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Yet another reason the hypocrites at PETA should have their tax status revoked:
Two Hampton Roads employees of Norfolk-based People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals have been charged in Ahoskie, N.C., with animal cruelty after dumping dead dogs and cats in a shopping center garbage bin, police said Thursday.
Its no secret that PETA adopts dogs and cats and kill about 81% of those adopted.
veterinarian Patrick Proctor said that authorities found a female cat and her two "very adoptable" kittens among the dead animals. He said they were taken from Ahoskie Animal Hospital.
"These were just kittens we were trying to find homes for," he said. "PETA said they would do that, but these cats never made it out of the county."
PETA, a corporation which took in $28,926,924.00 in donations and grants in 2004, apparently finds it more necessary to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaigns against chicken farmers, but wont spend a few extra dollars to find homes for kittens and puppies.
what a waste in tax dollars (wait do they get our tax dollars?)
That's teriible. And these people are supposed to HELP animals?
Hypocrisy is the understatement of the millenium
Did you know that a chicken farm only needs chickens to have a single access to outside the barn to be classed as Free Range?
You can still cram about 10,000 chickens in a barn but as long as there's a little door for them to get outside and it's always open, they're 'Free Range'.
Not just have their tax status revoked. PETA needs to be officially disbanded and have criminal charges pressed now...the same charges they demand be pressed on those who are cruel to animals.
This is great news.
I hope those smug buggers get what's coming to them now and have their Tax status revoked.
I, for one, really couldn't care any less how my chicken was raised as long as it's on my plate and hot.
That's a bit cold, Wonderbat, but I'm sure there's other more stupid people who will now flame you for your opinions.
Remember those little fluffy seals they were so crazy about protecting? Well then, why don't they say cod should be protected from Canadian fishermen? Because cod aren't cute and fluffy.
Remember that crummy hoax?
Remember when you last ate?
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I, for one, really couldn't care any less how my chicken was raised as long as it's on my plate and hot.
That comment made me laugh, but yes, it is a bit mean to say that.
I, for one, really couldn't care any less how my chicken was raised as long as it's on my plate and hot.
Free range chicken almost invarialby tastes better, and freerange chicken eggs are almost invariably bigger.
You mean real free range, don't you, Cycle, not hole-in-the-wall free range.
Besides, bigger hens lay bigger eggs.
What do chickens have anything to do with this?
Frankly, I'm a little shocked. I've always regarded PETA as a bit extreme and out there, but this just seems so completely uncharacteristic. I am very interested in finding out the motivations behind these people and why they did like they did. Because as of right now, it just doesn't make sense.
Revoking PETA's tax status seems a bit extreme given that they probably have thousands of members and this is one case involving two...but then again I'm of the mind that they shouldn't have tax-exempt status in the first place.
The case should certainly be made public.
Should charities have a tax-free status? I don't know what the US attitude is to that. I've never heard anything so very dreadful about the RSPCA though.
(Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals)
PETA and RSPCA aren't even the same type of organization. In the US we have the SPCA which is more of a RSPCA equivalent.
It's just a couple members of an organization of thousands. It's upsetting, but I don't think the whole organization should be judged on it. I'm more upset by some of PETA's ad campaigns than this. Either way I don't know how I feel about having their benefits revoked.
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It's just a couple members of an organization of thousands. It's upsetting, but I don't think the whole organization should be judged on it. I'm more upset by some of PETA's ad campaigns than this. Either way I don't know how I feel about having their benefits revoked.
That would be true if this were an isolated incident, which, sadly, it isn't. PETA members have been popping up in the news for all kinds of radical stuff lately (physically assaulting people, ruining thousands of dollars worth of merchandise, etc.), They seem to think that they're invincible or that their very narrow view of morality is more important than the law and thus makes them immune to it.
Free range chicken almost invarialby tastes better, and freerange chicken eggs are almost invariably bigger.
And yet such a concrete value as "taste" is so much easier to measure than that "protein content"....
As far as free range eggs being bigger, egg size has much more to do with nutrition than any other factor.
However, having actually had to gather eggs I can assure you that free range eggs are not invariably bigger, because the breed of chicken gives rise to considerable variation in egg size. I've never noticed much taste difference between store bought and home grown eggs.
But if you slap the "Organic" or "Free Range" label on it you can sell it for more and just like homeopathy, some people will get a placebo effect. But heck, the placebo effect works wonders.
Jimro
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But if you slap the "Organic" or "Free Range" label on it you can sell it for more and just like homeopathy, some people will get a placebo effect. But heck, the placebo effect works wonders.
You're absolutely right, Jimro.
Of course, there are certain qualifications a chicken farm must meet before it can proclaim "Free Range". Like that hole the size of a chicken I mentioned.
Of course, Organic is another matter. You don't really have to do anything to proclaim that.
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Of course, Organic is another matter. You don't really have to do anything to proclaim that.
Especially considering that it's "Organic" as long as the element Carbon is involved.
But then again, people will buy anything.
How else do you explain the popularity of bottled "spring" water?
