You know Lauren you really are a piece of work. Your uncontrollable and
obsessive compulsive hatred for one company bleeds through with everything
you do.

Your "facts" above are a joke. First of all they come from PETA who is
unquestionably a disgusting organization. Considering they would ban your
ability to even own a pet, I cannot fathom your support of them. Considering
thier cash support for convicted terrorists, considering thier disgusting
comparison of chickens to Jewish Holocaust victims, considering the fact
that they spend less that 1/10th of 1% on animals and the rest goes to
salaries and the list goes on and on. View this web site for further
information about the amazing Peta organization.

http://www.consumerfreedom.com/

Now as to your allegations, you know exactly what you've done. You have
deliberately inferred that Hill's conducts testing similar to the Peta
purported IAMS video which is BS and you know it. Hill's does do testing on
animals to satisfy AAFCO feeding requirments. Hill's does do _NON_ invasive
testing to learn new advances in nutrition. Hill's continues to do testing
on nutritional products which have saved literally hundreds of thousands of
animals over the past fifty years. That very testing which delivered the
ability to correct most canine victims of canine Alzheimer's and is now
being applied to humans with this ghastly disease. That testing which
provided the very basis for understanding cat and dog nutrition over the
past fifty years. In case Lauren misses it non-invasive means no surgical
procedures of any kind.

But then Lauren knew all this all along, she just couldn't resist taking
deliberate and deceptive pot shots at a company she has an obsessive hatred
for.

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has been described as
"by far the most successful radical organization in America." The key word
is radical. PETA seeks "total animal liberation," according to its president
and co-founder, Ingrid Newkirk. That means no meat or dairy, of course; but
it also means no aquariums, no circuses, no hunting or fishing, no fur or
leather, and no medical research using animals. PETA is even opposed to the
use of seeing-eye dogs.
Amidst the dozens of animal rights organizations, PETA occupies the niche
of -- in Newkirk's own words -- "complete press sluts." Endlessly seeking
media exposure, PETA sends out dozens of press releases every week.

In the past, PETA has handled the press for the Animal Liberation Front
(ALF), a violent, underground group of fanatics who plant firebombs in
restaurants, destroy butcher shops, and torch research labs. The FBI
considers ALF among America's most active and prolific terrorist groups, but
PETA compares it to the Underground Railroad and the French Resistance. More
than 20 years after its inception, PETA continues to hire convicted ALF
militants and funds their legal defense. In at least one case, court records
show that Ingrid Newkirk herself was involved in an ALF arson.
PETA has even begun to adopt the tactics of an ALF offshoot known as SHAC
(Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty). This group is notorious for taking
protests outside the boardroom and into the living room, attacking their
targets at their homes.

In 2001, three masked SHAC members brutally bludgeoned a medical researcher
outside his home in England. The lead attacker was arrested and sentenced to
three years in prison. A few months later, SHAC attacked another research
industry employee on his doorstep with a chemical spray to his eyes, leaving
him temporarily blinded and writhing in pain. The following year, Newkirk
was asked her opinion of SHAC in the Boston Herald. Her response? "More
power to SHAC if they can get someone's attention."

By 2003, PETA activists had adopted SHAC's protest techniques, stalking and
harassing fast-food restaurant executives. Not content to write letters and
picket the chain restaurant's offices, PETA's leaders met with the CEO's
pastor, and visited his country club and the manager of one of his favorite
restaurants. PETA activists, one dressed in a chicken suit, even protested
at the church of two executives, annoying worshipers by driving a truck with
giant screens of slaughterhouse video back and forth along the street.

In an effort to win more media exposure, PETA has adopted the
counter-intuitive tactic of buying stock in restaurant and food companies
that serve and sell meat. After buying just enough shares to qualify, PETA's
pattern is to introduce shareholder resolutions that would require
animal-rights-oriented practices in the way animals are handled and
slaughtered.

PETA's goal as a shareholder, of course, is not to turn a profit. Its
resolutions, if passed, would increase the cost of doing business and lower
the value of everyone's investment. The group has claimed that it's "not
trying to remove meat from the menu." But with a stated long-term goal of
"total animal liberation," pushing for animal-welfare changes is just a
first step. PETA's short-term goals are to economically cripple these
companies, force them to increase the retail price of meat, and nudge
consumers toward eating less of it.

PETA collected more than $16 million in donations in 2002 alone, but few
donors understand exactly where their money is going. During the past ten
years, PETA has spent four times as much on criminals and their legal
defense than it has on shelters, spay-neuter programs, and other efforts
that actually help animals.
From both a moral and a legal standpoint, there are far too many
objectionable things about PETA to list here in detail. But the following
"top ten list" is a good start:

PETA is not an animal welfare organization.

PETA spends less than one percent of its multi-million dollar budget
actually helping animals. The group euthanized (killed) more than 1,300 cats
and dogs in 1999 alone, preferring to spend its money on cheap publicity
stunts and criminal defense, rather than finding the animals suitable homes.

PETA assaults common decency.

PETA's leadership has compared animal farmers to serial killer (and
cannibal) Jeffrey Dahmer. They proclaimed in a 2003 exhibit that chickens
are as valuable as Jewish Holocaust victims. They announced with a 2001
billboard that a shark attack on a little boy was "revenge" against humans
who had it coming anyway. They have branded parents who feed their kids meat
and milk "child abusers." In 2002 PETA organized a campaign to sabotage a
popular Thanksgiving hotline, which provides free advice about cooking
turkeys. The group has even contemplated (literally) dancing on the grave of
Kentucky Fried Chicken's Colonel Sanders. And in 2003, PETA president Ingrid
Newkirk wrote to Yasser Arafat, pleading with him to make certain no animals
are harmed in Palestinian suicide-bombing attacks.

