I will NEVER support PETA
PETA has really gone off the deep end
PETA Tells Kids to Run From Daddy
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, has begun a campaign to scare children into becoming vegetarians.
The group, which formed to stop animal testing of consumer products but made its name by attacking women in fur coats with fake blood, is producing comic books that portray fathers as homicidal maniacs.
The handout, titled "Your Daddy Kills Animals," features a grinning lunatic gutting a fish, and warns kids to keep their puppies and kittens away from Dad because he's "hooked on killing."
"PETA is trying as hard as it can to portray the ordinary angler as a demonic, sadistic, cruel killer. This is what PETA does - it paints caricatures of ordinary people to try to convince the rest of us that we shouldn't want to emulate them," said David Martosko, of the industry lobbying group Center for Consumer Freedom.
But PETA insists that its comic is not outlandish.
"The scientific facts are that fish feel pain in the same way as dogs and cats. It's no more acceptable to hook a fish through the mouth and drag them into your boat and slice them in half than it would be to do the exact same thing to a dog or a cat," said Bruce Friedrich, vegan campaign coordinator for PETA.
Publicity stunts are nothing new for PETA, which has run ads featuring naked women in cages and people dressed in animal suits warning about the dangers of eating meat. But some critics feel the kid-targeted campaign goes too far.
"This is traumatizing kids by the thousands. There's going to be long-term psychological damage from these kids being exposed to the material that PETA puts in front of them on a regular basis," Martosko said.
But, Friedrich countered, "They can certainly find stuff that is more in your face on the Internet, more in your face on Saturday morning cartoons. We don't need to shelter our kids quite that much."
The pamphlet follows a previous one that painted Mom as a "chicken killer." PETA claims its only goal is to reduce meat consumption by changing children's eating habits. Critics insist alienating children from their parents isn't in anyone's best interests - human or animal.
The pamphlet follows a previous one that painted Mom as a "chicken killer." PETA claims its only goal is to reduce meat consumption by changing children's eating habits. Critics insist alienating children from their parents isn't in anyone's best interests - human or animal.
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I don't care how supportive of PETA you are this is unacceptable. Scare tactics like this are entirely inappropriate and psychologically harmful to children. I disagree with at least 3/4ths of the things that PETA does but none of the things have ever enraged me quite like this one. They are NOT your children, PETA. You have no right to be scaring the hell out of little children whose eating habits are controlled by THEIR PARENTS. Ok so let's say you s scare the little five year old into believing that eating meat is unnatural and cruel PLUS you make them have complete contempt and fear for their parents. That's not going to help ANYONE. Hell send the scary pamphlets when the kids are in college, at least then they control what is put on the dinner table. If PETA spent the money that these detrimental comics cost on something helpful like MORE donations to animal shelters, more pamphlets on PROPER animal care, more pamphlets maybe stressing their belief that somehow being a vegetarian is the only healthy way to eat (WITHOUT SCARE TACTICS, could you PLEASE for ONCE convert someone without using scare tactics, violent footage and propaganda?) How about just 'converting' people by giving them FACTS that support your side of the debate? Jeopardizing children's mental health and respect for their parents is irresponsible, unacceptable and wrong in every sense of the word.
