By Andrew W. Griffin

Red Dirt Report, editor

Posted: October 7, 2009

reddirtreporter@gmail.com

OKLAHOMA CITY – Back in July, we here at Red Dirt Report noted how the radical animal-rights organization People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) had blood on their hands no thanks to their decision to kill 95 percent of the dogs and cats put in their care in 2008.

PETA found homes for less than one out of every 300 animals at their so-called “shelters.” PETA loves animals, right? It’s not looking that way. Just check out the informative website Petakillsanimals.com for more information.

And now, thanks to a great column from Rowan Scarborough over at Human Events, headlined “PETA becomes a corporate animal,” we see that PETA once again fails to practice what it preaches.

Writes Scarborough: “In one case, PETA castigates a credit card company for backing a circus; yet PETA promotes its competitor who sponsors horse racing and beef eating – two PETA no-nos it is trying to abolish.”

Scarborough notes that PETA has a “special relationship” with VISA credit-card company. And yet, VISA “is a prime sponsor of the Kentucky Derby, the world’s most famous horserace.”

Yet, as he writes, “PETA wants to end thoroughbred racing.” Really? You'd think they'd chastise VISA for supporting such an evil sport.

And then there is VISA’s relationship with Omaha Steaks. VISA offers customers “a whopping 68 percent discount when you use the card to buy a mail-order sampler box. In other words, VISA is trying to entice people to begin eating prime beef.”

Hmm. Why would an animal-cuddling outfit like PETA want to be associated with a big,bad evil, meat-eating credit-card company like VISA?

Because, as Scarborough concludes, it appears PETA is comfortable with their “financial relationship with the credit card company” while they castigate competitor Master Card for sponsoring circus giant Ringling Bros. back in the early 2000’s.

And the animal-rights wackiness and hypocrisy continues.

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