People often have pretty strong feelings one way or the other about PETA (People for Ethical Treatment of Animals).  Most people that we hear from have pretty strong negative feelings. I try to keep an open mind, and applaud the undercover video efforts that PETA has endorsed that has exposed the flaws with factory farming.  As I said to the PETA spokesperson on our Fox & Friends debate, I think we can find common ground by speaking out against factory farming, which, I think we can agree, is not good for the animals, not good for the workers, not good for nutrition and certainly not good for the environment.

The problem I have with PETA is their attempts at brainwashing.  It's one thing to say that there's a better way to farm than factory farming. It's another thing to say that no one should eat meat, even though mankind  evolved eating meat. 

PETA's latest attempt at brainwashing is at the adolescent level, with this campaign aimed at children. The goal is to change the name of "fish" to "sea kittens".  That's right, sea kittens. Evidently, the thinking goes, that name conjures up such comfy, cuddly thoughts of our ocean friends that no one would dare eat them!  I suppose that we shouldn't tell them that real kittens would eat their sea kittens in a heartbeat.

I suppose the next move is to change the name from "cows" to "pasture hamsters".  Surely then, we'd all give up beef.  As for PETA, well, they do far more harm than good by broadcasting their irrational hysteria.