The Following Quotes Are From The Founders
And Paid Spokesman For PETA, HSUS, And
Their Affiliated Animal Rights Organizations:
Animal Rights Despises And Seeks To Destroy
The Human / Animal Bond :
"It's not about loving animals. It's about fighting injustice. My whole goal
is for humans to have as little contact as possible with animals."
Gary Yourofsky, founder of Animals Deserve Adequate Protection
Today and Tomorrow (ADAPTT),
now employed as PeTA's national lecturer
"We are not especially 'interested in' animals. Neither of us
[Singer or Ingrid Newkirk, PETA founder] had ever been inordinately
fond of dogs, cats, or horses in the way that many people are. We didn't
'love' animals." Peter Singer, Animal Liberation:
A New Ethic for Our Treatment of Animals, 2nd ed.
(New York Review of Books, 1990), Preface, p. ii.
"Human care (of animals) is simply sentimental, sympathetic patronage."
(Dr. Michael W. Fox, HSUS, in 1988 Newsweek interview)
"Pet ownership is an absolutely abysmal situation brought on by
human manipulation."
Ingrid Newkirk - Founder, PETA
Washington Magazine, August 1986
"One day we would like an end to pet shops and the breeding of animals.
(Dogs) would pursue their natural lives in the wild...They would have
full lives, not waiting at home for someone to come home in the evening
and pet them and then sit there and watch TV."
Ingrid Newkirk
Founder, PETA
"Where Would We Be Without Animals?, Chicago Daily Herald, March 1, 1990
"In a perfect world, all other than human animals would be free of
human interference, dogs and cats would part of the ecological scheme."
PeTA's Statement on Companion Animals
It is time we demand an end to the misguided and abusive concept
of animal ownership. The first step on this long, but just, road would be
ending the concept of pet ownership"
Elliot Katz, President "In Defense of Animals," Spring 1997
"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.
“I don’t approve of the use of animals for any purpose that involves touching
them – caging them” – Dr. Neal Barnard,
Physician’s Committee for Responsible Medicine
(a PETA front group)
"Liberating our language by eliminating the word 'pet' is the first step...
In an ideal society where all exploitation and oppression has been
eliminated, it will be NJARA's policy to oppose the keeping of animals
as 'pets.'" New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance,
"Should Dogs Be Kept As Pets? NO!" Good Dog! February 1991, p. 20.
Animal Rights Despises And Works Toward The Goal
Of Destroying All Domestic Animals - Especially
Pet Cats And Dogs:
"The cat, like the dog, must disappear... We should cut the domestic cat
free from our dominance by neutering, neutering, and more neutering, until
our pathetic version of the cat ceases to exist."
-- John Bryant, Fettered Kingdoms: An Examination of A Changing Ethic
(Washington, DC: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
(PETA), 1982), p. 15
"The bottom line is that people don't have the right to manipulate or to
breed dogs and cats ... If people want toys, they should buy inanimate
objects. If they want companionship, they should seek it with their own
kind............ "I don't use the word 'pet.' I think it's speciest language.
I prefer 'companion animal.' We would no longer allow... pet shops...
Eventually companion animals would be phased out."
- Ingrid Newkirk, national director,
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA),
Harper's Magazine, Aug. 1988
-"We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of
livestock produced through selective breeding. ...One generation and out.
We have no problem with the extinction of domestic animals. They are
creations of human selective breeding."
Wayne Pacelle - Current President Humane Society United States (HSUS)
Animal People - May 1993
"My goal is the abolition of all animal agriculture." JP Goodwin,
employed at the Humane Society of the US, formerly at
Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade, as quoted on AR-Views,
an animal rights Internet discussion group in 1996.
"Let us allow the dog to disappear from our brick and concrete jungles
from our firesides, from the leather nooses and chains by which we
enslave it." ~ John Bryant, Fettered Kingdoms:
An Examination of a Changing Ethic, PETA, 1982, p.15.
"Breeders must be eliminated! As long as there is a surplus of companion
animals in the concentration camps referred to as "shelters", and they are
killing them because they are homeless, one should not be allowed to
produce more for their own amusement and profit. If you know of a breeder
in the Los Angeles area, whether commercial or private, legal or illegal,
let us know and we will post their name, location, phone number so people
can write them letters telling them 'Don't Breed or Buy, While Others DIE.'"
"Breeders! Let's get rid of them too!" Campaign on Animal Defense League's
website, September 2, 2003.
