Regardless of PETA, I was going to eat meat today. But this ad does make me hungry. I might make it a double or triple today j/k I know it is not a laughing matter for vegetarians who disagree with PETA's actions
So does this mean idiots are greater than idiots? Or does it mean idiots are less than idiots? I always get that confused.
There MO is to be stupid. They are always starting ad campaigns like this trying to find the most shocking or offensive or otherwise newsworthy thing to say. Aren't they also the ones who did the Jesus Was a Vegetarian bit? I think their only real goal is to get people talking and raise awareness of the whole issue on a 'all advertising is good advertising' basis. In that regard, they certainly succeed. Whether it is actually a good approach is somewhat questionable in my mind.
Let the public backlash... BEGIN! Group blasts PETA 'Holocaust' project (CNN) -- The Anti-Defamation League has denounced a campaign by an animal rights group that compares slaughtering animals to the murder of 6 million Jews in World War II. The graphic campaign and exhibit "Holocaust on Your Plate," devised by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, juxtaposes 60-square-foot panels displaying gruesome scenes from Nazi death camps side by side with disturbing photographs from factory farms and slaughterhouses. One shows a starving man in a concentration camp next to a starving cow. The exhibit opens Friday in San Diego, California, and went up Thursday at the University of California at Los Angeles. It also is posted on a PETA Web site, www.masskilling.com, which calls for support for the campaign from the Jewish community. The comparisons prompted an angry statement from Abraham Foxman, Anti-Defamation League national director and a Holocaust survivor. "The effort by PETA to compare the deliberate, systematic murder of millions of Jews to the issue of animal rights is abhorrent," the statement said. "PETA's effort to seek approval for their 'Holocaust on Your Plate' campaign is outrageous, offensive and takes chutzpah to new heights." Lisa Lange, PETA's vice president of communications, told CNN's "American Morning With Paula Zahn" on Friday that the idea for the public relations effort came from the late Nobel Prize-winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer, who, she said, wrote: "In relation to them [animals], all people are Nazis; for them it is an eternal Treblinka" -- a death camp in Poland. Lange said the campaign is appropriate because "Nazi concentration camps were modeled after slaughterhouses." The Singer quote, which the group draws upon in its literature as well, was not spoken directly by him but rather comes from his novel "Enemies: A Love Story," when the main character muses on the plight of animals. Singer was a vegetarian who believed strongly in animal rights. "It's shocking, it's startling, it's very hard to look at," Lange said of the exhibit. "We're attacking the mind-set" that condones the slaughter of animals. "The very same mind-set that made the Holocaust possible -- that we can do anything we want to those we decide are 'different or inferior' -- is what allows us to commit atrocities against animals every single day," PETA representative Mark Prescott wrote in a statement, which added that members of Prescott's family were murdered by Nazis. The Anti-Defamation League statement, however, counters that "abusive treatment of animals should be opposed, but cannot and must not be compared to the Holocaust."
my god, these people have to be the stupidest idiots on the face of the earth. If God didn't want us to kill Chickens he wouldn't have made their nuggets so golden and delicious.
Oooh, Mrs.JB, I know you dont eat meat, but cmon... Jews=Chicken??!?! I think PETA is confused! Jews = Human race. Nazis killed alot of them, genocide and stuff, remember? Chickens = Farm animals. Some of us eat them, some don't. Not genocide. PETA's shock value turns me off BIG TIME, but oh well. Its all about the animals. Sorry, I'm with the Jews on this one. Yes, PETA are IDIOTS for comparing totured JEWS to tortured CHICKENS. Hliariously idiotic! LOL!!!!!!!
PETA Parenting in 2003. "I'm Sorry Billy, While you were asleep we took Old Yeller to his new home on a farm in the country, where he'll be chasing chickens in fields all day." Little does Billy know that that home was a really a camp, and the chickens were really land mines.
My comment to you had nothing to do with whether I agree or disagree with PETA. I was simply confused by your use of the greater than sign in "IDIOTS>IDIOTS." That'll teach me to make a joke in a topical thread.
Perhaps if you were to change your name to M-rs. JB Having a Capital letter followed by a Dash in your name gives you the right to make a joke in any thread.
My problem with PETA is that they undermine all efforts that could possibly lead to the conclusion they seek. The best way to alienate people is to: a. Call them idiots. b. Insult their intellegence. c. Try to cram an idea down their throats. Unfortunately, PETA chooses all of the above as their method for converting people to their ideas. I understand and respect the position that animals should have the same basic rights as humans. It is a positions with which I have great empathy. However, I am not going to demand anyone change who they are or what they are doing. IMO, this is a very personal choice based on beliefs that you cannot force. People have to come to terms with things like this on their own and in their own time. An old friend of mine quit eating meat many years ago after he spent a summer working in his uncle's slaughterhouse. He didn't really want to but he was 16 and his family pushed him into it. After that summer, he simply refused to eat any meat ever again. Yet, he never protested anyone else's right to eat meat because he knew it was a personal decision. PETA, sadly, ends up trvializing these beliefs as a way to get headlines. It is a really awful way to endear yourself to people.
How does the saying go ............if God didn't want us to eat animals, he would not have made them out of meat?? Seriously, this reminds me of the episode of THe Simpsons where Lisa decides to become a vegetarian. Ralph Wiggum: I am going to Bovine University!!!!!
