These people (PETA) really need to find something useful to occupy their time:
TAMPA - The announcement that The Florida Aquarium is holding a fundraiser tonight that will feature seven chefs competing in a Sushi Showdown was met with lament from familiar quarters.
``That's like serving poodle burgers at a dog show,'' said Karin Robertson, manager of the Fish Empathy Project for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. ``Fish,'' said Robertson, who was campaigning in Canada against their consumption when reached Wednesday on her cell phone, ``are fantastically intelligent individuals.'' They feel pain, communicate and have cognitive skills. It's bad enough they're not in the ocean, she said. To serve sushi in their midst is wrong.
Are we to believe, then, that the creatures behind the glass at The Florida Aquarium could comprehend (even fear) the sushi competition?
PETA is kind of like organized religion, except there exists the possibility that organized religion might be right about some stuff.
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. - Douglas Adams
PETA is right about some stuff too, but as any other fanatics they take it too far. Some of the stuff they have discovered about puppy farms, pet food testing etc is just plain disgusting and makes me very mad. Unfortunately, these very good points get drowned in drivel..
Kelshara wrote:PETA is right about some stuff too, but as any other fanatics they take it too far. Some of the stuff they have discovered about puppy farms, pet food testing etc is just plain disgusting and makes me very mad. Unfortunately, these very good points get drowned in drivel..
They're too busy protesting that baseball mascots are demeaning to the animals they portray to ever do any good with regards to those things, though =)
Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all. - Douglas Adams
Its very simple. The most hardcore PETA guys should be armed with a knife, and thrown into a pit full of pissed off bears. If theyre able to get out alive, WITHOUT harming any bears, ill consider listening to them.
"Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich"
We'll say this much for PETA's leaders: they've got an answer for everything. If you write to PETA and ask them about our "PETA Kills Animals" website, they'll send back a form letter including some of the lame excuses below:
"Thank you for contacting PETA about the 'PETA Kills Animals' billboard and the accompanying promotions for it … PETA can't afford billboards in Times Square, so we're grateful for the opportunity that this one provides to discuss the animal overpopulation crisis."
PETA's lying. The organization has erected not one but two Times Square billboards (one in 1997 and another in 2003), both featuring silicone beauty Pamela Anderson. Click here and here to see PETA's own promotional materials about these advertisements. And PETA's annual budget is over $25 million. That's about seven times what the Center for Consumer Freedom spends.
"We do not run a traditional shelter. In fact, we refer every healthy, cute, young animal we can to shelters."
Uh oh. There they go again. In 2003 PETA reported transferring exactly one animal to another shelter. In 2002 PETA transferred just two animals. Click here to see the documents PETA filed with the state of Virginia. Since 1998, PETA has transferred a total of 130 animals to other shelters, and 21 of them were chickens. By comparison, it killed over 10,000 animals.
"[M]ost of the animals we receive are broken beings for whom euthanasia is, without a doubt, the most humane option."
PETA kills 85 percent of the animals it takes in, and finds adoptive homes for just 14 percent. By contrast, the Norfolk SPCA, whose shelter is located less than 4 miles from PETA's headquarters, found adoptive homes for 73 percent of its animals in 2003. It’s rather hard to believe that the animals entrusted to PETA are any more likely to be “broken beings.” Dana Cheek, the former (and most recent) director of the Norfolk SPCA, wrote to us recently:
I often receive phone calls from frantic people who have surrendered their pets to PETA with the understanding that PETA will "find them a good home." Many of them are led to believe that the animals will be taken to a nearby shelter. Little do they know that the pets are killed in the PETA van before they even pull away from the pet owner's home … PETA refuses to surrender animals they obtain to area shelters for rehoming. If only the celebrity "deep-pocket" donors on the west coast knew that their donations were going to kill adoptable cats and dogs here in Norfolk.
PETA talks a good game about caring for animals, but seems uninterested in saving the only creatures it actually has contact with. If PETA were sincere, it could use its incredible wealth to buy a huge plot of land where its thousands of victims could live out their natural lives. Instead, these animals meet PETA's hypocrisy head-on, in the form of "tough love."
When I was younger, I used to think that the world was doing it to me and that the world owes me some thing…When you're a teeny bopper, that's what you think. I'm 40 now, I don't think that anymore, because I found out it doesn't f--king work. One has to go through that. For the people who even bother to go through that, most assholes just accept what it is anyway and get on with it." - John Lennon
You know, fighting for animal rights is one thing.. But every thing I hear from PETA gets crazier and crazier.. I mean, how can someone in their right mind really honestly believe this crap.
Next thing you know, they are going to start defending insects too, and try to go after people for swatting mosquitos.
Have you ever had the misfortune to talk to one of PETA's true believers? Logic and rational thought go right out the fucking window, it's all dogma and doctrine, and WOE to the unbelievers!
"There is at least as much need to curb the cruel greed and arrogance of part of the world of capital, to curb the cruel greed and violence of part of the world of labor, as to check a cruel and unhealthy militarism in international relationships." -Theodore Roosevelt
