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PETA to tell small children; "Your Mommy kills Animals"
bostonherald.com ^
| December 17, 2003
| By David Weber
Posted on 12/17/2003 4:15:45 PM PST by Jimmyclyde
Fur flies over flier: PETA targets Nutcracker kids By David Weber Wednesday, December 17, 2003
Animal rights advocates will single out small children at performances of ``The Nutcracker'' in the next few weeks by handing out fliers saying ``Your Mommy Kills Animals'' to youngsters whose mothers are wearing fur.
``Children can't look up to a mom in a battered-raccoon hat or a crushed coyote collar,'' said Ingrid Newkirk, president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. ``Maybe when they're confronted by their own children's hurt looks, fur-wearers' cold hearts will melt.''
The fliers include a color drawing of a woman plunging a large bloody knife into the belly of a terrified rabbit. The fliers urge kids to ``ask your mommy how many dead animals she killed to make her fur clothes.
``And the sooner she stops wearing fur, the sooner the animals will be safe. Until then, keep your doggie or kitty friends away from mommy - she's an animal killer.''
Brookline child psychologist Dr. Carolyn Newberger called the tactics ``terribly dangerous to children.''
``It's using children in the worst possible way,'' she said. ``If (the activists) want to legitimately work to protect animals from destruction for fashion, they have every right to. But to do so by targeting children and making them feel their mothers are murderers is absolutely unconscionable.''
Lisa Franzetta, a national coordinator for PETA, said the group will launch its ``fur-ocious'' protest at `Nutcracker' performances in as many as 20 cities across the United States.
Franzetta, who is based in California, said yesterday she did not yet know when the protests will begin in Boston, where ``The Nutcracker'' is playing at the Wang Center for the Performing Arts in the Theater District.
Franzetta acknowledged the anti-fur campaign might spark a backlash. ``It's definitely provocative, I will give you that,'' she said.
Wang Center officials could not be reached for comment about the planned protests.
TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: animalrights; busybodies; defundpeta; fur; hategroup; lefties; nannys; nutcracker; peta; petathugs; thugs; tyrants; whackos
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Note to PETA...
This seems to me to be a real easy way to lose some teeth....
What a bunch a wack jobs.
I bet these PETA punks smell a lot like the animals their trying to save......BARF!!
To: mhking
ping
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posted on
12/17/2003 4:16:12 PM PST
by
Jimmyclyde
(Dying ain't much of a living boy...)
To: Jimmyclyde
bump
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posted on
12/17/2003 4:16:28 PM PST
by
Jimmyclyde
(Dying ain't much of a living boy...)
To: Jimmyclyde
Kid might find his daddy kills a-holes too.
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posted on
12/17/2003 4:17:18 PM PST
by
thoughtomator
(The Federal judiciary is a terrorist organization)
To: Jimmyclyde
My mom could kick those pansies' butts any day of the week.
I say let 'em hand out those fliers at their own peril!
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posted on
12/17/2003 4:18:03 PM PST
by
Prime Choice
(Leftist opinions may be free, but I still feel like I'm getting ripped off every time I receive one.)
To: Jimmyclyde
I think they could open themselves up to some lawsuits with this one.
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posted on
12/17/2003 4:19:26 PM PST
by
squidly
(Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.)
To: Jimmyclyde
There really are times when it's OK to haul off and slug someone...
To: thoughtomator
Kid might find his daddy kills a-holes too. LOL!!
That was my first thought as well.
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posted on
12/17/2003 4:19:45 PM PST
by
Jimmyclyde
(Dying ain't much of a living boy...)
To: Jimmyclyde
Fish is food !
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posted on
12/17/2003 4:19:51 PM PST
by
glock rocks
(molon labe)
To: Jimmyclyde
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posted on
12/17/2003 4:20:43 PM PST
by
Maigrey
(Gregory, this year, don't take the Silverwear.)
To: Jimmyclyde
One other thing, how will the "pamphleteers" tell the real fur coats from the fake ones?
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posted on
12/17/2003 4:21:00 PM PST
by
squidly
(Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times.)
To: Jimmyclyde
Yup, I kill them. Encourage my children to do the same. Then we EAT them.
Think PETA has a problem with paranoia, and they wonder if they look tasty, too?
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posted on
12/17/2003 4:21:46 PM PST
by
Pan_Yans Wife
("Your joy is your sorrow unmasked." --- GIBRAN)
To: Jimmyclyde
As people should say, "Touch my kids, I break your face."
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posted on
12/17/2003 4:22:08 PM PST
by
July 4th
(George W. Bush, Avenger of the Bones)
To: Jimmyclyde
So...how good a garrotte does a mink stole make? Some PETA-head might find out...
}:-)4
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posted on
12/17/2003 4:22:12 PM PST
by
Moose4
("The road goes on forever, and the party never ends." --Robert Earl Keen)
To: Psycho_Bunny
There really are times when it's OK to haul off and slug someone..."Mommy why is Daddy pretending that man's head is a basketball?"
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posted on
12/17/2003 4:22:24 PM PST
by
Jimmyclyde
(Dying ain't much of a living boy...)
To: Jimmyclyde
I always let my kids know where they get their meat or where fur comes from. Every once in a while, I will bring it up again. Here's a conversation my kids and I once had.
Me: "K, do you know where steak comes from?"
K: "Cows."
K's brother, J: "Where do cows come from?"
K (Proudly): "Milk."
My kids love meat!
To: Sungirl
ping
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posted on
12/17/2003 4:23:12 PM PST
by
Jimmyclyde
(Dying ain't much of a living boy...)
To: Jimmyclyde
We need some FReepers there. This is BS.
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posted on
12/17/2003 4:24:04 PM PST
by
WinOne4TheGipper
(I beat the crap out of a DUer and stole this tagline.)
To: Maigrey
Sorry, I did a search and it didn't come up....
It will be just as good the 2nd time around :)
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posted on
12/17/2003 4:24:44 PM PST
by
Jimmyclyde
(Dying ain't much of a living boy...)
To: Jimmyclyde
There are several good responses that come to mind:
Yes, and she is very good at it.
And they taste so goood...
No, my Daddy does it for her
She said I can too, when I get older.
Only good people face up to reality..(perhaps a bit much for younger children.
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