PETA The Vegetarian Terrorists

PETA: The War of the Vegetarian Terrorists and Agricultural Abuses

Let me be frank with how I feel about the recent exposures of mistreatment in pig farm slaughterhouses in Iowa.

The kicking, tazers and beating of livestock is not something that should be tolerated. I agree that abusing animals is wrong and a horrendous problem in America. There is a limit to what should be done, and how animals about to be turned into bacon should be treated. That said, the recent leaked videos of slaughterhouse cruelty was important to help expose mistreated animals, but......

I for one, being a meat eating American, don't care. Call me what you want, look at me as if I'm just some dumb uneducated redneck, but I really could care less about how an animal that is about to become packaged tidbits for the dinner table is treated. I don't want to see them abused, don't get me wrong, but food is food, and a farmer in America shouldn't need to start doing background checks on prospective hires just to insure that their business isn't run into the ground by PETA.

I'm on the side of the farmer, who works his ass off daily to help supply the American people with meat, poultry, and bacon. I have no love for PETA, and could really care less about their propaganda and ideology. Vegetarian people drive me crazy anyways. God didn't give us canine teeth so we could just chew carrots, and cows, pigs and chickens don't need protection from processing.

I'm a warm blooded predator. I love meat. I hunt deer and have no issue making venison burgers. I'm also an American Patriot and I love my blue collar, muddy boot wearing, back breaking brothers and sisters who are helping put beef and bacon on my table.

I think PETA goes way too far sometimes with their agenda. Sure, expose animal mistreatment when it's dogs and cats, please do. But leave the opossum drop in Brasstown NC alone, and leave the farmer and hunter alone. I'm not a full blown tree hugger, I do respect animals and think mistreating an animal is wrong, but there's a line that hinders on cruelty and who gives a damn, really.

Most farmers don't and wouldn't allow a worker to beat a pig into a crippled mass of bacon anyways, the exposed workers in Iowa was rather unsettling, but not something I would concern myself with.

If PETA had its way, we would all be eating salads. That's if the snails, beatles and fruit fly larvae were not being squashed before being sprayed with insecticide.

Unfortunately, the way PETA organizes it's platform and tries to reach Americans with cases of what they call cruelty is rather more unsettling than the abuses. I live in the area where the opossum drop happens. I love clays corner and I stop in from time to time. I don't see what PETA is concerned about with a creature that is killed by the hundreds daily on NC roads. I myself counted 8 dead road killed opossums on the way to work one day, only to discover PETA spent millions to fight for one from being harmlessly lowered in a cage on New Years Eve. ( link to article here) For those of you unfamiliar with the opossum drop.

This is where I find myself confused.

Ethical treatment of animals should inspire hope for the lives of animals that we as a society deem worthy. I had to sound like a total asshole, but the mistreatment of a dog or a cat, horse or monkey seems to fit better than the mistreatment of livestock and opossums. I mean there has to be a line somewhere in the middle between what animals are worthy of defending and not so worthy. I don't have an issue with a pig being kicked, but I do have an issue when a dog is beaten. Am I being too stupid? Cold hearted? Maybe my soul has loss bearing. Yet, I'm sure I'm far from alone on the issue.

I find PETA threatening. I see more and more of PETA becoming a threat to the livelihood of American values and heritage, than an organization that is supposed to be fighting for the betterment of animal rights.

There doesn't seem to be an apparent reason for the organization to be so concerned about how livestock is treated, yet ignoring policy in how animals are euthanized in animal shelters. I mean, talking to someone who did community service at an animal shelter was more of an eye opener vs. video footage of farm abused animals.

Knowing that puppies and kittens are gassed only to be placed into garbage bags while still breathing until dead is more unsettling than a pig being beaten by a pair of boots.