally signed off on exterminated dogs, liquidated cats, and 51 more exotic corpses. Some with a name. But hey: at least we get a collective body count for the species, the year of death, and an official signature. You want to earn your title? You want to be a real live, responsible, totally adult investigator of human viciousness, with full vice-presidential gravitas?
I too have a title. I just gave it to myself. What happened? In , when she was a young stockbroker in Maryland, Newkirk rescued a group of abandoned kittens and brought them to an animal shelter. It was a shock that derailed her. It set her on an entirely different path: She left the sphere of commerce and committed herself to animal rights. The former stockbroker went on to found PETA, which became by far the most successful animal advocacy group in secular history.
Her organization now routinely takes in animals, with the gentle lie that it intends to re-home them. It then exterminates them.
Generally, within twenty-four hours. All of them. Correction: almost all. How these blessed few got chosen is an interesting question in itself. While we are being precise: the workers at that first shelter were not in fact treacherous — they did not lie about their intentions. They were less vicious than the organization that Newkirk founded in response to their blithe slaughter. Consider this grotesque moral path. It really is difficult to come up with a more perverse character arc.
Imagine Harriet Tubman deciding late in life to become a slave trader. Or Raoul Wallenberg collaborating with the SS. Or St. My intention here is not to suggest that equivalence, but to examine a psychological paradigm.
How can a person turn so utterly against themselves? How can they actively devote their lives to undermining the cause that matters to them most — a cause that they still profess to embrace with a passion? The very last person on earth who ought to be responsible for the butchery of 27, innocent pets is Ingrid Newkirk.
And yet she is. The following anecdote from my last article cannot be repeated often enough — it has in fact reoriented more than a few people who used to be fierce PETA advocates:. A former PETA employee spoke of one particular incident that burned into her mind forever: A teary-eyed man showed up at PETA headquarters one day with his beloved pet rabbit.
This was not an isolated incident: as I have documented, it is the way that PETA operated, and still does.
How does this happen? I am convinced that Ernesto Guevara was, like the young Newkirk, a truly decent soul.
And then something happened. The Che that was assassinated in is still lionized by people who have chosen to maintain a comfortable distance from the historical details, but the older Guevara is not admirable. This is not an ideological observation. Whether regarded from the left or the right, Che was a murderer. He was among the 82 guerillas who invaded Cuba with Fidel Castro in He chose bullets.
And then he began to execute people. The first was Eutimio Guerra, a peasant comrade who had betrayed their position to the enemy. In his journal, Che wrote about the experience of killing him: The situation was uncomfortable for the people and for [Eutimio], so I ended the problem giving him a shot with a.
This banal scientific description reads like a sociopathic parody of a medical report: discomfort is remedied by a surgically targeted bullet to the brain. Somehow a quasi-saint became a war criminal. We can only hypothesize regarding this process, but I suggest that these once-compassionate leaders go through a critical transformation when they achieve power: they conclude that their chief attribute — mercy — has in effect turned them into a kind of deity.
It is a distorted syllogism: I am merciful. God is merciful. Therefore I am a god. Would Che literally have called himself a god? As a Marxist, probably not. But he did not hesitate to announce that he was prepared to commit deicide.
When Ingrid Newkirk found herself with god-like power over animals — the power of life or death — it was clearly a revelation. And she chose death. Another quotation bears repeating, again and again. This is Newkirk describing her experience working at a supposed shelter in the 70s.
It is also strikingly similar in reasoning: the remedy for discomfort is slaughter. Yes, that is the same woman who was awoken to the vulnerability of innocent creatures by an encounter with euthanasia.
It beggars belief. This article is more than 4 years old. Two women linked to Peta took Maya the chihuahua from a mobile home park in Virginia. Put the breasts away, Peta. Your cheap stunts do nothing for animal welfare Phoebe-Jane Boyd. Read more. Topics Peta Virginia Animals Pets news. But in emergency situations, please call first. You may remain anonymous.
However, a successful outcome is more likely to occur if you are willing to give your name and, if needed, testimony. Law enforcement often is understaffed and underfunded.
If you do give your name to law enforcement, it should be kept strictly confidential. Provide as much detail as you can: location, time, description of perpetrator s , number of times incident occurred, types of animals involved.
Take notes of what you observe. If you can do so without risking personal injury, take a photo or video of the animal—either while it is happening or after. Provide the names and contact information of other witnesses, if there are any. Keep a record of what information you gave the police, as well as the date you gave it, and the officer to whom you spoke. Check back after a reasonable amount of time.
If you do not achieve a satisfactory response, call again. Determine who the supervisor is and call that person. Keep records of every call, noting date, time, and contact person. If there is a pattern of the police not responding, you might want to contact the office of the mayor or chief of police to register a complaint, or reach out to a local investigative reporter or other local media to share the information, and also use social media.
Use your judgment and stay safe. If you are an adult and feel safe and competent to handle the situation, then approaching a person who may be harming an animal, or about to harm an animal, could constitute the fastest and most effective intervention. Call and make sure to note as many identifying details as possible. For many reasons, such as the difficulty of knowing the origin of the material and the potential for the materials to be fabricated, this is a very difficult area to navigate.
While it may seem counterintuitive, it is important NOT to report the offending material to the social media platform e. In either situation, this prevents law enforcement from having access to the offending post in question.
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