# PETA wants jailed cannibalism suspect... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 11, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-wants-jailed-cannibalism-suspect/433164 "2008-01-11T18:40:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-wants-jailed-cannibalism-suspect/433164/1 "2008-01-11T18:40:59Z")
…[placed on vegetarian diet.](http://www.tylerpaper.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008801110310) ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-wants-jailed-cannibalism-suspect/433164/2 "2008-01-11T18:43:08Z")
My local radio guy was talking about this on the drive into work this morning. It totally brightened up my day. ---
**Author:** ![drm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a88e57/32.png) [@drm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drm)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-wants-jailed-cannibalism-suspect/433164/3 "2008-01-11T19:10:51Z")
When I read the thread title, I honestly expected them to want him released. …it shows the respect I have for PETA I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-wants-jailed-cannibalism-suspect/433164/4 "2008-01-11T19:21:08Z")
Waitaminute! The idea they put forth is, if he is on a vegetarian diet, it will keep him from killing/fighting while in jail?! That’s STUPID! I don’t get into daily fights, and I eat meat. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-wants-jailed-cannibalism-suspect/433164/5 "2008-01-11T19:47:45Z")
What planet is this guy from? More importantly, how do we send him back there? ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-wants-jailed-cannibalism-suspect/433164/6 "2008-01-11T20:13:02Z")
[QUOTE=Kizarvexius] What planet is this guy from? More importantly, how do we send him back there? [/QUOTE] Which guy, the guy who is alleged to have eaten his GF, or the guy who thinks that the answer to said other guy’s problem is to put him on a cruelty-free diet? ---
**Author:** ![Pullet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@Pullet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pullet)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-wants-jailed-cannibalism-suspect/433164/7 "2008-01-11T20:21:31Z")
They’re on a Phelps-like bender to raise awareness of their “cause” lately. They were at Barry Bond’s hearing recently, trying to draw connections between Mr. Bonds and steroid use in poultry. The fact that no one at the trial was their because of an overwhelming concern for the plight of farm animals didn’t matter. The fact that poultry are not given steroids, like ever, really didn’t matter. I hates them. :mad: ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-wants-jailed-cannibalism-suspect/433164/8 "2008-01-11T20:47:22Z")
I love PETA. They always make me laugh. Bless them and their craziness. ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-wants-jailed-cannibalism-suspect/433164/9 "2008-01-11T21:24:11Z")
Man, this thread really gives me a taste for bacon. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-wants-jailed-cannibalism-suspect/433164/10 "2008-01-11T21:35:37Z")
\*“Besides (McCuin) is isolated so the only person he’s going to bite is himself.” \* Autocannibalism. I wondered if I’d just made a new word. Nope, Google gave me 20K hits. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [January 11, 2008, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-wants-jailed-cannibalism-suspect/433164/11 "2008-01-11T22:25:42Z")
I’d think that the _last_ guy in prison you want to deprive of meat is the alleged cannibal. For the same reason that you wouldn’t want to be a zookeeper’s assistant after the lions are put on a soy-protein diet. ---
**Author:** ![placebo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e274bd/32.png) [@placebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/placebo)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-wants-jailed-cannibalism-suspect/433164/12 "2008-01-12T00:19:35Z")
I’m not sure I get why this is supposed to be the height of comedy. Trying to establish some sort of moral equivalence between cannibalism and your average omnivorous diet deserves a :dubious:, but it doesn’t strike me as an especially crazy POV compared to “God ordered me to kill and eat my girlfriend”. It’s like that scene in _Pulp Fiction_ regarding the sexual connotations of foot massages. Cannibalism might be quite a step up from a Big Kahuna burger, but is it in “the same ballpark”? [/devil’s advocate] And before anyone points out the irony of my user name, [read this](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exquisite_corpse). ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-wants-jailed-cannibalism-suspect/433164/13 "2008-01-12T01:02:10Z")
In special honor of Bruce Friedrich, my plan of having vegetable soup for dinner tonight is being scrapped in favor of making some yummy, yummy burgers. ---
**Author:** ![Taber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac91a4/32.png) [@Taber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taber)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-wants-jailed-cannibalism-suspect/433164/14 "2008-01-12T01:15:03Z")
[QUOTE=cadavre exquis] I’m not sure I get why this is supposed to be the height of comedy. Trying to establish some sort of moral equivalence between cannibalism and your average omnivorous diet deserves a :dubious:, but it doesn’t strike me as an especially crazy POV compared to “God ordered me to kill and eat my girlfriend”. [/QUOTE] “PETA: less crazy than that guy who ate his girlfriend” Expect to see the posters soon. ---
**Author:** ![Mindfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindfield/32/19759_2.png) [@Mindfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mindfield)\ **Post date:** [January 12, 2008, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/peta-wants-jailed-cannibalism-suspect/433164/15 "2008-01-12T01:18:57Z")
People are Edible, Tasty Animals.