Memo to PETA: Go F *** Yourselves for traumatizing children.

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200. PETA is all about getting publicity for themselves...

...hanging around so-called celebrities, and getting them to pose nude in their ads under pretense of protecting animals. Their extremist thinking is not only anti-meat, but it is anti-medicine. Ingrid Newkirk believes that lab test animals are the moral equivalent of Nazi concentration camp victims, and that killing any animal for any reason is the moral equivalent of murder. As a practical matter, she would rather that you die than accept a porcine heart valve transplant. She would rather people die from diabetes rather than produce animal insulin to keep them alive. She would rather a child starve to death than eat any animal products including milk, eggs, and honey. One definition of fundamentalism is a thought process that provides ready-made answers to any question from its own internal ideology, rather than from the larger world. To make sure PETA's admirers arrive at their preferred conclusion, they spread lies about the imagined lack of necessity for animal testing. So who's right, the scientists who go through the aggravation of dealing with animal test subjects, or a woman who would rather kill you than a rat? Koch's Postulates require three panels of animal test subjects just to positively identify the cause of an infectious disease. The human body is so complex and overflowing with so many kinds of bacteria and viruses that it is the only way to be sure that the germ the clinicians found is the one causing the disease. Thinking you are doing something for animals may make you feel good and you may tell yourself you are doing what is right, but you are plainly not do so. The result of those efforts is more sickness.

So, if you actively support PETA, you are engaging in an irrational, arguably fundamentalist, and plainly immoral activity.