Animal Rights Extremism (page 116)

Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine President Neal Barnard says his anti-choice group hopes the new movie "Chicken Run" will lead people to stop eating chicken. "If people run from the theater screaming for a veggie burger, I'd be thrilled," says Barnard.

A Seattle-like coalition of trade unionists, religious leaders, environmentalists, farmers, animal rights activists, and anarchists is gathering in Millau, France to protest at the trial of professional rabble-rouser and anti-choice…

Long time animal rights activist Paul McCartney is attacking fast food, recently writing that the "Junk Food Generation" is "eating themselves to death" by living on a "diet of burgers." ("Profile: The vegetarian," The Independent - London, 6/25/00.)

If you are against eating chicken, what could be wrong with an advertising campaign encouraging the eating of beef? Those nutty birds at United Poultry Concerns apparently have a problem with Burger King's very amusing campaign featuring characters from Chicken Run.

Why are some farmers switching to organic? Environmental concerns? Health concerns? Better yields? Nannies would have you believe any of those, but, according to the Financial Times, the real…

The San Francisco Chronicle's Debra J. Saunders blasts the radical anti-choice loonies from the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA). This is a must read for those looking to see just how out of touch with reality PETA really is.

A judge has forced the owner of the domain name peta.org (People Eating Tasty Animals) to relinquish it because of whining from the radical animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. The site was a hilarious parody of the anti-choice group, describing its purpose as "a resource for those who enjoy eating meat, wearing fur and leather, hunting and the fruits of scientific research." Speaking of great web site parodies, check out Consumer Freedom's tribute to those crazy nannies at the Center for Science in the Public Interest.

The Santa Fe New Mexican gives organic livestock producers a shot of free advertising when reporter Lynn Cline unfairly disparages conventional food and genetically engineered innovations. Not only do standard production technologies get a bad rap, but CSPI, Greenpeace, Union of Concerned Scientists and other nannies suffer no rebuttals to their fear-mongering efforts to restrict our food choices. ("What's In Your Beef?" The Santa Fe New Mexican)

Los Angeles Times writer Booth Moore berates the anti-choice People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals for its latest campaign against McDonald's, saying, "[I]ts tactics not only alienate people who might be sympathetic, but also exploit children in a totally unethical way. I think it's time for a PETA strategy overhaul."

Greenpeace continues to attempt to scare the public into changing its eating patterns by hyping a draft EPA report that linked potential dioxin danger to the foods we eat.