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PETA: What were you thinking?!?
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| Fir3start3r |
Is it me or has PETA been loosing their brains in the last couple of years?
They really started getting my goat with thier cartoons aimed at small kids showing mommy graphically killing animals and now this...
What the hell are they thinking??? :wtf:
If this is some ploy for attention they definately got it, but how anyone can think they have any shred of credibility left is beyond me...
(don't mind the source, it does happen to be a 'conservative' site but it was more the story I was after...)
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Unethical Treatment of Humans
PETA display draws hostility; condiments thrown
Story by Andrew R. Quinio
Posted March 23rd, 2006
PETA display comparing animal treatment to lynching
PETA display comparing animal treatment to slavery
Students from PETA, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, drew an angry crowd on Sproul after displaying images that compared animal treatment to the lynching and enslavement of black Americans. About a dozen Berkeley students furiously engaged the PETA members, accusing the animal rights group of racism. The situation intensified when one member of the crowd threw ketchup and mustard on the PETA display and another tore down part of the exhibit.
One image presented by PETA featured a chained elephant foot juxtaposed with the chained foot of a slave. Another showed black individuals hanging from a tree by their necks contrasted with the image of a cow being hung by its hind legs. Several black students shouted down the PETA students and called for the display to be taken down. One student who was upset by PETA’s comparison of slavery to animal mistreatment shouted amid tears, “I’m not trying to say that people should eat meat. I understand you, but the way you’re depicting our history, the way you are depicting the things that happened to us, the thing that happened to our ancestors, it’s not ok, it’s not ok!”
Another student, identified as Autumn by her peers, tore down one of the images in a fit of rage. Dominique Nisperos, a third year Cal student, was also upset by PETA’s display and argued with one of the group’s members. When asked if tearing down the display was appropriate on a campus that touts its free speech history, Nisperos responded, “I can see why they did it.” She added that bringing up the free speech issue “isn’t getting to the root of the problem. The means at expressing [PETA’s] message was racist.” Veronica Nisperos, a Berkeley student also incensed by the exhibit, stated that the group did have a point, but the way in which they made it, “created opposition among people who should be allies.”
Sengeeta Kumar, who led the PETA group, was surprised to have encountered such a reaction at UC Berkeley. “I was really hoping that people would think critically…it became very emotional and almost dangerous in the sense that people were threatening and pulling things down and it just became unsafe,” she said. Kumar noted that her group has taken the exhibit to 13 different schools and never faced a hostile reaction.
PETA eventually gave into the pressure and dismantled their display. Kumar expressed disappointment in her organization’s inability to get their message across. “When emotions are risen, people can be closed to dialogue.” She added, “We are all part of oppression, of beings who can’t speak for themselves. Animals are enslaved in our hands. This exhibit isn’t about demeaning any people, it about uplifting humanity.”
PETA members spent the rest of the afternoon wiping off the ketchup and mustard that was sprayed on their display.
Video 1: An unidentified student shouts down a PETA member.
Video 2: A student identified as Autumn by her peers is calmed down after tearing down a PETA display.
Video 3: Unidentified student explains the ketchup throwing incident.
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>>Links to the videos here at the source<< |
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| Sunsnail |
Everytime I see PETA I want to eat chicken and steak. :whip:
Seriously though, those pictures are ridiculous. |
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| Lepanto |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sunsnail
Everytime I see PETA I want to eat chicken and steak. :whip:
Seriously though, those pictures are ridiculous. |
:haha::haha: +1 |
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| Moongoose |
| quote: | Originally posted by Sunsnail
Everytime I see PETA I want to eat chicken and steak. :whip:
Seriously though, those pictures are ridiculous. |
Oh good i thought it was only me...though i dont like chicken so just +1 for the steak :D
ANyway they got what was comming to them, i mean seriously the comparisons this people will go trough to get you on their side are getting more entertaining (or sad pick whicever you like) ever day. Becouse every time i see a cow hanging from its legs i imagine people hanging by their necks :crazy: Yeah that will work. |
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| sponger |
| quote: | Originally posted by Q5echo
PETA's ads aren't so bad.
>>Kristin Cavallari<<
they should hire this agency more often |
damn that kristin chik is hot, but what an airhead :stongue:
and i like that video of that peta guy getting a tongue lashing from that black woman, funny. |
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| Moongoose |
| You know every time i hear about peta i cant help myself but picture them like those wackos in the south park episode. Makes taking them seriously even harder, not that i took them seriously before that episode aired. |
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| Fir3start3r |
(ala Fark.com)
PETA continues its quest to win friends and influence people with its new ad campaign: "Avian Flu: It's Your Fault"
>Link<
I thought this comment was funny...
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Can't decide which of the three is stupidest: This, the campaign where they gave tofu turkeys to the homeless or the college campaign urging students to binge drink because alcohol is healthier than milk.
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| Moongoose |
| quote: | | or the college campaign urging students to binge drink because alcohol is healthier than milk. |
O realy?
Well these guys may not be so bad afterall :D Lets go one step further then, if alcohol realy is healthier lets start feeding it to babies when they are born, and lets start with children from these people..just in case they might be wrong:haha: |
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| killingjoke |
i think the porn industry should invest in peta.
please spoil their reputation.
make them go nude as a lifestyle. |
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| George Smiley |
| Animal protestors really make my blood boil and the original article is one of the reasons why. They put the value of animals above that of humans. In the UK recently, animal protestors dug up the remains of some old woman who's family were linked to a lab that tested on animals. I have no problem with animal rights and of course I support it but they go to far, they fail to see that these aren't humans! |
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| Fir3start3r |
| quote: | Originally posted by George Smiley
Animal protestors really make my blood boil and the original article is one of the reasons why. They put the value of animals above that of humans. In the UK recently, animal protestors dug up the remains of some old woman who's family were linked to a lab that tested on animals. I have no problem with animal rights and of course I support it but they go to far, they fail to see that these aren't humans! |
Yes, a huge pet peeve (no pun intended) of mine too.
It's one thing to love animals or your pet, it's another to elevate them above human rights or god forbid take place of their non-existant child...
It's a figgin' PET!!!!!! HELLO???? |
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