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Despite being ranked so highly, Peta Gillyatt, a spokesperson for HMS, said potential applicants ought to take such rankings with a grain of salt...
...Pretenders' CHRISSIE HYNDE $100,000 to use her song Stop Your Sobbing in an "Everybody in Leather" ad campaign, only to learn that Hynde--a vegetarian since 1969--is an activist for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Faster than you can say publicity nightmare, Hynde and PETA went on the offensive, staging protests outside Gap stores in Chicago, Washington and New York City, where Hynde was arrested last Thursday for criminal mischief. Specifically, PETA objects to the Gap's use of leather from India and China, where, they say, slaughterhouse-bound cows are often brutalized...
TOFU QUEEN At the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas last week, Brandy DeJongh, the newly crowned Miss Rodeo America 2000, got smacked with a chocolate-tofu pie by Dawn Carr, a member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. PETA doesn't like rodeos...
What is surprising is that the leader of the largest "non-violent" animal rights organization in the U.S. should step forward and applaud these latest mailings. Commenting on the razor letters, Ingrid Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), said, "I hope it frightens [the scientists] out of their careers...
...PETA and other large animal rights organizations have tremendous resources, largely from well-meaning contributors who see themselves as being friends of animals. But contributors need to question where their money is actually going. Does the group tacitly condone activist violence? Many groups encourage acts of extremism to advance the movement's agenda, even while remaining less than outspoken on the issue. These groups maintain their innocence when violence occurs, an unfortunate example of the movement's duplicity--where one hand washes the other, yet neither comes clean...