PETA Kooks

"If PETA activists are really convinced of their position, the next one who falls gravely ill should decline life-saving treatments that were tested on animals. But that's not going to happen."

Well put!

Just when I think the animal rights activists can't go any lower, they stoop to... grave robbing. To save guinea pigs.

From the London Telegraph:

Grave robbers force farm to stop breeding guinea pigs
(Filed: 23/08/2005)

Farmers breeding guinea pigs have said they will abandon the work in the hope that the remains of their relative dug up from a grave in Staffordshire will be returned.

The Hall family, who run Darley Oaks Farm in Newchurch, have been targeted by animal rights activists during a six year campaign of intimidation.


The body of Gladys Hammond has still not been returned
They have been breeding guinea pigs for biomedical research.

In October 2004 grave robbers removed the remains of their 82-year-old Gladys Hammond, from a churchyard in nearby Yoxall.

Now the farm is to stop its work at the end of the year, a spokesman for the David Hall and Partners family-run business said today.

"The business, which has operated for over three decades, will undergo a phased closure until then to ensure the welfare of animals involved, the spokesman said.

"We now hope that, as a result of this announcement, those responsible for removing Gladys' body will return her so she can lie once again in her rightful resting place.

"David Hall and Partners are planning a return to traditional farming. They have no plans to be involved in any way in the breeding of animals for medical or scientific research."

Campaigners said they will continue their protest until the guinea pig breeding operation officially closed at the end of the year.

A spokesman for Stop the Newchurch Guinea Pigs, who gave his name as Johnny and would not reveal his surname, said:

"This is the most fantastic day of my life.

"It's a victory for the animals and it's a fundamental victory for the animal rights movement. I feel so unbelievably proud to be part of the movement."

Local Tory MP Michael Fabricant, referring to the disinterring of Mrs Hammond's remains, told the BBC's Today programme: "Isn't it a tragedy that behaviour of that type apparently has succeeded in this country?"

He's so unbelievably proud to be associated with blackmailing grave robbers that he wouldn't give his last name.

Kenneth Branagh defuses PETA protest
Oct 12, 2005, 5:02 GMT

Kenneth Branagh has defused a People For The Ethical Treatment Of Animals (PETA) protest after agreeing to retire all of the ducks who appear in his London play Ducktastic to a sanctuary when the show finishes its run on the West End.

Animal rights activists were outraged when they discovered 46 Indian runner ducks were taking to the stage every night - insisting robotic birds are the only ethical option.

But the Harry Potter star has succeeded in striking a deal with Peta, who regularly target celebrities who they believe violate animals' rights.

A Peta spokesperson says, "Ducks don't belong on stage any more than Mr Branagh belongs in a pond. What's wrong with mechanical ducks?"

Well, I can agree with the final question, anyway. What's wrong with mechanical ducks, indeed? In the future, when I look for common ground with the PETA-ites, at least we can agree that we ain't agin mechanical ducks.

Speaking about ducks and Kenneth Branagh: I worked in a movie theater when Branagh's Henry V came out, and we used to make fun of his "say-it-don't-spray-it" style by doing his speeches in Daffy Duck's voice. "Oneth more into the breeth, dear friendth! Oneth more! Or clothe up their wallth with our Englith dead!"