PETA Now Says No Deal With Michael Vick
So… they have an infamous animal abuser willing to be contrite etc. in PETA PSA ad, but their condition is that …he has to a pass a psych test to their satisfaction to speak out against the abuse of animals. I don’t know that I really blame Vick for saying “no” to that condition.
Sounds like they added that requirement in hopes he would decline. Good for them if that’s the case. They don’t need him and have no obligation to participate in his image rehabilitation. YMMV
PETA, you can troll fast food companies, you can troll college administrations, you can troll city councils, you can troll television networks. But trolling your own membership? Bad move.
Well then they probably shouldn’t have approached him in the first place, then should they?
But if they didn’t approach him and express interest and then publicly announce they’ve changed their mind and he isn’t acceptable, how would they demonstrate their moral superiority?
Hasn’t PETA killed more dogs than Vick has?
PETA’s dog-killing operation is so big it has infrastructure. How is one man supposed to compete with that?
Not as many as the ASPCA.
Good riddance. If Vick really does feel remorseful, there are plenty of agencies that would love the publicity.
Michael Vick or PETA? I can’t really pick a dog in this fight.
It’s sad for the people who care that much about animals to have the craziest segment of their population as their defacto mouthpiece. I’m all for watching a “who might actually be crazier” contest between P*TA and Vick though.
I wouldn’t do it. PETA I bet is like Scientology. They’d probably stalk him and ruin his life if he went through with it.
Does the ASPCA claim that dogs are equivalent to humans?
Nor does PETA. Also, PETA is, within their craziness, often extremely practical: they recognize that euthanasia for overpopulation is the best of a bunch of very bad short-term solutions to the problem, and so they advocate such euthanasia in the short term. It’s similar to their work on procuring better living conditions for meat animals at fast-food chains: they abhor the eating of meat, but they work to make conditions better in the short term.
People underestimate PETA a lot. There’s a lot of nutjobbery and attention-whoring there, but that’s not all there is there.
Only Vick.
The things Vick did… there was a time when that was universally acceptable. There are places where it is still acceptable. Are all these people bad?
Of course not. Vick has violated no absolute line in the sand here.