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PETA to Bigfoot Hunters: You Shouldn't 'Shoot and Kill It' Just Because You Can
|Myrtle Beach News Examiner ^ | February 1, 2014 | Norman Byrd

Posted on 02/02/2014 1:13:42 PM PST by DogByte6RER

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The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) are certain about one thing, even though they do not acknowledge that Bigfoot is real: It is just as unethical to kill a Sasquatch as it would be any other animal. In a report posted by the CBS Houston on Jan. 30, the animal rights activists reacted to the idea much as expected, because to members of their organization, shooting and killing a living creature, whether it be for food or sport, is an atrocity.

PETA spokesperson Lindsay Rajt told The Houston Chronicle: “As an organization we do oppose hunting of any kind. It’s cruel and unnecessary and can damage populations and ecosystems.”

Rajt spoke out against the shooting of the legendary Bigfoot creature in the wake of news that self-proclaimed "Master Tracker" Rick Dyer is going on the road to show of the Bigfoot he supposedly shot and killed outside San Antonio, Texas, in late 2012. Dyer says he will tour North America, carting the Sasquatch carcass from town to town to prove that Bigfoot does exist and that he actually killed one.

Dyer has already released several photos of the hairy beast he claims to have killed. Although many are putting it down as just another hoax, Dyer says it is his redemption (Dyer is most famous for having a hand in the 2008 Georgia Bigfoot Hoax) and has even challenged the Spike TV series "The 10 Million Dollar Bigfoot Bounty" to pay up.

“The bottom line is, when someone sees a rare, exotic animal their first instinct shouldn’t be to shoot and kill it,” Rajt said . “Just because you see something pretty, that doesn’t mean it should be mounted on your wall.”

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Miscellaneous; Outdoors; Science; Society; Sports; Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: alf; animalrights; banglist; bigfoot; biggame; cryptobiology; cryptozoology; hunting; mythology; peta; sasquatch; theotherwhitemeat; treehuggers; vegans; weirdscience
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Ack! Ack ack!


21 posted on 02/02/2014 2:22:34 PM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: DogByte6RER

Extra long pork.


22 posted on 02/02/2014 2:24:26 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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PETA, take that message to Planned Parenthood.


23 posted on 02/02/2014 2:27:38 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: DogByte6RER

Boy Scouts were taught to never kill a snipe in my age.

It was not the bird.


24 posted on 02/02/2014 2:33:10 PM PST by hadaclueonce (Because Brawndo's got electrolytes. Because Ethanol has Big Corn Lobby)
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To: DogByte6RER

If Obama had a son


25 posted on 02/02/2014 2:36:28 PM PST by jyro (French-like Democrats wave the white flag of surrender while we are winning)
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To: thackney

“Do you have any idea how HARD it is to fake a LIVE Bigfoot?”

Just ask the cast of “Not Finding Bigfoot”.


26 posted on 02/02/2014 2:40:22 PM PST by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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To: Sicon

Shoot unicorns? Most people just want to knock my teeth out.


27 posted on 02/02/2014 3:03:27 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: DogByte6RER

You know that a lefty organization needs attention when they’re commenting on something as stupid as this. Gees, It never crossed my mind that if I ran into “Bigfoot” that it would be unethical to shoot it, him, or whatever gender the beast is. Lord, we’re a sorry people if this is an actual issue.


28 posted on 02/02/2014 3:11:23 PM PST by dowcaet
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To: DogByte6RER

“I gonna hold out and just wait for my opportunity to shoot a two-fer.”

She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed probably won’t let you take either one to the taxidermist.

Just a guess, though.


29 posted on 02/02/2014 3:38:41 PM PST by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est - because of what Islam is and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: thackney

“Bigfoot Hunters to PETA:

Do you have any idea how HARD it is to fake a LIVE Bigfoot?”

Wassa matter, Thackney - Moosechelle won’t appear in the role of BigFoot for you?

Shudda contributed more!

;-)


30 posted on 02/02/2014 3:41:32 PM PST by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est - because of what Islam is and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi
How about Martians? Can we shoot Martians?

You might want to re-think shooting at ETs for your own sake. Since any ET here would have mastered inter-planetary space travel, they are going to have a major technology advantage over you. Don't tick them off.

31 posted on 02/02/2014 3:48:03 PM PST by CommerceComet (Ignore the GOP-e. Cruz to victory in 2016.)
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To: cripplecreek

tastes like chicken


32 posted on 02/02/2014 3:53:54 PM PST by 1st Division guy
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To: DogByte6RER

How many animals have PETA killed...just becasue they could?


33 posted on 02/02/2014 4:29:59 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U (0bama's agenda—Divide and conquer seems to be working.)
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To: Inyo-Mono

Shooting a Bigfoot and having scientists look the thing over might be the best way to save them. Still, I don’t think we need to worry—as Bigfoot is one of three things:
1. A myth-—or-—mistaken men and bears.
2. A creature from a UFO or Other Demention.
3. A highly evolved human offshoot with psychic powers—who can control men’s minds—so they will never be caught or shot.


34 posted on 02/02/2014 5:27:42 PM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll)
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To: Sicon

“I shoot the Easter Bunny? What about unicorns? Are they off limits too?”

When is PETA season?


35 posted on 02/02/2014 5:31:47 PM PST by tired&retired
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

I don’t think is related to humans, I think that Bigfoot is a living example of a thought to be extinct gigantic ape. Did you know that there once existed a gigantic ape, Gigantopithecus, that stood some 10 feet tall? Scientists debate on whether it was bipedal or walked on its knuckles as gorillas do today.

http://www.livescience.com/467-gigantic-apes-coexisted-early-humans-study-finds.html

It lived in Asia and could have used the same land bridge that the ancestors of American Indians used to cross into North America. “Mainstream scientists” believe that the giant ape species died out some 100,000 years ago. Just as they once believed that the coelacanth, a five foot long primitive fish, died out 60 million years ago, until it was discovered to be still living in 1938.


36 posted on 02/02/2014 6:17:35 PM PST by Inyo-Mono (NRA)
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To: DogByte6RER

Backwoods Engineer to PETA: God told me I can kill and eat animals. I do so, and give thanks as I eat them. Tasty.
Don’t like it? Take it up with God.


37 posted on 02/02/2014 6:37:11 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (Blog: www.BackwoodsEngineer.com)
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To: DogByte6RER

Not a peep out of PETA about this though:

De Blasio drops NYC’s ‘Punxsutawney Phil’
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/3118563/posts


38 posted on 02/02/2014 8:02:51 PM PST by SunkenCiv (http://www.freerepublic.com/~mestamachine/)
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To: DogByte6RER

PETA can bite my shiny metal ass.

I have a tag for a Big FOOT or a Big feet or what ever.

Last week I shot a Unicorn but it was catch and release.

I was downtown Portland but don’t make me splain.


39 posted on 02/03/2014 5:17:42 PM PST by kennyboy509 ( Ha! I kill me!!!)
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