People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is famous for its public displays designed to shock and sometimes disgust people (here and here and here). However, PETA appears a bit thin skinned this week with legal attacks on critics who accused the organization of killing animals in a Virginia shelter. PETA reportedly is asking a court to give it the personal information, email addresses, phone numbers, and other data for three bloggers who reacted to an April 2 posting by a no-kill shelter advocate. One of the bloggers called PETA “animal Kevorkians.”
PETA has refused to discuss its efforts.
Articles have accused PETA of killing roughly 90 percent of stray dogs and cats at a Virginia facility. Critics insist PETA is not open or honest on its kill policy with donors.
I have been unable to see any of the alleged PETA filings or any response from the organization on these allegations. I find it troubling to see public interest organizations going after critics. PETA thrives on free speech and often engages in speech that many find troubling. Yet, we all defend their right to do so even if we criticize their tactics. I would be interested in seeing the filings if they are public and anyone has run across them.
Source: NY Post
Interesting laying all the blame on the shelters considering 9 out of 11 dogs recently rescued from a suspected dog fighting ring were “humanely euthanized” in Broward County. What makes it most interesting is if I recall correctly the spokesperson for the Miami Coalition Against Breed Specific Legislation said on television that one of the reasons the dogs were euthanized was because no fosters or adopters stepped up to save the dogs. How do you explain this contradiction to what you are saying?
Notice how they “like” each other’s vulgar comments? Ugh. Sickening.
These are your average PeTA supporters folks!
Just so you can understand what Maria has been subjected to, here is a thread posted on Facebook by friends of Tully (names and profanity removed):
The Purple Fecal Freak is seriously suffering from low self esteem and self worth. Brags about the fantasy people complimenting her on supermarkets line and bragging about ALL the pet food she buys out of pocket. As always, those that do, do. Those that don’t post about all that they supposedly do.
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Naw, she’s just taking a swipe at me because I posted a pic of all the dog food I bought for animal control after she said I wasn’t a “real” food pantry. Of course we never see pics of anything worthy that she’s done— maybe because all she does is park her fat ass in front of a computer and spew crap. But how do you solve a problem like Maria????
January 24 at 7:50am · Like · 3
You keep her working the convention circuit.
January 24 at 7:52am · Like · 3
Yes, her tour of street corners
January 24 at 7:53am · Like · 1
Yep, her $5 BJ’s are the opening price point.
January 24 at 8:02am · Like · 2
Wonder how much of a cut her pimp Nuthin takes?
January 24 at 8:10am · Like · 1
70%
January 24 at 8:11am · Like · 2
What is Coprophilia?
Coprophilia is characterized by a disproportionate obsession with feces and all things scatological. The tendency toward being what is termed a coprophiliac may be manifested in a number of ways that range from sexual obsession with actual fecal matter to simply telling jokes that revolve around it down to having a certain four letter word being their profanity of obsessive choice.
She needs to find new material in her toilet – she’s so redundant and boring and a truly vile, miserable person.
January 24 at 8:52am · Like · 1
Yep, she like her johns to s*** on her.
January 24 at 8:54am · Like · 2
Thanks for your support. I need to return to the topic of the VA Dept of Agriculture’s Shelter report that ms. veaganmeanie alludes to.
It’s a HUGE eye opener, I assure you. And it doesn’t help PeTA’s position at all, which is why I have to wonder why meanie brought the matter up in the first place.
I guess as I already said in a comment – she felt it added legitimacy to her claims by dropping a few names of govt. documents. She just hoped nobody actually took a look at said documents and raised some questions about them.
I will do that soon.
Lucy, I’ve been the victim of someone very much like veganmeanie. I so understand the feeling of wanting to set the record straight, unfortunately that would be breaking the civility rule here and hasn’t been tolerated, I know.
Please don’t be self conscious and carry on, you have something worth saying and you do say it well. Now I’ll shut up. 🙂
LOL, now I’m feeling self conscious. I will try to be nicer and not insult veaganmeanie, but if you only knew her like I do, you would totally understand. If you only knew the whole lot of them, you would understand. Google search, if you care. It’s ugly.
Lucy, I doubt very much that he hasn’t noticed your comments. He’s pretty much on top of what’s going on on his blog. If he’s allowed your comments thus far, he probably won’t interefer, but hey what do I know? He may very well be sympathetic to you setting the record straight and that would be admirable.
Well now that you’ve brought it to his attention he may! But I hope he is sympathetic to me setting the record straight on this entire incident, for once and for all. Publicly.
Cyber harrassment and stalking is horrendous, I know exactly where you’re coming from Lucy. Sorry to interrupt your flow, please continue.
Lucy, don’t do it because I said something. I just wanted to clarify the civility rules. If Professor Turley doesn’t stop you or delete you, more power to ya.
I will try to contain my contempt in my future comments.
Lucy, believe me I totally understand.
Okay, fair enough – you didn’t comment back 7 months ago. But the fact remains, my private, personal information was repeatedly shared and there were many lies posted here about me as well. And nobody seemed to care all of this time.
But now that I’ve finally decided to address this entire subject matter, you find fault with a sarcastic remark? Geeesh, if you only knew what these people have publicly posted about me – it’s cringe worthy.
If none of those things that were posted about me have violated the “civility rule” and you saw nothing to complain about 7 months ago, why are you bothering to quibble now?
Did you read her first sentence in her comment? “This is why journalism is dead:” I was merely using her same argument.
And if you are offended by that, I would think you should have spoken up when last May my personal information, including name, address and other private information was shared in the comments.
I guess those thing don’t alarm you, but my sarcasm does?
Lucy, I wasn’t commenting here back then. These civility rules are fairly new.
“This is why Dully Tully is brain dead.” For starters.
I personally don’t care and actually prefer freer speech, I am questioning the even handedness of the enforcment of the civility rule.
BTW, annieofwi – if you scroll up to the older comments that have been allowed here, my personal, private information was shared and nobody seemed to think that violated any “civility rules”.
Where were you then?
Actually, to what are you referring? I have followed the civility rules and provided no more than 2 links per comment.
So, what happened to the civility rule? If it’s interesting reading I guess it gets ignored. What about the rule of bringing in outside info of a personal nature here? I’m sympathetic to Lucy Van Pelt but why isn’t the blog standard being applied here?