Don't give in to groups that support terrorism, KFC

I don't approve of PETA's terrorist tactics. There are better ways of
getting your point across. Splashing paint on people and forcing your
point of view on people are not good ways.

I hesitate to call *anyone* a "terrorist" because of their
opinions...but PETA crosses the line time and again.

A PETA person can explain why they're vegan but they SHOULD NOT force
people to adopt a vegan lifestyle. I don't care if you only eat
vegetables...I love meat and will continue to eat it.

PETA does not support terrorism. This poster above is simply
misinterpreting things he reads from websites without doing his own
research. PETA does do extreme things to back their causes, such as
picketing animal testing clinics. But not terrorism. idiot

After reading the original post, all I can think of is, I think being
a cashier at KFC is the perfect job for you.

Although I realize I'm going to pay dearly for throwing myself into
this fray, I have to say that this isn't the kind of letter that can
honestly be solved by PFB.

KFC and most other corporations do not give a rat's rear end (pun
fully intended) what we as consumers think of their practices
(regardless of what they may say to our faces). In the end, they will
continue to uphold whatever practices net them the highest yield, with
little regard for who gets hurt in the process. Sad, but the almighty
dollar still reigns!

With that being said, in my mind, people who support/advocate
extremist PETA activities are like the extremist members of the Right
to Life Movement.

You can't advocate peace and concern for animals and then hatch plans
to blow up buildings and crash private functions, defacing personal
property and possibly injuring people just to make your point.

Likewise, you can't condemn the ending of a fetal life and then murder
the physician who performed the procedure. That's hypocritical.

I am glad that people speak their mind and that we live in a country
where it is acceptable to do so, but I think it's important to keep in
mind that it's not fair to look down on or mistreat others because
they don't agree with you. Speak your mind and be done with it.
There is no rule that says that everyone MUST agree with you ALL the
time.

If you don't want your beliefs and values questioned and condemned,
then don't question or condemn the beliefs and values that others
hold!

Do you have any proof that PETA supports terrorism, or are you just
using the term terrorism lightly, because if you are they won't take
your letter seriously. I know planetfeedback changes titles
sometimes, but I doubt they changed it this time.

People before chickens? Dude, you got issues.

Inhofe alleges PETA link

Senate Environment Committee Chairman James Inhofe estimated the cost
of damages from militant environmental and animal rights supporters at
more than $110 million in the past decade.

"Just like al Qaeda or any other terrorist movement, ELF and ALF
cannot accomplish their goals without money, membership and the
media," the Republican senator from Oklahoma said.

Inhofe said there was "a growing network of support for extremists
like ELF and ALF," and he singled out People for the Ethical Treatment
of Animals for giving money to members of both groups.

The Center for Consumer Freedom butted heads with a People for the
Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) spokesman yesterday on the Fox
News Channel's "Your World with Neil Cavuto." Combining obfuscation,
denial, and half-truths, PETA desperately tried to defend its record
of supporting terrorism and terrorists. Read on for some of the
highlights -- and once you're through, sign our petition to yank
PETA's tax exempt status.

After we mentioned PETA's $70,000-plus gift to dedicated arsonist
Rodney Coronado, Cavuto directed this question to PETA:

This Rodney Coronado guy, I don't know much about him -- I just
need to know this, because this is a big deal. If he was found guilty
of blowing up a facility, and spent time for doing that, would you
continue to fund him?

To which PETA responded:

Absolutely not. If he needs legal fees before he's been convicted
of a crime, then we'll consider helping him out. We do not fund
illegal activities. That's a simple, straight fact.

Of course, as we mentioned on Fox News, PETA's own tax returns show a
$1,500 gift to the terrorist Earth Liberation Front (ELF), a donation
made after ELF activists had been convicted of various violent crimes.
PETA has subsequently offered several conflicting justifications for
that bit of insanity, but whatever the reason, they clearly funded
illegal activities, since that's all ELF does.

After PETA's remarks about Coronado's right to legal counsel, Cavuto
chimed in: "This is a guy who blew up a facility. Why would you even
countenance [funding him]?" With the metaphorical noose tightening,
PETA's talking head replied: "At the time he was innocent, and
everybody knows people are innocent until proven guilty."

While that may be true in a court of law, PETA certainly knew Coronado
had in fact been planning to burn down a Michigan State University
research lab. In Coronado's official "sentencing memorandum," U.S.
Attorney Michael Dettmer wrote that PETA president and co-founder
Ingrid Newkirk arranged ahead of time to have Coronado send her a pair
of FedEx packages from Michigan -- one on the day before he burned the
lab down, and the other shortly afterward. "Significantly," wrote
Dettmer, "Newkirk had arranged to have the package[s] delivered to her
days before the MSU arson occurred." (Emphasis in the original)

There's more yet. After we noted that PETA's Bruce Friedrich "stood up
in front of a public audience and advocated people going out and
blowing up restaurants and blowing up medical laboratories," PETA's
rep retorted: "That's not what he said. What Bruce said was that he
wished some places would burn down, that are hideously abusing
animals." Just to keep the record clear, here are Friedrich's actual
words:

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 ... I think
it's a great way to bring about animal liberation ... I think it would
be great if all of the fast-food outlets, slaughterhouses, these
laboratories, and the banks that fund them exploded tomorrow. I think
it's perfectly appropriate for people to take bricks and toss them
through the windows ... Hallelujah to the people who are willing to do
it. [click here to listen]

PETA went on to insist that in 2001, the year Friedrich lionized
arsonists, PETA "gave $200,000 to humane societies and SPCAs for their
local work ... All of our finances are detailed in our annual report
which people can check out at PETA.org." Well, we looked at PETA's
webiste, and there's no way to verify this claim. On documents that
PETA files with the IRS, the group listed less than $8,000 in gifts to
humane societies and SPCAs during 2001. In that same year, they gave
$5,000 to Animal Liberation Front's militant Josh Harper and $1,500 to
the Earth Liberation Front. PETA either misled Fox News viewers or the
IRS. Here's one final exchange between host Neil Cavuto and PETA,
which speaks for itself:

CAVUTO: Where do you draw a line between [raising animals for
food] and animals that are used in research, for either cancer or
multiple sclerosis or things like that?

