Notes+and+Sources

1. PETA criticizes MasterCard for supporting the Ringling Brothers Circus because of animal cruelty, then partners with VISA who promotes steak eating and the Kentucky Derby.
 * Peta is now a corporate animal who just wants money to pay for their expensive advertising.
 * Doesn't criticize VISA because of the corporate alliance.
 * only adopting 7 animals with a $34 million budget.

[] 2. OCTOMOM promoting PETA by saying "dont let your animals be an octomom. Help prevent over population by spaying and neutering." []
 * Octomom has 14 children
 * Peta asked her to promote spaying and neutering to prevent overpopulation.

3. PETA promoting sex to advertise on television. []
 * Peta crying unfair when their lustful ad got rejected from airing on tv as a super bowl commercial.
 * pictured women licking their vegetables

4. PETAS sex vs vegan diets []
 * PETA is tying to convince people that vegan sex is better.
 * a vegan lifestyle is supposedly healthier
 * the author criticizes them by facts to prove them wrong such as the zinc defficiency which will actually

5. Interview with PETA []
 * Peta claims that eating meat is cruel to animals
 * what would happen if everybody in the U.S. stopped eating meat?
 * Chrissie Hynde : when you're talking about cruelty to living beings, the danger is in not ging far enough to protest it. We may do silly things sometimes, but we always have a serious point. We'll do pretty much anything-as long as its not violent.

7.PETA killed 95 percent of animals in their care. []
 * since 1988, PETA has opted to put down 21,339 adoptable dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens instead of finding homes for them.
 * during all of 2008 PETA only found adoptive homes for just seven animals out of the 2,216 animals they took in.
 * killing adoptable cats and dogs - and storing the bodies in a walk-in freezer until they can be cremated - requires far less money and effort than caring for the pets until they are adopted.
 * Peta has a $32 million annual budget but they chose to kill instead of help the animals.
 * The bottom line: PETA's leaders car more about cutting into their advertising budget than finding homes for nearly the six pets they kill on average, every single day.

9. PETA defends euthanasia. []
 * PETA euthanizes many animals because of their condition, not cost.
 * PETA says that CCF sents millions of animals to their deaths a slaughter houses and nobody critisizes them, but when PETA euthanizes sick and injured animals they get bashed.

10. with the help of PETA China develops animal protection laws. []
 * PETA helped China develop laws protecting animals in zoos, labs, wildlife, and other
 * strangulation is listed as an unacceptable method of euthanizing unwanted animals and a clear definition of humane euthanasia is included in the law.
 * Videos used to promote and encourage abuse are made illegal.

11. PETA's Sea Kittens http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=nfh&AN=2W64158969891&site=ehost-live
 * PETA tries changing "fish" to "sea kittens" to try to get people to stop catching and consuming fish.
 * Michael Pearce criticizes PETA's immature method of trying to get people to stop eating fish while using humor and sarcasm.
 * He says that PETA is adding human qualities to everything from guppies to giant tuna.
 * He uses a biblical reference saying "Did Christ feed the five thousand plus with five loaves of bread and two tubs of tofu?"