PETA has gone waaaay too far !

[Vesayen]

Originally posted by Frogger
PETA are so frigging hilarious.

I hadn't realised how ridiculous they were until the Arafat letter...

what letter?

[Dis]

they sent a letter to arafat when they tested some weapons or something on a donkey. I'm not sure of the exact details.

I guess they could have tested the weapons on some jews and PETA would be perfectly fine with this.

[Dinner]

Palestinians were straping bombs to donkeys and sending them to be blown up by remote control when they walked near Jews. The practice was deplorable (like so many things the Palestinians do) but the letter was comical as it ignored the human suffering and instead insinuated that the donkey's life was more important then the lives of the Jewish victims.

[Ben Kenobi]

Group blasts PETA 'Holocaust' project
Friday, February 28, 2003 Posted: 1:43 PM EST (1843 GMT)
Had a friend send me the CNN article:

(CNN) -- The Anti-Defamation League has denounced a campaign by an animal rights group that compares slaughtering animals to the murder of 6 million Jews in World War II.

The graphic campaign and exhibit "Holocaust on Your Plate," devised by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, juxtaposes 60-square-foot panels displaying gruesome scenes from Nazi death camps side by side with disturbing photographs from factory farms and slaughterhouses. One shows a starving man in a concentration camp next to a starving cow.

The exhibit opens Friday in San Diego, California, and went up Thursday at the University of California at Los Angeles. It also is posted on a PETA Web site, www.masskilling.com, which calls for support for the campaign from the Jewish community.

The comparisons prompted an angry statement from Abraham Foxman, Anti-Defamation League national director and a Holocaust survivor.

"The effort by PETA to compare the deliberate, systematic murder of millions of Jews to the issue of animal rights is abhorrent," the statement said. "PETA's effort to seek approval for their 'Holocaust on Your Plate' campaign is outrageous, offensive and takes chutzpah to new heights."

Lisa Lange, PETA's vice president of communications, told CNN's "American Morning With Paula Zahn" on Friday that the idea for the public relations effort came from the late Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer, who, she said, wrote: "In relation to them [animals], all people are Nazis; for them it is an eternal Treblinka" -- a death camp in Poland.

Lange said the campaign is appropriate because "Nazi concentration camps were modeled after slaughterhouses."

The Singer quote, which the group draws upon in its literature as well, was not spoken directly by him but rather comes from his novel "Enemies: A Love Story," when the main character muses on the plight of animals. Singer was a vegetarian who believed strongly in animal rights.

"It's shocking, it's startling, it's very hard to look at," Lange said of the exhibit. "We're attacking the mind-set" that condones the slaughter of animals.

"The very same mind-set that made the Holocaust possible -- that we can do anything we want to those we decide are 'different or inferior' -- is what allows us to commit atrocities against animals every single day," PETA representative Mark Prescott wrote in a statement, which added that members of Prescott's family were murdered by Nazis.

The Anti-Defamation League statement, however, counters that "abusive treatment of animals should be opposed, but cannot and must not be compared to the Holocaust."

[Eli]

Hihihi.

http://www.yourish.com/archives/2003/feb23-mar1_2003.html#2003030102

[Ben Kenobi]

International Eat an Animal for PETA Day,

March 15.

Mark it on your calendars.


Make sure you send pictures of your delicious meal to PETA at the address inside eli's post.

[MrBaggins]

Ask Mr. Lobster:. Mr. Lobster, do you like being killed instantly by being dropped into boiling water to be eaten by a human? Mr. Lobster says: "Oh, no! I much prefer being left to the tender mercies of Mother Nature, who designed a special fish with very powerful jaws that crack-open our shells but kindly let us live as they're eating the soft meat inside so our brains can enjoy the sensations of being eaten until they finish."

Ask Mr. Steer:. Mr. Steer, do you like being slaughtered to become hamburger or steak for humans? Mr. Steer says, "Of course not! I would prefer the choices Mother Nature provided to my ancestors before we were enslaved by humans: Death by starvation, disease or slaughter by a noble wild animal. The luckiest ones experienced slow, agonizing deaths by starvation or disease, but most of them experienced the death of being eaten alive by a noble predator such as a tiger, lion, bobcat, etc."

Ask Ms Chicken:. Ms. Chicken, do like the sudden death of being beheaded to become Sunday dinner for cruel humans? "Of course not! People think we're so stupid-- why do you think they use the phrase, 'running around like a chicken with its head cut-off'? If humans are so smart, how come they can't run around after having their heads cut-off? Was Marie Antionette able to run around after the cut-off her head? We much prefer death at the hands of the noble chicken-hawk, which swoops down majestically from the sky, grabs us with its sharp claws, and carries us to its nest where it lets us live while it uses its sharp beak to slice us open and feed our innards to its charming baby hawks."

[Boris Godunov]

The problem with PETA is that, as its gotten more extreme, the rational animal rights activists have backed away from them in disgust at things like this. So that leaves the most extreme idiots left in charge, and naturally it was just a matter of time before these boobs came up with such a short-sighted and offensive campaign. I fail to see what it will actually accomplish, as it is going to alienate many while attracting none.

Unfortunately, they also put the more sensible activists in the position of being lumped in with PETA, drowning out valid concerns about animal cruelty, something that is still a considerable problem in the country and around the world.

[MrBaggins]

If you can get it, make sure you eat milk fed veal. Thats especially taboo for PETA.

[MBD]

Homer: Lisa, get a hold of yourself. This is lamb -- not a lamb.
Lisa: What's the difference between this lamb and the lamb that kissed me?
Bart: This one spent two hours in the broiler.