To Whom It May Concern

People Eating Tasty Animals

My sweety recently received something in the mail, I have NO clue where it came from or how it got here *haha*. It was addressed to her with the middle name NOMEAT. Of course, she knew immediately who had sent that to her.

This little package was actually from PETA, it was called a "Vegan Starter Kit" and from the looks of the packaging; colors and stickers and what not, it's aimed at school aged kids, like 8th grade or so. The set of stickers is green and black and they say things like DISSECTION = SCHOOL VIOLENCE and CUT CLASS NOT FROGS. As I read on thru it though, there were phrases like "Factory farms aren't fairy tales, THEY'RE HELL" and "DO YOU GIVE A SHIT?" and "DO YOU GIVE A DAMN", along with NOW GET OFF YOUR ASS..." I was surprised that PETA would do something like this in a promotional pack for kids.

As I read further, I laughed aloud when I got to the part about milk and dairy cows. Nearly everything they put up about the dairy industry was completely false. This was what they said:

"Up to three times a day, dairy cows get electric machines hooked up to their massively swollen udders. Cuts and injuries to their udders are common- and so is mastitis, a painful infection. The pus, blood, and scabs, plus hormones and antibiotics, all end up in that milk mustache."

Misleading, misconceptions, and outright lies. Yes, cows get milked three times a day. That's about the end to the validity of the above statement. Electric machines? Negative, the machines work thru a pulsating pressure device powered by pneumatic vacuum suction, actively simulating the sucking of a baby calf. In many dairies there is no electricity at all running to the 'milkers' as they are called, and in those that are, the only electrical part reads the amount of milk going into the milker and shuts it down at a certain point. There is no use of electricity to do the actual milking of the cow at all, but by saying "electric machines", PETA can mislead people into thinking they are, hence electricity, zapping the cows.

Cuts and injuries are not all that common, and when it does happen, that cow is taken 'offline' and given antibiotics, and injured areas are rubbed down with 'udder balm'. The cow is still milked, but that milk goes into a tank separated from grade A production milk. Mastitis is common in every mammal, even humans get mastitis, and just as humans are treated, as are cattle. Again, the milk from a treated cow goes into a separate tank, so you don't get any antibiotics in your 'milk mustache', as PETA claims. When there are that many lies in one section, the section I am familiar with, that certainly brings into question the authenticity of the entire booklet PETA sent out.

Maybe I'll start a new group, and call it PETOV, "People for the Ethical Treatment Of Vegetables", and target vegans for 'murderous rampages of peace loving plants on our planet" or some such ridiculous crap, after all, if filling a pamphlet with mindless drivel and sending it out to people who, for the most part, couldn't care less about PETA or PETOV. No one is ever going to tell me I cannot eat meat, the day that happens is the day someone will be picking my boot from out their mouth.