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Animal Rights Group Targets NIH Director's Home (sciencemag.org)
sciencehabit writes: Late last month, hundreds of people in two Washington, D.C., suburbs received a letter in the mail claiming that one of their neighbors was tied to animal abuse at a government lab. Science has learned that the letters, sent by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), targeted U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins and NIH researcher Stephen Suomi, revealing their home addresses and phone numbers and urging their neighbors to call and visit them. The tactic is the latest attempt by the animal rights group to shut down monkey behavioral experiments at Suomi's Poolesville, Maryland, laboratory, and critics say it crosses the line.
https://www.petakillsanimals.com/
PETA's "animal shelters" would do Auschwitz proud.
The only thing they've done is further prove the case for abolishing all tax exemption for political activism and making contributions to the same not a valid deduction on the income tax.
PETA are hypocrites because people are animals too, and they don't give a shit about how humans are treated by others, or even what they themselves do to humans.
I don't think anyone disputes that some humans treat some animals badly. PETA puts more animals to death each year than they save. But I guess their moral superiority gives them that right. The right to "euthanize" my pet because it's better to be a dead cat than to be "forced to live in captivity" PETA is a joke and I put them in the same bin as the nutso "pro-life" murderous thugs.