I respect the band a million times more

soulsinging wrote:

ed's stance on vegetarianism hasn't changed my level of respect for them one way or the other. i respect their willingness to speak out more than any particular issue. though i do think it's lame that ed is anti-porn. i mean, cmon...

PearlJamFanatic wrote:

I respect the band a million times more after finding out Eddie being a vegetarian and his support for PETA. It is good to know that people can stand up for good causes even when they are eddie vedder. It's just so easy to forget the plight of animals when you are a millionaire and everything going for you. It's easy to forget their suffering when there are so many other cool themes like world hunger, war etc to stick up for.

singularity wrote:

that's great and all... but come on, you know how good a juicy burger and juicy steak tastes????

Model~Roll Model wrote:

PETA's Dirty Secret
7 Things You Didn't Know About PETA
By ConsumerFreedom.com

Sunday, January 28, 2007

1) PETA president and co-founder Ingrid Newkirk has described her group's overall goal as "total animal liberation." This means no meat, no milk, no zoos, no circuses, no wool, no leather, no hunting, no fishing, and no pets (not even seeing-eye dogs). PETA is also against all medical research that requires the use of animals.

...soooooooooooooooo??????

2) Despite its constant moralizing about the "unethical" treatment of animals by restaurant owners, grocers, farmers, scientists, anglers, and countless other Americans, PETA has killed over 14,400 dogs and cats at its Norfolk, Virginia headquarters. During 2005, PETA put to death over 90 percent of the animals it collected from members of the public.

Millions of pets live in terrible conditons in the US due to overbreeding and irresponsible pet owners. Many no kill shelters are underfunded and understaffed and these dogs and cats end up living their lives in barren cages and don't get proper vet care. PeTA makes the hard choice....to put to sleep these animals that are suffering and have no chance at a proper home. Until people stop buying pets from pet stores and breeders this will have to continue as there are just not enough homes.

3) PETA has given tens of thousands of dollars to convicted arsonists and other violent criminals. This includes a 2001 donation of $1,500 to the North American Earth Liberation Front (ELF), an FBI-certified "domestic terrorist" group responsible for dozens of firebombs and death threats. During the 1990s, PETA paid $70,200 to an Animal Liberation Front (ALF) activist convicted of burning down a Michigan State University research laboratory. In his sentencing recommendation, a federal prosecutor implicated PETA president Ingrid Newkirk in that crime. And PETA vegetarian campaign coordinator Bruce Friedrich told an animal rights convention in 2001 that "blowing stuff up and smashing windows" is "a great way to bring about animal liberation."

It's a sad day when groups that attempt to save lives are considered terrorists. There is no evidence of PeTA supporting any acts of violence to humans or animals.

4) PETA activists regularly target children as young as six years old with anti-meat and anti-milk propaganda, often waiting outside their schools to intercept them as they walk to and from class-without notifying parents. One piece of kid-targeted PETA literature tells small children: "Your Mommy Kills Animals!" PETA brags that its messages reach over 2 million children every year, including thousands reached by e-mail without the permission of their parents. One PETA vice president told the Fox News Channel's audience: "Our campaigns are always geared towards children, and they always will be."

Meat companies, soft drink manufacturers, toy companies, etc etc...they all target children. PeTA targets children with a message of compassion and non-violence. What's worse? And, according to the most intensive nutritional study ever conducted milk is very unhealthy. The China Study.

5) PETA has used a related organization, the PETA Foundation, to fund the misnamed Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), a deceptive animal rights group that promotes itself as an unbiased source of medical and nutritional information. PCRM's president also serves as president of the PETA Foundation.

PCRM is a group of researchers and scientists who acknowledge that scientific testing on animals is not only immoral, but counter productive. Look them up, check their credentials.

6) PETA runs campaigns seemingly calculated to offend religious believers. One entire PETA website is devoted to the claim-despite ample evidence to the contrary-that Jesus Christ was a vegetarian. PETA holds protests at houses of worship, even suing one church that tried to protect its members from Sunday-morning harassment. Its billboards taunt Christians with the message that hogs "died for their sins." PETA insists, contrary to centuries of rabbinical teaching, that the Jewish ritual of kosher slaughter shouldn't be allowed. And its infamous "Holocaust on Your Plate" campaign crassly compares the Jewish victims of Nazi genocide with farm animals.

Take a look at a video inside a kosher slaughterhouse and then tell me the animal doesn't suffer. Read Genesis a few times....no where does it say animals were put on earth for us to eat.

7) PETA has repeatedly attacked research foundations like the March of Dimes, the Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and the American Cancer Society, because they support animal-based research that might uncover cures for birth defects and life-threatening diseases. PETA president Ingrid Newkirk has said that "even if animal research resulted in a cure for AIDS, we would be against it."

Hitch-Hiker wrote:

It's called having a sense of humour.