IF YOU WERE A PIG, HOW WOULD YOU FEEL?

PETA Wants Hog Wrestling Outlawed At County Fairs; Streaking Already Banned

Couldn't agree more with PETA's idea. It makes me sick to think about this kind of thing happening, as if because people enjoy what they're seeing, it's okay to treat these unwilling participants any way they want. In my opinion, everyone participating in this type of thing is nothing but a wannabe athlete and a wimp.

Anything coming from PeTA should be suspect in the extreme. They couch themselves in concern for animals and little piggies at fairs but here are some facts..

In 2003 PETA killed 85 percent of the animals it took in (in Virginia-PeTA's HQ). In contrast the nearby Virginia SPCA killed 27 percent. Yet PeTA is the wealthiest animal rights group in the world thanks to uninformed Hollywood celebrities.
Instead they spend their money NOT on animals but on media campaigns against meat, fur, and medicine.

Ingrid Newkirk- President of PeTA has admitted to killing thousands of animals to save them from abuse?? HUH?

Yet she leads attacks against those to raise animals for a purpose (such as food, or research). The kettle is black Newkirk!

Newkirk has also stated that the world would be a better place without people. She has also sterilized herself to avoid having a "purebred human baby" which to her is "nothing but vanity, human vanity."

The truth is that there is a big difference between animal welfare and animal rights. PeTA represents a strange self-loathing segment of the human population that actually doesn't know anything about animals, nor do they care to. The reality is that they are more anti-human than pro-animal.

It amazes me that an organization like this is taken so seriously.

Basically, R. Clark, you were born in a closet. Though I don't agree with ALL PETA does, I do believe in just common good nature, and that doesn't include beating something to get them to do what you want, or ripping their fur off while they are alive, or taking babies from their mothers so you can mold them into what you want them to be, So, regardless of whose doing the complaining, i'm glad "Good People" are complaining...It's time for the world to grow up!

I was at a county fair this past weekend. They had skydivers, a hypnotist, musicians, clowns, various animal booths, 4-H, and arts and crafts of all sorts. In addition they had a rodeo with bronc riding, calf-roping, steer wrestling and the like. There was only one PETA sign over at the BBQ pit where they served the most tender ribs I ever ate. In this case PETA meant People Eating Tasty Animals. Ninety miles away in Seattle a Muslim American shot up a Jewish community center killing one person and wounding several others. As tough as it is hearing little piglets squeal in fright, thinking about my fellow Americans screaming, dying and wounded on city streets just going about their daily lives troubles me more.

only pussies abuse animals. go PETA!

you know what makes me sad...we are born and put here for a reason, whether you are religious or non (i'm not) we can not treat other creatures put here ...and of all, whom have the same right to be here as we this way. I haven't eaten meat in 15 years and I'm proud to say I choose conscience over taste of a product. I respect all that is here with me, all that lives reside me...as we all should. Shall you choose to challenge me I will get you, for i'VE studied and I know the way I live is best...one who takes another life without consequence..nor respect,doesnt deserve the life for whom they will consume...~ Jennifer hELEOTIS

Jennifer, in my opinion, you are religious but your beliefs do not include a deity. Therefore, arguing religion, any religion, is doomed to failure given the steadfast beliefs that are firmly held.

Since you maintain all life is morally equivalent with equal rights, are you a breatharian?

You wrote, "...I know the way I live is best...one who takes another life without consequence..nor respect,doesnt deserve the life for whom they will consume..." Does your belief structure apply to all of Nature's carnivores, omnivores, and herbivores, or are you limiting your superiority to bipedals who eat flesh and vegetation? Do feathered raptors and quadrapeds get a break from such judgment? For the sake of discussion assume that humankind is an evolutionary animal. At what point in evolution, in your belief structure, is humankind no longer allowed to eat? What was the dividing line? Just curiosity on my part in attempting to understanding your point of view.

