Media Hype and the Fly

I happened to hear about the Fly incident while having breakfast at a cafe.  While at the cafe I over hear this cop griping about PETA’s message to Obama about the killing the fly, he said; it’s common scenes!  Hmmm???  This is a cop in my neighborhood to.  If it’s common sense to kill something that annoys you then get me out of your way, especially when you have a gun!

Seems like people are not evolving.  C’mon, people, ever wonder why we live in a society that has an overcrowded prison system or why we’re a world at war all the time?  All that can stop if people would just learn to respect everything, and teach your children the sacredness of life.  No one expects people to be perfect, or enlightened as Buddha, but the media hate and gripes say a lot about how much society has evolved or not.

This is PETA’s reply to the hyped up media hate frenzy toward PETA.

The PETA Files: Obama and the Fly, Part Deux

Because we’ve heard from so many people who want to know more about PETA’s position on “Flygate,” we’ve decided to explore the question of “to bee or not to bee” in a bit more depth.

As we all know, human beings often don’t think before they act. We don’t condemn President Obama for acting on instinct. When the media began contacting us in droves for a statement, we obliged, simply by saying that the president isn’t the Buddha and shouldn’t be expected to do everything right—if not for that, we would not have brought it up. It’s the media who are making a big deal about the fly swat—not PETA. However, we took the opportunity, when asked, to point out that we do offer lots of ways in which to control insects of all kinds without harming them, including the humane bug catcher we sent President Obama. There is even a chapter in PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk’s book The PETA Practical Guide to Animal Rights about how to rid your home of “uninvited guests.”

[Read the full reply to the media hate on Obama and the fly at PETA's BLog]

Barnum and Baily Coming to San Diego

Tell them to go away, and free the animals they torture!  Simple as that!  It’s not a side show, its a show of tortured animals!  Here we are trying to teach our children that killing and torture is wrong, yet we have a group going torturing the animals in their shows.

How would you like to be chained up all your life, with no place for peace or happiness?

The Circus is No Place for Animal Abuse

Behind the scenes, elephant trainer Tim Frisco instructs would-be trainers how to dominate elephants and make them perform circus tricks. “Sink that hook into ’em. When you hear that screaming, then you know you got their attention.” An elephant trumpets in agony as Frisco’s bullhook, with its sharp metal hook and spiked end, tears through her sensitive skin. Frisco, a Carson & Barnes elephant trainer, learned the trade from his father, a former trainer for Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Click here to watch the video. [learn more about the tortured animals lives from childhood to adults by trainers]

What:  Ringling demonstration
When: Friday, June 26, Noon
Where: Southwest corner of 4th Street and Broadway, San Diego

What’s Inside Your Food?

I often wonder if people know what they are really eating?  Strangely enough, some don’t even want to know, if it say’s chicken it must be chicken…  Could be anything else that tastes like chicken.  I’ve heard of lots of other things tasting like chicken as well.

Help the World’s Most Abused Animals

Factory farms are perhaps the greatest source of animal suffering on the planet. But thanks to your support and PETA’s unrelenting efforts, this cruel industry is finally beginning to change.

From slaughterhouses to fast-food restaurants, PETA is winning humane reforms that are reducing cruelty to animals on a massive scale. No other organization in the world is doing more to change the lives of millions of individual cows, chickens, pigs, and other animals raised and killed for food.  [Corporations should take better care of what you eat, though most of us know they're only in it for the money, and don't really care]

Animal Cruelty is a Sign of Serious Issues; Menace to Society

She has some serious issues!
Any one who harms animals usually has some other underlining issues that would be a danger and menace to society.  They  typically end up in prison for murder or some other serious federal offense.  So, to those people that may have a no care attitude about life just because she tortured and killed a kitten, you need to think again.  What would happen if her friend was home?

Teen Kills Kitten in Oven: Faces 10-Year Sentence

On June 3, ASPCA Humane Law Enforcement Agents arrested Cheyenne Cherry, a 17-year-old resident of the Bronx, for allegedly killing a two-month-old kitten by burning her to death in an oven. In addition to cruelty to animals, Cherry was charged with multiple counts of burglary, arson and criminal mischief. Under New York State law, Cherry is considered an adult and faces more than 10 years in prison if convicted of all charges.

Cherry admits that she broke into the home of an ex-roommate on May 6 with the intent to “play a joke and mess up her apartment.” Cherry and an accomplice allegedly threw bleach on the walls of the apartment, slashed furniture and stole various items. Before leaving, the pair put the victim’s kitten, Tiger Lily, into the hot oven.