PETA
ever notice they don’t protest biker gangs in leather?
What a PETA member’s average day consists of.
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Did you ever notice they don’t protest any of the fine furniture stores, either?
Or did i just miss that…?
or high end auto dealerships that do leather interiors
Or athletic shoe companies…
Well, except for when they slammed Nike about Michael Vick… but that has NOTHING to do with the raw materials used in their product, so IMHO doesn’t count.
Word is, Vick is going to try being a PETA spokesman when he gets out of prison.
[link]
Correction: while looking for my link, I discovered PETA has already decided against allowing Vick to associate with them. Good for them!
Have you seen “I Am An Animal” about Ingrid Newkirk? Not only is she batty (making a will for herself to be roasted and eaten after she dies) but it showed those protests ARE just photo ops. The real action seems to take place with people in ninja-style outfits setting fires which film mysteriously lands in PETA’s hands within hours.
Or BDSM bars… Oh wait… um, I meant to say…
Or um… Something else non incriminating.
That tears it. DWM, you are no longer my President. You are my GOD! *insert grovelling and exhalations here*
Woot, I love getting a promotion. *sends the Mistress Angels to attend Ivan*
What does that make me?
A female Jesus?
I’M A ZOMBIE?!
*whispers* You mean you didn’t know?
Great Caesar’s Ghost! I was COMPLETELY unaware!!
*grovelling and exalting before the messiah, but not as much as for the god*
Thanks for those angels, My Lord! They’re HOT!
Nah, resurrected. True Resurrection spell too, we didn’t cheap out on ya. You’re alive and kicking.
So go on with your naughty prophet self…
I’m glad to see you’ve not changed since I left on vacation. :’D
That would require me to grow up… Not happening.
Ivan: You are most welcome.
ROFLCOPTR!!!111!!! funny. is an understatement.
That’s because cows aren’t cute.
They don’t protest car dealerships either…
I wonder how many PETA members/supporters are driving around in vehicles with leather interior, or wearing leather shoes, belts, etc.
Self-righteous, hypocritical asshats.
I know that some of them feel that if they buy leather second hand that it doesn’t support the market. Kind of like how they tell you to buy antique rings if you really want a diamond engagement ring so you don’t continue to support the diamond trade.
But you are buying a diamond thus you aren’t stopping the incentive to stop the diamond trade and…
*starts twitching*
I didn’t say the reasoning made sense, I just said it was the reasoning. Gingerbread Man? *offers DWN one fresh from the oven*
*noms and then bites Jane*
Thought you were a cookie cuz you’re sweet…
*bites some more*
Yay! *purrs*
Jane has a flavor! NOMNOMNOMNOM
Careful; every bite drops 10 points off your IQ. Eat the whole thing and you’ll turn into Sheriff Joe.
Odd since I’ve only gotten smarter since I started chewing…
If you look around the table and can’t see the mark…
I know, right?
Small long-haired furries = NOES!!ELEVENTY!!11!! EBILDOERS EAT PAINT!
Large short-haired furries = *yawn, get more comfortable in heated leather seat*
Or maybe it’s that leather is washable, whereas fur isn’t…
Here in washington, cold, wet, animal-loving Washington, I have noticed that we can’t keep up with the demand for LEATHER Birkenstocks sandals. To wear with wool socks. While driving a Ford Excursion. Through our loverly National Forest…’for preservation education, appreciation’….and ruination.
I’m more concerned with those freaky clones they’re using as models.
careful there hell, not all us washingtonians are birkenstock wearers. take a gander over to the other side of the state – cowboy up! gives reason for leather (chaps, boots, vest….yum)
obviously! I live here, and I wouldn’t touch them with an elebenty foot pole
the cowboys or the birk wearers?
gotta love all the libs in seattle though driving their gas guzzlers with the excuse they need the 4wd in case it snows…..while driving on all season tires never meant to handle the snow, especially not the heavy wet stuff that seattle gets about once a decade or so. even the fancy ‘work’ trucks never look like they’ve hauled anything more strenous than the crap from costco.
To be fair, Birkenstocks will resole their shoes when they wear out, cutting down on the need to buy new stuff (which take carbon dioxide and raw materials to produce).
I object. Cows are cute. Sometimes.
THESE cows are cute: [link]
I had a cow once.. I named it T-bone in honor of his future contribution to the dinner table.
*blushes* We had a calf born around Christmas time one year that we named Nicholas in honor of Saint Nicholas. I offered to drive that evil, evil bull calf to the slaughter house myself, and for nearly a year we would “go get some Nicholas from the freezer” for meals. My brother thought it was creepy.
lol!! We had a steer we called “Old Ugly”, and I had to go get some old ugly from the freezer! I got over being squeemish about it pretty quick, ’cause he sure was tasty. But my mom was one of those who wouldn’t waste anything, and she actually cooked the tongue. Having seen that tongue go up in his nose it still makes me gag a little thinking of someone eating that. She made me taste it, but not finish it, thank God!
Friend of mine bought a calf and named it Whopper. Couple of years later, it was…
micro-cows!
those are cute, but for cute normal cows these just can’t be beat
Yay!
Highland cattle are cute–and look like real critters.
The standard bred-for-optimal-milking cow looks to me like a cross between a bug-uddered alien and a robot!
Highland cattle look like shaggy dogs, LOL.
Hello? PETA *does* protest cows getting killed. And chickens. And pigs. They’ve had huge ad campaigns targeting most of the big fast-food chains. And, by the way, the hardcore animal rights people I’ve known did not in fact have leather shoes/furniture/etc.; they practiced what they preached. I think people want to believe that PETA types are “self-righteous, hypocritical asshats” because it assuages their own guilt.
I’ve a friend who is a vegetarian animal-rights person–and she isn’t an asshat. I don’t agree with her on everything (I’m not vegetarian, and I believe in animal research if done conscientiously). But I respect her beliefs.
However, there are animal rights terrorists, animal rights vandals, and also animal rights pains-in-the-behinds. And I reserve the right to refer to them as I see them.
PeTA advertised for KFC Canada and McDonald’s because they made a crappy vegetarian (not even vegan) chicken burger and McSlaughter decided to buy “humane, happy meat”. They don’t care about the lives of animals, they just care that people buy relatively less tortured meat than very tortured meat.
They are MOSTLY bored people looking for an excuse to burn and pillage. If I got asked to go throw paint at people and throw rocks through windows for animal rights then hell yeah I’d do it. But at the end of the day I would still sit down and have a burger.
I like eating lesser creatures. hey are a good source of protein and taste good to boot. I’m curious, have they ever protested cruel fishing methods? I highly doubt it. Many fisheries are creating an overabundance of endangered species. I miss the good old fashioned eco terrorists. The ones that would cut fishing lines and blow stuff up.
PeTA has a game online where kids can make their own fish. The point is to make fish cute. On the website they call the fish “sea kittens.” I could not make this up, I am simply not smart or creative enough.
screw the eco-terrorisem, I just like blowing stuff up.
Dude, they suggested that having companion animals was equivalent to slavery. I kind of doubt it’s just about a bunch of Cro-Magnon meat-eaters assuaging their own guilt. In any case, if the position my dog is in counts as slavery, I still soooo want in on that gig!
You’ve never seen a Jersey cow then. They actually *are* cute.
…but I’ll eat them anyway. MUAHAHAHAHA! Uh, I mean…
*throws a shiny for distraction and runs off*
Jerseys are for milking. And when they outlive their usefulness, dogfood. Duh.
It’s because biker gangs wouldn’t put up with that nonsense. Plenty of them really do walk the walk, though – if you don’t count the 90% or so of the healthy animals they euthanize every year while protesting against public animal shelters for doing so. Or their shakedowns. Or some of the more loathsome, Holocaust-themed advertising. Or scaring children by replacing happy meal containers with ones having greusome imagery and calling their parents murderers. Or putting on KKK outfits to protest dog shows.
