an update on the possums
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threeplusfireDead Possum used in Brasstown festivities because PETA threatens to sue small town
Fucking PETA. I loathe that organization unto my very soul. They are self righteous and idiotic. We're talking about people who raided a dog show and let all the animals loose in the middle of a major city, so they could be struck by cars and killed. The same people who think it's a good idea to use the Virgin Mary in their billboard campaign.
PETA offends me as much as Jack Chick and his little tracts. They are even using his tactics, as seen here in Your Mom Kills Animals! This was handed out to children attending the Nutcracker! Quote from the site:
"Kids will see the bloody truth behind their moms’ pretentious pelts. Accompanied by graphic photographs of skinned carcasses and animals languishing on fur farms, children will read: "Lots of wonderful foxes, raccoons, and other animals are kept by mean farmers who squish them into cages so small that they can hardly move. They never get to play or swim or have fun. All they can do is cry-just so your greedy mommy can have that fur coat to show off in when she walks the streets."
Does that sound like an organization run by reasonable people?
There are many other animal activist groups out there, like the ASPCA and the World Wildlife Fund. They work on education, prevention and conservation without stooping to the crass shock tactics of PETA.
Fucking PETA. I loathe that organization unto my very soul. They are self righteous and idiotic. We're talking about people who raided a dog show and let all the animals loose in the middle of a major city, so they could be struck by cars and killed. The same people who think it's a good idea to use the Virgin Mary in their billboard campaign.
PETA offends me as much as Jack Chick and his little tracts. They are even using his tactics, as seen here in Your Mom Kills Animals! This was handed out to children attending the Nutcracker! Quote from the site:
"Kids will see the bloody truth behind their moms’ pretentious pelts. Accompanied by graphic photographs of skinned carcasses and animals languishing on fur farms, children will read: "Lots of wonderful foxes, raccoons, and other animals are kept by mean farmers who squish them into cages so small that they can hardly move. They never get to play or swim or have fun. All they can do is cry-just so your greedy mommy can have that fur coat to show off in when she walks the streets."
Does that sound like an organization run by reasonable people?
There are many other animal activist groups out there, like the ASPCA and the World Wildlife Fund. They work on education, prevention and conservation without stooping to the crass shock tactics of PETA.
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Date: 2004-01-02 01:07 pm (UTC)The weird thing is that I saw a long interview with PETA founder/domina Ingrid Newkirk in the New Yorker a year or so ago, and she used to be a ferocious carnivore--she rhapsodized for at least two paragraphs during the interview about the luscious taste of calf's liver and steak tartare, and said if she could do it without being paralyzed by guilt she'd go back to eating liver every day. Hmm.
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Date: 2004-01-02 01:22 pm (UTC)About the interview, what a bizarre moment. PETA members could probably give Catholicism a run for the money with guilt issues, I imagine.
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Date: 2004-01-02 01:53 pm (UTC)