Driving to the Credit Union on lunch and having become a talk radio junkee I heard the following on the Dolan’s show. ( I can’t stand Daria but there is nothing else on.)
PETA has a new campaign out for Summer 2000.
They plan to distribute Unhappy Meals in front of McDonalds this summer. It will be a box resembling a Happy Meal with a stuffed toy in it. The toy is a facsimile of Ronald McDonald holding a bloody butcher knife.
What the f—!!!
Apparently the new ad campaign for PETA is just to get as much publicity as possible. Kind of like the Got Beer! Campaign.
What is PETA thinking? Any bets on lawsuits on this one?
Just what we need more kids who need therapy to get over their nightmares.
Yeah those PETA people are cracked. Just another way for them to get attention. Reminds me of those attention-getting schmucks around school who thought they had something important to say, but in veritiably only wanted people to look at them.
This issue was discussed at length, or ad nasium, in the PIT.
If some peta wacko hands MY child a bloody, knife wielding Ronald McDonald, you may bet your sweet bippy that it will be returned by me. As a suppository. Along with my foot.
Do you really expect people to sympathize with you after you traumatize their kid?
I guaran-fucking-tee you I would kick your sorry ass to hell and back.
Flat out PETA has to get a clue. I find it hard to believe they could be so damn stupid. This is an obvious ploy for press time like the Got Beer! Campaign but at least the Got Beer was relatively harmless.
Couldn’t this fall under some type of child abuse law?
However on the other hand…the doll might end up being highly collectible because I am sure not too many will show up. I can almost see them on e-bay already.
Can we tell the French PETA is a wing of GreenPeace???
I read somewhere that 87 per cent of Happy Meals eaters are persons over the age of twenty-one who have no idea that hamburgers are made out of moo cows.
I knew there was a reason I’ve always been scared of clowns!
Y’know, I think there are a lot of middle-of-the-road people who could get behind PETA (or at least understand PETA) if they limited themselves to things like cosmetics-testing on animals, or wearing fur, or cruelty to animals in food-production. But they keep doing these stunts – and that’s what they are, no more or less – and they just look like a bunch of whacked-out nuts. Even if I was a vegetarian (which I’m not) who objected to the use of animals for any purpose (which I don’t), I STILL wouldn’t support PETA and risk people thinking I’m as crazy as they are.
Do these morons not realize that without a major influx of protein, provided by a meat rich diet, hominid brains never would have developed enough for us to be human.
Approximately 1 month ago I stopped in a McDonalds outside of Danville Virginia to take a leak. Say what you want about the fast food joints, they often provide access to at least pseudoclean toilet facilities.
On my way out I noticed a bunch of “Thank You” cards from a local school class. The style of writing seemed to indicate children in 2nd or 3rd grade. It seems they had visited McDonalds and took a tour of the business. According to the notes, the children generally were happy for their free food, excited about seeing the kitchen and walk-in refrigerator, and deeply thrilled by the deep fryer in action. They’d had a grand time, it appeared, one and all.
But what gave me pause was one kid’s message: (Approximate quote here):
“Thanks for the food. It was good. Next month we’re going to Hardees.”
What the hell? Why are we sending our kids to learn about fast food restaurants? What can they learn from Hardee’s that they don’t get from McDonalds?? Why am I as a taxpayer paying for teachers to take kids to these places?
I think I’d rather my kids, if I had any, learn from PETA, than get this kind of education.
While I agree that multiple field trips to fast food joints isn’t very educational, you’d really rather have a bunch of nut jobs indoctrinating your kids? I’d rather have the youngsters be able to find their own country on a world map than have to hear how “pigs are friends, not food”.
Actually, I wouldn’t be surprised to see those fast food places publish their own world maps to give out to the kiddies. They could have little pinpoints on the map to show just how many franchise locations there are all over the world so Johnny and Judy can know that no matter where they travel, a double cheeseburger and fries can be right there with them.
Remember when one of those fast food places gave out “Babe” toys when the movie came out. Christ! I’ll take PETA.
The fact that PETA developed the “Unhappy Meal” isn’t so bad. If the PARENT of a child wants to give this to their kids to show them the process of making said child’s beloved Chicken McNuggets, that’s up to them: the mommies and daddies of the world. But when PETA goes to the McDonald’s Playplace to give these things out, that’s an entirely different story. The Playplace for christ’s sake!! These kids are about to sit down and enjoy a HAPPY meal (if they haven’t already) and PETA’s just going to barge in and shove pictures of dead animals and a deranged clown with a bloody knife in their faces. That’s just fucking sick.