But at least most of them don’t wear leather. Ugh.
the whole KKK/dogshow thing makes Forrest Gump look like Richard Feynman(sp.?)
Well obviously I don’t know exact numbers but I do know that proud PETA supporter Pamela Anderson auctioned off a car (possibly her car) to benefit animals rights groups, complete with it’s leather interior.
Also I’ve seen too many people wearing leather at “fur is dead” rallies. Last one I saw, earlier this year, roughly half were wearing shoes that you could say were definitely leather due to name brand. Uggs for example, which are made out of sheepskin. So I guess fur is alright. As long as that fur is referred to as wool and is worn on the inside of your shoe/boot.
I know of this one girl who was talking about how she doesn’t eat meat because its animal flesh and its disgusting and she doesn’t buy anything made from animals
when someone said something about her shoes she said [and I'm not making this up, here]
“Nuh-uh! they’re LEATHER!”
Well, DUH, of course fur is dead…you had to kill the animal first to make it. And I don’t see the models wearing fur in that picture, so the protester was fail on relevancy.
What about all those prehistoric creatures who died to provide the petroleum used in the manufacture of their outfits, huh? They had feelings, too!
But they died a horrible death by starvation or exposure to a changed climate, which is apparently much better than a quick death caused by humans.
I always bring up bow-fishing as my example of PETA stupidity. They protest bow-fishing for carp and such, but have no problem with the fact that the native species of fish are dying of starvation in huge numbers because the carp wipe out the food supply.
Remember the bee venom study they used on fish lips to show that fish feel pain when you use a hook?
That related so nicely to my comment down below!
I do what I can to help, love.
When I lived in Virginia PETA was protesting sports fishermen who just enjoyed fishing for fun and threw back most of their catches on the grounds that it traumatized the fish to be caught on a hook and thrown back.
Yeah, it’s so traumatic that you can catch the same fish twice in one day on the same lure.
Lol…I’ve always thought catch & release should be called “annoying some fish.” You think they go back to their fish buddies and start relating this wild story about how they were just swimming along, minding their own business, when they stopped to grab a snack and then they found themselves being pulled out into the air, inspected, and thrown back? I bet fish that have been caught and released are treated with skepticism similar to people who think they’ve been abducted by aliens.
Hahahah…oh, this made me laugh!
“Fred, I swear I was lifted right out of the water, they were big pink aliens with no scales or fins, they put me on a big metal slab and measured me, I think they were gonna anal probe me!”
“Bob, you gotta stop eating that rotten seaweed”
Then they start talking about twitchy Pete who claims to have been abducted over fifty times and is now scared of anything shiny…
Shiny? WHERE?! Must have!!!!
“Rotten seaweed? Well what about this implant I got?”
“Holy sea cow, he DOES have an implant! Right there on his back!”
HAHAHAHAHA!!
But, really, aliens exist. I swear. *burp*
You mean the sea kittens
No no, PETA has renamed fish – they are now to be called “Sea Kittens” because then people will think they are cute and won’t eat them. On their page about it they have fish…dressed up as kittens. I guess Sea Kittens aren’t fish OR kittens, but…furries.
The protester is pretty cute though.
Too bad she’s crazy.
Not JUST crazy, bat-shit, hanging upside down from the rafters, runs-with-scissors, and tries this at home crazy.
hey, i object to that – nothing wrong with running with scissors or trying things at home. those aren’t crazy, they can be called many things like dumber than a rock, or just plain stupid, but in my family it’s normal, inventive, a learning experience, or sometimes ‘your father is such a dumbsh!t’; but never crazy.
however i will agree with the bat-sh!t, hanging from the rafters, eating bugs part of your description…..
…and we all know, by hearing of inventors and psychotic rulers throughout the ages, that crazy and dumb almost never walk hand in hand. *psychotic rulers? I wonder if they measure up…*
Groan… Very punny!
She’s a vegan, she wouldn’t eat bugs.
She looks like Avril Lavigne.
Are you kidding, she looks like an oversized autistic primordial dwarf with fetal alcohal syndrome. I think Ill start erecting PETA buildings that just have a spike pit in the foyer, and hold meetings there.
….. wow. I….. wow.
Why didn’t anyone else think of this!!!!
I know I am impressed…
Could we add some alligators or maybe wolverines to the pit? We would feed them well of course, nothing but the best free-range grass-fed vegans!
How about some sharks with frickin lasers attached to their heads?
Oddly enough, Gaia has those for the virtual aquariums you can set up. /random
I think we’ll have to settle for ill-tempered sea bass.
FLYING sharks with lasers and sonic cannons!
Madness? THIS IS PETA!
same difference…
Their save the baby seals expedition went over perfect! They are so smart, those peta people, look that girl even knows that fur is dead. This might have been more effective it she were in front of someone, oh I don’t know, wearing fur?
great caption, and very true.
1) According to government documents, PETA employees have killed more than 19,200 dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens since 1998. This behavior continues despite PETA’s moralizing about the “unethical” treatment of animals by farmers, scientists, restaurant owners, circuses, hunters, fishermen, zookeepers, and countless other Americans. PETA puts to death over 90 percent of the animals it accepts from members of the public who expect the group to make a reasonable attempt to find them adoptive homes. PETA holds absolutely no open-adoption shelter hours at its Norfolk, VA headquarters, choosing instead to spend part of its $32 million annual income on a contract with a crematory service to periodically empty hundreds of animal bodies from its large walk-in freezer.
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2) PETA president and co-founder Ingrid Newkirk has described her group’s overall goal as “total animal liberation.” This means the complete abolition of meat, milk, cheese, eggs, honey, zoos, aquariums, circuses, wool, leather, fur, silk, hunting, fishing, and pet ownership. In a 2003 profile of Newkirk in The New Yorker, author Michael Specter wrote that Newkirk has had at least one seeing-eye dog taken away from its blind owner. PETA is also against all medical research that requires the use of animals, including research aimed at curing AIDS and cancer.
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3) PETA has given tens of thousands of dollars to convicted arsonists and other violent criminals. This includes a 2001 donation of $1,500 to the North American Earth Liberation Front (ELF), an FBI-certified “domestic terrorist” group responsible for dozens of firebombs and death threats. During the 1990s, PETA paid $70,200 to Rodney Coronado, an Animal Liberation Front (ALF) serial arsonist convicted of burning down a Michigan State University research laboratory. In his sentencing memorandum, a federal prosecutor implicated PETA president Ingrid Newkirk in that crime. PETA vegetarian campaign coordinator Bruce Friedrich has also told an animal rights convention that “blowing stuff up and smashing windows” is “a great way to bring about animal liberation,” adding, “Hallelujah to the people who are willing to do it.”
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4) PETA activists regularly target children as young as six years old with anti-meat and anti-milk propaganda, even waiting outside their schools to intercept them without notifying their parents. One piece of kid-targeted PETA literature tells small children: “Your Mommy Kills Animals!” PETA brags that its messages reach over 1.2 million minor children, including 30,000 kids between the ages of 6 and 12, all contacted by e-mail without parental supervision. One PETA vice president told the Fox News Channel’s audience: “Our campaigns are always geared towards children, and they always will be.”
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5) PETA’s president has said that “even if animal research resulted in a cure for AIDS, we would be against it.” And PETA has repeatedly attacked research foundations like the March of Dimes, the Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and the American Cancer Society, solely because they support animal-based research aimed at curing life-threatening diseases and birth defects. And PETA helped to start and manage a quasi-medical front group, the misnamed Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, to attack medical research head-on.
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6) PETA has compared Jewish victims of the Nazi Holocaust to farm animals and Jesus Christ to pigs. PETA’s religious campaigns include a website that claims—despite ample evidence to the contrary—that Jesus Christ was a vegetarian. PETA holds protests at houses of worship, even suing one church that tried to protect its members from Sunday-morning harassment. Its billboards taunt Christians with the message that hogs “died for their sins.” PETA insists, contrary to centuries of rabbinical teaching, that the Jewish ritual of kosher slaughter shouldn’t be allowed. And its infamous “Holocaust on Your Plate” campaign crassly compared the Jewish victims of Nazi genocide to farm animals.