Animal Rights Despises And Works Against
The Cause Of Animal Welfare:
"Not only are the philosophies of animal rights and animal welfare
separated by irreconcilable differences... the enactment of animal welfare
measures actually impedes the achievement of animal rights... Welfare
reforms, by their very nature, can only serve to retard the pace at which
animal rights goals are achieved." Gary Francione and Tom Regan,
"A Movement's Means Create Its Ends," The Animals' Agenda,
January/February 1992, pp. 40-42.
"The theory of animal rights is simply not consistent with the theory
of animal welfare or other approaches that reject the rights view and, more
importantly, embrace animal exploitation. Animal rights means dramatic
social changes for humans and nonhumans alike."
(Gary Francione, Director, Rutgers Animal Rights Law Clinic,
The Animals Voice, Vol 4, #2, pp. 54-55)
"...the animal rights movement is not concerned about species extinction.
An elephant is no more or less important than a cow, just as a dolphin is
no more important than a tuna...."
(Barbara Biel, The Animals' Agenda, Vol 15 #3 (summer 1995 issue)
Animal Rights Is Anti Human Rights, And Even Anti Human
Humans have grown like cancer. We're the biggest blight on the face
of the planet." Ingrid Newkirk Founder, PETA Reader's Digest, June, 1990
“[Eating meat] is not your personal decision, any more than, you know,
whether somebody beats their child is their personal decision.”
— Ingrid Newkirk, PETA founder, “Animal Rights 2002” convention
-"I am not a morose person but I would rather not be here.
don't have any reverence for life, only for the entities themselves.
I would rather see a blank space where I am.
This will sound like fruitcake stuff again, but at least I wouldn't be
harming anything." Ingrid Newkirk Founder, PETA
Washington Post, November 13, 1983
-"We have a lazy, sick society. People bring diseases on themselves.
[People should] avoid getting the disease in the first place."
Dan Mathews PETA spokesperson USA Today, July 27, 1994
"The life of an ant and the life of my child should be granted equal
consideration." Michael Fox HSUS President
Inhumane Society Fox Publication
“I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby
is like having a purebred dog; it’s nothing but vanity, human vanity.”
Ingrid Newkirk - Founder, PETA
"Six million people died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler
chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses." Ingrid Newkirk, founder,
president and former national director,
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, as quoted in Chip Brown,
"She's A Portrait of Zealotry in Plastic Shoes,"
Washington Post, November 13, 1983, p. B10.
"Torturing a human being is almost always wrong,
but it is not absolutely wrong." Peter Singer,
as quoted in Josephine Donovan "Animal Rights and Feminist Theory,"
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Winter 1990, p. 357.
Animal Rights Is Not A Compassionate Philosophy;
In The Least It's A Terrorist Movement;
In The Most It's A Demonic Plot:
"Probably everything we do is a publicity stunt...We are not here to
gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We're here to
hold the radical line." Ingrid Newkirk Founder, PETA
USA Today, September 3, 1991
“If we really believe that animals have the same right to be free from
pain and suffering at our hands, then, of course we’re going to be, as a
movement, blowing things up and smashing windows.” Bruce Friedrich,
Vegan Campaign Coordinator of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Animal Rights 2001 Convention
"There is no hidden agenda. If anybody wonders about -- what’s this
with all these reforms -- you can hear us clearly. Our goal is total animal
liberation.”
— Ingrid Newkirk, “Animal Rights 2002” convention
For More Information, Check Out The Sites Below:
Don't be deceived, and don't allow
yourself to be used and manipulated
by a very carefully and brilliantly
contrived sceme to ally your sentiments,
your donations, and your legislatively
perceived agreement with the
Animal Rights agenda.
If you are an animal lover;
If you are a pet owner;
If you support the cause of
Animal Welfare;
If you are a reputable breeder;
If you participate in or enjoy
Dog Obedience
Dog Agility
Canine Sports of any kind
Conformation Shows
Horse Shows
Or anything that involves even
touching or speaking to an animal,
You Are NOT An "Animal Rights"
advocate!
To believe that Animals have the
RIGHT to be treated humanely, to be
well cared for, respected, and properly
treated is something
VERY DIFFERENT than being
an "Animal Rights" advocate..
The AR Corporate Leaders don't
mind if you prefer to think of them
as "fringe groups" as long as you
continue to refer to yourself and
your own animal welfare organizations
as "Animal Rights" - As long as you
continue to support their cleverly
disguised step by step
legislative efforts toward their ultimate
goal of domestic animal erradication,
- And as long as you promote their
Orwellian "New Speak" with terms
like "Companion Animal" and "Animal
Guardian" designed to work their way
into common use language and
eventually legal termonology carefully
contrived to releive you or YOUR right
to pet a dog or cuddle a kitten.
