Oh how do I begin? I had this nice long pit idea, but in the end I just found I didnt have the energy. I wonder if the same people have a problem with animal crackers? I mean children do eat them and, if like me, usually do so by biting off the head first!
I just dont understand people sometimes. Maybe my problem is I just dont have the same passion for something these people seem to. Maybe if I did I could better understand someone actually objecting to this. However, in the end it is still just a fucking piece of candy!!!
I work for a humane society, and I think this is ridiculous.
Of course, a few years ago our PR person set up a donkey-shaped pinata in the children’s area of a fundraiser carnival, and I nearly had to restrain my boss from going over there and stopping the festivities: she was convinced it was teaching children to beat animals with sticks. Ay ay ay.
When I was in the sixth grade, our class chipped in together to buy “Earl the Dead Cat” for our cat-hating teacher: it was a stuffed animal of a cat with tire treads across its thin midsection, exed-out eyes, the whole spiel. Terribly bad taste, but he was tickled pink (he was an odd man). and today I work for a humane society.
I think way too many people underestimate kids’ ability to distinguish between fact and fantasy.
I came here to pit the jerks over this myself. So, I was beaten to the punch and that’s just as well. These PETA people must be completely blind to any but their own version of reality. I sincerely hope none of these people are parents, but that’s too much to hope for. Won’t someone think of the kids?
I’m increasingly thinking that PETA is trying to get us to completely wall ourselves off from any growing or living thing above the level of fungi. I’m not sure if this is done out of a misguided sense of awe at nature or a twisted fear that humans can’t be a part of it.
IMHO, not one of them can tell me how to live until they’ve been where I’ve been, hunted animals on a forxen morning where the eyw still struggles to separate light from dark, and slept under a lean-to with a pine-needle blanket.
I have the sneaking suspicion that few, if any of them, has ever been a part of the natural cycles.
You might want to rethink the idea that these animal rights folks are just bat shit crazy. I doubt that they were truly offended by these gummi candies since they’ve got bigger fish to fry, so to speak. They’re making a big stink simply to give their cause as much air time as possible.
Yeah, it’s not PETA. This isn’t animal rights folks: this is animal welfare folks. I’m animal welfar folks, too, but not everyone in the biz is teribly sane about what they do.
If they were angry about the gelatin in gummi treats, I could see that: at least then they’d be mad about actual harm to animals. But to get angry about the symbol while ignoring the fact just seems bizarre to me.
PETA, to their credit, stays focused on the facts: thus their “Eat the whales” billboards, in which they argued that eating whales killed fewer sentient creatures than eating cows, inasmuch as each whale provided more meat. I gotta respect them for their lack of sentimentality in that regard.
Possibly, but in my experience there are plenty of people with zero perspective in the animal welfare movement. And there are plenty of reporters who will gleefully take advantage of them, and plenty of people that publicize the nutcases.
As I’ve pointed out before, there’s no other nonprofit that gets half as many mentions on this messageboard as PETA does. Loonies are fun to talk about.
Which reminds me of a Top Foods grocery store in Olympia, WA that I and my friends used to go to. Back in the bulk candies was a bin of sour-coated gummies called “Irish Babies.” We kept meaning to attach a copy of “A Modest Proposal” to it…
Actually it’s a problem for the crows, magpies & any other carrion beastie that keeps our road ways clear of the deceased. We need to teach our children to consume from within our rposcribed place on the food web. Teaching them to deplete the foodsource of other species teaches them that it’s OK to willfully starve another creature to death! Shame on all of you for failing to see this!