Friday, September 02, 2005

PETA Continues to Use Religious Images
The radical activist group, People for the Ethical Treatment of animals uses jarring religious images to make its point.
By HUGH S. MOORE

(RNS) Activists from the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals stood outside the U.S. Capitol handing out pamphlets in front of an exhibit they called "Animal Liberation."

Like many PETA efforts, this one, in mid-August, employed jarring imagery some find religiously offensive. A billboard depicted a gaunt Holocaust prisoner next to a picture of a laboratory monkey, noting that both were "experimented on.

"It's a decade-old but, according to PETA, effective strategy. The 850,000-member organization based in Norfolk, Va., displays images and slogans connected to Judaism and Christianity, all in an effort to equate animal and human suffering.

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