Hog-dog fighting is another sad "Roman Collesium" event and definetely must be stopped anywhere it would occur. To force any animals to fight each other for human kicks/gambling-brings human society down several notches.

PETA bashing shows fear of change. The BS spread to put down animal rights organizations is based on fear of humans changing tired, outdated practices/habits that currently exist, to enclude respecting animals, leaving them alone to live their lives.This means humans must evolve to leaving animal products, meat,dairy,eggs out of their diets, not wearing, experimenting upon animals and misusing animals for entertainment, and yes, that includes hunting,trapping thrills too. Humans will live happier lives and society will improve when this evolved way of co-existing with God's creatures occurs.

First, to Lee Eakins, who obviously didn't even read the article... It's about hog wrestling, not hog-dog rodeos.

Comments of people being "in the closet" should probably be reflected on a little deeper, since whatever "proof" PeTA has of people "ripping off fur while (animals) are still alive" are staged, misrepresented, or out-and-out lied about. Anyone with a lick of knowledge about the fur industry or fur in general knows that skinning animals alive isn't worth the loss of money and risk of personal injury. This is, of course, ignoring the comment about mothers losing their babies, some of which don't raise their babies at all, and those that do don't share the kind of attachment human mothers do with human babies, because in the wild they'd lose many of their babies to natural causes like predation anyway.

Of course, PeTA is going to get up in arms about an event at a COUNTY FAIR, where animals are generally showed, judged, then sold for slaughter and eventually eaten, all by families who tend to raise other animals that don't make it to the fair. The comment about comparing the pig to a dog or cat is ridiculous, proving no point whatsoever, except to play on the emotional attachments we have on dogs and cats. PeTA likes to claim that pigs are smarter than dogs, so I find it funny they would compare them to creatures of "lesser" intelligence and brain-functioning, which is pretty much what they accuse meat-eating people of doing.

I also find it hysterical that they call the HSUS a reputable organization, when they're just as flaky as PeTA is. Considering the HSUS's anti-human, lie-infested, total animal liberation agenda, it's no surprise that they're good buddies.

I also like how they mention a completely UNRELATED event (pig-roping) in the letter, as though it proved their point somehow. They're quick to mention a roping event that supposedly happened in some other state, but where are the anecdotes and stories about the cruelties of greasing up hogs?

It's obvious to ANYONE who's even had the SLIGHTEST personal experience with pigs that they're tough as nails. Getting greased up and chased around by a bunch of slow-poke humans isn't going to hurt them any.

And for the record, Dr. Nedim C. Buyukmihci is the president of the Association of Veterinarians for Animal Rights. Well, it's not like PeTA is well-known for using unbiased sources, or anything. I wonder why they're referring to a HUMAN surgeon in regards to pig welfare, too. Then again, I have to wonder why PeTA's PCRM is run by a PSYCHIATRIST.

Well, well Mechelle...I've got some videos for you, though your sweet little intelligent head probably couldn't take it! These animals are ripped of their fur then thrown on a pile and left moaning until they die! I am just baffled on how you come up on here, thinking you are educating us about shit you are obviously oblivious to...Hey, I know! SHUT YOUR MOUTH YOU LONG WINDED FOOL!

Long winded fool, eh? Who needs to grow up here?

Yeah, I've seen that video. That one from China, right? The one that has evidence of STAGING written all over it?

Funny thing is, PeTA didn't make that one, the Swiss Animal Protection Organization did, but that doesn't stop PeTA from eagerly distributing it like Halloween candy. And what's even funnier is that when asked to cough up the original, unedited footage, SAPO refused. Why? What do they have to hide? More importantly, if this is a common occurence in fur production, why did they have to go all the way to CHINA, to a single backwater marketplace, to find this footage? What about the ideosyncracies within the footage that anyone with a bit of logic and a tiny bit of fur knowledge would catch?

