CHARLIE HEBDO's 10 Best Animal Rights Cartoons | PETA's Blog | PETA

CHARLIE HEBDO's 10 Best Animal Rights Cartoons | PETA's Blog | PETA

Penn & Teller Fool People

Penn & Teller Fool People

I had to laugh, Penn & Teller in their cable TV series on Showtime, "Penn & Teller: BS!" appear to debunk PETA, although in Las Vegas they also debunk their own magic, perform with live animals, and of course Penn attended Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey Clown College.

"...in the episode, they compare PETA co-founder and president Ingrid Newkirk to Adolf Hitler, cutting from shots of Newkirk at an animal rights conference to stock footage of Hitler's youth."- SLATE

"By refusing to take their opponents—or themselves—too seriously, the duo celebrates idiocy as much as it tries to set idiots straight." - SLATE

They are funny guys, I never take anything they say or do seriously.

Medical Animal Laboratories

Many leading medical schools, including Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, now use innovative, clinical teaching methods instead of animal laboratories. Harvard Cardiac Anesthesia Practicum, which allows students to observe human heart bypass operations, has eliminated any need for the old dog lab, in which students gave dogs drugs that induced heart attacks.

Many students all over the world now graduate without harming any animals.

In Great Britain, it is against the law for medical students to practice surgery on animals, and British physicians are as competent as those educated elsewhere.

Read more: http://www.peta.org/about-peta/faq/do-medical-students-have-to-dissect-or-experiment-on-animals/#ixzz3ERE6BBuL

Non - Animal Testing

Modern non-animal tests are quicker, less expensive, and more accurate than the old-fashioned poisoning, blinding, and burning tests developed in the 1920s.

Read more: http://www.peta.org/about-peta/faq/does-the-food-and-drug-administration-require-drugs-to-be-tested-on-animals/#ixzz3ERDI5sJI

Joaquin Phoenix Is Drowning

Actor Joaquin Phoenix thrashes underwater in a video that asks people to try to relate to frightened and panicked fish who die a painful death after being pulled from the water. Fish don't want to suffocate on land any more than we want to drown in water.

 

Humane Meat: Taste the Happy!

So, as you’ve probably figured out, there is no such thing as “humane meat.” On “humane,” “grass-fed,” and “organic” farms, animals are still subject to cruel industry standards: severe crowding, physical mutilation without painkillers, and a terrifying death.

Read more: http://www.peta.org/features/humane-meat-grass-fed-happy-animals/#ixzz371x65i2j