Last year Michael Vick was in talks to become a spokesman for PETA, until Deceiver.com All-Star Ingrid Newkirk decided he needed to undergo a psych eval to prove he’s not crazier than she is. Vick was reinstated into the NFL today, and guess who’s trying to figure out how to capitalize on it?
According to the New York Times:
Ingrid Newkirk was the first person who came to mind Monday when N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell announced Michael Vick’s transition plan for reinstatement.
Newkirk is the tenacious president and co-founder of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. Her sprawling organization, which is capable and quite willing to create havoc, will set the tone for the reception Vick receives if he signs with a team.
Now that Goodell has announced his soft re-entry plan for Vick — conditional reinstatement and possible full reinstatement no later than Week 6 based on progress he makes — will Newkirk unleash a firestorm against the N.F.L. with legions of pickets?
During a conversation on Monday, Newkirk seemed undecided on what course of action she would take.
“We’re not encouraging it,” Newkirk said when asked about PETA’s plans to picket. “We’re not in a picketing mood.”
Then in an about-face she said: “We may, I can’t really say. There are so many strong sentiments. It’s on the table, but we’re not encouraging it.”
Wonder why she can’t make up her mind? (Besides the fact that she lost it long ago.) Maybe it’s because when it comes to being kind to animals, PETA’s track record is nothing to bark about. They’ve killed tens of thousands of household pets over the years, and a few years ago two of their employees were caught dumping dead pets into a dumpster behind a Piggly Wiggly grocery in North Carolina. The two were found guilty of littering for throwing away the euthanized animals, but somehow weren’t punished for actually, y’know, killing them. After taking them from shelters with the promise that PETA would find them homes. Weird, huh?
From the Raleigh News & Observer’s account of the last day of the trial on February 2, 2007:
After a two-week trial that caused a sensation in rural northeastern North Carolina, a jury acquitted Andrew B. Cook and Adria J. Hinkle of eight counts of animal cruelty. Cook and Hinkle work for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, based in Norfolk, Va. Hinkle also was found not guilty of three felony counts of lying to get cats from a veterinarian’s office.
But they were found guilty of throwing euthanized animals into a Dumpster behind a Piggly Wiggly grocery. The PETA employees said the dead animals had begun to smell during the ride back to Norfolk…
In closing arguments Friday, prosecutor Valerie Asbell painted Hinkle as a liar who gushed over kittens and puppies, promised to find them homes and then gave them lethal injections beside secluded country roads.
Cook, both sides agreed, was a new PETA employee just helping Hinkle for the day.
Employees of an Ahoskie veterinarian testified that Hinkle had asked whether a mother cat and two kittens had names, and promised everyone in the office, including a 9-year-old girl, that she would find them homes. She euthanized them a few minutes after leaving the office.
A Bertie County animal control officer testified that Hinkle said she would have “no problem” finding homes for two dalmatians named Annie and Toby. The dogs were dead before they left the shelter’s parking lot.
The same officer said he handed over his own dog, a terrier named Happy, because he had had trouble housebreaking it. Hinkle sent him a picture of the dog in a garden, standing in front of a house but didn’t mention that the dog had been euthanized upon arriving at PETA headquarters.
“They go out and say, ‘Oh, we helped all these animals,’” said Asbell, who is the district attorney for Hertford, Bertie and Northampton counties. “They sure aren’t out telling folks they’re killing healthy ones … because that doesn’t go along with the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.”
What Michael Vick did was unconscionable. But what PETA does is even worse, because they hide behind their pose of “ethical” treatment. How dare they condemn a guy who’s killed a fraction of the number of animals they have?
Maybe you should just shut up for once, Ingrid. If that’s even possible.
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I would love to know how Mel Gibson justifies this in his head. He had his dad annul his 29-year marriage to wife Robyn, mother of his first seven kids, so that he can marry his knocked-up mistress on Christmas Day.
There are few things that taste better than just deserts.
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