Animal rights loonies nonpareil, PETA, brought down an avalanche of opprobrium on their heads last year when they attacked the late Steve Irwin. The blow-back was, to put it mildly, harsh. Still, whether it’s murdering dogs and cats and piling them in dumpsters or insulting the memory of beloved celebrities, there’s apparently no publicity too bad for PETA.
Now, I was never the biggest fan of Steve Irwin, whom I always regarded as an over-animated drongo, but PETA’s posthumous attack was particularly ill-informed, even by their low standards. In any case, the Irwin kids seem to have turned out pretty well – and going after the late “wildlife warrior’s” kids is a new low, even for the puppy-killers.
Robert Irwin has been named in an investigation by animal rights group PETA into alleged animal cruelty on television.
The group is calling for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to be investigated for allowing celebrities to handle animals for entertainment when they weren’t qualified to do so.
And there’s PETA’s endgame tacitly exposed: they don’t want anyone to own or handle animals.
“Animals suffer every time they’re exposed to the chaos of a television set and passed around like props,” PETA said in a statement to Page Six…
PETA’s letter…expressed their dissatisfaction with Robert Irwin for handling an alligator, a millipede, and a miniature horse on separate occasions, citing them as examples of ‘cruel’ practice.
It’s also a ridiculous, infantile argument to claim that having animals on a television set is making them “suffer”. Certainly, some animals will experience a small degree of stress from the noise and lights, but being a little bit frightened by an unusual situation is not suffering. This is the gambit that animal activists use all the time: exaggerating even the smallest situation as “suffering”. This is so much nonsense: knocking your funny bone is painful, but hardly “suffering”. Getting a fright is momentarily stressful, but most certainly not suffering.
A celebrity handling an animal on live tv might be more or less stressful, depending on the animal, but to call that “suffering” and “cruel” is to render the words meaningless.
“The PETA people hate Steve Irwin,” said entertainment reporter Peter Ford.
“They still, after all these years, they go after him. They hate any TV show showing animals and they hate animals in captivity of any kind.”
7news.com.au/the-morning-show/robert-irwin-named-in-peta-investigation-over-animal-cruelty-on-jimmy-fallon
If there’s one thing such “compassionate” folk know how to do, it’s hate.