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Save the Animals: 101 Easy Things You Can Do

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Ingrid Newkirk's "You Can Save the Animals" is a must read if you care about justice and the hidden secrets of animal abusers. "You Can Save the Animals" allows us to take a look behind those closed doors to examine our ethics and morals. Ingrid brings knowledge of animal abuse to those uninformed, she exposes the facts many animal abusers wish to silence. We can ask ourselves, who and why would some wish the book not be read? What would they have to gain or lose? Sue Schumacher

While some of the tips are actually worthwhile, they can be found in many other worthier books, and the mere fact that PETA and particularly Ingrid Newkirk are involved should make anyone immediately wary. For instance, near the beginning of the book (I think it was on page 16) she says that you should put a message on your telephone answering machine to the effect that "Every quarter-pounder [of beef] contains 55 acres of rainforest." THIS IS AN ENORMOUS LIE of MONSTROUS proportions!!! PROOF: (This may be boring so you can skip down to the *** if you want to quickly read the conclusion.) There are 3.5 billion acres of rainforest in the world. (Google it. The statistic was released in 1999, and there's no doubt fewer acres now.) There are at least 300 million people in the USA alone, eating an average of about 67 pounds of beef (thus 268 quarter-pounds) a year. (Per the USDA.) That equals 80.4 billion quarter pounders a year, VERY LITTLE of which actually comes from "rainforest cattle." (We get about ten percent of our beef from Canada, and the vast majority of the rest is grown here on the US farms and rangelands.) Now, do the math, which is grade-school level. 3.5 billion acres divided by units of 55 acres equals 63.6 million units of 55 acres each. If there are 80.4 billion quarter pounders consumed annually, each containing "55 acres of rainforest," that would require 4,422 billion acres of rainforest a year. To do this, *** we would need to strip ALL of the existing acres of an immediately-and-magically-renewing rainforest off the face of the entire earth every 7 HOURS! If every inch of the planet's land surface were rainforest, including all that is presently deserts, tundra, glaciers, parking lots, street pavement, lake surfaces, cities, buildings, etc., it would need to be stripped of all vegetation about every three days, IF THIS LIE WERE TRUE! See how far from reality it is, and why I characterize it as MONSTROUS? And it doesn't even consider the massive beef consumption in South America, Central America, Europe, and increasingly in China and Japan. This isn't the only lie, just the first one I spotted, and I don't have time to refute others. BOYCOTT PETA! Their goal of "Total Animal Liberation" includes eventually taking away the supposedly "exploited" Seeing Eye dogs for the blind, service dogs for the injured or disabled, search-and-rescue dogs for the victims of disasters or missing people such as small children or senior citizens who wander off into the woods, bomb-sniffing dogs who protect us from terrorists, police K9 dogs who protect us and the officers who use them from criminals, pets such as cats, dogs, and even parakeets etc. for lonely old people or others who want to experience the joys of such companionship, and many other radical assaults on our society. Support the ASPCA or your LOCAL no-kill shelters, and be a responsible pet "owner." Be a vegetarian if you want. Quit throwing away food and wasting gas. There, I've saved you the price of this book.

someone gave us a whole bunch of used books over the weekend, and my kids were going to read this, so i picked it up to see what it was talking about... this book is BAD! in a way this book has too much gory details about animal cruelty, your kids will most likely get nightmares and refuse to eat meat afterward...

if a mature adult read it, it would perfectly fine, you can decide on your own future preference about animal cruelty... but for kids to get their hands on this book, it would be a big mistake!!

at least it should have a big warning sign saying PG-13 or something...