{"id":398,"date":"2005-06-17T11:55:23","date_gmt":"2005-06-17T15:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=398"},"modified":"2005-06-17T11:56:04","modified_gmt":"2005-06-17T15:56:04","slug":"what-the-hell-is-peta-doing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=398","title":{"rendered":"What the hell is PETA doing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peta.org\">PETA<\/a> has been known for its tactics for decades now, guilt-tripping the public every time someone decides to eat a hamburger, or not eat completely bland vegan food, or &#8220;degrade animals&#8221; by having pets.  They LOVE to blast the media and visitors to its websites with pictures of animal &#8220;inmates&#8221; in testing laboratories, pulling at the hearstrings of aimal lovers while engaging in guerilla tactics against corporations and anyone who disagrees with their sometimes-extremist positions.<\/p>\n<p>And yet, something very mysterious is afoot.  Because recently, some PETA officials were charged with animal cruelty after being caught regularly and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/US\/06\/17\/peta.arrests.ap\/index.html\">illegally dumping the bodies of animals in shopping mall dumspters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>PETA has scheduled a news conference for Friday in Norfolk, Virginia, where the group is based.<\/p>\n<p>Police found 18 dead animals in the bin and 13 more in a van registered to PETA. The animals were from animal shelters in Northampton and Bertie counties, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The two were picking up animals to be brought back to PETA headquarters for euthanization, PETA president Ingrid Newkirk said Thursday. Neither police nor PETA offered any theory on why the animals might have been dumped.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now, remember, a lot of the people who support PETA will often picket animal shelters who euthanize stray pets.  So what the hell are they doing euthanizing pets as well?  And simply dumping them in someone else&#8217;s  trash?  That certainly doesn&#8217;t seem like a dignified way for Fluffy to get his sendoff, does it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PETA officials in North Carolina have been charged with animal cruelty.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}