# "Your Mommy Kills Animals'' - New PETA campaign kicks off! **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 18, 2003, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mommy-kills-animals-new-peta-campaign-kicks-off/219670 "2003-12-18T01:41:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mommy-kills-animals-new-peta-campaign-kicks-off/219670/1 "2003-12-18T01:41:01Z")
So how would you doper mommies react if some PETAphile gave your kids a brochure like this? ["Your Mommy Kills Animals’’](http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/localRegional.bg?articleid=593) > [@](#): > > Animal rights advocates will single out small children at performances of `The Nutcracker'' in the next few weeks by handing out fliers saying `Your Mommy Kills Animals’’ to youngsters whose mothers are wearing fur. > > ``` > ``Children can't look up to a mom in a battered-raccoon hat or a crushed coyote collar,'' said Ingrid Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. ``Maybe when they're confronted by their own children's hurt looks, fur-wearers' cold hearts will melt.'' > > The fliers include a color drawing of a woman plunging a large bloody knife into the belly of a terrified rabbit. The fliers urge kids to ``ask your mommy how many dead animals she killed to make her fur clothes. > > ``` ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mommy-kills-animals-new-peta-campaign-kicks-off/219670/2 "2003-12-18T02:00:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by astro \* > \*\*So how would you doper mommies react if some PETAphile gave your kids a brochure like this? \*\* Peoples’ unvarnished opinions on this are being given over in the Pit. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mommy-kills-animals-new-peta-campaign-kicks-off/219670/3 "2003-12-18T02:02:58Z")
Yes, and maybe when confronted with their childrens hurt looks, parents will accede to all the wishes of their children who obviously know much better than their parents! Har! ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mommy-kills-animals-new-peta-campaign-kicks-off/219670/4 "2003-12-18T02:09:38Z")
> [@](#): > > The fliers urge kids to ``ask your mommy how many dead animals she killed to make her fur clothes. Mommy should reply, “about sixteen, why do you ask honey-boo?” ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mommy-kills-animals-new-peta-campaign-kicks-off/219670/5 "2003-12-18T04:01:34Z")
> [@](#): > > ``ask your mommy how many dead animals she killed to make her fur clothes. " “I don’t know, son, let’s go to the pet store to find out, _and_ make mommy a nice birthday gift at the same time! Won’t that be fun?” “Cool!” ---
**Author:** ![myrnajean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@myrnajean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myrnajean)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mommy-kills-animals-new-peta-campaign-kicks-off/219670/6 "2003-12-18T04:12:21Z")
I know this is horribly, horribly crass, but when I was a teenager I had this antique scarf made of minks, with the head and feet and everything. This woman came up to me and said “Oh My Gawd, are you wearing DEAD ANIMALS??!” I just deadpanned and said, “Why yes! You should see the one I have of little aborted fetuses” Her hair curled up and she walked away. ---
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mommy-kills-animals-new-peta-campaign-kicks-off/219670/7 "2003-12-18T05:44:09Z")
Don’t EVEN get me [started on this…](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=229904) ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mommy-kills-animals-new-peta-campaign-kicks-off/219670/8 "2003-12-18T06:41:42Z")
PETA’s inability to distinguish people who _wear_ fur from people who raise and _kill_ the animals is, I think, the very least of their problems. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mommy-kills-animals-new-peta-campaign-kicks-off/219670/9 "2003-12-18T08:07:37Z")
“Really, honey, my wrap is just made with the bits left over from what I give you in the form of McDonald’s lunches and Jell-o.” “Oh, okay.” ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mommy-kills-animals-new-peta-campaign-kicks-off/219670/10 "2003-12-18T14:00:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by myrnajean \* > \*\* . . . when I was a teenager I had this antique scarf made of minks, with the head and feet and everything. \*\* A kolinsky! I haven’t seen one of those in years! ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mommy-kills-animals-new-peta-campaign-kicks-off/219670/11 "2003-12-18T14:37:09Z")
They tried to take a stole off my neck once… didn’t realize it was growing there. ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mommy-kills-animals-new-peta-campaign-kicks-off/219670/12 "2003-12-18T15:28:27Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by myrnajean \* > \*\*I know this is horribly, horribly crass, but when I was a teenager I had this antique scarf made of minks, with the head and feet and everything. > This woman came up to me and said “Oh My Gawd, are you wearing DEAD ANIMALS??!” > I just deadpanned and said, “Why yes! You should see the one I have of little aborted fetuses” > Her hair curled up and she walked away. \*\* :eek: I SHOULDN’T be finding this funny. Must resist…urge to laugh… ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mommy-kills-animals-new-peta-campaign-kicks-off/219670/13 "2003-12-18T16:11:58Z")