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7) PETA frequently looks the other way when its celebrity spokespersons don’t practice what it preaches. As gossip bloggers and Hollywood journalists have noted, Pamela Anderson’s Dodge Viper (auctioned to benefit PETA) had a “luxurious leather interior”; Jenna Jameson was photographed fishing, slurping oysters, and wearing a leather jacket just weeks after launching an anti-leather campaign for PETA; Morrissey got an official “okay” from PETA after eating at a steakhouse; Dita von Teese has written about her love of furs and foie gras; Steve-O built a career out of abusing small animals on film; the officially “anti-fur” Eva Mendes often wears fur anyway; and Charlize Theron’s celebrated October 2007 Vogue cover shoot featured several suede garments. In 2008, “Baby Phat” designer Kimora Lee Simmons became a PETA spokesmodel despite working with fur and leather, after making a $20,000 donation to the animal rights group.
Google PETA kills animals… Yes, I know this lol is mocking peta, but I’m just waiting for the pro-peta freaks to show up.
Can’t wait! Bring it on Peta puffers!
In case the PeTA people point out that the group pushing this story is a front for business interests in the meat industry, here is the information Reuters reported as directly communicated by the Virginia Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services: “According to VDACS, the average euthanasia rate for humane societies in Virginia was 34.7 percent in 2006. PETA’s “kill rate” was 97.4 percent. ” Yeah, PeTA. You’re really saving the animals. A$$hole$.
Well played. well played.
…wait… honey is evil too? Really? I mean, I got a lot more than that out of your post, and yes, well played, but honey? That’s really no different than harvesting beets and potatoes.
PETA has made a mockery out of a noble intent.
There was a letter to the editor in our local paper today with someone placing responsibility for the swine flu on us murderous meat eaters. I just wanted to reach through the paper, grab a hold of that person’s shoulders, shake the crap out of them, and say “stop embarrassing yourself, idiot!!”
Yes. Apparently it’s EBIL ELEBENTY to even eat an insect’s vomit…
how come bee barf is so yommy, but when i have to look at some of these posts, and throw up in my mouth a little, it tastes horrible?
You probably don’t eat flowers…
Dandelions, fireweed, honeysuckle, red clover and marigolds. Dandelions are gross, though.
I thought they were rather tasty… Well, the leaves were… I don’t imagine the rest would be particularly good….
try dandelion wine – fermentation makes them tasty
I always think of Dennis Leary’s Meat Lodge idea when I think of PETA’s complaints.
Good times.
“lemme slice a piece off and ride the rest home.”
And if one of the men dies from eating too much meat, fu(k him, toss him on the fire… More meat for the meat eaters. NOMNOMNOMNOM…
I tried to link to that earlier, but the Evil Overlords at PK ate it…so here:
http://www.lyricsmania.com/lyrics/denis_leary_lyrics_22256/other_lyrics_52884/meat_lyrics_550343.html
I love that bit so hard.
Donner, is that you?
And that is what people call a Combo Breaker, ladies and germs…
*hangs head in shame*
I’ve done worse, tis okay pet. *pats on back*
maybe it has to do with the way it is harvested. while i realize that trying to rationalize PETA is like trying to rationalize…well a crazy person’s actions, but to collect honey a bee keeper usually puts bees to sleep with smoke. not that i find that particularly harmful, they’re just sleeping, but whatever.
I got curious and looked up the whole why-vegans-don’t-eat-honey thing; apparently it’s partly just because it is technically an animal product and because the bees are *gasp* exploited. [link]
honestly i have no idea how they do it. i’m sure i’d die of protein deficiency quite quickly if i were to try and be vegan. I like milk and eggs too much, and meat but i can go a while without it if i have milk and eggs
Technically you can replace all that you’re missing but the concept and inefficiency just gives me a headache.
Mmm, now I want a steak.
Of course you can replace it with non-meat protein, but it will taste like crap.
And vitamin supplements. Lots and lots of supplements.
If you’re diabetic, you’re screwed.
actually you don’t get all you need from the supplements, you miss crutial enzimes only found in meet, beef in particular that cannot be synthesized. These enzimes keep your brain functioning and your heart working. Hmmm maybe that is why PETA is so farging STUPID, they are vegans and their brain hs become swiss cheese
NO no, Obviosity is right.
Those enzymes are vital for staving off “teh crazee.”
I just don’t get the mentality. I mean, i like my animals to be raised well and in nice conditions before i eat them (easier since moving to montana) but i don’t have the body nor lifestyle to try and get all my calories from plants and such.
I don’t have the mentality either. Lynn and I both watch bunnies run and have the urge to chase them and break their necks.
I don’t find it hard to eat reasonably well without meat or dairy (but then, I’m hardly a bodybuilder [but then, you can get complete protein from combinations of plant sources]).
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I’m sick of hearing “so do you take iron tablets for the anaemia?”. Wtf guys, no, I just eat enough iron in actual food.
How do you get enough vitamin D then?
Fascinating, really, you see, outside, in the sky, during the day time, there is this huge sphere in the sky called the “sun”. This “sun” allows us to manufacture Vitamin D in our skin. Truly remarkable, isn’t it?
ROFL! Now you’ve done it. Viking gal is a scientist/professor…
Not calling her a moron, just saying that there is a perfectly viable source of vitamin D that doesn’t require eating at all XD
@Candystripe Legs. The sun works fine as a source of vitamin D if you live in California. But not so dependable in the Northeast US. And you do need a steady source, as they’ve found that deficiencies are implicated in increased risk for some cancers and multiple sclerosis. So…
I live in Canada, I still get plenty of vitamin D from taking a half hour walk each week (not to mention in the run of the day when I do happen to be outside), and the sun is the only reliable source, it would take ten glasses of milk each day to get the bare minimum requirement.
You must be in the Maritimes or Vancouver, then. I’m just a bit too far inland to want to expose my forearms to the elements in January or February!
Newfoundland, didn’t say I enjoy it either XD Its murder standing out there waiting for a bus in the winter.
Sweet, I’ve been spoken for
I live in Melbourne, where if it’s sunny in the morning, it’ll probably be raining in the arvo, and vice-versa. Even if it’s overcast, I assume that enough UV gets through for vit D synthesis, as I’ve been a little bit sunburnt (and I don’t burn easily!) on overcast days…
I want a steak topped with fried chicken and covered in bacon. Then I want a ride to the hospital.
Make that two, waiter. We will ride together, one check. I am treating my friend Eric here.
Okay, but the Lipitor is on me!
One flyer given to my by an excited vegan described the honey gathering process as ( again I am not capable of making this up) “bee rape.” That’s right. Bee rape.
That bee was totally asking for it in it’s skimpy striped outfit. That tease.
And just because I slipped that roofie into the bee’s drink, that doesn’t absolve the bee from the choice as to drink it or not.
The bee said no, but the antenna said yes…
ROFL! Dumba@@! Try not to get splinters when you’re coming down from your cross…
Ummmm, honeybees are disappearing and it could become a serious problem in our country when it comes to pollinating crops. [link] for some background information.
It already is a serious problem, given that we already have to truck around bees to the various farms in the country for pollinating purposes. But that is completely independent of the honey-harvesting business. The pollinator bee problem is partly mono-culture farming and partly some sort of bee disease.
Nevermind. Read Jane StClair’s link–way more info!
Well, I was more in the line of thought that Obviosity seemed to be of the opinion that bees weren’t important when, in fact, they are very important. I realize that the way I posted it made it seem as if honey harvesting was the cause for the decline in bees and that isn’t the case, since, as near as I can tell they don’t really know what is causing it.
