PETA Drones - Coming to a Farm Near You - The Farmer's Daughter USA

Coming to a farm near you?

PETA has come up with yet another, though perhaps slightly illegal, idea to combat animal cruelty — drones.

No, no, these aren’t drones that will have missiles on them aimed at killing hunters and farmers; they’ll only be equipped with cameras. (However, I’m pretty PETA probably thought about purchasing that type of drone…)

PETA plans on flying these drones over areas where hunters are specifically, but also “over factory farms, fishing spots and other venues where animals routinely suffer and die.” (Source: CNN International)

PETA President Ingrid Newkirk stated: “The talk is usually about drones being used as killing machines, but PETA drones will be used to save lives.”

Oh sure, I’m positive the only reason PETA wants to employ these videos is so they can catch people doing bad things and put a stop to it. Naturally, the only goal is to be silent warriors for animals.

Uh huh.

We all know what will end up happening. These videos will be shot, edited, and then put out in the public in order to “raise awareness” (read: raise money for PETA) about animal cruelty and efforts to stop it. It’ll become one more attack on animal agriculture. It’ll be just one more effort to turn the American public against our farmers.

PETA isn’t about saving animals. PETA is about being outrageous and raising money. That’s it. Money, money, money. (Just take a look at PETA’s counterpart, HSUS. They don’t exactly spend a large -or small – portion of the their money on actually helping animals.)

I’m not betting on these drones lasting long though. In fact, they’re probably just a publicity stunt, which is pretty much all PETA ever does.

Imagine this:

The scene isn’t that difficult to picture. A fine September day; a painted sky; and the opening day of dove season. A small 20-acre dove field has been prepared — planted back in May with soybeans and sunflowers — and parallel lanes have been cut up and down the acreage. About 30 “slob” hunters line the perimeter of the field and the shooting has been great all morning — a constant rain of falling shot and birds. But even the best dove day has gaps, and during a lull, the field goes quiet — except for chatter and insults thrown back and forth across the lanes. And then, enter stage left, the CineStar Octocopter. It slips over the field, hovers gracefully, and films the “murder” and carnage.

Within seconds, one of the “slobs” spots the Octocopter, points up in the air and sounds the alarm, “There’s that %^*&*#@ PETA drone.” The rest of the story is academic, but suffice to say, more shotgun shells are unloaded on the drone than have been fired over the field all morning. The drone, maiden voyage or not, doesn’t make a return flight to Ingrid Newkirk’s base. And if a 12 gauge doesn’t reach high enough, a deer rifle will.

There simply aren’t many U.S. hunters that will abide PETA’s drone intrusion — shotgun, rifle, stick or rock. Simple advice to PETA: If you are really going down the drone route, then buy a fleet of ’em — you will need plenty of backups.

(Source: Western Farm Press)

Sounds about right. Any farmer that sees this dumb thing should act the same way.

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