Oh PETA, you adorable scamp, you. When will you knock it the fuck off already? It's getting old and stale, like the delicious bits of ground up cow shaped into patties, sitting in the back of my freezer since March.
You're really hurting your own cause, here. And you come real close to making me root against the animals! Think about that. Adorable, cute, empty-headed little fur-covered bastards and you're making me side against them. And if they weren't too stupid to talk, I bet they'd tell us they feel the same way.
Well, what did I expect from an organization that has Pam Anderson as its spokeswoman. More, I guess...
An animal rights group has tried and failed to run a newspaper ad comparing the beheading of a passenger on a Greyhound bus last week to the treatment of animals by the meat industry.
Fantastic!
Are they really so out of touch they expect an ad like this to work in the way they claim they intended? Are they aware of how the average person views the tragic ending of human life but are just out for ANY publicity at all? Do they just hate those super intelligent animals with opposable thumbs and knowledge of comic books (us!)?
... city editor Tara Seel said the newspaper had no intention of running the ad, which uses imagery of an innocent victim's throat being cut, in reference to the slaughter of cows, chickens and pigs on factory farms.
His struggles and cries are ignored ... the man with the knife shows no emotion ... the victim is slaughtered and his head cut off ... his flesh is eaten, reads the ad, which is posted on the website.
No, PETA, I have no idea why you're a laughingstock who very few take seriously. Here's something, though... Maybe stop being a dick?
"If this ad leaves a bad taste in your mouth, please give a thought to what sensitive animals think and feel when they come to the end of their frightening journey and see, hear and smell the slaughterhouse.
I'm sorry, I DO have a bad taste in my mouth, one sec while I wash it out with some ox blood... Mmmm, that always does the trick.
Back to the topic at hand. You're undercutting any point you could've made, when you reference a beheading. A recent beheading. You can't be stupid enough to think things work that way. Convince people, win them over, make a valid point. Don't anger them with images of one of their own, getting killed, then try to talk about that thing you were mentioning earlier.
People aren't in the dark about where meat comes from. Some of them just have a different position on it than you do.
I'm an idiot (though much, much smarter than any animal ever?) and even I can see that.
Like human victims, animals in slaughterhouses experience terror when they are attacked by a knife-wielding assailant, Lindsay Rajt of PETA said in a news release. We are challenging everyone who is rightly horrified by this crime to look into their hearts and consider leaving violence off their dinner plates.
Ms. Rajt said the ad was intended to be shocking and is meant to spur people to think about the terror and pain experienced by animals who are raised and killed for food.
Think about how asinine that is. Picture yourself at a dinner party where the topic of a recent horrible murder has come up. Then picture the person at the end of the table piping up with, "Well, it's no different than what happens to animals every day."
Can you see how innapropriate that would be? How, at the very least, annoying and obnoxious it would be? Even without the use of graphic visual aids...
Go away PETA, you've stayed too long at the party. Take yer hat made of something less than leather and go.
Speaking of asinine, why do so many articles discrediting PETA's actions (which, agreed, don't need any help since they do so just fine themselves) also discredit their own point with underhanded, tired jokes by the author on how they just looooooove the ground beef?
seraglio said:
Speaking of asinine, why do so many articles discrediting PETA's actions (which, agreed, don't need any help since they do so just fine themselves) also discredit their own point with underhanded, tired jokes by the author on how they just looooooove the ground beef?
There was a much better thread than this one that had some reasonable discussion in it without too many useless meat jokes.
If you're looking for something free of tired, underhanded jokes you'd be wise to avoid coolerking articles.
"Like human victims, animals in slaughterhouses experience terror when they are attacked by a knife-wielding assailant,"
PETA is kinda of ridiculous with the way it trys to make points, i dont agree with peta, i LOVE meat, but i don't hate animals either.
I dont think a cow is frightened at a slaughter house because i doubt it knows whats coming, animals would be alot more frightened in a situation like this:
It's people like PETA that has inspired me to become a Meagan (pronounced MEE-gan). I don't eat anything that doesn't come from an animal. Proteins like milk and eggs are easy to get, but I'm having trouble finding a store that sells Meagan Bread and Meagan Pasta.
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Quirky
Birmingham, AL
October 2005
AUG 10, 2008 10:12 AM
SergeantPsycho said:
It's people like PETA that has inspired me to become a Meagan (pronounced MEE-gan). I don't eat anything that doesn't come from an animal. Proteins like milk and eggs are easy to get, but I'm having trouble finding a store that sells Meagan Bread and Meagan Pasta.
