another low for PETA

[frenchie]

PETA tries to run ad comparing Manitoba beheading to animal rights abuses
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By The Canadian Press

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PORTAGE LA PRAIRIE, Man. - An animal rights group has tried - and failed - to run a newspaper ad comparing the beheading of a passenger on a Greyhound bus last week to the treatment of animals by the meat industry.


People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, or PETA, said on its website it would run the ad in the Portage la Prairie Daily Graphic.


However, city editor Tara Seel said the newspaper had no intention of running the ad, which uses imagery of "an innocent victim's throat" being cut, in reference to the slaughter of cows, chickens and pigs on factory farms.


"His struggles and cries are ignored ... the man with the knife shows no emotion ... the victim is slaughtered and his head cut off ... his flesh is eaten," reads the ad, which is posted on the website.


"If this ad leaves a bad taste in your mouth, please give a thought to what sensitive animals think and feel when they come to the end of their frightening journey and see, hear and smell the slaughterhouse."


Seel would not specify reasons for why the newspaper was choosing not to run the ad, except to say it wasn't something they wanted to do. She noted the newspaper had been inundated with calls from other media since the posting to the PETA website.


Vince Weiguang Li, 40, of Edmonton, has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of 22-year-old carnival worker Tim McLean, who was stabbed and decapitated aboard a Greyhound bus on July 30.


Li has been ordered by a judge to undergo a psychiatric evaluation.


"Like human victims, animals in slaughterhouses experience terror when they are attacked by a knife-wielding assailant," Lindsay Rajt of PETA said in a news release. "We are challenging everyone who is rightly horrified by this crime to look into their hearts and consider leaving violence off their dinner plates."


Rajt said the ad was intended to be shocking and is meant to spur people to think about the terror and pain experienced by animals who are raised and killed for food.

 

[john250]

The sad thing is that PETA gets its' publicity for free, from news coverage of this "event".

 

[Lammie]

That is in very poor taste, especially considering the boy's family. Shame on them for trying to use that event as a platform for their nonsense.

 

[ALX.]

The sad thing is that PETA gets its' publicity for free, from news coverage of this "event".

I sort of thought the same thing john, but there have been a couple polls that thought the very idea of using that "event" to further their agenda was wrong.

I think they really blew it with this one.

Shows em for the manipulating parasites they are. People who can't make it in life or business without cashing in on other peoples hardships , or tragedy. Sort of like the media.

 

[john250]

The sad thing is that PETA gets its' publicity for free, from news coverage of this "event".

I think they really blew it with this one.

Shows em for the manipulating parasites they are. People who can't make it in life or business without cashing in on other peoples hardships , or tragedy. Sort of like the media.

I hope you are right, and I do think they drive people away. But they also attract people when they can get that overblown rhetoric into print or on TV.
They have a history of outrageous events. "Drink Beer, not Milk" comes to mind. That was targeted to college students, who hardly need a reason to drink more beer. A majority knows they are wrong, but it is a silent majority. In their business, there is no such thing as "bad" publicity.

 

[Red Bull Breeder]

Lammie PETA people have no shame.

 

[frenchie]

I think they really blew it with this one.

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Oh yeah this has really backfired . The newspaper they tried to run it in is a chain. They have shown their true colors.

 

[ALX.]

Here's a good article describing peta freaks to a T.

http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Columni ... 1-sun.html

 

[john250]

Here's a good article describing peta freaks to a T.

http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Columni ... 1-sun.html

Good link. Thanks.

 

[Brute 23]

This is not surprising considering PETA people put animal life above human life.

 

[Onthebit]

sometimes i watch the PETA videos and I think: how disgusting and cruel humans can be! That said, I patted my lambs on the head the day my husband shot them......then we skinned them out and we are eating them! and they taste great!

 

[Brute 23]

sometimes i watch the PETA videos and I think: how disgusting and cruel humans can be! That said, I patted my lambs on the head the day my husband shot them......then we skinned them out and we are eating them! and they taste great!

I think most people who really care about nature and animals feel the same.

 

[Calman]

Had a vegetarian to ask me one time,"Don't you feel bad when you butcher that steer you've raised from a calf up?"
I asked her what about that tomato that she raised from a seed up.Her reply was,"that's what we grow them for".
Well we don't raise cattle for pasture ornimants either,animals were put here for a purpose and eating them is the best i've found.
Me thinks the ol cows sometimes have it better than I do.I don't have anyone looking out for me and making sure I have feed and good health.

Cal