# PETA eats their young. Or your young, whichever's handy... **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [December 17, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-eats-their-young-or-your-young-whichevers-handy/219602 "2003-12-17T20:07:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Kiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Kiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiger)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-eats-their-young-or-your-young-whichevers-handy/219602/61 "2003-12-18T19:12:10Z")
The Animal Liberation Front is a real group. They make PETA look sane. ---
**Author:** ![Scarlet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@Scarlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scarlet)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-eats-their-young-or-your-young-whichevers-handy/219602/62 "2003-12-18T19:15:26Z")
No, ELF is a different organization, ALF deals with liberating animals. They’re the ones that release lab animals then set the place on fire. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-eats-their-young-or-your-young-whichevers-handy/219602/63 "2003-12-18T19:46:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scarlet \* > \*\*No, ELF is a different organization, ALF deals with liberating animals. They’re the ones that release lab animals then set the place on fire. \*\* And have received donations from PETA in the past. There’s a thread on that around here somewhere. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-eats-their-young-or-your-young-whichevers-handy/219602/64 "2003-12-18T19:47:35Z")
Quite so. I’ve seen some of ALF’s videos. They seem to view themselves as a sort of commando organization, dedicated to battling wrongs and injustice committed in laboratories that do animal testing. Their emphasis is on freeing the animals, as opposed to doing damage or costing the labs anything. ELF, on the other hand, seems to regard their mission as economic – if they make it too risky/expensive to do whatever you want to do that they don’t like, you’ll supposedly quit. More than once, I have wondered if the incredible society we have built… in which junkies and street people eat and live better than some folks in the third world… is responsible for the sort of insane mindset that leads to this kind of behavior. ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-eats-their-young-or-your-young-whichevers-handy/219602/65 "2003-12-18T20:05:36Z")
**ivylass** , I’m pretty sure Animal Liberation Front predates Earth Liberation Front. Not exactly the most sensible, strategically-thinking, productive organizations. **Elret** , as I’ve pointed out before, try doing a search on these boards for HSUS, and then do a search for PETA. You’ll find many times more hits for the latter than for the former. Why? Because the Humane Society of the United States does sensible, reasonable, helpful public education campaigns, whereas PETA does the kind of shit it’s fun to talk about. How does the saying go? If they’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention. There’s a good five-word strategy for dealing with PETA: Dee en eff tee tee. Daniel ---
**Author:** ![county](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce7236/32.png) [@county](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/county)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-eats-their-young-or-your-young-whichevers-handy/219602/66 "2003-12-18T21:06:46Z")
Well, somebody’s gotta be out there on the cusp of change. ---
**Author:** ![myrnajean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@myrnajean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myrnajean)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-eats-their-young-or-your-young-whichevers-handy/219602/67 "2003-12-18T21:29:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scarlet \* > \*\*No, ELF is a different organization, ALF deals with liberating animals. They’re the ones that release lab animals then set the place on fire. \*\* Yes, aren’t they the ones who released all those ranch minks into the woods, so they could go and starve, freeze and generally die even more miserable deaths than they would have had otherwise? Geesh, those guys are Really Thinking. ---
**Author:** ![Eman\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Eman\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eman_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-eats-their-young-or-your-young-whichevers-handy/219602/68 "2003-12-18T21:42:33Z")
I also found this on PETA > **[MSNBC News - Breaking News and News Today | Latest News](https://www.msnbc.com/)** > > MSNBC breaking news and the latest news for today. Get daily news from local news reporters and world news updates with live audio & video from our team. Jacked up, I tell you… ---
**Author:** ![myrnajean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@myrnajean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myrnajean)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-eats-their-young-or-your-young-whichevers-handy/219602/69 "2003-12-18T22:02:01Z")
## quote: ## Six million people died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughter houses. Six BILLION broiler chickens??? Somebody get me a fork ---
**Author:** ![Blalron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/35a633/32.png) [@Blalron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blalron)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-eats-their-young-or-your-young-whichevers-handy/219602/70 "2003-12-18T22:03:43Z")
You have to hand it to them though, that’s a very clever ad. Bullshit, it seems, but clever slogan. ---
**Author:** ![SnoopyFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SnoopyFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnoopyFan)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-eats-their-young-or-your-young-whichevers-handy/219602/71 "2003-12-18T22:16:04Z")
I’m thinking of printing out the flyer and putting it on the refrigerator door … where we keep the dead chickens and cows … ---
**Author:** ![SnoopyFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SnoopyFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnoopyFan)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-eats-their-young-or-your-young-whichevers-handy/219602/72 "2003-12-18T22:19:10Z")
Eek, no, I got it! Available in size 0-3M to 6X: My mommy kills animals and all I got was this lousy t shirt. ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-eats-their-young-or-your-young-whichevers-handy/219602/73 "2003-12-18T22:29:52Z")