PETA: The fact is that none of this research is necessary.

CAVUTO: How do you know, are you a doctor?

PETA: I'm not a doctor, no.

CAVUTO: How do you know?

PETA: We have been researching cancer for decades, using animal
experiments. Do we have a cure for cancer? Of course we don't.

CAVUTO: Do we have treatments for cancer? Of course we do.

PETA: But in the 21st century, don't we have technologies that can
get us past this? There's is no need to be slicing these animals open
--

CAVUTO: Dan, would you be open to trying some of these
experimental drugs on a rat before your mom?

PETA: It doesn't work like that, Neil. It is not a fair
comparison. The fact is --

CAVUTO: It would be for me, Dan. I'd like to try it out on a rat
before giving it to a loved one.

please do continue to eat that contaminated and diseased meat.
Fast food markets use spent laying hens and dead and dying animals for
their food productions.

so please be my guest, eat it. stuff yourself.
:)

Peta, arn't they the ones that said that fish feel pain when they get
hooked on a fishing line?

How many times are you going to post this ? You did it back in July,
as well. Didn't get enough responses then?

people have different opinions. some people dont eat meat.. some
people don't eat other certain things. i dont think thats your place
to tell a company any differently.. even though it IS your opinion.

There was a post deleted here.

What happened, pfb team?

It was about Penn & Tellers episode about PETA and allegations of them
(PETA) supporting actions to blow up buildings in which animal
testings are performed?

People before Chickens?


Where on earth would you get such a radical idea like that?

Oh there are extremists in every group, and PETA is no exception.
However, even though I love meat, and will continue to do so, I fully
support PETA's efforts to stop animal cruelty. I know that an animal
has to lose it's life to provide me with my burger, steak, pork chop,
etc, however, there should be a bigger push to humanely slaughter
these animals for food.

http://www.petatv.com/tvpopup/video.asp?video=meet_your_meat&Player=wm
&speed=_med

WARNING!! The above link is VERY graphic! Watch it with extreme
caution!

I'm just reading the Wikipedia article about PETA... some of their
stuff is okay I guess but some of it is out there.

They are trying to get people to stop drinking milk??? Claiming it has
adverse health effects?? What is wrong with them?? They tried to get
college students to drink beer over milk. Unbelievable. I'm glad
THAT campaign was stopped.

Some of their campaigns do seem rather sensationalist. Mostly their
"I'd rather go naked than wear fur" campaign. Way to bring it to the
extreme, guys. That's fine if you don't want to wear fur, but there
are a LOT of synthetically-made products you could wear. Sheesh.
They seem to be making the problem worse than it really is. I dunno.


They do seem to be rather extremist...
Any comments?

I agree woth the posters below - I think you can be really passionate,
extreene even, about something with out being a terrorist! Terrorusts
don't boycott stuff, they blow it up. Isn't there a group called the
Animal Liberation Front or something similar that has been convicted
of doing the things PETA is being accused of here?
And, I was wondering why just KFC?

who are these people?

Yes they involved in a rather obscure part of internet sub-culture (if
that's even the right term).

Tucker has a website which is extremely popular (you know, for a
website) in which he publishes many stories of things that happened to
him (usually involving booze and sex), coincidentally he has also
published several books. Anyway, on his website he has a
messageboard.

Now I'm not exactly sure how/when all of this started but he had
created quite a rivalry between him and this Anthony Dimeo lad.
Anyway, Dimeo has his own business that throws parties or something
and he screwed up big on his new years eve one (he overbooked and the
all-you-can-drink-free alcohol ran out by 10pm - there was quite a
rukus).

Anyway, so the users of Tucker's messageboard starting poking fun at
Dimeo and made some remarks and made fun of him etc etc. So Dimeo
tried to sue. Simply put he was laughed out of court. (Dimeo is now
trying to appeal and we're all just waiting for him to lose again
basically)

It's just it's a lot harder to prove slander over the internet than
you'd think, the messageboard users posted worse things then just
calling him a terrorist I think.

You chastise PETA for supporting terrorism (do you have concrete proof
of this?) yet you accept terrorism against chickens in your statement
"I don't care how your supplies (I believe you meant to say suppliers
here, correct me if I'm wrong) treat the chickens - as long as the
food is clean and disease free". Don't you think it is even a little
bit wrong to mistreat any kind of animal?

While I am not a PETA supporter (I think it is a group that is mainly
comprised of extremists) I am an ASPCA supporter. I don't believe,
even if the ultimate sole purpose of life is death to be eaten,
animals should be mistreated. Maybe you'll be given the opportunity
to experience what these chickens experience (though I don't know the
story) by being brought back as one of these supplier's chickens in
your next life.

And for the sake of being informed, what exactly is it that PETA
claims KFC's suppliers do to their chickens?

This reminds me a bit of an urban legend with a twist

http://www.snopes.com/business/viral/bovine.asp

Admit it...you are really Ted Nugent.

I'm getting tired of the word "terrorism" being bandied about, making
it essentially meaningless.

I support PETA and have given them money, and I'm not vegan or even a
vegetarian. I occasionally eat at KFC but I feel guilty about it (but
damn, it's so tasty).

Hyperbole (of which your letter is full) hurts your credibility.

PETA = People Eat Tasty Animals.