Going from zero to one hundred is as ridiculous as going from one hundred to zero.
ShadowDrgn said:
"Like human victims, animals in slaughterhouses experience terror when they are attacked by a knife-wielding assailant,"
PETA is kinda of ridiculous with the way it trys to make points, i dont agree with peta, i LOVE meat, but i don't hate animals either.
I dont think a cow is frightened at a slaughter house because i doubt it knows whats coming, animals would be alot more frightened in a situation like this:
I recommend going to a slaughterhouse then.
They're terrified.
Just so you know.
ShadowDrgn said:
"Like human victims, animals in slaughterhouses experience terror when they are attacked by a knife-wielding assailant,"
PETA is kinda of ridiculous with the way it trys to make points, i dont agree with peta, i LOVE meat, but i don't hate animals either.
I dont think a cow is frightened at a slaughter house because i doubt it knows whats coming, animals would be alot more frightened in a situation like this:
I recommend going to a slaughterhouse then.
They're terrified.
Just so you know.
Maybe they are. I just say i doubted it, but maybe, even still we are animals and we eat meat, we no longer hunt them down running through the forest as we once use to, but we eat them all the same. Just because we are more intelligent and more evolved than the Shark or the Lion means we shouldn't eat meat? If god didnt want us to eat meat maybe he would have designed us a little differently.
Oh and i have been to a slaughter house, for a short period of time i worked in Garden City, KS at the Congra slaughter house, prior to fire of course. (in the packaging section) never actually saw a live cow.
seraglio said:
Speaking of asinine, why do so many articles discrediting PETA's actions (which, agreed, don't need any help since they do so just fine themselves) also discredit their own point with underhanded, tired jokes by the author on how they just looooooove the ground beef?
There was a much better thread than this one that had some reasonable discussion in it without too many useless meat jokes.
If you're looking for something free of tired, underhanded jokes you'd be wise to avoid coolerking articles.
Honestly? It's because I'm not capable of discussing meat without salivating over it. IT'S SO FUCKING GOOD.
Ah well, I'm off to eat some bacon-wrapped steaks... MMmmm.
Shock tactics rarely work and sometimes offend. Psychologically speaking, PETA would better advertise its message by highlighting the possible benefits rather than the current situation. Studies into advertising effectivity often prove this. An advert that tells someone how easy it is, for example, to brush their teeth everyday to avoid various dental problems will encourage changed habits far better than an advert scaring people with pictures of the effects of dental diseases. Not only is it wrong to use terror to convince people of their doctrine, it is also ineffective, and even detrimental to their cause.
ShadowDrgn said:
Just because we are more intelligent and more evolved than the Shark or the Lion means we shouldn't eat meat? If god didnt want us to eat meat maybe he would have designed us a little differently.
We, however, are the one species which can choose not to.
ShadowDrgn said:
Just because we are more intelligent and more evolved than the Shark or the Lion means we shouldn't eat meat? If god didnt want us to eat meat maybe he would have designed us a little differently.
We, however, are the one species which can choose not to.
So if we chose TO eat meat, we should be chastised?
Believe me... I try to avoid your articles whenever possible but, as I already linked, this story had come up before so I wanted to see if there was anything worthwhile here.
Apart from Viking's comment it doesn't look like it.
seraglio said:
Speaking of asinine, why do so many articles discrediting PETA's actions (which, agreed, don't need any help since they do so just fine themselves) also discredit their own point with underhanded, tired jokes by the author on how they just looooooove the ground beef?
There was a much better thread than this one that had some reasonable discussion in it without too many useless meat jokes.
If you're looking for something free of tired, underhanded jokes you'd be wise to avoid coolerking articles.
Honestly? It's because I'm not capable of discussing meat without salivating over it. IT'S SO FUCKING GOOD.
Ah well, I'm off to eat some bacon-wrapped steaks... MMmmm.
It is, and has been our moderation policy for some time to nip threads that start off like this in the bud. If you'd like to have a discussion about vegetarianism, animal rights, eating meat, or animal ethics, you're welcome to do so, but 6 years of this has proven that threads that start off like this only end in name-calling, personal attacks, insults, official warnings, and a couple people forced anonymous.
Likewise, you're welcome to celebrate how much you love meat, as long as you can do it without taunting vegetarians.
TheCoolerKing
NEWSWIRE
Los Angeles, CA
AUG 10, 2008 01:11 AM