Washington, DC – People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
(PETA) targets children as young as six years old for
indoctrination with violent and graphic propaganda, according
to a new report from the Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF).
The $24 million animal rights group targets kids at every
age level, sidestepping parents and school authorities
to lure young and impressionable children into radical
activism. Some of these same children mature into hard-core
animal rights criminals. This new report walks readers
through PETA's coordinated effort, which includes the
use of graphic comic books, age-specific websites, grotesque
toys, schoolyard demonstrations, and e-mail alerts sent
directly to small children.
Psychologists
and school officials have denounced PETA's propaganda
tactics. “Some of the graphics and some of the messages
are very, very disturbing – especially to younger kids,”
said Dr. Jeffrey Dolgan, chief of psychology at Children's
Hospital in Denver. “Children become the unwitting victims
of some campaigns, which are, in fact, harmful because
they prey on children's fears, and they prey on children's
vulnerabilities, and they prey on children's anxieties.”
PETA's
2003 annual report boasts of reaching more than 2.3 million
children and teachers using a variety of reckless tactics:
College
– PETA sponsors college-oriented conferences where hard-core
activists teach arson, vandalism, and police confrontation;
intern program provides students and recent grads with
hands-on protest experience; PETA recruits additional
activists via sponsorships of summer rock-concert tours.