Alright. So almost all of you know I was a vegetarian for 3+ years of my life...I did it for weight loss reasons not because I'm against humans eating meat. Anytime you show me a video of how horrible you believe our slaughtering process, milking process (etc) to be I will play for you footage of a lion taking down an antelope on the plains. If someone chooses to be a vegan or a veg based on their personal beliefs about how animals should be treated (or for any other reason) I do not question their right, I have friends who are vegans and I do not have a problem with them, I wish my friends the best of luck in their nutritional choices and I'm proud to have friends who have strong opinions. I DO have a specific problem with PETA. I am very supportive of animals being treated well. I want people who abused animals to go to jail longer and I think it is bullshit that they mostly only have to pay a fine for their crimes...because the abused animals needs a thousand bucks. I'm very sensitive to how animals were treated, the fact that people left their animals behind during Katrina (not the people who had NO option but to leave them, unless they were the ones that chained their animals on the porch because that's great when there is rising flood water) destroyed me, I think those people are horrific and should never be allowed to have another pet. All those things being true, plus all the volunteering I have done for animals and the education I have gotten about them (interning at the UF Vet School's Small Animal Clinic, etc) I still have NO support for PETA. Do I like the general ideology of animals being treated well? OF COURSE, but there are far too many things that PETA does that are inexcusable for me to support their organization at all. This is the organization that wasted precious money that could have HELPED an animal by issuing a stop on my EIGTH GRADE science fair project about Canine Lympho-sarcoma and the effects that Chemotherapy medications (such as Vincristine etc) have on the white blood cell count of the dogs. These were dogs that were ALREADY receiving chemotherapy. These were dogs that were under consensual vet care at UF's small animal clinic. These were RETROSPECTIVE studies where I looked over paperwork of dogs that had just finished their chemo. I looked over PIECES OF PAPER under the supervision of A VET, I OBSERVED animals being treated for chemo UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF A VET. It was ENTIRELY clear that my study was retrospective, it was ENTIRELY clear that those animals were rightfully receiving chemo at the request of their owners to hopefully SAVE THE LIFE of their dog...yet somehow PETA decided it was THEIR place to butt into MY science fair project, WASTE MONEY questioning it and blatantly accuse me of abusing animals while conducting my project. It's interesting, isn't it? The fact that I somehow was abusing animals even though I never administered any of the treatments (and rightfully so, I'm no vet), never even PET the animals...somehow looking over their PAPERWORK (which the names were taken off of that pinpoint which dogs it would have been and were okayed by the owner to be looked over by me) being read by a 13 year old girl somehow was abusing animals. Give me a break PETA, go do something useful, stop wasting money and stop harassing little children.
PETA Tells Kids to Run From Daddy
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, has begun a campaign to scare children into becoming vegetarians.
The group, which formed to stop animal testing of consumer products but made its name by attacking women in fur coats with fake blood, is producing comic books that portray fathers as homicidal maniacs.
The handout, titled "Your Daddy Kills Animals," features a grinning lunatic gutting a fish, and warns kids to keep their puppies and kittens away from Dad because he's "hooked on killing."
"PETA is trying as hard as it can to portray the ordinary angler as a demonic, sadistic, cruel killer. This is what PETA does - it paints caricatures of ordinary people to try to convince the rest of us that we shouldn't want to emulate them," said David Martosko, of the industry lobbying group Center for Consumer Freedom.
But PETA insists that its comic is not outlandish.
"The scientific facts are that fish feel pain in the same way as dogs and cats. It's no more acceptable to hook a fish through the mouth and drag them into your boat and slice them in half than it would be to do the exact same thing to a dog or a cat," said Bruce Friedrich, vegan campaign coordinator for PETA.
Publicity stunts are nothing new for PETA, which has run ads featuring naked women in cages and people dressed in animal suits warning about the dangers of eating meat. But some critics feel the kid-targeted campaign goes too far.
"This is traumatizing kids by the thousands. There's going to be long-term psychological damage from these kids being exposed to the material that PETA puts in front of them on a regular basis," Martosko said.
But, Friedrich countered, "They can certainly find stuff that is more in your face on the Internet, more in your face on Saturday morning cartoons. We don't need to shelter our kids quite that much."
The pamphlet follows a previous one that painted Mom as a "chicken killer." PETA claims its only goal is to reduce meat consumption by changing children's eating habits. Critics insist alienating children from their parents isn't in anyone's best interests - human or animal.
The pamphlet follows a previous one that painted Mom as a "chicken killer." PETA claims its only goal is to reduce meat consumption by changing children's eating habits. Critics insist alienating children from their parents isn't in anyone's best interests - human or animal.
