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Enviro activists impervious to human suffering

October 21, 2002

Blessed are they who do not have to rely on the thinking of environmental activists in life-threatening situations.

Until the frost began to set in, West Nile disease was a frightening prospect for Americans.

In its well-publicized opposition to the use of pesticide spraying, The New York Green Party went on the public record to say, "These diseases only kill the old people whose health is already poor."

Try thinking of that statement coupled with a mental picture of an elderly relative.

Nor is the Green Party the only organization to make light of human death as a result of West Nile disease.

According to Walter Williams of the Washington Times, there are the words of environment activist Lynn Landes: "West Nile may be a nasty experience for a very few, fatal for an exceedingly rare number, but as diseases go it’s no big deal."

Says Williams: "According to the most recent Centers for Disease Control statistics, 2,530 Americans have been infected with West Nile disease and 125 died, but to environmentalists that’s "no big deal".

"American deaths due to environmental activist callousness pale in comparison to other countries. How about a few statistics? In 1972, the activist-controlled Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) banned DDT, a pesticide once considered a "miracle" for all the lives it saved by killing the mosquitoes that carried malaria. The ban went into effect despite the evidence that with proper use it posed no health hazard to humans and only little substantial harm to animals. The EPA ban led to diminished DDT production, making the pesticide less available to the world.

"What were the effects? In what is now Sri Lanka, there were 2.800,000 malaria cases and 7,300 malaria deaths in 1948; with the use of DDT there were only 17 cases and no deaths in 1964. After DDT use was discontinued, Sri Lanka malaria cases rose to 500,000 in 1969.

"Worldwide, malaria’s devastating effects all but ended during the time DDT use was widespread, roughly from 1950 to 1970. DDT was seen as such a miracle that it earned Dr. Paul Muller the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1948. In 1970, a committee of the National Academy of Science wrote: ‘To only a few chemicals does man owe as great a debt as to DDT. In a little more than two decades, DDT has prevented 500 million deaths due to malaria that otherwise would have been inevitable.’

"According to the World Health Organization, now about 2.5 million people die of malaria each year. Most of the victims are in Africa and are children. According to the American Council on Science and Health President, Dr. Elizabeth Whelan, some 60 million or more lives have been needlessly lost since the ban on DDT took effect. Whelan says, ‘It’s a real tragedy that DDT has been so demonized over the years by activist organizations such as Environmental Defense and the regulatory bodies that they have duped.’

"C.S. Lewis made an observation applicable to do-gooders everywhere: ‘Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.’"


Students drench PETA activists with milk

The hilarity of a saturation milk bath given to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) activists has made them the butt of jokes.

Police in Aberdeen Scotland had to rescue two PETA activists from school children.

Sean Gifford of PETA and an unidentified man dressed in a cow-suit had planned a peaceful protest at the gates of the Grammar School to let pupils know about the claimed hazards in milk. Instead angry school children pelted the activists with cartons of milk.

Even more humiliating for PETA, two female police officers had to move in to the rescue when teenaged pupils of the school launched a violent protest of their own.

It must have been frightening for the activists when 100 children chanting, "milk for the masses" and waving banners, surrounded Gifford and his "cow" sidekick drenching them both in milk for about 10 minutes. The police eventually intervened and escorted the PETA members back to their car.

Said Gifford of the misadventure: "I have travelled all over the UK with this protest and I have never seen anything like this before. It must be something to do with children in Aberdeen. I think they just got a bit over-excited. I’m sure they will still go home and think about our message."

The Aberdeen protest was the latest in PETA’s nationwide drive to publicize what it claims are dangers in drinking milk. They have been handing out cards with cartoon pictures of characters suffering from wind, spots and obesity as a result of dairy products.

The cards tell kids to "give cows a break" and to "be kind to animals and your butt and your gut" by avoiding milk.

But one pupil, Alan Smith, 16, said: "This is a stupid idea. We should be encouraged to drink milk and I certainly won’t stop drinking milk just because a man has dressed up as a cow outside my school."

Meanwhile, there are no reports if the two PETA activists made it home in time to change before the milk soured.


The Sea Shepherd terrorist

Paul Watson, formerly of Greenpeace, now CEO of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, has a reputation for making inflammatory remarks.

"There’s nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win," is his latest.

According to Consumerfreedom.com, "Watson, whose criminal actions on behalf of cetacean creatures have landed him in the jails of at least three countries, was a fixture at this year’s Animal Rights 2002 conference near our nation’s capital."

The Farm Animal Reform Movement operated the conference.


The comedians of PETA

The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) whose detractors say border on terrorism, could find more meaningful employment going into the comedy business.

First came the antics, which saw them, frightened off the protest scene by a group of Scottish school children. The next comedy show came when they tried unsuccessfully to curb the advertising style of the California Milk Advisory Board. PETA reported the board to the FCC for false advertising because its television ads claim "California cheese comes from happy cows".

This from a group that enraged school children with advertisements advising them to protect their butts and guts by staying off milk.

When it comes to advertising acumen, PETA activists are now back at the drawing board.



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