God is great, deer is good, and PETA is crazy

“Whoever is righteous has regard for the life of his beast, but even the compassion of the wicked is cruel (Proverbs 12:10).” Animal rights activists at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) should take heed of this proverb from the Bible. A righteous man cares about his animal, but PETA only cares about a political agenda.

Animal rights activists at PETA recently approved of the gory and violent video that is Adam Levine’s Maroon 5 video for their track “Animals.” In the video, Levine plays a deranged, manic butcher who “hunts” a blonde woman (played by Levine’s model wife Behati Prinsloo).

“We think Adam does a very convincing job of making slaughterers look deranged,” said Ben Williamson, a spokesman for PETA. “If anything, the video doesn’t go far enough in showing the bloody horror of the meat industry and the misery that animals endure before their carcasses end up on a meat hook or butcher’s chopping block.”

But Levine’s new music video is detestable; PETA should be ashamed of approving a video that is so overtly gory and evil in nature. Williamson’s comments are not righteous — they are grossly ignorant, and they mischaracterize the honest, hardworking people in the meat industry.

They would rather objectify women in their pursuits of animal activism. PETA’s annual “We’d Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur” campaign uses scantily clad and nude female models to gather opposition against killing animals for their fur.

But PETA kills an average of 2,000 cats and dogs each year at its animal shelter in Virginia. Instead of working to improve medical treatment and increasing adoption rates among pets, PETA kills them instead.

And most recently, they praised Adam Levine’s bloody, disgusting video that glorifies violence and torture. PETA is an organization full of hypocrites.

I come from a devout Christian family. I went deer hunting with my dad last month. He shot and killed a buck (a male deer) on the hunt. We took the deer to our butcher, Tom, to have it processed.

He harvested our deer meat and handed us a plethora of cuts—bratwurst, sweet Italian sausage, back strap, sirloin, shoulder roast and meat for deer jerky. The meat will feed my family for a long time.

And Tom the butcher wasn’t the “manic meat merchant” or a “deranged slaughterer” as portrayed by Levine in his new music video; rather, he was a kind, sweet old man. He respectfully harvested the deer’s meat for my family. My family thanks and loves Tom, who has been in the meat industry for 50 years. PETA couldn’t hate people like him more.

I’ll never forget the respect my dad had for his deer; after he killed it, he knelt down beside the beast, bowed his head and prayed, thanking God. I don’t see PETA giving that kind of respect to the animals of God’s earth. They’d rather praise a reprehensible music video and condemn honest, hardworking people.