[Homer]Mmmmmmm,raw cow flesh[/Homer]
[Dennis Leary]Bring me a live cow to the table, I’ll carve off what I want, and ride the rest home![/Dennis Leary]
Well it certainly shows there close connection to the animal kingdom- ignoring the actual nature of a shark and giving it false human motives.
Actually I was thinking maybe the shark were hunting closer to land because the fish population has been depleted (which would make it related to human actions, but would mean the shark- not being human- is not thinking let me kill those bastards who took my fish, but rather- being a shark- is thinking "God I’m hungry.)
I don’t know if that’s the case (I know fish populations are down in many places) but if so somebody (somebody like PETA, if they were a useful organisation) should look into it and tell people about it- you know, that if you massivly overfish a place and upset the balance of nature it might have unintended consequences you won’t like. And maybe we should change are policies.
But, yeah it’s much more constructive to make the sharks out to be eco-terrorist :rolleyes:
From what I hear, there are just as many shark attacks in Florida as there are every year. There’s just better news coverage.
Don’t eat PETA activists. They’re all bone and gristle.
they are not know for their common sense, remember the “don’t drink milk, drink beer” campaign at colleges a few years ago
I really don’t think that PETA is trying to make sense; I think they’re trying to garner publicity, headlines, and outrage. I have read that they feel that as long as their ideas are being brought out in a flashy manner, they don’t care if they make friends or not.
The “Got Beer” Campaign was kinda bad. I mean, I like beer, but considering the serious problems with alcohol on college campuses (up to and including deaths) telling people it is healthy is bad. So that made me think PETA was just a bit stupid.
Then I heard about the billboard that mentioned the link between milk and prostate cancer, and had Mayor Giuliani on it, who lost his father to prostate cancer and had it himself. That made me think that PETA was run by a bunch of real bastards.
But this?! A child had his arm ripped off by a shark, and you think that’s a good topic for your ad campaign?! This makes me think that PETA is the biggest bunch of inhuman scumbags that ever walked the face of the earth. Or at least pretty close.
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Anyone know where to get one of those People Eating Tasty Animals T-shirts?
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- Rob
Maybe this explains PETA’s behavior: They like the animals so much because they’re animals themselves.
OMG, they really killed 49 ppl? Did they get away with it? That is terrible. OMG…
The problem isn’t that they’re not making friends, it’s that they’re painting the whole anti-cruelty movement with the tarbrush of lunacy. Hell, if I were an animal cruelty advocate, I couldn’t think of a better way to discredit the animal-protections movement than to create a front organization that purports to support animal rights, while doing stupid, graceless things, all the while spouting lunatic rhetoric.
You know, things like releasing fur-bearing preditors (mink) into the wild in an area where they have no checks, and where the local wildlife has no defense or instinct to defend themselves. Things like saying a little kid “got what was coming to him” when a wild animal acts like a wild animal.
PETA==agents provocatuers?
Well, I guess that this would be good news for PETA. :rolleyes:
I think that Tranquilis may be on to something. I mean, they are just too over the top sometimes to be believed. They are like a caricature of themselves.
kgriffey79: I’m not sure if that was a joke response or not. If it wasn’t, then I feel I must explain that the link you read was from a website called The Onion. It is not a real news source but is a parody news source that contains many such satircal articles. It can be loosely compared to The Daily Show on Comedy Central.
PLEASE whoosh me… I really hope you’re kidding. On the off chance you’re not, The Onion is a humor site. The article is made up.
PETA has shot itself in the foot so many times it doesn’t have a leg to stand on.
Yes, I’m known as Captian Obvious from time to time.
I’ve observed the PETA antics for a while and they appear to me not to have any idea what the word “ethics” means. And what is wrong with ethical treatment of plants and other sources of nutrients? I try to eat as much meat as possible rather than vegetables because at least meat has a sporting chance of getting away. Plants have a right to live too, don’t they. It’s not like animals that prey on plants and other animals. Why shouldn’t animals be required to ethically treat their prey, not to mention their plant prey. Ever seen a herd of cows or sheep commit genocide against a whole field of grass. The horror, the horror. Ever seen an Killer Whale (an Orca for those who can’t face facts) play catch with a baby seal before eating it? Where are the ethics of these damn animals?
Ethics with respect to animals means getting cloth car seats and shoes whenever possible. It means not wasting meat.
DPWhite, you must have seen the same poster/bumper sticker I did “A vegetarian is a person too insensitive to hear a carrot scream”
Steven Wright: “I’m a vegetarian. Not cause I love animals. It’s because I really hate vegetables.” (something like that)
BTW this gets an LOL from me: “I try to eat as much meat as possible rather than vegetables because at least meat has a sporting chance of getting away.”
Has anyone seen the latest PetaKids commercial? It has the blonde headed child actor from 7th Heaven (I think) asking, “Do you want to prevent school violence? Then ask your school to stop allowing animal dissections.”
OK. WTF does animal dissections have to do with school violence? I want to get guns out of my kid’s school. So you’re saying to do that I have to make sure my kid doesn’t slice open little Kermit’s abdomen? Are you saying that by having my kid open the bowels of a fetal pig he’s going to be so scarred for life that he will start blowing the brains out of his classmates with a sawed off shotgun? How dumb do you think I am?