{"id":526781,"date":"2010-04-12T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerfreedom.com:\/\/df6d5703564b82a0bdfa4ae41e8306fd"},"modified":"2010-04-12T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T00:00:00","slug":"peta-crushes-its-own-credibility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/526781","title":{"rendered":"PETA Crushes Its Own Credibility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tThe New York<em> Daily News<\/em> reported yesterday that <a href=\"http:\/\/activistcash.com\/organization_overview.cfm\/o\/21-people-for-the-ethical-treatment-of-animals\">People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals<\/a> (PETA), always on the lookout for a media stunt, delivered a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/2010\/04\/12\/2010-04-12_a_circus_of_horrors_animal_torture_coverups_all_part_of_ringling_bros_show_says_.html\">demanding the government refuse to renew the exhibitor license of the Ringling Bros. circus<\/a>. Looks like the media whiz-kids at PETA screwed this one up, though. The same newspaper reports today in a follow up article that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/2010\/04\/13\/2010-04-13_circus_license_already_renewed.html\">the USDA already renewed Ringling&rsquo;s permit&mdash;last week<\/a>. Oops.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis attempted offensive strategy is just the latest from animal rights groups like PETA and the so-called <a href=\"http:\/\/activistcash.com\/organization_overview.cfm\/o\/136-humane-society-of-the-united-states\">&ldquo;Humane Society&rdquo; of the United States<\/a> (HSUS) against the circus. Like most groups pursuing an animals-first, people-last ideology, they want to shut the circus down entirely and &ldquo;liberate&rdquo; the elephants. But do their campaigns deserve to be taken seriously?<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRingling notes that the USDA has already inspected its circus <em>five times this year<\/em>. So much for PETA&rsquo;s accusation of animal &ldquo;abuse.&rdquo; And a cadre of animal rights groups including the Fund for Animals (now part of HSUS) pursued a federal lawsuit against the circus operator for almost a decade. How&rsquo;d that turn out?<\/p>\n<p>\n\tA federal judge dismissed the lawsuit in December, writing that the animal-rights plaintiffs had a collective <a href=\"http:\/\/www.consumerfreedom.com\/news_detail.cfm\/h\/4063-court-decision-bullhooks-hsus-exec\">pay-to-play arrangement with a key witness in the case<\/a>. That witness&rsquo;s testimony was so full of holes that the judge actually used the word &ldquo;demolished&rdquo; to describe his credibility. Now these circus-haters are <a href=\"http:\/\/humanewatch.org\/index.php\/site\/post\/press_release_racketeering_lawsuit_fingers_humane_society_of_the_unite\/\">facing a federal lawsuit for their scheme<\/a>. And it was filed under the mobster-oriented Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) law.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tToday, PETA is left <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nydailynews.com\/news\/national\/2010\/04\/13\/2010-04-13_circus_license_already_renewed.html\">calling for the USDA to revoke Ringling&rsquo;s permit<\/a> and wiping the egg-substitute off its face. Our guess is the USDA isn&rsquo;t going to throw PETA a bone (or a peanut, for that matter). Maybe they&mdash;and the organized racket going after the circus&mdash;should just hang it up. Before they get trampled in the court of public opinion, that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Daily News reported yesterday that People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), always on the lookout for a media stunt, delivered a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture demanding the government refuse to renew the exhibitor license of the Ringling Bros. circus. Looks like the media whiz-kids at PETA screwed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4054,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-526781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4054"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526781"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526781\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}