# That's It! PETA Has Finally Gone Bonkers! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 17, 2004, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-it-peta-has-finally-gone-bonkers/275352 "2004-11-17T22:01:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-it-peta-has-finally-gone-bonkers/275352/61 "2005-01-07T02:56:15Z")
> [@Tentacle Monster](#): > > I have no ethical problems with eating a creature that has a brain smaller than my nipple, not including the aureola. We will need a picture of your nipple for proper comparitive study. Purely for fighting ignoance I swear… ---
**Author:** ![drachillix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/48db29/32.png) [@drachillix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drachillix)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-it-peta-has-finally-gone-bonkers/275352/62 "2005-01-07T02:58:58Z")
> [@](#): > > Purely for fighting igorance I swear… I will spell ignorance correctly. I will spell ignorance correctly. I will spell ignorance correctly. I will spell ignorance correctly. I will spell ignorance correctly. I will spell ignorance correctly. I will spell ignorance correctly. I will spell ignorance correctly. I will spell ignorance correctly. I will spell ignorance correctly. ---
**Author:** ![SlyFrog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a3d4f5/32.png) [@SlyFrog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SlyFrog)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-it-peta-has-finally-gone-bonkers/275352/63 "2005-01-07T03:23:11Z")
I think the only natural response to this is to feed a PETA member to a shark. And then kill the shark. By beating it to death with a PETA member. ---
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-it-peta-has-finally-gone-bonkers/275352/64 "2005-01-07T04:26:38Z")
I dunno. I feel guilty about eating pork. Pigs are pretty smart and clean creatures, unlike their popular image. They make good pets. They’re probably on par with dogs re: intelligence. Cows and chickens, I have less problem with. Having met some, they’re pretty damn stupid. Still, I wish that the conditions for raising and slaughtering them were more humane. I try to buy free range stuff when I can but it’s just so much more expensive in a lot of cases that it isn’t really a regular option for me. But fish… I’m sure some of them can be smart. My pet betta recognizes me when I come up to his bowl. But having been fishing myself, I just can’t bring myself to feel too bad for eating them. Yeah, hooks must hurt, but I’ve caught the same damn fish twice in a row in less than ten minute’s time. because I guess the dumb thing forgot “hey, metal shiny sharp OUCH” in the 2-3 minutes it took me to rebait my hook and cast again. Most of the fish I eat are just prey animals in the wild… would seem just par for the course for them. Especially the ones harvested from the wild. You can’t really make a case even for the crappy farm conditions, then. ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-it-peta-has-finally-gone-bonkers/275352/65 "2005-01-07T05:29:16Z")
Yeah, I dunno why they are trying to outlaw hunting/fishing. Also, I don’t give a damn about how my burger suffered on it’s way to my plate. Oh yeah, and if anyone tries to ruin my nice leather jacket, they’ll wake up in a gutter, with a mouth full of blood, wondering where their teeth could have gotten to. * * * the day I stop eating animals is the day I stop breathing. ---
**Author:** ![Earthworm\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f07891/32.png) [@Earthworm\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earthworm_Jim)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-it-peta-has-finally-gone-bonkers/275352/66 "2005-01-07T15:07:54Z")
From [Reason Magazine](http://reason.com/0010/fe.fg.science.shtml): > [@](#): > > [Ingrid Newkirk, the national director of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)] said, “Six million Jews died in concentration camps, but six billion broiler chickens will die this year in slaughterhouses.” I feel compelled to point this out in PETA threads. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2005, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-it-peta-has-finally-gone-bonkers/275352/67 "2005-01-07T15:33:25Z")
> [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](#): > > Also, I don’t give a damn about how my burger suffered on it’s way to my plate. > > * * * Classy. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/thats-it-peta-has-finally-gone-bonkers/275352.md?page=3)