Shaking my head doesn't help...perhaps I should SCREAM instead?

Her name is Ingrid Newkirk, and she is the President of PETA, and her throne is located in their National Headquarters in Norfolk, VA. Miss (Mrs. ? - Ms. ?) Newkirk is a transplant from England, who loves to loudly proclaim her devotion to animals, protecting them from restaurants, grocers, farmers, scientists, anglers, and countless other Americans. This is all done in an effort to "protect" these animals from the horrors of what she calls "The entrapment and slavery of the family house pet." A noble statement, on the surface.

Indeed, over the years, PETA has made some positive steps...making people aware of the lack of need for fur coats, and the spay and neutering process for strays.

On the flip side, PETA has successfully lobbied and shut down medical research operations working on cures for the following: Diabetes. AIDS. Spinomeningitis. Cystic Fibrosis. Each and every type of cancer known to mankind, and other diseases numbering in the dozens, some of them so rare and catastrophic to children it chills me to even list them. All in the interest of keeping animals "safe from human harm."

But methinks there might be a problem, skippy. The chart below indicates statistics through 2005. There is so much litigation in the courts system right now, it is against Judges orders to release anything from 2006 and 2007, because case after case of cruelty to animals are currently in litigation. This chart is the records kept from the PETA HQ in Norflok.

As a reference, in the same time period, the SCPA managed to get 73% of their strays adopted. 73% as opposed to the shocking 17.1% by PETA, the organization that openly states they love these animals. Take a look at the chart again...14,000 + house pets killed by PETA. They shove them into hefty bags and keep them in a huge refrigerated storage facility until a Virginia based company takes them away for cremation.

And as for Doctor Death herself, the fine Ingrid Newkirk? She has stated without remorse under oath that she personally killed thousands with her own hands. For some reasons that defy logic, she's not making these quotes from the Virginia State Penitentiary either. She makes them as a free woman.

Meanwhile children are dying by the barrel-full in the most culturally, medically, and technically advanced society on this planet, all because some outrageous psychopaths known as PETA won't allow these animals to help our children because, "It's cruel."

Death of these animals - at their admission - is acceptable. The third party death of humans - many of whom are innocent children - is acceptable as well.

In closing, let me paraphrase the PETA mantra: Death is ok, and death is ok.

I'll make sure I pass that information on to my 15 year old Type 1 diabetic son.