P.E.T.A - Are you kidding me!?
StickFlicker
6/4/07 9:34pm
PETA Proposes Excise Tax on Meat
PETA wants you to pay ten cent tax on meat
June 4, 2007 (National)
Are you a meat and potatoes kind of guy? If you like a good burger and fries, or fried chicken and biscuits, animal activists think you ought to pay more for your meal.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has kicked off a new “Tax Meat” Campaign, proposing a $.10 per pound excise tax to be paid on meat, the same way that gasoline, tobacco, and alcohol taxes are paid so that tax is calculated into the retail price.
PETA suggests that money raised by its “Tax Meat” scheme could be “put into health education and preventative medicine.” Translation – the money could be used to advocate vegetarian and vegan diets and promote the animal rights movement.
Animal activists have also asked federal lawmakers to give tax breaks to those who have sworn off the consumption of animals.
On May 30, PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk sent letters to Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nanci Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid urging them to extend vegetarians the tax breaks that hybrid car owners receive for purchasing vehicles with low carbon emissions. She claims vegetarians are responsible for fewer greenhouse-gas emissions and environmental degradations than meat-eaters.
PETA wants you to pay ten cent tax on meat
June 4, 2007 (National)
Are you a meat and potatoes kind of guy? If you like a good burger and fries, or fried chicken and biscuits, animal activists think you ought to pay more for your meal.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has kicked off a new “Tax Meat” Campaign, proposing a $.10 per pound excise tax to be paid on meat, the same way that gasoline, tobacco, and alcohol taxes are paid so that tax is calculated into the retail price.
PETA suggests that money raised by its “Tax Meat” scheme could be “put into health education and preventative medicine.” Translation – the money could be used to advocate vegetarian and vegan diets and promote the animal rights movement.
Animal activists have also asked federal lawmakers to give tax breaks to those who have sworn off the consumption of animals.
On May 30, PETA founder Ingrid Newkirk sent letters to Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives Nanci Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid urging them to extend vegetarians the tax breaks that hybrid car owners receive for purchasing vehicles with low carbon emissions. She claims vegetarians are responsible for fewer greenhouse-gas emissions and environmental degradations than meat-eaters.
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I can't write what I'm thinking.
If you could get in side of thier heads , there would be plenty of room !!
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You have to watch this again !! Every time i do I laugh so hard !! :)) :))
Veggies are NOT food, they are what food eats!
PRO
Are you serious? junk food?
LMHO!!!
I was just trolling around. I know you all get a lot of enjoyment out of shooting creatures and I don't have a right to tell you otherwise because it's hard for people like you to learn... It's not gonna further my cause. No I'm not a yuppy but yes I am from California and I am very proud about that. But you should know that most people in California don't feel the same way I do. It's a pure coincidence.
To the guy who stated I may feel different if I went on a nature hike in the mountains with him... Well nature includes the animals, of course. Why kill that beauty? Anyway enjoy, I know what I say is a waste of breath to most ignorant Americans.
Here's something that the media won't share with you.
Thank you for your link! =D>