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PETA Drops Insensitive Pro-Shark Ad Campaign.(People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals)(Brief Article)

The New American

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PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals), the radical "animal rights" group, pulled an ad campaign urging sympathy for sharks following a series of shark attacks along the Atlantic Coast that left two people dead and two severely injured. The campaign planned to feature billboards with the message: "Would You Give Your Right Arm to Know Why Sharks Attack, Could it be Revenge? Go Vegetarian, PETA."

Eight-year-old Jessie Arbogast was terribly mauled and had his arm ripped off in an August shark attack in Pensacola, Florida. PETA's top activists undoubtedly shed more tears for the shark (which was killed to retrieve the arm) than for little Jessie. Most PETA members do not know that PETA's radical leadership is more anti-human than pro-animal.

PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk has contended that humans are "the biggest blight on the face of the earth," and that "human euthanasia would be a great step if there were no abuses." Newkirk was quoted in Audubon magazine as ...

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