Nope. I’m mocking the “tink of teh beeezzzz!!1!ELEBENTIES!” statement.
I know a dude who works on the project at the link, so am actually aware of the bee issue and its significance for agriculture.
Thanks, though, for the link.
Well, it does seem extreme to me but I figure, to each their own. And I feel that they have a tiny bit of a good point (that would be better served if they weren’t so confrontational) in that humanity as a whole has a history of raping their resources without thought to replenishing them. If you asked ten people on the street I bet about eight of them wouldn’t think losing bees would be a big deal.
And you’re welcome for the link. I had remembered hearing about the problem awhile ago but didn’t remember enough to do justice to an explanation so I did a quick search for just background information on the problem.
Who said “tink of teh beeeeeeeezzz!!1!”? People were laughing at the idea that honey could be exploitative to bees and I explained that, no, it actually IS. Whether anyone gives a crap is up to them.
Yeah, honey is evil because you’re taking away the hive’s extra backup food for their little baby bee larvae.
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=PetaKillsAnimals.com
And yet they didn’t make up the 97.4% kill rate–they just publicized it. Their motives are pure corporate evil–fine. PeTA still killed 97.4% of animals in its care in VA that year, compared to the state average of 34.7%, according to the State of Virginia. http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS197938+17-Jan-2008+PRN20080117
And let’s not forget about Mary Beth Sweetland, a former vice president of PeTA uses (or a least used), insulin which is made with animal products, despite PeTA wanting no one to use medical products made with animal products. But she doesn’t consider herself a hypocrite.
Look, if you don’t wanna promote not wearing fur or leather, and to extol the virtues of vegetarianism or even going vegan, that’s fine. But when you start saying people shouldn’t have their lived improved or even SAVED because animals were involved in the treatments or procedures in some way (even in the early-stage testing), then you can FOAD.
since about 1982 most insulin is a biosynthetic recombinant “human” insulin or an analog.
there is also interesting work underway combining human dna with plants for a plant based source of insulin. so far the most promising has been with safflowers.
I would love to see when a person from PETA gets sick and has to take any type of medicine…how do you think they developed them??!! They sure as heck weren’t flat out tested on humans!!!
They have no choice but to do so because our government mandates animal testing for drugs,which is why PETA, along with groups like the American Anti-Vivisection Society and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine are working to help stop animal experimentation. Many scientists feel that the animal model is not a good indicator of human response, and today there are many new testing methods that don’t use animals and even cost less to use.
I support these organizations, and follow a vegan lifestyle in so far as my country’s laws make it possible. I don’t think any reasonable person would expect everyone to forgo medical treatment when they are ill, despite the fact that the medicines in question were undoubtedly tested on animals. In a case like that, the best we can do is to take care of ourselves while causing as little harm as possible.
I realize that PETA can seem a bit over the top. For those of you who find them off-putting, I suggest that you check out one of the other two organizations I mentioned, especially the PCRM. You might find them more to your taste.
Ok, this “PETA freak” is signing off now; I’ve said my piece and won’t be back. Go ahead and make fun of me.
I put Peta in the same class as the Westborough Baptist Church. While they may think their aim is true, 10 times out of 10 they miss the mark. My problem with Peta is they are trying to make moral choices for people yet continue to be complete hypocrits.
Amen, brother.
PCRM and PETA go hand-in-hand. Plus, the fact that you say ‘many scientists don’t think animal are a good indicator’ shows that you haven’t done your own research. They have bred strains of rat and mouse to react to medicine in the same way humans do, and pigs’ bodies react similarly to ours when it comes to real surgeries or trauma.
I’m not going to make fun of you… just secretly plot your ruin with my army of killer squirrls.
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Totaly animal liberation is just stupid. People and animal have alwayes lived and worked together.
They want to ban pet ownership? Really?
My dog will be sorry to go and my cat will be sorry to give me up.
Really? My cat will look around and say “Hm, I wonder what happened to that large semi-furless toy I had. Oh well.”
Haha! We used to have a very unaffectionate cat — I’d pick him up and sit him on my lap and he’d be like “w’evs” and walk away. Boooooring.
That is until feeding time.. The cat would then be expecting you to come running!
My cat flips way the hell out if I leave for too long. She is spoiled. Much more healthy and happy than she was when she lived outside. The whole Peta being against pets thing boggles my mind. A proper pet-human relationship is mutually beneficial…
That’s right, dogs have masters, cats have staff..
Well, I used to have 2 cats, but the other one sold her soul to my girlfriend. When the gf leaves, the cat will sit at the door and MOURN. At least the first kitty still acknowledges my existence. *sigh*
I have a pickle with point 2. They fight for “better conditions” for farm animals, they say they are for total animal liberation but they are in fact welfarist in practice.
Depends entirely on the PETA faction/members in question. Some are welfarist, and some are wacko.
they’re insane.
there is no other way around it, and i would loved to see how much trouble they got in for taking away the seeing-eye dog. that couldn’t have ended pretty.
Especially since they were backed up by the ACLU..
Don’t forget they want to take service dogs away from disabled people, and do away with K9s that keep drugs out of our country and schools, find missing people, and apprehend criminals, forget about therapy animals who bring comfort to others…nevermind, of course, that the animals love what they do.
how would you know what animals love? Maybe they just do it so they won’t be painted red and thrown at polar bears. did you ever think of that? Huh? huh? Yeah, didn’t think so.
Dogs aren’t really known for their deceptive natures. If they love something, their body language shows it.
And if they DON’T love something… well, same idea. My Seamus alternates between seen a ghost terrified (getting a camera out) to mildly annoyed stop fvcking with me so I can go back to sleep (daring to walk into the room he’s currently occupying for his naptime) when he’s not happy.
Precisely. Animals tend to be very expressive and don’t have our emotional restraint unless it is trained. Hence the humor of Lolcats and Loldogs.
Sidenote: Anybody else feeling sympathy for the waifish models? I feel like they would blow away if a stiff breeze came through.
Poor girls should eat something. Lots of somethings.
Granted, I know the body type argument but… I seriously doubt all of them are naturally that thin. Definitely need to eat something.
A medium-rare steak! With squished potatoes and cellulite-inducing gravy! *yomyomyomyom*
Yeah. It’s pretty ironic to have a PETA protest where the models obviously need more meat in their diets.
Or more of anything.
Meat. And lots of it. If for no other reason than to piss off PETA girl.
Yeaaaaaaaaah, I was being sarcastic. I have a beagle, I feel like I can read her mind sometimes.
You fell victim to Poe’s Law. Indicate your sarcasm next time.
how to make it more evident? how bout “how would you know what animals love? Maybe they just do it so they won’t be painted red and thrown at polar bears. did you ever think of that? Huh? huh? Yeah, didn’t think so.” she exclaimed with relishing sarcasm?
*raises hand meekly*
I got that it was sarcasm. Lol’d a little, too.
Like fundamentalism, extremists of any kind are hard to distinguish from parodies of them. I didn’t think you were serious either, but obviously someone did. It’s not their fault and you shouldn’t take it personal when someone doesn’t get your sarcasm when you are communicating in a venue where we don’t have access to your facial expressions or vocal cues. Most people will put /sarcasm or put a winking face at the end of a sarcastic post to indicate it as such. Or you could just be a troll and continue to be offended that not everyone is a mind reader and didn’t guess your intent. Whichever works for you.
Actually, yeah, have thought of that. Thing is, dogs are social, and being social, they like being around ‘pack mates.’ When a dog wags its tail and bats at you trying to get you to get up faster, you’d figure that the dog is looking forward to what was coming.