You're listening to:
"Where Have All
The Flowers Gone?"
written by Pete Seeger
The Twelve Steps Of
The Animal Rights Agenda:
1. Abolish by law all animal research.
2. Outlaw the use of animals for cosmetic and product testing, and classroom demonstration
3. Vegetarian meals should be at all public institutions, including schools.
4. Eliminate all animal agriculture (resulting in no milk, eggs, chicken, fish, or meat
for food, no leather for shoes or clothing).
5. Eliminate all herbicides, pesticides or other agricultural chemicals.
Outlaw all predator control
6. Transfer enforcement of animal welfare legislation away from the
Department of Agriculture. (Animal issues would be controlled by people
with little or no experience in customary animal husbandry.
7 . Eliminate fur ranching and the use of furs.
8. Prohibit hunting, trapping and fishing.
9. End the international trade in wildlife goods.
10.Stop any further breeding of companion animals, including purebred dogs and cats. Sterilization should be subsidized by state and municipal governments
until all companion animals are extinct. Abolish commerce in animals
for the pet trade.
Eliminate pet ownership.
11. End the use of animals in entertainment and sports (resulting in no horse shows, cat or dog shows, animal actors,rodeos) 12. Prohibit the genetic manipulation of all animal species
Many people will find one of more of these
points they may agree with -- such as
eliminating wildlife trade. Note, however
that supporting an Animal Rights group
because of agreement with ONE of these
points will fund the effort to carry out
legislation of the others.; and it has been
clearly demonstrated that the greatest
legislative effort that the Animal Rights
movement puts forth is toward the
elimination of dogs and cats.
Pictures of sad puppies and kittens
mailed with "donation envelopes" elicit
response that results in millions of dollars
of well intended contributions from animal
lovers. This money is not spent on
animals, however. It is spent instead on lobbying legislators to invoke such ordinances and laws as "pet number limits", mandatory RFID microchipping (for tracking
purposes that have very little to do with "lost pets"!) , mandatory sterilization laws, breed specific bans, breeder taxes and regulations, and other "steps" in the process of bringing
about the full elimination of pets.
Compassionate animal lovers, breeders and pet owners who cooperate with the Animal Rights activist's requests for change,always discover that they are not satisfied with those changes after they are made. A few months, or a few years later, the Animal Rights activists ask for yet another change. This is a method that is used to erode away at the current rights we enjoy. As each request for change is met, the Animal Rights activist gets closer to one of the goals in the agenda above. This method is called "incrementalism", and it leaves the cooperative person confounded, because they have believed the Animal Rightist's contention that the concern of those groups is humane treatment. Obviously, communication between people who are ethical hobby breeders of various species of animals is tantamount to our continuation.
As it has often been said,
If you "go to the table" with the Animal Rights people, you will soon learn that you
are not at all "at the table"; You are ON the
table -- With an apple in your mouth!
When Animal Rightists decide to propose legislation, the legislator is approached with a problem that must be solved. The need
for this solution is "proven" using documentation provided by other Animal Rights groups, some more militant, and some less militant, but all with an apparent overlap in membership. This legislation is deliberately and covertly intended to
damage or thwart the activities of the breeders of show animals, the trainers of animal actors, farmers, etc. When Animal Welfare Activists (the people who truly want humane treatment for animals) investigate the documentation and propaganda that the Animal Rights Community puts out, they discover that the statistics quoted are carefully manipulated or stilted, to reflect what is wanted for the political agenda of
the movement.
The Animal Rights movement presents simplistic solutions to complicated problems. They would have you believe that all deliberately bred animals languish un-loved in cages, and that their offspring populate shelters and rescues across this country. When un-biased investigation
takes place, these simplistic accusations and solutions give way to a far more complex and varied truth. The fact is, solutions that will solve problems for dogs will overlap in some areas, but will not duplicate solutions that will work for cats. The fact is that the shelter population is not the result of breeding by ethical hobby breeders, and this can be demonstrated
with un-biased statistics, collected with attention to some detail that has not been previously recorded.
Therefore, if you love animals, it is important that you understand the aims and goals of the Animal Rights activist. If you want to retain the right to own animals, it is important that you do not cooperate with these groups. Investigate the activities and budget of charitable donations, before sending them. If you are a legislator who cares about the public, it is important that you decide to resist the lure of the easy statistics fed to you, and the easy contributions that are offered in exchange for robbing the public of their rights.
"Animal Rights is a fruit loop religion
masquarading as a philosophy"
Walt Hutchens
Chekia Pet Lovers Pages
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