PETA Cheapens the Holocaust-Eating Meat Worse Than Holocaust

JoeSabia.com via Frontpagemag.com ^ | 10/16/03 | Joseph J. Sabia

[kattracks]

The Cornell Coalition for Animal Defense (CCAD) — the campus chapter of People for the Ethical Treatment for Animals (PETA) — recently sponsored a student-funded event in which victims of the Holocaust were compared to starving cows and chickens. The event, called “Holocaust on Your Plate,” is part of PETA’s nationwide attempt to gain sympathy for the animal rights movement. CNN first reported on PETA’s insanity in February 2003, when the fringe group’s anti-Semitic campaign commenced.

The CCAD demonstration, which took place in front of Cornell’s student union, was highlighted by the presence of several 60-square-foot panels with photos of concentration camp prisoners alongside pigs, chickens, and cows. One such placard explained the group’s moniker:

"During the seven years between 1938 and 1945, 12 million people perished in the Holocaust. The same number of animals is killed every four hours for food in the U.S. alone. The Holocaust is on Your Plate."

During the rally, Matt Prescott, a PETA representative, gestured to the panels and yelled to onlookers, “Suffering is suffering!” In a statement released to the press and reported by CNN, Prescott offered his rationale for comparing concentration camps to American farms:

"The very same mind-set that made the Holocaust possible — that we can do anything we want to those we decide are 'different or inferior' — is what allows us to commit atrocities against animals every single day."

Prescott went on to tell the Ithaca Journal:

"[During the Holocaust] people were beaten, abused, and herded to death. Today, 28 billion animals a year in the United States are subjected to similar treatment."

CCAD members Racheal Wechsler and Amy Icodae handed out literature containing such lovely sentiments as:

“Decades from now, what will you tell your grandchildren when they ask whose side you were on during the ‘animals’ holocaust’? Will you be able to say that you stood up against oppression?”

Their pamphlets also quoted German Jewish “philosopher” Theodor Adorno:

“Auschwitz begins whenever someone looks at a slughterhouse and thinks: they’re only animals.”

The day after the Holocaust event, the Cornell Daily Sun published a column by Alex Bomstein, a student at Cornell and a member of the local Green Party, in which he wrote:

“The difference between you and a lizard is just a massive exaggeration of the difference between you and me... So let us not judge others by the base pairs of their DNA, but by the content of their beings. By something that really matters.”

Mr. Bomstein may be quite a bit closer to the lizard than the rest of us. Would he — or any of the individuals associated with PETA — have considered a comparison between slavery and animal captivity? Would they have supported bringing giant posters to Cornell that compared black slaves to caged hampsters? Never. But Jews are a group that is easily targeted because anti-Semitism is en vogue on America’s college campuses.

While many Cornell students expressed shock and dismay at the CCAD’s demonstration, they really should not be too surprised. When the rights of animals are equated with the rights of man, man is diminished. The animal rights coalition’s equating of the Holocaust with the killing of farm animals is a logical conclusion for a movement that has no belief in God or in the moral superiority of man. In the animal rights universe, a cockroach exterminator is just an updated version of Heinrich Himmler. There is no reasoning with these people because they are kooks.

Still, a number of Jewish students tried to get into sophisticated arguments with CCAD members. These discussions generally devolved into debates over the similarities between the respective digestive tracts of cows and humans. A few enraged students even started screaming, “Jews are not pigs!”

While their outrage is understandable, these students did not do themselves any favors. When kooks are making jackasses of themselves in public, the best strategy is to get out of the way and let them destroy themselves. Laughing at, shunning, or ostracizing these people are all fine strategies. But when a sane person gets into a public shouting match with a lunatic, passersby can’t tell who is who.

The CCAD’s “Holocaust on Your Plate” rally achieved three major goals. First, the event demonstrated how morally bankrupt the animal rights movement is. Second, it showed that some young people have no conception of what the Holocaust was. And third, it revealed that in the absence of God, evil reigns. PETA’s evil placards serve as an important reminder of the inevitable conclusions of moral relativism.

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Joseph J. Sabia is a Ph.D. candidate in economics at Cornell University.

[Lead]

If God hadn't meant for man to eat animals He wouldn't have made them taste so good!

That is close but my favorite phrase is

If God hadn't meant us to eat animals, He wouldn't of made them out of meat.

[Alouette]

The difference between you and a lizard is just a massive exaggeration of the difference between you and me... So let us not judge others by the base pairs of their DNA, but by the content of their beings. Let's see, where can I read some poetry written by a sheep? How about brain surgery performed by a baboon? Or a novel written by a gerbil? Where is there a cathedral built by dolphins?