I know that when my dog, a bearded collie, was in obedience competition with her original owners, the minute the obedience collar was put on her she’d scratch at their door and try and herd them toward the way to the car. She knew what the obedience collar meant, and she enjoyed it, because it got her a lot of praise.
my pups are well conditioned too – they know that when they go out if they bark they don’t get cookies, but if no one barks, out comes their cookies and they line up in order and get their cookie in the same order. when my daughter brings her dogs over, they are the same way (no treats at home, just gramma’s) they know where they fit and who is first and who is last. plus they recognize the neighborhood. for one he starts getting all excited about a 1/4 mile from my house, and the pup gets wound up at about 4 blocks.
and all 6 dogs know when their own leash comes out that which one gets to go in the car, and they know which door each one goes in. the big ones have to be buckled down other wise they become the worst back seat drivers imaginable – drooling on my daughters shoulders and poking her in the back of the head, not to mention turning around and wacking her with their tails.
In case you couldnt tell by my moniker, it’s my job to know what they’re thinking, smart guy.
Dude, how would YOU know what animals love?
I’m all for the police not using canines…I consider it cheating LoL.
Nah, I can’t even say that. Canine’s are a great tool for law enforcement and they allow our officers to stay safe in situations where they otherwise would be put in danger.
I wouldn’t call a police dog a tool to his face.
“Nice doggie, here have some bacon!”
*snerk*
PETA people need to be sent to Gitmo and water boarded.
WE DO NOT TORTURE! What? Oh, water boarding? Well, that’s different. Carry on.
why cant we waterboard them here? we could sell it on PPV and make enough money to buy everyone BBQ chicken and beef!…FROM CUTE COWS!
And sea kitten sandwiches!
Except when other countries do it, then it’s torture.
re: the lol caption:
1) The sign says fur, so they wouldn’t be protesting leather; similar process, but different product.
2) Do you really think the fashion industry is somehow morally superior to bikers?
3) WTF is the protester doing with a sign about fur when, as far as I can tell, there’s no fur on the runway?
Well,
1) this sign says fur, but they also protest leather;
2) I don’t think the implication is “morally superior” but “less likely to beat the crap out of the PETA protesters.”
3) No kidding. Maybe the protein deficiency has impaired her thinking.
Also, while there is no fur in the picture, that doesn’t mean the designer wasn’t known for using fur or other non PETA approved activities.
Who gives a shit if PETA approves it? When did anyone start caring about PETA?
PETA is a misguided bully organization.
If you had read the rest of the comments you’d know that ALL of my other comments about this lol have been against PETA. I was only answering a question as to why they might be protesting.
Also the lack of vitamin D. She looks like a Twilight fan and a Jew in hiding.
being electrocuted…
“Noooo! The sun! hissss!” *recoils in horror*
She’s been hiding in the dark with Gizmo and Stripe.
WEIRDEST. THREESOME. EVER.
I thought she looked a little ashy…
So what if the bikers would beat the hell out of them. If they really believe in thier message they should be willing to take a beating for it.
PETA loves all animals except the human ones. Or, apparently, the domesticated animals that love humans.
They’re basically bullies.
If you have so many suggestions about PETA’s strategy perhaps you should join
Perhaps PETA-lovers *oooh pitas!* should get some common sense and quit making a sick mockery of themselves.
Or how about we mail/email them, like I’ve done? And when we get rather nasty “you keep animal slaves and condone torture!” letters in return, then what?
No thanks, I’d rather join the SPCA. At least they use legal means.
The thing I noticed is that the models she’s standing in front fo AREN”t wearing FUR…or if they are, those were some REALLY butt-ugly hairless technicolor mink
And the clothes are rather gawdy too.
All the PETA people must have been scared off from the last time this pic was used as a lol. It’s sorta quiet in here by comparison….
ECHO!
Ya know, you’re right. They must be out grazing.
o.0 i can understand being a cannibal if you live near a peta rally…
It also strikes me that none of those models there are wearing fur.
To Quote Casa: “According to government documents, PETA employees have killed more than 19,200 dogs, cats, puppies, and kittens since 1998. This behavior continues despite PETA’s moralizing about the “unethical” treatment of animals by farmers, scientists, restaurant owners, circuses, hunters, fishermen, zookeepers, and countless other Americans.” (I don’t know how to quote here…please bear with me)
I remember on an episode of Penn and Teller’s Bullsh!t when they were focusing their anger toward PETA, that they discovered that PETA has a giant freezer that they use to euthanize animals with. I think their mindset is that once animals become pets, they are “tainted” to some degree and must die…at least, that is the impression.
PETA is an organization of morons. There is no central goal or value that they hold. It’s just a bunch of idiots who want attention. Like in the photo above.
I have no respect for PETA. They came out to my mom’s horse farm and poisoned her show horse to ‘free her of her slavery’. We had to bring the mare to the UofM to save her and succeeded.
The sad part was, this horse was a quarter horse champion and national over all breeds in 1972. She was pampered, spoiled, followed my mom around without a leadrope or anything on her, AND SHE WAS ENSLAVED????????
Dingbats. The lot of them.
Lynn’s sister trained as a vet tech and the school had to actually screen people for being PETA members as they had a habit of sabotaging equipment and generally being a dangerous pain in the neck.
We have to watch out for the PETA whackos trying to infiltrate our plant and leave with exaggerated and falsified stories of abuse in our processing.
Well, rumor has it that some of the chickens are actually killed at some point…
Well yeah, but we talk nicely to them before hand!
Reason 1353 that Froofrou is in my presidential cabinet.
That, and the Secretary of State’s Raging 2×4 of Death….
…and Chicken Whisperer?
Or since this is DWN’s cabinet we’re talking about here, chicken choker?
But of course!
Chokey chicken endorses your platform.
i wanna be a show animal…but i am not pretty enough :<
Oh now, I bet that’s not true…
You know you’re a sweet little heartbreaker…..Foxy…lady
*rocks out with bad poofy hair*
are you serious, blackfeather? Did they tell you or leave a note? I would have wanted a pound of flesh in return.
PETA does a lot more good than harm in my opinion. Yes, sometimes they can be a little bit of attention whores with some of the stunts they pull, but through them is how I became aware of the animal cruelty in our world. I went vegetarian because of them.
Now, I don’t say I’m a part of them, but I appreciate some of the things they do.
PETA is a registered terrorist organization by the department of homeland security. I guess it was all the times they broke into college labs and set animals free (which ended up being worse for them as they scurried about and ate each other).
That along with numerous cases of arson.
And for what? To protect an animal? Who cares about animals? Animals are either food, clothing, or tools.
Sure they feel pain but that’s not really avoidable if you’re going to maintain an advanced civilization.
I think PETA is really just against civilization.
Yeah, screw animals! Except the ones we have deemed worthy of companionship.
Seriously, people care about animals. They are sentient beings who love, feel pain and have interest in self preservation. While not “equal” to humans, no, they do not deserve to be exploited and slaughtered just for the sake of a human’s taste buds.
I didn’t claw my way to the top of the food chain to eat carrots, sister.
No, I’m not saying we should kill all animals, just the ones that taste good. Cats and dogs don’t taste good so we should let them live. Seriously get over it. Animals are food. You don’t see people weeping over the poor potatoes that get chopped up and boiled. Well I don’t see any difference between the potatoes and the beef next to them.
Animals might have feelings but plants also have a rudimentary form of a nervous system. It’s all food to me.
Cats apparently taste like chicken, they eat them overseas, and dog is a common food in Thailand. Its very subjective. Animals are not food, they are animals.
Plants have no nervous system, if you can’t tell the difference between an animal (and you are an animal too, don’t forget), and a plant, I don’t know what to say.
What part of “top of the food chain” are you unable to grasp?
Are you going to attempt to deny a lion his right to chow down on a gazelle next? It’s the natural order of things.
Go on out in the wild and try to trade him with your tofu. Just be sure to let me know so I can get that on film. I need the cash infusion.
No, a lion does not have the moral rationalization that a gazelle has a right to live, furthermore a lion cannot eat plants alone and live. A human, however, does have the moral rationalization to recognize that breeding massive herds of animals that the enviroment cannot sustain, treating these beings as mere commodities and eating their tortured bodies is wrong, furthermore, a human can eat just plants and live a high quality life. If you’re really concerned with what is “natural”, where’s the lion’s gazelle farm?
