PETA: Sinking to New lows

They have hit bottom and started to dig

Published on August 1, 2005 By Dr Guy In Current Events

In another show of callous disregard to the human race or anything approaching humanity, PETA has a new Ad Campaign against people. Except this time they really have gone too far! Instead of enobling their cause, which I am sure was their aim, they just demonstrate how callous and inhumane they are.

In the latest Ad campaign, they are equating selling breeding cattle and horses to the horror of the slave trade 200 years ago! They are not enobling their cause, they are cheapening the plight of the blacks of that age! And that is just plain sickening!

If there was any shred of humanity or compassion in those clowns before, it is apparent that they have none now. It is too bad that they take what is arguably one of the most tragic times in American history and belittling it by comparing it to the selling of Cattle!

They are beneath contempt! They do not deserve even the effort for spitting on them, for that would be to acknowledge them as contemptable, and that is too good for those creeps.

Comments (Page 2)

Dr Guy

on Aug 03, 2005

Haven't seen that for a while though. If they compare that to slavery, maybe someone should make a commercial comparing their practices with euthanizing pets to the holocaust...

Bakerstreet has another epiphany! Great idea!

Dr Guy

on Aug 03, 2005

Ssshhh! Dont say that aloud, they will probably use it!

Well, after they were busted for throwing dog carcases in trash bins, I dont think they want to bring up that issue (as well as the fact that they euthanize 85% of the strays brought into them - most other organization the rate is about 25-35%).

Dr Guy

on Aug 03, 2005

No, they weren't thrilled at all about people finding out that 80+ percent of the pets entrusted to them ended up dead in dumpsters.

SHould have read further. IG, what Baker says.

uDigItTheMost

on Aug 03, 2005

Doc, at first I was going to write that I was going to go to McDonalds and have the biggest burger they sell. Then I remember PETA was talking about the selling of CATTLE. So I decided to go to a steak house where you can get actual meat and have the biggest steak instead.

Dr Guy

on Aug 03, 2005

Mickey Dees was busted a few years back for selling kangaroo burgers without telling people.

Not that I mind Kangaroo meat, but at least at a steak house, you know it is BEEF!

drmiler

on Aug 03, 2005

Not that I mind Kangaroo meat, but at least at a steak house, you know it is BEEF!

Do you?

Dr Guy

on Aug 03, 2005

Do you?

As soon as mine stops mooing, I tell them to take it off the grill!

Champas Socialist

on Aug 06, 2005

People are very quick to demonise PETA without taking into account the whole of their views. Peter Singer suffers the same problem.

Although I don't agree with PETA's views, and I think they should have realised the offense this ad would cause and therefore not published it, you have to take into account their entire world view.

Some people believe that humans and humans alone have a soul. Some people believe that no one has a soul but that humans are above animals. These two categories take up the majority of people.

Others believe that humans and animals both have souls and are therefore equal. Still more believe that no one has a soul but that animals and humans are equal because of their capacity to feel pain and emotion. PETA sees animals and humans as equals. There are quite good arguments in favour of this, even if the majority do not see it the same way. So if they are equal, it is not hard to follow up that cruelty to animals is as bad as cruelty to humans. PETA has a way of overstating their case and getting over-emotional but demonising PETA is no less simplistic than PETA are being. Rise above them Dr Guy. They have a fair amount of misinformation, but they are genuine, concerned people who should be debated with intelligently. At the worst, you will show them up for what you believe them to be.

For an excellent example of a farmer prepared to engage with PETA, see this interview about mulesing with Charles Ollson:
http://www.abc.net.au/landline/content/2005/s1412180.htm

bakerstreet

on Aug 06, 2005

Some people believe that plants have souls, too. What do you suggest we eat, dirt? Oh, wait, don't some people believe in the Earth as an entity, too? Frankly, when respect for beliefs gets in the way of me doing something important as, oh, feeding myself, my respect ends.

I can happily accept that animals have souls, and I still think they are delicious, just as they would happily feed on me. Given most of the PETA types I know are atheists, I find it hard to believe that the 'soul' enters into it much...

I don't call that 'genuine', not in the least. Especially when they show themselves to be dishonest enough to kill and discard 80+ percent of the pets entrusted to them to find homes for.

philomedy

on Aug 07, 2005

Given most of the PETA types I know are atheists, I find it hard to believe that the 'soul' enters into it much...

Don't confuse a belief in God with spirituality.

Dr Guy

on Aug 07, 2005

Still more believe that no one has a soul but that animals and humans are equal because of their capacity to feel pain and emotion. PETA sees animals and humans as equals.

Then why do they euthanize 85% of the stray turned into them? That does not sound like a caring organization, but of one who speaks with forked tongue. Do as I say, not as I do.

Dr Guy

on Aug 07, 2005

Exactly! I dont rub pork into the face of Jews and Muslims. Why? Because they dont (at least most of them, come are different) want me to stop eating pork just because it is against their faith.

PETA errs when they try to convert us to their psuedo religion. They can proclaim it wrong to torture animals, and I would agree with that, and embrace it as well. But when they go so far overboard and equate selling cattle with slavery of the 18th and 19th centuries, or accuse parents of child abuse for feeding meat to their children, then I will fight them tooth and nail. For then they are no better than Muslims who want to convert or kill all infidels. And their tactics, while not as violent at times, are no less abhorant.

Dr Guy

on Aug 07, 2005

Don't confuse a belief in God with spirituality.

I believe 'soul' is tightly connected with God (Big G). I know Buddhists dont necessarily believe in a God, but then they dont believe in a soul per se either (Dharma, correct me if I am wrong).

But that would be an excellent concept for another blog. You up to it Philomedy?

philomedy

on Aug 07, 2005

But that would be an excellent concept for another blog. You up to it Philomedy?

Always...it'll be up as soon as I can get my ideas together.

bakerstreet

on Aug 07, 2005

"Don't confuse a belief in God with spirituality."

Sorry, perhaps it is the numerous times I've seen Christians derided for picking and choosing. It is, of course, someone's right to reject the possiblility of a God and accept the existance of a soul. Granting souls to puppies and kittens and then tossing 85% of them in the dumpster seems to, well, betray a small amount of hypocricy.

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