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PETA’s Pathetic Fallacy
Permakent.com ^ | June 30, 2008 | J. Neil Schulman

Posted on 06/30/2008 12:58:54 PM PDT by J. Neil Schulman

Don’t get me wrong. I have no objection to anyone choosing to be a vegetarian, a Vegan, or pro-Ana for that matter. Short of cannibalism by murder, everyone should eat — and not eat — whatever they want to.

I was married to a vegetarian and was a vegetarian, myself for five years — after my divorce. I even wrote an article in 1986 regarding my ignored suggestions to McDonalds and Burger King that they could get customers like me in — who wasn’t frequenting their fine establishments because nothing was offered for my wife — by putting veggie patties on their menu.

But PETA is going typically off the rails with its new campaign to target celebrities who eat meat, in the same way these extremists previously attacked celebrities who wear fur or leather. Making Jessica Simpson their first celebrity target because she sported a T-shirt that reads, “Real Girls Eat Meat” — which if you’re dirty-minded like me doesn’t necessarily even refer to consuming animal products and by-products – is a Lake Pontchartrain Causeway too far.

PETAfeds don’t just eat nuts — they are nuts.

Vegetarians who morally condemn meat hate nature. They megalomanically claim for themselves a Godlike superiority based on the pathetic fallacy that non-reasoning creatures are as capable of experiencing suffering as self-conscious beings capable of nostalgia, dread, and charity. They have no logical objection to a wolf killing and eating a sheep, or a lion stalking and killing a gazelle for food, but they fancy themselves morally superior to a human hunter shooting and eating a stag. It’s not that these insufferable busybodies love animals. It’s that they hate their own species, which nature has given a reasoning power they have failed to master.


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KEYWORDS: animalrights; celebrities; hunting; peopleeattastyanimal; peta; vegan
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1 posted on 06/30/2008 12:58:55 PM PDT by J. Neil Schulman
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To: J. Neil Schulman

The only known cure for PETAphilia is STEAK!


2 posted on 06/30/2008 1:04:02 PM PDT by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: J. Neil Schulman

PETA is nothing more or less than a terrorist organization.


3 posted on 06/30/2008 1:04:46 PM PDT by WayneS (The Mask that Evil Wears May Change, but the Face of Evil Remains Constant.)
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To: J. Neil Schulman

I had a veggie-burger at Burger King once.

Even with bacon and cheese it tasted vile.


4 posted on 06/30/2008 1:07:15 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: J. Neil Schulman

Scratch a Liberal and you’ll find a Totalitarian.


5 posted on 06/30/2008 1:11:39 PM PDT by gridlock (Al Gore wants YOU to live like the Flintstones while HE lives like the Jetsons.)
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To: DuncanWaring

>> I had a veggie-burger at Burger King once.

For heaven’s sake, why? I don’t even eat vegetarian salads.

PETA are an amusing sideshow, nothing more. I see no need to take them any more seriously than I take the radical feminists or Amy Goodman.

H


6 posted on 06/30/2008 1:11:42 PM PDT by SnakeDoctor (Jack Bauer for President '08 -- All the world's terrorists hate him. Sounds like a fair fight.)
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To: J. Neil Schulman
I really like that Jessica Simpson picture. Any woman who proclaims THAT on her chest is my idea of a wife! I'm falling in love! ;-)

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

7 posted on 06/30/2008 1:20:24 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Hemorrhage

Why? To see the reaction of the kid at the counter when I placed the order (no indication that he saw anything out-of-the-ordinary), and to provide the makings of an amusing story.


8 posted on 06/30/2008 1:22:14 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: DuncanWaring

A reasonable explanation, I suppose. Not sure I’d sacrifice a n actual meal for that mild amusement ... but to each his own.

From what I understand, veggie burgers are pretty revolting. Vegans are truly nuts ... cut meat and dairy out of my diet, and I’ll die of malnutrition. A man cannot survive on Coke and mustard sandwiches alone.

H


9 posted on 06/30/2008 1:25:15 PM PDT by SnakeDoctor (Jack Bauer for President '08 -- All the world's terrorists hate him. Sounds like a fair fight.)
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To: gridlock
Scratch a Liberal and you’ll find a Totalitarian.