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I don't care how supportive of PETA you are this is unacceptable. Scare tactics like this are entirely inappropriate and psychologically harmful to children. I disagree with at least 3/4ths of the things that PETA does but none of the things have ever enraged me quite like this one. They are NOT your children, PETA. You have no right to be scaring the hell out of little children whose eating habits are controlled by THEIR PARENTS. Ok so let's say you s scare the little five year old into believing that eating meat is unnatural and cruel PLUS you make them have complete contempt and fear for their parents. That's not going to help ANYONE. Hell send the scary pamphlets when the kids are in college, at least then they control what is put on the dinner table. If PETA spent the money that these detrimental comics cost on something helpful like MORE donations to animal shelters, more pamphlets on PROPER animal care, more pamphlets maybe stressing their belief that somehow being a vegetarian is the only healthy way to eat (WITHOUT SCARE TACTICS, could you PLEASE for ONCE convert someone without using scare tactics, violent footage and propaganda?) How about just 'converting' people by giving them FACTS that support your side of the debate? Jeopardizing children's mental health and respect for their parents is irresponsible, unacceptable and wrong in every sense of the word.
Alright. So almost all of you know I was a vegetarian for 3+ years of my life...I did it for weight loss reasons not because I'm against humans eating meat. Anytime you show me a video of how horrible you believe our slaughtering process, milking process (etc) to be I will play for you footage of a lion taking down an antelope on the plains. If someone chooses to be a vegan or a veg based on their personal beliefs about how animals should be treated (or for any other reason) I do not question their right, I have friends who are vegans and I do not have a problem with them, I wish my friends the best of luck in their nutritional choices and I'm proud to have friends who have strong opinions. I DO have a specific problem with PETA. I am very supportive of animals being treated well. I want people who abused animals to go to jail longer and I think it is bullshit that they mostly only have to pay a fine for their crimes...because the abused animals needs a thousand bucks. I'm very sensitive to how animals were treated, the fact that people left their animals behind during Katrina (not the people who had NO option but to leave them, unless they were the ones that chained their animals on the porch because that's great when there is rising flood water) destroyed me, I think those people are horrific and should never be allowed to have another pet. All those things being true, plus all the volunteering I have done for animals and the education I have gotten about them (interning at the UF Vet School's Small Animal Clinic, etc) I still have NO support for PETA. Do I like the general ideology of animals being treated well? OF COURSE, but there are far too many things that PETA does that are inexcusable for me to support their organization at all. This is the organization that wasted precious money that could have HELPED an animal by issuing a stop on my EIGTH GRADE science fair project about Canine Lympho-sarcoma and the effects that Chemotherapy medications (such as Vincristine etc) have on the white blood cell count of the dogs. These were dogs that were ALREADY receiving chemotherapy. These were dogs that were under consensual vet care at UF's small animal clinic. These were RETROSPECTIVE studies where I looked over paperwork of dogs that had just finished their chemo. I looked over PIECES OF PAPER under the supervision of A VET, I OBSERVED animals being treated for chemo UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF A VET. It was ENTIRELY clear that my study was retrospective, it was ENTIRELY clear that those animals were rightfully receiving chemo at the request of their owners to hopefully SAVE THE LIFE of their dog...yet somehow PETA decided it was THEIR place to butt into MY science fair project, WASTE MONEY questioning it and blatantly accuse me of abusing animals while conducting my project. It's interesting, isn't it? The fact that I somehow was abusing animals even though I never administered any of the treatments (and rightfully so, I'm no vet), never even PET the animals...somehow looking over their PAPERWORK (which the names were taken off of that pinpoint which dogs it would have been and were okayed by the owner to be looked over by me) being read by a 13 year old girl somehow was abusing animals. Give me a break PETA, go do something useful, stop wasting money and stop harassing little children.