Jan 3 2012
5 examples why nobody will be able to take PETA seriously
I love animals, but I’m pretty sick of groups like PETA and whatever sponsors Sarah McLachlan to sing in those awful commercials milking as much sympathy as humanly possible while taking their rhetoric to such ridiculous extremes. We know that animals being tortured is wrong and sad, but I think PETA may be the first organization that will make me root for the violent socipath who beats a puppy to death with a dead kitten, purely out of spite.
PETA’s insane tactics to get people to understand how animal abuse is wrong have backfired more often than not. Here are 5 things PETA has done that will make it so nobody in their right mind should give them the time of day:
5. Memorials for livestock killed in transit:
In 2006, Virginia rejected PETA’s request for highway markers to memorialize hogs killed in crashes on their way to slaughter at Smithfield Foods.
If we have to have a roadside memorial for every fat obese animal that gets into a car wreck and dies, Oklahoma is going to look way more depressing than it already does.
4. The Jeffrey Dahmer comparison:
I don’t know what kind of focus group you need to make such a stupid comparison. Dahmer was a serial killer who raped and murdered Asian and Black teenagers. Cows are yummy. How are any of these three things bad? *slide whistle*
3. Breast Milk Ice Cream:
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, cofounders of Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc., urging them to replace cow’s milk they use in their ice cream products with human breast milk, according to a statement recently released by a PETA spokeswoman.
Without naming Kirstie Alley,can you think of anything more revolting than a titty ice cream sundae? PETA not only wants to make food disgusting, but they want to ruin boobs as well. Have you ever seen a woman breast feed? It’s horrendous. Their boobs look like Capri Sun pouches with syrup leaking out of it. And there’s usually a baby involved. No thanks.
2. Crusade against Super Mario’s Tanooki Suit:
Controversial animal rights group PETA is arguing that one of Nintendo character Mario’s most popular power-ups should be powered down. The group is taking the position that gaming’s most famous plumber is supporting the fur industry when he dons his Tanooki suit — an optional item in the game Super Mario 3D Land that gives Mario the ability to glide.
Now while it’s true an Italian doesn’t ever need a reason to be hairier, this war against Mario is just unnecessary. If PETA really cared about animal cruelty in video games, they would’ve petitioned games like ‘Deer Hunter’, where the killing of animals is a lot less subtle.
1. PETA ruins porn:
Animal-rights activist group PETA is apparently willing to run the risk of being dubbed “Pornographers for the Ethical Treatment of Animals” with a plan to launch a porn website “in the name of animal rights.”
Everything you’ve ever wanted in porn. Naked women jumping up and down and putting on puppet shows with their boobs while you experience the horrible guilt attached to eating meat. Thanks, PETA!
Ken
Jan 03, 2012 @ 14:27:30
Even if I had no pre-existing opinion of PETA’s activities or the issues that they stand for, I would still look at these examples and shake my head. These people use every amateurish, wrong-headed, guaranteed-to-backfire persuasive tactic in the book. It’s like watching a dog try to copulate with a shoe.
It’s possible that they might even do this shit on purpose, knowing that it won’t work. If they actually accomplish something, then how will these people indulge their need for obnoxious grandstanding?
Jan 03, 2012 @ 21:05:01
I really want to see this PETA porn. Is doggy style allowed? Will all the girls be hairy bushy hippies? I must know.
Jan 04, 2012 @ 15:36:41
Can you do the reverse cowgirl, or is that too derogatory?
What about a reverse Oreo since there’s milk products in the cream?
Other Rob
Jan 04, 2012 @ 19:32:04
Peta video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=snMYdGPTZrw
Jan 04, 2012 @ 19:42:10
Don’t quite know what sentiment you’re trying to express by linking a video to people being cruel to animals. Nobody is saying cruelty to animals doesn’t exist. We’re saying PETA are extremists who handle their “ad campaigns” in a way that makes it almost impossible for people to take them seriously. There is a difference between taking a belief seriously and a group seriously, yet you severely misguided PETA supporters can’t seem to separate the two.
Jan 04, 2012 @ 20:50:34
That’s the trouble with you people. You’ve lost the ability to differentiate between criticism of your organization and criticism of your cause. I’m sure it helps you to sleep better at night if you reassure yourselves that anybody who has a bone to pick with you is just a mean ol’ animal hater, but that won’t make it so.
By the way, how’s Rod Coronado doing? Did he ever pay back that fabulous loan you guys gave to his family after he firebombed a laboratory on my college campus?
Jan 04, 2012 @ 21:05:03
I actually don’t know anything about this. Care to share?
Jan 04, 2012 @ 21:44:54
In 1992, Rodney Coronado, a member of the Animal Liberation Front, firebombed research facilities on Michigan State University campus, causing $125K in damage and setting back research 30 years. Coronado was eventually sentenced to 57 months in federal prison.
While Coronado awaited trial, PETA gave $25,000 to his father. It was entered on paper as a loan, but it was never paid back and there was no evidence that PETA ever expected it to be. PETA also gave a $45,200 contribution to Coronado’s support committee.
Jan 05, 2012 @ 11:15:48
“Oh, look, I’m going to show you a video sponsored by PETA that reasonably points out an actual problem, in the hope that will make you forget that PETA is full of attention-whoring morons who sometimes support what amount to terrorists and almost always choose useless publicity stunts that undermine any point they ever try to make. Please change your mind and decide that PETA doesn’t suck now.”
Seriously, what was the point of posting this video? Like Rob said, pointless animal cruelty exists. That doesn’t make PETA worth a shit.
Jan 05, 2012 @ 11:20:26
Actually the reason the Thai are doing that anyway is because of all those round eye idiots who want to see them do tricks. I don’t know what that has to do with anything, but it’s out on the table now.
Jan 06, 2012 @ 12:14:01
Interesting debate about this article on Reddit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/AnimalRights/comments/o2ysv/5_examples_why_nobody_will_be_able_to_take_peta/