I had the unfortunate opportunity years ago (already wearing my No PETA pin
at the time and my speech for speech class the year before was Animal Rights,
why NOT to go there) to first have to go to an Animal Rights thing at my college
- it was an assignment after hours in my philosophy class - forced to sit thru 3
hours of their crap and THEN the following day had the head guy from PETA IN OUR
CLASSROOM OMG...I came armed - I had my references, my articles, all the
information and by the time I got thru with the guy (who NEVER once answered a
direct question, only asked more questions to avoid answers) all he did was just
stand there....the kids (I was 37 or so at the time) in the class just sat there
with their jaws on the ground having been to the HOORAY rally garbage the night
before and probably believing most of it until they were confronted with the
reality of it.
Subject: Re: [RC] Congressional Horse
Caucus--Agenda Siezed by PETA
Ugh.....
I was the lead reporter in a horrendous story here about a pony rescue.
260 hackney ponies on 40 barren acres. 110 of the ponies were stallions. no
food, no potable water, it was a concentration camp for ponies. I couldn't
sleep for nights after going in with teh people who started the rescue
efforts.
Then a "no slaughter" supposed animal rights organization took over the
rescue. got a district judge to wrangle away the care of the animals from real
veterinarians, K-State vet students, farriers and other people who really knew
what they were doing, and put the animals in the care of a Peta ally,
HorseAid.
What happened from there was an abomination. Basically, horseaid left
Kansas about $30,000 richer, dumped the animals on two HA volunteers, who
inturn adopted them out to anyone with a driver's license and $100. Not
surprising, for years afterwards, i was getting calls at the newspaper about
the ponies being in worse homes than the one they left, being at auction
barns, etc. I saw some of them myself at an auction barn.
I have no time for people like that.
Is anyone aware of PETA' s true agenda? to end ownership of all animals?
They'd rather we turn all horses loose to fend for themselves than to give
them care and a job.
