OPINION/COMMENTARY

Consumer Group: Get PETA Out Of Schools

Today the nonprofit Center for Consumer Freedom (CCF) urged Dr. Sue Dutton, principal of Middletown’s Louis L. Redding Middle School, to remove animal rights materials from her school’s lesson plans. This week the Middletown Transcript interviewed an anguished resident whose daughter was given propaganda from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) during a child development class. “I thought it was totally inappropriate for something like this to even be thought of being in the curriculum,” he told the Transcript. In a letter to Principal Dutton, CCF Director of Research David Martosko agrees, writing that the inclusion of PETA lessons in classroom teaching is “wholly inappropriate and runs counter to the well-being of your students.”....