Comments on: Got Dairy Farm? Reality Check Response to PETA video

By: kat

kat — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 20:10:54 +0000

Great Job Cathy..I'm so sick of the ignorance to farming by these PETA people

By: Kim

Kim — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 01:27:58 +0000

Cathy, your post was right on. I have volunteered on a dairy farm. I was all fumble fingers learning to milk the barn. After three or four milkings I was right in the groove. I loved the work! I've since worked in an environmental lab, a 17,000 acre farming and ranching operation, and in the trucking business. The trucking business is our own and has allowed our family to return to the farm life. We raise beef cattle in a seed stock enterprise. Your correct we care about the health of our cattle. Health means the difference between profit and loss. We are CEO's, accountants, marketing experts, in a manner of speaking vets, soil scientists, mechanics on our tractors and equipment, laborers, find time to care for the trucking business, manage a household, and provide a college education for our children without aid from the government.

As for Pam, like the rest of PETA and HSUS animal rights folks, you can't give facts. You have been blinded by shock value images!

And the thing which constantly irritates me the most about the general population is that farmers and ranchers aren't dumb. The things Cathy listed and I listed are a never ending process of learning. Most of our nations population has no idea how to produce food. If for any reason there is a failure in the supply chain of food the greatest majority of our country would immediately go hungry. I won't.

Thanks for a great blog.

By: southdakotacowgirl

southdakotacowgirl — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:05:10 +0000

Great Article, Cathy! I appreciate the time it took you to write this. Thank you for sharing the word about people in ag.

By: Pam Ernest

Pam Ernest — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 21:15:56 +0000

Bull**** to you animal exploiters…in response to this article I will donate another $100 to Peta

By: sarah

sarah — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 05:57:45 +0000

Very good article cathy,

these people use the ploy pulling on peoples heart strings to milk them out of money my great grandfather owned a dairy and my mother said he was extremely meticulous about his cattles health and well being.

I myself grew up on a ranch and cattle are to me dirty animals and you are right the love to lay on manure you pile manure in the middle of a 2 acre pen and put 10 cows in 9 of those 10 will be on the manure pile thats just cows.

I hope more people read this and realise that Hurting the cow isnt smart business practice

By: javajoe

javajoe — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:18:57 +0000

PETA is primarily a propaganda machine, and does very little to actually improve conditions for animals. It seems almost a crime that PETA can claim tax-free status as a "charitable organization," all the while using charitable donation to unfairly attack legitimate businesses such as dairy farms.

The world is not a perfect place. Animals get sick, so do humans. Every instance of illness does not translate to widespread cruelty in farming practices.

PETA should have its tax-free status revoked. It is an anti-social, uncharitable organization with not much different, in my view, than terrorist groups like ALF and ELF.

By: Sharky

Sharky — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:12:57 +0000

Very nice article, Cathy. PETA's wanting to help animals is admirable, but their methods are far from helpful. Posing naked in front of stores that sell fur and leather do nothing to help animals, except make the people who do it look like idiots. Neither do harassing and threatening people. Most farmers would never treat their animals like PETA claims. Abuse would stress the animals out, producing poor quality meat, fur, and leather. Believe me, poor-quality would taste terrible, and people don't want that. They want good-tasting meat, and treating animals very well is the way to go. PETA always makes claims that animals are defenseless. Any farmer would tell you that animals are far from defenseless. In fact, they can be very dangerous. I don't know how many farmers have been trampled, kicked, and bitten by the cows they feed or pecked by the chickens and turkeys they handle. Wild animals aren't defenseless either. Most animals have some kind of weapon they use to defend themselves and fight. Examples include lions using their teeth and claws to get at each other or to horde food and zebras kicking at predators to defend their foals or to establish dominance. All that PETA wants is attention, and they'll do anything to get it. They use celebrity spokespersons like Pamela Anderson to get their message out, and most of them are questionable in their support for the organization. In fact, many of them are B-listers whose careers are fading fast or going nowhere. If PETA would focus on the small number of people who do abuse animals, then I would respect them. Unfortunately, they choose to accuse anyone who use animals in even the slightest way of animal cruelty. They did some good for animals when they first started, but now, all they care about is getting money for their own selfish gain.

By: Mel

Mel — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:41:39 +0000

PETA hater – there are 6.6 billion people on the earth… but only about 200 MILLION cattle.

And, I'm one of those that has high suspicions about the ad too – because even I know a cow (or horse) on its side means it's got severe health issues or is dead. Unfortunately, people like PETA are so moronic that they don't really know the truth – they've probably NEVER been to these places or if they have, they realize that there ISN'T what they claim and they manipulate it to fit their view.

It's like Ringling – that circus has been around for decades, and if they're abusing elephants, I would expect that the perps are fired. They have also hired (I don't know if she's still there or not) a tiger tamer before who DIDN'T use a whip or fire – and totally respected the animals (never mauled BTW – but did get a few scratches).

When I've challenged PETA to give the USDA UNEDITED footage, they said "We don't have to – the footage speaks for itself." They maintained that status when I even said that every common joe knows damn well that they heavily edit footage and it could read manipulating.

PETA obviously knows what it's doing – it's manipulating information to get what they want – money. IMHO, they're not a NFP, they're an entertainment industry now and should have that status – and ensuing tax breaks – revoked.

By: peta hater

peta hater — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:41:44 +0000

Someone needs to make a response video.

By: peta hater

peta hater — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 06:12:14 +0000

Thank you Cathy for a very well written article.

peta is milking this video for all it is worth. They are pleading for donations on Facebook to "save" calves. They are using the pretense that they will "help" calves by putting them in sanctuaries, they claim they can save billions if only people will donate, and people are so gullible, they have already collected over $50,000.

I don't know where they would get billions of calves (even if what they say is true, and I know it's not) as there are only around 100 million cattle in the US in total.

This campaign shows the complete absurdity of peta, the organisation that claimed it was too expensive to rehome cats and dogs.