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The late Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel laureate and Holocaust survivor, wrote, “When it comes to animals, all men are Nazis.” But when animal activists employ specific analogies that make Singer’s case, THEY are often called the Nazis–not the people committing the atrocities. WHAT about breeding fancy specimens of dogs ISN’T like Nazi eugenics programs?–except that instead of breeding for increased genetic fitness, dog fancy breeders deliberately produce animals with deformities and gimmicks for which novelty-seekers will pay huge amounts of money, while there are more genetically fit free-breeding animals dying on the streets or being euthanized for lack of homes. WHAT about factory-farmed animals being killed in slaughterhouses on assembly-lines staffed by teams of which one of three persons is a sadist ISN’T like dying in Auschwitz? Why would Jews be offended by use of the word “holocaust” to describe the production of billions of dead animal bodies per year by the meat industry when “holocaust” originally referred to the burnt offerings of meat from sacrificial animals in the Jerusalem Temple (destroyed in the first century CE)? Jews have been the backbone of the modern animal rights movement in America, since it emerged in the 1970s. The main reason is that, like Isaac Bashevis Singer, they were sensitized to the plight of animals by being treated like animals in Nazi Germany. A thorough examination of animal rights concerns may serve to lower one’s political-correctness level and lead to an understanding of why animal activists feel desperate to inform the public by any means possible.
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/07/peta-dumb

PETA's five most tone-deaf stuntsThe animal rights group is facing criticism for exploiting poor people in Detroit. It isn't the first time they've come under fire.