PETA receives rock-bottom ratings from charity watchdogs.
Charity Navigator, the nation's largest nonpartisan evaluator of non-profit
organizations, gives PETA a rating of one-star ("poor"). It says PETA "fails
to meet industry standards and performs well below most charities in its
cause." PETA's "Foundation to Support Animal Protection" -- now doing
business as "The PETA Foundation" -- was one of just 23 organizations
nationwide to receive zero stars ("exceptionally poor").

PETA peddles its "animal liberation" food agenda through a medical front
group that pretends to offer objective nutritional advice.
A group misleadingly named the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
(PCRM) has duped the press into believing that it is an association of
conscientious doctors promoting good nutrition. In fact, it is a PETA front
group. PCRM and PETA share money, offices, and staff. The American Medical
Association calls PCRM a "pseudo-physicians group," has demanded that PCRM
stop its "inappropriate and unethical tactics used to manipulate public
opinion," and argues that PCRM has been "blatantly misleading Americans" and
"concealing its true purpose as an animal 'rights' organization."

Taking a page out of PETA's press book, PCRM has labeled U.S. school lunches
"weapons of mass destruction" because they include meat and milk. PCRM's
president, a psychiatrist named Neal Barnard, recently duped Newsweek into
covering his "study" (of seven people) supposedly demonstrating that a vegan
diet helped prevent type-2 diabetes. In 2002, PCRM was cited in major
newspapers more than 550 times. It was identified as an animal-rights
organization in only a handful of those cases.

PETA exploits sick people.
PETA famously suggested that drinking milk causes cancer, in an
advertisement mocking then-NYC Mayor Rudy Guliani with the words "Got
Prostate Cancer?" PETA has also erected a billboard reading: "Got Sick Kids?
Drinking milk contributes to colic, ear infections, allergies, diabetes,
obesity, and many other illnesses." In 2003 the group held a demonstration
in front of a Toronto-area hospital that was under a SARS-related
quarantine, spuriously alleging that animal husbandry has something to do
with the epidemic's spread. Upon hearing that Charlton Heston had fallen ill
with Alzheimer's Disease, Ingrid Newkirk suggested that PETA would "toy with
the idea that both Alzheimer's and CJD [Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease] are
related to meat consumption." According to a profile in The New Yorker, she
considered "renting billboards that would display a large picture of a gaunt
Charlton Heston foaming at the mouth."

PETA propagandizes children.
PETA's website for kids puts a skull and crossbones next to the logo of
Disney's Animal Kingdom and tells the horror story of a fast food restaurant
employee who "had taken a patty into the potty with her, then returned and
said she had peed on it." It hands out trading cards to kids that allege
drinking milk will make them fat, pimply, flatulent, and phlegm-ridden. PETA
also has a child-themed website, and a kiddie-oriented magazine, called
GRRR! Kids Bite Back. The name is significant, as it is intended to prep
children to identify with the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), which has
long-used the phrase "bite back" in its promotional materials. In fact, as
early as 1991, convicted ALF arsonist and PETA grantee Rodney Coronado was
calling his own crime spree "Operation Bite Back." PETA also sends "humane
education lecturer" Gary Yourofsky into high schools -- and even middle
schools -- to promote the "animal liberation" agenda. Yourofsky is a
convicted ALF criminal who has said he would support burning down medical
research labs even if humans were trapped in the flames.

PETA distorts religious teachings.
Not only does PETA oppose the age-old Jewish tradition of Kosher slaughter,
but the group's leaders maintain that Jews have misinterpreted their own
sacred texts on the subject. They also claim, ignoring mountains of
scripture to the contrary, that Jesus was a vegetarian. PETA celebrated
Easter in 2003 with a billboard depicting a pig, reading "he died for your
sins." PETA also insists (again, selectively ignoring contradictory
evidence) that Muhammad "was not a meat-eater." In his speeches to
adolescents, Gary Yourofsky regularly compares himself to Gandhi and Jesus
Christ. PETA's in-school presentations include the application of "do unto
others as you would have them do unto you" to birds and turtles -- not
people.

PETA opposes life-saving medical research.
PETA has repeatedly attacked groups like the March of Dimes, the Pediatric
AIDS Foundation, and the American Cancer Society, for conducting animal
testing to find cures for birth defects and life-threatening diseases. When
asked if she would oppose an experiment on five thousand rats if it would
result in a cure for AIDS, Newkirk responded: "Would you be opposed to
experiments on your daughter if you knew it would save fifty million
people?" In addition to opposing any and all medical research that uses
animals, PETA also insults medical professionals by arguing, with a straight
face, that animal testing is a counterproductive means of finding cures for
human diseases.

PETA devalues human life.
PETA's efforts to treasure every mosquito and cockroach invariably lead them
to hate human beings for using bug spray and RAID. Ingrid Newkirk argues
that as human beings, "we're the biggest blight on the face of the earth."
For more on how PETA devalues human life, click on "Motivation."

PETA openly supports violence and terrorist activity.
PETA has long-standing ties to militant groups like the Animal Liberation
Front (ALF), and the Earth Liberation Front (ELF). The FBI calls these
criminal groups a "serious terrorist threat." For specifics on how PETA
supports violence, click on "Black Eye."

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