Posted on 01/13/2005 7:08:15 AM PST by presidio9
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals comes out against a lot of practices.
Wearing fur. Wool shorn from Australian sheep subjected to a process called mulesing. Considering fish food rather than friends.
The anti-animal cruelty organization even invokes God in a recent campaign targeting Latter-Day Saints, saying that factory farms and slaughter houses are "hell on Earth" and likening eating meat regularly to going against one's faith.
But apparently public indecency is OK.
Nudity has emerged as a common thread in the activist organization's tactics, dating at least to the 1990s' "I'd Rather Go Naked than Wear Fur," campaign featuring nude supermodels. PETA credits the skin baring with helping to bring fur sales to historic lows, according to video posted to its Web site.
A Connecticut woman has even been photographed around the region naked, save for body paint, pasties and a thong in PETA's name, protesting circuses. With her coating of tiger paint and not much else, the woman has appeared holding protest signs inside a cage.
The latest protests planned in the buff come in opposition to the famed running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain. As a counter protest, for the fourth year PETA will stage its Running of the Nudes, planned for two days before the first day of the bull run in July.
"Take it off for the bulls," a promotion for the one-kilometer race implores.
Travel information specifically for the jaunt sans shirts is available on a specially established Web site, RunningOfTheNudes.com. The site reports that 200 activists from around the world have already registered, and that motor coaches from all over Europe have been arranged for those hoping to converge on Pamplona.
It may make for an unusual vacation, but there is at least one apparent benefit: attendees can pack pretty light.
LOL!
PETA never ceases to amaze me with what they will and won't do.
Can we get them to run in front of the bulls first?
Thanks for the find!
OOOOO! 200 people internationally have registered!
Since they're liberals, I wonder if any of them have registered TWICE! :)
I understand the whole "get naked and make a statement" thing, but why they insist the poor gal in the cage have her elbows rubber-banded together (with one of them being glued to her knee) is beyond me. Sheesh!!
I remember that one.
I'm willing to bet she'd have a problem with modeling for a drawing.
In my experience, the nudist nut PETA types have no problem with streaking through crowds showing everything they have, yet think artistic work is disgusting and overly worshipful of the human form.
(I've run into some really interesting people!)
I know, they should run at the same time as the bulls, why do it ahead of time. get them all naked and let them run alongside/with their precious animals.
I am a nice shark, not a mindless eating machine. If I am to change this image, I must first change myself. Fish are friends, not food.
Say what you will about PETA, they have ensured that their "Rather Go Naked than Wear Fur" models are always really good looking.
As long as they maintain that quality control, PETA will get no gripes from me. :-)
P.S. I like my 100 year old seal coat the best!!
Recently some of us were trying to con the DU'ers into protesting the inauguration in the buff.
I know, sadistic to torture the DUmmies that way.
But, the satisfaction of duping the dupes into being frozen blue DUmmies would have been fun.
*sigh*
It will take more work I guess.
LOL! Probably.
But, I'm sure many PETA members follow in the same circles as the dangerous and destructive ELF organization too.
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