PETA - A group of wonderful people, but a little nutty sometimes

by Joel Hendon⁽⁹⁹⁾
http://hebronics.org/index.html

Not many people love animals better than I do. And I appreciate the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) for their compassion and love for about all animal life. But they go to the extreme now and then...in fact an awful lot.

For instance, they scold people for eating meat...any kind. And I see where they have now challenged the translators of the New International Version of the Holy Bible for translating words pertaining to animals as “it”, rather than “she” or “he”. Here is a quote to make their point:

Bruce Friedrich, PETA vice-president of policy and practicing Roman Catholic, says "Language matters. Calling an animal ‘it’ denies them something. They are beloved by God. They glorify God," and, "God’s covenant is with humans and animals. God cares about animals" ("PETA: Don’t call animals ‘it’ in the Bible", Eric Marrapodi, CNN Belief Blog Co-Editor).

It is obvious that Mr. Friedrich has a limited knowledge of the bible. Genesis 9:3 tells us that the animals were created for man’s food. And the book of Leviticvus, especially chapter 1:4-17, explains in detail how the animals are to be slaughtered for the various sacrifices, yet Mr. Friedrich says that the way animals are treated in slaughter houses “mock God”.

I am for anything which will reduce or eliminate the inflicting of pain and suffering on animals when they are being slaughtered. But to infer that it is a mockery toward God is going a bit far.

Their asking the translators of the New International Version (NIV) to change the references from “it” to “he’ or “she”, is nothing short of silly. Many of he Arabic and Hebrew terms are gender neutral, applies to either male or female. Beside that, please find me an animal which gives a hoot as to which gender you call “it”. PETA can accomplish more by sticking to valid reasons for people to be more merciful to animals.

I had a little Rat Terrier dog, with whom I had a mutual love and respect for, as he did for me. If I ever happened to hit him or step back onto him, he would recoil and yelp. But as soon as I reached down and told him how sorry I was, he recovered and became hyper just knowing I did not intend to hurt him. Sadly, he became old and reached the point that he didn’t even know who I was. Once during that period, I was setting a bowl of food down for him and accidentally bumped his nose, at which he yelped and sprang back. What brought tears to my eyes was that even though I tried to pet him and assure him it was accidental, he moved away from my touch. His lack of remembrance and lack of recognition had removed all trust in me.

Animals feel pain just as surely as do you and I. They also have feelings and love which can cause them hurt and confusion when it is betrayed. Be kind to animals but don’t get silly about it.

Article submitted Sunday, April 10, 2011 & read 568 times.

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» left by Lorrie Davids⁽⁶⁹¹⁾ (1 year 37 days ago.)

As always, Joel, good points well written! Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
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