Damn. You replaced your entire fluid supply with the kool-aid.
Hey dippy, not everyone gets their meat from the grocery store.
ROFL!
You go out in the wilderness and take down deer with your bare hands and teeth, do you?
Nope. I shoot them (and elk) with a sweet Remington .30-06, gut them, skin them and stick them in my freezer. Same with pheasants, quail, doves, turkeys, etc. (‘cept with a 12 gauge and an awesome golden retriever. Don’t wanna miss.)
YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
No, because we are gifted with supreme intelligence over animals. We know that a lead slug pressed up against a small load of gunpowder, when struck, has a tendency to release at rapid speeds towards the jugular region of a deer’s neck and causes enough internal damage to put the animal into shock. That act alone is usually all it takes for the deer to fall over dead. In some cases more shots are required. This has been found to be the most efficient way to hunt. We have moved past traps, spears, and bows, although some people still prefer the more rudimentary methods.
as a species, maybe humans can survive entirely on rabbit chow, but as individuals, not so much. it’s extremely difficult for any diabetic to live as a vegetarian, let alone a vegan and if you add all the people with allergies or estrogen sensitive cancers that removes the most common meat substitute: soy.
furthermore humans evolved to be omnivores – that’s why we have canines and flat molars.
for you the choice is veggie, for others, a diet more in keeping with our ancestry.
As an aside. Anyone with estrogen sensitive cancers should not be eating meat infused with estrogen. Just saying …
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Here’s the link, sorries.
is okay, stuff happens when murphy is around. very interesting article. wasn’t able to find more on this particular study, but what i noticed in the article was big – first the date was a bit old – 1982 is i read it right, could have been 1992 for that matter (i hate little print in light gray!) but that aside, there was no mention regarding the source of the meat – if it was all feedlot style raised with additives in the feed as well as the usual innoculations, i agree that it isn’t so healthy for anyone in any amount, but if grass raised with minimal innoculations and no additives are given would the results be the same? or is the increased estrogen from what is being given to the animals and passing through to us? afterall other stuff animals eat gets passed through to predators.
You are probably so ignorant that you haven’t heard of PETP, a sister organization of PETA, which is People for the Ethical Treatment of Plants.
There have been studies that show plants do have a system of reacting to external stimuli. Unique patterns that indicate some form of central nervous system. I don’t need to continue explaining because it is not my fault you are ignorant and unlearned.
Basically their stance is that plants, along with animals, should be treated with the same respect as humans are. Well doesn’t that just top the sundae.
Just when we thought there was no one dumber than PETA, here comes the morons coddling “injured” flowers.
You need to learn something and learn it fast. Plants and animals are here for our disposal. We eat them, we use them, we destroy them. And none of your pathetic cries for “justice” do a damn thing but cause a momentary annoyance.
Every time I mow my lawn, trim the hedges, and yank weeds from the ground, and every time I bite into a juicy cheeseburger, cut into a beefy steak, or slice fresh deli meat I will think about you and the internal suffering I am inevitably causing.
I enjoy your pain, because your pain is idiotic. Grow up and realize that plants and animals are nothing more than plants and animals.
And most of them taste damn good.
Soooo, these people don’t eat then?
why you insensitive little son of a dairy cow. Peta told me to let you know that we enjoy your pain as well. when you die of a meat induced heart attack, we will make sure to show up at your funeral and spit on your coffin.
Geez EVERYTHING tastes like chicken, cat tastes like cat
cady, PETA kills animals more so than any pet owner ever has
http://www.consumerfreedom.com/pressRelease_detail.cfm/release/109
http://www.petakillsanimals.com/
Go read some Gary Francione, or listen to Vegan Freak Radio. They embarress the animal rights movement to no end.
And you really think you can save the world by throwing away some perfectly good meat?
We’re not throwing “perfectly good” (whats good about flesh that rots in your colon?) it away, we’re not buying it at all, and therefore not supporting a horrible industry with our dollars. No its not going to save the world, where she’s vegetarian I can’t speak for her but veganism is only the very least personal thing a person can do for animal rights. Kinda like recycling isn’t going to stop pollution, but you’re just doing what you can do as an individual.
Ok, so let’s say you could jump in your wayback machine to 200 years ago where there wasn’t a meat industry as such. Would you still be a vegan? If you want that lifestyle, I applaud you. But don’t assume that because some people like that lifestyle that the rest of world has to follow suit. Further to that, people have been wearing animal pelts in one form or another since the dawn of man. Why is it now such a horrible thing?
The obvious answer is NO, not if she wanted to survive.
There weren’t soy milks, tofu burgers and nutritional supplements to add calcium and protein to a vegan diet.
Besides, she’d have been drowned for witchery.
Thats just stupid, everything but fruit has protein in it, protein deficiency is extremely rare even in vegans and vegetarians. Same with calcium, found in many leafy greens, actually vegans retain calcium better, the more animal protein you eat the more calcium you piss out. Plus like I said down below, veganism has been around forever in religious circles and they lived pretty well.
Soy is now the biggest commercially grown crop–mostly bioengineered, grown with artificial fertilizer, etc. It may very well be worse for the environment than raising cattle. I won’t speak in support of factory farming, however. But some of us can’t live on beans due to digestive issues. I won’t judge you for supporting Monsanto with your soy diet, if you will learn to be lest judgmental of those of us who are not vegan.
Thats why I only eat organic soy on the rare occasions I do eat soy), but also eighty percent of the world’s soy crop goes to feeding livestock.
You’re kidding, right? A vegan who doesn’t eat tofu.
I guess you’re living on what’s in your head, then. WOOSH!
OK it isn’t a *protein* deficiency that is the problem, there are certain enzymes that are ONLY found in red meat that are essential to brain development and memory as well as essential to a healthy heart. Yes you can take suplements and artificial crap that btw was most likely tested on animals, or you can get it naturally and normally via eating a small amount of red meat once a month. Human beings are Omnivores we are built and designed to eat BOTH plants and animals.
They may have “lived pretty well” but they died young. Besides, Animal proteins are completely different in molecular structure and chemical make up to plant proteins. Go eat a roast beef sandwich and see how much more energy you have and how much better your concentration is for the next week.
Oh and btw Meats do NOT sit and rot in your intestines unless you have a digestive problem.
Why not? Veganism is old, Jainists and Buddhists have been doing it for thousands of years. I don’t assume everyone will do it, but I encourage it, just because frank down the road doesn’t agree doesn’t invalidate any argument.
As for cavemen, they needed fur to keep warm. We don’t. Then it was a necessary evil, now its just for vanity. See the difference?
Ok, I capitulate on the idea of wearing fur as it does seem rather pointless. But, wearing leather isn’t just for style but for protection as well. The problem I have with being a vegan is you have to supplement your diet with vitamins that can be aquired be eating by eating a balanced diet, which includes meat. Further to that, if Buddhists are opposed to killing any living thing, how can they justify killing a plant for food? Isn’t it alive? Along with that, are you a practicing Buddhist or Jainist?
I don’t take any supplements and I’m not lacking anything, B12 is the only thing found in meat that isn’t found naturally (unless you don’t wash your veggies, which is how vegans got their b12 in the past it is believed), but things like rice milk and such is fortified so I never worry about it. Are you getting your 30 grams of fiber every day? As for leather, I have never heard of any synthetic material (mind you, not the cheap pleather things, the more expensive versions but then high quality leather is pretty expensive as well) that doesn’t do the job. As for plants, they have no nervous system, no pain receptors, and are not sentient beings, and before you pull out “The Secret Lives Of Plants”, here you go: http://skepdic.com/plants.html
I am a Zen Buddhist, yes, though sadly religion has been put on the back burner of my life right now.