10 posted on 06/30/2008 1:28:36 PM PDT by rottndog (Globull Warming "Science" = garbage in, gospel out.)
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To: Hemorrhage
Give me an island, a full slab of beef ribs and a cooler full of drinks and I'll be happy. The woman is optional. ;-)

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

11 posted on 06/30/2008 1:29:32 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop

>> Give me an island, a full slab of beef ribs and a cooler full of drinks and I’ll be happy. The woman is optional. ;-)

I was with you there, right until the end. Also, I’m amenable to pork ribs, steak, chicken wings, and various other fried or grilled carcasses.

I’m afraid the woman will be necessary, however. I’m not going to get up and walk to the cooler myself — and she might come in handy later. I shall not elaborate an further.

Also ... I’d prefer it if the island had cable television.

H


12 posted on 06/30/2008 1:46:38 PM PDT by SnakeDoctor (Jack Bauer for President '08 -- All the world's terrorists hate him. Sounds like a fair fight.)
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To: rottndog

I expected this moment throughout the entire Clinton Administration.


13 posted on 06/30/2008 1:47:48 PM PDT by 50sDad (OBAMA: In your heart you know he's Wright.)
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To: Hemorrhage
LOL! If there's going to be a woman, Jessica Simpson can come. Along with the food, the ice cold drinks, the cable TV and of course, her company!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

14 posted on 06/30/2008 1:51:20 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: J. Neil Schulman
I love animals, fry 'em, broil 'em, boil 'em, bake 'em. Anyway you can cook them, I love them. I also love my cats and dog which I wouldn't eat even if I were starving(but of course they might eat me if the situation were reversed). However, I have no qualms about killing a deer, wild turkey, quail, water fowl, or any number of other tasty animals and fowl.

We were made to hunt and made to eat meat. It is widely excepted that when man started to eat meat he became more productive and accomplished more because he didn't have to spend all day, every day eating simply to stay alive. Vegetarian animals do just that.

Eat constantly in order to keep up their energy, meat supplies that energy and allows more free time to think about things. Chimpanzees eat meat and are probably among the most intelligent of the great apes. They hunt down and kill other primates, including the occasional human babies.

Not that I condone eating babies, before some jackass tries to comment on that. I do however condone eating meat, or veggies, if that is what you prefer, and I prefer meat.

15 posted on 06/30/2008 1:57:11 PM PDT by calex59
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To: J. Neil Schulman

I thought PETA ment People Eating Tasty Animals. Give me a slab of ribs and I will do anything you want.


16 posted on 06/30/2008 1:57:26 PM PDT by bikerman (_ _ . /_ _ _ /_ . . / / . . . . / . / . _ . . / . _ _ . / / . . _ / . . . //)
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To: goldstategop

I’d prefer my wife — having been able to view the merchandise. But, if its going to be Jessica Simpson, she’s going to need a mute button.

Also another reason for the female presence ... somebody’s going to have to cook this stuff — and I can’t make anything but hot dogs, hot pockets and pop tarts.

If there’s no woman, I’m going to need a microwave ... and additional, less clothed, channels on cable.

Like Foxworthy said ... you never need to ask a man what he’s thinking, because odds are, he’s thinking “I’d like a beer, and I’d like to see something naked.”

H


17 posted on 06/30/2008 2:03:32 PM PDT by SnakeDoctor (Jack Bauer for President '08 -- All the world's terrorists hate him. Sounds like a fair fight.)
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To: bikerman

>> I thought PETA ment People Eating Tasty Animals.

When I was Chairman of the College Republicans at the University of Houston ... we had a cookout with exactly that title.

It was organized by our social committee — the UHCR Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms.

H


18 posted on 06/30/2008 2:06:41 PM PDT by SnakeDoctor (Jack Bauer for President '08 -- All the world's terrorists hate him. Sounds like a fair fight.)
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To: J. Neil Schulman
PETAfiles, crazy? Whatever gave you that idea?


19 posted on 06/30/2008 2:09:34 PM PDT by OB1kNOb (ISLAM IS THE SPIRIT OF ANTICHRIST, DIRECTED BY SATAN AND HIS FALLEN MINIONS.)
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To: All

PETA kills animals.

Since 1998, PETA has killed 83.9% of all animals it has taken in at it’s Norfolk VA headquarters.

In 2006, PETA took in 3,016 animals. Of that 12 were adopted, and 46 were transferred to other shelters. The remaining 97.4% were killed

In 2007, they only killed off 90.9% of the 1,997 animals they took in.

http://www.petakillsanimals.com/petasdirtysecret.cfm


20 posted on 06/30/2008 2:20:33 PM PDT by 2CAVTrooper (Democrats: Supporting America's enemies since 1824)
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