The item below is from the PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) website. My question is, when did PETA become a subsidiary of The Onion? Has it always been one?

Keep Pregnant Women Out for the Sake of Their Sons' Sex Organs, PETA Tells Buffalo Wing Festival

Ill-Conceived Contest Could Impact Offspring's Penis Size

PETA's letter to National Buffalo Wing Festival founder Drew Cerza follows.

August 15, 2013

Drew Cerza, Founder

National Buffalo Festival

Dear Mr. Cerza:

You may remember hearing from us a few years back, when we requested that you cancel the wing-eating competitions at the National Buffalo Wing Festival because of the cruelty inherent in poultry production. I'm reaching out again to ask you at least to take steps to ensure the safety of pregnant women by barring them from taking part in your contests. As I will explain, consuming poultry while pregnant may lead to birth defects in utero, including smaller-than-average penises for newborn boys. I think we can agree that embarrassment and insecurity are no small matters.

Findings published by the Study for Future Families showed that eating poultry during pregnancy may lead to smaller penis size in male infants. Looking at dairy products, eggs, fish, fruit, bird meat, potatoes, tomatoes, vegetables, and red meat, researchers found the most significant link between chicken consumption and decreased penis size because of a chemical compound found in the meat. Furthermore, evidence indicates that heterosexual women's sexual satisfaction depends in part on their partner's penis size.

Even the cruelest of bedroom ridicule pales in comparison to the suffering that smart, sensitive chickens endure for the wings so casually consumed in contests such as these. Chickens raised for meat are bred and drugged to grow so large, so fast, that they are prone to crippling leg injuries and heart attacks. After a lifetime in cramped, filthy sheds, chickens are sent to the slaughterhouse, where their throats are cut while they are still conscious and their bodies are dunked in scalding-hot water. In addition, eating cholesterol-laden chicken flesh during pregnancy may also increase unborn babies' risk of being born with blocked arteries, which can lead to strokes and heart attacks later in life.

Now that you are well endowed with this information, I hope you will have the backs of future Buffalo residents and visitors by not allowing their pregnant mothers to participate in the wing-eating contest. I hope to hear from you soon.

Sincerely,

Lindsay Rajt

Associate Director of Campaigns

http://www.peta.org/mediacenter/news-re ... tival.aspx

This only goes to confirm my belief about PETA as a bunch of carrot eating rabbits who wants nothing more then to tell you how bad you are and how bad you treat pets so to take them in and KILL THEM for their own good.

River

It's real! OMG it's really real...

It's PETA being PETA and making the case for vegetarianism on small penises...

When I read it I thought it was a joke but it's real.

Eat those chicken wings and your son grows up with a tiny penis.

IT's saltpeter and hairy palms and dementia all over again.

I wonder if this happens to little boys who love chicken, too?

I guess I'll have to tell my Godson's wife to stop feeding the toddler chicken nuggets?!

I don't know if she consumed a lot of wings while pregnant, though?

The last time I changed a diaper, the kid looked fine to me.

Then again, what chicken ever had "nuggets" ?

Riverwind (imported) wrote: Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:38 am This only goes to confirm my belief about PETA as a bunch of carrot eating rabbits who wants nothing more then to tell you how bad you are and how bad you treat pets so to take them in and KILL THEM for their own good.

River

Ditto on the PETA bunch.

Seriously though, commercially grown chickens and beef can be bad; when you consider all the growth hormones and anti-biotics (http://www.naturalnews.com/036408_antib ... icken.html) that go into the feed.

Consumers do get a portion of those chemicals during consumption. And, studies have shown human bio-changes (http://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/ ... man-health) from modern meat consumption - most typically our ever-increasing inability to overcome new bacterial threats (http://www.naturalnews.com/041312_antib ... rbugs.html).

There is some logic in the PETA 'scare-letter'. Chicken* growth hormones can interfere with child physical and mental development. (Although, the letter does read like a joke.)

I don't eat commercial farm-raised chicken (factory farms). Partly from how the birds are treated, (http://www.factoryfarmedchicken.com/1/p ... rrors.html) but mostly due to what they are fed. I just don't like the idea of all those chemicals in 'me', and I have seen how awful some farm conditions (http://www.care2.com/causes/horrific-co ... posed.html) are in my work.

We put a lot of chickens in the freezer every year on our farm, but it also takes a year to grow them.

Commercially grown chickens (broilers / fryers) take 7 weeks (http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2013/01/w ... -a-decade/) - hatch-to-butcher.

Our steers are 2-years old when we ship them off. Commercial beef is 9-months old. What do they use to speed up the process???

It's something to think about.

