Pro-Life? Pro-Choice? Can We at Least Agree on Being Anti-PETA
Every once in a while, I get a pang of guilt over all the pigs and cows and chickens and mountain lions I've eaten in my life, and I seriously consider giving up meat and making an attempt at vegetarianism.
But then I think: If you do that, you'll be on the same team as PETA. And then I immediately run to the nearest BBQ place I can find and see how many dead animals I can shove into my face before I throw up.
From Feministing…
PETA is treating the assassination of Dr. Tiller as an opportunity to spread their message to the pro-life and pro-choice communities. According to Kansas.com the animal rights organization is planning to erect two billboards in Wichita, one that says "Pro-Life? Go Vegetarian," and one that says "Pro-Choice? Choose Vegetarian." Both show images of baby chicks…
PETA is not a social justice organization. Their primary media tactic is to appeal to the worst bigotry in U.S. culture in an attempt to stir up controversy and shock people into vegetarianism. Their tactics in working for animal rights is an affront to the cause of justice.
Hopefully — for PETA's sake — a whole bunch more people will be violently murdered before this controversy is over. It'd be a shame if they ran out of reasons to send women out into public to smear on body paint and get naked in the name of stopping all the exploitation.
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To be in favor of animal rights does not mean you need to be pro-PETA. The Humane Society of the United States' campaigns against factory farming are having far more success than PETA's. To learn more, go to http://www.hsus.org/farm
So glad you covered this! I despise PETA, especially the "Milk Gone Wild" campaign. I don't really see why, in order to advocate animal rights, you have to be soo anti-woman!
Go vegetarian because it's something you believe in, not because you'd be on the same "side" as an organization that you dislike.
I don't know if the writters of DS or CR read this blog, but I just found a golden topic for them.
Speaking of animal rights, what about the rights for gay animals to raise a child ? Germany did it!
According to the newspaper le Monde (in French, but I'm sure that a little bit of research you'd find something with the AP or Reuters), the Bremerhaven Zoo announced that two gay pinguins are since April the happy parents of an adopted baby pinguin. He was rejected by his parents, so the zookeepers put him with two male Humboldts pinguins who, since then, feed him and take care of him with all their love.
Those penguins made it to the press earlier, because their previous zoo, in Sweden, tried to force them to have sexual relations with females.
Is it the moment of zen of the year or what?
From: a nasty European living in the States trying to push the Gay Agenda to destabilize this country from the inside, warf warf warf…
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http://www.lemonde.fr/europe/article/2009/06/03/un-couple-de-manchots-gays-adopte-un-petit-avec-succes_1202028_3214.html#xtor=RSS-3208