NOOOOOOO!! They can’t change their name! thats where Cactus Jack comes from!
People Eating Tasty Animals…
[Bugs Bunny]What a bunch a’ Maroons[/Bugs Bunny]
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I only wish, Eve. I read about it in a serious news article, alas.
According to the Cambridge Encyclopedia, the promise of a yearly fiesta with the program held from there.
Of course it’s not serious. Like everything PETA does, it’s a publicity stunt. PETA’s guiding force, Ingrid Newkirk, is well aware that the organization is perceived as a bunch of wackos, even alienating its own members with some of its more extreme stunts. But her goal is to get people to think about animal rights issues. As I understand it, PETA’s philosophy is that they have nothing to lose: nobody who is not already going to do so will eat meat or torment lab animals just because PETA is a bunch of buffoons, but some people will be swayed–if not by the appalling public displays themselves, at least by consideration of the issues raised by those displays–enough to make a difference in the direction that PETA is hoping for.
Headline of a newspaper in 20 years:
PETA Disappears After Attempt to Lecture Sharks on Fish Cruelty
Not that I don’t believe you, but do you have a site for that?
If they did that, that’s sick.
Besides-isn’t Hamburg, NY named after Hamburg, Germany? And since hamburgers were named after Hamburg, I believe, it’s not like the city is named after meat.
Right?
I’m a fan of Penn and Teller’s Bullshit!, and a recent show documented the nonsense Greenpeace is spouting about the environment. This saddened me, because they, like PETA, have become alarmists, extremists, and bullshit artists, instead of doing the worthwhile work I could support and applaud.
Why is it that alarmists and lunatics get the spotlight? As William Penn said in a letter to a friend, “Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.” Same thing goes for causes.
Oh, and by the way, I had dead flesh for lunch… it was DELICIOUS. 
Here’s the full text of the fax, from PETA’s own site. It gives a phone number for Joe Haptas if anyone want to contact him about it.
BTW, they also claim that Hamburg NY is the place of origin of the hamburger, which is debatable in itself. This article tells a different story, but does anyone here have the straight dope?
Guinastasia: that’ll teach me to preview more often. The question is still open though.
Here’s the actual law passed by the State of Washington in 2001. Lest you believe I jest.
Hamadryad and Meatros better watch it…
That link doesn’t seem to work. However, here’s the speech made by Washington’s governor on signing the bill into law. The primary impetus for the bill was that a blind man’s dog was harassed by another dog that was not restrained by its owner. This article also mentions a single instance of an alleged animal rights person threatening to “turn loose” a guide dog, but I could find nothing that links PETA with this kind of atrocious activity. Yes, PETA really does oppose the use of guide dogs, but even Ingrid Newkirk uses weasel words (can I say that?) when discussing the issue: “(In) a perfect society, we won’t have a need for (guide dogs).” Oh. Wake me up when we have a perfect society, okay?
You mean this isn’t a perfect society?
Damn.
Sure the PETA are a bunch of buffoonish, irrational, way out there whacko’s that you just can’t take seriously. But we need them. Because they make the organisations that actually effect small progressive changes look positively reasonable in comparison, and hence more able to do their jobs.
From “The New Yorker”'s April 14th, 2003 issue, an article written by Michael Spector on PETA and its founder Ingrid Nekirk:
Later on the article quotes Newkirk as saying “I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.”
Then he describes one of Newkirk’s “war councils”, during which the topic of Charlton Heston comes up.
.:Nichol:.
It’s a bit complicated but I’ll give it a shot. We can be fairly certain that the concept did originate in Germany but not necessarily in Hamburg. It also seems that the hamburger and Salisbury steak switched identities at some point.
To the who, where, and when of the very first lump of ground beef being smushed down and placed on a bun is debatable. First we have Charles Nagreen in Seymour, Wisconsin at the Outagamie County Fair in 1885. The problem with this story is that when an original article on the 1885 fair was reprinted in 1989, the Nagreen’s invention was not mentioned.
There’s also the Menches brothers at the Erie County Fair in Hamburg, NY, in 1885. Problem here is the the invention of Charles and Frank Menches is not mentioned in the town’s official chronicles.
The earliest documented hamburger sandwich was made by Louis Lassen (of Louis’ Lunch) in New Haven, CT in 1900.
But that means “Catskills” is…
gulp…
Someone call PETA!!!
Conclusion:
Either Newkirk believes that a half breed human/something else baby is possible, or she’s starring in all of that “Farm porn” spam that get’s sent to my junk email addy. Possibly both.
butrscotch’s link doesn’t work, but if you copy the URL from it into your browser, it SHOULD take you there. At least it does for IE. I don’t know why it doesn’t work otherwise.
I’m trying to figure out why a “perfect society” wouldn’t need service dogs??? Besides, I’ve known a bunch of guide dogs, and they’re as a group the HAPPIEST damn dogs I’ve known. If they’re miserably enslaved and mistreated, THEY sure don’t know it.