I have a beautiful fake fur coat that is a dead ringer for a fur coat. It is gorgeous and feels about 95% furrish. Did I tell you it’s fabulous? Every time I wear it ( Every blue moon after a typhoon after a Virgin is Sacrificed.) I get stopped by some " Oh, you’re wearing a dead animal." I flip the fur coat open to reveal the label and say, " Only polyesters were killed in the making of this." And then I note their shoes, wallet, belt,purse are made from dead cows. [Rigetti] That’s what you call ‘Ironic’ [/rigetti] Now all I need is a big furry matching hat, and I’ll look like an extra from Dr. Zhivago. ---
**Author:** ![NoGoodNamesLeft](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8797f3/32.png) [@NoGoodNamesLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NoGoodNamesLeft)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mommy-kills-animals-new-peta-campaign-kicks-off/219670/14 "2003-12-18T16:14:01Z")
> [@](#): > > ask your mommy **how many dead animals she killed** to make her fur clothes. Ummm… zero? Unless you can kill animals twice. ---
**Author:** ![Cowgirl\_Jules](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4af34b/32.png) [@Cowgirl\_Jules](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cowgirl_Jules)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mommy-kills-animals-new-peta-campaign-kicks-off/219670/15 "2003-12-18T18:16:36Z")
My kids would just say, “yeah, and you should see the bear that was in the freezer last year”. My small son is very proud of that, and wants to take it to show-and-tell when I get it back from the taxidermist. ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mommy-kills-animals-new-peta-campaign-kicks-off/219670/16 "2003-12-18T19:44:00Z")
My 5-year-old daughter is just now coming to grips with the fact that the food on her plate comes from formerly living creatures. She was watching _Pirates of the Caribbean_ the other night and spotted the roast pig on a platter. The ensuing conversation went something like this. SHE: Daddy, they’re eating a pig (as if to say, eeeeeeww). ME: Why not? _You_ had pig for lunch. SHE: Uh-uuuuuuuh! ME: You ate ham, didn’t you? SHE: (pause) That was pig? ME: Yup. Good, wasn’t it? SHE: Yeah! End of conversation. ---
**Author:** ![myrnajean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c57346/32.png) [@myrnajean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/myrnajean)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mommy-kills-animals-new-peta-campaign-kicks-off/219670/17 "2003-12-18T21:38:13Z")
Yes, my sisters kids went throught the stage of “eeeew, I don’t want to eat that, it comes from a dead animal!” Well, suddenly there were such things as the hotdog tree and the hamburger bush. My father gave us no such dilusions, when we had big parties at the house, and they roasted a whole pig, the HEAD sat on a plate in the fridge. You’d open the door to get some eggnog, or a sandwich, and there it would be, staring at you “turn out that light!!” it seemed to scream. The first time it scared the crap out of you, but then we got to inviting other kids over and telling them, “oh, you wanna pop? go ahead, there’s one in the fridge” Sit back and wait for the scream. ---
**Author:** ![SnoopyFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d07c76/32.png) [@SnoopyFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnoopyFan)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2003, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mommy-kills-animals-new-peta-campaign-kicks-off/219670/18 "2003-12-18T22:21:56Z")
Dear PETA: My mommy might kill animals but your mommy is going to hell. Love, SnoopyToddler ---
**Author:** ![Marvel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/779978/32.png) [@Marvel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marvel)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mommy-kills-animals-new-peta-campaign-kicks-off/219670/19 "2003-12-19T02:00:50Z")
_Sigh_ Even though PETA has a point - killing several small and possibly endangered animals to make ONE coat is, at the very least, wasteful\* - they can’t seriously think they’re going to win any fans with this schtick! Patty \*Now COWS, on the other hand, I have no problem with bumping off. You could probably get a couple of shoes out of one those big ole heffas, most people would’ve eatten the sucker anyway AND there’s just too darn many of those fart-machines, especially here in Ohio! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mommy-kills-animals-new-peta-campaign-kicks-off/219670/20 "2003-12-19T02:34:38Z")
**Marvel** , I can’t keep myself from pointing out that the quote in your sig is from Robert A. Heinlein – still attributable to an AI, but it was Lazarus Long’s ship’s computer, Dora, in _Time Enough For Love_. [/nitpicky SF geek] [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-mommy-kills-animals-new-peta-campaign-kicks-off/219670.md?page=2)