PETA's next target - from FoxNews.com

[JAK]

This was on FoxNews.com for Monday 4/30/01, down in an article titled "Tongue Tied: A Report from the Front Lines of the Culture Wars":

website: www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,18358,00.html


PETA's next target? The Boy Scouts. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is urging the Boy Scouts to stop giving merit badges for fishing because fish have feelings too, the Chicago Tribune reported . The group is also taking action because it claims boys who kill animals in their youth might grow up to become killers of human beings.

In a letter to Milton Ward, president of the Boy Scouts of America, Dawn Carr of PETA said, "Encouraging scouts to put hooks through the mouths of live frogs so as to trick other animals into impaling themselves [as is recommended in the fishing merit badge booklet], then to rip them from the water into an environment where they cannot breathe and can only struggle desperately for their lives is inconsistent with Boy Scout law and with teaching respect and kindness."

[Cangl]

Boyscouts grow up to kill, and so do soldiers. Thats were freedom starts have they already forgot what our countries and other free countries vets have fought for. May be we enlist all their active members for duty and kiss our freedom goodbye? How do they expect to fight human mortality, TIMEOUT? In the real world your only as free as the rights you vote and fight to
keep. May a diseased 200lb shrew meet them at their mailboxes!
And may my dentist yank their incissors slowly!

[Andy K]

I believe we should start our own PETA group.

P-People
E-Eating
T-Tasty
A-Animals

LOL

Andy K.

[gettum]

I thought what I heard about PETA on the radio this morning topped all. PETA had tried to get Timothy McVeigh to eat vegetarian meals from now until he got executed, in order to try and make up to animals for what he had done to over 160 people. If this had not been a reputable station I would have thought they were kidding, but I really don't think they were. It made me sick! It does appear though, that McVeigh declined the proposal saying that he did not have time for that kind of thing right now. I was sorry he did, because the negative publicity for PETA would have been overwhlming I believe (hope).

[Hunter]

I have my filet knife and fork ready, eat those tasty critters, thats why they were put on the earth. Anyone see politically incorrect last night Bill Maher was asking Ted Nugent how he could take some kid bowhunting who is a quadroplegic, so the kid wants to kill an animal with his last few breaths. ##### it, thats what his dying wish is, I say Ill push the wheelchair, let the kid enjoy himself, even if you dont approve.(go get em Teddy).

[Jeff Green]

While on this topic, I saw a billboard last weekend in Utah showing a dog with a big hook in its mouth pulled tight with fishing line and a caption that read something like "You wouldn't do this to a dog would you?" This is the first anti-fishing billboard I've seen. I didn't catch whether it was PETA or the Humane Society sponsoring the ad.

[RickyP]

I would be very surprised if it was the Humane Society. I have never heard of them going in that direction.