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Without getting back in to the whole vegetarian debate, I just wanted to applaud PETA on reaching a brand new low in their advertising campaign.
Capitalizing on the recent Greyhound bus murder, they have released an advertisement comparing the bus murder to the killing and consumption of animals, which is reported by the CBC, as “…meant to make people understand how animals suffer when they are killed in slaughterhouses.”
It boggles my mind how even somebody who believes firmly in vegetarianism and animal rights could draw a moral comparison between the brutal murder of another human being, and the killing of an animal (no matter how cute or furry).
“We can’t do anything to bring Tim back or bring his family relief from their suffering. But all of us can ask what we personally can do to decrease our support for this sort of violence,” Freedrick said.
Translation: we’re a bunch of opportunistic assholes. Stealing animals and blowing up research labs is one thing, but PETA has achieved a brand new low by capitalizing on this event to try and make a point about vegetarianism. Regardless of your personal, philosophical, or religious views on the consumption of meat, I think we can all agree that this advertisement is in bad taste, and yet one more reason to say “FUCK YOU, PETA”.
Click here to view the advertisement.
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- CBC.ca: 40-year-old suspect held in gruesome Manitoba bus killing
- CBC.ca: PETA ad compares Greyhound bus attack to slaughtering animals
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Paul // Aug 7, 2008 at 2:20 pm
As if the McLean family didn’t have enough to go through, PETA now assumes that it’s righteous in exploiting the brutal murder of Tim McLean as a warped parallel to the processing of chickens for food.
And, on top of this, the notoriously misanthropic and downright evil group, the Westboro Baptist Ministry, is planning to protest the funeral:
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20080807/funeral_protest_080807/20080807?hub=TopStories
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dalponis // Aug 8, 2008 at 4:42 pm
I was talking about PETA last summer… Saying how they’re fascists…
I was saying that an animal raised to be used for human food, has different rights than an animal a human keeps as a pet, or a wild animal. A Muslim got really offended and told me that every animal the should be treated same. I said that there is a differenced between the them. He got really offended at me.
My reply was simple. I asked if he drove a car, to which he said he did. I then called him a murderer. He was killing many bugs, while driving his car. He said, ‘But they’re just insects’.
I just handed him his ass, with all the fucking timings.
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