[appalachian_dweller]

>> He wouldn't of made them out of meat <<

LOL!! I like yours better. Man I gotta get a bumper sticker with that on it. Drive the mushy brained animal right's activits nuts!

[hchutch]

Thanks!

[Poohbah]

Does anyone have a good recipie for veal parmesan they could post here?

Unfortunately, I lost my dolphin-safe veal recipe.

[.45MAN]

In one sentence. We are a lower form of life to them...

[Blue Scourge]

Here is my sick and twisted idea for the day...from now on whenever anyone posts a article involving the insane...er I mean PETA it automatically becomes a thread for posting your favorite recipes that involve meat.


Just a thought...

[hchutch]

I like that idea...

:)

[Buggman]

It's been awhile since I saw this posted, but it seems appropriate here. Another Freeper originally posted this in response to a PETA statement that we carnivores love to torture our food, or something like that.

Recipe for Ham Roast

Ingredients:
One live pig.
One leather whip.
Restraint Stocks.
One Stun Gun, (50,000 volts)
3 cans pepper spray.
6 clothes pins.
One jar Glazing Sauce.
3 sq. feet sandpaper, 30 grit.
1 can sliced pinapple.
Peppercorns.
Handcuffs.
Salt.

Recipe:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Restrain the pig. Apply the clothpins to the 6 teats of the pig. Twist clothpins. Spray pepperspray into eyes of pig liberally. Rub skin off pig with sandpaper. Rub salt into wounds of pig. Whip pig with whip. Apply stun gun prods to pigs genitalia. Repeat these actions for 45 minutes.

Then make a roast. Serves 12.

[Bob]

Darn it, Carlo. Do you really have to post your recipes just before lunch? :=)

Excuse me for a moment please, I have to run to the store for a few ingredients.

[Bob]

Sorry, I didn't catch the time on your post.

Note to self: Avoid PETA threads just before lunch. Carlo just might post a recipe.

[prairiebreeze]

That one is good Lead. There is a Freeper here (wish I could remember who) with a tagline that says it all though.

"I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian." --Unknown Freeper

Haaa!

Prairie (PETA is filled with evil-thinking varmints)

[carlo3b]

*<|:o)

Low Carb Ridley Turtle Peta Fin Fritters

• 1 lb ridley fin per person
• 4 cloves garlic
• 1 T. fresh ground pepper
• 1 cup flour
• 3 chopped green onions
• 1 t. baking powder
• hot peppers to taste
• 2 eggs
• 1/4 cup fresh coconut milk
• 1 chopped green pepper
• 3 sprigs cilantro
• 1 sliced red onion
• cooking oil
• lemon or lime juice to taste


In a deep fryer, preheat oil to 400 degrees.
1) Soak fin overnight in lime or lemon juice to soften.  Chop coarsely.
2) Mix with flour, baking powder, eggs, chopped green pepper, red onion, garlic, fresh ground peppercorns, cilantro, green onions, hot peppers (as desired), coconut milk from any nearby palms.
3) Stir the dough and allow to rest 1 hour.
4) Drop in tablespoon size dough balls and fry until golden brown.
Do not cook too many at once or centers may not cook.
Garnish with lemon and lime slices.

[carlo3b]

Just for you my friend!!! .. :)

Spotted Owl Stew

• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1 large onion, cut into eighths
• 5 tablespoons all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon coarse salt, plus more to taste
• 2 to 3 pounds Spotted Owls, about 6 birds... awe
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 1 cup homemade chicken stock or reduced-sodium chicken broth
• 1/4 cup dry white wine
• 1 teaspoon chopped fresh thyme or rosemary, or 1/2 teaspoon dried
• 1/2 pound mushrooms, such as chanterelles, sliced
• Chopped fresh parsley


Heat the olive oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add the onions and sauté until golden brown, about 8 minutes. Transfer the onions to a bowl and set aside.
Stir the flour and salt together in a shallow bowl and dredge the bird pieces in the mixture.
Melt 1 tablespoon of the butter in the same pan. Add the meat and sauté the pieces until they are lightly browned. Layer the onion over the top and pour in the chicken stock, white wine, and thyme. Cover and simmer until the pieces are tender, 30 to 40 minutes.
Meanwhile, melt the remaining 1 tablespoon of butter in a small skillet and add the mushrooms. Sauté until they begin to soften. Season with a pinch of salt. Add the mushrooms and their cooking juices to the large pan 10 minutes before the game pieces are done. Serve garnish with chopped parsley.

[Bob]

Excellent, Carlo. Thank you.