You do realize how much worse for everything synthetic fibers are right? I am afraid you are walking face first into hypocrisy there just because you don’t see the direct harm a plant that creates those materials inflicts on the area around it.
So I don’t think your Zen is that strong but you’ve already admitted as such.
Evil? Hahaha if you want to bring religion into it how about Genesis 1:28: “Be fruitful and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it; have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth”
Good and Evil are religious ideas. Nothing in the real world is as black and white. But if you want to play on that court at least know what you’re talking about.
Animals are here for our disposal. And we are allowed to dispose of them in any way we want.
Killing for amusement? Why not? As long as you’re only killing animals you’re ok.
Suffering is not optimal. People have empathy for animals. All beings with brains have similarities. Recent functional MRI studies of mammals suggest they have similar feelings to humans. When they feel lonely, scared, or hurt, the same parts of their brains light up in the same way ours do. I wouldn’t want to be tortured by a higher intelligence, by application of the golden rule, which is a good rule of thumb, I shouldn’t torture or condone the torture of lesser intelligences.
I do eat meat though. I try to eat free range and cruelty free, when budget permits, but I’m not strict about it. I respect people who put their lifestyle where their mouth is and promote compassion towards all living things by refraining from eating meat.
Why bother eating meat that is raised “free range” or “cruelty free”? It tastes the same as any other meat. If you are ultimately going to eat an animal, who cares how it is raised? I don’t abuse animals myself, I mean, I have taken the BB gun to a few birds and killed a few medium sized forest rodents, but none of it could really be considered abuse. I’m just saying, if someone kills a cat, or kicks a dog, I don’t really think they’re doing anything wrong. When people worship animals so much that they put them above humans it is just pathetic.
Jeffrey Dahmer? Is that you?
Fear-mongering overly sensitive moron, is that you?
I’m not the one saying kicking animals is an okay thing, so how you think I’m fear mongering… must just have a nice ring to it.
Now, I AM pointing out that many serial killers have a history of torturing and mutilating animals before they move on to people, so if you think that it’s no big deal I call in to question your morality.
I have to agree with Jane here.
I mean, I’m an omnivore, but I don’t dig the idea of animal cruelty either. I mean real animal cruelty, not PeTA’s idea of cruelty that includes having pets or fences to keep coyotes away from sheep.
However, Jojo, you’re basically condoning animal abuse. Your post basically sounds like you’re saying it’s okay to kick, beat, and injure other animals just because we can. That’s a sociopathic, honestly, and it makes you sound like some kind of pent-up bully.
Actually it doesn’t taste the same, when budget permits I try to eat free range as well, simply because the animals are not being feed a lot of supplements to make them grow faster and the meat tastes much better, like it is meant to taste.
meat doesn’t rot in your colon. it gets broken down in the stomach and small intestine into amino acids – non-soluble and soluble fiber (plant materials) is what causes gas (methane from digestion or lack there of) however is still necessary for good health
simple explanation of how digestion works at link – learn something new
Informative and with sources. Well done, fairie.
i figure that if i’m going to point out stupid to someone, might as well do it right the first time so there is less wasted energy on equally fictitious counterpoints. besides when you stomp good in person, they tend to make these funny faces, sort of like a fish out of water, and sometimes the noises will sound like a sputtering motor: but, but, but…..
yes. meat is not good for the environment or your health. we may not be able to save it, but we sure can try.
and the nazi’s did a few nice things….does not take away from the fact they where the greatest blight in our planets history
Comparisons to the N***s are never a good idea. Ever.
*ducks and covers at the sound of the oncoming Luftwange*
haha you said ‘wang’
Ah, Godwin’s Law. Never fails.
And thus with the sinking of the LooseWangia, WW2 was begun. Surges of throbbing soldiers pressed inward to pierce the enemy lines at Normandy’s behind.
With rapid fire, sweat, and tears, the enemy was penetrated deeply and brought down.
The Wang, ever vigilant if a bit late, surges on. Ready, Able, Willing…
Visit their forums, some of their posts beat all of these sites put together X10 and add russel peters. Their mothers must of gave birth while standing if they don’t see the hypocrisy in their posts/public bullshit.
hypocrisy? do tell! i see nothing wrong in standing up for the helpless, and therefore get called a hypocrite. i dont understand. BTW, i was born the normal way. just thought id let you know.
wow most of the comments here are so idiotic i don’t think i’ve ever seen such a bunch of morons
“peta members should be waterboarded” etc.
in answer to the retarded question in the image, the reason peta doesn’t make a big pr stunt at biker rallies is because biker rallies aren’t full of famous people and video cameras, and bikers aren’t trying to set fashion trends of millions of people like fashion shows are.
you have to be really stupid if you can’t figure this out for yourself. i guess that explains the stupidity of the posts on this page…
sooooo explain why they stand outside schools and pass out papers telling children that their mommies murder bunnies? not alot of celebs or camera’s there
Says the card carrying member.
joe is just being pissy, people tend to get cranky when they dont eat beef…BEEF, its whats for dinner.
They protest fashion shows because models are the only group of people too undernourished to beat them up. PETA do some seriously nutty things, ergo, it’s fun to laugh at them.
no, the joke of the caption is that the reason PETA doesn’t protest biker gangs is because said biker gangs would have no qualms in beating the crap out of PETA members.
But by your own explanation and admission – PETA is an attention whore. Unfortunately, the attention it gets makes more people want to mock them and have a hamburger.
There is nothing logical about anything Peta does in the first place so excuse us if we haven’t correctly sifted through the idiocy of their thoughts.
And if you haven’t actually read the comments, they all have very good points. Peta has failed horribly and too often at their own hands. It is the most ridiculous group I know of in existence.
No, its because a good number of bikers in the same place as a bunch of activists would inevitably end in war. PETA doesn’t want our followers to die. There is enough death in the world as is.
Which is why they kill over 90% of the animals they take in…
PETA is annoying and useless. Every time I go hunting I make sure to kill a few extra animals just because I know it would piss them off.
Bow hunting is especially fun because the animals die slower and in more pain.
holy bejezums batman!
Well, aren’t you an antisocial and spiteful little ray of sunshine?
Punch some babies while you’re at it, do ya?
your face is annoying and usless. each time i go out in public i make sure to bring a bag so that when i retch, it wont fall on the same unholy ground you walk upon.
Ha ha! I love how that model in front is still doing her best to work it, peta-crazy-woman notwithstanding.
Of course the model also looks pretty crazy, given what she is wearing and how she is made up!
PETA makes a mockery of animal rights. One of their infamous examples was using the Jewish Holocaust as a comparison. It’s Pseudo-intellectualism that must people grow out of in their 3rd year of college.
unless of course they have ANY regards for their health.
So my 13 cats that live in luxury, eat the best food available, receive medical care on a par with human care (yes the cat got chemo when he developed cancer-and survived), is “enslaved” according to PETA?
And the one that waits by the door for my husband to enter the room and kiss her isn’t happy here and would rather be “free”?
Yeah, I wanna see PETA go to Uncle Fat’s and harass the bikers for their leather jackets this weekend.
yes, maimou, you are a horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible wretch of a human being for taking care of those 13 cats and enslaving them to the luxuries of catnip, delicious food, cat scratchers, petting, and worst of all – unconditional LOVE! How do you live with yourself? Oh, the humanity!
I hope you roast in the darkest pits of hell for wanton slavery of animals!
Yeah, according to PeTA. As a vegan I find Im always having to apologize what they do, I don’t know how they became the “voice” of the animal rights movement. I assure you though that the rest of us disagree with breeding companion animals since there are so many homeless ones, but other than that, I have a kitty too that I love with all my heart :3 And I’m happy to hear that you went the extra mile for her and got her chemo, most people I know would just put their pets down as soon as they get a medical condition that is expensive.
You’re kidding, right? C’mon now. Chemotherapy for a cat, while people are starving to death right here in America?