Additional reading;

Studies Tie Human Bladder Infections To Antibiotics In Chicken (http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2012/0 ... in-chicken)

Antibiotic Use in Chickens: Responsible for Hundreds of Human Deaths? (http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/ ... bx-deaths/)

Tamiflu Use In Meat And Poultry Could Be Increasing Antibiotic Resistance In Humans (http://www.inquisitr.com/530150/tamiflu ... esistance/)

Poultry on Antibiotics: Hazards to Human Health (http://www.mindfully.org/Food/Poultry-A ... hDec02.htm)

REPORT: Superbug Dangers in Chicken Linked to 8 Million At-Risk Women (http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/health/2012 ... isk-women/)

New Warning of Human Impacts of Antibiotic Resistance from Poultry (http://www.thepoultrysite.com/poultryne ... om-poultry)

Consumer Concerns About Hormones in Food (http://envirocancer.cornell.edu/Factshe ... rmones.cfm)

Poultry and beef cattle industries operate under different regulations. While growth hormone use is banned in poultry production, it is a perfectly legal and accepted practice in the beef cattle industry. (http://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/ ... -confusion){BUT, there are hormones in chicken feed, just not those naturally found in human beings - strictest limits of federal regulations; i.e., testosterone, progesterone and estradiol. *Somatomedins, epidermal growth hormone, sex steroids, and vitamin D metabolites are legal. http://envirocancer.cornell.edu/Factshe ... rmones.cfm (http://envirocancer.cornell.edu/Factshe ... rmones.cfm)} http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/Saf ... 055436.htm (http://www.fda.gov/AnimalVeterinary/Saf ... 055436.htm)

Many laws were written, still in use, when the Fed did not know what was what [except that they were paid for by big-agra commercial farmers]. There are thousands of hormones in the human body - all with different tasks.

Growth Hormones Fed to Beef Cattle Damage Human Health (http://www.organicconsumers.org/article ... e_5543.cfm)

What really is in your chicken Mc Nugget? (http://rense.com/general76/chk.htm)

Chicken McNuggets®:

White boneless chicken, water, food starch-modified, salt, seasoning (autolyzed yeast extract, salt, wheat starch, natural flavoring (botanical source), safflower oil, dextrose, citric acid, rosemary), sodium phosphates, seasoning (canola oil, mono- and diglycerides, extractives of rosemary).

Battered and breaded with: water, enriched flour (bleached wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamin mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid), yellow corn flour, food starch-modified, salt, leavening (baking soda, sodium acid pyrophosphate, sodium aluminum phosphate, monocalcium phosphate, calcium lactate), spices, wheat starch, whey, corn starch. Prepared in vegetable oil (Canola oil, corn oil, soybean oil, hydrogenated soybean oil with TBHQ and citric acid added to preserve freshness). Dimethylpolysiloxane added as an antifoaming agent.

When your family is eating out, you probably prefer that your kids order chicken nuggets rather than a hamburger. But usually a burger is a better choice (http://www.parents.com/kids/nutrition/h ... n-nuggets/). The reason: Fast-food and prepackaged chicken nuggets are fried in partially hydrogenated oil, leaving them with up to 20 grams of fat per 3-ounce serving. A small burger typically contains 9 grams of fat. Plus, the burger offers plenty of iron and zinc, nutrients lacking in many children's diets.

A lot of good points there, not to mention all the GMO crap they're probably fed, too.

It sounds a little tongue-in-cheek to me..Humorous...Jackie

JesusA (imported) wrote: Wed Sep 04, 2013 7:47 am The item below is from the PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) website. My question is, when did PETA become a subsidiary of The Onion? Has it always been one?

Keep Pregnant Women Out for the Sake of Their Sons' Sex Organs, PETA Tells Buffalo Wing Festival

Ill-Conceived Contest...

Honestly, THIS STORY is worthy of "The Onion."

Paolo wrote: Wed Sep 04, 2013 4:34 pm A lot of good points there, not to mention all the GMO crap they're probably fed, too.

OMG!! I could write a book . . .

EVERY grain used in animal feed today are Genetically Modified Organisms. Most of what WE eat are too {thanks to the 1950's god-complex science and research era}.

Virtually every grain known to modern man has been altered in some ways for easier production and better yields.

The GMO crops, especially soy, corn, and wheat, are dumped on the market; and are usually the cheapest and earliest to get each year.

There's virtually no way any farmer can even grow un-modified 'field' crops, with all the modified crop farms surrounding them. Wind, birds, and bugs carry the pollen and everything gets contaminated. So many farmers want heavy crop yields, and always go for the altered seed. 30 bushels per acre are more profitable than 5 . . .

Animal feed grain varieties are not regulated. Corn is corn. Wheat is wheat. Soy is soy.

Grow some heirloom varieties next to 'hybrid-varieties' in your garden, and see the difference.

I don't eat corn and wheat any more. My soy has to come from Canada, and be labeled non-GMO. (Don't be fooled by 'Organic' labels - they can be GMO's also.)

I wonder if the author of this scare-letter, Lindsay Rajt
, is a man or woman? Maybe a touch of penis-envy?

I wish my mother had eaten a bunch of these chicken wings when I was born . . . (of course, back then, everything was all natural and made from scratch).