Or are we talking about the HSUS video of Karakul lamb pelt production? Which show not only a boatload of illogistics, but resulted in the equivalents of afidavits stating the HSUS asked the workers there to improperly kill a sheep, and that the video was staged.

But that's not even the (if you'll pardon) meat of my previous post, which I noticed you paid no mind to. PeTA is shooting itself in the foot here, as they often do. I'm glad to see the fair board ignored their pleas.

Todd, once again, a fine article. You do know how to poke a stick into a hornets nest.

As an avid hunter and fisherman (PETA demonizes both pursuits) I should be unequivocably opposed to the organization. But what I mostly feel, when I read the occasional article about one of their inappropriate stands, is a regret at the missed opportunity.

There is enormous room for improvement in the way our culture treats its animals. The industrial, inhumane ways in which we raise most of our beef, chicken, and pork (for instance) should be a bruise on all our collective consciences. Rather than taking absurd stands against something as harmless as greased pig catching, PETA should be choosing its battles with an eye toward actually creating some kind of cultural good.

But, alas, PETA is a fundraising bureaucracy, and one whose primary consideration is to simply generate more funds. They know that by picketing fly-fishermen on a stream or by taking issue with rodeos or pig chasing they will attract a bit of press attention, which will in turn lead to higher revenues. They are very talented at being noticed. They are also making a very good living at being divisive and disruptive, creating discord. If they were truly acting in the best interests of animals, they would be working toward consensus, writing letters to the papers in Jackson asking for support on issues that truly matter, not criticizing the community for its pig chasing.

It is an enormous shame that the largest animal rights organization in the country is also one of the most illegitimate.

I'm more concerned about the slaughter and consumption of dogs in parts of Asia.

I have sat here and read all the comments above. I'm like most of the the people above, pencil pushing nothing else to do PETA people need to leave the Southern Heritage alone. Hunting has been around for a long time and will continue to be around unless we all become vegatarians. PETA goes and takes videos of slaughter houses, events of different nature and edits them to where the media thinks oh my gosh!! That is the only way they have a million active people. If PETA wants to help animals, go out and find animal with no homes and take them in (but remember they euthanize these as well), find animal that are being beat or starved. Don't attack the rodeos that have been around forever or the hog-baying (which are sanctioned events), and hunting. Be honest about it, you are no better than the next, you kill alot of animals as well.

I'm amazed at how many of the comments have literally nothing to do with the above article. I am not a member of PETA, know almost nothing about the organization, and even less about its members. None of that has anything to do with my opinion on the subject of hog-wrestling, rodeos, etc. I don't think those things are cruel because of any videos I've seen or propaganda I've read. I think they're cruel because such events force animals to participate in something against their wills, where (purposely or not) they could be injured, and it's supposed to be okay because a few people (all of them are wannabe athletes and wimps, by the way) find it amusing. If you have a different opinion, there's (unfortunately) not much I can do about that, but if you're going to present an alternative viewpoint, the least you could do is stick to the topic, instead of confusing or clouding the issue. That would make you no better than the people you seem to have so much of a problem with for what you feel is doing the same thing.

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I fought for freedom in the desert in 2003, but animal cruelty is not a freedom. It is terrible! On the other hand I do enjoy eating steak and ribs and other things of the sort. I believe too much time and effort is spent on worrying about "fluffy" or " spot" getting kicked around and not enough on Abused children or battered women. These are the true causes we all should be fighting to stop. You never see rallies or demostrations speaking for these people victimized by cruelty or abuse.

It's not hog "wrestling" nor are drunk cowboys involved. Only children participate.

Wow, I'm not even going to slop in the mud with you PETA supporters. How about you work harder on Rodeos, and less on something that is actually an enjoyable time for people of all ages... I will open discussion, when you spend a day at ANY farm across America/World, and see how pampered these pigs are!

I have nothing to say about the article except... "liquored up grabby cowboys"?! What does she think that this is, the 1800's? I am totally offended.