Priorities, people.
So after your rent and bills come out of your paycheck, you donate the rest to homeless shelters, right?
Nope. The government and tuition takes it.
Any more stupid questions?
So you have no spending money at all? Never go to the movies, never have time to volunteer, never have a drink at the bar, never say “hey I should buy more clothes”? Wow, thats terrible dude, no wonder you vent your frustrations online agaisnt those that do have money to spare and choose to spend it saving the life of someone they love.
Don’t know where you get that “venting” out of one sentence, but whatev. You wanna be a freak, that’s your business.
You need a cheeseburger.
yes, every pet owner who took their animal to the vet and paid their medical bills is a freak.
You need a spinach salad.
ROFL! You REALLY need some meat, as you’ve become delusional.
Want some of mine?
Spinach salad is good for you, with that raspberry dressing and strawberries who wouldn’t chill out?
And no, vegan boys taste better
That’s okay. I try not to fu(k teh crazee, anyway.
haha, look, a beggar being a chooser!
Haha, look, teh crazee being a loser!
Dude, you said you have zero spending money, do you really think you should be calling people who do actually make money losers?
Snap. Into. A. Slim. Jim. STAT!
I’m a student, moron.
It’s called “educating oneself to better one’s lot in life.”
You may want to look into it…
Like it or not, your friends are right. You have teh crazee, and thank god it’s not communicable.
Hahaha, I’m a student too, nice try
I know no other student who has zero spending money.
All is now explained. Insulated with your bulimic sorority sisters much? Meat’s harder to puke, right?
Daddy isn’t paying my way.
Are you stupid or just disingenuous? Seriously, for the sake of humanity, ingest another carbon-based life form and DON’T puke it back up.
I pay for my own tuition with this thing called a job, you see, (and still have spending money, fancy that), and in any case I eat plants so I do eat carbon based life.
Whatever you’ve got to tell yourself to get through the day. Eventually, you believe the lies you tell yourself, right?
Obviousity is not the only college student I’ve run into with no spending money. Some folks can’t find jobs that allow them extras. It depends on the cost of the school, the major chosen (books vary–hard to get used molecular biology texts that are still up to date), and whether the student has to pay for housing and food during the summer as well as the school year. The poster is being provocative, yes, but he/she is also quite probably telling the truth about finances.
…and since you didn’t respond, I’m going to go with stupid, since binging and purging kills as many brain cells as the drugs you seem to be enjoying…
Yeah, because having spending money and caring about other beings mean I puke and do drugs. You found me out, good form sir.
As I suspected. I know your type.
“Ohai, I’m like, totally a vegan, and I’m teh kewl.”
You’re a VUG, which means you have even less credibility than a LUG. Sanctimony fail.
@ viking gal: Graduate student. I’m so poor I can’t afford to pay attention, but it’s well worth it. Finals week, and I’m bored, so I’m posting rather than just reading.
Ah, a graduate student. I feel bad now, some people just make bad decisions in their lives
..because that AA you’re getting at junior college will make you SO very successful and YOU’LL be overseeing your own program well before I am…
Nope, not getting an AA. Degree from a university in computer sciences.
“…and like, I’m in Mensa, with an IQ of 148, and like I’m totally smart and stuff, and hey, can I blow you for an A- instead of a C…”
Keep going, it’s fun witnessing you burying yourself with your full-time job, full-time college student, spending out the wazoo on animals when realistically, most college students can’t even have them if they live on campus…
I don’t live on campus, I live in a thing called an apartment. That cat was the one I had growing up, he sadly passed away before I graduated high school, my current cat has had no illnesses to speak of and its only ninety dollars a month for pet health insurance.
Ninety dollars a month for a cat’s pet health insurance?
Judge teh crazee level for yourself, PKers.
Peace, OWT!
I have no issue with taking care of my pets though I am amused by the vegan boys taste better bit. Luckily, Lynn thinks I am candy so that argument wouldn’t work on me.
However, that said, Obviosity needs to chill and Candystripe needs to… Well not much of anything as she was being provoked.
This coming from the meat eating guy.
Most pet owners that truly care for their animals will spend whatever it takes to keep them healthy. I can’t even begin to put into dollars how much I have spend on our pets. Those that will put their pet down at the first sign of an illness shouldn’t have them.
I concur, but remember, sadly a lot of people get pets on a whim in the first place. I had a cat that got under a fanbelt and needed a lot of surgery to fix the damage, a lot of people thought we were mental for spending that much to save a cat.
So if I chose to put my 12-year-old arthritic dog down rather than spend $6,000 for total hip replacement that I instead used to fund a trip to Louisiana to work for the Red Cross during Hurricane Relief, as well as donating some to the local humane society in his name, then I am an irresponsible pet owner who shouldn’t have any.
Is your hand strong enough to support the breadth of that brush you’re using?
Sorry, I should have qualified my comment and indeed it was a pretty broad brush. You have to admit that there are alot of people though that won’t spend even a couple of hundred to care for their animal. What if fido was only 4 years old? Would that effect your decision at all? At 12 years old the animal is just about at the end of it’s life.
Totally agreed. That was a toughie.
If Reminghound had been 4? I’d reevaluate.
Let’s also not forget the economy. There are lots of articles about people being forced to choose between their beloved pets and paying the power bill. It’s a bit(h out there.
try food or prescriptions! but my dogs are well fed, better than i am and i’ve learned to take care of nearly all the basic health things except for giving shots – that’s next on my agenda when their rabies are due. however, if one of them gets seriously hurt or extremely ill, they’ll have to be put down. i don’t have any extra funds for anything, and that includes stopping at the drive in or picking up a movie.
Would just like to point out I have 2 cats, one was a stray I took in and the other I rescued from an abusive owner, both are happy healthy spoiled rotten and umm a bit umm chubby.
I don’t even think they’re wearing fur in this picure. :/
And you have a keen sense for the obvious!
<3
odd i never see them outside my local biker bar
of course fur is dead. It would be kind of awkward to wear live animals, don’t you think?
Um, leather is a natural by-product of the meat industry, and fur animals are raised solely to kill and skin them. That would be the reason why, people.
You don’t need to eat animals anymore than you need to wear them. There is no difference.
There are alternatives to eating animals (and their eggs and breastmilk), just like there are alternatives to wearing animals.
Actually though, the leather trade is such a huge business the MEAT is often considered the by-product, not the other way around.
Also a lot of leather comes from cows you don’t eat, horses, and even dogs and cats from China.
Stop eating so much beef! it is not good for your heart! Eat fish instead, grow your own, and veggies with it! Promote aquaculture to save starving in the Americas! Better than chickens, safer omega 3 fish oils, good greens, just put in water and add sunshine! Peta makes the extreme look close to home. They have a place, they have a voice they have a right! So do I, I like seal heart myself, and need it for its vitamin D content in my dark lands,just to live without cancer and bone problems! Peta please save my meat eating ass too!
i’m not okay with fur either, because it’s usualy taken from animals that are killed just for that..
But leather (for bikers for example) are usually taken from cows.. that could also be bought from the slaughter hauses.. let’s face it.. they already die for their meat.. not JUST for the leather.. not like the other animals who die just for their fur (leopard, tiger etc)
my opinion is that i’m okay with normal leather.. not the expensive stuff (aligator leather shoes and purse and other)..
Actually a lot of leather comes from India from completely different cows than the ones you eat. Leather that says “made in China” is often made of the skins of dogs and cats either killed for their flesh and skin or just their skins.
But eating flesh is just as unnecessary as wearing flesh, so killing an animal to get unnecessary pleasure from eating his/her flesh is just as wrong as killing an animal to get unnecessary pleasure from wearing it.
They’re both forms of unnecessary killing for human enjoyment.
Bullsh!t. Cats and dogs from China… ROFLMAO!
Cite it or STFU.
dont they worship cows in india?
is that like wearing jesus?
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