My kid wouldn’t ask mommy if she kills animals… My kid would ask mommy “You walk the streets?”:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Yeticus\_Rex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a698b9/32.png) [@Yeticus\_Rex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yeticus_Rex)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-eats-their-young-or-your-young-whichevers-handy/219602/74 "2003-12-18T22:42:51Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ivylass \* > \*\*Why The Nutcracker? Why not stake out the finer restaurants? Hell, there are parents attending their children’s Xmas performances at school…why not stake out the schools? > > It’s cold enough to need a coat while shopping…why not tackle these women as they enter the malls and boutiques? > > I think PETA is limiting themselves by just sticking to one ballet. There’s such an open field out there for them to spread their message. They are not thinking big enough. > > :rolleyes: \*\* Aim high I always say…They should try the Pro Football locker rooms, Gun Shows, and Karate Clubs…😉 ---
**Author:** ![Akatsukami](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea666f/32.png) [@Akatsukami](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Akatsukami)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-eats-their-young-or-your-young-whichevers-handy/219602/75 "2003-12-18T22:45:01Z")
So poorly thought out that even PETA ought to be ashamed: Child: “Mommy, are you really an animal murderer?” Mom: “Yes, dear, unlike that man” (point to PETA member) “over there. He’s opposed to killing animals, _so he gives his children nothing but broccoli for dinner_.” A word to the wise: they aren’t called “ankle-biters” for nothing :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Nunavut\_Boy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e95f7d/32.png) [@Nunavut\_Boy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nunavut_Boy)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-eats-their-young-or-your-young-whichevers-handy/219602/76 "2003-12-19T01:20:13Z")
OK, I gotta get this off my chest, and this thread seems like a good place to do it. I’m currently living in Nunavut (eastern Canadian arctic) and after having lived here I get furious with anyone who gets on an anti-fur diatribe for the following reasons: 1. seal is the traditional staple food item for the inuit. They are hunted prmarily for food. The fur is incidental. 2. sealskin/caribou parkas are also a traditional clothing for the inuit. They’re waterproof and very warm. 3)Since only grasses and very small bushes grow here, and only for a few months a year, pretty much ALL traditional inuit food items are DEAD ANIMALS. That’s right, reindeer, seals, whales, walruses, fish. ALL DEAD. The next basard who makes a comment on my sealskin parka when I’m down south (to me, this means the rest of Canada) is gonna get punched in the face. I’d LOVE for some of those PETA cocksuckers to come up here and spend a winter in an igloo without “hurting the little animals”. Ug. I gotta stop now. ---
**Author:** ![l1I235](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@l1I235](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/l1I235)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-eats-their-young-or-your-young-whichevers-handy/219602/77 "2003-12-19T01:27:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eman\_Bruin \* > \*\*I also found this on PETA > > [http://www.msnbc.com/local/khq/m343544.asp?vts=12520031030](http://www.msnbc.com/local/khq/m343544.asp?vts=12520031030) > Jacked up, I tell you… \*\* Wow. :eek: I read all of the comic book, and I am in disbeleif. I love animals, and I even wanted to be a vet when I was a kid. But this is wrong. I have a couple of coats I inheareted from my grandmother (and they belonged to her mother), which have fur collars. If one of these people spotted me wearing it and threw paint…:mad: This is theft, damanging propety. Has any one sued for these actions? Manipulating the mind of children to have anger towards their parents. That’s just brillant. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-eats-their-young-or-your-young-whichevers-handy/219602/78 "2003-12-19T02:13:24Z")
Thank you, PETA. I dedicate the next 5 animals I kill to you. It’s bacon double-cheeseburgers for lunch for the next week, while wearing my leather jacket, leather boots, and fur hat. Just ONCE I’d like one of those bunnyfuckers to come at me. We’d make CNN in a heartbeat. Mess with my kids, and you will never eat solid food again. ---
**Author:** ![Blonde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Blonde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blonde)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-eats-their-young-or-your-young-whichevers-handy/219602/79 "2003-12-19T03:19:59Z")
PETA’s a bit over the top - and I say that as a vegetarian. Before you kill those animals, **silenus** - you may want to consider that you will forever revoke your rights to sleep with Pamela Anderson. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Moirai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/96bed5/32.png) [@Moirai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moirai)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-eats-their-young-or-your-young-whichevers-handy/219602/80 "2003-12-19T03:32:59Z")
Handing that tract to my child might create a cause of action for _intentional infliction of emotional distress_. A tort. When I am through with you, you will own nothing, earn nothing, and eat nothing. Why kill them when I can sue them and make them suffer forever? Of course, in the heat of the moment, when I hit somebody, all that flies right out the window. I wear leather jackets, suede shirts, leather sneakers, eat meat, drink milk, scramble eggs. I feel awful for the rational veggie folks who are constantly trying to distance themselves from these freaks. PS- would it have be ALF members who release the rage in _28 Days Later_? 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-eats-their-young-or-your-young-whichevers-handy/219602.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-eats-their-young-or-your-young-whichevers-handy/219602.md?page=5)